Episode 2737 CWSA 02/01/25

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it just go to my account onx you can see the link or Owen Gregorian you could just look for his name and it'll pop up did you know according to science alert that caffeine in your blood could lower your body fat and diabetes risk yes you did cuz coffee can do it all yep I like to put it right in my blood I just inject it right in there along with the you know the bleach and the disinfectants does a great job no don't do that don't put any bleach or disinfectant or coffee in your your blood but it's good for you at the coffee part well it's a black history month and uh despite Trump getting rid of all the Dei in the government he did do a proclamation recognizing it and he called out some of the notable famous uh black contributors to America he included Frederick Doug Douglas Harriet Tubman and then also threw in more modern names like Thomas sell and Clarence Thomas well here's my take on that I think Black History Month was a great idea I also think affirmative action was necessary um you know even though it didn't work out for me didn't work out for me but we probably needed to do something to to Kickstart things to to get a little more openness and diversity and all that however it's 2025 when I see black history month do I say to myself wow uh black people have contributed so much to America well yes that that's sort of the point of it but I already knew that and all you have to do is turn on the television and it's full of successful black people in every domain every domain politics entertainment so it feels like having your own month is now you know went from a good idea a solidly good idea to it feels a little condescending it it feels like it's it's not giving black Americans what they hoped for and it just sort of looks like a pat on the head it's almost it's almost like we should have outgrown by now and let me ask you this do you think Thomas Soul would be happy that his name was on the list of uh great black Americans I don't know but I'm not entirely sure he'd be happy about being on the list and you know I'm no expert on Thomas Soul or I can't read his mind but here's what I think he'd like a lot more uh some great American economists include this person this person Thomas Soul how about just being on the list of you know really important unusually effective economists now that's a compliment and then just be done with it so um I don't think I'm too far off base because P Heth in the Department of Defense um said that no longer will the Department of Defense host or celebrate any of these cultural awareness months now if you don't know how many there are besides Black History Month there's women's History Month Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month you got pride month you got National Hispanic heritage months National disability employment awareness month and National American Indian American Indian Heritage Month well I call that Native American cuz I'm not a racist my God anyway so you could go to these events but you can't do anything in your official capacity if you're in the Department of Defense I think that is the correct the correct point of view for the Department of Defense um because if they're focused on anything but their lethality as P ath likes to point out they're taking her taking their eye off the ball now obviously you can't spend 24 hours a day working on your lethality you know there are other things in life but I I do think this is a step in the right direction because as soon as you call out some groups all the other groups are going to say where's my month I say it where's my month why why don't I get a month I don't know everybody else did over at Stanford University they use their AI to uh look at faces and uh apparently they can tell if you're gay or straight by looking at your face we've talked about this before but it made me think do you remember maybe it was the I don't know 60s or 70s you know that's as far as I can remember back but there was this conversation about whether being gay was genetic or just people chose it and I I would always laugh in thinking it's obviously it's obviously genetic and the reason I said is obviously genetic is that you could tell who was gay by looking at him could you really tell who's gay by looking at him if it if it were not just baked into the genetic components no so when I see that Stanford says you know not they can't do it 100% of course but they have a high uh High hit rate of knowing if you're gay or straight from your photo how could it be anything except genetic if you can tell by looking at a photo the the only way the only way it wouldn't be genetic um and by the way I don't know if anybody's found any specific genetic link you know I I don't know if they've gone that far but how could lifestyle make your face recognizably gay assuming you washed it um don't even think about that all right I just cracked myself up and I'm taking this in a completely wrong direction but um yes I think have always wanted us to to acknowledge that this is some it's the way you're born and it's nobody's fault it's nobody's Choice it's just the way you're born and I think the face the face T is proof that they were right all along Amazon um looks like it might be getting ready to advertise on X again which would be a big deal um and I think the correct the correct decision I guess apple is also looking at x deciding whether to go back on that's pretty good boy there's nothing like a winning is there if if Elon Musk had not been on the winning team in politics and that gave him a big role and you know what's happening right now at least the advisory role um plus Doge do you think that the big companies would be so happy to re-embrace X I don't know I I think they would have had other pressure from Democrats but the Democrat Party just fell apart and Doge and musk and Trump are doing great so it makes perfect sense if you're a big American company to get on the side of the winners there's nothing wrong with that there's nothing wrong with saying you know what I think we'll adjust our track and you know try to be more compatible with the country so good job Amazon and apple heading in the right direction ction uh speaking of meta we weren't but lets um Mark Zuckerberg uh of meta is uh looking into exiting Delaware and reincorporating in Texas now if you didn't know for a very long time corporations like to register in Delaware even while having no business in Delaware and the reason was it was the Delaware laws are kind of friendly to corporations but there's some judge there that went after you know that went after I guess you could say went after uh Elon Musk and that sent a Big Chill because musk was saying you know you should get your get your corporation out of there because they can go after you so Delaware seems to be politicized and if you're a big company and you don't want to be part of that risk you're going to have to get out of Delaware so met is doing I think exactly the right thing so again good decision Richard grenell apparently succeeded in getting six I guess they were called hostages and a Venezuela now what's the follow-up question to that that Rick renell got six American hostages out of Venezuela the follow-up question is there were six hostages in Venezuela why is this the first time I'm hearing about it that seems like that' be a bigger story six American hostages held in Venezuela well I love the fact that Richard grenell is sort of like a a trump loaded weapon and he can he can point Richard grenell at any situation and you feel confident that the right person's taking care of it so I'm surprised Richard grenell doesn't have an official job in the administration right and I don't believe he has an official title but just the fact that he's sort of available to do missions is kind of awesome would you like to have just a Richard grenell on call so that when Trump needs to send somebody somewhere and get something done in another country you just send the one who knows how to get it done I I suspect that grenell is more effective because when he walks into the room if the other country has done their homework they know he's talking talking for Trump like they're they know they're not going to put like a wedge like H we'll get this guy to you maybe see our side of it or something like no when grenell walks in the room you know that Trump's preferences are going to be there and that's the end of the story so that probably makes him a lot more effective that and the fact that whatever he does in general seems to be effective so I love this so got six Americans out of Venezuela meanwhile Colombia which uh gave Trump a hard time very temporarily uh for shipping back the uh Colombian immigrants or migrants and remember the president of Colombia said hey you can't land here and then it turned into well how about we send the presidential airplane to pick him up because really what we care about is the repatriation is dignified so it's not about whether they come back it's about whether it's a dignified return so he's uh he's taken it to the next level and he's offered to pay for all the Colombians coming home so I guess he doesn't want to use the presidential jet for every flight of course but uh Colombia I think without being prompted because there's nothing here about negotiating I think he just said how about we'll pay to bring them home and I'll make sure that it's a dignified return home to which I say yeah it's saving f face right so he's he's doing a clever little move to Safe face so now we can say well no it was always just about just about dignity okay I'll let him have that if he's going to pay some of our bills because do you know how much it costs for a flight to ship anybody back to their native country it's like an amazing amount of money to ship people back so if Colombia wants to pay that amazing amount of money and we're going to get what we want good all right no problem uh Trump signed an executive order to get rid of uh 10 regulations for every new one that's added I think that's exactly what it was before or was it give me a fact check was in his first term was it 10 to1 or was it a different ratio that you had to get rid of 10 regulations to get a new one it was either 10 to1 or something in that neighbor and uh I love it it seems like it worked the first time why wouldn't it work again so good job Trump meanwhile the FCC is demanding the CBS turn over the tape from I guess it was 60 minutes when they interviewed KL Harris now the FCC would get involved um I guess to make sure that people got equal time and that that an interview was not so biased that maybe it turned into a campaign ad so the accusation is that uh KL Harris was so incoherent with their usual word salad Babble that 60 Minutes had to splice in edits just to make her sound like she wasn't an idiot I don't think it changed any opinions I don't think It reversed any opinions they they simply use bits from other answers so that things she said made sense for a change now that's extreme I mean that's that's way over the line so yes I'd like to see the FCC look into that meanwhile the uh Trump Administration is taking down a lot of websites in the government especially if they have Dei references so they're putting a pause on most federal government websites and the idea is to dig down and get rid of all the D references so uh well we'll see how long it takes you know the the Dei people are going to burrow into other jobs and change their names and hide the projects and hide the budgets and they're going to do everything you know creepy and illegal to stay to keep doing what they're doing but we'll see it does seem like Trump and the administration are pretty dead set on rooting out all this Dei it's going to take a while won't be easy um but over on uh over at MSNBC according to the Daily color news Foundation uh one of the hosts Anna Cabrera she said on Friday that's yesterday that there are plenty of data points that prove that diversity equity and inclusion enable business to have greater success are they really I I think the plenty of data points would actually be none because how could you sort how much better you did because of diversity now even if you accept that diversity improves your bottom line somehow even if you accept that how can you measure it I mean what what possible way would you have to know that oh it's a good thing we have we went from uh 8% black employees we got up to 14% And then what your profits went up that month so you say it must be because of all the diversity how in the world would you know that diversity made a difference so it's absurd on its face it's not something you possibly measure and even if you tried to measure you know the company that added diversity versus the one that didn't that's still a nonsense comparison you know they're probably different businesses everything's different anyway so uh MSNBC is just floundering trying to hold on to the thing that was always a lie uh but they got caught in the lie so uh Trump apparently took a question about uh why he wasn't going to visit the crash site of the uh the airplanes the helicopter in airplane that went in the pomac and uh and when they asked you know the the normal way that you would answer that question do you want to visit the crash site it would be something like oh yeah you know we're we're waiting until it's the right time or we're looking into it and Trump go and Trump goes it's in the water what do you want me to do swim there now that is the way to answer a dumb question you you do it with mocking and you do it with humor and you refuse to you know answer it in any normal way now even even Bill Mah on his show last night called that as the right answer you know if you can ask him dumb questions he gets to give you you know funny answers so it and more generally it's hilarious to watch Bill Maher become more and more prot Trump but still have to look balanced so he's got to come up with some anti-trump stuff to balance the prot Trump stuff and it's really hard to come up with the anti- stuff because the anti- stuff is about stuff he hasn't done well he might steal your democracy but has he has he stolen your democracy no no but I think he might so the things he does you kind of like yeah yeah I liked it when he closed up the Border but the things he hasn't done are your entire your entire problem are the things he hasn't done says he won't do and nobody in his party would support which is becoming a dictator so I I think I think Bill Mah might get there someday I don't know if you've seen it yet but there's a photo of the Mars um surface that includes some kind of a image that looks to be perfectly Square meaning it looks like the the broken down walls of a square City you know or a a building but when they say perfectly Square you know I know what I see in the picture that's perfectly square and it's big it's not like a small object so for a large object to be perfectly Square that's uh does suggest that there was some life up on Mars now here's how these things usually go because this is sort of a repeat of there used to be remember there was a face on Mars and you look at the photo and you'd say to yourself that's definitely a face I see it there's this giant face like a like a statue had fallen over and gotten partially covered by the dust but it sure looked like a face and then the the photography experts say uh okay here's that same spot but from a different angle and it's just a rock it's just a rock so there there was something unique about an exact camera angle that cast some Shadows that made it look like it was a face but from every other angle it was just a rock now I think if well so I have two competing thoughts when I look at the photo I say to myself that's got to be some sign of life that used to be in Mars but when I check my common sense and my context I know that this is the one of the most common stories about the moon you don't think this is just going to be one of those well it's because it's not really square but if you look at it from this angle it's the angle that makes it look like it's square and you know it's there's something about the light and you know I I would bet against it if you said you got to put a million doll bet down that it's really a sign of life or there's something about the way the photo was taken the angle whatever I don't know what kind kind of angle could make something look huge and perfectly square like I'm not aware of anything that a camera can do that would turn a nonsquare thing into a perfect square so my brain is not accepting that it's anything but a sign of life but my rational part of my brain which is operating at the same time sort of in parallel says you know but if you get a bet on it with real money you should bet against it because if you bet against every other claim of this type through through the decades you would have won every bet so yeah then there's also the question of whether it's a real photo but apparently the database with the photos is available for others to check yeah and there's at least one version where it's not so square at all so I'm going to bet against it but it's fun um so the LA times wrote an article saying essentially that Trump was right about the water problems in California that that they were essentially self-caused yeah somebody showing me a a photo now in which uh it's definitely not a human structure so it looks like it well no let me see could it be I don't know yeah it's ambiguous I'm going to go with it will never it will never check out as a something built by an intelligent species anyway the LA Times says Trump's right about the water supply in California and Trump was bragging that he got some extra water turned on even more than we heard about the other week and that the water is flowing in California and all you had to do is turn the spigot so there's something wrong with that story and let let me summarize the story about the California water and you tell me what I'm missing CU I know for sure that my understanding of the story couldn't possibly be right but it's what I'm gleaning from the report all right so here's me summarizing what I think I know about California water and Trump yeah so the narrative goes there some evil goblins in California presumably Democrats were preventing citizens farmers and firefighters from having the water that was in abundance so the water was in abundance just these evil goblins were preventing it and the reason the Goblins act as they do uh is a combination of uh hatred for Humanity plus something about a fish however Trump fixed it all by ordering someone to turn on the water now that's the story I'm reading do you really think that the evil Goblin trolls with their hatred of humanity wanted to prevent everybody from having water and the solution was to have somebody powerful say turn on that water and then they turned it on and it's all good I think something's missing from the story so I was trying to get to the bottom of it before Showtime um and I don't know the answer yet but I'll give you some hints the there are some California Water experts who say uh you don't want to drain the reservoirs now because you're going to need it later during Fire season okay is that a thing is it possible that uh Trump can let a bunch of water out but then later will be in worse shape I don't know uh others other water experts in California say if you do it too fast you'll flood areas that we normally could manage without any flooding is that a thing will there be some extra flooding that we didn't know about and then other people say well you can release the water but it doesn't go to the right place you know it's going to end up somewhere where you don't need it anyway is that true or can the farmers open up new Fields because they have water and they can rely on it I don't know so the I'm not sure if the LA Times answered all these questions but I feel like everything about this story sounds like that's what I think now I'm not saying that Trump didn't help there there's at least a 50% chance that that's exactly what happened that California was unable to do the common sense logical things Trump just forced them into it maybe maybe but I'm pretty sure we're not here in the whole story here so hold your powder on that one you probably heard there's a another Jet crash it was a small jet uh that did some kind of uh medical flights I think it was Mexican Nationals were on it and they brought a uh young Mexican girl to America for some treatments that I guess were not available in in her hometown and uh sadly it the plane went down with half a dozen people on it and uh they're all deceased of course now one thing that's different about these plane crashes is that it seems like no matter where there's a crash somebody had a ring camera that got good footage of it so there's unusually good footage of the actual Crash from from all the cameras in the world so I don't know how many times small aircrafts the size of this one crash but I think it's way more than we know I don't even think it makes national news like if a you know little uh Cessna goes down somewhere does it make national news I don't know but uh there's probably a lot more small airplane accidents than we know about well the New York Post is reporting that uh speaking of that plane crash uh that the Army is not going to name the female pilot killed the board the military okay now until this morning uh there were a lot of you saying um it's a Dei problem and that when you found out who was piloting it you know you you'd find out it's some kind of Dei hire now I said no don't go there there there's no evidence of that if ever there is evidence of it then I'm with you but don't go there without evidence it the only thing we know for sure is that uh Dei should should be breaking all of our systems it should by design it should make everything break now even Bill Maher did an extended piece last night about how all of our systems in the country are broken does that sound familiar that's me how many times have I told you uh you realize that all of our systems are broken all of them from Health Care to Fin and when when I say broken I mean corrupt um from Health Care to finance to politics to you name it you name it and I've been saying that for a while but when Bill Mar says it the difference is he's still not to the point where he can give a reason for it I feel like he and he might be right by the way yeah he might think it's just the Natural Evolution of organizations they might start out as a good idea but then they evolve and their budget's too big and they do Dei hiring and you know they lose sense of the mission and it all falls apart but I don't think you can ignore the fact that Dei predicts complete destruction of all of our systems by focusing on the wrong stuff now again it has nothing to do with anybody's DNA has nothing to do with your culture it's not about your gender it's none of that the the problem with Dei is it forces you away from uh hiring only the best and toward making sure you hit your de quota so humans being humans are going to make sure they hit the quota that's easiest to measure and the easiest one to measure is always the you just count the number of people and say what are you it's the easiest one for measuring it's the easiest one so of course in the real world people people manage to whatever will be measured and their bonus depends on it so uh yeah everything's falling apart but it turns out that this pilot that I had been telling you stop saying to EI you know you don't know anything about the actual crew it's a female pilot now that doesn't mean the pilot made a mistake we're we're miles away from saying the pilot made a mistake the there's there's nothing connecting female pilot to Pilot mistake there might be I mean at some point in the future but even that wouldn't prove Dei as a problem it might prove One One Pilot as a problem but here's what I've heard from U my pilot friend and I think other Pilots have said something like it that the the real reason for the crash is probably uh several factors it's very unlikely there's just one thing one of the factors is the airport's way busier and more dangerous and Pilots have been complaining about it forever another is that Pilots have said you know you don't want the the helicopters doing too much there because they're going to be in the way so now they've stopped the helicopter traffic there so that was part of it some of it was maybe the training wasn't as good as it could have been some of it was the tower was ambiguous so the thinking is it was sort of a perfect storm of a bunch of things going wrong in the context of it was easy for the those things to go wrong but if only one of those things had gone wrong probably you could have recovered it looks like a bunch of things went wrong at the same time which was perfectly predictable because of the complexity and the nature of the problem so if you have a an increasingly complicated flying environment which they did and a decreasingly decreasingly small number of people who are working in the tower which we did see more traffic more complexity fewer people handling the traffic and the complexity what are you going to what's it going to be I mean there's only one way that goes so it was sort of an evitable but maybe this was the wakeup call to fix some of that but we cannot blame the female pilot and I completely understand why the family doesn't want to release the name because it would be a Feeding Frenzy if they did just a Feeding Frenzy so let me say it again I'm not in favor of blaming individual problems on Dei that's going to be a losing proposition you're just going to turn yourself into you know you look like a jerk even if you're right sometimes you'll probably be right that that's exactly the problem and it and the one individual is exactly the problem but if you don't know that it's kind of messed up it's kind of messed up if you don't know it so I think we can say Dei should destroy everything sooner or later because it's designed that way but you can't say much about any one person in one act usually usually sometimes you will be able to but usually not anyway uh let's see the FAA is uh embroiled in lawsuit because apparently they turned away a th000 applicants based on race New York Post is reporting this so a thousand applicants were turned away now these are the people who could have you know maybe been in that Tower so they had proper uh proper amount of employees working there um but I think this goes back to 2015 or something it's an older law suit that's kicking around so just know that uh you can you can draw a straight line between not enough people in the tower and Dei hiring I think straight line exists I feel that that's demonstrated enough that you can say yeah at the very least at the very least it's a reason there are not enough people working at the very least all right I guess Trump's going to put some tariffs on chips and steel and Pharma and oil that's all coming and when he was asked hey won't that increase inflation now or relas the prices um because if it costs more for everything we import well who's paying for it eventually those costs get and not even eventually pretty quickly those costs get passed on to the consumer so if Trump puts a tariff on everything coming into the country doesn't that largely guarantee that uh that well we get some come from the Tariff the the government would but I think that's paid by the American companies that are importing so seems to me that uh it would cause prices to go up if the price of everything goes up let me say it again if the price of everything goes up won't that cause the price of everything to go up it's a pretty direct line but Trump's argument is is weirdly good and his argument is we had tariff in my first term and no inflation when I say no inflation it's it's actually okay to have a little bit so what he had was a little bit it it was within the this is no problem range so that is a good point if he's already done if he's already done pretty big tariffs and we had no inflation there's at least there's at least one data point that says you can do this so that's a pretty good response I guess we'll have to keep an eye on it and see how it works and of course the tariffs on Mexico and Canada and China are going into effect um Trump explains that as partly Revenue partly just having Fair trading agreements with their Partners making things more fair but also largely because of the fentanyl trade so it's coming across both of our borders and China is the originator of the raw materials that the cartels and others are turning into fenel so um we'll see if we'll see if a tariff makes any difference now my guess is the Tariff will not really change anything because if the Govern if the government of Mexico had any ability to stop it or any will to stop it I guess I think it already would have happened so I'm not really expecting pressure on the governments to have any impact on the cartels because the cartels you know don't care if the if the alleged government gets pressure they just care if they get pressure but speaking of that uh Pete exf has announced that because the uh cartels are designated as terrorist organizations thanks to Trump that uh they can now the Department of Defense can use special ops against the Mexican cartels uh when asked about that um heg Seth gave the correct answer which is all options are on the table meaning it doesn't mean that we mobilized you know to you know yesterday but it might mean that it might mean that we mobilized and the special forces are ready to go in or already have gone in and we haven't heard about it so that is exactly what I want to see I want to see the Special Forces take on the cartels and I want to um I want to see the the uh tariffs get the governments of those countries on board you put it all together and I don't think it's going to stop fenel hate to say but I don't think it'll be enough uh but you have to do it you you can't just let people be dying like crazy without trying something so if you can't if you can't stop it at the source you can't stop people from trying to get it I don't know what do you do I don't know but I'm quite appreciative of this for reasons you know I lost my stepson in 2018 to a overdose all right FBI is experiencing massive firings so CNN's reporting that uh and of course this is part of the cleaning house of the Trump Administration dozens of FBI agents who worked on the January 6 cases have been let go um and agents who worked to investigate Trump's handling of the classified documents Leto and those who investigated the 1600 um January 6 attendees seems like they'll be let go and it's being reported that uh many of the agents initially had quals about taking those assignments the ones that are getting fired for those assignments they had quals about taking them cuz they believed that uh you maybe it would come back and bite them in the ass yes your instinct was right if you take those illegitimate jobs and the other team gets in power you're in trouble now I do have I do have some sympathy here if you're just trying to make your career work and your boss says you're going to work on this January 6 thing or you're going to work on you know the marago thing are you going to say you know honestly I have a philosophical problem with this if you do I'm guessing that's the end of your career so there must be a lot of people who didn't feel like they had a choice so I'd feel bad for them but I'm going to give you an alternate point of view so that you don't see them as poor victims just doing their job and mean old Trump is coming into to get rid of them I'd like to give you a reaction from Julie Kelly who you might know has been following the January 6 thing very closely she's attended courtroom stuff and knows the most probably about the situation of anybody I know and uh here's what she says it appears that between 30 and 40 of the j6 uh line prosecutors were fired today now I think she's talking about the doj um I can only guess how much how much pleasure their victims take at this astounding news so there are two things happening you know there's the purging of the FBI but separately the purging of the doj and uh Julie Kelly says kudos to the acting U Deputy AG ail Bo blah blah blah uh and she said here's here's the payoff for three years I watched these prosecutors in discussed when I left January 6 Court proceedings I would pray that their come upins would come but had little hope it would it is not so much how they abused the law and work hand in glove with like-minded DC judges to violate the rights of j6 defendants what sickened me was seeing how gratified they were in inflicting pain on people who had no recourse no ability to fight the legal and judicial circle of hell created by the doj and federal courts in Washington I often refer to them as satus there is something deeply wrong with them maybe being unemployed and under investigation will allow them time to conduct some much needed soul searching but for now this is an historic day worthy of much celebration okay now that's what I call a Victory lap Julie Kelly thank you for your service to the country you deserve a victory lab so I hope you're having a great day so congratulations and thank you for all of your work on that um so now do you feel sorry for the ones getting fired do you feel sorry for them now I don't all of my sort of instinct for empathy just went completely away if you stand in the court and they seem to you like say this and they seem to you like they're enjoying it yeah yeah that's that's got to be there's got to be a response to that and there was meanwhile Secretary of Defense P Heth uh he has made some changes to the uh the news coverage for the Department of Defense and he evicted the following news entities from their I guess they have a physical spot that they that they have control of uh so they can be closer to the Department of Defense so he's evicting the New York Times NPR and NBC and Politico from their Pentagon offices so they can make room for one American News Network the New York Post Breitbart and huff post now there's one name on that list that you said what now I'm sure you understand why you'd want one American Network New York Post and brart right you understand those but why the Huffington Post is he just trying to be both sides you know just saying hey it's not about being right leaning it's more about being a non-traditional media but here's the thing uh Buzz.

Feed owns huffing and post and V ramaswami recently bought 8% of Buzz.

Feed so maybe this is looking ahead a little bit in the sense that uh it could be that that Buzz.

Feed is going to take on more of a v ramaswami tone he only he only has 8% of it so I don't know if that's enough to affect a change but we'll see and maybe maybe there's some thought that uh that would trickle down to the huffing post that's owned by Buzz.

Feed so the only way it makes sense to me is if the vake level there is What mattered so maybe it is Maybe well on the all-in Pod chth was talking about Doge's success he says we're only nine or 10 days in and he said the fact that we're already at a billion dollars a day is really incredible and there's been no discernable impact uh I believe that's up to $4 billion a day now I think I think Elon said they're finding $4 billion a day now that they can cut so I I'm not going to believe any of this specific numbers coming out of Doge because doge is and and rightfully so trying to make us um understand that it's working so that we'll we'll keep backing it so if they make some claims early on they're maybe hyperbolic or little exaggerated or or they give us a number that's a multi-year number but it looked like it was just one year I'm going to give them a lot of passes because one of the things I always say is that the first Impressions become a weapon so if they can cause a first impression that oh my goodness this Doge stuff is working so well we want more of it more more it's so good and that's what they're doing so there there is a useful practical and desirable level of PR for Doge that I think they're doing a good job of making it look like it's hitting the ground running and getting some stuff done and the more that you think it's happening the more likely it will because it just sets the tone if if other if other government entities see that the other ones got gutted and and there was no bad impact on the country they just makes all the rest of the work easier so I'm in favor of calling out Doge for huge success maybe even before it happens that would be normal business to kind of over claim that the first day is doing great so it's very normal there's nothing creepy you are you know dishonest about it because it's just a universal trait um so I'm I'm okay with that one of the things that jamath points out is that the Doge teams each have an engineer on them now that's good thinking cuz imagine being a team and it's your job to go into some part of the government you've never had any access to and you have to figure out how it's all connected to everything else you're going to have to bring an engineer just to figure out if everything's connected and then secondly you want the engineer to say wait a minute that's what they do this is all they do I could do that with a software program I can write in 10 minutes now I'm exaggerating of course but you need an engineer to say I can get rid of this whole thing you know I'll just put in this AI or we'll skip it or whatever so yeah engineer you got to have an engineer on every team and the fact that Elon knows that and he's he's working on that model so good oh that is so good yeah just the design of the system is impressive there's an engineer on every team now I love engineers and I think they're the least or the most underappreciated job in the world because they're the ones that changed the world most fundamentally let's see if they can do it on the government um I guess a thousand EPA employees are going to go on probation probationary status and might be fired immediately CNN's reporting um here's the interesting one so apparently the highest ranking person in the treasury um David uh La brick he resigned rather than comply with Doge for access to audit where they spent trillions of dollars a year trillions of dollars go through the system and as soon as Doge said can we see what's in there see where the money went the person in charge quit now I don't know how that could be more damning the only thing that would be more damning is if they've already left the country to a country with no extradition but let me tell you a universal truth one of the things we learned in this story allegedly is that there was never any audit to money requests that went through the treasury they simply said yes to everything now I hope that's not literally true but it's being reported that they didn't even have the function to check there was nobody whose job it was to even check they just said yes and some of that would include uh maybe some requests that you wouldn't want them to pay uh including payments to quote fraudulent or terrorist groups so even if he knew the request was fraudulent or going to a group that made other fraudulent requests I guess their their operating rule was they would still release the money even to a terrorist even to a known fraudulent request because it wasn't their job to check on the sources I guess they were just writing the checks anyway but apparently they've never denied any payment at any time now if I told you that there was one guy in charge of the system that would handle trillions of dollars in payments and he quit when they asked if they could audit it what would you think about that because what I think is if you put anybody in charge of trillions of dollars and then you don't watch where it's going isn't that a guarantee of corruption like you you could design that system a thousand times and implement it in a thousand different countries and then just play the tape forward for a couple years and whoever was in that position would be stealing a trillion dollars a year because they can you could put you could even put an honest person in that position and after a few years they'd be like seriously every time somebody asks for a check I just authorize it and nobody checks nobody checks where I authorize the payment nobody ever sees if it's legal or appropriate or you know ordered by Congress nobody ever do you think that person's not going to steal your money probably nine out of 10 people in that situation would end up saying well maybe a little bit money could come my way I'm so underpaid it would just be fair so yeah it's it's almost a guarantee of corruption if you don't have anybody watching the store guaranteed some say that Tulsi gabbard's confirmation to dni might be in trouble um I guess she got mostly in trouble for not being willing to say that Edward Snowden is a traitor only that he broke laws and but apparently as of this morning there were no Republicans who had said publicly they would not vote to confirm Tulsi so if the Republicans stay United she still gets in but the thinking is that maybe even some Republicans are going to have a problem with her so we're going to I think we're treating this one as a coin flip um I don't know if Trump and supporters will go as hard at the politicians if they don't say yes to this one if if RFK Jr gets turned down people are going to flip out and I'm one of them I'm just going to flip out and I I'm just going to want something to be corrected very fast the other the other uh nominees I might say as I do with toy I say huh I would very much like her to get confirmed but if she didn't I don't know if I'd go to war especially if the other side had a reason they go okay here here's my specific reason and this is a line I can't cross I think I could live with it um but I wouldn't live I couldn't live with uh the Kennedy confirmation being derailed by fake news and stuff I can't live with that that that one's life and death got to get that one um I do want very much Tulsi to get confirmed and cash Patel especially I think cash is going to be okay um so I'm going to say yes on cash you'll get confirmed and Tulsa's still a coin flip could go either way um remember Bernie Sanders was arguing with RFK Jr and the confirmation hearings and uh RFK Jr pointed out he's one of the main recipients of Pharma donations and Bernie argued no I'm not taking anything from the executives I'm taking I only accept small donations those are from just employees and then I say What's the difference what is the difference if if the Pharma industry be they the executives or be they the employees have decided that you're the person that they're going to give money to because they like what you're doing you're not going to change what you're doing right why why does it matter that the employees gave it versus the executives it's exactly the same thing it's exactly the same so no that's not a Dodge and also if you're familiar with the real world let's see how many of you know the real world if you found out that an industry such as Pharma had a lot of individual employee donations so much so that when you summed it up it became you know the biggest number on the chart what would you say about about the willingness of the employees to give money to Bernie Sanders well let me tell you how the real world Works uh this is your CEO we've decided that we like Bernie Sanders and we're going to give him some corporate money but we don't want to do it with our money because it would look like we're putting too much of a too much of a thumb on the scale so we'd like to encourage each of you to use your own judgment we're not going to tell you who to donate to we like Bernie We Like Bernie but we're not going to tell you who um maybe there'll be a few others they'll get some money but here's a list of five people we think you should consider so anybody on this list oh and by the way um we can't tell you for sure that we won't know who you donated to because maybe there's some kind of company process to make it easy so they don't just go to a website they do something internally and then it get summed up and sent to the politicians maybe so in the real world there's no such thing as the employees independently decided to give to a candidate that's not really a thing there there are lots of individuals who do on their own decide to give the candidates but if you see a bunch of them in one in one industry that means the executives had their finger on the scale and were not so subtly nudging the employees in the direction they wanted them to go and and again they can say any one of these five politicians would be a good place to give a donation they don't have to just pick Bernie you know Bernie will get his share and they would bribe the other people at the same time all right uh there's more coming out about KLA Harris uh in her campaign and not getting on Joe Rogan which was considered a an error but boy when you hear the back and forth there's more details coming out the I think somebody has a book on it but when you hear the details of the negotiations basically Joe Rogan said I can schedule you in in lots of different times and you just have to do what everybody else does come to my come to the studio like Trump like everybody else and talk for three hours and I think he I think Rogan wanteded them to sign some something like some kind of deal Billy John you're such a turd like that matters anyway um but the overall take on it is oh my God K Harris's staff was so incompetent they could not figure out how to essentially take Joe Rogan's money because appearing on Joe Rogan is like money you know it's like one of the best things you could do if if you think you'll do a good job so he's offering her just as he offered Trump this gigantic platform I mean the best platform you could ever be on in terms of reach and you know Independence Etc and they couldn't figure it out and then apparently so here's part of why they couldn't figure it out they thought that if they send kamla to Texas for just that that the the money people would complain because Texas is not in play and that she should be spending all of her time in the states where she could win the state but she couldn't win Texas so why go there why go there is because Joe Rogan's there that's why so instead of just saying oh the best thing we could do is go on The Joe Rogan show they they decided to you know play it another way and and uh they started negotiating and they're like all right here's what we'll do we'll have a fake rally in Houston this is real we'll do a fake rally it's really a rally but they would do it just for the purpose of giving her a reason I think it was on maybe Reproductive Rights or something so that would give her a reason to come to the state and then since she was already there that would give her a reason to do The Joe Rogan show but I think they picked like the only day he wasn't available to do it so they couldn't schedule it they couldn't say yes they had to come up with a whole fake cover story to get her in the state every part of that is screaming incompetence let let me tell you how Trump would have handled that Joe Rogan invited me on the show okay schedule it that was it that that's all she needed to do and did did he ever say oh I can't go with these days cuz people will Judge Me from what state no it had nothing to do with you know the fact that he was likely to win the state because arguably Trump didn't have a reason to go either because he was going to win the state anyway but he just said where is the show I'm going to go to the show because it's the most important platform in 2024 so it's uh it's quite amazing to see the the competence difference in the campaign uh meanwhile Democrat Arizona governor Katie Hobs is being asked to explain what happened to $339 million that quote disappeared from the state budget huh uh meanwhile the her budget director mysteriously resigned okay does this sound like the treasury Department Story the moment the moment the budget bug is being questioned because there's a massive amount of money that's missing the budget director quits wait what the budget director quits that doesn't sound good so um there is suspicion that $339 million went where it shouldn't the Gateway pundits reporting on this they they've been all over it um and uh one of the uh State reps talked to the Gateway pundit and said quote uh maybe somebody's siphoning off some funds and then he clarified maybe some are mistakes who knows but they don't match up so the spending in the budget I guess do don't match something doesn't match we'll see uh and then also Gateway pundit Jim Hof is writing about this um one of the things that we hope to find out under the Trump Administration is if there's anything else to know about the Seth Rich story now historically uh I've mostly been a skeptic about that really being related to anything important and that it looked probably more like a random crime even though there were ton of coincidences involved I get it I get it killary hint H Clinton Etc so I understand the the suspicion about it but this is this is interesting so apparently the FBI is still stalling um refusing to turn over the Seth Rich Records to an attorney Ty clevinger and he's been trying to get him for years um and he keeps being denied now what happens when cash patella gets in the office if he does is Cash going to say yeah just release all that Seth Ridge stuff I don't know and I've heard that cash has seen some of the other secret files like he's seen the UFO files um he's seen the Kenedy files do you think he's also seen the Seth Rich files don't know but it could get interesting maybe something will happen there uh meanwhile according to Anthony Watts at the climate change uh dispatch the AP is doing a story that uh projects millions of European heat desks using the de debunked model now so the AP has a story that says a whole bunch of people are going to die from too much heat in Europe the model that they used to model this risk it's even got a name the name is called the uh the RCP 8.5 so I think that means that the there are a bunch of different scenarios you know if this and that happen it looks like this but if this and that happen it looks like this so this is one of those but it's the most extreme one and the one that literally nobody thinks is real so the AP wrote a story based on a climate model that even the climate scientists say what you're using that model nobody thinks that model is real why do they think it's not real um because let's see um it assumes an improbable future of runaway coal consumption stalled technological progress and unmitigated population growth so the population is stalled uh coal is just one of the Technologies probably will do a lot more nuclear than we will coal in the long run and technological progress is not installed it's the opposite so it's a discredited model but the AP still ran with it because it was fit their narrative now here's my question how many models are there and if there if there are more than one model isn't that proof that the models aren't real to me it is if you had one model I'd say that might be it might be useful I mean I'd watch it to see if it could predict but if you have a 100 models and they all based on different assumptions such as how much coal you use Etc like I just mentioned if they have different assumptions and there's a hundred of them and they go in different directions doesn't that mean they're not real because I would I would think that even if you knew which assumptions are the real ones that then you would get into how did they calculate the end point and you'd find it it's yeah there's no such thing as predict in the future with complicated models of any kind it's not true in climate it's not true in finance it's not true in anything anywhere there's no such thing as a complicated many variable model that tells you the future never will be you unless AI can figure it out so um way do you find out about climate models is what I like to say way do you find out about climate models lots more to find out there so uh as I mentioned Owen Gregorian is going to have a spaces event on X that's the audio the audio uh app so you can listen in go to you can either go to Owen gregorian's X page or you can go to mine and you'll see the link it's at the top near the top and that'll happen probably as soon as he gets organized after I close down I imagine he's starting to get ready to push that button any moment so you'll enjoy that I I've popped into a number of them and uh people seem to be having fun so I like it um in the meantime I'm going to talk privately to the 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show um Owen Gregorian will have a

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coffee part well it's a black history

month and uh despite Trump getting rid

of all the Dei in the government he did

do a proclamation recognizing it and he

called out some of the notable famous uh

black contributors to America he

included Frederick Doug Douglas Harriet

Tubman and then also threw in more

modern names like Thomas sell and

Clarence

Thomas well here's my take on

that I think Black History Month was a

great

idea I also think affirmative action was

necessary um you know even though it

didn't work out for me didn't work out

for me but we probably needed to do

something to to Kickstart things to to

get a little more openness and diversity

and all that however it's

2025 when I see black history month do I

say to myself wow uh black people have

contributed so much to

America well yes that that's sort of the

point of it but I already knew

that and all you have to do is turn on

the television and it's full of

successful black people in every domain

every domain politics

entertainment so it feels like having

your own month is now you know went from

a good idea a solidly good idea to it

feels a little

condescending it it feels like it's it's

not giving black Americans what they

hoped for and it just sort of looks like

a pat on the head it's almost it's

almost like we should have outgrown by

now and let me ask you this do you think

Thomas Soul would be happy that his name

was on the list of uh great black

Americans I don't know but I'm not

entirely sure he'd be happy about being

on the list and you know I'm no expert

on Thomas Soul or I can't read his mind

but here's what I think he'd like a lot

more uh some great American

economists include this person this

person Thomas

Soul how about just being on the list of

you know really important unusually

effective economists now that's a

compliment and then just be done with it

so um I don't think I'm too far off base

because P Heth in the Department of

Defense um said that no longer will the

Department of Defense host or celebrate

any of these cultural awareness months

now if you don't know how many there are

besides Black History Month there's

women's History Month Asian American and

Pacific Islander Heritage Month you got

pride month you got National Hispanic

heritage months National disability

employment awareness month and National

American

Indian American Indian Heritage Month

well I call that Native American cuz I'm

not a racist my God anyway so you could

go to these events but you can't do

anything in your official capacity if

you're in the Department of Defense I

think that is the

correct the correct point of view for

the Department of

Defense um because if they're focused on

anything but their

lethality as P ath likes to point out

they're taking her taking their eye off

the ball now obviously you can't spend

24 hours a day working on your lethality

you know there are other things in life

but I I do think this is a step in the

right direction because as soon as you

call out some groups all the other

groups are going to say where's my

month I say it where's my

month why why don't I get a month I

don't know everybody else did over at

Stanford University they use their AI to

uh look at

faces and uh apparently they can tell if

you're gay or straight by looking at

your face we've talked about this before

but it made me think do you remember

maybe it was the I don't know 60s or 70s

you know that's as far as I can remember

back but there was this conversation

about whether being gay was genetic or

just people chose

it and I I would always laugh in

thinking it's obviously it's obviously

genetic and the reason I said is

obviously genetic is that you could tell

who was gay by looking at him could you

really tell who's gay by looking at him

if it if it were not just baked into the

genetic

components no so when I see that

Stanford says you know not they can't do

it 100% of course but they have a high

uh High hit rate of knowing if you're

gay or straight from your

photo how could it be anything except

genetic if you can tell by looking at a

photo the the only way the only way it

wouldn't be genetic

um and by the way I don't know if

anybody's found any specific genetic

link you know I I don't know if they've

gone that far but how could

lifestyle make your face recognizably

gay assuming you washed it

um don't even think about

that all right I just cracked myself up

and I'm taking this in a completely

wrong direction but um yes I think have

always wanted us to to

acknowledge that this is some it's the

way you're born and it's nobody's fault

it's nobody's Choice it's just the way

you're born and I think the face the

face T is proof that they were right all

along

Amazon um looks like it might be getting

ready to advertise on X again which

would be a big

deal um and I think the correct the

correct decision

I guess apple is also looking at x

deciding whether to go back on that's

pretty good boy there's nothing like a

winning is there if if Elon Musk had not

been on the winning team in politics and

that gave him a big role and you know

what's happening right now at least the

advisory role um plus

Doge do you think that the big companies

would be so happy to re-embrace

X I don't know

I I think they would have had other

pressure from Democrats but the Democrat

Party just fell apart and Doge and musk

and Trump are doing great so it makes

perfect sense if you're a big American

company to get on the side of the

winners there's nothing wrong with that

there's nothing wrong with saying you

know what I think we'll adjust our track

and you know try to be more compatible

with the country so good job Amazon and

apple heading in the right direction

ction uh speaking of

meta we weren't but lets um Mark

Zuckerberg uh of

meta is uh looking into exiting Delaware

and reincorporating in Texas now if you

didn't know for a very long time

corporations like to register in

Delaware even while having no business

in Delaware and the reason was it was

the Delaware laws are kind of friendly

to corporations but there's some judge

there that went after you know that went

after I guess you could say went after

uh Elon Musk and that sent a Big Chill

because musk was saying you know you

should get your get your corporation out

of there because they can go after you

so Delaware seems to be politicized and

if you're a big company and you don't

want to be part of that risk you're

going to have to get out of Delaware so

met is doing I think exactly the right

thing so again good

decision Richard

grenell apparently succeeded in getting

six I guess they were called hostages

and a

Venezuela now what's the follow-up

question to that that Rick renell got

six American hostages out of Venezuela

the follow-up question is there were six

hostages in

Venezuela why is this the first time I'm

hearing about it that seems like that'

be a bigger story six American hostages

held in

Venezuela

well I love the fact that Richard

grenell is sort of like a a trump loaded

weapon and he can he can point Richard

grenell at any situation and you feel

confident that the right person's taking

care of it so I'm surprised Richard

grenell doesn't have an official job in

the administration right and I don't

believe he has an official title but

just the fact that he's sort of

available to do

missions is kind of

awesome would you like to have just a

Richard grenell on call so that when

Trump needs to send somebody somewhere

and get something done in another

country you just send the one who knows

how to get it done I I suspect that

grenell is more effective because when

he walks into the room if the other

country has done their homework they

know he's talking talking for Trump like

they're they know they're not going to

put like a wedge like H we'll get this

guy to you maybe see our side of it or

something like no when grenell walks in

the room you know that Trump's

preferences are going to be there and

that's the end of the story so that

probably makes him a lot more effective

that and the fact that whatever he does

in general seems to be effective so I

love this so got six Americans out of

Venezuela meanwhile Colombia

which uh gave Trump a hard time very

temporarily uh for shipping back the uh

Colombian immigrants or migrants and

remember the president of Colombia said

hey you can't land here and then it

turned into well how about we send the

presidential airplane to pick him up

because really what we care about is the

repatriation is dignified so it's not

about whether they come back it's about

whether it's a dignified return

so he's uh he's taken it to the next

level and he's offered to pay for all

the Colombians coming

home so I guess he doesn't want to use

the presidential jet for every flight of

course but uh Colombia I think without

being prompted because there's nothing

here about negotiating I think he just

said how about we'll pay to bring them

home and I'll make sure that it's a

dignified return home to which I say

yeah it's saving f face right so he's

he's doing a clever little move to Safe

face so now we can say well no it was

always just about just about

dignity okay I'll let him have that if

he's going to pay some of our bills

because do you know how much it costs

for a flight to ship anybody back to

their native country it's like an

amazing amount of money to ship people

back so if Colombia wants to pay that

amazing amount of money and we're going

to get what we want good all right no

problem uh Trump signed an executive

order to get rid of uh 10 regulations

for every new one that's

added I think that's exactly what it was

before or was it give me a fact check

was in his first term was it 10 to1 or

was it a different ratio that you had to

get rid of 10 regulations to get a new

one it was either 10 to1 or something in

that neighbor

and uh I love

it it seems like it worked the first

time why wouldn't it work again so good

job Trump meanwhile the

FCC is demanding the CBS turn over the

tape from I guess it was 60 minutes when

they interviewed KL Harris now the FCC

would get

involved um I guess to make sure that

people got equal time and that that an

interview was not so biased that maybe

it turned into a campaign ad so the

accusation is that uh KL Harris was so

incoherent with their usual word salad

Babble that 60 Minutes had to splice in

edits just to make her sound like she

wasn't an

idiot I don't think it changed any

opinions I don't think It reversed any

opinions they they simply use bits from

other answers so that things she said

made sense for a change now that's

extreme I mean that's that's way over

the line so yes I'd like to see the FCC

look into

that meanwhile the uh Trump

Administration is taking down a lot of

websites in the government especially if

they have Dei references so they're

putting a pause on most federal

government websites and the idea is to

dig down and get rid of all the D

references so uh well we'll see how long

it takes you know the the Dei people are

going to burrow into other jobs and

change their names and hide the projects

and hide the budgets and they're going

to do everything you know creepy and

illegal to stay to keep doing what

they're doing but we'll see it does seem

like Trump and the administration are

pretty dead set on rooting out all this

Dei it's going to take a while won't be

easy

um but over on uh over at MSNBC

according to the Daily color news

Foundation uh one of the hosts Anna

Cabrera she said on Friday that's

yesterday that there are plenty of data

points that prove that diversity equity

and inclusion enable business to have

greater

success are they

really I I think the plenty of data

points would actually be

none because how could you sort

how much better you did because of

diversity now even if you accept that

diversity improves your bottom line

somehow even if you accept that how can

you measure

it I mean what what possible way would

you have to know that oh it's a good

thing we have we went from uh 8% black

employees we got up to

14% And then what your profits went up

that month so you say it must be because

of all the diversity how in the world

would you know that diversity made a

difference so it's absurd on its face

it's not something you possibly measure

and even if you tried to measure you

know the company that added diversity

versus the one that didn't that's still

a nonsense comparison you know they're

probably different businesses

everything's different

anyway so uh MSNBC is just floundering

trying to hold on to the thing that was

always a lie

uh but they got caught in the

lie so uh Trump apparently took a

question about uh why he wasn't going to

visit the crash site of the uh the

airplanes the helicopter in airplane

that went in the

pomac and

uh and when they asked you know the the

normal way that you would answer that

question do you want to visit the crash

site it would be something like oh yeah

you know we're we're waiting until it's

the right time or we're looking into it

and Trump go and Trump goes it's in the

water what do you want me to do swim

there now that is the way to answer a

dumb question you you do it with mocking

and you do it with humor and you refuse

to you know answer it in any normal way

now even even Bill Mah on his show last

night called that as the right answer

you know if you can ask him dumb

questions he gets to give

you you know funny

answers so it and more generally it's

hilarious to watch Bill Maher become

more and more prot Trump but still have

to look balanced so he's got to come up

with some anti-trump stuff to balance

the prot Trump stuff and it's really

hard to come up with the anti- stuff

because the anti- stuff is about stuff

he hasn't done

well he might steal your

democracy but has he has he stolen your

democracy no no but I think he

might so the things he does you kind of

like yeah yeah I liked it when he closed

up the Border but the things he hasn't

done are your entire your entire problem

are the things he hasn't done says he

won't do and nobody in his party would

support which is becoming a dictator

so I I think I think Bill Mah might get

there

someday I don't know if you've seen it

yet but there's a photo of the Mars um

surface that includes some kind of a

image that looks to be perfectly Square

meaning it looks like the the broken

down walls of a square City you know or

a a building but when they say perfectly

Square you know I know what I see in the

picture that's perfectly square and it's

big it's not like a small object so for

a large object to be perfectly

Square that's

uh does suggest that there was some life

up on

Mars now here's how these things usually

go because this is sort of a repeat of

there used to be remember there was a

face on

Mars and you look at the photo and you'd

say to yourself that's definitely a face

I see it there's this giant face like a

like a statue had fallen over and gotten

partially covered by the dust but it

sure looked like a face and then the the

photography experts say uh okay here's

that same spot but from a different

angle and it's just a rock it's just a

rock so there there was something unique

about an exact camera angle that cast

some Shadows that made it look like it

was a face but from every other angle it

was just a

rock now I

think if well so I have two competing

thoughts when I look at the photo I say

to myself that's got to be some sign of

life that used to be in Mars but when I

check my common sense and my context I

know that this is the one of the most

common

stories about the moon you don't think

this is just going to be one of those

well it's because it's not really square

but if you look at it from this angle

it's the angle that makes it look like

it's square and you know it's there's

something about the light and you know I

I would bet against it if you said you

got to put a million doll bet down that

it's really a sign of life or there's

something about the way the photo was

taken the angle

whatever I don't know what kind kind of

angle could make something look huge and

perfectly square like I'm not aware of

anything that a camera can do that would

turn a nonsquare thing into a perfect

square so my brain is not

accepting that it's anything but a sign

of life but my rational part of my brain

which is operating at the same time sort

of in parallel says you know but if you

get a bet on it with real money you

should bet against it because if you bet

against every other claim of this type

through through the decades you would

have won every bet so yeah then there's

also the question of whether it's a real

photo but apparently the database with

the photos is available for others to

check yeah and there's at least one

version where it's not so square at all

so I'm going to bet against it but it's

fun um so the LA

times wrote an article saying

essentially that Trump was right about

the water problems in

California that that they were

essentially

self-caused yeah somebody showing me a a

photo now in

which uh it's definitely not a human

structure so it looks like it well no

let me

see could it be I don't

know yeah it's ambiguous I'm going to go

with it will never it will never check

out as

a something built by an intelligent

species anyway the LA Times says Trump's

right about the water supply in

California and Trump was bragging that

he got some extra water turned on even

more than we heard about the other week

and that the water is flowing in

California and all you had to do is turn

the

spigot so

there's something wrong with that

story and let let me summarize the story

about the California water and you tell

me what I'm missing CU I know for sure

that my understanding of the story

couldn't possibly be right but it's what

I'm gleaning from the report all right

so here's me summarizing what I think I

know about California water and

Trump yeah so the narrative goes there

some evil goblins in California

presumably Democrats were preventing

citizens farmers and firefighters from

having the water that was in abundance

so the water was in abundance just these

evil goblins were preventing it and the

reason the Goblins act as they do uh is

a combination of uh hatred for Humanity

plus something about a

fish however Trump fixed it all by

ordering someone to turn on the

water now that's the story I'm reading

do you really think that the evil Goblin

trolls with their hatred of humanity

wanted to prevent everybody from having

water and the solution was to have

somebody powerful say turn on that water

and then they turned it on and it's all

good I think something's missing from

the

story so I was trying to get to the

bottom of it before Showtime um and I

don't know the answer yet but I'll give

you some hints the there are some

California Water experts who say uh you

don't want to drain the reservoirs now

because you're going to need it later

during Fire

season okay is that a thing is it

possible that uh Trump can let a bunch

of water out but then later will be in

worse shape I don't know uh others other

water experts in California say if you

do it too fast you'll flood areas that

we normally could manage without any

flooding is that a thing will there be

some extra flooding that we didn't know

about and then other people say well you

can release the water but it doesn't go

to the right place you know it's going

to end up somewhere where you don't need

it anyway is that true or can the

farmers open up new Fields because they

have water and they can rely on it I

don't know so

the I'm not sure if the LA Times

answered all these questions but I feel

like everything about this story sounds

like

that's what I think now I'm not

saying that Trump didn't

help there there's at least a 50% chance

that that's exactly what happened that

California was unable to do the common

sense logical things Trump just forced

them into it maybe maybe but I'm pretty

sure we're not here in the whole story

here so hold your powder on that one you

probably heard there's a another Jet

crash it was a small jet uh that did

some kind of uh medical flights I think

it was Mexican Nationals were on it and

they brought a uh young Mexican girl to

America for some treatments that I guess

were not available in in her

hometown and uh sadly it the plane went

down with half a dozen people on it and

uh they're all deceased of course

now one thing that's different about

these plane crashes is that it seems

like no matter where there's a

crash somebody had a ring

camera that got good footage of it so

there's unusually good footage of the

actual Crash from from all the cameras

in the world so I don't know how many

times small aircrafts the size of this

one crash but I think it's way more than

we know I don't even think it makes

national news like if a you know little

uh Cessna goes down somewhere does it

make national news I don't know but uh

there's probably a lot more small

airplane accidents than we know

about well the New York Post is

reporting that uh speaking of that plane

crash uh that the Army is not going to

name the female pilot killed the board

the

military

okay now until this

morning uh there were a lot of you

saying um it's a Dei problem and that

when you found out who was piloting it

you know you you'd find out it's some

kind of Dei hire now I said no don't go

there there there's no evidence of that

if ever there is evidence of it then I'm

with you but don't go there without

evidence

it the only thing we know for sure is

that uh Dei should should be breaking

all of our systems it should by design

it should make everything break now even

Bill Maher did an extended piece last

night about how all of our systems in

the country are

broken does that sound

familiar that's

me how many times have I told you uh you

realize that all of our systems are

broken all of them from Health Care to

Fin and when when I say broken I mean

corrupt um from Health Care to finance

to politics to you name it you name it

and I've been saying that for a while

but when Bill Mar says it the difference

is he's still not to the point where he

can give a reason for

it I feel like he and he might be right

by the way yeah he might think it's just

the Natural Evolution of organizations

they might start out as a good idea but

then they evolve and their budget's too

big and they do Dei hiring and you know

they lose sense of the mission and it

all falls

apart but I don't think you can ignore

the

fact that Dei predicts complete

destruction of all of our

systems by focusing on the wrong stuff

now again it has nothing to do with

anybody's DNA has nothing to do with

your culture it's not about your gender

it's none of that the the problem with

Dei is it forces you away

from uh hiring only the best and toward

making sure you hit your de quota so

humans being humans are going to make

sure they hit the quota that's easiest

to measure and the easiest one to

measure is always the you just count the

number of people and say what are you

it's the easiest one for measuring it's

the easiest one so of course in the real

world people people manage to whatever

will be measured and their bonus depends

on it so uh yeah everything's falling

apart but it turns out that this pilot

that I had been telling you stop saying

to EI you know you don't know anything

about the actual crew it's a female

pilot now that doesn't mean the pilot

made a mistake we're we're miles away

from saying the pilot made a mistake the

there's there's nothing connecting

female pilot to Pilot mistake there

might be I mean at some point in the

future but even that wouldn't prove Dei

as a problem it might prove One One

Pilot as a problem but here's what I've

heard

from U my pilot friend and I think other

Pilots have said something like it that

the the real reason for the crash is

probably uh several factors it's very

unlikely there's just one thing one of

the factors is the airport's way busier

and more dangerous and Pilots have been

complaining about it forever another is

that Pilots have said you know you don't

want the the

helicopters doing too much there because

they're going to be in the way so now

they've stopped the helicopter traffic

there so that was part of it some of it

was maybe the training wasn't as good as

it could have been some of it was the

tower was ambiguous so the thinking is

it was sort of a perfect

storm of a bunch of things going wrong

in the context of it was easy for the

those things to go wrong but if only one

of those things had gone

wrong probably you could have

recovered it looks like a bunch of

things went wrong at the same time which

was perfectly predictable because of the

complexity and the nature of the problem

so if you have a an

increasingly complicated flying

environment which they did and a

decreasingly decreasingly small number

of people who are working in the tower

which we did see more traffic more

complexity fewer people handling the

traffic and the complexity what are you

going to what's it going to be I mean

there's only one way that goes so it was

sort of an evitable but maybe this was

the wakeup call to fix some of that but

we cannot blame the female pilot and I

completely understand why the family

doesn't want to release the name because

it would be a Feeding Frenzy if they did

just a Feeding Frenzy so let me say it

again I'm not in favor of blaming

individual problems on Dei that's going

to be a losing proposition you're just

going to turn yourself into you know you

look like a jerk even if you're

right sometimes you'll probably be right

that that's exactly the problem and it

and the one individual is exactly the

problem but if you don't know that it's

kind of messed up it's kind of messed up

if you don't know it

so I think we can say Dei should destroy

everything sooner or later because it's

designed that way but you can't say much

about any one person in one act usually

usually sometimes you will be able to

but usually

not anyway uh let's see the FAA is uh

embroiled in lawsuit because apparently

they turned away a th000 applicants

based on race New York Post is reporting

this so a thousand applicants were

turned away now these are the people who

could have you know maybe been in that

Tower so they had proper uh proper

amount of employees working

there um but I think this goes back to

2015 or something it's an older law suit

that's kicking

around so just know that uh you can you

can draw a straight line between not

enough people in the tower and Dei

hiring I think straight line exists I

feel that that's demonstrated enough

that you can say yeah at the very least

at the very

least it's a reason there are not enough

people working at the very

least all

right I guess Trump's going to put some

tariffs on chips and steel and Pharma

and oil that's all coming and when he

was asked hey won't that increase

inflation now or relas the prices

um because if it costs more for

everything we

import well who's paying for it

eventually those costs get and not even

eventually pretty quickly those costs

get passed on to the consumer so if

Trump puts a tariff on everything coming

into the

country doesn't that largely

guarantee that

uh that well we get some come from the

Tariff the the government would but I

think that's paid by the American

companies that are importing so seems to

me that uh it would cause prices to go

up if the price of everything goes

up let me say it again if the price of

everything goes up won't that cause the

price of everything to go up it's a

pretty direct

line but Trump's argument is is weirdly

good and his argument is we had tariff

in my first term and no

inflation when I say no inflation it's

it's actually okay to have a little bit

so what he had was a little bit it it

was within the this is no problem range

so that is a good

point if he's already done if he's

already done pretty big

tariffs and we had no

inflation there's at least there's at

least one data point that says you can

do this so that's a pretty good response

I guess we'll have to keep an eye on it

and see how it

works and of course the tariffs on

Mexico and Canada and China are going

into effect um Trump explains that as

partly Revenue partly just having Fair

trading agreements with their Partners

making things more fair but also largely

because of the fentanyl trade so it's

coming across both of our borders and

China is the originator of the raw

materials that the cartels and others

are turning into

fenel

so um we'll see if we'll see if a tariff

makes any difference now my guess is the

Tariff will not really change anything

because if the Govern if the government

of Mexico had any ability to stop it or

any will to stop it I guess I think it

already would have happened so I'm not

really expecting pressure on the

governments to have any impact on the

cartels because the cartels you know

don't care if the if the alleged

government gets pressure they just care

if they get pressure but speaking of

that uh Pete

exf has announced that because the uh

cartels are designated as terrorist

organizations thanks to Trump that uh

they can now the Department of Defense

can use special ops against the Mexican

cartels uh when asked about that um heg

Seth gave the correct answer which is

all options are on the table meaning it

doesn't mean that we mobilized you know

to you know yesterday but it might mean

that it might mean that we mobilized and

the special forces are ready to go in or

already have gone in and we haven't

heard about it so that is exactly what I

want to see I want to see the Special

Forces take on the

cartels and I want

to um I want to see the the uh tariffs

get the governments of those countries

on

board you put it all together and I

don't think it's going to stop

fenel hate to say but I don't think

it'll be

enough uh but you have to do it you you

can't just let people be dying like

crazy without trying something so if you

can't if you can't stop it at the source

you can't stop people from trying to get

it

I don't know what do you do I don't know

but I'm quite appreciative of this for

reasons you know I lost my stepson in

2018 to a

overdose all

right FBI is experiencing massive

firings so CNN's reporting that uh and

of course this is part of the cleaning

house of the Trump Administration dozens

of FBI agents who worked on the January

6 cases have been let go

um and agents who worked to investigate

Trump's handling of the classified

documents Leto and those who

investigated the 1600 um January 6

attendees seems like they'll be let

go

and it's being reported that uh many of

the agents initially had quals about

taking those assignments the ones that

are getting fired for those assignments

they had quals about taking them cuz

they believed that uh you maybe it would

come back and bite them in the

ass yes your instinct was right if you

take those illegitimate

jobs and the other team gets in power

you're in

trouble now I do have I do have some

sympathy here if you're just trying to

make your career work and your boss says

you're going to work on this January 6

thing or you're going to work on you

know the marago

thing are you going to say you know

honestly I have a philosophical problem

with this if you do I'm guessing that's

the end of your

career so there must be a lot of people

who didn't feel like they had a choice

so I'd feel bad for them but I'm going

to give you an alternate point of view

so that you don't see them as poor

victims just doing their job and mean

old Trump is coming into to get rid of

them I'd like to give you a reaction

from Julie Kelly who you might know has

been following the January 6 thing very

closely she's attended courtroom stuff

and knows the most probably about the

situation of anybody I know and uh

here's what she says it appears that

between 30 and 40 of the j6 uh line

prosecutors were fired today now I think

she's talking about the

doj um I can only guess how much how

much pleasure their victims take at this

astounding news so there are two things

happening you know there's the purging

of the FBI but separately the purging of

the

doj and uh Julie Kelly says kudos to the

acting U Deputy AG ail Bo blah blah blah

uh and she said here's here's the payoff

for three years I watched these

prosecutors in discussed when I left

January 6

Court proceedings I would pray that

their come upins would come but had

little hope it would it is not so much

how they abused the law and work hand in

glove with like-minded DC judges to

violate the rights of j6 defendants what

sickened me was seeing how gratified

they were in inflicting pain on people

who had no recourse no ability to fight

the legal and judicial circle of hell

created by the doj and federal courts in

Washington I often refer to them as

satus

there is something deeply wrong with

them maybe being unemployed and under

investigation will allow them time to

conduct some much needed soul

searching but for now this is an

historic day worthy of much

celebration okay now that's what I call

a Victory lap Julie Kelly thank you for

your service to the country you deserve

a victory lab so I hope you're having a

great day so congratulations and thank

you for all of your work on that

um so now do you feel sorry for the ones

getting fired do you feel sorry for them

now I

don't all of my sort of instinct for

empathy just went completely away if you

stand in the court and they seem to you

like say this and they seem to you like

they're enjoying it yeah yeah that's

that's got to be there's got to be a

response to that and there was

meanwhile Secretary of Defense P

Heth uh he has made some changes to the

uh the news coverage for the Department

of Defense and he evicted the following

news entities from their I guess they

have a physical spot that they that they

have control of uh so they can be closer

to the Department of Defense so he's

evicting the New York Times NPR and NBC

and Politico from their Pentagon offices

so they can make room

for one American News Network the New

York Post

Breitbart and huff

post now there's one name on that list

that you said

what now I'm sure you understand why

you'd want one American Network New York

Post and

brart right you understand those but why

the Huffington Post

is he just trying to be both sides you

know just saying hey it's not about

being right leaning it's more about

being a non-traditional

media but here's the thing uh BuzzFeed

owns huffing and post and V ramaswami

recently bought 8% of

BuzzFeed so maybe this is looking ahead

a little bit in the sense that uh it

could be that that BuzzFeed is going to

take on more of a v ramaswami tone he

only he only has 8% of it so I don't

know if that's enough to affect a change

but we'll see and maybe maybe there's

some thought that uh that would trickle

down to the huffing post that's owned by

BuzzFeed so the only way it makes sense

to

me is if the

vake level there is What mattered so

maybe it is Maybe

well on the all-in Pod

chth was talking about Doge's success he

says we're only nine or 10 days in and

he said the fact that we're already at a

billion dollars a day is really

incredible and there's been no

discernable

impact uh I believe that's up to $4

billion a day now I think I think Elon

said they're finding $4 billion a day

now that they can cut so I I'm not going

to believe any of this specific numbers

coming out of Doge because doge is and

and rightfully so trying to make us um

understand that it's

working so that we'll we'll keep backing

it so if they make some claims early on

they're maybe hyperbolic or little

exaggerated or or they give us a number

that's a multi-year number but it looked

like it was just one year I'm going to

give them a lot of passes because one of

the things I always say is that the

first

Impressions become a weapon so if they

can cause a first impression that oh my

goodness this Doge stuff is working so

well we want more of it more more it's

so good and that's what they're doing so

there there is a useful

practical and desirable level of

PR for Doge that I think they're doing a

good job of making it look like it's

hitting the ground running and getting

some stuff done

and the more that you think it's

happening the more likely it will

because it just sets the tone if if

other if other government entities see

that the other ones got gutted and and

there was no bad impact on the country

they just makes all the rest of the work

easier so I'm in favor of calling out

Doge for huge

success maybe even before it

happens that would be normal business to

kind of over claim that the first day is

doing great so it's very normal there's

nothing creepy you are you know

dishonest about it because it's just a

universal trait

um so I'm I'm okay with that one of the

things that jamath points out is that

the Doge teams each have an engineer on

them now that's good thinking cuz

imagine being a team and it's your job

to go into some part of the government

you've never had any access to

and you have to figure out how it's all

connected to everything else you're

going to have to bring an engineer just

to figure out if everything's connected

and then secondly you want the engineer

to say wait a minute that's what they do

this is all they do I could do that with

a software program I can write in 10

minutes now I'm exaggerating of course

but you need an engineer to say I can

get rid of this whole thing you know

I'll just put in this AI or we'll skip

it or whatever so yeah engineer you got

to have an engineer on every team and

the fact that Elon knows that and he's

he's working on that model so good oh

that is so good yeah just the design of

the system is impressive there's an

engineer on every team now I love

engineers and I think they're the least

or the most underappreciated job in the

world because they're the ones that

changed the world most fundamentally

let's see if they can do it on the

government um I guess a thousand EPA

employees are going to go on probation

probationary status and might be fired

immediately CNN's

reporting um here's the interesting one

so apparently the highest ranking person

in the

treasury um David uh La brick he

resigned rather than comply with Doge

for access to audit where they spent

trillions of dollars a

year trillions of

dollars go through the system and as

soon as Doge said can we see what's in

there see where the money

went the person in charge

quit now I don't know how that could be

more damning the only thing that would

be more damning is if they've already

left the country to a country with no

extradition but let me tell you a

universal truth one of the things we

learned in this story allegedly is that

there was never any audit to money

requests that went through the treasury

they simply said yes to everything now I

hope that's not literally true but it's

being reported that they didn't even

have the function to check there was

nobody whose job it was to even check

they just said yes and some of that

would include

uh maybe some

requests that you wouldn't want them to

pay uh including payments to quote

fraudulent or terrorist groups so even

if he knew the request was fraudulent or

going to a group that made other

fraudulent requests I guess their their

operating rule was they would still

release the

money even to a terrorist even to a

known fraudulent request because it

wasn't their job to check on the sources

I guess they were just writing the

checks anyway but apparently they've

never denied any payment at any

time now if I told you that there was

one guy in

charge of the system that would handle

trillions of dollars in payments and he

quit when they asked if they could audit

it what would you think about that

because what I think is if you put

anybody in charge of trillions of

dollars and then you don't watch where

it's

going isn't that a guarantee of

corruption like you you could design

that system a thousand times and

implement it in a thousand different

countries and then just play the tape

forward for a couple years and whoever

was in that position would be stealing a

trillion dollars a year because they

can you could put you could even put an

honest person in that position and after

a few years they'd be like seriously

every time somebody asks for a check I

just authorize it and nobody checks

nobody checks where I authorize the

payment nobody ever sees if it's legal

or appropriate or you know ordered by

Congress nobody ever do you think that

person's not going to steal your

money probably nine out of 10 people in

that situation would end up saying well

maybe a little bit money could come my

way I'm so underpaid it would just be

fair

so yeah it's it's almost a guarantee of

corruption if you don't have anybody

watching the store

guaranteed some say that Tulsi gabbard's

confirmation to dni might be in

trouble um I guess she got mostly in

trouble for not being willing to say

that Edward Snowden is a traitor only

that he broke

laws and but apparently as of this

morning there were no Republicans who

had said publicly they would not vote to

confirm Tulsi so if the Republicans stay

United she still gets in but the

thinking is that maybe even some

Republicans are going to have a problem

with her so we're going to I think we're

treating this one as a coin

flip um I don't know if Trump and

supporters will go as hard at the

politicians if they don't say yes to

this

one if if RFK Jr gets turned down

people are going to flip out and I'm one

of them I'm just going to flip out

and I I'm just going to want something

to be corrected very fast the other the

other uh

nominees I might say as I do with toy I

say huh I would very much like her to

get

confirmed but if she didn't I don't know

if I'd go to

war especially if the other side had a

reason they go okay here here's my

specific reason

and this is a line I can't

cross I think I could live with

it um but I wouldn't live I couldn't

live with uh the Kennedy confirmation

being derailed by fake news and stuff I

can't live with that that that one's

life and death got to get that one um I

do want very much Tulsi to get confirmed

and cash Patel

especially I think cash is going to be

okay

um so I'm going to say yes on cash

you'll get confirmed and Tulsa's still a

coin flip could go either

way um remember Bernie Sanders was

arguing with RFK Jr and the confirmation

hearings and uh RFK Jr pointed out he's

one of the main recipients of Pharma

donations and Bernie argued no I'm not

taking anything from the executives I'm

taking I only accept small donations

those are from just

employees and then I say What's the

difference what is the difference if if

the Pharma industry be they the

executives or be they the employees have

decided that you're the person that

they're going to give money to because

they like what you're

doing you're not going to change what

you're

doing right why why does it matter that

the employees gave it versus the

executives it's exactly the same thing

it's exactly the same so no that's not a

Dodge and also if you're familiar with

the real

world let's see how many of you know the

real world if you found out that an

industry such as Pharma had a lot of

individual employee donations so much so

that when you summed it up it became you

know the biggest number on the

chart what would you say about about the

willingness of the employees to give

money to Bernie

Sanders well let me tell you how the

real world Works uh this is your CEO

we've decided that we like Bernie

Sanders and we're going to give him some

corporate money but we don't want to do

it with our money because it would look

like we're putting too much of a too

much of a thumb on the scale so we'd

like to encourage each of you to use

your own judgment we're not going to

tell you who to donate to we like Bernie

We Like Bernie but we're not going to

tell you who um maybe there'll be a few

others they'll get some money but here's

a list of five people we think you

should consider so anybody on this list

oh and by the way um we can't tell you

for sure that we won't know who you

donated

to because maybe there's some kind of

company process to make it easy so they

don't just go to a website they do

something internally and then it get

summed up and sent to the politicians

maybe so in the real world there's no

such thing as the employees

independently decided to give to a

candidate that's not really a

thing there there are lots of

individuals who do on their own decide

to give the candidates but if you see a

bunch of them in one in one

industry that means the executives had

their finger on the scale and were not

so subtly nudging the employees in the

direction they wanted them to go and and

again they can say any one of these five

politicians would be a good place to

give a donation they don't have to just

pick Bernie you know Bernie will get his

share and they would bribe the other

people at the same

time all right uh there's more coming

out about KLA Harris uh in her campaign

and not getting on Joe Rogan which was

considered a an error but boy when you

hear the back and forth there's more

details coming out the I think somebody

has a book on it but when you hear the

details of the

negotiations basically Joe Rogan

said I can schedule you in in lots of

different

times and you just have to do what

everybody else

does come to my come to the studio like

Trump like everybody else and talk for

three hours and I think he I think Rogan

wanteded them to sign some something

like

some kind of

deal Billy John you're such a

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turd like that

matters anyway

um but the overall take on it is oh my

God K Harris's staff was so

incompetent they could not figure out

how to essentially take Joe Rogan's

money because appearing on Joe Rogan is

like money you know it's like one of the

best things you could do if if you think

you'll do a good job so he's offering

her just as he offered Trump this

gigantic platform I mean the best

platform you could ever be on in terms

of reach and you know Independence Etc

and they couldn't figure it out and then

apparently so here's part of why they

couldn't figure it out they thought that

if they send kamla to Texas for just

that that the the money people would

complain because Texas is not in play

and that she should be spending all of

her time in the states where she could

win the state but she couldn't win Texas

so why go there why go there is because

Joe Rogan's there that's

why so instead of just saying oh the

best thing we could do is go on The Joe

Rogan

show they they decided to you know play

it another

way and and uh they started negotiating

and they're like all right here's what

we'll do we'll have a fake rally in

Houston this is real we'll do a fake

rally it's really a rally but they would

do it just for the purpose of giving her

a reason I think it was on maybe

Reproductive Rights or something so that

would give her a reason to come to the

state and then since she was already

there that would give her a reason to do

The Joe Rogan show but I think they

picked like the only day he wasn't

available to do it so they couldn't

schedule it they couldn't say yes they

had to come up with a whole fake cover

story to get her in the state every part

of that is screaming

incompetence let let me tell you how

Trump would have handled

that Joe Rogan invited me on the

show okay schedule

it that was it that that's all she

needed to do and did did he ever say oh

I can't go with these days cuz people

will Judge Me from what state no it had

nothing to do with you know the fact

that he was likely to win the state

because arguably Trump didn't have a

reason to go either because he was going

to win the state anyway but he just said

where is the show I'm going to go to the

show because it's the most important

platform in

2024 so it's

uh it's quite amazing to see the the

competence difference in the

campaign uh meanwhile Democrat Arizona

governor Katie

Hobs is being asked to explain what

happened to $339 million that quote

disappeared from the state budget

huh uh meanwhile the her budget director

mysteriously

resigned okay does this sound like the

treasury Department

Story the moment the moment the budget

bug is being questioned because there's

a massive amount of money that's missing

the budget director

quits wait

what the budget director

quits that doesn't sound good

so um there is suspicion that $339

million went where it shouldn't the

Gateway pundits reporting on this they

they've been all over

it um and uh one of the uh State reps

talked to the Gateway pundit and said

quote uh maybe somebody's siphoning off

some

funds and then he clarified maybe some

are mistakes who knows but they don't

match up so the spending in the budget I

guess do don't match something doesn't

match we'll

see uh and then also Gateway pundit Jim

Hof is writing about this um one of the

things that we hope to find out under

the Trump Administration is if there's

anything else to know about the Seth

Rich

story now

historically uh I've mostly been a

skeptic about that really being related

to anything important and that it looked

probably more like a random crime even

though there were ton of coincidences

involved I get it I get it killary hint

H Clinton Etc so I understand the the

suspicion about it but this is this is

interesting so apparently the FBI is

still

stalling um refusing to turn over the

Seth Rich Records to an attorney Ty

clevinger and he's been trying to get

him for

years um and he keeps being

denied now what happens when cash

patella gets in the

office if he does is Cash going to say

yeah just release all that Seth Ridge

stuff

I don't know and I've heard that cash

has seen some of the other secret files

like he's seen the UFO

files um he's seen the Kenedy files do

you think he's also seen the Seth Rich

files don't know but it could get

interesting maybe something will happen

there uh meanwhile according to Anthony

Watts at the climate change uh dispatch

the AP is doing a story that uh projects

millions of European heat desks using

the de debunked model now so the AP has

a story that says a whole bunch of

people are going to die from too much

heat in Europe the model that they used

to model this

risk it's even got a name the name is

called

the uh the RCP

8.5 so I think that means that the there

are a bunch of different scenarios you

know if this and that happen it looks

like this but if this and that happen it

looks like this so this is one of those

but it's the most extreme one and the

one that literally nobody thinks is

real so the AP wrote a story based on a

climate model that even the climate

scientists say what you're using that

model nobody thinks that model is

real why do they think it's not real um

because let's see um it assumes an

improbable future of runaway coal

consumption stalled technological

progress and unmitigated population

growth so the population is

stalled uh coal is just one of the

Technologies probably will do a lot more

nuclear than we will coal in the long

run and technological progress is not

installed it's the opposite so it's a

discredited

model but the AP still ran with it

because it was fit their narrative now

here's my question how many models are

there and if there if there are more

than one model isn't that proof that the

models aren't

real to me it is if you had one model

I'd say that might be it might be useful

I mean I'd watch it to see if it could

predict but if you have a 100

models and they all based on different

assumptions such as how much coal you

use Etc like I just mentioned if they

have different

assumptions and there's a hundred of

them and they go in different

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directions doesn't that mean they're not

real because I would I would think that

even if you knew which assumptions are

the real ones that then you would get

into how did they calculate the end

point and you'd find it it's

yeah there's no such thing as predict in

the future with complicated models of

any kind it's not true in climate it's

not true in finance it's not true in

anything anywhere there's no such thing

as a complicated many variable model

that tells you the future never will be

you unless AI can figure it

out so um way do you find out about

climate models is what I like to say way

do you find out about climate models

lots more to find out there so uh as I

mentioned Owen Gregorian is going to

have a spaces event on X that's the

audio the audio uh app so you can listen

in go to you can either go to Owen

gregorian's X page or you can go to mine

and you'll see the link it's at the top

near the top and that'll happen probably

as soon as he gets organized after I

close down I imagine he's starting to

get ready to push that button any moment

so you'll enjoy that I I've popped into

a number of them and uh people seem to

be having fun so I like it um in the

meantime I'm going to talk privately to

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