Episode 2742 CWSA 02/06/25

just in time good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need is a cover marker glass tanker chal ofstein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dopamine to the day thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous zp happens right now go thank you Paul everything's working fine today all right well the big news in case you it is that uh CNN uh escapee Jim Acosta has launched his own show oh okay what was I talking about oh sorry I was saying that uh CNN Escape Jim aosta has launched I'm just going to move to the next story I can't make you through that one well as you know Trump has signed his executive order Banning biological men in women's sports as he likes to say women seem to like it a lot you know I'll tell you there's a there's a lot of people doing a victory laps um and people who worked for years on certain things so is this not a big victory for Riley gains imagine being Riley gains she kind of risked everything to just work on this issue and she was really good at it and here we are now it's not because of any one person but she certainly was leading the uh charge also JK Rowling took tremendous heat Victory lap time for the victory laps and there there's a whole bunch of people who have been toiling for years on individual topics like Dei and suddenly they're all winners you know Robbie Starbuck and Christopher rufo and people like me and we get a Victory lap too so lots of Victory laps lately I like that well Wall Street Journal says the government's trying to ban deep seek deep seek would be the that less expensive Chinese Ai and I guess it's an app and now it's not going to be legal if this passes it's just introduced as a bill but if this passes then you can't have that AI on a government computer because they worry it will grab your information and send it back to China which it might now my first prediction about deep seek is that it wouldn't be as dangerous as you thought to American AI companies because the government would just tie it up in in legal problems they'll just make it illegal and and sure enough it's basically the ticktock model they they start with Banning it in the government because that's maybe easiest but yeah they're going to ban it I would be surprised if it's still in the App Store in a year um as you know the Army has uh shattered records for recruitment since the election of trump do you think that's a coincidence what would make people want to join the military just because Trump is president could it be less likely to get into Wars that don't matter that might be part of it could it be just a rise and you know man you know sort of male energy you know although obviously a lot of women join the service as well could it be that joining the service has now transformed from something like a thing for gay people to something like a lethal Force protecting the country because I got to say that my entire impression of the military was it's just a big lgbtq cheering thing that occasionally gets into Wars we wish we didn't have Trump fixed all of that just by existing and being Trump so yeah I don't think it's a coincidence that people are signing up all of a sudden probably not a coincidence well laara Trump's going to join Fox News one night a week on Saturdays uh Saturday at 9:00 p.m.

eastern time now remember I always tell you that Fox News is just better produced you know that's one of those things if you're not you know if you haven't been around the media business a lot as I have you're not going to notice the difference in producers you you're just going to say oh I like this show better than that show and maybe you'll think it's is the talent but the producers have a lot to do with the success and this is exactly perfect yeah Laura Trump is exactly who they should be giving a Saturday night show to if she does well obviously they'd look at maybe expanding that so yeah it's once again Fox News in their talent and production stuff they they get a lot right um Mitch Mc.

Connell fell down the stairs again uh you may have been a little bit injured but uh nothing life-threatening and my question is how much do Mc.

Connell's uh peers hate him that they would allow him to use stairs there's no other way to get from one place to another there's no elevators they don't have any handicap access to other floors I would think there'd be an elevator everywhere that Mc.

Connell goes so who who just stood there and watched him struggle on the stairs and said oh that'll be fine I mean it almost feels like they hate him like they're just trying to trying to steer him toward the stairs more it's like well there's no term limits but uh how would you like to go upstairs and you know meet in the room upstairs oh well I have to do my my mccon impression can I do a Mc.

Connell impression I've never tried this before hey Mitch why why you uh come upstairs we'll meet in the conference room upstairs third floor no no not the elevator no no and the elevators for idiots no no you're fine you're fine just take the stairs oh all right I think I nailed it that probably would be the clip that takes over the internet today so yeah they hate him let's talk about Trump and Gaza some more so most of the complaints about Trump wanting to own Gaza or the United States own it is based on the opposite of what he said so we're not going to spend money in Gaza no he said we're not going to spend any money we we're not going to put those boots in the ground no we're not going to put any boots on the ground well well but we're not going to spend any money no we already covered that we're not going to spend any money we're just going to help organize the people who do spend the money but those boots on the ground again no boots on the ground no money no spending no boots on the ground I don't know my problem is all the spending in the boots on the ground are you even listening to me no spending no boots in the ground that that was that was uh the spokesperson Caroline Levy levit trying to answer questions yes there'll be no expense but what about all the expense I just said no expense so do we think this would work well let me tell you what I love about today I love the fact that when it became clear let's see I guess Mike walz National Security adviser Mike wal said directly he said that Trump's proposal to take over Gaza is meant to pressure neighboring Arab states to come up with their own solution now most of you knew that didn't you ju just think about how far we've come and I'm going to take a I'm going to take a Victory lap on this one imagine that Trump says something wildly provocative like uh America should own Gaza and we'll take care of it and then your head explodes as mine did and then after after the the explosion subsides I think about it I go oh oh okay this is just Trump he's just creating some options out of nothing and he's shaking the box and he's trying to get the other people to hate him as the common enemy so that they can come up with an idea that does work instead of their dumb ideas that don't work basically nobody had any other idea if you think about it nobody nobody not a single person that had an actual real practical idea of what to do so Trump comes up with his you know arguably impractical but maybe possible idea and now they've got to they have to fight with a real thing now they've got to say uh uh uh we hate it yeah but what's your idea well my idea is I hate his idea no no what's your idea we're all ears we we're we'll will'll abandon Trump's idea in a heartbeat let's hear your good idea uh uh he's he his plan won't work no again you're only talking about his plan let's hear your idea the alternative idea what are you going to do Trump's racist so that's sort of the way it's been going but now now they've got something they actually have to wrestle with because like I always say he's not bluffing it's persuasion but it's not a bluff if if nobody comes up with a better idea he's just going to say all right we'll take it and you have to pay for it and if you don't pay for it we'll just own it and it'll just sit there we don't care if it doesn't cost us any money and we don't have any boots on the ground we'll just let us sit there if if you want to help us we'll organize that make sure it gets cleaned up and ready to go I definitely don't want to see any American forces cleaning up unexploded unexploded bombs and toxic debris I would like to see no Americans do that that's the job for Israel if there's any unexploded ordinance that's all Israel you got to take care of that guys that's all on you but uh here's what I like I like that uh as soon as it became clear that it became that it was more of a negotiating you know just shake the Box idea did you see the number of people on social media who said I knew it it's the first thing I thought that's completely new in 2016 if Trump said something like this that we're going to own Gaza people would have said well I told you he was crazy I told you he was crazy he doesn't have a single smart idea he has no experience in government he doesn't know how anything Works he's a clown he's probably just wants to put his his friends in charge of it so they can make some money it's a grift right that that's the way you understood anything he said that was provocative but today the entire at least the right leaning news the left leaning news is just propaganda but the right leaning news and the right leaning social media almost every single person said I know what that is I know what that is that's the thing he does that's where Trump creates options out of nothing he's doing it again I feel like or at least AI says that I'm the reason that people can see Politics as persuasion when before I got involved people saw it as policy differences and they would have treated this as a policy difference wait a minute my policy would be better than that but nobody sees this as a policy they see it as pure persuasion and I'm pretty sure that's me I I think that's almost entirely me um and not entirely me alone because if I teach people to recognize it they teach other people to recognize it they write they write articles and other people recognize it um so yeah so here are the terms that we heard refer to it now this is just random people on social media random people writing articles a lot of them used the phrase shake the Box where's that come from I mean I didn't I didn't invent the term shake the box but to apply it to Trump's persuasion that's kind of all me what about 4 d chess that's all me 2015 I described it as 3D chess I think but it turned into 4D 10d that was all me how about uh creating new options and a nothing everybody recognized that's what he was doing that's all me now when I say it's all me I just mean I kind of introduced that way of thinking about it you know persuasion filter versus a policy filter and and that apparently has been effective enough that people have adopted it as their primary point of view and I'm really happy about that I I don't think Trump could be president the second time maybe not even the first time without that understanding that's the understanding everybody needed and it turns out the whole right leaning part of the world guess it like almost everybody got that that was very impressive well um speaking of Gaza the uh you know that there was since the 60s there's been a plan to build a canal that would uh connect what the Red Sea to the Mediterranean and it would be a kind of a competitor to the Suez Canal because Egypt controls access to the Suz canal and there have been times when they've closed access for various geopolitical reasons and so it would be a big money maker but also a geopolitical advantage to have a second canal and one of the thoughts going all the way back to Ben guran one of the founders you might even say the founder of Israel um he wanted to build that canal and he wanted to go sort of go through Gaza so some people are saying wait a minute the real plan is to build the second canal and they need Gaza out of the way to make that work well I don't think that anything to do with what happened and I also don't think that Canal is ever going to get built if if you look at what it takes to build a canal I don't think the modern world has that anymore we used to have it but it to me it feels like uh pyramids you know you imagine that you live in a world where you know we could build another Canal about we couldn't if if there were no Panama Canal do you think we could build that today no too many people died yeah it wouldn't get approved it's on somebody else's land you know can't just take their land there'd be all kinds of reasons we couldn't do it we might actually lose the ability to know how to build a canal just like somehow we don't know how those big rocks moved on the pyramids we're getting Dumber but uh here's what I'd like to see um oh also there's some uh news about the Panama Canal there's some fake news today the fake news was from the Wall Street Journal and it said that Panama had agreed to uh not charge American ships going through the canal uh Panama said uh that's not true we've made no such agreement so if you saw the news and you celebrated yay Trump won our American ships get to go through for free that sounds like just something that's maybe still being talked about out but it's not an agreement uh maybe it won't be we'll see but this brings me to my bigger question do you know how many problems do you know how many problems around the world could be solved if we could build canals like really easily build them you know it's the hardest thing in the world but if we could do it easily it would be worth trillions of dollars and I would like to extend the thinking that we've been using recently you know the thinking that says if there's something that would be good to happen but it's also basically impossible then you ask Elon Musk to do it and he has it done by lunchtime so it's like ah too bad there's no way to make an affordable economically successful electric car well how about if you do it oh okay thank you Tesla H there's no way to reuse a rocket and be able to affordably go to Mar oh okay it looks like you can do that Elon thank you so I guess we can we have a path to Mars now if only there was some way to connect remote people to the internet but even though it's funded nobody got oh starlink thank you thank you for that problem uh too bad the government debt is going to kill us and there's nothing we can do oh thank you Doge apparently doge is going to save us from certain do and it was impossible all of these things were impossible so every time there's something impossible we've developed a habit of going to the same guy so now we find out that the computer systems used by the government are like decades old and falling apart and just a disaster so I mean it would be impossible to fix all of that in any time you know any kind of quick timeline so apparently Elon Musk has taken the task as F Doge to fix the government computer systems that are falling apart so another impossible job he gets another impossible job he's like sure yeah no problem let me let me do that impossible thing I'll have it done by lunch so I'd like to extend this concept of it if it would be valuable and also impossible we should ask Elon to do it so what we need is you know he has that boring company where they bore tunnels and they they engineered a special machine that makes it really inexpensive to dig a tunnel I wonder if you could make a canal building version of that like it would be all different technology but what if you built this enormous maybe it's a swarm you know maybe it's not one device but a swarm of also very large devices that just Crush through the land I don't know what this is hold on a problem apparently I have to be signed on to turn it off all right I'm getting ready to throw my computer out the window oh God make that go oh no come on please up God oh my God if I had to listen to that one more second anyway so we need a big Canal building machine that's what we need so I listened to the whole K Harris CBS interview with 60 minutes that's the one that uh Trump is Trump is uh suing 60 Minutes for allegedly um improving Comm Harris's answers and in the context of an election that would look like election interference because instead of looking like a um instead of a what was I going to say uh instead of looking like uh just regular editing it looked like election interference because it was in the context of election but uh frog on Mars gave one example I don't know how many examples there are like nobody did a really good job of showing what she did say versus what they added it in I saw only one example from frogs on Mars on X that that she gave a 338 word rambling answer that involved School pictures and all kinds of stuff and I think the question was about Trump's comments about the Asian immigrants and eating their pets or something like that I think that was the issue but her her answer was just as long not quite word salad because it made sense but it all seemed just slightly off topic and like she was just searching for a smart answer but never found one and they they replaced 338 words with 29 words that came from a completely different answer now the completely different answer was not different from the 338 word answer meaning that in both cases um she said you know that's unacceptable or you know that's wrong so she was basically just saying Trump was wrong to say whatever he did or do whatever he did now here is the context TT do you think the 60 Minutes changed that answer to help her chances of winning the election the answer is no they changed your answer because it was unwatchable TV they changed it for their own benefit to make the show watchable it didn't really change what her opinion was her opinion was Trump said a bad thing and that's what they put in there Trump said a bad thing but they didn't need a 338 word rambling eat up all the time so they can't ask another question they had to get rid of that but the question was so important they needed to CCH keep the question so here's what I know that you don't know the way 60 Minutes treated this is normal completely normal that is normal and you say to yourself but it's like making a quote that's normal if if they think they're not changing the basics thrust of what you said and they can tighten it up so it's good for TV they will do that for their own purposes so here's the problem with the lawsuit if CBS says we do this all the time it's it's a common thing and we don't do it just for the benefit of the the person in the chair we do it because our Watchers are viewers would not be able to watch you know a train wreck so we just make sure that they understand what the candidate means and there is clear and that we you know move to the next question in a quick enough way so I don't think that he can win a case it could be that they'll settle because they don't want to take a chance uh they don't want to do the discovery and all that so they might settle but I don't think he could win because um I'm not a lawyer but seems to me that if CBS was doing what everybody in that business does and their reason was for their own benefit and the benefit of the audience just to make it shorter and quicker I don't know I think their I think their argument would be if it helped her it was only accidental it wasn't anything we planned so they they would have definitely some Reasonable Doubt there that's a mile mile wide now this would be a civil case so uh Reasonable Doubt isn't quite exactly the right standard but you get the point all right here's a complicated one let's see if I can possibly summarize this so Michael shellenberger has been looking into the whole us Aid and you know Doge's penetration of it and everything we're learning about who's getting the money and how dirty that organization is the the quick answer if you're new to this is that the Doge Elon musks uh Doge people have uh completely opened the kimona on this part of the government that had very big budget and was doing only creepy things now creepy meaning overthrowing other countries and maybe overthrowing ours maybe allegedly and so even though the on the surface it looked like they were funding AIDS programs in Africa and you know all kinds of things so you'd say well you know I don't we could discuss whether we should be giving charity to other countries but you can't argue that this would be a good charity you know helping AIDS in another country but it turns out that 100% of what it does is essentially front um let's say it's a front for some bigger effort that's the CIA effort so allegedly no matter what they're funding whether it's AIDS or I know cleaning up the water and some that really that's just a trick to get our Assets in place so that we can overthrow the country or control it and that's all it is everything else is fake which doesn't mean that they don't do good things because in order to stay in the country they would probably have to show that they helped with some AIDS and you know cleaned up some water did something they said they were going to do but really it's not the purpose of it the purpose of it is overthrowing countries so now that you have that context now the other thing that USA does to disguise what it's doing is there's this unlimited just it seems like thousands I think I think it is thousands of NOS non-government organizations so they exist all over the world and if USA gives one of them some money for something that sounds good on paper oh uh if we give you some money you'll work on some climate stuff and then that entity has money and then if it gives it to somebody else then maybe the only thing you would see is oh and then this other company gave it to clean up the water in this place that needs some clean water and you go oh that sounds good but really the whole thing is a money laundering situation to presumably Democrats are taking some off the top wherever the money moves and by the way it's 98% Democrats it's just a Democrat um it's a money laundering asset that the Democrats use and also the Deep state so now that you know that it's this vast network of connected things for the purpose for the purpose of laundering money for the purpose of overthrowing other countries right so you need to know it's 100% fake now this is the Mike Ben's explanation so I'm I'm borrowing this this is not my personal opinion except that Ben makes such a good argument and has such good receipts that if he says it and he shows you his work I'm kind of on that page right because he his credibility is through the roof and he shows his work just with public stuff so here's what Michael shellenberger who writes uh for public it's a subscription news related site that is amazing um I'll read some of this he goes now the evidence suggests uh talking about us Aid that us Aid along with CIA were behind the 2019 impeachment of trump what wait what that USA and the CIA were behind the 2019 impeachment of trump that's the one where they said Trump said some things to zinsky on the phone and he should be impeached for it now how could you possibly know that these entities were involved in that well here's how the part you probably already knew is that the Whistleblower who came forward and said oh Trump uh said he wanted to send Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden um that was a CIA analyst who was left over in the White House from the Obama days so The Whistleblower was CIA now you might say Oh you mean xcia no I don't think there's any such thing as X CIA I mean not really is there so the first thing we know is that that CIA analyst that's kind of suspicious said that said something happened and according to dropsite news uh last year they revealed that the CI analyst relied on oh he didn't hear it himself oh oh I'm not sure I knew that before but he didn't hear it himself he relied on reporting all right so the reporting that he relied on that's the CIA analyst um SL whistleblower he relied on some organization in the government oh okay government organization called the organized crime and Corruption reporting project or occrp I didn't even know that existed now who are they ever hear of them I've never heard of them before huh I wonder what we could learn about that organization so it's an American government or NGO or something um but apparently it's fully controlled by us Aid wait a minute so us Aid The Entity that is primarily involved in overthrowing other countries and one of the tools that we know they've used is this very same thing this organized crime and Corruption reporting project and that when USA has used them in the past why did they use them in the past well allegedly uh it was in the service of overthrowing five or six foreign regimes what so in other words the CIA usaid and then this entity the occrp were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad the three of them are supposed to be exterior facing entities and their job is to overthrow other countries the same entities using the same method which is somebody reported something but the report was fake and then you use your fake news assets to act like it was true and it's the most important thing that ever happened that's what happened every part of what we do to overthrow other countries successfully was used against Trump I think multiple times so this in this particular case it was for the impeachment you knew that impeachment was complete fake right from from the first I think we all knew wait a minute that's just fake you're just making stuff up there's no way he said that and whatever he said was certainly legal he had every right to ask about it and and especially now now that we know the depth of the Biden crime family Trump asking zalinsky to look into it would never have worked because zinsky is fully owned by the CIA it never would have worked but was perfectly appropriate ask for it and he got impeached for that H now as shellenberger points out the difference between the CIA usaid and ocp working together to overthrow a foreign country it's illegal to do it in the US and it's not just a little bit illegal it's the most illegal thing you could possibly do short of I don't know being a serial killer or something what would be more illegal than overthrowing your democratically elected president nothing nothing this would be like uh you know assassinating Kennedy or something allegedly all right so do does that story check with you yeah I feel like the Doge penetration of usaid is the Rosetta Stone that allows us to finally see everything we suspected so I certainly knew that um there was a conspiracy to um to impeach Trump I obviously knew that it was organized it was obvious that the media was completely complicit it was obvious that The Whistleblower had some agenda but I couldn't quite connect all the dots and now we have it's all connected it was the exact same tools and the exact same technique that they use on other countries but what they counted on is that Americans are not aware of these tools and they're not aware of how they're used and Doge just changed that now we're aware of the tools and well and Mike Ben changed it even before Doge now we're aware of the tools we can actually watch the flow of money and it apparently is just a gigantic um laundering money laundering thing for Democrats so it seems to be just feeding people money in a variety of illicit ways and trying to overthrow countries including our own so yeah the Democrats who say we've got to keep that USA ID they either have no idea idea what it really is or they don't care which is worse I don't know which is worse actually I think not caring would be worse well meanwhile Pam Bondi who's uh only one day in the job attorney general um she's got some directives already she's going to fight the weaponization of Justice huh how about the weaponization of impeachment and it's not really the justice system per se but it kind of is similar maybe they should look into that uh she wants to eliminate the cartels and lift the death penalty ban for just certain types of things so that's good and she's going to be looking into uh Alvin Bragg's uh hush money case and also Jack Smith I think so yes Alvin Bragg in my opinion was clearly an you know clearly an illegitimate lawfare situation all right here's my question for lawyers is it not obvious already that there's a RICO problem going on here and what would it take to trigger it into a RICO you know maybe you don't need to but um some of the things people said as well Scott everything usaid did was legal to which I say yeah technically you maybe they're allowed to give money to anybody they want and it's not illegal but if their intention is to give it to entities that will give it back to somebody you know like a kickback or to subvert you know an American election well uh that seems to me kind of coordinated and Rico when when if you just look at if the only thing you looked at was the 2019 impeachment case you could see the coordination the coordination is all over that obviously the media was part of it and remember I I used to say that I couldn't understand why the media wouldn't debunk all the hoaxes you know like the drinking bleach oax and the find people Oaks and I would say how can you not debunk the things that can be debunked just by your own video that you own you would just have to look at the whole video instead of the edited one you could debunk the whole thing it's the biggest story in the country both of them were at one point and never not not years later not at any point did they debunk those things and here's the reason they always knew that they weren't true they were obviously part of a criminal conspiracy because if you don't have the media on your side then all of your other weaseling gets uncovered so controlling the media is step one I mean you can't do the other weasel stuff unless you control the media all right um so we'll see maybe you need a specific leader to make it at Rico I don't know um so now a dozen states according to daily Coler news Foundation a dozen states are looking into um whether or not there's some charges they can put on Anthony fouchy because the federal charges wait who said that oh no Andrew Tate just weighed in the entire G the entire case against me was funded via usaid to remove my influence from the internet I have the paperwork oh man I'll bet it I'll bet that's true now remember it's Andrew Tate so you know don't get too enthusiastic about the ver of it let's just put it that way but if he does have the paperwork and he can show that his his specific case was funded by the usad then that would mean that the reason for it was to remove his influence um I've always assumed that's what it was I didn't know about the usaid but I always assumed that some deep part of the American government is what closed them down maybe working with you know know five eyes you know other countries Great Britain would want to close them down as well but uh I don't want to run and embrace that as true because it's just a thing Andrew Tate is saying on X but uh if I had to place a bat I'll bet he does have the receipts we'll see it would be a bold thing to say if you couldn't prove it now that's interesting so anyway so the states are looking to see if there are any charges they can put on fouchi I am completely against this I'm completely against it the way I read the story is the states have ganged up they started with the person and now they're looking for the crime they started with the person and they're checking with all the other states hey do you see a crime do you see a crime got any crimes we can go after him for no no no no no no no no no no no no no no you can't start with a person and then look for a crime that's not going to fly you know don't make me don't make me support Anthony fouchy all right because some some NPC is going to say oh you defended Anthony fouchy because you like you like you like vaccinations it will kill you no I don't like what fouchy did yes I believe he probably violated some crimes I don't know which ones but probably but he's got a pardon from the federal government if these states don't have obvious crimes that are sort of right in front of them you don't get to go looking for a that's too far that's too far so you know we'll see if see what they come up with but you can't have Pam Bondi trying to stop law where all 12 of our states are engaged in it publicly that would be law fair that's what it is when you start with a person and and then look for a crime oh we can find some crime here no totally messed up I don't want to have my name associated with anybody who would do anything like that so you better you better do better this is this is not up to the standard this is not up to the current standard of the United States it is up to the standard of what we just got rid of we just canned this the reason we shitan Biden was this kind of stuff don't shitan Biden and then start being Biden so unless there's something I'm missing about this story this is a hard no absolutely not don't don't make me look like a some Biden guy just because I'm supporting Trump you know or supporting the Republicans in this case so checking in with the D Democrats and their messaging uh they've decided to go with Joy Reed said musk is a private citizen trying to take over the government and let's see what did uh Jens saki said uh she said uh it's a hostile takeover of governent there's no other way to describe it really there there's no other way to describe it I'm going to use that that's the argument for people who don't know how anything works you can use it for everything you see this in my hand it's a porcupine shut up there's no other way to describe it no it's not a pen there's only one way to describe it it's a porcupine what the hell what kind of dumb asses listen to there's no other way to describe it uh let me see if I can dig deep into my creative creative powers to find some other way to describe it oh how about putting a capable team in charge of auditing our expenses how about the uh legally elected president of the United States gets to pick his staff and tell them what to do oh amazing Jen did you see that look at that you said there was no other way to describe it and yet I found a couple it turns out there there's more than one way to describe it but I'm going to start using that you know that excuse that there's only one way to describe it it just sounds so up that I kind of like it because it's so absurd anyway um Harry enton who's the data guy at CNN says that only 39% of the public support musk having a key role in the administration well this has a more to do with how the question is asked um yeah so key rooll if you thought key rooll means that he gets to make decisions that's not what's happening both musk and and Trump are very clear they both say it publicly and as often as you want to that Trump's in charge Trump can hire anybody as his chief of staff do you know who else is Not Elected the chief of staff so who's bitching about that is anybody bitching about his chief of staff oh wait Susie WS she's she's just an unelected person who's got a key role in the administration she's got a key role yeah she does the do you know how important the chief of staff is the chief of staff is damn near as important as the president you just don't realize it cuz it's behind the scenes but the chief of staff even you decides who gets to see Trump and how much time they spend with him and what he pays attention to and and then solves problems for him Susie WS is probably you know in in the same category of Elon Musk in the sense that they're very capable but they're not elected they just work for Trump so now I I act like I act like it's an argument and that the the dumb people have the wrong argument and if I only if I only present the correct argument every everybody will correct no it's obvious they're just lying and making up stuff and that they're part of presumably part of the deep State you know bad part of the world all right well what is Doge doing now they're they're getting into the Medicare and Medicaid systems so um one of the things that mus teased on X is that there there might be enormous fraud in our Medicare and Medicaid systems now the fraud would be people making claims that are fake claims so I have this hypothesis that the amount of government fraud not necessarily by the government but by people stealing from the government with fake claims for everything from from the pandemic to you name it um I've got a feeling that the fraud if you eliminated it would balance the entire budget like actually literally because when we talk about things like oh we're never going to cut the military well what if we only cut the fraud oh we're never going to cut uh Medicare but what if we only cut the fraud oh we're never going to cut welfare what if we only cut the fraud oh we're never going to cut Social Security well we could probably fix Social Security I I don't know that Social Security is a fraud it might be but that would be harder to do I guess um no it probably isn't hard to do there probably are I'll bet there a bunch of dead people collecting Social Security yeah so up bet if you just got rid of the fraud which would be impossible you're not going to get rid of all of it um how about you can balance the budget that's how big it is and I never would have said that until I saw just how bad the the problem is after Doge got going now I believe that the fraud could be large enough that it's the entire deficit uh now we're learning this is also from daily color news Foundation that uh Biden Administration was giving money to uh terrorists um or people who who help the terrorists now it it's allegedly $1.3 billion that the Biden Administration collectively gave to things that are more like terrorists and enemies than they are like people we should be helping but most of that a billion of it uh went to one group the uh United Nations relief and works agency uh unua uh which uh claimed it was helping the the poor Palestinians um but it turns out that 10% of the workers were actually the the Hamas so a thousand of them a thousand of the employees were just Hamas or Hamas backers or Hamas oriented so uh even Biden shut that down but that tells you how bad it is all right so let me see let's see if I can connect the dots uh Jen saki supported Biden Biden funded people who support terrorists connect the dots that would make Jens saki a terrorist you know there's no other way to describe it see how that works there's just no other way to describe it no there is another way to describe it but if you say there's no other way to describe it apparently that works on MSNBC no other way um so Elon Musk is posting a few minutes ago that the treasury officials are breaking the law every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress H I'll bet that's true all right what else uh did you know the Politico so this one's a fake News Real News fake News Real News here's why it never pays to have one person on a podcast so if you had one person on a podcast you'd say hey uh we just found out the usaid gave $8 million to Politico and Politico often says bad things about Trump so really is that the reason that you're funding Politico and then the one guest would say oh no you got that story wrong no no you're thinking of Politico the publication this also went to Politico but Politico has a separate division that does some professional thing with data and and what the people are buying is that that professional data service it's not about the publication Politico and then you're on a podcast and there's only one guest and that one guest calls the news fake news and then you're done right and that's the last you'll hear about it that's why the worst way to find out what's true is one person on the podcast talking to a host who doesn't know what question to ask here's the next question do those entities report to the same the same um structure if they do this is how you launder money if if you wanted to give money to influence the publication part of it you wouldn't give it to him directly because then it would be a paper trail of you bribing a a new source so instead you say huh you have this other line of business over here very interesting yeah it's very expensive but we'd like to buy as much of it as you can give us so we'll give you we'll give you we'd like to buy $8 million of it now how much extra did do you think uh Politico had to spend to satis y this this new request for $8 million worth of this service probably nothing because it sounds like a service that just existed and they could just say oh now you're subscribing so probably they just had to enter the government pass the government emails or passwords and then they had access so it could be that the government or the usaid really needed that data but I don't think so it seems far more likely that that's just the ordinary way that you bribe somebody you you don't bribe the person you fund the startup for the person's brother-in-law you don't fund the person you fund the thing that the person was going to spend money on but now they don't have to you don't fund the person you hire the relative who couldn't get a job for a no show job so the most typical way that you bribe people is not by giving them money but giving money to something that will benefit them in a in a second you know indirect way all right um so and by the way I don't know that Politico has one entity and they both connect to it but that's what you should be asking so if we if we don't know that then we don't know the story and so I guess I would say I don't know the story all let's see what I'm seeing something according to the financial times half of politico's 200 million Revenue comes from its Pro subscription business which capitalizes on the US lobbying industry so it's something lobbyists pay for now if it's something lobbyists pay for why would usaid need to pay for it um it's described as Bloomberg for politics so it's basically basically data that lobbyists would like such as what's the name of the person in charge of this thing who's voting for this thing it sells data directories and detailed coverage of the legislative and policymaking process for as much as $10,000 a pop now how many of those subscriptions do you think usaid needed to buy and why is the government figuring out ways to Lobby the government the government is the government they have to they have to buy an external source to find out who to talk to in the government all right um Google is allegedly uh ending their their uh Dei but I saw a little little Nuance to that so it might be they're ending some kind of affirmative action goals but maybe not completely getting rid of the letters Dei but it's moving in the right direction and Robbie Starbucks talking about this I don't know that he targeted Google yet but uh I think you'll see companies not want to get targeted because it's very bad for business um so you should be seeing companies trying to get ahead of it and I think that's maybe what this is but the NFL um is sticking with Dei and they're sticking with it hard because the NFL wants to end discrimination finally I'm glad the NFL wants to end discrimination because this uh this spring I plan to try out for a quarterback position on one of the NFL teams um I pick quarterback because I I think that position pays the most usually so I want the good position and uh you know it wasn't long ago I would have worried about agism like if I showed up they would just say are you serious um no you you should probably be in your late teens or maybe early 20s and I would say um I'm sorry I thought you were in favor of Dei well yeah yeah but we were thinking more like you know black people and I would say correct me if I'm wrong but I'm the only white person here oh no there's one there's one oh no that's a coach um there's one okay that seems to be a reporter okay but I'm sure there's some white people here and then I'd say but but but you should not be aist I need some I need some you know Dei please give me some Dei and then they say but you know you're also kind of small and I would say oh oh oh I see where you're going you so now it's about how tall I am so you don't like the little people what what do you call me behind my back I think I'm going to sue you so agism sh ISM uh you you guys are like a ball of worms you're a ball of worms of racism and discrimination and bigotry and I'd say are you discriminating against me because I'm heterosexual no that's stupid why would we discriminate you against you for being heterosexual and then I'd say I'm trans and they'd say what yeah I'm trans can you prove it no I don't have to I mean how would I prove it take my pants off no no I'm trans and then they'd say all right you can stay for the workout and then I'd be a quarterback because they're not going to judge me on skill I you know in the old days my lack of skill would have really held me back but now now that they are going for the the biggest possible net and uh they want to make sure that they've got people from all walks of life represented in the NFL a good goal by the way I I I like every bit of that um now they probably should just ignore my complete lack of talent and uh it's good that the NFL is holding tight on Dei well Stephen A Smith is considering running for president as a Democrat because he's sure he could beat all the clowns that are being talked about and uh he's not serious yet but his name will probably get thrown in there because Democrats fail to learn the there's nothing better than watching Democrats not be able to learn because they watch Trump and they can't figure out what he's doing like why you making that work so they say to themselves stuff like I got it I got it we need an Entertainer we'll get a TV guy yeah yeah yeah we'll get a TV guy who talks good on TV because that's what Trump has if we can match the TV guy skills then we're in good shape wrong wrong what what Trump has is a skill stack that we've never seen yes he has a TV experience yes he can persuade like nobody's business yes he's been involved in dozens or hundreds of different businesses so he seen every business model in the world by the way here's a little side note when when I visited Trump in the Oval Office in 2018 uh and I told you before how he was interested in me like he actually asked penetrating questions about uh the cartoon business so in five minutes I described to him the nature of the cartoon business and how syndication works and things like that and when I was done in five minutes he had added to his talent stack just because he asked the right question he asked exactly the right questions so he understood how that business model of cartooning Works Boop add it to the model he he adds knowledge to his model like a vacuum cleaner I mean he's just sucking up how's this work how's this work how do you do that wh why do that work why do this work what what's what's the mechanism all day long he's just getting smarter and smarter you put him in the room with Stephen A Smith they would both talk really well but one of them wouldn't know a thing Stephen A Smith he's probably great at what he does like he has a real good personality for what he does and he might know you know tons about sports and things I'm sure I mean obviously but he is no Trump and if they think they can just get a smooth talker with bonus he's black if they think that's going to be good enough they're really not paying attention they're not paying attention at all it would just look like a Dei hire even though he's clearly very talented so uh let me be clear Stephen A Smith would not be a Dei hire like he would be based on his his skill if they picked them but his skill is just very good for a normal person it's not in Trump's level you know it's a different zip code he's miles away from that meanwhile the prime minister of Denmark says that Denmark is open to the idea of increasing US military presence in Greenland this is according to article in human events and do you remember what I predicted my prediction was that by starting out saying we want to take Greenland and we want to own it um for security reasons that Denmark would eventually say well we we can't say that we can't just give away our you know the biggest part of of our real estate um but maybe you know maybe we can let you bring your military in so now they're saying directly yes uh the us could increase its military presence now what would Stephen A Smith say to that if you were president I think he would say excellent that's that's what we wanted we we wanted to get have a military presence there we don't really need to make a country can of it that'd be a lot of work so yeah thank you we'll we'll take that offer and we'll increase our military everything's good what would Trump say to the offer of increasing our military in Greenland well I'll tell you what he'd say yeah uh you know I think we're going to increase our military in Greenland under every scenario so that's not an offer because I told you we're going to increase our military in Greenland so you telling me that we're going to increase our military in Greenland is is just you telling me what I told you what else you got are you going to pay for it if we're going to guard your country now obviously it's good for everybody in the region but if we're going to guard your country we're not doing that for free so we're either going to own it or you're going to pay for it you're going to pay for the defense cuz if you can't do it yourself and you've already admitted it's necessary see this is the key Denmark is not arguing they're not arguing the Strategic necessity of increasing the military in Greenland they're not arguing it so once they've agreed on that the question is how and the only two ways to do it are you pay for our military or we own your Island which one do you want see do you see the difference and ordinary person even a very high quality functioning smart person and Stephen A Smith is all of that he's high he's high quality high functioning very capable not even close to Trump's level not even close there's no way that he would have known that's the beginning of the negotiations because it looks like it's the end it's like oh that's what we wanted so now I can't read mines so it's it's always unfair to say was somebody would or would not do if it's if it's not you so I'm a little unfair there but I'm doing it to make make the larger point so it might not actually apply to this specific situation but the larger point is that Trump just operates at a different level and that's the part we want the part we want is this X Factor the thing nobody else can do you know like like shaking the Box on Gaza do you think that Stephen A Smith would have come up with the idea of well maybe America should just own it but not spend any money and not put any boots in the ground nobody would have done that there's nobody you you have to not only have the mind to come up with it but you've got to have the balls to take the heat when everybody flips out that's not normal that's the X Factor that's what Trump has um I see that uh it looks like like Elon Musk has just agreed with me on X two minutes ago somebody just sent it to me so my post was I said uh Democrats are terrified of Doge and musk because they have never witnessed this degree of competence it looks alien to them I mean that literally people with experience see in Doge a process that is necessarily messy but 100% On Target in terms of speed talent and energy and and must just said exactly yeah so once you see that frame you can't unsee it here's what we don't see um Democrats with extensive business experience which do exist let's say Jamie Diamond Jamie Diamond I trust him don't don't you I think Jamie Diamond is a nice Centrist I think he's a Democrat um do you think that Jamie diamond is going to say oh everything doge is doing is a big chaotic mistake no no if you asked him or any other Democrat with extensive business experience they would say this is what competence looks like hiring the best people at any age that's what must did best people at any age didn't care about their their skin color didn't care about their gender just best people any age any color puts them on a you know like this incredible March toward this bigger this bigger goal which is saving the whole country literally I mean they are saving the country if they do this right and it's got to be fast it's got to be dizzying fast it's got to break a lot of dishes and then later you can clean up the dishes but if you're bitching about some dishes getting broken you're not experienced this is a dish breaking process and if you don't see dishes just breaking like crazy it means nothing's happening it means the process is stalled somehow every time a dish breaks you should say to yourself an angel got its wings okay I wasn't going to go there but it was just sort of right there uh no the the the more bitching you hear the more they say it's chaos the more they say he's an unelected dictator trying to take over the world the more that happens the more On Target it is he's got the energy the talent the targeting he's going exactly in the right places and he's just he's just effing things up in a good way the way you should so yeah that's purely an experience issue well here's some good news that you've heard before scientists in South Korea found a way to uh reverse cancer with a molecular switch H let's see have we ever heard that South Korea has found a way to cure cancer checking notes checking notes once a day once a day uh I think I was maybe in my early 20s and I was a big news reader back then too and I would say to myself my God here's a story about somebody who found a cure for cancer like finally you know the the long the long uh wait is over and then you'd never hear about that story again but the next day there' be another story about other researchers who found a cure for cancer and I'd say well now we got two cures for cancer and then the next day the next day the and it never stopped so for 40 years I've been reading stories about cures for cancer none of them are real I I I think the ones I don't hear about maybe maybe those are the ones that you know end up curing a specific cancer or maybe you know they can help in a little bit in a in a real way but um I am so tired of cancer skewer oh but wait there's more um there's a let's see I think there's another cure for cancer oh no here's some other stuff um there is now this is cool did you know that 50% of men by the time they reach 75 have a hernia so it's basically just a little bulge and you know part of your body just below your Belt Line and so I I have one of those I have an untreated hernia if you're wondering why it's untreated allow me to explain a conversation with my surgeon who would would have been the surgeon to do the surgery if I had chosen surgery so I could have it's just one of the choices but the surgery doesn't work every time and sometimes it gives you permanent pain for the rest of your life and then it can never be fixed after that so a 10% chance of permanent pain so the uh the surgeon is explaining my risks and you know you you know me well enough to know that I was barely letting them complete a sentence and he'd start talking I'd say okay but what's the risk of this okay he'd answer that and then he started talking I'd say all right but if I do this this would be the outcome the likely outcome you know these are the odds and about halfway through he stops me and he goes what do you do for a living and the reason he asked is is apparently he has a tough time explaining the odds to normies but the fact that I was ahead of it him in in knowing you know what the risk reward is he he wanted to stop because it's like are you a doctor or something or he was trying to figure out why I was understanding the field as quickly as I was and all I was doing was asking him the risks so you know what's the risk if you get the thing well 10% chance you'd be unhappy what's the risk if you don't get it well uh there's some chance you know you'll be rushed to the hospital in the future because it it work persons but probably won't die right no but you might be rushed to the hospital and might be painful and then they would operate SO waiting until it hurts all the time or it's you know too painful to keep going that would be the time you get the surgery because if you're 100% unhappy because it just hurts all the time well then a 90% chance of fixing it it's a good deal but if it doesn't hurt all the time you've got a 10% chance of entering World in which it will hurt all the time so you put it off so I put it off and my surgeon was completely happy that I understood the odds enough to make that choice now it does hurt it hurts every day but not all the time usually if I've just exercised or something so I have to be careful with it but here's the news there's a uh and the reason I'm talking about this really specific thing is that it's 50% of all matter this is a gigantic thing for men how many of you have one it's a specifically it's a in inguinal hernia in the comments tell me how many of you have an inguinal hernia it's going to be about half of you um anyway so there's a new technique for getting rid of it without surgery now this one's a stretch but apparently according to to science mag um there's now some research that if they block the estrogen receptor Alpha esr1 in the connective tissues around that hernia it can heal so what happens is there's a weakness in the muscle wall that's holding basically holding everything together and so the weakness causes the little bulge so apparently they can just turn off this receptor and the tissue around it will heal and it will build back the strong wall and you don't have to have any surgery and probably wouldn't even hurt now they've already made it work on a mouse which isn't good enough of course but then they've also done it on human tissue now not in a human but they've done it on human tissue and it worked apparently it works really well like surprising well so you know they'd have to do a lot of testing before it's real but we might be few years away from going in for a simple procedure where they stick some needles into you and just inject this stuff and two weeks later your your your thing is gone maybe there's a new breakthrough in uh uh lithium ion batteries in South Korea I tell you this every day yep every day I tell you South Korea has a new breakthrough in batteries so you don't need to know the details but here's a cool one um according to the debrief there's a clean energy breakthrough where they create these tiny copper Nano flowers that can convert CO2 in the air uh into valuable hydrocarbons with no pollution think about that they figured out how to take the CO2 out of the air without without using a lot of energy I I I think it might even be passive it might be just the CO2 that hits the flower yeah I think it is so they're not they're not even sucking the CO2 out they're just putting this flour there now they're calling it a flow but it's you know copper wires and stuff uh but it's a mimicking nature and they uh it mimics the photosynthesis so it turns a carbon dioxide into a fuel source specifically what kind of fuel uh into complex molecules such as uh ethane and ethylene which are key components in fuels and plastic production now the question I ask if this is real and uh University of California Berkeley and University of Cambridge say it is they say it's real that it's not a theory they built it so they don't have to wonder if it works they built it it works so what if we all got one you know what what if it what if they just turn it into a I don't know a desktop thing you can plug in and it just takes CO2 out of the air and turns it into something you could sell or turns it into 3D printer material I always like that it could be it could be the end of any problems about CO2 now may I jump in and say don't take my plant food stop taking all my CO2 my plants are going to die well before that happens at least we can get rid of the climate hysteria so when I talk about removing CO2 from the air I'm usually talking about removing the climate hysteria from the air I'm not really talking about CO2 but if we had a way to get rid of it as scale we would know pretty quickly if it made any difference and I think we could I think we'd be smart enough to stop before all our plants died from not having enough CO2 I'd like to think we would but it would be dangerous if you could take the CO2 out of the air and turn it into commercial products because then people are going to keep sucking on it until it's all gone all right that's all I got for today ladies and gentlemen I'm going to say a few words privately to the locals subscribers these special and sexy local subscribers and the rest of you thanks for joining on X and Rumble and You.

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Paul everything's working fine today all

right well the big news in case you it

is that uh CNN uh escapee Jim Acosta has

launched his own

show oh okay what was I talking about oh

sorry I was saying that uh CNN Escape

Jim aosta has

launched I'm just going to move to the

next

story I can't make you through that one

well as you know Trump has signed his

executive order Banning biological men

in women's sports as he likes to say

women seem to like it a lot you know

I'll tell you there's a there's a lot of

people doing a victory

laps um and people who worked for years

on certain things so is this not a big

victory for Riley gains imagine being

Riley gains she kind of risked

everything to just work on this issue

and she was really good at

it and here we are now it's not because

of any one person but she certainly was

leading the uh charge also JK

Rowling took tremendous

heat Victory lap time for the victory

laps and there there's a whole bunch of

people who have been toiling for years

on individual topics like

Dei and suddenly they're all winners you

know Robbie Starbuck and Christopher

rufo and people like me and we get a

Victory lap too so lots of Victory laps

lately I like

that well Wall Street Journal says the

government's trying to ban deep seek

deep seek would be the that less

expensive Chinese Ai and I guess it's an

app and now it's not going to be legal

if this passes it's just introduced as a

bill but if this passes then you can't

have that AI on a government computer

because they worry it will grab your

information and send it back to China

which it might now my first prediction

about deep seek is that it wouldn't be

as dangerous as you thought to American

AI companies because the government

would just tie it up in in legal

problems they'll just make it illegal

and and sure enough it's basically the

ticktock model they they start with

Banning it in the government because

that's maybe easiest but yeah they're

going to ban it I would be surprised if

it's still in the App Store in a

year um as you know the Army has uh

shattered records for recruitment since

the election of trump do you think

that's a

coincidence what would make

people want to join the military just

because Trump is president could it be

less likely to get into Wars that don't

matter that might be part of it could it

be just a rise and you know man you know

sort of male energy you know although

obviously a lot of women join the

service as well could it

be that joining the service has now

transformed from something like a thing

for gay people

to something like a lethal Force

protecting the

country because I got to say that my

entire impression of the military was

it's just a big lgbtq cheering thing

that occasionally gets into Wars we wish

we didn't have Trump fixed all of that

just by existing and being Trump so yeah

I don't think it's a coincidence that

people are signing up all of a

sudden probably not a coincidence

well laara Trump's going to join Fox

News one night a week on

Saturdays uh Saturday at 9:00 p.m.

eastern time now remember I always tell

you that Fox News is just better

produced you know that's one of those

things if you're not you know if you

haven't been around the media business a

lot as I have you're not going to notice

the difference in producers you you're

just going to say oh I like this show

better than that show and maybe you'll

think it's is the talent but the

producers have a lot to

do with the success and this is exactly

perfect yeah Laura Trump is exactly who

they should be giving a Saturday night

show to if she does well obviously

they'd look at maybe expanding that so

yeah it's once again Fox News in their

talent and production stuff they they

get a lot

right um Mitch McConnell fell down the

stairs

again uh you may have been a little bit

injured but uh nothing

life-threatening and my question is how

much do McConnell's uh peers hate him

that they would allow him to use

stairs there's no other way to get from

one place to another there's no

elevators they don't have any handicap

access to other

floors I would think there'd be an

elevator everywhere that McConnell goes

so who who just stood there and watched

him struggle on the stairs and said oh

that'll be

fine I mean it almost feels like they

hate him like they're just trying to

trying to steer him toward the stairs

more it's like well there's no term

limits but uh how would you like to go

upstairs and you know meet in the room

upstairs oh well I have to do my my

mccon

impression can I do a McConnell

impression I've never tried this

before hey Mitch why why you uh come

upstairs we'll meet in the conference

room upstairs third floor no no not the

elevator no no and the elevators for

idiots no no you're fine you're fine

just take the stairs

oh all right I think I nailed

it that probably would be the clip that

takes over the internet

today so yeah they hate him let's talk

about Trump and Gaza some more so most

of the complaints about Trump wanting to

own Gaza or the United States own it is

based on the opposite of what he said

so we're not going to spend money in

Gaza no he said we're not going to spend

any money we we're not going to put

those boots in the ground no we're not

going to put any boots on the ground

well

well but we're not going to spend any

money no we already covered that we're

not going to spend any money we're just

going to help organize the people who do

spend the money but those boots on the

ground again no boots on the ground no

money no spending

no boots on the

ground I don't know my problem is all

the spending in the boots on the ground

are you even listening to me no spending

no boots in the ground that that was

that was uh the spokesperson Caroline

Levy levit trying to answer questions

yes there'll be no expense but what

about all the expense I just said no

expense

so do we think this would work well let

me tell you what I love about

today I love the fact that when it

became clear let's see I guess Mike walz

National Security adviser Mike wal said

directly he said that Trump's proposal

to take over Gaza is meant to pressure

neighboring Arab states to come up with

their own

solution now most of you knew that

didn't you ju just think about how far

we've come

and I'm going to take a I'm going to

take a Victory lap on this one imagine

that Trump says something wildly

provocative like uh America should own

Gaza and we'll take care of it and then

your head explodes as mine did and then

after after the the explosion subsides I

think about it I go oh oh okay this is

just Trump he's just creating some

options out of nothing and he's shaking

the box and he's trying to get the other

people to hate him as the common enemy

so that they can come up with an idea

that does work instead of their dumb

ideas that don't work basically nobody

had any other idea if you think about it

nobody nobody not a single person that

had an actual real practical idea of

what to do so Trump comes up with his

you know

arguably impractical but maybe possible

idea and now they've got to they have to

fight with a real thing now they've got

to say uh uh uh we hate it yeah but

what's your idea well my idea is I hate

his idea no no what's your idea we're

all ears we we're we'll will'll abandon

Trump's idea in a heartbeat let's hear

your good

idea uh uh he's he his plan won't work

no again you're only talking about his

plan let's hear your idea the

alternative idea what are you going to

do Trump's

racist so that's sort of the way it's

been going but now now they've got

something they actually have to wrestle

with because like I always say he's not

bluffing it's persuasion but it's not a

bluff if if nobody comes up with a

better idea he's just going to say all

right we'll take it and you have to pay

for it and if you don't pay for it we'll

just own it and it'll just sit there we

don't care if it doesn't cost us any

money and we don't have any boots on the

ground we'll just let us sit there if if

you want to help us we'll organize that

make sure it gets cleaned up and ready

to

go I definitely don't want to see any

American forces cleaning up unexploded

unexploded bombs and toxic debris I

would like to see no Americans do that

that's the job for Israel if there's any

unexploded ordinance that's all Israel

you got to take care of that guys that's

all on you but uh here's what I like I

like that uh as soon as it became

clear that it became that it was more of

a negotiating you know just shake the

Box idea did you see the number of

people on social media who said I knew

it it's the first thing I thought that's

completely

new in 2016 if Trump said something like

this that we're going to own Gaza people

would have said well I told you he was

crazy I told you he was crazy he doesn't

have a single smart idea he has no

experience in government he doesn't know

how anything Works he's a clown he's

probably just wants to put his his

friends in charge of it so they can make

some money it's a

grift right that that's the way you

understood anything he said that was

provocative

but

today the entire at least the right

leaning news the left leaning news is

just propaganda but the right leaning

news and the right leaning social media

almost every single person said I know

what that is I know what that is that's

the thing he does that's where Trump

creates options out of nothing he's

doing it

again I feel like or at least AI says

that I'm the reason that people can see

Politics as

persuasion when before I got involved

people saw it as policy differences and

they would have treated this as a policy

difference wait a minute my policy would

be better than that but nobody sees this

as a policy they see it as pure

persuasion and I'm pretty sure that's me

I I think that's almost entirely me um

and not entirely me alone because if I

teach people to recognize it they teach

other people to recognize it they write

they write articles and other people

recognize it um so yeah so here are the

terms that we heard refer to it now this

is just random people on social media

random people writing articles a lot of

them used the phrase shake the

Box where's that come from I mean I

didn't I didn't invent the term shake

the box but to apply it to Trump's

persuasion that's kind of all

me what about 4 d

chess that's all me 2015 I described it

as 3D chess I think but it turned into

4D 10d that was all me how about uh

creating new options and a nothing

everybody recognized that's what he was

doing that's all me now when I say it's

all me I just mean I kind of introduced

that way of thinking about it you know

persuasion filter versus a policy filter

and and that apparently has been

effective enough that people have

adopted it as their primary point of

view and I'm really happy about that I I

don't think Trump could be president the

second time maybe not even the first

time without that understanding that's

the understanding everybody needed and

it turns out the whole right leaning

part of the world guess it like almost

everybody got that that was very

impressive well um speaking of

Gaza the uh you know that there was

since the 60s there's been a plan to

build a canal that would uh connect what

the Red Sea to the Mediterranean and it

would be a kind of a competitor to the

Suez Canal because Egypt controls access

to the Suz canal and there have been

times when they've closed access for

various geopolitical reasons and so it

would be a big money maker but also a

geopolitical advantage to have a second

canal and one of the thoughts going all

the way back to Ben guran one of the

founders you might even say the founder

of Israel um he wanted to build that

canal and he wanted to go sort of go

through Gaza so some people are saying

wait a minute the real plan is to build

the second canal and they need Gaza out

of the way to make that work well I

don't think that anything to do with

what happened and I also don't think

that Canal is ever going to get

built if if you look at what it takes to

build a canal I don't think the modern

world has that anymore we used to have

it but it to me it feels like uh

pyramids you know you imagine that you

live in a world where you know we could

build another Canal about we couldn't if

if there were no Panama Canal do you

think we could build that today no

too many people

died yeah it wouldn't get approved it's

on somebody else's land you know can't

just take their land there'd be all

kinds of reasons we couldn't do it we

might actually lose the ability to know

how to build a

canal just like somehow we don't know

how those big rocks moved on the

pyramids we're getting

Dumber but uh here's what I'd like to

see

um oh also there's some uh news about

the Panama Canal there's some fake news

today the fake news was from the Wall

Street Journal and it said that Panama

had agreed

to uh not charge American ships going

through the

canal uh Panama said uh that's not true

we've made no such agreement so if you

saw the news and you celebrated yay

Trump won our American ships get to go

through for free that sounds like just

something that's maybe still being

talked about out but it's not an

agreement uh maybe it won't be we'll see

but this brings me to my bigger question

do you know how many problems do you

know how many problems around the

world could be solved if we could build

canals like really easily build them you

know it's the hardest thing in the world

but if we could do it

easily it would be worth trillions of

dollars and I would like to extend the

thinking that we've been using recently

you know the thinking that says if

there's something that would be good to

happen but it's also basically

impossible then you ask Elon Musk to do

it and he has it done by lunchtime so

it's like ah too bad there's no way to

make an affordable economically

successful electric car well how about

if you do it oh okay thank you Tesla H

there's no way to reuse a rocket and be

able to affordably go to Mar oh okay it

looks like you can do that Elon thank

you so I guess we can we have a path to

Mars now if only there was some way to

connect remote people to the internet

but even though it's funded nobody got

oh starlink thank you thank you for that

problem uh too bad the government debt

is going to kill us and there's nothing

we can do oh thank you Doge apparently

doge is going to save us from certain do

and it was impossible

all of these things were

impossible so every time there's

something

impossible we've developed a habit of

going to the same guy so now we find out

that the computer systems used by the

government are like decades old and

falling apart and just a disaster so I

mean it would be impossible to fix all

of that in any time you know any kind of

quick timeline so apparently Elon Musk

has taken the task as F Doge to fix the

government computer systems that are

falling

apart so another impossible

job he gets another impossible job he's

like sure yeah no problem let me let me

do that impossible thing I'll have it

done by lunch so I'd like to extend this

concept of it if it would be valuable

and also impossible we should ask Elon

to do it so what we need is you know he

has that boring company where they bore

tunnels and they they engineered a

special machine that makes it really

inexpensive to dig a

tunnel I wonder if you could make a

canal building version of that like it

would be all different technology but

what if you built this

enormous maybe it's a swarm you know

maybe it's not one device but a swarm of

also very large devices that just Crush

through the land

I don't know what this is hold

on a

problem apparently I have to be signed

on to turn it off all right I'm getting

ready to throw my computer out the

window

oh God make that go oh no come on

please up God oh my

God if I had to listen to that one more

second anyway so we need a big Canal

building

machine that's what we need so I

listened to the whole K Harris CBS

interview with 60 minutes that's the one

that uh Trump is Trump is uh suing 60

Minutes for allegedly um improving Comm

Harris's answers and in the context of

an election that would look like

election interference because instead of

looking like

a um instead of

a what was I going to say uh instead of

looking like uh just regular editing it

looked like election interference

because it was in the context of

election but uh frog on Mars gave one

example I don't know how many examples

there are like nobody did a really good

job of showing what she did say versus

what they added it in I saw only one

example from frogs on Mars on X that

that she gave a 338 word

rambling answer that involved School

pictures and all kinds of stuff and I

think the question was about Trump's

comments about the Asian immigrants and

eating their pets or something like that

I think that was the issue but her her

answer was just as

long not quite word salad because it

made sense but it all seemed just

slightly off topic and like she was just

searching for a smart answer but never

found one and they they

replaced 338 words

with 29 words that came from a

completely different

answer

now the completely different answer was

not different from the 338 word answer

meaning that in both cases um she said

you know that's unacceptable or you know

that's wrong so she was basically just

saying Trump was wrong to say whatever

he did or do whatever he

did now here is the context TT do you

think the 60 Minutes changed that answer

to help her chances of winning the

election the answer is no they changed

your answer because it was unwatchable

TV they changed it for their own benefit

to make the show watchable it didn't

really change what her opinion was her

opinion was Trump said a bad thing and

that's what they put in there Trump said

a bad thing

but they didn't need a

338 word rambling eat up all the time so

they can't ask another question they had

to get rid of that but the question was

so important they needed to CCH keep the

question so here's what I know that you

don't

know the way 60 Minutes treated this is

normal completely

normal that is normal and you say to

yourself but it's like making a quote

that's normal if if they think they're

not changing the basics thrust of what

you said and they can tighten it up so

it's good for TV they will do that for

their own purposes so here's the problem

with the

lawsuit if CBS says we do this all the

time it's it's a common thing and we

don't do it just for the benefit of the

the person in the chair we do it because

our Watchers are viewers would not be

able to watch you know a train wreck so

we just make sure that they understand

what the candidate means and there is

clear and that we you know move to the

next question in a quick enough way so I

don't think that he can win a case it

could be that they'll settle because

they don't want to take a chance uh they

don't want to do the discovery and all

that so they might settle but I don't

think he could

win because um I'm not a lawyer but

seems to me that if CBS was doing what

everybody in that business does and

their reason was for their own benefit

and the benefit of the audience just to

make it shorter and

quicker I don't know I think their I

think their argument would be if it

helped her it was only accidental it

wasn't anything we planned so they they

would have definitely some Reasonable

Doubt there that's a mile mile wide now

this would be a civil case so

uh Reasonable Doubt isn't quite exactly

the right standard but you get the

point all right here's a complicated one

let's see if I can possibly summarize

this so Michael

shellenberger has been looking into the

whole us Aid and you know Doge's

penetration of it and everything we're

learning about who's getting the money

and how dirty that organization is the

the quick answer if you're new to this

is that the Doge Elon musks uh Doge

people have uh completely opened the

kimona on this part of the government

that had very big budget and was doing

only creepy things now creepy meaning

overthrowing other countries and maybe

overthrowing ours maybe allegedly and so

even though the on the surface it looked

like they were funding AIDS programs in

Africa and you know all kinds of things

so you'd say well you know I don't we

could discuss whether we should be

giving charity to other countries but

you can't argue that this would be a

good charity you know helping AIDS in

another country but it turns out that

100% of what it does is essentially

front

um let's say it's a front for some

bigger effort that's the CIA effort so

allegedly no matter what they're funding

whether it's AIDS or I know cleaning up

the water and some

that really that's just a trick to get

our Assets in place so that we can

overthrow the country or control it and

that's all it is everything else is fake

which doesn't mean that they don't do

good things because in order to stay in

the country they would probably have to

show that they helped with some AIDS and

you know cleaned up some water did

something they said they were going to

do but really it's not the purpose of it

the purpose of it is overthrowing

countries so now that you have that

context now the other thing that USA

does to disguise what it's doing is

there's this unlimited just it seems

like thousands I think I think it is

thousands of NOS non-government

organizations so they exist all over the

world and if USA gives one of them some

money for something that sounds good on

paper oh uh if we give you some money

you'll work on some climate stuff and

then that entity has money and then if

it gives it to somebody

else then maybe the only thing you would

see is oh and then this other company

gave it to clean up the water in this

place that needs some clean water and

you go oh that sounds good but really

the whole thing is a money laundering

situation to presumably Democrats are

taking some off the top wherever the

money moves and by the way it's 98%

Democrats it's just a

Democrat

um it's a money

laundering asset that the Democrats use

and also the Deep state so now that you

know that it's this vast network of

connected things for the purpose for the

purpose of laundering money for the

purpose of overthrowing other

countries right so you need to know it's

100% fake now this is the Mike Ben's

explanation so I'm I'm borrowing this

this is not my personal opinion except

that Ben makes such a good argument and

has such good receipts that if he says

it and he shows you his

work I'm kind of on that page right

because he his credibility is through

the roof and he shows his work just with

public stuff so here's what Michael

shellenberger who writes uh for public

it's a subscription news related site

that is

amazing um I'll read some of this he

goes now the evidence suggests

uh talking about us Aid that us Aid

along with CIA were behind the

2019 impeachment of

trump

what wait

what that

USA and the CIA were behind the 2019

impeachment of trump that's the one

where they said Trump said some things

to zinsky on the phone and he should be

impeached for it now how could you

possibly know that these entities were

involved in that well here's

how the part you probably already knew

is that the Whistleblower who came

forward and said oh Trump uh said he

wanted to send Rudy Giuliani to

investigate Joe Biden and Hunter

Biden um that was a CIA analyst who was

left over in the White House from the

Obama days so The Whistleblower was CIA

now you might say Oh you mean

xcia

no I don't think there's any such thing

as X CIA I mean not really is

there so the first thing we know is that

that CIA analyst that's kind of

suspicious said that said something

happened and according to dropsite

news uh last year they revealed that the

CI analyst relied on oh he didn't hear

it

himself oh oh I'm not sure I knew that

before but he didn't hear it himself he

relied on

reporting all right so the reporting

that he relied on that's the CIA analyst

um SL whistleblower he relied on some

organization in the government oh okay

government organization called the

organized crime and Corruption reporting

project or

occrp I didn't even know that existed

now who are they ever hear of them I've

never heard of them before huh I wonder

what we could learn about that

organization so it's an American

government or NGO or

something

um but apparently it's fully controlled

by us

Aid wait a minute so us Aid The Entity

that is primarily involved in

overthrowing other countries

and one of the tools that we know

they've

used is this very same thing this

organized crime and Corruption reporting

project and that when USA has used them

in the past why did they use them in the

past well

allegedly uh it was in the service of

overthrowing five or six foreign

regimes

what so in other words the CIA usaid and

then this entity the

occrp were all involved in the

impeachment of President Trump in ways

similar to the regime change operations

that all three organizations engage in

abroad the three of them are supposed to

be exterior facing entities and their

job is to overthrow other countries the

same entities using the same method

which is somebody reported something but

the report was fake and then you use

your fake news assets to act like it was

true and it's the most important thing

that ever happened that's what happened

every part of what we do to overthrow

other countries successfully was used

against Trump I think multiple times so

this in this particular case it was for

the impeachment you knew that

impeachment was complete fake right from

from the first I think we all knew wait

a minute that's just fake you're just

making stuff up there's no way he said

that and whatever he said was certainly

legal he had every right to ask about it

and and especially now now that we know

the depth of the Biden crime

family Trump asking zalinsky to look

into

it would never have worked because

zinsky is fully owned by the CIA it

never would have worked but was

perfectly appropriate ask for it and he

got impeached for that H now as

shellenberger points out the difference

between the CIA usaid and ocp working

together to overthrow a foreign

country it's illegal to do it in the

US and it's not just a little bit

illegal it's the most illegal thing you

could possibly

do short of I don't know being a serial

killer or something what would be more

illegal than overthrowing your

democratically elected president nothing

nothing this would be like uh you know

assassinating Kennedy or

something

allegedly all

right

so do does that story check with you

yeah I feel like the Doge penetration of

usaid is the Rosetta Stone that allows

us to finally see everything we

suspected so I certainly knew that um

there was a

conspiracy

to um to impeach Trump I obviously knew

that it was organized it was obvious

that the media was completely complicit

it was obvious that The

Whistleblower had some agenda but I

couldn't quite connect all the dots and

now we have it's all connected it was

the exact same tools and the exact same

technique that they use on other

countries but what they counted on is

that Americans are not aware of these

tools and they're not aware of how

they're

used and Doge just changed that now

we're aware of the tools and well and

Mike Ben changed it even before Doge now

we're aware of the tools we can actually

watch the flow of money and it

apparently is just a gigantic um

laundering money laundering thing for

Democrats so it seems to be just feeding

people money in a variety of illicit

ways and trying to overthrow countries

including our

own so yeah the Democrats who say we've

got to keep that USA ID they either have

no idea idea what it really is or they

don't

care which is worse I don't know which

is worse actually I think not caring

would be

worse well meanwhile Pam Bondi who's uh

only one day in the job attorney

general um she's got some directives

already she's going to fight the

weaponization of Justice huh how about

the weaponization of impeachment and

it's not really the justice system per

se

but it kind of is similar maybe they

should look into that uh she wants to

eliminate the cartels and lift the death

penalty ban for just certain types of

things so that's good and she's going to

be looking into uh Alvin Bragg's uh hush

money case and also Jack Smith I think

so yes Alvin Bragg in my opinion was

clearly an

you know clearly an illegitimate lawfare

situation all right here's my question

for

lawyers is it not obvious already that

there's a RICO problem going on here and

what would it take to trigger it into a

RICO you know maybe you don't need to

but um some of the things people said as

well Scott everything usaid did was

legal to which I say yeah technically

you maybe they're allowed to give money

to anybody they want and it's not

illegal but if their intention is to

give it to entities that will give it

back to somebody you know like a

kickback or to subvert you know an

American

election

well uh that seems to me kind of

coordinated and Rico when when if you

just look at if the only thing you

looked at was the 2019 impeachment case

you could see the coordination the

coordination is all over that obviously

the media was part of it and remember I

I used to say that I couldn't understand

why the media wouldn't debunk all the

hoaxes you know like the drinking bleach

oax and the find people Oaks and I would

say how can you not debunk the things

that can be debunked just by your own

video that you own you would just have

to look at the whole video instead of

the edited one you could debunk the

whole thing it's the biggest story in

the country both of them were at one

point and never not not years later not

at any point did they debunk those

things and here's the

reason they always knew that they

weren't

true they were

obviously part of a criminal conspiracy

because if you don't have the media on

your side then all of your other

weaseling gets uncovered so controlling

the media is step one I mean you can't

do the other weasel stuff unless you

control the

media all

right um so we'll

see maybe you need a specific leader to

make it at Rico I don't know um so now a

dozen states according to daily Coler

news Foundation a dozen states are

looking into um whether or not there's

some charges they can put on Anthony

fouchy because the federal charges

wait who said that oh no Andrew Tate

just weighed in the entire G the entire

case against me was funded via usaid to

remove my influence from the internet I

have the

paperwork oh man I'll bet it I'll bet

that's true now remember it's Andrew

Tate so you know don't get too

enthusiastic about the ver of it let's

just put it that way but if he does have

the

paperwork and he can show that his his

specific case was funded by the usad

then that would mean that the reason for

it was to remove his

influence um I've always assumed that's

what it was I didn't know about the

usaid but I always assumed that some

deep part of the American government is

what closed them down maybe working with

you know know five eyes you know other

countries Great Britain would want to

close them down as well but uh I don't

want to run and embrace that as true

because it's just a thing Andrew Tate is

saying on

X but

uh if I had to place a bat I'll bet he

does have the receipts we'll see it

would be a bold thing to say if you

couldn't prove it now that's

interesting

so anyway so the states are looking to

see if there are any charges they can

put on fouchi I am completely against

this I'm completely against it the way I

read the story is the states have ganged

up they started with the person and now

they're looking for the

crime they started with the person and

they're checking with all the other

states hey do you see a crime do you see

a crime got any crimes we can go after

him for no no no

no no no no no no no no no no no you

can't start with a person and then look

for a crime that's not going to fly you

know don't make me don't make me support

Anthony fouchy all right because some

some NPC is going to say oh you defended

Anthony fouchy because you like you like

you like vaccinations it will kill you

no I don't like what fouchy did yes I

believe he probably violated some crimes

I don't know which ones but probably but

he's got a pardon from the federal

government if these states don't have

obvious crimes that are sort of right in

front of them you don't get to go

looking for a that's too far that's

too

far so you know we'll see if see what

they come up with but you can't have Pam

Bondi trying to stop law where all 12 of

our states are engaged in it publicly

that would be law fair that's what it is

when you start with a person and and

then look for a crime oh we can find

some crime here no totally messed up I

don't want to have my name associated

with anybody who would do anything like

that so you better you better do better

this is this is not up to the standard

this is not up to the current standard

of the United States it is up to the

standard of what we just got rid of we

just canned this the reason we

shitan Biden was this kind of stuff

don't shitan Biden and then start being

Biden so unless there's something I'm

missing about this story this is a hard

no absolutely not don't don't

make

me look like a some Biden guy just

because I'm supporting Trump you know or

supporting the Republicans in this

case so checking in with the D Democrats

and their messaging uh they've decided

to go with Joy Reed said musk is a

private citizen trying to take over the

government and let's see what did uh

Jens saki said uh she said uh it's a

hostile takeover of governent there's no

other way to describe

it really there there's no other way to

describe it I'm going to use

that that's the argument for people who

don't know how anything works you can

use it for

everything you see this in my hand it's

a porcupine shut up there's no other way

to describe it no it's not a pen there's

only one way to describe it it's a

porcupine what the hell what kind of

dumb asses listen to there's no other

way to describe it uh let me see if I

can dig deep into my creative creative

powers to find some other way to

describe it oh how about putting a

capable team in charge of auditing our

expenses how about the uh legally

elected president of the United States

gets to pick his staff and tell them

what to do oh amazing Jen did you see

that look at that you said there was no

other way to describe it and yet I found

a couple it turns out there there's more

than one way to describe it but I'm

going to start using that you know that

excuse that there's only one way to

describe it it just sounds so up

that I kind of like it because it's so

absurd anyway um Harry enton who's the

data guy at CNN says that only 39% of

the public support musk having a key

role in the

administration well this has a more to

do with how the question is

asked um yeah so key

rooll if you thought key rooll means

that he gets to make

decisions that's not what's happening

both musk and and Trump are very clear

they both say it publicly and as often

as you want to that Trump's in

charge Trump can hire anybody as his

chief of staff do you know who else is

Not Elected the chief of staff so who's

bitching about that is anybody bitching

about his chief of staff oh wait Susie

WS she's she's just an unelected person

who's got a key role in the

administration she's got a key

role yeah she does the do you know how

important the chief of staff is the

chief of staff is damn near as important

as the president you just don't realize

it cuz it's behind the scenes but the

chief of staff even you decides who gets

to see Trump and how much time they

spend with him and what he pays

attention to and and then solves

problems for him Susie WS is probably

you know in in the same category of Elon

Musk in the sense that they're very

capable but they're not elected they

just work for

Trump so now I I act like I act like

it's an argument

and that the the dumb people have the

wrong argument and if I only if I only

present the correct argument every

everybody will correct no it's obvious

they're just lying and making up stuff

and that they're part

of presumably part of the deep State you

know bad part of the

world all right well what is Doge doing

now they're they're getting into the

Medicare and Medicaid systems

so um one of the things that mus teased

on X is that there there might be

enormous fraud in our Medicare and

Medicaid systems now the fraud would be

people making claims that are fake

claims

so I have this

hypothesis that the amount of government

fraud not necessarily by the government

but by people stealing from the

government with fake claims for

everything from from the pandemic to you

name it um I've got a feeling that the

fraud if you eliminated it would balance

the entire budget like actually

literally because when we talk about

things like oh we're never going to cut

the

military well what if we only cut the

fraud oh we're never going to cut uh

Medicare but what if we only cut the

fraud oh we're never going to cut

welfare

what if we only cut the

fraud oh we're never going to cut Social

Security well we could probably fix

Social Security I I don't know that

Social Security is a fraud it might be

but that would be harder to do I guess

um no it probably isn't hard to do there

probably are I'll bet there a bunch of

dead people collecting Social Security

yeah so up bet if you just got rid of

the fraud which would be impossible

you're not going to get rid of all of it

um how about you can balance the budget

that's how big it is and I never would

have said that until I saw just how bad

the the problem is after Doge got going

now I believe that the fraud could be

large enough that it's the entire

deficit uh now we're learning this is

also from daily color news Foundation

that uh Biden

Administration was giving money to uh

terrorists

um or people who who help the terrorists

now it it's allegedly $1.3 billion that

the Biden Administration collectively

gave to things that are more like

terrorists and enemies than they are

like people we should be helping but

most of that a billion of it uh went to

one group the uh United Nations relief

and works agency uh unua

uh which uh claimed it was helping the

the poor

Palestinians um but it turns out that

10% of the workers were actually the the

Hamas so a thousand of them a thousand

of the employees were just Hamas or

Hamas backers or Hamas oriented so uh

even Biden shut that down but that tells

you how bad it

is all right so

let me see let's see if I can connect

the dots uh Jen saki supported

Biden Biden funded people who support

terrorists connect the

dots that would make Jens saki a

terrorist you know there's no other way

to describe

it see how that works there's just no

other way to describe it no there is

another way to describe it but if you

say there's no other way to describe it

apparently that works on MSNBC no other

way

um so Elon Musk is posting a few minutes

ago that the treasury officials are

breaking the law every day by approving

payments that are fraudulent or do not

match the funding laws passed by

Congress H I'll bet that's

true all right what else uh did you know

the Politico so this one's a fake News

Real News fake News Real News here's why

it never pays to have one person on a

podcast so if you had one person on a

podcast you'd say hey uh we just found

out the usaid gave $8 million to

Politico and Politico often says bad

things about Trump so really is that the

reason that you're funding Politico and

then the one guest would say oh no you

got that story wrong

no no you're thinking of Politico the

publication this also went to Politico

but Politico has a separate division

that does some professional thing with

data and and what the people are buying

is that that professional data service

it's not about the publication

Politico and then you're on a podcast

and there's only one guest and that one

guest calls the news fake news and then

you're done right and that's the last

you'll hear about it that's why the

worst way to find out what's true is one

person on the podcast talking to a host

who doesn't know what question to ask

here's the next

question do those entities report to the

same the same um

structure if they

do this is how you launder

money if if you wanted to give money to

influence the publication part of it you

wouldn't give it to him directly because

then it would be a paper trail of you

bribing a a new source so instead you

say huh you have this other line of

business over here very interesting yeah

it's very expensive but we'd like to buy

as much of it as you can give us so

we'll give you we'll give you we'd like

to buy $8 million of it now how much

extra did do you think uh Politico had

to spend to satis y this this new

request for $8 million worth of this

service probably nothing because it

sounds like a service that just existed

and they could just say oh now you're

subscribing so probably they just had to

enter the government pass the government

emails or passwords and then they had

access

so it could be that the government or

the usaid really needed that data

but I don't think so it seems far more

likely that that's just the ordinary way

that you bribe somebody you you don't

bribe the

person you fund the startup for the

person's

brother-in-law you don't fund the

person you fund the thing that the

person was going to spend money on but

now they don't have to you don't fund

the

person you hire the relative who

couldn't get a job for a no show job so

the most typical way that you bribe

people is not by giving them money but

giving money to something that will

benefit them in a in a second you know

indirect

way all right um so and by the way I

don't know that Politico has one entity

and they both connect to it but that's

what you should be asking so if we if we

don't know that then we don't know the

story and so I guess I would say I don't

know the story

all let's see what I'm seeing something

according to the financial times half of

politico's 200 million Revenue comes

from its Pro subscription business which

capitalizes on the US lobbying industry

so it's something lobbyists pay for now

if it's something lobbyists pay for why

would usaid need to pay for

it

um it's described as Bloomberg for

politics so it's basically basically

data that lobbyists would like such as

what's the name of the person in charge

of this thing who's voting for this

thing it sells data directories and

detailed coverage of the legislative and

policymaking process for as much as

$10,000 a

pop now how many of those subscriptions

do you think usaid needed to buy and

why is the government figuring out ways

to Lobby the government the government

is the

government they have to they have to buy

an external source to find out who to

talk to in the

government all

right um Google is allegedly uh ending

their their uh

Dei but I saw a little little Nuance to

that so it might be they're ending some

kind of affirmative action goals but

maybe not completely getting rid of the

letters Dei but it's moving in the right

direction and Robbie Starbucks talking

about this I don't know that he targeted

Google yet but uh I think you'll see

companies not want to get targeted

because it's very bad for business um so

you should be seeing companies trying to

get ahead of it and I think that's maybe

what this is but the NFL um is sticking

with Dei and they're sticking with it

hard because the NFL wants to end

discrimination

finally I'm glad the NFL wants to end

discrimination because this uh this

spring I plan to try out for a

quarterback position on one of the NFL

teams um I pick quarterback because I I

think that position pays the most

usually so I want the good position and

uh you know it wasn't long ago I would

have worried about

agism like if I showed up they would

just say are you serious um no you you

should probably be in your late teens or

maybe early 20s and I would say um I'm

sorry I thought you were in favor of

Dei well yeah yeah but we were thinking

more like you know black

people and I would say correct me if I'm

wrong but I'm the only white person here

oh no there's one there's one oh no

that's a coach um there's one okay that

seems to be a reporter okay but I'm sure

there's some white people

here and then I'd say but but but you

should not be

aist I need some I need some you know

Dei please give me some

Dei and then they say but you know

you're

also kind of

small and I would say

oh oh oh I see where you're going you

so now it's about how tall

I am so you don't like the little people

what what do you call me behind my back

I think I'm going to sue you so agism sh

ISM uh you you guys are like a ball of

worms you're a ball of worms of racism

and discrimination and

bigotry and I'd say are you

discriminating against me because I'm

heterosexual no that's stupid why would

we discriminate you against you for

being heterosexual and then I'd say I'm

trans and they'd say

what yeah I'm trans can you prove it no

I don't have

to I mean how would I prove it take my

pants off no no I'm trans and then

they'd

say all right you can stay for the

workout and then I'd be a

quarterback because they're not going to

judge me on skill

I you know in the old

days my lack of skill would have really

held me back but now now that they are

going for the the biggest possible net

and uh they want to make sure that

they've got people from all walks of

life represented in the NFL a good goal

by the way I I I like every bit of that

um now they probably should just ignore

my complete lack of

talent and uh

it's good that the NFL is holding tight

on

Dei well Stephen A Smith is considering

running for president as a Democrat

because he's sure he could beat all the

clowns that are being talked about and

uh he's not serious

yet

but his name will probably get thrown in

there because Democrats fail to

learn the there's nothing better than

watching Democrats not be able to learn

because they watch Trump and they can't

figure out what he's doing like why you

making that work so they say to

themselves stuff like I got it I got it

we need an Entertainer we'll get a TV

guy yeah yeah yeah we'll get a TV guy

who talks good on TV because that's what

Trump has if we can match the TV guy

skills then we're in good

shape

wrong wrong

what what Trump has is a skill stack

that we've never

seen yes he has a TV experience yes he

can persuade like nobody's business yes

he's been involved in dozens or hundreds

of different businesses so he seen every

business model in the world by the way

here's a little side note when when I

visited Trump in the Oval Office in

2018 uh and I told you before how he was

interested in me like he actually asked

penetrating questions about uh the

cartoon business so in five minutes I

described to him the nature of the

cartoon business and how syndication

works and things like that and when I

was done in five minutes he had added to

his talent

stack just because he asked the right

question he asked exactly the right

questions so he understood how that

business model of cartooning Works Boop

add it to the model he he adds knowledge

to his model like a vacuum cleaner I

mean he's just sucking up how's this

work how's this work how do you do that

wh why do that work why do this work

what what's what's the mechanism all day

long he's just getting smarter and

smarter you put him in the room with

Stephen A Smith they would both talk

really well but one of them wouldn't

know a thing Stephen A

Smith he's probably great at what he

does

like he has a real good personality for

what he does and he might know you know

tons about sports and things I'm sure I

mean obviously but he is no Trump and if

they think they can just get a smooth

talker with bonus he's black if they

think that's going to be good enough

they're really not paying attention

they're not paying attention at all it

would just look like a Dei hire even

though he's clearly very talented so uh

let me be clear Stephen A Smith would

not be a Dei hire like he would be based

on his his skill if they picked them but

his

skill is just very good for a normal

person it's not in Trump's level you

know it's a different zip code he's

miles away from

that meanwhile the prime minister of

Denmark says that Denmark is open to the

idea of increasing US military presence

in Greenland this is according to

article in human

events and do you remember what I

predicted my prediction was that by

starting out saying we want to take

Greenland and we want to own it um for

security reasons that Denmark would

eventually say

well we we can't say that we can't just

give away our you know the biggest part

of of our real estate um but maybe you

know maybe we can let you bring your

military in so now they're saying

directly yes uh the us could increase

its military

presence now what would Stephen A Smith

say to that if you were

president I think he would say excellent

that's that's what we wanted we we

wanted to get have a military presence

there we don't really need to make a

country can of it that'd be a lot of

work so yeah thank you we'll we'll take

that offer and we'll increase our

military everything's good what would

Trump say to the offer of increasing our

military in

Greenland well I'll tell you what he'd

say

yeah uh you know I think we're going to

increase our military in Greenland under

every

scenario so that's not an

offer because I told you we're going to

increase our military in Greenland so

you telling me that we're going to

increase our military in Greenland is is

just you telling me what I told you what

else you

got are you going to pay for it if we're

going to guard your country now

obviously it's good for everybody in the

region but if we're going to guard your

country we're not doing that for

free so we're either going to own

it or you're going to pay for it you're

going to pay for the defense cuz if you

can't do it yourself and you've already

admitted it's necessary see this is the

key Denmark is not arguing they're not

arguing the Strategic necessity of

increasing the military in Greenland

they're not arguing it so once they've

agreed on that the question is how and

the only two ways to do it are you pay

for our military or we own your Island

which one do you want see do you see the

difference and ordinary person even a

very high

quality functioning smart person and

Stephen A Smith is all of that he's high

he's high quality high functioning very

capable not even close to Trump's level

not even close there's no way that he

would have known that's the beginning of

the

negotiations because it looks like it's

the end it's like oh that's what we

wanted so now I can't read mines so it's

it's always unfair to say was somebody

would or would not do if it's if it's

not you so I'm a little unfair there but

I'm doing it to make make the larger

point so it might not actually apply to

this specific situation but the larger

point is that Trump just operates at a

different level and that's the part we

want the part we want is this X Factor

the thing nobody else can do you know

like like shaking the Box on Gaza do you

think that Stephen A Smith would have

come up with the idea of well maybe

America should just own it but not spend

any money and not put any boots in the

ground nobody would have done that

there's

nobody you you have to not only have the

mind to come up with it but you've got

to have the balls to take the heat when

everybody flips out that's not normal

that's the X Factor that's what Trump

has um I see that uh it looks like like

Elon Musk has just agreed with me on X

two minutes ago somebody just sent it to

me so my post was I said uh Democrats

are terrified of Doge and musk because

they have never witnessed this degree of

competence it looks alien to them I mean

that literally people with experience

see in Doge a process that is

necessarily messy but 100% On Target in

terms of speed talent and

energy and and must just said

exactly

yeah so once you see that frame you

can't unsee it here's what we don't

see um Democrats with extensive business

experience which do exist let's say

Jamie Diamond Jamie Diamond I trust him

don't don't you I think Jamie Diamond is

a nice

Centrist I think he's a Democrat

um do you think that Jamie diamond is

going to say oh everything doge is doing

is a big chaotic

mistake no no if you asked him or any

other Democrat with extensive business

experience they would say this is what

competence looks like hiring the best

people at any age that's what must did

best people at any age didn't care about

their their skin color didn't care about

their gender just best people any age

any color

puts them on a you know like this

incredible March toward this bigger this

bigger goal which is saving the whole

country literally I mean they are saving

the country if they do this right and

it's got to be fast it's got to be

dizzying fast it's got to break a lot of

dishes and then

later you can clean up the

dishes but if you're bitching about some

dishes getting broken you're not

experienced this is a dish breaking

process and if you don't see dishes just

breaking like crazy it means nothing's

happening it means the process is

stalled somehow every time a dish breaks

you should say to yourself an angel got

its wings okay I wasn't going to go

there but it was just sort of right

there uh no the the the more bitching

you hear the more they say it's chaos

the more they say he's an unelected

dictator trying to take over the world

the more that happens the more On Target

it is he's got the energy the talent the

targeting he's going exactly in the

right places and he's just he's just

effing things up in a good way the way

you

should so yeah that's purely an

experience

issue well here's some good news that

you've heard before scientists in South

Korea found a way to uh reverse cancer

with a molecular switch H let's see have

we ever heard that South Korea has found

a way to cure cancer checking notes

checking notes once a day once a day uh

I think I was maybe in my early 20s and

I was a big news reader back then too

and I would say to myself my God here's

a story about somebody who found a cure

for cancer like finally you know the the

long the long uh wait is over and then

you'd never hear about that story again

but the next day there' be another story

about other researchers who found a cure

for cancer and I'd say well now we got

two cures for cancer and then the next

day the next day the and it never

stopped so for 40 years I've

been reading stories about cures for

cancer none of them are

real I I I think the ones I don't hear

about maybe maybe those are the ones

that you know end up curing a specific

cancer or maybe you know they can help

in a little bit in a in a real way

but um I am so tired of cancer

skewer oh but wait there's

more

um there's a let's see I think there's

another cure for cancer oh no here's

some other stuff um there is now this is

cool did you know that 50% of men by the

time they reach 75 have a

hernia so it's basically just a little

bulge and you know part of your body

just below your Belt Line and so I I

have one of those I have an untreated

hernia if you're wondering why it's

untreated allow me to explain a

conversation with my surgeon who would

would have been the surgeon to do the

surgery if I had chosen surgery so I

could have it's just one of the choices

but the surgery doesn't work every time

and sometimes it gives you permanent

pain for the rest of your life and then

it can never be fixed after that so a

10% chance of permanent

pain so the uh the surgeon is explaining

my

risks and you know you you know me well

enough to know that I was barely letting

them complete a sentence and he'd start

talking I'd say okay but what's the risk

of this okay he'd answer that and then

he started talking I'd say all right but

if I do this this would be the outcome

the likely outcome you know these are

the odds and about halfway through he

stops me and he goes what do you do for

a

living and the reason he asked is is

apparently he has a tough time

explaining the odds to

normies but the fact that I was ahead of

it him in in knowing you know what the

risk reward is he he wanted to stop

because it's like are you a doctor or

something or he was trying to figure out

why I was understanding the field as

quickly as I was and all I was doing was

asking him the risks so you know what's

the risk if you get the thing well 10%

chance you'd be unhappy what's the risk

if you don't get it well uh there's some

chance you know you'll be rushed to the

hospital in the future because it it

work persons but probably won't die

right no but you might be rushed to the

hospital and might be painful and then

they would operate SO waiting until it

hurts all the time or it's you know too

painful to keep going that would be the

time you get the surgery because if

you're 100% unhappy because it just

hurts all the time well then a 90%

chance of fixing it it's a good deal but

if it doesn't hurt all the time you've

got a 10% chance of entering World in

which it will hurt all the time so you

put it off so I put it

off and my surgeon was completely happy

that I understood the odds enough to

make that choice now it does hurt it

hurts every day but not all the time

usually if I've just exercised or

something so I have to be careful with

it but here's the news there's a uh and

the reason I'm talking about this really

specific thing is that it's 50% of all

matter

this is a gigantic thing for men how

many of you have one it's a specifically

it's a in inguinal hernia in the

comments tell me how many of you have an

inguinal

hernia it's going to be about half of

you

um anyway so there's a new technique for

getting rid of it without surgery now

this one's a stretch but apparently

according to to science

mag um there's now some research that if

they block the estrogen receptor Alpha

esr1 in the connective tissues around

that

hernia it can

heal so what happens is there's a

weakness in the muscle wall that's

holding basically holding everything

together and so the weakness causes the

little bulge so apparently they can just

turn off this receptor

and the tissue around it will heal and

it will build back the strong wall and

you don't have to have any surgery and

probably wouldn't even hurt now they've

already made it work on a

mouse which isn't good enough of course

but then they've also done it on human

tissue now not in a human but they've

done it on human tissue and it worked

apparently it works really well like

surprising well so you know they'd have

to do a lot of testing before it's real

but we might be

few years away from going in for a

simple procedure where they stick some

needles into you and just inject this

stuff and two weeks later your your your

thing is gone maybe there's a new

breakthrough in uh uh lithium ion

batteries in South

Korea I tell you this every

day yep every day I tell you South Korea

has a new breakthrough in batteries so

you don't need to know the details but

here's a cool one um according to the

debrief there's a clean energy

breakthrough where they create these

tiny copper Nano flowers that can

convert CO2 in the air uh into valuable

hydrocarbons with no

pollution think about that they figured

out how to take the CO2 out of the air

without without using a lot of energy I

I I think it might even be passive it

might be just the CO2 that hits the

flower yeah I think it is so they're not

they're not even sucking the CO2 out

they're just putting this flour there

now they're calling it a flow but it's

you know copper wires and stuff uh but

it's a mimicking

nature and they uh it mimics the

photosynthesis so it turns a carbon

dioxide into a fuel source specifically

what kind of fuel uh into complex

molecules such as uh ethane and ethylene

which are key components in fuels and

plastic

production now the question I ask if

this is real and uh University of

California Berkeley and University of

Cambridge say it is they say it's real

that it's not a theory they built it so

they don't have to wonder if it works

they built it it works

so what if we all got

one you know what what if it what if

they just turn it into a I don't know a

desktop thing you can plug in and it

just takes CO2 out of the air and turns

it into something you could sell or

turns it into 3D printer material I

always like

that it could be it could be the end of

any problems about CO2 now may I jump in

and say don't take my plant food stop

taking all my CO2 my plants are going to

die well before that

happens at least we can get rid of the

climate

hysteria so when I talk about removing

CO2 from the air I'm usually talking

about removing the climate hysteria from

the air I'm not really talking about CO2

but if we had a way to get rid of it as

scale we would know pretty quickly if it

made any difference and I think we could

I think we'd be smart enough to stop

before all our plants died from not

having enough CO2 I'd like to think we

would but it would be dangerous if you

could take the CO2 out of the air and

turn it into commercial products because

then people are going to keep sucking on

it until it's all gone all right that's

all I got for today ladies and gentlemen

I'm going to say a few words privately

to the locals

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