Episode 2748 CWSA 02/12/25

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keep forgetting Mike Johnson has the best Command Voice you're ever going to hear and what you should listen to is not just that he's got a you know nice sounding voice but that when he's talking with any Authority he always goes down on the end of the sentence because if you go up at the end of your sentence if you go up at the end of your sentence you sound like a valley girl but also you sound like you're not so sure we should start a war and put all of our money into it that just sounds like you have no confidence but Mike Johnson when he talks he's he's got the the voice thing down he always ends lower than he starts we're going to settle the budget we're going to get it done by Tuesday we're going to make sure that the country is free that is a really really good persuasion just ending lower it's all you have to do well egg prices are up 15% and inflation hit 3% this month that's probably what's bug in the stock market you know I never thought that eggs would be like a luxury good but I was in the grocery store the other day and I saw I was going to get some eggs and there was there was so much activity in the egg section like people were talking and it looked like there was going to be a fight there were plenty of eggs but like it looked like there was a whole thing happening and I just looked at it and said nope I'm not going to be in the middle of whatever that is cuz it looks like the eggs are going to start flying so I didn't get any eggs but I'm going to save up some money and maybe get some eggs sometime well as you know prisoner Mark Fogo was released from Russia thanks to the good work of the Trump Administration and their their uh emissaries um now the big question is uh why was that so easy what what did Trump offer in return now I don't know the answer to the question and I don't know if he offered anything in return but let me tell you what I think happened so this is pure speculation and the only thing I'm using as my uh let's say reasoning is that the best Persuader would do it this way right so if you assume the TR the Trump is really good at the negotiating thing this is how he should have done it and he should do the same thing with the Hamas hostages and it goes like this hostages are not a negotiating Point hostages are not a negotiating point you return them or nothing good will ever happen to you again it's the opening ticket to have a conversation it's not part of the negotiation it's how you get a ticket to the negotiation you never ever ever ever ever ever negotiate for a hostage now we always do it right we're always trading this for that and you know if you have a if you have a straightup trade well some negotiation might make sense but if if a country is just holding somebody and they're just doing it to be dicks to get a little leverage on you that's when you tell them you have no idea what's going to come down on you if you don't release them this is first priority top priority you do not hold an American period if you hold an American every weight that we can put at you is going to come for that one person just for the one person now that's the only way to approach this so but there's also a nice way to say it so here's what I imagine Trump did hey uh Putin now this could be through intermediaries not not necessarily a direct conversation but hey Putin I've been saying some good things about you I've been telling people that we could work with you to end the war you want to end the war we want to end the war but we're not even going to have a conversation with you unless this guy comes home so if you want me to let you any of these but if you want me basically to say that you did a good job negotiating that uh we got a good deal that things are working out the in some kind of a respectful way the only way you're going to do it is return this guy right now we were not even going to have a conversation about Ukraine and you could just keep losing people and losing your treasure we're going to give them you know long-term missiles and you just got to fix this and you got to do it right away now the the carrot in that case would be to stay on good terms with Trump when everybody needs to be on good terms with them and not take the risk that this one this one prisoner is going to derail everything so if Trump does what he usually does he injected some real risk that puon said I don't know what the you know I don't know what the blowback is going to be but since excuse me but since we do have a chance to end this war thing and in a way that maybe he'd be at least a little bit happy um he's not going to blow it over one hostage so I think and I don't know I think Trump got him with nothing in return which is the way it should have been that's exactly how it should have been but we'll see it could be that there was something traded but uh the country felt pretty good about it and it made us once again remember that whatever Biden was doing was incompetent or evil or corrupt because it it feels almost a little too easy to do the things that didn't look possible under under Biden we'll see according to Steve Watson writing for modernity uh mental health experts are seeing a big increase in Democrat um clients so a lot of Democrats with mental health problems because the Despair and burnout that they're experiencing over the Trump first 100 days or so or whatever it's been so far and uh axio has an article talking about that how people are feeling burned out because they can't keep up with the rapid fire policies of trump now to be fair I also feel that the the pure weight of all the changes um even though I like them so even though I'm positive about the changes it is overwhelming and if you're uh I guess I could call it my job in a sense is to look at the news every day it's really work oh my God you know I I love doing the podcast it's one of my favorite things so it it never feels like work but it does now I I feel like I'm on the Doge project because I'm like oh my god I've got to read all the background of this NGO and how it fits into the larger architecture of you know everything and how everything's connected and who all the players are and then there'll be like seven more of those stories every day every day so yeah it's it's pretty exhausting and I I definitely feel it on my own mental health even though I like everything about it it is just so overwhelming so yeah if you a Democrat you're probably having some tough times right now well you probably saw the video about uh Trump was in the Oval Office and he was talking to the press and uh musk was there with little X his his young son and Little X was stealing the show by you know being like uh little uh John John Kennedy and hanging around the Resolute desk and you know just basically stealing the show um but my take on it was wow this is great it's very uh transparent um you're seeing the the two of them so that you know you can answer pretty much all questions between the two of them uh they were very open musk um did most of the talking I guess uh because doge is the big thing at the moment so makes sense and uh I thought it was you know all good nothing negative so what do you think uh MSNBC thought about it now that you know MSNBC and CNN are not real news it's not just that they're fake news they're just part of the resistance basically um and their their propaganda networks when it comes to political stuff um how do how do they frame it all right msnb Morning Joe um wants you to know that we're in a constitutional crisis and there's a lot of chaos there's a chaotic flow of activity and that Trump doesn't care what the Constitution says but their own legal analyst said no it's not a constitutional crisis it's working exactly within the bounds of the Constitution I'm paraphrasing but basically um you can you can do some stuff and then if somebody doesn't like it they can go to court which they did and then uh Trump was asked you know what he's going to do about all these judges that keep ruling he can't do this and can't do that I think there are several rulings like that now and he said uh I always I always obey the court so yes of course whatever the court says goes now nobody was expecting that at least the bad guys weren't but um yes there blaming him for a constitutional crisis and he says we always obey the courts and I was trying to think is there any time in the past he didn't obey a court I couldn't think of one so I thought yeah that's that's exactly the right frame I always obey the court because that really just eliminates the whole you're a dictator constitutional crisis oh if the court is involved we'll listen to them separate form of government yeah now at the same time time it's completely legal to impeach a judge so that's on the table but I don't think there's any way we could impeach a judge I think you need two-thirds of one of the houses or both or something and uh we never get there so I don't think there's any practical way but apparently uh that's what El Salvador had to do so the miracle in El Salvador was being completely blocked by several of their judges at the highest court so they impeached them now I don't know too much about the government of El Salvador but how do they have enough power to impeach judges like multiple judges I don't know I don't know there there's probably more to that story but they got away with it and then when those judges were gone um they rolled up all the bad guys put them in jail and now the country is looking pretty pretty strong so it could be a thing in other countries I don't think it's going to happen here so MSNBC is going for the Constitutional crisis and uh chaos there's chaos Lawrence O'Donnell says that Elon Musk quote humiliated Trump in the Oval Office see they're they're going for the oh let's drive a wedge between them because they think that Trump is a narcissist and that uh if they can just get him thinking he's not the star then you know suddenly they can they can you know cleave them part but I think they have a complete misunderstanding of who Trump is Trump likes not likes loves the highest functioning people the best athletes the smartest people the most capable best entrepreneurs he loves Excellence he's all about it and if that Excellence acres to the legacy of his office and my God this would can you imagine if if if musk pulls off balancing our budget which looks like it's at least Within Reach uh Trump will forever be the best president of the United States so do you think he's going to get rid of trump uh get rid of musk because MSNBC a propaganda Network said that oh he's stealing your Limelight he's taking all your attention no I think Trump is playing the long game and he knows that if musk succeeds that in 100 years we might not remember musk's contribution but you'll definitely know that Trump was the best president we ever had if he pulls that off um so they're going for that the is you humiliated of course Joy Reed on MSNBC she's like uh oh Elon Musk is the co-president of the United States uh the push back is not sitting well with the co-president who held Court blah blah blah blah it's all so stupid that it's barely worth repeating you know it it was so annoying when I thought MSNBC was at least trying to be honest or trying to give the news once you realize that they're not trying it's just funny so I just mock them well one of the things that came out of that uh Oval Office pressor I guess it was a pressor of some kind um was the claim that usaid had allocated $50 million for condoms for Gaza meaning Hamas basically uh that turned out not to be true and so one of the reporters asked musk about that and corrected him in the question apparently there is a $50 million budget for Condoms but it's for a place in mosm Beek which I think is also called Gaza so there was some confusion about which Gaza was County in mosm Beek or uh the the Gaza that we always talk about and musk's reply was that uh he won't he won't get everything right and so it's good that they bring it up and then he'll quickly correct oh my god when does a politician ever say that get get challenged during an open public thing and say well I won't get everything right now he did complete his point which is 50 million for a condom seems like a lot no matter where they're going and doesn't sound like something we want to pay for so his his point stood it just wasn't as you know clean and politically you know damaging as if it had been Gaza the the other Gaza um but still it looks like something that the public is not going to support but that's like a breath of fresh air and U one of the things that I think musk is doing has more value than the cuts so let's say the musk Cuts I don't know one to two trillion do out of the budget that's going to look like the biggest thing anybody ever did anywhere $2 trillion do per year that's per year it would save the country it would put us back in a good track it would be the big thing that happened in my lifetime um but there's something he's doing at the same time that's a little bit invisible that's bigger than that it's bigger than $2 trillion do a year and that is he's teaching us how to do it he's showing us systems versus goals he's showing us how to move fast and break things he's showing us how to get the best people and you know settle for second best and the best people people can do things that the second best people just can't ever do the second best people aren't just slower at getting things done than the best people they they can't do it you need the smartest people in the world sometimes and this is one of those cases so watching him just attack it and then be a a fast adjustment be able to quickly say that didn't work change it that didn't work change it that didn't work change it oh I got that thing wrong about the condoms good keep me honest make sure you keep factchecking that's worth more than $2 trillion doll a year because if he can teach that let's say everything about the the boldness of it to the method he's using we're going to be studying his methods forever and one of the methods of course is moving fast and overwhelming the the resistance the resistance being the bureaucracy so if we learn what he's doing which is different from maybe what a lot of other people would do in the same situation but of course he's got a longer track record of making this kind of stuff work if he makes this work the United States will have a new DNA he's reprogramming our DNA as a country because we're all learning this we're all learning that The Impossible Is Possible can't go to the moon or can't go to Mars yes we can can't build electric car sure we can can't put a device on your head that reads your mind well maybe we can can't cut the budget get out of the way see what happens so number one he's teaching us that you can do the impossible but you're going to have to stay up all night you're going to have the best team and you're going to have to balls the wall 100% commitment lots of good partners you can get it done these are deep deep de learnings that will become part of our personalities without doing anything about it we're just watching but he's training us what works and what doesn't in these big big big big situations that if we learn that that's worth more than $2 trillion a year it will put us in a winning position for a generation at least until somebody forgets it well there's also doge is also looking into the federal employees who seem to have suspiciously High net worths especially if that happened while they were working for their not so profitable jobs in the government now the example that people are using I feel like it might be unfair because it's focusing on one person in particular and there could be an explanation but it is sort of an organizing thing to have somebody specific to talk about with specific numbers so Samantha power I guess she was head of us Aid and she was uh allegedly she was a head until she got fired recently and uh I guess her net worth went from $6 million to $30 million even though she was paid $250,000 a year and people say h that's not much time has passed to make all those millions of dollars so how'd you do that well before we decide that she's committed some crime because she made a lot of money we should at least consider there are possible ways you can do that number one what if she inherited did anybody ask if her father was rich and died nobody asked that right she could have inherited well how would we know um perhaps she knew somebody working at uh I don't know let's say Nvidia and at some point somebody said to her I got to tell you this Nvidia stuff is amazing you should get in on this last year well what if she had said you know I've got $6 million and there's never going to be anything like this Nvidia again so I'll put a million dollars on Nvidia does that give you $24 million pretty quickly might it might if you pick the right thing what if she got married and her husband was rich would that show up would we would we we have noticed that now I'm not saying she did I have no information about it whatsoever but if you think that the only way she could have made that money that quickly is corruption let me just you know brainstorm a little bit innocent to proven guilty right Samantha Powers is innocent to proven guilty and I have no evidence no evidence that she committed a crime it's just there's a little bit of a flag there and maybe if somebody looks into it they'll say oh you inherited you inherited an estate cool that's the end of the that's the end of the question but there will be other people that I think will be a little more suspicious and probably all of them have to be looked into so uh I don't like targeting a person and then looking for a crime and I don't love the fact that if somebody has a lot of money that's automatically suspicious there are people who make a lot of money quickly in ways that are legal it does happen um so we'll see uh Elon Musk today and X talking about the size of the potential fraud in the government he said this he said at this point now keep in mind he's looked into things you know not comprehensively but he's seen quite a bit so far he says at this point I'm 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements Social Security Medicare and Medicaid welfare disability Etc exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever heard by far now because they're such you know big entities it wouldn't take much for it to be the biggest scandal in American history and I wouldn't be surprised I wouldn't be surprised if it's bigger a bigger scam and Scandal than anything we've ever seen you know I'll say again uh I've for years I've wondered why there are so many rich people right I know how I made my money and everybody else does too it's like oh you're the dilber guy yeah that that worked out for you and if somebody is like the CEO of a company I go oh okay you know startup entrepreneur oh okay and some people inherit right so there lots of ways people make money but I feel like there are too many rich people as in some of that's got to be crime if you took the entire universe of rich people who just have nice houses on the hill when you drive by and you go wow there a lot of people with big houses up there I'll bet you I'm just going to I'm going to tell you with no there's no backing to this opinion I'll bet 25% of our rich people are Crooks how bet 25% how bet some of them are working with cartels some of them are drug dealers some of them stole from our government in clever ways some of them are on the take I'll bet 25% of our rich people are just criminals that's just a guess um so yeah GOP representative El like crane is putting some impeachment articles together for the judges who are trying to uh stop the Doge project in various ways I don't think he's going to have any success like he said I think he needs two-thirds and there's no way you get two-thirds in this environment um there's a new new uh executive order for Doge and it puts the Office of Management and budgets om um puts them in charge of coming up with a plan to make the federal Works work force smaller now here's what I like about this I think it's a bad look if doge is the one who's doing all the cutting if the Office of Management and budgets reporting to the president decides hey okay here's our here's our plan for downsizing and then doge is both um contributing to the plan telling them what to downsize and what the plan should look like maybe but the OM has the final decision that looks like a good model to me because then you don't have the uh Doge as like a second president now you've got a president who's in charge of the OM and the OM just says some guidelines for Doge perfect yeah as long as the head of the OM is a solid you know a solid person that's going to work so I like that but there's more to it this new executive order is fairly massive uh in its impact potentially so there's a rule in it that says uh any of the agencies in the government they want to add an employee can only do it if they get rid of four so you're really really going to need that new employee because it's going to cost you four existing employees now Trump did that same kind of model with regulation and apparently worked so we know something like that could work we'll see um let's see uh and then the Doge team will have embedded team leaders to do continued oversight over agencies you know during the downsizing and presumably after uh so I like that because they would they basically be like Auditors but there may be a some point they may need to be more official meaning that at the moment uh reporting to musk is exactly the right answer but at some point if you know everything succeeds musk is going to want to pull himself out of the day-to-day and maybe at that point they report to the OM you know just report to the OM and then it looks like an official structure because it would be and that would maybe make people more comfortable with it uh apparently the new hires also have to be according to the executive order approved by some of the Doge team leads um I'm not sure why we need that because if the head of the OM well I guess it's because there'll still be a lot of Democrats in these agencies they might try to you know pull in a trump haer or somebody dangerous so yeah I guess that makes sense you got to make sure they don't hire some people who are not good for the country and anyway so that's a really big deal but I like the framing of it putting the OM in the mixar according to the hill the FEMA employee who famously told some of the female people to uh not knock on the doors and try to help people with Trump signs so apparently that person violated the Hatch Act so I guess the Hatch Act is when you're doing political stuff that you shouldn't be doing political stuff they should be just doing disaster stuff now there's no um I don't know if there's a Smoking Gun in terms of somebody was injured by this policy but at the base of it the person who was involved seems to have argued that safety was the reason behind it so I guess there's no question about what happened yes people were informed you know you know don't uh don't necessarily uh knock on the door of a trump supporter with a trump sign but um why was it that they ever thought a trump supporter would be dangerous if FEA knocked on the door to try to help them in what world do you think it's dangerous to knock on the door of a trump supporter does anybody live in that world that's like a reality I don't understand if you told me the only thing that you know about the house is that it's a Democrat or Republican would one of those be scarier than the other well if it's an upscale house I wouldn't yeah I wouldn't care upscale house nobody's going to be opening fire when you knock on the door but let's say it's a low-income house would you be more afraid of a low-income Democrat or a low-income Republican in the context of a disaster in which everybody needs help and FEMA is helping everybody in what world does a trump supporter go nuts in that case even if they didn't like what FEMA was doing you think they're going to pull a gun on in what world that that's so this is basically the fake news just ruined FEMA because they believed some kind of weird you know I don't know maybe that Trump supporters are part of the secret resistance of wh supremacist hiding in the mountains or something crazy stuff crazy well I saw a post today by Mike cich that spoke to me so I want to read his post it it definitely is feels like a sign of the times kind of indicator and then I want to tell you what I what I reposted in the same vein or at least I hope it's in the same vein so Mike cernovich posted on X I think it was this morning or last night he said I don't want to speak carelessly or with bravado but I'm not going back I will not submit ever or in anyway to what we lived under four years ago a hostile occupa regime I just won't now that was exactly what I was feeling so this this is what stf does he finds the exact emotional lever and he found mine so here's what I added to it because this is what I've been think about a lot in the last 24 hours even before I saw Mike's post I said yesterday I was remembering how innocent we were in 2016 or at least I was we uh we just preferred Trump no big deal then came the shaming the cancelling the physical threats the intimidation the social stigmas the economic attacks the fake news the corruption and eventually the revelation of the entire corrupt architecture of the country now we're smarter and not so innocent we're tougher we're mad and we have reinforcements that are more powerful than anything we' have ever seen we're not just supporters with a preference this time now it's ride or die we will protect the Constitution we will write the ship decisions have been made decisions have been made we're not going to lose this all right we're going to protect the country we're going to protect the public we're going to protect the Constitution and we're going to make America great again and nothing is going to stop it nothing speaking of things trying to stop things um you remember newsguard so newsguard was this non-government organization that was going to help all the various countries uh get rid of their misinformation and of course it wasn't really a misinformation thing it was a political censoring vehicle pretending to help you with misinformation um so here's what happened apparently they had on their website newsguard did that Microsoft was one of the companies that they were helping with misinformation Microsoft disavowed them in response so I guess Ted Cruz uh Senator Cruz wrote to Microsoft and said is this real or are you really backing News Guard now that we know that it's a just a completely illegitimate corrupt organization pretending to be about misinformation but really just being part of the uni party crushing the opposition and Microsoft instead of what you might have imagined during the Biden Administration but we don't know they just said you better take us off your website because we're not funding you and we're not working with you basically I'm paraphrasing but Microsoft just said nope nope thank you Senator Cruz for bringing this to our attention nope News Guard don't associate with us now would that have happened under Biden or do you think there's an Awakening that has reached basically everybody in power at this point I feel like there's an Awakening so did you know um let's see so how bad is News Guard let me give you some meat on the bones if you want to know how bad they are um newsguard claims that some Outlets are uh misinformation and some are not so here's the ones they call misinformation and then the ones they say are not they said misinformation was the Federalist the daily wire and Newsmax they're they're called quote unreliable well these are the outlets they think are reliable uh the Jacobin I don't even know what that is the Atlantic the Atlantic and the new Republic are deemed reliable the Atlantic is literally the most famous propaganda not even trying to be anything but propaganda now if you didn't know that you might say huh okay this is helpful here's a list of bad sites and good sites but anybody who's paying attention even a little bit knows the Atlantic is just a Democrat propaganda I don't think it exists for any other reason I doubt it's making money isn't it owned by Jobs's Widow and doesn't it look like the only reason it's still alive is so they can write hit pieces on Trump it's the most corrupt thing you could possibly imagine that first of all there is something that exists like that but secondly that newsguard has blessed it as a accurate source and says the Federalist is not now I don't know about you but I've read a lot of stories in the Federalist I don't remember any misinformation do you like I don't remember any you know every every news entity gets things wrong but what uh I mean these are all news sources that I have familiarity with you know new Newsmax may get things wrong they may be biased in their attacks of course the news is biased but that's big difference between bias and misinformation so yeah this is completely corrupt there is an account on X that has been getting some attention lately and it's an anonymous account and I would love to know who's behind it it's the account is called Data Republican we don't know if it's male or female or more than one person involved so it's Anonymous but data Republicans been apparently doing some good work sniffing out things that the data indicates you know looking for red flags and one of the things that data Republican put on X so you should follow data Republican if you're on X it's one word data Republican you should follow it and when I tell you this story you're definitely going to wanted to follow it um so the idea is that data Republican discovered seven NOS out of the massive thousands of NOS so this was hard found seven ngos that uh seem to that are partially funded by American taxpayers that appear to be the key players within the so-called deep State uni party and one of the ways that they're identifiable is that they all have something like democracy in their name so democracy enhancing democracy helping Universal democracy helping the the agency to democratize democracy and all good democracy things so that's one of the signals that they're not giving like let's say foreign aid for AIDS or trying to help the poor there's something about democracy and they're well-funded and there's seven of them and that explains why Trump is being called domestically a threat to democracy do you see it now so we had these NOS that were originally set up to battle for democracy against let's say the Soviet Union they might have a different model or against anybody else who was actually not Democratic that we wanted to be on our democracy side so they were external facing things and then suddenly this president president Trump he's being called a threat to democracy have you ever heard that before has any prior president ever been called a threat to democracy well probably you know here and there but not like something that all the entities are repeating every single day you know threat to democracy threat to democracy threat to democracy that's organized and there's no way it's accidental it allowed these seven well-funded entities to turn their cannons internally at a domestic situation and try to turn Trump into what they're imagining here is a threat to democracy so that is what I mean by the entire corrupt architecture of the country is being revealed I'm seeing a picture of Bill Crystal going by yes he was getting some money from an NGO and uh everything was just what you thought it was we didn't know who was involved but you could feel the you could feel the coordinated evil because they all talk the same you know MSNBC and CB and CNN and New York Times and they'd all start using the same words like H looks like there's a constitutional crisis constitutional crisis constitutional crisis but that used to work today I wake up and Elon Musk has a post on X laughing about all the different media using the same term and and there's a whole list of them oh it's a constitutional crisis look at constitutional crisis even MSNBC couldn't get their own legal analyst to call it a constitutional crisis because nobody's defied any the Constitution we've done stuff and the court will challenge it and then the court will decide if we can do it and if we can't do it we'll try something else you know which might include impeaching a judge which is also constitutional it wouldn't wouldn't work but um so yeah there you go we can now see kind of clearly that uh Democrats were just feeding off the te of these NOS it was a way to launder money into their favorite things keep them power and enrich them you know not every single one but clearly it was thievery corruption and pure evil and we're getting really close to having all the receipts really close now when I talked earlier you know about Mike covich's post and my response think about all the people who are pro Trump who are risking their life and their careers right now think about it Mike Benz is one Mike Benz is the one who taught us you know this whole NGO architecture and how it all works and he said on X that he's in physical danger probably I think that's true I think he's in physical danger did he quit nope is Trump in physical danger yes in fact I I said the other day that um there was some kind of event where Trump Ste scalise and Mike Johnson three you know top Republicans were on the stage at the same time two of them have been shot by democrats or at least somebody who didn't like them two on a three shot did Steve scales retire nope he's standing on the stage did Trump retire nope he's standing on the stage did Melania tell Trump to retire doesn't look like it it looks like she's all in me I'm just guessing I can't read her mind but uh am I in danger of course I am I mean maybe not physical danger but uh I got canceled you know my reputation is destroyed I'm all in I got nothing left to lose and if you look at how many people are risking their physical life how about musk do you know how much security musk needs right now a lot do you know how much risk the Doge people are taking a lot physical career reputation a lot we I've never seen any situation where so many I guess you'd call them normal people decided to ride or die this time we feel that this is a 1776 moment ideally without the muskets um I think we can do this without the Musk so that would be First Choice um but we are putting our lives on the line we are genuinely putting our whole lives our reputation our economics ability to feed the family and even our lives all in the line and no regrets we're all in now this is an example of what uh Greg Gutfeld calls the shared risk I don't do it because it's a shared risk but boy does a help to know that I'm you know not the only person putting myself out there that lots of people are putting everything on the line everything musk is risking everything everything and he's doing it right in front of you it's the most you know amazing thing I've ever seen so just think about the number of people that you know that are Trump supporters who have been in physical Danger career Dam career danger social danger it's a pretty big list and none of them are backing down look at Alex Jones not backing down he's doubling down but he's not backing down and you could probably make a list of 25 people that took a serious hit for doing what they thought was right and now we're not going to take it anymore we're not going going back it's just not going to happen so Katherine herriage was talking on a podcast recently she said that you know Katherine harage a well resected journalist uh she said she got fired at CBS News and uh then made a choice to go independent and she said her first in investigation on Co um injury in the US Military and she said that X was the only platform where they could put the results of their investigation X was the only place an honest journalism journalist could tell an honest story think about that no other entity because most of them take Pharma advertising so you know X maybe has some too but it's not driving any decisions I don't know if there are any on X actually um so did uh Katherine herriage take some risks oh yeah yep Katherine Eric took some risks now I wouldn't say that she's T she's Pro Trump because she's such a good journalist I don't know that's exactly what you want that that's almost the definition of a good journalist or a great journalist is that you don't know who they support they're just telling you what they found so but she's Brave and she had to pay Fox News has a story that I think is probably fake news um but still useful this would be useful fake news the story is that I guess the Pentagon has some bills they paid $1,300 for coffee cups uh I don't know how many coffee cups that was and uh I think that was like per coffee cup or something $1,300 and then uh an 8,000 % overpay for soap dispensers so doge is finding these kinds of expenses now here's what you need to know I did not do any research on this specific story I'm going to give you a general statement since the 60s the same story comes out at least once a year oh the air force uh charges a billion dollars for a hammer oh this one screw for this door was $50,000 and every year since the 60s now you would you first of all would you all agree that you've all seen this story a version of the story every year you've been alive it never stops and did you know none of them are true Did you know that it's always the same reason let's say uh let's say I'll give you an example just to and by the way this is just a madeup example but it'll give you an idea what I'm talking about let's say Air Force One had some special equipment that nobody else in the world had and some design things that didn't exist anywhere else and then later 20 years later because the airplanes last a long time somebody says oh we need to add a cup dispenser or we need some cups that will fit the dispensers that are already on the plane or they need to be some special kind of cups that I don't know don't leak or something well to make that little tiny order of whatever it is that Air Force One needed but nobody else will ever need anywhere they might have to develop part of a factory they might have to buy equipment to manufacture that thing uh they might have to design it because they don't have the design anymore and then they manufacture it when they're done they spend you know a million dollars to make something that you think should be worth $5 but it actually cost a million dollars and there wasn't any other way to do it except build the factory build the piece put all the overhead in it and try to get it now I want to be very careful because I know half of you are so mad at me right now that you can't hear the next thing I say so I'm going to say it three times to get through your your wall of anger it's probably still overpriced that's the first time it's probably still overpriced that's the second time now this one should should penetrate the your wall is probably still overpriced all right so don't argue with me about whether it's overpriced I con see that but it's probably never overpriced in the way that you think it is that it only costs them a nickel to make it and they charged a billion dollars that's almost never true it's usually some overhead that special case blah blah blah BL blah so even though it's fake news in my opinion again without doing any research on this specific case it's always fake news has been since the 60s uh is really useful because the public doesn't know it's fake news so they say what the pentagon's charging me a billion dollars for a hammer we're going to have to go in there and shake things up well if what you want to do is go in there and shake things up and cut costs it's really useful if the public thinks that they are charging a billion dollars for a screw it's really useful because then you can get the support likewise the same strategy is being used on the cuts for USA if you told the real story to the public okay public the reason that these weird little Charities exist is not because somebody really really cared about the trans um events in Uruguay for example it's because we were trying to control uguay and teaming with the Trans Community gave us a little bit of um capacity building so that we'd have a little more leverage over eurway now that's the story that the government can't tell you and even Trump can't tell you that and I don't think Elon Musk is going to say that in a press release because it basically ouns our entire intelligence operation USA is basically just a front for the CIA this would be the Mike Ben's version of reality and if you see it as a front for the CIA the real argument is do we need the CIA doing this stuff now I think the answer is no I I think that probably we can get what we want without doing this stuff and that maybe it is as going too far and it was too easy to get money for anything so you know maybe there's some of this stuff that needs to happen for intelligence reasons and for legitimate protection of the Republic but probably the best thing is to cut it all and then have whoever needs it make a better argument and then add it back if we need it that's probably what makes sense but notice how complicated that is wait uh wait what are you saying you're saying that us Aid is just the CIA well do you have a document that proves that no nobody could possibly have a document that proves that you can you can get get there by inference you can get there because somebody told you and you've been around it and you know what it really is and maybe you've worked in the CIA so you know exactly what's going on but there's no document I I don't think Trump and musk could come up with oh here's the memo look look right here it says everything we do is for the CIA no they can't prove it so what are they going to do so you do the thing like the million-dollar hammer you just tell the public something they can understand uh maybe we shouldn't be spending $50 million on condoms for mosm Beek and then the public says oh yeah I don't know much about this topic I never heard of USA before but yeah that's a lot of money for Condoms I think I'd rather save that money and then you could just go down the line all right do you want to support trans events in Uruguay no no I don't yeah shut that thing down well there's more they're also doing Dei in Slovenia Dei in Slovenia are you kidding me get rid of that get rid of the million dooll hammers get rid of it all close it down go musk so there is a there is a veneer of over what we're seeing but for a good purpose the public it would be hard to bring the public up to speed on what's really going on in the real world it's it's painful to figure out what's real it's painful and most people aren't going to even want to put in work so yes if you could make the argument based on uh ridiculous expenses in the context of our budget being way out of control if it works it works there's a uh uh Democrat Progressive analyst he's been called um he's worked with a lot of top Democrats guy named uh ruie texier now so the the first thing you need to know is that he's you know deep in the Democrat world so he's not a republican he's a he's a deep Democrat and here's something he said recently um he said that uh in policy terms um the Democrats have a point about the legality of Doge's efforts so yes I would acknowledge that there is an argument out there that Doge needs to be you know within the frame of legal activity of course yeah I agree with that and and if it isn't I'd like people who are smarter than me to figure that out and then we'll adjust we'll make whatever adjustment needs to be necessary so the the questions about whether doge is legal or not legal I think that's fair game and so does he that's fair game um I mean I don't like how it's working out because it's slowing things down but you can't say it's not fair to ask if something's legal that's the first question you should ask is that legal and if we don't know for sure let's work through the process let's go through the courts let's figure out if it's legal but here's the more interesting thing you said um um he says that uh Trump occupies The High Ground in this fight meaning that all the the US aid aid looks like things that the doesn't want right so even though they do basic stuff or the claim is that us8 is doing some you know real charity um there are so many things like uh Dei in Serbia's workplace that if Trump says we're going to cut the Dei program in Serbia that you're paying for who exactly is going to argue with that again if you were if you were in the CIA and you knew there was some you know reason for that you would argue but you're not going to do it in public so the public argument Trump and musk completely own they've got The High Ground look at what they're doing with your money nobody wants their money wasted there there's no there's no cohort who says you know I'd like a little more corruption I wouldn't mind if you spent some of my money so even uh ruie texier is saying that you know Trump's Got The High Ground here you might as well just Just Surrender at this point if he's you know unless the courts can stop it and then finally you know uh um Palmer lucky invented the uh the was it uh virtual reality goggles for Facebook and then there was a falling out with Facebook and he you know went off on the Zone he started andil a uh military device company so he's got a number of different products drones and kind of high-tech things so he's specifically in the the higher end of the technology so that that's sort of his domain that he carved out there and apparently andil uh Industries has now been selected to lead the development and production of the um the Army's integrated visual augmentation system which what which is I think you put on the goggles and you see the real world but there is stuff that's added to it enhanced reality so maybe the stuff added to it is somebody communicating with you uh a map of something over the hill um how much energy you have how much power you have in your batteries so I don't know what it would be but one does imagine it would be really really helpful to have basically I don't know if there's any AI in it but probably there will be um so we would be sending out basically super soldiers who had um all the abilities of robots basically but on top of that human abilities so yeah this could be kind of a big thing I guess they're going to work with Microsoft on this so could be a big deal meanwhile you know that uh Trump has threatened that if Hamas doesn't give up the remaining uh hostages which include possibly two Americans that might be alive but we don't know for sure um he said that if it doesn't on Saturday by noon and we don't know which time zone he's talking about but he says Saturday at noon uh if they don't release all the hostages instead of what he thinks is stalling um there's going to be hell to pay oh Nicole Shanahan is going to have a interview with uh data Republican there you go look at the risk that Nicole Shanahan and RFK Jr took did you you see the size of the risk that people are taking people people are just laying it out they're just laying down you know laying out their whole lives it's it's so inspiring and Nicole is one of the most inspiring people in the game right now um so anyway if Hamas doesn't give the give back the hostage they'll be held to pay now the first thing I think to myself is there's something non- trumpy about this because there is a process that's already agreed and although it's not moving as quickly as possible possible every time a hostage gets released I that's a really big deal you know even one hostage extra would be a big big deal and that's the way we should treat it on the other hand you can't let the terrorists you know manipulate you so Trump has said there will be hell to pay I didn't know what hell to pay would mean I saw some analyst on some show describe some of the options one would be to cut the aid because apparently they can't really eat you know that the non-m militants can't eat because there's no food in Gaza so if it doesn't come from the outside and Israel doesn't let it in and there isn't enough of it they don't eat so that's a pretty big deal now I guess Hamas is claiming that's why they're slowing down the hostage release because they say the aid is not coming enough or fast enough now I don't know if that's true but it's going to get worse if they don't release the hostages and so one thing we could do is cut their food off but we could also cut their utilities could cut their water and their electricity there's still a little electricity and maybe a little water somewhere they could cut it off now that would be of course punishing the civilians more than the fighters but you know the everybody has an option of being there or not being there at this point uh it could include emptying Gaza of all the civilians uh as in a forced uh exit as in now you don't get a choice all civilians every one of you is leaving every part of Gaza and then we're just going to stomp everything that's left we're going to kill all the tunnels kill every person in humas and start over now here's what I'm speculating part of the context of this is that the most recent hostages which we believe were released in the order of healthiest first everybody who saw them the healthiest ones that are remaining the healthiest ones look like Holocaust Survivors they're never going to be the same so if there's a delay and the healthiest ones look like Holocaust Survivors what does that suggest to you what it suggests to me is there may not be anybody left alive what it suggests to me is that if there is somebody who's alive they might not even want to be at this point that whatever is left is going to be horrible Beyond imagination and it makes me wonder if Trump maybe knows a little bit more than we do about the likely situation for the remaining hostages it's possible that the reason they're delaying it and claiming that they need new food is they don't have another living one and they don't have one that hasn't been raped and they don't have one that's not missing limbs it whatever is left as much as you know the families of course would want them as important as that is Trump might not know he might know that there's not much left it might be that bad and he would know more than we would and that he's got a good sense for these things so if the reason for hamas's delay is because they don't have anything to give us he's pressing the point now he always has the option of backing off you know if a mouse said oh oh oh we'll do this or that he has an option because remember he's a negotiator so he doesn't have to use his threat if he gets something that seems like it's progress and the construction is started near me so it's going to get noisy so um I would normally say you should wait to see if you got the hostages back because a few more weeks isn't going to kill anybody well I shouldn't put it in those terms it might kill somebody but I think I think maybe Trump is playing this right I I think he's pressing them to prove that they even have a hostage and they don't have evidence that there's a living hostage left I don't think I don't think there's any evidence of it so it could be that he's pressing them to prove somebody's still alive and if they can't prove somebody's still alive in the next few days I think Gaza is just going to be become a burial ground for whoever's left and uh Trump's very clear about it very clear about it now I don't know where everything's going to go but um it is a strong stance and I I have respect for it even if even if it turned out to not be an optimal outcome feels like the right time to push and the right way to push so I'm going to support that all right that's all I got for you today thanks for uh joining I'm going to talk to the people on uh locals privately if you're on X or You.

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go so good you know I've been meant to

meaning to mention this I keep

forgetting Mike

Johnson has the best Command Voice

you're ever going to hear and what you

should listen to is not just that he's

got a you know nice sounding voice but

that when he's talking with any

Authority he always goes down on the end

of the sentence because if you go up at

the end of your sentence if you go up at

the end of your sentence you sound like

a valley girl but also you sound like

you're not so sure we should start a war

and put all of our money into it that

just sounds like you have no confidence

but Mike Johnson when he talks he's he's

got the the voice thing down he always

ends lower than he starts we're going to

settle the

budget we're going to get it done by

Tuesday we're going to make sure that

the country is

free that is a really really good

persuasion just ending lower it's all

you have to

do well egg prices are up 15% and

inflation hit 3% this month that's

probably what's bug in the stock

market you know I never thought that

eggs would be like a luxury good but I

was in the grocery store the other day

and I saw I was going to get some

eggs and there was there was so much

activity in the egg section like people

were talking and it looked like there

was going to be a fight there were

plenty of eggs but like it looked like

there was a whole thing happening and I

just looked at it and said nope I'm not

going to be in the middle of whatever

that is cuz it looks like the eggs are

going to start flying so I didn't get

any eggs but I'm going to save up some

money and maybe get some eggs sometime

well as you know prisoner Mark Fogo was

released from Russia thanks to the good

work of the Trump Administration and

their their uh

emissaries um now the big question

is uh why was that so

easy what what did Trump offer in return

now I don't know the answer to the

question and I don't know if he offered

anything in return but let me tell you

what I think happened so this is pure

speculation and the only thing I'm using

as my uh let's say reasoning is that the

best Persuader would do it this way

right so if you assume the TR the Trump

is really good at the negotiating thing

this is how he should have done it and

he should do the same thing with the

Hamas hostages and it goes like

this hostages are not a negotiating

Point hostages are not a negotiating

point you return them or nothing good

will ever happen to you again it's the

opening ticket to have a conversation

it's not part of the negotiation it's

how you get a ticket to the negotiation

you never ever ever ever ever ever

negotiate

for a

hostage now we always do it right we're

always trading this for that and you

know if you have a if you have a

straightup trade well some negotiation

might make sense but if if a country is

just holding

somebody and they're just doing it to be

dicks to get a little leverage on you

that's when you tell them you have no

idea what's going to come down on you if

you don't release them this is first

priority top priority you do not hold an

American period if you hold an American

every weight that we can put at you is

going to come for that one person just

for the one person now that's the only

way to approach this so but there's also

a nice way to say it so here's what I

imagine Trump

did hey uh Putin now this could be

through intermediaries not not

necessarily a direct conversation but

hey Putin I've been saying some good

things about you

I've been telling people that we could

work with you to end the war you want to

end the war we want to end the war but

we're not even going to have a

conversation with you unless this guy

comes home so if you want me to let you

any of these but if you want me

basically to say that you did a good job

negotiating that uh we got a good deal

that things are working out the in some

kind of a respectful way the only way

you're going to do it is return this guy

right now

we were not even going to have a

conversation about Ukraine and you could

just keep losing people and losing your

treasure we're going to give them you

know long-term

missiles and you just got to fix this

and you got to do it right

away now the the carrot in that case

would be to stay on good terms with

Trump when everybody needs to be on good

terms with them and not take the risk

that this one this one prisoner is going

to derail

everything so if Trump does what he

usually does he injected some real risk

that puon said I don't know what the you

know I don't know what the blowback is

going to

be but since excuse me but since we do

have a chance to end this war thing and

in a way that maybe he'd be at least a

little bit happy um he's not going to

blow it over one hostage so I think and

I don't know I think Trump got him with

nothing in return

which is the way it should have been

that's exactly how it should have been

but we'll see it could be that there was

something

traded but uh the country felt pretty

good about it and it made us once again

remember that whatever Biden was

doing was incompetent or evil or

corrupt because it it feels almost a

little too easy to do the things that

didn't look possible under under Biden

we'll see according to Steve Watson

writing for

modernity uh mental health experts are

seeing a big increase in

Democrat um clients so a lot of

Democrats with mental health problems

because the Despair and burnout that

they're experiencing over the Trump

first 100 days or so or whatever it's

been so far and uh axio has an article

talking about that how people are

feeling burned out because they can't

keep up with the rapid fire policies of

trump now to be

fair I also feel that the the pure

weight of all the changes um even though

I like them so even though I'm positive

about the changes it is

overwhelming and if you're uh I guess I

could call it my job in a sense is to

look at the news every day it's really

work oh my God

you know I I love doing the podcast it's

one of my favorite things so it it never

feels like work but it does

now I I feel like I'm on the Doge

project because I'm like oh my god I've

got to read all the background of this

NGO and how it fits into the larger

architecture of you know everything and

how everything's connected and who all

the players are and then there'll be

like seven more of those stories every

day every day so yeah it's it's pretty

exhausting and I I definitely feel it on

my own mental health even though I like

everything about it it is just so

overwhelming so yeah if you a Democrat

you're probably having some tough times

right

now well you probably saw the video

about uh Trump was in the Oval Office

and he was talking to the press and uh

musk was there with little X his his

young son and Little X was stealing the

show by you know being like uh little uh

John John Kennedy and hanging around the

Resolute desk and you know just

basically stealing the

show um

but my take on it was wow this is great

it's very uh transparent um you're

seeing the the two of them so that you

know you can answer pretty much all

questions between the two of them uh

they were very open musk um did most of

the talking I guess uh because doge is

the big thing at the moment so makes

sense and uh I thought it was you know

all good nothing negative so what do you

think uh MSNBC thought about

it now that you know MSNBC and CNN are

not real news it's not just that they're

fake news they're just part of the

resistance basically um and their their

propaganda networks when it comes to

political

stuff um how do how do they frame it all

right msnb Morning

Joe um wants you to know that we're in a

constitutional crisis and there's a lot

of chaos there's a chaotic flow of

activity and that Trump doesn't care

what the Constitution

says but their own legal analyst said no

it's not a constitutional

crisis it's working exactly within the

bounds of the Constitution I'm

paraphrasing but basically um you can

you can do some stuff and then if

somebody doesn't like it they can go to

court which they did and then uh Trump

was asked you know what he's going to do

about all these judges that keep ruling

he can't do this and can't do that I

think there are several rulings like

that now and he said uh I always I

always obey the

court so yes of course whatever the

court says goes now nobody was expecting

that at least the bad guys weren't but

um yes there blaming him for a

constitutional crisis and he says we

always obey the courts and I was trying

to think is there any time in the past

he didn't obey a court I couldn't think

of one so I thought yeah that's that's

exactly the right frame I always obey

the court because that really just

eliminates the whole you're a dictator

constitutional crisis oh if the court is

involved we'll listen to them separate

form of government yeah now at the same

time time it's completely legal to

impeach a

judge so that's on the table but I don't

think there's any way we could impeach a

judge I think you need two-thirds of one

of the houses or both or something and

uh we never get there so I don't think

there's any practical way but apparently

uh that's what El Salvador had to do so

the miracle in El Salvador was being

completely blocked by several of their

judges at the highest court

so they impeached

them now I don't know too much about the

government of El Salvador but how do

they have enough power to impeach judges

like multiple

judges I don't know I don't know there

there's probably more to that story but

they got away with it and then when

those judges were gone um they rolled up

all the bad guys put them in jail and

now the country is looking pretty pretty

strong so it could be a thing in other

countries I don't think it's going to

happen here

so MSNBC is going for the Constitutional

crisis and uh chaos there's chaos

Lawrence O'Donnell says that Elon Musk

quote humiliated Trump in the Oval

Office see they're they're going for the

oh let's drive a wedge between them

because they think that Trump is a

narcissist and that uh if they can just

get him thinking he's not the

star then you know suddenly they can

they can you know cleave them

part but I think they have a complete

misunderstanding of who Trump

is Trump likes not likes loves the

highest functioning people the best

athletes the smartest people the most

capable best entrepreneurs he loves

Excellence he's all about it and if that

Excellence acres to the legacy of his

office and my God this would can you

imagine

if if if musk pulls off balancing our

budget which looks like it's at least

Within

Reach uh Trump will forever be the best

president of the United States so do you

think he's going to get rid of trump uh

get rid of musk because MSNBC a

propaganda Network said that oh he's

stealing your Limelight he's taking all

your attention no I think Trump is

playing the long game and he knows that

if musk

succeeds that in 100 years we might not

remember musk's contribution but you'll

definitely know that Trump was the best

president we ever had if he pulls that

off um so they're going for that the is

you humiliated of course Joy Reed on

MSNBC she's like uh oh Elon Musk is the

co-president of the United States uh the

push back is not sitting well with the

co-president who held Court blah blah

blah blah it's all so stupid that it's

barely worth repeating you know it it

was so annoying when I thought MSNBC was

at least trying to be honest or trying

to give the news once you realize that

they're not trying it's just funny so I

just mock

them well one of the things that came

out of that uh Oval Office pressor I

guess it was a pressor of some kind um

was the claim that usaid had allocated

$50 million for condoms for

Gaza meaning Hamas basically uh that

turned out not to be true and so one of

the reporters asked musk about that and

corrected him in the question apparently

there is a $50 million budget for

Condoms but it's for a place in mosm

Beek which I think is also called Gaza

so there was some confusion about which

Gaza was County in mosm Beek or uh the

the Gaza that we always talk

about and musk's reply was that uh he

won't he won't get everything

right and so it's good that they bring

it up and then he'll quickly

correct oh my

god when does a politician ever say that

get get challenged during an open public

thing and say well I won't get

everything

right now he did complete his point

which is 50 million for a condom seems

like a lot no matter where they're going

and doesn't sound like something we want

to pay for so his his point stood it

just wasn't as you know clean and

politically you know damaging as if it

had been Gaza the the other Gaza um but

still it looks like something that the

public is not going to support but

that's like a breath of fresh

air and U one of the things

that I think musk is doing has more

value than the cuts so let's say the

musk Cuts I don't know one to two

trillion do out of the budget that's

going to look like the biggest thing

anybody ever did anywhere $2 trillion do

per year that's per year it would save

the country it would put us back in a

good track it would be the big thing

that happened in my

lifetime um but there's something he's

doing at the same time that's a little

bit invisible that's bigger than that

it's bigger than $2 trillion do a year

and that is he's teaching us how to do

it he's showing us systems versus goals

he's showing us how to move fast and

break things he's showing us how to get

the best people and you know settle for

second best and the best people people

can do things that the second best

people just can't ever do the second

best people aren't just slower at

getting things done than the best people

they they can't do it you need the

smartest people in the world sometimes

and this is one of those cases so

watching him just attack it and then be

a a fast adjustment be able to quickly

say that didn't work change it that

didn't work change it that didn't work

change it oh I got that thing wrong

about the condoms good keep me honest

make sure you keep

factchecking that's worth more than $2

trillion doll a year because if he can

teach

that let's say everything about the the

boldness of it to the method he's using

we're going to be studying his methods

forever and one of the methods of course

is moving fast and overwhelming the the

resistance the resistance being the

bureaucracy so if we learn

what he's doing which is different from

maybe what a lot of other people would

do in the same situation but of course

he's got a longer track record of making

this kind of stuff work if he makes this

work the United States will have a new

DNA he's reprogramming our DNA as a

country because we're all learning this

we're all learning that The Impossible

Is

Possible can't go to the moon or can't

go to Mars yes we can can't build

electric car sure we can can't put a

device on your head that reads your mind

well maybe we can can't cut the budget

get out of the way see what happens so

number one he's teaching us that you can

do the impossible but you're going to

have to stay up all night you're going

to have the best team and you're going

to have to balls the wall 100%

commitment lots of good partners you can

get it done these are deep deep de

learnings that will become part of our

personalities without doing anything

about it we're just watching but he's

training us what works and what doesn't

in these big big big big situations that

if we learn that that's worth more than

$2 trillion a year it will put us in a

winning

position for a generation at least until

somebody forgets

it well there's also doge is also

looking into the federal employees who

seem to have suspiciously High net

worths especially if that happened while

they were working for their not so

profitable jobs in the government now

the example that people are using I feel

like it might be unfair because it's

focusing on one person in particular and

there could be an

explanation but it is sort of an

organizing thing to have somebody

specific to talk about with specific

numbers so Samantha power I guess she

was head of us Aid and she was uh

allegedly she was a head until she got

fired recently and uh I guess her net

worth went from $6 million to $30

million even though she was paid

$250,000 a year and people say h that's

not much time has passed to make all

those millions of dollars so how'd you

do that well before we decide that she's

committed some crime because she made a

lot of money we should at least consider

there are possible ways you can do that

number one what if she inherited did

anybody ask if her father was rich and

died nobody asked that right she could

have inherited well how would we know um

perhaps she knew somebody working at uh

I don't know let's say

Nvidia and at some point somebody said

to her I got to tell you this Nvidia

stuff is amazing you should get in on

this last year well what if she had said

you know I've got $6 million and there's

never going to be anything like this

Nvidia again so I'll put a million

dollars on

Nvidia does that give you $24 million

pretty quickly might it might if you

pick the right thing what if she got

married and her husband was rich would

that show up would we would we we have

noticed that now I'm not saying she did

I have no information about it

whatsoever but if you think that the

only way she could have made that money

that quickly is

corruption let me just you know

brainstorm a little bit innocent to

proven guilty right Samantha Powers is

innocent to proven guilty and I have no

evidence no evidence that she committed

a crime it's just there's a little bit

of a flag there and maybe if somebody

looks into it they'll say oh you

inherited you inherited an estate cool

that's the end of the that's the end of

the question but there will be other

people that I think will be a little

more

suspicious and probably all of them have

to be looked into so uh I don't like

targeting a person and then looking for

a crime and I don't love the fact that

if somebody has a lot of money that's

automatically

suspicious there are people who make a

lot of money quickly in ways that are

legal it does

happen um so we'll

see uh Elon Musk today and X talking

about the size of the potential fraud in

the government he said this he said at

this point now keep in mind he's looked

into things you know not comprehensively

but he's seen quite a bit so far he says

at this point I'm 100% certain that the

magnitude of the fraud in federal

entitlements Social Security Medicare

and Medicaid welfare disability Etc

exceeds the combined sum of every

private scam you've ever heard by

far now because they're such you know

big entities it wouldn't take much for

it to be the biggest scandal in American

history and I wouldn't be surprised I

wouldn't be surprised if it's bigger a

bigger scam and Scandal than anything

we've ever seen you know I'll say again

uh I've for years I've wondered why

there are so many rich

people right I know how I made my money

and everybody else does too it's like oh

you're the dilber guy yeah that that

worked out for you and if somebody is

like the CEO of a company I go oh okay

you know startup entrepreneur oh okay

and some people inherit right so there

lots of ways people make money but I

feel like there are too many rich people

as

in some of that's got to be crime if you

took the entire universe of rich people

who just have nice houses on the hill

when you drive by and you go wow there a

lot of people with big houses up there

I'll bet you I'm just going to I'm going

to tell you with no there's no backing

to this opinion I'll bet 25% of our rich

people are

Crooks how bet

25% how bet some of them are working

with cartels some of them are drug

dealers some of them stole from our

government in clever ways some of them

are on the take I'll bet 25% of our rich

people are just criminals that's just a

guess

um so yeah GOP representative El like

crane is putting some impeachment

articles together for the judges

who are trying to uh stop the Doge

project in various ways I don't think

he's going to have any success like he

said I think he needs two-thirds and

there's no way you get two-thirds in

this

environment

um there's a new new uh executive order

for

Doge and it puts the Office of

Management and budgets om um puts them

in charge of coming up with a plan to

make the federal Works work force

smaller now here's what I like about

this I think it's a bad look if doge is

the one who's doing all the

cutting if the Office of Management and

budgets reporting to the president

decides hey okay here's our here's our

plan for downsizing and then doge is

both um contributing to the plan telling

them what to downsize and what the plan

should look like maybe but the OM has

the final

decision that looks like a good model to

me because then you don't have the uh

Doge as like a second president now

you've got a president who's in charge

of the OM and the OM just says some

guidelines for Doge perfect yeah as long

as the head of the OM is a solid you

know a solid person that's going to work

so I like that but there's more to it

this new executive order is fairly

massive uh in its impact

potentially so there's a rule in it that

says uh any of the agencies in the

government they want to add an employee

can only do it if they get rid of four

so you're really really going to need

that new employee because it's going to

cost you four existing employees now

Trump did that same kind of model with

regulation

and apparently worked so we know

something like that could work we'll see

um let's see uh and then the Doge team

will have embedded team leaders to do

continued oversight over agencies you

know during the downsizing and

presumably

after uh so I like that because they

would they basically be like Auditors

but there may be a some point they may

need to be more official meaning that at

the moment uh reporting to musk is

exactly the right answer but at some

point if you know everything succeeds

musk is going to want to pull himself

out of the

day-to-day and maybe at that point they

report to the

OM you know just report to the OM and

then it looks like an official structure

because it would be and that would maybe

make people more comfortable with it uh

apparently the new hires also have to be

according to the executive order

approved by some of the Doge team

leads um I'm not sure why we need that

because if the head of the OM well I

guess it's because there'll still be a

lot of Democrats in these agencies they

might try to you know pull in a trump

haer or somebody dangerous so yeah I

guess that makes sense you got to make

sure they don't hire some people who are

not good for the

country

and anyway so that's a really big deal

but I like the framing of it putting the

OM in the

mixar according to the hill the FEMA

employee who famously told some of the

female people to uh not knock on the

doors and try to help people with Trump

signs so apparently that person violated

the Hatch Act

so I guess the Hatch Act is when you're

doing political stuff that you shouldn't

be doing political stuff they should be

just doing disaster stuff now there's

no um I don't know if there's a Smoking

Gun in terms of somebody was injured by

this policy but at the base of it the

person who was involved seems to have

argued that safety was the reason behind

it so I guess there's no question about

what happened yes people were informed

you know you know don't uh don't

necessarily uh knock on the door of a

trump supporter with a trump sign

but um why was it that they ever thought

a trump supporter would be dangerous if

FEA knocked on the door to try to help

them in what

world do you think it's dangerous to

knock on the door of a trump

supporter does anybody live in that

world that's like a reality I don't

understand

if you told me the only thing that you

know about the house is that it's a

Democrat or

Republican would one of those be scarier

than the

other well if it's an upscale house I

wouldn't yeah I wouldn't care upscale

house nobody's going to be opening fire

when you knock on the door but let's say

it's a low-income

house would you be more afraid of a

low-income Democrat or a low-income

Republican in the context of a disaster

in which everybody needs help and FEMA

is helping

everybody in what world does a trump

supporter go nuts in that case even if

they didn't like what FEMA was doing you

think they're going to pull a gun on in

what world that that's so this is

basically the fake news just ruined FEMA

because they believed some kind of weird

you know I don't know maybe that Trump

supporters are part of the secret

resistance of wh supremacist hiding in

the mountains or something crazy stuff

crazy well I saw a post today by Mike

cich that spoke to

me so I want to read his post it it

definitely is feels like a sign of the

times kind of indicator and then I want

to tell you what I what I reposted in

the same vein or at least I hope it's in

the same vein so Mike cernovich posted

on X I think it was this morning or last

night he said I don't want to speak

carelessly or with bravado but I'm not

going back I will not submit ever or in

anyway to what we lived under four years

ago a hostile occupa regime I just

won't now that was exactly what I was

feeling so this this is what stf does he

finds the exact emotional lever and he

found mine so here's what I added to it

because this is what I've been think

about a lot in the last 24 hours even

before I saw Mike's post I said

yesterday I was remembering how innocent

we were in 2016 or at least I was we uh

we just preferred Trump no big deal then

came the shaming the cancelling the

physical threats the intimidation the

social stigmas the economic attacks the

fake news the corruption and eventually

the revelation of the entire corrupt

architecture of the country

now we're smarter and not so innocent

we're tougher we're mad and we have

reinforcements that are more powerful

than anything we' have ever

seen we're not just supporters with a

preference this time now it's ride or

die we will protect the Constitution we

will write the ship decisions have been

made decisions have been

made we're not going to lose this

all right we're going to protect the

country we're going to protect the

public we're going to protect the

Constitution and we're going to make

America great again and nothing is going

to stop

it

nothing speaking of things trying to

stop things um you remember

newsguard so newsguard was this

non-government organization that was

going to help all the various countries

uh get rid of their

misinformation and of course it wasn't

really a misinformation thing it was a

political censoring vehicle pretending

to help you with

misinformation

um so here's what happened apparently

they had on their website newsguard did

that Microsoft was one of the companies

that they were helping with

misinformation Microsoft disavowed

them in response so I guess Ted Cruz uh

Senator Cruz wrote to Microsoft and said

is this real or are you really backing

News Guard now that we know that it's a

just a completely illegitimate corrupt

organization pretending to be about

misinformation but really just being

part of the uni party crushing the

opposition and

Microsoft instead of what you might have

imagined during the Biden Administration

but we don't

know they just said

you better take us off your website

because we're not funding you and we're

not working with you basically I'm

paraphrasing but Microsoft just said

nope nope thank you Senator Cruz for

bringing this to our attention nope News

Guard don't associate with

us now would that have happened under

Biden or do you think there's an

Awakening that has reached basically

everybody in power at this point I feel

like there's an Awakening

so did you know um let's

see so how bad is News Guard let me give

you some meat on the bones if you want

to know how bad they are um newsguard

claims that some Outlets

are uh

misinformation and some are not so

here's the ones they call

misinformation and then the ones they

say are not they said misinformation was

the Federalist the daily wire and

Newsmax they're they're called quote

unreliable well these are the outlets

they think are

reliable uh the Jacobin I don't even

know what that is the

Atlantic the

Atlantic and the new Republic are deemed

reliable the Atlantic is literally the

most famous propaganda not even trying

to be anything but

propaganda now if you didn't know that

you might say huh okay this is helpful

here's a list of bad sites and good

sites but anybody who's paying attention

even a little bit knows the Atlantic is

just a Democrat propaganda I don't think

it exists for any other reason I doubt

it's making money isn't it owned by

Jobs's Widow and doesn't it look like

the only reason it's still alive is so

they can write hit pieces on

Trump it's the most corrupt thing you

could possibly imagine that first of all

there is something that exists like that

but secondly that newsguard has blessed

it as a accurate source and says the

Federalist is not now I don't know about

you but I've read a lot of stories in

the

Federalist I don't remember any

misinformation do you like I don't

remember any you know every every news

entity gets things wrong but what

uh I mean these are all news sources

that I have familiarity with you know

new Newsmax may get things wrong they

may be biased in their attacks of course

the news is biased but that's big

difference between bias and

misinformation so yeah this is

completely

corrupt there is an account on X that

has been getting some attention lately

and it's an anonymous account and I

would love to know who's behind it it's

the account is called Data Republican we

don't know if it's male or female or

more than one person involved so it's

Anonymous but data Republicans been

apparently doing some good work sniffing

out things that the data indicates you

know looking for red flags and one of

the things that data Republican put on X

so you should follow data Republican if

you're on X it's one word data

Republican you should follow it and when

I tell you this story you're definitely

going to wanted to follow it

um so the idea is that data Republican

discovered seven

NOS out of the massive thousands of NOS

so this was

hard found seven

ngos that uh seem to that are partially

funded by American taxpayers that appear

to be the key players within the

so-called deep State uni party and one

of the ways that they're identifiable

is that they all have something like

democracy in their name so democracy

enhancing democracy helping Universal

democracy helping the the agency to

democratize democracy and all good

democracy things so that's one of the

signals that they're not giving like

let's say foreign aid for AIDS or trying

to help the poor there's something about

democracy and they're well-funded and

there's seven of them and

that

explains why Trump is being called

domestically a threat to

democracy do you see it now so we had

these NOS that were originally set up to

battle for democracy against let's say

the Soviet Union they might have a

different model or against anybody else

who was actually not Democratic that we

wanted to be on our democracy side so

they were external facing things

and then

suddenly this president president Trump

he's being called a threat to democracy

have you ever heard that before has any

prior president ever been called a

threat to democracy well probably you

know here and there but not like

something that all the entities are

repeating every single day you know

threat to democracy threat to democracy

threat to democracy that's

organized and there's no way it's

accidental it allowed these seven

well-funded entities to turn their

cannons internally at a domestic

situation and try to turn Trump into

what they're imagining here is a threat

to

democracy so

that is what I mean by the entire

corrupt architecture of the country is

being revealed

I'm seeing a picture of Bill Crystal

going by yes he was getting some money

from an

NGO and uh everything was just what you

thought it was we didn't know who was

involved but you could feel the you

could feel the coordinated evil because

they all talk the same you know MSNBC

and CB and CNN and New York Times and

they'd all start using the same words

like H looks like there's a

constitutional

crisis constitutional crisis

constitutional crisis but that used to

work today I wake up and Elon Musk has a

post on X laughing about all the

different media using the same term and

and there's a whole list of them oh it's

a constitutional crisis look at

constitutional crisis even MSNBC

couldn't get their own legal analyst to

call it a constitutional crisis because

nobody's defied any the

Constitution we've done stuff

and the court will challenge it and then

the court will decide if we can do it

and if we can't do it we'll try

something else you know which might

include impeaching a judge which is also

constitutional it wouldn't wouldn't work

but um so yeah there you go we can now

see kind of clearly that uh Democrats

were just feeding off the te of these

NOS it was a way to launder money into

their favorite things keep them power

and enrich them you know not every

single one but clearly it was thievery

corruption and pure evil and we're

getting really close to having all the

receipts really close now when I talked

earlier you know about Mike covich's

post and my

response think about all the people who

are pro Trump who are risking their life

and their careers right now think about

it Mike Benz is one Mike Benz is the one

who taught us you know this whole NGO

architecture and how it all works and he

said on X that he's in physical danger

probably I think that's true I think

he's in physical danger did he quit nope

is Trump in physical danger yes in fact

I I said the other day that um there was

some kind of event where Trump Ste

scalise and Mike Johnson three you know

top Republicans were on the stage at the

same time two of them have been shot by

democrats or at least somebody who

didn't like them two on a three

shot did Steve scales retire nope he's

standing on the stage did Trump retire

nope he's standing on the stage did

Melania tell Trump to retire doesn't

look like it

it looks like she's all in me I'm just

guessing I can't read her mind

but uh am I in danger of course I am I

mean maybe not physical danger but uh I

got canceled you know my reputation is

destroyed I'm all in I got nothing left

to lose and if you look at how many

people are risking their physical life

how about

musk do you know how much security musk

needs right now a lot do you know how

much risk the Doge people are taking a

lot physical career reputation a

lot we I've never seen any situation

where so many I guess you'd call them

normal people decided to ride or

die this time we

feel that this is a 1776 moment ideally

without the

muskets um I think we can do this

without the Musk

so that would be First Choice

um but we are putting our lives on the

line we are genuinely putting our whole

lives our reputation our economics

ability to feed the family and even our

lives all in the line and no

regrets we're all in now this is an

example of what uh Greg Gutfeld calls

the shared risk I don't do it because

it's a shared risk but boy does a help

to know that I'm you know not the only

person putting myself out there that

lots of people are putting everything on

the line everything musk is risking

everything everything and he's doing it

right in front of you it's the most you

know amazing thing I've ever seen so

just think about the number of people

that you know that are Trump supporters

who have been in physical Danger career

Dam career danger social danger it's a

pretty big

list and none of them are backing down

look at Alex

Jones not backing down he's doubling

down but he's not backing down and you

could probably make a list of 25 people

that took a serious hit for doing what

they thought was right and now we're not

going to take it anymore we're not going

going back it's just not going to

happen so Katherine herriage was talking

on a podcast recently she said that you

know Katherine harage a well resected

journalist uh she said she got fired at

CBS

News and uh then made a choice to go

independent and she said her first in

investigation on

Co um injury in the US Military and she

said that X was the only platform where

they could put the results of their

investigation X was the only place an

honest

journalism journalist could tell an

honest

story think about that no other

entity because most of them take Pharma

advertising so you know X maybe has some

too but it's not driving any

decisions I don't know if there are any

on X actually

um so did uh Katherine herriage take

some risks oh yeah yep Katherine Eric

took some risks now I wouldn't say that

she's T she's Pro Trump because she's

such a good journalist I don't know

that's exactly what you want that that's

almost the definition of a good

journalist or a great journalist is that

you don't know who they support they're

just telling you what they found so but

she's Brave

and she had to

pay Fox News has a story that I think is

probably fake news um but still

useful this would be useful fake news

the story is that I guess the Pentagon

has some bills they paid $1,300 for

coffee

cups uh I don't know how many coffee

cups that was and uh I think that was

like per coffee cup or something

$1,300 and then uh an 8,000 % overpay

for soap

dispensers so doge is finding these

kinds of expenses now here's what you

need to know I did not do any research

on this specific story I'm going to give

you a general statement since the 60s

the same story comes out at least once a

year oh the air force uh charges a

billion dollars for a hammer oh this one

screw for this door was

$50,000 and

every year since the 60s now you would

you first of all would you all agree

that you've all seen this story a

version of the story every year you've

been

alive it never stops and did you know

none of them are true Did you know that

it's always the same

reason let's say uh let's say I'll give

you an example just to and by the way

this is just a madeup example but it'll

give you an idea what I'm talking about

let's say Air Force One had some special

equipment that nobody else in the world

had and some design things that didn't

exist anywhere else and then later 20

years later because the airplanes last a

long time somebody says oh we need to

add a cup dispenser or we need some cups

that will fit the dispensers that are

already on the plane or they need to be

some special kind of cups that I don't

know don't leak or something well to

make that little tiny order of whatever

it is that Air Force One needed but

nobody else will ever need anywhere they

might have to develop part of a factory

they might have to buy equipment to

manufacture that thing uh they might

have to design it because they don't

have the design anymore and then they

manufacture it when they're done they

spend you know a million dollars to make

something that you think should be worth

$5 but it actually cost a million

dollars and there wasn't any other way

to do it except build the factory build

the piece put all the overhead in it and

try to get it now I want to be very

careful because I know half of you are

so mad at me right now that you can't

hear the next thing I say so I'm going

to say it three times to get through

your your wall of anger it's probably

still

overpriced that's the first time it's

probably still overpriced that's the

second time now this one should should

penetrate the your wall is probably

still

overpriced all right so don't argue with

me about whether it's

overpriced I con see that but it's

probably never overpriced in the way

that you think it is that it only costs

them a nickel to make it and they

charged a billion dollars that's almost

never true it's usually some overhead

that special case blah blah blah BL blah

so even though it's fake news in my

opinion again without doing any research

on this specific case it's always fake

news has been since the

60s uh is really

useful because the public doesn't know

it's fake news so they say what the

pentagon's charging me a billion dollars

for a hammer we're going to have to go

in there and shake things up well if

what you want to do is go in there and

shake things up and cut costs it's

really useful if the public thinks that

they are charging a billion dollars for

a screw

it's really useful because then you can

get the

support likewise the same strategy is

being used on the cuts for

USA if you told the real story to the

public okay public the reason that these

weird little Charities exist is not

because somebody really really cared

about the trans um events in Uruguay for

example it's because we were trying to

control uguay and teaming with the Trans

Community gave us a little bit of um

capacity building so that we'd have a

little more leverage over eurway now

that's the story that the government

can't tell you and even Trump can't tell

you that and I don't think Elon Musk is

going to say that in a press release

because it basically ouns our entire

intelligence operation USA is basically

just a front for the CIA this would be

the Mike Ben's version of

reality and if you see it as a front for

the CIA the real argument is do we need

the CIA doing this stuff now I think the

answer is no I I think that probably we

can get what we want without doing this

stuff and that maybe it is as going too

far and it was too easy to get money for

anything so you know maybe there's some

of this stuff that needs to happen for

intelligence reasons and for legitimate

protection of the Republic but probably

the best thing is to cut it

all and then have whoever needs it make

a better argument and then add it back

if we need it that's probably what makes

sense but notice how complicated that is

wait uh wait what are you saying you're

saying that us Aid is just the CIA well

do you have a document that proves that

no nobody could possibly have a document

that proves

that you can you can get get there by

inference you can get there because

somebody told you and you've been around

it and you know what it really is and

maybe you've worked in the CIA so you

know exactly what's going on but there's

no

document I I don't think Trump and musk

could come up with oh here's the memo

look look right here it says everything

we do is for the CIA no they can't prove

it so what are they going to

do so you do the thing like the

million-dollar hammer you just tell the

public something they can understand uh

maybe we shouldn't be spending $50

million on condoms for mosm Beek and

then the public says oh yeah I don't

know much about this topic I never heard

of USA before but yeah that's a lot of

money for Condoms I think I'd rather

save that money and then you could just

go down the line all right do you want

to support trans events in Uruguay no no

I don't yeah shut that thing down well

there's more they're also doing Dei in

Slovenia Dei in Slovenia are you kidding

me get rid of that get rid of the

million dooll hammers get rid of it all

close it down go

musk so there is a there is a veneer of

over what we're seeing but for

a good purpose the public it would be

hard to bring the public up to speed on

what's really going on in the real world

it's it's painful to figure out what's

real it's painful and most people aren't

going to even want to put in work so yes

if you could make the argument based on

uh ridiculous expenses in the context of

our budget being way out of control if

it works it

works there's a uh uh Democrat

Progressive analyst he's been called um

he's worked with a lot of top Democrats

guy named uh ruie

texier now so the the first thing you

need to know is that he's you know deep

in the Democrat world so he's not a

republican he's a he's a deep

Democrat and here's something he said

recently um he said that uh in policy

terms um the Democrats have a point

about the legality of Doge's efforts so

yes I would acknowledge that there is an

argument out there that Doge needs to be

you know within the frame of legal

activity of course yeah I agree with

that and and if it

isn't I'd like people who are smarter

than me to figure that out and then

we'll adjust we'll make whatever

adjustment needs to be necessary so the

the questions about whether doge is

legal or not legal I think that's fair

game and so does he that's fair

game um I mean I don't like how it's

working out because it's slowing things

down but you can't say it's not fair to

ask if something's

legal that's the first question you

should ask is that legal and if we don't

know for sure let's work through the

process let's go through the courts

let's figure out if it's

legal but here's the more interesting

thing you said

um um he says that uh Trump occupies The

High Ground in this fight meaning that

all the the US aid aid looks like things

that the doesn't want right so even

though they do basic stuff or the claim

is that us8 is doing some you know real

charity um there are so many things like

uh Dei in Serbia's

workplace that if Trump says we're going

to cut the Dei program in Serbia that

you're paying for who exactly is going

to argue with that again if you were if

you were in the CIA and you knew there

was some you know reason for that you

would argue but you're not going to do

it in public so the public argument

Trump and musk completely own they've

got The High Ground look at what they're

doing with your money nobody wants their

money wasted there there's no there's no

cohort who says you know I'd like a

little more corruption I wouldn't mind

if you spent some of my money so even uh

ruie texier is saying that you know

Trump's Got The High Ground

here you might as well just Just

Surrender at this point if he's you know

unless the courts can stop

it and then

finally you know uh um Palmer

lucky invented the uh the was it uh

virtual reality goggles for Facebook and

then there was a falling out with

Facebook and he you know went off on the

Zone he started andil a uh

military device company so he's got a

number of different products drones and

kind of high-tech things so he's

specifically in the the higher end of

the technology so that that's sort of

his domain that he carved out there and

apparently andil uh

Industries has now been selected to lead

the development and production of the um

the Army's integrated visual

augmentation system which what which is

I think you put on the goggles and you

see the real world but there is stuff

that's added to it enhanced reality so

maybe the stuff added to it is somebody

communicating with you uh a map of

something over the hill um how much

energy you have how much power you have

in your batteries so I don't know what

it would be but one does imagine it

would be really really helpful to have

basically I don't know if there's any AI

in it but probably there will be um so

we would be sending out basically super

soldiers who had um all the abilities of

robots basically but on top of that

human abilities so yeah this could be

kind of a big thing I guess they're

going to work with Microsoft on this so

could be a big

deal meanwhile you know that uh Trump

has threatened that if Hamas doesn't

give up the remaining uh hostages which

include possibly two Americans that

might be alive but we don't know for

sure um he said that if it doesn't on

Saturday by noon and we don't know which

time zone he's talking about but he says

Saturday at

noon uh if they don't release all the

hostages instead of what he thinks is

stalling um there's going to be hell to

pay oh Nicole Shanahan is going to have

a interview with uh data Republican

there you go look at the risk that

Nicole Shanahan and RFK Jr

took did you you see the size of the

risk that people are taking people

people are just laying it out they're

just laying down you know laying out

their whole lives it's it's so

inspiring and Nicole is one of the most

inspiring people in the game right

now um so anyway if Hamas doesn't give

the give back the hostage they'll be

held to pay now the first thing I think

to myself is there's something non-

trumpy about

this because there is a process that's

already agreed and although it's not

moving as quickly as possible possible

every time a hostage gets

released I that's a really big deal you

know even one hostage extra would be a

big big deal and that's the way we

should treat it on the other hand you

can't let the terrorists you know

manipulate you so Trump has said there

will be hell to pay I didn't know what

hell to pay would mean I saw some

analyst on some show describe some of

the options one would be to cut the aid

because apparently they can't really eat

you know that the non-m militants can't

eat because there's no food in Gaza so

if it doesn't come from the outside and

Israel doesn't let it in and there isn't

enough of it they don't eat so that's a

pretty big deal now I guess Hamas is

claiming that's why they're slowing down

the hostage release because they say the

aid is not coming enough or fast enough

now I don't know if that's true but it's

going to get worse if they don't release

the hostages and so one thing we could

do is cut their food off but we could

also cut their utilities could cut their

water and their electricity there's

still a little

electricity and maybe a little water

somewhere they could cut it off now that

would be of course punishing the

civilians more than the fighters but you

know the everybody has an option of

being there or not being there at this

point uh it could include emptying Gaza

of all the

civilians uh as in a forced uh exit as

in now you don't get a choice all

civilians every one of you is leaving

every part of Gaza and then we're just

going to stomp everything that's left

we're going to kill all the tunnels kill

every person in humas and start

over

now here's what I'm

speculating part of the context of this

is that the most recent hostages which

we believe were released in the order of

healthiest

first everybody who saw them the

healthiest ones that are remaining the

healthiest ones look like Holocaust

Survivors they're never going to be the

same so if there's a delay and the

healthiest ones look like Holocaust

Survivors what does that suggest to

you what it suggests to me is there may

not be anybody left

alive what it suggests to me is that if

there is somebody who's alive they might

not even want to be at this point

that whatever is

left is going to be horrible Beyond

imagination and it makes me wonder if

Trump maybe knows a little bit more than

we do about the

likely situation for the remaining

hostages it's possible that the reason

they're delaying it and claiming that

they need new food is they don't have

another living one and they don't have

one that hasn't been raped and they

don't have one that's not missing

limbs it whatever is

left as much as you know the families of

course would want them as important as

that is Trump might not know he might

know that there's not much left it might

be that bad and he would know more than

we would and that he's got a good sense

for these things so if the reason for

hamas's

delay is because they don't have

anything to give us he's pressing the

point now he always has the option of

backing off you know if a mouse said oh

oh oh we'll do this or that he has an

option because remember he's a

negotiator so he doesn't have to use his

threat if he gets something that seems

like it's

progress and the construction is started

near me so it's going to get noisy so um

I would normally say you should wait to

see if you got the hostages back because

a few more weeks isn't going to kill

anybody well I shouldn't put it in those

terms it might kill somebody but I think

I think maybe Trump is playing this

right I I think he's pressing them to

prove that they even have a hostage and

they don't have evidence that there's a

living hostage left I don't think I

don't think there's any evidence of it

so it could be that he's pressing them

to prove somebody's still alive and if

they can't prove somebody's still alive

in the next few days I think Gaza is

just going to be

become a burial ground for whoever's

left and uh Trump's very clear about it

very clear about it now I don't know

where everything's going to go but

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um it is a strong stance and I I have

respect for it even if even if it turned

out to not be an optimal outcome feels

like the right time to push and the

right way to push so I'm going to

support that

all right that's all I got for you today

thanks for uh joining I'm going to talk

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