Episode 2749 CWSA 02/13/25

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Tube or Rumble that won't be happening this morning but we'll probably post the finished show after it's live might take a little while well Story number one there's a study in the University of Zurich that shows that hypnosis does alter brain activity and neurochemistry do you know who they could have asked huh I wonder if hypnosis will alter brain activity and neurochemistry do you know who could have answered that question every hypnotist for the last 100 years every one of them it's the most basic thing you learn if hypnosis didn't have any effect on your actual brain it wouldn't be doing anything there are a lot of people who think that hypnosis is just uh what is it that uh pen galette says I think he said some while ago the hypnosis was two people lying to each other the hypnotist pretending to be hypnotist and the subject pretending to be hypnotized but no there is a change in the brain and uh that's the longest known thing that every hypnotist is known it's just obvious anyway there's another tragic terrorist attack it looks like uh over in Germany an Afghan man drove a car into a big crowd um he's injured I think at least 28 people some of them really badly we don't know anything about the motives yet but yeah I'll tell you the the car related attacks they seem to kill as many or more people than bombs so maybe this is the beginning of a very long terrible Trend I don't know let's talk about hostage releases because that's a better story um so I was listening to the US Envoy for hostages um and his name is his name is not written down on my notes so just imagine I said the name of the person today's just a disaster I feel like everything today is just not going to work so that might be funny that might be entertaining in its own way yeah the most important thing I was going to write down was the name of the person who is the United States Envoy for hostages yeah that guy okay so you were saying that uh one of the reasons that Trump is successful getting hostages back is that uh you're saying that quote when you hold our citizens will come after you at any cost that's sort of the Trump message if you hold our citizens we'll come after you at any cost now that is exactly the right now it's not wickoff it's uh it's not wiof or grenell all right never mind stop guess stop guessing the wick caer grenell that will still be wrong no matter how many times you write it down all right I shouldn't have even brought it up um but the right the right framing is that uh hostages are not really a negotiating tool at least with the United States because we're going to take everything you have if you take our hostages we'll take everything you have and what happened when Trump put the extra threat on well now Hamas is getting a little flexible says they're going to release some more hostages by Saturday maybe which was Trump's deadline now that's not all the hostages um Trump is said if you don't release them all there's going to be held to pay so if there's some they're holding back in theory they're still held to pay now what would be held to pay probably just unleashing Israel and saying all right we're out we're out whatever Israel wants to do is fine we'll even give them money to do it do you think Hamas wants to hear that that Israel just has a free pass and that United States won't put any pressure on them to ease up that would be the ultimate nightmare for Hamas but I think that's where they're heading they're heading to their Ultimate Nightmare there was a story in Politico by Eugene Ludwig titled voters were right about the economy the data was wrong anybody who's watched this show we always knew the data was wrong it's not because you heard it from me didn't you all know the data was wrong because they kept saying I don't know what you're talking about this data said you should be happy and have lots of money but people would say I can't afford eggs and gas and then the Biden Administration would say yes you can look at the data and people would say I'm pretty here I know what's in my pocket you don't know what's in my pocket and I don't have enough money for eggs and gas oh yes you do just look at these highlight high level statistics so of course time goes by and then finally we can learn that it was all fake now here's something I've been telling you for a long time but I finally figured out a better way to say it I've been saying for a long time uh wait until you find out that all data that is important is fake all data that's important you know not not something that let's say a scientist did for a little study that nobody cared about right that's probably okay or it might be but anything that's big and important like the economy those are all fake numbers and there's a reason for that there's a systemic reason why all the important numbers the important ones just limitating it to the important ones are fake do you know what the reason is well it's like that you don't want the fox to be your only source of data of how many chickens are left does that make sense because we always we always put the fox in charge of counting the chickens and then you're like uh do we still have 18 chickens uh no no it's uh we we have 14 chickens says the fox and then you say what did you eat those four chickens and the fox says I don't know what you're talking about there's no data that says we ate any chickens there's just 14 chickens all right we'll check back tomorrow there are eight chickens what what what are you doing are you eating those chickens again I don't even know what you're talking about there's no document that shows any chickens were eaten it's just eight chickens so you can take the fox and the chicken analy to pretty much everything um who told us that vaccinations were perfectly safe the fox we we didn't get it from anywhere except the company that is making money from selling it right was there some independent analysis that I'm not aware of no no so in every case the only people who are close enough to know what the real numbers are are the foxes they're the ones in charge of the numbers and the foxes are the ones that are stealing and lying and you know shaving things to make it you know biased in One Direction or the other so there's a systemic reason it's not a coincidence that all data all data that's important is fake it has to be because it's coming from the Fox as soon as you realize that all the data comes from the fox and not from the chickens then everything makes sense and if you find an exception where the chickens are in charge of counting themselves let me know about that because I've never heard of it never heard of it it's always the fox counting the chickens and that's where we're at that's why you need Doge because Doge lets the uh lets the rooster in lets the rooster count the chickens I'm torturing that analogy all right well uh you probably know that Trump was suing the Pitzer committee for giving pulit Sur prises to the Russia collusion Liars in the Press but worse than that I guess they said something else uh let's see there was something they said after the war that Trump didn't like and apparently this is going to go forward so there were some challenges to it that have been overcome but uh the appeals court the Florida appeals court says the burden of proof about that there was actual malice uh seems to be made in other words it wouldn't go forward if there was no evidence of malice meaning that they did it intentionally but apparently there's evidence they did it intentionally and that it was just a basically defame jump now this is interesting this is really interesting because I don't know what kind of evidence they have that would demonstrate malice we know what they did but how do you get in their heads there might be some kind of document or maybe a witness or something who said oh yeah we did this just to get Trump so I haven't heard that I'm just speculating but maybe maybe that's what's happening we'll see meanwhile attorney general Pam Bondi she's uh filing some charges against the bad people in New York the bad people in New York and now this is over the question of prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens so the idea would be that they're not cooperating with the federal government to protect American citizens and that's their job and they need to do that now I guess this is a criminal action it's not a civil right uh if you're F if Pam Bondi is filing charges it's not a it's not a civil suit it's a criminal so they're in real trouble but the people who are in trouble are the governor Kathy hokel the Attorney General Leticia James who as we know has been targeting Trump and decided to make up some reasons that he allegedly broke some laws so Leticia James is sort of one the um she's like like a Sith Lord come after Trump oh and if I don't get him the next Sith Lord will uh Ayana Presley will get you she's a super villain if I don't so I don't know how many anti-trump people can actually have a Persona that looks exactly like a super villain it's weird that there's two of them I mean if if only ayna Presley dressed intentionally like a super villain which he does for reasons I don't understand that would be unique enough but you got two Democrats who have total Sith Lord super villain Vibe I've never seen that before that's weird anyway uh then also the DMV commissioner I think that has something to do with issuing driver's license to to a non citizens I'm guessing but it gets more interesting now you say to yourself huh huh it's kind of a coincidence isn't it um oh I think isn't alen Bragg part of this or is it just Laticia James yeah Alvin Bragg is part of it too I think um although I didn't see that in the list so that I may be conflating two different stories so Bill O'Reilly had a hypothesis he was on news Nation with Chris guomo and this is just some speculation from Bill Riley but he is very experienced and he's sniffing some stuff out but he doesn't have proof so what I'm going to say I want you to understand that bill O'Reiley wants you to know he doesn't have any proof of this it's just something he's feeling um that the real Target of all this might be Leticia James and Al and brag the two two people who came after Trump and it's also possible that the reason and again this is just speculation there's no evidence of this whatsoever that mayor Adams got his pardon from Trump um maybe because he knows where the bodies are buried with Elvin Bragg and Luisa James now I don't know if he would but if somebody did know where the bodies were buried he'd be he'd be a top guess I would think so we we'll keep an eye on that so it does look like maybe the Trump Administration is circling the the bad elements now if we didn't know for sure that these are lawfare people the people who which tried the laware of trump I would not be in favor of kind of going after them but what they did was so inappropriate in our constitutional situation that it's effectively criminal without maybe breaking any laws but in effect it's criminal so yeah should go after them as hard as possible meanwhile Democrats still trying to figure out what's wrong with Democrats and on pod of America this is one of the big Democrat podcasts and the GU back Obama people on there and they're they're very Democrat so if I didn't mention it they're very very Democrat like super Democrat and and as you can imagine have been big critics of trump guess what they said yesterday Trump is doing what we should have done quote Trump is moving so fast they hit the ground running in a serious way it's like genuinely impressive remember this is this is the most Democrat anti-trump people you've ever heard it's genuinely impressive impressive and then they throw in this impressive in a dark and Sinister way but nonetheless impressive so even when they're even when they're fully understanding that he's doing some good stuff they they have to throw in the little propaganda phrase oh well dark and Sinister uh did I mention it's dark and Sinister yeah he's doing everything right but but maybe there's a dark and Sinister undertone to it all the Democrats have are vague statements that can't be supported by anything uh yeah so they they go on quote do we all know that government is slow we all know that government can be inefficient we all know that the bureaucracy can be bloed we all worked in the we all worked in the F and white house we tried to reorganize the government we tried to find efficiency it's hard to do and then one of them said some of this is pretty annoying because it's some of the stuff we should have done now I do appreciate the honesty of this so I'm going to call out this is a very honest take except for the dark and Sinister part uh yeah yeah they should have done it they couldn't do it and then they're watching it being done right in front of them um so I I thought I'd start a list of all the empty attacks the things that Democrats say about Trump they don't have any meat to them whatsoever it's just stuff to scare you so now we've got dark and Sinister that whatever he's doing oh whatever he's doing on the surface it looks perfect nothing wrong with it on the surface but underneath underneath we believe it's dark and Sinister and then they've got uh um you know sure he might be uh Trump might be saving the Republic and ending Wars uh but really it's just a preparation for stealing your democracy and setting up a kleptocracy stealing your democracy setting up a kleptocracy the ocracy is exactly what they're dismantling and then there's uh Dan Goldman um there's no accountability or oversight with the Doge project there's no accountability or oversight well here's the problem of having politicians talk about things that make sense they can't do it um I'm pretty sure that in the history of audits of big companies there's not one time that the ca CEO went along with the audit you know with the Auditors so when when a big company does its own audit they'll often audit themselves do you think the CEO follows them around and say what do you got there Bob did you find a document what's it say what's it say oh says that all right now what do you got what's that can you read that to me there's no world in which the CEO is informed about the audit while it's going on except for the big stuff so the auditor might say we found this we found that we found that but is the CEO saying give me the document to prove it or is the CEO saying all right when you're done with the audit write it up and then tell me everything you found I think the most normal way that Doge should be working is that musk should answer questions every day which he which he does uh what do you find what are you looking at and he said so but the onus is on him and Doge to provide documents when he's done now will everything that he says preliminarily turn out to be will it check out not everything no this is a messy process and it has to be because there's no way to do a clean process so you either give up or you do it messy there's only two possibilities we don't want to give up so there's that uh and then the other one is uh CNN's running with this one there's no actual evidence of fraud what do you mean there's no actual evidence do you need a court case they they're doing the same thing they did with the election well there's no actual evidence just because everything looks sketchy but there's no actual Court who said that so let's see we've got darken Sinister we've got stealing your democracy setting up a kleptocracy no accountability or oversight and no actual evidence of fraud what do all of those things have in common there's not a single American citizen who gives a about any of it give me my straw get rid of these pennies solve the war in Ukraine cut the budget there's a pretty long list of things I do care about but nowhere on that list is the darken Sinister stealing your democracy oh he's also stealing your privacy they're stealing my privacy uh there's no accountability or oversight no actual evidence of fraud it's uh pretty weak weak sauce well here's something I hate I hate waking up and being the second funniest Scott I'm kind of used to being the funniest Scott you know and at least in the news business there aren't too many funny Scots but Scott Jennings is just lapping me lately I I just had a belly laugh over this one so Scott Jennings is commenting this morning over someone else's posts so well it was a story actually on Fox News so his comment I'll just read it in the order that is written um so Scott Jennings posts on X he says Trump let's cut taxes shrink the government and unleash American Energy and then he says Democrats and he points to the Fox news story that says the house Democrats are reintroducing reparations reparations legislation so representative uh Ayan presle super villain uh says reparations are a necessary step in achieving Justice now would it be fair to say Democrats are not good at reading the room um was this really the time to introduce reparations probably not the right timing probably just a little off in the timing but uh I would go further than that and uh I would love to see somebody in the Trump Administration calculate reparations because I'm pretty sure it's going to show that the money's already been paid three times because you know what would be in that calculation right you'd first have to calculate how uh descendants of slavery would have done if they stayed in Africa versus how they would do over here and then spefic specifically The Descendants not not the actual slaves the slaves are unhappy right so everybody agrees there was nothing good about being a slave but the descendants of slaves ended up in a better place than maybe they would have been now that's no reason for slavery we all agree slavery is bad slavery is bad um but if you were going to calculate You' have to calculate uh any social payments made you have to calculate how much everybody added to the economy versus subtracted from the economy you'd have to do differences in law enforcement costs for different demographic groups you'd have to bring everything into it and I don't know if it would be a positive number or negative by the time you were done with an actual honest um analysis now if they if somebody actually did calculate reparations honestly would you believe it whatever number they came up with no because I just got done telling you that all data that matters is fake so whoever does the calculating for reparations it's going to come up with a fake number so if it's somebody who's Pro reparations they'll just ignore a whole bunch of things and come up with a number that says yo it's a lot of money if it's somebody who's biased against reparations such as me uh if I calculated it would show that it's already been paid three times so there's no such thing as the true number and there's no such this data for anything important that's real this is no exception but certainly I would have included 50 years of discrimination against white males I mean that's pretty expensive uh and along those lines Fox News is reporting that there's an Illinois University being sued because the professor says he was fired for objecting to race-based hiring University of Illinois in Chicago so Professor stepen Klein Schmid um he said he wasn't buying into the uh being a racist he probably just thought he wanted to be a professor and then they said but you're also you know can you be a racist and then he said how about no how about no I won't be a racist with you and that was lawsuit I think he might win Trump says reciprocal tariffs are coming out today I guess that means that everybody who's terrifing us for anything is going to get the same back I don't know how any of this is going to work out but I do see it as a negotiating tactic and so far Trump's shown that he can navigate these negotiating T tactics all right so we'll see tulsy gabard got confirmed uh is it true that Mc.

Connell voted no on telsy gabard that's a little suspicious isn't it just a little suspicious it makes you think he might be hiding something but the half dead Turtle said no RFK Jr.

I guess the vote on him as a tie and we're expecting JD Vance to go break the tie and it it should be should be confirmed today is I don't know if it's today all right so looks like we're we get Tulsa and we'll get RFK Jr and wow I I just have to say wow good job good job getting both of them Mike Ben was on uh Joe Rogan show probably three hours of goodness there but one of the things that popped out was Mike Ben talking about how USA and the intelligence communities um have historically trained some musical artists both in our country and in other countries to be part of their uh I guess political narrative that the the intelligence Community wants to push so or to do it for statecraft reasons now some of the names he named uh including working with du leipa so I guess there was something early in her career where she had some kind of USA connection Riot uh in Russia and he said possibly Taylor Swift there's no evidence that Taylor Swift was connected any of this but there was there is a video of somebody in the intelligence Community suggesting that she would be the type of person that they would want influence there's no evidence that they have so you probably heard that the AP Associated Press uh they lost their uh I think they lost their wouse press access because they refused to call the Gulf of America the Gulf of America they're sticking with the old way Gulf of Mexico and I didn't really understand why like why would they be the one entity that does that well their argument is that they're an international news entity and if the other countries around the world don't know what the Gulf of America is they can't refer to it that way because you know it would be against their style guide so they have a style guide that they'll I guess they'll use whatever is most internationally recognized but that also means that they're not doing America First America First would be use America's names for stuff and let the other countries work it out I mean you could always put it in parenthesis used to be called the Gulf of Mexico so um it's not the worst defense in the world but it does feel like they're not quite on Team America here so Trump's letting them know I guess um here's a story I hope there's more context to this one because if it's exactly what it looks like it's pretty bad so apparently Reuters which does a lot more than news stuff um according to the Muse account I was reading uh that uh Doge found a document that actually says that uh a part of Reuters was being paid a lot of money for doing what is actually listed on the invoice this is actually on the invoice large scale social deception what is that real did did our government pay Reuters to implement a large scale social deception now before I say that that's true it's being reported but before I say it's true I'd kind of want to hear what reuter said about it which I haven't seen yet do you think Reuters is going to say something like no no no we were supposed to guard against so we were working against large scale social deception it's just list of that way on invoice so now we're we're against large scale deception we're trying to end it you think that's possible you know it wouldn't be too weird if something on an invoice was ambiguous but it would really be weird to me if they put in direct words which are on the voice large scale social deception I'm going to put a pin in that one and wait for the other side of the story but it's what it looks like on the surface well Trump is calling out the Politico and the New York Times for accepting some millions of dollars I guess each from USA and Trump asked what's that for like why is the government paying you are they paying you to do fake news are they paying you to get good stories about themselves and he wants to claw back um so again we don't know why these entities were receiving money but it all looks sketchy so I do like that Trump is going to treat it like it's sketchy and you know go after it I I feel like Trump can sniff out corruption and fraud faster than the average person because he's really good at knowing what looks like and he can just recognize it anywhere so he's probably seeing some there um now according to this is incredible so Lee zeldon uh did a video in which he's claiming that uh that they've discovered a staggering 20 billion that the Biden regime they call it uh laundered to to NOS so what it sounds like is there was a video I think it was uh project Veritas uh at an undercover video in which the Democrats and the EPA were saying oh yeah we're throwing the gold bars off the T Titanic what they meant was we're trying to spend money as quickly as possible before Trump finds out what's going on and so they parked $20 billion dollar in some kind of a financial institution so they could get it out of the door and then once it's out the door it could be allocated to their evil ways I guess but they wanted to like pretend it was already gone so they did some kind of intermediary little trick to make it look like it was already gone and couldn't be clawed back but it might get clawed back we'll find out now if this is all true this would be an example of a staggering amount of corruption is it illegal I don't know I don't know I don't know what law specifically it breaks but it certainly corrupt anyway apparently the uh government is planning to our government is planning to sell hundreds of the federal government buildings according to wired um now I don't think that's going to settle the budget or anything but there are five 00 or more buildings that don't seem to have a use 500 Federal buildings that are sort of empty or not being utilized in any great way 500 over 500 that's just shocking so yeah let's go to close those buildings all right here's the most troubling story of the day according to me according to the New York Post um the House GOP they've got a budget plan they've put together for Trump and they're looking for 4.5 trillion in tax cuts now that would be over some number of years 4.5 trillion in tax cuts but so so far you're saying I like that but uh the budget cuts would be more like two trillion so again there may be some confusion about the what time window you're looking at you know some might be what's happening this year and some might be a 10y year kind of number so you have to be careful if it's a one- year or a 10year number but um is there a problem how in the world is Trump going to get away with increasing our public debt by $2 trillion which is what it would be now I get that I like tax cuts and I get that I like budget cuts but if your tax cuts are tremendously bigger than your budget cuts you're making the deficit worse by trillions now depending on the time span we're looking at it could be that the two trillion that's going to be added to the budget you know maybe it's spread over several years and if you keep cutting the budget during those years you know you might get to a much better situation that it looks like in a in a direct line calculation so yeah I don't know if the tariffs are going to I don't think the tariffs are going to make up the difference but uh maybe I don't know but let me tell you as a numbers person somebody who's you know my early career before any of this was the finance guy in two big corporations not the finance guy but a finance guy and I was always working with you know big projections and numbers and what's going to happen in 10 years more like five years but um I don't see how this works to me it's been looking for a while like the amount that Trump wants to add to the budget because they want to add 300 billion a year for border security and National Defense no I understand that the border security especially um but you're going to add that expense and then you're going to cut taxes and the amount that Doge can cut out won't be any won't be anywhere near the amount that we lost in tax revenue so it's not like this is going to Goose the economy enough so let me just say it directly as far as I can tell the House GOP is not on the same page with Doge I don't think they're on the same page I I think helon musk needs to tell us if this if this budget goes through and if Doge does an amazing job and gets rid of one or two trillion dollars in expenses do we fix our problem or do we just make it worse by voting in a bunch of expensive things I don't feel like we have a plan it looks to me like there's two separate tracks and one destroys the other one so doge is a great track if nothing else changed but if you add why don't wildly cut taxes and add expenses at the same time as Doge and the things you're cutting and adding far exceed the amount of budget reductions somebody needs to explain to us from the Trump Administration how the this works because I'm getting a little mad about it I mean maybe the public doesn't follow these things closely enough to know that this can't work they're basically presenting us a Doom scenario and which we all die for sure can you give me any hope because this budget just tells me we're going to let you all die that's the budget the budget is your all debt because the whole reason that Doge exists is because our budget is out of control our debt is out of control so if you're going to give us another plan that says you oh you're going to be dead in a few years you and that and that's for the Trump Administration you because that's not what we signed up for we signed up for Less debt give us less debt however you have to do it whatever you need to do give us less debt because this looks like you've planned to kill us you've planned to kill us that's what the news is telling me now if I'm reading it wrong and I'm doing the numbers wrong I I would love to be corrected but it doesn't look like it it looks like they plan to kill us and we didn't invite we didn't fight this hard to get a republican Administration so the Republican Administration can and kill us figure it out figure it out don't don't do this yeah I I'm am so out if they don't balance the budget or make a good try it's got to be at least a good try we're not seeing anything that looks like a good try we're looking like it looks like they're screwing Doge looks like they're screwing musk by giving him a no- win situation not cool not cool anyway I would love to know that my rant was completely embarrassing and shameful and that I'm just getting the numbers wrong but I don't think I am so we need some answers um according to Brett Adcock I can't believe there's a guy who's who owns the figure robot company these are humanoid looking robots um that don't have genitalia but the founder of the company is named Adcock I mean come on humanoid robots with no genitalia made by somebody called Adcock somebody's going to add a you maybe it's aftermarket but anyway so what Adcock says he says quote In Our Lifetime you will see more humanoid robots than humans when you're out and about trying to resist try to resist I wake up every morning trying to resist making any reference to Skynet no only NPC say skymet when you say the robots will outnumber the humans don't do it Scott don't do it try to resist don't say Skynet or else you're an NPC Skynet Skynet Skynet I could resist I'm sorry I'm weak I'm weak I don't have much else to say about that story except stop making me think of Skynet because what as soon as I read this that there will be more robots out and about than humans my first question is is that because we made more robots that'd be the best case scenario or are there just fewer humans there a couple different ways you can get there well how could there be fewer humans well here's one way even without Sky Net uh turns out according to the conversation an May Dwayne is writing that teenagers are using AI Companions and they're saying it's easier than seeing humans AI companions so teenagers are falling in love with chatbots well who was it who told you 20 years ago that when the the AI got good enough that people would prefer the AI I did yeah I told you that people would prefer it but I'll be more specific here's my calculation I believe that top 10% of Attractive people will have options of being with the other they're Attractive people but the the bottom 90% of Attractive people which I'm certainly in the bottom 90% but the bottom 90% are going to just prefer AI because the AI will not disappoint them it really is we really do no joke have a situation that we're not quite ready for um I don't even know if it's bad I mean if if the PE if the bottom 90% are happier well okay you maybe maybe that is a good solution but no I think we're already at a point where only the top 10% are likely to reproduce and everybody else is just going to be roboting up that's what I think so speaking of AI uh Thompson Reuters uh won their first major AI copyright case according to wired so guess they found that uh there was some specific AI company uh what is it uh not one of the big ones doesn't matter a smaller AI company you never heard of uh apparently there's evidence that they may have trained their model using some proprietary stuff from Thompson Reuters and it looks like uh the judge ruled in Thompson Roy's favor said the the compy the AI company's copyright or no their copyright was indeed infringed oh it's by Ross intelligence Ross intelligence that's the name of the AI company so it's specifically for legal legal stuff I guess that's what the AI was now remember I warned you that if you're worried about AI you know suddenly taking over everything AI is going to have a tough it's going to have a tough path through all the lawsuits because everybody who's not getting rich from AI is going to be trying to Su it to stop it yeah and although it looks like this case was kind of clean that they could more easily prove that somebody trained on their materials without permission um I feel like all the general AIS are just going to get sued and sued and sued until it's tough to do business so I think that's what's going to slow them down lawsuits well meanwhile Ukraine is is going the obvious way how many of you already knew how to end the war in Ukraine for years right if IID asked you hey stranger what would you do to end the war in Ukraine almost everybody would say well you know zalinski is going to need to get flexible about losing some land Russia is probably going to keep what they've already gotten um and probably the only way the war ends is if Ukraine makes some kind of commitment and not to join NATO right yeah you and I could have done that and it looks like that's exactly exactly what's going to happen is that uh there will be a land for peace deal probably we don't know any details yet so we're just speculating still um and of course the there's no way the NATO thing can stick they're going to have to back off on that but as you knows um Scott bassent was sent over there treasur headed the treasury to work on a deal where America would benefit from the mineral resources of Ukraine and sort of pay it back but my understanding is just before I went live today I believe um I believe that Ukraine backed out so I think they got talked down of giving up their minerals so I don't know who talked about of it but uh as of now they're negotiating and saying nope no minerals what do you think Trump's going to say to Ukraine before he starts negotiating with Putin well I don't know but I think it's going to go something like this uh if we do have access to your minerals then you can guarantee that there'll be some you know American interest in keeping Ukraine a sovereign country if we don't have access to your minerals you're just an expense and you're on your own well that's should loosen them up a little bit don't you think cuz I think that's exactly the situation we're either going to turn you into a profit Center or you're on your own because we're not going to pay forever for something we don't need and don't want all right I'm looking at yeah I think zinski is probably just negotiating but he doesn't have a strong doesn't have a strong hand so we'll see how that goes um this is what Trump said himself about his conversations I guess he had big phone call with Putin and I'll just read it because I want to I want to tell you what both of them are doing right uh I've decided that the three most persuasive leaders in terms of technique who actually understand persuasion are Trump number one best in the world Putin number two you don't have to like Putin this is not a pro Putin statement I'm just saying that his persuasion skills are way above average and then I'd say buelli from El Salvador so I put him in the third spot but all of them are world class persuaders just completely in different they're in a level of their own the if you look at Canada Justin Trudeau no skill at all no skill Great Britain no skill at all Germany No skill at all yeah the but America Putin and bu Kelly lots of skill and uh so I'll read what Trump said in his truth post and we'll pick it apart for the persuasion lesson okay so Trump said in a truth post I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with Vladimir Putin of Russia number one he's now essentially considering Putin a peer that he can work with and they're already making success so this is a little bit of claiming success but also a little bit of allocating success to both of them equally this is technique he didn't say I got something we're going to get something he said that the two of us working together looks like something productive is going to come out of it perfect perfect persuasion then he says we discussed Ukraine in the Middle East energy artificial intelligence power of the dollar and various other subjects perfect because the way that you make an agreement that other people can't figure out how to do is you bring in other elements now we don't know that he's done that but that would be the perfect technique oh well if ending the war with Ukraine you you're not quite there yet how about if we throw in something else something else you care about and or or the other way we can deny you something else you care about so you bring in these other variables that are big just to just make it easier for the other side to say yes good technique if you kept the the conversation to the narrow narrow topic of Ukraine versus Russia might not be enough because you know both sides are a little stuck in their positions or have been we'll see if they're still stuck so that's perfect bring in those other topics then Trump says we both reflected on the great history of our nations in all capital letters uh or capital capitalized uh and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II remembering that Russia lost tens of millions of people and we likewise lost so many now we didn't lose tens of millions but here he is uh acknowledging that Russia is a great nation that is good that's good technique because what is one of the things that Putin wants to get out of all of this business Putin wants to get out of it that Russia is a great nation that's not the only thing of course they have legitimate interests but it does seem very important to both Putin and probably Russians that they're treated with full respect and if you consider that you know Russia was big reason that uh well the biggest reason that uh Hitler was defeated um that is worth calling out you know it's not like Stalin was a good guy or anything but showing some respect for tremendous sacrifice tremendous sacrifice on your your I don't know your your partner I'd say in this case I don't want to say adversary good technique perfect technique now he's made it easier for Putin to make a deal because he's given him one thing that he wants which is we're going to treat you like like a real leader of a real important country and you have our full respect it's just that there's some things we need and we're not going to back down that is really good um then he says we talked about the strengths of our respective Nations and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together there it is that's classic Trump when Trump talks to North Korea he doesn't say only we will bomb you to the Stone Age if you do something bad what just happened uh holy sh Trump just fired all federal prosecutors appointed by Biden holy all of them I don't even know I don't even know the implications of that wow all right we'll catch up with that after the after the show all right but anyway the thing that Trump does when he negotiates with another country he doesn't just say um we're going to kill you if you don't do what we want he says if we can work together we can both get richer that's really strong and I don't believe anybody has said to Russia that uh that someday we could work together and it'll be a great benefit to both countries now I don't know specifically what he has in mind but don't you think that if we were let's say if we could find a way not to be at each other's throats that we could make some money and be safer I think so I think so so that's classic Trump and good technique um and then then Trump says but first as we both agreed we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the war with Russia Ukraine again just perfect I mean I might sound like just a fanboy at this point but I'm showing you the actual technique I'm not I'm not just saying he's awesome I'm showing you the details th this again is the right frame Trump has been right on frame CL this from the start we want fewer people to die blah blah blah NATO blah blah blah we want fewer people to die blah blah blah Russia's natural defenses blah blah blah minerals we want few people to die stay in that frame because if you stay in the frame of we want fewer people to die there's a solution if you leave that frame into all na oh 10 years oh oh you blah blah blah degrade degrade Russia's military oh Russia had a good reason or didn't they have a good reason nothing you got nothing but if you can if you can agree to enter the frame of saving lives then you got something to work with so that's pure Trump pure perfect um and then he says this is what Trump says he says president President Putin even used my very strong Camp campaign motto of common sense so apparently Putin appealed to Common Sense knowing that he was echoing you know Trump's great unifying um campaign idea so there's nothing more unifying than common sense because nobody can disagree with it it's common sense so it's the ultimate High Ground it very much worked domestically but here's a here's a example of Putin being that good Persuader so you notice that Putin seems to be on board with all the framing that Trump has mentioned we don't know but there was no sense of an objection so if he is then he knows what a good frame looks like and he's willing to enter it a good frame would be can we include all these other interests that's a good frame can we just figure out how to stop killing people that's a good frame so Putin knows that but he's also using a technique called mirroring so he's he's mirroring back Trump's favorite thing common sense that is strong technique because it's also a sign of respect and it makes you feel like the two of you don't have much distance it's almost like you're one person because you're both having the same thought yeah Common Sense let's do that Common Sense thing very strong that's why Putin's good at this so um yeah and then that great benefit of working together it's a carrot not just a stick it's all perfect so Will trump get it done don't know but if he does get it done and he gets also a mineral deal you know a rare Earth mineral deal with zinski he Trump might be able to do the thing that is so trumpy here's what I mean ending the war would be a real major accomplishment espe especially if he did it in a month it would be one of the Great accomplishments of a president but is that enough to just be amazingly end a war that couldn't be ended by other people it's not enough Trump wants to turn Ukraine into a profit Center and get our money back now I don't know if he's going to do that I don't know if that's going to work but if he ends the war in a month and turns Ukraine into a profit Center that's standing ovation that that's just like make room on Mount Rushmore like nobody could do that like no no president would even try to do that nobody would even think that it was worth doing nobody would even put like one minute of energy into trying it but I think he could get it done so that's why we voted for him all right so those are all the comments I have my prepared remarks um if you're joining late uh a little bit of technical difficulty probably on my end um so we're only streaming today on X and on locals and uh I believe we'll be able to put the recorded version on You.

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well Story number one there's a study in

the University of Zurich that shows that

hypnosis does alter brain activity and

neurochemistry do you know who they

could have asked huh I wonder if

hypnosis will alter brain activity and

neurochemistry do you know who could

have answered that

question every hypnotist for the last

100

years every one of them it's the most

basic thing you

learn if hypnosis didn't have any effect

on your actual brain it wouldn't be

doing

anything there are a lot of people who

think that hypnosis is just uh what is

it that uh pen galette says I think he

said some while ago the hypnosis was two

people lying to each other the hypnotist

pretending to be hypnotist and the

subject pretending to be hypnotized

but no there is a change in the brain

and uh that's the longest known thing

that every hypnotist is known it's just

obvious anyway there's another tragic

terrorist attack it looks like uh over

in Germany an Afghan man drove a car

into a big

crowd um he's injured I think at least

28 people some of them really badly we

don't know anything about the motives

yet but yeah I'll tell you the the car

related

attacks they seem to kill as many or

more people than

bombs so maybe this is the beginning of

a very long terrible Trend I don't know

let's talk about hostage releases

because that's a better

story um so I was listening to the US

Envoy for

hostages um and his name is

his name is not written down on my notes

so just imagine I said the name of the

person today's just a disaster I feel

like everything today is just not going

to work so that might be funny that

might be entertaining in its own way

yeah the most important thing I was

going to write down was the name of the

person who is the United States Envoy

for

hostages yeah that guy okay so you were

saying that uh one of the reasons that

Trump is successful getting hostages

back is that uh you're saying that quote

when you hold our citizens will come

after you at any cost that's sort of the

Trump message if you hold our citizens

we'll come after you at any cost now

that is exactly the right now it's not

wickoff it's

uh it's not wiof or

grenell all right never mind

stop guess stop guessing the wick caer

grenell that will still be wrong no

matter how many times you write it

down all right I shouldn't have even

brought it up um but the right the right

framing is that uh hostages are not

really a negotiating tool at least with

the United States because we're going to

take everything you have if you take our

hostages we'll take everything you have

and

what happened when Trump put the extra

threat on well now Hamas is getting a

little flexible says they're going to

release some more hostages by Saturday

maybe which was Trump's deadline now

that's not all the

hostages um Trump is said if you don't

release them all there's going to be

held to pay so if there's some they're

holding

back in theory they're still held to pay

now what would be held to pay probably

just unleashing Israel and saying all

right we're out we're out whatever

Israel wants to do is fine we'll even

give them money to do it do you think

Hamas wants to hear

that that Israel just has a free pass

and that United States won't put any

pressure on them to ease up that would

be the ultimate nightmare for

Hamas but I think that's where they're

heading they're heading to their

Ultimate

Nightmare there was a story in Politico

by Eugene

Ludwig titled voters were right about

the economy the data was

wrong anybody who's watched this show we

always knew the data was wrong it's not

because you heard it from me didn't you

all know the data was wrong because they

kept saying I don't know what you're

talking about this data said you should

be happy and have lots of money but

people would say I can't afford eggs and

gas and then the Biden Administration

would say yes you can look at the data

and people would say I'm pretty here I

know what's in my pocket you don't know

what's in my pocket and I don't have

enough money for eggs and gas oh yes you

do just look at these highlight high

level

statistics so of course time goes by and

then finally we can learn that it was

all

fake now here's something I've been

telling you for a long time but I

finally figured out a better way to say

it I've been saying for a long time uh

wait until you find out that all data

that is important is fake all data

that's important you know not not

something that let's say a scientist did

for a little study that nobody cared

about right that's probably okay or it

might be but anything that's big and

important like the economy those are all

fake numbers and there's a reason for

that there's a systemic reason why all

the important numbers the important ones

just limitating it to the important ones

are fake do you know what the reason

is well it's like that

you don't want the fox to be your only

source of data of how many chickens are

left does that make sense because we

always we always put the fox in charge

of counting the

chickens and then you're like uh do we

still have 18 chickens uh no no it's uh

we we have 14 chickens says the fox and

then you say what did you eat those four

chickens and the fox says I don't know

what you're talking about there's no

data that says we ate any chickens

there's just 14 chickens

all right we'll check back tomorrow

there are eight

chickens what what what are you doing

are you eating those chickens again I

don't even know what you're talking

about there's no document that shows any

chickens were eaten it's just eight

chickens so you can take the fox and the

chicken analy to pretty much everything

um who told us that vaccinations were

perfectly safe the

fox we we didn't get it from anywhere

except the company that is making money

from selling it right was there some

independent analysis that I'm not aware

of no no so in every case the only

people who are close enough to know what

the real numbers are are the foxes

they're the ones in charge of the

numbers and the foxes are the ones that

are stealing and lying and you know

shaving things to make it you know

biased in One Direction or the other so

there's a systemic reason it's not a

coincidence that all data all data

that's important is fake it has to be

because it's coming from the Fox as soon

as you realize that all the data comes

from the fox and not from the chickens

then everything makes sense and if you

find an exception where the chickens are

in charge of counting themselves let me

know about that because I've never heard

of it never heard of it it's always the

fox counting the chickens and that's

where we're at that's why you need Doge

because Doge lets the

uh lets the rooster in lets the rooster

count the chickens I'm torturing that

analogy all right well uh you probably

know that Trump was suing the Pitzer

committee for giving pulit Sur prises to

the Russia collusion Liars in the Press

but worse than that I guess they said

something else uh let's see there was

something they said after the war that

Trump didn't like and apparently this is

going to go forward so there were some

challenges to it that have been overcome

but uh the appeals court the Florida

appeals court says the burden of proof

about that there was actual

malice uh seems to be made in other

words it wouldn't go forward if there

was no evidence of malice meaning that

they did it intentionally but apparently

there's evidence they did it

intentionally

and that it was just a basically defame

jump now this is interesting this is

really interesting because I don't know

what kind of evidence they have that

would demonstrate malice we know what

they did but how do you get in their

heads there might be some kind of

document or maybe a witness or something

who said oh yeah we did this just to get

Trump so I haven't heard that I'm just

speculating but maybe maybe that's

what's happening

we'll see meanwhile attorney general Pam

Bondi she's uh filing some charges

against the bad people in New

York the bad people in New York and now

this is over the question of

prioritizing illegal aliens over

American citizens so the idea would be

that they're not cooperating with the

federal government to protect American

citizens and that's their job and they

need to do that now I guess this is a

criminal action it's not a civil

right uh if you're F if Pam Bondi is

filing charges it's not a it's not a

civil suit it's a criminal so they're in

real trouble but the people who are in

trouble are the governor Kathy hokel the

Attorney General Leticia James who as we

know has been targeting Trump and

decided to make up some reasons that he

allegedly broke some laws so Leticia

James is sort of one the um she's like

like a Sith

Lord come after

Trump oh and if I don't get him the next

Sith Lord

will uh Ayana Presley will get you she's

a super villain if I don't so I don't

know how many anti-trump people can

actually have a Persona that looks

exactly like a super

villain it's weird that there's two of

them I mean if if only ayna Presley

dressed intentionally like a super

villain which he does for reasons I

don't understand that would be unique

enough but you got two Democrats who

have total Sith Lord super villain Vibe

I've never seen that before that's weird

anyway uh then also the DMV commissioner

I think that has something to do with

issuing driver's license to to a non

citizens I'm guessing but it gets more

interesting now you say to yourself huh

huh it's kind of a coincidence isn't it

um oh I think isn't alen Bragg part of

this or is it just Laticia James yeah

Alvin Bragg is part of it too I think um

although I didn't see that in the list

so that I may be conflating two

different stories so Bill

O'Reilly had a hypothesis he was on news

Nation with Chris guomo and this is just

some speculation from Bill Riley but he

is very

experienced and he's sniffing some stuff

out but he doesn't have proof so what

I'm going to say I want you to

understand that bill O'Reiley wants you

to know he doesn't have any proof of

this it's just something he's

feeling um that the real Target of all

this might be Leticia James and Al and

brag the two two people who came after

Trump and

it's also possible that the reason and

again this is just speculation there's

no evidence of this whatsoever that

mayor Adams got his pardon from

Trump um maybe because he knows where

the bodies are buried with Elvin Bragg

and Luisa

James now I don't know if he would but

if somebody did know where the bodies

were buried he'd be he'd be a top guess

I would think

so we we'll keep an eye on that so it

does look like maybe the Trump

Administration is circling the the bad

elements now if we didn't know for sure

that these are

lawfare people the people who which

tried the laware of trump I would not be

in favor of kind of going after them but

what they did was so inappropriate in

our constitutional situation that it's

effectively criminal without maybe

breaking any laws but in effect it's

criminal so yeah should go after them as

hard as

possible meanwhile Democrats still

trying to figure out what's wrong with

Democrats and on pod of America this is

one of the big Democrat podcasts and the

GU back Obama people on there and

they're they're very Democrat so if I

didn't mention it they're very very

Democrat like super Democrat and and as

you can imagine have been big critics of

trump guess what they said

yesterday Trump is doing what we should

have done quote Trump is moving so fast

they hit the ground running in a serious

way it's like genuinely impressive

remember this is this is the most

Democrat anti-trump people you've ever

heard it's genuinely impressive

impressive and then they throw in this

impressive in a dark and Sinister way

but nonetheless impressive

so even when they're even when they're

fully understanding that he's doing some

good stuff they they have to throw in

the little propaganda phrase oh well

dark and Sinister uh did I mention it's

dark and Sinister yeah he's doing

everything right but but maybe there's a

dark and Sinister undertone to

it all the Democrats have are vague

statements that can't be supported by

anything uh yeah so they they go on

quote do we all know that government is

slow we all know that government can be

inefficient we all know that the

bureaucracy can be bloed we all worked

in the we all worked in the F and white

house we tried to reorganize the

government we tried to find efficiency

it's hard to

do and then one of them said some of

this is pretty annoying because it's

some of the stuff we should have

done now I do appreciate the honesty of

this so I'm going to call out this is a

very honest take except for the dark and

Sinister part uh yeah yeah they should

have done it they couldn't do it and

then they're watching it being done

right in front of

them um so I I thought I'd start a list

of all the empty attacks the things that

Democrats say about Trump they don't

have any meat to them whatsoever it's

just stuff to scare you so now we've got

dark and Sinister that whatever he's

doing oh whatever he's doing on the

surface it looks

perfect nothing wrong with it on the

surface but underneath underneath we

believe it's dark and

Sinister and then they've got

uh um you know sure he might be uh Trump

might be saving the Republic and ending

Wars uh but really it's just a

preparation for stealing your democracy

and setting up a

kleptocracy stealing your

democracy setting up a kleptocracy the

ocracy is exactly what they're

dismantling and then there's uh Dan

Goldman um there's no accountability or

oversight with the Doge project there's

no accountability or oversight well

here's the problem of

having politicians talk about things

that make sense they can't do it um I'm

pretty sure that in the history of

audits of big companies there's not one

time that the ca CEO went along with the

audit you know with the Auditors so when

when a big company does its own audit

they'll often audit themselves do you

think the CEO follows them around and

say what do you got there Bob did you

find a document what's it say what's it

say oh says that all right now what do

you got what's

that can you read that to me there's no

world in which the CEO is informed about

the audit while it's going on except for

the big stuff so the auditor might say

we found this we found that we found

that but is the CEO saying give me the

document to prove it or is the CEO

saying all right when you're done with

the audit write it up and then tell me

everything you

found I think the most normal way that

Doge should be working is that musk

should answer questions every day which

he which he does uh what do you find

what are you looking at and he said so

but the onus is on him and Doge to

provide documents when he's done now

will everything that he says

preliminarily turn out to be will it

check out not everything no this is a

messy process and it has to be because

there's no way to do a clean process so

you either give up or you do it messy

there's only two possibilities we don't

want to give up so there's that uh and

then the other one is uh CNN's running

with this one there's no actual evidence

of fraud what do you mean there's no

actual

evidence do you need a court case they

they're doing the same thing they did

with the election well there's no actual

evidence just because everything looks

sketchy but there's no actual Court who

said that so let's see we've got darken

Sinister we've got stealing your

democracy setting up a kleptocracy no

accountability or oversight and no

actual evidence of fraud what do all of

those things have in

common there's not a single American

citizen who gives a about any of it

give me my

straw get rid of these

pennies solve the war in

Ukraine cut the

budget there's a pretty long list of

things I do care about but nowhere on

that list is the darken Sinister

stealing your

democracy oh he's also stealing your

privacy they're stealing my privacy uh

there's no accountability or oversight

no actual evidence of

fraud it's uh pretty weak weak

sauce well here's something I hate I

hate waking up and being the second

funniest

Scott I'm kind of used to being the

funniest

Scott you know and at least in the news

business there aren't too many funny

Scots but Scott Jennings is just lapping

me lately I I just had a belly laugh

over this one so Scott Jennings is

commenting this morning over someone

else's posts so well it was a story

actually on Fox News so his comment I'll

just read it in the order that is

written um so Scott Jennings posts on X

he says Trump let's cut taxes shrink the

government and unleash American Energy

and then he says Democrats and he points

to the Fox news story that says the

house Democrats are reintroducing

reparations reparations

legislation so representative uh Ayan

presle super villain uh says reparations

are a necessary step in achieving

Justice

now would it be fair to

say Democrats are not good at reading

the

room um was this really the time to

introduce

reparations probably not the right

timing

probably just a little off in the timing

but uh I would go further than that and

uh I would love to see somebody in the

Trump Administration calculate

reparations because I'm pretty sure it's

going to show that the money's already

been paid three times because you know

what would be in that calculation right

you'd first have to calculate how uh

descendants of slavery would have done

if they stayed in Africa versus how they

would do over here and then spefic

specifically The Descendants not not the

actual slaves the slaves are unhappy

right so everybody agrees there was

nothing good about being a slave but the

descendants of slaves ended up in a

better place than maybe they would have

been now that's no reason for slavery we

all agree slavery is bad slavery is bad

um but if you were going to calculate

You' have to calculate uh any social

payments made you have to calculate how

much everybody added to the economy

versus subtracted from the economy you'd

have to do differences in law

enforcement costs for different

demographic groups you'd have to bring

everything into it and I don't know if

it would be a positive number or

negative by the time you were done with

an actual

honest um analysis

now if they if somebody actually did

calculate reparations

honestly would you believe it whatever

number they came up with no because I

just got done telling you that all data

that matters is fake so whoever does the

calculating for

reparations it's going to come up with a

fake number so if it's somebody who's

Pro reparations they'll just ignore a

whole bunch of things and come up with a

number that says yo it's a lot of money

if it's somebody who's biased against

reparations such as me uh if I

calculated it would show that it's

already been paid three times so there's

no such thing as the true number and

there's no such this data for anything

important that's real this is no

exception but certainly I would have

included 50 years of discrimination

against white males I mean that's pretty

expensive uh and along those lines Fox

News is reporting that there's an

Illinois University being sued because

the professor says he was fired for

objecting to race-based hiring

University of Illinois in Chicago

so Professor stepen Klein

Schmid um he said he wasn't buying into

the uh being a racist he probably just

thought he wanted to be a professor and

then they said but you're also you know

can you be a racist and then he said how

about no how about no I won't be a

racist with you and that was lawsuit I

think he might

win Trump says reciprocal tariffs

are coming out today I guess that means

that everybody who's terrifing us for

anything is going to get the same back I

don't know how any of this is going to

work out but I do see it as a

negotiating tactic and so far Trump's

shown that he can navigate these

negotiating T

tactics all right so we'll see tulsy

gabard got

confirmed uh is it true that McConnell

voted no on telsy gabard that's a little

suspicious isn't

it just a little suspicious it makes you

think he might be hiding something but

the half dead Turtle said no RFK Jr I

guess the vote on him as a tie and we're

expecting JD Vance to go break the tie

and it it should be should be confirmed

today is I don't know if it's

today all right so looks like we're we

get Tulsa and we'll get RFK Jr and

wow I I just have to say wow good

job good job getting both of them Mike

Ben was on uh Joe Rogan show probably

three hours of goodness there but one of

the things that popped out was Mike Ben

talking about how USA and the

intelligence communities um have

historically trained some musical

artists both in our country and in other

countries to be part of their uh I guess

political narrative that the the

intelligence Community wants to push so

or to do it for statecraft reasons now

some of the names he

named uh including working with du leipa

so I guess there was something early in

her career where she had some kind of

USA connection Riot uh in Russia

and he said possibly Taylor Swift

there's no evidence that Taylor Swift

was connected any of this but there was

there is a video of somebody in the

intelligence Community suggesting that

she would be the type of person that

they would want influence there's no

evidence that they

have so you probably heard that the AP

Associated Press uh they lost their uh I

think they lost their wouse press access

because they refused to call the Gulf of

America the Gulf of America they're

sticking with the old way Gulf of Mexico

and I didn't really understand why like

why would they be the one entity that

does that well their argument is that

they're an international news entity and

if the other countries around the world

don't know what the Gulf of America is

they can't refer to it that way because

you know it would be against their style

guide so they have a style guide that

they'll I guess they'll use whatever is

most internationally

recognized but that also means that

they're not doing America First America

First would be use America's names for

stuff and let the other countries work

it out I mean you could always put it in

parenthesis used to be called the Gulf

of Mexico

so um it's not the worst defense in the

world but it does feel like they're not

quite on Team America here so Trump's

letting them know I

guess um here's a story I hope there's

more context to this one

because if it's exactly what it looks

like it's pretty bad so apparently

Reuters which does a lot more than news

stuff um according to the Muse account I

was reading uh that uh Doge found a

document that actually says that uh a

part of Reuters was being paid a lot of

money for doing what is actually listed

on the invoice this is actually on the

invoice large scale social

deception

what is that

real did did our government pay

Reuters to implement a large scale

social

deception now before I say that that's

true it's being reported but before I

say it's true I'd kind of want to hear

what reuter said about it which I

haven't seen yet do you think Reuters is

going to say something like no no no we

were supposed to guard against so we

were working against large scale social

deception it's just list of that way on

invoice so now we're we're against large

scale deception we're trying to end it

you think that's

possible you know it wouldn't be too

weird if something on an invoice was

ambiguous but it would really be weird

to me if they put in direct words which

are on the voice large scale social

deception I'm going to put a pin in that

one and wait for the other side of the

story but it's what it looks like on the

surface well Trump is calling out the

Politico and the New York Times for

accepting some millions of dollars I

guess each from

USA and Trump asked what's that for like

why is the government paying you are

they paying you to

do fake news are they paying you to get

good stories about themselves and he

wants to claw

back

um so again we don't know why these

entities were receiving money but it all

looks sketchy so I do like that Trump is

going to treat it like it's sketchy and

you know go after it I I feel like Trump

can sniff out corruption and fraud

faster than the average person

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because he's really good at knowing what

looks like and he can just

recognize it

anywhere so he's probably seeing some

there

um now according to this is incredible

so Lee

zeldon uh did a video in which he's

claiming that uh that they've discovered

a staggering 20 billion that the

Biden regime they call it uh laundered

to to NOS so what it sounds like is

there was a video I think it was uh

project Veritas uh at an undercover

video in which the Democrats and the EPA

were saying oh yeah we're throwing the

gold bars off the T Titanic what they

meant was we're trying to spend money as

quickly as possible before Trump finds

out what's going

on and so they parked $20 billion dollar

in some kind of a financial

institution so they could get it out of

the door and then once it's out the door

it could be allocated to their evil ways

I guess but they wanted to like pretend

it was already gone so they did some

kind of intermediary little trick to

make it look like it was already gone

and couldn't be clawed back but it might

get clawed back we'll find out now if

this is all

true this would be an example of

a

staggering amount of corruption is it

illegal I don't know I don't know I

don't know what law specifically it

breaks but it certainly

corrupt anyway apparently the uh

government is planning to our government

is planning to sell hundreds of the

federal government buildings according

to

wired

um now I don't think that's going to

settle the budget or anything but there

are five 00 or more buildings that don't

seem to have a

use

500 Federal buildings that are sort of

empty or not being utilized in any great

way 500 over 500 that's just

shocking so yeah let's go to close those

buildings all right here's the most

troubling story of the day according to

me according to the New York Post um the

House GOP they've got a budget plan

they've put together for Trump

and they're looking for 4.5 trillion in

tax cuts now that would be over some

number of years 4.5 trillion in tax

cuts but so so far you're

saying I like that but uh the budget

cuts would be more like two

trillion so again there may be some

confusion about the

what time window you're looking at you

know some might be what's happening this

year and some might be a 10y year kind

of number so you have to be careful if

it's a one- year or a 10year number

but

um is there a

problem how in the

world is Trump going to get away with

increasing our public debt by $2

trillion which is what it would be now I

get that I like tax cuts and I get that

I like budget cuts but if your tax cuts

are tremendously bigger than your budget

cuts you're making the deficit worse by

trillions now depending on the time span

we're looking at it could be that the

two trillion that's going to be added to

the budget you know maybe it's spread

over several years and if you keep

cutting the budget during those years

you know you might get to a much better

situation that it looks like in a in a

direct line

calculation so yeah I don't know if the

tariffs are going to I don't think the

tariffs are going to make up the

difference but uh maybe I don't know but

let me tell you as a numbers person

somebody who's you know my early career

before any of this was the finance guy

in two big corporations not the finance

guy but a finance guy and I was always

working with you know big projections

and numbers and what's going to happen

in 10 years more like five years but um

I don't see how this

works to me it's been looking for a

while like the amount that Trump wants

to add to the budget because they want

to add 300 billion a year for border

security and National Defense no I

understand that the border security

especially um but you're going to add

that expense and then you're going to

cut taxes

and the amount that Doge can cut out

won't be any won't be anywhere near the

amount that we lost in tax revenue so

it's not like this is going to Goose the

economy enough so let me just say it

directly as far as I can tell the House

GOP is not on the same page with

Doge I don't think they're on the same

page I I think helon musk needs to tell

us if this if this budget goes through

and if Doge does an amazing job and gets

rid of one or two trillion dollars in

expenses do we fix our problem or do we

just make it worse by voting in a bunch

of expensive things I don't feel like we

have a

plan it looks to me like there's two

separate tracks and one destroys the

other one so doge is a great track if

nothing else changed but if you add why

don't wildly cut taxes and add expenses

at the same time as Doge and the things

you're cutting and adding far exceed the

amount of budget

reductions somebody needs to explain to

us from the Trump Administration how the

this works because I'm getting a

little mad about it I mean maybe the

public doesn't follow these things

closely enough to know that this can't

work they're basically presenting us a

Doom scenario and which we all

die for sure can you give me any hope

because this budget just tells me we're

going to let you all die that's the

budget the budget is your all

debt because the whole reason that Doge

exists is because our budget is out of

control our debt is out of control so if

you're going to give us another

plan that says you oh you're going to be

dead in a few years you and that

and that's for the Trump Administration

you because that's not what we

signed up for we signed up for Less debt

give us less

debt however you have to do it whatever

you need to do give us less debt

because this looks like you've planned

to kill us you've planned to

kill us that's what the news is telling

me now if I'm reading it wrong and I'm

doing the numbers

wrong I I would love to be corrected but

it doesn't look like it it looks like

they plan to kill us

and we didn't invite we didn't fight

this hard to get a republican

Administration so the Republican

Administration can and kill

us figure it out figure it

out don't don't do

this yeah I I'm am so out if they don't

balance the budget or make a good try

it's got to be at least a good try we're

not seeing anything that looks like a

good try we're looking like it looks

like they're screwing Doge looks like

they're screwing musk by giving him a

no- win

situation not cool not

cool anyway I would love to know that my

rant was completely embarrassing and

shameful and that I'm just getting the

numbers

wrong but I don't think I am so we need

some

answers

um according to Brett

Adcock I can't believe there's a guy

who's who owns the figure robot company

these are humanoid looking robots um

that don't have genitalia but the

founder of the company is named

Adcock I mean come

on humanoid robots with no

genitalia made by somebody called Adcock

somebody's going to add a you maybe

it's aftermarket but anyway so what

Adcock says he says quote In Our

Lifetime you will see more humanoid

robots than humans when you're out and

about trying to resist try to resist I

wake up every morning trying to resist

making any reference to Skynet no only

NPC say skymet when you say the robots

will outnumber the humans don't do it

Scott don't do it try to resist don't

say Skynet or else you're an NPC Skynet

Skynet

Skynet I could resist I'm sorry I'm weak

I'm weak I don't have much else to say

about that story except stop making me

think of

Skynet because what as soon as I read

this that there will be more robots out

and about than humans my first question

is is that because we made more robots

that'd be the best case scenario or are

there just fewer

humans there a couple different ways you

can get there well how could there be

fewer humans well here's one way even

without Sky

Net uh turns out according to the

conversation an May Dwayne is writing

that teenagers are using AI

Companions and they're saying it's

easier than seeing humans AI companions

so teenagers are falling in love with

chatbots well who was it who told you 20

years

ago that when the the AI got good enough

that people would prefer the

AI I did yeah I told you that people

would prefer it but I'll be more

specific here's my calculation I believe

that top 10% of Attractive

people will have options of being with

the other they're Attractive

people but the the bottom 90% of

Attractive

people

which I'm certainly in the bottom 90%

but the bottom 90% are going to just

prefer AI because the AI will not

disappoint

them it really is we really do no

joke have a situation that we're not

quite ready for um I don't even know if

it's bad I mean if if the PE if the

bottom 90% are

happier well okay you maybe maybe that

is a good solution but no I think we're

already at a point where only the top

10% are likely to reproduce and

everybody else is just going to be

roboting up that's what I

think so speaking of AI uh Thompson

Reuters uh won their first major AI

copyright case according to wired so

guess they found that uh there was some

specific AI company uh what is

it uh not one of the big ones doesn't

matter a smaller AI company you never

heard of uh apparently there's evidence

that they may have trained their model

using some proprietary stuff from

Thompson Reuters and it looks like uh

the judge ruled in Thompson Roy's favor

said the the compy the AI company's

copyright or no their copyright was

indeed infringed oh it's by Ross

intelligence Ross intelligence that's

the name of the AI company so it's

specifically for legal legal stuff I

guess that's what the AI was now

remember I warned you that if you're

worried about AI you know suddenly

taking over everything AI is going to

have a tough it's going to have a tough

path through all the lawsuits because

everybody who's not getting rich from AI

is going to be trying to Su it to stop

it yeah and although it looks like this

case was kind of clean that they could

more easily prove that somebody trained

on their materials without

permission um I feel like all the

general AIS are just going to get sued

and sued and sued until it's tough to do

business so I think that's what's going

to slow them down

lawsuits well meanwhile Ukraine is is

going the obvious

way how many of you already knew how to

end the war in Ukraine for

years right if IID asked you hey

stranger what would you do to end the

war in Ukraine almost everybody would

say well you know zalinski is going to

need to get flexible about losing some

land Russia is probably going to keep

what they've already gotten um and

probably the only way the war ends is if

Ukraine makes some kind of commitment

and not to join

NATO right yeah you and I could have

done that and it looks like that's

exactly exactly what's going to happen

is that uh there will be a land for

peace deal probably we don't know any

details yet so we're just speculating

still um and of course the there's no

way the NATO thing can stick they're

going to have to back off on that but as

you knows um Scott bassent was sent over

there treasur headed the treasury to

work on a deal where America would

benefit from the mineral resources of

Ukraine and sort of pay it back but my

understanding is just before I went live

today I

believe um I believe that Ukraine backed

out so I think they got talked down of

giving up their minerals so I don't know

who talked about of it but uh as of now

they're negotiating and saying nope no

minerals what do you think Trump's going

to say to

Ukraine before he starts negotiating

with

Putin well I don't know but I think it's

going to go something like

this uh if we do have access to your

minerals then you can guarantee that

there'll be some you know American

interest in keeping Ukraine a sovereign

country if we don't have access to your

minerals you're just an

expense and you're on your

own well that's should loosen them up a

little bit don't you think cuz I think

that's exactly the situation we're

either going to turn you into a profit

Center or you're on your own because

we're not going to pay forever for

something we don't need and don't

want all right I'm looking at yeah I

think zinski is probably just

negotiating but he doesn't have a strong

doesn't have a strong hand so we'll see

how that

goes um this is what Trump said himself

about his conversations I guess he had

big phone call with Putin and I'll just

read it because I want to I want to tell

you what both of them are doing

right uh I've decided that the three

most persuasive leaders in terms of

technique who actually understand

persuasion are Trump number one best in

the world Putin number two you don't

have to like Putin this is not a pro

Putin statement I'm just saying that his

persuasion skills are way above average

and then I'd say buelli from El Salvador

so I put him in the third spot but all

of them are world class persuaders just

completely in different they're in a

level of their own the if you look at

Canada Justin Trudeau no skill at all no

skill Great Britain no skill at all

Germany No skill at all yeah the but

America

Putin and bu Kelly lots of skill and uh

so I'll read what Trump said in his

truth post and we'll pick it apart for

the persuasion lesson okay so Trump said

in a truth post I just had a lengthy and

highly productive phone call with

Vladimir Putin of Russia number one he's

now

essentially considering Putin a peer

that he can work with and they're

already making success so this is a

little bit of claiming success but also

a little bit of allocating success to

both of them equally this is technique

he didn't say I got something we're

going to get something he said that the

two of us working together looks like

something productive is going to come

out of it perfect perfect persuasion

then he says we discussed Ukraine in the

Middle East energy artificial

intelligence power of the dollar and

various other

subjects perfect because the way that

you make an agreement that other people

can't figure out how to do is you bring

in other elements now we don't know that

he's done that but that would be the

perfect technique oh well if ending the

war with Ukraine you you're not quite

there yet how about if we throw in

something else something else you care

about and or or the other way we can

deny you something else you care about

so you bring in these other variables

that are big just to just make it easier

for the other side to say yes good

technique if you kept the the

conversation to the narrow narrow topic

of Ukraine versus Russia might not be

enough because you know both sides are a

little stuck in their positions or have

been we'll see if they're still stuck so

that's perfect bring in those other

topics then Trump says we both reflected

on the great history of our nations in

all capital letters uh or capital

capitalized uh and the fact that we

fought so successfully together in World

War II remembering that Russia lost tens

of millions of people and we likewise

lost so many now we didn't lose tens of

millions but here he is uh acknowledging

that Russia is a great

nation that is good that's good

technique because what is one of the

things that Putin wants to get out of

all of this business Putin wants to get

out of it

that Russia is a great nation that's not

the only thing of course they have

legitimate interests but it does seem

very important to both Putin and

probably Russians that they're treated

with full

respect and if you consider that you

know Russia was big reason that uh well

the biggest reason that uh Hitler was

defeated um that is worth calling out

you know it's not like Stalin was a good

guy or anything but showing some respect

for tremendous sacrifice tremendous

sacrifice on your your I don't know your

your partner I'd say in this case I

don't want to say

adversary good technique perfect

technique now he's made it easier for

Putin to make a deal because he's given

him one thing that he wants which is

we're going to treat you like like a

real leader of a real important country

and you have our full respect it's just

that there's some things we need and

we're not going to back down that is

really

good um then he says we talked about the

strengths of our respective Nations and

the great benefit that we will someday

have in working together there it is

that's classic Trump when Trump talks to

North Korea he doesn't say only we will

bomb you to the Stone Age if you do

something

bad what just

happened uh holy sh Trump just

fired all federal prosecutors appointed

by Biden holy

all of them I don't even know I

don't even know the implications of

that wow all right we'll catch up with

that after the after the

show all right but anyway the thing that

Trump does when he negotiates with

another country he doesn't just say um

we're going to kill you if you don't do

what we want he says if we can work

together we can both get richer that's

really strong and I don't believe

anybody has said to

Russia that

uh that someday we could work together

and it'll be a great benefit to both

countries now I don't know specifically

what he has in mind but don't you think

that if we were let's say if we could

find a way not to be at each other's

throats that we could make some money

and be

safer I think so I think so so that's

classic Trump and good

technique um and then then Trump says

but first as we both agreed we want to

stop the millions of deaths taking place

in the war with Russia Ukraine again

just perfect I mean I might sound like

just a fanboy at this point but I'm

showing you the actual technique I'm not

I'm not just saying he's awesome I'm

showing you the details th this again is

the right frame Trump has been right on

frame CL this from the start we want

fewer people to die blah blah blah NATO

blah blah blah we want fewer people to

die blah blah blah Russia's natural

defenses blah blah blah

minerals we want few people to

die stay in that frame because if you

stay in the frame of we want fewer

people to

die there's a solution if you leave that

frame into all na oh 10 years oh oh you

blah blah blah degrade degrade Russia's

military oh Russia had a good reason or

didn't they have a good

reason nothing you got nothing but if

you can if you can agree to enter the

frame of saving lives then you got

something to work with so that's pure

Trump pure

perfect

um and then he says this is what Trump

says he says president President Putin

even used my very strong Camp campaign

motto of common sense so apparently

Putin appealed to Common Sense knowing

that he was echoing you know Trump's

great

unifying um campaign idea so there's

nothing more unifying than common sense

because nobody can disagree with it it's

common sense so it's the ultimate High

Ground it very much worked domestically

but here's a here's a example of Putin

being that good Persuader so you notice

that Putin seems to be on board with all

the framing that Trump has mentioned we

don't know but there was no sense of an

objection so if he is then he knows what

a good frame looks like and he's willing

to enter it a good frame would be can we

include all these other interests that's

a good frame can we just figure out how

to stop killing people that's a good

frame so Putin knows that but he's also

using a technique called mirroring so

he's he's mirroring back Trump's

favorite thing common sense that is

strong technique because it's also a

sign of

respect and it makes you feel like the

two of you don't have much distance it's

almost like you're one person because

you're both having the same thought yeah

Common Sense let's do that Common Sense

thing very strong that's why Putin's

good at

this so

um yeah and then that great benefit of

working together it's a carrot not just

a stick it's all perfect so Will trump

get it done don't know but if he does

get it done and he gets also a mineral

deal you know a rare Earth mineral deal

with

zinski he Trump might be able to do the

thing that is so

trumpy here's what I mean ending the war

would be a real major accomplishment

espe especially if he did it in a month

it would be one of the Great

accomplishments of a

president but is that enough to just be

amazingly end a war that couldn't be

ended by other people it's not enough

Trump wants to turn Ukraine into a

profit Center and get our money back now

I don't know if he's going to do that I

don't know if that's going to work but

if he ends the war in a month and turns

Ukraine into a profit Center

that's standing

ovation that that's just like make room

on Mount Rushmore like nobody could do

that like no no president would even try

to do that nobody would even think that

it was worth doing nobody would even put

like one minute of energy into trying

it but I think he could get it

done so that's why we voted for him

all right so those are all the comments

I have my prepared remarks um if you're

joining late uh a little bit of

technical difficulty probably on my end

um so we're only streaming today on X

and on

locals and uh I believe we'll be able to

put the recorded version on YouTube and

Rumble

later all right I'm seeing something

going by in the comments

uh

uh zuie zuie said in a post we've

collectively suffered uh through TDS for

10 years and now we must also suffer

through EDS which would be I guess Elon

Musk uh instead of trump derangement

syndrome and Elon Musk says what if I

get EDS

to that's

funny RFK vote is 32 y to 25 24

n you shoveled two driveways while

listening good for

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