Episode 2763 CWSA 02/27/25

the stock market isn't too happy today big surprise I do I always expected it would have to pull back a little bit surprising nobody well let's get ready for a show let me get my comments working come on baby all right everything's working this morning including me I need my first stol though oh there we go that's good good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to see if you can take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny sh tiny human brains all you need for that is a cup mugger a glass of tanker chal Ste a canteen suer flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure of the dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous Sip and it happens now go Exquisite let me see if I can fix my glare glare a little bit worse worse better all right glare fixed well if you're subscribing to the Dilbert comic which continues every day and you can get it on the xplatform just look at my profile and subscribe or you can get it on locals you would know that Dilbert's CEO is trying to do a doge project on his own company trying to reduce expenses and he's trying to do it with a scalpel with a scalpel not a chainsaw now not a real scalpel but you know figuratively um it's not working out yeah it's not working out that well but you'd have to subscribe to know what went wrong now here's some news that is a really big deal to me it it won't mean anything to the rest of you the rest of you won't care about this a bit but this is transformative to my actually daily experience so Amazon is finally coming up with a an AI version of its digital assistant whose name I will not say so I don't activate yours at home but Alexa and you know as you know I've been hooked on that product for a long time I have one in most of my rooms that matter including this one and so my daily life involves walking around and then when I have a question I just say it out loud you know I I just ask my digital device as I'm walking through the room you know what time is it what's the weather what what will the weather be at this time where's my package you know I always have some kind of little question sometimes math you know some some fact but it's not great compared to Ai and it doesn't always recognize what you're asking whereas AI will be you know way better at recognizing what you're saying so my great dream had been that my experience would be like a Starship captain in my own house and that I could literally ask anything or even have a conversation with my computer just by talking and it would just hear me and talk back and it looks like that's going to be available in a month or so 19 1999 per month1 1999 wow I'm so glad it's not $20 cuz at $20 I would have said H you know that's a little pricey but in 1999 I I don't know am I being manipulated that seems so cheap okay well Tesla was granted a patent on some of the self-driving car technology but what the patent spotters spotted is that it's kind of a broad pattern which means that other self-driving cars seems like they would likely violate the patent so here's just sort of generally what the patent claim is um I won't won't read it all but it's basically a system with processors that look at objects and use a visual to figure out how to maneuver around Etc and it makes me wonder is the reason that Tesla got this patent so that they can you have a competitive remote and own the self-driving car world or and this would be actually not surprising could be because I think Tesla has a history of giving away their patents or making making them available to all this one's a big one I mean this is the patent of all patents if if they can control essentially the idea of training your car with lots of visual images and then using sensors to predict where the other objects are that's kind of the entire game so unless somebody uses I don't know only lar or some other technology which seems unlikely at this point would they just own the entire category for as long as the patent is on maybe the other possibility is that it's a defensive patent meaning that uh the other car companies might intentionally or accidentally be violating this pattern but Tesla could be accidentally VI VI ating someone else's patent because there are so many patents on so many things that you you can't make a product like a new self-driving car without almost guaranteed you're violating you know a dozen patents you didn't even know existed and then those patent people can come after you and they can pester you forever but if they're a car company you can say wellow would you like to trade patents and stay on a court now I don't know if this is the right kind of patent for for dealing you know negotiating versus maybe you want to keep it as a moat it's very interesting just just knowing that this exists and that the patent was granted well you're all excited about Epstein Island reveal day right has it happened yet do we have a timing yet for when the epin files a small portion of them just a tiny little sliver of them will be r does it has that been announced yet here's what I expect the first release will be underwhelming and it will not indicate any Crimes by anybody that's what I think oh noon so noon East Coast okay that'll be fun so here's my prediction so this it's based on the real world right so in the real world I don't think you're going to see the good stuff ever I don't think it'll ever come out I do think that since the Administration has made such a big deal about transparency they had to release something they couldn't release nothing so I think they're going to release the things that are kind of similar to what we already knew but maybe it gives you a little detail about who flew on the flights and if you only knew who flew on the flights would you know who committed any terrible crimes no because I don't believe that 100% of the people who went to the island or 100% of the people who got in his plane or 100% of the people who visited him and his one of his homes I don't think a 100% of them committed crimes I don't even know what percentage I would think yeah I don't know if it's 10% or 90% but you cannot assume if somebody took a flight that they committed a crime you could assume that almost all of them were targets and abtin was trying to get them in a bad situation but that doesn't mean they all accepted that you know there there were a lot of sophisticated people who probably could see through the whole thing and just thought okay you know I'll take some of the some of the offers but I won't do this one you know I'm not going to be in a room alone with somebody underage for example so I expect nothing so my my prediction is nothing we'll see meanwhile uh Rubio cut over $60 billion in waste from the state department and usaid according to the Daily wire but the first question you have to ask is is this new or is this just because he absorbed us Aid and those cuts really are coming mostly from usad I think that's probably true so this looks like it overlaps what we already knew but now we're calling it The State Department instead of usaid and they didn't cut 100% of usad there's a few things he thought were critical to keep but here's why I don't do a lot of reporting on the dollar amounts I don't trust the news to make sure that they're counting everything once and that they're counting it correctly didn't uh I think Trump said yesterday that he's looking for a balanced budget by maybe next year now that's what I wanted to hear that's what I wanted to hear I think the hardest budget to balance would be your first one because you know you don't have that much time you just got into office you're you're looking for Waste but they're still arguing over it and there's still core cases and just because you've identified it doesn't mean it's really going to stay cut so it doesn't surprise me if you're going to need one year of damn it we're going to run up the data a little bit more but we didn't have enough Runway like we didn't have enough preparation because we just got into office so knowing that the that his own Target Trump's is to look for a balanced budget by the next budget one year from now that would be acceptable in fact I would consider that amazing you know if you could get it done by the second year nobody's going to look at the first year and say the first year was a failure like history will look at that and say you got that done by the second year that that'll be incredible I I would be so impressed if they balance the budget by the second year and just knowing that that's that's how they're looking at it changes everything for me because you know how much I was bitching about um you know how could you possibly insult Us by talking Non-Stop about cutting costs and then giving us a budget that doesn't do that how could you insult us that much but all I needed to hear was that we're targeting next year to hit that Target now that might be true it might be hyperbole might be wishful thinking we don't know yet but I don't think Trump knows either but we don't know what Doge will look like a year from now but that little bit of clarity of of when they think they can get it done that changes everything for me it really does it just reframes it as oh this is the preparation year where we learn everything about how everything works you know the stuff we didn't know and then next year is the execution uh perfect if you can get it done in two years I'm not going to about the first year but um you know I think everybody on social media's been laughing about this next story so Jake Tapper has a book out with co-author Alex Thompson called called Original Sin and it's all about how all the bad people kept the secret of Joe Biden's mental decline yeah all those bad people now you know why this is funny because it's Jake Tapper and CNN and CNN and most people are saying Jake Tapper were um very much very much uh kind of not talking about the obvious degradation of Biden now I think what CNN and maybe Jake Tapper need to do is reframe it from the news was lying to you the entire time which is what I believe to be true the reason I believe that is everybody could see that Biden was degraded uh I called it out in 2019 there probably I don't know 50 Public figures who called him out in public around 2019 uh that doesn't look like a brain that's working what's it going to look like in four years and accurately we predicted it and so the thought that so the the reframe that the news business needs and Jake Tapper needs is that the news business could not have possibly deduced this without The Insider is telling them so he so he talks to all the Insiders I guess 200 or something quite quite a few and then they get the story of what was really happening behind the scenes which by the way is interesting enough that I recommend the book I haven't read it but if you'd like to know how ugly it was behind the scenes I think it's probably a good source if they really talk to that many insiders who were willing to talk because you know the administration is over so I'll bet you that the book is actually fascinating and I recommend it but I you can't you can't Overlook the fact that it's an attempt to rewrite history a little bit not a little bit a lot yeah the poor press how could they have possibly known without those insiders telling them anyway there's yet another clip of Scott Jennings on a CNN panel speaking of CNN and I swear to God uh he keeps chewing up the you know the the guests in the panel that are the anti-trumpers who are all crazy but now what I watch it it's like they're they're finding new sheep to feed to the lion and Jennings is has been so successful in turning the other panelists into clowns that it looks like just there's a lion sitting at the table and CNN is like I got you new sheep m delicious and then we watch him just Chow Down on the new sheep um so the the latest one I think they got the new the new stupidest one they've ever had on the panel so that the new stupid guy is warning you just wait until Trump steals our democracy now I'm paraphrasing but they literally are relying on the fact that he hasn't done anything yet because Scott Jennings says what would be an example of him stealing your democracy and they don't have anything but the best that the new stupid guy the new sheep said was he's going to steal it in the future in the future you'll feel dumb after he steals our democracy and then Scott Jennings slays him and eats him in front of the camera I'm starting to wonder if it's intentional uh it makes me wonder if the producers say to themselves all right we we seem to get a lot of crossover viewers who are just watching just only watching to watch Scott Jennings slay the SL of the sheep and so maybe they're thinking they don't want somebody who might be a fair fight you know somebody who could actually make a good argument you know one of the good lawyers for example they they have a million lawyers right I I would say that probably 100% of the guests the CNN could have on who have degrees or experience let's say as lawyers would not look like any of the sheep they're putting on the people that're putting on just don't even know how to put a coherent argument together so even even if you allow that you know it's a difference of political opinion the lawyers do a pretty good job in defending themselves because they're experts but they're just putting on people who don't have any skill and and just letting Jennings just slaughter them so maybe it's intentional it would be kind of clever I'll bet I'll bet the shows with Jennings do well relative to what they've had on that time period before meanwhile Gavin Nome has introduced his own podcast now of course he's being widely mocked because we like mocking him no matter what he does but uh I watched it for about three minutes and uh here's my update um he's not the new Joe Rogan yeah I'm pretty sure he's not the new Joe roken he is hard to listen to and it's because there's something wrong with his energy did anybody watch it it's his energy now I'm not going to make an accusation I can't back up I will just say that if you were to look at his behavior he looks like he's on something you know what I mean and I'm not judging because a lot of people are wrong a lot of things and sometimes me um so it's not a judgment but if as a as a worker not a work as an observer um if I see somebody talking you in a relaxed way like uh any of the all-in Pod um you know sort of joking and relaxed or Rogan joking and relaxed that's who I want to spend time with but you but you look at uh at newsum and he's he's got this energy that's a little bit too much energy for sitting in a chair and it feels like he's just got too much and is trying to get out of him and it just makes me a little nervous because of all the energy and I say to myself did you have a lot of coffee is a caffeine CU I hope it's just caffeine CU it looks like you got really strong C coffee there and I can't get past it so if he if he can't find some way to relax I I don't know how many people can watch that but but he might be able to get that you know as I've often said I remember watch watching Conan O'Brien when he first got a a nighttime show and the first I don't know first several months of Conan he had that same problem not from any drugs as far as I know but he just seemed nervous and you can't really watch a nervous person it just makes you nervous but over time he you know picked up all the right skills got comfortable with it became you know one of the best in the business and doesn't have any of that nervous energy or or when he does he makes it work so so it's possible that Nome is just knew and he'll figure it out but wow hard to watch at the moment all right um agricultural secretary Brook Rollins has a billion dollar plan to lower egg prices a billion dollar plan to lower egg prices what costs a billion dollars I don't know the details of the plan but there's some thought that they'll do a little less culling of the chickens you know killing them because they have some bird flu and a little more maybe letting them build up immunity and whatever else but uh a billion dollars if you just gave a direct subsidy to the eggs of a billion dollars you know economically that would be a bad idea a but how much would that lower the price of eggs per person probably not that much we eat a lot of eggs anyway it doesn't seem like egg prices should be a multi-year problem does it because you could you can basically create a new chicken in just like weeks and then it's only a few weeks until the new chicken can have can lay eggs so in what world can the United States not sold the chicken shortage in 6 months what what was going wrong so this would be a good test of the uh Trump Administration in my opinion what went wrong is competence there must have been a competence problem so now introducing a new cast of characters and the I think the Trump Administration is the best ever um maybe that's all it takes maybe you just needed smarter people but we'll find out anyway you probably all saw video from the uh big well attended and publicized cabinet meeting that chump had he had all his cabinet people in one room and Elon Musk was not at the table because he's not a Cabinet member but he was in the outside chairs and he got a chance to speak and the Press was there and they asked a bunch of questions and it was great transparency and it was a great show and it was great TV it looked like The Apprentice on steroids Trump knows how to put on a show so the the one thing I always say about him is he understands the value of the show you know his critics will say hey he's just a TV guy you know and all he cares about is how things look and stuff well obviously he's full of substance so he's got more substance than any president's ever had in his second term is pretty obvious especially with the EOS but he also has that extra skill you know his skill stack Trump skill stack includes how to put it on a TV show you know where to where to light it what the room should look like whether or not the camera should be there he knows that stuff and you you've seen him direct things when they do the little video before the interview starts you know he'll be asking questions like you know is that light good you know maybe you should move this over there and he's usually right on by the way if you get interviewed a lot you end up doing that you know I've I've been interviewed I don't know many hundreds of times and and photographed and photo shoots many hundreds of times and you end up you end up being the director of your own photo shoot so I can't tell you how many times um after I became you know extremely experienced in the process the photographer would come in and say something like all right H let's look at the house and I'll figure out where to photograph you and you know what positions and then I'll say all right uh here's this big dilber cutout uh and it'll be yes yes we'll put that big dilber cut out and like yeah just like every other photographer just like 100% of the other photographers they got to put that Dilbert cut down in there uh and then I'll say well you know you should probably get some photos of me at my drawing my drawing tablet you know so they can see what it looks like when I'm creating the cartoon the photographer will be like yes yes that's exactly right yeah put you at the desk and then I'll arrange the desk and I'll be like okay we're going to we're going to cheat the monitor in this direction it it'll look good on camera and if you close those blinds you you'll have the black out and then I can use the uh I can use the ring cameras over here and the photographer will be yes yes that's that's exactly right so it's definitely a thing that if you get photographed enough and you're in enough videos and you're in the public enough you end up being your own director because you know what works so you just become an active partner with the with the production crew and they like it they like it they don't have to do what you say because it's still their production but they definitely take the good the good suggestions they do anyway so he puts on this great show which was great TV great stuff and it was transparent it it made you think you know that you could ask any questions and the Press could ask any questions and there's one there's one event where a reporter asked asked um he asked Elon Musk because musk got up and uh spoke a little bit he asked Elon Musk if anyone in the room meaning the cabinet members mostly if anyone in the room wasn't happy about his work on Doge now of course that's a messed up stupid are you still beating your spouse kind of question you know is it's just sort of a troublemaking question right it's it's not even pretending to be useful for the public do you think the public really cared about which cabinet members were on board with Doge oh oh no what if the what if the head of the Interior is not fully on board what we don't care it's just it's just a troublemaking question to try to sew some division well Trump being Trump and knowing everything about public appearances and everything about a show Trump interrupts and he takes the question so it wasn't directed to Trump but he's smart enough and quick enough that he knew where to take this he he's so good at the moment his understanding of a moment is unparalleled trums and he goes he goes uh basically I'll take this he goes to the room he goes anybody unhappy with Elon if you are we'll we'll throw them out of here so he turns it into a joke which is perfect do you remember remember the first uh debate when he was first running for office the Rosie O'Donnell question did he answer the question no it was a troublemaking question he turned it into a joke and the joke became the the viral video so he did it again and the joke became the viral video and nobody gave a Flying Fig about the question all they cared is that he put on a better show than the reporter did that's it he just put on a better show and then he got all the attention and the reporter looked like a clown but it gets better uh so everybody laughs and they laugh and they clap so they look like they're agreeing agreeing with Trump and then musk was still standing you know for his part because he was he was the center of attention for just that moment and he said this he said president Trump has put together I think the best cabinet ever literally and I do not give false praise this is an incredible group of people I don't think that such a talented team has actually ever been assembled I think it's literally the best cabinet the country has ever had and I think the country should be incredibly appreciative of the people in this room now I agree with that 100% I've never seen a more um I'm going to say I I don't even know if capable is the right answer but um people I trust let's put it that way so there there's some people who don't have as much experience as you'd expect for that job but I definitely trust them and I trust them to be fast Learners and I trust them to be on point uh I trust them to have their priorities straight I trust them to root out Dei I trust them to get rid of the the bad eggs I trust them to cut expenses and I trust them to make adjustments quickly when they make mistakes so my level of trust is just through the roof I mean this is this is a seriously powerful group of people it's very impressive but that's not what I wanted to talk about uh there's this one thing that uh musk said in that which is this sentence he said and I do not give false praise and you know then he praise them now think about that superpower that he has imagine if Trump said I don't give false praise you would kind of laugh wouldn't you because Trump basically Praises everybody who's on his team and and insults everybody who isn't so most people most people in the public do give false praise they just care if you're on their team that's it but when I heard this when mus said I don't give false praise I thought to myself oh my God how many people have earned that that's a superpower the superpower is that he can say something of this magnitude that it's the best group of people ever assembled for this sort of thing and you say to yourself he actually means that that's like a legitimate opinion with no Hyperbole and that's what I think I think that is a no hyperbole legitimate actually his opinion and that he has the credit ability built over a lifetime you don't get that you don't get that overnight where he can say this sentence and I do not give false praise nobody is going to laugh at that nobody the Press didn't pick it up right the Press didn't say oh yeah he says he doesn't give false praise but look at this compilation clip of all the false praise he gave before nope there's no compilation clip of that because he doesn't give false praise it's just l ly true what a superpower what a superpower to be able to say that in public and have nobody question you about it that's it's really remarkable um I saw a post on next from the libs of Tik Tock and it was a summary of all the things that came out of the meeting I won't read the whole summary because some of them you've heard before but it was the most useful news that I saw about the the meeting because it was just really tight and long it was a long list but it was a tight bullet point did this did this did this did this and I thought to myself there's something happening in the prot Trump World that I can't figure out what the cause of it is but it's a really big thing and what it is is there are a whole bunch of um individual or independent superstars who have just entered the fight not right away you know some over over time but really special uh analysts and voices the libs of Tik Tok started out as just mocking weird liberal stuff on Tik Tok that was it that that was the whole game but now has completely transformed because you know it's sort of you can't just mock people on Tik Tok all day long and expect much out of that but now Libs of Tik Tok is transformed into what today was the best summary I've seen of the news it's the best summary now there's a reason that the libs of Tik Tok can do the best summary it's because the news needs to sell advertising so they can't do summaries they have to write a lot and then they fit a lot of advertising on that page because there's a lot of text there or they have to have a TV show where it goes for half an hour so they can fit in lots of commercials but Libs of Tik Tok can just say here's a 12 things you need to know boom boom boom boom boom boom boom so it's it's like filling a space that was absolutely useful and additive and really good work so you should follow lips of Tik do but the other ones in the same space are data Republican who just came out of nowhere and turns out to uh I may have this story wrong because I just saw hints of it before I went live but did data Republican who if you don't know who that is you really just need to look it up on X um an amazing data analyst who just is just doing amazing work with the Doge uh discoveries and putting them in context and letting us know who's connected to who and where the money's flowing and you know what people are connected to other people the the real stuff the stuff that really really helps you understand it because the surface stuff doesn't help oh usaid spend $60 billion okay is that good or bad who got it was there a reason for it but then you get to the data Republican level and suddenly everything becomes bright brightly you know clear uh everything has a clean Edge and you understand it for the first time and I think data Republican is building some kind of tool that would let you see who's connected to what you know I always tell you that what happened won't tell you anything you have to know who who happened you you got to know the players or you don't know anything so you know I always use Norm Eisen as my example and I'm not going to I'm not going to give away what my opinion is of his work but if you see Norm Eisen attached to any story you need to go a little deeper yeah so sorry Libs of tikto is run by a uh wait let me get the name right Chia Chia raek so just to give credit but then I would add Mike Ben who seemed to come out of nowhere and be the best explainer of how the real world Works in terms of our funding and uh the intelligence people and what we're trying to do with other countries and all the dirty tricks then you got a Michael shellenberger who comes out of nowhere and suddenly he's putting everything in context from nuclear energy to all the bad behavior in the government and probably the best I think shellenberger is the best independent journalist at the moment I think he's the best in the business um and I could go on right I can name a bunch of other people I I'm going to put myself on the list so my own little domain is reframing things helping you look at it in a different way and putting the dilber filter on things so you know okay in the real world you know sort of a dilbur world what would it really look like so that's something I can add that is a little bit unique and then I add the persuasion filter so you can look at things from a persuasion view as opposed to a policy view now there's nobody on the Democrat side who does what data Republican does Mike Ben does Sheldon Berger does or I do and and again that's just four examples or livs of Tik Tok even the the fact that such um effective people just rose up and there's this whole independent reporting Network because I can name another 12 people who are doing a great job of identifying the stories you need and and bringing them up and adding just the right amount of summary so that we can understand them quickly and then move on to the next story unbelievably strong independent reporting independent analysis independent data independent history how about Victor Davis Hansen who who's the Victor Davis Hansen on the Democrat side they've got a bunch of historians that are just obviously just liars and then we've got Victor Davis Hansen who who's like probably the best the best I've ever seen in that kind of work and they've got literally just historians they use in my opinion they use them as professional Liars they they don't even seem like they're being serious so and then on top of that on top of that uh Elon Musk gets to be sort of a king maker on x and uh I think it was yesterday maybe the day before I uh made a comment on you know one of the posts doesn't matter which one it is something political I think it was a post on uh there was a survey that said 75% of Democrats uh didn't think that the Border was open intentionally and I made some comment on it reposted it and then uh Elon uh musk he uh he he made a comment on it too so it was on on my post and the last I checked that over 30 million views now what do you think that does to an individual voice on X if if you just get a little tap on the shoulder from from Elon Musk you get 30 million views now um if you watch Elon musk's post you'll see that he has he has a little constellation of I don't know how many people I'm going to say several dozen so there's several dozen people that he's identified as voices he wants to look at every day so um I think he's boosted or replied to my posts just mine um several times this year I don't know the exact number but let's say a handful of times just since the beginning of the year and other people as well and so he becomes the the person who gets to say I think a million you know 30 million more people should see this idea or this person and it's incredibly powerful do do the Democrats have anything like that where one of them can make some other strong player who's way way below them in let's say you know power and can just boost their message right to the top I don't know I'm not sure they can do it and then we talk about the podcast world where the conservative world has created an unbelievably good podcasting uh what would you call environment or architecture or platform and they're all Independents like like you know of course Joe Rogan's the standard right but then the all-in Pod just bursts on the scene I don't know was it year or two ago the all in pod just had such smart um insightful people that it just went bang and you know they they don't lean completely right but that's part of their value that uh that you can see both sides and then you look at the Megan Kelly show the Megan Kelly show in my opinion is probably one of the greatest podcast successes ever because it has all the production quality has you know the very best onair personality you're ever going to see and every bit of it um is interesting like I probably consume I don't know five or six reals from just Megan Kelly show every day and they're always good and everything she says is worth listening to now do they have that you know maybe a maybe uh maybe they have some podcasts that are doing a well okay in terms of um viewership but I don't think think they have as many superstars it it feels like the political the political right just absolutely owned podcasting because they had to because they they were shut out from most of the major Media or you know there were the major media would look like enemies so yeah the the success of individuals just saying you know I got to take control of this here's what it is I I feel like when there's a successful Democrat leading leaning show of any sort whether it's a podcast or whether it's um you know on a on a traditional platform it feels like it's coming from the top as in hey we need a Joe Rogan who's our best person and then somebody gets pulled in like you know Gavin Nome or something and it's artificial it's just somebody trying to do the thing that was the missing thing I don't think a single one of the people I mentioned who are podcasters on the right I don't think a single one of them said I have to fill a spot there's an empty spot I have to fill it I think every one of them said what can I do that's additive what can I do that's additive and then within the constraints of you know a media that doesn't allow everybody to do everything and podcasting was it and they just said I could add to this and then they did so there is something beautiful and magical about what's happening on to so many strong voices on the right that I'm just so impressed and I don't know what's causing it the the only thing I could think of is that right leaning people feel that their Destiny is in their own hands that's the best I can come up with because if you think your destiny is in your own hand you say what can I do how can I help but also how can I monetize it which is perfectly Fair that's our system and I think the people on the left are like uh who's going to tell me what I should do to win so our team wins I mean it's something completely different driving them so I don't think it's an accident that the most talented people are all on the same side there's something behind it all right here's my favorite story I I like to have at least one story that I can really sink my teeth in and here's an example that that clarifies my last point I'm going to give you a spin on something oh we used to use that word right a spin I'm going to call it a reframe I'm going to reframe something and when you see it you're going to laugh because you didn't see it already you ready for this what is msnbc's main thrust of their commentary for weeks and weeks the answer is anti-d Doge oh doge is causing chaos doge is not communicating enough with people doge is causing a fall off in uh morale doge is causing confusion and flight and people are leaving and we don't know if all the work will get done right now first of all can you confirm that that's MSNBC is almost their total message for weeks and weeks and weeks right right now here's the fun part this is where the Dilbert filter comes in they're doing massive reorganization and cost cutting at MSNBC at the same time they're doging themselves at the same time they're criticizing Elon Musk Doge now here's the fun part they say that the real doge is causing chaos Morel is bad there's confusion the communication is not sufficient let me ask you this if you could find one of their fired staff members who just got fired in this big reorganization what do you think they would say about how MSNBC is handling their own little Doge do you think they'd say you know unlike the government they communicated so well they LED with empathy uh there was no chaos whatsoever and the morale was still high even while we were getting fired what do you think and so I challenge the independent the independent voices see if you can find even one staff member who got fired or doesn't know where they're going to end up now if they're still with the company they're not going to talk but if you can find somebody that is fired who's a little bit disgruntled why don't you ask them if their experience is exactly exactly exactly what Rachel madow is criticizing the big Doge of doing because it is so they're IM they're exactly in the middle of their own little Doge that you know because if you've lived in the real world for a minute and a half you know that nobody can do as extensive changes as MSNBC is trying to do with you know they're they're getting rid of they they just cut Rachel madow staff after she complained about them being racist do you think there's any chaos do you think the morale is just terrific that they're so happy that the staff got cut well this couldn't be more perfect so that's my challenge find me that staff member because they're going to have something to say about the MSNBC firings meanwhile the White House has ejected according the post Millennium Hayden Cunningham is writing uh that the White House is ejecting the huffling post and Reuters and some Foreign Press from the cabinet meeting now imagine working for the Huffington Post and your organization has spent 10 years just absolutely defecating on every Republican that has ever lived and especially especially on Trump and and then they would be insulted that they're rejected yeah what what did they expect I if you're non-stop you know right crapping group of course you're going to have a little push back so yeah it's perfect all right here's another great one um governor priter JB pritsker he was on MSNBC and um I saw a a post about it on X and I thought oh that's fake because there was a quote attributed to him that looked like you know obviously made up because nobody could be that stupid but it came from a source that didn't look like it was a joke so I thought hm could this possibly be something that actually came out of his mouth so I had to play the video to find out if the quote there was in the the post was actually real it's real here's what he actually said I promise I'm not making this up quote from JB pritsker the prices at the grocery store are going up because democracy is being taken away oh my goodness oh my goodness they can't stop with the intersection ality stuff you know the intersectionality is um okay you might be black but what if you're also gay you know that's two things um and I feel like there there's some kind of instinct to connect everything that doesn't need to be connected and so somehow he's trying to put together the price of eggs with the the Democracy being stolen around and and as uh Scott Jennings proved on the CNN panel uh they don't really have examples of anybody losing their democracy so the democracy has not yet been stolen I guess they're waiting for that any minute uhoh they took my democracy when I wasn't paying attention um but yeah once that democracy goes away well there's your price of eggs your price of eggs is going to go right through the roof now seriously is there anyone smart left on the left anyone I I did hear that John at an offer to Elon Musk to do an interview and I guess Elon said yes um with a couple of conditions is unedited and it's on X now I don't know if Stuart has agreed to that because he might want to do it for his own podcast but he might he might do it and um at least John Stewart is capable of understanding an argument on each side now he might not embrace it but he's capable of understanding it and then even repeating it back so that could be the most interesting conversation of the entire year I am so down for that you you haven't seen anybody on the right interview musk who could actually ask good questions could actually accept that some things are good and some things are bad could accept that maybe his intention is not to destroy the country or just make money you know just get rid of the crazy stuff because here's what I don't think John Stewart will ever say I don't think he'll say Elon Musk uh you're stealing my democracy what do you say about that I don't think he's going to ask that question because it's a dumbass question and obviously he knows that so wow I'm there for that I'd love to see that conversation anyway Trump and zinsky are supposed to meet on Friday for the big mineral deal I I think I'm going to not hold my breath that the mineral deal is going to go off smoothly but at the moment it looks like they have a mineral deal um I'm going to wait a little bit on the details because I think we're still in fog of war and there might be some last minute tweaks to it but the basic idea is that we would be partners in some kind of a mineral exploration deal they would make some money we would make some money um allegedly both sides have backed down on something so uh Ukraine backed down on security guarantees because presumably they thought it was good enough that that America would have a big financial interest in the country and that might be enough to incentivize America to protect its own interests which would protect Ukraine at the same time so it could be that they don't need it to be explicit if it's sort of built into the business model I guess um let's see what else and then uh then the US uh is not going to try to claw back 500 billion from their natural resources they're just going to split the money and what looks like a better deal and uh apparently there's some bigger picture things that they've not told us about so so there might be some non-mineral related stuff now here's here's what I think is the amazing part of this story while we're watching one of the greatest things I've ever seen any leader ever do is happening and I don't see anybody calling it out as directly as I'm going to call it out we don't know if this is going to work yet right so it's too too early to say the you know the mineral deal is a spectacular success but it looks good at the moment it looks looks like it has a pretty good chance of working um but here's my take if Trump succeeds in reframing a hot War into a series of business deals that are good for everybody in the history of leadership that will be the greatest thing anybody ever did if it holds now I'm not naive Putin is Putin we know that we can't predict or trust what he does we know that people with the best of intentions you know maybe things don't work out we know that implementation might matter as much as having a good idea so if it's not implemented properly it doesn't work a million things could go wrong I get it I get it you don't have to tell me that it could go wrong I get it but just think about this he's on the verge of maybe reframing an actual Hot War into a business deal and so far all sides have entered his frame they've all entered his frame nobody else can do that you're you're seeing a Once In A Thousand Years set of talent from Trump and and the people that he's he's hired to help him this is so unprecedented and unprecedented that and and I haven't seen anybody report it the way I just described it have you have you seen anybody describe it the way I did every Everybody Knows the fact but has anybody described this as the greatest reframe maybe in history like who ever did anything even close to this if you can turn a hot War into a business deal where everybody wins and it sticks and of course I'll say it again we don't know if it'll work we don't know if it'll stick we don't know if Putin will just use it as you know a delaying tactic until he does worse things maybe but it defin has a chance of working and and more than a good chance he got a solid chance of working incredible incredible anyway this is also incredible so Senator Jim Banks and representative cat kamik they're introducing a bill to defund NPR because it's a liberal propaganda Network they say now I don't know if that means NPR would go out a business where they just have less funding but um I don't care about the NPR part of the story maybe it'll work maybe it won't here's the bigger picture Trump has created a situation in which everyone in the government in every every way from Congress to every one of the um the cabinet positions to all of his appointments they're competing to see who can do the best job of reducing costs did I just tell you that Trump reframing a hot War into a business deal is the greatest thing anybody ever did in history if Trump pulls off reframing governments as a competition among peers to see who can cut the government cost the most Standing Ovation standing evation now to be clear to be clear and to be fair uh I'm not excited about the cost cutting yet I I think there's going to be a whole bunch of we thought we could cut that but we didn't get as much you know where people will argue about whether the numbers are accurate and even though even though doge is showing exactly what they're doing and they publish it so there's a lot of messiness to come but the hard part the hard part was the reframe he turned it from a bunch of people just I don't know what pursuing their own self-interest in the government what was the old model into literally their publicly competing publicly competing to see who can cut the most fat and waste and fraud out of their own their own departments or their own domains when would when have you ever seen that never never you've never seen it it's never been done in the history of the whole freaking world it's never been done and you're watching it being done right in front of you have I ever mentioned there are some things that America can do that nobody can come close you know I I have I have plenty of criticism for my own country as a patriot you know I love it of course uh and you know we're not perfect you know we we make a lot of false starts we've done a lot of things we wish maybe we hadn't done Etc but there are just some things nobody else can do Europe can't do that China can't do that Japan can't do that name a country that can do that even when melee did it I don't know that he got everybody to compete I I think maybe he just took the chainsaw I could be wrong might have he might have actually pulled that off in Argentina but this is incredible if if you think of it in terms of the reframe then suddenly it goes from just a thing they're trying to do to Holy Cow are you kidding me he pulled off that making them compete to see who can cut the cost the most unbelievable wow let's compare that to the main focus under the prior Administration so the main focus the thing that gets you attention the thing that will get you the uh the most praise from the president is how you cut costs and made it work what would have been the same kind of focus different Focus but what what would have been the Biden Focus I'm not making this up this was the Biden focus it was uh it was you got promoted if you cared the most about people's genitalia what color the genitalia is and what is being done with it that was the Biden Focus how' that work out for you did the country get really better A lot better when the focus was uh genitalia what color it was and what it was being used for that was your government we actually live through that I mean just think about that we went from caring about your genitalia and everybody else's I guess and how it all fit together to competing to reduce waste and fraud in the government talk about the Golden Age oh my God meanwhile uh you know case in point Lee zeldon of the EPA plans to cut 65% of it in other words he's competing he's publicly competing to see how much he can cut in his own domain unbelievable so good uh over at HUD the housing housing group there HUD um according to just the news HUD secretary Scott Turner announced yesterday I guess um they're going to terminate some rules that uh had been terminated under the Trump first term but then Biden put him back in place and I guess it was a rule I'm I'm just going to paraphrase because it gets a little technical the rule was we can't build a house for you unless your genitalia is the right color and uh it's being used for the right things okay I'm probably exaggerating a little bit but that's basically what it was it was sort of Dei in housing so the federal government put restrictions on what you could and could not do because it had to be diversity in inclusive and it created a whole bunch of obstacles to building anything so it probably just made the cost of housing go up because it it created a situation where a lot of people would say uh I don't even know how to satisfy all those rules so I'm not even going to bother so getting rid of burdensome rules doesn't mean that you're getting rid of diversity doesn't mean that you're getting rid of anything you wanted it just means that if the state States want to put those if the states want to put those I know some kind of rules on themselves I guess they can but he's just saying that the federal government isn't going to prevent you from building h Homes how great is that the federal government is not going to prevent you from Building Homes thank you I just want the federal government not to prevent me because the state will do a good job of making sure my home doesn't fall down on its own you know that it's safe it's built in a place I can ensure I mean all working out in the state so that's good um meanwhile there's a new Trump trump picked a pardon are a pardon are so somebody to help him decide who to Pardon and who he picked was Alice Marie Johnson who you might remember was um pardoned or did she come out during the the first step thing were I think she was just pardoned right and she was a famous pardon and she's a a black woman who I think uh was involved in some drug stuff way long ago but was in jail for what was an unreasonable amount of time in my opinion and uh even van Jones who had worked on that Pro that that process of you know allowing people to get out of jail earlier um he was praising Trump for picking uh Alice Marie Johnson as The gons are now I appreciate that now again I'm not telling you that van Jones turned Republican uh or that everything he says next you're going to agree with so it's not about that it's just you know it's like a little uh flower growing out of the sidewalk you know if if you hear somebody on the left say okay I can't even argue with that one that's just a good idea um there's a uh AI created a video of what Gaza would look like if Trump got to redevelop it and I guess Trump actually reposted it on Truth um but uh what's funny is uh it shows a giant golden statue of trump in in what what would be a Gaza that looks like a you know a Seaside luxury resort perfect situation and then I think there's a part of it shows him lounging side topless with uh Benjamin Netanyahu which I didn't see that part but that's funny there something with Elon Musk there and the fact that Trump reposted it when it shows a giant golden statue of trump again it's just something that Trump can do you know Biden couldn't do that like nobody else could do that he's the only one who could repost that and you would understand it's just a mild troll it's just a little mild troll hey does this bother you do you want to complain about it go ahead that would be fine it's just a little mild troll love it well the hill is reporting that uh the iaea the international atomic energy agency says Iran's going to be uh trying to accelerate its uh its process for being able to make a nuclear weapon um do you think they had to research that story let's see how else could they have gotten that story without doing research oh here's an idea they could have asked me hey Scott do you think Iran is working harder to build a nuclear weapon um yes yes well are you sure that they're not moving in the other direction um checking my brain um it's the only thing they have left to protect themselves uh no they're accelerating but is it possible that they just say they're accelerating but maybe they don't have even the capability to to get it done uh yeah that's possible that's possible did you really need to research that I mean what do you think they're doing of course they are they have nothing left it's the only thing they have to bargain with or or keep an attack away so I do think there's a really good chance that uh at some point Israel will bury everything that they have with giant bombs so we'll see how that works out um I got a feeling that Netanyahu is enjoying winning and he's never going to have a better chance for total victory you know how they talk about total Victory and you thought not you but some people thought oh and then when they're done with their total Victory they'll build a two-state solution and move all the uh all the Palestinians and Hamas back into Gaza and they'll live happily ever after does that sound like total Victory to you no no there was never any intention because total Victory is about the clearest statement of intention you could ever make total Victory now take that to what's going to happen with Iran do you think that uh Israel would would say well we got total Victory when all Iran is doing is building back his capability to do it to him again through their proxies nope let me explain it again total Victory total Victory total victory means that Iran can't do nuclear weapons one way or another they're not going to stop until Iran has no nuclear program how do I know that for sure well uh can the reporters ask me Scott what do you think Israel plans to do let's see what does total mean does total mean we stop halfway and let them rebuild wait wait no total total okay I got it total Victory it means that they're going to destroy the nuclear program whatever it takes whatever it takes whatever it takes guaranteed I I think we've clearly left the domain of maybe I think maybe's over now there is a possibility that Iran will get that message to because someone could explain to them do you know what total means have you heard of total yeah total means they're going to solve the problem once and it's not coming back and this would be the time to talk and if there is some way that you can reach a non-military agreement and not develop nuclear weapons you know we can talk about that because that would still be total and it would be the easiest way to get there but now if you're wondering if Israel is bluffing they're not total is total and they they could not be more clear about it so that's the beauty of being credible too if Israel had not done everything that it's done so far which is pretty darn impressive if you're just looking from from a military perspective you you can make up your own mind about who's who's right and who's wrong in this and I don't even have an opinion my opinion on the whole situation is that in the Middle East the strongest person gets what they want I why would I need more of an opinion than that that covers everything whoever is strongest is going to go get what they want that's it everything else is just blah blah blah blah blah blah do you support Israel what's the difference what's the difference is that going to make a difference no if they can get it and they have the strength to do it they're going to go get it and and if that ever changed and for I don't see how it would happen soon but if something changed where the uh Palestinians suddenly got all the power what do you think they would do you know exactly what they would do and I wouldn't be for it I would just be saying well I told you whoever Has the strength gets what they want so that's the entire story you don't have to be more complicated than that all right ladies and gentlemen that's everything I have on the topics of the day thank you for joining you're all wonderful um I will see you again tomorrow same time same place yeah Scott supports genocide of course you say that no I support understanding what the words total and victory mean what happens after that not it's I w't say it's not my concern it's just that having an opinion on it wouldn't make any difference so I just don't bother so no I do not support Israel just you know reflexively no matter what they do nothing like that they they have to they have to be a good Ally to us and that's all I care about and I would like to spend less money and I would like them to spend more of their money but you know there are lots of lots of variables that go with that because I think a lot of the money that we give to Israel for military stuff is really money that they have to spend on our own military industrial complex so maybe that's more of a US problem you know something we need to work out on our end whether that still makes sense for us as a country but uh I only care how Israel is treating us that's it all right I'm going to talk to the locals people privately the subscribers and the rest of you I'll see you tomorrow same time same place hope you enjoyed the show e e e for

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a really big deal to

me it it won't mean anything to the rest

of you the rest of you won't care about

this a bit but this is

transformative to my actually daily

experience

so Amazon is finally coming up with a an

AI version of its digital assistant

whose name I will not say so I don't

activate yours at home but

Alexa and you know as you know I've been

hooked on that product for a long time I

have one in most of my rooms that matter

including this one and so my daily life

involves walking around and then when I

have a question I just say it out loud

you know I I just ask my digital device

as I'm walking through the room you know

what time is it what's the weather what

what will the weather be at this time

where's my package you know I always

have some kind of little question

sometimes math you know some some fact

but it's not great compared to Ai and it

doesn't always recognize what you're

asking whereas AI will be you know way

better at recognizing what you're saying

so my great dream

had been that my experience would be

like a Starship captain in my own house

and that I could literally ask anything

or even have a conversation with my

computer just by talking and it would

just hear me and talk back and it looks

like that's going to be available in a

month or so 19 1999 per month1

1999 wow I'm so glad it's not $20

cuz at $20 I would have said H you know

that's a little pricey but in 1999 I I

don't know am I being manipulated that

seems so

cheap

okay well Tesla was granted a patent on

some of the self-driving car technology

but what the patent spotters

spotted is that it's kind of a broad

pattern which means that other

self-driving cars seems like they would

likely violate the patent so here's just

sort of generally what the patent claim

is um I won't won't read it all but it's

basically a system with processors that

look at objects and use a visual to

figure out how to maneuver around Etc

and it makes me wonder is the reason

that Tesla got this patent so that they

can you have a competitive remote and

own the self-driving car world or and

this would be actually not surprising

could be because I think Tesla has a

history of giving away their patents or

making making them available to all this

one's a big one I mean this is the

patent of all patents if if they can

control essentially the idea of training

your car with lots of visual images and

then using sensors to predict where the

other objects are

that's kind of the entire game so unless

somebody uses I don't know only lar or

some other technology which seems

unlikely at this point would they just

own the entire category for as long as

the patent is on maybe the other

possibility is that it's a defensive

patent meaning that uh the other car

companies might intentionally or

accidentally be violating this pattern

but Tesla could be accidentally VI VI

ating someone else's patent because

there are so many patents on so many

things that you you can't make a product

like a new self-driving car without

almost guaranteed you're violating you

know a dozen patents you didn't even

know existed and then those patent

people can come after you and they can

pester you forever but if they're a car

company you can say wellow would you

like to trade patents and stay on a

court now I don't know if this is the

right kind of patent for for dealing you

know negotiating versus maybe you want

to keep it as a moat it's very

interesting just just knowing that this

exists and that the patent was

granted well you're all excited about

Epstein Island reveal day

right has it happened yet do we have a

timing yet for when the epin

files a small portion of them just a

tiny little sliver of them will be r

does it has that been announced yet

here's what I

expect the first release will be

underwhelming and it will not indicate

any Crimes by anybody that's what I

think oh noon so noon East

Coast okay that'll be fun so here's my

prediction so this it's based on the

real world right so in the real world

I don't think you're going to see the

good stuff ever I don't think it'll ever

come out I do think that since the

Administration has made such a big deal

about transparency they had to release

something they couldn't release

nothing so I think they're going to

release the things that are kind of

similar to what we already knew but

maybe it gives you a little detail about

who flew on the

flights and if you only knew who flew on

the flights

would you know who committed any

terrible crimes no because I don't

believe that 100% of the people who went

to the island or 100% of the people who

got in his plane or 100% of the people

who visited him and his one of his homes

I don't think a 100% of them committed

crimes I don't even know what percentage

I would think yeah I don't know if it's

10% or

90% but you cannot assume if somebody

took a

flight that they committed a crime you

could

assume that almost all of them were

targets and abtin was trying to get them

in a bad situation but that doesn't mean

they all accepted that you know there

there were a lot of sophisticated people

who probably could see through the whole

thing and just thought okay you know

I'll take some of the some of the offers

but I won't do this one you know I'm not

going to be in a room alone with

somebody underage for example so

I expect nothing so my my prediction is

nothing we'll see meanwhile uh Rubio cut

over $60 billion in waste from the state

department and usaid according to the

Daily wire but the first question you

have to ask is is this

new or is this just because he absorbed

us Aid and those cuts really are coming

mostly from usad I think that's probably

true so this looks like it overlaps what

we already knew but now we're calling it

The State Department instead of

usaid and they didn't cut 100% of usad

there's a few things he thought were

critical to

keep but here's why I don't do a lot of

reporting on the dollar

amounts I don't trust the

news to make sure that they're counting

everything once and that they're

counting it

correctly didn't uh I think Trump said

yesterday that he's looking for a

balanced budget by maybe next

year now that's what I wanted to hear

that's what I wanted to hear I think the

hardest budget to balance would be your

first one because you know you don't

have that much time you just got into

office you're you're looking for Waste

but they're still arguing over it and

there's still core cases and just

because you've identified it doesn't

mean it's really going to stay cut so

it doesn't surprise me if you're going

to need one year of damn it we're going

to run up the data a little bit more but

we didn't have enough Runway like we

didn't have enough preparation because

we just got into office so knowing that

the that his own Target Trump's is to

look for a balanced budget by the next

budget one year from now that would be

acceptable in fact I would consider that

amazing you know if you could get it

done by the second year nobody's going

to look at the first year and say the

first year was a failure like history

will look at that and say you got that

done by the second year that that'll be

incredible I I would be so

impressed if they balance the budget by

the second year and just knowing that

that's that's how they're looking at it

changes everything for me because you

know how much I was bitching about um

you know how could you possibly insult

Us by talking Non-Stop about cutting

costs and then giving us a budget that

doesn't do that how could you insult us

that much but all I needed to hear was

that we're targeting next year to hit

that Target now that might be true it

might be hyperbole might be wishful

thinking we don't know yet but I don't

think Trump knows either but we don't

know what Doge will look like a year

from

now but that little bit of clarity of of

when they think they can get it done

that changes everything for me it really

does it just reframes it as oh this is

the preparation year where we learn

everything about how everything works

you know the stuff we didn't know and

then next year is the

execution uh perfect if you can get it

done in two years I'm not going to

about the first year but um you know I

think everybody on social media's been

laughing about this next story so Jake

Tapper has a book out with co-author

Alex Thompson called called Original Sin

and it's all about how all the bad

people kept the secret of Joe Biden's

mental

decline yeah all those bad

people now you know why this is funny

because it's Jake Tapper and CNN and CNN

and most people are saying Jake Tapper

were um very much

very much uh kind of not talking about

the obvious degradation of Biden now I

think what CNN and maybe Jake Tapper

need to do is reframe it from the news

was lying to you the entire time which

is what I believe to be true the reason

I believe that is everybody could see

that Biden was

degraded uh I called it out in

2019 there

probably I don't know 50 Public figures

who called him out in public around 2019

uh that doesn't look like a brain that's

working what's it going to look like in

four years and accurately we predicted

it and so the thought that so the the

reframe that the news business needs and

Jake Tapper needs is that the news

business could not have possibly deduced

this without The Insider is telling them

so he so he talks to all the Insiders I

guess 200 or something quite quite a few

and then they get the story of what was

really happening behind the scenes which

by the way is interesting enough that I

recommend the book I haven't read it but

if you'd like to know how ugly it was

behind the scenes I think it's probably

a good source if they really talk to

that many insiders who were willing to

talk because you know the administration

is over

so I'll bet you that the book is

actually fascinating and I recommend it

but I you can't you can't Overlook the

fact that it's an attempt to rewrite

history a little bit not a little bit a

lot yeah the poor press how could they

have possibly known without those

insiders telling

them anyway there's yet another clip of

Scott Jennings on a CNN panel speaking

of

CNN and I swear to God

uh he keeps chewing up the you know the

the guests in the panel that are the

anti-trumpers who are all crazy but now

what I watch it it's like they're

they're finding new sheep to feed to the

lion and Jennings is has been so

successful in turning the other

panelists into clowns that it looks like

just there's a lion sitting at the table

and CNN is like I got you new sheep m

delicious and then we watch him just

Chow Down on the new

sheep um

so the the latest one I think they got

the new the new stupidest one they've

ever had on the panel so that the new

stupid guy is warning you just wait

until Trump steals our democracy now I'm

paraphrasing but they literally are

relying on the fact that he hasn't done

anything yet because Scott Jennings says

what would be an example of him stealing

your

democracy and they don't have anything

but the best that the new stupid guy the

new sheep said

was he's going to steal it in the future

in the future you'll feel dumb after he

steals our

democracy and then Scott Jennings slays

him and eats him in front of the

camera I'm starting to wonder if it's

intentional uh it makes me wonder if the

producers say to themselves all right we

we seem to get a lot of crossover

viewers who are just watching just only

watching to watch Scott Jennings slay

the SL of the sheep and so maybe they're

thinking they don't want somebody who

might be a fair fight you know somebody

who could actually make a good argument

you know one of the good lawyers for

example they they have a million lawyers

right I I would say that probably 100%

of the guests the CNN could have on who

have degrees or experience let's say as

lawyers would not look like any of the

sheep they're putting on the people

that're putting on just don't even know

how to put a coherent argument together

so even even if you allow that you know

it's a difference of political opinion

the lawyers do a pretty good job in

defending themselves because they're

experts but they're just putting on

people who don't have any skill and and

just letting Jennings just slaughter

them so maybe it's intentional

it would be kind of clever I'll bet I'll

bet the shows with Jennings do well

relative to what they've had on that

time period before meanwhile Gavin Nome

has introduced his own

podcast now of course he's being widely

mocked because we like mocking him no

matter what he does but uh I watched it

for about three

minutes and uh here's my

update um he's not the new Joe Rogan

yeah

I'm pretty sure he's not the new Joe

roken he is hard to listen to and it's

because there's something wrong with his

energy did anybody watch it it's his

energy now I'm not going to make an

accusation I can't back up I will just

say that if you were to look at his

behavior he looks like he's on something

you know what I mean and I'm not judging

because a lot of people are wrong a lot

of things and sometimes me um so it's

not a judgment but if as a as a worker

not a work as an

observer um if I see somebody talking

you in a relaxed way like uh any of the

all-in Pod um you know sort of joking

and relaxed or Rogan joking and relaxed

that's who I want to spend time with but

you but you look at uh at newsum and

he's he's got this energy that's a

little bit too much energy for sitting

in a chair and it feels like he's just

got too much and is trying to get out of

him and it just makes me a little

nervous because of all the energy and I

say to myself did you have a lot of

coffee is a caffeine CU I hope it's just

caffeine CU it looks like you got really

strong C coffee

there and I can't get past it so if he

if he can't find some way to

relax I I don't know how many people can

watch that but but he might be able to

get that you know as I've often said I

remember watch watching Conan O'Brien

when he first got a a nighttime show and

the first I don't know first several

months of Conan he had that same problem

not from any drugs as far as I know but

he just seemed

nervous and you can't really watch a

nervous person it just makes you nervous

but over

time he you know picked up all the right

skills got comfortable with it became

you know one of the best in the business

and doesn't have any of that nervous

energy or or when he does he makes it

work so so it's possible that Nome is

just knew and he'll figure it out but

wow hard to watch at the

moment all right um agricultural

secretary Brook Rollins has a billion

dollar plan to lower egg prices a

billion dollar plan to lower egg

prices what costs a billion dollars I

don't know the details of the plan but

there's some thought that they'll do a

little less culling of the chickens you

know killing them because they have some

bird flu and a little more maybe letting

them build up immunity and whatever else

but uh a billion

dollars if you just gave a direct

subsidy to the eggs of a billion dollars

you know economically that would be a

bad idea a but how much would that lower

the price of eggs per person probably

not that much we eat a lot of eggs

anyway it doesn't seem like egg prices

should be a multi-year problem does

it because you could you can basically

create a new chicken in just like weeks

and then it's only a few weeks until the

new chicken can have can lay

eggs so in what world can the United

States not sold the chicken shortage in

6 months what what was going wrong so

this would be a good test of the uh

Trump Administration in my opinion what

went wrong is competence there must have

been a competence problem so now

introducing a new cast of characters and

the I think the Trump Administration is

the best ever um maybe that's all it

takes maybe you just needed smarter

people but we'll find

out anyway you probably all saw video

from the uh big well attended and

publicized cabinet meeting that chump

had he had all his cabinet people in one

room and Elon Musk was not at the table

because he's not a Cabinet member but he

was in the outside chairs and he got a

chance to speak and the Press was there

and they asked a bunch of questions and

it was great transparency and it was a

great show and it was great TV it looked

like The Apprentice on steroids Trump

knows how to put on a show

so the the one thing I always say about

him is he understands the value of the

show you know his critics will say hey

he's just a TV guy you know and all he

cares about is how things look and stuff

well obviously he's full of substance so

he's got more substance than any

president's ever had in his second term

is pretty obvious especially with the

EOS but he also has that extra skill you

know his skill stack Trump

skill stack includes how to put it on a

TV show you know where to where to light

it what the room should look like

whether or not the camera should be

there he knows that stuff and you you've

seen him direct things when they do the

little video before the interview starts

you know he'll be asking questions like

you know is that light good you know

maybe you should move this over there

and he's usually right on by the way if

you get interviewed a lot you end up

doing that you know I've I've been

interviewed I don't know many hundreds

of times and and photographed and photo

shoots many hundreds of times and you

end up you end up being the director of

your own photo shoot so I can't tell you

how many times um after I became you

know extremely experienced in the

process the photographer would come in

and say something like all right H let's

look at the house and I'll figure out

where to photograph you and you know

what positions and then I'll say all

right uh here's this big dilber cutout

uh and it'll be yes yes we'll put that

big dilber cut out and like yeah just

like every other

photographer just like 100% of the other

photographers they got to put that

Dilbert cut down in there uh and then

I'll say well you know you should

probably get some photos of me at my

drawing my drawing tablet you know so

they can see what it looks like when I'm

creating the cartoon the photographer

will be like yes yes that's exactly

right yeah put you at the desk and then

I'll arrange the desk and I'll be like

okay we're going to we're going to cheat

the monitor in this direction it it'll

look good on camera and if you close

those blinds you you'll have the black

out and then I can use the uh I can use

the ring cameras over here and the

photographer will be yes yes that's

that's exactly

right so it's definitely a thing that if

you get photographed enough and you're

in enough videos and you're in the

public enough you end up being your own

director because you know what works so

you just become an active partner with

the with the production crew and they

like it they like it they don't have to

do what you say because it's still their

production but they definitely take the

good the good suggestions they

do anyway so he puts on this great show

which was great TV great stuff and it

was transparent it it made you think you

know that you could ask any questions

and the Press could ask any questions

and there's one there's one event where

a reporter asked asked um he asked Elon

Musk because musk got up and uh spoke a

little bit he asked Elon Musk if anyone

in the room meaning the cabinet members

mostly if anyone in the room wasn't

happy about his work on

Doge now of course that's a messed up

stupid are you still beating your spouse

kind of question you know is it's just

sort of a troublemaking question right

it's it's not even pretending to be

useful for the public do you think the

public really cared about which cabinet

members were on board with

Doge oh oh no what if the what if the

head of the Interior is not fully on

board what we don't care it's just it's

just a troublemaking question to try to

sew some division well Trump being Trump

and knowing everything about public

appearances and everything about a show

Trump interrupts and he takes the

question

so it wasn't directed to Trump but he's

smart enough and quick enough that he

knew where to take this he he's so good

at the moment his understanding of a

moment is unparalleled trums and he goes

he goes uh basically I'll take this he

goes to the room he goes anybody unhappy

with Elon if you are we'll we'll throw

them out of

here so he turns it into a joke which is

perfect do you remember remember the

first uh debate when he was first

running for office the Rosie O'Donnell

question did he answer the question no

it was a troublemaking question he

turned it into a joke and the joke

became the the viral video so he did it

again and the joke became the viral

video and nobody gave a Flying Fig about

the question all they cared is that he

put on a better show than the reporter

did

that's it he just put on a better show

and then he got all the attention and

the reporter looked like a

clown but it gets better uh so everybody

laughs and they laugh and they clap so

they look like they're agreeing agreeing

with Trump and then musk was still

standing you know for his part because

he was he was the center of attention

for just that moment and he said this he

said president Trump has put together I

think the best cabinet ever literally

and I do not give false praise this is

an incredible group of people I don't

think that such a talented team has

actually ever been assembled I think

it's literally the best cabinet the

country has ever had and I think the

country should be incredibly

appreciative of the people in this room

now I agree with that 100% I've never

seen a

more um I'm going to

say I I don't even know if capable is

the right

answer but

um people I trust let's put it that way

so there there's some people who don't

have as much experience as you'd expect

for that job but I definitely trust them

and I trust them to be fast Learners and

I trust them to be on point uh I trust

them to have their priorities straight I

trust them to root out Dei I trust them

to get rid of the the bad eggs I trust

them to cut expenses and I trust them to

make adjustments quickly when they make

mistakes so my level of trust is just

through the roof I mean this is this is

a

seriously powerful group of people it's

very impressive but that's not what I

wanted to talk

about uh there's this one thing that uh

musk said in that which is this sentence

he said and I do not give false

praise and you know then he praise them

now think about that superpower that he

has imagine if Trump said I don't give

false praise you would kind of laugh

wouldn't you because Trump basically

Praises everybody who's on his team and

and insults everybody who isn't so most

people most people in the public do give

false praise they just care if you're on

their team that's it but when I heard

this when mus said I don't give false

praise I thought to myself oh my God how

many people have earned that that's a

superpower the superpower is that he can

say something of this magnitude that

it's the best group of people ever

assembled for this sort of thing and you

say to yourself he actually means that

that's like a legitimate opinion with no

Hyperbole and that's what I think I

think that is a no hyperbole legitimate

actually his opinion and that he has the

credit ability built over a lifetime you

don't get that you don't get that

overnight where he can say this sentence

and I do not give false praise nobody is

going to laugh at that nobody the Press

didn't pick it up right the Press didn't

say oh yeah he says he doesn't give

false praise but look at this

compilation clip of all the false praise

he gave before nope there's no

compilation clip of that because he

doesn't give false

praise it's just l ly true what a

superpower what a superpower to be able

to say that in public and have nobody

question you about it that's it's really

remarkable um I saw a post on next from

the libs of Tik Tock and it was a

summary of all the things that came out

of the meeting I won't read the whole

summary because some of them you've

heard before but it was the most useful

news that I saw about the the meeting

because it was just really tight and

long it was a long list but it was a

tight bullet point did this did this did

this did this and I thought to myself

there's something

happening in the prot Trump World that I

can't figure out what the cause of it is

but it's a really big thing and what it

is is there are a whole bunch of um

individual or independent

superstars who have just entered the

fight not right away you know some over

over time but really special uh analysts

and voices the libs of Tik Tok started

out as just mocking weird liberal stuff

on Tik Tok that was it that that was the

whole game but now has completely

transformed because you know it's sort

of you can't just mock people on Tik Tok

all day long and expect much out of that

but now Libs of Tik Tok is transformed

into what today was the best summary

I've seen of the news it's the best

summary now there's a reason that the

libs of Tik Tok can do the best summary

it's because the news needs to sell

advertising so they can't do summaries

they have to write a lot and then they

fit a lot of advertising on that page

because there's a lot of text there or

they have to have a TV show where it

goes for half an hour so they can fit in

lots of commercials but Libs of Tik Tok

can just say here's a 12 things you need

to know boom boom boom boom boom boom

boom so it's it's like filling a space

that was absolutely

useful and additive and really good work

so you should follow lips of Tik do but

the other ones in the same space are

data Republican who just came out of

nowhere and turns out to uh I may have

this story wrong because I just saw

hints of it before I went live but did

data Republican who if you don't know

who that is you really just need to look

it up on X um an amazing data analyst

who just is just doing amazing work with

the Doge uh discoveries and putting them

in context and letting us know who's

connected to who and where the money's

flowing and you know what people are

connected to other people the the real

stuff the stuff that really really helps

you understand it because the surface

stuff doesn't help oh usaid

spend $60

billion okay is that good or bad who got

it was there a reason for it but then

you get to the data Republican level and

suddenly everything becomes bright

brightly you know clear uh everything

has a clean Edge and you understand it

for the first

time and I think data Republican is

building some kind of tool that would

let you see who's connected to

what you know I always tell you that

what happened won't tell you anything

you have to know who who happened you

you got to know the players or you don't

know

anything so you know I always use Norm

Eisen as my example and I'm not going to

I'm not going to give away what my

opinion is of his work but if you see

Norm Eisen attached to any

story you need to go a little

deeper yeah so

sorry Libs of tikto is run by a uh wait

let me get the name right

Chia Chia

raek so just to give credit but then I

would add Mike Ben who seemed to come

out of nowhere and be the best explainer

of how the real world Works in terms of

our funding and uh the intelligence

people and what we're trying to do with

other countries and all the dirty tricks

then you got a Michael shellenberger who

comes out of nowhere and

suddenly he's putting everything in

context from nuclear energy to all the

bad behavior in the government and

probably the best I think shellenberger

is the best independent journalist at

the moment I think he's the best in the

business um and I could go on right I

can name a bunch of other people I I'm

going to put myself on the list so my

own little domain is reframing things

helping you look at it in a different

way and putting the dilber filter on

things so you know okay in the real

world you know sort of a dilbur world

what would it really look like so that's

something I can add that is a little bit

unique and then I add the persuasion

filter so you can look at things from a

persuasion view as opposed to a policy

view now there's nobody on the Democrat

side who does what data Republican does

Mike Ben does Sheldon Berger does or I

do and and again that's just four

examples or livs of Tik Tok

even the the fact that such um effective

people just rose up and there's this

whole independent reporting Network

because I can name another 12 people who

are doing a great job of identifying the

stories you need and and bringing them

up and adding just the right amount of

summary so that we can understand them

quickly and then move on to the next

story

unbelievably strong independent

reporting independent analysis

independent data independent history how

about Victor Davis Hansen who who's the

Victor Davis Hansen on the Democrat side

they've got a bunch of historians that

are just obviously just

liars and then we've got Victor Davis

Hansen who who's like probably the best

the best I've ever seen in that kind of

work and they've got literally just

historians they use in my opinion they

use them as professional Liars they they

don't even seem like they're being

serious so and then on top of that on

top of

that uh Elon Musk gets to be sort of a

king maker on x

and uh I think it was yesterday maybe

the day

before I uh made a comment on you know

one of the posts doesn't matter which

one it is something political I think it

was a post

on uh there was a survey that said 75%

of

Democrats uh didn't think that the

Border was open

intentionally and I made some comment on

it reposted it and then uh Elon uh musk

he uh he

he made a comment on it too so it was on

on my post and the last I checked that

over 30 million

views now what do you think that does to

an individual voice on X if if you just

get a little tap on the shoulder from

from Elon Musk you get 30 million views

now um if you watch Elon musk's post

you'll see that he has he has a little

constellation of I don't know how many

people I'm going to say several dozen so

there's several dozen people that he's

identified as voices he wants to look at

every day

so um I think he's boosted or replied to

my posts just mine um several times this

year I don't know the exact number but

let's say a handful of times just since

the beginning of the year and other

people as well and so he becomes the the

person who gets to say I think a million

you know 30 million more people should

see this idea or this person and it's

incredibly powerful do do the Democrats

have anything like that where one of

them can make some other strong player

who's way way below them in let's say

you know power and can just boost their

message right to the top I don't know

I'm not sure they can do it and then we

talk about the podcast

world where the conservative world has

created an

unbelievably good

podcasting uh what would you call

environment or architecture or platform

and they're all

Independents like like you know of

course Joe Rogan's the standard right

but then the all-in Pod just bursts on

the scene I don't know was it year or

two ago the all in pod just had such

smart um insightful people that it just

went bang and you know they they don't

lean completely right but that's part of

their value that uh that you can see

both sides and then you look at the

Megan Kelly show the Megan Kelly show in

my opinion is probably one of the

greatest podcast successes ever because

it has all the production quality has

you know the very best onair personality

you're ever going to see and every bit

of it um is interesting like I probably

consume I don't know five or six reals

from just Megan Kelly show every day and

they're always good and everything she

says is worth listening to now do they

have that you know maybe a maybe uh

maybe they have some podcasts that are

doing a well okay in terms of um

viewership but I don't think think they

have as many superstars it it feels like

the political the political right just

absolutely owned podcasting because they

had to because they they were shut out

from most of the major Media or you know

there were the major media would look

like

enemies so yeah the the success of

individuals just saying you know I got

to take control of

this here's what it is I I feel like

when there's a successful Democrat

leading leaning show of any sort whether

it's a podcast or whether it's um you

know on a on a traditional platform it

feels like it's coming from the top as

in hey we need a Joe Rogan who's our

best person and then somebody gets

pulled in like you know Gavin Nome or

something and it's artificial it's just

somebody trying to do the thing that was

the missing thing I don't think a single

one of the people I mentioned who are

podcasters on the right I don't think a

single one of them said I have to fill a

spot there's an empty spot I have to

fill it I think every one of them said

what can I do that's

additive what can I do that's additive

and then within the constraints of you

know a media that doesn't allow

everybody to do

everything and podcasting was it and

they just said I could add to this and

then they

did so there is something beautiful and

magical about what's happening on to so

many strong voices on the right that I'm

just so impressed and I don't know

what's causing it the the only thing I

could think of is that right leaning

people feel that their Destiny is in

their own hands that's the best I can

come up with because if you think your

destiny is in your own hand you say what

can I do how can I help but also how can

I monetize it which is perfectly Fair

that's our system and I think the people

on the left are like uh who's going to

tell me what I should do to win so our

team wins I mean it's something

completely different driving them so I

don't think it's an accident that the

most talented people are all on the same

side there's something behind

it all right here's my favorite story I

I like to have at least one story that I

can really sink my teeth in and here's

an example that that clarifies my last

point I'm going to give you a spin on

something oh we used to use that word

right a spin I'm going to call it a

reframe I'm going to reframe something

and when you see it you're going to

laugh because you didn't see it already

you ready for this what is msnbc's main

thrust of their

commentary for weeks and weeks the

answer is anti-d Doge oh doge is causing

chaos doge is not communicating enough

with people doge is causing a fall off

in uh morale doge is causing confusion

and flight and people are leaving and we

don't know if all the work will get done

right now first of all can you

confirm that that's MSNBC is almost

their total message for weeks and weeks

and weeks right

right now here's the fun part this is

where the Dilbert filter comes

in they're doing massive reorganization

and cost cutting at

MSNBC at the same

time they're doging themselves at the

same time they're criticizing Elon Musk

Doge now here's the fun part they say

that the real doge is causing chaos

Morel is bad there's confusion the

communication is not

sufficient let me ask you this if you

could find one of their fired staff

members who just got fired in this big

reorganization what do you think they

would say about how MSNBC is handling

their own little Doge do you think

they'd say you know unlike the

government they communicated so well

they LED with empathy

uh there was no chaos whatsoever and the

morale was still high even while we were

getting

fired what do you think and so I

challenge the independent the

independent voices see if you can

find even one staff member who got fired

or doesn't know where they're going to

end up now if they're still with the

company they're not going to talk but if

you can find somebody that is fired

who's a little bit disgruntled

why don't you ask them if their

experience is

exactly exactly

exactly what Rachel madow is criticizing

the big Doge of doing because it

is so they're IM they're exactly in the

middle of their own little Doge that you

know because if you've lived in the real

world for a minute and a half you know

that nobody can do as extensive changes

as MSNBC is trying to do with you know

they're they're getting rid of they they

just cut Rachel madow

staff after she complained about them

being

racist do you think there's any

chaos do you think the morale is just

terrific that they're so happy that the

staff got

cut well this couldn't be more perfect

so that's my challenge find me that

staff member

because they're going to have something

to say about the

MSNBC firings meanwhile the White House

has ejected according the post

Millennium Hayden Cunningham is writing

uh that the White House is ejecting the

huffling post and Reuters and some

Foreign Press from the cabinet

meeting

now imagine working for the Huffington

Post and your organization has spent 10

years just absolutely

defecating on every Republican that has

ever lived and

especially especially on Trump and and

then they would be insulted that they're

rejected yeah what what did they

expect I if you're

non-stop you know right crapping group

of course you're going to have a little

push back so yeah it's perfect all right

here's another great one um governor

priter JB

pritsker he was on

MSNBC and um I saw a a post about it on

X and I thought oh that's fake because

there was a quote attributed to him that

looked like you know obviously made up

because nobody could be that stupid but

it came from a source that didn't look

like it was a joke so I thought hm could

this possibly be something that actually

came out of his mouth so I had to play

the video to find out if the quote there

was in the the post was actually real

it's real here's what he actually

said I promise I'm not making this up

quote from JB pritsker the prices at the

grocery store are going up because

democracy is being taken

away oh my

goodness oh my

goodness they can't stop with the

intersection ality stuff you know the

intersectionality is um okay you might

be black but what if you're also gay you

know that's two things um and I feel

like there there's some kind of instinct

to connect everything that doesn't need

to be connected and so somehow he's

trying to put together the price of eggs

with the the Democracy being stolen

around and and as uh Scott Jennings

proved on the CNN panel uh they don't

really have examples of anybody losing

their democracy so the democracy has not

yet been stolen I guess they're waiting

for that any minute uhoh they took my

democracy when I wasn't paying attention

um but yeah once that democracy goes

away well there's your price of eggs

your price of eggs is going to go right

through the roof now

seriously is there anyone smart left on

the left

anyone I I did hear that John at an

offer to Elon Musk to do an interview

and I guess Elon said yes um with a

couple of conditions is unedited and

it's on X now I don't know if Stuart has

agreed to that because he might want to

do it for his own podcast but he might

he might do

it

and um at least John Stewart is capable

of understanding an argument on each

side now he might not embrace it but

he's capable of understanding it and

then even repeating it back so that

could be the most interesting

conversation of the entire year I am so

down for that you you haven't seen

anybody on the right interview musk who

could actually ask good questions could

actually accept that some things are

good and some things are bad could

accept that maybe his intention is not

to destroy the country or just make

money you know just get rid of the crazy

stuff

because here's what I don't think John

Stewart will ever say I don't think

he'll say Elon Musk uh you're stealing

my democracy what do you say about that

I don't think he's going to ask that

question because it's a dumbass question

and obviously he knows that so wow I'm

there for that I'd love to see that

conversation anyway Trump and zinsky are

supposed to meet on Friday for the big

mineral deal I I think I'm going to not

hold my breath

that the mineral deal is going to go off

smoothly but at the moment it looks like

they have a mineral deal um I'm going to

wait a little bit on the details because

I think we're still in fog of war and

there might be some last minute tweaks

to it but the basic idea is that we

would be partners in some kind of a

mineral exploration deal they would make

some money we would make some money um

allegedly both sides have backed down on

something so uh Ukraine backed down on

security

guarantees because presumably they

thought it was good enough that that

America would have a big financial

interest in the country and that might

be enough to incentivize America to

protect its own interests which would

protect Ukraine at the same time so it

could be that they don't need it to be

explicit if it's sort of built into the

business model I guess um let's see what

else and then uh then the US uh is not

going to try to claw back 500 billion

from their natural resources they're

just going to split the money and what

looks like

a better deal and uh apparently there's

some bigger picture things that they've

not told us about so so there might be

some non-mineral related

stuff now here's here's what I think is

the amazing part of this

story while we're watching

one of the greatest things I've ever

seen any leader ever do is happening and

I don't see anybody calling it out as

directly as I'm going to call it

out we don't know if this is going to

work yet right so it's too too early to

say the you know the mineral deal is a

spectacular success but it looks good at

the moment it looks looks like it has a

pretty good chance of working um but

here's my take if Trump succeeds in

reframing a hot War into a series of

business deals that are good for

everybody in the history of

leadership that will be the greatest

thing anybody ever did if it holds now

I'm not naive Putin is Putin we know

that we can't predict or trust what he

does we know that people with the best

of intentions you know maybe things

don't work out we know that

implementation might matter as much as

having a good idea so if it's not

implemented properly it doesn't work a

million things could go wrong I get it I

get it you don't have to tell me that it

could go wrong I get

it but just think about this he's on the

verge of

maybe reframing an actual Hot War into a

business

deal and so far all sides have entered

his

frame they've all entered his frame

nobody else can do

that you're you're seeing a Once In A

Thousand

Years set of

talent from Trump and and the people

that he's he's hired to help him this is

so

unprecedented and

unprecedented that and and I haven't

seen anybody report it the way I just

described it have you have you seen

anybody describe it the way I did every

Everybody Knows the fact

but has anybody described this as the

greatest

reframe maybe in history like who ever

did anything even close to this if you

can turn a hot War into a business deal

where everybody wins and it sticks and

of course I'll say it again we don't

know if it'll work we don't know if

it'll stick we don't know if Putin will

just use it as you know a delaying

tactic until he does worse things

maybe but it defin has a chance of

working and and more than a good chance

he got a solid chance of working

incredible

incredible anyway this is also

incredible so Senator Jim Banks and

representative cat kamik they're

introducing a bill to defund NPR because

it's a liberal propaganda Network they

say now I don't know if that means NPR

would go out a business where they just

have less funding but um I don't care

about the NPR part of the story maybe

it'll work maybe it won't here's the

bigger

picture

Trump has created a situation in which

everyone in the government in every

every way from Congress to every one of

the um the cabinet positions to all of

his

appointments they're competing to see

who can do the best job of reducing

costs

did I just tell you that Trump reframing

a hot War into a business deal is the

greatest thing anybody ever did in

history if Trump pulls off reframing

governments as a competition among peers

to see who can cut the government cost

the

most Standing

Ovation standing evation

[Applause]

now to be

clear to be clear and to be fair uh I'm

not excited about the cost cutting

yet I I think there's going to be a

whole bunch of we thought we could cut

that but we didn't get as much you know

where people will argue about whether

the numbers are accurate and even though

even though doge is showing exactly what

they're doing and they publish it so

there's a lot of messiness to come but

the hard

part the hard

part was the

reframe he turned it from a bunch of

people just I don't know what pursuing

their own self-interest in the

government what was the old model into

literally their publicly

competing publicly competing to see who

can cut the most fat and waste and fraud

out of their own their own departments

or their own

domains when would when have you ever

seen that

never never you've never seen it it's

never been done in the history of the

whole freaking world it's never been

done and you're watching it being done

right in front of

you have I ever mentioned there are some

things that America can do that nobody

can come

close you know I I have I have plenty of

criticism for my own country as a

patriot you know I love it of course

uh and you know we're not perfect you

know we we make a lot of false starts

we've done a lot of things we wish maybe

we hadn't done Etc but there are just

some things nobody else can do Europe

can't do that China can't do that Japan

can't do that name a country that can do

that even when melee did it I don't know

that he got everybody to

compete I I think maybe he just took the

chainsaw I could be wrong might have he

might have actually pulled that off in

Argentina but this is

incredible if if you think of it in

terms of the

reframe then suddenly it goes from just

a thing they're trying to do to

Holy Cow are you kidding me he pulled

off that making them compete to see who

can cut the cost the most

unbelievable

wow let's compare that to the main focus

under the prior

Administration so the main focus the

thing that gets you attention the thing

that will get you the uh the most praise

from the president is how you cut costs

and made it work what would have been

the same kind of focus different Focus

but what what would have been the Biden

Focus I'm not making this up this was

the Biden

focus it was

uh it was you got promoted if you cared

the most about people's

genitalia what color the genitalia is

and what is being done with

it that was the Biden Focus how' that

work out for you did the country get

really better A lot better when the

focus was uh

genitalia what color it was and what it

was being used for that was your

government we actually live through

that I mean just think about that we

went from caring about your

genitalia and everybody else's I guess

and how it all fit together to competing

to reduce waste and fraud in the

government talk about the Golden

Age oh my

God meanwhile uh you know case in point

Lee zeldon of the EPA plans to cut 65%

of it in other words he's competing

he's publicly competing to see how much

he can cut in his own domain

unbelievable so

good uh over at HUD the housing housing

group there HUD um according to just the

news HUD secretary Scott Turner

announced yesterday I guess um they're

going to terminate some rules that uh

had been terminated under the Trump

first term but then Biden put him back

in place and I guess it was a rule I'm

I'm just going to paraphrase because it

gets a little technical the rule was we

can't build a house for you unless your

genitalia is the right color and uh it's

being used for the right

things okay I'm probably exaggerating a

little bit but that's basically what it

was it was sort of Dei in housing so the

federal

government put restrictions on what you

could and could not do because it had to

be diversity in inclusive and it created

a whole bunch of obstacles to building

anything so it probably just made the

cost of housing go up because it it

created a situation where a lot of

people would say uh I don't even know

how to satisfy all those rules so I'm

not even going to bother so getting rid

of burdensome rules doesn't mean that

you're getting rid of diversity doesn't

mean that you're getting rid of anything

you wanted it just means that if the

state States want to put those if the

states want to put those I know some

kind of rules on themselves I guess they

can but he's just saying that the

federal government isn't going to

prevent you from building h Homes how

great is that the federal government is

not going to prevent you from Building

Homes thank you I just want the federal

government not to prevent me because the

state will do a good job of making sure

my home doesn't fall down on its own you

know that it's safe it's built in a

place I can ensure I mean all working

out in the

state so that's good

um meanwhile there's a new Trump trump

picked a pardon are a pardon are so

somebody to help him decide who to

Pardon and who he picked was Alice Marie

Johnson who you might remember was um

pardoned or did she come out during the

the first step thing were I think she

was just pardoned right and she was a

famous pardon and she's a a black woman

who I think uh was involved in some drug

stuff way long ago but was in jail for

what was an unreasonable amount of time

in my opinion and uh even van Jones who

had worked on that Pro that that process

of you know allowing people to get out

of jail earlier um he was praising Trump

for picking uh Alice Marie Johnson as

The gons are now I appreciate that now

again I'm not telling you that van Jones

turned Republican uh or that everything

he says next you're going to agree with

so it's not about that it's just you

know it's like a little uh flower

growing out of the sidewalk you know if

if you hear somebody on the left say

okay I can't even argue with that one

that's just a good

idea um there's a uh AI

created a video of what Gaza would look

like if Trump got to redevelop it and I

guess Trump actually reposted it on

Truth um but uh what's funny is uh it

shows a giant golden statue of trump in

in what what would be a Gaza that looks

like a you know a Seaside luxury resort

perfect situation and then I think

there's a part of it shows him lounging

side topless with uh Benjamin

Netanyahu which I didn't see that part

but that's funny there something with

Elon Musk there and the fact that Trump

reposted it when it shows a giant golden

statue of

trump again it's just something that

Trump can do you know Biden couldn't do

that like nobody else could do that he's

the only one who could repost that and

you would understand it's just a mild

troll it's just a little mild troll hey

does this bother

you do you want to complain about it go

ahead that would be fine it's just a

little mild troll love

it well the hill is reporting that uh

the iaea the international atomic energy

agency says Iran's going to be uh trying

to accelerate its uh its process for

being able to make a nuclear

weapon um do you think they had to

research that

story let's see how else could they have

gotten that story without doing research

oh here's an idea they could have asked

me hey Scott do you think Iran is

working harder to build a nuclear

weapon

um yes

yes well are you sure that they're not

moving in the other direction

um checking my

brain um it's the only thing they have

left to protect

themselves uh no they're

accelerating but is it possible that

they just say they're accelerating but

maybe they don't have even the

capability to to get it done uh yeah

that's possible that's possible did you

really need to research that I mean what

do you think they're

doing of course they are they have

nothing left

it's the only thing they have to bargain

with or or keep an attack

away so I do think there's a really good

chance that uh at some point Israel will

bury everything that they have with

giant bombs so we'll see how that works

out um I got a feeling that Netanyahu is

enjoying

winning and he's never going to have a

better

chance for total victory

you know how they talk about total

Victory and you thought not you but some

people thought oh and then when they're

done with their total Victory they'll

build a two-state solution and move all

the uh all the Palestinians and Hamas

back into Gaza and they'll live happily

ever after does that sound like total

Victory to you no no there was never any

intention because total Victory is about

the clearest statement of intention you

could ever make total Victory now take

that to what's going to happen with

Iran do you

think that uh Israel would would say

well we got total Victory when all Iran

is doing is building back his capability

to do it to him again through their

proxies

nope let me explain it again total

Victory total Victory total victory

means that Iran can't do nuclear weapons

one way or

another they're not going to stop until

Iran has no nuclear

program how do I know that for sure well

uh can the reporters ask me Scott what

do you think Israel plans to do let's

see what does total mean does total mean

we stop halfway and let them rebuild

wait wait no total total okay I got it

total Victory it means that they're

going to destroy the nuclear program

whatever it takes whatever it takes

whatever it

takes

guaranteed I I think we've clearly left

the domain of maybe I think maybe's over

now there is a

possibility that Iran will get that

message to because someone could explain

to them do you know what total means

have you heard of total yeah total means

they're going to solve the problem once

and it's not coming

back and this would be the time to

talk and if there is some way that you

can reach a non-military agreement and

not develop nuclear weapons you know we

can talk about that because that would

still be total and it would be the

easiest way to get

there but now if you're wondering if

Israel is

bluffing they're

not total is total and they they could

not be more clear about it so that's the

beauty of being credible too if Israel

had not done everything that it's done

so far which is pretty darn impressive

if you're just looking from from a

military perspective you you can make up

your own mind about who's who's right

and who's wrong in this and I don't even

have an opinion my opinion on the whole

situation is that in the Middle East the

strongest person gets what they

want I why would I need more of an

opinion than that that covers everything

whoever is strongest is going to go get

what they want that's it everything else

is just blah blah blah blah blah blah do

you support Israel what's the

difference what's the difference is that

going to make a difference no if they

can get it and they have the strength to

do it they're going to go get it and and

if that ever changed and for I don't see

how it would happen soon but if

something changed where the

uh Palestinians suddenly got all the

power what do you think they would do

you know exactly what they would do and

I wouldn't be for it I would just be

saying well I told you whoever Has the

strength gets what they want so that's

the entire story you don't have to be

more complicated than

that all right ladies and gentlemen

that's everything I have on the topics

of the day thank you for joining you're

all wonderful um I will see you again

tomorrow same time same place

yeah Scott supports

genocide of course you say that no I

support understanding what the words

total and victory mean what happens

after

that

not it's I w't say it's not my concern

it's just that having an opinion on it

wouldn't make any difference so I just

don't

bother so no I do not support

Israel just you know reflexively no

matter what they do nothing like that

they they have to they have to be a good

Ally to us and that's all I care about

and I would like to spend less money and

I would like them to spend more of their

money but you know there are lots of

lots of variables that go with that

because I think a lot of the money that

we give to Israel for military stuff is

really money that they have to spend on

our own military industrial complex so

maybe that's more of a US problem

you know something we need to work out

on our end whether that still makes

sense for us as a country but uh I only

care how Israel is treating

us that's

it all right I'm going to talk to the

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