Episode 2790 CWSA 03/26/25

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Well, in media news, Stephen Crowder is leaving You.

Tube for good and he's going to be exclusively live on Rumble.

Um, actually, I don't know if it's exclusive or I don't know if he's on X as well, but he won't be on You.

Tube.

He'll be on Rumble and he's the number one uh live stream in America, I think.

So, that's not bad.

Not bad.

So, I guess You.

Tube was not giving him what he needed.

You know, the other day I got uh demonetized on You.

Tube just for one episode.

And it happens a lot, usually automatically, but then there's a human reversal, but the reversal happens, you know, after after a lot of the traffic's already done.

Um, never did find out why that one episode got demonetized.

Don't know.

Well, did you know according to the Daily Star uh over at the British Broadcasting Company, I don't like to say BBC because I know some of you will just be sidetracked by that.

Um, apparently they're offering counseling to the staff to help them cope with the presidency of Donald Trump.

Now, does a British broadcasting company know that he's not even the president of Great Britain?

He he's not.

So, how many of them really need counseling because of a president of another country?

That That's pretty weird.

Pretty weird and pretty weak.

But I I wish you well, British Broadcasting Company.

Anyway, uh up in Canada, you know, Pierre Pier, uh let me pronounce that correctly.

It's Pierre Paul P.

Paul Rivere.

It's uh I think it's pronounced Paul Rivere.

Is that even close?

It's not even close.

It's pil liver.

No.

Close.

Okay.

I can't speak French last names, but you know who he is.

He's a very smart and very clever person on the conservative side.

He's running for something.

And uh he says uh they they they have a common sense approach for Canada first.

So it looks to me like he has cleverly adopted Trump's best phrases and plans.

Canada first.

Common sense, common sense immigration.

That's a pretty good idea.

You know, normally I would say something like, "Oh, you're so such a copycat.

You know, come up with your own campaign." But how do you do better than common sense?

And how do you how do you do better than your own country should come first to the politicians running your own country?

You can't really top those things.

So, I I suspect there's just going to be a whole bunch of politicians and a whole bunch of places saying, "I've got an idea." Hey, hey, I've got an idea.

How about common sense?

Is anybody up for some common sense?

Well, it's hard to say no to that.

We'll see how he does.

Um, Gateway Pundit is reporting that Adam Corolla correctly called the near impossibility of getting building permits in California for the people who were affected by those LA fires.

And uh, let me give you a little poll here.

So, it's been 75 days since the fires.

How many building permits do you think have been issued?

75 days and fairly quickly people knew whether their house was going to be, you know, burned down or or not.

So, how many building permits have been issued?

Would you say 400, 40, or four?

The answer is four.

four building permits for all that, you know, just acres and I don't know, hundreds and hundreds of homes and only four building permits.

And uh Adam Corolla had warned us in advance that it was going to be nearly impossible to build because of all the California red tape.

Now, you were probably optimistic that red tape could be cleared a little faster because it's an emergency and you know, we're doing the common sense thing now.

How many homes?

1500 homes I'm seeing in the comments.

1,500.

Yeah.

Now, um I would be a little cautious about this 75day thing because it could be that uh you couldn't really get a contractor or a builder or an architect even into the area because it was too toxic.

So, it might be that um the first 75 days nobody could do anything because the area itself was, you know, not as accessible as it could have been.

not not the whole 75 days, but we'll see.

There's still some possibility that it will ramp up quickly um once people see whether it makes sense to live there at all.

So, we'll see.

But a related story is that the State Farm, the insurance company, is just getting wrecked by the press for uh what a lot of its customers say is pretty bad behavior.

uh as in offering incredibly low ball offers um w well below the cost of rebuilding.

And why?

Well, the the theory is that sometimes they can get away with it.

So, if you don't hire a lawyer and fight them and you know, just really go after them hard, apparently they'll just try to lowball you because there's so much money involved.

So, State Farm has a lot of explaining to do.

Um, I'm not there personally, but based on the press reports, it looks like something pretty bad's happening.

So, State Farm, you need to explain yourself.

Meanwhile, uh, San Francisco has rolled out this uh, program in the city where there are cameras that can photograph your car and your license plate and issue you a ticket.

And the ticket will depend on your income.

Can you believe that?

The amount you have to pay for the ticket will be based on your income and it will be automatic.

There's no human involved.

They'll just take a picture and suddenly you just get a ticket in the mail.

Is that the creepiest damn thing you ever heard of?

That you would get a ticket based on your income?

I can they really can they really determine your income from your license plate?

Uh maybe.

What if they're uh what if somebody borrows your car?

Do they get to take it based on the income of the person who owns the car?

How does that work?

This is so damn creepy.

Anyway, Blaze Media is reporting on that.

Um, you know that Greenland visit that JD Vance's wife and and kid were going to go to?

Well, it looks like that's not working out.

I I think it worked out great when Don Jr.

and Charlie Kirk and and some of their guys went up there.

Um, I don't know if it was because it was early in the process and there hadn't been a lot of thinking about what would happen with Greenland and or what, but they're really prickly now.

So, it looks like that the the trip that was supposed to be sort of a, you know, a general cultural appreciation sort of thing turned into, well, maybe you shouldn't go where there are a lot of Greenlanders.

So instead, I think they're going to visit military base, some US military base, and JD Vance is going to join them.

So it looks like it might have been a little dangerous or or at least a little bit offensive to the locals.

But here's something that the uh the Danish prime minister said.

Um he said that uh the scheduled visit puts completely unacceptable pressure on Greenland.

Do you think that the vice president's wife and and child visiting Greenland and going to cultural events was going to put unnecessary pressure on Greenland?

Really?

Apparently, Greenland can't take much pressure.

What would it take to conquer the entire country?

Like six hobos with butter knives.

I mean, if if they're going to buckle under the pressure of somebody doing a vacation in Greenland, hey, the vice president's wife and young child will be visiting.

Oh no.

Oh no.

The pressure.

Oh, how are we going to survive the visit of the vice president's wife and child?

Oh, no.

What are we going to do?

What are we going to do?

Hide hide the the dogs.

Uh don't let them see our snow.

No, they're going to steal our snow.

Hide the snow.

So, apparently Greenland is uh ripe for conquest because they can't even take a visit from a woman and her child.

It was just too much pressure.

Too much pressure.

Meanwhile, Harry Anton on CNN continues to be uh one of their top two uh entertaining people.

He does a really great job.

I have to say if I'm just going to give somebody a compliment on how well they do their job, uh Harry Enton does the uh the polls and some of the numbers, puts them on a big screen, but he has got down cold the presentation style.

He he can take data and make it seem so exciting with just his body language and he's standing and he's he's waving his arms around and he's you know his voice has all kinds of variety in it.

He is great.

He's just absolutely flatout great at doing his job.

So, uh compliments to him.

But one of the things he was and one of the one of the things that I like about him is he's not, you know, in the bag or out of the bag for Trump.

He do shows the numbers and he's excited by the numbers if it's something unusual.

I love that he loves his job.

Looks like one of the things he pointed out is that uh Trump is at his all-time high in popularity.

So the more we hear about, you know, everything's bad for Trump and, you know, and all that, uh, in 2017, Trump was minus 10 in popularity.

In 2024, right around the election, he was minus 7, so he was improving by then, but still minus.

Uh, but in March 2025, which is now, he's only minus4.

So, Arian said, "Uh, all we talk about is how unpopular Trump is, but in reality, he's basically more popular than he was at any point in term number one and more popular than he was when he when he won the election.

He's more popular than when he won the election.

So, what does that do to the uh to the strategy of le the James Carville strategy?" No.

Now, we'll just wait.

We'll just hang tight.

We just wait and everything will be better because we'll just wait.

Well, it turns out that waiting just makes Trump more popular.

If I had to guess what it is that's making him popular, it's that he said he would do things and then he's very conspicuously and with very high energy doing things.

I think it is just shocking to people that somebody involved with government would say, "I'm going to do this list of things and then the moment they're in there, they do the things." What Why are people continually writing the number four in the comments?

What is that about?

For some reason, everybody is just put writing the digit four.

Can you give me some Did something happen?

Is there is there any meaning to that where you just all like the number four suddenly?

So, you're just printing four.

Oh, okay.

You're still back on four as the number of houses that got permits.

Got it.

Okay.

There's a lag to it.

Uh, all right.

But um and then then Arion also CNN said that uh according to the NBC poll um people were asked is the US on the right track.

The NBC poll was the highest since 2004.

44% said we're on the right track.

That's the highest since 2004.

and a Maris poll says that uh same on the same question is the US on the right track it's the second highest since 2009 so just imagine being president you've been president for a few months now and your popularity is at the highest it's ever been and you've been president before and the two polls show that uh the public is more optimistic about the direction of the us than at any time in a really long time.

And that's CNN, you know.

So, I I tend to believe that these are probably realistic numbers.

Anyway, um so that's how the uh Republicans are doing really well.

Let's check in with uh the Democrats.

Let's see how their best people are doing.

Um let's see.

Jasmine Crockett, who's been in the news for being provocative, and uh she she seemed to have mocked um Texas Governor Greg Abbott for being in a wheelchair.

She said something about him being Hot Wheels.

And then people said, "You can't, you know, that's terrible.

You can't mock him for being in a wheelchair." And uh then she tried to walk it back and explain that it really was about her his policies.

What part of Hot Wheels seems like it's related to his policies?

And then she had some kind of ridiculous explanation about transportation as wheels or something.

So So it started out bad and she made it worse.

And I know I can speak for all Republicans when I say I'd like to see more of Jasmine Crockett at the head of the ticket.

She's so bad at what she does.

Just so bad that, you know, James Carville must be like turning in his grave.

I assume he's been long dead, but you know, just based on his appearance.

Um, it just can't get better.

So, keep going.

Jasmine Crockett.

We'd like more of that.

All right, let's see.

Um, Speaker Mike Johnson clarified something that for some reason I didn't know and I was so surprised I was just finding this out.

It's one of those things where you think where where have I been?

H how in the world did I not know this?

But ABC's News is reporting that uh Mike Johnson said that uh Congress has the authority to stop providing funding to federal courts.

Um he says we do have authority over the federal courts.

We can eliminate an entire district court.

We have power funding over the courts and all these other things, but desperate times call for desperate measures and Congress is going to act.

Is that a real thing that the Congress can just defund a court if the court is rogue?

Because we keep talking about um you know impeaching a judge, which the smart people say that's going to take forever and you know you're going to get too much resistance and it's probably a bad president.

But what if you just said, "How about we just get rid of your entire court?" I feel like I'm down for that.

it because right now the, you know, the court is completely out of control.

I mean, it's just completely politicized.

It's useless.

It's it's more than useless.

It's it's just damaging.

So, that would be fun.

Now, I do suspect that this is one of those things that that could go both ways.

You know, you think it's a good idea when your team does it, but what if the other team gets in power and then they could do it, too?

But why would they ever need to?

Because all of the all the crazy rulings are all coming from the left there.

You know, even if you don't agree with a ruling that comes out of right-leaning judges, it's not crazy But but the left is just way off the reservation at this point.

So I I would kind of like to see this.

Just see what happens.

just pick one of the worst courts.

And I would even go so far as to say that if even some of the judges are good on a particular court, um is that how it works?

There are multiple judges in each of these districts.

Um if one of them is so bad that you you have to defund the entire district, I'm okay with that.

You know, it's not a it's not ideal.

It's definitely not a scalpel.

It's definitely a chainsaw, but we're definitely we're in chainsaw territory.

Yeah, I I'd pick the chainsaw.

Anyway, let's uh let's talk about the update on the signal app Jamaa controversy.

Number one, I would say that it's a two out of 10 in importance.

Two out of 10.

Almost everything that we talk about in politics is at least a seven out of 10 or else it's not it's not in the news at all.

So this is the most trivial thing that we've ever talked about to pretend it's big.

But the drama um are sending all their best actors out.

So let me give you two ways that the Signal app story could be told by politicians.

Here's one way.

Well, looks like somebody made a mistake on the signal app and added a added a uh journalist.

Uh it's very unfortunate, but we learned from our mistakes, so we won't do that again.

Uh luckily, nobody got hurt.

And uh Mike Walls has taken full responsibility even though he wasn't the one who added the uh the journalist.

Apparently that was some staffer, but it was his staffer, so he's taken full responsibility.

And uh it's a good thing that what we saw was our elected representatives, well not elected but you know the cabinet people one elected I guess one elected um having a a very fruitful discussion about whether we should be the ones to uh you know pay for keeping the shipping lanes open.

when JD Vance said something on the uh the messages that 3% of the traffic that the hoodies were preventing would be American traffic.

Just 3%.

And 40% would be European traffic.

Now that's that would be me talking about it like it's a two out of 10.

Uh let me give you the dramat presentation.

Oh my god.

Oh.

Oh, the level of incompetence.

Oh my god.

It's the same story.

They just add the drama.

And apparently they've all agreed that the that the word incompetence will be the key word.

Oh, they're gross.

and and you have to say incompetence um in a certain way.

So you can't say, "Well, it looked like there was some incompetence there, but I'm glad they got that under control." That wouldn't be much of a story.

So you have to say the incompetence, the incompetence, so much incompetence.

Yeah.

And you know probably that incompetence is all over the entire administration just wreaking with incompetence incompetence all over the place.

So that's the dramats.

But what else do we know about it?

Um uh and I think the the dramcrats are competing to see who gets the uh the lead in the play because they're all they're all trying to be more disgusted than the last person.

Um then there I made the comment that there was no alternative to using the signal app because the government um the government secure phones and stuff were not efficient.

And then a bunch of people corrected me.

They said, "No, Scott.

Um, each of the top officials have secure phones in their offices and so they they could have done it on the secure phones.

To which I say, do you think Signal is a phone?

How many of you don't know the difference between a phone call and a text message chat group?

The reason they're using the text message chat group is so they can do things in an asynchronous way.

Somebody's playing with their kids and answering a message and checking in.

Somebody's on the road.

Somebody's on a plane.

Somebody's on the way to their office.

That's not a phone call.

If if you had if you had to get all these people on their desks with their secret encrypted phones that the government has, first of all, they wouldn't want to do any of this on a phone call.

It would just be the biggest waste of time ever.

And secondly, they're just not going to be available on fast notice.

So no, there is no government encrypted fully secure chat service and the Signal app is approved for government use as long as you don't do the top secrets, which we'll talk about.

Um, and then I saw Jeffrey Goldberg um, get dismantled by Tim Miller, who is um, a notable Democrat.

And Tim Miller asked him, uh, I'm paraphrasing, but he said, you know, are you going to release it?

And, uh, Goldberg goes, oh, no.

I I take I take classified information seriously, so uh, I'm not going to release any more of the messages that I have.

And then Tim Miller without realizing what he was doing, I think, asked him the following question.

Well, could you show it to some people who have security clearance and then they can help us judge whether it was really classified in war, you know, war plans.

And Goldberg's answer was, "Oh, fah blah blah fa blah blah blah well and he he sort of decomposed." But I'm hearing today, but I don't have confirmation that more of the messages were released.

or was it all of the messages are released?

So, if they were all released, that would be a pretty big change from these are too sensitive to we'll just release them all.

So, I need a little clarification on that.

I couldn't tell before I went live here.

Uh let's see what else is going on there.

There's so much going on in that tiny little unimportant story.

Um, and then we had a couple of folks weigh in to tell us that Jeffrey Goldberg is a highly credible and respected journalist.

Uh, Ian Bremer said that on X and also David Axelrod.

Now remember, I always tell you that what happened doesn't tell you anything.

You have to know who.

Now, Jeffrey Goldberg is associated with some of the, you know, more notable hoaxes that we've seen.

So, why would Ian Bremer and David Axelrod want to go public saying that he's so credible?

What's up with that?

So, I always see these things as ways to know who's, you know, who's connected to or loyal to or, you know, on the same team.

So you can draw your own conclusions about the people who are supporting him.

Um Mike Waltz took responsibility for it.

So you can stop well the critics can stop saying nobody took responsibility.

Yeah, he he took full responsibility.

He just wasn't clear how it happened because he doesn't have any contact with he's never texted Jeffrey Goldberg.

But it turns out a staffer may have done it, but we don't know uh exactly.

We don't know the details of how or why the staffer did it.

So, more questions there.

And uh I love the way Trump handled it during a NBC News uh interview.

Um what did he say?

He you said uh it's just something that can happen.

That's such a trumpet way to handle it.

It's just something that can happen.

Mike Wals is a good man.

Now that's how you treat a story that's a two out of 10.

If it were a seven out of 10, then maybe you would say more, you'd defend it, whatever.

But it's only a two out of 10.

It's just something that can happen.

It's just perfect.

It just minimizes it and sort of brushes it away.

It's like, nah, it's just something that could happen anyway.

And nobody got hurt.

Time goes by, but it's all the Democrats have.

The Democrats don't have much to talk about, so they got that.

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Well, Alex Jones has a uh Scoopish.

Um, according to his source, the uh there's a whole bunch of files, 14 terabytes of what Alice Jones calls nightmarish sexual abuse of children and on the Epstein files and has uh it's all been given to the local FBI offices with orders to take the gloves off.

So that's Alex Jones taking that now.

My take on all the Epstein stuff is I will believe anything when I see it.

I feel every time we get teased about, oh, we're going to see the good stuff.

It hasn't happened yet.

So, whatever it is that's preventing this from coming out, I think it's going to be like the the JFK files.

Do you realize we got played in the JFK files, right?

I'm pretty sure we got played because even Trump had said, "If you saw what I saw, you wouldn't release them either." And then we saw what seemed to be the complete files and everybody said, "Oh, looks like there's nothing new here." Yeah, we we knew the CIA, you know, was involved in a lot of stuff.

So, do you think there's any chance that we saw the good stuff on the JFK files?

And do you think that anything we saw is something that if Trump saw it, he would have said, "Oh yeah, if you saw what I saw, you wouldn't release him either." No.

I think we got played.

So the Epstein files could be the same thing.

Meaning that uh at some point somebody will say, "All right, these are the full and complete files." And then you look through them and it's like some people playing pingpong and there's Jeffrey Epstein playing the piano and uh now he's waving to people on his way to a boat and we're going to be like I really thought there would be all kinds of terrible things.

No, no, that's all we have.

That's all we have.

So, I don't trust anything about these secret files being released.

It doesn't matter who's doing it.

I don't trust anything about it.

Well, um you know about the uh anti-Tesla, anti- Elon Musk protests.

Um Zero Hedge is calling it part of a NGO color revolution, which is how you overthrow a country.

And um that's my take on it too that it's basically a coup attempt in this case against uh Musk and Trump and and attacking Musk would be very good for the bad guys because he's doing such a good job on Doge that if they can take him out they would uh you know partially Trump's ability to save the country and they don't care about the country.

So, um, but here's what we know.

So, there's this, uh, NGO called Indivisible, and apparently they were taking things off their website because it they got caught as one of the entities funding this.

Apparently, they were also one of the entities backing the Black Lives Matter movement.

You remember that?

Which was also a color revolution.

So apparently everything that we've learned is true.

The NOS's um are being funded by the government to run ops against against Republicans and and to try to create, you know, riots in the street and and uh unbelievable.

So, uh, Natalie Winters, a co-host of Steve Bannon's War Room, um, wrote an X.

So, the wife of former US attorney Matthew Graves, so he was the, uh, he led the prosecution of the 1500 January 6ers is on the board of that indivisible.

Wait, what?

The guy who prosecuted, he led the prosecution of the January 6ers is on the board of this group that backed the BLM protests and now the Tesla stuff.

And I think his wife, let's say, uh, yeah, Matthew Graves's wife, uh, Fatima Gross Graves.

Imagine have your having your middle name gross and your last name Graves.

Now, I haven't seen a picture of her, but I certainly hope she's thin because if your name is Fatima Gross Graves, you you you better not have an extra pound cuz that that's just not going to work out.

Uh but she's the director of the of the NGO.

So everything you thought about how, you know, every judge has a spouse who's involved in some sketchy NGO thing, it's all true.

Um, so almost every day there's a new story about a judge rules.

There's some judge who rules against Doge doing one thing or another.

And it sounds to us because we're not lawyers, it sounds like, what?

Why?

Why can't they do that?

and then it, you know, gets appealed and then the higher court says, "Well, they can't do that." So, whenever I tell you that uh something has been blocked on Doge, it's almost always going to be, you know, the lower court and anytime I tell you that they've been uh that the blocking has been reversed, it's an appeals court.

An appeals court.

So, here's a few more.

Uh a federal judge.

So this will be a lower court has ruled against Kerry Lake and the Trump administration forcing them to uh uh this is Nick's orders reporting on this uh to continue funding the deep state propaganda radio station.

So that's the Voice of America and the the related entities to Voice of America.

And so Carrie Lake and Trump were looking to just close it down cuz it wasn't really useful and it cost a lot of money.

So they're just going to close it down.

And then a judge tells them they can't.

What?

So remember, every time it's the lower court, you know, lower court judge, their rulings are just baffling to a citizen.

Why can't the people who run it close it down?

like how is that not allowed?

Like what does a judge have to do with that?

And but then here's this is also Nick Sorder is reporting this on X.

Uh but then a fourth circuit just halted an activist judge called Chuang who had required uh who was required Doge's access to much of USID be suspended.

So there there it is again.

Lower court's blocking on a different topic.

The higher court is reversing the blocking of something about USID.

And I would love to know the budget for all the uh legal actions that Trump and Musk are involved in.

What what do you think the government is spending on these ridiculous legal challenges to get them reversed?

Are we talking hundreds of millions?

I'll bet it's hundreds of millions, you know, maybe not right away, but over the course of the uh of Trump's term.

Incredible.

But at least it's a fair fight.

You know, at least if you tell me that Trump's lawyers and maybe Elon Musk's, you know, resources, I don't know if he's involved in any of that or not directly, but at least it's a fair fight.

Um, Trump signed an executive order for election integrity, but it's not it's not the things I wanted like some kind of uh, you know, you must have ID and stuff like that, but Autism Capital is reporting on X that the EO would do this.

Cut down on illegal immigrants on voter roles.

So, I guess we'd purge the voter roles to get rid of illegals.

Um, ensure that the Department of Homeland Security has fully usable data.

I didn't know that was problem.

Um, a citizenship question on the voting forms for the federal voting forms.

Um, cutting federal funding to states that don't take reasonable steps to secure their election.

Now, that's a little vague.

What would be a reasonable step to secure your election?

Voter ID, right?

So, I don't know if this gets to voter ID or not, but maybe they could they could use it for that.

Um, and then the Department of Justice, they want the EO wants them to vigorously prosecute election crimes, which again I thought was already happening.

Um, and uh, compliance with National Election Day rules.

What's that?

Compliance with National Election Day rules.

Is that is that saying that the election has to be on one day instead of three months of of voting?

I don't know.

Uh prosecuting foreign interference in elections.

Okay.

If you can catch them and uh revoking some Biden executive order that was apparently not productive.

Anyway, so all that's happening now.

what Trump really wants is, you know, in-person voting and voter ID and stuff like that.

So, we'll see if he gets all of that.

Um, so Trump is now declassifying all the FBI documents related to the Russia collusion hoax.

Isn't that interesting?

Years later, what are we going to learn about the Russia collusion hoax that maybe we don't already know?

So Trump says, "This gives the media the right to go in and check it.

You probably won't bother because you're not going to like what you see." He always throws an insult into the media.

You're probably not going to bother because you're not going to like what you see.

And then he said, "This was total weaponization.

It's a disgrace.

It should have never happened in this country.

But now you'll be able to see for yourself all declassified." Now, honestly, I don't know how Hillary Clinton avoids going to jail.

I don't think it'll happen.

But won't the documents show a clear path from Hillary's campaign to the creation of the Steel Dossier that we know to be fake.

Um, I I thought this is the most damning and well-known stuff, but imagine if there's more.

Imagine, imagine if we find out even more than we already know.

Could happen.

In other news, um it was reported that there's some good news on a ceasefire deal with with Ukraine and Russia, but I'm a little uh I'm a little skeptical because the alleged agreement is not in writing and it's not signed.

So, that's never a good sign.

But uh the deal is that there would be a pause on attacks in the Black Sea shipping and that there would be a pause on going after energy facilities.

The weird thing is they said it was retroactive.

How do you stop retroactive attacks?

How do is there some kind of a time deation thing?

Um, not only will there be a ceasefire starting today, but there will be a ceasefire going back in time.

Really?

I I must be missing something in this story cuz how do you change the past anyway?

But they don't have details on even what they've agreed on.

They don't have start dates.

There's no comprehensive, you know, truce, etc.

And then hardly any time goes by and Russia says that they also want their sanctions on Russia lifted before the Black Sea ceasefire.

Now that's a whole new negotiation.

So it sounds to me like, you know, maybe the American team of negotiators went away with some confidence or some belief that there was an agreement and the Russians either never meant to agree or they decided that they had such a powerful position that they could just throw in a major thing like the dropping of sanctions um just to try to get that for free.

So assuming that Trump is in control of, you know, what we're offering and what we're not, he's not going to give that for free, which means that the whole deal has already fallen apart in my opinion.

So I don't think it's being reported that way, but in my opinion, it looks like the whole deal just fell apart.

Now, that's not surprising.

You know, at at this point in the process, you kind of expect to all be a whole bunch of, you know, false starts and, you know, we we think we got a deal.

Wait, they walked away.

No, now we have a deal.

Okay, not the details, but okay, the details threw up.

You blew up the deal.

So, I'm going to stick with my three months estimate.

Um, I do think both sides want some kind of peace.

So, uh, or at least the US and and Russia do.

Uh, but it's not going to be easy and I don't think we're close.

So, I'd be surprised if anything happens.

Um, but let's be optimistic.

So, if we were to look at things from today's perspective, Trump's at a high in popularity.

Uh the country thinks we're going in the right direction in a bigger numbers than we've seen in a long time.

And the biggest problem that the Democrats could come up with, the biggest one is a two out of 10 in importance.

Uh I think that uh they may have said some things in that text message.

Now, I'm open to to hear that maybe there were some more confidential things in there, but so far I'm going to agree with Trump.

It's just a thing that can happen.

But just think about the fact that's the best thing they have.

And then I'm hearing Mark Cuban do the um what's wrong with Musk and Trump is that they do ready, fire, aim.

Do you think that anybody can tell from the outside if they're doing the right stuff?

I don't think so.

And I and I think that there are situations where firing before you measure is exactly the right thing.

I I remember the the shocking day that I first learned that when you're talking about software, you don't want to measure twice and cut once.

You know that old thing.

If you're a carpenter, you want to measure it twice so that when you cut it once, it will be correct.

And with hardware, same thing.

So, there's a whole bunch of domains in which you definitely want to make sure you're doing the right thing before you do anything.

But not in software.

In software, you try something and it breaks and you try something else and it breaks and you try something else and didn't really cost you anything because it's just software.

So going fast and seeing what happens can work with startups and it can work with software projects.

And the question is are there applications within Doge where that also makes sense?

Certainly there are applications where the scalpel makes sense, but do you think the Doge people can't tell the difference between when to use the scal scalpel and when to use the chainsaw?

Uh if the bureaucracy is fighting you, which tool do you use?

I'll put this to you th those of you who are experienced in management.

If the bureaucracy is trying to slow you down and sloww walk you and avoid you and you you want to make cuts, do you use the scalpel?

You can't.

Cuz the only way you could use the scalpel is if the bureaucracy was actively helping you.

Oh yeah, you don't know our operations, but let me tell you, you could scalple this and you could scalple that and we're here to help.

But that's not going to happen.

Do you do you think that's what the Doge people are running into?

A bunch of helpful bureaucrats or like, "Wow, we can't wait.

We can't wait to tell you where to scalpel this." Nope.

In that case, what would be the right tool?

Chainsaw.

And then as you're chainsawing, the bureaucracy starts screaming, "Ah!

Ah!

Ah!" You don't realize you're cutting this or you cut this and the babies are going to die.

And you say, "Wait, what?

The babies are going to die?" Okay.

Can you give me some evidence that babies are going to die?

Yes.

Yes.

See, it's Yeah, it's feeding these babies.

And then you say, "Oh, okay.

Now you're being helpful." So, you weren't helpful with a scalpel, were you?

But as soon as I put the chainsaw to it, you're like, "Save the babies, and now I have some useful information, and now I'll back off on the chainsaw." Exactly.

So when I see Mark Cuban saying, you know, sort of generic things like, yeah, they're they're disorganized and they're just chainsawing things without wisely deciding what to do.

I say to myself, I'm not sure he's fully incorporated what the bureaucracy would be doing to styy them.

If the bureaucracy is working against Doge, and you can I think you could just say with certainty that would be the case, then that's just chainsaw.

The scalpel couldn't possibly work in that domain.

But it might kick up a situation where you say, "All right, we've chainsawed enough, but we hit a we hit a little sensitive area here.

Let's let's slow down and scalpel that a little bit." So to say that scalpel always beats chainsaw is just purely dumb or inexperienced.

To say that sometimes chainsaw is the right answer and sometimes scalpel is the right answer, that will always be correct.

But to imagine that you can look from the outside and determine where the where they went wrong, you can't do that.

We we don't have any inside information about that.

to to imagine that the complaints of the bureaucracy are telling you that you should do something differently.

That's not how anything works because the bureaucracy would be complaining no matter what you were doing.

If it were a reorg, they'd be complaining.

If it were cuts with a scalpel, they'd be complaining.

If it were anything, they would be complaining.

So, if they're all reporting that they have low morale, oh, we have low morale, that's just because there's change.

All change makes bureaucracies have low morale, or at least they'll tell you they have low morale.

So, you can't tell by listening to the people bitching about it.

And you definitely can't tell what's happening and when the scalpel and when the chainsaw is being used or or if if there's even a sensitivity to know when to move from one to the other.

I assume they are because it's the smart people doing it.

So, um, the best.

So, so now let's look at the best that the Democrats have.

We've got the James Carville approach, which is basically give up and just roll over and hope that the other side makes a mistake.

You've got the uh generic complaints.

Well, I I don't think that they measure twice and cut once, which doesn't really even make sense because, like I said, they should be using the scalpel sometimes and the chainsaw sometimes.

And from the outside, you can't tell.

You just can't tell from the outside what's working and what isn't.

That's just not a thing.

Then you've got the Jasmine Crockett approach, which is just be really stupid in public every single day.

like really stupid and try to sell that.

All right.

All right.

We got some stupidity going.

And then you've got the signal app story that the dramcrats are trying to sell you with their faces.

I'm so ag and and those are the best plays.

you know, also yelling at their own their own leadership for being terrible.

So, I've never seen a more disorganized, completely broken party than this.

I don't know if there's any time in my life this has ever happened.

Uh, did I coin drama?

No, I did not.

No, I did not.

So, I I stole that um from a DM that I got where somebody DM'd it to me, but I love it.

The Drama, it puts it in perspective because I really do think that the Democrats are largely a theatrical production.

And I mean that literally uh in the sense that they're acting about how mad they are.

they're acting about how much of a difference anything that they're talking about matters and uh that's all they have.

When I see when I see Republicans, let's let's take the story earlier about Mike Johnson.

When he says um that the Congress has control over these courts, the funding for these courts, was that theatrical?

Not even a little bit.

That it was just matter of fact.

th this is something that we might do.

It's important.

And he just tells you that's it.

When Trump signs his executive orders, even though he's like the greatest showman, he's largely just communicating what he's doing in an interesting way.

It's not a theater because there are real things happening and you can see the reality of it in the executive order.

So, it seems to me that Republicans have, you know, similar opinions because conservatives have similar opinions to each other and that when they describe them, they're just talking.

But when the Democrats get involved, I think it's because they don't understand policy or they're I don't know.

They they just seem to be locked into a theatrical mode where they believe that selling the disgust on their faces is all they have to sell.

Look at the disgust on my face.

Oh.

Oh.

And then I'll say again, what do you think would be the reaction of the the typical Democrat voter if they read a story about that uh the Signal app situation and and the story was just described in just cold dry terms.

Well, looks like this shouldn't have happened, but luckily nobody got hurt.

Everybody learned something.

Um, uh, Mike Waltz took full responsibility.

Looks like his staff member did it.

How How much do you think an average voter would care if they just heard it that way?

But I will bet you that for the rest of this year at least, if you bring up anything about Trump doing good stuff, a Democrat will say, "Oh, but what about that massive disgusting incompetence from that signal appliance and the theatrical act that they saw on TV?

They're going to see the news people do it.

They'll see the pundits do it.

And they'll just act like that.

It's definitely just acting.

And once you see it, you can't unsee it.

It's just so obvious and so pervasive on one side.

All right.

So, that's all I got for today.

Um, thanks for joining.

I'm going to say uh few words privately to the local subscribers.

And uh the rest of you I will see on uh see tomorrow same time same place You.

Tube and Rumble and X.

Thanks for joining and locals coming at you privately in 30

Let's check the stocks today. Ah, okay.

Let's not check the stocks today. We'll

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Well, in media news, Stephen Crowder is

leaving YouTube for good and he's going

to be exclusively live on

Rumble. Um, actually, I don't know if

it's exclusive or I don't know if he's

on X as well, but he won't be on

YouTube. He'll be on

Rumble and he's the number one uh live

stream in America, I think. So, that's

not bad. Not bad. So, I guess YouTube

was not giving him what he needed. You

know, the other day I got uh demonetized

on YouTube just for one episode. And it

happens a lot, usually automatically,

but then there's a human reversal, but

the reversal happens, you know, after

after a lot of the traffic's already

done. Um, never did find out why that

one episode got demonetized. Don't know.

Well, did you know according to the

Daily Star uh over at the British

Broadcasting Company, I don't like to

say BBC because I know some of you will

just be sidetracked by that. Um,

apparently they're offering counseling

to the staff to help them cope with the

presidency of Donald Trump.

Now, does a British broadcasting company

know that he's not even the president of

Great

Britain? He he's not. So, how many of

them really need

counseling because of a president of

another

country? That That's pretty weird.

Pretty weird and pretty weak. But I I

wish you well, British Broadcasting

Company.

Anyway, uh up in Canada, you know,

Pierre Pier, uh let me pronounce that

correctly. It's Pierre Paul

P. Paul Rivere. It's uh I think it's

pronounced Paul Rivere. Is that even

close? It's not even close. It's pil

liver. No. Close. Okay. I can't speak

French last names, but you know who he

is. He's a very smart and very clever

person on the conservative side. He's

running for something. And uh he says uh

they they they have a common sense

approach for Canada first. So it looks

to me like he has cleverly adopted

Trump's best phrases and plans.

Canada first. Common sense, common sense

immigration. That's a pretty good idea.

You know, normally I would say something

like, "Oh, you're so such a copycat. You

know, come up with your own campaign."

But how do you do better than common

sense? And how do you how do you do

better than your own country should come

first to the politicians running your

own country? You can't really top those

things. So, I I suspect there's just

going to be a whole bunch of politicians

and a whole bunch of places saying,

"I've got an idea." Hey, hey, I've got

an idea. How about common sense? Is

anybody up for some common sense? Well,

it's hard to say no to that. We'll see

how he does.

Um, Gateway Pundit is reporting that

Adam Corolla correctly called the near

impossibility of getting building

permits in California for the people who

were affected by those LA

fires. And uh, let me give you a little

poll here. So, it's been 75 days since

the

fires. How many building permits do you

think have been issued? 75 days and

fairly quickly people knew whether their

house was going to be, you know, burned

down or or not. So, how many building

permits have been issued? Would you say

400, 40, or

four? The answer is four.

four building permits for all that, you

know, just acres and I don't know,

hundreds and hundreds of homes and only

four building permits. And uh Adam

Corolla had warned us in advance that it

was going to be nearly impossible to

build because of all the California red

tape. Now, you were probably optimistic

that red tape could be cleared a little

faster because it's an emergency and you

know, we're doing the common sense thing

now. How many homes? 1500 homes I'm

seeing in the comments.

1,500. Yeah. Now, um I would be a little

cautious about this 75day thing because

it could be that uh you couldn't really

get a contractor or a builder or an

architect even into the area because it

was too toxic. So, it might be that um

the first 75 days nobody could do

anything because the area itself was,

you know, not as accessible as it could

have been. not not the whole 75 days,

but we'll see. There's still some

possibility that it will ramp up quickly

um once people see whether it makes

sense to live there at all. So, we'll

see. But a related story is that the

State Farm, the insurance company, is

just getting wrecked by the press for uh

what a lot of its customers say is

pretty bad behavior.

uh as in offering incredibly low ball

offers um w well below the cost of

rebuilding. And why? Well, the the

theory is that sometimes they can get

away with it. So, if you don't hire a

lawyer and fight them and you know, just

really go after them hard, apparently

they'll just try to lowball you because

there's so much money involved.

So, State Farm has a lot of explaining

to do. Um, I'm not there personally, but

based on the press reports, it looks

like something pretty bad's happening.

So, State Farm, you need to explain

yourself. Meanwhile, uh, San Francisco

has rolled out this uh, program in the

city where there are cameras that can

photograph your car and your license

plate and issue you a ticket. And the

ticket will depend on your

income. Can you believe that? The amount

you have to pay for the ticket will be

based on your

income and it will be automatic. There's

no human involved. They'll just take a

picture and suddenly you just get a

ticket in the mail. Is that the

creepiest damn thing you ever heard

of? That you would get a ticket based on

your income?

I can they really can they really

determine your income from your license

plate? Uh maybe. What if they're uh what

if somebody borrows your

car? Do they get to take it based on the

income of the person who owns the car?

How does that work? This is so damn

creepy. Anyway, Blaze Media is reporting

on that.

Um, you know that Greenland visit that

JD Vance's wife and and kid were going

to go to? Well, it looks like that's not

working

out. I I think it worked out great when

Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk and and some of

their guys went up there. Um, I don't

know if it was because it was

early in the process and there hadn't

been a lot of thinking about what would

happen with Greenland and or what, but

they're really prickly now. So, it looks

like that the the trip that was supposed

to be sort of a, you know, a general

cultural appreciation sort of thing

turned into, well, maybe you shouldn't

go where there are a lot of

Greenlanders. So instead, I think

they're going to visit military base,

some US military base, and JD Vance is

going to join them. So it looks like it

might have been a little

dangerous or or at least a little bit

offensive to the locals. But here's

something that the

uh the Danish prime minister said. Um he

said that uh the scheduled visit puts

completely unacceptable pressure on

Greenland. Do you think that the vice

president's wife and and child visiting

Greenland and going to cultural events

was going to put unnecessary pressure on

Greenland? Really?

Apparently, Greenland can't take much

pressure. What would it take to conquer

the entire

country? Like six hobos with butter

knives. I

mean, if if they're going to buckle

under the pressure of somebody doing a

vacation in

Greenland, hey, the vice president's

wife and young child will be visiting.

Oh no. Oh no. The pressure. Oh, how are

we going to survive the visit of the

vice president's wife and child? Oh, no.

What are we going to do? What are we

going to do? Hide hide the the

dogs. Uh don't let them see our snow.

No, they're going to steal our snow.

Hide the snow.

So, apparently Greenland is uh ripe for

conquest because they can't even take a

visit from a woman and her child.

It was just too much pressure. Too much

pressure. Meanwhile, Harry Anton on CNN

continues to be uh one of their top two

uh entertaining people. He does a really

great job. I have to say if I'm just

going to give somebody a compliment on

how well they do their job, uh Harry

Enton does the uh the polls and some of

the numbers, puts them on a big screen,

but he has got down cold the

presentation style. He he can take data

and make it seem so exciting with just

his body language and he's standing and

he's he's waving his arms around and

he's you know his voice has all kinds of

variety in it. He is great. He's just

absolutely flatout great at doing his

job. So, uh compliments to him. But one

of the things he was and one of the one

of the things that I like about him is

he's not, you know, in the bag or out of

the bag for Trump. He do shows the

numbers and he's excited by the numbers

if it's something unusual. I love that

he loves his job. Looks

like one of the things he pointed out is

that uh Trump is at

his all-time high in popularity.

So the more we hear about, you know,

everything's bad for Trump and, you

know, and all that, uh, in 2017, Trump

was minus 10 in popularity. In 2024,

right around the election, he was minus

7, so he was improving by then, but

still minus. Uh, but in March 2025,

which is now, he's only minus4.

So, Arian said, "Uh, all we talk about

is how unpopular Trump is, but in

reality, he's basically more popular

than he was at any point in term number

one and more popular than he was when he

when he won the

election. He's more popular than when he

won the election. So, what does that do

to the uh to the strategy of le the

James Carville strategy?" No. Now, we'll

just wait. We'll just hang tight. We

just wait and everything will be better

because we'll just wait. Well, it turns

out that waiting just makes Trump more

popular. If I had to guess what it is

that's making him popular, it's that he

said he would do things and then he's

very conspicuously and with very high

energy doing things.

I think it is just shocking to people

that somebody involved with government

would say, "I'm going to do this list of

things and then the moment they're in

there, they do the

things." What Why are

people continually writing the number

four in the

comments? What is that about?

For some reason, everybody is just put

writing the digit four. Can you give me

some Did something

happen? Is there is there any meaning to

that where you just all like the number

four suddenly? So, you're just printing

four. Oh, okay. You're still back on

four as the number of houses that got

permits. Got it. Okay. There's a lag to

it. Uh, all right. But um and then then

Arion also CNN said that uh according to

the NBC poll um people were asked is the

US on the right track. The NBC poll was

the highest since

2004. 44% said we're on the right track.

That's the highest since 2004.

and a Maris poll says that uh same on

the same question is the US on the right

track it's the second

highest since

2009 so just imagine being president

you've been president for a few months

now and your popularity is at the

highest it's ever been and you've been

president before and the two polls show

that uh the public is more optimistic

about the direction of the us than at

any time in a really long

time. And that's

CNN, you know.

So, I I tend to believe that these are

probably realistic

numbers. Anyway, um so that's how the uh

Republicans are doing really

well. Let's check in with uh the

Democrats. Let's see how their best

people are doing. Um let's see. Jasmine

Crockett, who's been in the news for

being provocative, and uh she she seemed

to have mocked

um Texas Governor Greg Abbott for being

in a wheelchair. She said something

about him being Hot

Wheels. And then people said, "You

can't, you know, that's terrible. You

can't mock him for being in a

wheelchair." And

uh then she tried to walk it back and

explain that it really was about her his

policies. What part of Hot

Wheels seems like it's related to his

policies? And then she had some kind of

ridiculous explanation about

transportation as wheels or something.

So

So it started out bad and she made it

worse.

And I know I can speak for all

Republicans when I say I'd like to see

more of Jasmine Crockett at the head of

the

ticket. She's so bad at what she does.

Just so bad that, you know, James

Carville must be like turning in his

grave. I assume he's been long dead, but

you know, just based on his

appearance. Um, it just can't get

better. So, keep going. Jasmine

Crockett. We'd like more of

that. All right, let's see. Um, Speaker

Mike Johnson clarified something that

for some reason I didn't know and I was

so surprised I was just finding this

out. It's one of those things where you

think where where have I been? H how in

the world did I not know this? But ABC's

News is reporting that uh Mike Johnson

said that uh Congress has the authority

to stop providing funding to federal

courts. Um he says we do have authority

over the federal courts. We can

eliminate an entire district court. We

have power funding over the courts and

all these other things, but desperate

times call for desperate measures and

Congress is going to act.

Is that a real thing that the Congress

can just defund a court if the court is

rogue? Because we keep talking about um

you know impeaching a judge, which the

smart people say that's going to take

forever and you know you're going to get

too much resistance and it's probably a

bad president. But what if you just

said, "How about we just get rid of your

entire

court?" I feel like I'm down for that.

it because right now the, you know, the

court is completely out of control. I

mean, it's just completely politicized.

It's useless. It's it's more than

useless. It's it's just

damaging. So, that would be fun. Now, I

do suspect that this is one of those

things that that could go both ways. You

know, you think it's a good idea when

your team does it, but what if the other

team gets in power and then they could

do it, too?

But why would they ever need to? Because

all of the all the crazy rulings are all

coming from the left there. You know,

even if you don't agree with a ruling

that comes out of right-leaning judges,

it's not crazy But but the left is

just way off the reservation at this

point. So I I would kind of like to see

this. Just see what happens. just pick

one of the worst courts. And I would

even go so far as to say that if even

some of the judges are good on a

particular court, um is that how it

works? There are multiple judges in each

of these districts. Um if one of them is

so

bad that you you have to defund the

entire district, I'm okay with that.

You know, it's not a it's not ideal.

It's definitely not a scalpel. It's

definitely a chainsaw, but we're

definitely we're in chainsaw

territory. Yeah, I I'd pick the

chainsaw. Anyway, let's uh let's talk

about the update on the signal app Jamaa

controversy. Number one, I would say

that it's a two out of 10 in importance.

Two out of 10. Almost everything that we

talk about in politics is at least a

seven out of 10 or else it's not it's

not in the news at all. So this is the

most trivial thing that we've ever

talked about to pretend it's big. But

the drama

um are sending all their best actors

out. So let me give you two ways that

the Signal app story could be told by

politicians. Here's one way. Well, looks

like somebody made a mistake on the

signal app and added a added a uh

journalist. Uh it's very unfortunate,

but we learned from our mistakes, so we

won't do that again. Uh luckily, nobody

got

hurt. And uh Mike Walls has taken full

responsibility even though he wasn't the

one who added the uh the journalist.

Apparently that was some staffer, but it

was his staffer, so he's taken full

responsibility. And uh it's a good thing

that what we saw was our elected

representatives, well not elected but

you know the cabinet people one elected

I guess one elected um having a a very

fruitful discussion about whether we

should be the ones to uh you know pay

for keeping the shipping lanes open.

when JD Vance said something on the uh

the messages that 3% of the traffic that

the hoodies were preventing would be

American traffic. Just 3%. And 40% would

be European traffic. Now that's that

would be me talking about it like it's a

two out of 10. Uh let me give you the

dramat presentation. Oh my god. Oh. Oh,

the level of incompetence. Oh my

god. It's the same story. They just add

the

drama. And apparently they've all agreed

that the that the word

incompetence will be the key word. Oh,

they're gross. and and you have to say

incompetence

um in a certain way. So you can't say,

"Well, it looked like there was some

incompetence there, but I'm glad they

got that under control." That wouldn't

be much of a story. So you have to say

the

incompetence, the

incompetence, so much incompetence.

Yeah. And you know probably that

incompetence is all over the entire

administration just wreaking with

incompetence incompetence all over the

place. So that's the

dramats. But what else do we know about

it? Um

uh and I think the the dramcrats are

competing to see who gets the uh the

lead in the play because they're all

they're all trying to be more disgusted

than the last person.

Um then there I made the comment that

there was no alternative to using the

signal app because the government um the

government secure phones and stuff were

not efficient. And then a bunch of

people corrected me. They said, "No,

Scott.

Um, each of the top officials have

secure phones in their offices and so

they they could have done it on the

secure phones. To which I say, do you

think Signal is a

phone? How many of you don't know the

difference between a phone call and a

text message chat group? The reason

they're using the text message chat

group is so they can do things in an

asynchronous way. Somebody's playing

with their kids and answering a message

and checking in. Somebody's on the road.

Somebody's on a plane. Somebody's on the

way to their

office. That's not a phone call. If if

you had if you had to get all these

people on their desks with their secret

encrypted phones that the government

has, first of all, they wouldn't want to

do any of this on a phone call. It would

just be the biggest waste of time ever.

And secondly, they're just not going to

be available on fast

notice. So no, there is no

government encrypted fully secure chat

service and the Signal app is approved

for government use as long as you don't

do the top secrets, which we'll talk

about.

Um, and then I saw Jeffrey Goldberg um,

get dismantled by Tim

Miller, who is um, a notable Democrat.

And Tim Miller asked him, uh, I'm

paraphrasing, but he said, you know, are

you going to release it? And, uh,

Goldberg goes, oh, no. I I take I take

classified information seriously, so uh,

I'm not going to release any more of the

messages that I have. And then Tim

Miller without realizing what he was

doing, I think, asked him the following

question. Well, could you show it to

some people who have security clearance

and then they can help us judge whether

it was really classified in war, you

know, war plans.

And Goldberg's answer was, "Oh, fah blah

blah

fa blah blah

blah

well and he he sort of

decomposed." But I'm hearing today, but

I don't have confirmation that more of

the messages were

released. or was it all of the messages

are

released? So, if they were all released,

that would be a pretty big change from

these are too sensitive to we'll just

release them all. So, I need a little

clarification on that. I couldn't tell

before I went live

here. Uh let's see what else is going on

there. There's so much going on in that

tiny little unimportant story.

Um, and then we had a couple of folks

weigh in to tell us that Jeffrey

Goldberg is a highly credible and

respected journalist. Uh, Ian Bremer

said that on X and also David

Axelrod. Now remember, I always tell you

that what happened doesn't tell you

anything. You have to know

who. Now, Jeffrey Goldberg is associated

with some of the, you know, more notable

hoaxes that we've

seen. So, why would Ian Bremer and David

Axelrod want to go public saying that

he's so

credible? What's up with that? So, I

always see these things as ways to know

who's, you know, who's connected to or

loyal to or, you know, on the same team.

So you can draw your own conclusions

about the people who are supporting

him. Um Mike Waltz took responsibility

for it. So you can stop well the critics

can stop saying nobody took

responsibility. Yeah, he he took full

responsibility. He just wasn't clear how

it happened because he doesn't have any

contact with he's never texted Jeffrey

Goldberg. But it turns out a staffer may

have done

it, but we don't know uh exactly. We

don't know the details of how or why the

staffer did it. So, more questions

there. And

uh I love the way Trump handled it

during a NBC News uh interview.

Um what did he say? He you said

uh it's just something that can

happen. That's such a trumpet way to

handle it. It's just something that can

happen. Mike Wals is a good man. Now

that's how you treat a story that's a

two out of

10. If it were a seven out of 10, then

maybe you would say more, you'd defend

it, whatever. But it's only a two out of

10. It's just something that can happen.

It's just perfect. It just minimizes it

and sort of brushes it away. It's like,

nah, it's just something that could

happen anyway. And nobody got hurt. Time

goes by, but it's all the Democrats

have. The Democrats don't have much to

talk about, so they got that. Uh, just

so you know, Dilbert's company will be

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So, if you're subscribed to that on the

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my profile. Well, Alex Jones has a uh

Scoopish. Um, according to his source,

the uh there's a whole bunch of files,

14 terabytes of what Alice Jones calls

nightmarish sexual abuse of children and

on the Epstein files and has uh it's all

been given to the local FBI

offices with orders to take the gloves

off. So that's Alex Jones taking that

now.

My take on all the Epstein stuff is I

will believe anything when I see it. I

feel every time we get teased about, oh,

we're going to see the good stuff. It

hasn't happened

yet. So, whatever it is that's

preventing this from coming out, I think

it's going to be like the the JFK

files. Do you realize we got played in

the JFK files, right?

I'm pretty sure we got played because

even Trump had said, "If you saw what I

saw, you wouldn't release them either."

And then we saw what seemed to be the

complete files and everybody said, "Oh,

looks like there's nothing new here."

Yeah, we we knew the

CIA, you know, was involved in a lot of

stuff. So, do you think there's any

chance that we saw the good stuff on the

JFK files? And do you think that

anything we saw is something that if

Trump saw it, he would have said, "Oh

yeah, if you saw what I saw, you

wouldn't release him either." No. I

think we got played. So the Epstein

files could be the same thing. Meaning

that uh at some point somebody will say,

"All right, these are the full and

complete files." And then you look

through them and it's like some people

playing

pingpong and there's Jeffrey Epstein

playing the piano and uh now he's waving

to people on his way to a boat and we're

going to be like I really thought there

would be all kinds of terrible things.

No, no, that's all we have. That's all

we have. So, I don't trust

anything about these secret files being

released. It doesn't matter who's doing

it. I don't trust anything about

it. Well, um you know about the uh

anti-Tesla, anti- Elon Musk protests. Um

Zero Hedge is calling it part of a NGO

color revolution, which is how you

overthrow a country. And um that's my

take on it too that it's basically a

coup attempt in this case against uh

Musk and Trump and and attacking Musk

would be very good for the bad guys

because he's doing such a good job on

Doge that if they can take him out they

would uh you know partially

Trump's ability to save the country and

they don't care about the country. So,

um, but here's what we know. So, there's

this, uh, NGO called

Indivisible, and apparently they were

taking things off their website because

it they got caught as one of the

entities funding this. Apparently, they

were also one of the entities backing

the Black Lives Matter movement. You

remember

that? Which was also a color revolution.

So apparently everything that we've

learned is true. The NOS's

um are being funded by the

government to run

ops against against

Republicans and and to try to create,

you know, riots in the street and and uh

unbelievable. So, uh, Natalie Winters, a

co-host of Steve Bannon's War Room, um,

wrote an X. So, the wife of former US

attorney Matthew Graves, so he was the,

uh, he led the prosecution of the 1500

January

6ers is on the board of that

indivisible. Wait,

what? The guy who prosecuted, he led the

prosecution of the January 6ers is on

the

board of this group that backed the BLM

protests and now the Tesla

stuff. And I think his

wife, let's say,

uh, yeah, Matthew Graves's wife, uh,

Fatima Gross Graves. Imagine have your

having your middle name gross and your

last name

[Laughter]

Graves. Now, I haven't seen a picture of

her, but I certainly hope she's thin

because if your name is Fatima Gross

Graves, you you you better not have an

extra pound cuz that that's just not

going to work out. Uh but she's the

director of the of the NGO.

So everything you thought about how, you

know, every judge has a spouse who's

involved in some sketchy NGO thing, it's

all

true. Um, so almost every day there's a

new story about a judge rules. There's

some judge who rules against Doge doing

one thing or another. And it sounds to

us because we're not lawyers, it sounds

like, what? Why? Why can't they do that?

and then it, you know, gets appealed and

then the higher court says, "Well, they

can't do that." So, whenever I tell you

that uh something has been blocked on

Doge, it's almost always going to be,

you know, the lower court and anytime I

tell you that they've been uh that the

blocking has been reversed, it's an

appeals court. An appeals court. So,

here's a few more. Uh a federal judge.

So this will be a lower court has ruled

against Kerry Lake and the Trump

administration forcing them to uh uh

this is Nick's orders reporting on this

uh to continue funding the deep state

propaganda radio station. So that's the

Voice of America and the the related

entities to Voice of America.

And so Carrie Lake and Trump were

looking to just close it down cuz it

wasn't really useful and it cost a lot

of money. So they're just going to close

it down. And then a judge tells them

they can't. What? So remember, every

time it's the lower court, you know,

lower court judge, their rulings are

just baffling to a citizen. Why can't

the people who run it close it down?

like how is that not allowed? Like what

does a judge have to do with

that? And but then here's this is also

Nick Sorder is reporting this on X. Uh

but then a fourth circuit just halted an

activist judge called Chuang who had

required uh who was required Doge's

access to much of USID be suspended.

So there there it is again. Lower

court's blocking on a different topic.

The higher court is reversing the

blocking of something about

USID. And I would love to know the

budget for all the uh legal actions that

Trump and Musk are involved in. What

what do you think the government is

spending on these

ridiculous legal challenges to get them

reversed? Are we talking hundreds of

millions? I'll bet it's hundreds of

millions, you know, maybe not right

away, but over the course of the uh of

Trump's term. Incredible. But at least

it's a fair fight. You know, at least if

you tell me that Trump's lawyers and

maybe Elon Musk's, you know, resources,

I don't know if he's involved in any of

that or not directly, but at least it's

a fair fight.

Um, Trump signed an executive order for

election integrity, but it's not it's

not the things I wanted like some kind

of uh, you know, you must have ID and

stuff like that, but Autism Capital is

reporting on X that the EO would do

this. Cut down on illegal immigrants on

voter roles. So, I guess we'd purge the

voter roles to get rid of illegals. Um,

ensure that the Department of Homeland

Security has fully usable data. I didn't

know that was problem. Um, a citizenship

question on the voting forms for the

federal voting forms.

Um, cutting federal funding to states

that don't take reasonable steps to

secure their election. Now, that's a

little vague. What would be a reasonable

step to secure your election? Voter ID,

right?

So, I don't know if this gets to voter

ID or not, but maybe they could they

could use it for that.

Um, and then the Department of Justice,

they want the EO wants them to

vigorously prosecute election crimes,

which again I thought was already

happening.

Um, and uh, compliance with National

Election Day rules. What's that?

Compliance with National Election Day

rules. Is that is that saying that the

election has to be on one day instead of

three months of of voting? I don't know.

Uh prosecuting foreign interference in

elections. Okay. If you can catch them

and

uh revoking some Biden executive order

that was apparently not

productive. Anyway, so all that's

happening now. what Trump really wants

is, you know, in-person voting and voter

ID and stuff like that. So, we'll see if

he gets all of that. Um, so Trump is now

declassifying all the FBI documents

related to the Russia collusion hoax.

Isn't that

interesting? Years later, what are we

going to learn about the Russia

collusion hoax that maybe we don't

already know?

So Trump says, "This gives the media the

right to go in and check it. You

probably won't bother because you're not

going to like what you see." He always

throws an insult into the media. You're

probably not going to bother because

you're not going to like what you see.

And then he said, "This was total

weaponization. It's a disgrace. It

should have never happened in this

country. But now you'll be able to see

for yourself all declassified." Now,

honestly, I don't know how Hillary

Clinton avoids going to jail.

I don't think it'll happen. But won't

the documents show a clear path from

Hillary's

campaign to the creation of the Steel

Dossier that we know to be

fake.

Um, I I thought this is the most damning

and well-known stuff, but imagine if

there's more. Imagine, imagine if we

find out even more than we already know.

Could happen. In other news, um it was

reported that there's some good news on

a ceasefire deal with with Ukraine and

Russia, but I'm a little

uh I'm a little

skeptical because the alleged agreement

is not in writing and it's not signed.

So, that's never a good sign. But uh the

deal is that there would be a pause on

attacks in the Black Sea

shipping and that there would be a pause

on going after energy

facilities. The weird thing is they said

it was

retroactive. How do you stop retroactive

attacks? How do is there some kind of a

time deation thing? Um, not only will

there be a ceasefire starting today, but

there will be a ceasefire going back in

time. Really? I I must be missing

something in this story cuz how do you

change the past

anyway? But they don't have details on

even what they've agreed on. They don't

have start dates. There's no

comprehensive, you know, truce, etc. And

then hardly any time goes by and Russia

says that they also want their sanctions

on Russia lifted before the Black Sea

ceasefire. Now that's a whole new

negotiation.

So it sounds to me like, you know, maybe

the American team of negotiators went

away with some confidence or some belief

that there was an agreement and the

Russians either never meant to agree or

they decided that they had such a

powerful position that they could just

throw in a major thing like the dropping

of sanctions

um just to try to get that for free.

So assuming that Trump is in control of,

you know, what we're offering and what

we're not, he's not going to give that

for free, which means that the whole

deal has already fallen apart in my

opinion. So I don't think it's being

reported that way, but in my opinion, it

looks like the whole deal just fell

apart. Now, that's not surprising. You

know, at at this point in the process,

you kind of expect to all be a whole

bunch of, you know, false starts and,

you know, we we think we got a deal.

Wait, they walked away. No, now we have

a deal. Okay, not the details, but okay,

the details threw up. You blew up the

deal. So, I'm going to stick with my

three months

estimate. Um, I do think both sides want

some kind of peace.

So, uh, or at least the US and and

Russia do.

Uh, but it's not going to be easy and I

don't think we're

close. So, I'd be surprised if anything

happens. Um, but let's be

optimistic. So, if we were to look at

things from today's perspective, Trump's

at a high in popularity.

Uh the country thinks we're going in the

right direction in a bigger numbers than

we've seen in a long

time. And the biggest problem that the

Democrats could come up with, the

biggest one is a two out of 10 in

importance. Uh I think that uh they may

have said some things in that text

message.

Now, I'm open to to hear that maybe

there were some more confidential things

in there, but so far I'm going to agree

with Trump. It's just a thing that can

happen. But just think about the fact

that's the best thing they

have. And then I'm hearing Mark Cuban do

the um what's wrong with Musk and Trump

is that they do ready, fire, aim.

Do you think that anybody can tell from

the

outside if they're doing the right

stuff? I don't think so. And I and I

think that there are situations where

firing before you measure is exactly the

right thing. I I remember the the

shocking day that I first learned that

when you're talking about software, you

don't want to measure twice and cut

once. You know that old thing. If you're

a

carpenter, you want to measure it twice

so that when you cut it once, it will be

correct. And with hardware, same thing.

So, there's a whole bunch of domains in

which you definitely want to make sure

you're doing the right thing before you

do

anything. But not in software. In

software, you try something and it

breaks and you try something else and it

breaks and you try something else and

didn't really cost you anything because

it's just

software. So going fast and seeing what

happens can work with startups and it

can work with software projects. And the

question is are there applications

within Doge where that also makes sense?

Certainly there are applications where

the scalpel makes sense, but do you

think the Doge people can't tell the

difference between when to use the scal

scalpel and when to use the

chainsaw? Uh if the bureaucracy is

fighting you, which tool do you

use? I'll put this to you th those of

you who are experienced in management.

If the bureaucracy is trying to slow you

down and sloww walk you and avoid you

and you you want to make cuts, do you

use the scalpel? You

can't. Cuz the only way you could use

the scalpel is if the bureaucracy was

actively helping you. Oh yeah, you don't

know our operations, but let me tell

you, you could scalple this and you

could scalple that and we're here to

help. But that's not going to happen. Do

you do you think that's what the Doge

people are running into? A bunch of

helpful bureaucrats or like, "Wow, we

can't wait. We can't wait to tell you

where to scalpel this." Nope. In that

case, what would be the right tool?

Chainsaw. And then as you're

chainsawing, the bureaucracy starts

screaming, "Ah! Ah! Ah!" You don't

realize you're cutting this or you cut

this and the babies are going to die.

And you say, "Wait, what? The babies are

going to die?" Okay. Can you give me

some evidence that babies are going to

die? Yes. Yes. See, it's Yeah, it's

feeding these babies. And then you say,

"Oh, okay. Now you're being helpful."

So, you weren't helpful with a scalpel,

were you? But as soon as I put the

chainsaw to it, you're like, "Save the

babies, and now I have some useful

information, and now I'll back off on

the chainsaw." Exactly.

So when I see Mark Cuban saying, you

know, sort of generic things like, yeah,

they're they're disorganized and they're

just chainsawing things without wisely

deciding what to do. I say to myself,

I'm not sure he's fully incorporated

what the

bureaucracy would be doing to styy them.

If the bureaucracy is working against

Doge, and you can I think you could just

say with certainty that would be the

case, then that's just chainsaw. The

scalpel couldn't possibly work in that

domain. But it might kick up a situation

where you say, "All right, we've

chainsawed enough, but we hit a we hit a

little sensitive area here. Let's let's

slow down and scalpel that a little

bit."

So to say that scalpel always beats

chainsaw is just purely dumb or

inexperienced. To say that sometimes

chainsaw is the right answer and

sometimes scalpel is the right answer,

that will always be correct. But to

imagine that you can look from the

outside and determine where the where

they went wrong, you can't do that. We

we don't have any inside information

about that. to to imagine that the

complaints of the bureaucracy are

telling you that you should do something

differently. That's not how anything

works because the bureaucracy would be

complaining no matter what you were

doing. If it were a reorg, they'd be

complaining. If it were cuts with a

scalpel, they'd be complaining. If it

were anything, they would be

complaining. So, if they're all

reporting that they have low morale, oh,

we have low morale, that's just because

there's change. All change makes

bureaucracies have low morale, or at

least they'll tell you they have low

morale. So, you can't tell by listening

to the people bitching about it. And you

definitely can't tell what's happening

and when the scalpel and when the

chainsaw is being used or or if if

there's even a sensitivity to know when

to move from one to the other. I assume

they are because it's the smart people

doing it. So, um, the best. So, so now

let's look at the best that the

Democrats have. We've got the James

Carville

approach, which is basically give up and

just roll over and hope that the other

side makes a

mistake. You've got the uh generic

complaints.

Well, I I don't think that they measure

twice and cut once, which doesn't really

even make sense because, like I said,

they should be using the scalpel

sometimes and the chainsaw sometimes.

And from the outside, you can't tell.

You just can't tell from the outside

what's working and what isn't. That's

just not a thing. Then you've got the

Jasmine Crockett approach, which is just

be really stupid in public every single

day. like really stupid and try to sell

that. All right. All right. We got some

stupidity going. And then you've got the

signal app story that the dramcrats are

trying to sell you with their

faces. I'm so

ag and and those are the best plays. you

know, also yelling at their own their

own leadership for being

terrible. So, I've never seen a

more

disorganized,

completely broken party than this. I

don't know if there's any time in my

life this has ever

happened. Uh, did I coin drama? No, I

did not. No, I did not. So, I I stole

that

um from a DM that I got where somebody

DM'd it to

me, but I love it. The

Drama, it puts it in perspective because

I really do think that the Democrats are

largely a

theatrical production. And I mean that

literally uh in the sense that they're

acting about how mad they are. they're

acting about how much of a difference

anything that they're talking about

matters and uh that's all they have.

When I see when I see Republicans, let's

let's take the story earlier about Mike

Johnson. When he says um that the

Congress has control over these courts,

the funding for these courts, was that

theatrical? Not even a little bit. That

it was just matter of fact. th this is

something that we might do. It's

important. And he just tells you that's

it. When Trump signs his executive

orders, even though he's like the

greatest

showman, he's largely just communicating

what he's doing in an interesting way.

It's not a theater because there are

real things happening and you can see

the reality of it in the executive

order. So, it seems to me that

Republicans have, you know, similar

opinions because conservatives have

similar opinions to each other and that

when they describe them, they're just

talking. But when the Democrats get

involved, I think it's because they

don't understand policy or they're I

don't know. They they just seem to be

locked into a theatrical mode where they

believe that selling the disgust on

their faces is all they have to sell.

Look at the disgust on my face. Oh. Oh.

And then I'll say

again, what do you think would be the

reaction of the the typical Democrat

voter if they read a story about that uh

the Signal app situation and and the

story was just described in just cold

dry terms. Well, looks like this

shouldn't have happened, but luckily

nobody got hurt. Everybody learned

something. Um,

uh, Mike Waltz took full responsibility.

Looks like his staff member did

it. How How much do you think an average

voter would care if they just heard it

that way? But I will bet you that for

the rest of this year at least, if you

bring up anything about Trump doing good

stuff, a Democrat will say, "Oh, but

what about that massive disgusting

incompetence from that signal

appliance and the theatrical act that

they saw on TV? They're going to see the

news people do it. They'll see the

pundits do it. And they'll just act like

that. It's definitely just acting. And

once you see it, you can't unsee it.

It's just so obvious and so pervasive on

one

side. All right. So, that's all I got

for

today. Um, thanks for joining. I'm going

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