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Episode 2791 CWSA 03/27/25

Episode #2791 Mar 27, 2025 1:23:08 31,840 views

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Opening General Commentary

Tesla's up a little bit today. It was down yesterday. We'll keep an eye on that. But meanwhile let's get your comments working. Hey. No. Well, it's working in a moment. Come on, app, do your thing. I guess it's not going to do its thing. There it is. All right, we're a

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

ll good now. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. You've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for…

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NewsReaction Health & Biohacking

ltaneous sip, and it happens now. Fantastic. Better than normal. Well, let's check the science news to see if there's anything I can DOGE, and by that I mean save them some money. Oh, oh yes. Let's see. The University of South Australia has determined that exercise of any kind can boost the brain p…

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NewsReaction Economics & Finance

to. You don't have to. It's been studied and studied, and it's also really obvious. You can tell by observing people and also in yourself. I don't know. We kind of want to do a study on this. Do you have grant money? Yes. Well, maybe DOGE should cut that grant money, even though you're in Australia.…

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MainContent Hypnosis & Influence

n behind the growth in advertising on X, according to this publication, is being driven by fear. Do you think they would cover anybody else's business this way, as if they know why people are doing it? So why are you advertising on X? Is it because it's a really good value for the dollar, or is it b…

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NewsReaction Climate & Environment

omewhere in the Middle East, and it was being guarded by entities. But I feel like that's the sort of thing you shouldn't just trust, right? You know, one remote viewer is one remote viewer. If you were a good source, no, you need two. You need a second source. So I thought I'd do a little remote v…

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NewsReaction AI & Technology

rnate box. It's buried somewhere in the Middle East. I can't be more specific. I believe there's sand around, and it's being guarded by four entities. Four entities guarding it. I think one of them, his name is Bob. There's Carl the Entity and somebody whose nickname is Bop. That's weird. And Alex.…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

not in there. Meanwhile, there's a private Texas school that claims that by using an AI program, an AI tutor, that its students have moved to the top 2% in the country. Fox News is reporting on this. And the co-founder of the school, it's called Alpha School, says the students are learning better a…

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NewsReaction Economics & Finance

rk and you get way more fun and you get way better grades. Now the Alpha School is looking to expand. So it's got a few hundred students now, but it's going to expand across the United States. So that would sort of suggest it's a for-profit school, right? I mean, I don't see anything that says it's…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

ing to work at all. So once again I think we're going to learn that the people who have all the advantages—and in this case it would be the rich, smart people—probably can get a huge advantage from using AI as part of their process. But I'm not so sure that AI is going to work for every kind of stu…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

o I'd recommend it as a good career path for all of you. No, I'm just kidding. It's a terrible career path. Don't join MS-13. Meanwhile, Zero Hedge is reporting that there was this gigantic $250 million fraud involving a Child Nutrition program, a federal Child Nutrition program. And a whole bunch…

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MainContent Health & Biohacking

g to fact-check other organizations, probably they're filled with fake news people, because it just feels like that's what would be drawn to those jobs. Oh, so I can just call other people fake news? Yeah, that would be your job. All right, I'm in. Well, Trump is saying on Truth Social it's time to…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

dical community didn't know that polio either was just not what they thought it was and the vaccine didn't make any difference at all. That's quite a claim. Quite a claim. But in 2025, to steal a joke from Joe Rogan, I'm not so sure the moon landing was real. And by the way, I'm not so sure the moo…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

st likely explanation. To be honest, if I had to place a bet, I would bet that the vaccinations work and polio is real. But man, it's not 100%, is it? You know, I'd love to tell you I'm super confident about that, but nope, nope. It's a little bit closer to a coin flip. A little bit closer to a coin…

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MainContent Cognitive Reframing

of people who apparently knew what the other people were doing and seemed to be coordinated. He says that the Durham report and other legal actions have essentially proven the main points that the lawsuit would try to establish, which is it was fake. We know who the people involved were, and we know…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

hinese or the Russians or the Iranians would have lost their access. I think that if they had access to that tool and they were listening to our government conversations at the highest level, I'm pretty sure they would have said, well, we're going to let the Houthis take the hit. It would have been…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

little bit less secure, but it's only two hours before the strike—it's pretty unlikely that any notice is going to get to them in two hours. So life is just one decision after another. But if you were to read the news, it would look like half opinions. You know, a real opinion is you take the positi…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

udge who's been selected for this, who is randomly selected, totally randomly, is somebody named Judge Boasberg. Have you heard of him? Again, if you knew what was happening, you wouldn't know anything. If you knew who, you might know everything. So Boasberg, he's the activist judge who is blocking…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

e Department of Imaginary Concerns. Did you agree with Putin to have sex with him if he stops the fighting? Well, you know, no, but I'm going to assign that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns, and we'll come up with an imaginary policy to make sure it doesn't happen again. So Byron York had so…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

e real world say, yeah, well, unless it was impossible to get ordinary work done without bending a rule or two, which is a universal truth. Jonathan Turley was talking about Daniel Goldman, Representative Goldman, and he says that Goldman claimed that the FBI investigating attacks on Tesla and its…

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MainContent Hypnosis & Influence

would agree with that. I don't think you want to trivialize terrorism and just start calling everything terrorism. You don't want to do that. But let's see if this Tesla stuff fits the definition without stretching it. So Turley points out that the Justice Department defines domestic terrorism as qu…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

mocrats operate, which is getting large funding for things and then building nothing. And he's just making Newsom squirm. And then Newsom has to talk. But one of the things that Newsom does, because he's clever but weaselly at the same time, Newsom will agree with whatever your criticism is, but the…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

s. And so you've seen Gavin handle criticisms, and you know, give him credit, he does interact with people who are willing to criticize. So I'll give him credit for that. But I've never seen anybody destroy him. Ezra just destroyed him. It's really fun to watch. You have to watch it anyway. Laura L…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

it's not impossible. And I don't think anybody would have seen it go to 26%, but if it's going to 26%, it's in freefall. Now I know that last 20% are going to hold tight, but I think it's just going to get worse, right? You know, one more day of Jasmine Crockett should make pretty much all the Democ…

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MainContent Climate & Environment

have we been hearing Putin's going to die any minute? I don't know. Maybe Zelensky knows something we don't, but I wouldn't count on that. I don't think I'd make any policy on it. Now let me tell you the least surprising news of the day, people. You're never going to believe this, I say jokingly. T…

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Closing General Commentary

us in a permanent state of war because it's good for Israel. Sachs also says that the Houthis are no big threat to the United States, and if we just ignore them because there's not much US shipping that goes through there anyway, which surprised me. I think I need a fact check on that. But how many…

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Tesla's up a little bit today. It was down yesterday. We'll keep an eye on that. But meanwhile let's get your comments working. Hey. No. Well, it's working in a moment. Come on, app, do your thing. I guess it's not going to do its thing. There it is. All right, we're all good now.

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Fantastic. Better than normal. Well, let's check the science news to see if there's anything I can DOGE, and by that I mean save them some money. Oh, oh yes. Let's see. The University of South Australia has determined that exercise of any kind can boost the brain power of people at any age. Huh. How could they have come up with that data without spending all the money? Is there anything they could have done that would save them all that time and effort? Yes, you could just ask Scott. Next time, Scott, is exercise good for your brain? Well, according to every single study that's ever been done on the topic, yes.

We were thinking of doing a study on the topic. You don't have to. You don't have to. It's been studied and studied, and it's also really obvious. You can tell by observing people and also in yourself. I don't know. We kind of want to do a study on this. Do you have grant money? Yes. Well, maybe DOGE should cut that grant money, even though you're in Australia. That's how good DOGE is. It's going to cut things in Australia.

Well, speaking of things related to Elon Musk, according to Forbes, the X platform sales or the advertising revenue is growing. I'm not sure if they really know that, but they say it's growing. And the reason behind the growth in advertising on X, according to this publication, is being driven by fear. Do you think they would cover anybody else's business this way, as if they know why people are doing it? So why are you advertising on X? Is it because it's a really good value for the dollar, or is it because we imagine that you're afraid? Oh, now that Musk is friends with Trump, oh, we better advertise so we can bribe him with money, because that works, right? You know, bribing him with money. No, it doesn't work. But anyway, good to see that the ad sales are up.

Now, I promised you, if you're on, I made the promise that I would do some remote viewing today. And it's because there's a document that's been found. It's an older document, but back in 1988 the CIA claimed to have confirmed the existence of the Ark of the Covenant. And the way they did that was they used a remote viewer. Now that would be a person who has psychic powers, where if they close their eyes they can view things across the world or even across the galaxy, because time and space don't matter. And so apparently some remote viewer identified the Ark of the Covenant over in the Middle East and said it was in a coffin-shaped ornate box. Couldn't be more specific than that. Somewhere in the Middle East, and it was being guarded by entities.

But I feel like that's the sort of thing you shouldn't just trust, right? You know, one remote viewer is one remote viewer. If you were a good source, no, you need two. You need a second source. So I thought I'd do a little remote viewing for you, if you don't mind. Preparing. Hold on. Be silent for a moment. I'm getting something. It's ornate. It's the size of a coffin. It's in a hole. I'm sorry, that was—yeah, that was somebody's casket. Hold on. Let me go. Ark of the Covenant, where are you? Got it. Got it. There it is. It's an ornate box. It's buried somewhere in the Middle East. I can't be more specific. I believe there's sand around, and it's being guarded by four entities. Four entities guarding it. I think one of them, his name is Bob. There's Carl the Entity and somebody whose nickname is Bop. That's weird. And Alex. Alex. So the four entities guarding the Ark of the Covenant: confirmed. Confirmed.

Now that probably will be national news by the end of the day, because you know if you only have one remote viewer seeing the Ark of the Covenant, that means nothing. But if you have two, that's confirmation. Yeah, that's confirmation. So we got that going for us.

Meanwhile, according to Reuters, the Supreme Court said it will not hear a youth-led climate change case. So the Supreme Court said get out of here. We don't want to hear your 21 young people's case that the government and their energy policies have violated your right to be protected from climate change. You know, your right to be protected from climate change. Have you even read the Constitution, people? It's right there. I believe it's Article of the Constitution. It's one of those amendments or something. I'm pretty sure it's in there, right? No? Okay, maybe it's not in there.

Meanwhile, there's a private Texas school that claims that by using an AI program, an AI tutor, that its students have moved to the top 2% in the country. Fox News is reporting on this. And the co-founder of the school, it's called Alpha School, says the students are learning better and faster, and they only spend a few hours a day talking to the AI and then they're done with all their work. And they don't even need to do homework because they're learning so fast. And then they spend the rest of the day doing passion projects. Yeah, passion projects. Now I don't know exactly what that means, but it sounds pretty good. So you do way less work and you get way more fun and you get way better grades.

Now the Alpha School is looking to expand. So it's got a few hundred students now, but it's going to expand across the United States. So that would sort of suggest it's a for-profit school, right? I mean, I don't see anything that says it's government-funded or anything. So it's a for-profit entity that's telling us that their product works better than other people's product. Well, if you can't trust that, what can you trust?

Now, as others have pointed out, if it's a private school and it's for-profit, there's probably a little healthy tuition going on there. And I would expect that it would only attract the best students. Now let me ask you this. If you put a top student in front of an AI that's really good at quizzing them, could they get done with all their necessary work in a few hours? I'd say yes, probably yes. If you take an average student or a not-so-good student and say sit here alone with this AI until your homework's done in three hours, how's that going to go? I don't think that's going to work at all.

So once again I think we're going to learn that the people who have all the advantages—and in this case it would be the rich, smart people—probably can get a huge advantage from using AI as part of their process. But I'm not so sure that AI is going to work for every kind of student. It might only work for the top students, and then everybody else has to figure it out. We'll see. But I have some questions about that.

Well, Tom Homan gets another win, I guess. They captured one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the United States. And this was a 24-year-old. So he was one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the country. He was running the entire East Coast operations. Now the first thing that jumped out at me about this story is wow, good work, Tom Homan, capturing a top leader of MS-13. The second thing that jumped out was he's only 24. Wow. You know, the one thing about MS-13 they don't tell you is what a great economic opportunity it is, because there are not many—there just aren't that many jobs where you could be leading a major organization at the age of 24. So good for you, MS-13. They are not discriminating against young people. Plenty of opportunity. So I'd recommend it as a good career path for all of you. No, I'm just kidding. It's a terrible career path. Don't join MS-13.

Meanwhile, Zero Hedge is reporting that there was this gigantic $250 million fraud involving a Child Nutrition program, a federal Child Nutrition program. And a whole bunch of Somali immigrants stole $250 million in Minnesota. Now that was between March 2020 and January 2022. Now, how many times have we heard a story about gigantic amounts of money being stolen? I'm starting to lose sort of the distinction between all the stories. But it does feel to me like quite a few billions of dollars are being stolen from taxpayers. And it's like the government never heard of anything like auditing or accounting or tracking your progress. How in the world did they get away with $250 million of essentially faking that there were children that didn't exist? How in the world? Two years, $250 million. What if there are just dozens or hundreds of these happening all over the country, you know, in different ways, different people and stuff? I feel like that might be the case.

Well, see what else is going on. According to Liberty Nation News, the Associated Press has a reporter who got caught doing some fake news, and they had to retract it. And the fake news was a claim that Tulsi Gabbard had said that Trump and Putin were good friends. But it turns out she was talking about Prime Minister Modi and Trump, who are actually good friends. And so the Associated Press had to correct their story because it was wrong.

But the fun part of the story is that the reporter who wrote it, one of his prior jobs was he was part of the AP's first misinformation beat team, focusing on explaining falsehoods, propaganda, and conspiracy theories while exposing the creators of this material and their techniques for dissemination. How many times have the fake news people got onto the, hey, we'll check the fake news for the other people? Sometimes it's exactly what you'd expect. You know, I have this theory that shoe salesmen, if it's men who are selling shoes to women, that eventually it will be only men who have foot fetishes, because they would be most drawn to the field and they would work longer hours cheaper because they were getting an extra benefit from it. And it just seems to me that the organizations that are trying to fact-check other organizations, probably they're filled with fake news people, because it just feels like that's what would be drawn to those jobs. Oh, so I can just call other people fake news? Yeah, that would be your job. All right, I'm in.

Well, Trump is saying on Truth Social it's time to defund NPR and PBS immediately. He says that they're both horrible and they're completely biased platforms, and they should be defunded by Congress immediately. He says Republicans, don't miss this opportunity to rid our country of this giant scam, both being arms of the radical left Democrat Party. Just say no and make America great again.

Well, related to this story, the NPR CEO, her name is Katherine Maher, and she has been grilled by this guy Brandon Gill. So Gill was doing some grilling. He's Grill and Gill. And if you haven't seen the videos of it, it's highly recommended because of the attitude that he brought to it. So he'd ask a question like, do you recall saying this, this, or that? And it would be some terrible woke thing that would sound so bad in 2025. But you know, maybe at some point it didn't sound so bad. And then Maher would say, I never said that. And then Representative Gill would say, yes, you did. Here's a tweet of yours from 2020. And then he would read the tweet where she said exactly that. And then she'd say, well, I don't remember that, or I've completely evolved in my thinking, so I definitely don't think that now.

Now if you only saw it happen once with let's say one claim or one tweet, it wouldn't be much, you know, because people say crazy stuff. I say crazy things. You could almost certainly find something in my tweeting history that if you read it to me in a congressional setting and said do you really believe this, I might say, you know, maybe I thought it at the time, but you know, not really, not now. But if you have a lot of them, it becomes quite a show. And apparently she had quite a few things to say. Almost every one of them would have been disqualifying for any kind of leadership job. And she had to respond to every one that she had completely changed her views from crazy woke to something more like a leader perspective. Oh my God, did she get destroyed. Brandon Gill, good job there, Brandon.

All right, some of you have already seen this story, but I just had to weigh in. I guess on Joe Rogan's show he had a doctor, Dr. Suzanne Humphries, and they were talking about the real story of polio. Now before I tell you what the claim is, let me say that I don't know how to judge this. There was a time when if I had heard somebody saying that the polio vaccine actually doesn't do anything and the polio—well, let me tell you the claim. The claim is that the polio vaccine didn't stop any polio at all. What did stop polio is nothing. Nothing stopped it at all. And that all they did was redefine certain conditions as no longer being polio. So they came up with new names for stuff. So then when somebody had something that used to be called polio but they had been vaccinated, the doctor would say, well, it can't be polio because you've been vaccinated. So it looks like you got this Guillain-Barré thing, or you've got this coxsackie virus or an echo virus. I don't know what a coxsackie virus is, but that sounds like a bad one. What kind of virus did you get? I got that sucky virus. It's spelled C-O-X-S-A-C-K-I-E virus, all one word. It just sounds like a sucky virus, which is absolutely the worst one you could get. Or the doctors would chalk it up to, now this is the claim of Dr. Suzanne Humphries, these are not my claims, lead poisoning or mercury poisoning. So they'd always have some answer to it.

And then the doctor says the rise of polio or what seemed to be the rise of polio was directly mirroring the use of toxic pesticides like DDT, she says. And she says the countries that still make DDT today are where we're still seeing the polio happen.

So let me say what I think a number of others of you have said or are thinking right now. Let me see if I can read your mind. All right, I'm going to read your mind. I've already done remote viewing, reading your mind, and you're saying, got it, got it. What you're saying is there was a time you would not have believed this story, right? This is not that time. This is a time where I look at this—I mean this is a really fantastical claim that the entire medical community didn't know that polio either was just not what they thought it was and the vaccine didn't make any difference at all. That's quite a claim. Quite a claim.

But in 2025, to steal a joke from Joe Rogan, I'm not so sure the moon landing was real. And by the way, I'm not so sure the moon landing was real. Like I've actually been flipped. Even maybe a month ago I was holding tough. It's like, come on, of course the moon landing's real. I mean you can see the assets up there. People can still see that some of the assets are down there on the moon surface. How could it not be real? And then I thought, well, maybe the pictures aren't real. I mean maybe they landed something on the moon, but are the pictures real? Maybe they couldn't get good film on the moon or get it quickly, so maybe they filmed it separately, even if they did land on the moon, either with a person or without people. So at the moment I'm completely open to 100% of everything I've learned in history being fake. That doesn't mean it is, but I'm completely open to it now. There's nothing I'm unwilling to believe, no matter how crazy. And I'm going to put this on that list. I'm not going to say this is true, because how would I know? But is it possible, within the realm of possibility, that polio could have been completely a fake hysteria? And the answer is, I hate to say it, but it's a little bit possible. It's just a little bit possible. I don't think it's the most likely explanation. To be honest, if I had to place a bet, I would bet that the vaccinations work and polio is real. But man, it's not 100%, is it? You know, I'd love to tell you I'm super confident about that, but nope, nope. It's a little bit closer to a coin flip. A little bit closer to a coin flip.

I see your comments and I'm just chuckling to myself. One of you is trying to get me kicked off of all social media platforms forever. I'm not going to take the bait.

Well, according to Kash Patel, Trump has this brilliant plan where he either has or is going to file a lawsuit against all the people involved in the Russia collusion hoax. Now it would be a lawsuit as opposed to a criminal action, and he would be suing for financial compensation. Now the financial part probably doesn't matter to him that much, but it's a RICO lawsuit. I didn't know you could RICO in a lawsuit, but maybe it's the essence of RICO as opposed to RICO. And what Kash Patel is pointing out is that it could lead to the possibility of criminal charges. So in other words, if the lawsuit had some discovery involved or some, let's say it tied together a bunch of things that nobody tied together before, it could create the basis for a criminal prosecution on the same grounds. That it was organized, funded, and it was an operation that involved a vast number of people from lawyers and a certain firm to Hillary Clinton's campaign to the FBI to the Department of Justice. I don't know who else. The media, maybe the media.

So, and then as Kash Patel points out, I guess he was talking to Charlie Kirk on the podcast, that the RICO part of it, the part where everything's connected and it's not one person who just did a thing, it's a whole bunch of people who apparently knew what the other people were doing and seemed to be coordinated. He says that the Durham report and other legal actions have essentially proven the main points that the lawsuit would try to establish, which is it was fake. We know who the people involved were, and we know pretty much that they communicated. But maybe that's the extra stuff they have to add to it to give some testimonies and stuff like that. So that is really interesting as a legal strategy, and I'm all in for that. We should absolutely know if our government was real or we were just run by a bunch of hoaxes and RICO and some deep state stuff. I don't know.

Well, in other news, Representative Thomas Massie, he's introducing a bill, the Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act. So if somebody is a candidate for federal office, they would have to disclose all the countries in which they are citizens. Now you're probably saying to yourself that seems unnecessary because everybody knows who's a dual citizen, right? I mean it would be easy to check, and if somebody had dual citizenship and they were in Congress, you'd know about it, right? Apparently there's no reporting requirement and there's no place you can look it up. So we could have thousands of people in Congress who are actually citizens of other countries at the same time they're citizens of the United States, and we wouldn't even know it.

Now I know what you're going to say: Israel, right? Say it. You know that's what you want to say. You want to say there are members of Congress who are secretly also dual citizens of Israel. Well, according to my limited research, there's no known case of that. So if you have different information than I do, let me know. But to the best of my very quick analysis, there's no example of that. There doesn't seem to be, as far as anybody knows, any member of Congress who's a dual citizen. Now that actually surprised me. I thought there'd be one or two. And I don't think there's anybody else who hasn't at this point renounced their dual citizenship. So there were a few that were not related to Israel where people were challenged. I think Ted Cruz was one. Ted Cruz had Canadian citizenship as well as American, and I believe he renounced the Canadian part as soon as it became an issue. And I think there were a few other candidates or a few other politicians who were in the same situation. They weren't really wed to the other country, so they just renounced it and fixed it. But I guess I approve of this. I don't think it'll make much difference in the real world, but it'd be good to know.

All right, let's talk about Signal gate. Believe it or not, I think I can add something to the story. It's a boring story, and that's the biggest part of the story, is that it's too boring for the public to get interested in. Imagine if you didn't follow the news like we do, like obsessively trying to figure stuff out all day long, and you heard about, oh, they used the Signal app. Like you wouldn't even know why is that bad or anything like that.

So here's something that CIA Director Ratcliffe said in a statement, and he was dumping on the reporter who wrote about it, Jeffrey Goldberg. He's the one who was added to the Signal group. We don't know exactly how he was added yet, but it wasn't by Ratcliffe. And anyway, so CIA Director Ratcliffe said yesterday, I spent four hours answering questions from senators as a result of that article, intimating that I transmitted classified information. Now I didn't know that. I didn't know that Goldberg suggested that maybe Ratcliffe had transmitted classified information, because we didn't see any example of that. So I didn't know that was being even suggested. And then Ratcliffe says those messages were revealed today. I did not transmit classified information. I guess we can now just look at the messages and see he's right. He said the reporter, Goldberg, who I don't know, intentionally intended to indicate that the reporter also indicated I released the name of an undercover CIA operative. In fact, I released the name of my own chief of staff, who is not operating undercover. And that was deliberately false and misleading.

Okay, that's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. Imagine being accused—you're the head of the CIA—imagine being accused of releasing the name of an undercover CIA agent and then finding out literally nothing like that happened. It was just made up, apparently.

But I want to redo this last sentence and see if this sounds familiar to you. So Ratcliffe's summary sentence was the mission was a remarkable success, because that's what did happen, not what could have happened, not what could have happened. Have you noticed the pattern? The pattern that Democrats have imaginary concerns. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a little bit.

But I wrote a post on X that I thought captured some of the nuance that nobody had captured yet on this Signal thing. So starting with, if Hegseth—and I believe this is true—Secretary Hegseth, he has the power to declassify content. So all he has to do is say declassify this and it's declassified. So in my opinion, putting that content on Signal, which is what he did, is a de facto declassification. Now it's the same thing I said about Trump and Mar-a-Lago. If the person who's in charge of saying something is classified or not intentionally puts it in a place that they know is not classified, that's a de facto practical declassification. Now it should be with paperwork, but is that the problem? Are we mad at Hegseth because he didn't do paperwork? That wouldn't make anybody mad, would it? If he intended it to be in a non-classified setting, and obviously he knew this Signal was not their top secret setting, so he very consciously put it into a less than completely secure setting. I would call that a de facto declassification.

Now here's the thing that you'll see in the news over and over again, and I think I'm about the only person besides Greg Gutfeld who ever calls this out, which is I call it the half opinion. If the only thing you knew about the story is that somebody took some information that you think should be in the most maximized secret setting and they moved it to a less secret setting, how would you judge that? And there could be potential military implications to it. How would you judge that? Well, I'd say that's a mistake. That's a pretty big one, right? If all you're looking at is the cost of it, you know, what's the downside, what's the worst that could happen? I'd say that's terrible. But what are we leaving out? We're leaving out why he did it. Why did he put that information in that setting? Well, it's because he had a mission. He'd been asked to keep this very group of people informed right up to the last minute. I mean the timing of it was important, and it was very important to keep them informed in case somebody had a last-minute objection. Because remember, this was big stuff. He was ready to kill a whole bunch of people, which presumably is what happened when the strike happened. So before he decided to unleash death—death like people dying—he wanted to make sure that the people most involved got their final say. And I don't think that that was just checking a box. To me that seems important, that if you've been asked to keep this group informed, it's because this group might be the ones who say, you know what, hold on, hold on. I have such an objection, or I found something new, or maybe there's something we haven't considered. Maybe they would have delayed it, and that could have been really important, right?

So if you were to judge it as did he take something into a less secure platform? Yes. By itself that would look like a mistake. But if you judge it by what was he trying to accomplish, which was to make sure that the people most important to the decision were still okay with the decision before he killed people, before he killed people, that seems pretty legitimate to me.

Now let me tell you something about every big organization I've ever been involved with. If you followed all of the rules of any big organization, be it a corporation or anywhere else, you would immediately bring that corporation or organization to its knees. Because big organizations have enough rules that you wouldn't be able to get anything done. Let me give you an example. One of my first jobs out of college, I was a bank teller. And one day I cashed a bad check, and it's because I didn't check identification properly. Now the reason I didn't check is because the person who brought the people with the check in and stood right there at the window with them was a friend of mine. So the friend says, well, you know, I can vouch for these two. They're friends of mine. I thought, oh, that's safe enough. I mean this is my personal friend. Turns out they were criminals. So I mean I just got scammed. So I didn't get fired because it was sort of a first offense and it wasn't that much money. But I did get a talking to. I got a stern talking to. And the stern talking to was you don't get to decide which of the rules you follow and which ones you don't follow. You will follow all the rules. And I looked at my supervisor and I said, you got it. And within two hours the line for the tellers was out the door, and I was serving very few people because almost every encounter required me to call my supervisor over because that was the rule. If there was anything that was above my pay grade to approve, I couldn't do it. So I brought the entire bank to a standstill. I crashed the bank. It couldn't do anything for customers, and they were just lining out the door. And what was I doing? I was just following all the rules. I was doing it quickly. I wasn't dragging my feet. I was just following their own rules.

And one time I called my supervisor over, and there's some guy who works for Chevron, and he didn't have ID or he didn't have—I guess he didn't have an account at our branch or something. And she comes over and she takes one look at him. She goes, approved. I go, hold on, hold on. What did you do that I couldn't do? Like you just looked at him. You literally just looked at him. Why couldn't I do that? She goes, well, I noticed he was wearing this lapel pin that tells me that he's worked for Chevron for I don't know at least 10 years or something. And she goes, yeah, nobody would know to wear that little pin if they were a crook. And I thought, well, I'm pretty sure that's not in the rules, the lapel pin trick. So this is a pattern that you'll see everywhere.

Now do you think this is different in the military? Do you think the military could possibly function if everybody followed all the rules all the time? I doubt it. If it's like every other big organization, no. It's probably a whole bunch of people who are continuously looking for some way to get around the rules and regulations just to get something done. That's probably the most normal situation in the world.

So now you've got Pete Hegseth who's given this job. Your job is to keep this group of people informed right up to date, like not once a month but like right up to the operational point. How is he going to do that? You tell me the other way he was going to do it. There wasn't another way he was going to do it. There was no other mechanism. The government does not have a secure chat group. And if it did, it would require those same people—what, a dozen or 16 or whatever—to all be sitting in an office at the same time. Do you think that ever happens? No, it never happens. So he did not have any tool, any process, any way to do the thing that he had been tasked to do that was important enough that it could save the lives of those people who ended up being killed. It was life and death, and it was his job. It was life and death, and it was his job to keep them informed. There was no other way to do it.

So what did he do? I can't read his mind, but what it looks like is he said this is not ideal—just again, I'm just guessing—this is not ideal to put this on Signal. But it's only two hours between now and the time of the attack, and it's important that we've got everybody on board. I mean that's just critically important. So he took a little bit of a risk like everybody does in every big organization if they're trying to work within the rules, and he got a little bit of a benefit, which is he did what he was asked to do before he killed people, before he killed people. I mean I feel like we're forgetting—we've somehow forgotten the humanity of it. This was life and death, and you do want to make sure everybody's on the right page before the missiles fly. So telling them exactly when the thing was going to happen is very critical. Completely appropriate to do. Do you have a final objection? Very important, because if there's two hours, maybe you say no. If it were a day, maybe you'd say yes.

Now here's the question you're wondering: just what was the risk level of putting something on a Signal? Well, here's your rather real-world reveal. I don't believe the Houthis have a sophisticated hack operation, do you? Do you think the Houthis had penetrated the phones of the United States government? Do you think the Houthis had a back door to the Signal? I'm going to say no. But before you say it, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Scott, it doesn't have to be the Houthis. It could have been the Russians, and then they tipped them off. Could have been China, and then they tipped off the Houthis. Could have been Iran. Iran has sophisticated hackers. Could have been Iran, and then they—well, Iran is on their side, so they tip off the Houthis.

But let me give you a little real-world context. If any of those major powers had access to Signal and they had penetrated it so that they could listen to our government talking about everything, they would have risked losing that access by tipping off the Houthis. Because we probably would have noticed if the Houthis in two hours kind of quickly adjusted their defensive positions. Because we'd be watching them by then, right? We'd have the satellites on, we'd have the drones flying over. And if suddenly two hours before the attack everything changed and they started rapidly moving their assets, how long would it take us to figure out it was because of the Signal chat? About five minutes. And then we would have stopped using Signal, and then the Chinese or the Russians or the Iranians would have lost their access.

I think that if they had access to that tool and they were listening to our government conversations at the highest level, I'm pretty sure they would have said, well, we're going to let the Houthis take the hit. It would have been smarter, certainly for China and Russia, no doubt about it, to let the Houthis take the hit, even if they thought they'd like to screw the United States. They wouldn't lose their own access to something that important. Now what about Iran? I would go so far as to say that even Iran would let the Houthis take a hit before they would give up a source that important. Now who else told you that? Nobody, right?

So yeah, once you see how weak the analysis was of this whole situation, it's shocking.

The next thing is that Democrats have conflated what could have happened with what did happen. Now that's what Ratcliffe said. He said the exact same thing, right? So in my post I point out that the Democrats, they love the imaginary stuff. Well, it could have been bad. Do you know what else could have been bad? Everything that those people did that day. Everything. How many conversations did all the people who were in that chat—how many conversations did they have on other topics with other people that could have been compromised but weren't? Probably not, but could have been. If you're worrying about things that could go wrong, that's pretty much everything, and it's pretty much all the time. That is not a valid concern. If somebody takes a risk-reward decision—I need to keep people informed, that's my job, it's life or death, it's a little bit less secure, but it's only two hours before the strike—it's pretty unlikely that any notice is going to get to them in two hours. So life is just one decision after another. But if you were to read the news, it would look like half opinions. You know, a real opinion is you take the positive and the negative risks of everything you do. Okay, it could go this way, but it could go that way. You know, get some benefits, but there might be a cost. But if the only thing you do is look at there might be a cost, you wouldn't do anything.

Well, there might be a cost. I'd like you to meet me tomorrow at this building and we'll have the meeting. I don't know, what if I get hit by a car on the way to the meeting? Well, that's certainly more of a risk if you're traveling than if you're staying home. So was that worth the risk? Everything has a risk to it. Everything. If you look at the fact that everything has a risk, including every single conversation that every one of those people had about every topic that was classified all day long, it's just nothing but that risk just all day long. Well, somebody might have heard it. Somebody might have been bugging this room. Somebody might be a mole. You know, that's universal anyway.

So here's the second question people have been asking me. Hey, was this whole Signal thing some kind of an op? Was it a setup from the start? My first impression was, well, I don't see how it would be. My current impression is yeah, it looks like it. I'm not at the point where I'm willing to say it was an op, but it looks like it.

So here's what we know. This is according to an X account called The Researcher. So something called American Oversight—so this is another one of those, you know how the NGOs all have these generic names, and when you hear one of these generic names it's some damn Democrat op. So American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, and Ratcliffe, etc., saying that their messaging on Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act. Huh. Who do you think is on this American Oversight group? Well, apparently it's David Brock and Norm Eisen. Remember I tell you that if you know what happened, you don't know anything. You have to know who. If the only thing you knew was that they were getting sued over a Federal Records Act, you might say to yourself, oh well, I guess somebody in the government takes that pretty seriously. But it's not that. It's the most devious, weaselly, despicable, lying pieces of shit that you've ever seen in your life: Norm Eisen and David Brock. Now if you don't know about those two guys, do a little research. They are not associated with good acts whatsoever. They are associated with the darkest, weaselly, just terrible, terrible activities. And so sure enough they're behind that, and they seem to be ready to go pretty quickly, surprisingly. And then they used to have a subgroup of this American Oversight called CREW. And according to The Researcher, that was the lawfare arm or their effort to target Trump originally. So there was a subset of people, probably lawyer-like people, who would do the lawfare going after Trump.

Now why is that important? Well, there was a member of that group named Alex Wong who is being accused of being the staffer for Ratcliffe who added the journalist, who added Jeffrey Goldberg. And then on top of that, the judge who's been selected for this, who is randomly selected, totally randomly, is somebody named Judge Boasberg. Have you heard of him? Again, if you knew what was happening, you wouldn't know anything. If you knew who, you might know everything. So Boasberg, he's the activist judge who is blocking Trump from deporting violent gang members. He's the one who delayed, intentionally delayed, the release of Hillary Clinton's emails until after the 2016 election. He's considered an activist, anti-Trump judge.

So pulling it all together, it does look like an op. Because none of us would really believe that Ratcliffe's chief of staff—if that's what he was—Alex Wong. Now by the way, this is not confirmed that Alex Wong is the person who did it. That's just an accusation. But at the moment, since we know that Ratcliffe did not have any contact with, would not have had Goldberg's number on his own phone, and that a staffer was involved and almost certainly was the reason that Goldberg got added, and then you add to it of all the people in the world, add in Goldberg was the most dangerous thing you could do. So of all the people in the world, just that one guy gets added. And of all the people in the world, David Brock and Norm Eisen had a lawsuit that seemed like it was practically ready to go. And of all the people in the world who are randomly selected to be the judge, it's this Boasberg guy. That is a lot of coincidences, my friend.

Now again, if you didn't know the players and you didn't know that Alex Wong was actually part of the organization that is now suing them, it wouldn't look like it was necessarily a plot. But as soon as you know who the players are, it just screams. It just screams like it's a RICO plot anyway.

So now that we know that the big problem was the imaginary concern of what could have happened but didn't happen, I've suggested that Trump should create a Department of Imaginary Concerns. And it would be only to handle Democrat complaints. And the new department could have imaginary policies to combat the imaginary concerns. So you place things like climate change in there. Climate change, at least the crisis part of the climate change, you put the Russia collusion thing in there. You put the Houthis could have found out by hacking Signal in there. You put Trump might steal your democracy in the Imaginary Concerns Department. That Musk might steal our Social Security numbers, you put that right in the Department of Imaginary Concerns. And that there might be a constitutional crisis. Yep, that's the Department of Imaginary Concerns.

Now I'm not completely serious about this, but just think how funny it would be if every time one of these hoaxes comes up and Trump is asked about it, he says, oh, I've delegated that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns. But are you trying to steal our democracy? You know, that's a perfectly good question. So I've delegated that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns. Did you agree with Putin to have sex with him if he stops the fighting? Well, you know, no, but I'm going to assign that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns, and we'll come up with an imaginary policy to make sure it doesn't happen again.

So Byron York had some funny comments about Politico. So Politico had a statement in it that said there's no administration in the world beyond this one where a blunder of these proportions—by the way, I've never met any Republican who thinks that this blunder is of great proportion. It's just the news telling you that you should be concerned about it, but I'm not—where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody resigns. Not in London, not in Moscow, not in Tokyo, not in Pyongyang, nowhere. And then Byron York points out on the Signal matter that Politico's Playbook makes a statement with great confidence but maybe not much perspective. And then he includes a photo of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, which nobody resigned over. Nope. One of the most embarrassing, incompetent things that ever happened in our country, a stain on our history. Nobody resigned. So Politico, apparently that's something we do in this country anyway.

But apparently in this case the Democrats, in the case of the Signal gate, the Democrats who are trying to train their audience that they should be very, very concerned, and they do it by the emotion that they put into ordinary words like, oh my God, the incompetence. I am aghast. I'm simply shocked. There's no country in the world from Moscow to Pyongyang who would ever make such a mistake. And people who have lived in the real world say, yeah, well, unless it was impossible to get ordinary work done without bending a rule or two, which is a universal truth.

Jonathan Turley was talking about Daniel Goldman, Representative Goldman, and he says that Goldman claimed that the FBI investigating attacks on Tesla and its facilities is nothing but lawfare and political weaponization. So Goldman thinks that investigating the people who are the terrorists is the problem. It's not the terrorists. It's that if you investigate who the terrorists are, well, that's a case of lawfare and political weaponization right there.

Now as Turley says, Goldman's latest controversy captures how Democrats have now entirely cut the cord of decency and moderation that once tethered their party to the mainstream of our society. I love that sentence. Turley is a great writer. If you just want to see great writing, you know, in addition to great opinions, he can put a sentence together like nobody's business. He's just a great writer.

But then he did something that I was wondering about. Turley was helping us with the definition of what terrorism is. And he points out that he's long criticized the expansion of what terrorism is, and I would agree with that. I don't think you want to trivialize terrorism and just start calling everything terrorism. You don't want to do that. But let's see if this Tesla stuff fits the definition without stretching it. So Turley points out that the Justice Department defines domestic terrorism as quote "violent criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature." And that's perfectly captures what's happening to Tesla. So yes, you don't have to hurt people to be a terrorist if you're destroying economic assets and you're also doing it in the pursuit of political gain. That's also terrorism because money is important to people. You know, it's not just physical pain and death and injury. It's destroying economics because that's its own problem anyway.

To me it seems like probably the funniest thing that will happen this year is the Trump administration without even trying getting prominent Democrats to support domestic terrorism. How would you like to be running for president in the next election? Can you imagine JD Vance running against one of these clowns who is not disowning the terrorism? Imagine if he ran against Goldman. Well, Dan, it seems to me that you've been supporting domestic terrorism in this country, and I think the voters should know that if they vote for you they're voting for a domestic terrorist according to the definition of those terms. It feels like it'd be the easiest thing in the world to beat almost any prominent Democrat at this point. They've literally supported terrorism. I think Ramaswamy and maybe one other person have said, you know, right up front and right loudly, and I respect that, yeah, that the violence, that's just got to end. You know, the Tesla stuff, nope, don't do that. That's bad. So but only a few—like is it even more than two at this point in the entire Democrat Party? Was it just two people who were willing to say that domestic terrorism is a bad idea? And the problem is that the Democrats have unleashed domestic terrorism a number of times. You know, if you count Antifa and Black Lives Matter and now this, it's definitely a pattern anyway.

If you haven't seen Ezra Klein on Gavin Newsom's podcast, I highly recommend it because Ezra's book "Abundance" with Derek Thompson, I guess, is getting a lot of attention. And you know, my first take on it when I just had AI summarize it for me was, wait a minute, all they're doing is promoting Republican policy, you know, such as don't waste the money, build things, build things in this country, you know, be practical, get some actual wins, you know, ordinary stuff. And so I wasn't that impressed with it because it just seemed to be telling Democrats to be Republicans, which was funny in its own way. But the more I hear him, because I've listened, he's very interesting. So the more I've listened to him on various podcasts, he's going hard at the Democrats. He's not taking prisoners, and it's exactly what they needed. So if you're asking yourself what's the solution, I don't know if it's this, but it's something like this.

And so he sat with Gavin Newsom, and I'll just give you the top-level summary. It's just worth watching. And he starts describing how Democrats operate, which is getting large funding for things and then building nothing. And he's just making Newsom squirm. And then Newsom has to talk. But one of the things that Newsom does, because he's clever but weaselly at the same time, Newsom will agree with whatever your criticism is, but then he's got lots of reasons why, you know, it's not as bad as you think or everything will be fine. Or you know, so he's got this pattern where he first agrees, but then he talks for a while and then he makes his own point, which is disagreeing basically. You have to watch Newsom being triggered into full word salad that didn't look like it had an end. He was full Kamala Harris. Yo, well, uh, big word, big word, um, jargon, uh, big word, and uh, um, uh, big word, big word, big word. And it just went on and on, and he was just dying in front of the camera. And I'm not even sure he knew it. So he had to throw in some weird hand motions like this. I don't know why he does that, but he was just destroyed right on camera.

And you know, we've seen some—we've seen Bannon, we've seen Charlie Kirk and stuff talking to Gavin, and they would have their own criticisms. And so you've seen Gavin handle criticisms, and you know, give him credit, he does interact with people who are willing to criticize. So I'll give him credit for that. But I've never seen anybody destroy him. Ezra just destroyed him. It's really fun to watch. You have to watch it anyway.

Laura Loomer apparently has a lawsuit against Bill Maher because Bill Maher on his show implied that she was having an affair with Trump because, I don't know, she traveled on the jet or something. And so Laura Loomer is suing him. And apparently a judge refused to throw it out, so it's going forward. And now Bill Maher will have to sit and answer questions about why he did that. I don't know if she can win this. You know, I'll defer to the lawyers. Implied, not inferred. Okay, I'll take that. He implied it, not inferred it. Because you would have to prove that he knew he was lying. So wouldn't a perfect defense be, sure, it looked like it to me? Wouldn't that be the entire defense? Or would he go with it's a humor show, nobody should take it too seriously. You know, it's meant for comedic value, so it's not as serious. I don't know. I remember seeing it live and saying to myself, whoa, that's too far. Did anybody see it live when Maher made that accusation or implied it? To me it looked too far because that was definitely not in evidence. And Trump has traveled with, what, thousands and thousands of people on his plane, some male, some female. Yeah, I mean to me it looked too far. And we'll see. We'll see what happens. I don't think she can win because I think he just has to say his state of mind was that he believed it was true. I think that's all it takes, but I don't know.

Meanwhile Rasmussen said Democratic approval of the party is 26%. That would be a new—I think it might drop into the teens actually by the end of the year. It's possible that Democrat approval or popularity will be in the high teens. Now I think Congress's approval generally speaking has been in the high teens before, so it's not impossible. And I don't think anybody would have seen it go to 26%, but if it's going to 26%, it's in freefall. Now I know that last 20% are going to hold tight, but I think it's just going to get worse, right? You know, one more day of Jasmine Crockett should make pretty much all the Democrats change sides at that point.

Meanwhile RFK Jr. is trying to ban Big Pharma ads on TV. And I think most of you know that the reason Big Pharma advertises is not so that they can get the patients to ask their doctor for the drug, but rather it's so that the news entity will not say bad things about Big Pharma. So it's essentially a way to bribe the news industry to stay away from their stories. That's the claim. But the other thing that the Big Pharma ads do, and this is my hypnotist take on it, so you haven't heard this one. If I watch a Big Pharma commercial on a news program, it'll start with, oh, you got this problem, here's this drug that helps it. But eventually, I guess for legal reasons, they have to tell you all the side effects. And man, when they start with the side effects, it just kills me. If I can't find the remote to turn off the TV, I'll have to put a boot through it because the damage that it's doing to my brain. It starts out with and be careful your penis will fall off, your hair will catch on fire, your throat will close, and you will be bleeding blood from your ass for the rest of your life. You will probably get amnesia or rheumatoid arthritis. Your heart will turn into a lump of coal. Your blood will coagulate into kind of a mayonnaise. You will be begging for life and probably rolling around on the floor in pain for the rest of your existence, which might not last very long. And I'm like, where's the remote? Oh God, oh God, where's the remote? And I'm running around and I'm moving the pillows because you can't have that much negativity just drilled into your head even casually. And it is. And by the way, I'm only barely exaggerating how much impact it has on me. I can feel it. I mean I just feel it. And I'm convinced that Big Pharma is destroying the business model of the news now because they're the biggest advertiser. Of course the news will say yes, but if you run this biggest advertiser over and over again and the old people just keep hearing all these horrible things that are going to happen to them if they take this drug, eventually—and this is the hypno filter—eventually it should be like Pavlov's dog. Except instead of giving you a treat that will make you salivate the next time the scientist comes in the room, it should make you, if you turn on the TV and you see news, it should make you think, oh—even before the commercial—like if you're just flipping through the channels and Jake Tapper comes on, the first thing you might think is my penis will fall off, I'm going to bleed through my ass. No, no, no. And just flip to anything else. So I think over time Big Pharma destroys the business model of the news. It should.

Oh, Canada. So there's a story. Post Millennial has a story about their conservative—I guess the conservative leader, what's his name, Mark Carney. Is he prime minister now or is he just—I'm so confused about the Canadian system. But anyway, so Mark Carney apparently used to be Justin Trudeau's economic advisor. While he was the economic advisor to Justin Trudeau, he went to China and he negotiated to get a $276 million loan for his own business. So it wasn't even for the government. It was for his own business. Now it's not illegal to have your own business and be an economic adviser, I guess. But wouldn't you like to know if any strings were attached to that loan? Do you think China was trying to influence Canada? I don't know. That's a tough one to explain. So he's got some explaining to do on that. But wow.

Meanwhile Vladimir Zelensky says that Putin is going to die soon because he's got all kinds of medical problems, and that should change everything. He literally says he'll die soon. I believe we've been hearing that for five years. For how long have we been hearing Putin's going to die any minute? I don't know. Maybe Zelensky knows something we don't, but I wouldn't count on that. I don't think I'd make any policy on it.

Now let me tell you the least surprising news of the day, people. You're never going to believe this, I say jokingly. This is the most predictable news that you've ever heard. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaking the terms of a ceasefire on their energy infrastructure. All right, I told you that's exactly what's going to happen, right? I told you. How can you have a ceasefire on your energy infrastructure when both sides are going to say the other one violated it, and then they're just going to keep shooting? And that's exactly what happened, apparently. Now I don't know if both sides did violate it. The prediction is not that they would violate it but they would definitely claim the other side violated it, and then they would act accordingly, which is what's happening. How in the world do you ever reach a peace deal with the two least reliable, honest countries in the world? I mean Ukraine is the least reliable, honest country that isn't Russia. So it doesn't feel like you could even make a deal because you need both sides to be at least honorable. You know, like I feel like we can make a deal with a lot of countries and they'd say, ah, we don't want to be that country that doesn't keep a deal. The United States has broken some deals too, so we're not clean on this. But who's going to trust either Russia or Ukraine for anything? So I don't know how they get a deal there.

And I was listening—in other news I was listening to Jeffrey Sachs talk about the Middle East, and he's sort of, you know, stay out of the Middle East. It's none of our business. We're just making permanent war. But he says there will never be peace in the Middle East until the Palestinians have their own country, basically. But that's not possible because Israel has so many settlements now there's no place that country could even be. And if you said okay, you can take the entire West Bank and Gaza, do you think that would stop the extremists from trying to take Israel proper? Why would it? I don't see why that would stop them. So I don't see any possibility that you can make peace by giving Palestinians a country unless that country included Israel and all the Israelis decided to move somewhere else, which is not going to happen. So there's no actual real-world situation in which you could do peace in the Middle East, which means permanent war.

And then Sachs suggests that Israel essentially controls US policy and military, at least in terms of the Middle East, and will keep us in a permanent state of war because it's good for Israel. Sachs also says that the Houthis are no big threat to the United States, and if we just ignore them because there's not much US shipping that goes through there anyway, which surprised me. I think I need a fact check on that. But how many of you agree with him that we're in a permanent war that can never be solved, meaning that you can never solve the Palestinian issue? And if we're being wagged by Israel, then we'll just be in permanent war. I worry that Trump has gotten himself into at least two permanent wars because one of the main things we liked about Trump is that he wouldn't be in war and he would end the ones we have. But I don't see him getting out of the Middle East, and I don't see Ukraine wanting to end the war. I think Ukraine wants to continue. And maybe Russia does a little bit too. So Trump's really got his work cut out for him.

Now my own opinion is—I've told you before—my own opinion is that when countries pursue their own best interest and they have the power to do it, of course they're going to do it. So if the Palestinians had all the power, it would be really, really bad for Israel. Right now Israel has most of the power and the Palestinians don't like it at all. But there's no way that you solve that because they can't both have all the power. It's going to be somebody has the power. So it's pretty much a win-lose situation over there. Unsolvable in my opinion.

So I saw Zion Lights had a post about how France's power grid last year was 95% fossil-free, and most of that was thanks to nuclear power. But they had a big surge in solar as well. And so the context was it was sort of France is sort of the winner. You know, they're the smart ones because they got rid of their fossil fuels and they still powered their nation, and they're great on nuclear. So it looks like they're just the big smart winners and we just look like the dumb ones now, right?

And then I went to Perplexity AI and I said who pays more for electricity, France or the US? Turns out France. So the cost of electricity—if you adjust for different currencies and whatnot—the cost of electricity in France is higher than in the US. So who's the winner? Is France the winner because they got all this nuclear power before we did? Because that's impressive. I do give them a lot of credit for being so successfully nuclear. But if our energy costs less than in France, and most of the CO2—if that's what you're worried about—if most of the CO2 is still coming out in China and India, did it make any difference whatsoever that France had all these green sources of energy? And the answer is I don't know. To me it looks like they didn't win. Winning would be they pay less for electricity and they've done what they can to save the world. But you know, they can't do everything, but at least their own electricity doesn't cost much. Now if they were paying less for electricity than the United States—and by the way I'll take a fact check on this because I got it from Perplexity AI and we shouldn't fully trust the AIs to be accurate yet—I'd say the US is the winner. Right, because the CO2 in the world in general would be the same no matter what either the US or France did. Because again, China and India are the big CO2 producers. All that really matters is what's the cost of power. And if ours is cheaper, we won.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I have to say today. Thanks for joining. Went a little bit long today, but that's because it was extra awesome. I'm going to say some words to the Locals people privately. The rest of you, thanks for joining, and I'll see you on Rumble and X and YouTube tomorrow, same time, same place. Locals, I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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let's see the University of South Australia um has determined that exercise of any kind can boost the brain power of people at any age huh how could they have come up with that data without spending all the money is there anything they could have done that would save them all that time and effort yes you could just ask Scott next time Scott is exercise good for your brain well according to every single study that's ever been done on the topic yes we were thinking of doing a study on the topic you don't have to you don't have to it's been studied and studied and it's also really obvious you can tell by observing people and also in yourself I don't know we we kind of want to do a study on this do you have grant money yes well maybe Doge should cut that grant money even though you're in Australia that's how good doge is it's going to cut things in Australia well speaking of things related to Elon Musk according to f.org um the xplatform sales or the advertising revenue is growing I'm not sure if they really know that but they say it's growing and uh the the reason behind the growth in advertising on X according to this publication uh is being driven by fear do you do you think they would cover anybody else's business this way as if they know why people are doing it so why are you advertising on X is it because it's a really good value for the dollar or or is it because we imagine that you're afraid oh now that musk is friends with Trump oh we' better advertise so we can we can bribe him with money because that works right you know bribing him with money no it doesn't work but anyway good to see that the ad sales are are up um now I promised you if you're on a I made the promise that I would do some remote viewing today and it's because there's a document that's been found it's an older document but back in 1988 the CIA claimed to have confirmed the existence of the Ark of the Covenant and the way they did that was they used a remote viewer now that would be a person who has uh psychic powers where if they close their eyes they can view things across the world or even across the Galaxy because time and space don't matter and uh so apparently some remote viewer um I did identify the Arc of the Covenant uh over in the Middle East and said it was a in a coffin-shaped ornate box uh couldn't be more specific than that somewhere in the Middle East and it was being guarded by entities but I feel like that's the sort of thing you shouldn't just trust right you know one remote viewer is one remote if you were a good source no you need two you need a second source so I thought i' do a little remote viewing for you if you don't mind preparing hold on be silent for a moment um I'm getting something uh it's it's ornate it's the size of a coffin it's in a hole it's um I'm sorry that was yeah that that was uh yeah no that wasn't it that was just somebody's uh casket hold let me go Ark of the Covenant where are you got it got it there it is it's an an ornate box it's buried somewhere in the Middle East I can't be more specific I believe there's sand around and it's being guarded by four entities four enti entities regarding it uh I think one of them his name is Bob uh there's Carl The Entity and somebody whose nickname is bit Bop that's weird and uh Alex Alex so the four entities guarding the Ark of the Covenant confirmed confirmed now that probably will be national news by the end of the day because you know if you only have one remote viewer seeing the Arc of the Covenant that means nothing but if you have two that's confirmation yeah that's confirmation so we got that going for us meanwhile according to Reuters the Supreme Court said it will not hear a uh youth Le climate change case so the Supreme Court said get out of here we don't want to hear your TW 21 young people's case that the government and their energy policies have violated your right to be protected from climate change you know your right to be protected from climate change have you even read the Constitution people it's right there it's uh I believe it's article of the Constitution it's uh it's one of those uh amendments or something I'm pretty sure it's in there right no okay maybe it's not in there meanwhile there's a private Texas school that claims that by using an AI program an AI tutor that its students have to the top 2% in the country uh Fox News is reporting on this and the co-founder of the school it's called Alpha School says the students are learning better and faster and they only spend a few hours a day talking to the AI and then they're done with all their work and they don't even need to do homework because they're learning so fast and uh then they spend the rest of the day doing passion projects yeah passion projects now I don't know exactly what that means but it sounds pretty good so you do way less work and you get way more fun and you get way better grades now the alpha School is uh looking to expand um so it's got a few hundred students now but it's going to expand across the United States H so that would sort of suggest it's a for-profit school right I mean I don't see anything that says it's a government funded or anything so it's a for-profit entity that's telling us that their product works better than other people's product well if you can't trust that what can you trust um now as others have pointed out if it's a private school and it's a for-profit there's probably a little healthy tuition going on there and I would expect that it would only attract the best students now let me ask you this if you put a a top student in front of an AI that's really good at you know quiz them could they get done with all their necessary work in a few hours i' say yes probably yes if you take an average student or a not so good student and say sit here alone with this AI until you're homework's done in three hours how's that going to go I don't think that's going to work at all so once again I think we're going to learn that the people who have all the advantages and this case it would be the rich smart people probably can get like a huge Advantage from using AI as part of their process but I'm not so sure that AI is going to work for every kind of student it might only work for the top students and then everybody else has to figure it out we'll see but uh I have some questions about that well Tom homman gets another win I guess they Capt capured one of the top three MS13 leaders in the United States um and this was a 24-year-old so he was one of the top three MS13 leaders in the country he was running the entire East Coast operations now the first thing that jumped out of me about this story is wow good work Tom homman capturing a top leader of MS13 the second thing that jumped out was he's only 24 wow you know the one thing about MS13 they don't tell you is what a great Economic Opportunity is because there are not many there just not that many jobs where you could be leading a major organization at the age of 24 so good for you MS13 they are not discriminating against young people plenty of opportunity so I'd recommend it as a good career path for all of you no I'm just kidding it's terrible career paths don't join MS13 meanwhile Zero Hedge is reporting that um there was this gigantic $250 million fraud involving a Child Nutrition program Federal Child Nutrition program and a whole bunch of Somali uh immigrants stole $250 million in Minnesota now that was between March 2020 and January 2022 now now how many times have we heard a story about gigantic amounts of money being stolen I'm starting to you know lose sort of the distinction between all the stories but it does feel to me like quite a few billions of dollars are being stolen from taxpayers and it's like the government never heard of anything like a ating or accounting or tracking your progress how in the world did they get away with $250 million of essentially faking that there were children that didn't exist how in the world two years $250 million the what if there are just like dozens or hundreds of these happening all over the country you know in different ways different people and stuff I feel like that might be the case well um see what else is going on according to uh Liberty Nation news the Associated Press um has a uh has a reporter who got caught doing some fake news and they had to retract it and the fake news was that a claim that uh tulsey gabard had said that Trump and Putin were good friends but it turns out she was talking about Prime Minister Modi and Trump who are actually good friends and so the Associated Press had to you know correct their story because it was wrong but the fun part of the story is that the reporter who wrote it um his one of his prior jobs one of his prior jobs was uh uh he was part of the ap's first misinformation beat Team focusing on explaining falsehoods propaganda and conspiracy theories while exposing the creators of this material and their techniques for dissemination how many times have the fake news people uh got onto the um hey we'll check the fake news to the other people sometimes it's exactly what you'd expect you know I have this theory that that shoe salesmen if it's men who are selling shoes to women um that eventually it will be men only men who have foot fetishes because they would be most drawn to the field and they would work longer hours cheaper because they were getting you know an extra benefit from it and and it just seems to me that the the organizations that are uh trying to fact check other organizations probably they're filled with fake news people because it just feel like that's what would be drawn to those jobs oh so I can just call other people fake news yeah that would be your job all right I'm in well Trump is saying uh on true social it's time to defund NPR and and PBS immediately he says that uh they're both horrible and they're completely biased platforms and uh they should be defunded by Congress immediately he says Republicans don't miss this opportunity to rid our country of this giant scam both being arms of the radical left Democrat Party just say no and make America great again well related to this story um the uh the NPR CEO her name is marah last name is m.

Ah and she was been grilled by this guy uh Brandon Gil so Gil was doing some grilling he's Grill and Gil and if you haven't seen the videos of it it's highly recommended because of the attitude that he brought to it so he he'd asked a question like uh do you recall saying this this or that and it' be some terrible woke thing that would sound so bad in 2025 but you know maybe at some point it didn't sound so bad and then uh Mara would say um I never said that and then representative Gil would say uh yes you did here's a tweet of yours from 2020 and then he would read the Tweet where she said exactly that and then she'd say well I don't remember that or uh I've completely evolved in my thinking so I definitely don't think that now now if you only saw it happen once with let's say one claim or one tweet it wouldn't be much you know because people say crazy stuff I say crazy things you could almost certainly find something in my tweeting history that if you if you read it to me in a congressional setting and said do you really believe this I might say you know maybe I thought it at the time but you know not really not now but if you have a lot of them it becomes quite a show and and apparently she had quite a few things to say almost every one of them would have been disqualifying for any kind of leadership job and she had to respond to everyone that she had completely changed her views from crazy woke to something more like you know a leader perspective oh my god did she get destroyed Brandon Gil good job there Brandon all right some of you have already seen this story but I just had to weigh in um I guess on Joe Rogan show he had a doctor Dr.

Suzanne humph and they were talking about the real story of polio now before I tell you what you know what the claim is uh let me say that I don't know how to judge this there was a time when if I had read if I had heard there somebody saying that the polio vaccine actually doesn't do anything and the polio uh well the CLA let me tell you the claim the claim is that the polio vaccine didn't stop any polio at all what did stop polio is nothing nothing stopped it at all and that all they did was redefine certain conditions as no longer being polio so they came up with new names for stuff so then when somebody had something that used to be called polio but they had been vaccinated the doctor would say well I can't be polio because you've been vaccinated so it looks like you got this uh Gillian bar thing or you've got this cocki virus or an echo virus I don't know what a suaki virus is but that sounds like a bad one what kind of virus did you get I got that sucky virus it's spelled CX s a c k IE virus all one word it just sounds like a saki virus which is absolutely the worst gun you could get or or the doctors would chalk it up to now this is the claim of Dr.

Suzanne humph these are not my claims um lead poisoning or mercury poisoning so they'd always they'd always have some answer to it and then the doctor says the rise of polio or what seemed to be the rise of polio was directly mirror the use of toxic pesticides like DDT she says and she says the countries that still make DDT today is where we're still seeing the polio happen so let me say what I think a number of other others of you have said or are thinking right now let me see if I can read your mind all right I'm going to read your mind I've already done remote viewing uh reading your mind and you're saying got it got it what you're saying is there was a time you would not have believed this story right this is not that time that this is a time where I look at this I mean this is a really Fantastical claim that the entire medical community didn't know that that polio either was just not what they thought it was and the vaccine didn't make any difference at all Ah that's quite a claim quite a claim but in 2025 to you know steal a joke from Joe Rogan um I'm not so sure the moon landing was real and by the way I'm not so sure the moon landing was real like I've actually I've actually been flipped even maybe a month ago I I was holding tough it's like come on of course the moon landing's real I mean you can see the assets up there you can you know people can still see that the know some of the assets are down there on the moon surface how could it not be real and then I thought well maybe the pictures aren't real I mean maybe they landed something on the moon but are the pictures real maybe they couldn't get good film on the moon or get it quickly so maybe they filmed it separately even if they did land on the moon either with a person or without people so at the moment I'm completely open to 100% of everything I've learned in history being fake that doesn't mean it is but I'm completely open to it now there there's nothing I'm unwilling to believe no matter how crazy and I'm going to put this on that list I'm not going to say this is true because I how would I know but is it possible within the realm of possibility that polio could have been completely a fake hysteria and the answer is I hate to say it but it's a little bit possible it's just a little bit possible I don't think it's the most likely explanation uh to be honest if I had to place a bet I would bet that the vaccinations work and polio is real but man it's not 100% is it you know I'd love to tell you I'm super confident about that but nope nope it's a little bit closer to a coin flip little bit closer to a coin flip I I I see your comments and I'm just chuckling to myself one one of you is trying to get me kicked off of all social media platforms forever I'm not going to take the bait well according to cash Patel Trum Trump Has This brilliant plan where he's uh he either has or is going to file a lawsuit against all the people involved in the Russia collusion hoax now it would be a lawsuit as opposed to a criminal action and he would be suing for you know Financial um compensation now the financial part probably doesn't matter to him that much but it's a RICO lawsuit I didn't know you could Rico in a lawsuit but maybe it's the essence of Rico as opposed to Rico and what uh cash Patel is pointing out um is that it could lead to the possibility of criminal charges so in other words if the lawsuit had some Discovery involved or some uh let's say it tied together a bunch of things that nobody tied together before it could create the basis for a criminal prosecution on the same the same grounds that it was organized funded and it was an operation that involved a vast number of people from uh lawyers and a certain firm to Hillary Clinton's campaign to the FBI to the Department of Justice I don't know who else the the media maybe the media so um and then as cash Patel points out I guess he was talking to Charlie Kirk on the podcast um that the Rico part of it the part where everything's connected and it's not one person who just did a thing it's a whole bunch of people who apparently know knew what the other people were doing and seemed to be coordinated uh he says that the the Durham report and other I guess legal actions have uh essentially Prov proven the main points that the lawsuit would try to establish which is it was fake we know who the people involved were and we know pretty much that they communicated but maybe that's the extra stuff they have to add to it to you know give some testimonies and stuff like that so that is really interesting as a legal strategy and I I'm all in for that we should absolutely know if our government was real or we were just run by a bunch of hoaxes and Rico and and some deep State stuff I don't know well in other news uh representative Thomas messie he's introducing a bill uh the Dual loyalty disclosure act so if somebody is a candidate for office for federal office this is uh they would have to disclose all the countries in which they are citizens now you're probably saying to yourself that seems unnecessary because everybody knows who's a dual citizen right I mean it would be easy to check and if somebody had dual citizenship and they were in Congress you'd know about it right apparently there's no reporting requirement and there's no place you can look it up so we can have we could have thousand of people in Congress who who are actually citizens of other countries at the same time they're citizens of the United States and we wouldn't even know it now I know what you're going to say Israel right say it you know that's what you want to say you want to say there are members of Congress who are who are secretly also dual citizens of Israel well according to my limited research there's no known case of that so if you have different information than I do let me know but to the best of my you know very quick analysis there's no there's no example of that there doesn't seem to be as far as anybody knows any member of Congress who's a dual citizen now that that actually surprised me I thought there'd be one or two um and I don't think there's anybody else who hasn't at this point um renounced their dual citizenship so there were a few that were not related to Israel um where people were challenged I think Ted Cruz was one Ted Cruz had Canadian citizenship as as well American and I believe he renounced the Canadian part as soon as it became an issue and I think there were a few other candidates or a few other politicians were in the same situation they weren't really you know w weren Really wed to the other country so they just renounced it and fixed it but uh I guess I I approve of this I don't think it'll make much difference in the real world but be good to know all right let's talk about signal gate believe it or not I think I can add something to the story it's a boring story and that's the the biggest part of the story is that it's too boring for the public to get interested in imagine if you didn't follow the news like we do like obsessively trying to figure stuff out all day long and and you heard about oh they use the signal app like you wouldn't even know like why is that bad or anything like that so here's something that uh CI CIA director Ratcliffe said in a statement and he was dumping on the reporter who wrote about it Jeffrey Goldberg he's the one who was added to the signal group um we don't know exactly how he was added yet but it wasn't by Ratliff and anyway so CIA director reff said yesterday I spent four hours answering questions from Senators as a result of that article intimating that I transmitted classified information now I didn't know that I didn't know that Goldberg suggested that maybe Ratcliffe had transmitted and classified information because we didn't see any example that so I didn't know that was being even suggested and then um reff says those messages were revealed today I did not transmit classified information I guess we can now just look at the messages and see he's right he said the reporter Goldberg who I don't know intentionally in intended uh it to indicate that the reporter also indicated I released the name of an undercover CIA operative in fact I released the name of my own Chief of Staff who is not operating undercover uh and that was deliberately false and misleading okay that's pretty bad that's pretty imagine being accused you're the head of the CIA imagine being accused of releasing the name of an undercover CIA agent and then finding out literally nothing like that happened it was just made up apparently but I want to redo this last sentence and see if this sounds familiar to you so Ras summary sentence was the mission was a remarkable success because that's what did happen not what could have happened not what could have happened have you noticed the pattern the pattern that Democrats have imaginary concerns yeah we'll talk about that in a little bit um but I wrote a uh post on a that I thought captured some of the uh some of the Nuance that nobody had captured yet on this signal thing uh so starting with if Heth and I believe this is true uh secretary Heth he has the power to declassify content so all he has to do is say declassify this and it's Declassified so in my opinion putting that content on Signal which is what he did is a de facto declassification now it's the same thing I said about Trump and marago if the person who's in charge of saying something is classified or not intentionally puts it in a place that they know is not classified that's a de facto practical declassification now it should be with paperwork but is that the problem are we mad at heg cuz he didn't do paperwork that that wouldn't make anybody mad would it if he intended it to be um in a non-classified setting and obviously he knew this signal was not their top secret setting so he very consciously put it into a less than completely secure setting I would call that a de facto declassification now here's the thing that um you'll see in the news over and over again and I think I'm about the only person besides Greg geld whoever calls this out which is I call it the half pinion if the only thing you knew about the story is that somebody took some information that you think should be in the most maximized um secret setting and they moved it to a less secret setting how would you judge that and and and there could be potential you know military implications to it how would you judge that well I'd say that's a mistake that's a pretty big one right if all you're looking at is is the cost of it you know what's the downside what's the Worst That Could Happen I'd say that's terrible but what are we leaving out we're leaving out why he did it why did he put that information in that setting well it's because he had a mission he'd been asked to keep this very group of people uh informed right up to the last minute I mean the the timing of it was important and uh it was very important to keep them informed in case somebody had a last minute objection because remember this was big stuff he was ready to kill a whole bunch of people which presumably is what happened when the strike happened so before he decided to unle leash death death like people dying he wanted to make sure that the people most involved got their final say and I don't think that that was just you know checking a box to me that seems important that that if you've been asked to keep this group informed it's because this group might be the ones who say you know what hold on hold on you know I I have such an objection or I found found something new or maybe there's something we haven't considered maybe they would have delayed it and that could have been really important right so if you were to judge it as did he take something into a less secure platform yes by itself that would look like a mistake but if you judge it by what was he trying to accomplish which was to make sure that the people most important to the decision were still okay with the decision before he killed people before he killed people that seems pretty legitimate to me now let me tell you something about every big organization I've ever been involved with if you followed all of the rules of any big organization be it a corporation or anywhere else you would immediately bring that Corporation or organization to his knees because big organizations have enough rules that you wouldn't be able to get anything done let me give you an example one of my first jobs out of college I was a bank teller and I one day I cashed a bad check and it's because I didn't check uh identification properly now the reason I didn't check is because the person who brought the people with a check in and stood right there at the window with them was a friend of mine so the friend says well you know I can vouch for these two they're friends of mine I thought oh that's safe enough I mean this is my personal friend turns out they were criminals so I mean I just got scammed so I didn't get fired because it was sort of a first offense and it wasn't that much money but I did get a talking to I got a Stern talking to and the stern talking to was you don't get to decide which of the rules you follow and which ones you don't follow you will follow all the rules and I looked at my supervisor and I said you got it and within two hours the line at the uh for the tellers was out the door and I was serving very few people because almost every encounter required me to call my supervisor over because that was the rule if there was anything that was above my pay grade to approve I couldn't do it so I brought the entire Bank to a standstill I crashed the bank it it couldn't do anything for customers and they were just lying out the door and what was I doing I was just following all the rules I was doing it quickly I wasn't I wasn't uh I wasn't dragging my feet I was just following their own rules and and one time I called my supervisor over and there's some guy who works for Chevron and and he didn't have ID or he didn't have a I guess he didn't have an account at our Branch or something and uh she comes over and she takes one look at him she goes approved I go hold on hold on what did you do that I couldn't do like you just looked at him you literally just looked at him that like why couldn't I do that she goes well I noticed he was wearing this lapel pin that tells me that he's worked for Chevron for I don't know at least 10 years or something and he goes and she goes yeah nobody nobody would know to where we that little pin if there were a crook and I thought well I'm pretty sure that's not in the rules the LEL pin trick so so this this is a pattern that you'll see everywhere now do you think this is different in the in the military do you think the military could possibly function if everybody followed all the rules all the time I doubt it if it's like every other big organization no it's probably a whole bunch of people who are continuously looking for some way to get around the rules and regulation just to get something done that's probably the most normal situation in the world so now you've got the Pete Heth who's given this job your job is to keep this group of people informed right up to date like not not once a month but like right up to the operational Point how is he going to do that how you you tell me the other way he was going to do it there wasn't another way he was going to do it there was no other mechanism the government does not have a secure chat group and if it did it would require those same people what a dozen or 16 or whatever to all be sitting in an office at the same time do you think that ever happens no it never happens so he did not have any tool any process any way to do the thing that he had been tasked to do that was important enough that it could save the lives of those people who ended up being killed it was life and death and it was his job it was life and death and it was his job to keep them informed there was no other way to do it so what did he do I can't read his mind but what it looks like is he said this is not ideal just again I'm just guessing this is not ideal to put this on on signal but it's only two hours between now and the time of the attack and it's important that we've got everybody on board I mean that's just critically important so he took a little bit of a risk like everybody does and every big organization if they're trying to work within the rules and he got a little bit of a benefit which is he did what he was asked to do before he killed people before he killed people I mean I feel like we're forgetting we've somehow forgotten the humanity of it this was life and death and you do want to make sure everybody's on the right page before the missiles fly so telling them exactly when the thing was going to happen is very critical completely appropriate to do do you have a final objection very important because if there's two hours you maybe you say no if it were a day maybe you'd say yes now here's the question you're wondering how how just what was the risk level of putting something on a signal well here's your rather realworld um reveal I don't believe the hoodies have a sophisticated hack operation do you do you think the hoodies had penetrated the phones of the United States government do you think the hoodies had a back door to the signal I'm going to say no but before you say it I know what you're thinking you're thinking Scott it doesn't have to be the hoodies it could have been the Russians and then they tipped them off could have been China and then they tipped off the hoodies could have been a ram Iran has sophisticated hackers could have been a ram and then they would you know ran is on their side so they tip off the hoodies but let me give you a little real world context if any of those major Powers had access to signal and they had penetrated it so that they could listen to our government talking about everything they would have risked losing that access by tipping off the hoodies cuz we probably would have noticed if the hoodies in two hours kind of quickly adjusted their defensive positions because you know we'd be watching them by then right we'd have the satellites on we'd have the drones flying over and if suddenly two hours before the attack everything changed and they started rapidly moving their assets how long would it take us to figure out it was because of the signal jet about five minutes and then we would have stopped using signal and then the Chinese or the Russians or the Iranians would have lost their access I think that if they had access to that tool and they were listening to our government conversations at the highest level I'm pretty sure they would have said well we're going to let the hoodies take the hit it would have been smarter certainly for China and Russia no doubt about it to let the hoodies take the hit even even if they thought they'd like to screw the United States they wouldn't lose their own access to something that important now what about Iran I would go so far as to say that even Iran would let the hoodies take a hit before they would give up a source that important now who else told you that nobody right so yeah once you see how weak the analysis was of this whole situation it's uh it's shocking um the next thing is that uh Democrats have you know conflated what could have happened with what did happen now that's what um that's what uh Ratliff said he said the exact same thing right so in my post um I point out that the uh the Democrats they love the imaginary stuff well it could have been bad do you know what else could have been bad everything that those people did that day everything how many how many conversations did all the people who were in that chat how many conversations did they have on other topics with other people that could have been could have been compromised but weren't probably not but could have been I if you're worrying about things that could go wrong that's pretty much everything and it's pretty much all the time that is not a valid concern if somebody takes a risk reward decision I need to keep people informed that's my job it's it's life or death it's a little bit less secure but it's only two hours before the strike it's pretty unlikely that you know any notice is going to get to them in two hours so life is just one decision after another but if you were to read the news it would look like half pinions you know a real opinion is you take the positive and the negative risks of everything you do okay it could go this way but it could go that way you know get some benefits but there might be a cost but if the only thing you do is look at there might be a cost you wouldn't do anything there well there might be a cost um I'd like you to uh uh meet me tomorrow at this building and we'll have the meeting I don't know what what if I get hit by a car in the way of the meeting well that's certainly more of a risk if you're traveling than if you're staying home so was that worth the risk everything has a risk to it everything if you look at the fact that everything has a risk including every single conversation that every one of those people had about every topic that was you know classified all day long it's just nothing but that risk just all day long well somebody might have heard it somebody might have be bugging this room somebody somebody might be a mole you know that's a universal anyway um so here's the second question people have been asking me hey was this whole signal thing some kind of an OP was it a setup from the start my first impression was uh um well I don't see how it would be my current impression is yeah it looks like it I I'm not at the point where I'm willing to say it was an OP but it looks like it so here's here's what we know this is according to a x account called the researcher um so something called American oversight so that this is another one of those you know how the NOS all have these generic names and when you hear one of these generic names it's some damn Democrat op so American oversight is suing Heth gabard and rackliff Etc uh saying that they messaging on Signal is a violation of the federal records act huh who do you think is on this American oversight group well apparently it's David Brock and Norm Eisen remember I tell you that if you know what happened you don't know anything you have to know who if the only thing you knew was that they were getting sued over a federal records act you might say to yourself oh well I guess I guess somebody in the government takes that pretty seriously but it's not that it's the most devious weasel likee despicable lying pieces of that you've ever seen in your life Norm Eisen and David Brock now if you don't know about those two guys do a little research that they are not associated with good acts whatsoever they are associated with the the darkest weasly just terrible terrible activities and so sure enough they're behind that and they seem to be ready to ready to go pretty quickly surprisingly and then um they used to have a I guess a subgroup of this American oversight called crew crw and according to the researcher that was the lawfare arm or their effort to Target Trump originally so there was a a subset of people probably lawyer like like people who would do the lawfare going after Trump now why is that important well there was a member of that group uh named Alex Wong who is being accused of being the staffer for Ratcliffe who added the journalist who added Jeffrey Goldberg so and then on top of that uh the judge who's been selected for this who is randomly selected totally randomly is uh somebody named judge bosberg have you heard of him again if you knew what was happening you wouldn't know anything if you knew who you might know everything so bosberg he's the activist judge who is uh blocking Trump from deporting violent gang members he's the one who delayed the intentionally delayed the release of Hillary Clinton's email until after the 2016 election he's considered an activist anti-trump judge so pulling it all together it does look like an OP because none of us would really believe that uh ratcliff's Chief of Staff if if that's what he was Alex Wong now by the way this is not confirmed that Alex Wong is the person who did it that that's just an accusation but at the moment since we know that Ratcliffe did not have any contact with would not have had Goldberg's number on his own phone and that a staffer was involved and almost certainly was the the reason that Goldberg got added and then you add to it of all the people in the world add in Goldberg was the most dangerous thing you could do so of all the people in the world just that one guy gets added and of all the people in the world uh David Brock and Norm Eisen had a lawsuit that seemed like it was practically ready to go and of all the people in the world who are randomly selected to be the judge it's this bosberg guy that is a lot of coincidences my friend now again if you didn't know the players and you didn't know that the Alex Wong was actually part of the organization that is now suing them it wouldn't look like it was necessarily a plot but as soon as you know who the players are it just screams it just screams like it's a yeah a RICO plot anyway so now that we know that the big problem was the imaginary concern of what could have happened but didn't happen U I've suggested that Trump should create a department of imaginary concerns and it would be only to handle Democrat complaints and um the new Department could have imaginary policies to combat the imaginary concerns so you you place things like climate change in there um climate change at least the crisis part of the climate change you put the Russia collusion thing in there you put the uh the hoodies could have found out be by hacking uh signal in there you put uh Trump might steal your democracy in the imaginary concerns Department uh that musk might steal our social security numbers that you put that right in the department of imaginary concerns and that there might be a constitutional crisis yep that's the department of imaginary concerns now I don't I'm not completely serious about this but just just think how funny it would be if every time one of these hoaxes comes up and Trump has asked about it he says oh I've delegated that to the Department of imaginary concerns uh but but are you trying to steal our democracy you know that's a perfectly good question so I've delegated that to the Department of imaginary concerns uh uh did you agree with Putin to uh have sex with him uh if if he stops the fighting well you know no but I'm going to going to assign that to the Department of imaginary concerns and uh we'll come up with an imaginary policy to make sure it doesn't happen again so uh Byron York had uh some funny comments about Politico so Politico had a statement in it said there's no Administration in the world Beyond this one where a blunder of these proportions by the way I've never met any Republican who who thinks that this blunder is of great proportion it it's just the news telling you that you should be concerned about it but I'm not uh where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody resigns not in London not in Moscow not in Tokyo not in pongyang nowhere um and then Byron New York points out on the signal matter that uh political Playbook makes a statement with great confidence but maybe not much perspective and then then he includes a photo of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal which uh nobody resigned over nope one of the most embarrassing incompetent things that ever happened in our country a stain on our history nobody resigned so Politico apparently that's something we do in this country anyway um but apparently in this case the dram crats in the case of the signal gate the dram crats who are trying to train their Their audience that they should be very very concerned and they do it by the emotion that they put into ordinary words like oh my God the the incompetence I am a gast I'm simply shocked there's no country in the world from Moscow toang Yang who would ever make such a mistake and people who have lived in the real world say yeah well unless it was impossible to get ordinary work done without bending a rule or two which is a universal truth uh Jonathan Turley was uh talking about Daniel Goldman representative Goldman and he says that Goldman claimed that the FBI investig investigating attacks on Tesla uh and its facilities is nothing but lawfare and political weaponization so Goldman thinks that invest tigating the people who are the terrorists is the problem it's not the terrorists it's that if you investigate who the terrorists are well that's a case of lawfare and political weaponization right there now uh as uh Turley says Goldman's latest controversy captures how Democrats have now entirely cut the CT of decency and moderation that once tethered their party to the mainstream of our society I love that sentence turle is a great writer if you just want to see great writing you know in addition to you know great opinions he can put a sentence together like nobody's business he's just a great writer um but then he did something that I was wondering about uh turly was helping us with the definition of what terrorism is and he points out that he's long criticized the expansion of what terroris m is and I would agree with that I I don't think you want to trivialize terrorism and just start calling everything terrorism you don't want to do that but let's see let's see if this uh Tesla stuff fits the definition without stretching it so toally points out that the uh the justice department defines domestic Terror terrorism as quote violent criminal acts committed by individuals and or groups to further ideological go s stemming from domestic influences such as those of a political religious social racial or environmental nature and that's perfectly captures what's happening to Tesla so yes um you don't have to hurt people to be a terrorist if you're destroying economic assets and you're also doing it in the um in the pursuit of political gain that's also terrorism because you know money is important to people you know it it's not just physical pain and and and death and injury it's destroying economics because that's that's uh its own problem anyway um to me it seems like uh the probably the funniest thing that will happen this year is the Trump Administration without even trying getting prominent Democrats to support domestic terrorism how would you like to be running against running for president in the next election can you imagine JD Vance running against one of these clowns who is not who is not um disowning the terrorism imagine if he ran against Goldman well uh Dan it seems to me that you've been supporting domestic terrorism in this country and uh I think the voters should know that if they vote for you they're voting for a domestic terrorist according to the definition of those terms it it feels like it' be the easiest thing in the world to be almost any prominent Democrat at this point they've literally supported terrorism I think Rana and maybe one other person have said you know right up front and write it loudly and I respect that yeah that the violence that's just got end you know the the Tesla stuff nope don't do that that's bad so but only a few like is it even more than two at this point in the entire Democrat Party was it just two people who willing to say that domestic terrorism is a bad idea and the problem is that the Democrats have Unleashed domestic terrorism a number of times you know if you count uh antifa and black lives matter and and now this it it's definitely a pattern anyway if you haven't seen Ezra Klein on Gavin nome's podcast I highly recommend it because uh Ezra's book abundance with Derek Thompson I guess um is getting a lot of attention and you know my first take on it when I just had AI summarize it for me was wait a minute uh all they're doing is promoting Republican policy you know such as don't waste the money build things build things in this country you know be be practical get some actual wins you know ordinary stuff and so I wasn't that impressed with it because it just seemed to be telling Democrats to be Republicans um which was funny in its own way but the more I hear him because I've listened he's very interesting so the more I've listen to him on various podcasts he's going hard at the Democrats he he's not taking prisoners and it's exactly what they needed so if you're if you're asking yourself what's the solution I don't know if it's this but it's something like this and so he sat with Gavin Nome and um I I'll just give you the top level summary it's just worth watching and he starts describing how Democrats operate which is getting large funding for things and then building nothing and he's just making Nome squirm and then Nome has to talk but one of the things that Newsome does because he's he's clever but weasle at the same time Nome will agree with whatever your criticism is but then he's got lots of reasons why you know it's not as bad as you think or everything will be fine or you know so he's got this pattern where he first agrees but then he he talks for a while and then he makes his own point which is disagreeing basically you have to watch Nome being triggered into fullword salad that didn't look like it had an end he was full Kam Harris yo well uh big word big word um jargon uh uh big word and uh um uh big word big word big word and it just went on and on and he was just dying in front of the camera and I'm not even sure he knew it so he had to throw in some weird hand motions like this I don't know we don't know why he does that but he was just destroyed right on camera and you know we've seen some we've seen uh you know Bannon we've seen Charlie Kirk and stuff talking to Gavin and they would have their own criticisms and so you've seen Gaffin handle criticisms and you know give him credit he does he does interact with people who are willing to criticize so I'll give him credit for that but I've never seen anybody destroy him Ezra just destroyed him it's it's really fun to watch you could have to watch it anyway uh Laura lomer apparently has a lawsuit against Bill Maher because uh Bill Maher on his show um inferred that she was having an affair with Trump because I don't know she traveled on the jet or something and so Laura lomer is suing him and uh apparently a judge refused to throw it out so it's going forward and now Bill M will have to sit and answer questions about why he did that um I don't know if she can win this you know I'll defer to the lawyers um implied not inferred okay I'll take that he he implied it not inferred it um because you would have to prove that he knew he was lying so wouldn't A Perfect Defense be is sure look like it to me wouldn't that be the entire defense or would he go with um it's a humor show nobody should take it too seriously you know it's it's meant for comedic value so it's not as serious I don't know I remember seeing it live and saying to myself whoa that's too far did did anybody see it live when Mara made that accusation or implied it to me it looked too far because that was definitely not in evidence and Trump has traveled with what a thousands and thousands of people on his plane some male seem some female yeah I mean to me it looked too far and uh we'll see we'll see what happens I don't think she can win because I think he just has to say his State of Mind was that he believed it was true I think that's all it takes but I don't know um meanwhile rasmuson said Democratic approval of the party is 26% that would be a new I think it might drop into the teens actually by the end of the year it's it's possible that Democrat approval or popularity will be in the high teens now I think congress's approval generally speaking has been in the High Teens before so it's not impossible and I don't think anybody would seen it go to 26% but if it's going to 26% isn't freefall now I know that last 20% are going to hold tight but I think it's just going to get worse right you know one more day of Jasmine Crockett should make pretty much all the Democrats change sides at that point meanwhile RFK Jr is uh trying to ban big Pharma ads um on TV and uh I think most of you know that the reason big Pharma advertises is not so that they can get the patients to ask their doctor for the drug but rather it's so that the allegedly uh it's so that the news entity will not say bad things about big Pharma so it's essentially a way to bribe the news industry to stay away from their stories um that's the claim but the other thing that the big PHA ads do and this is my my hypnotist take on it so you haven't heard this one if I watch a big Pharma commercial on a news program it'll start with oh you got this problem here's this drug that helps it but eventually I guess for legal reasons they have to tell you all the side effects and man when they start with the side effects it just kills me if I can't find the remote to turn off the TV I'll have to put a boot through it because the damage that it's doing to my brain it starts out with uh and be careful your penis will fall off your hair will catch on fire your throat will close and you will be bleeding blood from your ass for the rest of your life you will probably get amnesia or rheumatoid arthritis your heart will turn into a lump of coal your blood will coag coagulate into kind of a mayonnaise you will be begging for life and probably rolling around on the floor and pain for the rest of your existence which might not last very long and I'm like where's the remote oh God oh God where's the remote and I'm running around and I'm moving the I'm moving pillows like because you can't have that much negativity just drilled into your head even casually and it is and by the way I'm only barely exaggerating how much impact it has on me I can feel it I mean I just feel it and I'm convinced that big Pharma is destroying the um the business model of the news now because they're the biggest Advertiser of course the news will say yes but if you run this biggest Advertiser over and over again and the old people just keep hearing all these horrible things that are going to happen to them if they take this drug eventually and this is the Hypno filter eventually it should be like pavo's dog except instead of giving you a treat that will make you salvate the next time the scientist comes in the room it should make you if you turn on the TV and you see news it should make you think oh even before the commercial like if you turn if you're just slipping through the channels and uh Jake Tapper comes on the first thing you might think is my penis will fall off I'm going to ble bleed through my ass no no no and just flip to anything else so I think over time big Pharma destroys the business model of the news it should Oh Canada uh so there's a story post millennial has a story about their uh conservative uh I guess the conservative leader what's his name mark Carney um is he prime minister now or is he just I'm so confused about the Canadian system but anyway so Mark Carney apparently used to be Justin Trudeau's um economic advisor while he was the economic advisor to Justin Trudeau he went to China and he negotiated to get a $276 million loan for his own business so it wasn't even for the government it was for his own business now it's not illegal to you know have your own business and be an economic adviser I guess um but wouldn't you like to know if any strings were attached to that loan do you think China was trying to influence Canada I don't know that's a tough one to explain so he's got some explaining to do on that but wow meanwhile uh Vladimir zalinski says that Putin is going to die soon because he's got all kinds of medical problems and uh that should change everything he he literally says he'll die soon um I believe we've been hearing that for five years for how long have we been hearing Putin's going to die any minute um I don't know maybe zinsky knows something we don't but I wouldn't count on that I don't think I'd make any policy on it now let me tell you the least surprising news of the day people you you're never going to believe this I say jokingly this is the most predictable news that you've ever heard Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaking the terms of a ceasefire on their energy infrastructure all right I told you that's exactly what's going to happen right I told you how can you have a ceasefire on your energy infrastructure when both sides are going to say the other one violated it and then they're just going to keep shooting and that's exactly what happened apparently now I don't know if both sides did violate it the prediction is not that they would violate it but they would definitely claim the other side violated it and then they would act accordingly which is what's happening how in the world do you ever reach a peace deal with the two most lingest countries in the world I mean Ukraine is the least the least reliable honest country that isn't Russia so it it doesn't feel like you could even make a deal because you need you need both sides to be at least honorable you know like I feel like we can make a deal with a lot of countries and they'd say ah we don't want to be that country that doesn't keep a deal um the United States has broken some deals too so we're not we're not clean on this but who's going to trust either Russia or Ukraine for anything so I don't know how they get a deal there and uh I was listening in other news I was listening to Jeffrey sa talk about the Middle East and he's sort of uh you know stay out of the Middle East it's none of our business we're just making you know making permanent War um but he says there will never be peace in the Middle East until the Palestinians have their own country basically um but that's not possible because Israel has so many settlements now there's no place that country could even be and if you said okay you can take the entire West Bank and Gaza to do you think that would stop the extremists from trying to take isra proper why would it I don't see why that would stop him so I don't see any possibility that you can make peace by giving Palestinians a country unless that country included Israel and all the Israelis decided to move somewhere else which is not going to happen so there's no actual real world situation in which you could do peace in the Middle East which means permanent War and then Sachs suggests that Israel essentially controls US policy and Military and will at least in terms of the Middle East and uh will keep us in a permanent state of War uh because it's good for Israel uh saak also says that the hoodies are no big threat to the United States uh and if we just ignore them because there's not much I guess there's not much us shipping that goes through there anyway um which surprised me me I think I need a fact check on that but how many of you agree with him that we're we're in the permanent war that can never be solved meaning that you can never solve the Palestinian issue and if we're if we're being wagged by you know by Israel then we'll just be in permanent War I worry that Trump has gotten himself into at least two permanent Wars because one of the main things we liked about Trump is that he wouldn't be in war and he would end the ones we have but I don't see him getting out of the Middle East and I don't see Ukraine wanting to end the war I think Ukraine wants to continue um and maybe Russia does a little bit too so um Trump's really got it he's got his work cut out for him now my own opinion is I've told you before my own opinion is that when countries pursue their own best interest and they have the power to do it of course they're going to do it so if the Palestinians had all the power it would be really really bad for Israel uh right now Israel has most of the power and the Palestinians don't like it at all but there's no way that you solve that because they can't both have all the power it's going to be somebody has the power so it's pretty much a win lose situation over there unsolvable in my opinion so I saw Zion lights had a uh post about how France's uh power grid last year was 95% fossil free um and most of that was thanks to nuclear power but they had uh big surge in solar as well and so the the context was it was sort of France is sort of the winner you know they're the Smart Ones because they they got rid of their fossil fuels and they still powered their nation and they're great on nuclear so it looks like they're just the big smart winners and we just look like the dumb ones now right and then I went to perplexity Ai and I said um who pays more for electricity France or the US turns out France so the cost of electricity if you you know for different currencies and whatnot the cost of electricity in France is higher than in the US so who's the winner is France the winner because they got to uh all this nuclear power before we did because that's impressive I I do I do uh give them a lot of credit for being so successfully nuclear but if our energy costs less than in France and most of the CO2 if that's what you're worried about if most of the CO2 is still coming out in China and India did it make any difference whatsoever that France had all these green sources of energy and the answer is I don't know to me it looks like they didn't win winning would be they pay less for electricity and they've done what they can to save the world but you know they can't do everything but at least their own electricity doesn't cost much now if they were paying less for electricity than the United States and by the way I'll take a fact check on this because I got it from perplexity Ai and we we shouldn't fully trust the AIS to be accurate yet um I'd say the US is the winner right because the CO2 in the world in general would be the same no matter what either the us or France did because again China and India are the big CO2 producers all that really matters is what's the cost of power and if ours is cheaper we won and that ladies and gentlemen is all I have to say today thanks for joining went a little bit long today but that's because it was extra awesome I'm going to say some words to the uh locals people privately the rest of you thanks for joining and I'll see you on Rumble and x and You.

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news to see if there's anything I can

Doge and by that I mean save them some

money oh oh yes let's see the University

of South

Australia um has determined that

exercise of any kind can boost the brain

power of people at any age huh how could

they have come up with that data without

spending all the money is there anything

they could have done that would save

them all that time and effort yes you

could just ask Scott next time Scott is

exercise good for your brain well

according to every single study that's

ever been done on the topic

yes we were thinking of doing a study on

the topic you don't have to you don't

have to it's been studied and studied

and it's also really obvious you can

tell by observing people and also in

yourself I don't know we we kind of want

to do a study on this do you have grant

money

yes well maybe Doge should cut that

grant money even though you're in

Australia that's how good doge is it's

going to cut things in

Australia well speaking of things

related to Elon Musk according to f.org

um the

xplatform sales or the advertising

revenue is growing I'm not sure if they

really know that but they say it's

growing and uh the the reason behind the

growth in advertising on X according to

this publication uh is being driven by

fear do you do you think they would

cover anybody else's business this

way as if they know why people are doing

it so why are you advertising on X is it

because it's a really good value for the

dollar

or or is it because we imagine that

you're afraid oh now that musk is

friends with Trump oh we' better

advertise so we can we can bribe him

with money because that works right you

know bribing him with money no it

doesn't work but anyway good to see that

the ad sales are are

up

um now I promised you if you're on a I

made the promise that I would do some

remote viewing today and it's because

there's a document that's been found

it's an older document but back in

1988 the CIA claimed to have confirmed

the existence of the Ark of the Covenant

and the way they did that was they used

a remote viewer now that would be a

person who has uh psychic powers where

if they close their eyes they can view

things across the world or even across

the Galaxy because time and space don't

matter and uh so apparently some remote

viewer um I did identify the Arc of the

Covenant uh over in the Middle East and

said it was a in a coffin-shaped ornate

box uh couldn't be more specific than

that somewhere in the Middle East and it

was being guarded by

entities but I feel like that's the sort

of thing you shouldn't just trust right

you know one remote viewer is one remote

if you were a good source no you need

two you need a second source so I

thought i' do a little remote viewing

for you if you don't

mind

preparing hold on be silent for a

moment

um I'm getting something uh it's it's

ornate it's the size of a coffin it's in

a hole it's um I'm sorry that was yeah

that that was uh yeah no that wasn't it

that was just somebody's uh casket hold

let me

go Ark of the Covenant where are you got

it got it there it is it's an an ornate

box it's buried somewhere in the Middle

East I can't be more

specific I believe there's sand around

and it's being guarded

by four entities four enti entities

regarding it uh I think one of them his

name is

Bob uh there's Carl The Entity

and somebody whose nickname is bit Bop

that's weird and uh Alex Alex so the

four entities guarding the Ark of the

Covenant confirmed

confirmed now that probably will be

national news by the end of the day

because you know if you only have one

remote viewer seeing the Arc of the

Covenant that means

nothing but if you have two that's

confirmation yeah that's

confirmation so we got that going for us

meanwhile according to Reuters the

Supreme Court said it will not hear a uh

youth Le climate change case so the

Supreme Court said get out of here we

don't want to hear your TW 21 young

people's case that the government and

their energy policies have violated your

right to be protected from climate

change you know your right to be

protected from climate change have you

even read the Constitution people it's

right there it's uh I believe it's

article of the

Constitution it's uh it's one of those

uh amendments or something I'm pretty

sure it's in there

right no okay maybe it's not in

there meanwhile there's a private Texas

school that claims that by using an AI

program an AI tutor that its students

have to the top 2% in the country uh Fox

News is reporting on this and the

co-founder of the school it's called

Alpha School says the students are

learning better and faster and they only

spend a few hours a day talking to the

AI and then they're done with all their

work and they don't even need to do

homework because they're learning so

fast and uh then they spend the rest of

the day doing passion projects yeah

passion projects now I don't know

exactly what that means but it sounds

pretty good so you do way less

work and you get way more

fun and you get way better

grades now the alpha School is uh

looking to expand um so it's got a few

hundred students now but it's going to

expand across the United States H so

that would sort of suggest it's a

for-profit

school right I mean I don't see anything

that says it's

a government funded or anything so it's

a for-profit entity that's telling us

that their product works better than

other people's product well if you can't

trust that what can you

trust um now as others have pointed out

if it's a private

school and it's a

for-profit there's probably a little

healthy tuition going on there and I

would expect that it would only attract

the best

students now let me ask you

this if you put a a top student in front

of an AI that's really good at you know

quiz them could they get done with all

their necessary work in a few hours i'

say yes probably yes if you take an

average student or a not so good student

and say sit here alone with this AI

until you're homework's done in three

hours how's that going to

go I don't think that's going to work at

all so once again I think we're going to

learn that the people who have all the

advantages and this case it would be the

rich smart people probably can get like

a huge Advantage from using AI as part

of their process but I'm not so sure

that AI is going to work for every kind

of student it might only work for the

top students and then everybody else has

to figure it out we'll see but uh I have

some questions about

that well Tom homman gets another win I

guess they Capt capured one of the top

three MS13 leaders in the United

States um and this was a

24-year-old so he was one of the top

three MS13 leaders in the country he was

running the entire East Coast operations

now the first thing that jumped out of

me about this story is wow good work Tom

homman capturing a top leader of MS13

the second thing that jumped out was

he's only 24

wow you know the one thing about MS13

they don't tell you is what a great

Economic Opportunity is because there

are not many there just not that many

jobs where you could be leading a major

organization at the age of 24 so good

for you MS13 they are not discriminating

against young people plenty of

opportunity so I'd recommend it as a

good career path for all of you no I'm

just kidding it's terrible career paths

don't join

MS13 meanwhile Zero Hedge is reporting

that um there was this gigantic $250

million fraud involving a Child

Nutrition program Federal Child

Nutrition program and a whole bunch of

Somali uh immigrants stole $250 million

in Minnesota now that was between March

2020 and January

2022 now now how many times have we

heard a story about gigantic amounts of

money being

stolen I'm starting to you know lose

sort of the distinction between all the

stories but it does feel to me like

quite a few billions of dollars are

being stolen

from

taxpayers

and it's like the government never heard

of anything like a ating or

accounting or tracking your

progress how in the world did they get

away with $250 million of essentially

faking that there were children that

didn't

exist how in the world two years $250

million the what if there are just like

dozens or hundreds of these happening

all over the country you know in

different ways different people and

stuff I feel like that might be the

case well

um see what else is going

on according to uh Liberty Nation

news the Associated

Press um has a

uh has a reporter who got caught doing

some fake news and they had to retract

it and the fake news was that a claim

that uh tulsey gabard had said that

Trump and Putin were good

friends but it turns out she was talking

about Prime Minister Modi and Trump who

are actually good friends and so the

Associated Press had to you know correct

their story because it was wrong but the

fun part of the story is that the

reporter who wrote it um his one of his

prior jobs

one of his prior jobs was uh uh he was

part of the ap's first misinformation

beat Team focusing on explaining

falsehoods propaganda and conspiracy

theories while exposing the creators of

this material and their techniques for

dissemination how many times have the

fake news

people uh got onto the um hey we'll

check the fake news to the other

people sometimes it's exactly what you'd

expect you know I have this theory that

that shoe salesmen if it's men who are

selling shoes to women um that

eventually it will be men only men who

have foot fetishes because they would be

most drawn to the field and they would

work longer hours cheaper because they

were getting you know an extra benefit

from it and and it just seems to me that

the the organizations that are uh trying

to fact check other

organizations probably they're filled

with fake news people because it just

feel like that's what would be drawn to

those jobs oh so I can just call other

people fake news yeah that would be your

job all right I'm

in well Trump is saying uh on true

social it's time to defund NPR and and

PBS immediately he says that uh they're

both horrible and they're completely

biased platforms and uh they should be

defunded by Congress

immediately he says Republicans don't

miss this opportunity to rid our country

of this giant scam both being arms of

the radical left Democrat Party just say

no and make America great again well

related to this story um the uh the NPR

CEO her name is

marah last name is mAh and she was been

grilled by this guy uh Brandon Gil so

Gil was doing some grilling he's Grill

and Gil and if you haven't seen the

videos of it it's highly

recommended because of the attitude that

he brought to

it so he he'd asked a question like uh

do you recall saying this this or that

and it' be some terrible woke thing that

would sound so bad in 2025 but you know

maybe at some point it didn't sound so

bad and then uh Mara would say um I

never said that and then representative

Gil would say uh yes you did here's a

tweet of yours from 2020 and then he

would read the Tweet where she said

exactly that and then she'd say well I

don't remember that

or uh I've completely evolved in my

thinking so I definitely don't think

that now now if you only saw it happen

once with let's say one claim or one

tweet it wouldn't be much you know

because people say crazy stuff I say

crazy things you could almost certainly

find something in my tweeting history

that if you if you read it to me in a

congressional setting and said do you

really believe this

I might say you know maybe I thought it

at the time but you know not really not

now but if you have a lot of

them it becomes quite a show and and

apparently she had quite a few things to

say almost every one of them would have

been disqualifying for any kind of

leadership job and she had to respond to

everyone that she had completely changed

her views from crazy woke to something

more like you know a leader perspective

oh my god did she get destroyed Brandon

Gil good job there

[Music]

Brandon all right some of you have

already seen this story but I just had

to weigh in um I guess on Joe Rogan show

he had a doctor Dr Suzanne humph and

they were talking about the real story

of

polio now before I tell you what you

know what the claim is uh let me say

that I don't know how to judge this

there was a time when if I had read if I

had heard there somebody saying that the

polio vaccine actually doesn't do

anything and the polio uh well the CLA

let me tell you the claim the claim is

that the polio vaccine didn't stop any

polio at

all what did stop polio is nothing

nothing stopped it at

all and that all they did was redefine

certain conditions as no longer being

polio so they came up with new names for

stuff so then when somebody had

something that used to be called polio

but they had been vaccinated the doctor

would say well I can't be

polio because you've been vaccinated so

it looks like you got this uh Gillian

bar thing or you've got this

cocki virus or an echo

virus I don't know what a suaki

virus is but that sounds like a bad

one what kind of virus did you get I got

that sucky

virus it's spelled CX s a c k IE virus

all one word it just sounds like a

saki virus which is absolutely the worst

gun you could get

or or the doctors would chalk it up to

now this is the claim of Dr Suzanne

humph these are not my claims um lead

poisoning or mercury poisoning so they'd

always they'd always have some answer to

it and then the doctor says the rise of

polio or what seemed to be the rise of

polio was directly mirror the use of

toxic pesticides like

DDT she says and she says the countries

that still make DDT today is where we're

still seeing the polio

happen

so let me say what I think a number of

other others of you have said or are

thinking right now let me see if I can

read your mind all right I'm going to

read your mind I've already done remote

viewing uh reading your mind and you're

saying got it got it what you're saying

is there was a time you would not have

believed this story

right this is not that

time that this is a time where I look at

this I mean this is a really Fantastical

claim that the entire medical community

didn't know that that polio

either was just not what they thought it

was and the vaccine didn't make any

difference at

all Ah that's quite a claim quite a

claim but in

2025 to you know steal a joke from Joe

Rogan um I'm not so sure the moon

landing was real and by the way I'm not

so sure the moon landing was real like

I've actually I've actually been

flipped even maybe a month ago I I was

holding tough it's like come on of

course the moon landing's real I mean

you can see the assets up there you can

you know people can still see that the

know some of the assets are down there

on the moon surface how could it not be

real and then I thought well maybe the

pictures aren't real I mean maybe they

landed something on the moon but are the

pictures real maybe they couldn't get

good film on the moon or get it quickly

so maybe they filmed it separately even

if they did land on the moon either with

a person or without

people so at the moment

I'm completely open to 100% of

everything I've learned in history being

fake that doesn't mean it is but I'm

completely open to it now there there's

nothing I'm unwilling to believe no

matter how crazy and I'm going to put

this on that list I'm not going to say

this is true because I how would I know

but is it possible within the realm of

possibility that polio could have been

completely a

fake hysteria and the answer is I hate

to say

it but it's a little bit

possible it's just a little bit

possible I don't think it's the most

likely

explanation uh to be honest if I had to

place a

bet I would bet that the vaccinations

work and polio is

real but man it's not 100% is it you

know I'd love to tell you I'm super

confident about that but nope nope it's

a little bit closer to a coin flip

little bit closer to a coin

flip I I I see your comments and I'm

just chuckling to myself one one of you

is trying to get me kicked off of all

social media platforms forever I'm not

going to take the

bait well according to cash Patel Trum

Trump Has This brilliant plan where he's

uh he either has or is going to file a

lawsuit against all the people involved

in the Russia collusion

hoax now it would be a lawsuit as

opposed to a criminal action and he

would be suing for you know Financial um

compensation now the financial part

probably doesn't matter to him that much

but it's a RICO lawsuit I didn't know

you could Rico in a lawsuit but maybe

it's the essence of Rico as opposed to

Rico and what uh cash Patel is pointing

out

um is that it could lead to the

possibility of criminal charges so in

other words if the lawsuit had some

Discovery involved or some uh let's say

it tied together a bunch of things that

nobody tied together before it could

create the basis for a criminal

prosecution on the same the same grounds

that it was

organized

funded and it was an operation that

involved a vast number of people from uh

lawyers and a certain firm to Hillary

Clinton's campaign to the FBI to the

Department of Justice I don't know who

else the the media maybe the media so

um and then as cash Patel points out I

guess he was talking to Charlie Kirk on

the podcast um that the Rico part of it

the part where everything's connected

and it's not one person who just did a

thing it's a whole bunch of people who

apparently know knew what the other

people were doing and seemed to be

coordinated uh he says that the the

Durham report and other I guess legal

actions have uh essentially Prov proven

the main points that the lawsuit would

try to establish which is it was fake we

know who the people involved were and we

know pretty much that they communicated

but maybe that's the extra stuff they

have to add to it to you know give some

testimonies and stuff like that so that

is really interesting as a legal

strategy and I I'm all in for that

we should absolutely know if our

government was real or we were just run

by a bunch of hoaxes and Rico and and

some deep State stuff I don't

know well in other news uh

representative Thomas messie he's

introducing a bill uh the Dual loyalty

disclosure act so if somebody is a

candidate for office for federal office

this is uh they would have to disclose

all the countries in which they are

citizens now you're probably saying to

yourself that seems unnecessary because

everybody knows who's a dual citizen

right I mean it would be easy to check

and if somebody had dual citizenship and

they were in Congress you'd know about

it

right apparently there's no reporting

requirement and there's no place you can

look it

up so we can have we could have thousand

of people in Congress who who are

actually citizens of other countries at

the same time they're citizens of the

United States and we wouldn't even know

it now I know what you're going to say

Israel right say it you know that's what

you want to say you want to say there

are members of Congress who are who are

secretly also dual citizens of Israel

well according to my limited research

there's no known case of

that so if you have different

information than I do let me know but to

the best of my you know very quick

analysis there's no there's no example

of that there doesn't seem to be as far

as anybody knows any member of Congress

who's a dual

citizen now that that actually surprised

me I thought there'd be one or

two um and I don't think there's anybody

else who hasn't at this point um

renounced their dual citizenship so

there were a few that were not related

to Israel um where people were

challenged I think Ted Cruz was one Ted

Cruz had Canadian citizenship as as well

American and I believe he renounced the

Canadian part as soon as it became an

issue and I think there were a few other

candidates or a few other politicians

were in the same situation they weren't

really you know w weren Really wed to

the other country so they just renounced

it and fixed it but uh I guess I I

approve of this I don't think it'll make

much difference in the real world but be

good to

know all right let's talk about signal

gate believe it or not I think I can add

something to the story it's a boring

story and that's the the biggest part of

the story is that it's too boring for

the public to get interested in

imagine if you didn't follow the news

like we do like

obsessively trying to figure stuff out

all day long and and you heard about oh

they use the signal app like you

wouldn't even know like why is that bad

or anything like

that so here's something that uh CI CIA

director Ratcliffe said in a statement

and he was dumping on the reporter who

wrote about it Jeffrey Goldberg he's the

one who was added to the signal group um

we don't know exactly how he was added

yet but it wasn't by

Ratliff and anyway so CIA director reff

said yesterday I spent four hours

answering questions from Senators as a

result of that article intimating that I

transmitted classified information now I

didn't know that I didn't know that

Goldberg suggested that maybe Ratcliffe

had transmitted and classified

information because we didn't see any

example that so I didn't know that was

being even suggested and then um reff

says those messages were revealed today

I did not transmit classified

information I guess we can now just look

at the messages and see he's right he

said the reporter Goldberg who I don't

know intentionally in intended uh it to

indicate that the reporter also

indicated I released the name of an

undercover CIA operative in fact I

released the name of my own Chief of

Staff who is not operating undercover uh

and that was deliberately false and

misleading okay that's pretty bad that's

pretty imagine being accused you're the

head of the CIA imagine being accused of

releasing the name of an undercover CIA

agent and then finding out literally

nothing like that happened it was just

made up

apparently but I want to redo this last

sentence and see if this sounds familiar

to you so Ras summary sentence was the

mission was a remarkable success because

that's what did happen not what could

have

happened not what could have

happened have you noticed the

pattern the pattern that

Democrats have imaginary

concerns yeah we'll talk about that in a

little

bit um but I wrote a uh post on a that I

thought captured some of the uh some of

the Nuance that nobody had captured yet

on this signal

thing uh so starting with if Heth and I

believe this is true uh secretary Heth

he has the power to declassify

content so all he has to do is say

declassify this and it's

Declassified so in my opinion putting

that content on Signal which is what he

did is a de facto

declassification now it's the same thing

I said about Trump and marago if the

person who's in charge of saying

something is classified or not

intentionally puts it in a place that

they know is not

classified that's a de facto practical

declassification now it should be with

paperwork but is that the problem are we

mad at heg cuz he didn't do

paperwork that that wouldn't make

anybody mad would it if he intended it

to be um in a non-classified setting and

obviously he knew this signal was not

their top secret

setting so he very consciously put it

into a less than completely secure

setting I would call that a de facto

declassification now here's the thing

that um

you'll see in the news over and over

again and I think I'm about the only

person besides Greg geld whoever calls

this out which is I call it the half

pinion if the only thing you knew about

the story is that somebody took some

information that you think should be in

the most

maximized um secret setting and they

moved it to a less secret

setting how would you judge that and and

and there could be potential you know

military implications to it how would

you judge that well I'd say that's a

mistake that's a pretty big one right if

all you're looking at is is the cost of

it you know what's the downside what's

the Worst That Could Happen I'd say

that's

terrible but what are we leaving

out we're leaving out why he did

it why did he put that information in

that setting well it's because he had a

mission he'd been asked to keep this

very group of people uh informed right

up to the last minute I mean the the

timing of it was important and uh it was

very important to keep them informed in

case somebody had a last minute

objection because remember this was big

stuff he was ready to kill a whole bunch

of people which presumably is what

happened when the strike happened so

before he decided to unle leash death

death like people dying he wanted to

make sure that the people most

involved got their final say and I don't

think that that was just you know

checking a box to me that seems

important that that if you've been asked

to keep this group informed it's because

this group might be the ones who say you

know what hold on hold on you know I I

have such an objection or I found found

something new or maybe there's something

we haven't considered maybe they would

have delayed it and that could have been

really

important right so if you were to judge

it as did he take something into a less

secure platform yes by itself that would

look like a mistake but if you judge it

by what was he trying to accomplish

which was to make sure that the people

most important to the decision were

still okay with the decision before he

killed people

before he killed

people that seems pretty legitimate to

me now let me tell you something about

every big organization I've ever been

involved with if you followed all of the

rules of any big organization be it a

corporation or anywhere else you would

immediately bring that Corporation or

organization to his knees because big

organizations have enough rules that you

wouldn't be able to get anything done

let me give you an example one of my

first jobs out of college I was a bank

teller and I one day I cashed a bad

check and it's because I didn't check uh

identification properly now the reason I

didn't check is because the person who

brought the people with a check in and

stood right there at the window with

them was a friend of

mine so the friend says well you know I

can vouch for these two they're friends

of mine I thought oh that's safe enough

I mean this is my personal

friend turns out they were

criminals so I mean I just got scammed

so I didn't get fired because it was

sort of a first offense and it wasn't

that much

money but I did get a talking to I got a

Stern talking to and the stern talking

to was you don't get to decide which of

the rules you follow and which ones you

don't follow you will follow all the

rules and I looked at my supervisor and

I said you got it and within two hours

the line at the uh for the tellers was

out the door and I was serving very few

people because almost every encounter

required me to call my supervisor over

because that was the rule if there was

anything that was above my pay grade to

approve I couldn't do it so I brought

the entire Bank to a standstill I

crashed the bank it it couldn't do

anything for customers and they were

just lying out the door and what was I

doing I was just following all the rules

I was doing it quickly I wasn't I wasn't

uh I wasn't dragging my feet I was just

following their own rules and and one

time I called my supervisor over and

there's some guy who works for Chevron

and and he didn't have ID or he didn't

have a I guess he didn't have an account

at our Branch or something and uh she

comes over and she takes one look at him

she goes approved I go hold on hold on

what did you do that I couldn't do like

you just looked at him you literally

just looked at him that like why

couldn't I do that she goes well I

noticed he was wearing this lapel pin

that tells me that he's worked for

Chevron for I don't know at least 10

years or something and he goes and she

goes yeah nobody nobody would know to

where we that little pin if there were a

crook and I thought well I'm pretty sure

that's not in the

rules the LEL pin trick

so so this this is a pattern that you'll

see everywhere now do you think this is

different in the in the military do you

think the

military could possibly function if

everybody followed all the rules all the

time I doubt it if it's like every other

big organization no it's probably a

whole bunch of people who are

continuously looking for some way to get

around the rules and regulation just to

get something done that's probably the

most normal situation in the world so

now you've got the Pete Heth who's given

this job your job is to keep this group

of people informed right up to date like

not not once a month but like right up

to the operational Point how is he going

to do that

how you you tell me the other way he was

going to do it there wasn't another way

he was going to do it there was no other

mechanism the government does not have a

secure chat group and if it did it would

require those same people what a dozen

or 16 or whatever to all be sitting in

an office at the same time do you think

that ever happens no it never happens so

he did not have any tool any process any

way to do the thing that he had been

tasked to do that was important enough

that it could save the lives of those

people who ended up being

killed it was life and death and it was

his job it was life and death and it was

his job to keep them informed there was

no other way to do

it so what did he do I can't read his

mind but what it looks like is he said

this is not ideal just again I'm just

guessing this is not ideal to put this

on on

signal but it's only two hours between

now and the time of the attack and it's

important that we've got everybody on

board I mean that's just critically

important so he took a little bit of a

risk like everybody does and every big

organization if they're trying to work

within the rules and he got a little bit

of a benefit which is he did what he was

asked to do before he killed people

before he killed people I mean I feel

like we're forgetting we've somehow

forgotten the humanity of it this was

life and

death and you do want to make sure

everybody's on the right page before the

missiles fly so telling them exactly

when the thing was going to happen is

very critical completely appropriate to

do do you have a final

objection very important because if

there's two hours you maybe you say no

if it were a day maybe you'd say yes now

here's the question you're wondering how

how just what was the risk level of

putting something on a

signal well here's your rather

realworld um

reveal I don't believe the hoodies have

a

sophisticated hack

operation do you do you think the

hoodies had penetrated the phones of the

United States government do you think

the hoodies had a back door to the

signal I'm going to say no but before

you say it I know what you're thinking

you're thinking Scott it doesn't have to

be the hoodies it could have been the

Russians and then they tipped them off

could have been China and then they

tipped off the hoodies could have been a

ram Iran has sophisticated hackers could

have been a ram and then they would you

know ran is on their side so they tip

off the hoodies but let me give you a

little real

world

context if any of those major Powers had

access to signal and they had penetrated

it so that they could listen to our

government talking about

everything they would have risked losing

that

access by tipping off the hoodies cuz we

probably would have noticed if the

hoodies in two hours kind of quickly

adjusted their defensive

positions because you know we'd be

watching them by then right we'd have

the satellites on we'd have the drones

flying over and if suddenly two hours

before the attack everything changed and

they started rapidly moving their assets

how long would it take us to figure out

it was because of the signal jet about

five minutes and then we would have

stopped using signal and then the

Chinese or the Russians or the Iranians

would have lost their

access I think that if they had access

to that tool and they were listening to

our government conversations at the

highest

level I'm pretty sure they would have

said well we're going to let the hoodies

take the hit it would have been smarter

certainly for China and Russia no doubt

about it to let the hoodies take the hit

even even if they thought they'd like to

screw the United States

they wouldn't lose their own access to

something that important now what about

Iran I would go so far as to say that

even Iran would let the hoodies take a

hit before they would give up a source

that important now who else told you

that nobody

right so yeah once you see how weak the

analysis was of this whole situation

it's uh it's shocking

um the next thing is that uh Democrats

have you know conflated what could have

happened with what did happen now that's

what

um that's what uh Ratliff said he said

the exact same thing right so in my post

um I point out that the uh the Democrats

they love the imaginary stuff well it

could have been bad do you know what

else could have been

bad everything that those people did

that day everything how many how many

conversations did all the people who

were in that chat how many conversations

did they have on other topics with other

people that could have been could have

been

compromised but weren't probably not but

could have

been I if you're worrying about things

that could go wrong that's pretty much

everything and it's pretty much all the

time that is not a valid concern if

somebody takes a risk reward decision I

need to keep people informed that's my

job it's it's life or death it's a

little bit less secure but it's only two

hours before the strike it's pretty

unlikely that you know any notice is

going to get to them in two

hours so life is just one decision after

another but if you were to read the news

it would look like half pinions you know

a real opinion is you take the positive

and the negative risks of everything you

do okay it could go this way but it

could go that way you know get some

benefits but there might be a

cost but if the only thing you do is

look at there might be a cost you

wouldn't do

anything there well there might be a

cost um I'd like you to uh uh meet me

tomorrow at this building and we'll have

the meeting I don't know what what if I

get hit by a car in the way of the

meeting well that's certainly more of a

risk if you're traveling than if you're

staying home so was that worth the

risk everything has a risk to it

everything if you look at the fact that

everything has a risk including every

single conversation that every one of

those people had about every topic that

was you know classified all day long

it's just nothing but that risk just all

day long well somebody might have heard

it somebody might have be bugging this

room somebody somebody might be a mole

you know that's a

universal anyway

um so here's the second question people

have been asking me hey was this whole

signal thing some kind of an OP was it a

setup from the start my first impression

was uh um well I don't see how it would

be my current impression is yeah it

looks like

it I I'm not at the point where I'm

willing to say it was an OP but it looks

like it so here's here's what we

know this is according to a x account

called the

researcher um so something called

American

oversight so that this is another one of

those you know how the NOS all have

these generic names and when you hear

one of these generic names it's some

damn Democrat

op so American oversight is suing Heth

gabard and rackliff Etc uh saying that

they messaging on Signal is a violation

of the federal records act huh who do

you think is on this American oversight

group well apparently it's David Brock

and Norm

Eisen remember I tell you that if you

know what happened you don't know

anything you have to know who if the

only thing you knew was that they were

getting sued over a federal records act

you might say to yourself oh well I

guess I guess somebody in the government

takes that pretty

seriously but it's not that it's the

most devious weasel likee despicable

lying pieces of that you've ever

seen in your life Norm Eisen and David

Brock now if you don't know about those

two guys do a little

research that they are not associated

with good acts whatsoever they are

associated with the the darkest weasly

just terrible terrible

activities and so sure enough they're

behind that and they seem to be ready to

ready to go pretty quickly

surprisingly and then um they used to

have a I guess a subgroup of this

American oversight called crew

crw and according to the researcher that

was the lawfare arm or their effort to

Target Trump originally so there was a a

subset of people probably lawyer like

like people who would do the lawfare

going after Trump now why is that

important well there was a member of

that

group uh named Alex

Wong

who is being

accused of being the staffer for

Ratcliffe who added the journalist who

added Jeffrey

Goldberg

so and then on top of that uh the judge

who's been selected for this who is

randomly selected totally randomly is uh

somebody named judge bosberg have you

heard of

him again if you knew what was happening

you wouldn't know anything if you knew

who you might know everything so bosberg

he's the activist judge who is uh

blocking Trump from deporting violent

gang members he's the one who delayed

the intentionally delayed the release of

Hillary Clinton's email until after the

2016 election

he's considered an activist anti-trump

judge so pulling it all

together it does look like an OP because

none of us would really believe that uh

ratcliff's Chief of Staff if if that's

what he was Alex Wong now by the way

this is not confirmed that Alex Wong is

the person who did it that that's just

an accusation but at the moment since we

know that Ratcliffe did not have any

contact with would not have had

Goldberg's number on his own phone and

that a staffer was involved and almost

certainly was the the reason that

Goldberg got added and then you add to

it of all the people in the

world add in Goldberg was the most

dangerous thing you could do so of all

the people in the world just that one

guy gets added and of all the people in

the world uh David Brock and Norm Eisen

had a lawsuit that seemed like it was

practically ready to go and of all the

people in the world who are randomly

selected to be the judge it's this

bosberg

guy that is a lot of coincidences my

friend now again if you didn't know the

players and you didn't know that the

Alex Wong was actually part of the

organization that is now suing

them it wouldn't look like it was

necessarily a plot but as soon as you

know who the players are it just screams

it just screams like it's a yeah a RICO

plot

anyway so now that we know that the big

problem was the imaginary concern of

what could have happened but didn't

happen U I've suggested that Trump

should create a department of imaginary

concerns and it would be only to handle

Democrat complaints

and um the new Department could have

imaginary policies to combat the

imaginary concerns so you you place

things like climate change in

there um climate change at least the

crisis part of the climate change you

put the Russia collusion thing in there

you put the uh the hoodies could have

found out be by hacking uh signal in

there you put uh Trump might steal your

democracy in the imaginary concerns

Department uh that musk might steal our

social security numbers that you put

that right in the department of

imaginary concerns and that there might

be a constitutional crisis yep that's

the department of imaginary

concerns

now I don't I'm not completely serious

about this but just just think how funny

it would be if every time one of these

hoaxes comes up and Trump has asked

about it he says oh I've delegated that

to the Department of imaginary concerns

uh but but are you trying to steal our

democracy you know that's a perfectly

good question so I've delegated that to

the Department of imaginary concerns uh

uh did you agree with Putin to uh have

sex with him uh if if he stops the

fighting well you know no but I'm going

to going to assign that to the

Department of imaginary concerns and uh

we'll come up with an imaginary policy

to make sure it doesn't happen again

so uh Byron York had uh some funny

comments about

Politico so Politico had a statement in

it said there's no Administration in the

world Beyond this one where a blunder of

these

proportions by the way I've never met

any Republican who who thinks that this

blunder is of great proportion it it's

just the news telling you that you

should be concerned about it but I'm not

uh where a blunder of these proportions

happens and nobody resigns not in London

not in Moscow not in Tokyo not in

pongyang

nowhere um and then Byron New York

points out on the signal matter that uh

political Playbook makes a statement

with great confidence but maybe not much

perspective and then then he includes a

photo of the botched Afghanistan

withdrawal which uh nobody resigned over

nope one of the most embarrassing

incompetent things that ever happened in

our country a stain on our history

nobody resigned so Politico apparently

that's something we do in this

country

anyway um but apparently in this case

the dram crats in the case of the signal

gate the dram crats who are trying to

train their Their audience that they

should be very very

concerned and they do it by the emotion

that they put into ordinary words like

oh my God the the incompetence I am a

gast I'm simply shocked there's no

country in the world from Moscow toang

Yang who would ever make such a

mistake and people who have lived in the

real world say yeah well unless it was

impossible to get ordinary work done

without bending a rule or two which is a

universal

truth uh Jonathan Turley was uh talking

about Daniel Goldman representative

Goldman and he says that Goldman claimed

that the FBI investig investigating

attacks on

Tesla uh and its facilities is nothing

but lawfare and political

weaponization so Goldman

thinks that invest tigating the people

who are the terrorists is the problem

it's not the

terrorists it's that if you investigate

who the terrorists are well that's a

case of lawfare and political

weaponization right

there now uh as uh Turley says Goldman's

latest controversy captures how

Democrats have now entirely cut the CT

of decency and moderation that once

tethered their party to the mainstream

of our society I love that sentence

turle is a great writer if you just want

to see great writing you know in

addition to you know great opinions he

can put a sentence together like

nobody's business he's just a great

writer um but then he did something that

I was wondering about uh turly was

helping us with the definition of what

terrorism is and he points out that he's

long criticized the expansion of what

terroris m is and I would agree with

that I I don't think you want to

trivialize terrorism and just start

calling everything terrorism you don't

want to do that but let's see let's see

if this uh Tesla stuff fits the

definition without stretching

it so toally points out that the uh the

justice department defines domestic

Terror terrorism as quote violent

criminal acts committed by individuals

and or groups to further ideological go

s stemming from domestic influences such

as those of a political religious social

racial or environmental nature and

that's perfectly captures what's

happening to Tesla so yes um you don't

have to hurt

people to be a terrorist if you're

destroying economic assets and you're

also doing it in the um in the pursuit

of political gain that's also terrorism

because you know money is important to

people you know it it's not just

physical pain and and and death and

injury it's destroying economics because

that's that's uh its own problem anyway

um to me it seems like

uh the probably the funniest thing that

will happen this year is the Trump

Administration without even trying

getting prominent Democrats to support

domestic

terrorism how would you like to be

running against running for president in

the next election can you imagine JD

Vance running against one of these

clowns who is not who is

not um disowning the

terrorism imagine if he ran against

Goldman well uh Dan it seems to me that

you've been supporting domestic

terrorism in this country

and uh I think the voters should know

that if they vote for you they're voting

for a domestic terrorist according to

the definition of those

terms it it feels like it' be the

easiest thing in the world to be almost

any prominent Democrat at this point

they've literally supported terrorism I

think Rana and maybe one other person

have said you know right up front and

write it loudly and I respect that yeah

that the violence that's just got end

you know the the Tesla stuff nope don't

do that that's bad so but only a

few like is it even more than two at

this point in the entire Democrat Party

was it just two people who willing to

say that domestic terrorism is a bad

idea and the problem is that the

Democrats have Unleashed domestic

terrorism a number of times you know if

you count uh antifa and black lives

matter and and now this it it's

definitely a

pattern anyway if you haven't seen Ezra

Klein on Gavin nome's podcast I highly

recommend it because uh Ezra's book

abundance with Derek Thompson I guess um

is getting a lot of attention and you

know my first take on it when I just had

AI summarize it for me was wait a minute

uh all they're doing is promoting

Republican policy you know such as don't

waste the money build things build

things in this country you know be be

practical get some actual wins you know

ordinary stuff and so I wasn't that

impressed with it because it just seemed

to be telling Democrats to be

Republicans um which was funny in its

own way but the more I hear him because

I've listened he's very interesting so

the more I've listen to him on various

podcasts he's going hard at the

Democrats he he's not taking

prisoners and it's exactly what they

needed so if you're if you're asking

yourself what's the

solution I don't know if it's this but

it's something like this and so he sat

with Gavin Nome and um I I'll just give

you the top level summary it's just

worth watching and he starts describing

how Democrats operate which is getting

large funding for things and then

building nothing and he's just making

Nome

squirm and then Nome has to talk but one

of the things that Newsome does because

he's he's clever but weasle at the same

time Nome will agree with whatever your

criticism is but then he's got lots of

reasons why you know it's not as bad as

you think or everything will be fine or

you know so he's got this pattern where

he first agrees but then he he talks for

a while and then he makes his own point

which is disagreeing

basically you have to watch Nome being

triggered into fullword salad that

didn't look like it had an end he was

full Kam Harris yo well uh big word big

word um jargon uh uh big word and uh um

uh big word big word big word

and it just went on and on and he was

just dying in front of the camera and

I'm not even sure he knew it so he had

to throw in some weird hand

motions like this I don't know we don't

know why he does that but he was just

destroyed right on camera and you know

we've seen some we've seen uh you know

Bannon we've seen Charlie Kirk and stuff

talking to Gavin and they would have

their own criticisms and so you've seen

Gaffin handle criticisms and you know

give him credit he does he does interact

with people who are willing to criticize

so I'll give him credit for that but

I've never seen anybody destroy

him Ezra just destroyed him it's it's

really fun to watch you could have to

watch it anyway uh Laura lomer

apparently has a lawsuit against Bill

Maher because uh Bill Maher on his

show um inferred that she was having an

affair with Trump because I don't know

she traveled on the jet or something

and so Laura lomer is suing

him and uh apparently a judge refused to

throw it out so it's going forward and

now Bill M will have to sit and answer

questions about why he did

that um I don't know if she can win this

you know I'll defer to the

lawyers um implied not inferred okay

I'll take that he he implied it not

inferred it

um because you would have to prove that

he knew he was

lying so wouldn't A Perfect Defense be

is sure look like it to

me wouldn't that be the entire defense

or would he go with um it's a humor show

nobody should take it too seriously

you know it's it's meant for comedic

value so it's not as

serious I don't know I remember seeing

it live and saying to myself whoa that's

too

far did did anybody see it live when

Mara made that accusation or implied

it to me it looked too far because that

was definitely not in evidence and Trump

has traveled with what a thousands and

thousands of people on his plane some

male seem some

female yeah I mean to me it looked too

far and uh we'll see we'll see what

happens I don't think she can

win because I think he just has to say

his State of Mind was that he believed

it was true I think that's all it takes

but I don't

know um meanwhile rasmuson said

Democratic approval of the party is 26%

that would be a new

I think it might drop into the

teens actually by the end of the year

it's it's possible

that Democrat approval or popularity

will be in the high

teens

now I think congress's approval

generally speaking has been in the High

Teens before so it's not

impossible and I don't think anybody

would seen it go to

26% but if it's going to 26% isn't

freefall now I know that last 20% are

going to hold tight

but I think it's just going to get worse

right you know one more day of Jasmine

Crockett should make pretty much all the

Democrats change sides at that

point meanwhile RFK Jr is uh trying to

ban big Pharma

ads um on

TV and uh I think most of you know that

the reason big Pharma advertises is not

so that they can get the patients to ask

their doctor for the drug but rather

it's so that the allegedly uh it's so

that the news entity will not say bad

things about big

Pharma so it's essentially a way to

bribe the news industry to stay away

from their stories um that's the

claim but the other thing that the big

PHA ads do and this is my my hypnotist

take on it so you haven't heard this

one if I watch a big Pharma commercial

on a news program it'll start with oh

you got this problem here's this drug

that helps it but eventually I guess for

legal reasons they have to tell you all

the side effects and man when they start

with the side effects it just kills me

if I can't find the remote to turn off

the TV I'll have to put a boot through

it because the damage that it's doing to

my brain it starts out with uh and be

careful your penis will fall off your

hair will catch on fire your throat will

close and you will be bleeding blood

from your ass for the rest of your life

you will probably get amnesia or

rheumatoid arthritis your heart will

turn into a lump of coal your blood will

coag coagulate into kind of a mayonnaise

you will be begging for life and

probably rolling around on the floor and

pain for the rest of your existence

which might not last very long and I'm

like where's the remote oh God oh God

where's the remote and I'm running

around and I'm moving the I'm moving

pillows

like because you can't have that much

negativity just drilled into your

head even

casually and it is and by the way I'm

only barely exaggerating how much impact

it has on me I can feel it I mean I just

feel it and I'm convinced that big

Pharma is destroying the um the business

model of the

news now because they're the biggest

Advertiser of course the news will say

yes but if you run this biggest

Advertiser over and over again and the

old people just keep hearing all these

horrible things that are going to happen

to them if they take this drug

eventually and this is the Hypno filter

eventually it should be like pavo's dog

except instead of giving you a treat

that will make you salvate the next time

the scientist comes in the room it

should make you if you turn on the TV

and you see news it should make you

think oh even before the commercial

like if you turn if you're just slipping

through the channels and uh Jake Tapper

comes on the first thing you might think

is my penis will fall off I'm going to

ble bleed through my ass no no no and

just flip to anything else so I think

over time big Pharma destroys the

business model of the news it

should Oh Canada uh so there's a story

post millennial has a story about their

uh conservative uh I guess the

conservative leader what's his name mark

Carney um is he prime minister now or is

he just I'm so confused about the

Canadian system but anyway so Mark

Carney apparently used to be Justin

Trudeau's

um economic

advisor while he was the economic

advisor to Justin Trudeau he went to

China and he negotiated to get a $276

million loan for his own business

so it wasn't even for the government it

was for his own business now it's not

illegal to you know have your own

business and be an economic adviser I

guess um but wouldn't you like to know

if any strings were attached to that

loan do you think China was trying to

influence

Canada I don't know that's a tough one

to explain so he's got some explaining

to do on that but wow meanwhile uh

Vladimir zalinski says that Putin is

going to die soon because he's got all

kinds of medical problems and uh that

should change everything he he literally

says he'll die soon um I believe we've

been hearing that

for five

years for how long have we been hearing

Putin's going to die any

minute

um I don't know maybe zinsky knows

something we don't but I wouldn't count

on that I don't think I'd make any

policy on it now let me tell you the

least surprising news of the day people

you you're never going to believe this I

say jokingly this is the most

predictable news that you've ever

heard Russia and Ukraine have accused

each other of breaking the terms of a

ceasefire on their energy

infrastructure all right

I told you that's exactly what's going

to happen right I told you how can you

have a ceasefire on your energy

infrastructure when both sides are going

to say the other one violated it and

then they're just going to keep shooting

and that's exactly what happened

apparently now I don't know if both

sides did violate

it the prediction is not that they would

violate it but they would definitely

claim the other side violated it and

then they would act accordingly which is

what's happening how in the world do you

ever reach a peace deal with the two

most lingest countries in the world I

mean Ukraine is the least the least

reliable honest country that isn't

Russia so it it doesn't feel like you

could even make a deal because you need

you need both sides to be at least

honorable you know like I feel like we

can make a deal

with a lot of countries and they'd say

ah we don't want to be that country that

doesn't keep a deal um the United States

has broken some deals too so we're not

we're not clean on this but who's going

to trust either Russia or Ukraine for

anything so I don't know how they get a

deal

there and uh I was listening in other

news I was listening to Jeffrey sa talk

about the Middle East and he's sort of

uh you know stay out of the Middle East

it's none of our business we're just

making you know making permanent War um

but he says there will never be peace in

the Middle East until the Palestinians

have their own country

basically um but that's not

possible because Israel has so many

settlements now there's no place that

country could even be and if you said

okay you can take the entire West Bank

and Gaza to do you think that would stop

the extremists from trying to take isra

proper why would it I don't see why that

would stop him so I don't see any

possibility that you can make peace by

giving Palestinians a

country unless that country included

Israel and all the Israelis decided to

move somewhere else which is not going

to happen so there's no actual real

world situation in which you could do

peace in the Middle East which means

permanent War and then Sachs suggests

that Israel essentially controls US

policy and Military and will at least in

terms of the Middle East and uh will

keep us in a permanent state of

War uh because it's good for Israel uh

saak also says that the hoodies are no

big threat to the United States uh and

if we just ignore them because there's

not much I guess there's not much us

shipping that goes through there

anyway um which surprised me me I think

I need a fact check on

that but how many of you agree with him

that we're we're in the permanent war

that can never be

solved meaning that you can never solve

the Palestinian issue and if we're if

we're being

wagged by you know by

Israel then we'll just be in permanent

War I worry that Trump has gotten

himself into at least two permanent Wars

because one of the main things we liked

about Trump is that he wouldn't be in

war and he would end the ones we have

but I don't see him getting out of the

Middle East and I don't see Ukraine

wanting to end the war I think Ukraine

wants to

continue um and maybe Russia does a

little bit

too

so um Trump's really got it he's got his

work cut out for him now my own opinion

is I've told you before my own opinion

is that when countries pursue their own

best interest and they have the power to

do it of course they're going to do it

so if the Palestinians had all the power

it would be really really bad for

Israel uh right now Israel has most of

the power and the Palestinians don't

like it at all but there's no way that

you solve that because they can't both

have all the power it's going to be

somebody has the power so it's pretty

much a win lose situation over there

unsolvable in my

opinion so I saw Zion lights had a uh

post about how France's uh power grid

last year was 95% fossil

free um and most of that was thanks to

nuclear power but they had uh big surge

in solar as well

and so the the context was it was sort

of France is sort of the winner

you know they're the Smart Ones because

they they got rid of their fossil fuels

and they still powered their nation and

they're great on nuclear so it looks

like they're just the big smart winners

and we just look like the dumb ones now

right and then I went to perplexity Ai

and I said um who pays more for

electricity France or the

US turns out

France so the cost of electricity if you

you know for different currencies and

whatnot the cost of electricity in

France is higher than in the

US so who's the

winner is France the winner because they

got to uh all this nuclear power before

we did because that's impressive I I do

I do uh give them a lot of credit for

being so successfully nuclear but if our

energy costs

less than in France

and most of the CO2 if that's what

you're worried about if most of the CO2

is still coming out in China and India

did it make any difference whatsoever

that France had all these green sources

of energy and the answer is I don't know

to me it looks like they didn't win

winning would be they pay less for

electricity and they've done what they

can to save the world but you know they

can't do everything but at least their

own electricity doesn't cost much now if

they were paying less for electricity

than the United States and by the way

I'll take a fact check on this because I

got it from perplexity Ai and we we

shouldn't fully trust the AIS to be

accurate yet um I'd say the US is the

winner right because the CO2 in the

world in general would be the same no

matter what either the us or France did

because again China and India are the

big CO2 producers

all that really matters is what's the

cost of

power and if ours is

cheaper we

won and that ladies and gentlemen is all

I have to say today thanks for joining

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