Episode 2808 CWSA 04/13/25

what we can do today.

It's a Sunday, so the news was kind of slow, but not as slow as I am.

I'm pretty slow today.

So, I I have to confess um I was having a little muscle pain, so I took a prescription uh muscle relaxant.

And I'm not really good at following directions.

So, I didn't realize how loopy it would make me.

So, at the moment, I'm just whack that in my mind.

I can just barely stay awake.

And the good news is I don't have any pain.

I'm not in pain at all.

But oh my god, is my brain not functioning.

But welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams.

I I can't even remember how I opened the show.

I literally forgot the the thing that I've done over 2,000 times in a row.

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You know, the responsible thing to do would have been to not do a podcast because I'm really not capable.

Like, I'm not joking.

I am absolutely not capable of doing this.

But we'll see what happens.

If you want to see a train wreck, came to the right place.

I often tell you it's a superpower to not be embarrassed about things.

No embarrassment at all.

I I'm just degraded by 80%.

So, I have no idea what's going to happen.

Well, what else can coffee do for you?

According to No Ridge, uh coffee can help protect your liver.

Uh that's why I soak my liver in coffee every day and you should too.

So, is there anything that coffee can't do?

No.

No, we can do it all.

Here's some news that I can't get enough of from the legal newsine.

Uh, apparently the state of Illinois is suspending their DEI scholarships because the Department of Justice went after them for being a bunch of racists.

Um, I I can't get enough of this.

Every time DEI is banned because the government says it's racist, I just feel like I'm redeemed.

You know, it feels like 35 years of my life have finally been validated.

Um, so yes, no DEI scholarships at uh several universities in Illinois.

So good for the Department of Justice.

Well, it turns out that threats work.

Um, something I didn't know until recently.

Apparently, the US and Mexico have had this very long-term water agreement where we give them water from one of our sources, but they give us water from one of their sources.

And it's all for the farmers, I think, mostly from the farmers.

And Mexico was going to reduce the amount of water.

And Trump threatened them with tariffs.

and suddenly they released the order.

So, how many times has Trump threatened somebody and it worked?

You know, you don't want to think that threats work, but apparently they do.

Yeah, Trump's threats work pretty well.

So, Mexico, we got our water.

Thank you.

So, here's something radical and uh dangerous.

There are now several states that are getting together to put together what they call a criminal referral for a number of the characters that you remember from the pandemic.

Fouchy, Burks, Winsky, and bunch of others.

And what do you think they're being referred for?

Now, referred just means somebody's recommending that the Department of Justice do something or in this case, I guess the states.

Um I think wasn't it Fouchy who has a pardon for any federal crimes.

So you have to go after him in in the states if you want to get any uh traction.

So the Verus Law Group and then former feds group Freedom Foundation they've submitted their uh their I guess their evidence and their plan for these guys.

But listen to the crimes that they're accusing Fouchy and Burks of.

Uh, murder.

They're accusing of a murder, negligent home homicide, involuntary manslaughter, medical coercion and abuse, kidnapping, kidnapping.

Um, human trafficking for forced labor, racketeering, operating a corrupt organization, and terrorism.

I I feel like they I feel like they had a good idea, which is to use the states to go after some people who maybe have some things to explain.

But once you add, you know, terrorism and kidnapping, I feel like you lose a little bit of credibility.

You know, murder was bad enough, but I, you know, you could see where murder would come from.

But terrorism, how do you get terrorism out of that?

All right.

Um, RFK Jr.

saying that the deep state is real and uh he called his FDA employees, so these are employees under him.

He he called FDA employees sock puppets of the industry according to Politico.

Can you imagine if your boss called you a sock puppet of the industry?

The the entire point of the FDA is to regulate, you know, the pharmaceutical industry.

But of course, they they get owned because the pharmaceutical industry has so much money.

And they can do things like saying, you know, you know, you're the kind of person that we would hire for an outrageously high salary once you're done with the FDA.

But, you know, that would sort of depend how you do when you're at the FDA because, you know, if if you were to rule against us, I I just wouldn't be able to recommend you for a job here after your FDA stint.

So, it's really easy to capture somebody who's working there.

But just imagine your boss calling you out as a puppet.

Your entire your entire job is to protect the public, but he's calling you out as somebody who is not protecting the public and is only protecting the the bad guys.

That that's pretty extreme.

So, we'll see if uh RFK Jr.

who can survive any of this.

But so far, he's going hard at it.

I think he's hitting the deep state and the bureaucracy all at the same time.

So, we'll see.

How many of you saw that uh photo of Governor Gretchen Whitmer?

So apparently she was invited to the White House because there was some some executive order that Trump did that uh even though she's a Democrat.

Um it was good for Michigan.

So she was happy that Trump was doing something and when he invited her to the White House, she said, "Oh, okay." So she goes to the White House and then she gets herded into a room with a bunch of other people for what was going to be a photo shoot and she's a Democrat and she wants to run for I'm guessing wants to run for president and suddenly she would be photographed with all these Republicans and sort of celebrating Republican victories.

So how do you think she handled it?

What what what was her professional way of handling the fact that she got tricked into a photo shoot but was expecting just to meet the president oneon- one?

She holds a binder.

She holds a binder over her face so that the photographs just just show the bottom of her.

So instead of being uh invisible, she does the opposite.

It becomes the biggest story because it's so weird.

So So now there's not a single person in the country who doesn't know that she was in the Trump White House getting her picture taken.

She choked.

I don't know what I would have done in that situation.

I mean, maybe I would have asked to leave or something, but it's hard to leave if the president's invited you in the room.

You can't really walk out.

It'd be an insult.

So, I guess she figured the best thing she could do is cover her face with a binder.

Anyway, uh according to uh the publication, The Independent, uh female frogs fake death to avoid unwanted advances from males.

Now, they weren't specific, but I believe they mean uh male frogs, not just, you know, every kind of male.

Um, but it sounds like it sounds a lot like a wife, you know, faking death, except when humans do it that they they fake a headache.

But, uh, frogs are more committed, you know, they're more like the Democrats of amphibians.

So they're they're more like they're more into the drama of it.

It's like instead of pretending I have a headache, which doesn't really work in the frog world because the boy frog is just going to go at it anyway.

Uh they have to fake dead.

like, oh, and it makes me wonder how often does the boy frog actually care if they're dead.

Because if he gets in the right state of mind, that boy frog is just going to go nuts on that female frog, even if she's pretending to be dead.

And then once you once you realize that's their trick, and you're the boy frog, and you're like, I've seen this before.

You're pretending to be dead.

All right, I'll just cosby you.

So, that's what's happening in the frog world.

Well, meanwhile, it's a real slow news weekend.

Uh Bernie Sanders went to Coachella and gave a rousing speech that nobody cares about.

Uh but Trump went to watch a UFC fight, which is always a big event, and you know, it's great.

Now compare these two approaches if you were to just stop somebody in the street anywhere in America and say do you even know what Coachella is?

How many would know what it is?

I'm not even sure I know what it is.

I've been looking at it for years and I I see pictures and people say they're going and I read accounts of what happened there and I still don't know what it is.

Apparently, it's this really big dusty inconvenient thing that you go to so that when you come back, you have stories of how horrible it was.

It was all dusty and the bathrooms didn't work and then we got stuck and we couldn't get out.

It's music.

Somebody says his music.

All right.

Um, so I don't think Bernie got a home run on that, but uh, Trump as usual because he goes to the UFC and acts very manly.

It's just a perfect fit.

So, Trump for the win.

I guess Meta, the uh, Facebook company, is going to go to uh, court on charges being a uh, monopoly, I guess.

So, they're being brought up on antitrust charges.

And one of the possibilities is that they would be forced to divest Instagram and Whats.

App because apparently that's too much social media for one company to have.

I don't really understand that.

So, so Facebook had a service that showed pictures and you could share them with your friends.

And then they bought Instagram, but it was still worth only $1 billion.

and they built it into, you know, behemoth.

So why do they have to divest?

Is it just because they were too successful?

I mean, it's not like, you know, it's not like Tik Tok doesn't exist and it's not like uh X doesn't exist.

I feel like I feel like uh it just doesn't feel like they necessarily should should be broken up.

So, I'm not uh you know pro- oligarch.

Sorry, Bernie Sanders.

I'm not all about the oligarchs, but I don't know.

Is there any compelling reason why Whats.

App can't be part of Meta?

That doesn't even make sense to me.

Well, speaking of Facebook, they're uh they're trying to make their AI llama 4 um more balanced, which means they have to figure out how to make it more uh at least conscious of what the right leaning part of the country thinks and wants.

So, they're apparently they're quite aware that the way they trained it, it made it a lefty, sort of turned it into a Democrat.

And to uh Meta's credit, they don't want it to be just a Democrat.

So they're they're putting effort into trying to figure out how to make it less left-leaning and more like Grock.

So that's cool.

I saw a good uh saw a good thread by Rod Martin on X um talking about Trump's new play.

So apparently he went ahead and and has executed, we've heard of this before, but there's a 60 foot wide strip of land that runs across uh our southern border.

And apparently that's now been designated to be military property.

And so our military can operate on that 60 ft wide space, which means that if you come across the border uh illegally, you're going to be on a military base.

And then the rules of how the military treats things are in effect.

So that would uh that would give them a little bit of flexibility, the military anyway, and how to how to handle it.

And there'd be no sanctuary there.

So when I say that, I think to myself, why does the Trump administration always come up with these kind of radical but good ideas?

It seems like nobody else ever had a good idea, but this whole 64 strip, that just feels like a good idea.

So So I'm kind of impressed by it.

Um, you know, Jasmine Crockett, everybody's been watching the Democrats rising star, Jasmine Crockett.

She said the other day that it's beyond wild that no one is questioning Trump's mental acuity.

No one's questioning Trump's mental acuity.

Well, we all saw what happened when Bill Maher met Trump in person.

Um, he his biggest takeaway is that Trump is not crazy, but he plays a crazy person on TV, which he does.

So, here's what the Democrats have gotten wrong so far.

So, the Democrats were not able to judge that Biden had a severe mental disability.

They none of them saw it.

They were not able to judge that Kla Harris obviously has some kind of a substance or drinking problem.

None of them saw it.

Still don't.

And then when it came to Trump, they got exactly the wrong answer that Bill Marorrow tried to straighten him out on, which is, huh, turns out he's actually a really nice guy and interested in people's opinions and uh nothing at all like what you see on TV.

So, Democrats are 0 for three, aren't they?

I don't like to brag, but I'm three for three.

I was I was calling Biden mentally incompetent in 2019.

Jack, I've been calling uh Kamla a you know a public drinker, meaning that she appears in public after drinking um for years.

Jack, of course I'm right about that.

And I knew that uh Trump was not crazy.

Indeed, you could argue that I was the OG of explaining Trump starting in 2015.

Uh, I would be the one who would say, "I know it looks crazy.

I know what you're saying.

I know it looks crazy, but if you look just under the hood, you can see it's all technique.

It's what I call the show.

So Trump knows the difference between who Trump is, you know, the private Trump and the show.

And when he is in public, he puts on the show.

And the show is wild.

I mean, you know, I was saying it yesterday when he talked about his uh medical examination and he he said that his soul was his soul was healthy.

like they check your soul.

It's something that nobody would say.

And I don't think he would say that privately because it's, you know, just sort of outrageous and crazy sounding, but boy does he know how to put on the show.

He he doesn't know how to be boring, you know, just talking about normal things when he's in his showman persona, you know, the public persona.

He He could just make anything sound more interesting than it should have been.

I got a checkup and my soul is really good.

I'll be laughing about that for years.

Anyway, so the worry from Jasmine Crockett that uh Trump's um mental acuity needs to be tested, I'm going to refer that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns with all the other Democrat problems, imaginary concerns.

Um you probably heard that uh Trump created some tariff exemptions.

So if you're uh trading smartphones and computers and routers and semiconductors and some other tech stuff, there will be no extra tariffs on those.

So that's good.

Every time Trump makes an adjustment, the market should get a little bit happier.

So this is exactly the sort of adjustment that you'd want to see.

So yeah, good job.

Did you know that the what I call the Gulf of America has apparently an insane amount of energy uh that can be tapped.

And uh now Trump is expanding the oil and natural gas production.

So Interior Secretary Doug Bergam um has ordered officials to hold an offshore lease sale.

So, you'll get to bid on that.

You know, I do wonder what is the uh the modern risk of drilling offshore because, you know, we had that big that big spill some years ago.

Uh but I wonder if it's if they figured out how to how to avoid that now.

I mean, I don't know how you could, but makes me wonder.

Time has gone by, so I wonder if it's a lot safer for the environment than it used to be.

So that's good.

So now now Trump has uh opened up Anoir and he's opening up the um Gulf of America.

He's also negotiating with Iran and if that went well, we'll talk about that.

It would release Iran's oil and he's negotiating with Russia.

And if that goes well, it would presumably release more Russian oil.

So Trump's plan of making energy sort of a centerpiece of his presidency is looking really strong.

So if he can keep the oil prices down and the price of gas down, uh everything else is going to cost less.

So I really like the direction of that.

Now, apparently his uh tariffs, I don't know if it's because the tariffs, but probably um a big pharma company, Novartis, just said it's going to put $23 billion into the US.

So, it's not an American company, but because of tariffs, they're going to bring $23 billion investment here.

I think Trump's doing a really good job in at least promoting, you know, all these big deals that are coming through.

23 billion's some serious money.

I mean, it's going to be over time, but still a lot of money.

Let's talk about Doge.

So I was confused by Doge and maybe you had the same thing which is Elon had said very clearly that he was trying to to take a trillion dollars a instead of a trillion it looks like he's targeting 150 billion.

150 billion is not close to a trillion.

A trillion is what we needed to survive.

Did this really happen where where Doge went in and they had all kinds of um let's say they they thought they were going to make all kinds of cuts and then the bureaucracy came online and the cabinet heads and the department heads said, "Oh, nope.

Not so fast." No, we can't cut that.

Can't cut that.

So, I get that it's 150 billion so far, but I think that's also the the final number.

So, here's the weird thing.

I I asked Grock how much Elon Musk's personal net worth has decreased because of all the Tesla stuff, and apparently it's the same number.

So Elon Musk's personal net worth went down 150 billion while Doge saved 150 billion.

Now one of them is once and the other is every year.

But he could have just written a check.

Saves a lot of money.

Saved a lot of time, not a lot of money.

But uh we're currently, this is my take.

We're currently on a doom loop.

Is anybody going to admit it?

Is Trump going to tell us that we can't survive in our current plan?

Our current plan is not survivable.

Let me say that again.

Our current explicit plan, our budget is not survivable.

It's not just suboptimal.

It's not survivable.

And I was counting on Doge to get that trillion dollars.

I thought it was a stretch.

I didn't think it would happen, but you know, I was like, well, you know, Elon can do things that other people can't do.

Now, I get that it's $150 billion a year, but we were looking to save a trillion dollars a year.

Both of them were per year.

So, I don't know, maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it looks like Doge didn't work.

Am I wrong?

It looks like it didn't work because working is not just that you saved 150 billion, although that's great.

Working is saving the entire country.

So that that was the uh the whole point of it.

So I guess I'm confused by that.

Maybe there's something I'm missing here.

Thomas Massie, of course, he's the uh the debt hawk.

Um he's pointing out that uh the current budget is going to be $2.5 trillion deficit every year for as far as you can see.

We can't do $2.5 trillion deficit for as far as we can see.

We're talking about being completely out of business in a few years.

I I don't know what's going on because I was pretty sure that this is an unsustainable level of spending and apparently we're just going to do it.

We're just going to do an unsustainable thing.

What am I missing?

Did we really decide that death was better than life?

Because life would require us doing a bunch of things that the bureaucracy doesn't like.

I don't know.

Well, former former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99% of all electricity will be used to power AI.

Do you believe that according this is according to Joe Wilkins and futurism?

Um, do you believe that 99% of all electricity will be used to power super intelligent AI?

What would the rest of us do?

Why would you even need super intelligence if it was going to use all of your electricity?

Like you wouldn't be able to iron a shirt, but at least you'd have AI.

I know.

I think he's probably just making a point with hyperbole.

The point being we need a lot more energy.

Uh, according to the Washington Times, drug traffickers made 1.4 billion from fentinel trade in 2024.

I don't know how they measure that.

How in the world could you know that number anyway?

And chi as you know China is the main supplier of precursor chemicals but I guess India is coming up fast too as a supplier of these precursors.

So that's not good.

It's if it's that profitable nothing's going to stop it.

You know for people will do anything for $1.4 billion.

You might know or maybe you didn't know that the Hollywood writers were on strike.

How many How many of you even knew that the Hollywood writers were on strike?

I didn't even know it.

But apparently during the strike uh the losses of jobs were uh tremendous.

They 42% of the writing jobs went away between 2023 and 2024.

42% went away.

Wow.

So, I I always thought the shows had too many writers.

Anyway, some of my favorite shows had one writer.

Do you remember the West Wing and the uh the guy who wrote it?

Most of those were written by the same guy.

Do you remember Babylon 5?

Mo most, if not all of them were written by one guy.

So, I'm not It seems to me we have too many writers.

That's what I think.

Anyway, there's some uh negotiations going on between Iran and the United States uh over in Oman.

They were there yesterday and uh both Iran and the US team said that it was a positive and constructive talks.

Now, what does that mean?

So, the one and only thing we're really asking of Iran is you can't have a nuke.

So, what does the meeting sound like?

All right.

Uh, the one and only thing we want is you can't have a nuke.

Oh, we're definitely going to have a nuke.

And then what do you talk about?

What could you possibly talk about when the one thing that you want is the one thing they're never going to give you?

Is is there nuance there?

Is there anything else on the table that they need to talk about?

Because if they get the no nukes part, probably everything else is easy, relatively easy.

So, I don't think anything happened.

I think they went in and said, "We'd really like to talk you in of having a nuke." And then Iran said, "We'd really like to keep our nukes because we don't trust you.

We're going to need one." I can't I can't possibly imagine that that's working out.

Meanwhile, also the Ukraine Russia um negotiations.

I don't think anything's happening.

You know, Trump tried to put a positive spin on it.

He goes, I think Ukraine Russia might be going okay.

Uh you're going to be finding out pretty soon.

I don't think it's going okay.

I I would place a very large bet that literally nothing happened because neither side wants peace.

Trump wants peace, but Ukraine wants to fight and Russia wants to keep fighting.

So, I don't see how you solve that.

So, I don't think there's going to be an Iran deal.

I don't think there's going to be a Ukraine Russian deal.

I think they're just gonna keep grinding at each other and until something changes.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, if you're joining me late, um I was confessing early on that I uh unwisely took a muscle relaxing before the show.

Uh not realizing the cognitive load that would put on me.

So, my brain not working at all.

Not working at all.

And uh the news is kind of boring, so I didn't want to, you know, make it last too long, but I did want to spend some time with you.

So glad you showed up.

This is the conclusion of my short today, and I'm going to talk to the locals people privately, the rest of you on X and You.

Tube and Rumble.

Thanks for joining.

I'll be uh much smarter tomorrow.

All right, locals coming at Yeah.

what we can do

today. It's a Sunday, so the news was

kind of

slow, but not as slow as I

am. I'm pretty slow today.

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So, I I have to confess

um I was having a little muscle pain, so

I took a prescription

uh muscle

relaxant. And I'm not really good at

following

directions. So, I didn't realize how

loopy it would make me. So, at the

moment, I'm just whack that in my mind.

I can just barely stay

awake. And the good news is I don't have

any pain. I'm not in pain at all. But oh

my god, is my brain not functioning. But

welcome to Coffee with Scott

Adams. I I can't even remember how I

opened the show. I literally forgot the

the thing that I've done over 2,000

times in a row. Uh, but if you'd like to

take this experience up to levels that

you've never experienced before, all you

need for that is a cuper mug or a glass

of tank or chalicees dine, a canteen,

jugger, flask, a vessel of any kind.

Fill it with your favorite liquid. I

like coffee. And join me now for the

unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine

end of the day. The thing makes

everything better. It's called the

simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go.

You know, the responsible thing to do

would have been to not do a podcast

because I'm really not capable. Like,

I'm not joking. I am absolutely not

capable of doing this. But we'll see

what happens. If you want to see a train

wreck, came to the right place.

I often tell you it's a

superpower to not be embarrassed about

things. No embarrassment at all. I I'm

just degraded by

80%. So, I have no idea what's going to

happen. Well, what else can coffee do

for

you? According to No Ridge, uh coffee

can help protect your

liver. Uh that's why I soak my liver in

coffee every day and you should too.

So, is there anything that coffee can't

do? No. No, we can do it

all. Here's some news that I can't get

enough of from the legal newsine. Uh,

apparently the state of Illinois is

suspending their DEI scholarships

because the Department of Justice went

after them for being a bunch of

racists. Um, I I can't get enough of

this. Every time DEI is banned because

the government says it's racist, I just

feel like I'm

redeemed. You know, it feels like 35

years of my

life have finally been

validated. Um, so

yes, no DEI scholarships at uh several

universities in

Illinois. So good for the Department of

Justice.

Well, it turns out that threats work.

Um, something I didn't know until

recently. Apparently, the US and Mexico

have had this very long-term water

agreement where we give them water from

one of our sources, but they give us

water from one of their sources. And

it's all for the farmers, I think,

mostly from the farmers. And Mexico was

going to reduce the amount of water. And

Trump threatened them with tariffs. and

suddenly they released the

order. So, how many times has Trump

threatened somebody and it worked? You

know, you don't want to think that

threats work, but apparently they do.

Yeah, Trump's threats work pretty well.

So, Mexico, we got our water. Thank

you. So, here's something radical and uh

dangerous. There are now several states

that are getting together to put

together what they call a criminal

referral for a number of the characters

that you remember from the pandemic.

Fouchy, Burks, Winsky, and bunch of

others. And what do you think they're

being referred for? Now, referred just

means somebody's recommending that the

Department of Justice do something or in

this case, I guess the states. Um I

think wasn't it Fouchy who has a pardon

for any federal crimes. So you have to

go after him in in the states if you

want to get any uh

traction. So the Verus Law Group and

then former feds group Freedom

Foundation they've submitted their uh

their I guess their evidence and their

plan for these guys. But listen to the

crimes that they're accusing Fouchy and

Burks of. Uh, murder.

They're accusing of a murder, negligent

home homicide, involuntary

manslaughter, medical coercion and

abuse, kidnapping,

kidnapping. Um, human trafficking for

forced labor, racketeering, operating a

corrupt organization, and terrorism.

I I feel like they I feel like they had

a good idea, which is to use the states

to go after some people who maybe have

some things to

explain. But once you add, you know,

terrorism and

kidnapping, I feel like you lose a

little bit of credibility. You know,

murder was bad enough, but I, you know,

you could see where murder would come

from. But

terrorism, how do you get terrorism out

of that? All right. Um, RFK Jr. saying

that the deep state is real and uh he

called his FDA employees, so these are

employees under him. He he called FDA

employees sock puppets of the

industry according to

Politico. Can you imagine if your boss

called you a sock puppet of the

industry? The the entire point of the

FDA is to regulate, you know, the

pharmaceutical industry. But of course,

they they get owned because the

pharmaceutical industry has so much

money. And they can do things like

saying, you

know, you know, you're the kind of

person that we would hire for an

outrageously high salary once you're

done with the FDA. But, you know, that

would sort of depend how you do when

you're at the FDA because, you know, if

if you were to rule against us, I I just

wouldn't be able to recommend you for a

job here after your FDA stint. So, it's

really easy to

capture somebody who's working there.

But just imagine your boss calling you

out as a

puppet. Your entire your entire job is

to protect the public, but he's calling

you out as somebody who is not

protecting the public and is only

protecting the the bad

guys. That that's pretty

extreme. So, we'll see if uh RFK Jr. who

can survive any of this. But so far,

he's going hard at it. I think he's

hitting the deep state and the

bureaucracy all at the same time. So,

we'll see. How many of you saw that uh

photo

of Governor Gretchen

Whitmer? So apparently she was invited

to the White House because there was

some some executive order that Trump did

that uh even though she's a Democrat. Um

it was good for

Michigan. So she was happy that Trump

was doing something and when he invited

her to the White House, she said, "Oh,

okay." So she goes to the White House

and then she gets herded into a room

with a bunch of other people for what

was going to be a photo shoot and she's

a Democrat and she wants to run for I'm

guessing wants to run for president and

suddenly she would be photographed with

all these Republicans and sort of

celebrating Republican

victories. So how do you think she

handled it? What what what was her

professional way of handling the fact

that she got tricked into a photo shoot

but was expecting just to meet the

president oneon-

one? She holds a

binder. She holds a binder over her

face so that the photographs just just

show the bottom of

her. So instead of being uh

invisible, she does the opposite. It

becomes the biggest story because it's

so

weird. So So now there's not a single

person in the country who doesn't know

that she was in the Trump White House

getting her picture

taken. She choked. I don't know what I

would have done in that situation. I

mean, maybe I would have asked to leave

or something, but it's hard to leave if

the president's invited you in the room.

You can't really walk out. It'd be an

insult. So, I guess she figured the best

thing she could do is cover her face

with a

binder. Anyway, uh according to uh the

publication, The Independent, uh female

frogs fake death to avoid unwanted

advances from males. Now, they weren't

specific, but I believe they mean uh

male

frogs, not just, you know, every kind of

male.

Um, but it sounds like it sounds a lot

like a

wife, you know, faking

death, except when humans do it that

they they fake a

headache. But, uh, frogs are more

committed, you know, they're more like

the Democrats of amphibians.

So they're they're more like they're

more into the drama of it. It's like

instead of pretending I have a headache,

which doesn't really work in the frog

world because the boy frog is just going

to go at it anyway. Uh they have to fake

dead. like,

oh, and it makes me wonder how often

does the boy frog actually care if

they're

dead. Because if he gets in the right

state of mind, that boy frog is just

going to go nuts on that female frog,

even if she's pretending to be dead. And

then once you once you realize that's

their

trick, and you're the boy frog, and

you're like, I've seen this before.

You're pretending to be dead. All right,

I'll just cosby

you. So, that's what's happening in the

frog

world. Well, meanwhile, it's a real slow

news weekend. Uh Bernie Sanders went to

Coachella and gave a rousing speech that

nobody cares about. Uh but Trump went to

watch a UFC fight, which is always a big

event, and you know, it's great. Now

compare these two

approaches if you were to just stop

somebody in the street anywhere in

America and say do you even know what

Coachella is? How many would know what

it

is? I'm not even sure I know what it is.

I've been looking at it for years and I

I see pictures and people say they're

going and I read accounts of what

happened there and I still don't know

what it is. Apparently, it's this really

big dusty inconvenient thing that you go

to so that when you come back, you have

stories of how horrible it was. It was

all dusty and the bathrooms didn't work

and then we got stuck and we couldn't

get out. It's

music. Somebody says his music. All

right. Um, so I don't think Bernie got a

home run on that, but uh, Trump as usual

because he goes to the UFC and acts very

manly. It's just a perfect fit. So,

Trump for the win. I guess Meta, the uh,

Facebook company, is going to go to uh,

court on charges being a uh, monopoly, I

guess. So, they're being brought up on

antitrust charges. And one of the

possibilities is that they would be

forced to divest Instagram and

WhatsApp because apparently that's too

much social media for one company to

have. I don't really understand

that. So, so Facebook had a service that

showed pictures and you could share them

with your friends. And then they bought

Instagram, but it was still worth only

$1

billion. and they built it into, you

know,

behemoth. So why do they have to

divest? Is it just because they were too

successful? I mean, it's not like, you

know, it's not like Tik Tok doesn't

exist and it's not like uh X doesn't

exist. I feel like I feel like uh it

just doesn't feel like they

necessarily should should be broken up.

So, I'm not uh you know pro-

oligarch. Sorry, Bernie Sanders. I'm not

all about the oligarchs, but I don't

know. Is there any compelling reason why

WhatsApp can't be part of

Meta? That doesn't even make sense to

me.

Well, speaking of Facebook, they're

uh they're trying to make their AI llama

4 um more balanced, which means they

have to figure out how to make it more

uh at

least conscious of what the right

leaning part of the country thinks and

wants. So, they're apparently they're

quite aware that the way they trained

it, it made it a lefty, sort of turned

it into a Democrat.

And to uh Meta's credit, they don't want

it to be just a Democrat. So they're

they're putting effort into trying to

figure out how to make it less

left-leaning and more like

Grock. So that's

cool. I saw a good

uh saw a good thread by Rod Martin on X

um talking about Trump's new play. So

apparently he went ahead and and has

executed, we've heard of this before,

but there's a 60 foot wide strip of land

that runs across uh our southern border.

And apparently that's now been

designated to be military

property. And so our military can

operate on that 60 ft wide space, which

means that if you come across the border

uh illegally, you're going to be on a

military

base. And then the rules of how the

military treats things are in effect. So

that would

uh that would give them a little bit of

flexibility, the military anyway, and

how to how to handle it. And there'd be

no sanctuary there.

So when I say that, I think to myself,

why does the Trump administration always

come up with these kind of radical but

good

ideas? It seems like nobody else ever

had a good idea, but this whole 64

strip, that just feels like a good

idea. So So I'm kind of impressed by it.

Um, you know, Jasmine Crockett,

everybody's been watching the Democrats

rising star, Jasmine Crockett. She said

the other day that it's beyond wild that

no one is questioning Trump's mental

acuity. No one's questioning Trump's

mental

acuity. Well, we all saw what happened

when Bill Maher met Trump in person. Um,

he his biggest takeaway is that Trump is

not crazy, but he plays a crazy person

on

TV, which he

does. So, here's what the Democrats have

gotten wrong so far. So, the Democrats

were not able to judge that Biden had a

severe mental

disability. They none of them saw it.

They were not able to judge that Kla

Harris obviously has some kind of a

substance or drinking problem. None of

them saw it. Still

don't. And then when it came to

Trump, they got exactly the wrong answer

that Bill Marorrow tried to straighten

him out on, which is, huh, turns out

he's actually a really nice guy and

interested in people's opinions and uh

nothing at all like what you see on

TV. So, Democrats are 0 for three,

aren't

they? I don't like to brag, but I'm

three for three.

I was I was calling Biden mentally

incompetent in 2019. Jack, I've been

calling uh Kamla a you know a public

drinker, meaning that she appears in

public after drinking um for years.

Jack, of course I'm right about that.

And I knew that uh Trump was not crazy.

Indeed, you could argue that I was the

OG of explaining Trump starting in 2015.

Uh, I would be the one who would say, "I

know it looks

crazy. I know what you're saying. I know

it looks crazy, but if you look just

under the hood, you can see it's all

technique. It's what I call the show.

So Trump knows the difference between

who Trump is, you know, the private

Trump and the show. And when he is in

public, he puts on the show. And the

show is wild. I mean, you know, I was

saying it yesterday when he talked about

his uh medical

examination and he he said that his soul

was his soul was healthy. like they

check your

soul. It's something that nobody would

say. And I don't think he would say that

privately because it's, you know, just

sort of outrageous and crazy sounding,

but boy does he know how to put on the

show. He he doesn't know how to be

boring, you know, just talking about

normal things when he's in his showman

persona, you know, the public persona.

He He could just make anything sound

more interesting than it should have

been. I got a checkup and my soul is

really

good. I'll be laughing about that for

years.

Anyway, so the worry from Jasmine

Crockett that uh Trump's um mental

acuity needs to be tested, I'm going to

refer that to the Department of

Imaginary Concerns with all the other

Democrat

problems, imaginary

concerns. Um you probably heard that uh

Trump created some tariff exemptions.

So if you're uh trading smartphones and

computers and routers and semiconductors

and some other tech stuff, there will be

no extra tariffs on those. So that's

good. Every time Trump makes an

adjustment, the market should get a

little bit

happier. So this is exactly the sort of

adjustment that you'd want to see. So

yeah, good

job. Did you know that the what I call

the Gulf of America has apparently an

insane amount of energy

uh that can be tapped. And uh now Trump

is expanding the oil and natural gas

production. So Interior Secretary Doug

Bergam

um has ordered officials to hold an

offshore lease sale. So, you'll get to

bid on that. You know, I do wonder what

is the uh the modern

risk of drilling

offshore because, you know, we had that

big that big spill some years ago. Uh

but I wonder if it's if they figured out

how to how to avoid that now. I mean, I

don't know how you could, but makes me

wonder. Time has gone by, so I wonder if

it's a lot safer for the environment

than it used to be.

So that's good. So now now Trump has uh

opened up Anoir and he's opening up the

um Gulf of

America. He's also negotiating with Iran

and if that went

well, we'll talk about that. It would

release Iran's oil and he's negotiating

with Russia. And if that goes well, it

would presumably release more Russian

oil. So Trump's plan of making energy

sort of a centerpiece of his presidency

is looking really strong. So if he can

keep the oil prices down and the price

of gas down, uh everything else is going

to cost less. So I really like the

direction of that. Now, apparently his

uh tariffs, I don't know if it's because

the tariffs, but probably um a big

pharma company, Novartis, just said it's

going to put $23 billion into the US.

So, it's not an American company, but

because of tariffs, they're going to

bring $23 billion investment here. I

think Trump's doing a really good job in

at least promoting, you know, all these

big deals that are coming through. 23

billion's some serious money. I mean,

it's going to be over time, but still a

lot of

money. Let's talk about Doge.

So I was confused by Doge and maybe you

had the same thing which is Elon had

said very clearly that he was trying to

to take a trillion dollars a instead of

a

trillion it looks like he's targeting

150

billion. 150 billion is not close to a

trillion. A trillion is what we needed

to survive.

Did this really happen where where Doge

went in and they had all kinds of um

let's say they they thought they were

going to make all kinds of cuts and then

the bureaucracy came online and the

cabinet heads and the department heads

said, "Oh, nope. Not so

fast." No, we can't cut that. Can't cut

that. So, I get that it's 150 billion so

far, but I think that's also the the

final

number.

So, here's the weird thing. I I asked

Grock how much Elon Musk's personal net

worth has decreased because of all the

Tesla stuff, and apparently it's the

same number. So Elon Musk's personal net

worth went down 150

billion while Doge saved 150 billion.

Now one of them is once and the other is

every year.

But he could have just written a

check. Saves a lot of money. Saved a lot

of time, not a lot of money. But uh

we're currently, this is my take. We're

currently on a doom loop.

Is anybody going to admit it? Is Trump

going to tell us that we can't survive

in our current plan? Our current plan is

not

survivable. Let me say that

again. Our current explicit plan, our

budget is not survivable. It's not just

suboptimal. It's not survivable.

And I was counting on Doge to get that

trillion dollars. I thought it was a

stretch. I didn't think it would happen,

but you know, I was like, well, you

know, Elon can do things that other

people can't do. Now, I get that it's

$150 billion a year, but we were looking

to save a trillion dollars a year. Both

of them were per

year. So, I don't know, maybe I'm

misunderstanding something, but it looks

like Doge didn't work.

Am I

wrong? It looks like it didn't work

because working is not just that you

saved 150 billion, although that's

great. Working is saving the entire

country. So that that was the uh the

whole point of it. So I guess I'm

confused by that. Maybe there's

something I'm missing here.

Thomas Massie, of course, he's the uh

the debt

hawk.

Um he's pointing out that uh the current

budget is going to be $2.5 trillion

deficit every year for as far as you can

see. We can't do $2.5 trillion deficit

for as far as we can see. We're talking

about being completely out of business

in a few years.

I I don't know what's going on because I

was pretty sure that this is an

unsustainable level of

spending and apparently we're just going

to do it. We're just going to do an

unsustainable

thing. What am I missing? Did we really

decide that death was better than

life? Because life would require us

doing a bunch of things that the

bureaucracy doesn't like. I don't know.

Well, former former Google CEO Eric

Schmidt told Congress that 99% of all

electricity will be used to power

AI. Do you believe that according this

is according to Joe Wilkins and

futurism? Um, do you believe that 99% of

all electricity will be used to power

super intelligent AI? What would the

rest of us do?

Why would you even need super

intelligence if it was going to use all

of your

electricity? Like you wouldn't be able

to iron a shirt, but at least you'd have

AI. I know. I think he's probably just

making a point with

hyperbole. The point being we need a lot

more

energy. Uh, according to the Washington

Times, drug traffickers made 1.4 billion

from fentinel trade in 2024. I don't

know how they measure that. How in the

world could you know that number anyway?

And chi as you know China is the main

supplier of precursor chemicals but I

guess India is coming up fast too as a

supplier of these

precursors. So that's not good. It's if

it's that profitable nothing's going to

stop it. You know for people will do

anything for $1.4 billion.

You might know or maybe you didn't know

that the Hollywood writers were on

strike. How many How many of you even

knew that the Hollywood writers were on

strike? I didn't even know it. But

apparently during the strike uh the

losses of jobs were uh tremendous. They

42% of the writing jobs went away

between 2023 and

2024. 42% went

away. Wow.

So, I I always thought the shows had too

many writers. Anyway, some of my

favorite shows had one writer. Do you

remember the West

Wing and the uh the guy who wrote it?

Most of those were written by the same

guy. Do you remember Babylon

5? Mo most, if not all of them were

written by one guy.

So, I'm not It seems to me we have too

many

writers. That's what I

think. Anyway, there's some uh

negotiations going on between Iran and

the United States uh over in Oman. They

were there yesterday and uh both Iran

and the US

team said that it was a positive and

constructive talks. Now, what does that

mean?

So, the one and only thing we're really

asking of Iran is you can't have a

nuke. So, what does the meeting sound

like? All right. Uh, the one and only

thing we want is you can't have a nuke.

Oh, we're definitely going to have a

nuke. And then what do you talk

about? What could you possibly talk

about when the one thing that you want

is the one thing they're never going to

give you? Is is there nuance there? Is

there anything else on the table that

they need to talk about? Because if they

get the no nukes part, probably

everything else is easy, relatively

easy. So, I don't think anything

happened. I think they went in and said,

"We'd really like to talk you in of

having a nuke." And then Iran said,

"We'd really like to keep our nukes

because we don't trust you. We're going

to need one."

I can't I can't possibly imagine that

that's working out. Meanwhile, also the

Ukraine Russia um

negotiations. I don't think anything's

happening. You know, Trump tried to put

a positive spin on it. He goes, I think

Ukraine Russia might be going okay. Uh

you're going to be finding out pretty

soon. I don't think it's going okay.

I I would place a very large bet that

literally nothing

happened because neither side wants

peace. Trump wants

peace, but Ukraine wants to

fight and Russia wants to keep

fighting. So, I don't see how you solve

that. So, I don't think there's going to

be an Iran deal. I don't think there's

going to be a Ukraine Russian deal. I

think they're just gonna keep grinding

at each other and until something

changes. All right, ladies and

gentlemen, if you're joining me late, um

I was confessing early on that I uh

unwisely took a muscle relaxing before

the show. Uh not realizing the cognitive

load that would put on me. So, my brain

not working at all. Not working at all.

And

uh the news is kind of boring, so I

didn't want to, you know, make it last

too long, but I did want to spend some

time with you. So glad you showed up.

This is the conclusion of my short

today, and I'm going to talk to the

locals people privately, the rest of you

on X and YouTube and Rumble. Thanks for

joining. I'll be uh much smarter

tomorrow.

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