Episode 2819 CWSA 04/24/25

at the moment.

The stock market is up at the moment.

Things could change quickly.

You never know.

I didn't think it would be up today.

I I thought that after that big rise yesterday, it would be crashing back to Earth a little bit.

Maybe it will later.

We'll see.

See, my comments will be coming online.

Come on.

Technology is a little slow today.

You can do it.

All right, we'll get to that later, I guess.

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Let's uh check in with the world of science and see if there's any scientific studies that they could have skipped just by asking Scott.

Oh, here's one.

Um, according to UCL uh political science, um, female lobbyists are more likely to gain access to meetings with policy makers.

Did they really have to study that to find out that female lobbyists can get meetings with policy makers more easily?

Apparently, even with female policy makers, but I would have known that, too.

Let me tell you about my career day when I was a senior in college.

So, uh, in my little college in upstate New York, uh, when I was a senior, the, uh, bunch of local companies would come in and they would interview the seniors to maybe make job offers.

And one of the big employers was a pharmaceutical company looking for sales reps.

And um I knew a lot of people in the college.

It was a very small college.

And I saw that the people I was competing against cuz we were sort of lining up to do our little interviews.

Um weren't nearly as accomplished as me academically.

So I'm thinking to myself, uh this is going to be easy.

I am so going to get this job offer to be a pharmaceutical representative.

And the other people who were in line were really hot.

really hot girls who were not that good at academics.

And every single one of the hot girls got an offer to be a pharmace pharmaceutical sales rep.

And none of the guys, not not a single male was offered anything.

And that's where I learned that you don't need to do a study to find out that women can get more access to meetings.

Yes, women can definitely get more access to meetings.

You could have just asked me.

All right, let's see what Let's see if science has any more surprises.

Um, oh yeah, here we go.

According to Eric Dolan, who's writing in Scypost, uh, there's new This one's just funny.

There's new evidence, new research that there's new research in the Journal of Effective Disorders that suggests that people who engage in sexual activity at least once a week are less likely to experience symptoms of depression.

Somebody actually somebody here somebody actually took time and money to study that.

Yes.

Yes, people who are getting laid are happier than people who are not getting laid.

Period.

Now, sometimes it's cause, you know, the cause and effect, you know, can go either way in that particular case.

But yes, people who are having more sex, I can almost guarantee you on average are happier than people who are not having sex.

So, next time just ask me.

You You don't need to do that study.

Just ask me.

Uh, in other news of hilarious science, uh, do you remember the claims that were all over social media that, uh, some group had used some wild technology that was looking under the pyramids and they found these vast columns uh, suggesting an entire different civilization was, you know, at work for years before the the pyramids.

And as soon as I saw that, I said, "No, that's not real." Well, apparently today, according to the AFP, uh the scientists are saying it's a rubbish claim and there's no giant structures beneath the Egyptian pyramids.

But apparently uh all the experts who are aware of the technology that they use to image under the ground, pretty much all of them say that technology can't do that.

Even if there were giant columns under the pyramids, you couldn't see them with that technology.

That definitely wouldn't work.

So I could be wrong.

Maybe there are giant pillars under the pyramids, but uh I'm going to claim at least temporarily.

I'm going to claim success in debunking that without doing any research at all.

As soon as I saw that one, I thought probably not.

Probably not.

Here's another one.

The science is all so stupid today.

Uh according to the Daily Mail, the Vatican has uh in its documents, you know, secret archives, it has secret links to UFOs.

And some researchers now believe that the Holy Sea could be sitting on the biggest secret of all, proof of extraterrestrial life.

Do do you think the Vatican has proof of extraterrestrial life and they've been keeping it from us?

I'm going to say nope.

Nope.

Not unless that uh alien life is under those pyramids.

I'm going to say no on that.

All right.

Here's one that is real.

Um, according to Elon Musk, your Tesla will soon be a robo taxi if you want.

Now, what I think that means is you can just park your Tesla outside your garage and then if somebody has an app, now it does, this isn't functional yet, but it's all developed and looks like it'll roll out pretty soon.

Um, you could just call up a self-driving Tesla and it will just pull out of your driveway and go pick somebody up and make some money while you're sleeping.

How many of you How many of you would let strangers use your car?

I feel like I feel like it would be creepy to know that other people were in your car doing god knows what because there's no driver there.

But it would be like Uber but without the driver.

What's the worst thing about an Uber?

It's the driver.

The The worst thing about an Uber is the driver.

Because if you're, let's say, young or you're female, uh, you have to worry about the driver being dangerous.

If you're male, you have to worry about the driver playing the radio or making a phone call or being really annoying and trying to talk to you the whole time.

So, there's nothing worse about Uber than the driver.

There there's also the thing where the driver will start to come to you and then for reasons you don't understand, they cancel or they change their mind.

That's not the technology doing that.

That's that's the driver.

So, if you can get rid of the driver and Tesla could be like Uber in all the other ways, yeah, that'd be pretty good.

Speaking of Tesla, I saw this in Mario summary.

I guess the source is Tesla, but did you know that every Model 3 and Model Y that's uh delivered in the United States uses batteries that are 100% made in America?

Did you think we could even do that?

I didn't even know that America could make that many batteries.

But apparently um Tesla has been able to make all of its batteries completely in America for some time now.

Um so that's that's interesting to know.

And according to a post I saw on X by Nick Cruz Patain, he says that Tesla vehicles share the same batteries, cameras, and computers as the Optimus robots will.

So, I I think I kind of guessed that that it would be the same AI and, you know, computers and why wouldn't they use the same batteries, you know, the smaller versions.

So, yeah, you're going to have uh you're going to have robots and self-driving cars, and it's all coming quickly.

Um, in other news, Washington Post is reporting that Trump has ordered that uh schools develop some kind of AI training for American kids.

I guess China's already doing this.

China is forcing forcing.

Um, kids in China at the youngest age have to learn AI.

And now Trump's trying to catch up and he's going to put uh cryptobillionaire David Sachs.

That's one way to describe him.

I wouldn't describe him as a cryptobillionaire.

That that feels dismissive.

But uh David Sachs will be involved in that.

Um and the executive order will uh force schools to train students and teachers in artificial intelligence.

That seems like a really wise thing to do.

And I think Trump also signed an executive order to get more trade training to young people as well.

That could be good.

In other news, uh Paramount, that's the uh I guess that own they own CBS.

They settled a discrimination suit over DI policies.

there was a specific uh white man who couldn't get a job within that entity within CBS uh because he was told directly that he didn't check any boxes for DEI.

So even though he was highly qualified and experienced, he just couldn't get a job at CBS as a writer, they just needed more DEI.

So, America First Legal um took that case and pressed it and apparently succeeded.

So, I don't know if there's a financial settlement, but uh but the company Paramount and CBS, they they decided to publicly back away from all the DEI stuff.

So, that's good.

So, only one million companies to go.

I remember when I got cancelled Um, and I told my story about how, you know, back in the 80s and 90s, um, it was almost impossible to get promoted if you were a white man in San Francisco.

And I remember, uh, I think it was an editor, a black editor in in Chicago who challenged me on X and said, "There's no evidence of that.

You're making that up." And I thought, "Making it up?

If you want to find out if it's true that in the 80s and 90s a white man couldn't get promoted as long as there was anybody who wasn't a white man who also wanted the job.

You could just walk outside and just go up to any white man if they were 50 years old or older and just tap them on the shoulder and say, "Hey, were you ever discriminated against for being a white man?" They would have all said yes.

you you've got something like probably 30 to 50 million witnesses and and yet there was a uh an educated, successful, professional black man in Chicago who had no idea no idea that that existed.

Do you know why?

Because if you even mentioned it, you would get cancelled.

You couldn't even mention it.

So, you know, now that I don't have to worry about having a boss, I can mention it.

But imagine what a surprise that would be to have lived your whole life without knowing that white men were being the ones most discriminated against, at least in corporate America.

I think small businesses probably were the opposite.

I don't know for sure, but in the big businesses, yes, it was anti-white men since at least the mid 80s and and quite severely so.

You know, not slightly, but it was the main the main texture of the employment market.

So, 1 million companies to go.

Um, Trump also signed an executive order requiring uh, universities to disclose their foreign funding.

Now, that seems like a good idea, doesn't it?

You know, I never realized how vulnerable the United States was to all the, you know, the clever ways that we could be influenced and infiltrated until I saw what uh, George Soros could do with prosecutors.

It's like, holy cow, he doesn't have to spend much money and then he gets all these local prosecutors and and then they can do all kinds of evil.

But apparently the same problem existed with colleges and universities because they took money from China and other places and there would be influence.

So yes, we should know who's influencing our colleges and universities.

That seems like a good idea.

According to uh Jerry Dun Levy, who's writing for Just the News, um there's new unredacted documents about Hunter Biden search warrants uh that details payments he received from Ukraine and China and I guess some other places like Romania and elsewhere around the globe.

So we have actual documents showing Hunter Biden getting money from these other countries.

Uh I'm pretty sure that some of this was while his father was vice president.

And I guess the IRS and the FBI was fully aware that he was receiving this money from foreign sources, but there were no investigations.

There were no, you know, no arrests, no nothing.

So apparently our, you know, major government entities that are supposed to keep people, you know, on the right side of the law, they just saw this Biden crime family situation and said, "Uh, we're not going to touch this." So apparently that the Biden crime family was exactly what you thought it was.

They were taking money from other countries and selling their influence or at least the impression of influence.

I'm not sure how much influence they actually sold.

Uh well, I'm loving I'm loving how the Marilyn Dad who may or may not be MS-13 story is developing because it couldn't be more fun.

Even though it's terrible, it couldn't be more fun because every day it seems like there's a new revelation about the uh Kilar Abrigo Garcia.

So that that makes it even more embarrassing for the Democrats to be fully on board supporting this guy.

So, the latest is you already knew that he had been once stopped uh while he was driving a vehicle with eight people in it who only had Garcia's home address as their address.

Now, that's a strong indication that he was involved in human trafficking.

human trafficking, meaning picking up people at the border who were not citizens and delivering them to the interior of the country and having them, you know, stay here illegally.

But what we've learned is that the vehicle did not belong to Kilmar.

It belonged to a somebody who was a target suspected of human trafficking.

Apparently the uh our authorities knew that that particular vehicle made trips to the southern border to pick up non-citizens.

So pretty much for sure he was doing human trafficking.

So now the Democrats have to support somebody who who is credibly accused of being an MS-13 guy and now credibly accused of being a human trafficker and credibly accused of being a wife be Peter.

And you wonder how much deeper this can go.

Like like how many new things can we find out about this guy?

I I feel like it's going to go.

And uh well, yes, it it did turn out he murdered some nuns.

And uh then a week later, we'll find out, well, yes, he kept their bodies in a freezer in the basement.

And then a week later, it'll be like, he's a cannibal.

He is a cannibal.

And and the Democrats will still be racing down to El Salvador to say, "Free the cannibal.

The human trafficker wife beating MS-13 cannibal.

free him now because process makes all the difference.

You know what I worry about?

This is something I learned from the Democrats.

Um, you've probably heard that there's something called the Department of Justice and they will often arrest people for things like murder and then those people will be sent to jail, you know, if they if they're convicted.

And I'm thinking, isn't that kind of a slippery slope?

If they could arrest people who are proven to have murdered people and they could put those people in jail, can't they pick up people who have never murdered anybody and never committed any crimes at all and put them in jail, too?

According to Democrats, that would be a risk.

I learned that from the story about Kilar Abrigo Garcia.

Well, Governor Abbott in Texas uh just signed some legislation to give Texas their own state doge.

So, I guess they're going to build the ability to make their government more efficient.

But there was one thing that I loved about the statement.

Um so, this is from Abbott.

He said that the uh new Doge in Texas uh it will ensure that Texas is operating at the speed of business and it will make it easier for Texans to do business blah blah.

I love that framing that uh the government in Texas will operate at the speed of business.

I don't think you could phrase that better.

Now, somebody said that that was a UPS um slogan from long ago, but no matter where they got it, that is just such a well-chosen phrase that the state could operate at the speed of business because that's exactly what you want.

You want the the government not to slow you down.

Speaking of that, according to the Washington Times, um the amount the amount that businesses spend to satisfy federal regulations, of which there are thousands of new ones every year, is $2.1 trillion per year.

Yeah, actually more than that.

So the amount that we waste by just satisfying various infinite government federal this is just federal this is not even state 2.1 trillion per year that's the same as the entire amount of the uh the budget deficit 2.1 trillion I think we can do better maybe we So, according to the Hill, the Washington Post has struck a deal with Open AI.

So, now if you're using Open AI and you're searching for something that has been in the news, it will give you uh summaries and quotes and links from the Washington Post.

So, how do you feel about that?

The Washington Post will be a primary, maybe the primary news source for the biggest AI, Open AI.

Does it does that give you anything to worry about?

Well, I'll tell you, my trust in Open AI as a source of independent and accurate information just went down 40%.

Approximately 40%.

Because as you know, and of course I can't prove this, but the Washington Post has always been alleged to be kind of tight with the intelligence community of the United States.

You know, sort of working handinand glove.

If the CIA needed to get a message out, they could do it through the Washington Post.

Now, that that's the allegation.

And then when Bezos bought the Washington Post, which was bleeding money, you probably said to yourself, why would he do that?

Like, why would you buy something that really couldn't possibly make money?

And was it because Jeff Bezos wanted to control the news?

There's not really any indication of that, but would it be because Jeff Bezos has a gigantic contract with the CIA for cloud services?

And could it be that Jeff Bezos was asked by the CIA to buy the Washington Post so they still had an entity that they could control?

Could it be?

Now, I don't know.

I don't have proof of any of that, but that's what it looks like.

And what this looks like is if you assume that the CIA would really have to give some kind of backdoor control of the big AI companies, especially Open AI.

So my speculation is that the intelligence people in this country pretty much had to have a, you know, a little bit of control over AI because that's where everybody's going to get their information.

Probably had some control over the Washington Post, not for every story, but for things they cared about.

Probably had some influence over Bezos buying the Washington Post.

I don't have any proof of that whatsoever.

It just sort of looks like it.

And to me, it looks like they're making sure that their source, you know, the one that they would use if they needed to use it, the Washington Post, is the one that the AI refers to.

So, my trust in what I hear about the news from Open AI down 40%.

According to Scott Presler, there are 13 Democrat Senate seats up for reelection in 2020 or up for election in 2026.

So more than a third of the Democrat senators are retiring.

More than a third.

So isn't that like incredible?

So, does it seem to you like if you're trying to figure out what is our system of government, you know, some would say it's the deep state, some would say it's the uni party.

We'll talk about that in a minute.

Some would say, you know, it's a competitive thing between two parties and sometimes one wins and sometimes the other.

But I think we forget how much is luck because this looks like the luckiest thing that could possibly happen for Republicans that just by complete coincidence, you know, there's no driving force for any of it.

That a third of the Democrats are up for uh retiring.

I mean, that kind of strongly suggests that the Republicans are going to have a vice grip on the Senate for a while.

So, it's luck.

I mean, that's just pure luck.

So, luck is apparently what runs our country more than anything else.

Just pure luck.

Well, Mike Davis was appearing on Steve Bannon's The War Room and he said he met with Trump officials inside the DOJ and arrests will come soon.

And I said to myself, arrests of who?

for what is it?

Epstein related?

Is it deep state related?

Is it something about Soros's prosecutors?

Who exactly do you do we do you think is going to get arrested?

And I'm going to join the skeptics.

Um cuz it seems to me that Cash Patel and Dan Bonino have been a little bit too quiet.

Now it could be they're just playing it cool and there's something really big coming like really big arrests maybe.

But I'm going to go contrarian on this and say I don't think that we're ever going to see any big arrests.

Not for Epstein.

Not for not for the Russia collusion hoax.

Not for any of the bad behavior that we've all witnessed.

Not for the Biden crime family.

Not for anything.

So, I'm going to say I predict no major arrests.

I just don't think it's happening.

For whatever whatever has allowed people to run wild and commit just obvious crimes right in front of the public, there's something that's protecting them.

It might be, you know, different things for different people, but I don't think the thing that's protecting them ever stopped.

So, whatever it is that protects them, it's probably still there.

So, I don't expect any big arrests, but I'd love to be wrong about that.

Well, James O'Keefe's uh undercover operation, OMG, they got a new video of uh a Department of Defense branch chief who says President Trump is quote illegitimate and the branch chief has vowed to quote resist him and everything he does.

Can you believe that there's somebody who works for Trump in the Department of Defense, has a looks like a high level job, a branch chief, and would say out loud to a date that he plans to resist him and everything he does.

Now, I assume he's already fired by now, but it it's just unbelievable that our government just doesn't even recognize the elected leader.

They're they're just going to act like like they're doing the right thing.

The weirdest thing is that the the guy that's on the undercover video, he looks like a character from Roblox, which is hilarious if you know what Roblox is and you've seen the video of him.

if you haven't.

It's not funny at all, but it looks like Roblox.

Um anyway, so New York Magazine has a uh big piece about Alex Soros and um Alex Soros apparently um is very committed to the far left of the Democrat party, which is interesting to me because that's what's going to keep the Democrats from winning.

So I think Soros senior who was really good at you know keeping Democrats in power by funding just the right stuff.

He's replaced by his son who is not nearly as clever according to people who know them both.

And the son is very committed to uh the far-left stuff, the progressive stuff, which would suggest that at the moment Alex Soros would be the main reason that Democrats can never win again because as long as they cling to, you know, funding and promoting the far-left stuff, they're going to be so far from what the mainstream, you know, American actually wants, they're going to be in that 2080 problem again.

So even though Soros says his main priority is uh winning, so he wants to keep Trump and the Republicans out of office, but he seems to have picked the one and only way that it can't happen by promoting the least popular things in America.

So good luck.

Good luck with that.

Well, I've talked before about a researcher called Data Republican, and if you're on X, you should follow Data Republican.

And Data Republican has uncovered uh what she describes as the uni party, like the the nest, you know, it's almost like I think there's a a nest of people who are like the deep state uni party.

And apparently the NASA has been discovered.

Now, uh Mike Benz has, you know, sort of commented on this like this is a big discovery, but apparently there's something called the US Global Leadership Corporation.

Have you ever heard of it?

The US Global Leadership Corporation?

No, of course you haven't.

You You've never heard of it.

and it represents 400 NOS, non-government organizations and businesses.

And it mission is to quote support the smart power approach of elevating diplomacy and development alongside defense in order to build a better safer world.

Now, as Data Republican explains, if you've been with me long enough, meaning if you follow Data Republican, you know that is code for increasing NGO influence in military affairs.

So this is a group of people who are representing over 400 NOS's and all the money that would be involved in that whose main thing is to essentially be a military um assistant force so that if we're going to take over a country or get you know get military with it um these NOS's would be the supporting entities.

Now apparently this organization the biggest financial backers are Bill Gates and George Soros Open Society Foundation.

So there's a big organization 400 NOS's supported financially by Gase and Soros.

But what's interesting is the people who are on the board.

So the the advisory board includes everything from Hillary Clinton to a bunch of ex secretaries of defense to a bunch of senators to governors.

And here's the payoff.

It's both parties.

This is the uni party nest.

So um so what uh so what uh data republican says is the importance of this cannot be understated.

This is the first solid confirmation I've seen that Soros and Bill Gates are backers of the so-called uniarty network.

So you know how people use the phrase uni party whenever war is involved.

So there's big differences between Democrats and Republicans on a lot of social domestic stuff, you know, like trans and sports and, you know, DEI and stuff like that.

But there's another level, you know, a higher level where we're making decisions about where the military is going to be deployed and how how many trillions of dollars we're going to spend bombing other countries.

That is often referred to as the uni party because no matter how much we disagree on domestic stuff, somebody powerful is apparently all on the same page, Republican and Democrat when it comes to war.

Possibly because they benefit from it.

That would be my follow the money speculation.

Maybe they're just true believers and they think that, you know, the the US needs this to project this kind of power in order to be successful.

But I feel like it's far more likely that they're just part of a an entity that supports each other and have ties to the, you know, military-industrial complex and are wagging the dog in the United States and causing at least causing from the background more wars than we might have wanted.

So, we'll keep an eye on that.

But maybe the nest of the uni party has been discovered.

That would be kind of interesting.

Um, the CBO has estimated that by 2035 the US debt could be $54 trillion.

I think there's no chance of that.

We would be dead long before that.

Um, if we get to a debt of $54 trillion in 2035, I don't think we can because I don't think we'd be able to finance that debt.

I I think we everything would come crashing down.

But apparently that's their estimate.

$54 trillion by 2035.

There's no way we could survive that.

So if it happens, good luck.

Um there are reports that uh Elon Musk had shouting matches with Scott Basend um and that it happened in the White House and it was within hearing distance of the president and other people and it went on for a while and I guess the F-word was used and um some of it had to do with staffing decisions.

Um but here's my take.

I like Elon Musk and I like, you know, the way he thinks and I like Scott Bent and I like the way he thinks.

And then I doubly like the fact that they're so passionate that they would yell it out behind closed doors.

And I don't mind at all that the word got out because if if they had just simply agreed on everything, I'd wonder what's up.

But, uh, this is sort of my perfect world when you've got two people that capable, that well-informed, and that connected to the world, and they have a shouting match.

To to me, that's not bad news at all.

That That's sort of like, you know, just what you'd want.

You'd want people really, really caring, really, really smart, and if they disagree, they're not going to give up.

They they just go at each other.

So, I wouldn't be surprised.

You're going to see uh Elon Musk's phasing out of his his government doge work.

Um I think some of that is because it was going to happen anyway in May.

I think his time was up.

But I think that also it wasn't working because because I think the uh government sort of, you know, maybe is open to anything new like a like a Doge person coming in and shaking things up, but in fairly quick order, they're going to want to have their own control.

So, I think Elon Musk was probably a little too dangerous to have running around for too long in the government.

So, I think he did an amazing job and may have created a structure that can continue making things more efficient and saving money, but it should be said that um it never got close to the trillion dollars.

And I think that's one of the things that Scott Bent was criticizing him for.

And then uh Musk was allegedly criticizing Basent for being some kind of a Soros related person cuz I guess he worked with Soros at one point.

Uh so that that's pretty exciting.

But yeah, I would expect that Ela Musk will uh phase his time back to Tesla.

And uh Tesla's at a really exciting time.

It it's weird that their sales are down because the political connection, but at the same time, their products have never been this exciting.

I mean, they're right in the edge of full auto taxi, robots, um, you know, use your car for an Uber.

This is just the best stuff we've ever seen in technology.

This this is like, you know, the birth of the smartphone, the birth of the computer.

So Tesla is really really well set for I don't know just maybe decades of dominance in a few different areas.

So it does make sense that uh Musk would turn his attentions back to work as we all knew he would eventually.

Um and I hope that the political stuff doesn't you know create too much of a drag on a great company.

Well, according to China, the China Commerce Ministry says there have been no economic and trade negotiations between China and the US.

So, if you thought to yourself, well, maybe Trump hasn't talked to Chairman Xi, but surely there are discussions going on at lower levels.

Nope.

Apparently, there are not discussions going on at lower levels according to China.

Um but let's uh let's take a look at the implications of that.

According to an article in Wired by Zeang, uh even though China is limiting u US access to critical minerals, it might not be as bad as you assume because we've all been told they need these critical rare earth materials um to build all kinds of technology from your phones to your robots to your electric cars and everything else.

And that's true, but um we're being reminded by this article that uh you could live without them.

So, for example, your your electric car could certainly operate without some of the rare earth materials.

It might not last as long and there might be a feature or two that it can't do, but it'd still be an electric car.

Um, and apparently there are a number of examples of that where if you had to, you could just sort of make your product without some of those rare earth minerals.

It's just that it wouldn't be as good, but you could still make it and it would still be commercial and people would still buy it.

And then also u this is what I was wondering about but apparently Belgium has emerged as a possible reexport hub meaning that if people bought the rare earth minerals from China um China doesn't know where it goes after that and that maybe some part of the European Union could be buying these rare earth materials.

they'd have a closer connection to the United States than to China.

And then the next thing you know, the United States has some rare earth minerals from China.

But China doesn't know that we have it.

Now, if if all the countries that we sanction can pull this off, such as Iran, they still manage to get stuff.

And I'm sure Russia still manages to get stuff.

I feel like we can do the same thing.

you you don't think we could figure a way to smuggle in that rarer stuff.

The other thing I learned that I didn't know is that even though it's critical materials, we don't spend a lot.

It It's not like trillions of dollars or anything.

It's like a fairly small amount of material, very important, but small in terms of quantity, but also small in terms of dollar amount.

So, one of the reasons that we don't have, you know, new mines and refineries popping up for these rare earth minerals is that all it would take, according to this article in Wired, all it would take is one new factory or refinery for one of those minerals and it would create too much of the mineral.

So apparently the demand is critical because they're important, but it's a small demand.

Like it's not that many dollars and it's not that many pounds of material.

So if you built a new refinery, it would maybe crush the price for the one mineral and your your business model wouldn't work.

So that's interesting.

I didn't know any of that.

But anyway, there might be workarounds for the rare earth minerals.

We'll see.

Um, according to Ryan Peterson, who follows shipping, he's uh I think he's uh CEO of Flexport, um or founder of or both, but uh Flexports in the the shipping uh industry.

and uh he says that in the 3 weeks since the tariffs took effect um the ocean container bookings from China to the US are down 60% industrywide and he predicts we'll have mass shortages this summer as goods don't show up and even if things got fixed now it's going to take till summer to get the mass shortages I don't know shortages of what specifically but it's going to be a lot of Um, a lot of companies sort of ordered extra in anticipation of shortages later.

So once we work through the extra that that people ordered, we're going to just run dry for some things.

And again, I don't know which ones, but um and then if we decided to suddenly ramp up, you know, let's say the um tariff stuff was all solved.

If you solved it immediately, you would still have a problem that the ships had been used for other things and there wouldn't be enough ships to make up for the shortfall because everybody would be scrambling for the same materials.

So, we're going to have some pretty serious shortages and maybe some our factories will go idle and go out of business.

So, there's going to be some disruption and the the faster the China tariff situation gets solved, the better we'll be.

Now, we don't know yet uh and I don't know, I guess if this will hurt the United States more than it will hurt China.

So, of course, the game here is that both will pretend, well, you can't hurt me.

We can we can work with this.

And each side will say, "No, it's worse for you than it is for me.

You'll you'll crack." I don't know.

Do you think China's going to crack?

I I think Trump is uh wise to be moderating his tone so that he's treating China as a respectful, you know, peer that we negotiate with and not somebody we're trying to walk all over.

So, we'll see.

Apparently, Trump has vetoed the idea of increasing taxes on rich people.

There was an idea that the federal tax on people making over a million a year would go to something like 40%.

But uh Trump says no because if you raise taxes on the rich, they leave the country and you need the rich to pay taxes.

Now, I I'm not sure if that's the only reason or if it's he's just being a Republican and he doesn't want to raise taxes on anybody, but uh he called it very disruptive.

So, I guess we're probably not going to see taxes on the rich go up.

According to the Wall Street Journal, and this uh I don't know why this took so long, there's new French study that showed that uh sure enough, not only is it true that some of the additives in our food are bad for us and cause diabetes and whatnot.

Um but if you combine them, it's extra bad.

So what the new study is is not looking at one additive, which is normally the way the studies work.

They would look at what happens if you have several of these additives in the same food.

And apparently it's as bad as you think.

So if you add together multiple additives in the same food, you've got a much higher risk of type 2 diabetes and god knows what.

So the food industry of course defended it.

uh and they say it's important for food safety and quality.

But then you have to ask the question, if it's important for food safety and quality, why isn't it important in Europe where a lot of this stuff's illegal?

I I guess they need to answer that question.

Well, in other news related, RFK Jr.

is uh apparently noodling on um removing the CDC's COVID 19 vaccine recommendation for children.

Were you even aware that the CDC was still recommending COVID 19 vaccines for children?

How many of you even knew that that was a a thing?

Well, here's the good news, and this is reported in Politico.

Here's the good news.

Apparently only 13% of children have gotten that COVID shot.

So most parents are pretty keyed in that uh young people don't really have a bad time with CO and there's no reason to add another risk on top of the CO itself.

So we don't know yet if Kennedy will will actually pull that or get that reversed, but I feel like it's going to happen.

If only 13% of people are getting it anyway, it wouldn't be that big of a shock to the system to say, "Okay, this is not recommended." You know, you could get it if you want, but it's not it's not recommended.

Well, here's a surprise.

Um, so Senator Federman was asked an interview with the Washington Free Beacon, and he he said that we should bomb uh Iran's nuclear sites.

and he says, quote, "Waste that shit." He said, quote, "You're never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing in the region for decades already.

And now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that and to strike and destroy Iran's nuclear facilities." How do you feel about Federman now?

Not so good, right?

We we were enjoying watching Fedman agree with Republicans on, you know, a lot of stuff, at least the common sense stuff.

Um, but uh he seems pretty pro-Israel and pretty pro-war, at least in this particular context.

And I have to say that his credibility just went to zero for me.

Um, that do you feel comfortable with that?

the Fedman says, "Yeah, let's go." You know, stop negotiating.

There's nothing.

Now, I don't know that he's wrong uh in the sense that the negotiating might never work.

You know, we're dealing with somebody we can't negotiate with, maybe.

But uh I also think there's a nonzero possibility that Iran might think that for its own benefit it doesn't need to be developing nuclear weapons cuz they would get bombed.

So they might think we've got so many, you know, good missiles and so many good drones now cuz apparently they're pretty good at making them that uh militarily they would be better off using missiles and drones anyway because they're not going to get nuked if they, you know, if they use non-uclear weapons.

So I don't know.

I I think only because missiles and drones are the new way of war.

Um, I think there might be an opening in which they would think it was to their own best interest to stop, you know, refining things to weapons grade in the nuclear domain.

That's what I feel like.

I don't I don't think it's likely we'll find an agreement.

I think he's right that, you know, the Iran regime has shown that they can't be trusted, etc.

But it's a little worrying that he's so pro-war.

Bomb him.

Bomb him.

Yeah, I'm not I'm not comfortable with that at all.

Um, meanwhile, economist Jeffrey Sachs um is saying that Ukraine will have to agree to peace or continue without US backing.

Now, that's same thing I said.

Um, I think it's kind of obvious at this point.

He says, uh, quote, "One thing that I'm pretty much convinced of is that Trump will not go back to Congress for more appropriations to fund Ukraine's war or its military or whatever one wants to call it." I agree.

So, Trump uh did a big truth post about Zalinski, you know, not wanting to give up Crimea in order for peace.

And Trump explained in his post that uh Crimea is a major Russian submarine base.

So he's explaining why that's not really in play.

Apparently it's mostly ethnic Russians.

I don't know if Trump said that, but that's what I knew.

So Crimea is mostly ethnic Russians.

How much do they want to be in Ukraine?

I don't know.

I'm not sure if we can tell.

But don't you think that the people who are mostly Russian ethnic Russians would be probably just as happy being part of Russia because it's not like Ukraine is the, you know, the country where everything works well.

Yeah.

It's the most corrupt country in the world.

So, I don't know.

The fact that they're mostly ethnic Russians suggests to me anyway, and I'm no expert.

I have not visited there, but it suggests to me that they probably would be happier with Russia control.

And uh I guess Zilinski may have thought that he was being asked to recognize Crimea as Russianowned.

And Trump is telling him, "Nobody's asking you to do that.

The United States might.

The United States might agree to recognize Crimea as part of Russia, but he's not asking Ukraine to do it.

So, that's worth something.

And he and he calls Zalinski the man with no cards to play and he says he should close this deal right away.

Um, yes, he should.

Now, at the same time, I think last night, um, Russia bombed Kiev and killed several people and it was a pretty bad attack.

And, uh, Trump did a separate truth telling Vladimir, "What the hell are you doing?

stop Homi of we're we're trying to work out a deal here.

It it was kind of weirdly personal.

You even though he did it in public, you know, what are you doing?

Stop bombing cave.

We're we're so close to a deal.

It's crazy.

So, we'll see if that works.

Uh, according to Politico.

All right, here's a test of your fake news nose sniffer.

Let's see if you can spot the BS here.

According to Politico, the white the White House is debating lifting sanctions on Russian energy assets and the Nordstream.

Now, that sounds believable, right?

Because, you know, there's negotiations about, you know, our our interaction with Russia and our interaction with Ukraine.

And you could imagine that Russia would ask for that sanctions to be lifted.

So it wouldn't be a big surprise if the White House was debating whether they should do it or not.

So that that sounds like it could be true, right?

Well, according to Marco Rubio, who would certainly know what's true or not in that domain, he said in a post on X, this is unequivocably false.

But listen to the specificity of how he debunks it.

It's a little too specific.

right now.

The report is that the quote white house is debating it.

So that's the report.

When he debunks it, he says this.

Neither Steve Wickoff nor I have had any conversations about lifting sanctions against Russia as part of a deal with Ukraine.

Huh.

Well, that's not exactly what Politico said, is it?

Politico said the White House.

The White House is a lot of different people.

you know, including the president.

But in the in the debunking of it, Rubio says only two people, Steve Wickoff and Rubio.

Now, that might be 100% true that neither he nor Wickoff have had any conversations about it.

But does that mean there's nobody in the White House who's debating that?

It seems like his denial or his debunking is a little too specific.

And he says, "This is journalistic malpractice.

If Politico has an ounce of integrity, they'll retract this fiction." Um, okay.

Uh, I'm going to say that that's the sort of thing you would expect people in the White House to be debating, but if what Rubio is saying is that the people who are, you know, critical to that question are not talking about it, it does mean something.

So, it's not nothing, but that's a very specific denial.

You know, that that's usually a key that there's a little something left out.

All right.

According to the Daily Mail, um I didn't even know this, but apparently China and Russia uh are getting quite cozy with their space programs.

And now there are plans that China and Russia would build a nuclear power plant on the moon to power their mining and their their laboratories and god knows what else they put up there.

Probably military stuff.

But I'll tell you, if you didn't think there was going to be a war in space, I hate to tell you, there's going to be war in space.

Yeah, war in space feels just guaranteed.

You know, it might start small with somebody takes down a satellite or somebody tries to knock out somebody's power plant and their, you know, their moon base or something like that.

But I feel like space war is just guaranteed, you know, just because of human nature.

So maybe and that ladies and gentlemen is all I needed to talk about today.

Um, I will tell you that people have been proddding me on X to say bad things about Israel.

And people are saying to me, Scott, when have you ever said anything bad about Israel?

And I'm going to remind you that what's the difference what my opinion is of Israel?

Can anybody give me a reason why anybody would care about my opinion of Israel?

It's not my country.

It's not my country at all.

But what I will note, and I've noted this before, is that the people who seem to be debating it are debating it on the ethical and moral level.

Like who's who's the most immoral?

Who's doing the most unethical things?

to which I say none of that is relevant.

Somebody's opinion of what is moral or ethical, I'm not even sure that's a variable that has anything to do with anything because countries do what's good for countries.

And you know, as soon as you get into people are dying, it's it all looks immoral.

It all looks unethical.

And if you say to me, but but but Israel had a good reason because of October 7th, then I say to you, sure, if I were Israel, I would make the same claim.

It would be a strong claim.

And I would use that opportunity to do the things that I wanted to do but couldn't do before, which is improve security.

And in this case, it looks like trying to destroy Hamas completely.

And then I saw some people say, "All right, imagine this thought experiment.

If Israel decided to lay down all of its arms and not fight, what would Hamas do?" And then of course the answer is Hamas would kill everybody in Israel.

And then the question would be, "But if Hamas laid down their arms, what would be the response?" And of course, everybody says, "Oh, Israel would just accept the peace and then everybody would live in peace." So therefore, Hamas is the bad one.

But again, that gets into the sort of ethical moral dimension, which I don't have any interest in whatsoever.

uh what I see is a power play and whoever is in power is going to you know execute based on their national interest and what their power can get them.

And so when I watch a country doing something that's clearly in their best interest, which is what Israel is doing, clearly they're operating in their own best interest, um it's hard for me to criticize that because if the situation were I won't say reversed, but if the United States were in that same situation, we would do whatever is good for the United States and it might be absolutely brutal and whoever's on the receiving end of it wouldn't like it at all.

But I think the most I hate to say the most normal thing in the world is that the people with the power will pursue their national interest in ways that other people aren't going to like at all.

And you know, most countries are founded on the backs of somebody who got conquered anyway.

You know, that is the most normal thing.

So I was trying to think of some story or analogy that would explain it the best.

And so I'm going to try one you even though analogies are not part of reason.

We'll see if this gets anywhere.

If somebody said to me, Scott, the only way you could save your life is to kill a thousand babies.

What do you choose?

Well, I'd like to think, you know, it's easy for me to say since it's hypothetical.

I'd like to think I would say, "Oh, man.

Uh, I'd hate to die, but I don't want to kill a thousand babies.

That would be immoral and ethical." No, I can't do that.

I I will sacrifice myself for the thousand babies.

Wouldn't you?

I think you'd agree with that, right?

I mean it would be tough to be in this situation but at least in a ideal situation I would choose the thousand babies over me.

Now let's modify that a little bit and somebody says Scott the only way you can save your entire country the United States the every single person is going to die unless you kill a thousand babies.

What do I do then?

It's just as immoral, right?

It's just as unethical.

It's just as evil to kill a thousand babies.

But in that case, because self-defense is is invulnerable to morality and ethics really, uh if the self-defense is big enough, you're saving an entire country, which would include saving a lot more babies than you would kill.

I would say where are those babies and when could I get started because saving the country would be a you know a bigger priority than saving a thousand babies.

So the thing I would add to the conversation is if Israel is doing something to you that looks like killing a thousand babies but their alternative looks to them and they're the only ones who get to decide.

It looks to them like they could lose their entire country to, you know, a rising force that wants to kill every one of them.

Then it's sort of none of my business.

They get to make that decision.

Everybody gets to decide what your own self-defense looks like.

And other people don't get to tell them that was unethical or that was immoral or we wish you hadn't done it.

I mean, we could we could move our lips But it's not really part of the decision.

So when I look at Israel doing some pretty brutal stuff with Gaza, I don't say to myself, is it ethical or moral?

I say to myself, is it self-defense?

And if it's self-defense or they reasonably believe it's self-defense, I don't even have to be the the judge of whether it is.

If they reasonably believe it's self-defense, it's not really a moral or ethical question.

It's self-defense.

And I do think they have an argument that it's self-defense.

Um, and it wasn't I don't think it's Israel's fault that Hamas wraps itself around the um around this civilian population.

It does make it a gigantic tragedy.

So, I'm not I'm not uh devaluing the the horror of it.

You could still say the horror is a 10.

10 out of 10.

Okay.

But in the real world, when people have a self-defense motivation and they've got one shot and October 7th made it possible for Israel to take its one shot, don't be surprised if they take it.

But here's the important thing.

If you thought that I just gave you an opinion on Israel, it was the opposite.

All I did is describe the world.

I didn't give you an opinion on Israel because my opinion on Israel is completely irrelevant.

Israel will do what's good for Israel because they have the power to do so.

If Hamas had the power, they would do what Hamas wants and it would be pretty brutal.

and my opinion wouldn't matter to that either.

So, stop trying to drag me into it because it's really just a up way to find a way to criticize public figures.

So, I'm not in this fight.

Uh, I care what's good for America and I care about America's self-defense and America's well-being.

Israel's on its own.

If you ask me, should we pay for it?

I'd say no.

because that's not my best interest.

So just keep me out of the Israel Hamas thing because my opinion of what's ethical or moral has nothing to do with anything.

It's a power play.

It's a self-defense play.

It's a national interest play.

And the people who have the power are going to get what they want.

And that's just the way the world works.

And that's an observation, not an opinion.

You don't need my opinion.

has no value here whatsoever.

All right, so I just wanted to clarify that because people have been asking me on X.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say some stuff privately to the local subscribers and the rest of you.

Thanks for joining.

Come back tomorrow, same time, same place.

And locals coming at you in 30 seconds.

Just enough time for Oops.

Is that working?

Might have a problem here.

All right.

So, I'm having a technical problem where updating the stream is not working, which suggests that I cannot go private with the people on locals at the moment, but I didn't have much else to say, so you're not missing anything.

Um, so I'm going to see if I can close the stream, and if that doesn't work, I'll have to close the application.

All right.

Say goodbye.

Let's see if this works.

Uh, no, that's not working.

So, I have to close the application and reopen it and close it.

But then we will disappear.

at the

moment. The stock market is up at the

moment. Things could change quickly. You

never

know. I didn't think it would be up

today. I I thought that after that big

rise yesterday, it would be crashing

back to Earth a little bit. Maybe it

will later. We'll see.

See, my comments will be coming

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Spectacular. All right, everybody. Let's

uh check in with the world of science

and see if there's any scientific

studies that they could have skipped

just by asking Scott. Oh, here's one.

Um, according to UCL uh political

science,

um, female lobbyists are more likely to

gain access to meetings with policy

makers. Did they really have to study

that to find out that female lobbyists

can get meetings with policy makers more

easily? Apparently, even with female

policy makers, but I would have known

that, too.

Let me tell you about my career day when

I was a senior in college. So, uh, in my

little college in upstate New York, uh,

when I was a senior, the, uh, bunch of

local companies would come in and they

would interview the seniors to maybe

make job offers. And one of the big

employers was a pharmaceutical company

looking for sales reps.

And um I knew a lot of people in the

college. It was a very small college.

And I saw that the people I was

competing against cuz we were sort of

lining up to do our little interviews.

Um weren't nearly as accomplished as me

academically. So I'm thinking to myself,

uh this is going to be easy. I am so

going to get this job offer to be a

pharmaceutical

representative. And the other people who

were in line were really hot. really hot

girls who were not that good at

academics. And every single one of the

hot girls got an offer to be a pharmace

pharmaceutical sales

rep. And none of the

guys, not not a single male was offered

anything.

And that's where I learned that you

don't need to do a study to find out

that women can get more access to

meetings. Yes, women can definitely get

more access to

meetings. You could have just asked

me. All right, let's see what Let's see

if science has any more surprises. Um,

oh yeah, here we go. According to Eric

Dolan, who's writing in Scypost, uh,

there's

new This one's just funny.

There's new

evidence, new research

that there's new research in the Journal

of Effective Disorders that suggests

that people who engage in sexual

activity at least once a week are less

likely to experience symptoms of

[Laughter]

depression. Somebody actually somebody

here somebody actually took time and

money to study that. Yes. Yes, people

who are getting laid are happier than

people who are not getting laid. Period.

Now, sometimes it's cause, you know, the

cause and effect, you know, can go

either way in that particular case. But

yes, people who are having more sex, I

can almost guarantee you on average are

happier than people who are not having

sex. So, next time just ask me. You You

don't need to do that study. Just ask

me. Uh, in other news of hilarious

science, uh, do you remember the claims

that were all over social media that,

uh, some group had used some wild

technology that was looking under the

pyramids and they found these vast

columns

uh, suggesting an entire different

civilization was, you know, at work for

years before the the pyramids.

And as soon as I saw that, I said,

"No, that's not

real." Well, apparently today, according

to the AFP, uh the scientists are saying

it's a rubbish claim and there's no

giant structures beneath the Egyptian

pyramids. But apparently uh all the

experts who are aware of the technology

that they use to image under the ground,

pretty much all of them say that

technology can't do that. Even if there

were giant columns under the pyramids,

you couldn't see them with that

technology. That definitely wouldn't

work. So I could be wrong. Maybe there

are giant pillars under the pyramids,

but uh I'm going to claim at least

temporarily. I'm going to claim success

in debunking that without doing any

research at all. As soon as I saw that

one, I

thought probably not. Probably

not. Here's another

one. The science is all so stupid today.

Uh according to the Daily

Mail, the Vatican has uh in its

documents, you know, secret archives, it

has secret links to

[Laughter]

UFOs. And some researchers now believe

that the Holy Sea could be sitting on

the biggest secret of all, proof of

extraterrestrial life.

Do do you think the Vatican has proof of

extraterrestrial life and they've been

keeping it from

us? I'm going to say

nope. Nope. Not unless that uh alien

life is under those pyramids. I'm going

to say no on

that. All right. Here's one that is

real. Um, according to Elon Musk, your

Tesla will soon be a robo taxi if you

want. Now, what I think that means is

you can just park your Tesla outside

your garage and then if somebody has an

app, now it does, this isn't functional

yet, but it's all developed and looks

like it'll roll out pretty soon. Um, you

could just call up a self-driving Tesla

and it will just pull out of your

driveway and go pick somebody up and

make some money while you're

sleeping. How many of you How many of

you would let strangers use your

car? I feel like I feel like it would be

creepy to know that other people were in

your car doing god knows what because

there's no driver there. But it would be

like Uber but without the driver. What's

the worst thing about an

Uber? It's the driver. The The worst

thing about an Uber is the driver.

Because if you're, let's say, young or

you're female,

uh, you have to worry about the driver

being dangerous. If you're male, you

have to worry about the driver playing

the radio or making a phone call or

being really annoying and trying to talk

to you the whole time. So, there's

nothing worse about Uber than the

driver. There there's also the thing

where the driver will start to come to

you and then for reasons you don't

understand, they cancel or they change

their mind. That's not the technology

doing that. That's that's the driver.

So, if you can get rid of the

driver and Tesla could be like Uber in

all the other ways, yeah, that'd be

pretty good.

Speaking of

Tesla, I saw this in Mario summary. I

guess the source is Tesla, but did you

know that every Model 3 and Model Y

that's uh delivered in the United States

uses batteries that are 100% made in

America? Did you think we could even do

that? I didn't even know that America

could make that many batteries. But

apparently um Tesla has been able to

make all of its batteries completely in

America for some time now. Um so that's

that's interesting to

know. And according to a post I saw on X

by Nick Cruz Patain, he says that Tesla

vehicles share the same batteries,

cameras, and computers as the Optimus

robots will. So, I I think I kind of

guessed that that it would be the same

AI and, you know, computers and why

wouldn't they use the same batteries,

you know, the smaller

versions. So, yeah, you're going to have

uh you're going to have robots and

self-driving cars, and it's all coming

quickly.

Um, in other news, Washington Post is

reporting that Trump has ordered that uh

schools develop some kind of AI training

for American kids. I guess China's

already doing this. China is forcing

forcing. Um, kids in China at the

youngest age have to learn AI.

And now Trump's trying to catch up and

he's going to put uh cryptobillionaire

David Sachs. That's one way to describe

him. I wouldn't describe him as a

cryptobillionaire. That that feels

dismissive. But uh David Sachs will be

involved in that. Um and the executive

order will uh force schools to train

students and teachers in artificial

intelligence. That seems like a really

wise thing to do. And I think Trump also

signed an executive order to get more

trade training to young people as well.

That could be

good. In other news,

uh

Paramount, that's the uh I guess that

own they own CBS. They settled a

discrimination suit over DI policies.

there was a specific uh white man who

couldn't get a job within that entity

within CBS

uh because he was told directly that he

didn't check any boxes for DEI. So even

though he was highly qualified and

experienced, he just couldn't get a job

at CBS as a writer, they just needed

more DEI. So, America First Legal um

took that case and pressed it and

apparently succeeded. So, I don't know

if there's a financial settlement, but

uh but the company Paramount and CBS,

they they decided to publicly back away

from all the DEI

stuff. So, that's good. So, only one

million companies to go. I remember when

I got cancelled

Um, and I told my story about how, you

know, back in the 80s and 90s, um, it

was almost impossible to get promoted if

you were a white man in San Francisco.

And I remember, uh, I think it was an

editor, a black editor in in Chicago who

challenged me on X and said, "There's no

evidence of that. You're making that

up." And I thought, "Making it up? If

you want to find out if it's true that

in the 80s and 90s a white man couldn't

get promoted as long as there was

anybody who wasn't a white man who also

wanted the job. You could just walk

outside and just go up to any white man

if they were 50 years old or older and

just tap them on the shoulder and say,

"Hey, were you ever discriminated

against for being a white man?" They

would have all said yes. you you've got

something like probably 30 to 50 million

witnesses and and yet there was a uh an

educated, successful, professional black

man in Chicago who had no idea no idea

that that existed. Do you know why?

Because if you even mentioned it, you

would get cancelled. You couldn't even

mention it. So, you know, now that I

don't have to worry about having a boss,

I can mention it. But imagine what a

surprise that would be to have lived

your whole life without knowing that

white men were being the ones most

discriminated against, at least in

corporate America. I think small

businesses probably were the opposite. I

don't know for sure, but in the big

businesses, yes, it was anti-white men

since at least the mid 80s and and quite

severely so. You know, not slightly, but

it was the main the main texture of the

employment

market. So, 1 million companies to go.

Um, Trump also signed an executive order

requiring uh, universities to disclose

their foreign

funding. Now, that seems like a good

idea, doesn't it? You know, I never

realized how vulnerable the United

States was to all the, you know, the

clever ways that we could be influenced

and infiltrated until I saw what uh,

George Soros could do with prosecutors.

It's like, holy cow, he doesn't have to

spend much money and then he gets all

these local prosecutors and and then

they can do all kinds of evil. But

apparently the same problem existed with

colleges and universities because they

took money from China and other places

and there would be

influence. So yes, we should know who's

influencing our colleges and

universities. That seems like a good

idea. According to uh Jerry Dun Levy,

who's writing for Just the News, um

there's new unredacted documents about

Hunter Biden search warrants uh that

details payments he received from

Ukraine and China and I guess some other

places like

Romania and elsewhere around the globe.

So we have actual

documents showing Hunter Biden getting

money from these other countries. Uh I'm

pretty sure that some of this was while

his father was vice

president. And I guess the IRS and the

FBI was fully aware that he was

receiving this money from foreign

sources, but there were no

investigations. There were no, you know,

no arrests, no nothing. So apparently

our, you know, major government entities

that are supposed to keep people, you

know, on the right side of the law, they

just saw this Biden crime family

situation and said, "Uh, we're not going

to touch

this." So apparently that the Biden

crime family was exactly what you

thought it was. They were taking money

from other countries and selling their

influence or at least the impression of

influence. I'm not sure how much

influence they actually

sold. Uh well, I'm loving I'm loving how

the Marilyn Dad who may or may not be

MS-13 story is developing because it

couldn't be more fun. Even though it's

terrible, it couldn't be more fun

because every day it seems like there's

a new revelation about the uh Kilar

Abrigo Garcia. So that that makes it

even more embarrassing for the Democrats

to be fully on board supporting this

guy. So, the latest is you already knew

that he had been once stopped uh while

he was driving a vehicle with eight

people in it who only had Garcia's home

address as their address. Now, that's a

strong indication that he was involved

in human trafficking. human trafficking,

meaning picking up people at the border

who were not citizens and delivering

them to the interior of the country and

having them, you know, stay here

illegally. But what we've learned is

that the vehicle did not belong to

Kilmar. It belonged to a somebody who

was a target suspected of human

trafficking.

Apparently the uh our authorities knew

that that particular vehicle made trips

to the southern border to pick up

non-citizens.

So pretty much for sure he was doing

human

trafficking. So now the Democrats have

to support somebody who who is credibly

accused of being an MS-13 guy and now

credibly accused of being a human

trafficker and credibly accused of being

a wife be

Peter. And you wonder how much deeper

this can go. Like like how many new

things can we find out about this guy? I

I feel like it's going to go. And uh

well, yes, it it did turn out he

murdered some nuns. And uh then a week

later, we'll find out, well, yes, he

kept their bodies in a freezer in the

basement. And then a week later, it'll

be like, he's a cannibal. He is a

cannibal. And and the Democrats will

still be racing down to El Salvador to

say, "Free the cannibal. The human

trafficker wife beating MS-13 cannibal.

free him now because process makes all

the difference. You know what I worry

about? This is something I learned from

the

Democrats. Um, you've probably heard

that there's something called the

Department of Justice and they will

often arrest people for things like

murder and then those people will be

sent to

jail, you know, if they if they're

convicted. And I'm thinking, isn't that

kind of a slippery slope? If they could

arrest people who are proven to have

murdered people and they could put those

people in jail, can't they pick up

people who have never murdered anybody

and never committed any crimes at all

and put them in jail, too? According to

Democrats, that would be a

risk. I learned that from the story

about Kilar Abrigo Garcia.

Well, Governor Abbott in Texas uh just

signed some legislation to give Texas

their own state doge. So, I guess

they're going to build the ability to

make their government more efficient.

But there was one thing that I loved

about the statement. Um so, this is from

Abbott. He said that the uh new Doge in

Texas uh it will ensure that Texas is

operating at the speed of business and

it will make it easier for Texans to do

business blah blah. I love that

framing that uh the government in Texas

will operate at the speed of business. I

don't think you could phrase that

better. Now, somebody said that that was

a UPS

um slogan from long ago, but no matter

where they got it, that is just such a

well-chosen phrase that the state could

operate at the speed of business because

that's exactly what you want. You want

the the government not to slow you down.

Speaking of that, according to the

Washington Times,

um the amount the amount that businesses

spend to satisfy federal regulations, of

which there are thousands of new ones

every year, is $2.1 trillion per year.

Yeah, actually more than that.

So the amount that we

waste by just satisfying various

infinite government federal this is just

federal this is not even

state 2.1 trillion per year that's the

same as the entire amount of the uh the

budget

deficit 2.1

trillion I think we can do

better maybe we

So, according to the Hill, the

Washington Post has struck a deal with

Open AI. So, now if you're using Open AI

and you're searching for something that

has been in the news, it will give you

uh summaries and quotes and links from

the Washington

Post. So, how do you feel about that?

The Washington Post will be a primary,

maybe the primary news source for the

biggest AI, Open

AI. Does it does that give you anything

to worry

about? Well, I'll tell you, my trust in

Open AI as a source of independent and

accurate information just went down

40%. Approximately 40%.

Because as you know, and of course I

can't prove this, but the Washington

Post has always been alleged to be kind

of tight with the intelligence community

of the United States. You know, sort of

working handinand glove. If the CIA

needed to get a message out, they could

do it through the Washington Post. Now,

that that's the allegation.

And then when Bezos bought the

Washington Post, which was bleeding

money, you probably said to yourself,

why would he do that? Like, why would

you buy something that really couldn't

possibly make money? And was it because

Jeff Bezos wanted to control the news?

There's not really any indication of

that, but would it be because Jeff Bezos

has a gigantic contract with the CIA for

cloud

services? And could it be that Jeff

Bezos was asked by the CIA to buy the

Washington Post so they still had an

entity that they could

control? Could it be? Now, I don't know.

I don't have proof of any of that, but

that's what it looks like.

And what this looks like is if you

assume that the CIA would really have to

give some kind of backdoor control of

the big AI companies, especially Open

AI. So my speculation is

that the intelligence people in this

country pretty much had to have a, you

know, a little bit of control over AI

because that's where everybody's going

to get their information. Probably had

some control over the Washington Post,

not for every story, but for things they

cared about. Probably had some influence

over Bezos buying the Washington Post. I

don't have any proof of that whatsoever.

It just sort of looks like it. And to

me, it looks

like they're making sure that their

source, you know, the one that they

would use if they needed to use it, the

Washington Post, is the one that the AI

refers

to. So, my trust in what I hear about

the news from Open

AI down

40%.

According to Scott

Presler, there are 13 Democrat Senate

seats up for reelection in 2020 or up

for election in

2026. So more than a third of the

Democrat senators are

retiring. More than a

third. So isn't that like incredible?

So, does it seem to you like if you're

trying to figure out what is our system

of government, you know, some would say

it's the deep state, some would say it's

the uni party. We'll talk about that in

a minute. Some would say, you know, it's

a competitive thing between two parties

and sometimes one wins and sometimes the

other. But I think we forget how much is

luck because this looks like the

luckiest thing that could possibly

happen for Republicans that just by

complete coincidence, you know, there's

no driving force for any of it. That a

third of the Democrats are up for uh

retiring. I mean, that kind of strongly

suggests that the Republicans are going

to have a vice grip on the Senate for a

while.

So, it's luck. I mean, that's just pure

luck. So, luck is apparently what runs

our country more than anything else.

Just pure

luck. Well, Mike Davis was appearing on

Steve Bannon's The War Room and he said

he met with Trump officials inside the

DOJ and arrests will come

soon. And I said to myself, arrests of

who?

for

what is it? Epstein

related? Is it deep state

related? Is it something about Soros's

prosecutors? Who exactly do you do we do

you think is going to get

arrested? And I'm going to join the

skeptics. Um cuz it seems to me that

Cash Patel and Dan

Bonino have been a little bit too quiet.

Now it could be they're just playing it

cool and there's something really big

coming like really big arrests maybe.

But I'm going to go contrarian on this

and say I don't think that we're ever

going to see any big arrests. Not for

Epstein. Not

for not for the Russia collusion hoax.

Not for any of the bad behavior that

we've all witnessed. Not for the Biden

crime family. Not for anything. So, I'm

going to say I predict no major arrests.

I just don't think it's happening. For

whatever whatever has allowed people to

run wild and commit just obvious crimes

right in front of the

public, there's something that's

protecting them. It might be, you know,

different things for different people,

but I don't think the thing that's

protecting them ever stopped. So,

whatever it is that protects them, it's

probably still there. So, I don't expect

any big arrests, but I'd love to be

wrong about

that. Well, James O'Keefe's uh

undercover operation, OMG, they got a

new video of uh a Department of Defense

branch

chief who says President Trump is quote

illegitimate and the branch chief has

vowed to quote resist him and everything

he does.

Can you believe that there's somebody

who works for Trump in the Department of

Defense, has a looks like a high level

job, a branch chief, and would say out

loud to a date that he plans to resist

him and everything he does.

Now, I assume he's already fired by now,

but it it's just unbelievable that our

government just doesn't even recognize

the elected leader. They're they're just

going to act like like they're doing the

right thing. The weirdest thing is that

the the guy that's on the undercover

video, he looks like a character from

Roblox, which is hilarious if you know

what Roblox is and you've seen the video

of him. if you haven't. It's not funny

at all, but it looks like Roblox.

Um

anyway, so New York Magazine has a uh

big piece about Alex

Soros and

um Alex Soros apparently um is very

committed to the far left of the

Democrat party, which is interesting to

me because that's what's going to keep

the Democrats from winning. So I think

Soros

senior who was really good at you know

keeping Democrats in power by funding

just the right stuff. He's replaced by

his son who is not nearly as clever

according to people who know them both.

And the son is very committed to uh the

far-left stuff, the progressive stuff,

which would suggest that at the moment

Alex Soros would be the main reason that

Democrats can never win again because as

long as they cling to, you know, funding

and promoting the far-left stuff,

they're going to be so far from what the

mainstream, you know, American actually

wants, they're going to be in that 2080

problem again.

So even though Soros says his main

priority is uh winning, so he wants to

keep Trump and the Republicans out of

office, but he seems to have picked the

one and only way that it can't

happen by promoting the least popular

things in

America. So good luck. Good luck with

that.

Well, I've talked before about a

researcher called Data

Republican, and if you're on X, you

should follow Data Republican. And Data

Republican has uncovered

uh what she describes as the uni party,

like the the nest, you know, it's almost

like I think there's a a nest of people

who are like the deep state uni party.

And apparently the NASA has been

discovered. Now, uh Mike Benz has, you

know, sort of commented on this like

this is a big discovery, but apparently

there's something called the US Global

Leadership

Corporation. Have you ever heard of it?

The US Global Leadership Corporation?

No, of course you haven't. You You've

never heard of it. and it

represents 400 NOS, non-government

organizations and

businesses. And it mission is to quote

support the smart power approach of

elevating diplomacy and development

alongside defense in order to build a

better safer world.

Now, as Data Republican explains, if

you've been with me long enough, meaning

if you follow Data Republican, you know

that is code for increasing NGO

influence in military affairs. So this

is a group of people who are

representing over 400 NOS's and all the

money that would be involved in that

whose main thing is to

essentially be a military

um assistant force so that if we're

going to take over a country or get you

know get military with it um these NOS's

would be the supporting entities. Now

apparently this organization the biggest

financial backers are Bill Gates and

George Soros Open Society

Foundation. So there's a big

organization 400

NOS's supported financially by Gase and

Soros. But what's interesting is the

people who are on the board. So the the

advisory board includes everything from

Hillary Clinton to a bunch of ex

secretaries of defense to a bunch of

senators to governors. And here's the

payoff. It's both

parties. This is the uni party nest.

So

um so what

uh so what uh data republican says is

the importance of this cannot be

understated. This is the first solid

confirmation I've seen that Soros and

Bill Gates are backers of the so-called

uniarty network. So you know how people

use the phrase uni party whenever war is

involved. So there's big differences

between Democrats and Republicans on a

lot of social domestic stuff, you know,

like trans and sports and, you know, DEI

and stuff like that. But there's another

level, you know, a higher level where

we're making decisions about where the

military is going to be deployed and how

how many trillions of dollars we're

going to spend bombing other countries.

That is often referred to as the uni

party because no matter how much we

disagree on domestic stuff,

somebody powerful is apparently all on

the same page, Republican and Democrat

when it comes to

war. Possibly because they benefit from

it. That would be my follow the money

speculation.

Maybe they're just true believers and

they think that, you know, the the US

needs this to project this kind of power

in order to be successful. But I feel

like it's far more likely that they're

just part of a an entity that supports

each other and have ties to the, you

know, military-industrial complex and

are wagging the dog in the United States

and causing at least causing from the

background more wars than we might have

wanted. So, we'll keep an eye on that.

But maybe the nest of the uni party has

been discovered. That would be kind of

interesting.

Um, the CBO has estimated that by 2035

the US debt could be $54 trillion. I

think there's no chance of that. We

would be dead long before that. Um, if

we get to a debt of $54 trillion in

2035, I don't think we can because I

don't think we'd be able to finance that

debt. I I think we everything would come

crashing down. But apparently that's

their estimate. $54 trillion by 2035.

There's no way we could survive that. So

if it happens, good luck.

Um there are reports that uh Elon Musk

had shouting matches with Scott Basend

um and that it happened in the White

House and it was within hearing distance

of the president and other people and it

went on for a while and I guess the

F-word was used and um some of it had to

do with staffing decisions.

Um but here's my take. I like Elon Musk

and I like, you know, the way he thinks

and I like Scott Bent and I like the way

he thinks. And then I doubly like the

fact that they're so passionate that

they would yell it out behind closed

doors. And I don't mind at all that the

word got

out because if if they had just simply

agreed on everything, I'd wonder what's

up.

But, uh, this is sort of my perfect

world when you've got two people that

capable, that well-informed, and that

connected to the world, and they have a

shouting

match. To to me, that's not bad news at

all. That That's sort of like, you know,

just what you'd want. You'd want people

really, really caring, really, really

smart, and if they disagree, they're not

going to give up. They they just go at

each other. So, I wouldn't be surprised.

You're going to see uh Elon Musk's

phasing out of his his government doge

work. Um I think some of that is because

it was going to happen anyway in May. I

think his time was

up. But I think that also it wasn't

working because because I think the uh

government sort of, you know, maybe is

open to anything new like a like a Doge

person coming in and shaking things up,

but in fairly quick order, they're going

to want to have their own

control. So, I think Elon Musk was

probably a little too dangerous to have

running around for too long in the

government. So, I think he did an

amazing job and may have created a

structure that can continue making

things more efficient and saving money,

but it should be said that um it never

got close to the trillion dollars. And I

think that's one of the things that

Scott Bent was criticizing him for. And

then uh Musk was allegedly criticizing

Basent for being some kind of a Soros

related person cuz I guess he worked

with Soros at one point. Uh so that

that's pretty exciting. But yeah, I

would expect that Ela Musk will uh phase

his time back to Tesla. And uh Tesla's

at a really exciting time. It it's weird

that their sales are down because the

political connection, but at the same

time, their products have never been

this exciting. I mean, they're right in

the edge of full auto taxi, robots,

um, you know, use your car for an

Uber. This is just the best stuff we've

ever seen in technology. This this is

like, you know, the birth of the

smartphone, the birth of the computer.

So Tesla is really really well

set for I don't know just maybe decades

of dominance in a few different areas.

So it does make sense that uh Musk would

turn his attentions back to work as we

all knew he would eventually. Um and I

hope that the political stuff doesn't

you know create too much of a drag on a

great company.

Well, according to China, the China

Commerce Ministry says there have been

no economic and trade negotiations

between China and the US. So, if you

thought to yourself, well, maybe Trump

hasn't talked to Chairman Xi, but surely

there are discussions going on at lower

levels. Nope. Apparently, there are not

discussions going on at lower levels

according to China.

Um but let's uh let's take a look at the

implications of that. According to an

article in Wired by Zeang,

uh even though China is limiting u US

access to critical minerals, it might

not be as bad as you assume because

we've all been told they need these

critical rare earth materials

um to build all kinds of technology from

your phones to your robots to your

electric cars and everything else. And

that's true, but um we're being reminded

by this article that uh you could live

without them. So, for example, your your

electric car could certainly operate

without some of the rare earth

materials. It might not last as long and

there might be a feature or two that it

can't do, but it'd still be an electric

car.

Um, and apparently there are a number of

examples of that where if you had to,

you could just sort of make your product

without some of those rare earth

minerals. It's just that it wouldn't be

as good, but you could still make it and

it would still be commercial and people

would still buy it.

And then also u this is what I was

wondering about but apparently Belgium

has emerged as a possible reexport hub

meaning that if people bought the rare

earth minerals from China

um China doesn't know where it goes

after that and that maybe some part of

the European Union could be buying these

rare earth materials. they'd have a

closer connection to the United States

than to China. And then the next thing

you know, the United States has some

rare earth minerals from China. But

China doesn't know that we have it. Now,

if if all the countries that we sanction

can pull this off, such as Iran, they

still manage to get stuff. And I'm sure

Russia still manages to get stuff. I

feel like we can do the same thing. you

you don't think we could figure a way to

smuggle in that rarer stuff. The other

thing I learned that I didn't know is

that even though it's critical

materials, we don't spend a

lot. It It's not like trillions of

dollars or anything. It's like a fairly

small amount of material, very

important, but small in terms of

quantity, but also small in terms of

dollar amount. So, one of the reasons

that we don't have, you know, new mines

and refineries popping up for these rare

earth minerals is that all it would

take, according to this article in

Wired, all it would take is one new

factory or refinery for one of those

minerals and it would create too much of

the mineral.

So apparently the demand is critical

because they're important, but it's a

small demand. Like it's not that many

dollars and it's not that many pounds of

material. So if you built a new

refinery, it would maybe crush the price

for the one mineral and your your

business model wouldn't work. So that's

interesting. I didn't know any of

that. But anyway, there might be

workarounds for the rare earth minerals.

We'll see. Um, according to Ryan

Peterson, who follows shipping, he's uh

I think he's

uh CEO of Flexport,

um or founder of or both, but uh

Flexports in the the shipping uh

industry. and uh he says that in the 3

weeks since the tariffs took effect

um the ocean container bookings from

China to the US are down 60%

industrywide and he predicts we'll have

mass shortages this summer as goods

don't show

up and even if things got fixed now it's

going to take till summer to get the

mass shortages I don't know shortages of

what specifically but it's going to be a

lot of

Um, a lot of companies sort of ordered

extra in anticipation of shortages

later. So once we work through the extra

that that people ordered, we're going to

just run dry for some things. And again,

I don't know which ones, but um and then

if we decided to suddenly ramp up, you

know, let's say the um tariff stuff was

all solved. If you solved it

immediately, you would still have a

problem that the ships had been used for

other things and there wouldn't be

enough ships to make up for the

shortfall because everybody would be

scrambling for the same materials. So,

we're going to have some pretty

serious shortages and maybe some our

factories will go idle and go out of

business. So, there's going to be some

disruption and the the faster the China

tariff situation gets solved, the better

we'll be. Now, we don't know yet

uh and I don't know, I guess if this

will hurt the United States more than it

will hurt China. So, of course, the game

here is that both will pretend, well,

you can't hurt me. We can we can work

with this. And each side will say, "No,

it's worse for you than it is for me.

You'll you'll crack." I don't know. Do

you think China's going to crack? I I

think Trump is uh wise to be moderating

his tone so that he's treating China as

a respectful, you know, peer that we

negotiate with and not somebody we're

trying to walk all over. So, we'll

see. Apparently, Trump has vetoed the

idea of increasing taxes on rich people.

There was an idea that the federal tax

on people making over a million a year

would go to something like

40%. But uh Trump says no because if you

raise taxes on the rich, they leave the

country and you need the rich to pay

taxes.

Now, I I'm not sure if that's the only

reason or if it's he's just being a

Republican and he doesn't want to raise

taxes on anybody, but uh he called it

very disruptive. So, I guess we're

probably not going to see taxes on the

rich go

up. According to the Wall Street

Journal, and this uh I don't know why

this took so long, there's new French

study that showed that uh sure enough,

not only is it true that some of the

additives in our food are bad for us and

cause diabetes and

whatnot. Um but if you combine them,

it's extra bad. So what the new study is

is not looking at one additive, which is

normally the way the studies work. They

would look at what happens if you have

several of these additives in the same

food. And apparently it's as bad as you

think. So if you add together multiple

additives in the same food, you've got a

much higher risk of type 2 diabetes and

god knows

what. So the food industry of course

defended it. uh and they say it's

important for food safety and quality.

But then you have to ask the question,

if it's important for food safety and

quality, why isn't it important in

Europe where a lot of this stuff's

illegal? I I guess they need to answer

that

question. Well, in other news related,

RFK Jr. is uh apparently noodling on

um removing the CDC's COVID 19 vaccine

recommendation for

children. Were you even aware that the

CDC was still recommending COVID 19

vaccines for children? How many of you

even knew that that was a a

thing? Well, here's the good news, and

this is reported in Politico. Here's the

good news. Apparently only 13% of

children have gotten that COVID shot. So

most parents are pretty keyed in that uh

young people don't really have a bad

time with CO and there's no reason to

add another risk on top of the CO

itself. So we don't know yet if Kennedy

will will actually pull that or get that

reversed, but I feel like it's going to

happen. If only 13% of people are

getting it anyway, it wouldn't be that

big of a shock to the system to say,

"Okay, this is not recommended." You

know, you could get it if you want, but

it's not it's not

recommended. Well, here's a

surprise. Um, so Senator Federman was

asked an interview with the Washington

Free Beacon, and he he said that we

should bomb uh Iran's nuclear sites. and

he says, quote, "Waste that shit." He

said, quote, "You're never going to be

able to negotiate with that kind of

regime that has been destabilizing in

the region for decades already. And now

we have an incredible window, I believe,

to do that and to strike and destroy

Iran's nuclear

facilities." How do you feel about

Federman

now? Not so good, right?

We we were enjoying watching Fedman

agree with Republicans on, you know, a

lot of stuff, at least the common sense

stuff. Um, but uh he seems pretty

pro-Israel and pretty pro-war, at least

in this particular context. And I have

to say that his credibility just went to

zero for me.

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Um, that do you feel comfortable with

that? the Fedman says, "Yeah, let's go."

You know, stop negotiating. There's

nothing. Now, I don't know that he's

wrong

uh in the sense that the negotiating

might never work. You know, we're

dealing with somebody we can't negotiate

with, maybe.

But uh I also think there's a nonzero

possibility that Iran might think that

for its own benefit it doesn't need to

be developing nuclear weapons cuz they

would get bombed. So they might think

we've got so many, you know, good

missiles and so many good drones now cuz

apparently they're pretty good at making

them that uh

militarily they would be better off

using missiles and drones anyway because

they're not going to get nuked if they,

you know, if they use non-uclear

weapons. So I don't know. I I think only

because missiles and drones are the new

way of war. Um, I think there might be

an opening in which they would think it

was to their own best interest to stop,

you know, refining things to weapons

grade in the nuclear

domain. That's what I feel like. I don't

I don't think it's likely we'll find an

agreement. I think he's right that, you

know, the Iran regime has shown that

they can't be trusted,

etc. But it's a little worrying that

he's so pro-war. Bomb him. Bomb him.

Yeah, I'm not I'm not comfortable with

that at

all. Um, meanwhile, economist Jeffrey

Sachs

um is saying that Ukraine will have to

agree to peace or continue without US

backing. Now, that's same thing I said.

Um, I think it's kind of obvious at this

point. He says, uh, quote, "One thing

that I'm pretty much convinced of is

that Trump will not go back to Congress

for more appropriations to fund

Ukraine's war or its military or

whatever one wants to call it." I

agree. So, Trump uh did a big truth post

about

Zalinski, you know, not wanting to give

up Crimea in order for peace. And Trump

explained in his post that uh Crimea is

a major Russian submarine base. So he's

explaining why that's not really in

play. Apparently it's mostly ethnic

Russians. I don't know if Trump said

that, but that's what I knew. So Crimea

is mostly ethnic Russians. How much do

they want to be in

Ukraine? I don't know. I'm not sure if

we can tell. But don't you think that

the people who are mostly Russian ethnic

Russians would be probably just as happy

being part of Russia because it's not

like Ukraine is the, you know, the

country where everything works

well. Yeah. It's the most corrupt

country in the world. So, I don't know.

The fact that they're mostly ethnic

Russians suggests to me anyway, and I'm

no expert. I have not visited there, but

it suggests to me that they probably

would be happier with Russia

control. And uh I guess Zilinski may

have thought that he was being asked to

recognize Crimea as Russianowned. And

Trump is telling him, "Nobody's asking

you to do that. The United States might.

The United States might agree to

recognize Crimea as part of Russia, but

he's not asking Ukraine to do it. So,

that's worth something. And he and he

calls Zalinski the man with no cards to

play and he says he should close this

deal right

away. Um, yes, he should. Now, at the

same time, I think last night, um,

Russia bombed Kiev and killed several

people and it was a pretty bad attack.

And, uh, Trump did a separate truth

telling Vladimir, "What the hell are you

doing? stop Homi of we're we're trying

to work out a deal here. It it was kind

of weirdly personal. You even though he

did it in public, you know, what are you

doing? Stop bombing cave. We're we're so

close to a deal. It's crazy. So, we'll

see if that

works. Uh, according to Politico. All

right, here's a test of your fake news

nose sniffer. Let's see if you can spot

the BS here. According to Politico, the

white the White House is debating

lifting sanctions on Russian energy

assets and the

Nordstream. Now, that sounds believable,

right? Because, you know, there's

negotiations about, you know, our our

interaction with Russia and our

interaction with Ukraine. And you could

imagine that Russia would ask for that

sanctions to be lifted. So it wouldn't

be a big surprise if the White House was

debating whether they should do it or

not. So that that sounds like it could

be true, right? Well, according to Marco

Rubio, who would certainly know what's

true or not in that domain, he said in a

post on X, this is

unequivocably false. But listen to the

specificity of how he debunks

it. It's a little too specific. right

now. The report is that the quote white

house is debating it. So that's the

report. When he debunks it, he says

this. Neither Steve Wickoff nor I have

had any conversations about lifting

sanctions against Russia as part of a

deal with Ukraine. Huh. Well, that's not

exactly what Politico said, is it?

Politico said the White House. The White

House is a lot of different people. you

know, including the president. But in

the in the debunking of it, Rubio says

only two people, Steve Wickoff and

Rubio. Now, that might be 100% true that

neither he nor Wickoff have had any

conversations about it. But does that

mean there's nobody in the White House

who's debating that?

It seems like his denial or his

debunking is a little too

specific. And he says, "This is

journalistic malpractice. If Politico

has an ounce of integrity, they'll

retract this

fiction." Um, okay. Uh, I'm going to say

that that's the sort of thing you would

expect people in the White House to be

debating, but if what Rubio is saying is

that the people who are, you know,

critical to that question are not

talking about it, it does mean

something. So, it's not nothing, but

that's a very specific

denial. You know, that that's usually a

key that there's a little something left

out. All right. According to the Daily

Mail,

um I didn't even know this, but

apparently China and Russia uh are

getting quite cozy with their space

programs. And now there are plans that

China and Russia would build a nuclear

power plant on the

moon to power their mining and their

their laboratories and god knows what

else they put up there. Probably

military stuff. But I'll tell you, if

you didn't think there was going to be a

war in

space, I hate to tell you, there's going

to be war in space. Yeah, war in space

feels just

guaranteed. You know, it might start

small with somebody takes down a

satellite or somebody tries to knock out

somebody's power plant and their, you

know, their moon base or something like

that. But I feel like space war is just

guaranteed, you know, just because of

human nature.

So

maybe and that ladies and gentlemen is

all I needed to talk about today. Um, I

will tell you that people have been

proddding me on

X to say bad things about

Israel. And people are saying to me,

Scott, when have you ever said anything

bad about

Israel? And I'm going to remind you that

what's the difference what my opinion is

of Israel?

Can anybody give me a reason why anybody

would care about my opinion of Israel?

It's not my

country. It's not my country at all. But

what I will note, and I've noted this

before, is that the people who seem to

be debating it are debating it on the

ethical and moral level. Like who's

who's the most immoral? Who's doing the

most unethical things? to which I say

none of that is

relevant. Somebody's opinion of what is

moral or ethical, I'm not even sure

that's a variable that has anything to

do with anything because countries do

what's good for

countries. And you know, as soon as you

get into people are dying, it's it all

looks immoral. It all looks unethical.

And if you say to me, but but but Israel

had a good reason because of October

7th, then I say to you, sure, if I were

Israel, I would make the same claim. It

would be a strong claim. And I would use

that opportunity to do the things that I

wanted to do but couldn't do before,

which is improve security. And in this

case, it looks like trying to destroy

Hamas completely.

And then I saw some people say, "All

right, imagine this thought experiment.

If Israel decided to lay down all of its

arms and not fight, what would Hamas

do?" And then of course the answer is

Hamas would kill everybody in Israel.

And then the question would be, "But if

Hamas laid down their arms, what would

be the response?" And of course,

everybody says, "Oh, Israel would just

accept the peace and then everybody

would live in peace." So therefore,

Hamas is the bad one. But again, that

gets into

the sort of ethical moral dimension,

which I don't have any interest in

whatsoever.

uh what I see is a power play and

whoever is in power is going to you know

execute based on their national interest

and what their power can get them. And

so when I watch a country doing

something that's clearly in their best

interest, which is what Israel is doing,

clearly they're operating in their own

best interest, um it's hard for me to

criticize that because if the situation

were I won't say reversed, but if the

United States were in that same

situation, we would do whatever is good

for the United States and it might be

absolutely brutal and whoever's on the

receiving end of it wouldn't like it at

all. But I think the most I hate to say

the most normal thing in the world is

that the people with the power will

pursue their national interest in ways

that other people aren't going to like

at all. And you know, most countries are

founded on the backs of somebody who got

conquered anyway. You know, that is the

most normal

thing. So I was trying to think of

some story or analogy that would explain

it the best. And so I'm going to try one

you even though analogies are not part

of reason. We'll see if this gets

anywhere. If somebody said to me, Scott,

the only way you could save your life is

to kill a thousand

babies. What do you

choose? Well, I'd like to think, you

know, it's easy for me to say since it's

hypothetical. I'd like to think I would

say, "Oh,

man. Uh, I'd hate to die, but I don't

want to kill a thousand babies. That

would be immoral and ethical." No, I

can't do that. I I will sacrifice myself

for the thousand babies. Wouldn't

you? I think you'd agree with that,

right? I mean it would be tough to be in

this situation but at least in a ideal

situation I would choose the thousand

babies over me. Now let's modify that a

little bit and somebody says Scott the

only way you can save your entire

country the United

States the every single person is going

to die unless you kill a thousand

babies.

What do I do then? It's just as immoral,

right? It's just as unethical. It's just

as evil to kill a thousand

babies. But in that case, because

self-defense is is invulnerable to

morality and ethics really, uh if the

self-defense is big enough, you're

saving an entire country, which would

include saving a lot more babies than

you would kill.

I would say where are those babies and

when could I get started because saving

the country would be a you know a bigger

priority than saving a thousand

babies. So the thing I would add to the

conversation is if Israel is doing

something to you that looks like killing

a thousand

babies but their

alternative looks to them and they're

the only ones who get to decide. It

looks to them like they could lose their

entire country to, you know, a rising

force that wants to kill every one of

them. Then it's sort of none of my

business. They get to make that

decision. Everybody gets to decide what

your own self-defense looks like. And

other people don't get to tell them that

was unethical or that was immoral or we

wish you hadn't done it. I mean, we

could we could move our lips

But it's not really part of the

decision. So when I look at Israel doing

some pretty brutal stuff with

Gaza, I don't say to myself, is it

ethical or moral? I say to myself, is it

self-defense? And if it's self-defense

or they reasonably believe it's

self-defense, I don't even have to be

the the judge of whether it is. If they

reasonably believe it's self-defense,

it's not really a moral or ethical

question. It's

self-defense. And I do think they have

an argument that it's

self-defense. Um, and it wasn't I don't

think it's Israel's fault that Hamas

wraps itself around the um around this

civilian population. It does make it a

gigantic tragedy.

So, I'm not I'm not uh devaluing the the

horror of it. You could still say the

horror is a 10. 10 out of 10. Okay. But

in the real world, when people have a

self-defense motivation and they've got

one shot and October 7th made it

possible for Israel to take its one

shot, don't be surprised if they take

it. But here's the important thing. If

you thought that I just gave you an

opinion on Israel, it was the

opposite. All I did is describe the

world. I didn't give you an opinion on

Israel because my opinion on Israel is

completely

irrelevant. Israel will do what's good

for Israel because they have the power

to do so. If Hamas had the power, they

would do what Hamas wants and it would

be pretty brutal.

and my opinion wouldn't matter to that

either. So, stop trying to drag me into

it because it's really just a up

way to find a way to criticize public

figures. So, I'm not in this fight. Uh,

I care what's good for

America and I care about America's

self-defense and America's

well-being. Israel's on its

own. If you ask me, should we pay for

it? I'd say no. because that's not my

best

interest. So just keep me out of the

Israel Hamas thing because my opinion of

what's ethical or moral has nothing to

do with anything. It's a power play.

It's a self-defense play. It's a

national interest play. And the people

who have the power are going to get what

they want. And that's just the way the

world works. And that's an

observation, not an opinion. You don't

need my opinion. has no value here

whatsoever. All right, so I just wanted

to clarify that because people have been

asking me on

X. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm

going to say some stuff privately to the

local

subscribers and the rest of you. Thanks

for joining. Come back tomorrow, same

time, same place. And locals coming at

you in 30

seconds. Just enough time for Oops. Is

that

working? Might have a problem here. All

right. So, I'm having a technical

problem where updating the stream is not

working, which suggests that I cannot go

private with the people on locals at the

moment, but I didn't have much else to

say, so you're not missing anything. Um,

so I'm going to see if I can close the

stream, and if that doesn't work, I'll

have to close the application. All

right.

Say

goodbye. Let's see if this

works. Uh, no, that's not working. So, I

have to close the application and reopen

it and close it. But then we will

disappear.