Episode 2826 CWSA 05/01/25

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See what science can tell us.

According to the Pettington Biomedical Research Center, the average rate of obesity among Americans has risen by approximately 30% over 20 years.

Now, how many of you have not noticed?

Have you noticed that the rate of obesity is sort of through the roof?

There's good news and there's bad news.

The good news is that it's never been easier to be in the top 10% of attractive people.

You know, it used to be when I was a kid, um, if you were born attractive, well, you had all the advantages, but given that, you know, in theory, everybody can lose weight and everybody can, you know, fix their teeth if they have enough money and everybody can get a good haircut and maybe do something about your skin and wear better clothes, it has never been easier to be in the top 10%.

And if you're in the top 10% of attractive people, things will probably go pretty well for you.

So, it's good news and bad news.

Well, apparently the Wall Street Journal had a big old fake news story.

Uh they were saying that that Tesla was looking for a new CEO to replace Musk.

Uh but they failed to run Tesla's denial.

So I guess they asked Tesla and Tesla said absolutely not.

That is not happening.

Nobody's looking for a new CEO.

We already have a CEO is Musk.

And they didn't run the denial.

It it's one thing to be wrong, but being wrong when the only really reliable source of information tells you that you're absolutely 100% wrong, that's pretty bad.

And uh Elon Musk wasn't too happy about that.

I guess you wouldn't be too happy either if the news ran such a fake report about you.

Um, here's some news about Tim Walsh, who I call the pointy-ired boss.

You know, if I ever do a Dilbert movie, and I'm looking for live actors to play the Dilbert characters, the pointy-ired boss would have to be Tim Walls.

Just imagine him.

And then imagine the pointy-dire boss.

It's the same guy, isn't it?

There's no difference.

He's just the pointy-ired boss.

So his his latest Tim Walsism is he was explaining to an audience why he was selected as the VP candidate and he said quote uh I could code talk to the white guys watching football fixing their truck.

I was the permission structure to say look you can do this and vote for this.

That is the the least male thing anybody ever said.

I could code talk to white guys.

He even the way he says it, he doesn't even say it like he is one of the guys.

He He says it like he's a robot who would learn the lingo of men.

It's like, "Oh, I can code talk just like a guy.

I'm not a guy.

I'm not a real man, but I can talk like one.

So, I was a good choice.

And and I was the permission structure to say the permission structure.

Who talks like that?

But the funny thing about that is that that that even today they still think that identity politics is the way to go.

Because even though he was trying to act like a white guy because they thought they needed to get more support from white guys, that's still just identity politics.

It it's just a weird one.

So they they just can't get out of that little trap they've set for themselves that everything is identity politics.

Anyway, they'll never escape that.

According to Mark Zuckerberg, um Meta is going to try to make you an AI friend.

So I guess uh if you have Meta, you'll be able to use their AI to create some friends.

So finally, finally my audience could have some friends.

It's not just me that's putting a lot of burden on me.

I am your invisible friend who's not that invisible.

But uh Zuckerberg said that uh the average American has three friends but has a demand for 15.

Does that sound right?

How many of you have three friends who are local?

Cuz if your friends are not local, they're still friends, but it kind of doesn't count if you can't see them in person.

How many of you have three?

Three is a lot for a man.

How many men need 15 friends?

That's a lot.

Maybe that's maybe that's what women need.

Women might need 15.

All right.

A lot of you have three three friends.

Good.

Good.

But it looks like you'll get some extra ones.

Uh yesterday I talked about uh a video I saw from Anderil.

That's the new defense contractor that does the the newest high-tech defense stuff.

And they had a uh a man portable they call it, meaning one person could carry it.

Um device called a drone, well it's a drone killer called the Pulsar L.

And they showed a video where um one of the people demonstrating the the Pulsar L was aiming it at a big swarm of drones coming over the hill and it knocked down all the drones.

And apparently I was one of many people who said that can't be real.

Like it just looks too good.

It must be CGI.

and uh Palmer Lucky had to uh had to tell the public, "No, we we have a rule against using CGI if it's anything that can be seen." So, they would use CGI to, you know, maybe show an electric pulse or something, which they didn't do, but they would never use CGI to show something in the physical world that wasn't real.

So, it was real.

So it it worked so well apparently that it looked fake.

Now if if one soldier can carry this gun-shaped object that can take out an entire swarm of of drones coming over the hill, how many of those would you have to give to Ukraine before the uh before the Russian military was completely neutered?

because it's a drone war at this point, right?

It it's sort of turned into trench warfare, but the humans are not leaving the trenches, just the drones.

So, in theory, you could you could calculate how many of them would completely neuter the uh the Russian drone attacks, at least the local ones that were that were on the front line.

So, I don't know, maybe there's something coming that we don't know about.

At the same time, speaking of drones, according to Defense Scoop, uh the uh cartels on our southern border, the Mexican cartels are using their own drones to surveil our military that's on the border now.

And our military is looking for uh counter drone capabilities.

Now, wouldn't that be the Anderil device?

Um, I don't know how many options they have, but it does seem like if they can see the drones and they know where the drones are coming from and they know they're cartel drones, don't they just have to aim that Anderil device at it and knock it down?

Feel it feels like we have the technology to do that.

Well, uh, Kla Harris gave her, uh, first big speech since she's been, you know, out of the public eye for a little while.

And I got to say, she looked drunk to me.

How many of you saw the clips?

And how many of you thought she looked drunk or acted drunk?

She looked pretty drunk.

Well, when I see her, I don't even think Kamla anymore.

I think drunka.

So, of course, she said uh that there's chaos and blah blah blah.

Um I thought Carolyn Levit Levit said that the Republicans are really happy if she does more speaking.

She is so bad.

So bad that she's the only politician at that level that can't give a decent speech.

Oh my god.

And I assume some of that is because of alcohol, but it is unconfirmed.

Well, allegedly, according to CNN, um, President Baly of El Salvador has rejected the Trump administration's request to return that Marilyn dad, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Does that sound true to you?

Do you think that the the Trump administration asked for him to be returned and Boulli said no?

Because there was I saw separately there was a report that Boulli wasn't comfortable um putting people who had not been convicted of a crime in his jails.

So we sort of just doing it because Trump wanted it.

But do you think that this is organic?

Or do you think that the Trump administration said, "Hey, I've got an idea.

Why don't we pretend that we asked for it?

We'll pretend that we tried really hard if you just say no and then everybody wins because the the court apparently the court order is just that the Trump administration attempts to facilitate the return.

It doesn't say they have to get them returned if it's impossible.

So, it kind of looks like the fix might be in a little bit.

It's like, "Hey, we're we're gonna ask you publicly to return this guy.

Just say no.

Just say no." So, we'll see what this does to the news coverage.

Um cuz, you know, I don't believe anything in the news.

I I feel like nearly 100% of the news is not exactly what you think.

uh you know there's always something a little bit missing or there's a hidden story or there's a a B story that we don't know about.

Anyway, apparently Nvidia announced uh $500 billion of investments it's going to do in the United States to make its Nvidia technology.

I assume that's over 10 years or something.

I assume.

Um, but he's very gung-ho on President Trump and the United States and he should be uh that's Jensen Wang, the uh CEO of Nvidia.

So, he announced that uh with Trump and uh I believe that Trump is saying that there's $8 trillion of money that's moved into the US.

Now again that would be over 10 years so you know it's still a lot but $8 trillion do you believe that?

I I think there's something like 5 trillion that's somewhat known and confirmed but you know you have to add the Trump or hyperbole to it.

Five becomes eight.

Eight becomes 20.

So we'll see how that goes.

Well, remember I remember I told you uh yesterday that I doubted that there would really be a uh Ukraine mineral deal with the United States because it just seemed to me like we weren't really getting there.

Well, was I wrong?

because there's an announcement that there is a signed mineral deal with Ukraine and the United States.

So, I I guess there is a mineral deal.

Oh, wait.

Did I say there's a mineral deal?

Well, it's not exactly a mineral deal if you if you look under the hood a little bit.

It's more of a deal to maybe make a deal.

Was that what you thought you were going to get?

Because I was sort of thinking of it as, all right, we're going to, you know, have this specific deal and we're going to mine this specific stuff and, you know, this is what we'll do and this is what you'll do.

Well, it's not that.

It's not that.

It's more like uh the agreement grants the US quote privilege access to investment projects for various things like aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas reserves includes oil.

Interesting.

What do you what do you think that means?

Privileged access.

Privileged access.

It's kind of not defined, is it?

Suppose privilege access is just who they ask first.

What if Ukraine has some minerals that they want to exploit whether it's oil or anything else and they say okay everybody US has privilege access so what do you guys offer us and the US says well uh thanks for asking us first because we have this privilege access so we will offer you you know 50% of all the revenue and then some other country says says, "We'll offer you 75%." Do they still have to do the deal with the United States, or do you think the agreement would say that the US has to match the best deal?

What if we don't?

What if we don't match the best offer?

We'd still have privilege access because if we did match it, we'd get the deal.

But do you think they're leaving the door open for maybe maybe they're not doing quite the deal you think it is?

So I'm going to I'm going to say that uh it looks like a step in the right direction.

So directionally looks pretty good and it might might send the right message in terms of getting a peace deal.

So it's probably good.

But I'll bet you the details of this deal are not exactly what you thought they were.

I I think it's probably a weaker deal than you imagined would come out of it.

Anyway, um China, according to the Wall Street Journal, uh try China is still trying to tell us that they can more easily withstand the tariff trade war.

Um and they can tolerate the pain longer than the US.

But according to the Wall Street Journal, there are cracks that are beginning to show in the Chinese um economy.

There's plunging trade and there factories that are being idled and there people being laid off in China.

And if there's one thing I've learned about assessing China's economy, we're never right about it.

How many How long has it been?

It's been like what, eight years since I've been telling you stories about China's economy falling off the cliff and that basically they can't last another year because there are all these uh there's a real estate collapse and they've got a demographic collapse and they've got this and that kind of a problem and that problem.

I don't know that any of it's real.

I I don't think we have any real visibility under in what's happening in China.

So I do not believe that uh we we really have any visibility in that at all.

We'd just be guessing.

So I'm not going to predict that China will fold, but I think they want to deal as much as we do.

So probably something will happen.

My my guess is that China will be a lot of nothing happening, nothing happening, nothing happening, and then something happening quickly.

So, I don't think it'll be like others.

Now, I did see some suggestion that we might be seeing some kind of a trade deal announced, not with China, but with some other country.

Have we heard anything about that this morning?

Because it might happen today.

Now, if I had to guess, since trade deals really take a long time to get the details right, whatever gets announced will be sort of like that Ukraine mineral deal, it'll be more like a deal to make a deal.

You know, it would be more like uh something along the lines of South Korea and the US have agreed on an outline of what a trade deal would look like, but it would be 6 months away from actually having it signed.

It might, you know, the the handshake might be enough to drop all the the the trade barriers.

So, maybe a handshake is all you need while they work out the details.

But uh I would expect maybe South Korea andor possibly Japan will go first.

That's what I think.

And then I think it might be a while before the second one.

But when you get to something like the fifth announced trade deal, uh I think Trump's poll numbers are going to look really different because then it's going to look like things are working.

First one or two or three maybe people are going to say they're exceptions.

But if Trump gets five, even though they're, you know, maybe 200 that you need to get, if he gets five, let's say in a two week period, it's going to look like everything's going the right direction, and that would be a good time to own stock, I would think.

Well, I I don't know if you're following the story of the uh the DNC, the the Democrat leadership, where David Hog is getting a lot of heat because he wants to primary some Democrats.

But even his uh co- co-watch, his co-leader uh in the DNC says you can't do that if you're the DNC.

If you're the DNC, you got to be in favor of Democrats.

he can't be primary any of them.

So, he's been getting some heat from that, but he's getting some extra heat according to the publication Semaphore because uh there's some there's some concern that he's a white guy.

Now, I remember when he got elected and and I realized that there were two white guys in charge of the DNC, the most identity obsessed, you know, group in the entire world.

Really, the the head of the top identity, you know, basically obsessed group.

And I thought, how in the world do you get two white guys as the leadership of the identity group?

And it turns out that was a problem because there's now a uh complaint being filed by Kalin Free, a Native American attorney.

and she says the DNC's credentials committee um is going to meet to talk about whether David Hog was justly elected or there was something wrong with their process because it didn't give them enough diversity.

So the complaint the complaint is they didn't get diversity in their leadership.

Now, the the most predictable thing in the world is that the Democrats will eat themselves from the inside cuz once you commit to the identity frame, you really can't get away from it cuz everybody's got to, you know, intersectionality or, you know, well, you might be white, but we need you to be a little bit gay or trans or something.

So, it's like this neverending source of conflict within the organization.

They're pretty much doomed.

Well, RFK Jr.

is making some news.

I think he's made several pieces of news.

Uh, one is uh and this is just a wild way to say it.

So, this is his actual quote.

He said uh we have ended uh HHS as the role of the principal vector in this country for child trafficking.

What health and human services the organization he's running he's saying was the principal vector for child trafficking in the United States.

That that is the most damning thing I've ever heard anybody say about anything.

What?

What?

Now, I don't exactly know what that means, but it has to do with the fact the Biden administration let somehow managed to lose 300,000 children that came in over the border.

And I think health and human services must have been part of that.

And uh the assumption is that some large number of them or percentage of them uh were trafficked for sex and slavery.

And uh and RFK Jr.

says, "We have ended that and we're very aggressively going out and trying to find the those lost children, the ones lost by the Biden administration." Now, that is one hell of a charge.

Like, if there were no other news, I'm seeing somebody in the comments saying that I'm moving the goalpost, but you don't mention what the topic is or what goalpost I moved.

You you you must meet one of those Nazi uh Democrats.

Have you noticed the the Democrats have a full Nazi strategy?

Just make up a big lie and then get everybody to repeat it.

It's the Nazi strategy.

Um here's something else RFK Jr.

announced separately.

um that the uh new vaccines will have to be tested with a placebocont controlled trial.

Now, if you're like me, it wasn't that long ago where you said to yourself, "How can this be news?" Because obviously, obviously, all vaccines have been tested in a placeboc trial.

Duh.

It wouldn't be very valid if he didn't do a placeboc control trial.

and then you unleashed it on the entire public.

That couldn't possibly be happening, right?

Apparently, that was happening.

The vaccines were not historically tested in a placebo control trial, but that's going to change.

So, I don't know how much uh I don't know how much that will change things in terms of how long it takes.

the I'm looking at the criticism that's coming in from the dumb people.

So, somebody is uh criticizing me for not being expert in deals.

Well, surprise.

I'm actually expert in deals.

I I used to be a contract negotiator for a living.

And then when I became a cartoonist, um I was deeply involved in contract negotiations.

my entire career because there were always licensing and publishing deals etc.

So I actually am an expert in in uh deal making and I'm also an expert in persuasion which is part of negotiation.

So sorry I'm kind of an expert in this domain.

I I hate to disappoint you.

You're going to have to come up with some new Nazi uh strategy.

That one did work.

All right.

There are lots of things I talk about in which I am not an expert such as you know anti- drone technology but uh no deal making that happens to be one of my domains.

RFK Jr.

also made some uh news according to the national pulse.

Um, he claims that DARPA might be mixing uh some kind of chemtrail agents into commercial jet fuel.

What?

How could you make that kind of accusation in public without somehow being able to check it if you're part of the government?

If you thought that the fuel of commercial jet jets was in intentionally tampered with to do geoengineering so that the the jet exhaust was doing more than just being jet exhaust and was changing the environment somehow and you thought that it was DARPA that was behind it.

Is there not kind of a simple way to confirm that?

Can't you say to President Trump, um, could you talk to DARPA and just ask them because you can declassify anything?

Just ask them if they're doping the, uh, jet fuel.

I feel like this one's a little premature.

Doesn't mean he's wrong.

I'm not saying he's wrong.

I'm saying I feel like that one should have been confirmed before it became a public accusation.

So maybe he's getting a little ahead of himself unless he's really confident that DARPA is doing that.

And I'm not saying they're not.

Not saying they're not doing it, but we need to know more about that.

Well, as Breitbart and others are reporting, the uh GDP for America was weak in the first quarter.

Of course, I think Trump is blaming Biden and and uh there was bunch of distortions because people ordering things ahead of the potential tariff stuff.

So, we don't know if that uh GDP number is telling us anything really important, but maybe it is.

Maybe it is.

So, how many of you um would be surprised if the country goes into a mild recession before it improves?

Isn't that kind of baked into the process?

I'd be surprised if it didn't happen.

So, I'd expect a little bit of a recession at the least.

I mean, anything could be worse and anything could be better, but I think it was Jamie Diamond who said this that the best case scenario is a mild recession.

I think he's probably right.

That's probably the best case scenario, but it is the best case scenario because if we have a mild recession followed by a, you know, a rapid return and maybe to a higher point, um, you know, once the trade deals are are getting signed, I'd be happy with that.

According to uh Frank Luntz, famous pollster, uh he talked to a bunch of people who voted for Trump and he wondered if they were still backing Trump given that they were feeling some economic pain and probably were going to feel some more.

And he said uh that it's unprecedented that Trump voters still stand behind uh Trump despite the economic pain.

uh L said on CNBC, "I've never seen this before." Because usually when you're hurt economically, that changes your perspective and your politics.

Not with these people.

They're staying firm.

Now, the way he says it makes it sound like the people are stupid.

Is that how you hear it?

You know, like they don't know what's in their own best interest or something.

I don't think he understands Republicans.

The defining characteristic of Republican is that they're long-term thinkers and they're willing to take some short-term pain to get there.

It's probably the most defining characteristic.

So, here the president has given Republicans the following proposition.

there's going to be some short-term disruption and it's the only way to get to this way better situation.

And then Republicans listened to him and said, "All right, so we're going to have to suck it up for a while." Yes.

And then they say, "Got it.

So we'll suck it up for a while." It's it's the most defining characteristic probably more than just about anything.

I mean, everything from religion to starting a family to, you know, staying out of trouble and almost everything Republicans do are very obviously and clearly oriented toward the long term.

And when you look at and and systems over goals and when you look at Democrats, it seems completely oriented towards some kind of short-term dopamine hit.

Like even the story I was telling earlier about uh the DNC head, how is that any kind of a long-term anything if they're fighting about whether the head of the DNC is diversified enough?

There's no long-term anything with that.

It's just short-term dopamine pleasure.

Ah, we got rid of the white guy.

Ah, it it is the single thing that defines I think Republicans from Democrats.

It's the ability to, you know, take some pain to get to a better place.

That's it.

So, I would not have been surprised.

Franklance.

According to the new Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, um he says, quote, uh we all recognize climate change as an existential threat, which makes me wonder who is he talking to?

I mean, he wasn't addressing America, but is that true?

Is it true that everyone in Canada thinks that uh climate change is an existential threat?

Everybody.

I mean, even if it is, it's hard to get everybody on the same side about anything.

But, uh, then he says he's going to punish companies who don't work to end climate change.

All right.

So, which side of the border would you like to be on if you're a company?

Would you like would you like to be on the Canada side of the border where where you're going to get punished if you don't do enough to change climate change or would you like to be on the American side of the border where people are just going to be operating in whatever way you know doesn't violate any laws but you know is making the most money and in theory if the Canadians are right about CO2 and climate change.

It doesn't matter what the they do because the United States isn't doing it as long as they're our closest neighbor and and we're ignoring all of that It doesn't matter what they do.

Sort of like what we say about India and China that the the atmosphere doesn't know where a border is.

So if India, China and the United States are ignoring the climate change risk, do you think it makes any difference to anything if Canada goes balls to the wall and starts punishing companies?

They start punishing their own companies for for not doing enough to end climate change.

It would be so different if the other big countries were on the same page.

And then I could say, well, okay, at least everybody's on the same page.

But if the biggest companies or biggest countries are not even doing anything about it, it's just the biggest waste of time I've ever seen.

Anyway, good luck, Canada.

So, at the uh Trump had a another cabinet meeting that he opened up to the cameras, which was kind of awesome.

And uh Marco Rubio said that uh the State Department that he runs now uh the the old State Department had a dossier on a current Trump official that he wouldn't name uh as a purveyor of disinformation.

And he said we had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans.

And he was referring to the Global Engagement Center which I think has been closed down now.

But in the process of looking into all that stuff, they found a dossier of somebody who I think is a cabinet head who the Biden administration had identified as a source of disinformation.

So I see some guesses that is Kennedy could have been Kennedy or Tulsi Gabbard.

Uh but Kennedy is a pretty good uh that's pretty good guess but he's not going to tell us who it is.

So but just imagine that.

I mean just imagine that Biden literally had a wellfunded gigantic agency as part of a network of other sensors both domestic and international whose job it was to remove your free speech.

if you said anything that wasn't part of the the mainstream of opinion.

It's kind of hard to believe, isn't it?

Like there there are things that you and I have lived through that the next generation is just going to shake their head and say, "Oh my god, I'm so glad I wasn't alive then." when when they thought they had a little bit of free speech, but really they didn't because they were being punished and surveiled and blocked and and uh throttled down if they said the wrong thing.

Unbelievable.

Um let's look at the Democrats attack on uh Trump and the Trump administration.

See how they're doing.

Now, as you know, they've taken a what I'll call the uh the Hitler Nazi approach to politics.

So, the Democrats are doing uh the classic Nazi thing where you just make up this gigantic lie and then you get the media to report it endlessly until at least their people believe it.

So, let's check in on some of the insane lies that are being told as part of their Nazi strategy.

Um, so Kla Harris called Trump's tariffs are reckless and his agenda selfserving.

You know, in other words, that the the point of it was to go get some tax breaks for billionaires.

Do you think that the big beautiful bill that Trump is talking about that's being, you know, now modified by the House, do you think that that's going to have a tax break for billionaires?

How many think that that's actually going to happen?

Because the Democrats have a little bit of a trap going on that they set for themselves because they've got uh James Carville saying that Trump's going to cut health care for ordinary people.

Do you think Trump's going to cut health care for ordinary people?

Now, there is I looked into it.

There is a uh some kind of a request that uh 880 billion is removed from the Medicaid budget.

But it doesn't look possible.

And first of all, that number would be over 10 years.

So it would be something like 10% somewhere in that neighborhood.

10% of the budget.

Do you think there's a way to cut the Medicaid budget by 10%.

No, there isn't.

It turns out that health care has a much smaller margin than maybe you knew or I knew.

Uh, a lot of the lot of the big money for health care comes from hospital stuff.

You know, things that happen in hospitals.

And apparently hospitals have a really thin margin.

It's like 2 to 4% according to Grock.

Now, if your margins are only 2 to 4% on the part of health care that's the most expensive part, do you think you could cut 10% of it on any given year?

There's nothing to cut.

It's basically already operating at, you know, just barely break even.

Um, so no.

And of course, Trump has said these he's not going to touch social security and he's not going to touch healthcare for ordinary people.

Um, and then there's Swallwell.

He's one of the designated liars.

So if you see Jamie Rascin or Swallwell, uh, and Carville, Carville's sort of joining too.

They're they're all part of the Nazi strategy of telling the big lie and then just repeating it endlessly until people believe it.

So Swallwell saying, "All we wanted was cheap eggs but not deporting kids with cancer." Now, is the kids with cancer being deported a true story?

Well, it's technically true, but we're not really deporting them.

The mother wanted to take them with her uh cuz she was deported.

So, no, it's not exactly true the way they're telling it.

But here's the interesting part.

Um, Steve Bannon believes that Trump will raise taxes on the highest earners.

That would be the billionaires.

What do you think?

I feel like he might be right about that.

I I feel like Trump in order to get all the other stuff he wants and to just shut people up, he might need to raise taxes on the highest earners.

Now, I don't know what that would be if the people make over 5 million a year or over 1 million a year, but wouldn't that just totally shut up the Democrats if the Republican bill just unambiguously raises taxes for the richest people?

Or do you think that they would just act like it didn't happen and just keep saying that he doesn't mean it and he's going to really lower taxes on the rich people?

It's their it's the main thing they say when Kla Harris says it's selferving.

She kind of means that he's lowering his own taxes and those of his friends.

What if he does the opposite?

And I feel I feel as if Bannon is well enough connected and he has a good enough track record of predicting that if he says it that Trump's going to raise taxes on the highest earners, that's a real possibility.

Now maybe the Republican, you know, the Republican Congress can't do it.

It's possible.

They just can't do it.

But I do think maybe there's a good at least a 50% chance that that's what it's going to look like cuz it would completely destroy the entire Democrat approach.

Everything they're doing is depending on telling people that Trump's really doing it for his own financial benefit and those of his friends.

So, I'm going to stop the uh comments from the bad people here.

A lot of trolls today.

A lot of trolls.

All right.

Um here's what Trump said about entitlements.

She said, "There's a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse.

There are a lot of illegal aliens who are getting Medicaid that shouldn't be getting it, but we are doing absolutely nothing to hurt Medicaid or Social Security." Now, that is such a clear public statement.

Do you really think that he would say that that directly and then he would sign something that actually did hurt Medicaid or Social Security?

I I don't feel like he would.

So, I'm not too worried that the Democrats are going to be right.

And and that's why I call it the the Hitler strategy that they're using because they don't really care if it's true.

They're they're just completely unconcerned.

They only care that they can say it and that they're at least their own people and maybe senior citizens will believe it.

Anyway, Morgan Stanley is forecasting that uh by 2050 there'll be a $4.7 trillion global annual humanoid robot revenue with a billion units cumulatively deployed.

Um do you think that sounds right?

are, you know, 2050 is kind of far away, but do you think it'll be just humanoid robots all over the place and 47 trillion worth?

Well, maybe.

So, I'm going to give you a prediction.

I think there's a nonzero chance, and maybe it'll be in this budget bill, maybe it'll be in the future, that robots will be taxed.

I think robots will be taxed.

And the reason is because we tax everything that you can tax.

If there's something that can be taxed, it'll get taxed.

Now, if robots are the thing that are going to put people out of jobs, I think you have to tax them to help pay for the humans who got put out of jobs.

So whether it's Trump who does it or some future Democrat um administration, I'm pretty sure that robots are really going to be taxed more than just sales tax.

I think there's going to be a there's going to be a robot tax.

And if the robots are a big enough deal, um it might actually make a difference to our GDP and our our debt situation.

So, I'm not saying that I recommend it.

I'm going to say that I predict it.

I predict it.

Well, Chuck Schumer clowned himself again in public.

So, he was doing a press conference to uh to mock Trump's uh falling approval numbers.

And now, do you know why Trump's approval numbers are going down?

Is it because all of the people in the country did a deep dive and did their own research to find out how the economy is doing and all the details of what Trump is doing to influence it?

Or do you think that they turned on TV and they listened to the talking heads that they always listen to and the talking heads said, "Oh, the tariffs are causing chaos.

Oh, they're not using a scalpel with Doge.

And do you think that the public's opinion as represented in polls is nothing but how well the media is brainwashing people?

So the thing that the the Nazi strategy that Schumer is using and the Democrats are using is that they first must convince you that public opinion polls are driven by people's independent assessment of what's going on.

Nothing like that's happening.

Individual voters are not making any independent assessments based on their research and their knowledge of economics.

Nothing like that's happening.

It is literally a propaganda exercise.

uh it's a persuasion exercise and the Democrats have enough control over you know the biggest part of the media that they can sell any chaos related scalpel not a chainsaw that they want.

So, they've been selling the the chaos thing and he's and Trump's in it for his own benefit for the oligarchs and they found that some, you know, five or 10% of the public is influenced enough by that that they think it's true.

And so then Schumer goes out and he holds a press conference to tell you that the public the public is souring on Trump.

Nothing like that's happening in the real world.

What's happening is that the media has brainwashed 10% of the publicish to change their opinion about the optimism they might have had before.

But as Schumer is talking about how uh how Trump's numbers are lower than I don't know other presidents or something like that at this point the 100 days the random 100 days a reporter notes that Schumer's own uh his own approval is at 17%.

So, so just imagine this.

Schumer is doing a public event.

The primary message is that Trump is doing poorly because the polls say so.

And then a reporter points out that Trump is doing way better than Schumer in polls.

And do you know what Schumer said when he was challenged by the fact that his own polls are way lower than Trump's?

And the entire point the entire point of the public event is to say that Trump's poll numbers were low.

He said he he said, "Well, you know, poll numbers come and go." So he spends the first part of his speech saying that the polls are telling the public something deeply important and then somebody says, "Your own poll numbers are worse than Trump." And he immediately with no hesitation changes to polls are and then immediately switches back to those Trump polls look pretty bad, huh?

And he's one of their best guys.

Like he's one of their more talented politicians.

That was pretty funny.

Oh, anyway, at the uh cabinet meeting that I mentioned, uh apparently transportation secretary Duffy says that uh the government's not going to give uh any infrastructure uh funding from the federal government to states if the states are giving uh driver's license to non-citizens, illegal non-citizens.

So, that's new.

Um, it seems to me that that's a big enough threat that it might work.

And it makes me wonder why it took him so long to come up with that because it sounds like a good idea for what they want to get done.

So, do you think any of the states will cave and say, "All right, all right.

We'll stop giving driver's license to illegal immigrants just to get our infrastructure money." I think it might work because I think a lot of the infrastructure money gets stolen by leaders and if they don't have money coming in in these gigantic amounts so that the leaders can steal it, do the leaders really care that much about giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants or do you think they really care about these big checks coming in that they can skim some off?

So, here's where corruption works in your favor.

Usually, it doesn't.

But if you assume that the states are completely corrupt when it comes to infrastructure money coming in, which I do, I believe that they're completely corrupt, then the corruption itself might cause them to say, uh, well, I'd rather get that big taste of that money coming in for the infrastructure project.

So maybe we'll soften on the whole giving driver's license to illegal immigrants might actually work.

I guess we're going to use the same standard for states that are using DEI, which is practically every blue state.

So maybe the blue states are going to have some trouble getting their funding.

Well, allegedly, according to CNN, uh Cash Patel and the FBI are reassigning um some agents who were kneeling during the the BLM riots.

So, this is according to CNN.

Uh so, there were, you may have seen, you might remember the the pictures.

So when the uh the FBI was sort of cornered, they they kind of deescalated things by kneeling to show that they were in favor of the protesters and in favor of the, you know, Black Lives Matter.

And allegedly, according to CNN, uh that's not good for your career anymore.

So, if there's a picture of you kneeling to the crowd, you got reassigned and not promoted.

So, I'm not 100% sure this story is real, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Meanwhile, uh James O'Keefe, famous for his uh OMG undercover videos, um apparently he's made some kind of an enemy.

Um, now he he's also he's good at publicity.

So, I'm going to take him at his word that there's a real risk here cuz apparently uh he said on video he's not suicidal and that in seven days uh he's going to disappear for a while for his own safety, but in seven days he will reappear reappear and tell his story.

But he's asking us for our prayers.

So, he was being a little bit dramatic for effect.

Um, but it doesn't mean it's not a real danger.

He might have a he might be real seriously worried.

Now, he didn't name who it was that he's worried about.

Um, but he teased a bombshell, you know, that there's something about uh government corruption.

He's got several tapes of it and he's got video of officials caught breaking the law.

So, and he thinks that he has he has enough evidence that once it's released there will be indictments.

I don't know.

We'll see.

So, keep an eye on that.

We'll check in in a week.

Well, you might know that uh there was yet another judge who yet again ruled against Trump.

uh saying that uh the Trump administration can't arrest any more illegal aliens unless they have a warrant for their arrest.

Now, that's sort of not the way the process works for people who are here illegally.

You don't really need a warrant for their arrest.

You can just determine that they're not here legally and ship them back.

But this judge ruled that you do do need a warrant.

And then it uh took a few days, but uh that judge got looed.

So uh Laura Loomer did the classic thing where she checked on the spouse.

This this works so often that I love there's a word for it, being loomeed.

It means if you're a judge or some official and you do something that looks sketchy, it means Laura Loomer is going to ask what your spouse does for a living and you're going to find out there's something sketchy going on there with the with the couple.

Sure enough, the husband of that judge is a multifamily real estate broker in California.

And guess what market he caters to?

illegal aliens and the immigrant community.

And he even makes Instagram videos about how Trump's mass deportation policies are bad for multifamily real estate brokers and investors.

And of course, the judge was appointed by Biden in 2021.

Now, it's almost so predictable that you don't even need Laura Loomer to do it anymore.

You could just in your mind imagine it like, okay, there's a judge that ruled against Trump.

I'm going to imagine that the judge has a spouse and the spouse is either a gigantic donor to the DNC or somehow makes money with a charity or a business that serves the the illegal immigrant community.

Am I right?

Yes.

Yes.

pretty much every time.

So, as long as you can shop for a judge, you can find a judge who has just the right spouse.

Speaking of RFK Jr.

making uh making news, uh he also said he was on a Dr.

Phil show and he said that uh sugar is poison.

He said sugar is like crack.

He said it's poison.

Now, uh, you know that I always say alcohol is poison, but when I started saying that, I didn't know that there was already a book that came out long ago before I started saying alcohol is poison that said sugar is poison.

So, sugar is poison, you know, is sort of the OG something is poison.

Um, so I think he probably was familiar with that book.

But, uh, when you have the US Secretary of Health and Human Services say sugar is like crack, um, I feel like maybe something will happen.

I don't know what.

There's no specific policy associated with it, but I like where he's heading.

So, so far, I'm very happy with RFK Jr., very happy.

I I think he's he's pushing all the right buttons.

Now, he's not going to be right a 100% of the time, but that's not really the standard I'm going to hold him to.

I'm going to hold him to the standard of is he looking in every closet for things that might be hiding in closets?

And the answer is he seems to be.

He seems to be willing to open every closet door and see what the hell's in there.

So, as long as he's doing that and he's being completely transparent about it and he's sharing sharing what he found, you can't get better than that, you know?

So, asking him to be right about everything he's ever said in the past and right about everything he says in the future, that's not really a standard you could hold anybody to.

But boy, if you see somebody, you know, using a system and transparency and keeping you in the loop, that's good stuff.

Good good stuff.

Apparently, uh the FBI is now searching for leaks among the uh the members of the FBI and using um using a polygraph test to look for the internal leakers.

Now, I'm kind of surprised by that.

It It's a common thing in the government to use polygraphs to look for leakers, but I would feel like at least the FBI agents would know how to beat a polygraph.

Um, but probably just refusing to take it would be enough to get you fired.

It's my guess.

And since they don't know for sure if they can beat it, you know, maybe it scares them into confessing or something.

I don't know.

But uh but that's happening.

It's pretty scary.

It's scary that this tool exists and that it's it's in widespread implementation.

What happens when what happens when the uh polygraph gets to the next level?

Don't you think that we already have the technology that we can put a little hat on people that has sensors to their brain and it can tell for sure if they're lying without doing the, you know, the bodily changes that the polygraph does?

Just directly looking at their brain and find out if they're lying because I think we're right there.

So, isn't that a scary future where your employer can know for sure if you're lying?

I mean, you shouldn't be lying, but uh it would be a different world if somebody could know for sure if you're telling the truth.

Anyway, according to Unusual Wales on X, um Visa wants to give AI your credit card to buy groceries.

Now, I guess the fortune is reporting on this.

Now, I think what that means is that if you wanted to use AI as like an agent, you know, like a a little AI that's your assistant where you can tell it to go buy some tickets to the show or go buy some online groceries or something.

It really can't do anything unless it can use your credit card.

So, it's where things had to go.

So, it's not even so much about Visa.

It's just at some point your robot and your AI, they kind of had to have access to some part of your finances or else they couldn't do much useful stuff.

So, this is probably something that's inevitable, but it's kind of scary that the AI would have access to any of your funds.

But it tells me that I need a second AI.

I need one AI that's an agent that can go do things like buy things on my behalf, but I need a second AI that watches the first AI just to make it make sure it doesn't rob me, right?

It's sort of a two AI situation.

Um, with humans, it's not unusual to have a, you know, a double authorization situation where two humans have to I think in banking you see this a lot.

Um, if uh if I recall when I was a banker, a teller, if we needed to open the big safe, you we didn't leave it open all day, but if we needed to open the big safe and anybody needed to go in, they could never do it alone.

There there had to be two people so that one person would watch the other one to make sure they don't rob you.

AI has got to be the same thing because humans are not going to be able to watch AI too well.

you're going to need one AI just to watch your other AIs and make sure they're not ripping you off.

So, I think that's inevitable, too.

Apparently, uh the scammers, according to futurism, Joe Wilkins is writing about this.

Um scammers are using AI to disguise themselves as attractive people or just different people and they're going after the boomers because the boomers are easy to fool.

So, I guess AI is so good at this point that you could have your natural face doing a something like a Zoom call.

Um, and I assume that they can do it in real time, not just video, but something like a Zoom call where you look exactly like somebody else, like a completely different person.

Now, I haven't seen that demonstrated yet, but I wouldn't be surprised, of course.

Um, I wouldn't be surprised if if it uh if it doesn't work.

Wouldn't be surprised if it does work.

So, watch out for that.

If something looks too good to be true, it probably is.

You know, I I've been able to uh identify um scams because anytime there's anybody who uh alleges to be female and shows interest in me, I I immediately say, "Well, that's a scam." Yeah, I don't believe that.

So, use that same use that same standard.

Well, here's an update for the hoodies.

Um PX3 posted a Trump warning that uh the hoodies will be treated as an Iranian attack.

So Trump wants to make sure that people know that the hoodies are not operate operating independently um that they're backed by tan.

Now I don't know if that's going to change anything because we all knew that right?

Um, but it feels like it's a firing a shot across the bow of Iran when they're trying to get a nuclear deal.

Now, I told you the other day that apparently the Hoodi situation was not part of the negotiations with Iran, and I thought, why why would that not be part of the negotiations?

like why would you bother to get a a nuclear deal if you weren't going to, you know, also deal with the, you know, the hoodie situation.

You ought to throw that in there.

So maybe this is part of what uh Trump's getting ready to do.

Make sure that that gets thrown in the deal, doesn't get forgotten.

According to Remix, Russia's budget is getting hit hard because oil and gas prices are falling all over the world and Russia depends on those.

But I'm going to say the same thing I said about China.

We only imagine that we know what's happening with the Chinese economy, but it's the same with Russia.

I feel like we just sort of imagine that we know.

So maybe Russia's got a budget problem and maybe that will have something to do with them wanting to get peace on Ukraine, but I wouldn't bet on it.

So I'm going to discount that as being important.

If uh oil price went down another, you know, 40% then it definitely would make a difference.

But at the moment it's just going to squeeze them a little bit.

They'll figure it out.

Uh according to uh PJ media, he's writing about a an exclusive report in the UK times that says that Europe, if it wanted to put peacekeeping troops on the ground in Ukraine, that they would struggle to to get 25,000 troops.

And the larger picture is that apparently NATO is so hollowed out and the European countries are so um let's say so barereft of military not just personnel but equipment that there's almost no no military in Europe.

They don't have people and they don't have much in the way of assets or equipment.

So, I guess they were depending on the United States being the primary combatant if Russia decided to take Europe because it doesn't look like Europe could defend itself.

They don't have enough people and they don't have enough assets.

So, that's a that's pretty scary.

Um, but doesn't it seem like there's now a a trend that we've seen that nobody has the military that you thought they had?

That everybody's bluffing?

Because aren't you a little bit surprised that the entire Russian military couldn't capture all of Ukraine?

So UK Ukraine is fighting Russia to a standstill with what?

senior citizens and children and anybody they can get to go in a in a pit with some drones.

So, I don't think that Russia had anything like the military that we assumed they had.

And it looks like Europe doesn't have anything like the military that we assumed they had.

And I wouldn't be surprised if China also doesn't have anything like the military we thought they had.

Although if they were going bowl of the wall instead of, you know, just trying to stay within the lines, probably it would be different.

You know, if they use their best weapons and stuff, probably it'd be different.

But, uh, I don't know.

It's so easy to over to uh over well to assume that some other military is stronger than it is.

In other news, according to ZME science, China made the world's fastest transistor and didn't use any silicon and runs 40% faster and uses less power and uh blah blah blah.

But I'm going to say the same thing that I should have said about battery breakthroughs because every single day I see a new report about somebody made a battery breakthrough that charges faster and lasts longer and doesn't require any rare earth minerals.

If you would look at the history of breakthroughs, it could take 5 to 10 years for anything to hit the market.

And it could also take decades.

that wouldn't even be unusual.

So this uh new kind of uh new kind of chip and the new kind of batteries, they probably will change the world, but maybe not for 15 20 years.

So it's it's more like a forecast of what the future looks like.

Um another in other news, my last story here, I think it's my last one.

Yeah.

Um the University of Bristol has found that uh some conditions like depression and schizophrenia um might have something to do with underlying conditions in the body.

In other words, that it might not be entirely brain related.

It might be something about your overall physical fitness that's causing your depression and schizophrenia and other mental health problems.

And I will just remind you that I've been saying for years that one of our big mistakes in health care, at least mental health care, is to assume that your brain is the thing that's in your skull.

That might be the most important part, but you should think of your brain as your entire body because anything that happens to your body is going to affect your brain so much.

uh whether it's gut health or probiotics or that this new thing is about immune response.

So they think if they get gave you a better immune response, you'd have better mental health.

Now, I don't know about this particular study, but just in general, um, the fact that we treat the brain like it's a special thing in your skull and not really just, you know, one component of your mental health.

Um, has always been a mistake in my view.

Could be the food.

Could be.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I had for you.

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See what science can tell us. According

to the Pettington Biomedical Research

Center, the average rate of obesity

among Americans has risen by

approximately 30% over 20

years. Now, how many of you have not

noticed? Have you noticed that the rate

of obesity is sort of through the

roof? There's good news and there's bad

news.

The good news is that it's never been

easier to be in the top 10% of

attractive people.

You know, it used to be when I was a

kid, um, if you were born

attractive, well, you had all the

advantages, but given that, you know, in

theory, everybody can lose weight and

everybody can, you know, fix their teeth

if they have enough money and everybody

can get a good haircut and maybe do

something about your skin and wear

better

clothes, it has never been easier to be

in the top 10%. And if you're in the top

10% of attractive

people, things will probably go pretty

well for you. So, it's good news and bad

news. Well, apparently the Wall Street

Journal had a big old fake news story.

Uh they were saying that that Tesla was

looking for a new CEO to replace Musk.

Uh but they failed to run Tesla's

denial.

So I guess they asked Tesla and Tesla

said absolutely not. That is not

happening. Nobody's looking for a new

CEO. We already have a CEO is Musk. And

they didn't run the denial.

It it's one thing to be

wrong, but being wrong when the only

really reliable source of information

tells you that you're absolutely 100%

wrong, that's pretty bad. And uh Elon

Musk wasn't too happy about that. I

guess you wouldn't be too happy either

if the news ran such a fake report about

you.

Um, here's some news about Tim Walsh,

who I call the pointy-ired boss. You

know, if I ever do a Dilbert movie, and

I'm looking for live actors to play the

Dilbert characters, the pointy-ired boss

would have to be Tim

Walls. Just imagine him. And then

imagine the pointy-dire boss. It's the

same guy, isn't

it? There's no difference. He's just the

pointy-ired boss. So his his latest Tim

Walsism is he was explaining to an

audience why he was selected as the VP

candidate and he said quote uh I could

code talk to the white guys watching

football fixing their truck. I was the

permission structure to say look you can

do this and vote for this.

That is the the least male thing anybody

ever

said. I could code talk to white guys.

He even the way he says

it, he doesn't even say it like he is

one of the guys. He He says it like he's

a robot who would learn the lingo of

men. It's like, "Oh, I can code talk

just like a guy. I'm not a guy. I'm not

a real

man, but I can talk like one. So, I was

a good choice. And and I was the

permission structure to say the

permission structure. Who talks like

that? But the funny thing about that is

that that that even today they still

think that identity politics is the way

to go. Because even though he was trying

to act like a white guy because they

thought they needed to get more support

from white guys, that's still just

identity

politics. It it's just a weird one. So

they they just can't get out of that

little trap they've set for themselves

that everything is identity

politics. Anyway, they'll never escape

that. According to Mark Zuckerberg,

um Meta is going to try to make you an

AI friend. So I guess

uh if you have Meta, you'll be able to

use their AI to create some friends. So

finally, finally my audience could have

some

friends. It's not just me that's putting

a lot of burden on me. I am your

invisible friend who's not that

invisible. But uh Zuckerberg said that

uh the average American has three

friends but has a demand for

15. Does that sound right?

How many of you have three

friends who are local? Cuz if your

friends are not

local, they're still friends, but it

kind of doesn't count if you can't see

them in person. How many of you have

three? Three is a lot for a

man. How many men need 15

friends? That's a lot. Maybe that's

maybe that's what women need. Women

might need

15. All right. A lot of you have three

three friends. Good. Good. But it looks

like you'll get some extra ones. Uh

yesterday I talked about uh a video I

saw from Anderil. That's the new defense

contractor that does the the newest

high-tech defense stuff. And they had a

uh a man portable they call it, meaning

one person could carry it. Um device

called a drone, well it's a drone killer

called the Pulsar L. And they showed a

video where um one of the people

demonstrating the the Pulsar L was

aiming it at a big swarm of drones

coming over the hill and it knocked down

all the drones. And apparently I was one

of many people who said that can't be

real. Like it just looks too good. It

must be CGI.

and uh Palmer

Lucky had to uh had to tell the public,

"No, we we have a rule against using CGI

if it's anything that can be seen." So,

they would use CGI to, you know, maybe

show an electric pulse or something,

which they didn't

do, but they would never use CGI to show

something in the physical world that

wasn't real. So, it was real. So it it

worked so well apparently that it looked

fake. Now if if one soldier can carry

this gun-shaped object that can take out

an entire swarm of of drones coming over

the hill, how many of those would you

have to give to

Ukraine before the uh before the Russian

military was completely neutered?

because it's a drone war at this point,

right? It it's sort of turned into

trench warfare, but the humans are not

leaving the trenches, just the drones.

So, in

theory, you could you could calculate

how many of them would completely neuter

the uh the Russian drone attacks, at

least the local ones that were that were

on the front line. So, I don't know,

maybe there's something coming that we

don't know

about. At the same time, speaking of

drones, according to Defense Scoop,

uh the uh cartels on our southern

border, the Mexican cartels are using

their own drones to surveil our military

that's on the border now. And our

military is looking for uh counter drone

capabilities.

Now, wouldn't that be the

Anderil

device? Um, I don't know how many

options they have, but it does seem like

if they can see the drones and they know

where the drones are coming from and

they know they're cartel drones, don't

they just have to aim that Anderil

device at it and knock it

down? Feel it feels like we have the

technology to do that.

Well, uh, Kla Harris gave her, uh, first

big speech since she's been, you know,

out of the public eye for a little

while. And I got to say, she looked

drunk to me. How many of you saw the

clips? And how many of you thought she

looked drunk or acted drunk? She looked

pretty

drunk. Well, when I see her, I don't

even think Kamla anymore. I think

drunka. So, of course, she said uh that

there's chaos and blah blah

blah. Um I thought Carolyn

Levit Levit said that the Republicans

are really happy if she does more

speaking. She is so bad. So bad that

she's the only politician at that level

that can't give a decent speech. Oh my

god.

And I assume some of that is because of

alcohol, but it is

unconfirmed. Well, allegedly, according

to CNN,

um, President Baly of El Salvador has

rejected the Trump administration's

request to return that

Marilyn dad, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Does

that sound true to you?

Do you think that the the Trump

administration asked for him to be

returned and Boulli said

no? Because there was I saw separately

there was a report that Boulli wasn't

comfortable

um putting people who had not been

convicted of a crime in his

jails. So we sort of just doing it

because Trump wanted it. But do you

think that this is organic? Or do you

think that the Trump administration

said, "Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't

we pretend that we asked for it? We'll

pretend that we tried really hard if you

just say no and then everybody wins

because the the

court apparently the court order is just

that the Trump administration attempts

to facilitate the return. It doesn't say

they have to get them returned if it's

impossible. So, it kind of looks like

the fix might be in a little bit. It's

like, "Hey, we're we're gonna ask you

publicly to return this guy. Just say

no. Just say

no." So, we'll see what this does to the

news coverage. Um cuz, you know, I don't

believe anything in the news. I I feel

like nearly 100% of the news is not

exactly what you think.

uh you know there's always something a

little bit missing or there's a hidden

story or there's a a B story that we

don't know about.

Anyway, apparently

Nvidia announced uh $500 billion of

investments it's going to do in the

United States to make its Nvidia

technology. I assume that's over 10

years or something. I assume. Um, but

he's very gung-ho on President Trump and

the United States and he should be uh

that's Jensen Wang, the uh CEO of

Nvidia. So, he announced that uh with

Trump and uh I believe that Trump is

saying that there's $8

trillion of money that's moved into the

US. Now again that would be over 10

years so you know it's still a lot but

$8 trillion do you believe that? I I

think there's something like 5 trillion

that's somewhat known and confirmed but

you know you have to add the Trump or

hyperbole to it. Five becomes eight.

Eight becomes 20. So we'll see how that

goes. Well, remember

I remember I told you uh yesterday that

I doubted that there would really be a

uh Ukraine mineral deal with the United

States because it just seemed to me like

we weren't really getting

there. Well, was I

wrong? because there's an announcement

that there is a

signed mineral deal with Ukraine and the

United

States. So, I I guess there is a mineral

deal. Oh, wait. Did I say there's a

mineral

deal?

Well, it's not exactly a mineral

deal if you if you look under the hood a

little bit. It's more of a deal to maybe

make a

deal. Was that what you thought you were

going to get? Because I was sort of

thinking of it as, all right, we're

going to, you know, have this specific

deal and we're going to mine this

specific stuff and, you know, this is

what we'll do and this is what you'll

do. Well, it's not that. It's not that.

It's more like uh the agreement grants

the US quote privilege access to

investment

projects for various things like

aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas

reserves includes oil. Interesting. What

do you what do you think that means?

Privileged

access. Privileged access. It's kind of

not defined, is it?

Suppose privilege access is just who

they ask first.

What

if Ukraine has some minerals that they

want to exploit whether it's oil or

anything else and they say okay

everybody US has privilege access so

what do you guys offer us and the US

says well uh thanks for asking us first

because we have this privilege access so

we will offer you you know 50% of all

the

revenue and then some other country says

says, "We'll offer you

75%." Do they still have to do the deal

with the United States, or do you think

the agreement would say that the US has

to match the best

deal? What if we don't? What if we don't

match the best

offer? We'd still have privilege access

because if we did match it, we'd get the

deal. But do you think they're leaving

the door open

for

maybe maybe they're not doing quite the

deal you think it is? So I'm going to

I'm going to say that uh it looks like a

step in the right direction. So

directionally looks pretty good and it

might might send the right message in

terms of getting a peace deal. So it's

probably good. But I'll bet you the

details of this deal are not exactly

what you thought they were. I I think

it's probably a weaker deal than you

imagined would come out of

it. Anyway, um China, according to the

Wall Street Journal, uh try China is

still trying to tell us that they can

more easily withstand the tariff trade

war. Um and they can tolerate the pain

longer than the US. But according to the

Wall Street Journal, there are cracks

that are beginning to show in the

Chinese

um economy. There's plunging trade and

there factories that are being idled and

there people being laid off in China.

And if there's one thing I've learned

about assessing China's

economy, we're never right about

it. How many How long has it been? It's

been like what, eight years since I've

been telling you stories about China's

economy falling off the cliff and that

basically they can't last another year

because there are all these uh there's a

real estate collapse and they've got a

demographic collapse and they've got

this and that kind of a problem and that

problem. I don't know that any of it's

real. I I don't think we have any real

visibility under in what's happening in

China. So I do not

believe that uh we we really have any

visibility in that at all. We'd just be

guessing. So I'm not going to predict

that China will fold, but I think they

want to deal as much as we do.

So probably something will happen. My my

guess is that China will be a lot of

nothing happening, nothing happening,

nothing happening, and then something

happening

quickly. So, I don't think it'll be like

others. Now, I did see some suggestion

that we might be seeing some kind of a

trade deal announced, not with China,

but with some other country. Have we

heard anything about that this

morning? Because it might happen today.

Now, if I had to

guess, since trade deals really take a

long time to get the details right,

whatever gets announced will be sort of

like that Ukraine mineral deal, it'll be

more like a deal to make a deal. You

know, it would be more like uh something

along the lines of South Korea and the

US have agreed on an outline of what a

trade deal would look like, but it would

be 6 months away from actually having it

signed. It might, you know, the the

handshake might be enough to drop all

the the the trade barriers. So, maybe a

handshake is all you need while they

work out the details. But uh I would

expect maybe South Korea

andor possibly

Japan will go first. That's what I

think. And then I think it might be a

while before the second one. But when

you get to something

like the fifth announced trade deal,

uh I think Trump's poll numbers are

going to look really

different because then it's going to

look like things are working. First one

or two or three maybe people are going

to say they're exceptions. But if Trump

gets five, even though they're, you

know, maybe 200 that you need to get, if

he gets five, let's say in a two week

period, it's going to look like

everything's going the right direction,

and that would be a good time to own

stock, I would think.

Well, I I don't know if you're following

the story of the uh the DNC, the the

Democrat leadership, where David Hog is

getting a lot of heat because he wants

to primary some Democrats. But even his

uh

co- co-watch, his co-leader

uh in the DNC says you can't do that if

you're the DNC. If you're the DNC, you

got to be in favor of Democrats. he

can't be primary any of them. So, he's

been getting some heat from that, but

he's getting some extra heat according

to the publication

Semaphore because

uh there's some there's some concern

that he's a white guy.

Now, I remember when he got elected and

and I realized that there were two white

guys in charge of the DNC, the most

identity obsessed, you know, group in

the entire world. Really,

the the

head of the top

identity, you know, basically obsessed

group. And I thought, how in the world

do you get two white

guys as the leadership of the identity

group? And it turns out that was a

problem because there's now a uh

complaint being filed by Kalin Free, a

Native American attorney. and she says

the DNC's credentials committee

um is going to meet to talk about

whether David Hog was justly elected or

there was something wrong with their

process because it didn't give them

enough

diversity. So the

complaint the complaint is they didn't

get diversity in their leadership.

Now, the the most predictable thing in

the world is that the Democrats will eat

themselves from the inside cuz once you

commit to the identity frame, you really

can't get away from it cuz everybody's

got to, you know, intersectionality or,

you know, well, you might be white, but

we need you to be a little bit gay or

trans or something. So, it's like this

neverending source of conflict within

the

organization. They're pretty much

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doomed. Well, RFK Jr. is making some

news. I think he's made several pieces

of news. Uh, one is

uh and this is just a wild way to say

it. So, this is his actual quote. He

said uh we have ended uh HHS as the role

of the principal vector in this country

for child

trafficking. What health and human

services the organization he's running

he's saying was the principal vector for

child trafficking in the United

States. That that is the most damning

thing I've ever heard anybody say about

anything. What?

What? Now, I don't exactly know what

that means, but it has to do with the

fact the Biden administration let

somehow managed to lose 300,000 children

that came in over the border. And I

think health and human services must

have been part of that. And uh the

assumption is that some large number of

them or percentage of them uh were

trafficked for sex and slavery. And uh

and RFK Jr. says, "We have ended that

and we're very aggressively going out

and trying to find the those lost

children, the ones lost by the Biden

administration." Now, that is one hell

of a

charge. Like, if there were no other

news, I'm seeing somebody in the

comments saying that I'm moving the

goalpost, but you don't mention what the

topic is or what goalpost I

moved. You you you must meet one of

those Nazi uh

Democrats. Have you noticed the the

Democrats have a full Nazi

strategy? Just make up a big lie and

then get everybody to repeat it. It's

the Nazi

strategy. Um here's something else RFK

Jr. announced separately.

um that the uh new vaccines will have to

be tested with a placebocont controlled

trial. Now, if you're like me, it wasn't

that long ago where you said to

yourself, "How can this be news?"

Because

obviously, obviously, all vaccines have

been tested in a placeboc trial. Duh. It

wouldn't be very valid if he didn't do a

placeboc control trial. and then you

unleashed it on the entire public. That

couldn't possibly be happening,

right? Apparently, that was

happening. The vaccines were not

historically tested in a placebo control

trial, but that's going to

change. So, I don't know how much uh I

don't know how much that will change

things in terms of how long it takes.

the I'm looking at the criticism that's

coming in from the dumb people. So,

somebody is uh criticizing me for not

being expert in

deals. Well, surprise. I'm actually

expert in

deals. I I used to be a contract

negotiator for a living. And then when I

became a cartoonist,

um I was deeply involved in contract

negotiations. my entire career because

there were always licensing and

publishing deals etc. So I actually am

an expert in in uh deal

making and I'm also an expert in

persuasion which is part of

negotiation. So sorry I'm kind of an

expert in this domain. I I hate to

disappoint you. You're going to have to

come up with some new Nazi uh strategy.

That one did

work. All right. There are lots of

things I talk about in which I am not an

expert such as you know anti- drone

technology but uh no deal making that

happens to be one of my

domains. RFK Jr. also made some

uh news according to the national pulse.

Um, he claims that

DARPA might be mixing uh some kind of

chemtrail agents into commercial jet

fuel.

What? How could you make that kind of

accusation in public without somehow

being able to check it if you're part of

the

government? If you thought that the fuel

of commercial jet

jets was in intentionally tampered with

to do

geoengineering so that the the jet

exhaust was doing more than just being

jet exhaust and was changing the

environment somehow and you thought that

it was DARPA that was behind it. Is

there not kind of a simple way to

confirm that? Can't you say to President

Trump, um, could you talk to DARPA and

just ask them because you can declassify

anything? Just ask them if they're

doping the, uh, jet

fuel. I feel like this one's a little

premature. Doesn't mean he's wrong. I'm

not saying he's wrong. I'm saying I feel

like that one should have been confirmed

before it became a public accusation. So

maybe he's getting a little ahead of

himself unless he's really confident

that DARPA is doing that. And I'm not

saying they're

not. Not saying they're not doing it,

but we need to know more about

that. Well, as Breitbart and others are

reporting, the uh GDP for America was

weak in the first quarter. Of course, I

think Trump is blaming Biden and and uh

there was bunch of distortions because

people ordering things ahead of the

potential tariff stuff. So, we don't

know if that uh GDP number is telling us

anything really

important, but maybe it is. Maybe it is.

So, how many of you

um would be

surprised if the country goes into a

mild

recession before it

improves? Isn't that kind of baked into

the process? I'd be surprised if it

didn't happen. So, I'd expect a little

bit of a recession at the least. I mean,

anything could be worse and anything

could be better, but I think it was

Jamie Diamond who said this that the

best case scenario is a mild recession.

I think he's probably right. That's

probably the best case scenario, but it

is the best case scenario because if we

have a mild recession followed by a, you

know, a rapid return and maybe to a

higher point, um, you know, once the

trade deals are are getting signed, I'd

be happy with

that. According to uh Frank

Luntz, famous pollster, uh he talked to

a bunch of people who voted for Trump

and he wondered if they were still

backing Trump given that they were

feeling some economic pain and probably

were going to feel some more. And he

said uh that it's

unprecedented that Trump voters still

stand behind uh Trump despite the

economic pain. uh L said on CNBC, "I've

never seen this before." Because usually

when you're hurt economically, that

changes your perspective and your

politics. Not with these people. They're

staying firm. Now, the way he says it

makes it sound like the people are

stupid. Is that how you hear

it? You know, like they don't know

what's in their own best interest or

something. I don't think he understands

Republicans. The defining characteristic

of Republican is that they're long-term

thinkers and they're willing to take

some short-term pain to get there. It's

probably the most defining

characteristic. So, here the president

has given Republicans the following

proposition. there's going to be some

short-term

disruption and it's the only way to get

to this way better

situation. And then Republicans listened

to him and said, "All right, so we're

going to have to suck it up for a

while."

Yes. And then they say, "Got it. So

we'll suck it up for a while." It's it's

the most defining characteristic

probably more than just about anything.

I mean, everything from religion to

starting a family to, you know, staying

out of trouble

and almost everything Republicans do are

very obviously and clearly oriented

toward the long term. And when you look

at and and systems over goals and when

you look at

Democrats, it seems completely oriented

towards some kind of

short-term dopamine hit. Like even the

story I was telling earlier about uh the

DNC

head, how is that any kind of a

long-term anything if they're fighting

about whether the head of the DNC is

diversified enough? There's no long-term

anything with that. It's just short-term

dopamine pleasure. Ah, we got rid of the

white guy.

Ah, it it is the single thing that

defines I think Republicans from

Democrats. It's the ability to, you

know, take some pain to get to a better

place. That's it. So, I would not have

been surprised.

Franklance. According to the new

Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney,

um he says, quote,

uh we all recognize climate change as an

existential threat, which makes me

wonder who is he talking to? I mean, he

wasn't addressing America, but is that

true?

Is it true that everyone in Canada

thinks that uh climate change is an

existential

threat?

Everybody. I mean, even if it is, it's

hard to get everybody on the same side

about

anything. But, uh, then he says he's

going to punish companies who don't work

to end climate

change. All right. So, which side of the

border would you like to be on if you're

a

company? Would you

like would you like to be on the Canada

side of the border where where you're

going to get punished if you don't do

enough to change climate change or would

you like to be on the American side of

the border where people are just going

to be operating in whatever way you know

doesn't violate any laws but you know is

making the most

money and in theory if the Canadians are

right about CO2 and climate change. It

doesn't matter what the they do

because the United States isn't doing

it as long as they're our closest

neighbor and and we're ignoring all of

that

It doesn't matter what they

do. Sort of like what we say about India

and China that the the atmosphere

doesn't know where a border is.

So if India, China and the United States

are ignoring the climate change risk, do

you think it makes any difference to

anything if Canada goes balls to the

wall and starts punishing

companies? They start punishing their

own

companies for for not doing enough to

end climate

change. It would be so different if the

other big countries were on the same

page.

And then I could say, well, okay, at

least everybody's on the same page. But

if the biggest companies or biggest

countries are not even doing anything

about

it, it's just the biggest waste of time

I've ever seen. Anyway, good luck,

Canada. So, at the uh Trump had a

another cabinet meeting that he opened

up to the cameras, which was kind of

awesome. And uh Marco Rubio said that uh

the State Department that he runs now uh

the the old State Department had a

dossier on a current Trump official that

he wouldn't name uh as a purveyor of

disinformation. And he said we had an

office in the Department of State whose

job it was to censor Americans. And he

was referring to the Global Engagement

Center which I think has been closed

down now. But in the process of looking

into all that stuff, they found a

dossier of somebody who I think is a

cabinet head who the Biden

administration had identified as a

source of

disinformation. So I see some guesses

that is Kennedy could have been Kennedy

or Tulsi

Gabbard. Uh but Kennedy is a pretty good

uh that's pretty good

guess but he's not going to tell us who

it is.

So but just imagine that. I mean just

imagine that Biden literally had a

wellfunded gigantic agency as part of a

network of other sensors both domestic

and international whose job it was to

remove your free

speech. if you said anything that wasn't

part of the the mainstream of

opinion. It's kind of hard to believe,

isn't it? Like there there are things

that you and I have lived through that

the next generation is just going to

shake their head and say, "Oh my god,

I'm so glad I wasn't alive then." when

when they thought they had a little bit

of free speech, but really they didn't

because they were being punished and

surveiled and blocked and and uh

throttled down if they said the wrong

thing.

Unbelievable.

Um let's look at the Democrats attack on

uh Trump and the Trump administration.

See how they're doing. Now, as you know,

they've taken a what I'll call the uh

the Hitler Nazi approach to politics.

So, the Democrats are doing uh the

classic Nazi thing where you just make

up this gigantic lie and then you get

the media to report it endlessly until

at least their people believe it. So,

let's check in on some of the insane

lies that are being told as part of

their Nazi strategy.

Um, so Kla Harris called Trump's tariffs

are

reckless and his agenda selfserving. You

know, in other words, that the the point

of it was to go get some tax breaks for

billionaires. Do you think that the big

beautiful bill that Trump is talking

about that's being, you know, now

modified by the House, do you think that

that's going to have a tax break for

billionaires?

How many think that that's actually

going to happen? Because the Democrats

have a little bit of a trap going on

that they set for themselves because

they've got uh James Carville saying

that Trump's going to cut health care

for ordinary

people. Do you think Trump's going to

cut health care for ordinary

people? Now, there is I looked into it.

There is a uh some kind of a request

that uh 880 billion is removed from the

Medicaid

budget. But it doesn't look

possible. And first of all, that number

would be over 10 years. So it would be

something like 10% somewhere in that

neighborhood. 10% of the budget. Do you

think there's a way to cut the Medicaid

budget by 10%.

No, there

isn't. It turns out that health care has

a much smaller

margin than maybe you knew or I knew.

Uh, a lot of the lot of the big money

for health care comes from hospital

stuff. You know, things that happen in

hospitals. And apparently hospitals have

a really thin margin. It's like 2 to 4%

according to Grock. Now, if your margins

are only 2 to 4% on the part of health

care that's the most expensive part, do

you think you could cut 10% of it on any

given year? There's nothing to cut. It's

basically already operating at, you

know, just barely break even.

Um, so no. And of course, Trump has said

these he's not going to touch social

security and he's not going to touch

healthcare for ordinary people. Um, and

then there's Swallwell. He's one of the

designated liars. So if you see Jamie

Rascin or Swallwell,

uh, and

Carville, Carville's sort of joining

too. They're they're all part of the

Nazi strategy of telling the big lie and

then just repeating it endlessly until

people believe it. So Swallwell saying,

"All we wanted was cheap eggs but not

deporting kids with cancer." Now, is the

kids with cancer being deported a true

story? Well, it's technically true, but

we're not really deporting them. The

mother wanted to take them with her uh

cuz she was

deported. So, no, it's not exactly true

the way they're telling

it. But here's the interesting

part. Um, Steve Bannon believes that

Trump will raise taxes on the highest

earners. That would be the billionaires.

What do you

think? I feel like he might be right

about that.

I I feel like Trump in order to get all

the other stuff he wants and to just

shut people up, he might need to raise

taxes on the highest earners. Now, I

don't know what that would be if the

people make over 5 million a year or

over 1 million a year, but wouldn't that

just totally shut up the

Democrats if the Republican bill just

unambiguously raises taxes for the

richest people?

Or do you think that they would just act

like it didn't happen and just keep

saying that he doesn't mean it and he's

going to really lower taxes on the rich

people? It's their it's the main thing

they say when Kla Harris says it's

selferving. She kind of means that he's

lowering his own taxes and those of his

friends. What if he does the opposite?

And I feel I feel as if Bannon is well

enough connected and he has a good

enough track record of predicting that

if he says it that Trump's going to

raise taxes on the highest

earners, that's a real

possibility. Now maybe the

Republican, you know, the Republican

Congress can't do it. It's possible.

They just can't do it. But I do think

maybe there's a good at least a 50%

chance that that's what it's going to

look like cuz it would completely

destroy the entire Democrat approach.

Everything they're doing is depending on

telling people that Trump's really doing

it for his own financial benefit and

those of his friends.

So, I'm going to stop the uh comments

from the bad people

here. A lot of trolls

today. A lot of

trolls. All

right. Um here's what Trump said about

entitlements. She said, "There's a lot

of waste, fraud, and abuse. There are a

lot of illegal aliens who are getting

Medicaid that shouldn't be getting it,

but we are doing absolutely nothing to

hurt Medicaid or Social

Security." Now, that is such a clear

public

statement. Do you really think that he

would say that that directly and then he

would sign something that actually did

hurt Medicaid or Social Security?

I I don't feel like he

would. So, I'm not too

worried that the Democrats are going to

be right. And and that's why I call it

the the Hitler strategy that they're

using because they don't really care if

it's true. They're they're just

completely unconcerned. They only care

that they can say it and that they're at

least their own people and maybe senior

citizens will believe it.

Anyway, Morgan Stanley is

forecasting that uh by 2050 there'll be

a $4.7 trillion global annual humanoid

robot revenue with a billion units

cumulatively

deployed. Um do you think that sounds

right? are, you know, 2050 is kind of

far away, but do you think it'll be just

humanoid robots all over the place and

47 trillion worth? Well, maybe. So, I'm

going to give you a

prediction. I think there's a nonzero

chance, and maybe it'll be in this

budget bill, maybe it'll be in the

future, that robots will be taxed.

I think robots will be taxed. And the

reason

is because we tax everything that you

can

tax. If there's something that can be

taxed, it'll get taxed. Now, if robots

are the thing that are going to put

people out of

jobs, I think you have to tax them to

help pay for the humans who got put out

of jobs.

So whether it's Trump who does it or

some future Democrat

um

administration, I'm pretty sure that

robots are really going to be taxed more

than just sales tax. I think there's

going to be a there's going to be a

robot

tax. And if the robots are a big enough

deal,

um it might actually make a difference

to our GDP and our our debt situation.

So, I'm not saying that I recommend it.

I'm going to say that I predict

it. I predict

it. Well, Chuck Schumer clowned himself

again in public. So, he was doing a

press conference to uh to mock Trump's

uh falling approval

numbers. And now, do you know why

Trump's approval numbers are going down?

Is it because all of the people in the

country did a deep dive and did their

own research to find out how the economy

is doing and all the details of what

Trump is doing to influence it? Or do

you think that they turned on TV and

they listened to the talking heads that

they always listen to and the talking

heads said, "Oh, the tariffs are causing

chaos. Oh, they're not using a scalpel

with Doge. And do you think that the

public's opinion as represented in polls

is nothing but how well the media is

brainwashing people?

So the thing that the the Nazi strategy

that Schumer is using and the Democrats

are using is that they first must

convince you that public opinion polls

are driven by people's independent

assessment of what's going

on. Nothing like that's happening.

Individual voters are not making any

independent assessments based on their

research and their knowledge of

economics. Nothing like that's

happening. It is

literally a

propaganda exercise.

uh it's a persuasion exercise and the

Democrats have enough control over you

know the biggest part of the media that

they can sell any chaos related scalpel

not a chainsaw that they want. So,

they've been selling the the chaos thing

and he's and Trump's in it for his own

benefit for the

oligarchs and they found that some, you

know, five or 10% of the public is

influenced enough by that that they

think it's true. And so then Schumer

goes out and he holds a press conference

to tell you that the public the public

is souring on Trump.

Nothing like that's happening in the

real world. What's happening is that the

media has brainwashed 10% of the

publicish to change their opinion about

the optimism they might have had before.

But as Schumer is talking about how uh

how Trump's numbers are lower than I

don't know other presidents or something

like that at this point the 100 days the

random 100 days a reporter notes that

Schumer's own uh his own approval is at

17%.

So, so just imagine this. Schumer is

doing a public

event. The primary message is that Trump

is doing poorly because the polls say

so. And then a reporter points out that

Trump is doing way better than Schumer

in

polls. And do you know what Schumer said

when he was challenged by the fact that

his own polls are way lower than

Trump's? And the entire point the entire

point of the public event is to say that

Trump's poll numbers were

low. He said he he said, "Well, you

know, poll numbers come and

go." So he spends the first part of his

speech saying that the polls are telling

the public something deeply

important and then somebody says, "Your

own poll numbers are worse than Trump."

And he

immediately with no hesitation changes

to polls are

and then

immediately switches back

to those Trump polls look pretty bad,

huh? And he's one of their best guys.

Like he's one of their more talented

politicians. That was pretty funny. Oh,

anyway, at the uh cabinet meeting that I

mentioned, uh apparently transportation

secretary

Duffy says that uh the government's not

going to give uh any infrastructure uh

funding from the federal government to

states if the states are giving uh

driver's license to non-citizens,

illegal

non-citizens. So, that's

new. Um, it seems to me that that's a

big enough threat that it might

work. And it makes me wonder why it took

him so long to come up with that because

it sounds like a good idea for what they

want to get done. So, do you think any

of the states will cave and say, "All

right, all right. We'll stop giving

driver's license to illegal immigrants

just to get our infrastructure money."

I think it might work because I think a

lot of the infrastructure money gets

stolen by

leaders and if they don't have money

coming in in these gigantic amounts so

that the leaders can steal

it, do the leaders really care that much

about giving driver's licenses to

illegal

immigrants or do you think they really

care about these big checks coming in

that they can skim some off? So, here's

where corruption works in your

favor. Usually, it doesn't. But if you

assume that the states are completely

corrupt when it comes to infrastructure

money coming in, which I do, I believe

that they're completely corrupt, then

the corruption itself might cause them

to say, uh, well, I'd rather get that

big taste of that money coming in for

the infrastructure project. So maybe

we'll soften on the whole giving

driver's license to illegal immigrants

might actually work. I guess we're going

to use the same standard for states that

are using

DEI, which is practically every blue

state. So maybe the blue states are

going to have some trouble getting their

funding.

Well,

allegedly, according to CNN,

uh Cash Patel and the FBI are

reassigning

um some agents who were kneeling during

the the BLM riots. So, this is according

to CNN. Uh so, there were, you may have

seen, you might remember the the

pictures.

So when the uh the FBI was sort of

cornered, they they kind of deescalated

things by kneeling to show that they

were in favor of the protesters and in

favor of the, you know, Black Lives

Matter. And allegedly, according to CNN,

uh that's not good for your career

anymore.

So, if there's a picture of you kneeling

to the crowd, you got reassigned and not

promoted. So, I'm not 100% sure this

story is real, but I wouldn't be

surprised. Meanwhile, uh James O'Keefe,

famous for his uh OMG undercover videos,

um apparently he's made some kind of an

enemy. Um, now he he's also he's good at

publicity. So, I'm going to take him at

his word that there's a real risk here

cuz apparently uh he said on video he's

not suicidal and that in seven days uh

he's going to disappear for a while for

his own safety, but in seven days he

will reappear reappear and tell his

story. But he's asking us for our

prayers. So, he was being a little bit

dramatic for

effect. Um, but it doesn't mean it's not

a real danger. He might have a he might

be real seriously worried. Now, he

didn't name who it was that he's worried

about. Um, but he teased a

bombshell, you know, that there's

something about uh government

corruption. He's got several tapes of it

and he's got video of officials caught

breaking the law. So, and he thinks that

he has he has enough

evidence that once it's released there

will be

indictments. I don't know. We'll see.

So, keep an eye on that. We'll check in

in a

week. Well, you might know that uh there

was yet another judge who yet again

ruled against Trump. uh saying that uh

the Trump administration can't arrest

any more illegal aliens unless they have

a warrant for their

arrest. Now, that's sort of not the way

the process works for people who are

here illegally. You don't really need a

warrant for their arrest. You can just

determine that they're not here legally

and ship them back. But this judge ruled

that you do do need a warrant. And then

it uh took a few days, but uh that judge

got

looed. So uh Laura Loomer did the

classic thing where she checked on the

spouse. This this works so often that I

love there's a word for it, being

loomeed.

It means if you're a judge or some

official and you do something that looks

sketchy, it means Laura Loomer is going

to ask what your spouse does for a

living and you're going to find

out there's something sketchy going on

there with the with the couple. Sure

enough, the husband of that

judge is a multifamily real estate

broker in California. And guess what

market he caters to? illegal aliens and

the immigrant

community. And he even makes Instagram

videos about how Trump's mass

deportation policies are bad for

multifamily real estate brokers and

investors. And of course, the judge was

appointed by Biden in

2021.

Now, it's almost so predictable that you

don't even need Laura Loomer to do it

anymore. You could just in your mind

imagine it like, okay, there's a judge

that ruled against Trump. I'm going to

imagine that the judge has a spouse and

the spouse is either a gigantic donor to

the DNC or somehow makes money with a

charity or a business that serves the

the illegal immigrant community. Am I

right?

Yes. Yes.

pretty much every time. So, as long as

you can shop for a judge, you can find a

judge who has just the right

spouse. Speaking of RFK Jr. making uh

making news, uh he also said he was on a

Dr. Phil show and he said that uh sugar

is poison. He said sugar is like crack.

He said it's poison. Now, uh, you know

that I always say alcohol is poison, but

when I started saying that, I didn't

know that there was already a book that

came out long ago before I started

saying alcohol is poison that said sugar

is poison. So, sugar is poison, you

know, is sort of the OG something is

poison. Um, so I think he probably was

familiar with that book. But, uh, when

you have the US Secretary of Health and

Human Services say sugar is like crack,

um, I feel

like maybe something will happen. I

don't know what. There's no specific

policy associated with

it, but I like where he's heading. So,

so far, I'm very happy with RFK

Jr., very happy. I I think he's he's

pushing all the right buttons. Now, he's

not going to be right a 100% of the

time, but that's not really the standard

I'm going to hold him to. I'm going to

hold him to the standard of is he

looking in every

closet for things that might be hiding

in closets? And the answer is he seems

to be. He seems to be willing to open

every closet door and see what the

hell's in there. So, as long as he's

doing that and he's being completely

transparent about it and he's sharing

sharing what he found, you can't get

better than that, you know? So, asking

him to be right about everything he's

ever said in the past and right about

everything he says in the future, that's

not really a standard you could hold

anybody to. But boy, if you see

somebody, you know, using a system and

transparency and keeping you in the

loop, that's good stuff. Good good

stuff. Apparently, uh the FBI is now

searching for leaks among the uh the

members of the FBI and using

um using a polygraph test to look for

the internal leakers. Now, I'm kind of

surprised by that. It It's a common

thing in the government to use

polygraphs to look for leakers, but I

would feel like at least the FBI agents

would know how to beat a

polygraph. Um, but probably just

refusing to take it would be enough to

get you fired. It's my guess. And since

they don't know for sure if they can

beat it, you know, maybe it scares them

into confessing or something. I don't

know. But uh but that's happening. It's

pretty

scary. It's scary that this tool exists

and that it's it's in widespread

implementation. What happens when what

happens when the uh polygraph gets to

the next level? Don't you think that we

already have the technology that we can

put a little hat on people that has

sensors to their brain and it can tell

for sure if they're lying without doing

the, you know, the bodily changes that

the polygraph does? Just directly

looking at their brain and find out if

they're lying because I think we're

right there.

So, isn't that a scary

future where your employer can know for

sure if you're lying? I mean, you

shouldn't be

lying, but uh it would be a different

world if somebody could know for sure if

you're telling the truth.

Anyway, according to Unusual Wales on X,

um Visa wants to give AI your credit

card to buy groceries. Now, I guess the

fortune is reporting on this. Now, I

think what that means is that if you

wanted to use AI as like an agent, you

know, like a a little AI that's your

assistant where you can tell it to go

buy some tickets to the show or go buy

some online groceries or something. It

really can't do anything unless it can

use your credit card. So, it's where

things had to go. So, it's not even so

much about Visa. It's just at some point

your robot and your AI, they kind of had

to have access to some part of your

finances or else they couldn't do much

useful stuff. So, this is probably

something that's inevitable, but it's

kind of scary that the AI would have

access to any of your funds. But it

tells me that I need a second AI. I need

one AI that's an agent that can go do

things like buy things on my behalf, but

I need a second AI that watches the

first AI just to make it make sure it

doesn't rob me, right? It's sort of a

two AI

situation. Um, with humans, it's not

unusual to have a, you know, a double

authorization situation where two humans

have to I think in banking you see this

a lot.

Um, if uh if I recall when I was a

banker, a

teller, if we needed to open the big

safe, you we didn't leave it open all

day, but if we needed to open the big

safe and anybody needed to go in, they

could never do it alone. There there had

to be two people so that one person

would watch the other one to make sure

they don't rob you. AI has got to be the

same thing because humans are not going

to be able to watch AI too well. you're

going to need one AI just to watch your

other AIs and make sure they're not

ripping you off. So, I think that's

inevitable,

too. Apparently, uh the scammers,

according to futurism, Joe Wilkins is

writing about this. Um scammers are

using AI to disguise

themselves as attractive people or just

different people and they're going after

the boomers because the boomers are easy

to fool. So, I guess AI is so good at

this point that you could have your

natural

face doing a something like a Zoom call.

Um, and I assume that they can do it in

real time, not just video, but something

like a Zoom call where you look exactly

like somebody else, like a completely

different person. Now, I haven't seen

that demonstrated

yet, but I wouldn't be surprised, of

course. Um, I wouldn't be surprised if

if it uh if it doesn't work. Wouldn't be

surprised if it does work. So, watch out

for that. If something looks too good to

be true, it probably is. You know, I

I've been able to uh identify

um

scams because anytime there's anybody

who uh alleges to be female and shows

interest in

me, I I immediately say, "Well, that's a

scam." Yeah, I don't believe

that. So, use that

same use that same standard. Well,

here's an update for the hoodies.

Um PX3 posted a Trump warning that uh

the hoodies will be treated as an

Iranian attack. So Trump wants to make

sure that people know that the hoodies

are not operate operating independently

um that they're backed by

tan. Now I don't know if that's going to

change anything because we all knew that

right? Um, but it feels like it's a

firing a shot across the bow of Iran

when they're trying to get a nuclear

deal. Now, I told you the other day that

apparently the Hoodi situation was not

part of the

negotiations with Iran, and I thought,

why why would that not be part of the

negotiations? like why would you bother

to get a a nuclear deal if you weren't

going to, you know, also deal with the,

you know, the hoodie situation. You

ought to throw that in there. So maybe

this is part of what uh Trump's getting

ready to do. Make sure that that gets

thrown in the deal, doesn't get

forgotten. According to

Remix, Russia's budget is getting hit

hard because oil and gas prices are

falling all over the world and Russia

depends on those. But I'm going to say

the same thing I said about

China. We only imagine that we know

what's happening with the Chinese

economy, but it's the same with Russia.

I feel like we just sort of imagine that

we know. So maybe Russia's got a budget

problem and maybe that will have

something to do with them wanting to get

peace on Ukraine, but I wouldn't bet on

it. So I'm going to discount that as

being

important. If uh oil price went down

another, you know,

40% then it definitely would make a

difference. But at the moment it's just

going to squeeze them a little bit.

They'll figure it out. Uh according to

uh PJ media, he's writing about a an

exclusive report in the UK times that

says that Europe, if it wanted to put

peacekeeping troops on the ground in

Ukraine, that they would struggle to to

get 25,000 troops. And the larger

picture is that apparently NATO is so

hollowed out and the European countries

are so

um let's say so barereft of

military not just personnel but

equipment that there's almost no no

military in Europe. They don't have

people and they don't have much in the

way of assets or equipment.

So, I guess they were depending on the

United States being the primary

combatant if Russia decided to take

Europe because it doesn't look like

Europe could defend itself. They don't

have enough people and they don't have

enough

assets. So, that's a that's pretty

scary.

Um, but doesn't it seem like there's now

a a trend that we've seen that nobody

has the military that you thought they

had? That everybody's

bluffing? Because aren't you a little

bit surprised that the entire Russian

military couldn't capture all of

Ukraine? So UK Ukraine is fighting

Russia to a standstill with what? senior

citizens and children and anybody they

can get to go in a in a pit with some

drones.

So, I don't think that Russia had

anything like the military that we

assumed they had. And it looks like

Europe doesn't have anything like the

military that we assumed they had. And I

wouldn't be

surprised if China also doesn't have

anything like the military we thought

they had. Although if they were going

bowl of the wall instead of, you know,

just trying to stay within the lines,

probably it would be different. You

know, if they use their best weapons and

stuff, probably it'd be different. But,

uh, I don't know. It's so easy to over

to uh over well to assume that some

other military is stronger than it

is. In other news, according to ZME

science, China made the world's fastest

transistor and didn't use any silicon

and runs 40% faster and uses less power

and uh blah blah blah. But I'm going to

say the same thing that I should have

said about battery breakthroughs because

every single day I see a new report

about somebody made a battery

breakthrough that charges faster and

lasts longer and doesn't require any

rare earth

minerals. If you would look at the

history of

breakthroughs, it could take 5 to 10

years for anything to hit the market.

And it could also take decades. that

wouldn't even be unusual. So this uh new

kind of uh new kind of chip and the new

kind of batteries, they probably will

change the world, but maybe not for 15

20 years. So it's it's more like a

forecast of what the future looks

like. Um another in other news, my last

story here, I think it's my last one.

Yeah.

Um the University of Bristol has found

that uh some conditions like depression

and schizophrenia

um might have something to do with

underlying conditions in the

body. In other words, that it might not

be entirely brain related. It might be

something about your overall physical

fitness that's causing your depression

and schizophrenia and other mental

health problems. And I will just remind

you that I've been saying for

years that one of our big mistakes in

health care, at least mental health

care, is to assume that your brain is

the thing that's in your

skull. That might be the most important

part, but you should think of your brain

as your entire body because anything

that happens to your body is going to

affect your brain so much. uh whether

it's gut health or probiotics or that

this new thing is about immune response.

So they think if they get gave you a

better immune response, you'd have

better mental health. Now, I don't know

about this particular study, but just in

general,

um, the fact that we treat the brain

like it's a special thing in your skull

and not really just, you know, one

component of your mental health. Um, has

always been a mistake in my view. Could

be the food. Could

be. All right, ladies and gentlemen,

that's what I had for you. Um, I'm going

to say hi to the uh locals people very

quickly and the rest of you I'll see you

same time tomorrow. Thanks for joining.

All right, locals. I'm coming at

you in 30 seconds or possibly

not. So, uh, the answer is not because

the button to go private is not working

today. So, I'll have to close the studio

uh to close that, which means I can't go

private. But I'll see you tomorrow on

the pre-show and uh we'll have some fun

then.