Episode 2854 CWSA 05/29/25

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Well, as you know, Elon Musk has he's uh out of the government, at least in terms of Doge.

He's going to be full-time back at his businesses.

It's official now.

I don't think he quit.

I think that was just the normal time he was planning to leave.

But this is exciting.

Uh, apparently next month if you order a Tesla, and I don't know if it's every model or just the Model Y, um, it will drive to your house.

So, you won't have to go pick up your car.

Your car will just with no driver will just drive to your house and then you have your car.

That's about the coolest thing I've ever seen in a product.

Tesla stock is up.

Um, and it looks like uh next month Austin will have uh the driverless Teslas driving around.

So, that's going to be a big deal.

All right.

Here's a story that you are free to disbelieve.

It's a little bit too good to believe.

a little bit too good.

So there's a startup according to interesting engineering that makes a refrigeratorsiz machine that can make gasoline out of thin air.

Now it's not out of just air.

It uh apparently allegedly it takes CO2 out of the air and turns it directly into gas you can use in your car with no with no uh you know modifications required and it uh can operate on renewable electricity.

So if you had a solar panel and one of these refrigeratorsiz machines you can make yourself some gasoline right out of the air.

How many of you believe that that works?

And if it does work, may I add to your concern?

Because you're going to say, "Oh, no.

It's going to ruin all vegetation on Earth." Oh, okay.

I have to admit my back is absolutely killing me today.

So, I'm going to be in a in a non-standard podcasting position.

Oh, that's so much better.

So, you might not be able to see me or hear me, but I'll be here.

Oh my god, that's much better.

I think I slept on it wrong.

Well, RFK Jr.

is uh threatening to ban scientists, government scientists, from publishing in top journals.

Do you know why he doesn't want scientists, at least government scientists, to publish in the Lancet and some of these other top journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and uh JAMAMA?

It's because they're corrupt.

So he says, quote, "We're probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New New England Journal of Medicine, JAMAMA, and those other journals because they're all corrupt.

Uh meaning that uh they've got too much big pharma influence." Now, can you even can you even hold that in your head that the RFK Jr.

He's the US health secretary and he's just said that the major scientific journals in his field are so corrupt that he's not even going to let people submit papers to them.

Holy cow.

I I don't think there's another person in the world who would have said this or done this, but I think he's right.

I think he's right.

Meanwhile, according to Fox News, uh the president of Harvard, he was giving an address and he admitted that they're not doing enough to have conservatives on campus and they don't have enough, you know, voices that are diverse.

And he said that the some faculty members said to think twice before teaching controversial subjects.

And uh he says the lack of conservatives on the Ivy League campuses um is uh because something about expressing unpopular views and and now he thinks they need more conservative voices.

Now, is that what you think?

Here's the problem.

Uh, his name is Garber, Alan Garber.

So, he said, "The administration and others have said conservatives are too few on campus and their views are not welcome.

In so far as that's true, he he's acting like maybe it's not true." In so far as that's true, that's a problem that we really need to address.

Now, how are you going to address it?

If you're the kind of entity that has decided that conservatives are basically Hiller, how do you go from, oh, Republicans are Hitler to, you know, we need more Hillers?

You know, it would be great if we had like 30% hillers.

That'd be just the right amount.

I don't know.

I feel like they've painted themselves in a corner and it wouldn't matter how much they want to have more conservatives.

the conservatives aren't going to get near it and uh the the other faculty would think they were hiring killers and they would all quit.

So they might not have a path.

Uh meanwhile in San Francisco um the uh school system came up with a what they called an equity grading system.

New York Post is reporting on this and the San Francisco uh officials got rid of it in one day.

So the idea was to make it easier for people who weren't doing well in school to also get good grades.

And what they were going to do is they were going to um not grade them on homework even if they skipped it.

uh not grade them on attendance if they cut class and they could retake their final exam, which is the only thing that would count toward their grade.

Well, it took uh 24 hours for the collective powers to say, "Nope.

Nope.

Let's get rid of that." So, that's gone.

I don't think that would have been gone in 24 hours before Trump.

So, we're gonna call that the Trump effect.

Um, all right.

Speaking of the Trump effect, the post millennial says that uh GM has decided to invest $888 million into a big factory near Buffalo, New York.

So, more than they were planning to do.

Is that the Trump effect?

Or do you think maybe that would have been somewhere else?

I don't know.

I'm going to call it the Trump effect.

Here's something that sounds like a little nerdy story, but probably is immensely important.

So MIT has announced this initiative for new manufacturing according to MIT News.

So, it's an institute-wide effort aiming to bolster industry and create jobs by driving innovation across vital manufacturing sectors.

If you take the jargon out of it, what it really means is that MIT is going to be like Doge for manufacturing.

Not so much in cutting costs, although they might do that too, but rather looking at it from the bottom up and saying, "All right, instead of just rebuilding the old kind of manufacturing that we always did, because that's the only thing we know how to do, the geniuses at MIT uh are gonna help, I guess, help industry design manufacturing." That makes sense.

Now, I assume it's stuff like, you know, using AI and, you know, probably whole new systems that have never been used before and 3D printing and robots and whatever else.

But the only way the US is going to become a manufacturing power again with a good kind of manufacturing, you know, not the not the low-end kind is this.

So, you know, Doge really can't be underestimated because although this is not Doge and has nothing to do with Doge, it just feels like it wouldn't happen unless Doge had sort of set the standard that if you unleash your geniuses in this domain, it doesn't take long for them to fix everything.

So this is a small story that I think could be one of the biggest stories in the country if they things go right.

So MIT is not like other places the MIT students the they're all like you know big balls basically.

Well, according to futurism, uh some economists did a study to find out how much uh how much AI is saving companies because companies are adopting AI like crazy.

They they just can't get enough of it.

Um so apparently white collar workers are, you know, just they're just racing to get more AI and it looks like they saved uh basically nothing.

They analyzed 25,000 workers and uh the only productivity gains were 3 to 7% productivity gains and uh and none of them translated into bigger paychecks or anything.

So it looks like uh AI has met Dilbert.

you know, Dilbert is sort of the standin for, you know, the bureaucracy and doing everything wrong.

Um, apparently you can't just take a bunch of people who were a certain way and just layer A on AI on top of them.

You you can't take Dilbert.

Well, you can take Gilbert, but you can't take Wall-E and then add AI to Wall-E and then suddenly he's a productive employee, he's still Wall-E.

Still Wall-E.

So, although although I do think AI will eventually take jobs, it's going to be a fight.

The the walls and the pointy-haired bosses are going to have to duke it out for about five years.

Well, allegedly, according to neuroscience news, speaking of AI, uh a new study of Chat GPT, the 4.0, it shows that it's uh susceptible to cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance the AI, now this is, you know, would be considered a u let's say a cognitive flaw in human beings.

And there's a test that I remember from uh the book influence JL Deany and uh the the test was they would have people they would just stop random people and have them write essays on topics that they did not believe, you know, were not their actual opinions.

and then he would check back with them and they would have changed their opinions to what they wrote in the essay instead of what they said was their opinion just before they wrote the essay.

So that would be cognitive dissonance.

So they wouldn't be aware of the fact that they had that that they had persuaded themselves by writing an essay that they didn't believe in and then you wait a few months and suddenly they believed in their own essay.

So they did the same experiment with AI and found out that AI would change its opinion because it wrote a opinion earlier that was not its actual opinion.

So they did something with you know pro or con Putin and uh they got the AI to have cognitive dissonance.

Well, I don't know if that's fixable because if AI is based on the patterns of human beings, how do you fix that?

Because that is a pattern of human beings.

It's a very distinct pattern.

So, we'll see.

Meanwhile, Jake Tapper is now uh he was on Stephen A.

Smith's podcast and uh Jake Tapper, he was calling out Leticia James and Alvin Bragg for being lawfair prosecutors who said they were going to go after Trump before they had any particular crimes they were going to go after.

And uh so Jake says it's problematic when prosecutors run on pledges to go after a politician and the media largely let it slide.

the media.

You mean CNN?

And and he says there was a degree to which it was tolerated by the media at large.

That would be him.

It It's the weirdest thing to watch Jake Tapper do a book tour, which is very successful.

I think his book is number one.

People are saying good things about the book.

But he's essentially confessing some of the the biggest flaws in in the mainstream media of which he was a part.

And he's not saying he wasn't part of it.

You know, he's not trying to say it was other people.

He's saying it was him.

And it's it's weirdly disarming, you know, that the fact that he called Lara Trump and apologized to her in person.

Like you want to get mad at him and say, "Oh, what about Laura Trump?" And then you find out you called her personally and apologized and you're like, "Ah, oh, I'm still a little bit mad." And then you want to be mad at him for not calling out the lawfare um of, you know, Leticia James and then he calls it out and I and I'm like, "Yeah, but what about Okay, I guess you just said that.

It's very disarming and he's totally getting away with it.

And uh it it's it's an amazing thing to watch.

Um Jake Tapper also told Stephen D.

Smith that none of the sources he talked to about Biden's declining brain.

He said none of them showed any remorse.

None of them.

I guess they didn't write books.

If you write a book, you have to show some remorse or people would be too mad at you.

But I'm not surprised because they all thought they were working on the side of good.

Oh, we're the good people.

Speaking of good, uh, Paramount, as you know, is in a legal battle with Trump over the fact that their CBS News had edited a Kamla interview.

And uh, they're offering $15 million to settle Trump's lawsuit, but Trump's team wants 25 million.

Now, the interesting thing about it is that I guess Trump's administration has control over whether Paramount does a big merger that they want to do.

So, they've got about I don't know, they might have a billion dollars on the line with the merger.

So, the difference between 15 million and 25 probably is not that big a difference if the if it's the only way to get the billion dollar merger going.

So, I don't approve of using that kind of government leverage, but there it is.

So, I'd be surprised if they don't get their 25 million just, you know, just to get it off the plate.

Anyway, um so former uh according to MSNBC, um so MSNBC had a guest on was a former Biden pardon attorney.

I didn't even know there was a pardon attorney, but there was one, Liz Oyer.

And uh while she was on, she accused the uh Trump administration of accepting a million-doll donation from a family member of someone who got pardoned.

But since there's no evidence that that happened, uh even the MSNBC host very quickly said, "Uh, well, attended a fundraiser, but there's no evidence that they actually donated anything." So, it makes me wonder if the Paramount lawsuit and wasn't there also a CNN lawsuit.

It makes me wonder if Trump has finally broken through where if they know there's a lie that somebody says in their ear, "Ah, you better correct that." kind of like The View, you know, the ladies of the View have to keep doing these legal statements because their producer talks in their ear and says, "Ah, there's no evidence of that.

You better say that's not true." So, maybe something good is happening from all these lawsuits.

Um, according to Fox News, the State Department and and uh Marco Rubio say they're going to be uh aggressively getting rid of I won't say getting rid of, but they're revoking visas for Chinese students.

Aggressively revoking visas.

I don't know how you do it aggressively.

Do you snarl?

Give me your visa.

I'm revoking it aggressively.

Um, this does make me wonder how much safer the country will be if we stop educating, you know, foreign leaders, you know, potential foreign leaders in America.

I don't know.

Are are we going to be better off or worse off?

I guess we'll find out.

Um, Trump said he would consider pardons.

He's not saying he would do it, but he's recently been made aware of the situation where do you remember there was a a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, but the FBI was sort of behind the plot and convince people to do it.

Well, maybe they didn't have to try too hard because I guess at least one of the men, you know, was pretty actively suggesting doing it.

And uh so he's going to look at that.

But I don't think this one is the cleanest one.

It's not like the January 6 stuff that I thought was, you know, except for the most violent people.

It was a pretty clean one, you know.

But uh we'll see.

We'll we'll see if Trump um wants to test his powers.

Well, there's a hoax that the reason that Trump is going after Harvard so hard is because Baron once applied there and was turned down.

But Melania issued a statement, which is kind of rare, uh that she would even get involved.

And she said Baron did not apply to Harvard.

So that's a hoax.

Baron never applied to Harvard.

So um so the the Biden auto pen scandal you know when that first broke I thought it was going to be sort of a nothing.

I I thought okay there there's a log that will show you know who signed why.

it'll show that the Biden approved it.

You know, it'll just sort of go away.

But it turns out that there is uh no log whatsoever of who authorized or use who used the auto pen.

Now, can you think of anything more ridiculous than that?

Think of all the rules, you know, think of all the rules and regulations and laws that the government does.

And maybe the single most important thing they could do is keep a record of who used the auto pen and who authorized it.

And apparently that's never been a requirement.

So there's there exists no record whatsoever of who used the auto pen for what.

So, Representative Comr is going to um look into it and uh he might have even Jill Biden and Hunter Biden and Jean John Pierre Karen Karin John Pierre.

So, all the usual people might be called in.

We don't know if they'll all go, but they might be called.

But um in on the same topic, there's a uh Project Veraritoss undercover video of David Hog saying that it was a well-known what do you call it?

A an open secret that the real power behind the throne was uh Jill Biden's chief of staff, Anthony Bernal.

And uh I don't know if that means that he was behind the autopen, but the the reveal is if you wondered who had the most power behind the curtain.

According to David Hog, other people might have different opinions, but according to him, it was Jill Biden's chief of staff.

Now, does that ring true to you?

Like when you hear that it was Jill Biden's chief of staff, does that sound like something that maybe is true?

Because it totally sounds true to me.

Can't you imagine that if uh Joe Biden was, you know, mentally incompetent that Jill Biden's opinion probably counted for a lot because she could get him to say whatever she needed him to say.

But since she was not maybe as involved in politics, you know, in the detail level, it seems like she could have been easily influenced by her own chief of staff.

So when I first heard that story, I thought to myself, that totally makes sense.

Like if you just know the ordinary dynamics of people, the wife would have the most control over the husband, but the chief of staff would have the most control over the wife because she would take his opinion as as being somewhat, you know, correct and authoritative.

So maybe maybe we know more.

Um, and then the postmillennial is uh is writing about how there's a watchdog group, an environmental watchdog group that says there's no evidence that Biden knew he was signing any climate executive orders.

Now, there's no evidence partly because there's no log of who signed what or why, but they're pointing out that uh that Biden ordered it, but he never really talked about it.

And although that's not proof, it's definitely a headscratcher, isn't it?

Can you imagine Trump signing an executive order for something that's like really expensive?

There's just billions of dollars involved.

And can you imagine Trump never mentioning it?

You can't.

Of course, he would mention it because he'd be happy about his what he did.

it would be a big deal and it would be one of the many things he told everybody about as soon as he thought of it and as soon as he did it.

But when you see that Biden may have auto penned the approval for some, you know, environmental things that were really, really expensive and never mentioned it.

Well, it could be because, you know, he was mentally incompetent.

So even if he agreed with it and even if he approved it, they were a little afraid of putting in front of the public.

So it's not proof, but it is a really good question.

Did he have any knowledge that it happened?

So that'll be one of the things that maybe Representative Comr can find out.

Well, according to a uh guest on the Benny J Benny Johnson's podcast, Susan Crabtree has a scoop and she says that that bag of cocaine that Dan Banchino says they're going to look into more closely.

Um that the bag of cocaine had some DNA on it.

Uhoh, DNA.

And that would mean that they know exactly who touched it.

At least one person.

So they might already know whose it was.

You know, I I suppose if the fingerprint was somebody that they didn't have any prior experience with, they couldn't really be sure.

But if it's Hunter Biden's DNA just to pick a random person, well then they would know who was who it belonged to.

But there's also part of the story that the Secret Service destroyed the uh evidence, meaning the the bag of cocaine.

And but then separately I saw that uh that would be the normal process for the secret service because the secret service is not an investigative department of justice kind of an entity.

And I saw somebody say that their their ordinary process if they had found a bag of drugs that they knew belonged to the family they wouldn't take it and give it back to the family.

But it's also not their job to get the family arrested.

So they would just quietly destroy it and that would actually be their their known process.

I like that process because you can't really trust your own secret service if you think they're looking for crimes that you're doing and they're going to, you know, put you away.

But if they find a bag of cocaine, what are they going to do with it?

They they can't store it forever.

They can't give it to law enforcement if they're trying to protect you.

So, it makes perfect sense to me that the Secret Service would destroy it.

Uh I don't have any problem with that at all.

So, I don't know if that's would make any difference in their um investigation since they already got the DNA.

Meanwhile, the uh University of North Carolina, I saw this on a Corey D'Angelus uh post.

There's a undercover video of the administrator at the University of North Carolina bragging about how they just are pretending that they're getting rid of DEI, but all they're doing is changing the names and continuing on and doing it cleverly undercover.

And uh apparently the person on the video said they're just going to finesse the language and they're going to do quote work that is covert.

Uh and then when they were confronted with the fact that they had just been recorded, the uh university provost tried to run away.

But contrasting to that where it it definitely looks like they were trying to break the law and continue to do DEI.

Uh MIT again uh in in the news for a different thing um has closed its diversity, equity, and inclusion office.

Now listen to the language that MIT uses and you tell me if you think they're just changing the language and doing it anyway or are they serious about getting rid of it because maybe they didn't like it and maybe it's illegal.

Um so this is what MIT said as part of their getting rid of DEI.

They said MIT is in the talent business.

Our success depends on attracting exceptionally talented people of every background from across the country and around the world and making sure everyone at ME feels welcome blah blah blah so they can do their both.

Um when you start with MIT is in the talent business that's a pretty good signal that you're serious about looking at talent over DEI.

Now they did say, you know, they want people from all over the world.

So that's a, you know, sort of a waving their hand at uh diversity, but they say first we're in the talent business.

That sounds a little more serious.

So although you have to watch all the universities to see if they are serious, I'm going to say they sound legit.

So I'm going to say MIT might be trying to do it right.

We don't know, but they might be.

According to the Financial Times, if you lived in the UK, there's a one in three chance that your phone would be stolen.

Uh, I guess phone thefts have nearly doubled.

Uh, and now 29% of UK adults have had one of their phones stolen.

I wouldn't even go into public.

If one in three people had their phone stolen, I would never leave the house.

So, here's my advice to the citizens of the UK.

Get out.

Get out.

Run.

Run.

I don't know where you're going to go, but you probably want to go somewhere where there's not a one in three chance of your phone getting stolen just cuz you left the house.

Well, Trump's uh tariffs were of course stopped by a court, the court of international trade.

It ruled uh I guess yesterday that uh Trump does not have the authority to do these tariffs.

Now, the most the most surprising part about this story, I'd never even heard of the court of international trade.

How many courts are there?

How many courts have some kind of jurisdiction over everything Trump does with an executive order?

But I guess the Supreme Court will hear this next.

But allegedly, uh, this court of international trade seems to have some kind of power over the process.

So, I guess we'll wait for that.

Some say that's why the stock market is up.

Maybe.

Well, according to News Nation, um there's a uh company called Impossible Metals that has sort of a robot machine that can pick up uh rare earth minerals from the bottom of the ocean.

So, I guess there are these well-known places where these potatoesized rocks that are just like just laying there in the bottom, and you don't want to use a like a bulldozer scoop cuz you'd be ruining the environment.

So, they've got this uh cool piece of equipment that they've already built that just goes there and sort of picks up each rock.

it it can tell which rocks it wants to pick up and just sort of picks them up as it goes.

And that's really cool.

So, we're getting closer and closer to being able to produce our own rare earth minerals in the United States and nearby.

Um, let's see what else is going on.

So, you know how people like me and Marjgerie Taylor Green and uh Ron Johnson and Rand Paul were all complaining that the budget process was not including the uh Doge cuts.

Well, uh people like me did not understand the complexity of the budgeting process, but Speaker Johnson um says, "Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Don't worry.

uh that's coming up.

Now, you remember what I asked?

I was demanding, you know, at least on X when I was responding to Stephen Miller, uh I wasn't demanding a specific outcome.

I was demanding that our politicians tell us when we should see some kind of cuts that would be Doge related or at least, you know, get rid of the get rid of the deficit a little bit.

And uh I guess Speaker Johnson heard that, you know, not necessarily from me, but he saw a lot of push back from from Republicans and conservatives and uh according to the New York Post, he's uh giving us an answer.

He says uh his plan is to enshrine into law the cuts from Doge, but the process would be uh um it's going to get codified in the in the normal appropriations process in the fall and through a recession package that helps you claw back money.

So everybody understand that you've got an appropriations process and you also have a recision process.

So I went to Grock and I said, "Can you explain to me, Grock, all the different parts of the budget process?

like how many different things are there that are some word I've never heard before that mean well well this is some part of the government process and here's what Grock said uh I won't tell you what all these are but just so you know how many different things there are you've got budget resolution you've got a reconciliation bill you've got an appropriation bill you've got a continuing resolution ution.

You've got supplemental appropriations bills.

You've got recession re recession bills.

You've got a debt sealing bill.

You've got an authorization bill.

And you need to know the distinction between um mandatory and discretionary spending.

And uh if and you have to know what as a filibuster where where you're going to have to get your 60 votes and when you can get it with 50 and uh they all have their own little rules and process and and and the rest.

So when Speaker Johnson says he's going to do something in the fall to codify it, I don't know.

I don't understand any of that stuff.

And I've got a feeling that even the members of Congress just barely understand it.

You know, like uh Thomas Massie probably fully understands it.

And then if you said to me, "All right, name somebody else who fully understands the budget process," I would say, "Uh uh, did I mention Thomas Massie?" Yes, you did.

Okay.

Well, uh, well, there's Thomas Massie and then there's, uh, well, I'm done.

Yeah, it's a it's a mess.

But none of it's going to matter because Google just announced um that a uh quantum machine with fewer than a million uh, cubits could break basically RSA encryption in under a week.

Uh so your Bitcoin and your bank accounts are completely vulnerable and uh there's nothing you can do about it.

So under the current trend and I don't know what would change it.

Um, we're just sort of casually being told that all of our money will be stolen.

Oh, I don't know, sometime in the next year or two, and there just won't be anything we can do about it because the quantum computers will be able to break any encryption.

Great.

Great.

Could you throw us a bone and at least say, "Oh, but our AI will stop that from happening." Will it?

I don't know.

Will it?

I'm a little bit worried about this quantum encryption stuff.

Meanwhile, the Tape brothers um are in the UK.

They've got 21 charges against them.

Andrew and his brother Tristan.

Uh 21 charges uh from uh including rape and human trafficking.

Do you think that's all real?

Probably.

Because the things that they've talked about publicly would, you know, be pretty close to uh pretty close to evidence for some of these crimes.

So, I don't know.

I think it's a combination of there's probably something political going on, but at the same time, there may be enough evidence that they're in real trouble.

So, we'll see.

Well, Israel has uh actually deployed into real action and used the iron beam laser, it's called.

So for a cost of something like $5 per shot, it can take a uh a missile or a drone out of the sky.

So the expensive way to do it was to fire a rocket at the rocket.

So your your defense against the rocket would be as expensive or more expensive than the rockets that are coming in.

But they just changed that.

So now they can take your rocket out of the air for five bucks and then just shoot another one.

So they don't have to wait to recharge.

They basically can just shoot all day.

$5 a rocket.

So and then uh they've confirmed that they killed the second Sinoir.

Remember there was a head of Hamas whose name was Sinoir.

Well, apparently his brother took over and so they've killed the brother.

So, they're uh two for two on killing senoirs and they've just confirmed that they they got the second Senoir.

Um there's some more news on Israel because Israel is heating up.

something might be getting ready to happen there in terms of Iran.

But the former Israeli prime minister, Ahud Olar, um is not happy with his own government and he's essentially accusing them of war crimes and he says that they're involved in a war of annihilation with indiscriminate, limitous, limitless, cruel killing of civilians in Gaza.

Now, when I report this stuff, I remind you, you're not hearing my opinion.

I'm just telling you what's happening.

So, uh, as I've said before, whoever has the power is going to be accused of war crimes.

Will they will they be doing war crimes?

It's not up to me to decide.

Um, you know, you all know the situation.

If one side is hiding among its civilians, there's going to be more civilians killed.

There's just no way around it.

So, uh, I'm not saying it's good or bad.

It's not for me to judge it.

I'm just saying that from a self-defense perspective, Israel is pursuing its self-interest.

And uh that self-interest is not really good for the civilians of Gaza, but it's not for me to it's not for me to judge.

I'm just reporting.

Meanwhile, this is interesting.

CNN had uh the I think the most recently freed Israeli hostage um who said that his capttors were terrified of Trump and they wanted uh Kla Harris to be elected president.

But as soon as Trump got into office, he says that the captives were treated better because they didn't want to they didn't want to get Trump mad.

And uh now that's interesting.

Um quote, "Everything changed once Trump was back in the headlines.

When he became president, they the way they treated us changed.

And uh they they they got more food, they were treated better, they stopped cursing at them, stopped spitting on them." Now that that's pretty amazing.

Anyway, uh Trump has confirmed that he told Netanyahu of Israel to hold off on attacking Iran because he thinks he is close enough to some kind of a deal that that would ruin his negotiations.

I don't believe that there's going to be any kind of a deal.

Um but it looks like they're playing good cop bad cop.

So, it looks like Trump is trying to act like he's the one just negotiating.

Oh, I think we can get a deal here.

I don't want anybody to die.

Meanwhile, Israel is reportedly getting ready for unilateral strikes, you know, doing the strikes on at least one place, if not more, without the United States.

In other words, attacking Iran without the United States.

Um, now you might say to yourself, how popular would that be?

Well, the Rasmusen polling people have an answer for you.

57% of US voters would support military action by the US to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons program.

A a solid majority of Americans are in favor of direct American military action against Iran.

Does that surprise you?

That that kind of surprises me.

I thought it would be less than 50%.

But put it all together.

Uh oh, and then one other fact.

the leaders of Saudi Arabia, UAE, and and Qatar um have told Trump that they oppose military strikes.

So those would be the countries that are most likely to be part of, let's say, the Abraham Accords, you know, the the ones we want to be on our side.

So they're against it and Trump's against it and much of the world's against it.

But weirdly the American public doesn't seem so against it.

So if 57% would be of American voters would be in favor of America being part of a military attack, don't you think they'd be even more in favor of Israel doing it without us because they'd, you know, presumably get something like the same benefits, but the US would be less culpable.

So here's what it looks like.

It looks like they're they're setting up a good cop bad cop situation.

If I had to predict, I would predict that Israel is going to do the attack unilaterally and Trump is going to be really really really mad and Saudi Arabia and UAE and and Qatar or Qatar if you prefer are going to be really really really mad but also a little bit happy if the attack is successful and it takes out Iran's, you know, capability to make a bomb in two weeks, which is about where they are.

I've got a feeling that something is is brewing here that looks like not exactly what we're going to be told.

So, that's my prediction.

My prediction is the US will not be involved in an attack and will be opposed to it.

But that Israel, if they know that 50% of US voters would be in favor of the US doing the attack, I feel like they think they could get away with it.

And that there would just be a lot of yelling and a lot of unhappy people.

But then we would say something like, "What you wararmongering criminals?

What did you just do?

You just started a war with Iran?" But how'd it go?

Oh, pretty well.

We destroyed their entire nuclear infrastructure and didn't really kill any civilians because we warned them it was going to disappear.

So, they, you know, got the people out of there.

And then you'd be like, "Yeah, but you know, that's terrible, but you got rid of their entire nuclear program." Yes.

Okay, I can live with that.

Now, that's not my opinion.

I'm just I'm just telling you that if that's what they're planning to do, it does look like it might work.

So, I'm not in favor of it because if Iran decides it's really just the United States playing koi, but the United States is just as guilty because Israel wouldn't have done it unless, you know, we at least winked at him or something.

So, there's a big risk.

So, I'm not in favor of it.

But if you said, "Could they get away with it?" Maybe, you know, maybe they could.

And uh looking at uh Ukraine, um Trump was asked the question, "Do you still believe that Putin actually wants to end the war?" And Trump said, "I'll let you know in about two weeks." Uh, would you like to know now?

Because they could just ask me.

They don't really have to wait two weeks.

No, Putin does not want to end the war.

You don't have to wait two weeks.

So, I don't know what Trump's going to do in two weeks or or why you really even need to wait.

But, I guess he's going to let the uh process, you know, play out a little bit.

I assume there's some threats going on, meaning that uh you know, Trump has sent the threat that if you don't negotiate, you're not going to be able to sell your oil anywhere and you know, none of your oligarchs will be able to travel anywhere.

Interesting.

And stuff like that.

So maybe this two weeks are just so Trump's threats can sink in a little bit.

Maybe.

Maybe that's what's going on.

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Oh, I shudder with the goodness of it

all. All right. Well, as you know, Elon

Musk has he's uh out of the

government, at least in terms of Doge.

He's going to be full-time back at his

businesses. It's official now. I don't

think he quit. I think that was just the

normal time he was planning to leave.

But this is exciting. Uh, apparently

next month if you order a Tesla, and I

don't know if it's every model or just

the Model Y,

um, it will drive to your

house. So, you won't have to go pick up

your car. Your car will just with no

driver will just drive to your house and

then you have your car. That's about the

coolest thing I've ever seen in a

product. Tesla stock is up. Um, and it

looks like uh next month Austin will

have uh the driverless Teslas driving

around. So, that's going to be a big

deal. All right. Here's a

story that you are free to

disbelieve. It's a little bit too good

to believe. a little bit too good. So

there's a startup according to

interesting engineering that makes a

refrigeratorsiz machine that can make

gasoline out of thin

air. Now it's not out of just air. It uh

apparently allegedly it takes CO2 out of

the air and turns it directly into gas

you can use in your car with no with no

uh you know modifications required and

it uh can operate on renewable

electricity. So if you had a solar panel

and one of these refrigeratorsiz

machines you can make yourself some

gasoline right out of the air. How many

of you believe that that works?

And if it does work, may I add to your

concern? Because you're going to say,

"Oh,

no. It's going to ruin all vegetation on

Earth."

Oh, okay. I have to admit my back is

absolutely killing me today. So, I'm

going to be in

a in a

non-standard podcasting position. Oh,

that's so much better.

So, you might not be able to see me or

hear

me, but I'll be

here. Oh my god, that's much better. I

think I slept on it wrong. Well, RFK Jr.

is

uh threatening to ban scientists,

government scientists, from publishing

in top journals. Do you know why he

doesn't want scientists, at least

government scientists, to publish in the

Lancet and some of these other top

journals like the New England Journal of

Medicine and uh

JAMAMA? It's because they're corrupt.

So he says, quote, "We're probably going

to stop publishing in the Lancet, New

New England Journal of Medicine, JAMAMA,

and those other journals because they're

all

corrupt. Uh meaning that uh they've got

too much big pharma

influence." Now, can you even can you

even hold that in your

head that the RFK Jr. He's the US health

secretary and he's just said that the

major scientific journals in his field

are so corrupt that he's not even going

to let people submit papers to

them. Holy

cow. I I don't think there's another

person in the

world who would have said this or done

this, but I think he's right. I think

he's right.

Meanwhile, according to Fox News, uh the

president of

Harvard, he was giving an address and he

admitted that they're not doing enough

to have conservatives on campus and they

don't have enough, you know, voices that

are diverse.

And he said that the some faculty

members said to think twice before

teaching controversial

subjects. And uh he says the lack of

conservatives on the Ivy League campuses

um is uh because something about

expressing unpopular views and and now

he thinks they need more conservative

voices.

Now, is that what you think? Here's the

problem. Uh, his name is Garber, Alan

Garber. So, he said, "The administration

and others have said conservatives are

too few on campus and their views are

not welcome. In so far as that's true,

he he's acting like maybe it's not

true." In so far as that's true, that's

a problem that we really need to

address. Now, how are you going to

address it?

If you're the kind of entity that has

decided that conservatives are basically

Hiller, how do you go from, oh,

Republicans are Hitler to, you know, we

need more

Hillers? You know, it would be great if

we had like 30% hillers. That'd be just

the right

amount. I don't know. I feel like

they've painted themselves in a corner

and it wouldn't matter how much they

want to have more conservatives. the

conservatives aren't going to get near

it and uh the the other faculty would

think they were hiring killers and they

would all quit. So they might not have a

path. Uh meanwhile in San Francisco

um the uh school system came up with a

what they called an equity grading

system.

New York Post is reporting on this and

the San Francisco uh officials got rid

of it in one

day. So the idea was to make it easier

for people who weren't doing well in

school to also get good grades. And what

they were going to do is they were going

to um not grade them on homework even if

they skipped it. uh not grade them on

attendance if they cut class and they

could retake their final exam, which is

the only thing that would count toward

their grade. Well, it took uh 24 hours

for the collective powers to say,

"Nope. Nope. Let's get rid of that." So,

that's gone. I don't think that would

have been gone in 24 hours before Trump.

So, we're gonna call that the Trump

effect.

Um, all right. Speaking of the Trump

effect, the post millennial says that uh

GM has decided to invest $888

million into a big factory near Buffalo,

New York. So, more than they were

planning to do. Is that the Trump

effect? Or do you think maybe that would

have been somewhere else? I don't know.

I'm going to call it the Trump

effect. Here's something that sounds

like a little nerdy

story, but probably is immensely

important. So

MIT has announced this initiative for

new manufacturing according to MIT News.

So, it's an institute-wide effort aiming

to bolster industry and create jobs by

driving innovation across vital

manufacturing sectors. If you take the

jargon out of it, what it really means

is that MIT is going to be like Doge for

manufacturing.

Not so much in cutting costs, although

they might do that too, but rather

looking at it from the bottom up and

saying, "All right, instead of just

rebuilding the old kind of manufacturing

that we always did, because that's the

only thing we know how to do, the

geniuses at MIT

uh are gonna help, I guess, help

industry design manufacturing." That

makes sense. Now, I assume it's stuff

like, you know, using AI and, you know,

probably whole new systems that have

never been used before and 3D printing

and robots and whatever else. But the

only way the US is going to become a

manufacturing power again with a good

kind of manufacturing, you know, not the

not the low-end kind is this.

So, you know, Doge really can't be

underestimated because although this is

not Doge and has nothing to do with

Doge, it just feels like it wouldn't

happen unless Doge had sort of set the

standard that if you unleash your

geniuses in this domain, it doesn't take

long for them to fix everything.

So this is a small story that I think

could be one of the biggest stories in

the country if they things go right. So

MIT is not like other places the MIT

students the they're all like you know

big balls basically.

Well, according to futurism,

uh some economists did a study to find

out how much uh how much AI is saving

companies because companies are adopting

AI like crazy. They they just can't get

enough of it. Um so apparently white

collar workers are, you know, just

they're just racing to get more AI and

it looks like they saved

uh basically nothing.

They analyzed 25,000

workers and uh the only productivity

gains were 3 to 7% productivity

gains and

uh and none of them translated into

bigger paychecks or anything. So it

looks like uh AI has met Dilbert.

you know, Dilbert is sort of the standin

for, you know, the bureaucracy and doing

everything wrong. Um, apparently you

can't just take a bunch of people who

were a certain way and just layer A on

AI on top of

them. You you can't take Dilbert. Well,

you can take Gilbert, but you can't take

Wall-E and then add AI to Wall-E and

then suddenly he's a productive

employee, he's still Wall-E. Still

Wall-E. So, although although I do think

AI will eventually take

jobs, it's going to be a fight. The the

walls and the pointy-haired bosses are

going to have to duke it out for about

five years.

Well, allegedly, according to

neuroscience news, speaking of AI, uh a

new study of Chat GPT, the

4.0, it shows that it's uh susceptible

to cognitive

dissonance. Cognitive

dissonance the AI, now this is, you

know, would be considered a u let's say

a cognitive flaw in human beings.

And there's a

test that I remember from uh the book

influence JL

Deany and uh the the test was they would

have people they would just stop random

people and have them write

essays on topics that they did not

believe, you know, were not their actual

opinions. and then he would check back

with them and they would have changed

their opinions to what they wrote in the

essay instead of what they said was

their opinion just before they wrote the

essay. So that would be cognitive

dissonance. So they wouldn't be aware of

the fact that they had that that they

had persuaded

themselves by writing an essay that they

didn't believe in and then you wait a

few months and suddenly they believed in

their own essay. So they did the same

experiment with

AI and found out that AI would change

its

opinion because it wrote a opinion

earlier that was not its actual

opinion. So they did something with you

know pro or con Putin and uh they got

the AI to have cognitive dissonance.

Well, I don't know if that's fixable

because if AI is based on the patterns

of human

beings, how do you fix that? Because

that is a pattern of human beings. It's

a very distinct pattern. So, we'll see.

Meanwhile, Jake Tapper is now uh he was

on Stephen A. Smith's

podcast and uh Jake Tapper, he was

calling out Leticia James and Alvin

Bragg for being lawfair prosecutors who

said they were going to go after Trump

before they had any particular crimes

they were going to go after. And uh so

Jake says it's problematic when

prosecutors run on pledges to go after a

politician and the media largely let it

slide.

the

media. You mean

CNN? And and he says there was a degree

to which it was tolerated by the media

at

large. That would be

him. It It's the weirdest thing to watch

Jake Tapper do a book tour, which is

very successful. I think his book is

number one. People are saying good

things about the book.

But he's essentially

confessing some of the the biggest flaws

in in the mainstream media of which he

was a part. And he's not saying he

wasn't part of it. You know, he's not

trying to say it was other people. He's

saying it was him. And it's it's weirdly

disarming, you know, that the fact that

he called Lara Trump and apologized to

her in person. Like you want to get mad

at him and say, "Oh, what about Laura

Trump?" And then you find out you called

her personally and apologized and you're

like, "Ah, oh, I'm still a little bit

mad." And then you want to be mad at him

for not calling out the lawfare

um of, you know, Leticia James and then

he calls it out and I and I'm like,

"Yeah, but what about Okay, I guess you

just said that. It's very disarming and

he's totally getting away with

it. And uh it it's it's an amazing thing

to

watch. Um Jake Tapper also told Stephen

D. Smith that none of the sources he

talked to about Biden's declining brain.

He said none of them showed any

remorse. None of them. I guess they

didn't write books. If you write a book,

you have to show some remorse or people

would be too mad at you. But I'm not

surprised because they all thought they

were working on the side of good. Oh,

we're the good

people. Speaking of good, uh, Paramount,

as you know, is in a legal battle with

Trump over the fact that their CBS News

had edited a Kamla

interview. And uh, they're offering $15

million to settle Trump's lawsuit, but

Trump's team wants 25 million. Now, the

interesting thing about it is that I

guess Trump's

administration has control over whether

Paramount does a big merger that they

want to do. So, they've got about I

don't know, they might have a billion

dollars on the line with the merger. So,

the difference between 15 million and

25

probably is not that big a difference if

the if it's the only way to get the

billion dollar merger going. So, I don't

approve of using that kind of government

leverage, but there it is. So, I'd be

surprised if they don't get their 25

million just, you know, just to get it

off the

plate. Anyway,

um so former uh according to MSNBC,

um so MSNBC had a guest on was a former

Biden pardon attorney. I didn't even

know there was a pardon attorney, but

there was one, Liz Oyer.

And uh while she was on, she accused the

uh Trump

administration of accepting a

million-doll donation from a family

member of someone who got

pardoned. But since there's no evidence

that that happened,

uh even the MSNBC host very quickly

said, "Uh, well, attended a fundraiser,

but there's no evidence that they

actually donated anything."

So, it makes me wonder if the Paramount

lawsuit and wasn't there also a CNN

lawsuit. It makes me wonder if Trump has

finally broken through where if they

know there's a

lie that somebody says in their ear,

"Ah, you better correct that." kind of

like The View, you know, the ladies of

the View have to keep doing these legal

statements because their producer talks

in their ear and says, "Ah, there's no

evidence of that. You better say that's

not

true." So, maybe something good is

happening from all these lawsuits.

Um, according to Fox News, the State

Department and and uh Marco

Rubio say they're going to be uh

aggressively getting rid of I won't say

getting rid of, but they're revoking

visas for Chinese

students. Aggressively revoking visas. I

don't know how you do it aggressively.

Do you

snarl? Give me your visa. I'm revoking

it aggressively.

Um, this does make me wonder how much

safer the country will be if we stop

educating, you know, foreign leaders,

you know, potential foreign leaders in

America. I don't know. Are are we going

to be better off or worse off? I guess

we'll find

out. Um, Trump said he would consider

pardons. He's not saying he would do it,

but he's recently been made aware of the

situation where do you remember there

was a a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor

Gretchen

Whitmer, but the FBI was sort of behind

the plot and convince people to do it.

Well, maybe they didn't have to try too

hard because I guess at least one of the

men, you know, was pretty actively

suggesting doing it. And uh so he's

going to look at that. But I don't think

this one is the cleanest one. It's not

like the January 6 stuff that I thought

was, you know, except for the most

violent people. It was a pretty clean

one, you know. But uh we'll see. We'll

we'll see if Trump

um wants to test his

powers. Well, there's a hoax that the

reason that Trump is going after Harvard

so hard is because Baron once applied

there and was turned down. But Melania

issued a statement, which is kind of

rare,

uh that she would even get involved. And

she said Baron did not apply to Harvard.

So that's a hoax. Baron never applied to

Harvard. So

um so the the Biden auto pen

scandal you know when that first

broke I thought it was going to be sort

of a

nothing. I I thought okay there there's

a log that will show you know who signed

why. it'll show that the Biden approved

it. You know, it'll just sort of go

away. But it turns out that there is uh

no log

whatsoever of who authorized or use who

used the auto

pen. Now, can you think of anything more

ridiculous than that? Think of all the

rules, you know, think of all the rules

and regulations and laws that the

government

does. And maybe the single most

important thing they could do is keep a

record of who used the auto

pen and who authorized it. And

apparently that's never been a

requirement. So there's there exists no

record

whatsoever of who used the auto pen for

what. So, Representative Comr is going

to um look into it and uh he might have

even Jill Biden and Hunter Biden and

Jean John Pierre Karen Karin John

Pierre. So, all the usual people might

be called in. We don't know if they'll

all go, but they might be called. But um

in on the same topic, there's a uh

Project

Veraritoss undercover video of David

Hog saying that it was a

well-known what do you call it? A an

open

secret that the real power behind the

throne was uh Jill Biden's chief of

staff, Anthony Bernal.

And uh I don't know if that means that

he was behind the

autopen, but the the reveal is if you

wondered who had the most power behind

the curtain. According to David Hog,

other people might have different

opinions, but according to him, it was

Jill Biden's chief of staff. Now, does

that ring true to you?

Like when you hear that it was Jill

Biden's chief of staff, does that sound

like something that maybe is true?

Because it totally sounds true to

me. Can't you imagine that if uh Joe

Biden was, you know, mentally

incompetent that Jill Biden's opinion

probably counted for a lot because she

could get him to say whatever she needed

him to say. But since she was not maybe

as involved in politics, you know, in

the detail level, it seems like she

could have been easily influenced by her

own chief of

staff. So when I first heard that story,

I thought to myself, that totally makes

sense. Like if you just know the

ordinary dynamics of people, the wife

would have the most control over the

husband, but the chief of staff would

have the most control over the wife

because she would take his opinion as as

being somewhat, you know, correct and

authoritative. So maybe maybe we know

more. Um, and then the postmillennial is

uh is writing about how there's a

watchdog group, an environmental

watchdog group that says there's no

evidence that Biden knew he was signing

any climate executive

orders. Now, there's no evidence partly

because there's no log of who signed

what or why, but they're pointing out

that uh that Biden ordered it, but he

never really talked about it.

And although that's not proof, it's

definitely a headscratcher, isn't it?

Can you imagine Trump signing an

executive order for something that's

like really expensive? There's just

billions of dollars involved. And can

you imagine Trump never mentioning it?

You can't. Of course, he would mention

it because he'd be happy about his what

he did. it would be a big deal and it

would be one of the many things he told

everybody about as soon as he thought of

it and as soon as he did it. But when

you see that Biden may have auto penned

the approval for some, you know,

environmental things that were really,

really

expensive and never mentioned it. Well,

it could be because, you know, he was

mentally

incompetent. So even if he agreed with

it and even if he approved it, they were

a little afraid of putting in front of

the public. So it's not

proof, but it is a really good

question. Did he have any knowledge that

it happened? So that'll be one of the

things that maybe Representative Comr

can find

out. Well, according to a uh guest on

the Benny J Benny Johnson's podcast,

Susan Crabtree has a scoop and she says

that that bag of cocaine that Dan

Banchino says they're going to look into

more closely. Um that the bag of cocaine

had some DNA on it.

Uhoh, DNA. And that would mean that they

know exactly who touched

it. At least one person. So they might

already know whose it was. You know, I I

suppose if the fingerprint was somebody

that they didn't have any prior

experience with, they couldn't really be

sure. But if it's Hunter Biden's DNA

just to pick a random

person, well then they would know who

was who it belonged to. But there's also

part of the story that the Secret

Service destroyed the uh evidence,

meaning the the bag of cocaine. And but

then separately I saw that uh that would

be the normal process for the secret

service because the secret service is

not an

investigative department of justice kind

of an entity. And I saw somebody say

that their their ordinary process if

they had found a bag of drugs that they

knew belonged to the family they

wouldn't take it and give it back to the

family.

But it's also not their job to get the

family arrested. So they would just

quietly destroy it and that would

actually be their their known

process. I like that

process because you can't really trust

your own secret service if you think

they're looking for crimes that you're

doing and they're going to, you know,

put you away. But if they find a bag of

cocaine, what are they going to do with

it? They they can't store it forever.

They can't give it to law enforcement if

they're trying to protect you. So, it

makes perfect sense to me that the

Secret Service would destroy it. Uh I

don't have any problem with that at all.

So, I don't know if that's would make

any difference in their um investigation

since they already got the DNA.

Meanwhile, the uh University of North

Carolina, I saw this on a Corey

D'Angelus

uh post. There's a undercover video of

the administrator at the University of

North Carolina bragging about how they

just are pretending that they're getting

rid of DEI, but all they're doing is

changing the names and continuing on and

doing it cleverly

undercover. And uh apparently the person

on the video said they're just going to

finesse the language and they're going

to do quote work that is

covert. Uh and then when they were

confronted with the fact that they had

just been recorded, the uh university

provost tried to run away.

But contrasting to that where it it

definitely looks like they were trying

to break the law and continue to do DEI.

Uh MIT again uh in in the news for a

different thing um has closed its

diversity, equity, and inclusion office.

Now listen to the language that MIT

uses and you tell me if you think

they're just changing the language and

doing it anyway or are they

serious about getting rid of it because

maybe they didn't like it and maybe it's

illegal. Um so this is what MIT said as

part of their getting rid of DEI. They

said MIT is in the talent business. Our

success depends on attracting

exceptionally talented people of every

background from across the country and

around the world and making sure

everyone at ME feels welcome blah blah

blah so they can do their both. Um when

you start with MIT is in the talent

business that's a pretty good

signal that you're serious about looking

at talent over DEI. Now they did say,

you know, they want people from all over

the world. So that's a, you know, sort

of a waving their hand at uh

diversity, but they say first we're in

the talent

business. That sounds a little more

serious. So although you have to watch

all the universities to see if they are

serious, I'm going to say they sound

legit. So I'm going to say MIT might be

trying to do it right. We don't know,

but they might

be. According to the Financial Times, if

you lived in the

UK, there's a one in three chance that

your phone would be stolen. Uh, I guess

phone thefts have nearly doubled. Uh,

and now 29% of UK adults have had one of

their phones stolen.

I wouldn't even go into public. If one

in three people had their phone

stolen, I would never leave the house.

So, here's my advice to the citizens of

the

UK. Get out. Get out. Run. Run. I don't

know where you're going to go, but you

probably want to go somewhere where

there's not a one in three chance of

your phone getting stolen just cuz you

left the house.

Well, Trump's uh tariffs were of course

stopped by a court, the court of

international trade. It ruled uh I guess

yesterday that uh Trump does not have

the authority to do these

tariffs. Now, the most the most

surprising part about this story, I'd

never even heard of the court of

international trade. How many courts are

there?

How many courts have some kind of

jurisdiction over everything Trump does

with an executive order? But I guess the

Supreme Court will hear this

next. But allegedly,

uh, this court of international trade

seems to have some kind of power over

the

process. So, I guess we'll wait for

that. Some say that's why the stock

market is up.

Maybe. Well, according to News Nation,

um there's a uh company called

Impossible Metals that has sort of a

robot machine that can pick up uh rare

earth minerals from the bottom of the

ocean. So, I guess there are these

well-known places where these

potatoesized rocks that are just like

just laying there in the bottom, and you

don't want to use a like a bulldozer

scoop cuz you'd be ruining the

environment. So, they've got this uh

cool piece of equipment that they've

already built that just goes there and

sort of picks up each

rock. it it can tell which rocks it

wants to pick up and just sort of picks

them up as it goes. And that's really

cool. So, we're getting closer and

closer to being able to produce our own

rare earth minerals in the United States

and

nearby.

Um, let's see what else is going on.

So, you know how people like me and

Marjgerie Taylor Green and uh Ron

Johnson and Rand Paul were all

complaining that the budget process was

not including the uh Doge cuts. Well, uh

people like me did not understand the

complexity of the budgeting process, but

Speaker Johnson

um says, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't worry.

uh that's coming up. Now, you remember

what I asked? I was

demanding, you know, at least on X when

I was responding to Stephen Miller, uh I

wasn't demanding a specific outcome. I

was demanding that our politicians tell

us when we should see some kind of cuts

that would be Doge related or at least,

you know, get rid of the get rid of the

deficit a little bit. And uh I guess

Speaker Johnson heard that, you know,

not necessarily from me, but he saw a

lot of push back

from from Republicans and conservatives

and uh according to the New York Post,

he's uh giving us an answer. He says uh

his plan is to enshrine into law the

cuts from

Doge, but the process would be

uh um it's going to get codified in the

in the normal appropriations process in

the fall and through a recession

package that helps you claw back money.

So everybody understand that you've got

an appropriations

process and you also have a recision

process. So I went to Grock and I said,

"Can you explain to me, Grock, all the

different parts of the budget process?

like how many different things are there

that are some word I've never heard

before that mean well well this is some

part of the government process and

here's what Grock said uh I won't tell

you what all these are but just so you

know how many different things there are

you've got budget

resolution you've got a reconciliation

bill you've got an appropriation

bill you've got a continuing resolution

ution. You've got supplemental

appropriations bills. You've got

recession re recession bills. You've got

a debt sealing

bill. You've got an authorization

bill. And you need to know the

distinction between

um mandatory and discretionary spending.

And uh if and you have to know what as a

filibuster where where you're going to

have to get your 60 votes and when you

can get it with

50 and uh they all have their own little

rules and process and and and the rest.

So when Speaker Johnson says he's going

to do something in the fall to codify

it, I don't

know. I don't understand any of that

stuff. And I've got a feeling that even

the members of Congress just barely

understand it. You know, like uh Thomas

Massie probably fully understands it.

And then if you said to me, "All right,

name somebody else who fully understands

the budget process," I would say, "Uh

uh, did I mention Thomas Massie?" Yes,

you

did. Okay. Well,

uh, well, there's Thomas Massie and then

there's, uh, well, I'm

done. Yeah, it's a it's a

mess. But none of it's going to matter

because Google just announced

um that a uh quantum machine with fewer

than a million

uh, cubits could break basically RSA

encryption in under a week.

Uh so your Bitcoin and your bank

accounts are completely vulnerable and

uh there's nothing you can do about

it. So under the current trend and I

don't know what would change it. Um,

we're just sort of casually being told

that all of our money will be

stolen. Oh, I don't know, sometime in

the next year or two, and there just

won't be anything we can do about it

because the quantum computers will be

able to break any

encryption. Great. Great. Could you

throw us a bone and at least say, "Oh,

but our AI will stop that from

happening." Will

it? I don't know. Will it? I'm a little

bit worried about this quantum

encryption

stuff. Meanwhile, the Tape brothers

um are in the UK. They've got 21 charges

against them. Andrew and his brother

Tristan. Uh 21 charges

uh from

uh including rape and human

trafficking. Do you think that's all

real? Probably. Because the things that

they've talked about publicly

would, you know, be pretty close to uh

pretty close to evidence for some of

these crimes. So, I don't know. I think

it's a combination of there's probably

something political going on, but at the

same time, there may be enough evidence

that they're in real trouble. So, we'll

see. Well,

Israel has uh actually deployed into

real action and used the iron beam

laser, it's called. So for a cost of

something like $5 per shot, it can take

a uh a missile or a drone out of the

sky. So the expensive way to do it was

to fire a rocket at the rocket. So your

your defense against the rocket would be

as expensive or more expensive than the

rockets that are coming in. But they

just changed that. So now they can take

your rocket out of the air for five

bucks and then just shoot another one.

So they don't have to wait to recharge.

They basically can just shoot all day.

$5 a

rocket. So and then uh they've confirmed

that they killed the second

Sinoir. Remember there was a head of

Hamas whose name was Sinoir. Well,

apparently his brother took over and so

they've killed the brother. So, they're

uh two for two on killing

senoirs and they've just confirmed that

they they got the second

Senoir.

Um there's some more news on Israel

because Israel is heating up. something

might be getting ready to happen there

in terms of Iran. But the former Israeli

prime minister, Ahud Olar,

um is not happy with his own government

and he's essentially accusing them of

war crimes and he says that they're

involved in a war of annihilation with

indiscriminate, limitous, limitless,

cruel killing of civilians in Gaza.

Now, when I report this stuff, I remind

you, you're not hearing my opinion. I'm

just telling you what's happening. So,

uh, as I've said before, whoever has the

power is going to be accused of war

crimes. Will they will they be doing war

crimes? It's not up to me to

decide.

Um, you know, you all know the

situation. If one side is hiding among

its

civilians, there's going to be more

civilians killed. There's just no way

around it. So, uh, I'm not saying it's

good or bad. It's not for me to judge

it. I'm just saying that from a

self-defense

perspective, Israel is pursuing its

self-interest. And uh that self-interest

is not really good for the civilians of

Gaza, but it's not for me to it's not

for me to judge. I'm just

reporting. Meanwhile, this is

interesting. CNN had uh the I think the

most recently freed Israeli hostage

um who said that his capttors were

terrified of Trump and they wanted uh

Kla Harris to be elected president. But

as soon as Trump got into office, he

says that the captives were treated

better because they didn't want to they

didn't want to get Trump mad.

And uh now that's

interesting. Um quote, "Everything

changed once Trump was back in the

headlines. When he became president,

they the way they treated us

changed. And

uh they they they got more food, they

were treated better, they stopped

cursing at them, stopped spitting on

them." Now that that's pretty amazing.

Anyway, uh Trump has confirmed that he

told

Netanyahu of Israel to hold off on

attacking Iran because he thinks he is

close enough to some kind of a deal that

that would ruin his

negotiations. I don't believe that

there's going to be any kind of a

deal. Um but it looks like they're

playing good cop bad cop. So, it looks

like Trump is trying to act like he's

the one just negotiating. Oh, I think we

can get a deal here. I don't want

anybody to die. Meanwhile, Israel is

reportedly getting ready for unilateral

strikes, you know, doing the strikes on

at least one place, if not more, without

the United States. In other words,

attacking Iran without the United

States.

Um, now you might say to yourself, how

popular would that be? Well, the

Rasmusen polling people have an answer

for you. 57% of US voters would support

military action by the US to destroy

Iran's nuclear weapons program.

A a solid majority of

Americans are in favor of direct

American military action against

Iran. Does that surprise

you? That that kind of surprises me. I

thought it would be less than

50%. But put it all

together. Uh oh, and then one other

fact. the leaders of Saudi Arabia, UAE,

and and Qatar

um have told Trump that they oppose

military

strikes. So those would be the countries

that are most likely to be part of,

let's say, the Abraham Accords, you

know, the the ones we want to be on our

side.

So they're against it and Trump's

against it and much of the world's

against it. But

weirdly the American

public doesn't seem so against it. So if

57% would be of American voters would be

in favor of America being part of a

military attack, don't you think they'd

be even more in favor of Israel doing it

without us because they'd, you know,

presumably get something like the same

benefits, but the US would be less

culpable. So here's what it looks like.

It looks like they're they're setting up

a good cop bad cop situation.

If I had to predict, I would predict

that Israel is going to do the attack

unilaterally and Trump is going to be

really really really

mad and Saudi Arabia and UAE and and

Qatar or Qatar if you prefer are going

to be really really really

mad but also a little bit

happy if the attack is successful and it

takes out Iran's, you know, capability

to make a bomb in two weeks, which is

about where they

are. I've got a feeling that something

is is brewing

here that looks like not exactly what

we're going to be

told. So, that's my prediction. My

prediction is the US will not be

involved in an

attack and will be opposed to it. But

that Israel, if they know that 50% of US

voters would be in favor of the US doing

the

attack, I feel like they think they

could get away with

it. And that there would just be a lot

of yelling and a lot of unhappy people.

But then we would say something like,

"What you

wararmongering criminals? What did you

just do? You just started a war with

Iran?"

But how'd it go? Oh, pretty well. We

destroyed their entire nuclear

infrastructure and didn't really kill

any civilians because we warned them it

was going to disappear. So, they, you

know, got the people out of there. And

then you'd be like, "Yeah, but you know,

that's

terrible, but you got rid of their

entire nuclear program." Yes. Okay, I

can live with

that. Now, that's not my opinion. I'm

just I'm just telling you that if that's

what they're planning to

do, it does look like it might

work. So, I'm not in favor of

it because if Iran decides it's really

just the United States playing koi, but

the United States is just as guilty

because Israel wouldn't have done it

unless, you know, we at least winked at

him or something. So, there's a big

risk.

So, I'm not in favor of

it. But if you said, "Could they get

away with

it?" Maybe, you know, maybe they

could. And uh looking at uh Ukraine,

um Trump was asked the question, "Do you

still believe that Putin actually wants

to end the war?" And Trump said, "I'll

let you know in about two weeks."

Uh, would you like to know

now? Because they could just ask me.

They don't really have to wait two

weeks. No, Putin does not want to end

the

war. You don't have to wait two weeks.

So, I don't know what Trump's going to

do in two weeks or or why you really

even need to wait. But, I guess he's

going to let the uh process, you know,

play out a little bit. I assume there's

some threats going

on, meaning that uh you know, Trump has

sent the threat that if you don't

negotiate, you're not going to be able

to sell your oil anywhere and you know,

none of your oligarchs will be able to

travel anywhere. Interesting. And stuff

like that. So maybe this two weeks are

just so Trump's

threats can sink in a little bit. Maybe.

Maybe that's what's going on. All right,

ladies and gentlemen, that's what I've

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