Episode 2921 CWSA 08/08/25

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Well, I wonder if there are any studies that could have been skipped.

H Oh, here's one.

A new metaanalysis, a study of studies, um found that uh aerobic and resistance training significantly reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Huh.

I wonder if there's any way they could have skipped the metaanalysis and found out the same answer.

Yes, there is.

They should have just asked me as Scott.

Um, but they believe they found out that aerobic exercise is a little bit better for depression while resistance training is a little bit better for anxiety.

But guess what?

They're both good for you in a variety of ways for your mind and your body.

Surprise.

Just like every other time.

Um, and in what I call summer news because in the summer there's just less real news, so it gets filled in with weird stuff.

Um, a fourth dildo has been tossed onto a WNBA basketball court during a game.

Now, apparently the betting line is on what color the next one will be.

It's not even whether or not there is one, it's what color it will be.

So, the first three were green.

Why?

I don't know.

Why not?

But, uh, the new one was, uh, purple.

So, the reason you watch me is for the hard-hitting important news.

And now you know the quantity and the color of the dildos that have been thrown on basketball courts.

Now, you know, um, but did you know CBS News tells us that Americans get 55% of their calories from ultrarocessed foods, according to the CDC?

Would you know the difference between a processed food and an ultrarocessed food?

Do you know what the difference is?

I'll wait for your answers.

What is the difference between a processed food and an ultrarocessed food?

Well, I don't know exactly, but I would imagine an ultrarocessed food would wear some kind of a cape, you know, some kind of a superhero outfit sort of thing.

I am no longer ordinary processed foods.

I was bitten by a spider and now it was a radioactive spider and now I am ultrarocessed foods.

Sounds awesome.

Avoid those ultras.

Well, Newsmax tells us that Obamacare um premiums might spike 18%.

Holy hell.

How in the world can this one area healthc care just always go up by a lot every year?

It never goes down.

Are you telling me that with all of these medical breakthroughs that not a single one of them has lowered anybody's costs?

Instead, the entire medical community has turned into a scam.

The scam goes like this.

Um, we could cure this thing, but it would make a lot more sense if we didn't.

Or, um, we could sell this the supplies to you cheaply, or we could sell you the machine cheaply and make the supplies like really really expensive forever.

So my brief experience in the uh in the healthc care medical device area uh I have a little bit is that it's pretty much people who who don't want you to get better and they definitely don't want you to stop using their medical devices.

Well um but what about your veterinarian?

Sure.

Human medicine is probably one big scam, but what about veterinarians?

Well, it turns out that private equity firms are buying up all the veterinarian practices.

Did you know that?

So, they currently own up to half of all veterary clinics and 75% of emergency hospitals.

And guess what they do when they buy a local veterary practice?

They substantially increased the prices and that's why your veterinarian bill veterary bill is through the roof.

There's a reason because those big entities are buying them and jacking up the price.

Well, what is the update on those Texas Democrats who rather than stay in town and do their job um decided that they would stage a theatrical uh skit because it's what they do.

Uh Democrats, we have another crisis.

The oligarch is trying to be an authoritarian.

So, what do you do?

run around in circles with our hair on fire.

Well, that's the start.

And then what do you do?

Do we learn to swear more like orange man?

Yes, exactly.

Oh, damn it.

Oh, damn.

Sword.

F- word.

Well, and then most importantly, you must stage some kind of a theatrical event.

A play.

could be a one-man show like Cy Booker, but needs to be, you know, put on a show.

So, the uh Texas Democrats, they put on a show with the help of their financial backers.

They ran away to Illinois and other places.

And then the uh governor of Texas, not want to, you know, back down from a fight, decided that he would uh send uh the FBI after them.

And there might be some arrests.

I don't know exactly what law they're breaking, but I'm sure somebody will find a law.

So, yeah.

So, Robert Rich Reich, Robert Rich is pointing out that this is what fascism looks like.

So, what fascism looks like is your Democrat leaders leave town so they don't have to do their job and then the governor of that state says, "Can the FBI round these people up so they can do their job?" That's what fascism looks like.

No, it's exactly like that.

Stop doubting me.

That's exactly what fascism looks like.

You know what else it looks like?

Looks like an oligarch who's authoritarian.

Authoritarian.

Yeah, that's it.

That's what it looks like.

So, beware of all that.

So, Project Veraritoss has a scoop with a whistleblower that says that ex US Attorney General Bill Barr was a part of some kind of secret plan to uh prosecute Trump and get him out of office.

But I would wait to see if we have other sources for that.

Um, I I saw some people say that they weren't quite sure that the case had been made, but they do have some kind of evidence for that.

So, I'd wait.

Bill Bar may have something to say about that, too.

Well, yesterday the uh House Oversight Committee um they they talked to Anita Dunn who was one of Biden's close adviserss and they said and done can you tell us you know about Biden's brain and was anybody was anybody aware of it and keeping that a secret from the rest of us and so it was a case of Anita Dunn and the president who is now done and he's got a dunner.

So, it was sort of a done and done situation.

Uh but Anita was uh kind of smart.

Instead of taking the fifth, she did Biden a favor and said that he interacted as much as he needed to and basically he was fine.

Didn't notice a problem.

So, I don't know that that's true, but there's no way to disprove it.

Oh, there's a cat in my background.

That means you're probably going to watch the cat instead of me.

But that's okay because the news is boring today.

And the cat always exciting.

So what it needed done said about Biden was quote while I observed that President Biden aged physically during his time in office which is something that happens to every president he remained throughout my interactions with him fully engaged.

Now isn't that an interesting choice of words?

Engaged.

He was fully engaged.

Huh?

Is fully engaged the same thing as being completely mentally competent?

Because I've seen videos of crazy people with machetes trying to kill people on the street.

And one thing I would say about all of those people, they look fully engaged.

So, uh, looks like I got a visitor here.

So, this is Gary the cat who's doing a walk through.

Uh unlike uh President Biden during his last debate, according to Jack Jake Tapper, uh Biden refused to do a walkth through of the debate um stage before the event, which is a big that's a big mistake for a public speaker.

Um so Denmark is urging Israel to reverse their Gaza decision.

I guess the Gaza decision is where Israel uh I don't know if it's a done deal.

They might need some more approvals, but they plan to occupy and basically just own Gaza and never give it back.

And uh but they would like Israel says they would like eventually uh for some Arab country to take control of that area.

But still uh Israel would do the security which uh raises an interesting question.

If your country is doing the all the security for a place, can you really say that someone else is running it?

Because it feels like whoever has the guns is going to get anything they want out of that population.

So, we'll see how that works out.

But uh the the one thing I'm still waiting for is uh and this will sound like I'm you know supporting Israel and all their plans, but I'm not.

I am commenting on it.

And uh you can you can hear my comment and say, "Oh, that's reasonable or that's not." But uh it's just a comment.

Same thing you could say.

Um, have you noticed that people don't offer an alternative to whatever Israel is planning to do in Gaza?

Now, I think everybody has the same feeling, which is too many people are getting killed and wouldn't it be good if everybody got fed and you know, wouldn't it be good if everybody could live in harmony next to each other?

So, we all agree in the obvious basic stuff, but what is the alternative to to Gaza completely being, you know, dominated forever by Israel?

Is there really some plan where where they'll all just change their minds and decide that uh everything's fine?

I'm pretending that there's not a cat putting its face in my face right now.

No, it's not even happening.

I don't even see it.

All right, moving on.

You know, pretend that another cat didn't fall off a something in my house.

Getting noisy in here.

Well, apparently Germany is not happy with Israel either.

And uh I didn't know this, but Germany is the source of 30 to 47% of Israel's imported heavy weaponry.

and they're threatening to uh shut down that pipeline of weaponry if uh Israel doesn't do better I don't know taking care of the Gaza residents or do something.

I don't think that's going to make any difference whatsoever.

So if you're looking for a prediction on Gaza, Israel is going to do what they said they would from the start.

Total victory changed the reality on the ground forever.

Um and they will certainly have control over that territory for for the uh foreseeable future if not forever.

So apparently Trump is not happy that the tick tock deal is not getting approved by China and China quite wisely is holding back on that because they don't have a trade deal yet.

So it's just part of their leverage.

But Trump's leverage has to be acting like he doesn't care if Tik Tok goes out of business or not.

Now, he does care.

He does care, but he has to act like he doesn't.

So, the latest uh Charles Caspino is writing about this in the New York Post is that uh he's letting it slip that he doesn't give a crap uh if Tik Tok goes dark for a while because I I guess he thinks it wouldn't be permanent even if it did.

But, uh he's he's downplaying that.

And uh maybe that'll help get a trade deal.

We'll see.

Well, have I ever mentioned that all of our economic data is not to be trusted?

Um, here's a bunch of economic data.

So, economist Steve Moore, who you probably know from a lot of TV hits.

He's a big uh Trump supporter and uh he was uh giving Trump a demonstration in the Oval Office that we got to watch that he said that every income bracket saw a boost under uh Trump but under Biden uh income inequality got worse.

Do you believe Do you believe that?

Do you believe that every income bracket got some kind of a boost under Trump?

Well, maybe.

But it it doesn't really help you if that boost comes at the uh price of your national debt.

That's just borrowing your own money.

So, I don't know.

I don't believe any economic numbers.

I don't believe that.

I just don't believe we have access to accurate numbers.

Um, and then same economist Steve Morris says that uh uh that Biden inflated his job numbers by 1.5 million.

Now, how do we know that Biden was off by 1.5 million?

Do you believe that there are that there is such a thing as accurate job numbers and that Biden just decided not to use them or he was lying about it?

and then now we have the accurate ones and nobody's lying.

I think it would be more accurate to uh assume that we just don't have accurate job numbers so that anybody can can game those numbers by at least 1.5 million and get away with it.

Really guys, settle down.

All right.

So, don't believe any of the job numbers.

Don't believe any of the economic numbers.

Um, they could be anything you want.

Every every administration is going to tell you that the one before had the wrong numbers, but thank goodness they have the right numbers now.

As soon as you start believing that, you're lost.

Um, so James Carville is uh advising the Democrats that they've got to save democracy in 2028.

If or if they ever get back in power, that they should, uh, immediately add two new states, uh, DC and Puerto Rico, so they could get extra Democrats in the Senate and and Congress in general.

and uh they should uh stack the Supreme Court and that that would be how they would save democracy.

Now, when I hear Democrats say, "Hey, if you Republicans keep doing what you're doing, then we're going to, you know, be less um less restrained in what we're willing to change." to which I say I feel like it's been a while that Democrats have pulled out every stop completely.

So to imagine that there was ever restraint, there might have been restraint on specific things because they were afraid of what would happen, but not real restraint.

They did everything they thought they could get away with.

Um, you know, including maybe trying to assassinate the president.

We don't know about that.

But certainly they tried to lawfare him into jail for the rest of his life.

So um it seems to me that if you tried to jail the president, the ex-president, and you know, if they could, they would have jailed him as president.

If you're willing to do that with just totally madeup, you know, BS lawfare, then it's not really a big stretch to pack the Supreme Court.

So, I do believe them when they say they might do it.

Meanwhile, the uh one of the uh one of the leading lights of the Democrat world, um Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago is saying, according to CBS News, that their finances are a complete disaster now and they've reached a point of no return.

So, what what would a progressive mayor do if he were running a city and he ran out of money because he was doing such a bad job of managing the city?

What would he do?

Well, he says the state needs new quote progressive revenue options.

What do you think that means?

What would be a progressive revenue option?

Take money from rich people.

Yes.

Um, but not the rich.

He wants to go after the ultra rich.

The ultra rich.

Do you notice the difference between the rich and the ultra rich?

Yeah.

Capes.

Yeah.

The ultra the ultra rich, they actually wear capes.

That's how you can tell.

You know, you look at Elon, he looks like he's ultra rich, but he's not.

He doesn't wear a cape.

Or does he?

I'll bet he's worn a cape at least once.

I'll bet at least once in his life he wore a cape.

Most of us have.

Um so uh Mayor Brandon will look for how to uh take money from the 127,000 millionaires who live there and the 25 billionaires.

Imagine if you were one of the 25 billionaires who lived in Chicago.

Do you think you might maybe be mobile?

There's nobody more mobile than a billionaire.

I would be out of there so fast.

That's what I'd do.

Um, and they want maybe tax social media advertising and corporate head tax and oh, they got some taxing ideas there.

Um, apparently, uh, energy secretary Chris Wright is indicating that, uh, the government is looking at all the climate reports that the government, you know, backs, the ones they endorse, and uh, they've temporarily taken them off their website, and they're looking at them to see which ones are, you know, they think are honest and useful.

Um, we're reviewing them now.

What do you think will happen?

What I think will happen is that when a government that was in charge and really wanted to, you know, move a lot of money around for climate change, they found studies that really said it was an emergency and existential threat because that worked into their, you know, their entire philosophy.

And then when we have our current government that doesn't really think that climate change is a risk and that it's mostly a hoax, do you imagine that they're going to look at the science and decide that they found new and better science that suggests it's not that much of a problem?

And might they find that the old science that the Democrats were using had flaws in the data or the methodology and could not be believed?

So now that in your mind you have agreed with me and I can feel your agreeance from a distance.

Uhhuh.

Uhhuh.

All right.

We're on the same page.

If we agree that the science of climate change is going to conform to what was in the best interest of the political party who happened to have been elected.

What does that tell you about science?

Is there any lesson here?

Have we learned anything about science by watching the fact that the scientific consensus will completely change based on who got elected who is not a scientist at all uh very much like uh um nuclear power.

Yeah.

So suddenly you it feels like the science will change whenever the people in charge decide that it changes.

I don't know.

So uh I don't know what data will be real and what will be fake but I believe in general that all of our economic data for the country is questionable and all of our temperature and climate change data and models are also highly questionable.

So what would be more important than our economic data and our climate data?

Not much.

And that data is probably just at least 50% No matter no matter even if some of it's true.

Well, uh but at least at least our crime data is reliable, right?

You know, if if a place says, "Oh, our crime level is going down." Well, you could trust that, right?

Because just because all of our economic data looks like it's warped and all of our climate data looks undependable, that doesn't mean that our crime data is going to be Wait, what?

Oh, yes.

There's a story today that the DC police commander is placed on leave for quote deliberately falsifying crime data.

Oh god, everything is corrupt and it's all because people make up the data.

Uh so the post millennial is writing about this.

So the police union has accused this guy of deliberately falsifying the data.

Apparently, the way they do it is by what they classify as what kind of a crime.

So, the actual crime in DC may not have gone down, but they found a way to report it went down without it going down.

So, I don't want you to feel bad.

It might be true that all of our economic data is fake and all of our climate data is uh fake or not to be trusted.

But also, our crime data is probably just made up But don't you worry because the election I'm not even going to go there.

So, here's what we've been told.

Citizens, get ready.

Open your minds.

We're not hypnotizing you.

This is completely believable.

Our economic data is Our climate data is Our crime data is But aren't you lucky that our elections pristine?

All 50 states are holding elections with no real problems to speak of.

And despite the overwhelming complexity of trying to run a national election and the o, you know, through the roof incentive to cheat, if you could find a way to do it, it we're so lucky.

It's the one thing that is just always accurate and never really has a problem.

Okay.

Um, but at least, you know, those things sound bad.

I know.

But at least the local governments are not corrupt.

At least we have that going for us, right?

Cuz the local cities, they're very honest.

It's weird.

You wouldn't expect them to be uh as honest as they are, but it turns out the local governments are very uh what?

Oh, well, have you heard the story today that uh Florida is trying to do a Doge project on all of its cities?

You know, sending in a team to look where they could cut expenses and looking for fraud and stuff.

And uh apparently the uh local governments across the state of Florida um have been telling their staff to delete, alter, or fabricate information before a Florida Doge visits.

Oh, okay.

Well, maybe the local governments in this country are all uh criminal organizations because they have lots of money flowing through it and uh you know, lots of complexity and nobody's paying attention and well, that's all it takes.

But at least our elections are pristine.

Well, you probably thought to yourself, "Thank goodness I lived long enough to see the country come to the understanding that the Russia gate hoax was a hoax and that there was indeed a Rico like uh criminal enterprise that involved the Clinton campaigned and the FBI and the Department of Justice and probably the White House.

And now we know really with certainty because the reporting is uh pristine that uh that all happened.

It was all true and that those people must uh pay.

We also know that the uh mainstream media was clearly in on the on the hoax uh and they were on in it hard and they really were the gatekeepers that you know concealed the whole thing from the rest of the public.

Um, but thank God that's over and we're all on the same page that that terrible uh criminal operation happened and that something must be done to uh get justice for the country.

Oh, wait.

Nothing like that's happening.

Molly Hemingway is pointing out that the uh the Atlantic, which is one of the uh Democrat media that pretends as something else, um uh and Apple Bomb and others are, as Molly Hemingway says, clinging bitterly to the lie that they pushed against the American people.

In other words, they're trying to argue that the Russia collusion story was based on solid reporting and solid data and that yeah, I mean there was definitely something there and I'm sure Müller Müller actually said so and uh you know there were things and indications and they had a good reason to believe and so no history history is corrupt and being rewritten as you much.

So let's say our economic data is bad, our climate data is bad, our crime data is bad, our local governments are corrupt, uh and uh the press is erasing history because the history includes the press's own bad behavior.

So they're just going to erase it.

It's sort of like being a doctor.

Somebody somebody joked long ago that doctors get to bury their mistakes.

Um, but the press gets to do that, too.

The press can run these, you know, massive hoaxes for years, like the Find People hoax and the January 6 insurrection hoax.

They can run a hoax for years and then when they get caught, they just erase history because they have the power.

So why not?

You would, too.

if he had the power.

Um, well, President Trump has directed some of his federal assets to do a little policing in DC.

So, he's not moving to federalize, per se.

Not exactly.

So, he's not federalizing the city.

And this is in response to the absurd rate of crime in Washington DC.

But he is uh putting the US park police into action.

So after midnight, I guess they'll be they'll have a presence in some of the touristy areas of the city and uh uh I think some other entities might be part of this too.

So the Metropolitan Police Department, Capital Police, Metro Transit.

So, he's going to bring some uh federal assets to just make it safer to walk the streets and touristy parts.

That's not nothing.

So, we'll see if that works.

Your comments suddenly got really slow.

There.

There we go.

Back in action.

All right.

Um, and the FDA is apparently making some moves to um simplify the approval process for companies that want to make their drugs in the US.

Apparently, it's very hard to get approval for your plant if you want to build a plant to make uh pharmaceuticals in this country.

So, the FDA is going to tighten that up and make it easier.

that the Hill is reporting on this.

I kind of like, one of the things I like the most about the Trump administration is that he's made it a sexy thing to reduce regulations.

And it's very clear that if you want to curry favor with the boss, the boss being Trump, that if you could come up with a story about the domain that you manage, um, getting rid of some regulations to make it easier to do business in the United States, you know that Trump is going to love to hear that.

So, so you work on it so that you win, he wins, and the country wins.

And so, Doge did the same thing.

So there, you see now parts of the government that are competing to tell you that they cut their costs.

That wasn't really even a thing, you know, under the Biden administration.

Do you remember any story, any story about, oh, this uh department figured out a way to cut their expenses 10%.

Nobody needed to.

It wasn't even a a thing.

But given that you know that Trump would give you attention and your career could benefit if you did some cost cutting now it's it's almost a competitive sport.

Everybody's looking for a way to get in on this.

How do we make the boss happy?

So that's all good.

Um I would love to see if there is a model for federalizing a city.

You may be temporarily, maybe not.

That would work because in my view, the thing that uh breaks every city is that you have people who get elected who are willing to steal money with one of the many ways that you can do that when you're in charge.

Usually, it means steering business in one direction versus another.

And you know, it's easy to hide that you're getting paid, you know, directly or indirectly.

There's always a lot of money involved.

Everybody's got a friend who works in that domain.

It's like, "Oh, you want the garbage contract?" Well, you know, if uh if you made a donation to my wife's charity, uh you might get that contract.

So, one way to fix the cities is to not allow any of the elected officials to decide where money goes.

Like, it's almost like you need some independent entity to make money decisions, at least in terms of uh awarding contracts.

Um, but I would love to see if you could do a government in a box where where a city just says, "All right, we give up.

You know, we can't fix it because we don't have the right people here.

Everything's broken." And so some government in a box, ideally American entity, comes in and just says, "All right, um, this person will be your mayor for the next year.

uh this will be your council and we'll just make a bunch of fast decisions and change everything really quickly and then when they're done they could run it for a year or more or not.

You know, the voters would still have control and they could adopt the new techniques or not, but uh the government in a box would kind of rapidly be able to just change everything.

Well, according to Harry Enson, the data expert for CNN, um JD Vance has a lock on being the next nominee for uh for president and that nobody's even close.

So apparently Vance had something like a 40% um support and the next best one was like to Sansza says six.

So it's really not close.

And I would I would argue that um he's earned that.

Wouldn't you?

Because Vance is definitely a consequential vice president.

Maybe one of the top two or three.

certainly in the top three of consequential vice presidents and I think people like him and he's sort of proven his ability to, you know, deal with the press especially.

But the other thing that you cannot discount is that he's funny and that uh even South Park recently, you know, included him in their commentary and it was just funny and he liked it.

And if if you have a a charismatic, funny person who's now got this vice presidential experience and would have presumably would have Trump's strongest support Uh, it's going to be tough to beat.

That'll be tough.

I've got my little coworker here for those of you watching in the video.

All right.

Uh, apparently there's some I don't know the full story here, but I saw Mike Cernetch post that uh apparently there's some documents we can see now that Mueller when he was doing his investigation um he unlawfully investigated Mike Cernovich for his journalism about uh HR Mc.

Master and about his assistant Eric uh Tiara Mela.

Now, I won't get into the whole drama of why Mc.

Master and Sierra Mela were the subject of some sort of edge reporting, but I would recommend that you Google those things if you want to find out um just because it's a long sort of older story.

But how would you like to find out that your name was in government documents and they were researching you over something that you did that was entirely legitimate?

Yeah.

His reporting is held up.

And uh he says uh in his post he says, "I request that the case file on me be unsealed.

I wave any privacy rights." So that might turn into something.

We'll see.

Well, Pam Bondi announced that uh the government, our government is offering a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Nicholas Maduro, the head of Venezuela.

Now, have we ever done that before?

Where we offer a reward for information that would lead to the arrest of a president who's in our in in our part of the world.

I don't know.

That's weird.

But apparently the alleged crime or crimes is that Maduro is not just the head of Venezuela, but that he's the head of or deeply embedded with the cartels, the drug cartels, and that he's basically one of, if not the biggest drug dealer in the entire world.

Did we do that with Noriega?

Somebody's saying it in the comments.

I was trying to remember that.

I don't remember if there was a financial part of that.

Probably there was.

All right.

So, wow.

He's So, Bondi calls him Maduro, one of the largest narco traffickers in the world.

That's incredible.

All right.

Um, so Trump and Putin are reportedly trying to pick a time and a place to get together.

Maybe next week.

And uh the let's see um so people are watching you what is it that Trump can do that would put pressure on Putin and I would remind you that we never know if Russia is thriving or on the verge of collapse because all data is suspect.

We don't really have good data on Russia.

Um, and I don't know, but I don't sense that Russia is feeling like there's a lot of pressure.

Doesn't feel like they're in a hurry.

Um, and Trump's idea that he would, uh, put pressure on the, you know, the people who were buying oil and gas from Russia, which would be mostly China, they wouldn't respond to the pressure and but India, India might respond.

And uh there's some thought that um that that uh battle there could raise uh oil prices into the 80s $80.

But Reuters Reuters believes that there's no pressure that you could put on Russia that's going to end the war sooner.

So why do you think Putin agreed to talk to Trump?

What do you think that's all about?

Because if Putin does one more round of Charlie Brown, you know, Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, which is what I feel like Putin has done to Trump a few times now.

If he does that one more time, there's no way that Trump's ever going to deal with him again.

I mean, at that point, we're going to have to say, "All right, we're going to have to put you out of business." So it seems to me that Putin would know that that he would know that he can't pull the football away one more time.

That would if if you could read the room, and I think Putin's pretty good at reading the room.

One more time would really weaponize America against him in a way that we haven't seen because it would look like he's just with us at that point, which is what it does look like.

It does look like he's just with us.

But if he does this high-profile meeting and then he just reiterates his impossible, you know, requirements like, "Oh, you have to give all of Ukraine to me and I'll be in charge." It would be some dumb thing if he does that again.

And by the way, I think he will.

I I believe this is a fake.

I do not believe that you're seeing the beginning of the end of the war.

I think it's literally just Putin stalling again and and that he thinks he can do it forever, you know, like Iran did because it works until it doesn't work.

And if if all you're trying to do is postpone the US doing something it's probably going to do anyway, like sanctions and stuff, maybe he thinks there's nothing to lose.

But if he embarrasses Trump the same way where Trump has already sounded the alarm like you know he keeps screwing us and you know leaving us alone.

So it's not like Trump doesn't know that Putin is one of you know is a weasel who's likely to you know try just to delay things.

But now it's personal don't you think?

I mean, this would be completely different because Trump was willing to sort of act like his friend as long as that would give Trump some benefits and um give them some benefits.

But now it's just humiliating.

If Trump if Putin does it to him one more time, it's going to get real expensive for for Russia in ways that maybe we don't even understand yet.

So he shouldn't do that.

According to just the news, uh we now know that uh onethird of the uh detainees released from Guantanamo Bay, you know, the terrorists uh have returned to terrorism.

Onethird of the hundreds of detainees released, onethird of them just went back to big terrorists.

Now, here's the problem, and uh it's sort of what Israel's problem is.

What are you going to do with a population that would rather die than, you know, play by the rules?

So, there we go.

Yeah.

It's not like the terrorists who were who had been at Guantanamo Bay.

Yeah.

Is it It's not as if they were going to go get jobs in finance or something.

What What did they think they were going to do?

All right.

Um I guess Trump is having the leaders of Azer Bjan and Armenia come to the White House for a peace summit.

How many of you even knew that uh Azar Bjan and Armenia were um having some military conflict?

Did anybody even know that?

I didn't know it.

Um but here again, Trump is adding to his Nobel Peace Prize uh resume.

Now, one of the things that uh Putin has working for him is that I don't think there's anything that Trump wants more than to be the person who solved the Ukraine and uh Russia war.

probably, you know, you could argue the economy or tariffs are something he cares more about, but if he solves Russia and Ukraine and gets credit for it, how in the world does he not get the Nobel Prize for Peace?

I mean, how how does he not at that point?

It would be just laughable if he didn't get it, assuming that people widely believed he was the agent of uh of the peace.

So, we'll see.

But I love the fact that uh Trump keeps racking up these little uh peace deal victories that we didn't even know needed to be done.

So, he'll add this one to his resume.

Looks like good job on that.

Here's something cool.

According to the new atlas, the FDA has approved some eye drops that fix fix your nearsighted vision without glasses.

So, it'll last about 10 hours.

You put in the eye drops and you don't need glasses to see up close if if you were farsighted.

And it's FDA approved.

It's a real thing.

Like, it's not even theoretical.

You could looks like you'd buy it pretty soon.

I assume it's going to be prescription, but I don't know, last 10 hours.

Um, CBS News reports that a company figured out how to make butter out of carbon dioxide so they can suck the CO2 out of the air and uh add some chemicals and turn it into uh a butter substitute.

M you know what I like to make my butter out of?

I like to make it out of pollution uh and that was flying around in the sky.

Now I know CO2 is not pollution.

It's plant food.

Darn it.

You don't want to use all that plant food up because then the plants will die.

You don't need to tell me NPCs.

I know.

I know how it works.

But nothing sounds more disgusting than CO2.

It's like butter.

No thank you.

So that's the good news is that there's butter being made out of the air.

Would any of you like to see my cat?

So that is Gary.

Gary's the one with all the personality, meaning that he's the biggest pain in the ass of my two cats.

The other one is named Roman.

And Gary likes attention.

And let me tell you my cat technique.

I came up with a cat technique.

I'm really happy about it.

Number one, get bonded.

Get a bonded pair.

It is so much better when the cats are just loving on each other and playing and running around and they're never bored as long as their brother is there.

So, so it's two brothers.

So, that's the first thing.

The other thing I did was um I got a little uh bed that they like to use.

They both fit in it really nicely so they can spoon each other to sleep.

And I put it right next to me.

their bed I put right next to me on my bed and when I fall asleep they're not there because they're nocturnal so they're still running around and trying to get tired.

Uh but when I wake up, you know, even if it's like 3:00 in the morning or whatever, the little cat bed has the two of them sitting right next to me.

But now they're like uh they're like rags because they're all tired and I can pick them up from their little bed without getting out of bed and I can drag them under the covers with me and and make them spoon me and then they start purring up a storm.

It's like this is the best thing ever.

Keep biting me.

And then we have this this basically uh cuddle session with two cats that want to touch each other really badly but like being touched as well.

It is the best thing.

Those of you who are still sleeping with human beings, you should upgrade to cats.

Sleeping with two cats who are bonded pairs and are very friendly cats is the best thing I've ever experienced.

It really is.

Every day I get to have a little bit, you know, cuz I I go in I go in more than once.

Like I I have like two naps a day with these cats because they just crawl all over my chest and they're luxuriating in in every touch.

And the oxytocin hit is just wonderful.

It's just such a nice oxytocin.

And uh so I would say that my quality of life went from sort of you know just dayto-day every day is the same to um part of my day now is extraordinary because if you haven't had the experience of having two cats, you know, like on your chest and you know, cuddling you and they're really soft and they're really into you and they'll they'll stay as long as you want and you can just nap.

It's the best.

It is just the best.

So, I recommend it.

All right, that's all I got for you.

I'm going to talk to the local subscribers because they're my beloveds.

And uh that'll be private, but the rest of you, I hope you can join me uh same time tomorrow, same place.

Thanks for coming.

Oh, there you are. Hi.

I was just uh checking on your stocks.

It looks like they're up a little bit

this morning. So, good for you. If you

own any stocks,

we will open up your comments

so I can see everything you say.

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Something very loud is happening in my

house, courtesy of my two cats,

who will probably make a visit. I'd be

surprised if you don't see one or two of

my cats.

All right, let's get this working.

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Well, I wonder if there are any studies

that could have been skipped. H Oh,

here's one. A new metaanalysis,

a study of studies, um found that uh

aerobic and resistance training

significantly reduce symptoms of

depression and anxiety. Huh. I wonder if

there's any way they could have skipped

the metaanalysis

and found out the same answer. Yes,

there is.

They should have just asked me as Scott.

Um, but they believe they found out that

aerobic exercise is a little bit better

for depression while resistance training

is a little bit better for anxiety. But

guess what? They're both good for you in

a variety of ways for your mind and your

body. Surprise. Just like every other

time.

Um, and in what I call summer news

because in the summer there's just less

real news, so it gets filled in with

weird stuff. Um, a fourth dildo has been

tossed onto a WNBA basketball court

during a game.

Now,

apparently the betting line is on what

color the next one will be. It's not

even whether or not there is one, it's

what color it will be. So, the first

three were green. Why? I don't know. Why

not? But, uh, the new one was, uh,

purple.

So, the reason you watch me is for the

hard-hitting important news. And now you

know the quantity and the color of the

dildos that have been thrown on

basketball courts.

Now, you know,

um, but did you know CBS News tells us

that Americans get 55% of their calories

from ultrarocessed foods, according to

the CDC? Would you know the difference

between a processed food and an

ultrarocessed food? Do you know what the

difference is?

I'll wait for your answers. What is the

difference between a processed food and

an ultrarocessed food?

Well, I don't know exactly, but I would

imagine an ultrarocessed food would wear

some kind of a cape,

you know, some kind of a superhero

outfit sort of thing. I am no longer

ordinary processed foods.

I was bitten by a spider

and now it was a radioactive spider and

now I am ultrarocessed foods. Sounds

awesome. Avoid those ultras.

Well, Newsmax tells us that Obamacare

um premiums might spike 18%.

Holy hell.

How in the world can this one area

healthc care

just always go up by a lot every year?

It never goes down. Are you telling me

that with all of these medical

breakthroughs that not a single one of

them has lowered anybody's costs?

Instead, the entire medical community

has turned into a scam.

The scam goes like this.

Um, we could cure this thing, but it

would make a lot more sense if we

didn't. Or,

um, we could sell this the supplies to

you cheaply, or we could sell you the

machine cheaply and make the supplies

like really really expensive forever.

So my brief experience in the uh in the

healthc care medical device area uh I

have a little bit is that it's pretty

much people who who don't want you to

get better

and they definitely don't want you to

stop using their medical devices.

Well um but what about your

veterinarian? Sure. Human medicine is

probably one big scam, but what about

veterinarians? Well, it turns out that

private equity firms are buying up all

the veterinarian practices. Did you know

that? So, they currently own up to half

of all veterary clinics and 75% of

emergency hospitals. And guess what they

do when they buy a local veterary

practice?

They substantially increased the prices

and that's why your veterinarian bill

veterary bill is through the roof.

There's a reason because those big

entities are buying them and jacking up

the price.

Well, what is the update on those Texas

Democrats who rather than stay in town

and do their job um decided that they

would stage a theatrical

uh skit

because it's what they do. Uh Democrats,

we have another crisis.

The oligarch is trying to be an

authoritarian.

So, what do you do?

run around in circles with our hair on

fire.

Well, that's the start. And then what do

you do? Do we learn to swear more like

orange man? Yes, exactly. Oh, damn it.

Oh, damn. Sword. F- word. Well, and then

most importantly, you must stage some

kind of a theatrical

event. A play. could be a one-man show

like Cy Booker, but needs to be, you

know, put on a show. So, the uh Texas

Democrats, they put on a show with the

help of their financial backers. They

ran away to Illinois and other places.

And then the uh governor of Texas, not

want to, you know, back down from a

fight, decided that he would uh send uh

the FBI after them.

And there might be some arrests.

I don't know exactly what law they're

breaking, but I'm sure somebody will

find a law. So, yeah. So, Robert Rich

Reich, Robert Rich is pointing out that

this is what fascism looks like. So,

what fascism looks like is your Democrat

leaders leave town so they don't have to

do their job and then the governor of

that state says, "Can the FBI round

these people up so they can do their

job?" That's what fascism looks like.

No, it's exactly like that. Stop

doubting me. That's exactly what fascism

looks like. You know what else it looks

like? Looks like an oligarch who's

authoritarian. Authoritarian.

Yeah, that's it. That's what it looks

like.

So, beware of all that.

So, Project Veraritoss

has a scoop with a whistleblower

that says that ex US Attorney General

Bill Barr

was a part of some kind of secret plan

to uh prosecute Trump and get him out of

office. But I would wait to see if we

have other sources for that. Um, I I saw

some people say that they weren't quite

sure that the case had been made, but

they do have some kind of evidence for

that. So, I'd wait. Bill Bar may have

something to say about that, too. Well,

yesterday

the uh House Oversight Committee

um they they talked to Anita Dunn who

was one of Biden's close adviserss and

they said and done can you tell us you

know about Biden's brain and was anybody

was anybody aware of it and keeping that

a secret from the rest of us and so it

was a case of Anita Dunn

and the president who is now done

and he's got a dunner. So, it was sort

of a done and done situation.

Uh but Anita

was uh kind of smart. Instead of taking

the fifth, she did Biden a favor and

said that he interacted as much as he

needed to and basically he was fine.

Didn't notice a problem.

So, I don't know that that's true,

but there's no way to disprove it.

Oh, there's a cat in my background. That

means you're probably going to watch the

cat instead of me. But that's okay

because the news is boring today. And

the cat always exciting.

So what it needed done said about Biden

was quote while I observed that

President Biden aged physically during

his time in office which is something

that happens to every president he

remained throughout my interactions with

him fully engaged.

Now isn't that an interesting choice of

words? Engaged. He was fully engaged.

Huh? Is fully engaged the same thing as

being completely mentally competent?

Because I've seen videos of crazy people

with machetes trying to kill people on

the street. And one thing I would say

about all of those people, they look

fully engaged.

So,

uh, looks like I got a visitor here. So,

this is Gary the cat who's doing a walk

through.

Uh unlike uh President Biden during his

last debate, according to Jack Jake

Tapper, uh Biden refused to do a walkth

through of the debate um stage before

the event, which is a big that's a big

mistake for a public speaker.

Um

so Denmark is urging Israel to reverse

their Gaza decision. I guess the Gaza

decision is where Israel uh I don't know

if it's a done deal. They might need

some more approvals, but they plan to

occupy and basically just own Gaza and

never give it back. And uh but they

would like Israel says

they would like eventually uh for some

Arab country to take control of that

area. But still uh Israel would do the

security

which uh raises an interesting question.

If your country is doing the all the

security

for a place, can you really say that

someone else is running it?

Because it feels like whoever has the

guns is going to get anything they want

out of that population. So,

we'll see how that works out. But uh the

the one thing I'm still waiting for is

uh and this will sound like I'm you know

supporting Israel and all their plans,

but I'm not. I am commenting on it. And

uh you can you can hear my comment and

say, "Oh, that's reasonable or that's

not." But uh it's just a comment. Same

thing you could say. Um, have you

noticed that people don't offer an

alternative

to whatever Israel is planning to do in

Gaza?

Now, I think everybody has the same

feeling, which is too many people are

getting killed and wouldn't it be good

if everybody got fed and you know,

wouldn't it be good if everybody could

live in harmony next to each other? So,

we all agree in the obvious basic stuff,

but what is the alternative

to to Gaza completely being, you know,

dominated forever by Israel? Is there

really some plan where where they'll all

just change their minds and decide that

uh everything's fine?

I'm pretending that there's not a cat

putting its face in my face right now.

No, it's not even happening. I don't

even see it.

All right, moving on.

You know, pretend that another cat

didn't fall off a

something in my house. Getting noisy in

here.

Well, apparently Germany is not happy

with Israel either. And uh I didn't know

this, but Germany is the source of 30 to

47% of Israel's imported heavy weaponry.

and they're threatening to uh shut down

that pipeline of weaponry if uh Israel

doesn't do better I don't know taking

care of the Gaza residents or do

something. I don't think that's going to

make any difference whatsoever.

So if you're looking for a prediction on

Gaza, Israel is going to do what they

said they would from the start. Total

victory changed the reality on the

ground forever. Um and they will

certainly have control over that

territory for for the uh foreseeable

future if not forever.

So apparently Trump is not happy that

the tick tock deal is not getting

approved by China and China quite wisely

is holding back on that because they

don't have a trade deal yet. So it's

just part of their leverage. But Trump's

leverage has to be acting like he

doesn't care if Tik Tok goes out of

business or not. Now, he does care. He

does care, but he has to act like he

doesn't.

So, the latest uh Charles Caspino is

writing about this in the New York Post

is that uh he's letting it slip that he

doesn't give a crap uh if Tik Tok goes

dark for a while because I I guess he

thinks it wouldn't be permanent even if

it did. But, uh he's he's downplaying

that.

And uh maybe that'll help get a trade

deal. We'll see.

Well, have I ever mentioned that all of

our economic data is not to be trusted?

Um, here's a bunch of economic data. So,

economist Steve Moore, who you probably

know from a lot of TV hits. He's a big

uh Trump supporter and uh he was uh

giving Trump a demonstration in the Oval

Office that we got to watch that he said

that every income bracket saw a boost

under

uh Trump but under Biden uh income

inequality got worse.

Do you believe Do you believe that?

Do you believe that every income bracket

got some kind of a boost under Trump?

Well, maybe. But it it doesn't really

help you if that boost comes at the uh

price of your national debt. That's just

borrowing your own money.

So, I don't know. I don't believe any

economic numbers. I don't believe that.

I just don't believe we have access to

accurate numbers.

Um, and then same economist Steve Morris

says that uh uh that Biden inflated his

job numbers by 1.5 million.

Now, how do we know that Biden was off

by 1.5 million?

Do you believe that there are that there

is such a thing as accurate job numbers

and that Biden just decided not to use

them or he was lying about it? and then

now we have the accurate ones and

nobody's lying.

I think it would be more accurate to uh

assume that we just don't have accurate

job numbers so that anybody can can game

those numbers by at least 1.5 million

and get away with it.

Really guys,

settle down.

All right.

So, don't believe any of the job

numbers. Don't believe any of the

economic numbers. Um, they could be

anything you want. Every every

administration is going to tell you that

the one before had the wrong numbers,

but thank goodness they have the right

numbers now.

As soon as you start believing that,

you're lost.

Um, so James Carville is uh advising the

Democrats that they've got to save

democracy in 2028. If or if they ever

get back in power, that they should, uh,

immediately add two new states,

uh, DC and Puerto Rico, so they could

get extra Democrats in the Senate and

and Congress in general. and uh

they should uh stack the Supreme Court

and that that would be how they would

save democracy.

Now, when I hear Democrats say, "Hey, if

you Republicans keep doing what you're

doing, then we're going to, you know, be

less um less restrained in what we're

willing to change." to which I say I

feel like it's been a while that

Democrats have pulled out every stop

completely. So to imagine that there was

ever restraint, there might have been

restraint on specific things because

they were afraid of what would happen,

but not real restraint. They did

everything they thought they could get

away with. Um,

you know, including maybe trying to

assassinate the president. We don't know

about that. But certainly they tried to

lawfare him into jail for the rest of

his life. So

um it seems to me that if you tried to

jail the president, the ex-president,

and you know, if they could, they would

have jailed him as president. If you're

willing to do that with just totally

madeup, you know, BS lawfare,

then it's not really a big stretch to

pack the Supreme Court. So, I do believe

them when they say they might do it.

Meanwhile, the uh one of the

uh one of the leading lights of the

Democrat world, um Mayor Brandon Johnson

of Chicago

is saying, according to CBS News, that

their finances are a complete disaster

now and they've reached a point of no

return. So, what what would a

progressive mayor do if he were running

a city and he ran out of money because

he was doing such a bad job of managing

the city? What would he do? Well, he

says the state needs new quote

progressive revenue options. What do you

think that means? What would be a

progressive revenue option?

Take money from rich people. Yes.

Um,

but not the rich. He wants to go after

the ultra rich. The ultra rich. Do you

notice the difference between the rich

and the ultra rich?

Yeah. Capes. Yeah. The ultra the ultra

rich, they actually wear capes. That's

how you can tell. You know, you look at

Elon, he looks like he's ultra rich, but

he's not. He doesn't wear a cape. Or

does he? I'll bet he's worn a cape at

least once.

I'll bet at least once in his life he

wore a cape. Most of us have.

Um

so uh Mayor Brandon will look for how to

uh take money from the 127,000

millionaires who live there and the 25

billionaires. Imagine if you were one of

the 25 billionaires who lived in

Chicago.

Do you think you might maybe be mobile?

There's nobody more mobile than a

billionaire.

I would be out of there so fast. That's

what I'd do.

Um, and they want maybe tax social media

advertising and corporate head tax and

oh, they got some taxing ideas there.

Um,

apparently, uh, energy secretary Chris

Wright is indicating that, uh, the

government is looking at all the climate

reports that the government, you know,

backs, the ones they endorse, and uh,

they've temporarily taken them off their

website, and they're looking at them to

see which ones are, you know, they think

are honest and useful.

Um, we're reviewing them now. What do

you think will happen? What I think will

happen is that when a government that

was in charge and really wanted to, you

know, move a lot of money around for

climate change, they found studies that

really said it was an emergency and

existential threat

because that worked into their, you

know, their entire philosophy. And then

when we have our current government that

doesn't really think that climate change

is a risk and that it's mostly a hoax,

do you imagine that they're going to

look at the science and decide that they

found new and better science that

suggests it's not that much of a

problem? And might they find that the

old science that the Democrats were

using had flaws in the data or the

methodology and could not be believed?

So

now that in your mind you have agreed

with me and I can feel your agreeance

from a distance. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. All

right. We're on the same page. If we

agree that the science of climate change

is going to conform to what was in the

best interest of the political party who

happened to have been elected. What does

that tell you about science?

Is there any lesson here? Have we

learned anything about science by

watching the fact that the scientific

consensus will completely change based

on who got elected who is not a

scientist at all

uh very much like uh um nuclear power.

Yeah. So suddenly you it feels like the

science will change whenever the people

in charge decide that it changes.

I don't know. So uh I don't know what

data will be real and what will be fake

but I believe in general that all of our

economic data for the country is

questionable and all of our temperature

and climate change data and models are

also highly questionable.

So what would be more important than our

economic data and our climate data?

Not much.

And that data is probably just at least

50% No matter no matter even

if some of it's true.

Well, uh but at least at least our crime

data is reliable, right?

You know, if if a place says, "Oh, our

crime level is going down." Well, you

could trust that, right? Because just

because all of our economic data looks

like it's warped and all of our climate

data looks undependable, that doesn't

mean that our crime data is going to be

Wait, what?

Oh, yes. There's a story today that the

DC police commander is placed on leave

for quote deliberately falsifying crime

data.

Oh god, everything is corrupt and it's

all because people make up the data. Uh

so the post millennial is writing about

this. So the police union has accused

this guy of deliberately falsifying the

data. Apparently, the way they do it is

by what they classify as what kind of a

crime. So, the actual crime in DC may

not have gone down, but they found a way

to report it went down without it going

down.

So, I don't want you to feel bad.

It might be true that all of our

economic data is fake and all of our

climate data is uh fake or not to be

trusted.

But also, our crime data is probably

just made up

But don't you worry because the election

I'm not even going to go there. So,

here's what we've been told. Citizens,

get ready. Open your minds.

We're not hypnotizing you. This is

completely believable. Our economic data

is Our climate data is

Our crime data is

But aren't you lucky that our elections

pristine?

All 50 states are holding elections with

no real problems to speak of. And

despite the overwhelming complexity of

trying to run a national election and

the o, you know, through the roof

incentive to cheat, if you could find a

way to do it, it we're so lucky. It's

the one thing that is just always

accurate and never really has a problem.

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Okay.

Um, but at least, you know, those things

sound bad. I know. But at least the

local governments

are not corrupt.

At least we have that going for us,

right? Cuz the local cities, they're

very honest. It's weird. You wouldn't

expect them to be uh as honest as they

are, but it turns out the local

governments are very uh what?

Oh, well, have you heard the story today

that uh Florida is trying to do a Doge

project on all of its cities? You know,

sending in a team to look where they

could cut expenses and looking for fraud

and stuff. And uh apparently the uh

local governments across the state of

Florida um have been telling their staff

to delete, alter, or fabricate

information before a Florida Doge

visits.

Oh,

okay. Well, maybe the local governments

in this country are all uh criminal

organizations

because they have lots of money flowing

through it and uh you know, lots of

complexity and nobody's paying attention

and well, that's all it takes.

But at least our elections are pristine.

Well, you probably thought to yourself,

"Thank goodness I lived long enough to

see the country come to the

understanding that the Russia gate hoax

was a hoax and that there was indeed a

Rico like uh criminal enterprise that

involved the Clinton campaigned and the

FBI and the Department of Justice and

probably the White House. And now we

know really with certainty because the

reporting is uh pristine that uh that

all happened. It was all true and that

those people must uh pay. We also know

that the uh mainstream media was clearly

in on the on the hoax uh and they were

on in it hard and they really were the

gatekeepers that you know concealed the

whole thing from the rest of the public.

Um, but thank God that's over and we're

all on the same page that that terrible

uh criminal operation happened and that

something must be done to uh get justice

for the country. Oh, wait. Nothing like

that's happening. Molly Hemingway is

pointing out that the uh the Atlantic,

which is one of the uh Democrat media

that pretends as something else, um uh

and Apple Bomb and others are,

as Molly Hemingway says, clinging

bitterly to the lie that they pushed

against the American people. In other

words, they're trying to argue that the

Russia collusion story was based on

solid reporting and solid data and that

yeah, I mean there was definitely

something there and I'm sure Müller

Müller actually said so and uh you know

there were things and indications and

they had a good reason to believe and so

no history history is corrupt and being

rewritten as you much. So let's say our

economic data is bad, our climate data

is bad, our crime data is bad, our local

governments are corrupt,

uh

and uh the press is erasing history

because the history includes the press's

own bad behavior. So they're just going

to erase it.

It's sort of like being a doctor.

Somebody somebody joked long ago that

doctors get to bury their mistakes.

Um, but the press gets to do that, too.

The press can run these, you know,

massive hoaxes for years, like the Find

People hoax and the January 6

insurrection hoax. They can run a hoax

for years and then when they get caught,

they just erase history because they

have the power. So why not? You would,

too. if he had the power.

Um, well, President Trump has directed

some of his federal assets to do a

little policing in DC. So, he's not

moving to federalize, per se. Not

exactly. So, he's not federalizing the

city. And this is in response to the

absurd rate of crime in Washington DC.

But he is uh putting the US park police

into action. So after midnight, I guess

they'll be they'll have a presence in

some of the touristy areas of the city

and uh

uh I think some other entities might be

part of this too. So the Metropolitan

Police Department, Capital Police, Metro

Transit. So, he's going to bring some uh

federal assets to just make it safer to

walk the streets and touristy parts.

That's not nothing.

So, we'll see if that works.

Your comments suddenly got really slow.

There. There we go. Back in action. All

right. Um, and the FDA is apparently

making some moves to um simplify the

approval process for companies that want

to make their drugs in the US.

Apparently, it's very hard to get

approval for your plant if you want to

build a plant to make uh pharmaceuticals

in this country. So, the FDA is going to

tighten that up and make it easier. that

the Hill is reporting on this. I kind of

like, one of the things I like the most

about the Trump administration is that

he's made it a sexy thing to reduce

regulations.

And it's very clear that if you want to

curry favor with the boss, the boss

being Trump, that if you could come up

with a story about the domain that you

manage, um, getting rid of some

regulations to make it easier to do

business in the United States, you know

that Trump is going to love to hear

that. So, so you work on it so that you

win, he wins, and the country wins. And

so, Doge did the same thing.

So there, you see now parts of the

government that are competing

to tell you that they cut their costs.

That wasn't really even a thing, you

know, under the Biden administration. Do

you remember any story, any story about,

oh, this uh department figured out a way

to cut their expenses 10%.

Nobody needed to. It wasn't even a a

thing. But given that you know that

Trump would give you attention and your

career could benefit if you did some

cost cutting now it's it's almost a

competitive sport. Everybody's looking

for a way to get in on this. How do we

make the boss happy?

So that's all good.

Um I would love to see if there is a

model for federalizing a city. You may

be temporarily, maybe not. That would

work because in my view, the thing that

uh breaks every city is that you have

people who get elected who are willing

to steal money with one of the many ways

that you can do that when you're in

charge. Usually, it means steering

business in one direction versus

another. And you know, it's easy to hide

that you're getting paid, you know,

directly or indirectly. There's always a

lot of money involved. Everybody's got a

friend who works in that domain. It's

like, "Oh, you want the garbage

contract?" Well, you know, if uh if you

made a donation to my wife's charity, uh

you might get that contract. So,

one way to fix the cities is to not

allow any of the elected officials

to decide where money goes. Like, it's

almost like you need some independent

entity to make money decisions, at least

in terms of uh awarding contracts.

Um, but I would love to see if you could

do a government in a box where where a

city just says, "All right, we give up.

You know, we can't fix it because we

don't have the right people here.

Everything's broken." And so some

government in a box, ideally American

entity, comes in and just says, "All

right, um, this person will be your

mayor for the next year. uh this will be

your council and we'll just make a bunch

of fast decisions and change everything

really quickly and then when they're

done

they could run it for a year or more or

not. You know, the voters would still

have control and they could adopt the

new techniques or not, but uh the

government in a box would kind of

rapidly be able to just change

everything.

Well, according to Harry Enson, the data

expert for CNN,

um JD Vance has a lock on being the next

nominee for uh for president and that

nobody's even close. So

apparently Vance had something like a

40%

um support and the next best one was

like to Sansza says six. So it's really

not close. And I would I would argue

that um he's earned that. Wouldn't you?

Because Vance is definitely a

consequential vice president. Maybe one

of the top two or three. certainly in

the top three of consequential vice

presidents and

I think people like him and he's sort of

proven his ability to, you know, deal

with the press especially. But the other

thing that you cannot discount is that

he's funny and that uh even South Park

recently, you know, included him in

their commentary and it was just funny

and he liked it. And if if you have a a

charismatic,

funny person who's now got this vice

presidential experience and would have

presumably would have Trump's strongest

support

Uh, it's going to be tough to beat.

That'll be tough. I've got my little

coworker here for those of you watching

in the video.

All right. Uh,

apparently there's some I don't know the

full story here, but I saw Mike Cernetch

post that uh apparently there's some

documents we can see now that Mueller

when he was doing his investigation

um he unlawfully

investigated Mike Cernovich for his

journalism about uh HR McMaster and

about his assistant Eric uh Tiara Mela.

Now, I won't get into the whole drama of

why McMaster and Sierra Mela were the

subject of some sort of edge reporting,

but I would recommend that you Google

those things if you want to find out um

just because it's a long sort of older

story. But how would you like to find

out that your name was in government

documents and they were researching you

over something that you did that was

entirely legitimate?

Yeah. His reporting is held up. And uh

he says uh in his post he says, "I

request that the case file on me be

unsealed. I wave any privacy rights."

So that might turn into something. We'll

see.

Well, Pam Bondi announced that uh the

government, our government is offering a

$50 million reward for information

leading to the arrest of Nicholas

Maduro, the head of Venezuela.

Now, have we ever done that before?

Where we offer a reward for information

that would lead to the arrest of a

president who's in our

in in our part of the world.

I don't know. That's weird. But

apparently the alleged crime or crimes

is that Maduro is not just the head of

Venezuela, but that he's the head of or

deeply embedded with the cartels, the

drug cartels, and that he's basically

one of, if not the biggest drug dealer

in the entire world.

Did we do that with Noriega?

Somebody's saying it in the comments. I

was trying to remember that. I don't

remember if there was a financial part

of that. Probably there was.

All right. So, wow. He's So, Bondi calls

him Maduro, one of the largest narco

traffickers in the world.

That's incredible.

All right.

Um, so Trump and Putin are reportedly

trying to pick a time and a place to get

together. Maybe next week.

And uh

the let's see

um so people are watching you what is it

that Trump can do that would put

pressure on Putin and I would remind you

that we never know if Russia is thriving

or on the verge of collapse

because all data is suspect. We don't

really have good data on Russia. Um, and

I don't know, but I don't sense that

Russia is feeling like there's a lot of

pressure. Doesn't feel like they're in a

hurry. Um,

and Trump's idea that he would, uh, put

pressure on the, you know, the people

who were buying oil and gas from Russia,

which would be mostly China, they

wouldn't respond to the pressure and but

India, India might respond. And

uh there's some thought that um that

that uh battle there could raise uh oil

prices into the 80s $80.

But Reuters Reuters believes that

there's no pressure that you could put

on Russia that's going to end the war

sooner. So why do you think Putin agreed

to talk to Trump? What do you think

that's all about? Because if Putin does

one more round of Charlie Brown, you

know, Lucy pulling the football away

from Charlie Brown, which is what I feel

like Putin has done to Trump a few times

now. If he does that one more time,

there's no way that Trump's ever going

to deal with him again.

I mean, at that point, we're going to

have to say, "All right, we're going to

have to put you out of business."

So

it seems to me that Putin would know

that that he would know that he can't

pull the football away one more time.

That would if if you could read the

room, and I think Putin's pretty good at

reading the room. One more time would

really weaponize America against him in

a way that we haven't seen because it

would look like he's just with

us at that point, which is what it does

look like. It does look like he's just

with us. But if he does this

high-profile meeting and then he just

reiterates his impossible,

you know, requirements like, "Oh, you

have to give all of Ukraine to me and

I'll be in charge." It would be some

dumb thing if he does that again. And by

the way, I think he will. I I believe

this is a fake. I do not believe that

you're seeing the beginning of the end

of the war. I think it's literally just

Putin stalling again and and that he

thinks he can do it forever, you know,

like Iran did because it works until it

doesn't work. And if if all you're

trying to do is postpone the US doing

something it's probably going to do

anyway, like sanctions and stuff,

maybe he thinks there's nothing to lose.

But if he embarrasses Trump the same way

where Trump has already sounded the

alarm like you know he keeps screwing us

and you know leaving us alone. So it's

not like Trump doesn't know

that Putin is one of you know is a

weasel who's likely to you know try just

to delay things. But now it's personal

don't you think? I mean, this would be

completely different because Trump was

willing to sort of act like his friend

as long as that would give Trump some

benefits and um

give them some benefits.

But now it's just humiliating. If Trump

if Putin does it to him one more time,

it's going to get real expensive for for

Russia in ways that maybe we don't even

understand yet. So

he shouldn't do that.

According to just the news,

uh we now know that uh onethird of the

uh detainees released from Guantanamo

Bay, you know, the terrorists uh have

returned to terrorism.

Onethird of the hundreds of detainees

released, onethird of them just went

back to big terrorists.

Now, here's the problem, and uh it's

sort of what Israel's problem is. What

are you going to do with a population

that would rather die than, you know,

play by the rules? So,

there we go. Yeah. It's not like the

terrorists who were who had been at

Guantanamo Bay.

Yeah. Is it It's not as if they were

going to go get jobs in finance or

something. What What did they think they

were going to do?

All right. Um I guess Trump is having

the leaders of Azer Bjan and Armenia

come to the White House for a peace

summit. How many of you even knew

that uh Azar Bjan and Armenia were um

having some military conflict? Did

anybody even know that?

I didn't know it. Um but here again,

Trump is adding to his Nobel Peace Prize

uh resume. Now,

one of the things that uh Putin has

working for him is that I don't think

there's anything that Trump wants more

than to be the person who solved the

Ukraine and uh Russia war. probably, you

know, you could argue the economy or

tariffs are something he cares more

about, but if he solves Russia and

Ukraine and gets credit for it,

how in the world does he not get the

Nobel Prize for Peace? I mean, how how

does he not

at that point? It would be just

laughable if he didn't get it, assuming

that people widely believed he was the

agent of uh of the peace.

So, we'll see. But I love the fact that

uh Trump keeps racking up these little

uh peace deal victories that we didn't

even know needed to be done. So, he'll

add this one to his resume. Looks like

good job on that. Here's something cool.

According to the new atlas,

the FDA has approved some eye drops that

fix fix your nearsighted vision without

glasses. So, it'll last about 10 hours.

You put in the eye drops and you don't

need glasses to see up close if if you

were farsighted.

And it's FDA approved. It's a real

thing. Like, it's not even theoretical.

You could looks like you'd buy it pretty

soon. I assume it's going to be

prescription, but I don't know, last 10

hours.

Um, CBS News reports that a company

figured out how to make butter out of

carbon dioxide so they can suck the CO2

out of the air and uh add some chemicals

and turn it into uh a butter substitute.

M

you know what I like to make my butter

out of? I like to make it out of

pollution

uh and that was flying around in

the sky. Now I know CO2 is not

pollution. It's plant food. Darn it. You

don't want to use all that plant food up

because then the plants will die. You

don't need to tell me NPCs. I know. I

know how it works. But nothing sounds

more disgusting than CO2.

It's like butter.

No thank you.

So

that's the good news is that there's

butter being made out of the air. Would

any of you like to

see my cat?

So that is Gary. Gary's the one with all

the personality, meaning that he's the

biggest pain in the ass of my two cats.

The other one is named Roman.

And

Gary likes attention.

And let me tell you my cat technique. I

came up with a cat technique. I'm really

happy about it. Number one, get bonded.

Get a bonded pair.

It is so much better when the cats are

just loving on each other and playing

and running around and they're never

bored as long as their brother is there.

So, so it's two brothers.

So, that's the first thing. The other

thing I did was um I got a little uh bed

that they like to use. They both fit in

it really nicely so they can spoon each

other to sleep. And I put it right next

to me. their bed I put right next to me

on my bed and when I fall asleep they're

not there because they're nocturnal so

they're still running around and trying

to get tired. Uh but when I wake up, you

know, even if it's like 3:00 in the

morning or whatever, the little cat bed

has the two of them sitting right next

to me. But now they're like uh they're

like rags because they're all tired and

I can pick them up from their little bed

without getting out of bed and I can

drag them under the covers with me and

and make them spoon me and then they

start purring up a storm. It's like this

is the best thing ever. Keep biting me.

And then we have this this basically uh

cuddle session with two cats that want

to touch each other really badly but

like being touched as well. It is the

best thing.

Those of you who are still sleeping with

human beings,

you should upgrade to cats.

Sleeping with two cats who are bonded

pairs and are very friendly cats is the

best thing I've ever experienced. It

really is. Every day I get to have a

little bit, you know, cuz I I go in I go

in more than once. Like I I have like

two naps a day with these cats because

they just crawl all over my chest and

they're luxuriating in in every touch.

And the oxytocin hit is just wonderful.

It's just such a nice oxytocin.

And uh so I would say that my quality of

life

went from sort of you know just

dayto-day every day is the same to

um part of my day now is extraordinary

because if you haven't had the

experience of having two cats, you know,

like on your chest and you know,

cuddling you and they're really soft and

they're really into you and they'll

they'll stay as long as you want and you

can just nap.

It's the best. It is just the best.

So, I recommend it. All right, that's

all I got for you. I'm going to talk to

the local subscribers because they're my

beloveds. And uh that'll be private, but

the rest of you, I hope you can join me

uh same time tomorrow, same place.

Thanks for coming.