Episode 2943 CWSA 08/30/25

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Oh, speaking of that, um I watched uh 23 of the new movie F1.

Um, I'll finish the rest of it, but if the rest of it is good as the first part, the first twothirds, it's a really good movie.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to recommend it when I'm done, but uh, I'll finish it.

Well, I don't know.

I'll finish it sometime this week and I'll tell you.

Well, after the show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting, as he usually does on Saturdays, uh, a spaces event on the X platform if you've got X.

Um, so just look for Owen Gregorian or go to my, uh, Twitter feed, X feed, and you'll find it there, the link to it right after the show.

Um so according to uh Sai Post and Eric Dolan, it turns out that there's a correlation between uh children who have terrible physical problems and their mental health.

So evidence shows that children with chronic physical illness uh which is not funny such as asthma, diabetes and epilepsy are at increased risk for developing mental illness.

Uh okay.

Now they could have saved a little bit of time, a little bit of money by just asking me.

They would have said, "Scott, do you believe that people who have a a lifelong physical problem that will make them different from other people and be very inconvenient in their social life and the rest of their life?" Do I think that that would have an impact on how they feel about things as in in their brain?

Yes.

Yes.

I'll bet you if you if you gave anybody a disease that would affect them their entire rest of their life.

Yeah, probably might affect their mental health.

And by the way, as I often say, your body is your brain.

So if you got a physical problem in your body, you do have a physical problem in your brain because your brain's your body.

It all works as uh one device.

All right, here's another one.

Let's see if you can get the get this one before I do.

Side post also Vladimir Hedra is writing that uh students whose parents so young people basically students whose parents were warmer toward them tend to have better socioeotional skills.

So if your parents were warm toward you, you're more likely to be a, you know, warm person with good social skills.

Did they really need to study that?

Do they?

I don't know.

But um it does seem to be likely that if you have the genetic material of two people who were warm, in other words, they were warm parents, what are the odds that you you picked up that gene?

Well, pretty good.

And then what are the odds that you would uh imitate adults who are your parents in in figuring out how to navigate social situations?

Well, 100%.

So between the genetic likelihood that you would just inherit, you know, that ability to feel warmth around other people, cuz keep in mind that's not a learned behavior.

If if the way you feel around other people is, you know, it lifts you and makes you feel lighter, you're clearly going to be better at social things in the future.

And if other people make you feel like, "Oh god, when's the other person gonna leave?" Then you're probably not going to develop the best social skills.

Probably.

Yeah, you didn't need to study this.

Just ask me or any of you.

You all would have known that.

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Uh, Americans are having less sex than ever.

There's a new study out.

And I guess that applies to everybody, you know, young and old and married or single.

They're all having a lot less sex.

And the experts are trying to figure out why.

Um, do you think they'll do a big expensive study to find out why?

Or, you know, they could save money.

Don't do that study.

Just ask me.

go outside and look at the people who walk by.

Would you want to have sex with any of them?

Probably not.

Probably not.

We all got fat and unpleasant.

So, you know, half of the country took itself offline to the other half just by having some political point of view.

And then we eat ourselves into uh total unattractiveness.

Of course, we're having less sex.

And the the women that everybody would want to have sex with, um they follow the money and they become only fans girls.

And uh so yeah, between that and online uh porn, it does seem to me that everything is lining up for Americans to have less sex than ever.

Sure enough, um I I feel like in the 50s, everybody tried to look thin and well-dressed.

And don't you think that would increase the amount of sex you had?

And they didn't have phones, so if they got together, it was all about the other people.

So I don't know, those will those might seem like our golden years.

Um, according to American Psychological Association, people the people who are at the extremes of the political right and the extremes of the political left, their brains work a similar way.

And that a similar way involves getting way more physical sensation in other words emotions from uh politics.

So the people who dominate the extremes either the left or the right they feel politics like if you show them some new political story they might be elated or they might be disgusted but they really feel it you know just like a stomach ache they would feel it whereas the entire middle of the country the ones who kind of care what happens in the news but it doesn't affect them physically it's just something they heard um they don't have the same brain impact or body impact.

So, does that surprise you?

No.

Because as I've tried to teach Ben Shapiro, uh the the facts don't care about your emotions.

So, your feelings are of course um what drives everything.

So it makes sense that the people who are extremists either right or left is because they feel something that's a reward.

So if they get you know revulsion from looking at what the other team is doing but it's still sort of a competition and you like your team and you can't wait to talk to them about it about that thing the other side is doing that's so bad.

Um, yeah, that's just pure emotion.

And you would expect that uh those people would have a suicidal empathy and uh TDS and you'd have what what do you call it when the soccer mom wants to be a hero by supporting her trans child?

There's a name for that, right?

Anyway, so all of those things probably come from the same phenomenon, which is the people who don't have a physical sensation from thinking about politics, they're they're not doing any of the crazy stuff.

So they're they don't have TDS so much or or those other things.

Um, speaking of TDS, I saw a clip of CNN where Scott Jennings was roasting.

Somebody said Jennifer Welch.

I guess she's one of the uh anti-Trumpers that was on the panel that Abby Phillip show.

And she claimed that Trump obviously has dementia and that he and one of the ways you know is that he performed oral sex on a microphone.

So, can you believe um and I'd have to say that she looked like, you know, just the way she talked and acted, she looked like one of those people who really feel something physically from the news.

I mean, she looked like she was having a physical response to just even thinking about Trump.

And uh Scott Jennings said after she was done with her little uh rant that sounded literally crazy.

Um he just says, "If this is the Democratic strategy, congratulations, America.

You've already elected Republicans as far as the eye can see." Yeah.

If if your reason for not liking Trump, the the top of the list is that he has dementia because he tried to perform oral sex on a microphone, which by the way, I do not remember that story.

But I suppose I suppose anything's possible, but I don't remember the story of him trying to have it out with a microphone.

Um, so when the the Democrats talk like that, you know, not every Democrat, of course, but when one of them talks like that, do you say to yourself, "Well, there's a just a competing opinion I should take seriously, or do you say to yourself, what is wrong with you?" Like, it it looks like you have a mental health problem.

And that's what that looks like.

That that comes off not as an opinion.

That comes off as a mental health problem.

Does it?

Is it just me?

I don't know.

Well, even the Portuguese president um has some TDS.

He said in public, believe it or not, that Trump is nothing but a Russian puppet.

And he said, "The top leader of the world's greatest superpower is objectively a Soviet Russian asset.

He functions as an asset." That's the president of Portugal.

You know what's funny is uh I'd never seen a you know a picture of him before that I can recall, but I saw the video of him talking and I thought, "Oh, I get it.

He looks as dumb as he sounds.

He I mean he looks like a dumb guy." And then that comes out of his mouth.

he's ahead of Portugal and he believes that Trump who is, you know, put these vicious sanctions on uh uh on Russia, etc., he's trying to solve a war.

They think he's a Russian asset.

All right.

So, um here is a uh new theory about Stonehenge.

I guess they found a one cow's tooth buried at the site and they analyzed the heck out of that tooth and then they declared that probably the way the stones got to Stonehenge which is the big mystery because they're really heavy and they came from a long ways away they think.

Um and now they say that cows uh drag the the rocks the stone edge.

Now, it makes me wonder, is there anything that cows can't do?

They can make a baseball catcher's mint.

They can be our food.

They can give us milk.

You could ride a cow if you needed to.

They could be a pet.

Terrible pet.

Terrible pet.

But they can do so many things.

But apparently they can build Stonehenge.

Um, personally my theory is that the cows also built the pyramids.

I can't prove it, but when I look at them, I think that looks like some cow work right there.

I used to work on my my uncle's farm.

He had a dairy farm.

And uh, so I know cows.

I mean, I know how they think.

And uh, I feel like they could have built a pyramid.

I don't know.

So, uh, online influencer, I guess that's what you would call him, or researcher, Ian Carol, if you've seen his material.

Very entertaining.

Um, I'm never in a position to know when he's right and when he's not, but he has some fascinating research he does on a lot of stuff.

But uh apparently the government the Trump administration has now released a 100,000 emails relative to the Epstein situation and the 100,000 emails um just what oh oh 100,000 emails that uh I think that was just the number of emails with Ahoud Barack the ex-p prime minister of Israel Well, I don't know.

It doesn't seem like they would have done a 100,000 messages back and forth, but uh there were 100,000 emails and some number of them were about back and forth with Ahood Barack.

So, I think Ian's leaning toward the hypothesis that uh Epstein was definitely a MSAD or Israeli asset of some kind.

I find it difficult to imagine that if he if his relationship with Ahoud Barack was that close.

It's hard to imagine that he didn't have some kind of working relationship.

But there are now several uh let's say let's say movies on one screen about Epistine.

So one of the movies would be this.

he's an Israeli asset and that, you know, that explains everything and he's a black mailer.

Um, that's a popular one.

Another one would be maybe let's call it the Mike Benz um hypothesis that Epstein might have been an expert at moving large amounts of money around in ways that can be concealed and that that made him a valuable person to all these highle people and uh it was mostly just him and maybe a few people he pulled into it that were doing the sexual So that's one possibility.

Or or to say it differently, um that the the sexual improprieties were not related to his business model.

So that that would be another way to say it.

They exist, but but it's not part of his money-making operation.

Um and then uh what else do we have?

Um, yeah.

And then the other would be that he wasn't doing anything illegal, but maybe he had, you know, one or two billionaires who found him valuable and paid him large amounts of money or I don't know.

So, so there's some sort of a partial third movie there where he's not as guilty except for the sexual stuff that I would say obviously he was guilty of.

So that Epstein situation, we'll never know, I say.

Well, apparently there was a rumor going around on X today that uh President Trump um was dead, but he's not.

So he's not, but the rumor was going around and partly because I guess we haven't seen him in a little while and he has no scheduled public appearances this weekend.

Now, he also hasn't taken a vacation um since he started and no summer vacation, which is a little unusual.

So, it wouldn't surprise me if he's just going to do a little golfing this weekend.

And, you know, I mean, it's a holiday weekend, so maybe he's just golfing, hanging with friends, and that's that's all the vacation he needs.

Maybe he doesn't seem like a beach guy.

So I I mean what if you don't go to the beach?

Vacations don't make nearly as much sense, do they?

If if you're not like a a gourmet food connoisseur or a wine drinker or a beach guy, vacations just don't have that much appeal.

So you'd rather just live a life doing the stuff you like.

like, well, I like golfing, so we'll do that.

Anyway, um I'm going to inject my own um let's see, not conspiracy theory, but my own speculation.

I like that word.

I'm gonna speculate that since Trump um it's almost impossible to imagine him having the whole weekend off with nothing on his schedule unless there's something really big that's about to drop.

So, is it possible that he's doing some really serious negotiations that we don't even know is even a topic?

Could it be that sometime next week we're going to learn that he was really working this weekend and like really working and got something done or that there's um you know the negative part would be that there's some new danger uh approaching that we don't know about and he's got to figure out what to do about it.

I don't know.

It does seem unusual that we wouldn't know what's going on and he kind of dropped out of sight even for a few days even on a holiday weekend.

So, it could be anything.

Could be well I don't know if it could be cosmetic surgery or anything but anything's possible.

Um well, so here's a uh a poll, Galla poll.

Um you may have heard of this one, but the postmillennials talk about this.

Hannah Night and Gale.

And uh the poll said that 0% of Democrats were satisfied with the state of America right now.

0%.

Zero.

Now obviously you're thinking the same thing I am which is okay there's no poll that has zero for any question.

Zero is just not even it's not one of the possibilities.

Now it wasn't exactly zero.

It only rounded down to zero.

So there were a few but it rounded down to zero.

Um, so I thought my first take on this was to ignore it because obviously there was something wrong with it, you know, obviously.

But then I saw that uh the postmillennials writing about this that apparently when Biden was in charge, the uh Republican um 97% of Republicans were dissatisfied.

So only 3% of Republicans at most said they were satisfied when Biden was in charge.

So I feel like what this is really measuring is the effectiveness of brainwashing.

I feel like that's what it's measuring because let me let me ask you this.

Have you you've probably seen um the uh the man on the street or person on the street interviews where somebody who's just playing around cuz um will go up to a stranger and say um here are three policies that let's say it was under Joe Biden.

Uh three policies that Joe Biden's doing.

What do you think of these policies?

And then he'll cleverly list three things that are Trump policies that Biden hates, but he'll say, "What do you think of these Biden policies?" And if you ask a Democrat, the Democrat will say, "Well, those are very wise policies.

They're very good." And then the interviewer will say, "Um, okay, those are all Trump's policies." And the person on the street always goes into full cognitive dissonance and like ah oh well I maybe I should do a little more research.

Right.

So it has been proven certainly to my satisfaction that people's impression of whether things are going in the right direction has everything to do with what other people told them.

their their opinions were literally assigned to them by the party and by the fake news.

So yes uh there is all you can take out from is the country moving in the right direction.

The only thing you can take from that is that one side is winning and everybody in the other side is gonna say yeah it's all going going to hell.

If you took, let's say you are, you made a list of all the things that Trump is doing that people would agree at least is getting some kind of result.

How hard would it be to take all of his policies and just uh put them in a Democrat and then have all the Democrats salute it because it's coming from a Democrat.

And the answer is there might be an exception, but I feel like 100% of what Trump is doing or proposes doing, 100% of it, it feels like could have come from a Democrat not too long ago.

I would say 100% of it could have come from Bill Clinton.

That wasn't that's not ancient history.

But something like everything he's doing would be compatible with a lot of it is compatible with Obama, right?

Obama didn't love crime and he didn't love an open border and he he uh deported quite a few people.

So that's the way to think of this.

Don't think that the poll is measuring anything useful.

All it is is people have been brainwashed that their team good, other team bad.

And it really isn't the policies.

It really is not the policies and it's not even the candidate where you're just not allowed to like the other side and that's how people answer the poll.

Um, what about tariffs?

Can't you can't you easily imagine that a Democrat president had been the only one who ever came up with tariffs and said, "Yeah, you know what, tariffs?" And then the Republicans would say, "Oh, of course you're in favor of a tax." But instead, the Republicans came up with it, Trump.

And so one of the Democrats say, "Well, look at you.

You're taxing us." So even something as basic as the tariff, I guarantee you if a Democrat had been the only one to support that, like Trump was a little bit the only one, Democrats would have fallen in line.

said it was genius.

Well, uh the good news is that gas prices are lower than they've been for the weekend um since uh 2020.

So last year they were 329 um and the year before 377 on average and now it's $3.15 on average.

So, uh, energy is down, eggs are down.

I don't know if prescription drugs are down, but they will be down, you know, if Trump gets his most favorite nation stuff.

Um, so those are pretty good.

I mean, eggs and energy and um, yeah.

So, so some things are down, but I guess uh, beef is way up.

and housing is way up and health care in general is way up.

So, so it's a mixed bag.

Well, a federal appeals court ruled against Trump.

Oh.

Oh, sorry.

I fell asleep because it seems like every single freaking day there's another story about an appeals court who tried to block Trump from doing what Trump wants to do.

Now uh specifically the judge said that uh Trump's tariffs are unlawful but spec not every tariff but only the tariffs that uh were put in put in place after Trump had uh uh what did he do?

He he declared an emergency power.

So there's a 1977 emergency powers act.

And so he said, um, these other countries are ripping us off and so it's an emergency.

Now, is that an emergency that you don't have trade deals that you like?

Well, that's a little bit of a stretch.

Um, but uh that's what he used.

He said it was an emergency and then uh the appeals court said that's no emergency.

So you don't have the power to do that.

Uh, Attorney General Pam Bondi said, "Yes, we do." Because he said it was a national emergency and we have that power.

And uh, I saw Tom Feden did an analysis of of the, you know, the actual language of what Trump's allowed to do.

And there was a pretty good argument there.

pretty good argument that uh if you allow that he had the power to declare something an emergency.

So you'd have I think you'd have to accept that he has that power and it's not up to you to disagree with it.

He just has that power.

He can call it an emergency.

Um, and then if he does, there's a good argument that tariffs would be, you know, well within the normal range of tools that he would have at his disposal if it's an emergency.

So even though it's not specifically mentioned as a power, it's sort of a common sense interpretation that it would include at least that kind of a power.

So we'll see see what the Supreme Court does.

That would be um even though it's not every one of his tariffs.

I don't know how he did the other ones, but uh maybe Congress has to give him that power first.

So, we'll see.

Uh apparently Missouri, according to Politico, Aaron Pelish is writing that uh Missouri is going to look into redistricting in a special session sort of like California is doing.

If so, they think they would pick up one GOP's seat, but apparently we're not hearing much from other Democrat states, you know.

So, we thought that there would be what what would happen is it would set off some mutually assured destruction where every state would gerrymander until everything was ridiculous.

Well, it's already it's already germanded gerrymandered enough that it's ridiculous.

Um, but it looks like the Republicans may be willing to go all the way on this no matter what the Democrats do.

So, it looks like the Republicans going to pick up a bunch of even if the Democrats went hard at it, they have fewer states that aren't already gerrymandered.

So, the Republicans would come out ahead.

But I wonder if the other Democrat states are trying to lay low just to make sure that it doesn't become an allout gerrymandering war, which they know they would lose.

So, it could be that even though um people think that California will sort of match what happened in Texas, that if all they do is match it, you know, maybe that's enough.

Hey, hey, just keep your head down.

If we could get away with just matching it, that's our best case scenario for a Democrat.

But if we go out there and say we are Vermont, I don't know what which states are in play, but uh go out there and say we're Vermont and we're going to join California and gerrymandering.

Well, all that's going to do is guarantee that every Republican state does it.

I think every Republican state or most of them are going to do it just in case and just because they can.

But if you're a Democrat, you might say to yourself, "Why don't we just, you know, shut up about this and let California be our answer?

They just matched Texas." As long as you're matching, there's not as much argument that you got to, you know, fight it.

So, the last the last district, I guess.

So, I'm just wondering if Democrats are trying to lay low and see if it blows over.

I don't think it will.

I think Trump has already put out the word, you're going to gerrymander or or else or else I'm going to make your life difficult.

So, surprise Democrats possibly.

Are any of you following the story about the statins?

you know the drug statins.

I remember some years ago, it was quite a while ago that u my doctor um did whatever test what is it for?

Uh so the statins are to lower your cholesterol and when my cholesterol test came back and it was already as low as you'd want it to be.

Um, I remember my doctor saying, "Oh, you know, if if your cholesterol were higher, I'd put you on a statin." And then he told me that the studies were so positive for statins in unrelated areas that it was he said that if he could, he would put every one of his um every one of his patients on statins, even if they didn't have any cholesterol problem, because he said it was just so good.

I mean, it was just so good for your health in just so many different ways.

And the science was so clear that he would just put everybody on statins if it were up to him.

Now, time goes by and the current thinking and I don't know if it's I don't know what's real, all right?

So, I just know what I see on social media.

So, I can't claim to know that any of this is true.

But uh people are saying really really bad things about statins.

I don't know if you've noticed but uh now there's uh some indication and again I'm not going to say that I know that any of this is true but there is some indication that um having a low uh having low cholesterol um makes you higher chance of getting diabetes.

So, we got 92 million people on statins.

Um, and many of them don't even have any heart disease.

Uh, they're just told their cholesterol is too high.

And because of that, they may or may not be giving themselves a higher chance of getting a blood sugar disease.

Now, again, I'm not your doctor, so you should not take any medical advice from me.

Everybody understand that?

I'm telling you what the what the world is talking about about statins.

I'm not telling you what I think makes sense for you to do.

You and if you think you're hearing that, you're not hearing that.

I'm just talking about it.

You're going to have to figure it out yourself on the medical stuff.

Well, Maxine Waters is pushing the idea that uh Trump needs to be taken out with the 25th amendment because he's so obviously crazy.

Now, first thing I would say about Maxine Waters is um you may know she was replaced uh a while ago by a wax figurine of Maxine Waters and unfortunately they left it out in the sun a little bit too long.

So, what looks like Maxine Waters is actually a wax statue that's partially melted, and that would explain her look.

But, uh, she says there's something wrong with this president.

So, have you noticed the, uh, pattern, the trend that whatever it is that the Democrats are complaining about is not real?

Just not real.

it.

And I don't know, maybe that's a little bit the same on on the other side.

Maybe Republicans worry too much about things that aren't real as well.

But man, the the Democrats with their imaginary issues.

So, it's an he's the imaginary dictator who had an an imaginary insurrection on January 6.

And uh there was an imaginary thing where he said something about neo-Nazis that we know to be a hoax.

Um it's all imaginary just and that he's doing it just for his own uh enrichment and uh all of it.

Uh and women and men can never mind.

So, you may remember the other day I was saying, uh, I don't understand what the Fed does, the Federal Reserve, and that if if their main thing is setting the interest rates, how many people do they need to do that?

It feels to me they probably just have some model or, you know, they sit around a meeting and say, "What do you think?" But why does it take like thousands of employees?

Now they do a few other things but I saw a po a video by uh Chimath from the all-in pod.

He's he's like Madonna or uh you know any the one name only kind of people like Naval.

He's he's a one name guy because his last name's hard to pronounce.

Uh so Chimath was saying what does the Fed actually do in 2025?

And because he's a lot smarter than I am, I felt really good cuz I thought, "Oh, cuz when when you go in public, when you do what I do, you know, you say a lot of opinions in public, it's a little bit risky to say, you know, I can't figure out what the Federal Reserve does.

What do what do they even do?" Because it makes you look like a dope, right?

So when someone who's, you know, certifiably a lot smarter than almost everybody like Jama says, what does the Fed actually do?

I feel, oh, maybe maybe I was sort of on the right track there a little bit.

Um, but there the letter of last resort.

I think Chamath said they'd rather see the Treasury do that.

They set monetary policy.

Um, they regulate banks.

That that probably takes a lot of people.

and they're a clearing house for payments, but it feels like that needs to be updated.

So, um yeah, it it doesn't and it doesn't seem as Chimath pointed out the uh the Federal Reserve like gets together like what once a month or something while there's a $130 trillion flying around the world and they only get together once a month.

Doesn't that feel like it's just something from the past?

You know, I I suspect if you looked at all the activities they do around just setting interest rates that you could get rid of all of it and you could just put people in the room and say, "Well, what do you think?" Well, I don't know.

That jobs report looked a little weak.

It it just it just doesn't feel like necessarily they need to exist.

you know, maybe their functions need to be just um sourced out to other places.

Well, China has a new source of power that is kind of fascinating.

So, it looks like it's a a derigible, a lighter than air, you know, gas balloon kind of thing, but it's shaped like a I want to say man's sex toy.

And that uh it's uh let's see how do I describe this?

It's a hollow tube and the the tube part is where the uh the gas is.

So it's like a thick pillowy tube and in the center is a turbo a wind turbine.

Uh because once you once you get into the stratosphere apparently the wind is always blowing and a lot harder than it blows on Earth.

So the one of the problems of wind energy is you can't depend on it.

But if you put this thing up in the stratosphere and it just sort of stays there because it's full of gas, um the the wind will never stop and it will be way stronger than on Earth.

So you can generate actually some serious electricity up there.

Now the hard part will be getting it down to earth.

So the two possibilities they haven't worked it out yet.

One would be that they charge a battery up there and then I guess has to come down every night and discharge the battery.

That doesn't seem like it would work cuz the battery would be too heavy.

Um and the other possibility is there are some technologies for beaming things down wirelessly.

So microwave, I think, uh I don't know how hard it would be to, you know, hit that target on Earth with your microwave while you're up there in the wind.

So maybe there's no way to get that energy down, but it's kind of a cool idea.

Well, as you know, the DNC had their little meeting recently, summer meeting, and they open it up with a stolen land acknowledgement.

That's where you say, "I'm sorry that the Native Americans used to own this land and the evil white people, mostly men, stole it from them.

Um, but we acknowledge that we stole it from them." Now, if you're trying to rebuild a broken Democrat party that is collapsing in every possible way you can collapse, do you think that opening up your meeting by acknowledging that you're thieves and you stole some land and you're not going to give it back?

Do you feel like that's the best way to, you know, scrub up your brand so that people are like, "Yeah, hell yeah.

I want to be part of the thieves who who say to your face that we stole your land and we're not giving it back.

Yeah, I feel like I'm on that team.

Well, I I just love Democrat strategist James Carville.

On one hand, he's full of TDS and he he seems batshit crazy.

On the other hand, he's still their smartest guy.

He's a little bit batshit crazy, you know, a little bit TDS, but he's still their best guy.

And and when he gives them advice, I laugh when they don't take it.

And uh he he was talking about that land acknowledgement.

He goes, "Why bring it up during the election?" It's funnier if you say it in James Scarville's voice.

If you say it in my voice, it's not that funny.

Why bring it up during an election?

See, nothing.

It just sits there like a desiccated turd.

But now I'm going to say the same sentence in James Carville talk.

And watch how much better this is.

Why bring it up during an election.

It's a lot funnier if you scream it in Carville.

Yep.

We're land stealers and we're not giving it back.

We're Democrats.

Um, so my feed on X is full of uh companies that make some kind of a video generation uh AI app.

And look at this 10-second video I did.

And one of them is up to about two minutes, I guess.

Um, but I I feel like I want to jump into that space and say, "Hey, I'm a creator.

I'll just use these new AI tools and watch the movies I will make." And then I, you know, I see that they're all limited to this like few seconds and I say to myself, okay, if I jumped in and picked one of these many apps and then I became an expert in it, what is the most likely thing that would happen if I became an expert and really started working on a project and maybe tried to make a movie like really some real commercially important thing?

What's the most likely thing that would happen?

the maker of the app goes out of business before I finish my project and it's not compatible with any other app.

You know, he can't just take it from that point forward.

That's the most likely thing that would happen.

So, it doesn't look like we have an industry where I could start a project and finish it.

I feel like I can only start it.

And then on top of that, the improvement in the technology is happening so quickly that if I do all of my research and find the very best best video generator, I go, "All right, this is definitely the best one, so I'll use this one." And then I spend a bunch of time to learn it and I start making my project.

How long would it be before there's one that's so much better?

And it might even be like, you know, one day later.

uh that that is so much better that it would be insane for me to keep using the one I started with.

So, we're at this weird point in this video thing where it can't quite do something really big.

It can make, you know, little viral videos which have some value but, you know, minor.

Um, and it it doesn't make sense as a creator to learn any one of them in particular cuz you can't trust it'll be there.

So, I I feel like we I feel like this is going to be obviously this will be a gigantic part of the economy at some point, but I feel like it's going to be nothing nothing until it doesn't.

So th this is one of those ones that's gonna be like, "Oh, it's a little bit better.

It's a little bit better." Boom.

Suddenly, it'll be everybody can do everything.

There's now a robot.

I saw some Mario Knoff posts on this that uh can perform a surgery on an egg, so they can actually pull the shell off it without injuring the egg.

It's It's so fine.

And at the risk of sounding unkind, uh, how good would the robot surgeon have to be before you would prefer it to the DEI surgeon?

You know, you you know that all of you are thinking, "All right, now that we've demonstrated for sure that DEI has resulted in way less qualified people getting accepted into medical school, it's not like it used to be like it used to be.

If you got through medical school, I really did trust that you knew what you were doing.

Now I don't because the the criteria changed.

And this has nothing to do with anybody's, you know, race or gender.

It's just if you change the criteria and and really focus on something other than merit, well, everybody knows how that turns out.

So, I don't have to be like an expert or do any research.

Um, I just have to know how good the robot is.

And when the robot gets to the point where they say, "This is definitely better than people." And I and we're probably right on the cusp of saying that that it's better than people, then why would you ever go with a human again?

So I think the the surgery job uh might be one of those that um is untouched by the machines for another could be several years.

Then there's going to be a point sort of like self-driving cars.

They'll be like, "Oh, well, you know, they're not really making much of a dent, but then suddenly it'll be nothing but self-driving cars." It's going to be nothing but robot surgeons because, you know, once they're just way better than humans, why why would you ever use a human?

It wouldn't make any sense at all.

And uh certainly the robot would have a better chance of uh damaging less stuff around the operation than a than a human would.

So well apparently uh there's a big meeting coming up maybe today or real soon with President Xi of China and Putin and Kim Jong-un and it's the first time that the three of them are going to share a stage together.

I guess it's China's got a military parade and that was the reason for inviting him.

And uh here's my humorous take on that.

I think all three of them hate the other.

I feel like they hate each other.

What do you think?

Do you think that when they get together, she and Putin and Kim, that they're like, "Ah, my bud.

Ah, bro." and that they just really like each other.

I think Kim probably feels like they control him too much.

You know, they have too much influence on him.

So, he probably hates them both because they're like undue influence on him.

But, you know, he has to get along with them.

So, he'll pretend.

Putin probably hates President Xi for the same reason.

President Xi probably hates Putin for the same reason.

I think they hate each other.

I don't know.

they they'll pretend they don't.

Um so the White House according to Fox News um say that the uh the crackdown in DC where the federal government's surged in some troops um they made uh almost 1,400 arrests.

Uh 12 known gang members arrested, five missing children rescued, 140 firearms seized, and 50 homeless camps cleared.

It's pretty good.

That's pretty darn good.

Uh Trump is winning so hard on crime.

It It's It's just wonderful to see.

Yeah.

So, we'll see.

But he's winning hard.

Um, here are some things the government has decided to spend less money on lately.

And you know, I told you that the the thing that Trump and Elon Musk especially brought to the government is competition to see who can cut the most.

I feel like before their incentive was to spend the most because whoever could, you know, control the most budget and, you know, get the most stuff done would look the best.

But somehow now looking the best means um can you cut the budget in your area?

So we we've seen, you know, Bill PTE uh making cuts.

We've seen talk about the Fed doesn't need that building.

Um, so we're seeing cuts all over the place.

Uh, so here are a few.

So Trump is cutting 679 million federal funds for offshore wind projects.

O's reporting about that.

So Trump is very anti- wind projects.

So he just cut the budget.

$679 million.

Boop.

There you go.

Meanwhile, RFK Jr.

has canled $122 million in LGBT and diversity grants according to the national pulse.

Now, does Health and Human Services need to make LGBTQ and diversity grants?

Like, why are they even doing that?

So, he just cut 122 million.

Boop.

Um and then uh Christy Gnome cancelled thousands of FEMA contracts after Doge found that a lot of it was waste.

O is reporting on this too.

Um so how much uh let's see she got 10 million for that 3 million for that 1.6 for that.

So a bunch of millions.

The Daily Caller is reporting on that as well.

So, it feels to me like uh the like Congress could have made a budget by just taking the current budget and telling everybody to cut 10%.

And just calling it a day or what whatever percent they need to cut to get it to balance.

But the the level of um I won't call it necessarily waste, but things you didn't absolutely have to spend money on is crazy.

And uh so Mike Mike Benz has totally Benpilled me and now I I'm seeing things through his frame.

And the one thing that seems obvious is that you can only get rich by robbing the government.

Now, you might be a big tech company that's working with the CIA, and then the CIA says, "Well, we'll make sure that you make billions of dollars because you're playing well with us." That would be robbing the government.

Um, sorry, my cat is ripping up my legs right now as I'm trying to talk.

Come on, Gary.

Come here.

I got to take care of this.

Otherwise, I'll need band-aids.

Which one are you?

All right.

It's Gary.

It's Gary.

Of course, Gary.

All right.

Gary's out of my lab now.

So, so let me finish the uh the Benpilled view of the government.

So, it seems to me that you're either a big company who uses the government to open a market for you or or something.

But the big companies are ripping off the government directly and indirectly.

And then all these charities and NOS's appear to be nothing but ways to rip off the government.

And there it looks like there are just the thousands thousands of, you know, essentially criminal enterprises in which people are ripping off the government successfully.

You know, you you saw the news about the big ring of people ripping off was it Medicaid or something like half a billion dollars or something.

I feel like every single one of our budgets in the government, somebody's figuring out how to rob it.

And that, you know, when I look at that $2 trillion dollars a year in excess, um, you know, the the deficit, I really wonder if a 100% of that is theft, legalized theft, but basically big companies and entities figuring out how to drain the government without giving enough in return back.

That's what it feels like.

Um, allegedly, I don't believe this story, but allegedly China has developed a nuclear battery that's only the size of a coin that can run for 50 years with reaching.

So, it could run your cell phone for 50 years.

Do you believe that there is a commercialrade nuclear battery and that people will just put it in their phone?

How do you throw it away?

How do you get rid of your like doesn't it seem like that's that's not really something that could ever work?

The nuclear battery?

You say it's true?

Well, here's what I believe is true.

I believe it works in a lab.

I believe that they can demonstrate that it makes power and but do you think that the real commercial world is ready for a nuclear battery that everybody has in their pocket?

I mean, it will just be psychologically too scary.

And I know what you're going to say, but Scott, they thought of all the safety problems and they got to work now.

Well, maybe.

But it just doesn't feel like people are going to want to put a Okay, I've got a cat crawling on my back now.

Doesn't feel like that's going to be a real thing in the market.

It might work in the lab.

Well, how many people do you think have died in the Gaza war so far?

Just the Palestinian side.

Um, reportedly the Gaza Gaza Health Ministry says 63,000.

Stop it.

Stop it.

Don't do it.

I know what you're going to say.

If you're an NPC, what do you say now, Scott?

Scott, nobody can believe the death count from the Gaza Health Ministry.

Nobody believes that number, right?

Well, I I hear that.

Um I tell you all the time, don't believe any numbers that come from a war zone.

Right?

You've heard me say that.

So, you all know that I understand that you can't believe any number that comes from a war zone.

The exception being the Holocaust, of course, that those numbers are exact, but that's the only one.

The only one.

I learned that from the ADL.

But, uh, every other number that comes from a war zone is a suspect.

So, I went to Grock and I wondered again, not that I'll know the right answer, but I wondered how Grock handles it.

And I was surprised.

So, according to Grock, um, the Israeli intelligence services and the Israeli military uh, basically trust that number, but the politicians in Israel say, "You can't trust that number.

It's coming from the Gaza Health Ministry.

Is that true?

Did Grock get that right?

Is it true that within Israel the military says, "Yeah, that's about right.

We trust that number." And uh but the politicians are saying, "Oh, no, no, it's nowhere near that." I don't know.

So apparently there have been other estimates um beyond the Gaza Health Ministry and they're actually in one case higher.

One estimate is 70,000.

Now is that reliable?

No.

I mean somebody just had a different method for calculating.

But there is the thought that the Gaza Health Ministry number does not include um any bodies that haven't been discovered.

Yeah.

So, how many are in tunnels that have been collapsed?

We don't know.

Do we would the uh uh the people who worked in those tunnels say, "Ah, we lost George in the tunnel." None of them are named George, but uh is somebody reporting all the ones lost in the tunnels?

So somewhere in that 60 to 70,000 dead, most of them are civilians.

And I would like to uh hearken back to the early days of that conflict.

Do you remember people yelling at me for suggesting that the death count might go kind of high?

And all all the people who thought they knew everything about everything said, "Scott, you fool.

Don't you know these will be precision strikes and uh probably it'll be the whole thing will probably be done in two weeks and I'd be surprised if the death count goes over I don't know 10,000.

And you remember me saying I don't know that it's going to be short.

I don't think the death count's going to stay that low.

Well, here we are.

Um, now I remind you that my uh my opinion on Israel, and this is this is the way you should treat it too, is why would I have an opinion?

Why would I have an opinion?

I I have an opinion about America.

And if this were an American conflict primarily, I would say, you know, people like me who are public figures were were part of the figuring out how to get it right.

So I would feel an obligation as an American to definitely have an opinion and definitely tell you what it was.

But if you're observing another country, the only filter that makes sense is their their own self-interest, their national self-interest.

So if I look at Israel, I ask this question.

Are is Israel acting in a way that is probably, you know, everything's just risk.

So probably are they acting in a way that's probably in the long-term best interest of Israel as a country.

And I think the answer is yes.

Not that you like it or not that I like it.

And it certainly doesn't matter what you and I think about the ethical and moral nature of anything that's happening there.

Just it's not our business.

If the United States were in that situation, would be would we be acting similarly?

Well, I could argue that maybe we have been in that situation and maybe we did act similarly.

meaning that we acted in our national best interest even though it was really really not good for let's say the Native Americans just to pick one example.

Yes, countries act aggressively in their own national self-interest.

Israel is really good at it.

Doesn't mean they get everything right because that's not an option, but they're really good at it.

And I also say if if the uh Hamas and the Palestinians had full power or maybe even as much power as Israel has, what would that look like?

Well, I think it would look like the reverse that the Jews living in the area would be, you know, in danger all the time, more danger than they're already in.

And uh it would probably look like the reverse.

So, it's not up to me to put a judgment on any of this stuff.

If it were Americans, I would definitely put a judgment on it because that's that's the team I play for.

But if I'm just watching, I'm not judging them morally or ethically.

I I'm just saying they have one job to do what's in their own country's best interest.

Are they doing that?

Kind of looks like it.

It looks like Israel is getting bigger because they're going to own Gaza and they didn't own it before.

So, you know, in a 100 years, if you come back, will it look like Israel taking complete control of Gaza was a good idea?

Probably.

Probably.

And uh they might even treat Netanyahu as like a national hero because he expanded the size of Israel.

Yeah, they're they're doing a really good job of pursuing their own self-interest, which doesn't mean it's in our interest.

Doesn't mean it's in my interest, but it's also none of my business except for what we're paying.

So, I do separate the question of, you know, financial support, but I also think that's more complicated than we make it.

Um, we think it's simple.

Hey, don't give your money to anybody.

But probably we're getting something out of it.

Um, you I don't think any of us know the the full situation of what we're getting out of it other than our our weapons makers are are using that money that we give to Israel.

Israel uses some portion of it to buy our weapons.

So, some of it comes back, but not to not to the taxpayers directly.

Uh anyway, that's my view and I I get tired of the people who are arguing morality and ethics.

Nobody thinks it's moral or ethical to kill a bunch of children and 60 60,000 civilians.

And think about the ones that their lives have been permanently ruined either by injury or economic, you know, desperation.

No, there's no way you can, you know, rationalize it.

You just have to say people operate in their self-interest.

All right.

Um, that is all I had to say.

As I mentioned before, after the show, which is right now, uh, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a spaces.

Um, so go to X and look for Owen Gregorian.

just search for him.

He'll pop right up and then you click on the spaces uh prompt.

Um but I will also be talking to the uh beloved subscribers on locals just for a minute or two while Owen gets set up.

And uh rest of you, thanks for coming.

Hope you come back tomorrow.

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We I've got more viewers on Oh, no.

I'm looking at the viewer numbers.

I don't think you see them.

So, I'll tell you.

Looks like You.

Tube is 3.6,000, local 716 people, and Rumble 1.1,000 watching live.

Then, um then usually uh X might be eventually be 30,000 people.

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Um

so according to uh Sai Post and Eric

Dolan, it turns out that there's a

correlation

between uh children who have terrible

physical problems and their mental

health. So evidence shows that children

with chronic physical illness

uh which is not funny

such as asthma, diabetes and epilepsy

are at increased risk for developing

mental illness. Uh okay. Now they could

have saved a little bit of time, a

little bit of money by just asking me.

They would have said, "Scott, do you

believe that people who have a a

lifelong physical problem that will make

them different from other people and be

very inconvenient in their social life

and the rest of their life?" Do I think

that that would have an impact on how

they feel about things as in in their

brain? Yes. Yes. I'll bet you if you

if you gave anybody a disease that would

affect them their entire rest of their

life. Yeah, probably might affect their

mental health.

And by the way, as I often say, your

body is your brain. So if you got a

physical problem in your body, you do

have a physical problem in your brain

because your brain's your body. It all

works as uh one device.

All right, here's another one. Let's see

if you can get the get this one before I

do. Side post also Vladimir Hedra is

writing that uh students whose parents

so young people basically students whose

parents were warmer toward them tend to

have better socioeotional skills.

So if your parents were warm toward you,

you're more likely to be a, you know,

warm person with good social skills. Did

they really need to study that? Do they?

I don't know. But um it does seem to be

likely that if you have the genetic

material of two people who were warm, in

other words, they were warm parents,

what are the odds that you you picked up

that gene? Well, pretty good. And then

what are the odds that you would uh

imitate adults who are your parents in

in figuring out how to navigate social

situations? Well, 100%.

So between the genetic likelihood that

you would just inherit, you know, that

ability to feel warmth around other

people, cuz keep in mind that's not a

learned behavior.

If if the way you feel around other

people is, you know, it lifts you and

makes you feel lighter, you're clearly

going to be better at social things in

the future. And if other people make you

feel like, "Oh god, when's the other

person gonna leave?" Then you're

probably not going to develop the best

social skills. Probably. Yeah, you

didn't need to study this. Just ask me

or any of you. You all would have known

that.

All right. Uh, Americans are having less

sex than ever. There's a new study out.

And I guess that applies to everybody,

you know, young and old and married or

single. They're all having a lot less

sex. And the experts are trying to

figure out why.

Um, do you think they'll do a big

expensive study to find out why?

Or, you know, they could save money.

Don't do that study. Just ask me.

go outside

and look at the people who walk by.

Would you want to have sex with any of

them?

Probably not. Probably not. We all got

fat and unpleasant.

So, you know, half of the country took

itself offline

to the other half just by having some

political point of view. And then we eat

ourselves into uh total

unattractiveness.

Of course, we're having less sex. And

the the women that everybody would want

to have sex with, um they follow the

money and they become only fans girls.

And uh so yeah, between that and online

uh porn,

it does seem to me that everything is

lining up for Americans to have less sex

than ever.

Sure enough,

um

I I feel like in the 50s, everybody

tried to look thin and well-dressed.

And don't you think that would increase

the amount of sex you had? And they

didn't have phones, so if they got

together, it was all about the other

people. So I don't know, those will

those might seem like our golden years.

Um, according to American Psychological

Association,

people the people who are at the

extremes of the political right and the

extremes of the political left, their

brains work a similar way. And that a

similar way involves getting way more

physical

sensation in other words emotions from

uh politics. So the people who dominate

the extremes either the left or the

right they feel politics like if you

show them some new political story they

might be elated or they might be

disgusted but they really feel it you

know just like a stomach ache they would

feel it whereas the entire middle of the

country the ones who kind of care what

happens in the news but it doesn't

affect them physically it's just

something they heard

um they don't have the same brain impact

or body impact.

So, does that surprise you? No. Because

as I've tried to teach

Ben Shapiro, uh the the facts don't care

about your emotions. So, your feelings

are of course um what drives everything.

So it makes sense that the people who

are extremists either right or left is

because they feel something that's a

reward. So if they get you know

revulsion from looking at what the other

team is doing but it's still sort of a

competition and you like your team and

you can't wait to talk to them about it

about that thing the other side is doing

that's so bad. Um, yeah, that's just

pure emotion. And you would expect that

uh those people would have a suicidal

empathy and uh TDS and you'd have what

what do you call it when the soccer mom

wants to be a hero by supporting her

trans child? There's a name for that,

right? Anyway,

so all of those things probably come

from the same phenomenon, which is the

people who don't have a physical

sensation

from thinking about politics, they're

they're not doing any of the crazy

stuff. So they're they don't have TDS so

much or or those other things.

Um, speaking of TDS, I saw a clip of CNN

where Scott Jennings was roasting.

Somebody said Jennifer Welch. I guess

she's one of the uh anti-Trumpers that

was on the panel that Abby Phillip show.

And she claimed that Trump obviously has

dementia and that he and one of the ways

you know is that he performed oral sex

on a microphone.

So, can you believe

um and I'd have to say that she looked

like, you know, just the way she talked

and acted, she looked like one of those

people who really feel something

physically

from the news. I mean, she looked like

she was having a physical response to

just even thinking about Trump. And uh

Scott Jennings said after she was done

with her little uh rant that sounded

literally crazy. Um he just says, "If

this is the Democratic strategy,

congratulations, America. You've already

elected Republicans as far as the eye

can see." Yeah.

If if your reason for not liking Trump,

the the top of the list is that he has

dementia because he tried to perform

oral sex on a microphone, which by the

way, I do not remember that story. But I

suppose I suppose anything's possible,

but I don't remember the story of him

trying to have it out with a microphone.

Um, so when the the Democrats talk like

that, you know, not every Democrat, of

course, but when one of them talks like

that, do you say to yourself, "Well,

there's a just a competing opinion I

should take seriously, or do you say to

yourself, what is wrong with you?" Like,

it it looks like you have a mental

health problem. And that's what that

looks like. That that comes off not as

an opinion. That comes off as a mental

health problem.

Does it? Is it just me?

I don't know.

Well, even the Portuguese president um

has some TDS. He said in public, believe

it or not, that Trump is nothing but a

Russian puppet. And he said, "The top

leader of the world's greatest

superpower is objectively a Soviet

Russian asset. He functions as an

asset."

That's the president of Portugal. You

know what's funny is uh I'd never seen a

you know a picture of him before that I

can recall, but I saw the video of him

talking and I thought, "Oh, I get it. He

looks as dumb as he sounds.

He I mean he looks like a dumb guy." And

then that comes out of his mouth. he's

ahead of Portugal and he believes that

Trump

who is, you know, put these vicious

sanctions on uh uh on Russia, etc., he's

trying to solve a war. They think he's a

Russian asset. All right. So,

um here is a uh new theory about

Stonehenge. I guess they found a one

cow's tooth buried at the site

and they analyzed the heck out of that

tooth and then they declared that

probably the way the stones got to

Stonehenge which is the big mystery

because they're really heavy and they

came from a long ways away they think.

Um and now they say that cows

uh drag the the rocks the stone edge.

Now, it makes me wonder, is there

anything that cows can't do? They can

make a baseball catcher's mint.

They can be our food. They can give us

milk. You could ride a cow if you needed

to. They could be a pet. Terrible pet.

Terrible pet. But they can do so many

things. But apparently they can build

Stonehenge.

Um, personally my theory is that the

cows also built the pyramids.

I can't prove it, but when I look at

them, I think that looks like some cow

work right there. I used to work on my

my uncle's farm. He had a dairy farm.

And uh, so I know cows. I mean, I know

how they think. And uh, I feel like they

could have built a pyramid. I don't

know. So,

uh, online influencer, I guess that's

what you would call him, or researcher,

Ian Carol, if you've seen his material.

Very entertaining. Um, I'm never in a

position to know when he's right and

when he's not, but he has some

fascinating

research he does on a lot of stuff. But

uh apparently the government the Trump

administration has now released a

100,000 emails relative to the Epstein

situation

and the 100,000 emails

um

just

what

oh oh 100,000 emails that uh I think

that was just the number of emails with

Ahoud Barack the ex-p prime minister of

Israel

Well, I don't know. It doesn't seem like

they would have done a 100,000 messages

back and forth, but uh there were

100,000 emails and some number of them

were about back and forth with Ahood

Barack.

So, I think Ian's leaning toward the

hypothesis that uh Epstein was

definitely a MSAD or Israeli asset of

some kind.

I find it difficult to imagine that if

he if his relationship with Ahoud Barack

was that close. It's hard to imagine

that he didn't have some kind of working

relationship. But there are now several

uh let's say let's say movies

on one screen about Epistine. So one of

the movies would be this. he's an

Israeli asset and that, you know, that

explains everything and he's a black

mailer. Um, that's a popular one.

Another one would be maybe let's call it

the Mike Benz um hypothesis

that Epstein might have been an expert

at moving large amounts of money around

in ways that can be concealed and that

that made him a valuable person to all

these highle people and uh it was mostly

just him and maybe a few people he

pulled into it that were doing the

sexual

So that's one possibility.

Or or to say it differently, um that the

the sexual improprieties

were not related to his business model.

So that that would be another way to say

it. They exist, but but it's not part of

his money-making operation.

Um and then uh what else do we have? Um,

yeah. And then the other would be that

he wasn't doing anything illegal, but

maybe he had, you know, one or two

billionaires who found him valuable and

paid him large amounts of money or I

don't know. So, so there's some sort of

a partial third movie there where he's

not as guilty except for the sexual

stuff that I would say obviously he was

guilty of.

So that Epstein situation, we'll never

know, I say. Well, apparently there was

a rumor going around on X today that uh

President Trump um was dead, but he's

not. So he's not,

but the rumor was going around and

partly because I guess we haven't seen

him in a little while and he has no

scheduled public appearances this

weekend.

Now, he also hasn't taken a vacation

um since he started and no summer

vacation, which is a little unusual.

So, it wouldn't surprise me if he's just

going to do a little golfing this

weekend. And, you know, I mean, it's a

holiday weekend, so maybe he's just

golfing, hanging with friends, and

that's that's all the vacation he needs.

Maybe he doesn't seem like a beach guy.

So I I mean what if you don't go to the

beach?

Vacations don't make nearly as much

sense, do they? If if you're not like a

a gourmet food connoisseur or a wine

drinker or a beach guy,

vacations just don't have that much

appeal. So you'd rather just live a life

doing the stuff you like. like, well, I

like golfing, so we'll do that.

Anyway, um I'm going to inject my own

um let's see, not conspiracy theory, but

my own speculation. I like that word.

I'm gonna speculate that since Trump um

it's almost impossible to imagine him

having the whole weekend off with

nothing on his schedule unless

there's something really big that's

about to drop.

So, is it possible that he's doing some

really serious negotiations that we

don't even know is even a topic? Could

it be that sometime next week we're

going to learn that he was really

working this weekend and like really

working and got something done or that

there's um you know the negative part

would be that there's some new danger uh

approaching that we don't know about and

he's got to figure out what to do about

it. I don't know. It does seem unusual

that we wouldn't know what's going on

and he kind of dropped out of sight even

for a few days even on a holiday

weekend. So, it could be anything. Could

be well I don't know if it could be

cosmetic surgery or anything but

anything's possible.

Um

well, so here's a uh a poll, Galla poll.

Um you may have heard of this one, but

the postmillennials talk about this.

Hannah Night and Gale. And uh the poll

said that 0% of Democrats were satisfied

with the state of America right now. 0%.

Zero.

Now obviously you're thinking the same

thing I am which is okay there's no poll

that has zero for any question. Zero is

just not even it's not one of the

possibilities. Now it wasn't exactly

zero. It only rounded down to zero. So

there were a few but it rounded down to

zero.

Um, so I thought my first take on this

was to ignore it because obviously there

was something wrong with it, you know,

obviously. But then I saw that uh the

postmillennials writing about this that

apparently when Biden was in charge, the

uh Republican um

97% of Republicans were dissatisfied.

So only 3% of Republicans at most said

they were satisfied when Biden was in

charge.

So I feel like what this is really

measuring is the effectiveness of

brainwashing.

I feel like that's what it's measuring

because let me let me ask you this. Have

you you've probably seen um the uh the

man on the street or person on the

street interviews where somebody who's

just playing around cuz um will go up to

a stranger

and say um here are three policies that

let's say it was under Joe Biden. Uh

three policies that Joe Biden's doing.

What do you think of these policies? And

then he'll cleverly list three things

that are Trump policies that Biden

hates,

but he'll say, "What do you think of

these Biden policies?" And if you ask a

Democrat, the Democrat will say, "Well,

those are very wise policies. They're

very good." And then the interviewer

will say, "Um, okay, those are all

Trump's policies."

And the person on the street always goes

into full cognitive dissonance and like

ah oh well I maybe I should do a little

more research. Right. So it has been

proven certainly to my satisfaction that

people's impression of whether things

are going in the right direction has

everything to do with what other people

told them. their their opinions were

literally assigned to them by the party

and by the fake news.

So yes uh there is

all you can take out from is the country

moving in the right direction. The only

thing you can take from that is that one

side is winning and everybody in the

other side is gonna say yeah it's all

going going to hell.

If you took,

let's say you are, you made a list of

all the things that Trump is doing that

people would agree at least is getting

some kind of result.

How hard would it be to take all of his

policies and just uh put them in a

Democrat and then have all the Democrats

salute it because it's coming from a

Democrat. And the answer is there might

be an exception, but I feel like 100% of

what Trump is doing or proposes doing,

100% of it, it feels like could have

come from a Democrat

not too long ago. I would say 100% of it

could have come from

Bill Clinton.

That wasn't that's not ancient history.

But something like everything he's doing

would be compatible with a lot of it is

compatible with Obama, right? Obama

didn't love crime and he didn't love an

open border and he he uh deported quite

a few people.

So that's the way to think of this.

Don't think that the poll is measuring

anything useful. All it is is people

have been brainwashed that their team

good, other team bad. And it really

isn't the policies.

It really is not the policies and it's

not even the candidate where you're just

not allowed to like the other side and

that's how people answer the poll.

Um, what about tariffs?

Can't you can't you easily imagine that

a Democrat president had been the only

one who ever came up with tariffs and

said, "Yeah, you know what, tariffs?"

And then the Republicans would say, "Oh,

of course you're in favor of a tax."

But instead, the Republicans came up

with it, Trump. And so one of the

Democrats say, "Well, look at you.

You're taxing us."

So even something as basic as the

tariff, I guarantee you if a Democrat

had been the only one to support that,

like Trump was a little bit the only

one,

Democrats would have fallen in line.

said it was genius.

Well, uh the good news is that gas

prices are lower than they've been for

the weekend um since uh

2020.

So

last year they were 329

um and the year before 377 on average

and now it's $3.15

on average.

So, uh, energy is down, eggs are down.

I don't know if prescription drugs are

down, but they will be down, you know,

if Trump gets his most favorite nation

stuff. Um, so those are pretty good. I

mean, eggs and energy and

um,

yeah. So, so some things are down, but I

guess uh, beef is way up.

and housing is way up and health care in

general is way up.

So, so it's a mixed bag.

Well, a federal appeals court ruled

against Trump.

Oh. Oh, sorry. I fell asleep because it

seems like every single freaking day

there's another story about an appeals

court who tried to block Trump from

doing what Trump wants to do. Now uh

specifically the judge said that uh

Trump's tariffs are unlawful

but spec not every tariff but only the

tariffs that uh were put in put in place

after Trump had uh uh what did he do? He

he declared an emergency power. So

there's a 1977 emergency powers act. And

so he said, um, these other countries

are ripping us off and so it's an

emergency.

Now, is that an emergency that you don't

have trade deals that you like? Well,

that's a little bit of a stretch. Um,

but uh that's what he used. He said it

was an emergency and then uh the appeals

court said that's no emergency. So you

don't have the power to do that.

Uh, Attorney General Pam Bondi said,

"Yes, we do." Because he said it was a

national emergency and we have that

power. And uh, I saw Tom Feden did an

analysis of of the, you know, the actual

language of what Trump's allowed to do.

And there was a pretty good argument

there. pretty good argument that uh

if you allow that he had the power to

declare something an emergency. So you'd

have I think you'd have to accept that

he has that power and it's not up to you

to disagree with it. He just has that

power. He can call it an emergency. Um,

and then if he does, there's a good

argument that tariffs would be, you

know, well within the normal range of

tools that he would have at his disposal

if it's an emergency. So even though

it's not specifically mentioned as a

power, it's sort of a common sense

interpretation that it would include at

least that kind of a power. So we'll see

see what the Supreme Court does. That

would be um even though it's not every

one of his tariffs. I don't know how he

did the other ones, but uh maybe

Congress has to give him that power

first. So, we'll see.

Uh apparently Missouri, according to

Politico, Aaron Pelish is writing that

uh Missouri is going to look into

redistricting in a special session sort

of like California is doing. If so, they

think they would pick up one GOP's seat,

but apparently we're not hearing much

from other Democrat states, you know.

So, we thought that there would be what

what would happen is it would set off

some mutually assured destruction where

every state would gerrymander until

everything was ridiculous. Well, it's

already it's already germanded

gerrymandered enough

that it's ridiculous. Um, but it looks

like the Republicans may be willing to

go all the way on this no matter what

the Democrats do. So, it looks like the

Republicans going to pick up a bunch of

even if the Democrats went hard at it,

they have fewer states that aren't

already gerrymandered. So, the

Republicans would come out ahead. But I

wonder if the other Democrat states are

trying to lay low

just to make sure that it doesn't become

an allout gerrymandering war, which they

know they would lose. So, it could be

that even though um people think that

California will sort of match what

happened in Texas, that if all they do

is match it, you know, maybe that's

enough. Hey, hey, just keep your head

down. If we could get away with just

matching it, that's our best case

scenario for a Democrat. But if we go

out there and say we are Vermont, I

don't know what which states are in

play, but uh go out there and say we're

Vermont and we're going to join

California and gerrymandering. Well, all

that's going to do is guarantee that

every Republican state does it.

I think every Republican state or most

of them are going to do it just in case

and just because they can. But if you're

a Democrat, you might say to yourself,

"Why don't we just, you know, shut up

about this and let California be our

answer? They just matched Texas." As

long as you're matching, there's not as

much argument that you got to, you know,

fight it. So, the last the last

district, I guess. So,

I'm just wondering if Democrats are

trying to lay low and see if it blows

over. I don't think it will.

I think Trump has already put out the

word, you're going to gerrymander or or

else or else I'm going to make your life

difficult. So, surprise Democrats

possibly. Are any of you following the

story about the statins?

you know the drug statins.

I remember some years ago, it was quite

a while ago

that u my doctor

um did whatever test what is it for? Uh

so the statins are to lower your

cholesterol

and when my cholesterol test came back

and it was already as low as you'd want

it to be. Um, I remember my doctor

saying, "Oh, you know, if if your

cholesterol were higher, I'd put you on

a statin." And then he told me that the

studies were so positive for statins in

unrelated areas that it was he said that

if he could, he would put every one of

his um every one of his patients on

statins, even if they didn't have any

cholesterol problem, because he said it

was just so good. I mean, it was just so

good for your health in just so many

different ways. And the science was so

clear that he would just put everybody

on statins if it were up to him.

Now, time goes by

and the current thinking and I don't

know if it's I don't know what's real,

all right? So, I just know what I see on

social media. So, I can't claim to know

that any of this is true. But uh people

are saying really really bad things

about statins. I don't know if you've

noticed but uh now there's uh some

indication and again I'm not going to

say that I know that any of this is true

but there is some indication that um

having a low uh

having

low cholesterol

um makes you higher chance of getting

diabetes.

So, we got 92 million people on statins.

Um, and many of them don't even have any

heart disease. Uh, they're just told

their cholesterol is too high.

And because of that, they may or may not

be giving themselves a higher chance of

getting a blood sugar disease. Now,

again, I'm not your doctor, so you

should not take any medical advice from

me. Everybody understand that? I'm

telling you what the what the world is

talking about about statins. I'm not

telling you what I think makes sense for

you to do. You and if you think you're

hearing that, you're not hearing that.

I'm just talking about it. You're going

to have to figure it out yourself on the

medical stuff.

Well, Maxine Waters is pushing the idea

that uh Trump needs to be taken out with

the 25th amendment because he's so

obviously crazy.

Now, first thing I would say about

Maxine Waters is um you may know she was

replaced uh a while ago by a wax

figurine of Maxine Waters and

unfortunately they left it out in the

sun a little bit too long. So, what

looks like Maxine Waters is actually a

wax statue that's partially melted, and

that would explain her look. But, uh,

she says there's something wrong with

this president.

So, have you noticed the, uh, pattern,

the trend that whatever it is that the

Democrats are complaining about is not

real?

Just not real. it. And I don't know,

maybe that's a little bit the same on on

the other side. Maybe Republicans worry

too much about things that aren't real

as well. But man,

the the Democrats with their imaginary

issues. So, it's an he's the imaginary

dictator who had an an imaginary

insurrection on January 6. And uh there

was an imaginary thing where he said

something about neo-Nazis that we know

to be a hoax. Um it's all imaginary

just and that he's doing it just for his

own uh enrichment and uh all of it. Uh

and women and men can

never mind.

So, you may remember the other day I was

saying, uh, I don't understand what the

Fed does, the Federal Reserve, and that

if if their main thing is setting the

interest rates, how many people do they

need to do that?

It feels to me they probably just have

some model or, you know, they sit around

a meeting and say, "What do you think?"

But why does it take like thousands of

employees? Now they do a few other

things but I saw a po a video by uh

Chimath from the all-in pod. He's he's

like Madonna or uh you know any the one

name only kind of people like Naval.

He's he's a one name guy because his

last name's hard to pronounce. Uh so

Chimath was saying what does the Fed

actually do in 2025?

And because he's a lot smarter than I

am, I felt really good cuz I thought,

"Oh,

cuz when when you go in public, when you

do what I do, you know, you say a lot of

opinions in public, it's a little bit

risky to say, you know, I can't figure

out what the Federal Reserve does. What

do what do they even do?" Because it

makes you look like a dope, right?

So when someone who's, you know,

certifiably a lot smarter than almost

everybody like Jama says, what does the

Fed actually do? I feel, oh,

maybe maybe I was sort of on the right

track there a little bit. Um, but there

the letter of last resort. I think

Chamath said they'd rather see the

Treasury do that. They set monetary

policy. Um, they regulate banks. That

that probably takes a lot of people. and

they're a clearing house for payments,

but it feels like that needs to be

updated.

So,

um yeah, it it doesn't and it doesn't

seem as Chimath pointed out the uh the

Federal Reserve like gets together like

what once a month or something

while there's a $130 trillion flying

around the world and they only get

together once a month. Doesn't that feel

like it's just something from the past?

You know, I I suspect if you looked at

all the activities they do around just

setting interest rates that you could

get rid of all of it and you could just

put people in the room and say, "Well,

what do you think?" Well, I don't know.

That jobs report looked a little weak.

It it just it just doesn't feel like

necessarily they need to exist. you

know, maybe their functions need to be

just um sourced out to other places.

Well, China has a new source of power

that is kind of fascinating. So, it

looks like it's a a derigible, a lighter

than air, you know, gas balloon kind of

thing, but it's shaped like a

I want to say man's sex toy.

And that uh it's uh let's see how do I

describe this? It's a hollow

tube

and the the tube part is where the uh

the gas is. So it's like a thick pillowy

tube and in the center is a turbo a wind

turbine. Uh because once you once you

get into the stratosphere apparently the

wind is always blowing and a lot harder

than it blows on Earth. So the one of

the problems of wind energy is you can't

depend on it. But if you put this thing

up in the stratosphere and it just sort

of stays there because it's full of gas,

um the the wind will never stop and it

will be way stronger than on Earth. So

you can generate actually some serious

electricity up there. Now the hard part

will be getting it down to earth.

So the two possibilities they haven't

worked it out yet. One would be that

they charge a battery up there and then

I guess has to come down every night and

discharge the battery. That doesn't seem

like it would work cuz the battery would

be too heavy. Um and the other

possibility is there are some

technologies for beaming things down

wirelessly. So microwave, I think, uh I

don't know how hard it would be to, you

know, hit that target on Earth with your

microwave while you're up there in the

wind. So maybe there's no way to get

that energy down, but it's kind of a

cool idea.

Well, as you know, the DNC had their

little meeting recently, summer meeting,

and they open it up with a stolen land

acknowledgement.

That's where you say, "I'm sorry that

the Native Americans used to own this

land and the evil white people, mostly

men, stole it from them. Um, but we

acknowledge that we stole it from them."

Now, if you're trying to rebuild a

broken Democrat party that is collapsing

in every possible way you can collapse,

do you think that opening up your

meeting by acknowledging that you're

thieves

and you stole some land and you're not

going to give it back? Do you feel like

that's the best way to, you know, scrub

up your brand so that people are like,

"Yeah, hell yeah. I want to be part of

the thieves who who say to your face

that we stole your land and we're not

giving it back. Yeah, I feel like I'm on

that team. Well,

I I just love Democrat strategist James

Carville.

On one hand, he's full of TDS and he he

seems batshit crazy. On the other hand,

he's still their smartest guy.

He's a little bit batshit crazy, you

know, a little bit TDS, but he's still

their best guy. And and when he gives

them advice, I laugh when they don't

take it. And uh he he was talking about

that land acknowledgement. He goes, "Why

bring it up during the election?"

[Laughter]

It's funnier if you say it in James

Scarville's voice. If you say it in my

voice, it's not that funny. Why bring it

up during an election? See, nothing. It

just sits there like a desiccated turd.

But now I'm going to say the same

sentence in James Carville talk. And

watch how much better this is. Why bring

it up during an election.

[Laughter]

It's a lot funnier if you scream it in

Carville.

Yep. We're land stealers and we're not

giving it back. We're Democrats.

Um, so my feed on X is full of uh

companies that make some kind of a video

generation

uh AI app. And look at this 10-second

video I did. And one of them is up to

about two minutes, I guess. Um, but I I

feel like I want to jump into that space

and say, "Hey, I'm a creator. I'll just

use these new AI tools and watch the

movies I will make." And then I, you

know, I see that they're all limited to

this like few seconds

and I say to myself, okay, if I jumped

in and picked one of these many apps and

then I became an expert in it, what is

the most likely thing that would happen

if I became an expert and really started

working on a project and maybe tried to

make a movie like really some real

commercially important thing? What's the

most likely thing that would happen?

the maker of the app goes out of

business before I finish my project and

it's not compatible with any other app.

You know, he can't just take it from

that point forward. That's the most

likely thing that would happen. So, it

doesn't look like we have an industry

where I could start a project and finish

it. I feel like I can only start it. And

then on top of that, the improvement in

the technology is happening so quickly

that if I do all of my research and find

the very best best video generator, I

go, "All right, this is definitely the

best one, so I'll use this one." And

then I spend a bunch of time to learn it

and I start making my project. How long

would it be before there's one that's so

much better? And it might even be like,

you know, one day later. uh that that is

so much better that it would be insane

for me to keep using the one I started

with.

So, we're at this weird point in this

video thing where it can't quite do

something

really big. It can make, you know,

little viral videos which have some

value but, you know, minor. Um,

and it it doesn't make sense as a

creator to learn any one of them in

particular cuz you can't trust it'll be

there. So, I I feel like we I feel like

this is going to be obviously this will

be a gigantic part of the economy at

some point, but I feel like it's going

to be nothing nothing

until it doesn't. So th this is one of

those ones that's gonna be like, "Oh,

it's a little bit better. It's a little

bit better." Boom. Suddenly, it'll be

everybody can do everything. There's now

a robot. I saw some Mario Knoff posts on

this that uh can perform a surgery on an

egg,

so they can actually pull the shell off

it without injuring the egg. It's It's

so fine. And

at the risk of sounding unkind,

uh, how good would the robot surgeon

have to be before you would prefer it to

the DEI surgeon?

You know, you you know that all of you

are thinking, "All right, now that we've

demonstrated for sure that DEI has

resulted in way less qualified people

getting accepted into medical school,

it's not like it used to be like it used

to be. If you got through medical

school, I really did trust that you knew

what you were doing. Now I don't because

the the criteria changed. And this has

nothing to do with anybody's, you know,

race or gender. It's just if you change

the criteria

and and really focus on something other

than merit, well, everybody knows how

that turns out. So, I don't have to be

like an expert or do any research. Um, I

just have to know how good the robot is.

And when the robot gets to the point

where they say, "This is definitely

better than people." And I and we're

probably

right on the cusp of saying that that

it's better than people, then why would

you ever go with a human again?

So I think the the surgery job uh might

be one of those that um is untouched by

the machines for another could be

several years.

Then there's going to be a point sort of

like self-driving cars. They'll be like,

"Oh, well, you know, they're not really

making much of a dent, but then suddenly

it'll be nothing but self-driving cars."

It's going to be nothing but robot

surgeons

because, you know, once they're just way

better than humans, why why would you

ever use a human? It wouldn't make any

sense at all.

And uh certainly the robot would have a

better chance of uh damaging less stuff

around the operation than a than a human

would. So well apparently uh there's a

big meeting coming up maybe today or

real soon with President Xi of China and

Putin and Kim Jong-un and it's the first

time that the three of them are going to

share a stage together. I guess it's

China's got a military parade and that

was the reason for inviting him.

And uh here's my humorous take on that.

I think all three of them hate the

other.

I feel like they hate each other. What

do you think? Do you think that when

they get together, she and Putin and

Kim, that they're like, "Ah, my bud. Ah,

bro."

and that they just really like each

other. I think Kim probably feels like

they control him too much. You know,

they have too much influence on him. So,

he probably hates them both because

they're like undue influence on him.

But, you know, he has to get along with

them. So, he'll pretend. Putin probably

hates President Xi for the same reason.

President Xi probably hates Putin for

the same reason.

I think they hate each other. I don't

know. they they'll pretend they don't.

Um so the White House according to Fox

News

um say that the uh the crackdown in DC

where the federal government's surged in

some troops um they made uh almost 1,400

arrests.

Uh 12 known gang members arrested, five

missing children rescued, 140 firearms

seized, and 50 homeless camps cleared.

It's pretty good. That's pretty darn

good. Uh Trump is winning so hard on

crime. It It's It's just wonderful to

see. Yeah. So,

we'll see. But he's winning hard.

Um, here are some things the government

has decided to spend less money on

lately. And you know, I told you that

the the thing that Trump and Elon Musk

especially brought to the government is

competition to see who can cut the most.

I feel like before their incentive was

to spend the most because whoever could,

you know, control the most budget and,

you know, get the most stuff done would

look the best. But somehow now looking

the best means um can you cut the budget

in your area? So we we've seen, you

know, Bill PTE uh making cuts. We've

seen talk about the Fed doesn't need

that building. Um, so we're seeing cuts

all over the place. Uh, so here are a

few. So Trump is cutting 679 million

federal funds for offshore wind

projects. O's reporting about that. So

Trump is very anti- wind projects. So he

just cut the budget.

$679 million. Boop. There you go.

Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has canled $122

million in LGBT and diversity grants

according to the national pulse. Now,

does Health and Human Services need to

make LGBTQ and diversity grants? Like,

why are they even doing that?

So, he just cut 122 million. Boop. Um

and then uh Christy Gnome cancelled

thousands of FEMA contracts after Doge

found that a lot of it was waste. O is

reporting on this too. Um so how much uh

let's see she got 10 million for that 3

million for that 1.6 for that. So a

bunch of millions. The Daily Caller is

reporting on that as well. So,

it feels to me

like uh the like Congress could have

made a budget by just taking the current

budget and telling everybody to cut 10%.

And just calling it a day or what

whatever percent they need to cut to get

it to balance. But the the level of um I

won't call it necessarily waste, but

things you didn't absolutely have to

spend money on is crazy. And uh so Mike

Mike Benz has totally Benpilled me and

now I I'm seeing things through his

frame. And the one thing that seems

obvious is that you can only get rich by

robbing the government. Now, you might

be a big tech company that's working

with the CIA, and then the CIA says,

"Well, we'll make sure that you make

billions of dollars because you're

playing well with us."

That would be robbing the government.

Um, sorry, my cat is

ripping up my legs right now as I'm

trying to talk.

Come on, Gary.

Come here. I got to take care of this.

Otherwise, I'll need band-aids.

Which one are you? All right. It's Gary.

It's Gary. Of course, Gary.

All right. Gary's out of my lab now. So,

so let me finish the uh the Benpilled

view of the government. So, it seems to

me that you're either a big company who

uses the government to open a market for

you or or something. But the big

companies are ripping off the government

directly and indirectly. And then all

these charities and NOS's appear to be

nothing but ways to rip off the

government. And there it looks like

there are just the thousands

thousands of, you know, essentially

criminal enterprises in which people are

ripping off the government successfully.

You know, you you saw the news about the

big ring of people ripping off was it

Medicaid or something like half a

billion dollars or something. I feel

like every single one of our budgets in

the government, somebody's figuring out

how to rob it. And that, you know, when

I look at that $2 trillion dollars a

year in excess, um, you know, the the

deficit, I really wonder if a 100% of

that is theft,

legalized theft,

but basically big companies and entities

figuring out how to drain the government

without giving enough in return back.

That's what it feels like.

Um,

allegedly, I don't believe this story,

but allegedly China has developed a

nuclear battery that's only the size of

a coin that can run for 50 years with

reaching. So, it could run your cell

phone for 50 years. Do you believe that

there is a commercialrade

nuclear battery

and that people will just put it in

their phone?

How do you throw it away?

How do you get rid of your like

doesn't it seem like that's that's not

really something that could ever work?

The nuclear battery?

You say it's true? Well, here's what I

believe is true. I believe it works in a

lab. I believe that they can demonstrate

that it makes power and but do you think

that the real commercial world is ready

for a nuclear battery that everybody has

in their pocket?

I mean, it will just be psychologically

too scary. And I know what you're going

to say, but Scott, they thought of all

the safety problems and they got to work

now. Well, maybe. But it just doesn't

feel like people are going to want to

put a Okay, I've got a cat crawling on

my back now. Doesn't feel like that's

going to be a real thing in the market.

It might work in the lab.

Well, how many people do you think have

died in the Gaza war so far? Just the

Palestinian side. Um, reportedly the

Gaza Gaza Health Ministry says 63,000.

Stop it. Stop it.

Don't do it. I know what you're going to

say. If you're an NPC, what do you say

now, Scott?

Scott, nobody can believe the death

count from the Gaza Health Ministry.

Nobody believes that number, right?

Well,

I I hear that. Um I tell you all the

time, don't believe any numbers that

come from a war zone.

Right? You've heard me say that. So, you

all know that I understand that you

can't believe any number that comes from

a war zone. The exception being the

Holocaust, of course, that those numbers

are exact, but that's the only one. The

only one. I learned that from the ADL.

But, uh, every other number that comes

from a war zone is a suspect. So, I went

to Grock and I wondered again, not that

I'll know the right answer, but I

wondered how Grock handles it. And I was

surprised. So, according to Grock, um,

the Israeli intelligence services and

the Israeli military uh, basically trust

that number,

but the politicians in Israel say, "You

can't trust that number. It's coming

from the Gaza Health Ministry.

Is that true? Did Grock get that right?

Is it true that within Israel the

military says, "Yeah, that's about

right. We trust that number." And uh but

the politicians are saying, "Oh, no, no,

it's nowhere near that."

I don't know. So apparently there have

been other estimates

um beyond the Gaza Health Ministry

and they're actually in one case higher.

One estimate is 70,000. Now is that

reliable? No. I mean somebody just had a

different method for calculating. But

there is the thought that the Gaza

Health Ministry number does not include

um any bodies that haven't been

discovered. Yeah. So, how many are in

tunnels that have been collapsed?

We don't know. Do we would the uh uh the

people who worked in those tunnels say,

"Ah, we lost George in the tunnel."

None of them are named George, but uh is

somebody reporting all the ones lost in

the tunnels? So somewhere in that 60 to

70,000 dead, most of them are civilians.

And I would like to uh hearken back to

the early days of that conflict.

Do you remember

people yelling at me for suggesting that

the death count might go kind of high?

And all all the people who thought they

knew everything about everything said,

"Scott, you fool. Don't you know these

will be precision strikes and uh

probably it'll be the whole thing will

probably be done in two weeks and I'd be

surprised if the death count goes over I

don't know 10,000.

And you remember me saying

I don't know that it's going to be

short. I don't think the death count's

going to stay that low. Well, here we

are.

Um,

now I remind you that my uh my opinion

on Israel, and this is this is the way

you should treat it too, is why would I

have an opinion? Why would I have an

opinion? I I have an opinion about

America.

And if this were an American conflict

primarily, I would say, you know, people

like me who are public figures were were

part of the figuring out how to get it

right. So I would feel an obligation as

an American to definitely have an

opinion and definitely tell you what it

was. But if you're observing another

country, the only filter that makes

sense is their their own self-interest,

their national self-interest. So if I

look at Israel, I ask this question. Are

is Israel acting in a way that is

probably, you know, everything's just

risk. So probably are they acting in a

way that's probably in the long-term

best interest of Israel as a country.

And I think the answer is yes.

Not that you like it or not that I like

it. And it certainly doesn't matter what

you and I think about the ethical and

moral nature of anything that's

happening there.

Just it's not our business. If the

United States were in that situation,

would be would we be acting similarly?

Well, I could argue that maybe we have

been in that situation and maybe we did

act similarly. meaning that we acted in

our national best interest even though

it was really really not good for let's

say the Native Americans just to pick

one example. Yes, countries act

aggressively in their own national

self-interest.

Israel is really good at it. Doesn't

mean they get everything right because

that's not an option, but they're really

good at it. And I also say if if the uh

Hamas and the Palestinians had full

power or maybe even as much power as

Israel has, what would that look like?

Well, I think it would look like the

reverse that the Jews living in the area

would be, you know, in danger all the

time, more danger than they're already

in. And uh it would probably look like

the reverse.

So, it's not up to me to put a judgment

on any of this stuff. If it were

Americans, I would definitely put a

judgment on it because that's that's the

team I play for. But if I'm just

watching,

I'm not judging them morally or

ethically. I I'm just saying they have

one job to do what's in their own

country's best interest. Are they doing

that? Kind of looks like it.

It looks like Israel is getting bigger

because they're going to own Gaza and

they didn't own it before.

So, you know, in a 100 years, if you

come back, will it look like Israel

taking complete control of Gaza was a

good idea? Probably. Probably. And uh

they might even treat Netanyahu as like

a national hero because he expanded the

size of Israel. Yeah, they're they're

doing a really good job of pursuing

their own self-interest, which doesn't

mean it's in our interest. Doesn't mean

it's in my interest, but it's also none

of my business except for what we're

paying. So, I do separate the question

of, you know, financial support, but I

also think that's more complicated than

we make it. Um, we think it's simple.

Hey, don't give your money to anybody.

But probably we're getting something out

of it. Um, you I don't think any of us

know the the full situation of what

we're getting out of it other than our

our weapons makers are are using that

money that we give to Israel. Israel

uses some portion of it to buy our

weapons. So, some of it comes back, but

not to not to the taxpayers directly.

Uh anyway, that's my view

and I I get tired of the people who are

arguing morality and ethics. Nobody

thinks it's moral or ethical to kill a

bunch of children and 60 60,000

civilians. And think about the ones that

their lives have been permanently ruined

either by injury or economic, you know,

desperation.

No, there's no way you can, you know,

rationalize it. You just have to say

people operate in their self-interest.

All right.

Um, that is all I had to say. As I

mentioned before, after the show, which

is right now, uh, Owen Gregorian will be

hosting a spaces.

Um, so go to X and look for Owen

Gregorian. just search for him. He'll

pop right up and then you click on the

spaces uh prompt. Um but I will also be

talking to the uh beloved

subscribers on locals just for a minute

or two while Owen gets set up. And uh

rest of you, thanks for coming. Hope you

come back tomorrow. All right. Oh, wow.

We I've got more viewers on Oh, no. I'm

looking at the viewer numbers. I don't

think you see them. So, I'll tell you.

Looks like YouTube is 3.6,000,

local 716 people, and Rumble 1.1,000

watching live. Then, um then usually uh

X might be eventually be 30,000 people.

All right, everybody. I'll see you

tomorrow. Unless you're a beloved local

subscriber. In that case, I'll see you

in half a minute.