Episode 2971 CWSA 09/27/25

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Um, here's the good news.

US legislators legislators have introduced a a new bipartisan bill to exempt coffee from tariffs.

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So that's that might happen.

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Well, the local affiliate group Sinclair is going to put uh um what's his name?

Jimmy Kimmel back on their stations.

And I believe the other the other uh affiliate group is going to do the same.

So uh Kimmel's numbers were through the roof when he returned.

Of course, everybody was curious and that probably helped.

So, we'll see if he has any lasting bump from that, but he's back in business.

So, it turns out that uh a good deal of everything I told you uh yesterday on the podcast turned out to be total So, let if we have time, let me tell you all the things that I told you that aren't true.

Are you ready for this?

Do you know the story about all the Democrat women taking Tylenol and you to prove that it's not dangerous and uh ending up in hospitals?

Not true.

Yeah.

There there is no national there's no national emergency of people taking Tylenol.

Total Now, I don't know if it's not true for every single person in the world, but no, there's no there's no big trend or anything like that.

Total Uh, next, uh, I told you that Nuome, uh, used the word Gestapo talking about the Trump administration, and he did not.

I I'd confused him.

I read a post by Jesse Waters that seemed to indicate that Newsome cited it, but um I've been informed that uh it was not Newsome, it was Wals.

So Walsh did call him that.

Um let's see.

Uh so Comey just said uh other terrible things.

He he didn't use that particular word.

And uh you know the story about the 274 undercover uh FBI agents who were present on January 6.

And you all we all got excited like finally finally we have proof that that crowd was full of agents who were there to you know cause it to turn into something.

Well, according to Kyle Cheney, Politico, um, that's just not a true story.

There were there were that many FBI undercover agents, so that part is true.

But apparently they they arrived in response to the rioting.

So they they were not there in in anticipation of it or to cause it.

They showed up because of it.

So that's really different.

really different.

So, I don't know what's true.

Uh it that doesn't that doesn't say that nobody in the FBI was involved in instigating.

It just says that that the story about the 274 apparently that's something that's been public for many months and uh most of them came in response to the uh to the event.

So, we don't know what percentage of the 274 is real, but the story is not real.

The the way it was positioned was not real at all.

And then lastly, apparently Comey is being charged with lying for something he literally never said, and there's no evidence he ever said it.

Are you aware of that?

He's uh he's being uh charged with lying about telling Mc.

Cabe to leak something when there's no evidence that he ever did that.

Mc.

Cabe says he didn't do it.

Um Kobe says he didn't do it and Mc.

Cabe said he leaked it on his own and told Kobe about it after it was done.

So, the story is that Comey lied about um telling Mc.

Cabe to do it, but that never happened.

There's no evidence that he ever did that.

So, what's going on here then?

Um anyway, we'll we'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment, but we'll do some other stories first.

So, as far as I can tell, um, all of those stories that I told you yesterday, the ones I just mentioned, probably just all Now, I I think that was my least accurate day.

And I I'll tell you the one that I should have been on from the beginning.

How How many times have I taught you that if a story is too perfect, a little too on the nose, that it's never true?

What which one of those stories was a little too perfect and on the nose?

The Democrats taking the Tylenol just to show that Trump was wrong.

That one from the very start.

I should have said, "Oh, hold on.

Hold on.

Do you see the quality of that story?

Is it It's just too on the nose.

It's just too perfect.

Can't be true." Now again, I'm not going to say that there's not anything trueish about those stories, but they're not actually true.

Um, according to The Hill, there's a new analysis that says one in five adults are getting their news from Tik Tok.

And it's worse for, well, worse if you think it's bad, worse for adults under 30.

43% of adults under 30 get their news from Tik Tok.

Do do you think it's a big deal that Tik Tok will now be under not just American control but American control of uh some rich people like Larry Ellison's son or is it Larry Ellison or both?

I forget.

But uh there's going to be a little right leaning Republican influence on that.

Do you think that'll make a difference?

Do you think that uh the new American ownership will put their thumb on the Tik Tok algorithm so that it's a little more friendly to the Trump world?

I don't know.

But they might remove anything that was the opposite of that.

And so it might look like that.

don't know.

But uh Tik Tok um I'm not sure I want it to go away now.

You know, I've been advocating for a long time that we can't let China run it.

So, by the way, um how many of you remember before anybody brought up the idea of Tik Tok being banned?

Did I can you remind me?

Was I the first one to say it should be banned or was I responding to a story that somebody else said it should have been banned?

I don't really remember.

But when I think back, it seemed to be impossible that Tik Tok could be banned.

Now, it seemed impossible that could be sold to an American company, but maybe maybe that deal will get done.

All right, just to make things interesting, uh, did you even know that there are classified Amelia Heheart files that the government has?

Can you believe that?

That the Amelia Hehart story, like every other story, has secret classified documents.

So apparently there are things about that story we don't know and Trump has promised to declassify and release it.

So does that feel like a compromise?

Uh Mr.

Trump, what we really need is to see those Epstein files.

I mean really we really need to see the Epstein files.

Would you settle for the Amelia Heheart files?

Would you?

Well, no, but we'll find out.

So, I told you yesterday that uh Kla Harris was her drunkest self at some podcast.

She's out selling her book.

Well, uh I don't know if it was the same day, which would make it maybe less bad than if it was day after day, but she went to Howard University bookstore and uh the video indicates she was drunk as hell.

So, was she just drunk all day long or was she drunk two days in a row?

I don't know which one of those is worse, but how in the world is that not the biggest story?

I mean, really, do Democrats look at those videos and think, "Oh, that looks normal." It's so not normal.

If you watch a video of her when she's not drunk, do you know what she looks like?

she's not drunk.

I mean, it's very it's very easy to tell when she's not drunk.

Um, and by the way, I don't know.

I don't know if it's alcohol or, you know, pills or whatever, whatever it is.

It looks like alcohol to my eyes.

And then she's still telling the lie while drunk that goes like this.

You know, it was the closest the closest presidential election Yeah, like in the whole history of the universe, there's never been a closer election for president.

And how many times in a row can you tell the the most obvious lie in the world?

Probably every single voter in the country knows that's not true.

It's not it's not only not true, it's not really even close to true.

Amazing.

Um, she does.

It makes me think that nobody can talk to her.

You're telling me that there's not a single advisor, even her husband, who could say, you know, you've been saying that fact a lot.

And I'm not sure that passes the factchecking.

Nobody.

There's nobody who can tell her that that that is an embarrassing lie that every single person knows is a lie.

She's the only person who thinks the election was close.

How does that even happen?

Do you think she knows it's not true, but she hopes that her base doesn't know?

I I think her base knows.

They all know.

Everybody knows.

It's like one of the most well-known facts in the world is that it wasn't as close as you might imagine.

Anyway, um according to the Trump administration, uh there has been a 1,000% surge in assaults on ICE personnel.

What do I tell you when there's a percentage without a number?

It's propaganda.

What is it?

If it's a number without the percentage, it's propaganda, right?

So, even though this propaganda is coming from, you know, let's say my team, you know, the people the the side that I back, don't do this.

Don't do this to me.

Don't give me a percentage without a number.

Well, what is a,000% increase?

Like, what does that represent?

Were there a thousand people and there used to be one?

I mean I I don't first of all I don't believe the number because you know all data is fake.

And second whenever I see a percentage without a number or the reverse I just think oh you're lying to me now.

You're you're lying by omission.

You left it out for a reason.

No 10 to 100 would be a 10 times increase.

It wouldn't be a th00and%.

So, I feel like uh my team is lying to me on this one.

Now, I do think that there's a problem with violence against ICE people.

So, the problem is real, but the story doesn't look real to me.

Looks fake to me.

Um, back in 2023, James Comey was doing an interview with uh uh what was the redheaded Oh, you know, you know the thing the who's what's the name of the woman who was Biden's spokesperson then quit and went to MSNBC?

Her name is All right, you'll remember it.

Anyway, she was uh Comey was talking to her and he was talking about the January 6 people and he said, "Get all of them.

Find everybody who went into that building.

Find them all.

We will punish everyone who went in there.

We will hunt you to the end of the earth, even for a misdemeanor, and make you pay." Now, that is a very clear statement that he's less interested in law or justice and more interested in sending a message to these people even though it would ruin their life.

It would send a message to the other political people.

Yeah.

Jen Jen S Jen Saki is who I'm talking about.

He was he was talking to Jen Saki.

Um, when I hear Comey, even though it was a couple years ago, that's not long.

When I hear Comey talking about we'll hunt them down for even a misdemeanor and make them pay, I say he is allowed essentially a free punch, not literally a punch because we don't do violence.

But don't you think u it's it's a hall pass?

He I believe that the current administration can do absolutely anything they want with him.

Not with everybody, not with somebody who is never never involved in anything bad at all, but he's a really bad character.

And that statement um removes any sense of empathy I had.

I have to admit, I have to admit, um although I think nobody's above the law and if he lied to Congress, you know, there should be a penalty, blah blah blah.

Um I was feeling a little bit of empathy for him.

But but once you see what a bad person he is, I mean, he's a really bad person based on his own statements, that's a bad person.

I will hunt you.

By the way, do you remember my famous most mocked um prediction that if Biden got elected, Republicans would be hunted?

Here.

Here was Biden's head of his FBI saying that he will he uses the word hunt.

We will hunt you down even if all you did was a misdemeanor.

Hunted.

Yeah, it's exactly what it was.

Um, I saw this video on a clip by Maize Maize Moore.

Real good follow.

If you're on X, you should definitely follow Maize.

M A Z.

What Maze does is whenever there's a uh story in the news, somehow he finds exactly the right clip that gives you that context for the story.

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Katherine Herage, as you know, intrepid reporter, very good reputation as a reporter.

Um, she said based on her two decades of covering the FBI, she thinks that this little indictment that's like one page for Comey, she thinks that um what we're seeing is not what it will be in the end.

That apparently there's something called a holding charge, which I didn't know was a thing, a holding charge.

So, it sounds like my my best explanation of that uh I'm no lawyer, but it looks like uh if you need to get in under the statute of limitations and you don't have all your ducks in order and you don't have your full case, uh that you could put in a charge just to, you know, put your stake in the ground, make sure you didn't um time out the, you know, the statute of limitations.

So, um, Katherine is saying that what this might turn into is a much more detailed, complex, much bigger case and that, uh, you can't judge it from the initial holding charge if it's a holding charge.

So, we don't know that for sure, but Katherine says she sees a pattern.

So, this would be a pattern that she recognizes.

I would take that seriously.

She's a good she's a uh good let's say observer of patterns.

So I would call that credible and the more probably a bunch of other people will be dragged in and maybe maybe there's a RICO thing here.

Um there is a new report from a non-government entity called the capital research center.

Ryan Morrow did some uh big investigation and found that George Soros Open open society foundation gave over $80 million to what uh they're labeling terrorists and proterrorist groups.

Terrorists and proterrorist groups.

Now there might be a little bit of judgment involved as to whether or not a group is a terrorist group.

Um, but there, yeah, there are some examples that look to me like not something you'd want funded.

Um, and uh, but the Zoros organization has responded and said they have never never funded any terror and they have very good standards and they would never do a thing like that.

So, we'll see.

I assume that that just has to do with who defines who as a terrorist organization or terrorist supporting organization.

Um my take on this which has been the same for a long time.

I don't believe that the senior Soros has really understood where his money was going.

Maybe for a number of years and that some weasels in the organization were calling the shots and not giving him all the information he needed to know where his money was going.

That's what I think.

I think you'll find that probably not even Alex.

I don't even think it was necessarily his son.

probably somebody in the organization had a little bit too much influence and were a little bit a little bit too left even for him is my guess.

Well, I was trying to think how psychologically torturing it must be for the people who know that they're on Trump's list, like Mark Elias, the uh Democrat lawyer who is uh famed for doing um I'm going to say really good work for the benefit of his side.

So, really effective.

Um, and he got a bunch of uh rules and laws changed.

What's that for?

Uh, got a bunch of things changed so that the Democrats could win in 2020.

Um, didn't break any laws as far as I know, but he's worried that he'll be targeted.

And I was thinking about the psychological torture of that.

So once they watch Comey being brought in on what they would say would be thin charges, then they know that they can be brought in on thin charges.

Uh Soros knows where his money goes unless he's gotten scenile.

Well, that's what I'm saying.

I'm saying he's gotten seen.

He's like 100 years old.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

Um, and then I was thinking, you know, think about the torture that they put Trump and his family through.

Imagine waking up every day if you're Melania and you don't know if your husband's going to go to jail for nothing, you know, nothing important.

And ju I mean, just just hold that in your head.

the amount of terror that his closest people, some of them went to jail, you know, some of his closest people went to jail.

So, imagine the torture of knowing that you could be next and then suddenly the legal documents show up and you're like, there goes the next 5 to 10 years of my life, even if I'm found innocent.

I'm going to use up all my money, all my time, my reputation.

I mean, it's just terrible.

And now Trump is returning the favor.

So as these uh indictments trickle out because they're not all going to happen at the same time, every time there's a new one, everybody who has not yet been indicted but thinks maybe they could is going to live in terror.

Like every moment of every day, they're going to think, "God, is this going to happen to me?

Is it is it any minute?" you know that uh Brennan and Clapper and them.

Um all right, I'm just looking at some of your comments.

Um so anyway, the the psychological torture is a real big part of the story, but it's kind of invisible.

It's it's got to be real quite a weight.

Um, speaking of which, the Department of Justice subpoenaed the travel records of Fonnie Willis per the New York Times.

So, Fonnie, one of the people who tried to lawfare Trump, um, has got to be worried because they're digging into, you know, all of her records and stuff.

I can't imagine why they would want to look at her travel records unless they're trying to find out if she used her money on her boyfriend or they trying to find out if she was influenced by some other country.

It's not entirely clear why they would want that.

But from her perspective, that is psychological torture.

Do I mind?

No, I don't.

I do not mind that she's being psychologically tortured.

Um, I believe that she is essentially a criminal.

I would consider her a criminal.

Um, even if she's not convicted of anything, she her behavior looks criminal to me.

Um, let's see.

I I saw that on a Nick Sorder post.

He's a good follow as well.

Nick Sorder.

S O R T O R.

sort.

Um, apparently the FBI just fired the FBI agents who were photographed back in 2020 kneeling for a George Floyd protest.

Can you imagine getting fired 5 years later because you knelt for a photograph for Black Lives Matter?

Is that is that a good enough reason to fire somebody?

Um, the AP is reporting on this.

Um, I'm going to say yes.

I'm going to say yes.

That is a good enough reason to fire somebody because I wouldn't trust anybody who was kneeling to Black Lives Matter.

I wouldn't trust them.

And trust is sort of a big deal, you know, for those jobs.

So, I hate to say it, you know, some of them might have been just, you know, it's easier to go along, but I don't want any easy to go along FBI agents who are literally getting on their knees to Black Lives Matter.

Sorry.

Goodbye.

That I feel like that is a reasonable firing offense.

I agree with that one.

Um, I guess the uh Supreme Court just gave Trump another victory that he can do pocket recessions.

Recessions, a word you'd never use unless you're talking about the news.

Recessions.

Um, so I guess that means that if money's been approved and in some cases Trump can still just say, "I'm not going to spend it." So that would be I think that's like a pocket recession.

Is that what that is?

So, I don't know how big a deal that would be, but it is yet another example of the Democrats trying to use lawfare to stop Trump from doing everything.

Uh, and the courts seem to be giving uh Trump quite a few victories.

Not all of them.

Doesn't win doesn't win them all, but it wins a lot.

Apparently, the ODNI, uh, Paul Sperry has reported this, are telling all the federal employees to alter their daily routines and avoid posting travel plans and remove badges and IDs outside of the office because there's a new terrorist threat against, I guess, the government.

Um, and there's a $10 million bounty that's placed on the kingpin of the uh artif uh a tif alaki.

I guess that would be like the new al-Qaeda.

So, um, I don't know how many of these people got into the country through our poorest immigration plans of the past, but if something starts blowing up or somebody gets uh assassinated by somebody who came in, but across the border, that is going to be one hell of a, you know, that was shock to the system.

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I don't want to see you again ever.

I don't want to see a comment.

I don't want to see you trying to help.

Just get the out of here, will you?

I don't want to see that comment ever again.

Do you realize what a piece of you are for saying that in the middle of the live stream?

Piece of God.

All right.

Um there's a new poll.

Frank L is talking about it on Fox that shows that uh it's the worst showing ever for Democrats.

They're at their lowest popularity and uh Frank Lunt said uh that they they have two problems.

The Democrats well it's only two.

So the good news is that uh you know polling expert Frank L who knows a lot about politics he he says the Democrats only have two problems uh their message and their messengers.

Um that's all they do.

That's all they do.

There's a messenger and then there are things they say.

That's pretty much the whole job.

But it turns out that those two things are the things that they can't do.

Can't get a messenger, can't get a message.

So, good luck.

Trump said, uh, when he was, I think, walking to the helicopter or something, somebody asked him and he said, uh, quote, I think we have a deal to release Hamas hostages and end the Gaza war.

Do you believe that?

Do you do you believe that?

uh they're close to a deal with Hamas to end the Gaza war.

I don't I don't believe that.

I don't know if he believes it.

Do you think there's any chance that they're close to a deal to release the hostages?

I don't know.

It it doesn't seem to even make sense when you look at everything they've done up to this point.

you know, if if they if they ended the war, if Hamas did, would they not be sort of admitting that they that they killed 65,000 people for no reason?

I mean, their their actions largely guaranteed a very aggressive response.

Guaranteed it.

I mean, you don't know the exact size of it, but it guaranteed it would be big.

And if they if they walk away with nothing, which is exactly what they would get, there's no way they're going to get anything.

If they walk away with nothing and destroy the entire Gaza, you know, through the the efforts of the IDF, of course, um I don't think I don't think they can surrender.

I mean, surrendering is the same as going to jail or dying or something.

So, no, I don't believe that there's we're close to a deal, but if we are, I would wonder what was promised in return.

And I don't imagine that anybody's in the mood to promise anything anything at all.

I don't think.

All right.

Well, Bill Maher's show was yesterday and as usual, he's one of the few people who says anything interesting about politics because he's actually willing to look at both sides.

Now, he still has big problems.

He thinks January 6 was an insurrection.

He's really just one hoax away.

If once he learns that that one's a hoax, he's one hoax away from understanding everything.

I think he's close.

I think he's one hoax away.

And uh here's what he was saying to criticize the Democrats.

He said in his one of his uh I think his second monologue thing, he goes to the Democrats, "You can't just say and act like it's true.

You can't come up with radical and dumb ideas and reject debate." And he gave examples of what he would call uh saying and acting like it's true.

Math is racist.

Queers for Palestine.

Looting is cool.

Healthy in any weight.

And if the men's football team played the women's team, it would be a tie.

He goes, "You can't just say and then refuse to debate it." It's funny how well that characterizes, you know, something like half of everything Democrats do.

Just saying crazy and and saying that, you know, if you debate it, you're racist or sexist and and they have a right to kill you in public.

And then uh Bill Maher also pointed out that uh if you don't know what's going on in Nigeria with the slaughter of the Christians who live in Nigeria, if you don't know that um you you have a terrible news source.

Um I didn't know that.

Do I have terrible news sources?

I literally do this every single day.

I I look at as many news sources as I can every day.

I didn't know that.

Now, I did know you the Bokeh Ram or whatever it is.

I did know that there were there were murderers and there were slaughters and stuff like that.

So, I I knew I knew something in that domain was happening.

But did you know that a 100,000 uh Christians have been killed since 2009?

just murdered for being Christians.

Murdered for being Christians.

And that uh 18,000 churches have been burned down.

18,000 churches.

Now, I don't necessarily think we need to do something about that because that's another country.

And uh but wow.

Um, I think that would have been good to um I'm going to say that is there can somebody give me a little uh fact check here?

Are there any um Muslim countries that still have a substantial Christian population um that that's not just a little token town somewhere?

Are there any?

because I'm not aware that any Christians can really survive um being in a in a country that's dominant uh Muslim doesn't seem like it's survivable and where would be the point where there are enough um Islamic people in the country that you know it's going to go that way the answer is about 10% and that's what in Europe is in in that domain.

So once it reaches about 10% then the whoever's in charge starts um changing the laws because 10%'s a lot of people if they're acting as one and uh you could you could see Europe just becoming um Islamic.

I don't know that there's anything that can stop it.

You know once you reach about 10% I feel I feel like it's automatic.

So, you got to make sure you stay well under 10% or your whole country is gone to a system that may not be your first choice.

Um, so, uh, here's a joke that Bill Maher said that makes me wonder if this is a thing he's really worried about or if he thinks it's just funny.

So he said, "If you're tracking the rise of autocracy, we've just transitioned from the musling dissident phase to the prosecuting political enemies phase." And he goes, "At this rate, Trump could be in a general's uniform by Christmas." Now, does that joke sound like he's actually worried about the US becoming an autocracy?

Does that sound worried?

It doesn't, does it?

It just sounds like He's just joking about it.

I mean, because you wouldn't talk that way about, let's say, an assassination because that, you know, that's deadly serious.

But if you think the entire country is being turned into some dictatorship autocracy, would you just tell a joke about it?

Is that the way you treat it?

You wouldn't joke about other things that were that serious.

So, in my opinion, oh, Egypt.

Does Egypt have a big um Christian population?

I'm trying to monitor the comments as they're zipping by.

Yeah, I'll take a fact check on that.

I'm very curious whether there are any big Christian populations that that are undisturbed in a Islamic country.

All right.

So, I've got a feeling that Bill Maher doesn't quite believe all the Trump's going to be, you know, autocrat.

Do you think there's any chance that Trump would try to stay in office?

Maybe if they threatened that if he leaves office, they'll jail him, he would sort of have to stay or he'd have to try because leaving office might put him in jail for not really any good reason.

So, we'll watch that.

It could be that the the Democrats will wish it into existence.

I I think if the Democrats were not acting like they are, there's no chance whatsoever that Trump would try to stay in office for a third term.

None at all.

But the way they're acting, they're going to create a situation where here's the deal, Mr.

Trump.

If you don't stay in office for a third term and and indeed for the rest of your life, if you don't, we're definitely going to put you in jail because of what you did to, you know, all your enemies.

We're just going to return the favor.

So, if you were Trump, the only reason, like, the really strong reason to try to overthrow the country and stay in power is because the Democrats would kill you if you don't.

Now, the only way you could get past that, I think, is to be really, really confident that another Republican will be president and the, you know, the House will not be, you know, flipped.

So, I think JD Vance, if if his polling numbers stay high compared to whoever he's running against, there's no real chance that Trump would want to stay in office because he would be protected.

Uh, but that's what I'm looking for.

All right.

Um, so you know there was 800 generals and admirals that had been summoned to Quantico to to meet and everybody said, "Uhoh, is this World War Thath wants to essentially um look at them in the eye, you know, in person and then tell them how their culture needs to change.

So basically how he's going to make them a more lethal force, maybe maybe less woke, maybe there'll be other things he tell them, but basically he's got an idea of how things need to be to be an effective military and we're not there and he's telling the leaders, you're going to make it, you're going to make this happen.

Do you think that's the only reason?

Do you think that might be a cover story, but what they really need is to talk to a subset of those generals about something specific because there's also some talk um that's not decided, but there's talk that there are plans for putting boots on the ground in Venezuela.

Well, no, I take that back.

Not boots on the ground, but an attack.

So, you know, might be aerial attack on Venezuela proper instead of just the water around it.

So, that's not decided, but you could easily imagine that what they want to do is make that a surprise.

So, they say, "Oh, the reason that all the generals and admirals are coming is uh uh it's about the the culture.

Uh yeah, we're just going to have a little pep talk about the culture, but they're really a subset of them are there for planning an attack on a foreign country, maybe.

So, we'll see.

Well, there's more drone talk.

So, more drones were spotted in the heart of uh where basically where the heart of the Swedish Navy is.

and uh they tried to shoot down the drones and were unsuccessful.

How hard is it to shoot down a drone?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shooting down a drone is the easiest thing to shoot down, right?

Because they're not that fast and they're, you know, they're not that maneuverable and they're not stealth, right?

So you tell me that Sweden with all their modern weaponry, they couldn't shoot down a drone and that none of these, you know, massively suspicious drone activities all over the world because it's not just Sweden.

We had our we had our New Jersey situation, but you're telling me that nobody can shoot down a drone, which means that they're what?

Alien or some kind of technology.

we've never seen before.

I don't know.

Um, but I saw Dr.

Carlson and Michael Shelonburg were talk about it and uh, Michael said that the objects are behaving in ways that do appear to be using a different kind of propulsion or anti-gravity and he's skeptical that it's ours.

Ours meaning human beings or ours meaning American?

I don't know.

Sounds like everything is in the air, but uh we there's there's not a strong belief that it's Chinese or Russian.

Um it's possible.

Every basically everything's possible at this point.

I'm going to say for the millionth time there are no aliens.

There are no aliens.

They're not alien ships.

Yeah.

I don't think there's any anti-gravity.

And so what how do you explain the credible reports that say hey these things were behaving in a way that no earthly thing knows how to behave?

The easy explanation is they didn't see it or they imagined it or they lied or they made it up or they were mistaken or they dreamed it or whatever.

But the most obvious explanation is it didn't happen at all.

All right, let's see.

uh Portland.

So Trump is going to send troops to Portland uh to protect the war ravaged Portland and any of our ICE facilities under siege.

So I guess there are big protests against ICE up there.

So he's sending in the military.

Yeah.

All right.

I don't mind that at all.

So, as I've been telling you forever and other people have as well, you know that whoever is going to win the next war, whatever that war is between whoever, we don't know, it's whoever is going to have the best drones, the most the most drones and the best.

So, that makes you feel pretty comfortable, right?

Because I mean, who could make better and more drones than the United States if we decided it was a national priority, right?

I mean, the United States still has lots of capability.

I mean, we're not helpless.

So, once we know that making lots of really good drones is the way that you stay safe, by now we're making a lot a lot of really good drones, am I right?

Well, turns out, nope.

the Pentagon drone program is a disaster.

Um, and they were trying to do something called the replicator program, which would be awesome kind of drone.

And they spent two years and millions of dollars and they have not produced a whole bunch of awesome drones.

So maybe we actually don't have the ability to compete with military hardware.

Now, I'm hoping we could rapidly make up the difference.

Seems like we could, but we just wasted 2 years and millions of dollars and didn't create a fleet of drones.

Do you think that Iran has that problem?

I don't think so.

Iran seems to be really good at making drones.

Wall Street Journal's reporting on that.

So, that's bad.

Um, there is a uh woman named Lisa Monaco who works at Microsoft lately.

She's an executive there in one of their top executive roles.

And Trump wants her fired because her job before that was, I think, the number two in the DOJ under Biden.

And Trump says she's a bad bad person.

And he's he's asking Microsoft directly to fire her.

He says uh uh it is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco.

Um Trump said on Truth Social.

He described her as a quote menace to US national security and he cited Microsoft's government contracts uh as part of his threat against Microsoft.

Um, apparently he had withdrawn her security clearance last March um, at the same time he withdrew a bunch of other people's security clearance.

So, what do you think of that?

Do you think that uh, Trump has a moral, ethical case that she should be fired from a private enterprise when she doesn't seem to be doing anything that would affect him?

I don't know.

Um I think uh if Microsoft did fire her, I think I'd be a little worried.

That that would not be cool in my opinion.

Now, I'm not a big fan of hers, but I don't know.

I feel like she'd have to do something worse in the context of just having a job in the private sector.

I would need to know that she did something in that domain.

that was unacceptable.

So, um, the Department of Justice is suing six states that have apparently refused to share their voter role maintenance records.

So, the federal government apparently wants to make sure that the states are doing what the states are supposed to be doing, which is running clean elections.

Uh, guess which six states are refusing to share their voter maintenance record with the federal government?

Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

Huh.

Uh, and also California.

Okay.

Does it make you feel suspicious when they don't they don't provide something that couldn't possibly be a problem if it's accurate?

If it's accurate, what would be the problem?

It would solve a problem for the states because they say, "See, look how good our records are.

I told you they were accurate.

Now you can see for yourself.

Take a look." Why would they withhold it?

I can only think of one reason.

They know their voter records are either fraudulent or so poorly maintained that it's a security problem.

I can't think of another reason unless it's just sort of general say no to everything Trump wants.

May maybe it's that Axios is reporting that this year white men have made up a majority of new directors at the top 500 companies in the US for the first time in nearly a decade.

Um because American corporations are reversing their diversity efforts.

So is that a problem?

Is it a problem that uh white men got, you know, a dominant number of the director jobs?

Is that a problem?

Well, it would be a problem if they were not qualified, but nobody said that.

Um if if it were not based on merit andor what that person can do for your company, it's more about what they could do for the company, which would include contacts.

You know, remember remember everybody got mad that Hunter Biden didn't know much about the oil business, but he was a he was a director at uh Burisma.

So, everybody said, "Well, that's got to be, you know, a problem because he had no experience in that industry." And I kept saying, um, you don't look for people with experience in the industry, not for directors.

For directors, you look for people who have something that the industry doesn't have and they do, such as a connection to another industry that they need to work with, such as background in, you know, AI, for example, if you thought your company was going to bring in a bunch of AI in the future.

So, you could think of a whole bunch of reasons, but one of them is that somebody's just connected.

If you're connected, you're going to be more likely to be a director.

So anyway, that doesn't bother me.

I'm happy about it.

Um I'm happy about it if if we assume it's based on merit.

All right.

Um so Trump's going to take another run at the Supreme Court.

Not another run.

I guess it's the first time to uh try to get the uh what do you call it?

the uh the birthright citizenship overturned.

So as it stands, you just have to be born in this country and you're a citizen.

But the argument would be that that rule was about the children of slaves and that when it was extended beyond that, it became ridiculous because you know other countries, most of them don't do this.

And there's a reason they don't do it and it's the reason that we want to stop doing it.

So, we'll see.

I don't know if I would predict that he's going to be successful in that even with a conservative court.

I feel like the originalists who want to keep things the way it was originally intended.

I feel like probably there's so much, you know, case law and precedent at this point it'd be hard to hard to reverse that.

Well, according to uh Beth uh Brilgi and the Federalist, um there was a study about right-wing violence that was full of fake data because I guess they let some in some rabid Antifa connected person into the research.

That was one of the problems.

I don't know if that was the only reason they think it was fake, but they believe it's fake.

Now, as I remind you, all data that matters is fake.

Now, sometimes it might be useful.

It might be better that you have the fake than if you didn't.

But all data that matters from economics to health to finance to violence to crime data.

It's all fake.

It's all fake and it probably always will be.

So, um, according to Dr.

Singularity on X, um, there's a a big waves of innovation coming.

Now, he doesn't say it's because of AI, but it could be that there's just waves of innovation coming, you know, with or without AI.

And, uh, he says there's a tsunami hitting every field simultaneously, a tsunami of new science.

H that'd be cool.

But uh there's a potential cancer treatment that looks exciting.

By the way, there's there's a story about a potential cancer treatment basically every day and almost none of them will pan out.

You know, the ones that are for mice.

They they almost never pan out for humans.

But now they've created a type of immunotherapy called glycendependent te- cell recruiters or glyotr that can kill many kinds of cancer cells without damaging healthy tissue.

So I guess what it does is it just directly boosts your body's ability to fight the cancer and it does it so effectively that it doesn't matter too much which form of cancer it is.

Now, that would be amazing.

And you know what I say to that?

Could you please hurry up?

Could you just work a little overtime for me?

Could you please try to get this done in the next 6 months, please?

And uh if you need somebody to test it on, here I am.

Yeah.

Test it on me.

Well, the makers of Tylenol, um, we've learned that as far back as 2018, they were saying that the the evidence was getting quote heavy for autism risk from Tylenol.

So, apparently, it's something they've known was at least a growing concern for a while.

Is that why Johnson Johnson spun them off into their own company?

Was there any other reason for that?

Or did Johnson and Johnson say, "Oh, we're going to be totally out of business from the lawsuits, so we'll spin it off into a separate company." And if that gets taken down, well, separate company, somebody else's company gets taken down.

So, that may have happened, but there's there may be more to why they spun it off.

Maybe it was just a money-m situation.

Well, Elon Musk uh according to Fortune um is selling his Grock AI as a service to the US government for 42 cents for every depart agency that uses it.

Now, not 42 cents every time you use it, but just 42 cents for every agency.

Now, why would he do that?

Um, and apparently the other AIs have been negotiating for super lowcost AI for the government.

Why would he do that?

Well, I don't know.

I can't read his mind, but I'm going to speculate a few things.

Whoever's AI is the engine that that drives the government controls the government cuz don't you believe that we will rapidly reach a point where AI will tell us what the right answer is for all of our policies right so you know there'll be uh less and less human thinking involved in all of our big decisions whether it's government or business or personal, it'll be more AI and and less humans.

And that that trend will just keep continuing until you basically just ask the AI what to do and you still say yes or no.

So the humans are still in charge, but they won't override the AI as often the further you go into the future.

So that would give whoever could you know tweak the algorithm on the AI and uh uh that person can determine what is true but maybe also what's policy.

Now if you have a honest actor running the AI then that doesn't happen.

But how can you guarantee that you'll have an honest actor even if the actor that's there passes away?

Will the next person be an honest an honest broker?

I don't know.

I do I'm happy about the fact that uh Grock is in the mix because I do think it's um the one that has the least risk of grotesque bias.

They're they're all going to have bias, but I'd be happy about that.

Um, Zilinski is asking the US for tomahawk missiles because they could reach all the way to Moscow and they're hard to shoot down.

So that would be sort of a World War II moment if he starts lobbing Americanmade missiles into Moscow.

But Zinsky wants to do exactly that.

He wants to make it hard for the government of Russia to ignore the fact that they're in a war.

Now, I don't know if I'm in favor of that, but I wouldn't be surprised if Trump decides to okay it.

Wouldn't be surprised because he's clearly ramping up the uh the danger to, you know, try to get something done.

And I don't know if he would ramp it up that much.

Um, and I don't know what Russia would do.

I assume that they would or is Russia not trying to do a decapitation strike against Zalinski?

They might actually prefer Zilinski in office.

So, they're probably not trying to kill him.

But uh I would imagine if Zilinski could put an accurate missile anywhere in Moscow, they would use it for a decapitation strike to try to take out Putin.

What would happen if an American missile uh tried to take out Putin and it injured him but didn't kill him?

Sort of a worst case scenario, if you know what I mean.

Yeah, that would be a worst case scenario.

So big risks don't know what will happen.

I guess Trump and uh Turkeykey's leader Erdogan have reached some kind of a nuclear deal where US is going to help them build some domestic nuclear power.

I, you know, it's a it's a big win every time any country decides to use uh American technology to build out their nuclear energy um situation because you don't want them depending on Russia to keep their energy running.

Um Russia's doing a deal with Iran, I told you yesterday.

So Iran will be sort of tied into Russia's, you know, energy expertise for a long time.

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Well, the local affiliate group Sinclair

is going to put uh

um what's his name? Jimmy Kimmel back on

their stations. And I believe the other

the other uh affiliate group is going to

do the same. So uh Kimmel's numbers were

through the roof when he returned. Of

course, everybody was curious and that

probably helped. So, we'll see if he has

any lasting bump from that, but he's

back in business.

So, it turns out that uh a good deal of

everything I told you uh yesterday on

the podcast turned out to be total

So, let if we have time, let me tell you

all the things that I told you that

aren't true. Are you ready for this? Do

you know the story about all the

Democrat women taking Tylenol and you to

prove that it's not dangerous and uh

ending up in hospitals? Not true. Yeah.

There there is no national there's no

national emergency of people taking

Tylenol. Total Now, I don't

know if it's not true for every single

person in the world, but no, there's no

there's no big trend or anything like

that. Total Uh, next, uh, I

told you that Nuome, uh, used the word

Gestapo talking about the Trump

administration, and he did not. I I'd

confused him. I read a post by Jesse

Waters that seemed to indicate that

Newsome cited it, but um I've been

informed that uh it was not Newsome, it

was Wals. So Walsh did call him that. Um

let's see. Uh so

Comey just said uh other terrible

things. He he didn't use that particular

word. And uh you know the story about

the 274

undercover

uh FBI agents who were present on

January 6. And you all we all got

excited like finally finally we have

proof that that crowd was full of agents

who were there to you know cause it to

turn into something. Well, according to

Kyle Cheney, Politico,

um, that's just not a true story.

There were there were that many FBI

undercover agents, so that part is true.

But apparently they they arrived in

response

to the rioting. So they they were not

there in in anticipation of it or to

cause it. They showed up because of it.

So that's really different. really

different. So, I don't know what's true.

Uh it that doesn't that doesn't say that

nobody in the FBI was involved in

instigating. It just says that that the

story about the 274

apparently that's something that's been

public for many months

and uh most of them came in response to

the uh to the event. So, we don't know

what percentage of the 274 is real, but

the story is not real. The the way it

was positioned was not real at all.

And then lastly,

apparently Comey is being charged with

lying for something he literally never

said, and there's no evidence he ever

said it.

Are you aware of that?

He's uh he's being uh charged with lying

about telling McCabe to leak something

when there's no evidence that he ever

did that. McCabe says he didn't do it.

Um Kobe says he didn't do it and McCabe

said he leaked it on his own and told

Kobe about it after it was done.

So, the story

is that Comey lied about um telling

McCabe to do it, but that never

happened. There's no evidence that he

ever did that.

So, what's going on here

then? Um

anyway, we'll we'll talk a little bit

more about that in a moment,

but we'll do some other stories first.

So, as far as I can tell, um, all of

those stories that I told you yesterday,

the ones I just mentioned,

probably just all

Now, I I think that was my least

accurate day. And I I'll tell you the

one that I should have been on from the

beginning. How How many times have I

taught you that if a story is too

perfect, a little too on the nose, that

it's never true?

What which one of those stories was a

little too perfect and on the nose?

The Democrats taking the Tylenol just to

show that Trump was wrong. That one from

the very start. I should have said, "Oh,

hold on. Hold on. Do you see the quality

of that story? Is it It's just too on

the nose. It's just too perfect. Can't

be true." Now again, I'm not going to

say that there's not anything trueish

about those stories, but they're not

actually true.

Um,

according to The Hill, there's a new

analysis that says one in five adults

are getting their news from Tik Tok.

And it's worse for, well, worse if you

think it's bad, worse for adults under

30.

43% of adults under 30 get their news

from Tik Tok.

Do do you think it's a big deal that Tik

Tok will now be under not just American

control

but American control of uh some rich

people like Larry Ellison's son or is it

Larry Ellison or both? I forget. But uh

there's going to be a little right

leaning

Republican influence on that. Do you

think that'll make a difference? Do you

think that uh the new American ownership

will put their thumb on the Tik Tok

algorithm so that it's a little more

friendly to the Trump world? I don't

know. But they might remove anything

that was the opposite of that. And so it

might look like that.

don't know. But uh

Tik Tok um

I'm not sure I want it to go away now.

You know, I've been advocating for a

long time that we can't let China run

it. So, by the way, um

how many of you remember

before anybody brought up the idea of

Tik Tok being banned?

Did I can you remind me? Was I the first

one to say it should be banned or was I

responding to a story that somebody else

said it should have been banned? I don't

really remember. But when I think back,

it seemed to be impossible

that Tik Tok could be banned. Now, it

seemed impossible that could be sold to

an American company, but maybe maybe

that deal will get done.

All right, just to make things

interesting, uh, did you even know that

there are classified Amelia Heheart

files that the government has? Can you

believe that? That the Amelia Hehart

story, like every other story, has

secret classified documents. So

apparently there are things about that

story we don't know and Trump has

promised to declassify and release it.

So does that feel like a compromise? Uh

Mr. Trump, what we really need is to see

those Epstein files. I mean really we

really need to see the Epstein files.

Would you settle for the Amelia Heheart

files?

Would you? Well, no, but we'll find out.

So, I told you yesterday that uh Kla

Harris was her drunkest self at some

podcast. She's out selling her book.

Well, uh I don't know if it was the same

day,

which would make it maybe less bad than

if it was day after day, but she went to

Howard University bookstore and uh the

video indicates she was drunk as hell.

So, was she just drunk all day long or

was she drunk two days in a row? I don't

know which one of those is worse, but

how in the world is that not the biggest

story?

I mean, really,

do Democrats look at those videos and

think, "Oh, that looks normal." It's so

not normal. If you watch a video of her

when she's not drunk, do you know what

she looks like?

she's not drunk. I mean, it's very it's

very easy to tell when she's not drunk.

Um, and by the way, I don't know. I

don't know if it's alcohol or, you know,

pills or whatever, whatever it is. It

looks like alcohol

to my eyes.

And then she's still telling the lie

while drunk that goes like this. You

know, it was the closest the closest

presidential election

Yeah, like in the whole history of the

universe, there's never been a closer

election for president.

And how many times in a row can you tell

the the most obvious lie in the world?

Probably every single voter in the

country knows that's not true. It's not

it's not only not true, it's not really

even close to true. Amazing.

Um, she does. It makes me think that

nobody can talk to her. You're telling

me that there's not a single advisor,

even her husband, who could say, you

know, you've been saying that fact a

lot. And

I'm not sure that passes the

factchecking.

Nobody. There's nobody who can tell her

that that that is an embarrassing lie

that every single person knows is a lie.

She's the only person who thinks the

election was close. How does that even

happen? Do you think she knows it's not

true, but she hopes that her base

doesn't know? I I think her base knows.

They all know. Everybody knows. It's

like one of the most well-known facts in

the world is that it wasn't as close as

you might imagine.

Anyway,

um according to the Trump

administration, uh there has been a

1,000% surge in assaults on ICE

personnel.

What do I tell you when

there's a percentage without a number?

It's propaganda.

What is it? If it's a number without the

percentage, it's propaganda, right? So,

even though this propaganda is coming

from, you know, let's say my team, you

know, the people the the side that I

back, don't do this. Don't do this to

me. Don't give me a percentage without a

number. Well, what is a,000% increase?

Like, what does that represent? Were

there a thousand people and there used

to be one?

I mean I I don't first of all I don't

believe the number because you know all

data is fake. And second whenever I see

a percentage without a number or the

reverse I just think oh you're lying to

me now. You're you're lying by omission.

You left it out for a reason. No 10 to

100 would be a 10 times increase. It

wouldn't be a th00and%. So, I feel like

uh my team is lying to me on this one.

Now, I do think that there's a problem

with violence against ICE people. So,

the problem is real, but the story

doesn't look real to me. Looks fake to

me.

Um,

back in 2023, James Comey was doing an

interview with uh uh what was the

redheaded

Oh, you know, you know the thing the

who's what's the name of the woman who

was Biden's spokesperson then quit and

went to MSNBC?

Her name is

All right, you'll remember it. Anyway,

she was uh Comey was talking to her and

he was talking about the January 6

people and he said, "Get all of them.

Find everybody who went into that

building. Find them all. We will punish

everyone who went in there. We will hunt

you to the end of the earth, even for a

misdemeanor, and make you pay."

Now,

that is a very clear statement that he's

less interested in law or justice and

more interested in sending a message to

these people even though it would ruin

their life. It would send a message to

the other political people. Yeah. Jen

Jen S Jen Saki is who I'm talking about.

He was he was talking to Jen Saki.

Um,

when I hear Comey, even though it was a

couple years ago, that's not long. When

I hear Comey talking about we'll hunt

them down for even a misdemeanor and

make them pay, I say he is allowed

essentially a free punch, not literally

a punch because we don't do violence.

But don't you think u it's it's a hall

pass? He I believe that the current

administration can do absolutely

anything they want with him. Not with

everybody, not with somebody who is

never never involved in anything bad at

all, but he's a really bad character.

And that statement um

removes any sense of empathy I had. I

have to admit, I have to admit,

um although I think nobody's above the

law and if he lied to Congress, you

know, there should be a penalty, blah

blah blah. Um I was feeling a little bit

of empathy for him. But but once you see

what a bad person he is, I mean, he's a

really bad person based on his own

statements, that's a bad person. I will

hunt you. By the way, do you remember my

famous most mocked

um prediction that if Biden got elected,

Republicans would be hunted? Here. Here

was Biden's head of his FBI saying that

he will he uses the word hunt. We will

hunt you down even if all you did was a

misdemeanor.

Hunted. Yeah, it's exactly what it was.

Um, I saw this video on a clip by Maize

Maize Moore.

Real good follow. If you're on X, you

should definitely follow Maize. M A Z.

What Maze does is whenever there's a uh

story in the news, somehow he finds

exactly the right clip that gives you

that context for the story. That is

really good. So follow Maze. Um, if

you're on X, that one's a no-brainer.

Just look for MAZ

and, uh, give him a follow. You will be

glad you did.

Katherine Herage, as you know, intrepid

reporter, very good reputation as a

reporter. Um, she said based on her two

decades of covering the FBI, she thinks

that this little indictment that's like

one page for Comey, she thinks that um

what we're seeing is not what it will be

in the end. That apparently there's

something called a holding charge,

which I didn't know was a thing, a

holding charge. So, it sounds like my my

best explanation of that uh I'm no

lawyer, but it looks like uh if you need

to get in under the statute of

limitations and you don't have all your

ducks in order and you don't have your

full case, uh that you could put in a

charge just to, you know, put your stake

in the ground, make sure you didn't um

time out the, you know, the statute of

limitations. So,

um, Katherine is saying that what this

might turn into is a much more detailed,

complex, much bigger case and that, uh,

you can't judge it from the initial

holding charge if it's a holding charge.

So, we don't know that for sure, but

Katherine says she sees a pattern. So,

this would be a pattern that she

recognizes.

I would take that seriously. She's a

good she's a uh good let's say observer

of patterns. So I would call that

credible

and the more probably a bunch of other

people will be dragged in and maybe

maybe there's a RICO thing here. Um

there is a new report from a

non-government entity

called

the capital research center. Ryan Morrow

did some uh big investigation and found

that George Soros Open open society

foundation gave over $80 million

to what uh they're labeling terrorists

and proterrorist groups.

Terrorists and proterrorist groups. Now

there might be a little bit of judgment

involved as to whether or not a group is

a terrorist group.

Um, but there, yeah, there are some

examples

that look to me like not something you'd

want funded. Um,

and uh, but the Zoros organization has

responded and said they have never never

funded any

terror and they have very good standards

and they would never do a thing like

that. So, we'll see.

I assume that that just has to do with

who defines who as a terrorist

organization or terrorist supporting

organization. Um my take on this which

has been the same for a long time. I

don't believe that the senior Soros has

really understood where his money was

going. Maybe for a number of years

and that some weasels in the

organization were calling the shots and

not giving him all the information he

needed to know where his money was

going. That's what I think. I think

you'll find that probably not even Alex.

I don't even think it was necessarily

his son. probably somebody in the

organization had a little bit too much

influence and were a little bit a little

bit too left even for him is my guess.

Well, I was trying to think how

psychologically torturing it must be for

the people who know that they're on

Trump's list, like Mark Elias, the uh

Democrat lawyer who is uh famed for

doing um I'm going to say really good

work for the benefit of his side. So,

really effective. Um, and he got a bunch

of uh rules and laws changed.

What's that for? Uh, got a bunch of

things changed so that the Democrats

could win in 2020.

Um, didn't break any laws as far as I

know, but he's worried that he'll be

targeted.

And I was thinking about the

psychological torture of that. So once

they watch Comey being brought in on

what they would say would be thin

charges, then they know that they can be

brought in on thin charges.

Uh Soros knows where his money goes

unless he's gotten scenile. Well, that's

what I'm saying. I'm saying he's gotten

seen. He's like 100 years old. That's

exactly what I'm saying.

Um,

and then I was thinking, you know, think

about the torture that they put Trump

and his family through. Imagine waking

up every day if you're Melania and you

don't know if your husband's going to go

to jail for

nothing, you know, nothing important.

And ju I mean, just just hold that in

your head. the amount of terror that his

closest people, some of them went to

jail, you know, some of his closest

people went to jail. So, imagine the

torture of knowing that you could be

next and then suddenly the legal

documents show up and you're like, there

goes the next 5 to 10 years of my life,

even if I'm found innocent. I'm going to

use up all my money, all my time, my

reputation. I mean, it's just terrible.

And now Trump is returning the favor. So

as these uh indictments trickle out

because they're not all going to happen

at the same time, every time there's a

new one, everybody who has not yet been

indicted but thinks maybe they could is

going to live in terror. Like every

moment of every day, they're going to

think, "God, is this going to happen to

me? Is it is it any minute?" you know

that uh Brennan and Clapper and

them.

Um

all right, I'm just looking at some of

your comments. Um

so anyway, the the psychological torture

is a real big part of the story, but

it's kind of invisible. It's it's got to

be real quite a weight.

Um, speaking of which, the Department of

Justice subpoenaed the travel records of

Fonnie Willis per the New York Times.

So, Fonnie, one of the people who tried

to lawfare Trump, um, has got to be

worried because they're digging into,

you know, all of her records and stuff.

I can't imagine why they would want to

look at her travel records unless

they're trying to find out if she used

her money on her boyfriend or they

trying to find out if she was influenced

by some other country. It's not entirely

clear why they would want that. But from

her perspective,

that is psychological torture. Do I

mind? No, I don't. I do not mind that

she's being psychologically tortured.

Um, I believe that she is

essentially a criminal. I would consider

her a criminal.

Um, even if she's not convicted of

anything, she her behavior looks

criminal to me.

Um, let's see. I I saw that on a Nick

Sorder

post. He's a good follow as well. Nick

Sorder. S O R T O R. sort.

Um, apparently the FBI just fired the

FBI agents who were photographed back in

2020 kneeling for a George Floyd

protest.

Can you imagine getting fired

5 years later because you knelt for a

photograph for Black Lives Matter?

Is that is that a good enough reason to

fire somebody?

Um, the AP is reporting on this. Um, I'm

going to say yes. I'm going to say yes.

That is a good enough reason to fire

somebody because I wouldn't trust

anybody who was kneeling to Black Lives

Matter. I wouldn't trust them. And trust

is sort of a big deal, you know, for

those jobs. So, I hate to say it, you

know, some of them might have been just,

you know, it's easier to go along, but I

don't want any easy to go along FBI

agents who are literally getting on

their knees to Black Lives Matter.

Sorry. Goodbye. That I feel like that is

a reasonable firing offense. I agree

with that one.

Um, I guess the uh Supreme Court just

gave Trump another victory that he can

do pocket recessions.

Recessions,

a word you'd never use unless you're

talking about the news. Recessions.

Um, so I guess that means that if

money's been approved and in some cases

Trump can still just say, "I'm not going

to spend it." So that would be I think

that's like a pocket recession. Is that

what that is? So, I don't know how big a

deal that would be, but it is yet

another example of the Democrats trying

to use lawfare to stop Trump from doing

everything.

Uh, and the courts seem to be giving uh

Trump quite a few victories. Not all of

them. Doesn't win doesn't win them all,

but it wins a lot. Apparently, the ODNI,

uh, Paul Sperry has reported this, are

telling all the federal employees to

alter their daily routines and avoid

posting travel plans and remove badges

and IDs outside of the office because

there's a new terrorist threat against,

I guess, the government.

Um,

and there's a $10 million bounty that's

placed on the kingpin of the uh artif

uh

a tif alaki. I guess that would be like

the new al-Qaeda.

So, um, I don't know how many of these

people got into the country through our

poorest immigration plans of the past,

but if something starts blowing up or

somebody gets uh assassinated by

somebody who came in, but across the

border,

that is going to be one hell of a, you

know, that was shock to the system.

Uh, Scott, please look into your vax

injuries. you. you. You

You absolute piece of

You garbage. I hate you. You You

get Get out of here. I know. If you're a

member of Locals, you should quit right

now. Just get out of here. I don't want

to see you again ever. I don't want to

see a comment. I don't want to see you

trying to help. Just get the out of

here, will you? I don't want to see that

comment ever again.

Do you realize what a piece of you

are for saying that in the middle of the

live stream?

Piece of

God. All right.

Um there's a new poll. Frank L is

talking about it on Fox that shows that

uh it's the worst showing ever for

Democrats. They're at their lowest

popularity and uh Frank Lunt said uh

that they they have two problems. The

Democrats well it's only two. So the

good news is that uh you know polling

expert Frank L who knows a lot about

politics he he says the Democrats only

have two problems

uh their message and their messengers.

Um that's all they do. That's all they

do. There's a messenger and then there

are things they say.

That's pretty much the whole job.

But it turns out that those two things

are the things that they can't do. Can't

get a messenger, can't get a message.

So, good luck.

Trump said, uh, when he was, I think,

walking to the helicopter or something,

somebody asked him and he said, uh,

quote, I think we have a deal to release

Hamas hostages and end the Gaza war. Do

you believe that?

Do you do you believe that? uh they're

close to a deal with Hamas to end the

Gaza war.

I don't I don't believe that. I don't

know if he believes it. Do you think

there's any chance that they're close to

a deal to release the hostages?

I don't know. It it doesn't seem to even

make sense when you look at everything

they've done up to this point. you know,

if if they if they ended the war, if

Hamas did, would they not be sort of

admitting that they that they killed

65,000 people for no reason? I mean,

their their actions largely guaranteed a

very aggressive response. Guaranteed it.

I mean, you don't know the exact size of

it, but it guaranteed it would be big.

And if they if they walk away with

nothing, which is exactly what they

would get, there's no way they're going

to get anything. If they walk away with

nothing

and destroy the entire Gaza, you know,

through the the efforts of the IDF, of

course, um I don't think I don't think

they can surrender. I mean, surrendering

is the same as going to jail or dying or

something.

So, no, I don't believe that there's

we're close to a deal, but if we are, I

would wonder what was promised in

return. And I don't imagine that

anybody's in the mood to promise

anything anything at all. I don't think.

All right. Well, Bill Maher's show was

yesterday and as usual, he's one of the

few people who says anything interesting

about politics because he's actually

willing to look at both sides. Now, he

still has big problems. He thinks

January 6 was an insurrection.

He's really just one hoax away. If once

he learns that that one's a hoax, he's

one hoax away from understanding

everything.

I think he's close. I think he's one

hoax away. And uh here's what he was

saying to criticize the Democrats. He

said in his one of his uh I think his

second monologue thing, he goes to the

Democrats, "You can't just say and

act like it's true.

You can't come up with radical and dumb

ideas and reject debate." And he gave

examples of what he would call uh saying

and acting like it's true. Math is

racist.

Queers for Palestine.

Looting is cool. Healthy in any weight.

And if the men's football team played

the women's team, it would be a tie.

He goes, "You can't just say and

then refuse to debate it."

It's funny how well that characterizes,

you know, something like half of

everything Democrats do. Just saying

crazy and and saying that, you

know, if you debate it, you're racist or

sexist and and they have a right to kill

you in public.

And then uh Bill Maher also pointed out

that uh if you don't know what's going

on in Nigeria with the slaughter of the

Christians who live in Nigeria, if you

don't know that um you you have a

terrible news source. Um

I didn't know that.

Do I have terrible news sources? I

literally do this every single day. I I

look at as many news sources as I can

every day. I didn't know that. Now, I

did know you the Bokeh Ram or whatever

it is. I did know that there were there

were murderers and there were slaughters

and stuff like that. So, I I knew I knew

something in that domain was happening.

But did you know that a 100,000

uh Christians have been killed since

2009? just murdered for being

Christians.

Murdered for being Christians.

And that uh 18,000 churches have been

burned down.

18,000 churches. Now, I don't

necessarily think we need to do

something about that because that's

another country. And uh but wow.

Um, I think that would have been good to

um I'm going to say that

is there can somebody give me a little

uh fact check here? Are there any

um Muslim countries that still have a

substantial Christian

population

um that that's not just a little token

town somewhere?

Are there any? because I'm not aware

that any Christians can really survive

um being in a in a country that's

dominant uh Muslim

doesn't seem like it's survivable and

where would be the point where there are

enough um Islamic people in the country

that you know it's going to go that way

the answer is about 10%

and that's what in Europe is in in that

domain. So once it reaches about 10%

then the whoever's in charge starts um

changing the laws because 10%'s a lot of

people if they're acting as one

and uh you could you could see Europe

just becoming um Islamic. I don't know

that there's anything that can stop it.

You know once you reach about 10% I feel

I feel like it's automatic. So, you got

to make sure you stay well under 10% or

your whole country is gone to a system

that may not be your first choice.

Um,

so, uh, here's a joke that Bill Maher

said that makes me wonder if this is a

thing he's really worried about or if he

thinks it's just funny.

So he said, "If you're tracking the rise

of autocracy, we've just transitioned

from the musling dissident phase to the

prosecuting political enemies phase."

And he goes, "At this rate, Trump could

be in a general's uniform by Christmas."

Now, does that joke sound like he's

actually worried

about the US becoming an autocracy? Does

that sound worried?

It doesn't, does it? It just sounds like

He's just joking about it.

I mean, because you wouldn't talk that

way about, let's say, an assassination

because that, you know, that's deadly

serious. But if you think the entire

country is being turned into some

dictatorship autocracy, would you just

tell a joke about it? Is that the way

you treat it? You wouldn't joke about

other things that were that serious. So,

in my opinion,

oh, Egypt. Does Egypt have a big um

Christian population? I'm trying to

monitor the comments as they're zipping

by.

Yeah, I'll take a fact check on that.

I'm very curious whether there are any

big Christian populations that that are

undisturbed

in a Islamic country.

All right. So, I've got a feeling that

Bill Maher doesn't quite believe all the

Trump's going to be, you know, autocrat.

Do you think there's any chance that

Trump would try to stay in office?

Maybe if they threatened that if he

leaves office, they'll jail him, he

would sort of have to stay or he'd have

to try because leaving office might put

him in jail for not really any good

reason. So, we'll watch that. It could

be that the the Democrats will wish it

into existence. I I think if the

Democrats were not acting like they are,

there's no chance whatsoever that Trump

would try to stay in office for a third

term. None at all. But the way they're

acting, they're going to create a

situation where here's the deal, Mr.

Trump. If you don't stay in office for a

third term and and indeed for the rest

of your life, if you don't, we're

definitely going to put you in jail

because of what you did to, you know,

all your enemies. We're just going to

return the favor. So, if you were Trump,

the only reason, like, the really strong

reason to try to overthrow the country

and stay in power is because the

Democrats would kill you if you don't.

Now, the only way you could get past

that, I think, is to be really, really

confident that another Republican will

be president and the, you know, the

House will not be, you know, flipped.

So, I think JD Vance, if if his polling

numbers stay high compared to whoever

he's running against, there's no real

chance that Trump would want to stay in

office because he would be protected.

Uh, but that's what I'm looking for.

All right. Um, so you know there was 800

generals and admirals that had been

summoned to Quantico to to meet and

everybody said, "Uhoh, is this World War

Thath

wants to essentially um look at them in

the eye, you know, in person and then

tell them how their culture needs to

change. So basically how he's going to

make them a more lethal force, maybe

maybe less woke, maybe there'll be other

things he tell them, but basically he's

got an idea of how things need to be to

be an effective military and we're not

there and he's telling the leaders,

you're going to make it, you're going to

make this happen.

Do you think that's the only reason? Do

you think that might be a cover story,

but what they really need is to talk to

a subset of those generals about

something specific

because there's also some talk

um that's not decided, but there's talk

that there are plans for putting boots

on the ground in Venezuela. Well, no, I

take that back. Not boots on the ground,

but an attack. So, you know, might be

aerial attack on Venezuela proper

instead of just the water around it. So,

that's not decided, but you could easily

imagine that what they want to do is

make that a surprise. So, they say, "Oh,

the reason that all the generals and

admirals are coming is uh uh it's about

the the culture. Uh yeah, we're just

going to have a little pep talk about

the culture, but they're really a subset

of them are there for planning an attack

on a foreign country, maybe.

So, we'll see.

Well, there's more drone talk. So, more

drones were spotted

in the heart of

uh where basically where the heart of

the Swedish Navy is. and uh they tried

to shoot down the drones and were

unsuccessful.

How hard is it to shoot down a drone?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shooting

down a drone is the easiest thing to

shoot down, right? Because they're not

that fast and they're, you know, they're

not that maneuverable and they're not

stealth, right?

So you tell me that Sweden with all

their modern weaponry, they couldn't

shoot down a drone and that none of

these, you know, massively suspicious

drone activities all over the world

because it's not just Sweden. We had our

we had our New Jersey situation, but

you're telling me that nobody can shoot

down a drone,

which means that they're what? Alien

or some kind of technology. we've never

seen before. I don't know.

Um, but I saw Dr. Carlson and Michael

Shelonburg were talk about it and uh,

Michael said that the objects are

behaving in ways that do appear to be

using a different kind of propulsion or

anti-gravity

and he's skeptical that it's ours. Ours

meaning human beings or ours meaning

American?

I don't know. Sounds like everything is

in the air, but uh we there's there's

not a strong belief that it's Chinese or

Russian.

Um it's possible. Every basically

everything's possible at this point.

I'm going to say for the millionth time

there are no aliens.

There are no aliens. They're not alien

ships.

Yeah. I don't think there's any

anti-gravity. And so what how do you

explain the credible reports that say

hey these things were behaving in a way

that no earthly thing knows how to

behave? The easy explanation is they

didn't see it or they imagined it or

they lied or they made it up or they

were mistaken or they dreamed it or

whatever. But the most obvious

explanation is it didn't happen at all.

All right, let's see.

uh

Portland.

So Trump is going to send troops to

Portland

uh to protect the war ravaged Portland

and any of our ICE facilities under

siege. So I guess there are big protests

against ICE up there. So he's sending in

the military. Yeah. All right. I don't

mind that at all.

So, as I've been telling you forever and

other people have as well,

you know that whoever is going to win

the next war, whatever that war is

between whoever, we don't know, it's

whoever is going to have the best

drones, the most the most drones and the

best. So,

that makes you feel pretty comfortable,

right? Because I mean, who could make

better and more drones than the United

States if we decided it was a national

priority, right? I mean, the United

States still has lots of capability. I

mean, we're not helpless. So, once we

know that making lots of really good

drones is the way that you stay safe,

by now we're making a lot a lot of

really good drones, am I right?

Well, turns out, nope. the Pentagon

drone program is a disaster.

Um, and they were trying to do something

called the replicator program, which

would be awesome kind of drone. And they

spent two years and millions of dollars

and they have not produced a whole bunch

of awesome drones.

So maybe we actually don't have the

ability to compete with military

hardware.

Now, I'm hoping we could rapidly make up

the difference. Seems like we could, but

we just wasted 2 years and millions of

dollars and didn't create a fleet of

drones.

Do you think that Iran

has that problem? I don't think so. Iran

seems to be really good at making

drones.

Wall Street Journal's reporting on that.

So, that's bad.

Um,

there is a uh woman named Lisa Monaco

who works at Microsoft lately. She's an

executive there in one of their top

executive roles. And Trump wants her

fired because her job before that was, I

think, the number two in the DOJ under

Biden.

And Trump says she's a bad bad person.

And he's he's asking Microsoft directly

to fire her.

He says uh uh it is my opinion that

Microsoft should immediately terminate

the employment of Lisa Monaco.

Um Trump said on Truth Social. He

described her as a quote menace to US

national security

and he cited Microsoft's government

contracts uh as part of his threat

against Microsoft. Um, apparently he had

withdrawn her security clearance last

March

um, at the same time he withdrew a bunch

of other people's security clearance.

So,

what do you think of that?

Do you think that uh, Trump has a moral,

ethical case that she should be fired

from a private enterprise when she

doesn't seem to be doing anything that

would affect him?

I don't know. Um I think

uh if Microsoft did fire her, I think

I'd be a little worried.

That that would not be cool

in my opinion. Now, I'm not a big fan of

hers,

but I don't know. I feel like she'd have

to do something

worse in the context of just having a

job in the private sector. I would need

to know that she did something in that

domain.

that was unacceptable.

So,

um, the Department of Justice is suing

six states that have apparently refused

to share their voter role maintenance

records. So, the federal government

apparently wants to make sure that the

states are doing what the states are

supposed to be doing, which is running

clean elections. Uh, guess which six

states are refusing to share their voter

maintenance record with the federal

government? Michigan, Minnesota, New

York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

Huh.

Uh, and also California.

Okay.

Does it make you feel suspicious when

they don't they don't provide something

that couldn't possibly be a problem if

it's accurate?

If it's accurate,

what would be the problem? It would

solve a problem for the states because

they say, "See, look how good our

records are. I told you they were

accurate. Now you can see for yourself.

Take a look." Why would they withhold

it? I can only think of one reason. They

know their voter records are either

fraudulent or so poorly maintained that

it's a security problem.

I can't think of another reason unless

it's just sort of general say no to

everything Trump wants. May maybe it's

that

Axios is reporting that this year white

men have made up a majority of new

directors at the top 500 companies in

the US for the first time in nearly a

decade. Um because American corporations

are reversing their diversity efforts.

So is that a problem?

Is it a problem that uh white men got,

you know, a dominant number of the

director jobs? Is that a problem? Well,

it would be a problem if they were not

qualified, but nobody said that.

Um

if if it were not based on merit andor

what that person can do for your

company, it's more about what they could

do for the company, which would include

contacts. You know, remember remember

everybody got mad that Hunter Biden

didn't know much about the oil business,

but he was a he was a director at uh

Burisma. So, everybody said, "Well,

that's got to be, you know, a problem

because he had no experience in that

industry." And I kept saying, um, you

don't look for people with experience in

the industry, not for directors. For

directors, you look for people who have

something that the industry doesn't have

and they do, such as a connection to

another industry that they need to work

with, such as background in, you know,

AI, for example, if you thought your

company was going to bring in a bunch of

AI in the future. So, you could think of

a whole bunch of reasons, but one of

them is that somebody's just connected.

If you're connected, you're going to be

more likely to be a director.

So

anyway, that doesn't bother me. I'm

happy about it.

Um I'm happy about it if if we assume

it's based on merit.

All right. Um so Trump's going to take

another run at the Supreme Court. Not

another run. I guess it's the first time

to uh try to get the uh what do you call

it? the uh

the birthright citizenship overturned.

So as it stands, you just have to be

born in this country and you're a

citizen. But the argument would be that

that rule was about the children of

slaves and that when it was extended

beyond that, it became ridiculous

because you know other countries, most

of them don't do this. And there's a

reason they don't do it and it's the

reason that we want to stop doing it.

So, we'll see. I don't know if I would

predict that he's going to be successful

in that even with a conservative court.

I feel like the originalists

who want to keep things the way it was

originally intended.

I feel like

probably there's so much, you know, case

law and precedent at this point it'd be

hard to hard to reverse that.

Well, according to uh Beth uh Brilgi and

the Federalist,

um there was a study about right-wing

violence that was full of fake data

because I guess they let some in some

rabid Antifa connected person into the

research. That was one of the problems.

I don't know if that was the only reason

they think it was fake, but they believe

it's fake. Now, as I remind you, all

data that matters is fake.

Now, sometimes it might be useful. It

might be better that you have the fake

than if you didn't. But all data that

matters from economics to health to

finance to

violence to crime data. It's all fake.

It's all fake and it probably always

will be. So,

um, according to Dr. Singularity on X,

um, there's a a big waves of innovation

coming. Now, he doesn't say it's because

of AI, but it could be that there's just

waves of innovation coming, you know,

with or without AI. And, uh, he says

there's a tsunami hitting every field

simultaneously,

a tsunami of new science. H that'd be

cool. But uh there's a potential cancer

treatment that looks exciting. By the

way, there's there's a story about a

potential cancer treatment basically

every day and almost none of them will

pan out. You know, the ones that are for

mice. They they almost never pan out for

humans. But now they've created a type

of immunotherapy called glycendependent

te- cell recruiters

or glyotr

that can kill many kinds of cancer cells

without damaging healthy tissue. So I

guess what it does is it just directly

boosts your body's ability to fight the

cancer and it does it so effectively

that it doesn't matter too much which

form of cancer it is.

Now, that would be amazing.

And you know what I say to that? Could

you please hurry up? Could you just work

a little overtime

for me? Could you please try to get this

done in the next 6 months, please? And

uh if you need somebody to test it on,

here I am. Yeah. Test it on me.

Well, the makers of Tylenol,

um, we've learned that as far back as

2018, they were saying that the the

evidence was getting quote heavy for

autism risk from Tylenol. So,

apparently, it's something they've known

was at least a growing concern for a

while. Is that why Johnson Johnson spun

them off into their own company? Was

there any other reason for that? Or did

Johnson and Johnson say, "Oh, we're

going to be totally out of business from

the lawsuits, so we'll spin it off into

a separate company." And if that gets

taken down, well, separate company,

somebody else's company gets taken down.

So,

that may have happened, but there's

there may be more to why they spun it

off. Maybe it was just a money-m

situation.

Well, Elon Musk uh according to Fortune

um is selling his Grock AI as a service

to the US government for 42 cents for

every depart agency that uses it. Now,

not 42 cents every time you use it, but

just 42 cents

for every agency. Now, why would he do

that? Um, and apparently the other AIs

have been negotiating for super lowcost

AI for the government. Why would he do

that? Well, I don't know. I can't read

his mind, but I'm going to speculate a

few things. Whoever's AI is the engine

that that drives the government

controls the government

cuz don't you believe that we will

rapidly reach a point where AI will tell

us what the right answer is for all of

our policies

right so you know there'll be uh less

and less human thinking involved in all

of our big decisions whether it's

government or business or personal,

it'll be more AI and and less humans.

And that that trend will just keep

continuing until you basically just ask

the AI what to do and you still say yes

or no. So the humans are still in

charge, but they won't override the AI

as often the further you go into the

future. So that would give whoever could

you know tweak the algorithm on the AI

and uh

uh that person can determine what is

true but maybe also what's policy. Now

if you have a honest actor running the

AI then that doesn't happen.

But how can you guarantee that you'll

have an honest actor even if the actor

that's there passes away?

Will the next person be an honest an

honest broker? I don't know. I do I'm

happy about the fact that uh Grock is in

the mix because I do think it's um the

one that has the

least risk of grotesque bias. They're

they're all going to have bias, but I'd

be happy about that.

Um, Zilinski is asking the US for

tomahawk missiles because they could

reach all the way to Moscow and they're

hard to shoot down. So that would be

sort of a World War II moment if he

starts lobbing Americanmade missiles

into Moscow. But Zinsky wants to do

exactly that. He wants to make it hard

for the government of Russia to ignore

the fact that they're in a war. Now, I

don't know if I'm in favor of that, but

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump decides

to okay it. Wouldn't be surprised

because he's clearly ramping up the uh

the danger to, you know, try to get

something done. And I don't know if he

would ramp it up that much.

Um, and I don't know what Russia would

do. I assume that they would or is

Russia not trying to do a decapitation

strike against Zalinski?

They might actually prefer Zilinski in

office. So, they're probably not trying

to kill him.

But uh I would imagine if Zilinski could

put an accurate missile anywhere in

Moscow, they would use it for a

decapitation strike to try to take out

Putin.

What would happen if an American missile

uh tried to take out Putin and it

injured him but didn't kill him?

Sort of a worst case scenario, if you

know what I mean. Yeah, that would be a

worst case scenario. So big risks

don't know what will happen. I guess

Trump and uh Turkeykey's leader Erdogan

have reached some kind of a nuclear deal

where US is going to help them build

some domestic nuclear power. I, you

know, it's a it's a big win

every time any country decides to use uh

American technology to build out their

nuclear energy um situation

because you don't want them depending on

Russia to keep their energy running. Um

Russia's doing a deal with Iran, I told

you yesterday. So Iran will be sort of

tied into Russia's, you know, energy

expertise for a long time.

So anyway,

um well, it's Saturday and it's uh top

of the hour and uh you should go check

out Owen

um go go check out Owen Gregorian's

spaces that's happening right now. uh

not right now, but give him a few

minutes to fire it up after I'm done and

uh you can talk about more of this stuff

or related stuff and you'll have a rip

time. All right. Um I'm going to say a

few words privately to the locals

people, my beloved subscribers on

Locals, the rest of you, have a great

Saturday. You deserve it. All right,

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