Episode 3051 CWSA 12/23/25

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We got a lot of news today.

But before we start, I wondered, are you ever curious where I get my news stories?

like what sources do I use?

And I figured it would be sort of good hygiene to at least once tell you where the u where I get most of my ideas for the show because where you are influenced will tell you a lot about where things are going.

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So, some of the sources that I use, and this is not exclusive, but um you are likely to see me quoting stuff from the Wall Street Journal, from the Postmillennial, from Just the News, uh The Hill, New York Post, the Gateway Pundit.

Uh so that but that's not exclusive.

I'm I'm forgetting, you know, obviously Politico sometimes, etc.

Um, but I'm also very addicted to Murray or Noel's posts on X because by the time I wake up, he's already done these great summaries of the news and they're sort of hard to resist.

So he he definitely points me to a lot of stories, but I also get uh DMs on X and mostly on X from people who know me well.

So two of the people who are especially good at knowing what I would like to see for the show are Owen Gregorian.

So if you wanted to follow him, you could, you know, see more things that are are in my lane.

If you like seeing my content and especially if you like the the technical stuff, uh you'll you'll love seeing Owen Gregorian's feed.

So just search for him on X if you want to follow him.

And then also Marcela Pena, who is just really good at figuring out what would amuse me and amuse you.

And so when her DMs come in, uh I'm far more likely to use them as as a basis for a story.

uh because she's so good at at identifying what is interesting.

So uh I apologize if I'm leaving anybody out, but you could also follow Marcela on on X.

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So there's a new uh robot maker.

There's a robot called Memo, I guess.

And uh they're they're claiming a breakthrough in teaching the robot to pick up unfamiliar items.

Oh yeah.

So if you're looking at individuals, Mike Benz would be one of the people I look at.

But there there are a lot of individuals on X.

So if you just look who I follow, I mean, if I follow them on X, they're probably influencing me in one way or another.

You know, obviously Elon Musk, etc.

Anyway, this uh new robot, they're making a claim that they have trained it to have what they call an intuition for grasping new objects.

So apparently one of the biggest problems with robots, which yeah, I think for 20 years I've been seeing them say they claim they've figured out how to do this, but maybe they've done it, which is if a robot sees a new item, it doesn't necessarily know how to pick it up unless or how to handle it unless it has been trained on that very item.

So, it would handle an egg the same as an anvil, unless it had been trained that those are two different things.

But in theory, this company thinks that they've solved that so that the robot would now have the same intuition a human would have or close to it that they could pick up objects.

Now, that makes me wonder, how close are we to actual robots that are useful?

because I don't know.

I I I thought that problem was already solved, but maybe that's one of the big ones.

So, I would be surprised if Optimus has not solved that already, but they're, you know, competing companies.

So, uh, and then the big question I have about robots is if they're driven by AI, how do they avoid hallucinating?

We don't have any way to make robots stop hallucinating.

So if you ask it a question, it would still hallucinate at this point in history.

Right?

I used gro yesterday.

Um, I asked it uh I asked it what people notable people have claimed they've been influenced by me and it gave me a list of people that some of them I said oh I knew that one you know I knew that person mentioned me or I know that person included me in a book and then it got to Lex Freriedman and it said that Lex Freriedman had uh said a number of positive things about me on his podcast and I thought to myself, really, I I feel like I would have heard about that.

Somebody would have mentioned it or sent me the clip.

So, I wrote it down because I was never mind.

It's for a project.

Um, but then I reminded myself to check it the next day.

So I used Grock a second time and I asked it all right what did Lex Fridman say about me and Grock said he's never he's never mentioned you now this is the same AI one day later and depending on how I asked the question it gave me a definitive you know detailed it even said what he said about me and none of it was true according to Grock.

So, how do you build that into a robot?

Now, I do think Grock is probably the best AI out there.

It seems to be beating the, you know, beating the test the best, but I'm really curious how far we are from Rock having the right kind of reliability.

Speaking of robots, one of the AI pioneers, you probably heard of him, Ilia Saskkever.

I believe he was one of the founders of or first technical people for o open AI and chat GBT.

He left I think he left but he gave a speech looked like it was some kind of college speech.

He said quote we live in the most unusual time in history because AI will soon do everything humans can do.

Why?

Because your brain is here's the important part because your brain is a biological computer.

So a digital one can match it.

Jobs, skills, economy, everything changes when AI masters all human abilities.

So do you remember my 2013 book filled almost everything and still went big?

And one of my sort of major frames in that book was that your brain is a moist computer or that people were basically moist computers.

So I've been saying the same thing that your brain is a mechanical although it's a moist and it's runs on chemistry that's basically a machine.

Now this is a big deal if you think that brains are magic and that you have something called a soul and the soul is helping you make decisions.

If you think that, then you might say, well, you know, no robot is ever going to match the human brain because we have souls.

But I would take from Ilia's comments that he's not a believer in souls or that if they exist, they don't have any impact on your your actions.

Um, and that matches what I've been saying for quite a while.

So, I guess all I'm doing is bragging that the guy who knows the most about AI is on the same page as I've been for quite a long time.

Yeah.

Free will is an illusion.

Exactly.

Well, I'm going to take another victory lap here.

I mentioned this before, but I don't know if I put it in the context I wanted to.

So, I saw a text post on X from Steve Magnus.

He was talking about a metaanalysis which I've mentioned I think that set that had three outputs or three conclusions uh that process goals had larger effect on performance process goals.

Now I take that to mean what I call a system so that your goal would be to to go to the gym.

Your goal would not be to lose 20 pounds.

Does that make sense?

because one one is a system hey I go to the gym every day and the other is an outcome and said the outcome goals had a negligible effect so this is one of my biggest it's one of the biggest messages I've been saying for again over a decade started with my book almost everything and still went big and uh apparently there's this huge uh meta study which means that they looked at multiple uh studies and concluded that uh I'm right that systems are better than goals.

So I didn't know that that would necessarily ever have any kind of scientific backing.

To me it was just sort of obvious from life.

But uh now I just for to be fair I have often told you that a metaanalysis is not really science.

So, I won't back up on that.

If you want to say, Scott, you also told us that a metaanalysis is not useful.

Well, I don't want to change my mind on that.

So, I'm going to say it's nice that it agrees with me, but there's a metaanalysis, so be skeptical.

I saw a post from Bali Savasan, one of the smartest people in the world, who was noting that I think it's some kind of Chinese company now has an electric charger for your car.

Uh the company is BYD.

So, I'll take a fact check on that, but I think it's a Chinese company.

They now have in production.

So, this is not in the laboratory.

This is actually in the field.

They've got chargers for electric cars that add 400 kil kilometers of range in 5 minutes.

So, Bology calls it the flipping, the EV flipping where it would be faster to get an electric charge in your car than it would be to add gas.

Now, one of the things about technology that I think, you know, sometimes we're blind to is that uh changes that you think might be coming, they never come.

It's like nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, boom, suddenly you you pass over some barrier where where everything's different.

So I think the point here is that if you have in production like actually in the field a way to charge the car for 400 kilometers in 5 minutes presumably other companies will have to match that.

Presumably Tesla has plans we don't know about to you know get to the the next level of that stuff.

But that's really going to change everything.

Yeah.

And uh we we're moving towards super capacitors, right Owen?

Uh so also there's some breakthroughs in super capacitors.

And without getting too nerdy, uh super capacitors are another change everything.

You know that they would make the battery re uh refill what do you call it?

Refill charge.

It would make the charging and use of batteries a whole different deal.

just make everything better.

So, that's right on the edge of happening.

All right.

You probably heard that Trump is introducing he wants to build a bunch of new battleship type things.

He's calling it the Golden Fleet.

And he thinks they can build one in two and a half years.

Do you think that the United States is capable of building an entirely new designed um we'll call it a battleship class, but it's going to be different from a battleship.

Do you think they can build that in two and a half years?

I don't know.

I I just suspect we don't have that capability.

But uh we'll talk about in a minute that Trump is going to be pushing the CEOs to learn how to build faster because that's our competitive disadvantage.

I think we're slow builders.

We are slow slow builders.

You think we can?

Maybe we can.

So, let's talk about some stories that I don't know if they're fake or true.

Um, but that'll be the fun.

All right.

Fake or true.

There's a story that Cash Patel had in the FBI is uh just spent some of our tax money to update a quote custom fleet of armored BMW X5s for him to ride around in.

Now the claim and here you have to decide if this is real or fake.

The claim is that he just wanted cooler cars and so he spent our money unnecessarily to give himself uh a fleet of X5s.

Now until this week that was the car I drove.

At the moment I don't drive a car so I don't think I'll be driving a car again.

But uh it's the car I chose and I chose it specifically because it does not scream out luxury.

It's very functional.

It's it's a high-end car, but it's it's the most functional without being over the top, you know, showy.

So that that's why I like it.

You know, it didn't it didn't draw attention to me.

But their claim is that, you know, he's loving it for being a cool car and that also is, you know, it's a foreign car and he's being accused of, wait, why would you buy a foreign car?

Now, remember, these these would be armored special security cars.

They wouldn't be normal cars.

Uh, why would you do that?

All right, here's the counterpoint.

The counterpoint is we're talking about four cars.

So when they call it a fleet, well maybe it's a fleet, but it's four.

And somebody also claims that that is a typical way they update security fleets that they would do them all at once because the last batch of them were wearing out about the same time.

So if you buy them all at once, the next time you have to update it, well, you would do the same four.

You just do them all at the same time.

The other thing they're claiming is that the X5 is way cheaper than the alternatives.

There was some alternative that I don't know what it was, but that it was actually a way to save money instead of some way to give himself a cooler car.

Again, I'm not saying I know what's true.

That that's what you're going to figure out because it's sort of a new story, but seems full of I think MS now had a reporter on there.

So that's that's a bad sign for truth.

And then someone claimed and I don't know if this is true that that particular model is built in an American company.

Uh although BMW would be the owner of the the company that it would be built in America.

Now I don't know if that's true either.

So it's sort of a new story.

you're you're still in the fog of war situation, if you know what I mean.

But my intuition tells me that it's fake news, at least partially, and that all they're doing is upgrading the fleet.

They had to do it anyway.

There's time to do it.

They didn't want the most showy or expensive alternative.

And that's definitely not a showy car.

You know, you you would not feel like you were riding any kind of luxury vehicle.

It's just a real very functional and and they also have great steering and performance and power.

So if you wanted a car that gave you good security, you probably want something that's got a little muscle in it.

So that it's good that way, too.

All right.

Did you see that on the Shan Ryan podcast, Hunter Biden went on and made some claims that Well, again, I want you to decide if this is true.

Uh, Hunter claims that he has no memory of ever dropping a laptop off at a laptop repair place and that the laptops are fake, not the content.

So he does not he's does not say the content is fake.

What he says is that the the laptops are essentially fake because they're cobbled together by files that have been stolen from him off his phone plus uh off of other digital devices.

So his claim is that there never was a laptop that the laptop was put together by some kind of enemy and uh then dropped off so that they would be you know discovered and made public.

Now, he also claims that it's uh absurd to believe that the laptop guy, the first thing he would do when the laptop was, you know, left there and nobody claimed it, that it would be absurd to think that that the first thing he did would be to call Rudy Giuliani's lawyer.

Now, if that had actually happened, and it turns out that never happened, that it was not the first place he claimed to look that the first place, I think, was the FBI.

It would have been pretty weird if he had been right that the first thing that the laptop repair guy did was call Rudy Giuliani's lawyer, but that didn't happen.

So, so we know he lied about the Rudy Giuliani part.

But here's the interesting thing, and maybe some of you are having the same experience.

Five years ago, if I heard him tell a story like that that the laptop never existed, I would have said, "Come on, obviously it existed and there was more than one and blah blah blah." But in the last five years, we'd found out so many things that we thought were true turned out to be absolutely hoaxes.

I mean, just so many things are not true that it's almost as if if it's in the news, it's not true.

Do you feel that?

It is there there's so much not true about every single story we watch that I say I say to myself is that possible you know that the Rudy Giuliani thing is a red flag obviously but is it possible that the laptops never existed?

What do you think?

Yeah.

So here's my here's my BS filter on that.

It doesn't feel to me that I would be hearing this for the first time today, yesterday.

Do you think that if that if Hunter and his lawyers have known forever, because they would know for sure, right?

I I feel like Hunter wouldn't forget a laptop being dropped off.

No matter how high you are, you wouldn't forget that.

You would you wouldn't not know that you used to have a laptop and not now you don't.

So, if he's known this from the start, why are you and I just hearing about it this week?

Does that make sense?

All right.

So, given that I can't imagine they would have held that until the Shan Ryan podcast at the end of 2025, I'm going to say it sounds a little bit I don't know if it changes anything.

I don't know why he would lie about it.

Um because he does not deny the content and the content obviously is a is a bad part.

I guess he's suggesting that he's some guy who got framed by enemies.

Is it possible that he's, you know, guilty of all the things that are on the the laptop?

He's not denying any of that.

But is it possible that he was framed by somebody cobbling together files and putting them on a laptop?

I'm going to say if we had heard about this early on, I might have been inclined to say, "Well, maybe." But the fact that I hadn't even heard of it until now, sort of suggests he's trying to rewrite history.

So, I'm going to lean toward not trusting Hunter Biden, which seems like a good bet.

Did you hear that?

Uh, according to Interior Secretary Doug Bergam, they're going to pause four different uh, very large windmill projects off our coast.

And the reason given is that the feds believe the windmills might cause interference with military radar systems.

So that there was a national security problem that had to be addressed and they they're pausing the projects just to see if that's a problem.

Do you believe that's true?

Well, I looked into it a little bit and apparently one of the big companies, I don't know about the rest, but one of the big companies involved is a company from Denmark.

So, is it a coincidence that Trump is looking to negotiate with Denmark about Greenland and yet at the same time some largestish Denmark company just had their project blocked?

Is that a coincidence?

Or is Trump creating yet another asset as in, well, why don't you talk to your windmill company?

They they'd like you to cooperate with the United States.

Maybe something would get approved.

I don't know.

Maybe yes, maybe no.

So, uh, but but they're not all companies from Greenlands.

So, I'm not sure that I believe that's the reason, but it does seem like a little bit of a coincidence, doesn't it?

Um, or could it be that Trump just hates windmills because we know he does?

He hates them for Yeah.

pollution and inefficiency.

He might hate them because they're not American products, you know.

So, he has lots of reasons to dislike him.

Is it possible that the administration is using an excuse to clamp down on windmills and it's not really what they're worried about?

In other words, that the national security thing is just something made up to make it easy to to block them.

I don't know.

So, allegedly, they just need time to look into it.

So maybe if they look into it and decide to unblock them later, you maybe that'll tell us what's happening.

So here's a story you probably wanted to hear about.

Uh if you notice on the Xplatform or someone else that Matt Gates appeared on uh Tucker Carlson show and mention me.

Now I don't have anything to add to the story because you're you're hoping I do.

I don't.

So, it's an old story and I won't even get into the weeds of it, but the basic idea is that Matt Gisha's father was allegedly being blackmailed by some uh Israel related entity that was going to make a claim about his bad behavior that uh allegedly was not true.

But they had tried to get him to pay $25 million for some effort that I'm not going to get into.

And it looked like a it looked like more of a blackmail scheme, depending who you're talking to.

Now, the part where I'm involved is that uh at the time there was a a journalist named uh Jake Novak who had sent me some messages before this was known by anybody that uh this was coming down the pike that there would that there would be not blackmail.

He he didn't describe it that way.

He just said that somebody was going to ask him for money and that uh there was an allegation against his father.

And uh I looked at it and I thought this doesn't look real.

So my only contribution was that when I was told about it in advance, I doubted that it was based on fact.

Now it turns out that it turned into a court case and somebody somebody eventually went to jail.

um for but what are they going to jail for?

Uh I don't know but they they went to jail for some kind of was it wire fraud or something?

Yeah, wire fraud.

So I don't know how you get to wire fraud.

I guess the idea was that somebody tried to blackmail somebody over the internet.

Would that be wire fraud?

I don't know.

So I was never part of the story beyond the fact that some of my private messages surfaced.

Now the question you have is how did my private messages ever surface?

And the answer is I don't know.

I don't know.

I I will say that if somebody associated with Israel and apparently um apparently Jake Novak is associated with Israel and some suspect that he might be uh working closely with them and then I think he I think he later got a job that was actually for Israel.

Uh so what I suspect is that if anybody's having any contact with somebody who has a foreign any kind of a foreign contact that are uh there are spooks are all over my personal uh communication.

So it would not be legal for anybody to look at my communications without a warrant if it were only two Americans talking.

Now, we're both Americans in this case, but if one of the Americans had also some connection to a foreign country, I imagine that they had full access to everything I have.

So, I don't know the answer to how my private messages got into the uh conversation, but the only role I had was that I heard it early and I didn't think it was true, the allegations.

So, I'm getting credit for spotting the early, but otherwise, I have nothing to add to the story.

Um, I was never a part of the court case, just wasn't part of the story.

So, I wish I could be more interesting, but and then Matt Gase said the following to Tucker.

Uh he said that that recently he was offered quote a bunch of money to go to Israel and give speeches and then after he declined he says he got attacked as an anti-semite by Jonathan Greenblad at the ADL.

So, I think his point was that Israel offers both rewards for being pro-Israel and penalties for being uh anything but that.

So, anyway, I woke up to that story this morning.

Have I ever told you that it's weird how often I become part of the story?

I wasn't really trying to be part of that story, but here I am.

Well, Trump at some uh one of his press conferences he was asked about Greenland.

He said, quote, "We need Greenland for national security.

We have to have it." The way he talks is always in negotiation.

We have to have it.

So, if he makes it clear that we're going to get it one way or another, that certainly must help him in negotiations, don't you think?

because we know the United States can overthrow countries.

We have a pretty long history of you know overthrowing other countries and our hemisphere and others and you know we call it a green revolution and we know how it's done etc.

Now presumably the easiest country you could ever overthrow would be Greenland because it's so small.

I mean, if you were going to bribe or threaten people or, you know, try to get control of a government, I don't know how you could do an easier one because it's so small and it's so close.

So, it looks like the plan is just to keep squeezing until Denmark says, "All right, we've had enough." Or or if Greenland decides on its own on its own that it would rather be independent then they can start negotiating with the US to provide security in return for being under some kind of security umbrella.

Now Trump says we don't need their minerals.

We're not after them for the minerals because we have lots of minerals.

I think that's probably true.

Now, if we had an agreement with him, I wouldn't be surprised.

If it was, we give you security if you give us minerals, I wouldn't be surprised.

But I do believe that he's more interested in the security aspect because that's, you know, it's just obviously important.

All right.

So, former CIA director John Brandon's lawyers apparently have been informed he's a target of a criminal grand jury in Florida.

And the the topic is his involvement in the Russia collusion probe.

Uh let's call it a hoax.

So, according to Just the News, um they're trying to get it moved or dropped or something because Florida seems like judge shopping.

He doesn't think he'd have a good chance in Florida courts.

Maybe that's true.

But, uh it's interesting to see somebody associated with the left being concerned about judge shopping.

Yeah.

Um, so will we learn?

Oh, my cat is eating my charge cord.

I have to get that out of the way.

No, that's not a cat toy.

You cannot eat the charging cord.

All right.

So, that would suggest that John Brennan is in trouble because we know that grand juries typically do indict.

So, even if he is not convicted of anything, and I would not necessarily predict that he would be, um, he's going to be spending a lot of money and time defending himself.

So if you believe that John Brennan is one of the bad guys, you're probably pretty happy that some an anvil is about to come down on him, the anvil of justice, which may or may not, as I say, get any kind of conviction, but just being sucked into that process is, you know, torture enough.

And I always wonder, why does it take so long to put a case together?

Now, I realize it's complicated, but is it going to take two years before there's any kind of court case?

And then is a court case going to take two years on its own?

And then are we going to have a Democrat president or Democrat administration that, you know, pardons him or throws it out?

So, I don't know if they're in some kind of a stalling strategy or what, but if you're like me, you don't really expect any justice, do you?

How many of you think that the end of the Russia collusion hoax will be that the people involved get prosecuted?

It just feels like we live in a world where even if the Republicans are in charge, it's not going to make a difference.

So, I think I'm going to I'm going to predict that he doesn't go to jail, but he'll be very unhappy if if the if the indictments come through.

Usually indictments do come through, especially from Florida.

So, he he has a point that he has less chance of Florida than maybe someone else.

All right.

You remember the story the 60 Minutes uh delayed the publication of a story about that famous uh El Salvador prison and how bad the uh conditions were.

Now Barry Weiss, who's in charge of that operation now, says they were just holding off for a comment uh from the administration.

Some people said, "Wait, the administration did comment, but it wasn't who she wanted to comment.

I think she wanted Steve Miller specifically, which would have been a better show if they had Steve Miller, uh, comment.

So, uh, somebody leaked the entire episode and so today you can watch it on social media and apparently it does exactly what you thought it was.

It was a uh an expose of how bad the conditions are if you go to that prison.

Now, I won't give the details of how bad it is, but if you assume that the claims or the allegations are true, it would be really bad.

Like really, really bad.

As in really really bad.

Now, how do you feel about that?

Do you feel really really really bad that gang members, not all of them I assume, uh are being tortured and raped and who knows what in the prison.

Does that bother you?

Well, if you're a human, it should bother you a little bit, but if you don't like gang members, it might bother you less.

So remember, I've told you a number of times that when Trump has an option uh of doing this or that, he always takes the one that that is the strongest or makes him look the strongest.

So the weak option would be, oh, we cannot use this prison because they mistreat the prisoners.

On a human level, you might agree that you should not have that level of abuse even in a prison.

Totally understand that.

But what would be the strongest path?

The strongest path would be we don't care.

And maybe they shouldn't have done things that put them in prison.

We don't care.

So apparently there about also related to that.

There about a 100 Venezuelans who have been put in that prison.

And Judge Boseberg has said they need to be brought back so they can defend whether they should be going to prison at all or deported at all.

It's only 100 people.

It's not the worst thing in the world.

But let me give you my take on this.

Um well, first let me borrow a take from Jessica Tarlov.

So I like her her opinions better than you do.

You're gonna tell me, "But Scott, don't you remember that time Jessica said that thing that turned out to be factually untrue?" To which I'm gonna say, "Who hasn't done that?" Do do you think I only say things that are factually true?

I try.

I mean, I try as hard as I can to only say things that are true, but how many times have you caught me uh in in a factual error that I had to even correct myself?

If you do this kind of work, you are continuously saying things that aren't true unintentionally.

The best you can do is correct it when you find out.

So yes, Jessica Kolov sometimes says things that turn out not to be true, just like every single person doing this kind of work.

Uh but what I like about her is that she often gives me a view of things uh that's well expressed that I had not heard before.

So you know, it's really good to just add it to your well this person said that file.

So on this topic, she said by a post on X, I fail to see how the Trump administration input, that's what Barry Weiss said she was waiting for, would have changed the disgusting and heartbreaking reality of SEC, that's the prison.

Completely shameful.

We send people there.

Um, perfectly reasonable opinion.

That's a perfectly reasonable opinion.

You could disagree with it, but I think it's reasonable to say, "Hey, this was too far." So, here's what I would do if I were the administration.

And I don't predict that they will do this.

Because remember, Trump takes the strong path, even if you're pretty sure another path would be the more, you know, let's say reasonable or humane path.

So, if I were not Trump and I did not consistently use that strategy, which is actually a really good strategy because you won't remember this topic in a few years, but you'll definitely remember that Trump is always the strongest player in every game and that gives him an advantage in negotiating and leadership and everything else.

So, if they don't do what I'm going to suggest right now, it's not a mistake.

It's just a different way to handle it.

All right.

So, one way they could go is too bad.

Too bad.

Um, they shouldn't have been in prison.

Um, here's what I would do.

I would say, you know, that's a pretty good point.

Things look worse than we thought.

And we're going to talk to them.

Talk to El Salvador because we have a good relationship with them.

and we'll see uh we'll see if there's some reforms that need to be taken.

So, if you first admit that there's some abuse at the prison, nobody's going to really be upset about that because I'll bet you even American prisons, well, I know for sure American prisons are full of abuse.

Do you think there's nothing happening to American prisons?

American prisoners.

I mean, I hear stories about the prison guards in America uh creating fights just for the Roman entertainment, right?

You you've heard the stories yourself, right?

So, if you have a prison, you also have prisoners getting tortured.

It just feels like it's built into every prison system.

Nobody wants it.

I'm not in favor of it.

I would be far happier if if all that abuse were removed from the system.

But it is a fact that if you have a prison, there is torture.

It's just a fact.

So if I were the administration, I would say, "Thank you for that story.

We're going to look into it." And I'll just move on.

And I do think they should look into it.

I I do think that they should say to our El Salvadorian um leader, not ours, but you know that they they should tell him to figure that out.

It's not our problem to solve, but they should tell him to solve it.

And I think he could.

Anyway, according to the Postm Millennial, Trump's approval numbers have rebounded and he's allegedly up to 50% approval rating.

I don't believe that, but you know, polls are all over the place and I'm not sure they're useful at this point in any cycle, but just so you know, there's at least one poll that says his approval is higher than it has been for the last three months.

I don't know.

Don't believe it.

Uh, it's not that I don't believe he's popular.

It's that polls in general are just, you know, a little bit hard to believe in the middle of a cycle.

All right.

The Pentagon has apparently signed an agreement with Elon Musk's company XAI to deploy Grock, that would be the AI across three million military and and civilian personnel.

So again I asked now I guess this is a special version of Grock and uh a lot of military and civilian personnel have it um but it's impact level five.

I don't know what that is but it sounds serious.

Impact level five and that it enables secure handling of controlled unclassified information in daily workflows.

Now, here's the thing.

Is it safe to have AI in the military context already?

Because I told you my story about Grock hallucinating about me.

Pretty fairly simple fact about me.

Can we safely deploy a hallucinating AI into the military?

or has Elon Musk found a way to um you'd have to eliminate it entirely to eliminate it entirely in the specific way that the military will use it because in the way I use it is chatting with it.

But if you're not using it to chat, does it hallucinate?

I don't know.

So I have questions about how safe it is to have a military application of any AI whether it's Grock or anything else when even talking to it is sort of iffy in terms of its facts.

So I get a big question mark on that one.

You know obviously I'm not the only person who's thought of this and obviously they looked into this deeply.

Obviously, Elon Musk is not going to unload some dangerous AI into the military.

So, it seems obvious that they've solved it or or made it not an issue the way they're implementing it.

But, I'd love to know how they did that.

That would tell you a lot about the potential of AI and how fast it's going to get into your robot.

Boy, this is good.

Seven.

Are you having as much fun as I am?

Yeah, I've told you before this is my favorite part of the day.

And a lot of you tell me that it's not really about the news or my takes on things, although sometimes you like those.

It's really just about hanging out.

And you know, that's why I enjoy it the same way.

Anyway, historian Victor Davis Hansen is warning us that there's a whole bunch of deep fakes made by AI of his um of him.

So, there's a whole bunch of videos that appear to be him giving different takes on things that are completely fake.

Now, I have to confess that I fell for one of them.

I hate when that happens.

So to me it looked real and the opinion that he gave in what was what turned out to be a fake video um was interesting and so I reposted it on X uh and somebody fairly quickly alerted me that it was a AI fake.

Now here's the interesting part.

It wasn't until I was alerted that it was fake that I could see that it was fake.

So on a on a quick look, totally totally persuasive.

But once somebody says, "Hey, that's fake." You look at it, you know, a little bit closer, you're like, "Oh, how did I fall for that?" Right?

So the the cracks in the fake become obvious after you know it's a fake.

And I'm a little bit disappointed in myself that uh that I fell for it.

So, be careful if you see any Victor Davis Hansen videos.

He tells us the only way you can know the real ones are the source.

Um, I didn't write down what the sources are, but if it comes from a legitimate source, one that you know he has an association with, it's probably real.

If it comes from some unknown weird little uh source, probably a fake.

So, here's something I love.

Trump apparently, maybe it happened yesterday.

I'm not sure, but Trump is either going to or already has sat down with a bunch of American CEOs to try to get them to do more of what he wants and less of what they were doing.

Specifically, he's trying to convince them that they're overpaid.

He mentions that directly that they're they're making4 or $50 million a year and at the same time they're making all that money they're slow building meaning whatever it is that they're manufacturing they might make good stuff he does say the quality is good but that they're too slow and that slowness of course has an impact on the GDP and competitiveness etc.

And we know that China is really good at building fast.

So if we have a manufacturing base that's that is slow and we're trying to compete with China, we're not going to do so well because they can iterate faster, they can build faster.

So uh now I think Elon Musk has proven to the world that things can be a lot faster when you're manufacturing because people have been amazed on several different several different domains that when Elon Musk wants to build something whether it's rockets or satellites or cars or anything else that he can get it done fast.

So, it's not impossible to be an American manufacturer and build things fast.

You just have to, you know, really lean into it like Elon does.

So, the first thing he's trying to do is embarrass them.

Embarrass them that if they're taking this much money, they better build fast.

Otherwise, the United States isn't getting their full value.

I love that.

He He's not putting anybody in jail.

He's just putting pressure on them.

I like the pressure especially because it's he he's being transparent about it.

Second, he he's going to try to convince them to do fewer stock buybacks.

That's where the company buys its own stock because it doesn't have any other better use for the money.

So, it it keeps the uh stock price up because the company itself is buying it, but it doesn't do much for the world.

It's just good for the stockholders.

So, he's trying to get them to use that stock, buy back money, buy back money, and put it into American plant and equipment.

I love that.

I love that.

Um, he also wants them to pay uh smaller dividends and use some of that money to go into the production facilities as well.

So what he's trying to do is get American companies to say, "You have a bunch of money.

Not only are you overpaid, but you're using it in the least productive way that's good for stockholders, but it's not good for the country as a whole." Now, the beauty of this, if you haven't already caught on, is how in the world do the Democrats complain about this?

If you're a Democrat, can you complain that Trump says CEOs are overpaid?

No, you can't.

You can't complain about that.

If you're a If you're a Democrat, can you complain that Trump is trying to put them uh have them invest their money in things that would create more American jobs and prosperity at the expense of the stockholders?

Are you going to complain about that?

No.

No, you can't complain about that.

How about the same thing with dividends?

Can you complain that he says you should do less for the stockholders and more for building plants, which would be, you know, good for the middle class, good for workers.

You can't complain about that and none of it is illegal.

But let me ask you this.

Could any other president pull this off?

that this is a form of leadership that I've never seen before and is just so impressive to me.

Will it work?

Will it make a difference?

I don't know.

But is it worth a try?

Definitely.

Now, if you're a CEO and you were happy doing your dividends that that kept you in your job, you were happy doing your stock buybacks that kept you in your job.

But now Trump is leaning on you in a very public way.

So those same companies can say stockholders uh the president has asked us to put more emphasis on our building and building fast and less emphasis on dividends.

So this year we're going to skip the dividend and we're going to build faster.

Will they keep their job if they do that?

Probably.

Probably.

So Trump is giving them cover by putting pressure on them because now they can say, "Well, we're pressured." And that gives them the ability to do what probably is good for the country, which is put more money into manufacturing.

So like I say, will it work?

I don't know.

Is it a good idea?

Yes.

Yes.

Is he implementing it, you know, in a good way?

Yes.

It's pretty impressive.

I I I've never heard of anybody even suggesting to do this.

I've never heard of it.

All right.

So, that's leadership people.

So, here's a complicated story that let's see if I can summarize.

So, there's a Georgia senator who apparently there's some some kind of hearings or something.

And we've learned that Nathan Wade, remember he was the boyfriend of Fonnie Willis.

So, if you don't know the whole background of this, it's too complicated to get into it, but most of you probably know the story that uh Fonnie was one of the people who went after Trump allegedly in a lawfare way as opposed to a reasonable way.

And then the question that popped up from that is, was the White House ever involved in trying to lawfare Trump, which would be highly inappropriate?

I don't know how illegal it would be, but it would certainly change our understanding of the story.

So, is it true that Trump got in trouble just because he did some bad things and the Department of Justice was just doing what it does?

goes after people who do bad things, or was it part of a larger White House plot that had many, many moving parts to essentially overthrow the sitting government?

Well, here's what we just found out.

that Nathan Wade, remember the boyfriend of uh of uh Fonnie Wills and deeply involved in the prosecution of Trump.

According to the Wall Street apes, I saw a post on that.

I'll just read what the Wall Street apes said, that Wade had an 8-hour phone call at the White House the same day that Jack Smith was appointed as the guy to go after Trump.

So that would suggest that there was a connection between the efforts.

Um, and according to the Georgia senator who did a video on this, I didn't write down his name, uh, Nathan Wade led an entire emissary of people from Willis's office out to Washington DC to meet with the J6 committee.

So the J6 committee were the the people were trying to prosecute all the J6 stuff and get Trump in trouble for it, etc.

And he said that nobody can recall what they did.

They've all got amnesia, but they went out there and they had significant multi-day meetings.

Right?

So it was an emissary of people.

Nathan Wade led them and they were there for days at the very beginning of the Jack Smith looking into Trump stuff.

And uh on November 18th, Nath Nathan Wade had a phone call with the White House that allegedly was an 8hour phone call according to Wade's billing.

Now, I wouldn't necessarily trust his billing to be accurate because he might have overbuild, but there's clear clear indication that uh there was collusion, whether illegal or not.

I'm not saying it was illegal, but there's clear indication that there was coordination between the White House and the Department of Justice going after Trump.

So, um, it's starting to look like, uh, the if you suspected that the White House was beyond behind what would be just terrible behavior to go after Trump, it does look like that's the case, but we'll learn more about that.

So, I got I got two responses on X from Elon Musk yesterday.

um on the same topic.

So he's got this theory that uh robots and AI will make money worthless in the future because everything will be free.

Do you believe that?

So let me tell you the concept.

So I did a post on X about the the idea of giving every baby $1,000 and then waiting 18 years and it'll be worth something when they're 18.

And I asked the question, will money even have value when kids turn 18?

And uh Elon weighed in and in response to will money even have value when kids turn 18, he said that civilization will either be gone or AI and robotics will eliminate scarcity.

Either way, money won't matter.

Wow.

And then before that uh I had I'd uh reiterated his opinion about that uh before he had posted that.

I knew his opinion and he agreed that I'd sort of got it right.

He said pretty much it will happen quickly.

So it will happen quickly meaning that money will become worthless.

Now I don't know what quickly means in this context but it obviously means sooner than 18 years.

And so I thought it would be useful to you to kind of work through how that could be possible.

Are you ready?

Now I don't know the full answer to this and I'm not yet agreeing with his take, but but let me give you just a little bit of insight into why it might be true.

So let's take one example.

Uh your car insurance.

How much is your car insurance?

Well, if if cars become almost entirely autonomous so that the humans are not driving, do you think you'll still have car insurance or will it be so rare that an autonomous car has an accident that they just wrap that into the sale price of the car?

For example, what if in five years you wouldn't buy you would never use a car that you had to steer because it would be too dangerous?

You could if you wanted to, but if you bought one that was autonomous, the dealer, let's say it's Tesla, just adds $1,000 to the purchase price and says, "We will cover the insurance no matter what happens if it's the car's fault." Then you never pay insurance again.

You know, maybe you paid $1,000 on the price of the car, but you never had to pay it again.

What happens when uh robots and AI are your doctor?

Well, maybe your your cost of healthcare goes way down because you don't have as many human helpers.

Maybe.

But what about other production?

Would it be possible that food prices would go down if you had AI and robots running the farms?

Well, it depends how much the robots cost, right?

But do we get to the point where robots can build other robots?

And if they did, where would those robots get the raw materials to build the other robots?

Wouldn't somebody own those?

Well, robots could be mining the raw materials, basically just taking it out of the dirt and then turning it into other robots.

And then there was other robots could build other robots and you and I would never pay anything.

Pretty soon there'd be, you know, a million robots and it was and it was completely created out of stuff from the ground.

Literally stuff in the ground.

So, uh, here's the part that I can't get past.

Won't there always be something that is scarce?

I can see how products would not become scarce because robots would infinitely build them and they would build themselves and they're just using material that that's sitting in the ground.

But doesn't somebody own the ground?

You know, is there enough public land that even the raw earth materials could be mined from that?

So, as long as somebody can hoard anything that's scarce and land is the most scarce thing, then how can you get to zero cost?

Because the people who own the land can say, "Sure, you can build a free house on my land, but you're going to have to pay me for the land, right?" Or they could say, "Yeah, you robots can mine some materials from the land, but I own the land, so you're going to have to pay me for access to the land." Or or is there so much public land that they would never have to ask for private land and the private land would be worth nothing because there would always be some robot willing to build an entire entire new um apartment building uh on somebody else's land or on public land.

So, so the the question is will land still have value or is there just so much, you know, unused shitty land that could be used by the robots that your so-called valuable land just won't be valuable.

I don't know.

>> >> So, I'm I can't say that I'm 100% agreeing with the idea that money will become worthless because everything will be free.

But you can sort of see how you could get there.

So, what happens when the only thing a human can sell is the one thing a robot can't do?

That's right, No, I just mean sex in general.

Will it ever be true that you could have a better relationship sexually with a robot and get your oxytocin fixed?

Or is oxytocin just a chemical and your robot can give you an oxytocin pill and a hand job and you'll think that's the best sex you ever had?

Maybe.

I wouldn't rule it out.

So, uh, I I always think it's a fool's well, an idiot's take to disagree with a, uh, Elon Musk prediction for the future.

But it does make me wonder how the richest man in the world deals with the fact that he may have accomplished the, you know, the greatest, you could argue the greatest accomplishment of all time to be the richest person in the world and then money becomes worthless.

like what would that do to him?

So, I'm not going to rule out that money could become worthless.

It It's a little beyond my mental capacity to visualize the exact path that it happens.

And I would love to see an interview with Elon in which somebody who knows more than I do about this topic says, "Okay, but how about this?" You know, what would what would this be worth?

What about human?

You know, would you not pay for human company?

Now, remember when I said that real estate would always have a value?

Would it if our population continues to decline?

Would it if you didn't need it for farming because we were so we were so good at farming that you needed 10% of the farmland that we use now because the robots and the AI are doing underground indoor farms.

Whatever it is possible.

All right.

So, I'd like to double back on a story that you already know about.

I saw a clip.

I think it was on the Maze account on X that says uh where Rob Reiner was on some interview and he said that Russian election interference which he believed was true was way worse than if they had attacked us with an atomic bomb.

And I'm reminded that at some point it's not too soon and I think we're getting close to that point.

Rob Reiner was not a good guy.

He was not a good guy.

And he was if if you consider only his uh if the only thing you look at is his involvement in the Russia collusion hoax and his collusion with the heads of the intelligence agencies to do that, John Brennan, etc.

He's one of the worst people that's ever lived.

He's not just a bad guy.

He's not just an, you know, actor director who happened to get a lot of attention.

He's really bad or was.

And I feel like we're on the border of it's not too soon.

And I don't want it to get away.

I I don't want it to get away from us that he was he's now somebody you should have respected.

Although his movies were excellent.

So, New York Post, Glenn Reynolds has an article talking about how DEI hollowed down the generation and sapped America's promise.

Have you noticed, I've mentioned this before, that it seems like nearly every major company and organization in the world, no, in the United States, uh, became incompetent in the last several years.

They went from, you know, you liked them or you didn't like them.

Sometimes they're good, sometimes not.

Um, but it sort of turned into everything is incompetent and some people should blame DEI.

Now, that sounds kind of racist, right?

If you say, "Oh, all of our institutions became incompetent because they allowed too much DEI, which would suggest that uh that the race or gender of the people coming in or the sexual orientation somehow made them less capable." Now, I've never made that claim.

My claim about DEI is that there's a numbers problem.

And the numbers problem is that if you artificially constrain who you're willing to hire, you're going to run out of qualified people pretty quickly because you've artificially constrained it.

So if everybody in the world was an Albonian and there was no diversity at all, but you only hired left-handed Albonians, what would happen to the capability of your major institutions?

Right?

So there's no racism involved.

There's no sexism.

There's no sexual choice.

Everybody in the world is an Albonian.

But you've artificially said, "I'll only hire left-handed Albonians." You tell me, do you run out of qualified people faster than if you said, "We'll hire any Albonian.

They just have to be qualified." Well, when white males were excluded from the workforce through DEI, which is essentially what happened 30 years ago, and we're just now able to talk about it without getting cancelled, you guaranteed that the numbers alone would cause mass incompetence at every institution.

And that's exactly what we see.

So, I think Glenn Reynolds is exactly on that.

The DEI did in fact gut the uh the capability of everything.

It destroyed everything we cared about in the United States from education to manufacturing to government to everything.

It just literally destroyed everything.

And again, it would have been exactly the same if every person in the country was an Albonian, but you limited the hiring to only left-handed Albonians.

You get the same outcome.

So what is different about 20 2025 and now 2026 is that he can write this article in a major publication and people will say all right all right okay you could not say this five years ago five years ago if you submitted this article to New York Post you think they would have published it well the New York Post does lean right but I don't know if They would I feel like it would have been too sensitive.

They would have just been accused of being racist.

But we're finally finally at a point where uh white males in particular are less afraid of being called racist and that it's I think increasingly obvious that there was a whole uh South African situation going on in the United States, but it's been going on for decades.

I've been talking about it for a while, but um there there does seem to be some kind of new freedom to talk about it and that's good news.

Speaking of DEI, the California Globe, Katie Grimes is writing that Governor Nuome, I didn't know about this, but apparently um did you know that California had an equity task force that had recommendations on how to take land away from white farmers and distribute it to non-white farmers in California?

You you probably thought I said South Africa, right?

In California recently, this is recent, the governor was behind a task force that was trying to figure out how to take the farms away from white people and make it more equitably distributed.

Now, do I think that it would be great if farm were equitably, you know, equitably um available to everybody?

Yeah, that'd be great.

I I have no no problem with that.

However, if you already have a situation where a bunch of white farmers own own farms, you don't want to get there by taking it from them or forcing them to be unable to buy farms and then just saying the only people can have a farm from now on until everything's equal are either Native Americans or some other disadvantaged group.

How is that going to turn out?

How much do you think the efficiency of the farms is going to decrease if you artificially say we're going to take the experienced farmers and we're going to block them from owning farms or decrease their impact on the farms?

But we take these inexperienced farmers, not for any, it's not their fault that they're inexperienced, but we're going to move the farms to people who uh didn't have as much experience.

Again, it wouldn't matter if we were talking about only Albonians.

If you take if you take the farms from the Albonians who know how to farm and you give it to the Albonians who don't have the same experience to farm, what is going to happen to the price of food?

It only goes one way.

You know, nobody doubts how that's going to turn out.

And that's happening in my actual state in the current day.

So there's no way that that is anything but going to drive up food prices.

And I guess the report from this group recommends the development of local ordinances to restrict citizens from purchasing land unless they're part of certain minority groups.

In the United States, in the United States, you wouldn't you would be blocked from buying land based on your ethnicity in 2025.

and said, "Unfucking believable." All right.

Well, here's a uh an update on the voting machines.

I've told you before that one of my favorite sources for following up on the allegations of voting irregularities is the Rasmusson reports on X.

And I don't have a sense of what kind of allegations about the voting machines are true and what what ones are not true.

But the allegations themselves are really interesting.

And here again, you can decide how much of this is fact and how much of this is just allegation.

I do not make any claims of fact because I don't want to get sued.

But here's what the Rasim Incident report has summarized and updated us.

You may have heard of all these individually, but when you see them all in the big list, it's kind of kind of impactful.

All right.

So, on X Raspinson report writes that uh Smartmatic that that would be the software people were federally indicted um in October.

So, indicted doesn't mean guilty, but they were indicted.

Then Dominion, that would be the hardware company, was quote sold in September under secret terms.

H wonder what that's about.

And uh the the election systems currently in use have reportedly been newly examined by feds and are apparently full of illegal Chinese sourced components.

So again, that doesn't mean that the machines are rigged, but you have to wonder why they have Chinese components in them that might make that possible.

So remember, these are allegations.

I don't know what's true.

And allegedly, according to Rasmusen reports, uh Tulsi Gabbard is being prevented from publishing her completed official report about the voting machines.

I don't know why she would be prevented or who would prevent it.

The former secret Dominion/Whawei data center in Belgrade.

Do you remember that part of the story?

So the allegation is that somehow the rigging of the machines was executed by going through some kind of Belgrade server system that that somehow rigged the election.

Um but now the key engineers hold on and that and that quote secret data center in Belgrade that officially and emphatically did not exist.

I guess at one point the government said it doesn't even exist.

Turns out it did exist and it was allegedly disabled by US government employees.

I don't know what they were employees of.

Were they employees of some intelligence agency?

I don't know.

But US employ US government employees disabled it just prior to the 2024 election and it has now been dismantled.

So I've heard the claim that that's the only reason that Trump won is that these government employees disabled the mechanism for the cheating.

Again, I don't know that that's a fact.

It's an allegation and apparently the engineers that were allegedly involved in that uh are joined by this former Venezuelan intelligence person who is now in jail.

Okay, that makes him suspicious but and that they're collectively they're cooperating with federal authorities.

So that would suggest that the feds are on the trail of finding out if or if not those machines were were being rigged.

Um again this is Rasmusen reports their summary says after rejecting over two dozen traders our threeletter agencies are now supposedly helping find bad election actors but they remain unreliable because their own direct criminal involvement.

So what that's saying is that there is in fact some effort to get to the bottom of this but there are too many people who are in charge of getting to the bottom of it who are at the bottom of it.

So they would slow down things so that they their own bad behavior does not get caught.

And even so some of the bad people have been weeded out there are so many of them that they may still be holding up the uh investigation.

True.

I don't know.

Official state and court aduced evidence of election fraud has been compiled now for every one of the 2020 uh battleground states, but cowardice and corruption within the American judiciary has completely paralyzed justice.

So again, the the allegation is that the evidence of a rigged election are there, but that the people whose job it is to make something of it are either afraid or unable to do something with it.

I don't know.

The Department of Justice has been forced to sue multiple states to require their compliance with federal election laws.

Uh that part is true, but again we don't know if their lack of compliance is evidence of rigging or it's just more more of the Democrat plus Republican fighting stuff.

There's a there's a weirdness about the Tina Peters case in Colorado.

Uh and then there's an American or Mada that's in that's setting off of Venezuela.

So, could it be true that one of the things that Trump wants from Venezuela is a full accounting of their alleged role in rigging our systems?

What if Maduro said, "Wait, wait, don't attack.

I've got an offer.

I'll tell you everything I know about a rigging of your systems." If it if in fact there was any breaking I'll tell you everything we know if you don't attack my country.

What would Trump do?

What does Trump want more than proof positive that the 2020 20 election was rigged?

Probably nothing.

It's hard to Well, I'm exaggerating, but it would certainly be something he'd want a lot.

Would he wanted enough to assemble an armada?

Maybe, maybe because I got to tell you, it's pretty important to me.

Uh I would say it's critically important to me to get to the bottom of whether our our elections were rigged.

And do you remember how easy it was for me to penetrate this the truth?

Let me say it again.

With no knowledge whatsoever about any of these specific allegations, I have been asking for some time in public, and you've seen it.

What was the purpose of electronic voting machines?

They're not cheaper.

They're not faster.

They're not easier.

They're not more reliable.

So, why do we have them?

Do you think anybody has ever even attempted to answer that question?

Nope.

Nobody has even attempted to answer the question why they even exist in the first place.

Because the only reason I can think of is to make it easier to steal an election.

If anybody can come up with even one potential reason beyond that, then I would say, well, okay, you know, may maybe they use it because it's got this advantage.

But there is no advantage.

Not faster, not cheaper, not easier, not more reliable.

So, do you think we'll ever get to the bottom of that?

Probably not.

All right, here's a fun story.

You know that Eric Swallwell is running for governor of California and Joel Gilbert of the Gateway Pundit is informing us that uh he might have a little problem running for governor because he's not a resident.

That's right.

Eric Swallwell is not a resident of California and he's running for governor now.

He says he is, but the only registered address he has is his lawyer's office.

And apparently it's legal to use your lawyer's office as your address if what you're doing is, you know, registering for the process, I guess.

But you still have to have an actual address.

And uh Bill Py I think was the the one who outed the fact that there's no record anywhere of him having a California address.

And of course he's been asked so what's your California address and he cannot answer the question.

Now you might argue he has security concerns which would be a real concern but he's not saying that.

He's simply not answering the question.

Do you have a California address?

I'm I I think I believe that he does not.

And it's unfucking believable that Democrats can can go as far as they do when it when he doesn't even have an address here.

Now, maybe we're wrong, you know, maybe for whatever weird reason he just doesn't want to answer the question or whatever.

>> >> But it does seem pretty clear he doesn't have an address.

Anyway, so in some ways, Nuome would be I'm sorry, Swallwell would be perfect for governor of California because he uh he sounds like kind of a crook.

And I guess he's also very deep in personal debt.

So he's mismanaged his own money.

He's deep in debt, which makes him very bribable.

And he doesn't have an address in California is running for governor.

All right, good luck.

So, I guess buried in the Epstein files or some kind of email chain that shows that the Department of Justice is getting stonewalled by the FBI.

I guess Mike Benz uh and Gumby for Christ have been writing about this on X, but I put the Dilbert filter on this situation and it turns out that there are so many digital files and so many records about Epstein that if you're at the Department of Justice and you say, "Hey, you know, give us these records." There's nobody who can do it.

is simply too big a job and they don't have a system that has already organized the files.

So if they don't have a system that has already organized the files, you just have this enormous bunch of files and if somebody asks you for something specific, you just wouldn't have any way to get it.

So the Dilbert filter is that incompetence or the inability to do the task might be behind what's taking so long.

You know, we've all automatically assumed that everybody involved is very capable.

And if they're very capable and they don't give you the files, then you assume that they have a reason for not giving you the files.

But it's entirely possible again using the Dilbert filter that at least part of the reason for the delay is that they don't know how to handle that many files and they don't know don't know how to solve that problem.

Maybe not impossible.

All right.

Did you know that the US exports of LNG that's liquid natural gas to Europe are way up?

Uh but the Russian natural gas that arrives by pipeline to Europe is down.

But the surprising part of the story is wait what?

Are you telling me that Europe is still buying natural gas from Russia at the same time they're funding a war against Russia?

How in the world is it possible that they're still buying Russian gas at the same time they're funding a war against Russia?

Well, part of the answer is that they're based on long-term contracts.

Okay, but is that good enough?

And some of those long-term contracts are running out at the end of this year.

So allegedly the amount of gas that Europe gets from Russia will go way down and the liquid natural gas from the US will continue to increase.

So it does look like Trump is winning because we're selling more energy to Europe.

We're not funding the war at the moment and Europe is going to have to wean itself off of Russian gas real soon.

Um, and where are they going to get their alternative?

They're going to have to get it from us.

So, could it be that Russia might get more flexible when their their source of money, which is the gas, uh, you know, gets cut in half fairly abruptly.

So it might be that just waiting for the uh the changes in energy markets is why we have to wait to get any kind of a deal there.

But as you know, Trump has been seizing some oil tankers.

Now oil is different from liquid natural gas, but he's been seizing some of those Venezuelan bound tankers.

I guess we got three of them.

Maybe we'll get some more.

And he says he's going to keep the oil that we seize, but he's also going to keep the ships.

And I asked Brock, could you convert the ships that he's seizing into liquid natural gas um ships because that's the way it's shipped.

It's shipped on a a special ship.

Now, Grock said, and it disappointed me, that it would be too hard to do that because the ships that are made for transporting liquid natural gas have different holes.

So, you would there wouldn't be anything left of the ship if you tried to retrofit it.

You'd have to take everything out.

You'd have to you'd have to redo redo the hole and add all kinds of special equipment.

So, economically, it would never make sense to convert them to liquid natural gas.

But that would have been funny.

It would have been funny if we could just use them for liquid natural gas, but we can't.

Um, two quick stories and I'll be done.

So, I saw a post by C3 that Elon Musk was agreeing with.

Uh, he says the following.

You are taxed and then after you're taxed, the government sends $300 billion of your tax money to fund college faculties.

I didn't know that.

$300 billion of my tax money goes to fund college faculties.

College faculties are 90% Democrats.

So 90% of political donations from faculties go to Democrat politicians and essentially Americans are forced to pay Democrats.

So without your approval bunch of money goes to Democrat faculties and then they in turn donate a bunch of money to politics but only to Democrat candidates.

So in effect, we're being forced to fund Democrats and Elon Elon agreed to that.

Well, that seems sub-optimal.

And then lastly, Breitbart News is reporting that Japan is trying to tighten up their their uh rules for becoming a resident of Japan.

So, it used to be you had to live there for five years, but they're going to change it to 10.

And you have to be proficient in Japanese, the language, or you cannot become a citizen.

You know, I think Japan has a pretty good chance of survival, because they're more badass about immigration.

Um, but any country that's not totally badass about immigration, as in limiting it, is probably doomed for all the obvious reasons.

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All right. We got a lot of news today.

But before we start, I wondered, are you

ever curious where I get my news

stories?

like what sources do I use? And I

figured it would be

sort of good hygiene

to at least once tell you where the u

where I get most of my ideas for the

show

because where you are influenced

will tell you a lot about where things

are going. All right, first I got to get

my fan working.

This will work.

So, some of the sources that I use, and

this is not exclusive, but um you are

likely to see me quoting stuff from the

Wall Street Journal,

from the Postmillennial,

from Just the News, uh The Hill, New

York Post, the Gateway Pundit.

Uh so that but that's not exclusive. I'm

I'm forgetting, you know, obviously

Politico sometimes, etc. Um, but I'm

also very addicted to Murray or Noel's

posts on X

because by the time I wake up, he's

already done these great summaries of

the news and they're sort of hard to

resist.

So he he definitely points me to a lot

of stories, but I also get uh DMs on X

and mostly on X from people who know me

well. So two of the people who are

especially good at knowing what I would

like to see for the show are Owen

Gregorian.

So if you wanted to follow him, you

could, you know, see more things that

are are in my lane. If you like seeing

my content and especially if you like

the the technical stuff, uh you'll

you'll love seeing Owen Gregorian's

feed. So just search for him on X if you

want to follow him. And then also

Marcela Pena, who is just really good at

figuring out what would amuse me and

amuse you. And so when her DMs come in,

uh I'm far more likely to use them as as

a basis for a story. uh because she's so

good at at identifying what is

interesting. So

uh I apologize if I'm leaving anybody

out,

but you could also follow Marcela on on

X.

All right.

So there's a new uh robot maker. There's

a robot called Memo, I guess. And uh

they're they're claiming a breakthrough

in teaching the robot to pick up

unfamiliar items. Oh yeah. So if you're

looking at individuals,

Mike Benz would be one of the people I

look at. But there there are a lot of

individuals on X. So if you just look

who I follow, I mean, if I follow them

on X, they're probably influencing me in

one way or another. You know, obviously

Elon Musk, etc.

Anyway, this uh new robot, they're

making a claim that they have trained it

to have what they call an intuition for

grasping new objects.

So apparently one of the biggest

problems with robots, which yeah, I

think for 20 years I've been seeing them

say they claim they've figured out how

to do this, but maybe they've done it,

which is if a robot sees a new item,

it doesn't necessarily know how to pick

it up unless or how to handle it unless

it has been trained on that very item.

So, it would handle an egg the same as

an anvil, unless it had been trained

that those are two different things.

But in theory,

this company thinks that they've solved

that so that the robot would now have

the same intuition a human would have or

close to it that they could pick up

objects. Now,

that makes me wonder, how close are we

to actual robots that are useful?

because I don't know. I I I thought that

problem was already solved,

but maybe that's one of the big ones.

So, I would be surprised if Optimus has

not solved that already, but they're,

you know, competing companies. So,

uh, and then the big question I have

about robots is if they're driven by AI,

how do they avoid hallucinating?

We don't have any way to make robots

stop hallucinating.

So if you ask it a question,

it would still hallucinate at this point

in history. Right? I used gro yesterday.

Um, I asked it uh I asked it what people

notable people have claimed they've been

influenced by me and it gave me a list

of people that some of them I said oh I

knew that one you know I knew that

person mentioned me or I know that

person included me in a book and then it

got to Lex Freriedman

and it said that Lex Freriedman had uh

said a number of positive things about

me on his podcast and I thought to

myself, really,

I I feel like I would have heard about

that. Somebody would have mentioned it

or sent me the clip. So,

I wrote it down because I was never

mind. It's for a project. Um, but then I

reminded myself to check it the next

day. So I used Grock a second time and I

asked it all right what did Lex Fridman

say about me and Grock said he's never

he's never mentioned you now this is the

same AI [laughter]

one day later and depending on how I

asked the question it gave me a

definitive you know detailed it even

said what he said about me and none of

it was true

according to Grock. So, how do you build

that into a robot?

Now, I do think Grock is probably the

best AI out there. It seems to be

beating the, you know, beating the test

the best, but I'm really curious how far

we are from Rock having the right kind

of reliability.

Speaking of robots,

one of the AI pioneers, you probably

heard of him, Ilia Saskkever.

I believe he was one of the founders of

or first technical people for o open AI

and chat GBT. He left I think he left

but he gave a speech looked like it was

some kind of college speech. He said

quote we live in the most unusual time

in history because AI will soon do

everything humans can do. Why? Because

your brain is here's the important part

because your brain is a biological

computer. So a digital one can match it.

Jobs, skills, economy, everything

changes when AI masters all human

abilities.

So do you remember my 2013 book filled

almost everything and still went big?

And one of my sort of major frames in

that book was that your brain is a moist

computer or that people were basically

moist computers. So I've been saying the

same thing that your brain is a

mechanical

although it's a moist

and it's runs on chemistry that's

basically a machine.

Now this is a big deal if you think that

brains are magic and that you have

something called a soul and the soul is

helping you make decisions.

If you think that, then you might say,

well, you know, no robot is ever going

to match the human brain because we have

souls. But I would take from Ilia's

comments that he's not a believer in

souls or that if they exist, they don't

have any impact on your your actions.

Um, and that matches

what I've been saying for quite a while.

So, I guess all I'm doing is bragging

that the guy who knows the most about AI

is on the same page as I've been for

quite a long time. Yeah. Free will is an

illusion.

Exactly.

Well, I'm going to take another victory

lap here. I mentioned this before, but I

don't know if I put it in the context I

wanted to. So, I saw a text post on X

from Steve Magnus.

He was talking about a metaanalysis

which I've mentioned I think that set

that had three outputs or three

conclusions

uh that process goals had larger effect

on performance

process goals. Now I take that to mean

what I call a system so that your goal

would be to to go to the gym. Your goal

would not be to lose 20 pounds. Does

that make sense? because one one is a

system hey I go to the gym every day and

the other is an outcome and said the

outcome goals had a negligible effect so

this is one of my biggest it's one of

the biggest messages I've been saying

for again over a decade started with my

book almost everything and still went

big and uh apparently there's this huge

uh meta study which means that they

looked at multiple

uh studies and concluded that uh I'm

right that systems are better than

goals. So I didn't know that that would

necessarily ever have any kind of

scientific backing. To me it was just

sort of obvious from life.

But uh now I just for to be fair I have

often told you that a metaanalysis

is not really science. So, I won't back

up on that. If you want to say, Scott,

you also told us that a metaanalysis is

not useful. Well, I don't want to change

my mind on that. So, I'm going to say

it's nice that it agrees with me, but

there's a metaanalysis, so be skeptical.

I saw a post from Bali Savasan, one of

the smartest people in the world, who

was noting that I think it's some kind

of Chinese company now has an electric

charger for your car. Uh the company is

BYD.

So, I'll take a fact check on that, but

I think it's a Chinese company. They now

have in production. So, this is not in

the laboratory. This is actually in the

field. They've got chargers for electric

cars that add 400 kil kilometers of

range in 5 minutes.

So, Bology calls it the flipping, the EV

flipping where it would be faster to get

an electric charge in your car than it

would be to add gas.

Now, one of the things about technology

that I think, you know, sometimes we're

blind to is that uh changes that you

think might be coming, they never come.

It's like nothing happens, nothing

happens, nothing happens, boom, suddenly

you you pass over some barrier where

where everything's different. So I think

the point here is that if you have in

production like actually in the field a

way to charge the car for 400 kilometers

in 5 minutes presumably other companies

will have to match that. Presumably

Tesla has plans we don't know about to

you know get to the the next level of

that stuff. But that's really going to

change everything.

Yeah. And uh we we're moving towards

super capacitors, right Owen? Uh so also

there's some breakthroughs in super

capacitors. And without getting too

nerdy, uh super capacitors are another

change everything. You know that they

would make the battery re uh refill what

do you call it? Refill charge. It would

make the charging and use of batteries a

whole different deal. just make

everything better. So, that's right on

the edge of happening. All right. You

probably heard that Trump is introducing

he wants to build a bunch of new

battleship type things. He's calling it

the Golden Fleet.

And he thinks they can build one in two

and a half years. Do you think that the

United States is capable of building an

entirely new designed um we'll call it a

battleship class, but it's going to be

different from a battleship. Do you

think they can build that in two and a

half years?

I don't know. I I just suspect we don't

have that capability.

But uh we'll talk about in a minute that

Trump is going to be pushing the CEOs to

learn how to build faster because that's

our competitive disadvantage. I think

we're slow builders.

We are slow slow builders. You think we

can? Maybe we can. [snorts]

So, let's talk about some stories that I

don't know if they're fake or true.

Um, but that'll be the fun. All right.

Fake or true. There's a story that Cash

Patel had in the FBI

is uh just spent some of our tax money

to update a quote custom fleet of

armored BMW X5s for him to ride around

in.

Now the claim and here you have to

decide if this is real or fake. The

claim is that he just wanted cooler cars

and so he spent our money unnecessarily

to give himself uh a fleet

of X5s.

Now until this week that was the car I

drove. At the moment I don't drive a car

so I don't think I'll be driving a car

again. But uh it's the car I chose and I

chose it specifically because it does

not scream out luxury.

It's very functional. It's it's a

high-end car, but it's it's the most

functional

without being over the top, you know,

showy. So that that's why I like it. You

know, it didn't it didn't draw attention

to me. But their claim is that, you

know, he's loving it for being a cool

car and that also is, you know, it's a

foreign car and he's being accused of,

wait, why would you buy a foreign car?

Now, remember, these these would be

armored special security cars. They

wouldn't be normal cars. Uh, why would

you do that? All right, here's the

counterpoint.

The counterpoint is we're talking about

four cars. So when they call it a fleet,

well maybe it's a fleet, but it's four.

And somebody also claims that that is a

typical way they update security fleets

that they would do them all at once

because the last batch of them were

wearing out about the same time. So if

you buy them all at once, the next time

you have to update it, well, you would

do the same four. You just do them all

at the same time. The other thing

they're claiming is that the X5 is way

cheaper than the alternatives. There was

some alternative that I don't know what

it was, but that it was actually a way

to save money instead of some way to

give himself a cooler car.

Again, I'm not saying I know what's

true. That that's what you're going to

figure out because it's sort of a new

story, but seems full of I

think MS now had a reporter on there. So

that's that's a bad sign for truth.

And

then someone claimed and I don't know if

this is true that that particular model

is built in an American company. Uh

although BMW would be the owner of the

the company that it would be built in

America. Now I don't know if that's true

either.

So it's sort of a new story. you're

you're still in the fog of war

situation, if you know what I mean.

But [snorts] my intuition tells me that

it's fake news, at least partially, and

that all they're doing is upgrading the

fleet. They had to do it anyway. There's

time to do it. They didn't want the most

showy or expensive alternative. And

that's definitely not a showy car.

[snorts] You know, you you would not

feel like you were riding any kind of

luxury vehicle. It's just a real very

functional and and they also have great

steering and performance and power. So

if you wanted a car that gave you good

security, you probably want something

that's got a little muscle in it. So

that it's good that way, too. All right.

Did you see that on the Shan Ryan

podcast, Hunter Biden went on and made

some claims

that Well, again, I want you to decide

if this is true. Uh, Hunter claims

that he has no memory of ever dropping a

laptop off at a laptop repair place and

that the laptops are fake,

not [snorts] the content. So he does not

he's does not say the content is fake.

What he says is that the the laptops are

essentially fake because they're cobbled

together by files that have been stolen

from him off his phone plus uh off of

other digital devices.

So [snorts] his claim is that there

never was a laptop that the laptop was

put together by some kind of enemy and

uh then dropped off so that they would

be you know discovered and made public.

Now, he also claims that it's uh absurd

to believe that the laptop guy, the

first thing he would do when the laptop

was, you know, left there and nobody

claimed it, that it would be absurd to

think that that the first thing he did

would be to call Rudy Giuliani's lawyer.

Now, if that had actually happened, and

it turns out that never happened, that

it was not the first place he claimed to

look that the first place, I think, was

the FBI.

It would have been pretty weird if he

had been right that the first thing that

the laptop repair guy did was call Rudy

Giuliani's lawyer, but that didn't

happen. So, so we know he lied about the

Rudy Giuliani part.

But here's the interesting thing, and

maybe some of you are having the same

experience.

Five years ago,

if I heard him tell a story like that

that the laptop never existed, I would

have said, "Come on, obviously it

existed and there was more than one and

blah blah blah." But in the last five

years, we'd found out so many things

that we thought were true turned out to

be absolutely hoaxes.

I mean, just so many things are not true

that it's almost as if if it's in the

news, it's not true.

Do you feel that? It is there there's so

much not true about every single story

we watch that I say I say to myself is

that possible you know that the Rudy

Giuliani thing is a red flag obviously

but is it possible that the laptops

never existed?

What do you think?

Yeah. So here's my here's my BS filter

on that. It doesn't feel to me that I

would be hearing this for the first time

today, yesterday. Do you think that if

that if Hunter and his lawyers have

known forever,

because they would know for sure, right?

I I feel like Hunter wouldn't forget

a laptop being dropped off. No matter

how high you are, you wouldn't forget

that. You would you wouldn't not know

that you used to have a laptop and not

now you don't. So, if he's known this

from the start,

why are you and I just hearing about it

this week? Does that make sense?

All right. So, given that I can't

imagine they would have held that until

the Shan Ryan podcast at the end of

2025,

I'm going to say it sounds a little bit

I don't know if it changes anything. I

don't know why he would lie about it. Um

because he does not deny the content and

the content obviously is a is a bad

part. I guess he's suggesting that he's

some guy who got framed by enemies.

Is it possible

that he's, you know, guilty of all the

things that are on the the laptop? He's

not denying any of that. But is it

possible that he was framed

by somebody cobbling together files and

putting them on a laptop? I'm going to

say if we had heard about this early on,

I might have been inclined to say,

"Well, maybe." But the fact that I

hadn't even heard of it until now, sort

of suggests

he's trying to rewrite history. So, I'm

going to lean toward not trusting Hunter

Biden, which seems like a good bet.

[snorts] Did you hear that? Uh,

according to Interior Secretary Doug

Bergam, they're going to pause four

different uh, very large windmill

projects off our coast.

And

the reason given is that the feds

believe the windmills might cause

interference with military radar

systems.

So that there was a national security

problem that had to be addressed and

they they're pausing the projects just

to see if that's a problem.

Do you believe that's true?

Well, I looked into it a little bit and

apparently one of the big companies, I

don't know about the rest, but one of

the big companies involved is a company

from Denmark.

So, is it a coincidence

that Trump is looking to negotiate with

Denmark about Greenland and yet at the

same time some largestish Denmark

company just had their project blocked?

Is that a coincidence? Or is Trump

creating yet another asset

as in, well, why don't you talk to your

windmill company? They they'd like you

to cooperate with the United States.

Maybe something would get approved. I

don't know. Maybe yes, maybe no.

[snorts] So,

uh, but but they're not all companies

from Greenlands. So, I'm not sure that I

believe that's the reason,

but it does seem like a little bit of a

coincidence, doesn't it?

Um, or could it be that Trump just hates

windmills because we know he does?

He hates them for Yeah. pollution and

inefficiency. He might hate them because

they're not American products, you know.

So, he has lots of reasons to dislike

him. Is it possible

that the administration is using an

excuse to clamp down on windmills and

it's not really what they're worried

about? In other words, that the national

security thing is just something made up

to make it easy to to block them. I

don't know. So, allegedly, they just

need time to look into it.

So maybe if they look into it and decide

to unblock them later, you maybe that'll

tell us what's happening.

So here's a story you probably wanted to

hear about. Uh if you notice on the

Xplatform or someone else that Matt

Gates appeared on uh Tucker Carlson show

and mention me.

Now I don't have anything to add to the

story because you're you're hoping I do.

I don't. So, it's an old story and I

won't even get into the weeds of it, but

the basic idea is that Matt Gisha's

father was allegedly being blackmailed

by some uh Israel related entity that

was going to make a claim about his bad

behavior that uh allegedly was not true.

But they had tried to get him to pay $25

million

for some effort that I'm not going to

get into. And it looked like a it looked

like more of a blackmail scheme,

depending who you're talking to.

Now, the part where I'm involved is that

uh at the time there was a a journalist

named uh Jake Novak who had sent me some

messages before this was known by

anybody that uh this was coming down the

pike that there would that there would

be not blackmail. He he didn't describe

it that way. He just said that somebody

was going to ask him for money and that

uh there was an allegation

against his father. And uh I looked at

it and I thought this doesn't look real.

So my only contribution was that when I

was told about it in advance, I doubted

that it was based on fact. Now it turns

out that it turned into a court case and

somebody somebody eventually went to

jail.

um for but what are they going to jail

for?

Uh

I don't know but they they went to jail

for some kind of was it wire fraud or

something? Yeah, wire fraud. So I don't

know how you get to wire fraud. I guess

the idea was that somebody tried to

blackmail somebody over the internet.

Would that be wire fraud? I don't know.

So I was never part of the story beyond

the fact that some of my private

messages surfaced. Now the question you

have is how did my private messages ever

surface? And the answer is I don't know.

I don't know. I I will say that if

somebody associated with Israel and

apparently um apparently Jake Novak is

associated with Israel and some suspect

that he might be uh working closely with

them

and then I think he I think he later got

a job that was actually for Israel. Uh

so what I suspect

is that if anybody's having any contact

with somebody who has a foreign

any kind of a foreign contact that are

uh there are spooks are all over my

personal uh communication. So it would

not be legal for anybody to look at my

communications without a warrant if it

were only two Americans talking. Now,

we're both Americans in this case, but

if one of the Americans had also some

connection to a foreign country, I

imagine that they had full access to

everything I have. So, I don't know the

answer to how my private messages got

into the uh conversation, but the only

role I had was that I heard it early and

I didn't think it was true, the

allegations.

So, I'm getting credit for spotting the

early, but otherwise, I have

nothing to add to the story. Um, I was

never a part of the court case,

just wasn't part of the story. So, I

wish I could be more interesting, but

and then Matt Gase said the following to

Tucker.

Uh he said that that recently he was

offered quote a bunch of money to go to

Israel and give speeches and then after

he declined he says he got attacked as

an anti-semite

by Jonathan Greenblad at the ADL.

So, I think his point was that Israel

offers both rewards for being pro-Israel

and penalties for being uh anything but

that. [snorts]

So, anyway, I woke up to that story this

morning.

Have I ever told you that it's weird how

often I become part of the story? I

wasn't really trying to be part of that

story, but here I am.

Well, Trump at some uh one of his press

conferences he was asked about

Greenland. He said, quote, "We need

Greenland for national security. We have

to have it."

The way he talks is always in

negotiation.

We have to have it. So, if he makes it

clear that we're going to get it one way

or another, that certainly must help him

in negotiations, don't you think?

because we know the United States can

overthrow countries.

We have a pretty long history of you

know overthrowing other countries and

our hemisphere and others and you know

we call it a green revolution and we

know how it's done etc. Now presumably

the easiest country you could ever

overthrow would be Greenland because

it's so small. I mean, if you were going

to bribe or threaten people or, you

know, try to get control of a

government, I don't know how you could

do an easier one because it's so small

and it's so close. So, it looks like the

plan is just to keep squeezing until

Denmark says, "All right, we've had

enough." Or or if Greenland decides on

its own on its own that it would rather

be independent

then they can start negotiating with the

US to provide security

in return for being under some kind of

security umbrella. Now Trump says we

don't need their minerals. We're not

after them for the minerals because we

have lots of minerals. I think that's

probably true.

Now, if we had an agreement with him, I

wouldn't be surprised. If it was, we

give you security if you give us

minerals, I wouldn't be surprised. But I

do believe that he's more interested in

the security aspect because that's, you

know, it's just obviously important.

All right. So, [snorts] former CIA

director John Brandon's lawyers

apparently have been informed he's a

target of a criminal grand jury in

Florida. And the the topic is his

involvement in the Russia collusion

probe. Uh let's call it a hoax.

So, according to Just the News,

um they're trying to get it moved or

dropped or something because Florida

seems like judge shopping. He doesn't

think he'd have a good chance in Florida

courts. Maybe that's true.

But, uh it's interesting to see somebody

associated with the left being concerned

about judge shopping.

Yeah.

Um, so will we learn? Oh, my cat is

eating my charge cord. I have to get

that out of the way. No, that's not a

cat toy.

You cannot eat the charging cord.

All right. So, that would suggest that

John Brennan is in trouble because we

know that grand juries typically do

indict. So, even if he is not convicted

of anything, and I would not necessarily

predict that he would be, um, he's going

to be spending a lot of money and time

defending himself. So if you believe

that John Brennan is one of the bad

guys, you're probably pretty happy that

some an anvil is about to come down on

him, the anvil of justice, which may or

may not, as I say, get any kind of

conviction, but just being sucked into

that process is, you know, torture

enough.

And I always wonder, why does it take so

long to put a case together? Now, I

realize it's complicated, but is it

going to take two years before

there's any kind of court case? And then

is a court case going to take two years

on its own? And then are we going to

have a Democrat president or Democrat

administration that, you know, pardons

him or throws it out?

So, I don't know if they're in some kind

of a stalling strategy or what, but if

you're like me, you [snorts] don't

really expect any justice, do you? How

many of you think

that the end of the Russia collusion

hoax will be that the people involved

get prosecuted?

It just feels like we live in a world

where even if the Republicans are in

charge, it's not going to make a

difference. So, I think I'm going to I'm

going to predict that he doesn't go to

jail, but he'll be very unhappy if if

the if the indictments come through.

Usually indictments do come through,

especially from Florida. So, he he has a

point that he has less chance of Florida

than maybe someone else. All right. You

remember the story the 60 Minutes uh

delayed the publication of a story about

that famous uh El Salvador prison

and how bad the uh conditions were. Now

Barry Weiss, who's in charge of that

operation now, says they were just

holding off for a comment

uh from the administration.

Some people said, "Wait, the

administration did comment, but it

wasn't who she wanted to comment. I

think she wanted Steve Miller

specifically,

which [clears throat] would have been a

better show

if they had Steve Miller, uh, comment.

So, uh, somebody leaked the entire

episode and so today you can watch it on

social media and apparently it does

exactly what you thought it was. It was

a uh an expose of how bad the conditions

are if you go to that prison. Now, I

won't give the details of how bad it is,

but if you assume that the claims or the

allegations are true,

it would be really bad. Like really,

really bad. As in really really bad.

Now, how do you feel about that? Do you

feel really really really bad that gang

members, not all of them I assume, uh

are being tortured and raped and who

knows what in the prison. Does that

bother you?

Well, if you're a human, it should

bother you a little bit, but if you

don't like gang members, it might bother

you less. [laughter]

So remember, I've told you a number of

times

that when Trump has an option

uh of doing this or that, he always

takes the one that that is the strongest

or makes him look the strongest. So the

weak option would be, oh, we cannot use

this prison because they mistreat the

prisoners.

On a human level, you might agree that

you should not have that level of abuse

even in a prison. Totally understand

that. But what would be the strongest

path?

The strongest path would be we don't

care.

And maybe they shouldn't have done

things that put them in prison. We don't

care. So apparently there about also

related to that. There about a 100

Venezuelans who have been put in that

prison. And Judge Boseberg has said they

need to be brought back so they can

defend whether they should be going to

prison at all or deported at all. It's

only 100 people. It's not the worst

thing in the world. But let me give you

my take on this. Um

well, first let me borrow a take from

Jessica Tarlov.

So I like her her opinions better than

you do. You're gonna tell me, "But

Scott, don't you remember that time

Jessica said that thing that turned out

to be factually untrue?" To which I'm

gonna say, "Who hasn't done that?"

Do do you think I only say things that

are factually true? I try. I mean, I try

as hard as I can to only say things that

are true, but how many times have you

caught me

uh in in a factual error that I had to

even correct myself?

If [clears throat] you do this kind of

work,

you are continuously saying things that

aren't true unintentionally.

The best you can do is correct it when

you find out. So yes, Jessica Kolov

sometimes says things that turn out not

to be true, just like every single

person doing this kind of work. Uh but

what I like about her is that she often

gives me a view of things uh that's well

expressed that I had not heard before.

So you know, it's really good to just

add it to your well this person said

that file.

So on this topic, she said by a post on

X, I fail to see how the Trump

administration input, that's what Barry

Weiss said she was waiting for, would

have changed the disgusting and

heartbreaking reality of SEC, that's the

prison. Completely shameful. We send

people there. Um, perfectly reasonable

opinion.

That's a perfectly reasonable opinion.

You could disagree with it, but I think

it's reasonable to say, "Hey, this was

too far." So, here's what I would do if

I were the administration. And I don't

predict that they will do this. Because

remember, Trump takes the strong path,

even if you're pretty sure another path

would be the more, you know, let's say

reasonable or humane path.

So, if I were not Trump and I did not

consistently use that strategy, which is

actually a really good strategy because

you won't remember this topic in a few

years, but you'll definitely remember

that Trump is always the strongest

player in every game and that gives him

an advantage in negotiating and

leadership and everything else. So, if

they don't do what I'm going to suggest

right now, it's not a mistake. It's just

a different way to handle it. All right.

So, one way they could go is too bad.

Too bad. Um,

they shouldn't have been in prison.

[snorts] Um, here's what I would do.

I would say, you know, that's a pretty

good point. Things look worse than we

thought. And we're going to talk to

them. Talk to El Salvador because we

have a good relationship with them. and

we'll see uh we'll see if there's some

reforms that need to be taken.

So, if you first admit that there's some

abuse at the prison, nobody's going to

really be upset about that

because I'll bet you even American

prisons, well, I know for sure American

prisons are full of abuse.

Do you think there's nothing happening

to American prisons? American prisoners.

I mean, I hear stories about the prison

guards in America uh creating fights

just for the Roman entertainment,

right? You you've heard the stories

yourself, right? So, if you have a

prison, you also have prisoners getting

tortured. It just feels like it's built

into every prison system. Nobody wants

it. I'm not in favor of it. I would be

far happier if if all that abuse were

removed from the system. But it is a

fact that if you have a prison, there is

torture. It's just a fact. [gasps] So if

I were the administration, I would say,

"Thank you for that story. We're going

to look into it." And I'll just move on.

And I do think they should look into it.

I I do think that they should say to our

El Salvadorian

um leader, not ours, but you know that

they they should tell him to figure that

out. It's not our problem to solve, but

they should tell him to solve it. And I

think he could.

Anyway,

according to the Postm Millennial,

Trump's approval numbers have rebounded

and he's allegedly up to 50% approval

rating. I don't believe that, but you

know, polls are all over the place and

I'm not sure they're useful at this

point in any cycle, but just so you

know, there's at least one poll that

says his approval is higher than it has

been for the last three months. I don't

know. Don't believe it.

Uh, it's not that I don't believe he's

popular. It's that polls in general are

just, you know, a little bit hard to

believe in the middle of a cycle.

All right. The Pentagon has apparently

signed an agreement with Elon Musk's

company XAI

to deploy Grock, that would be the AI

across three million military and and

civilian personnel.

So again I asked now I guess this is a

special version of Grock

and uh a lot of military and civilian

personnel have it um but it's impact

level five.

I don't know what that is but it sounds

serious. Impact level five and that it

enables secure handling of controlled

unclassified information in daily

workflows.

Now, here's the thing.

Is it safe to have AI in the military

context already?

Because I told you my story about Grock

hallucinating about me. Pretty fairly

simple fact about me. Can we safely

deploy a hallucinating AI into the

military?

or has Elon Musk found a way to um you'd

have to eliminate it entirely to

eliminate it entirely in the specific

way that the military will use it

because in the way I use it is chatting

with it. But if you're not using it to

chat, does it hallucinate?

I don't know. So I have questions about

how safe it is to have a military

application of any AI whether it's Grock

or anything else when even talking to it

is

sort of iffy in terms of its facts. So I

get a big question mark on that one. You

know obviously I'm not the only person

who's thought of this and obviously they

looked into this deeply. Obviously, Elon

Musk is not going to unload some

dangerous AI into the military. So, it

seems obvious that they've solved it or

or made it not an issue the way they're

implementing it. But, I'd love to know

how they did that. That would tell you a

lot about the potential of AI and how

fast it's going to get into your robot.

Boy, this is good. Seven. Are you having

as much fun as I am?

Yeah, I've told you before this is my

favorite part of the day. And a lot of

you tell me that it's not really about

the news or my takes on things, although

sometimes you like those. It's really

just about hanging out.

And you know, that's why I enjoy it the

same way. Anyway, historian Victor Davis

Hansen is warning us that there's a

whole bunch of deep fakes made by AI of

his um of him. So, there's a whole bunch

of videos that appear to be him giving

different takes on things that are

completely fake. Now, I have to confess

that I fell for one of them. I hate when

that happens. So to me it looked real

and the opinion that he gave in what was

what turned out to be a fake video um

was interesting and so I reposted it on

X uh and somebody fairly quickly alerted

me that it was a AI fake. Now here's the

interesting part. It wasn't until I was

alerted that it was fake that I could

see that it was fake.

So on a on a quick look, totally totally

persuasive. But once somebody says,

"Hey, that's fake." You look at it, you

know, a little bit closer, you're like,

"Oh,

how did I fall for that?" Right? So the

the cracks in the fake become obvious

after you know it's a fake. And I'm a

little bit disappointed in myself that

uh that I fell for it. So, be careful if

you see any Victor Davis Hansen videos.

He tells us the only way you can know

the real ones are the source. Um, I

didn't write down what the sources are,

but if it comes from a legitimate

source, one that you know he has an

association with, it's probably real. If

it comes from some unknown weird little

uh source, probably a fake.

So, here's something I love.

Trump apparently, maybe it happened

yesterday. I'm not sure, but Trump is

either going to or already has sat down

with a bunch of American CEOs to try to

get them to do more of what he wants and

less of what they were doing.

Specifically,

he's trying to convince them that

they're overpaid.

[laughter] He mentions that directly

that they're they're making4 or $50

million a year and at the same time

they're making all that money they're

slow building

meaning whatever it is that they're

manufacturing

they might make good stuff he does say

the quality is good but that they're too

slow and that slowness of course has an

impact on the GDP and competitiveness

etc. And we know that China is really

good at building fast. So if we have a

manufacturing base that's that is slow

and we're trying to compete with China,

we're not going to do so well because

they can iterate faster, they can build

faster. So

uh now I think Elon Musk has proven to

the world that things can be a lot

faster when you're manufacturing

because people have been amazed on

several different several different

domains that when Elon Musk wants to

build something whether it's rockets or

satellites or cars or anything else that

he can get it done fast.

So, it's not impossible to be an

American manufacturer and build things

fast. You just have to, you know, really

lean into it like Elon does. So, the

first thing he's trying to do is

embarrass them. Embarrass them that if

they're taking this much money, they

better build fast. Otherwise, the United

States isn't getting their full value. I

love that. He He's not putting anybody

in jail. He's just putting pressure on

them.

I like the pressure especially because

it's he he's being transparent about it.

Second, he he's going to try to convince

them to do fewer stock buybacks. That's

where the company buys its own stock

because it doesn't have any other better

use for the money. So, it it keeps the

uh stock price up because the company

itself is buying it, but it doesn't do

much for the world. It's just good for

the stockholders. So, he's trying to get

them to use that stock, buy back money,

buy back money, and put it into American

plant and equipment.

I love that. I love that. Um, he also

wants them to pay uh smaller dividends

and use some of that money to go into

the production facilities as well. So

what he's trying to do is get American

companies to say, "You have a bunch of

money.

Not only are you overpaid, but you're

using it in the least productive way

that's good for stockholders, but it's

not good for the country as a whole."

Now, the beauty of this, if you haven't

already caught on, is how in the world

do the Democrats complain about this?

If you're a Democrat, can you complain

that Trump says CEOs are overpaid?

No, you can't. You can't complain about

that. If you're a If you're a Democrat,

can you complain that Trump is trying to

put them uh have them invest their money

in things that would create more

American jobs and prosperity at the

expense of the stockholders? Are you

going to complain about that? No. No,

you can't complain about that. How about

the same thing with dividends?

Can you complain that he says you should

do less for the stockholders and more

for building plants, which would be, you

know, good for the middle class, good

for workers. You can't complain about

that and none of it is illegal.

But let me ask you this. Could any other

president pull this off?

that this is a form of leadership that

I've never seen before and is just so

impressive to me. Will it work? Will it

make a difference? I don't know. But is

it worth a try?

Definitely. Now, if you're a CEO and you

were happy doing your dividends that

that kept you in your job, you were

happy doing your stock buybacks that

kept you in your job. But now Trump is

leaning on you in a very public way. So

those same companies can say

stockholders

uh the president has asked us to put

more emphasis on our building and

building fast and less emphasis on

dividends. So this year we're going to

skip the dividend and we're going to

build faster.

Will they keep their job if they do

that? Probably.

Probably. So Trump is giving them cover

by putting pressure on them because now

they can say, "Well, we're pressured."

And that gives them the ability to do

what probably is good for the country,

which is put more money into

manufacturing.

[snorts] So like I say, will it work? I

don't know. Is it a good idea? Yes.

Yes. Is he implementing it, you know, in

a good way? Yes. It's pretty impressive.

I I I've never heard of anybody even

suggesting to do this. I've never heard

of it.

All right. So,

that's leadership people.

So, here's a complicated story that

let's see if I can summarize. So,

there's a Georgia senator

who apparently there's some some kind of

hearings or something. And we've learned

that Nathan Wade, remember he was the

boyfriend of Fonnie Willis. So, if

[snorts] you don't know the whole

background of this, it's too complicated

to get into it, but most of you probably

know the story that uh Fonnie was one of

the people who went after Trump

allegedly

in a lawfare way as opposed to a

reasonable way.

And then the question that popped up

from that is, was the White House ever

involved in trying to lawfare Trump,

which would be highly

inappropriate? I don't know how illegal

it would be, but it would certainly

change our understanding of the story.

So, is it true that Trump got in trouble

just because he did some bad things and

the Department of Justice was just doing

what it does? goes after people who do

bad things, or was it part of a larger

White House plot that had many, many

moving parts to essentially overthrow

the sitting government? Well, here's

what we just found out.

that Nathan Wade, remember the boyfriend

of uh of uh Fonnie Wills and deeply

involved in the prosecution of Trump.

According to the Wall Street apes, I saw

a post on that. I'll just read what the

Wall Street apes said, that Wade had an

8-hour phone call at the White House the

same day that Jack Smith was appointed

as the guy to go after Trump.

So that would suggest

that there was a connection between the

efforts. [snorts]

Um, and according to the Georgia senator

who did a video on this, I didn't write

down his name, uh, Nathan Wade led an

entire emissary of people from Willis's

office out to Washington DC to meet with

the J6 committee. So the J6 committee

were the the people were trying to

prosecute all the J6 stuff and get Trump

in trouble for it, etc. And he said that

nobody can recall what they did. They've

all got amnesia, but they went out there

and they had significant multi-day

meetings. Right? So it was an emissary

of people. Nathan Wade led them and they

were there for days at the very

beginning of the Jack Smith looking into

Trump stuff.

And uh on November 18th, Nath Nathan

Wade had a phone call with the White

House that allegedly was an 8hour phone

call according to Wade's billing. Now, I

wouldn't necessarily trust his billing

to be accurate because he might have

overbuild, but there's clear clear

indication that uh there was collusion,

whether illegal or not. I'm not saying

it was illegal, but there's clear

indication that there was coordination

between the White House and the

Department of Justice going after Trump.

So, um, it's starting to look

like, uh, the if you suspected that the

White House was beyond behind what would

be

just terrible behavior to go after

Trump, it does look like that's the

case, but we'll learn more about that.

So, I got I got two responses on X from

Elon Musk yesterday.

um on the same topic.

So he's got this theory

that uh robots and AI will make money

worthless in the future because

everything will be free. Do you believe

that? So let me tell you the concept. So

I did a post on X about the the idea of

giving every baby $1,000 and then

waiting 18 years and it'll be worth

something when they're 18. And I asked

the question, will money even have value

when kids turn 18? And uh Elon weighed

in and in response to will money even

have value when kids turn 18, he said

that civilization will either be gone or

AI and robotics will eliminate scarcity.

Either way, money won't matter.

Wow. And [snorts] then before that uh I

had I'd uh reiterated his opinion about

that uh before he had posted that. I

knew his opinion and he agreed that I'd

sort of got it right. He said pretty

much it will happen quickly. So it will

happen quickly meaning that money will

become worthless.

Now I don't know what quickly means in

this context but it obviously means

sooner than 18 years.

And so I thought it would be useful to

you

to kind of work through how that could

be possible. Are you ready? Now I don't

know the full answer to this and I'm not

yet agreeing with his take, but but let

me give you just a little bit of insight

into why it might be true.

So let's take one example. Uh your car

insurance.

How much is your car insurance?

Well, if if cars become almost entirely

autonomous

so that the humans are not driving, do

you think you'll still have car

insurance

or will it be so rare that an autonomous

car has an accident that they just wrap

that into the sale price of the car? For

example, what if in five years you

wouldn't buy you would never use a car

that you had to steer because it would

be too dangerous? You could if you

wanted to, but if you bought one that

was autonomous, the dealer, let's say

it's Tesla, just adds $1,000 to the

purchase price and says, "We will cover

the insurance no matter what happens if

it's the car's fault."

Then you never pay insurance again. You

know, maybe you paid $1,000 on the price

of the car, but you never had to pay it

again. What happens when uh robots and

AI are your doctor? Well, maybe your

your cost of healthcare goes way down

because you don't have as many human

helpers. Maybe.

But what about other production? Would

it be possible that food prices would go

down if you had AI and robots running

the farms? Well, it depends how much the

robots cost, right? But do we get to the

point where robots can build other

robots?

And if they did, where would those

robots get the raw materials

to build the other robots?

Wouldn't somebody own those? Well,

robots could be mining the raw

materials, basically just taking it out

of the dirt and then turning it into

other robots. And then there was other

robots could build other robots and you

and I would never pay anything. Pretty

soon there'd be, you know, a million

robots and it was and it was completely

created out of stuff from the ground.

Literally stuff in the ground.

So,

[snorts]

uh, here's the part that I can't get

past.

Won't there always be something that is

scarce?

I can see how products would not become

scarce because robots would infinitely

build them and they would build

themselves and they're just using

material that that's sitting in the

ground. But doesn't somebody own the

ground?

You know, is there enough public land

that even the raw earth materials could

be mined from that?

So, as long as somebody can hoard

anything that's scarce and land is the

most scarce thing, then how can you get

to zero cost? Because the people who own

the land can say, "Sure, you can build a

free house on my land, but you're going

to have to pay me for the land,

right?"

Or they could say, "Yeah, you robots can

mine some materials from the land, but I

own the land, so you're going to have to

pay me for access to the land." Or

or is there so much public land that

they would never have to ask for private

land and the private land would be worth

nothing because there would always be

some robot willing to build an entire

entire new um apartment building

uh on somebody else's land or

[clears throat] on public land.

So, so the the question is will land

still have value or is there just so

much, you know, unused shitty land that

could be used by the robots that your

so-called valuable land

just won't be valuable.

I don't know.

>> [snorts]

>> So, I'm I can't say that I'm 100%

agreeing with the idea that money will

become worthless because everything will

be free. But you can sort of see how you

could get there. So, what happens when

the only thing a human can sell is the

one thing a robot can't do?

That's right,

No, I just mean sex in general.

Will it ever be true that you could have

a better relationship sexually with a

robot and get your oxytocin fixed?

Or

is oxytocin just a chemical and your

robot can give you an oxytocin pill and

a hand job and you'll think that's the

best sex you ever had?

Maybe.

[laughter]

I wouldn't rule it out. So, uh, I I

always think it's a fool's

well, an idiot's take to disagree with

a, uh, Elon Musk prediction for the

future.

But it does make me wonder how the

richest man in the world deals with the

fact that he may have accomplished the,

you know, the greatest, you could argue

the greatest accomplishment of all time

to be the richest person in the world

and then money becomes worthless.

like what would that do to him?

So, [snorts] I'm not going to rule out

that money could become worthless. It

It's a little beyond my mental capacity

to visualize the exact path that it

happens. And I would love to see an

interview with Elon in which somebody

who knows more than I do about this

topic says, "Okay, but how about this?"

You know, what would what would this be

worth? What about human? You know, would

you not pay for human

company? Now, remember when I said that

real estate would always have a value?

Would it if our population continues to

decline?

Would it if you didn't need it for

farming because we were so we were so

good at farming that you needed 10% of

the farmland that we use now because the

robots and the AI are doing underground

indoor farms. Whatever it is possible.

All right. So, I'd like to double back

on a story that you already know about.

I saw a clip.

I think it was on the Maze account on X

that says uh where Rob Reiner was on

some interview and he said that Russian

election interference which he believed

was true was way worse than if they had

attacked us with an atomic bomb.

And I'm reminded

that at some point it's not too soon

and I think we're getting close to that

point. Rob Reiner was not a good guy.

He was not a good guy. And he was if if

you consider only his uh if the only

thing you look at is his involvement in

the Russia collusion hoax and his

collusion with the heads of the

intelligence agencies to do that, John

Brennan, etc. He's one of the worst

people that's ever lived. He's not just

a bad guy. He's not just an, you know,

actor director who happened to get a lot

of attention. He's really bad or was.

And I feel like we're on the border of

it's not too soon. And I don't want it

to get away. I I don't want it to get

away from us that he was

he's now somebody you should have

respected. Although his movies were

excellent.

So, New York Post, Glenn Reynolds has an

article

talking about how DEI hollowed down the

generation and sapped America's promise.

Have you noticed, I've mentioned this

before, that it seems like nearly every

major company and organization in the

world, no, in the United States, uh,

became incompetent in the last several

years.

They went from, you know, you liked them

or you didn't like them. Sometimes

they're good, sometimes not. Um,

but it sort of turned into everything is

incompetent

and some people should blame DEI.

Now, that sounds kind of racist, right?

If you say, "Oh, all of our institutions

became incompetent because they allowed

too much DEI, which would suggest that

uh that the race or gender of the people

coming in or the sexual orientation

somehow made them less capable."

Now, I've never made that claim. My

claim about DEI is that there's a

numbers problem. And the numbers problem

is that if you artificially constrain

who you're willing to hire,

you're going to run out of qualified

people pretty quickly because you've

artificially constrained it. So if

everybody in the world was an Albonian

and there was no diversity at all, but

you only hired left-handed Albonians,

what would happen to the capability of

your major institutions?

Right? So there's no racism involved.

There's no sexism. There's no sexual

choice. Everybody in the world is an

Albonian.

But you've artificially said, "I'll only

hire left-handed Albonians."

You tell me, do you run out of qualified

people faster than if you said, "We'll

hire any Albonian. They just have to be

qualified." Well, when white males were

excluded from the workforce through DEI,

which is essentially what happened 30

years ago, and we're just now able to

talk about it without getting cancelled,

you guaranteed that the numbers alone

would cause mass incompetence at every

institution. And that's exactly what we

see. So, I think Glenn Reynolds is

exactly on that. The DEI did in fact gut

the uh the capability of everything. It

destroyed everything we cared about in

the United States from education to

manufacturing

to government to everything. It just

literally destroyed everything. And

again, it would have been exactly the

same if every person in the country was

an Albonian,

but you limited the hiring to only

left-handed Albonians. You get the same

outcome.

So what is different about

[clears throat] 20 2025 and now 2026 is

that he can write this article in a

major publication

and people will say all right all right

okay

you could not say this five years ago

five years ago if you submitted this

article to New York Post you think they

would have published it well the New

York Post does lean right but I don't

know if They would I feel like it would

have been too sensitive. They would have

just been accused of being racist. But

we're finally finally at a point where

uh white males in particular are less

afraid of being called racist

and that it's I think increasingly

obvious that there was a whole uh South

African situation going on in the United

States, but it's been going on for

decades. I've been talking about it for

a while, but um there there does seem to

be some kind of new freedom to talk

about it and that's good news.

Speaking of DEI, the California Globe,

Katie Grimes is writing that Governor

Nuome, I didn't know about this, but

apparently

um

did you know that California had an

equity task force

that had recommendations on how to take

land away from white farmers

and distribute it to non-white farmers

in California?

You you probably thought I said South

Africa, right? In California

recently, this is recent, the governor

was behind a task force that was trying

to figure out how to take the farms away

from white people and make it more

equitably

distributed. Now, do I think that it

would be great if farm were equitably,

you know, equitably

um available to everybody? Yeah, that'd

be great. [snorts] I I have no no

problem with that. However,

if you already have a situation where a

bunch of white farmers own own farms,

you don't want to get there by taking it

from them or forcing them to be unable

to buy farms and then just saying the

only people can have a farm from now on

until everything's equal are either

Native Americans or some other

disadvantaged group. How is that going

to turn out?

How much do you think the efficiency of

the farms is going to decrease if you

artificially say we're going to take the

experienced farmers and we're going to

block them from owning farms or decrease

their impact on the farms? But we take

these inexperienced farmers,

not for any, it's not their fault that

they're inexperienced, but we're going

to move the farms to people who uh

didn't have as much experience.

Again, it wouldn't matter if we were

talking about only Albonians.

If you take if you take the farms from

the Albonians who know how to farm and

you give [clears throat] it to the

Albonians who don't have the same

experience to farm, what is going to

happen to the price of food? It only

goes one way. You know, nobody doubts

how that's going to turn out.

And that's happening in my actual state

in the current day.

So there's no way that that is anything

but going to drive up food prices.

And I guess the report from this group

recommends the development of local

ordinances to restrict citizens

from purchasing land unless they're part

of certain minority groups. In the

United States,

in the United States, you wouldn't you

would be blocked from buying land based

on your ethnicity in 2025.

and said, "Unfucking believable."

All right. Well, here's a uh an update

on the voting machines. I've told you

before that one of my favorite sources

for following up on the allegations of

voting irregularities is the Rasmusson

reports on X.

And I don't have a sense

of what kind of allegations about the

voting machines are true and what what

ones are not true. But the allegations

themselves are really interesting. And

here again, you can decide how much of

this is fact and how much of this is

just allegation. I do not make any

claims of fact because I don't want to

get sued. But here's what the Rasim

Incident report has summarized and

updated us. You may have heard of all

these individually, but when you see

them all in the big list, it's kind of

kind of impactful. All right. So, on X

Raspinson report writes that uh

Smartmatic that that would be the

software people were federally indicted

um in October.

So, indicted doesn't mean guilty, but

they were indicted. Then Dominion, that

would be the hardware company, was quote

sold in September under secret terms. H

wonder what that's about.

And uh the the election systems

currently in use

have reportedly been newly examined by

feds and are apparently full of illegal

Chinese sourced components.

So again, that doesn't mean that the

machines are rigged, but you have to

wonder why they have Chinese components

in them that might make that possible.

So remember, these are allegations. I

don't know what's true.

And allegedly, according to Rasmusen

reports, uh Tulsi Gabbard is being

prevented from publishing her completed

official report

about the voting machines. I don't know

why she would be prevented or who would

prevent it. The former secret

Dominion/Whawei

data center in Belgrade. Do you remember

that part of the story? So the

allegation is that somehow the rigging

of the machines

was executed by going through some kind

of Belgrade

server system that that somehow rigged

the election. Um but now the key

engineers hold on

and that and that quote secret data

center in Belgrade that officially and

emphatically did not exist. I guess at

one point the government said it doesn't

even exist. Turns out it did exist and

it was allegedly disabled by US

government employees.

I don't know what they were employees

of.

Were they employees of

some intelligence agency? I don't know.

But US employ US government employees

disabled it just prior to the 2024

election and it has now been dismantled.

So I've heard the claim that that's the

only reason that Trump won

is that these government employees

disabled the mechanism for the cheating.

Again, I don't know that that's a fact.

It's an allegation

and apparently the engineers that were

allegedly involved in that uh are joined

by this former Venezuelan intelligence

person who is now in jail. Okay, that

makes him suspicious but and that

they're collectively they're cooperating

with federal authorities.

So that would suggest that the feds are

on the trail of finding out if or if not

those machines were were being rigged.

Um again this is Rasmusen reports their

summary says after rejecting over two

dozen traders our threeletter agencies

are now supposedly helping find bad

election actors but they remain

unreliable because their own direct

criminal involvement. So what that's

saying is that there is in fact some

effort to get to the bottom of this but

there are too many people who are in

charge of getting to the bottom of it

who are at the bottom of it. So they

would slow down things so that they

their own bad behavior does not get

caught. And even so some of the bad

people have been weeded out there are so

many of them that they may still be

holding up the uh investigation. True. I

don't know.

Official state and court aduced evidence

of election fraud has been compiled now

for every one of the 2020 uh

battleground states, but cowardice and

corruption within the American judiciary

has completely paralyzed justice.

So again, the the allegation is that the

evidence of a rigged election are there,

but that the people whose job it is to

make something of it are either afraid

or unable to do something with it. I

don't know.

The Department of Justice has been

forced to sue multiple states to require

their compliance with federal election

laws.

Uh that part is true, but again we don't

know if their lack of compliance is

evidence of rigging or it's just more

more of the Democrat plus Republican

fighting stuff.

There's a there's a weirdness about the

Tina Peters case in Colorado.

Uh and then there's an American or Mada

that's in that's setting off of

Venezuela. So, could it be true

that one of the things that Trump wants

from Venezuela is a full accounting of

their alleged role in rigging our

systems?

What if

Maduro said, "Wait, wait, don't attack.

I've got an offer. I'll tell you

everything I know about a rigging of

your systems." If it if in fact there

was any breaking I'll tell you

everything we know if you don't attack

my country.

What would Trump do? What does Trump

want more than proof positive that the

2020 20 election was rigged?

Probably nothing. It's hard to Well, I'm

exaggerating, but it would certainly be

something he'd want a lot. Would he

wanted enough to assemble an armada?

Maybe,

maybe because I got to tell you, it's

pretty important to me. Uh I would say

it's critically important to me to get

to the bottom of whether our our

elections were rigged.

And do you remember how easy it was for

me to penetrate this the truth?

Let me say it again. With no knowledge

whatsoever about any of these specific

allegations, I have been asking for some

time in public, and you've seen it. What

was the purpose of electronic voting

machines?

They're not cheaper. They're not faster.

They're not easier. They're not more

reliable.

So, why do we have them?

[snorts] Do you think anybody has ever

even attempted to answer that question?

Nope.

Nobody has even attempted to answer the

question why they even exist in the

first place. Because the only reason I

can think of is to make it easier to

steal an election.

If anybody can come up with even one

potential reason beyond that, then I

would say, well, okay, you know, may

maybe they use it because it's got this

advantage. But there is no advantage.

Not faster, not cheaper, not easier, not

more reliable.

So, do you think we'll ever get to the

bottom of that? Probably not. All right,

here's a fun story. You know that Eric

Swallwell is running for governor of

California

and Joel Gilbert of the Gateway Pundit

is informing us that uh he might have a

little problem running for governor

because he's not a resident.

That's right.

Eric Swallwell

is not a resident of California

and he's running for governor now. He

says he is, but the only registered

address he has is his lawyer's office.

And apparently it's legal to use your

lawyer's office as your address if what

you're doing is, you know, registering

for the process, I guess. But you still

have to have an actual address.

And uh Bill Py I think was the the one

who outed the fact that there's no

record anywhere of him having a

California address.

And of course he's been asked so what's

your California address and he cannot

answer the question.

Now you might argue he has security

concerns which would be a real concern

but he's not saying that. He's simply

not answering the question. Do you have

a California address? I'm

I I think I believe that he does not.

And it's unfucking believable

that Democrats

can can go as far as they do

when it when he doesn't even have an

address here.

Now, maybe we're wrong, you know, maybe

for whatever weird reason he just

doesn't want to answer the question or

whatever.

>> [laughter]

>> But it does seem pretty clear he doesn't

have an address.

Anyway, so in some ways, Nuome would be

I'm sorry, Swallwell would be perfect

for governor of California because he uh

he sounds like kind of a crook. And I

guess he's also very deep in personal

debt.

So

he's mismanaged his own money. He's deep

in debt, which makes him very bribable.

And he doesn't have an address in

California is running for governor.

All right, good luck.

[sighs and gasps]

So,

I guess buried in the Epstein files or

some kind of email chain that shows that

the Department of Justice is getting

stonewalled by the FBI.

I guess Mike Benz uh and Gumby for

Christ have been writing about this on

X,

but I put the Dilbert filter on this

situation and it turns out that there

are so many digital files and so many

records about Epstein that if you're at

the Department of Justice and you say,

"Hey, you know, give us these records."

There's nobody who can do it. is simply

too big a job and they don't have a

system that has already organized the

files. So if they don't have a system

that has already organized the files,

you just have this enormous bunch of

files and if somebody asks you for

something specific, you just wouldn't

have any way to get it. So the Dilbert

filter is that incompetence or the

inability to do the task might be behind

what's taking so long. You know, we've

all automatically assumed that everybody

involved is very capable.

And if they're very capable

and they don't give you the files, then

you assume that they have a reason for

not giving you the files. But it's

entirely possible again using the

Dilbert filter that at least part of the

reason for the delay is that they don't

know how to handle that many files and

they don't know don't know how to solve

that problem. Maybe

[snorts] not impossible.

All right. Did you know that the US

exports of LNG that's liquid natural gas

to Europe are way up? Uh but the Russian

natural gas that arrives by pipeline to

Europe is down.

But the surprising part of the story is

wait what? Are you telling me that

Europe is still buying natural gas from

Russia at the same time they're funding

a war against Russia?

How in the world is it possible

that they're still buying Russian gas

at the same time they're funding a war

against Russia?

Well, part of the answer is that they're

based on long-term contracts.

Okay, but is that good enough? And some

of those long-term contracts are running

out at the end of this year.

So allegedly the amount of gas that

Europe gets from Russia will go way down

and the liquid natural gas from the US

will continue to increase. So it does

look like Trump is winning because we're

selling more energy to Europe. We're not

funding the war at the moment and Europe

is going to have to wean itself off of

Russian gas real soon. Um, and where are

they going to get their alternative?

They're going to have to get it from us.

So, could it be that Russia might get

more flexible when their their source of

money, which is the gas, uh, you know,

gets cut in half fairly abruptly. So it

might be that just waiting for the uh

the changes in energy markets is why we

have to wait to get any kind of a deal

there. But as you know, Trump has been

seizing some oil tankers. Now oil is

different from liquid natural gas, but

he's been seizing some of those

Venezuelan bound tankers. I guess we got

three of them. Maybe we'll get some

more. And he says he's going to keep the

oil that we seize, but he's also going

to keep the ships.

And I asked Brock,

could you convert the ships that he's

seizing into liquid natural gas um ships

because that's the way it's shipped.

It's shipped on a a special ship. Now,

Grock said, and it disappointed me, that

it would be too hard to do that because

the ships that are made for transporting

liquid natural gas have different holes.

So, you would there wouldn't be anything

left of the ship if you tried to

retrofit it. You'd have to take

everything out. You'd have to you'd have

to redo redo the hole and add all kinds

of special equipment. So, economically,

it would never make sense to convert

them to liquid natural gas. But that

would have been funny.

It would have been funny if we could

just use them for liquid natural gas,

but we can't.

Um,

two quick stories and I'll be done.

So, I saw a post by C3 that Elon Musk

was agreeing with. Uh, he says the

following. You are taxed and then after

you're taxed, the government sends $300

billion of your tax money to fund

college faculties. I didn't know that.

$300 billion of my tax money goes to

fund college faculties.

College faculties are 90% Democrats.

So 90% of political donations from

faculties go to Democrat politicians

and essentially Americans are forced to

pay Democrats.

So without your approval bunch of money

goes to Democrat faculties and then they

in turn donate a bunch of money to

politics but only to Democrat

candidates. So in effect, we're being

forced to fund Democrats

and Elon Elon agreed to that. Well, that

seems sub-optimal.

And then lastly, Breitbart News is

reporting that Japan

is trying to tighten up their their uh

rules for becoming a resident of Japan.

So, it used to be you had to live there

for five years, but they're going to

change it to 10. And you have to be

proficient in Japanese, the language, or

you cannot become a citizen. You know, I

think Japan has a pretty good chance of

survival,

because they're more badass about

immigration.

Um, but any country that's not totally

badass about immigration, as in limiting

it, is probably doomed

for all the obvious reasons. All right,

people. That's all I got for today. I'm

going to sign off, get some breakfast.

Um, I'm going to take a final sip of

water

and tell me, did you like the show

today? And if you did, what part did you

like?

Did I do anything right today?

[snorts] I'll just stay on for another

minute to look at your comments.

stomach.

All right, that looks like you enjoyed

yourselves.

That's all I ask.

All right, thanks people.

I will see you tomorrow.