Episode 3059 CWSA 01/01/26

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Well, let's check in on the news.

It's the first day of the year.

If you don't have your Dilbert calendar, believe it or not, you could still currently get one by the end of I probably just take a few days.

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Well, there's a new robotic skin for robots.

So, researchers have developed a neuromorphic robotic electronic skin.

So, apparently the skin that you put on your robot could judge intensity, danger, and injury risk.

So, do you think that's going to be the killer app for robot skin?

When you get a robot with skin just because it's easier at identifying pain, it seems mean to the robot.

I think it's slightly more slightly more likely that the killer app will be sex because it's no fun to have sex with a robot if you're just banging metal.

But what if the robot could feel every every sensation?

Are you telling me that if you made the robot soft enough and you gave it a skin so it could it could act as though you're doing something good to it?

Like are you are you telling me that's not the killer app?

Of course it is.

Of course it is.

But do you know why uh the robot industry keeps talking about hands, you know, really good hands and they keep talking about um you know, stuff like but what they're not talking about because they can't do it is real intelligence.

So we'll see what happens from that.

There there's an article in Arts Technica talking about how this might be the year that uh AI gets sort of I won't say debunked but that the skepticism about AI will be a little more obvious.

So after we've got what two years of AI and it still can't do actual generic reasoning.

So but it's got good hands.

It could do some results.

It might have good skin, but it can't get past hallucinations and doesn't look like there's any way to do it that we know of.

If there was a way to do it, meaning make the AI actually intelligent like we want it to be, you would already see it.

There's no way you wouldn't have seen it by now.

So, u I think the rest of the world is catching up with what is hype and what is real.

Now, I'm going to take some credit for being one of the first people to say after I played with the large language models a little bit.

I was one of the first people to say, "Uhoh, this doesn't look like it could ever have a path to general reason." And now I would say that I went from something like, you know, in the 5% of opinions to more like the 75%.

So I'm I'm going to take a win for that prediction.

Tesla apparently is now going to offer a car rental service in Michigan that has no dealers and no middlemen.

And for $60 a day, you could barely just go in and get your get your vehicle.

You probably use an app or something to to re reserve it.

But why wouldn't you do that?

If I had a rental company near me where I didn't have to talk to anybody at the counter and for $60 I could go make get a self-driving car.

It wouldn't matter if I had a regular car.

I would still rent the car.

because the self-driving car would be so much better.

Apparently, it's limited to where it could go and we don't know if there'll be others, but it seems like one of the best ideas Teslas have renting a self-driving car without the middleman.

So remember my skepticism about the story that Ukraine had tried to kill Putin by bombing his residence.

You remember what I said about that?

I said there's something wrong with this story.

This doesn't look right.

Um because Ukraine would have certainly known he wasn't there.

So why would he do it?

And now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that uh you could that according to the US intelligence people there was no attack on his residence that was made up.

And so uh what they do say is that something was attacked deep in Russia but it wasn't the residence and it wasn't wasn't even that close.

So, did you wonder about the fact there were never any photos?

You never saw a photo of the damage.

Now, maybe that was for security reasons.

But, you know, when I said it was a false flag, people questioned me and maybe you're right about that.

But there's only one thing better than a false flag.

It would be a false flag that never happened because then Putin gets to claim something happened without any damage.

Nobody died.

He can just say, "Oh, uh, let's let's just say he attacked my residence." And then he's he's got a uh he's got a little more propaganda for attacking back.

Yeah.

So, I don't think I don't think it was a planned false flag.

I think it was an opportunistic false flag that once something blew up nearby, somebody had the idea, hey, why don't we say he attacked the residents?

Propaganda.

So, I saw an interview with uh the founder of Andrew, Palmer Lucky, and he was talking about the risk of China infiltrating your hardware.

Here's something I didn't know.

There were multiple times we discovered actual wiretap electronics and product samples we were given.

So apparently China gives them samples of stuff and we look at it is literally wiretap.

He said the uh the risks apply to everything that's made with Chinese components from computers, servers, phones and drones.

He said the super micro incident in the United States where certain server farms had Chinese components.

Here's the fun part.

Chinese components smaller than a grain of rice were stealing very sensitive information from the computer.

And then he asked, "How many Chinese computers exist in critical utilities and infrastructure and military?" He reckons millions.

At least millions.

So, here's another example where whatever you thought was how bad it was and the the it that I'm talking about is fraud or debt or anything else.

As soon as you think you know how bad it was, you find out it's a million times worse.

A million times worse.

I I would not have even been able to imagine that they had put components the size of a grain of rice in everything they shipped.

So that's a that's a wakeup call.

Well, speaking of that, in China, uh, according to Newsmax, Trump is saying that we set a world record in attracting investment to the United States and that we attracted more more investment to the US than China attracted.

And he says that's entirely the view of tariffs.

Now, I think it's true that the the recent um surge in investments is entirely because of tariffs.

So, I'm going to give him the yes on that.

But you might remember that in around 2018 when I lost my stepson to Fenton that I started persuading uh as hard as I could that China was unsafe for business.

Now I think that made a dent.

Um so I think there was a priming that happened so that the businesses were already disincclined to put their money there if they had a choice of putting it somewhere else.

So between the persuasion that China is unsafe for business, which was uh it started out as me just saying it and people telling me I was crazy.

Almost nobody agreed.

And there were a few people who knew what China was up to that did agree that China was stealing all our IP and spying on us and had bad intentions.

But for the most part, people said, "Scott, Scott, Scott, you know, there's no way this spigot is going to get turned off.

There will only be more investment in China." And I disagreed.

So here we are.

The investment in the US seems to be far exceeding that in China at the moment.

But I will agree that the tariffs are the prime reason for that at the moment.

So I saw a uh post by by hold Mars on X and it started with why do people believe that taxing billionaires which is what California wants to do uh more is suddenly going to fix all our problems.

And I've been waiting for this.

somebody finally did the math.

So, if you do the math and you took the top six billionaires in California uh and you you took uh 5% of the wealth, how much would you get?

Well, you'd get about $94 billion.

That means the deficit the deficit would be 1.7 trillion instead of 1.8.

Now, that that would be for the whole country, I think, not for California.

Um, so there's actually no mathematical way that taxing the billionaires gets us to a some kind of stable situation.

At best, you could bring down the uh the deficit for one year.

That's it.

And you'd be right back to where you were.

Now, the fact that Ro Kana was pushing this idea was really disappointing because, as I've said, I thought he was one of the smart ones, but it looks like maybe he's getting talked out of it a little bit by the people who are clearly smarter than he is.

And now he's in favor of doing some kind of hearing in in California to find out where all the fraud was.

And I would ask you this, when does a hearing ever fix anything?

And apparently this put him in sharp uh conflict with Governor Nuome who I read today had answers for all the missing money.

So according to Nuome, according to a post on axe, uh all of those billions of dollars that people say are missing are not missing at all.

No, that's fake news.

They know exactly where the money is.

The uh the bullet trains on track and nothing went wrong and all the money was well spent.

Things would be far worse if they didn't have the money.

So you think that nothing you think nothing got better, but you would argue that it would have been much worse without all that money.

Now, how in the world can he run for president with these, let's say, allegations over?

Maybe he just lies.

Yeah, maybe that just works every time.

Maybe all you have to do is that's not true.

You just make it enough.

And that might be enough because we've grown for years with not knowing the truth about anything.

Why would that change now?

So there's some thinking that Roan wants to run for president.

So that will put him in conflict with Nuome and Newsome's got allegations some.

Well, would you be surprised?

I think the answer is no.

that the uh that the fraud is worse than you thought.

According to Wall Street apes, Minnesota has uncovered a new scam where regular homes are being registered as assisted living facilities, but they're fakes.

Who is surprised at that?

Or that they're receiving 15 times the payments of other programs.

They got all these shell companies and uh basically the whole thing is fraudulent.

I'm not surprised.

As I've told you many times now, if it's possible to steal and a lot of people are involved and there's a lot of money involved, there will be fraud every time.

So, this should have been something we could have seen from a mile away.

Here's some more fagness.

According to unusual whales on X, the US ended it 2025 with the largest one-year drop in homicides ever recorded.

Do you believe that?

Do you believe that 2025 was the biggest one-year drop in homicides?

Well, um I'm getting some people saying there's no sound, but I think they're taking one of you who has my text um text me right now and there's no problem with that sound.

But okay, that's what I thought.

But it seems to me in our fraudulent world that uh the odds of the data being fake is much higher than the odds that the we set record in reductions of a murder.

What do you think?

Do you think it's even likely that this is true?

Well, you know, it could be.

Maybe.

But when we see that every other it seems like every other source of data is fake.

Did we not know did we not know that uh the police department were somehow faking their data?

I don't know how you'd fake murder, but I don't believe it.

Might be true.

All right.

Here's a here's a take that you couldn't make a couple of years ago, but now it's happening.

Um, according to a user named Taya on X, Harvard actually put in writing, it's a policy of sending white men to the bottom of the pile when considering, you know, uh, admissions, etc.

Now, um, and says they deserve everything that's coming, but that's not going too hard.

Uh, a user named Hunter Ash, who is evidently a white man on X, he said, "If if Harvard hates my people, I want it leveled to the ground.

They produce useful output, but clearly they'll do their best to direct any power those results produce against me.

So I'm against them.

We are not obligated to fund our open and explicit enemies.

Wow.

You know what?

He con he convinced me that if Harvard went out of business tomorrow that I would be better off because because they're literally my enemy.

They have a very clear intention um of destroying the white man demographic forever.

So why should I ever allow them to make even, you know, one inch of progress?

So yes, I am completely in favor of Harvard going out of business.

All right.

Um I saw a post by William Wolf on the same topic.

He said that white guilt has been one of the most destructive forces of the 21st century.

Here's what you couldn't say a little while ago, but you can say it now.

You could say now that um much of the uh progress of humankind came from very smart white people working very hard.

I am not a scientist.

So I've never invented anything that changed the world.

Right?

So I'm not taking credit for being a white guy just because other white guys did good stuff.

Nevertheless, it is a fact that white guys contributed a lot to, you know, civilization.

Now, not to take anything away from uh some other demographic groups, but remember, I'm not claiming any kind of credit for being a white guy.

You know, what I did, I'm proud of what I did, but I didn't invent the microchip, you know, and neither did you.

So if you took away and this is what's happening.

If you use DEI to stunt the progress of white men just purely mathematically you're going to destroy civilization or you're going to degrade it back to a level that we none of us would want to live in.

So I think you can say that now that the cost of DEI is not that it just set back a generation.

Well, I would say several generations of white men.

It's just that I don't think people understand that there was a very small percentage of white men who were responsible for a lot of problems.

Could somebody put in the comments that the sound is fine, so shut the up about the sound?

Please, in the comments, just tell these these people that it's working.

There there might be one of the platforms that's not working.

So if they have to change platforms, go ahead and do it.

But there's nothing wrong with the sound.

So there's nothing that's going to happen on my end that will change what we're doing.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um have you noticed on X that Elon Musk has given a new nickname to Tim Walsh?

He calls him trader Tim.

Trader Tim.

Thank you.

Um I think it's techie.

And the reason he's a traitor goes beyond whether he's you know just involved in uh the fraud, but that the fraud would go to Somalian terrorists.

And I do wonder about all of his paid trips to China when he was younger.

There's no way that that was just innocent.

There's no way that was innocent travel to China.

He didn't pay for it and they were obviously using him as a as a tool or worse.

I mean, at the very least, he was a tool.

Now, let's I I do think that Elon is on the right track and there will be two hearings coming up in January 7th.

the Min Minneapolis uh for the Minnesota State Reps will be talking to who?

The oversight committee.

So, the oversight committee is going to talk to Tim Wall and Keith Ellison.

That won't be till February.

Now, I'm not sure is has anybody uh had the experience of watching the oversight committee fix anything?

I I don't know if they do.

Has there ever been a hearing or an oversight meeting in which they had a problem and then they fixed it?

I don't think so.

So, I'm not optimistic that'll make a difference.

Uh unless the only thing it does is uh is make it more obvious.

Okay.

Thank you.

Sound is good.

All right.

Um, but I will say it seems like there's no no possibility that Wal was unaware of the fraud.

Would you agree with that?

There's not really any chance he didn't know.

And somebody else pointed this out.

Few people did actually that.

Remember when Kamla got $1.2 2 billion to run and it got it got got absorbed immediately.

Don't you think uh All right, now you're just being prickly.

Uh don't you think that Democrats also steal from Democrats?

You know, what are the odds that Democrats are only stealing from, let's say, taxpayers in general?

I thought this about Soros that Soros is almost certainly getting ripped off by Democrats.

And now I also think that the DNC is almost certainly being ripped off by Democrats.

Would you agree with that?

I think you would.

You know what I'm getting tired of hearing?

I'm getting tired of seeing people on X say that the fraud we've discovered is quote the tip of the iceberg.

That doesn't help.

We're we're way past that.

Yes, of course it's the tip of the iceberg.

Of course it is.

You don't need to say it anymore.

But I saw Mike Lee based Mike Lee.

He thinks we could cut 1.5 trillion out of the budget if Congress stopped funding things that have nothing to do with that has nothing to do with Congress's powers.

And I'm starting to think that the $ 1.5 trillion number which I've seen Elon use is now going to be the assumed amount of uh fraud.

And I think that's true.

I I think Elon's persuasion is going to make the 1.5 trillion a year look like the actual number of this being stolen.

Now, I don't know if it's bigger or smaller, but I think we're I think at least the right is going to start using that as a presumed low number.

Yeah.

And Elon said it was a low number.

Well, you've been waiting for Pam Bondi to get busy, but did you know how much the Department of Justice under her has actually done?

Well, she's reporting today that they're making progress, which I'll tell you about.

Some of some of my beds could be in dry mouth, so I have to stop and sip.

So according to Bondi, 60 people have been convicted of fraud and four Minnesota scams so far and 98 have been arrested, the majority of which are of Somali descent.

But is that enough?

So the question I ask is how many people should be arrested?

Is 60 1% of the problem the tip of the iceberg or is 60 60% of the problem?

So again, I can't really tell.

Is that a good score scoreboard?

Is that what you would expect that by now there would be 60 people um just just for the Minnesota scams.

So that that doesn't even count, you know, all the Russia collusion hoax and overthrowing the government and all that.

But no prominent people yet.

And if you're like me, and I know you are, if you don't see any prominent people get indicted soon, you're going to feel like not enough happened.

Um, speaking of prominent people, so according to Just the News, the Justice Department uh, still has 5.2 million Epstein documents to review and that the Department of Justice has 400 attorneys assigned to just the Epstein review.

What would you be happier at?

Would you be happier if those 400 attorneys were immediately moved to prosecuting uh people who need to be prosecuted?

Or would you be happier that the 400 attorneys spend their days looking through useless documents that in the end we won't see any of the good stuff anyway?

And does it seem to you that the number of Epstein documents is increasing?

increasing instead of decreasing.

And I'm wondering how in the hell do the FC documents keep increasing?

Have they have the documents found a way to procreate?

Here's what I think.

I think if you leave enough Epstein documents in a room, they will start they will start having sex with each other and then they will produce offspring which are like the new documents that they keep finding.

So every time they open the door, they're like, "Whoa, what have you been up to?

Looks like a lot more lot more documents in here than last time." So unless the documents have learned how to reproduce, this looks suspiciously like an attempt to slow things down until we, you know, run out of steam.

So I don't trust anything about the FC documents.

Well, speaking of scams, all burpy.

Speaking of scams, the Virgin Islands are suing Meta because they claim that Meta allowed a bunch of scam ads on their platform that scammed lots of people out of money.

And the reason that they allowed it allegedly is because Meta made a lot of money by running the ads for the scams.

Do you believe that?

Do you believe that the reason they didn't take the ads down is not because they didn't know they were scams, but because they made a lot of money running the ads?

Well, apparently a lot of money was involved, but that doesn't make us know their thinking.

Um, what they claim is that they had an internal review process that sort of prevented them from taking down more than they did, I guess.

But we'll see.

All right.

According to Climate Realism, there's a publication called The Listest um that wrote an article last week titled, "The poor are in a very bad state.

Climate change accelerates California's cost of living crisis.

So, believe it or not, even today, a publication is claiming that the prices in California are up not because of the policies, not because the policies about climate change, but because of climate change itself, for which I believe there is no evidence whatsoever.

Uh, it makes me wonder, do the people who write those articles know they're full of and they're just trying to fool you, or are they actually so far inside a bubble that they think that the prices are up because of climate change?

Do they really believe that?

Really?

Yeah, I'm pretty deep inside my bubble, but come on.

I thought we're past that.

Meanwhile, along the same lines, according to the no trick zone, uh Europe is getting ready for more censorship over climate science and energy.

So, apparently they're they're preparing to go hard on censorship if you say something about climate or energy science that they deem not true.

What?

How do they know what's true?

What makes the European Union the experts on what's true on climate?

There are plenty of people who are also experts who say that uh you know it's not the crisis that we thought it was.

So weirdly Europe believes that more censorship of the truth will save the world.

Do they really or is it just a way to control the big platforms in the United States?

Do they really think really that more censorship on that topic is going to be good for us?

It's weird.

All right.

So, as you know, Jack Smith, that special counsel, is that what he was?

He's being grilled over the alleged lawfare against Trump.

And he was at a house deposition.

and they asked him uh he was asked at the deposition, "Did you develop evidence that Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on January 6?" And he did not say yes.

So that's a tell.

He did not say they had evidence, but instead he went with a narrative.

And the narrative is like this.

that Trump was free to say that he believed the election was rigged.

That would just be free speech.

But according to Jack Smith, Trump was not free to violate federal law and use knowingly false statements about election fraud to target a lawful government function.

Now, do you see what's wrong with that statement?

His his evidence was based on his own ability to read a mind because how would he know what Trump believed about the election?

In my opinion, Trump genuinely believed, as I do, that the election was rigged.

Now, even the fact that people may have acted on that, that would still be free speech, right?

because there's no evidence that he did it for the purpose of targeting a lawful government function.

There's every bit of evidence he did it because he believed it was true that the election was rigged.

And as we get further and further into, you know, the post election environment, it does look like he was right.

So, not only was he right, but he had every reason to believe he was right.

But Jack Smith is defending his team because they could read his mind and find out that his real intent was to overthrow the government and that somehow he knew it was a legal election or a non-drugged election.

So the word knowingly was always the biggest part of the hoax.

the the January 6 hoax, I'm going to call it a hoax, that there was an insurrection, depended entirely on believing that you could read Trump's mind and that the things he was saying he knew not to be true.

Even while they looked true to me, it looks like he was completely uh accurate.

And there was there's no evidence whatsoever that he thought that was a clean election.

None.

So, we'll see where that goes.

Well, Eric Swallwell, who you might know as the person who has the worst take in every situation, he's running for governor of California, and if he becomes governor, he promises he'll make sure federal agents are charged with quote kidnapping and assault and will take away their driver's licenses.

that that that guy has the worst take on everything.

Take away ISIS driver's licenses.

That's just absurd.

But at least he's consistent.

All right, speaking of consistent, you probably know that uh Elon's building a giant AI factory called Micro Harder with two heart two Rs at the end to uh to basically crush Microsoft.

So remember when I told you I guess it has 100,000 supercomputers in it or will and he's going to train Grock so hard they can do what Microsoft can do um just by asking it to do it I guess.

So, remember when I told you years ago that smartphones would become just a dumb phone that could do AI and that the phone would just be a screen and a w a some kind of wireless thing and then uh sound and Elon confirmed that on one of his podcasts that he sees he sees someday that the phone is has no apps.

is just an AI.

And I think this micro harder is that.

So when when he was asked if he would build a phone, he didn't say yes because I don't think he thinks phones are the future.

I think he thinks this is the future.

So there's a nonzero chance if this works that uh the entire smartphone industry will become whatever Elon wants it to and he'll own this.

And that would just be one thing he did.

Imagine having so many accomplishments that replacing smartphones with entirely new technology uh would just be one of the things he did.

That's just one thing.

So, I guess the US military, was it the other day, uh, did strikes on three more alleged narco terrorist vessels and they were traveling as a convoy, so he took them all out.

You know, I don't know about you, but my empathy for anybody else is way down.

I I don't know if it's all the fraud or what it's probably the fraud, but when I see this narco boat was blown up, you know, I think there was a time when I might have been thinking, oh, you know, maybe a little more due process would be good or do we have to do it this way?

Because I would just have empathy.

But now I don't.

And now I see when I see that three of them were blown up, I'm like, yeah, why not four?

Four would be better than three.

Is anybody having that?

Is anybody having that experience that your empathy is way down?

I don't want it to be, but events seem to be taking over.

Anyway, over in Iran, it's been several days of street protests that are pretty aggressive and I guess uh some government entities are being attacked.

And uh the question I wonder is is this a color revolution or is this entirely um organic?

Do you think Iran is having an organic revolution or of course it's our intelligence people with MSAD, you know, doing the usual color revolution stuff?

Because doesn't every color revolution involve mobilizing people for the streets?

But the part that they don't seem to be able to do is controlling the local press.

So I don't think that's a thing, right?

I don't think anybody's co-opted the local press to say bad things about Goani because they would be killed instantly.

So, it doesn't have, as far as I can tell, it doesn't have every element of a color revolution, but it's got a little bit.

So, it does make me wonder how organic that is.

All right, speaking of healthcare costs, which we weren't, but let's How many of you know what a PBM is?

A pharmacy benefit manager.

Well, probably not most of you, right?

Some of you have heard of it, but I was looking at an interview with uh Mark Cuban who launched cost plus drugs that would avoid these middlemen.

So, what the PBMs are are they're intermediaries.

Let's call them middlemen that manage prescription drug benefits for health insurers, employers, and government programs.

So if you were so Medicare or Medicaid.

So the idea is that they would lower your health care costs while providing a service to the the providers of the meds.

The reality is it's a somewhat non-transparent process that puts people in the middle of gigantic money flows.

What would happen if somebody was in the middle of gigantic money flows and you did not have visibility on what they were doing in that middle?

What would happen?

Well, I would argue that 100% of the time the middlemen would find a way to suck up the extra money and not let you know that's what happened.

So they would pretend, you know, hypothetically, hypothetically, they would pretend they were lowering your costs while in reality they would find a bunch of clever ways to siphon off um a lot of the money going through.

So, I don't know if I've expressed that correctly, but uh Mark Cuban with his uh his lowcost um drug plan, the cost plus drugs, apparently cuts out the middleman.

And that is one of the reasons, if not the only reason, um that he can offer much lower costs.

Now, do you think you could get the government to remove that middleman process?

Well, probably not.

Probably remember there are enough people in the government who are being bribed by the insurance companies, bribed by the PBMs.

I I just assume there's a lot of bribery going on everywhere.

Um, I don't know if the government can fix that because we've known it for a long time, but it's really complicated and in complexity there always hides of fraud.

I've told you that before, right?

If if something has a lot of money involved and it's really complicated, somebody's stealing your money and or you know, maybe not illegally but in effect.

So, um, as Mark points out, the Democrats have no solution for this PBM thing or for or for the cost of drugs just in general.

Now, you know that Trump there's some kind of Trump pharmacy online that you could also get lowcost stuff and that might end up working with uh with Mark Cuban's uh entity.

We don't know that that's the case, but they might have something that they can work with together.

So, good on you, Mark Cuban, for for surfacing this uh situation and then actually acting on it because it's one thing to say you're going to do something.

It's another thing to to actually do it and he's actually doing it.

Do you remember when was it a few years ago that uh Bezos and uh a few other entities said they were going to try to fix healthcare or at least or at least pharmarmac costs.

Well, apparently they gave up because they couldn't figure out how to do it.

But uh Mark Cuban has not given up and he's still pushing on that button.

So good for you Mark.

If there was any way to help I guess we'd want to.

All right.

I'm I'm always so amused how many of you know how to cure cancer, but the medical establishment doesn't.

You ever think about that?

You're just sitting there in your little home and you've decided that if I change my diet, my cancer will go away.

Probably not.

probably not.

Anyway, there's a book coming out U Washington Examiners Mark Judge is writing about this.

So, in March, there's going to be a book that explains everything.

It's called the information state, politics in the age of total control.

So, the author is this guy Jacob Seagull.

laser journalists for tablets and apparently what this book does which some people must have gotten a preview of.

Um, it explains how uh information was weaponized against the citizens of the United States and that part of the reason that we didn't recognize that we were in this propaganda hoax situation where nothing they were telling us was real.

The reason we didn't understand it, especially let's use as example the Russia collusion hoax.

If if we had seen one claim about Russia collusion hoax, we might say to ourselves, "Ah, that's just a claim.

That's nothing." If only one entity had told us that that stuff was true, and it obviously wasn't, um, we might have said, "Oh, but these other entities don't say it's true." But what happened was for the first time in American history, I think that the people who colluded were all of our or what we thought were credible organizations.

So, you had the fake news saying it was true.

You had the intelligence agencies saying it was true.

You had the FBI, the DOJ, and the entire Democrat machine saying it was true.

I'm talking about the Russia collusion hoax.

Now, that's what I call um laundry list persuasion.

when you don't have anything that's individually persuasive, but you just throw a just a fire hose of claims and then on top of the fire hose of claims, you have a fire hose of previously credible entities that gave up all their credibility to go all in on it because they were so afraid of Trump.

So, I call that laundry list persuasion.

So, I've explained this before that if you if you say Trump did one thing bad, people would discount it.

But if you say he did this and this and this and this and this, people assume there's truth in there because there's so much you there's so much smoke there must be fire.

But that's not the case.

That's just laundry list persuasion.

And I guess this book does a good job of showing how screwed.

Well, did you know according to, let's see, New York Times, that when Trump backed off on funding um weapons for Ukraine, it didn't stop our involvement that the CIA took over and uh they didn't do the same thing that we were doing, but they didn't have their funding cut.

and the CIA helped Ukraine target the the most sensitive Russian places they could attack.

So it looks like um it looks like the CIA helped Ukraine work smarter not harder.

So instead of instead of raw um weapons and raw military, the CIA helped them get the you know just the stuff that was affordable and would make a big difference on the on the Russian economy.

How many of you are surprised that the CIA just kept doing what they were doing?

Of course they did.

Of course they did.

Now the indication is that Trump was in favor of that.

So as long as it wasn't obvious what they were doing, um he wanted to keep the pressure on Putin.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, there's not much news happening today.

A lot of it looks like a repeat.

Every time I turn on X, it's another claim of another state with another giant fraudulent thing they just discovered.

I'm getting tired of it.

But I am worried that there is no solution for California's debt and that however bad I think it's going to get in California, it might get worse.

Now, I will say that the one thing we have going for us is the Adams law of slowmoving disasters.

I hope that the disaster, which is California's debt problem and fraud problem, I hope that we've all known about it long enough that somebody's figuring out what to do about it.

And I don't know what that would be.

It doesn't look like it's solvable in any mathematical way that I can understand.

But I would uh expect that maybe in the next year, maybe two, there's going to be some shock to the system that's beyond anything we've imagined.

Now, I don't know what that is.

It could be maybe we default on debt.

Um what?

I don't know.

Maybe there's an earthquake.

Uh there's something, but whatever it is, it's going to have to be big and I don't know if we're ready for it.

So, it could be Well, I mean, what would happen, for example, if the federal government said, "Here's the deal.

We're just not going to fund $1.5 trillion worth of stuff.

We don't know exactly how much is fraud and how much isn't.

But we can't survive unless we stop doing.

What would happen?

Well, in theory, it would also cut a bunch of things we didn't want to cut, or at least we thought we wouldn't, but it might be the only way to survive.

So, we might have to throw a whole bunch of poor people under the bus.

Oh, hands, you're so stupid.

Um, of course I've researched that.

Of course I did.

Stop assuming that I didn't look into my options.

Stop it.

All right.

So, no more stupid uh suggestions.

So, I will give you a little bit of a heads up.

I I talked to my radiologist uh yesterday.

He was working on the day before New Year's.

Uh and it's all bad news.

So the the odds of me recovering are essentially zero.

Um so we'll I I'll give you any updates if that changes, but it won't.

So there's no chance I'll get my feeling back in my legs.

And uh I've got some ongoing heart failure which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day.

But at the moment I can breathe and I'm not in any pain.

Um however you should prepare yourself that uh January will be a probably a month of transition one way or the other.

Now, I haven't made any decisions, but uh it was all bad news.

No good news at all.

So, I will keep doing this as long as it makes sense because I like doing it.

Keeps me busy.

You know what's weird is that I have much bigger problems than the stuff I'm talking about in the news, but I'm so interested in in like what's happening in the world that it's very engaging.

Totally engaging.

So after the show, uh I will continue doing a robots read news comic which I do every day.

I try to and I'll try to make some new comics, Dilbert comics, and I'll just act like nothing's happening.

I'll just pretend I have no problems, which is weirder.

It's easier than you think.

Then I'll take some painkillers if I need them.

Um, there's no real limit to what I can take at this point.

And I will probably smoke massive amounts of marijuana because it puts me into a stuper.

It actually feels kind of good.

In my current situation, if I do a full day's work, which I plan to do, uh I allow myself to uh enter the stuper zone.

I mean, yesterday, for example, I was, you know, doing work and watching the Warriors game high as a kite.

It wasn't bad.

The the only thing that's really bugging me at the moment is uh the inability to breathe if I get one of these coughing attacks and that that could last hours.

It could last 8 to 12 hours.

So, it's 8 to 12 hours of hell.

Um but it's not always hell.

So, but things are changing fast.

So, I thought I'd give you a little update on that.

Has anybody gotten an update on Victor Davis Hansen?

Because I know he had some major surgery, but we don't know what that was about.

I hope he's doing better than I am.

Yep.

And I do appreciate all of your thoughts.

I will probably write down some closing thoughts today just so I have them just so you can see what I was thinking in my in my final glide bath.

He's recovering.

Good.

Good for him.

Well, I will tell you that my interest and my empathy for all of you and for Americans in general is very high.

So, to my final breath, if there's anything I can do to make things better for you, I will definitely do it.

All right, we're past the entertaining part of the show and I don't want to get your I don't want to get your year off to a bad uh bad start, but uh there will be more to come.

All right, people.

I'm going to say hi to the uh locals, beloved people privately.

The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow.

I think but local supporters I'll be private with

sketching. We'll see if it improves, but

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So, so good.

Well, let's check in on the news. It's

the first day of the year. If you don't

have your Dilbert calendar, believe it

or not, you could still currently get

one by the end of I probably just take a

few days. You wouldn't miss much.

Well, there's a new robotic skin for

robots.

So, researchers have developed a

neuromorphic robotic electronic skin.

So, apparently the skin that you put on

your robot could judge intensity,

danger, and injury risk.

So,

do you think that's going to be the

killer app for robot skin?

When you get a robot with skin

just because it's easier at identifying

pain, it seems mean

to the robot. I think it's slightly more

slightly more likely that the killer app

will be sex

because it's no fun to have sex with a

robot if you're just banging metal. But

what if the robot could feel every

every sensation?

Are you telling me that if you made the

robot soft enough and you gave it a skin

so it could it could act as though

you're doing something good to it? Like

are you are you telling me that's not

the killer app? Of course it is.

Of course it is. But do you know why uh

the robot industry keeps talking about

hands, you know, really good hands and

they keep talking about

um you know, stuff like

but what they're not talking about

because they can't do it

is real intelligence.

So we'll see what happens from that.

There there's an article in Arts

Technica talking about how this might be

the year that uh AI gets sort of I won't

say debunked

but that the skepticism about AI will be

a little more obvious. So after we've

got what two years of AI and it still

can't do actual generic reasoning. So

but it's got good hands. It could do

some results. It might have good skin,

but it can't get past hallucinations

and doesn't look like there's any way to

do it that we know of. If there was a

way to do it, meaning make the AI

actually

intelligent like we want it to be, you

would already see it. There's no way you

wouldn't have seen it by now. So, u I

think the rest of the world is catching

up with what is hype and what is real.

Now, I'm going to take some credit

for being one of the first people to say

after I played with the large language

models a little bit. I was one of the

first people to say, "Uhoh,

this doesn't look like it could ever

have a path to general reason."

And now I would say that I went from

something like, you know, in the 5% of

opinions to more like the 75%.

So I'm I'm going to take a win for that

prediction.

Tesla apparently is now going to offer a

car rental service in Michigan that has

no dealers and no middlemen. And for $60

a day, you could barely just go in and

get your get your vehicle. You probably

use an app or something to to re reserve

it. But why wouldn't you do that?

If I had a rental company near me where

I didn't have to talk to anybody at the

counter and for $60 I could go make get

a self-driving car. It wouldn't matter

if I had a regular car. I would still

rent the car. because the self-driving

car would be so much better.

Apparently, it's limited to where it

could go and we don't know if there'll

be others, but it seems like one of the

best ideas Teslas have

renting a self-driving car without the

middleman.

So

remember my skepticism

about the story that Ukraine had tried

to kill Putin by bombing his residence.

You remember what I said about that? I

said there's something wrong with this

story.

This doesn't look right. Um because

Ukraine would have certainly known he

wasn't there. So why would he do it?

And now the Wall Street Journal is

reporting that uh you could that

according to the US intelligence people

there was no attack on his residence

that was made up.

And so uh what they do say is that

something was attacked deep in Russia

but it wasn't the residence and it

wasn't wasn't even that close.

So, did you wonder about the fact there

were never any photos? You never saw a

photo of the damage.

Now, maybe that was for security

reasons. But, you know, when I said it

was a false flag,

people questioned me and maybe you're

right about that. But there's only one

thing better than a false flag. It would

be a false flag that never happened

because then Putin gets to claim

something happened without any damage.

Nobody died. He can just say, "Oh, uh,

let's let's just say he attacked my

residence."

And then he's he's got a uh he's got a

little more propaganda for attacking

back.

Yeah. So, I don't think

I don't think it was a planned false

flag. I think it was an opportunistic

false flag that once something blew up

nearby, somebody had the idea, hey, why

don't we say he attacked the residents?

Propaganda.

So, I saw an interview with uh the

founder of Andrew, Palmer Lucky, and he

was talking about the risk of China

infiltrating your hardware. Here's

something I didn't know.

There were multiple times we discovered

actual wiretap electronics and product

samples we were given. So apparently

China gives them samples of stuff and we

look at it is literally wiretap.

He said the uh the risks apply to

everything that's made with Chinese

components from computers, servers,

phones and drones. He said the super

micro incident in the United States

where certain server farms had Chinese

components. Here's the fun part. Chinese

components smaller than a grain of rice

were stealing very sensitive information

from the computer.

And then he asked, "How many Chinese

computers exist in critical utilities

and infrastructure and military?" He

reckons millions. At least

millions.

So, here's another example

where whatever you thought was how bad

it was and the the it that I'm talking

about is fraud or debt or anything else.

As soon as you think you know how bad it

was, you find out it's a million times

worse. A million times worse.

I I would not have even been able to

imagine that they had put

components the size of a grain of rice

in everything they shipped.

So that's a that's a wakeup call.

Well, speaking of that, in China,

uh, according to Newsmax, Trump is

saying that we set a world record in

attracting investment to the United

States and that we attracted more more

investment to the US

than China attracted.

And he says that's entirely the view of

tariffs. Now, I think it's true that the

the recent um surge in investments is

entirely because of tariffs. So, I'm

going to give him the yes on that. But

you might remember that in around 2018

when I lost my stepson to Fenton that I

started persuading

uh as hard as I could that China was

unsafe for business.

Now I think that made a dent.

Um so I think there was a priming that

happened so that the businesses were

already disincclined to put their money

there if they had a choice of putting it

somewhere else. So between the

persuasion that China is unsafe for

business,

which was uh it started out as me just

saying it and people telling me I was

crazy.

Almost nobody agreed. And there were a

few people who knew what China was up to

that did agree that China was stealing

all our IP and spying on us and had bad

intentions. But for the most part,

people said, "Scott, Scott, Scott, you

know, there's no way this spigot is

going to get turned off. There will only

be more investment in China." And I

disagreed.

So here we are. The investment in the US

seems to be far exceeding that in China

at the moment.

But I will agree that the tariffs are

the prime reason for that at the moment.

So I saw a uh post by by hold Mars on X

and it started with why do people

believe that taxing billionaires which

is what California wants to do uh more

is suddenly going to fix all our

problems. And I've been waiting for

this. somebody finally did the math. So,

if you do the math and you took the top

six billionaires in California

uh and you you took uh 5% of the wealth,

how much would you get?

Well, you'd get about $94 billion.

That means the deficit the deficit would

be 1.7 trillion instead of 1.8. Now,

that that would be for the whole

country, I think, not for California.

Um,

so there's actually no mathematical way

that taxing the billionaires gets us to

a some kind of stable situation. At

best, you could bring down the uh the

deficit for one year. That's it. And

you'd be right back to where you were.

Now, the fact that Ro Kana

was pushing this idea was really

disappointing because, as I've said, I

thought he was one of the smart ones,

but it looks like maybe he's getting

talked out of it a little bit by the

people who are clearly smarter than he

is. And now he's in favor of doing some

kind of hearing in in California to find

out where all the fraud was. And I would

ask you this, when does a hearing ever

fix anything?

And apparently this put him in sharp uh

conflict with Governor Nuome who I read

today had answers for all the missing

money. So according to Nuome, according

to a post on axe, uh all of those

billions of dollars that people say are

missing are not missing at all. No,

that's fake news. They know exactly

where the money is. The uh the bullet

trains on track

[clears throat] and nothing went wrong

and all the money was well spent. Things

would be far worse if they didn't have

the money. So you think that nothing you

think nothing got better, but you would

argue that it would have been much worse

without all that money. Now,

how in the world can he run for

president with these, let's say,

allegations over?

Maybe he just lies.

Yeah, maybe that just works every time.

Maybe all you have to do is that's not

true. You just make it enough.

And that might be enough because we've

grown for years with not knowing the

truth about anything. Why would that

change now?

So there's some thinking that Roan wants

to run for president. So that will put

him in conflict with Nuome

and Newsome's got allegations some.

Well, would you be surprised?

I think the answer is no. that the uh

that the fraud is worse than you

thought. According to Wall Street apes,

Minnesota has uncovered a new scam where

regular homes are being registered as

assisted living facilities, but they're

fakes.

Who is surprised at that? Or that

they're receiving 15 times the payments

of other programs. They got all these

shell companies and uh basically the

whole thing is fraudulent.

I'm not surprised. As I've told you many

times now, if it's possible

to steal and a lot of people are

involved and there's a lot of money

involved, there will be fraud every

time. So, this should have been

something we could have seen from a mile

away.

Here's some more fagness. According to

unusual whales on X, the US ended it

2025 with the largest one-year drop in

homicides ever recorded. Do you believe

that?

Do you believe that 2025 was the biggest

one-year drop in homicides?

Well,

um I'm getting some people saying

there's no sound, but I think they're

taking

one of you who has my text

um text me right now and there's no

problem with that sound. But

okay, that's what I thought. But it

seems to me in our fraudulent world

that uh the odds of the data being fake

is much higher than the odds that the we

set record in reductions of a murder.

What do you think? Do you think it's

even likely that this is true? Well, you

know, it could be. Maybe. But when we

see that every other it seems like every

other source of data is fake.

Did we not know

did we not know that uh the police

department were somehow faking their

data? I don't know how you'd fake

murder,

but I don't believe it. Might be true.

All right. Here's a here's a take that

you couldn't make a couple of years ago,

but now it's happening.

Um, according to a user named Taya on X,

Harvard actually put in writing, it's a

policy of sending white men to the

bottom of the pile when considering, you

know, uh, admissions, etc. Now,

um, and says they deserve everything

that's coming, but that's not going too

hard.

Uh, a user named Hunter Ash, who is

evidently a white man on X, he said, "If

if Harvard hates my people, I want it

leveled to the ground. They produce

useful output, but clearly they'll do

their best to direct any power those

results produce against me. So I'm

against them. We are not obligated to

fund our open and explicit enemies.

Wow. You know what? He con he convinced

me that if Harvard

went out of business tomorrow that I

would be better off because because

they're literally my enemy.

They have a very clear intention

um

of destroying the white man demographic

forever. So why should I ever allow them

to make even, you know, one inch of

progress?

So yes, I am completely in favor of

Harvard going out of business.

All right.

Um

I saw a post by William Wolf on the same

topic. He said that white guilt has been

one of the most destructive forces of

the 21st century.

Here's what you couldn't say a little

while ago, but you can say it now.

You could say now that um much of the uh

progress of humankind came from very

smart white people working very hard. I

am not a scientist. So I've never

invented anything that changed the

world. Right? So I'm not taking credit

for being a white guy just because other

white guys did good stuff. Nevertheless,

it is a fact that white guys contributed

a lot

to, you know, civilization. Now, not to

take anything away from uh some other

demographic groups, but remember, I'm

not claiming

any kind of credit for being a white

guy. You know, what I did, I'm proud of

what I did, but I didn't invent the

microchip, you know, and neither did

you. So if you took away

and this is what's happening. If you use

DEI to stunt the progress of white men

just purely mathematically you're going

to destroy civilization or you're going

to degrade it back to a level that we

none of us would want to live in. So I

think you can say that now that the cost

of DEI is not that it just set back a

generation. Well, I would say several

generations of white men. It's just that

I don't think people understand that

there was a very small percentage of

white men who were responsible for a lot

of problems. Could somebody put in the

comments that the sound is fine,

so shut the up about the sound?

Please,

in the comments, just tell these these

people that it's working. There there

might be one of the platforms that's not

working. So if they have to change

platforms,

go ahead and do it. But there's nothing

wrong with the sound. So there's nothing

that's going to happen on my end that

will change what we're doing. Okay.

Thank you.

Um

have you noticed on X

that Elon Musk has given a new nickname

to Tim Walsh? He calls him trader Tim.

Trader Tim. Thank you. Um I think it's

techie. And the reason he's a traitor

goes beyond whether he's you know just

involved in uh the fraud, but that the

fraud would go to Somalian terrorists.

And I do wonder about all of his paid

trips to China when he was younger.

There's no way that that was just

innocent.

There's no way that was innocent travel

[clears throat] to China. He didn't pay

for it and they were obviously using him

as a as a tool

or worse. I mean, at the very least, he

was a tool. Now, let's

I I do think that Elon is on the right

track and there will be two hearings

coming up in January 7th.

the Min Minneapolis uh for the Minnesota

State Reps will be talking to who? The

oversight committee. So, the oversight

committee is going to talk to Tim Wall

and Keith Ellison. That won't be till

February. Now, I'm not sure is has

anybody

uh had the experience of watching the

oversight committee fix anything?

I I don't know if they do.

Has there ever been a hearing or an

oversight meeting in which they had a

problem and then they fixed it? I don't

think so. So, I'm not optimistic that'll

make a difference. Uh unless the only

thing it does

is uh

is make it more obvious. Okay. Thank

you.

Sound is good.

All right. Um, but I will say it seems

like there's no no possibility that Wal

was unaware of the fraud. Would you

agree with that? There's not really any

chance he didn't know. And somebody else

pointed this out. Few people did

actually that. Remember when Kamla got

$1.2 2 billion to run and it got it got

got absorbed immediately.

Don't you think

uh

All right, now you're just being

prickly. Uh don't you think

that Democrats also steal from

Democrats?

You know, what are the odds that

Democrats are only stealing from, let's

say, taxpayers in general? I thought

this about Soros

that Soros is almost certainly getting

ripped off by Democrats. And now I also

think that the DNC is almost certainly

being ripped off by Democrats.

Would you agree with that?

I think you would.

You know what I'm getting tired of

hearing?

I'm getting tired of seeing people on X

say that the fraud we've discovered is

quote the tip of the iceberg.

That doesn't help. We're we're way past

that. Yes, of course it's the tip of the

iceberg. Of course it is. You don't need

to say it anymore. But I saw Mike Lee

based Mike Lee. He thinks we could cut

1.5 trillion out of the budget if

Congress stopped funding things that

have nothing to do with that has nothing

to do with Congress's powers.

And I'm starting to think that the $ 1.5

trillion number which I've seen Elon use

is now going to be the assumed amount of

uh fraud. And I think that's true. I I

think Elon's persuasion is going to make

the 1.5 trillion a year look like the

actual number of this being stolen. Now,

I don't know if it's bigger or smaller,

but I think we're I think at least the

right is going to start using that as a

presumed low number. Yeah. And Elon said

it was a low number.

Well, you've been waiting for Pam Bondi

to get busy,

but did you know how much the Department

of Justice under her has actually done?

Well, she's reporting today that they're

making progress, which I'll tell you

about.

Some of some of my beds could be in dry

mouth, so I have to stop and sip.

So according to Bondi, 60 people have

been convicted of fraud and four

Minnesota scams so far

and 98 have been arrested,

the majority of which are of Somali

descent.

But is that enough? So the question I

ask is how many people should be

arrested?

Is 60 1% of the problem the tip of the

iceberg or is 60 60% of the problem? So

again, I can't really tell. Is that a

good score scoreboard?

Is that what you would expect that by

now there would be 60 people um just

just for the Minnesota scams. So that

that doesn't even count, you know, all

the Russia collusion hoax and

overthrowing the government and all

that. But no prominent people yet.

And if you're like me, and I know you

are, if you don't see any prominent

people get indicted soon, you're going

to feel like not enough happened.

Um,

speaking of prominent people, so

according to Just the News, the Justice

Department

uh, still has 5.2 million Epstein

documents to review and that the

Department of Justice has 400 attorneys

assigned to just the Epstein review.

What would you be happier at? Would you

be happier if those 400 attorneys were

immediately

moved to prosecuting

uh people who need to be prosecuted? Or

would you be happier that the 400

attorneys spend their days looking

through useless documents

that in the end we won't see any of the

good stuff anyway?

And does it seem to you that the number

of Epstein documents is increasing?

increasing instead of decreasing.

And I'm wondering how in the hell do the

FC documents keep increasing?

Have they have the documents found a way

to procreate?

Here's what I think. I think if you

leave enough Epstein documents in a

room, they will start they will start

having sex with each other and then they

will produce offspring which are like

the new documents that they keep

finding. So every time they open the

door, they're like, "Whoa, what have you

been up to? Looks like a lot more lot

more documents in here than last time."

So unless

the documents have learned how to

reproduce, this looks suspiciously like

an attempt to slow things down

until we, you know, run out of steam.

So I don't trust anything about the FC

documents.

Well, speaking of scams,

all burpy.

Speaking of scams,

the Virgin Islands are suing Meta

because they claim that Meta allowed a

bunch of scam ads on [clears throat]

their platform that scammed lots of

people out of money. And the reason that

they allowed it allegedly

is because Meta made a lot of money by

running the ads for the scams.

Do you believe that?

[laughter]

Do you believe that the reason they

didn't take the ads down is not because

they didn't know they were scams, but

because they made a lot of money running

the ads? Well, apparently a lot of money

was involved,

[clears throat] but that doesn't make us

know their thinking.

Um, what they claim

is that they had an internal review

process that sort of prevented them from

taking down more than they did, I guess.

But we'll see.

All right. According to Climate Realism,

there's a publication called The Listest

um that wrote an article last week

titled, "The poor are in a very bad

state. Climate change accelerates

California's cost of living crisis. So,

believe it or not,

even today,

a publication is claiming that the

prices in California are up not because

of the policies,

not because the policies about climate

change, but because of climate change

itself, for which I believe there is no

evidence whatsoever.

Uh, it makes me wonder,

do the people who write those articles

know they're full of and they're

just trying to fool you, or are they

actually so far inside a bubble that

they think that the prices are up

because of climate change? Do they

really believe that? Really? Yeah, I'm

pretty deep inside my bubble, but come

on. I thought we're past that.

Meanwhile, along the same lines,

according to the no trick zone,

uh Europe is getting ready for more

censorship over climate science and

energy. So, apparently they're they're

preparing to go hard on censorship if

you say something about climate or

energy science that they deem not true.

What?

How do they know what's true? What makes

the European Union the experts on what's

true on climate? There are plenty of

people who are also experts who say that

uh you know it's not the crisis that we

thought it was. So weirdly Europe

believes

that more censorship of the truth will

save the world.

Do they really

or is it just a way to control the big

platforms in the United States? Do they

really think really

that more censorship on that topic is

going to be good for us?

It's weird.

All right.

So, as you know, Jack Smith, that

special counsel, is that what he was?

He's being grilled over the alleged

lawfare against Trump. And he was at a

house deposition. and they asked him uh

he was asked at the deposition, "Did you

develop evidence that Trump was

responsible for the violence at the

Capitol on January 6?"

And he did not say yes.

So that's a tell. He did not say they

had evidence, but instead he went with a

narrative. And the narrative is like

this. that Trump was free to say that he

believed the election was rigged.

That would just be free speech. But

according to Jack Smith,

Trump was not free to violate federal

law and use knowingly false statements

about election fraud to target a lawful

government function. Now, do you see

what's wrong with that statement?

His his evidence was based on his own

ability to read a mind because how would

he know what Trump believed about the

election? In my opinion, Trump genuinely

believed, as I do, that the election was

rigged.

Now, even the fact that people may have

acted on that, that would still be free

speech, right?

because there's no evidence that he did

it for the purpose of targeting a lawful

government function. There's every bit

of evidence he did it because he

believed it was true that the election

was rigged. And as we get further and

further into, you know, the post

election environment, it does look like

he was right. So, not only was he right,

but he had every reason to believe he

was right. But Jack Smith is defending

his team

because they could read his mind and

find out that his real intent was to

overthrow the government and that

somehow he knew it was a legal election

or a non-drugged election. So the word

knowingly

was always the biggest part of the hoax.

the the January 6 hoax, I'm going to

call it a hoax, that there was an

insurrection, [clears throat] depended

entirely

on believing that you could read Trump's

mind and that the things he was saying

he knew not to be true. Even while they

looked true to me,

it looks like he was completely uh

accurate. And there was there's no

evidence whatsoever that he thought that

was a clean election. None.

So, we'll see where that goes. Well,

Eric Swallwell,

who you might know as the person who has

the worst take in every situation, he's

running for governor of California, and

if he becomes governor, he promises

he'll make sure federal agents are

charged with quote kidnapping and

assault and will take away their

driver's licenses.

[laughter]

that that that guy has the worst take on

everything.

Take away ISIS driver's licenses. That's

just absurd.

But at least he's consistent. All right,

speaking of consistent,

you probably know that uh Elon's

building a giant AI factory

called Micro Harder with two heart two

Rs at the end to uh to basically crush

Microsoft.

So remember when I told you I guess it

has 100,000 supercomputers in it or will

and he's going to train Grock so hard

they can do what Microsoft can do um

just by asking it to do it I guess. So,

remember when I told you years ago

that smartphones would become just a

dumb phone that could do AI and that the

phone would just be a screen and a w a

some kind of wireless thing and then uh

sound and Elon confirmed that on one of

his podcasts that he sees he sees

someday that the phone is has no apps.

is just an AI.

And I think this micro harder is that.

So when when he was asked if he would

build a phone, he didn't say yes because

I don't think he thinks phones are the

future. I think he thinks this is the

future. So there's a nonzero chance if

this works

that uh the entire smartphone industry

will become whatever Elon wants it to

and he'll own this. And that would just

be one thing he did.

Imagine having so many accomplishments

that replacing smartphones with entirely

new technology uh would just be one of

the things he did. That's just one

thing.

So, I guess the US military, was it the

other day, uh, did strikes on three more

alleged narco terrorist vessels

and they were traveling as a convoy, so

he took them all out. You know, I don't

know about you, but my empathy

for anybody else is way down.

I I don't know if it's all the fraud or

what it's probably the fraud, but when I

see this narco boat was blown up, you

know, I think there was a time when I

might have been thinking, oh, you know,

maybe a little more due process would be

good or do we have to do it this way?

Because I would just have empathy. But

now I don't. And now I see when I see

that three of them were blown up, I'm

like, yeah, why not four? Four would be

better than three.

Is anybody having that? Is anybody

having that experience that your empathy

is way down?

I don't want it to be, but events seem

to be taking over.

Anyway, over in Iran, [clears throat]

it's been several days of street

protests that are pretty aggressive and

I guess uh some government entities are

being attacked.

And uh the question I wonder is is this

a color revolution or is this entirely

um organic?

Do you think Iran is having an organic

revolution or of course it's our

intelligence people with MSAD,

you know, doing the usual color

revolution stuff? Because doesn't every

color revolution involve mobilizing

people for the streets? But the part

that they don't seem to be able to do is

controlling the local press.

So I don't think that's a thing, right?

I don't think anybody's co-opted the

local press to say bad things about

Goani because they would be killed

instantly.

So, it doesn't have, as far as I can

tell, it doesn't have every element of a

color revolution,

but it's got a little bit. So, it does

make me wonder how organic that is.

All right,

speaking of healthcare costs, which we

weren't, but let's

How many of you know what a PBM is?

A pharmacy benefit manager.

Well, probably not most of you, right?

Some of you have heard of it, but I was

looking at an interview with uh Mark

Cuban who launched cost plus drugs that

would avoid these middlemen. So, what

the PBMs are are they're intermediaries.

Let's call them middlemen that manage

prescription drug benefits for health

insurers, employers, and government

programs. So if you were so Medicare or

Medicaid. So the idea is that they would

lower your health care costs while

providing a service to the the providers

of the meds. The reality is it's a

somewhat non-transparent process that

puts people in the middle of gigantic

money flows. What would happen if

somebody was in the middle of gigantic

money flows and you did not have

visibility on what they were doing in

that middle? What would happen?

Well, I would argue that 100% of the

time the middlemen would find a way to

suck up the extra money and not let you

know that's what happened. So they would

pretend,

you know, hypothetically,

hypothetically, they would pretend they

were lowering your costs while in

reality they would find a bunch of

clever ways to siphon off um a lot of

the money going through. So, I don't

know if I've expressed that correctly,

but uh Mark Cuban with his uh his

lowcost

um drug plan, the cost plus drugs,

apparently cuts out the middleman. And

that is one of the reasons, if not the

only reason, um that he can offer much

lower costs.

Now, do you think you could get the

government to remove that middleman

process?

Well,

probably not. Probably remember there

are enough people in the government who

are being bribed by the insurance

companies, bribed by the PBMs. I I just

assume there's a lot of bribery going on

everywhere. Um, I don't know if the

government can fix that because we've

known it for a long time, but it's

really complicated

and in complexity there always hides of

fraud. I've told you that before, right?

If if something has a lot of money

involved and it's really complicated,

somebody's stealing your money and or

you know, maybe not illegally but in

effect.

So, um, as Mark points out, the

Democrats have no solution for this PBM

thing or for or for the cost of drugs

just in general. Now, you know that

Trump there's some kind of Trump

pharmacy online that you could also get

lowcost stuff and that might end up

working with uh with Mark Cuban's uh

entity. We don't know that that's the

case, but they might have something that

they can work with together.

So, good on you, Mark Cuban,

for for surfacing this uh situation and

then actually acting on it because it's

one thing to say you're going to do

something. It's another thing to to

actually do it and he's actually doing

it. Do you remember when was it a few

years ago that uh Bezos and uh a few

other entities said they were going to

try to fix healthcare or at least or at

least pharmarmac costs. Well, apparently

they gave up because they couldn't

figure out how to do it.

But uh Mark Cuban has not given up and

he's still pushing on that button. So

good for you Mark. If there was any way

to help

I guess

we'd want to.

All right. I'm I'm always so amused how

many of you know how to cure cancer, but

the medical establishment doesn't.

You ever think about that? You're just

sitting there in your little home and

you've decided that if I change my diet,

my cancer will go away.

Probably not.

probably not.

Anyway,

there's a book coming out U Washington

Examiners Mark Judge is writing about

this. So, in March,

there's going to be a book that explains

everything. It's called the information

state, politics in the age of total

control.

So, the author is this guy Jacob

Seagull. laser journalists for tablets

and apparently what this book does which

some people must have gotten a preview

of. Um, it explains

how uh information was weaponized

against the citizens of the United

States and that part of the reason that

we didn't recognize that we were in this

propaganda

hoax situation where nothing they were

telling us was real. The reason we

didn't understand it, especially let's

use as example the Russia collusion

hoax. If if we had seen one claim about

Russia collusion hoax, we might say to

ourselves, "Ah, that's just a claim.

That's nothing."

If only one entity had told us that that

stuff was true, and it obviously wasn't,

um, we might have said, "Oh, but these

other entities don't say it's true." But

what happened was for the first time in

American history, I think that the

people who colluded were all of our or

what we thought were credible

organizations. So, you had the fake news

saying it was true. You had the

intelligence agencies saying it was

true. You had the FBI, the DOJ, and the

entire Democrat machine saying it was

true. I'm talking about the Russia

collusion hoax. Now, that's what I call

um laundry list persuasion. when you

don't have anything that's individually

persuasive, but you just throw a just a

fire hose of claims and then on top of

the fire hose of claims, you have a fire

hose of previously credible entities

that gave up all their credibility to go

all in on it because they were so afraid

of Trump.

So, I call that laundry list persuasion.

So, I've explained this before that if

you if you say Trump did one thing bad,

people would discount it. But if you say

he did this and this and this and this

and this, people assume there's truth in

there because there's so much you

there's so much smoke there must be

fire. But that's not the case. That's

just laundry list persuasion.

And I guess this book does a good job of

showing how screwed.

Well, did you know

according to, let's see, New York Times,

that when Trump backed off on funding

um weapons for Ukraine, it didn't stop

our involvement that the CIA took over

and uh they didn't do the same thing

that we were doing, but they didn't have

their funding cut. and the CIA helped

Ukraine

target the the most sensitive Russian

[clears throat] places they could

attack.

So it looks like um it looks like the

CIA helped Ukraine work smarter not

harder.

So instead of instead of raw

um weapons and raw military, the CIA

helped them get the you know just the

stuff that was affordable and would make

a big difference on the on the Russian

economy.

How many of you are surprised that the

CIA just kept doing what they were

doing?

Of course they did. Of course they did.

Now the indication is that Trump was in

favor of that. So as long as it wasn't

obvious what they were doing, um he

wanted to keep the pressure on Putin.

All right, ladies and gentlemen,

there's not much news happening today. A

lot of it looks like a repeat. Every

time I turn on X, it's another claim of

another state with another giant

fraudulent thing they just discovered.

I'm getting tired of it. But I am

worried that there is no solution for

California's debt

and that however bad I think it's going

to get in California, it might get

worse. Now, I will say that the one

thing we have going for us is the Adams

law of slowmoving disasters.

I hope that the disaster, which is

California's debt problem and fraud

problem, I hope that we've all known

about it long enough that somebody's

figuring out what to do about it. And I

don't know what that would be. It

doesn't look like it's solvable in any

mathematical way that I can understand.

But I would uh expect

that maybe in the next year, maybe two,

there's going to be some shock to the

system that's beyond anything we've

imagined. Now, I don't know what that

is. It could be maybe we default on

debt.

Um

what? I don't know. Maybe there's an

earthquake.

Uh there's something, but whatever it

is, it's going to have to be big

and I don't know if we're ready for it.

So, it could be Well, I mean, what would

happen, for example, if the federal

government said, "Here's the deal. We're

just not going to fund $1.5 trillion

worth of stuff. We don't know exactly

how much is fraud and how much isn't.

But we can't survive

unless we stop doing.

What would happen? Well, in theory, it

would also cut a bunch of things we

didn't want to cut, or at least we

thought we wouldn't, but it might be the

only way to survive. So, we might have

to throw a whole bunch of poor people

under the bus.

[sighs and gasps]

Oh, hands, you're so stupid. Um,

of course I've researched that. Of

course I did.

Stop assuming that I didn't look into my

options.

Stop it.

All right.

So, no more stupid

uh suggestions.

So, I will give you a little bit of a

heads up.

I I talked to my radiologist

uh yesterday.

He was working on the day before New

Year's. Uh and it's all bad news.

So the the odds of me recovering are

essentially zero. Um so we'll I I'll

give you any updates if that changes,

but it won't. So there's no chance I'll

get my feeling back in my legs. And uh

I've got some ongoing heart failure

which is making it difficult to breathe

sometimes during the day. But at the

moment I can breathe and I'm not in any

pain.

Um however

you should prepare yourself that uh

January will be a probably a month of

transition

one way or the other. Now, I haven't

made any decisions,

but uh it was all bad news.

No good news at all.

So, I will keep doing this as long as it

makes sense because I like doing it.

Keeps me busy. You know what's weird is

that I have much bigger problems than

the stuff I'm talking about in the news,

but I'm so interested

in in like what's happening in the world

that it's very engaging.

Totally engaging.

So after the show,

uh I will continue doing a robots read

news comic which I do every day. I try

to and I'll try to make some new comics,

Dilbert comics,

and I'll just act like nothing's

happening.

I'll just pretend I have no problems,

which is weirder. It's easier than you

think. Then I'll take some painkillers

if I need them.

Um, there's no real limit to what I can

take at this point. And I will probably

smoke massive amounts of marijuana

because it puts me into a stuper. It

actually feels kind of good.

In my current situation, if I do a full

day's work, which I plan to do,

uh I allow myself to uh enter the stuper

zone.

I mean, yesterday, for example, I was,

you know, doing work and watching the

Warriors game high as a kite. It wasn't

bad.

The the only thing that's really bugging

me at the moment is uh the inability to

breathe if I get one of these coughing

attacks and that that could last hours.

It could last 8 to 12 hours. So, it's 8

to 12 hours of hell.

Um but it's not always hell.

So, but things are changing fast. So, I

thought I'd give you a little update on

that. Has anybody gotten an update on

Victor Davis Hansen?

Because I know he had some major

surgery, but we don't know what that was

about.

I hope

he's doing better than I am.

Yep. And I do appreciate all of your

thoughts.

I will probably write down some closing

thoughts today just so I have them

just so you can see what I was thinking

in my

in my final glide bath.

He's recovering. Good.

Good for him.

Well, I will tell you that my interest

and my empathy for all of you and for

Americans in general is very high.

So, to my final breath, if there's

anything I can do to make things better

for you, I will definitely do it.

All right, we're past the entertaining

part of the show

and I don't want to get your I don't

want to get your year off to a bad uh

bad start,

but uh there will be more to come. All

right, people. I'm going to say hi to

the uh locals, beloved people privately.

The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow.

I think

but local supporters I'll be private

with