cused of doing, is this the one that people care the least about? Have you ever met even one person who said, oh, I thought he'd be a good president but once I found out he used campaign money for campaign purposes to make the Stormy Daniels thing go away, I don't know if I could support somebody who used campaign funds to benefit his campaign. I don't. I can't support that. Is there even one person who cares about that story? Seriously.

Now I get that your Rob Reiner types are hoping that this is what takes Trump out. But do you think Rob Reiner cares about the story? Does he care that Stormy Daniels got some money that came from donations that actually did — well, if it worked it would have helped Trump get elected. I've never seen the story with less meat on it than this.

Now I'm not saying he won't be prosecuted, but is it going to keep him from being president? Wouldn't it just be a fine? Correct me if I'm wrong. The worst he's talking about is paying a fine, which is somewhat typical. Obama paid one, I think. Has not Obama paid a fine for the same thing? Campaign lapses. It's just the most — if I could tell you one fact that would convince you Trump is going to be your next president, here would be that one fact. You didn't know anything else. It's the only thing you know. It's 2023 and MSNBC is running Rachel Maddow, a major segment talking about the problems with Trump and that payment to Stormy Daniels seven years ago. That's what they have. That is the best they have right now.

What would stop him from being president? See, I think you have to now talk in terms of what could possibly stop him, because I think we're asking the wrong question. You know, who's going to run against him? What could possibly stop him at this point? I don't see anything. I mean, he's been proven basically right on everything important and all they have left are things that nobody cared about in the first place. That's what it looks like to me.

And I don't think DeSantis will run, but I could be wrong. We'll see.

Biden is going to cancel the COVID emergency, whatever laws. So that would mean that nobody would be required by the federal government to mask or get vaccinated. How about that? Do you know why Biden says he's going to cancel it on May 11th? Because Republicans introduced legislation to cancel it sooner. And as Thomas Massie points out, Republicans are already getting results because the news is quite clear that Biden would not have announced this except that he had to counter the Republicans wanting to get rid of the restrictions. And the public very much wants the restrictions to go away.

So it was something that was free money for Republicans. So remember I always look for as a sign of competence: Can you at least pick up the free money? It's just right there on the table. Why are your hands not going toward it? Why are you walking away from the free money? Well, there is Trump again. Trump picked up the free money. Like it's such a reliable indicator. If you can't do the easy stuff, we're not going to trust you to do the hard stuff. But if the money's just laying there on the table, just pick it up.

Thomas Massie saw money laying on the table. It's obvious that the public wants the restrictions lifted. It's obvious that scientifically, health-wise, it's the right time to do it. So they say, Republicans, the smart ones, there's this money on the table. Why don't we just pick it up? And so they picked it up and it made Biden scramble to keep up with them. Now that's what I want to see. I want to see Republicans see free money on the table and then walk over and pick it up and just keep doing that. You don't even have to do anything magical or special. You don't need any character. You don't need any charisma. Just pick up the free money. That's all we're asking. Not that much. Just the free stuff.

I love the fact that we think we live in some kind of objective reality where we've figured out what's true and what's that. And then I mentioned how Sweden did during the COVID epidemic and I triggered yesterday. I triggered a Twitter graph war where everybody was putting up their graph to show that Sweden was either doing poorly or doing great.

And do you know how I can tell which Twitter graphs are the credible ones and which ones are garbage? Do you know? There's a way to know, right? If it's on Twitter it's garbage. Also if it's not on Twitter it's garbage. If it's based on data it's garbage. If it comes from somebody you don't know it's garbage. If their source of it is not shown in the graph, and quite often that's the case on Twitter, that's garbage. So basically we got to this point and we can't even tell if Sweden did a good job or a bad job.

Now I know you think you all know, but when you see the level of fighting on Twitter, the people disagreeing whether it was a good job or a bad job, we don't know. We really don't. It's actually kind of confusing. So the fact that they're younger and thinner and they supplement with vitamin D, I think is most of the story.

But I will go back to my best, probably the best prediction I've ever made at the beginning of the pandemic, that at the end of the pandemic we wouldn't know who managed it well. And everybody who disagreed, oh, we're gonna tell some people are doing it right, some people not. Nope. Can't tell. The narrow place where you can tell is whether people protected the nursing homes, right? So in the case of DeSantis, yes, that was good work. That's one item that you can identify and say okay, compared to New York, the leadership made a difference. Like that's — there's no doubt about that one. But on the country level, on the country level, hard to say. Still don't know.

I know some of you think you might know. Have you ever heard of — oh, then also the excess deaths are still a mystery. Now some of you think all the excess deaths or most of them are vaccine injury related. But the excess deaths seem to be in every demographic and they also seem to be across countries. So the excess deaths are not an American thing. It's everywhere. And I think that they're doing different kinds of vaccines and all kinds of different policies, but still the excess deaths are high wherever we can count them. Well, in the Western countries anyway.

So I will put out one possibility: psychogenic death. How many of you ever heard that term? Psychogenic death. It means basically you lose the will to live and you just die. And I have a hypothesis that when I grew up, no matter how bad things were at the moment, I had in my mind a path to happiness. And that path was you get a good job, you get married, you have a family. American dream. The American dream was very clearly — it was just you could feel it. Like everybody was moving toward it, it seemed like. And no matter how bad things were, you had a future. You had hope, right?

Now compare that to our LGBTQ trans culture. And by the way, I'm a big supporter of the LGBTQ trans community, but we can talk about them honestly, right? And I would say that the American dream had to disappear to make room for this other kind of wokeness. And again, I'm not criticizing it. I'm just describing it. That if you say, well, you know, this, you got to get married and you've got to have a family and go to church on Sunday thing, that doesn't work for everybody. So now it's a free-for-all.

And people are saying that there are more single people than ever, more people alone, people using their phones. Tinder made it impossible to date unless you're a nine or above, right? So basically if you were a kid — and I've heard actually young people say this — there's no future. Now of course there is. There is a future. But it's not cleanly packaged and supplied to children as their hope. Oh yeah, you're having a bad day today. I get it. But look at this American dream. You just get on this American dream path. Everything you're doing today, studying hard, staying in school, you're on the right path, kid. You're doing it right. And here's your happiness in the future. Here's your meaning.

And now if you're a kid you don't see any of that, do you? Who's selling the American dream? Conservatives, homeschoolers, right? Homeschoolers. So my theory is if you tested the psychological well-being of homeschoolers, you would find they have something like hope for the future because the homeschooling community is likely to be more likely to say follow this path and you'll have a good life.

I think public school says you're all being discriminated against. Systemic discrimination is going to hold you back forever. It looks like the police have tried to kill you because you're brown and you better get on the streets and complain because complaining is the thing to do. Complaining will make things better. And it does sometimes. It does. But that message would leave me feeling hopeless if I were a child. I would just say, well, if I don't get married, why am I doing anything? Right? The marriage is more about having children in this case. But what's my future?

Let's say I'm 12-year-old Scott today. I make money for what? For what? For my entertainment? You know, even at 12 I knew I would get bored entertaining myself all day. Oh, I'm going to make money so I can party on the weekends and that's it. Like that's — yeah, oh I can have short encounters with women and that would be a lot of fun. But that's it. That's what I have to look forward to, is brief encounters with women who are having brief encounters with lots of other people. And that's what I'm going to live for.

I'm surprised there isn't higher excess deaths because there's a whole bunch of people who just figured out there's no reason to live. That's why we taught the kids. We taught the kids there's no reason to live. I think we did. So I don't know if that's any of it, but I'd throw that in the mix. It's probably some small part of it.

Here's the most useful thing to know if you're a consumer of news: which news outlets are controlled by the CIA. If you don't know that, you really can't watch the news. You're going to be all confused. Let me give you an example. MSNBC, who people who are smarter than me say is clearly and has always been, as is NBC, captured entities by our intelligence agencies. Right now you might doubt that. You might say, Scott, Scott, that's a little bit of hyperbole. Yeah, they may have leaned on the networks in some ways on some issues, but in general they're independent.

And then there's this story. I'm going to tell you this story and then you tell me if this is independent news. This is pointed out on Twitter by UnHoodwinked, a good follow for you. You should follow UnHoodwinked. There was a nine-minute segment. That's a lot of time on television. Nine minutes on a TV news show is forever. That's a lot of time. He refers to it as the CIA-run MSNBC. All right, that's his characterization. And she's talking about her COVID and how she was diagnosed with pericarditis and myocarditis.

So for nine minutes she talked about how COVID had probably given her pericarditis and myocarditis. For nine minutes. And never mentions her vaccination status. Let me just say that again. An MSNBC host talked for nine minutes about her own quite scary myocarditis — and she was a young woman, right, too young to be having heart problems — for nine minutes, never once mentioned her vaccination status. Is there anything else you need to know about this story? Right? Do you wonder if this is independent reporting?

Do you think she may have mentioned, well, I don't know. Do you think in her first draft — I assume somebody sees her first draft — don't you think her first draft was, well, I don't know what the cause is. You know, I did get vaccinated but I also got COVID and now I have myocarditis. It's hard to know if it's a vaccination or the COVID, but I'm just letting you know my experience so that you can recognize it too. Don't you think the first draft might have said something like that?

Now you could not be more obvious in what you're trying to hide. The story — but suppose you didn't know that MSNBC and NBC are strongly suggested to be Democrat-slash-CIA run. If you didn't know that, you think that was the story? You think that was something like an objective representation of something that's happening? And it wasn't. Not even close to objective.

Now I'm not saying the vaccination caused a problem. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying if you don't mention it as a possibility, it's just amazing that anybody can watch that network with that kind of situation. All right. The host was a Yasmin Vossoughian, I think. That's all I had to say.

And that, ladies and gentlemen — I feel like there was one other thing I was going to say. Is there a topic I missed? You can blanket blame COVID? Well, indirectly, sure. I'll tell you about that later.

Somebody says Scott is looking for a way out from Trump. It's so transparent. Correct. It's transparent because it's true and it's obvious and I'm telling you right up front. I don't want a president who's over a certain age. Trump in my case, in my personal view, is aged out of the job. So somebody's showing the great insight here and says I think Scott secretly is looking for a way to not support Trump. No, it's not a secret. I'm doing that right in front of you.

If anybody comes up with a better fentanyl plan and they're also — they can walk and talk and they're not 100 years old, I'm going to look at that pretty seriously. Get a look at that really seriously. So don't be surprised. I'm saying it as directly as I can. Fentanyl policy is all I care about. I will drop Trump like a hot rock the minute a legitimate candidate has a better take. And it doesn't even have to be military. I mean, I could imagine somebody coming up with a better take that wasn't attacking Mexico. I just haven't heard it.

Those who bailed out Sam Bankman-Fried, their names can be released. That's interesting. I don't think that'll tell us much.

Any place to pre-order? I'm not sure when you can pre-order my book. It'll be called *Reframe Your Brain*. I think Amazon has a holding place for it, but I don't know if you can order yet. Do they have pre-orders already? They probably don't put it there unless there's a pre-order option. Oh, you ordered it? Okay, I guess I'm selling a book I haven't made yet. So that's pretty good. I mean, I've finished writing it. *Coup a Claude* Adams story. It's a good movie. Why would you pre-order? To make sure you don't run out. This is a book