re not really going to be well served as a public. And I worry that that's going to happen. One will say it happened and one will just say it didn't happen, and then we'll just go to the next topic and we'll never know what happened. And we'll just keep our individual views of that forever maybe.

But let's talk about Karen Bass, the mayor of LA, who is getting a lot of heat for her handling of the situation. You know what she announced today? That they would hire a consultant to help rebuild. A consultant. Do you know what that is? Do you know what happens when the mayor says we're going to hire a consultant to make recommendations about our gazillion dollars that it will take to build things? I don't know how to interpret that except that it's a crime in progress. My understanding of local governments, at least for the bigger cities, is that they're all corrupt. And they're corrupt in a specific way that's easy to do and is common to all local government, which is once you're the one who's in charge of where the money goes, or even hiring the person who decides where the money goes, that's always a pay-for-play. In other words, there's some kickback going to the mayor every time. Now it might not be obvious. Could be indirect. Could be something that she cares about, something else. But in every case, I expect if the mayor appoints the consultant who's going to make these decisions, that's just a rigged political money-making process that has nothing to do with what's good for the public.

I thought that when Trump was going to put a special master in charge of making sure the money from the federal government didn't get wasted, I was hoping we would avoid exactly this. Karen Bass deciding who a consultant would be. There's nothing that's a bigger red signal. Basically that's saying they're not going to fix it. That's saying they're going to steal it. If you tell me I got a consultant to figure out how to do it, I just hear you stole it. You're not even planning to do anything but steal it. And there's a lot of money involved, so of course they're going to steal it if they can.

So I don't have a specific detailed accusation about Karen Bass. It's my assumption that everybody in those jobs is stealing, and they're doing it one way or another. And it's just the most normal thing in the world. And it's why all of our cities are crap, because the people in charge are always stealing, as far as I can tell. Now, you're a consultant. Well, a consultant for a business is very different than a consultant to a city. If the mayor picks the consultant, that's just a gigantic signal for something bad. If a company picks a consultant, well, it just depends how good the consultant is. It's entirely just, you know, did you get what you paid for? But the city stuff is just all in the context of corruption. I think that's just my belief. I don't have any proof of it, but I just assume it. The reason I assume it is it's such an easy crime to get away with that over time the people who want to do that crime are the people who are going to try the hardest for those jobs. So they would succeed anyway.

Rand Paul is going to investigate 14 agencies that had something to do with the COVID origin story. So he thinks that that's a good time to find that out. That COVID origin story is just so weird because I really thought everybody knew it was the lab from early on. And now we're pretending like we're just learning it was the lab. There's something I don't even understand about that. I thought we all knew that for years. Weird.

Meanwhile, New York Magazine did what we call a Rupar edit on their cover. So I did a story about a gathering of young Republicans and conservatives, I guess, a bunch of partying conservatives. And they commented that a photo that showed the crowd, at least a close-up of the crowd, didn't have any, they were all white. So New York Magazine runs a photo and says seems like they're all white. Their very own photo had several black attendees that they cropped out. They literally cropped the black people out and then said there's no black people. It gets better. Guess who hosted? Guess who hosted the event? It was hosted by CJ Pearson, who is a young black conservative. The thing was hosted by a young, well-known black guy. And there were black people in attendance, of course. So that's your media for you.

Meanwhile, Robby Starbuck is saying that on X, 19 attorney generals just sent a letter to Costco warning that DEI policies are illegal because it discriminates on race. 19 attorney generals just went after Costco. Is that enough? What would happen if the other attorney generals weighed in on the other side and said, oh, that's not bad, DEI is good? Because that would be the blue states versus red state situation.

Well, here's what I think. So the first thing I do is look up who is the CEO of Costco, and it's a white guy. It's a white guy. Have I warned you about white guys? White guys are pretty much the source of all DEI. Now some of you can say no, no, it's white women, white women, because they're the ones in the, they're more white women in DEI jobs. So you'd say it's white women. To which I say no, that's a trick by the white men. That's just a white man trick. They hire women for those jobs and minorities for those jobs so that you'll think DEI is caused by the women or the minorities who are in the DEI jobs. No, it's the CEO. It's the CEO covering his big fat ass so that you think you ca