d the people he's brought in, it tells a bigger story about America. And I've said this in different ways but I'm going to try to pull it all together. DOGE is essentially willing to just shake the box like nobody's business, cut things that maybe will have to add back if we find it's a problem, and just make a big dramatic change. Do you know what other countries are capable of doing that? The answer is none. Well, Milei maybe, Argentina, but special case. The advantage that America has is that we can do stuff like this. We can destroy everything we have if we've got a good idea how to make it better, and we'll do it. But more importantly we'll take the shame and the risk of failure like nobody else can.

So if you were in say Europe or Japan or something you couldn't do this kind of work because the shame that would come on you and the accusations and it would follow you for the rest of your life and everybody would hate you. You couldn't handle it. You know what we say in America when people are shaming you and it's hard and you know you're working really hard? Oh you're a bunch of losers. The smart people are working hard, taking chances, making big changes. So we think that the people who make the big change are heroes. I do. In other countries they think what's wrong with you? You know, you should be ashamed. You cut some charity. In America we say you and your stupid charity because it's all fake. So we're just going to cut it and you can complain all you want but one of your people said some racist things. Yeah you too. We're just going to use him because he's good. We're just going to make it work.

So you can see that the shamers and the blamers and the cry racist, all the things that I don't think other countries have the same cultural suit of armor. America is unique in which taking a big swing and missing doesn't feel like a mistake. It doesn't feel like a mistake. It feels like get back in there, take a few more swings. You'll hit the third one.

By the way, my favorite comment I saw on X today was somebody was complaining about Musk having a 19-year-old doing this important work and Michael Dell weighs in. He says I started a company when I was 19. It's going pretty well. He started Dell computers when he was 19. So yeah, that was funny.

Here's another funny one. Apparently DOGE is going to be canceling 168,000 that was going to be for a Fauci museum or a Fauci exhibit in some kind of museum. A Fauci exhibit. 168,000. Does that mean that somebody was putting a statue of him? I think it's going to be a statue. I wonder if it's already built because you might be able to get it for cheap if there's already built a Fauci statue and now there's nobody to buy it because they canceled the budget. I'd like to maybe look at it to possibly pick it up for cheap. I wouldn't mind having a Fauci statue in my foyer. I don't know what I'd use it for but it'd be hilarious anyway. So that's funny.

So Elon Musk and his DOGE are going to get into the Pentagon. They're going to get into Medicare and Medicaid. And Elon says he thinks there's 100 billion wasted in Medicare and Medicaid, Gateway Pundit is reporting. So that's still not enough. You know if we're trying to solve a two trillion dollar problem, how much do you think he's going to find in the Pentagon? Well let me give you a little hint. There was a video of Elon at some event that was a few months ago but it just dropped, the video did, and he was talking about the future of war and he said it's all going to be drones basically. Drones, drones, drones. And is our military optimized for that or do we have gigantic entities that want to keep their own thing going? It's like oh I'm the tank people so we need lots of tanks and I'm the boat person, we need lots of boats, ships I guess. We probably need ships no matter what even if they're just going to carry the drones. But yeah, so the suggestion is that if we were to build a military that was based on how you would actually fight a war today that it might be completely different than what we do normally.

So I think we just added drones to the things we have. If you want to save money without losing too much in terms of your national defense, probably there's going to be a lot of other weapons systems that seem redundant if you've got enough drones. But then if somebody gets really good at blocking drones or jamming them better than they are now, maybe we need the missiles back. So it's a pretty complicated situation. But if you want to get a sense of the future in Ukraine, here's one from Ukraine just to tie it all together.

So in Ukraine at the moment Russia has a five to one soldier advantage on the front line. There are five times as many Russians as Ukrainians and the Ukrainians are often old guys who don't want to be there so they don't have much left. But what they do have is the ability to make 200,000 drones a month. So apparently what happens is that the Ukrainians are sending out no soldiers. They're not doing anything offensive and the soldiers just man the drones and man the front lines. But the Russians are still doing some mild offensive maneuvers. They're not capturing much, mile here, mile there. But as soon as they send out their soldiers the drones go up and they just wipe them out. So not enough that it would stop a full scale march if they really wanted to take the losses. But at the moment it's kind of a stalemate where one side is losing people and the other side is losing drones. Just think about that. One side is losing people and the other side is only losing drones. So that's where it's going. 200,000 a month. One of them according to Interesting Engineering is a drone that can spread steel ball fragments over 21,000 square feet. That means basically if the infantry of the Russian army is coming toward you you can just drop one of these things and the shrapnel will kill everybody within 21,000 square feet. You don't need a lot of them. So yeah, it's going to be drone, drone, drone warfare no doubt about it. So you might see some big recommendations about how to have a military that's different. That's going to be scary because we don't want to give up anything we have but we'll have to because we don't have infinite money.

All right, Trump has launched an investigation into California's high-speed rail debacle. So 120 billion was sort of set aside for it or budgeted. They've already spent about 14 billion and haven't built a single mile of track. I think most of the problem is DEI and environmentalism. There's just always some problem that nobody can do work. So Trump's going to look into it. Now I don't know how that works. Can the federal government look into anything they want to in a state? Do they have that kind of authority? I don't know.

But here's the question I ask. It seems to me that every time we see a criminal organization or a criminal project, to me the whole bullet train thing in California looks like there must be just massive fraud and waste and corruption. I'm sure people got really well paid out of that 14 billion to produce literally nothing. It seems like every time we see one of these organizations that is almost designed for corruption like USAID, it's almost always an entirely Democrat situation. If you look at the most corrupt local mayors I feel like most of them would be Democrats. And I'm wondering are Democrats really only criminals? Because every time we see one there's something criminal happening. Now Republicans also do crimes but can you give me any example of a Republican-dominated organization that has been found to be one of these wasting billions of dollars things? The only one I know is Bill Kristol is sucking off the USAID teat but even that's not big scale. I don't think that's a terribly big scale.

So am I wrong that fraud and Democrats are so overlapped that all you would have to know is oh here's a big budget and a big organization and it's mostly Democrats, you would know that it's corrupt, wouldn't you? And is that the same both ways? If it's a big organization with a big budget and it's run mostly by Republicans, could you also say hey people are people, you know if you give them a chance to steal they will? And if that's true that it works both ways kind of equally and it's not about Democrat or Republican, if that's true why are all the ones we hear about Democrats? Am I wrong? Am I missing some obvious examples where oh yeah this Republican heavy organization was stealing like crazy and laundering funds? I'm not really aware of any of those stories.

So at what point do we say this doesn't look like a coincidence? It looks like Democrats are basically a criminal organization with their fingers in every pie that you could possibly put them in. Anyway that's what it looks like.

So we're at the point where our fake domestic news largely opposes Trump and DOGE while every foreign country envies both of them. What do you think other countries like let's say Germany, what do you think they think when they're watching the United States close down immigration and rip their budget apart looking for waste and fraud? Don't you think Germany is saying oh God why can't we be like that? Again this gets back to what makes America different. We can just take more risk and we can live through it. What about France or the UK or any of them? Don't you think all of our allies are looking at Trump and DOGE and saying all right well they're not successful yet but I sure wish we could do that? I think that's true. But in the United States the fake news, which is most of the news, is treating it like it's the end of the world.

So my summary is Big Balls. Big Balls. I also think that we might be 12 months away from lapping the field in economics. And when I say lapping the field, the US economy is already one of the good ones, one of the best, right? But I think we're just going to pull away and the only drag that we have in the economy is all the excess spending. If we can get that anchor pulled up, you know the anchor of the excess spending, we're in really good shape. And Trump of course is pushing the envelope in every way economically.

So specifically here's another example. Zelenskyy over in Ukraine says he's open to Trump's idea that the United States would get some of their rare earth minerals. So Trump said if we're going to put all this money in Ukraine and defend it we should get something in return. They've got lots of rare earth minerals that we need so we'll take those. Now when you first hear that you say to yourself you can't just take the rare earth minerals. It's like a whole other country. Aren't they going to have to agree to that? And then Zelenskyy says yeah we could talk about that. Let's make a deal. Because Ukraine can't really exploit those resources on its own and if it's making America happy and also getting maybe half of the money or something it's a good idea for both because they're not going to d