at least in the news business there aren't too many funny Scots. But Scott Jennings is just lapping me lately. I just had a belly laugh over this one.

So Scott Jennings is commenting this morning over someone else's post. Well, it was a story actually on Fox News. So his comment, I'll just read it in the order that it's written. So Scott Jennings posts on X. He says Trump lets cut taxes, shrink the government, and unleash American energy. And then he says Democrats. And he points to the Fox News story that says the House Democrats are reintroducing reparations legislation.

So Representative Ayanna Pressley, supervillain, says reparations are a necessary step in achieving justice. Now would it be fair to say Democrats are not good at reading the room? Was this really the time to introduce reparations? Probably not the right timing. Probably just a little off in the timing.

But I would go further than that, and I would love to see somebody in the Trump administration calculate reparations, because I'm pretty sure it's going to show that the money's already been paid three times. Because you know what would be in that calculation, right? You'd first have to calculate how descendants of slavery would have done if they stayed in Africa versus how they would do over here. And then specifically the descendants, not the actual slaves. The slaves are unhappy, right? So everybody agrees there was nothing good about being a slave. But the descendants of slaves ended up in a better place than maybe they would have been.

Now that's no reason for slavery. We all agree slavery is bad. Slavery is bad. But if you were going to calculate, you'd have to calculate any social payments made. You have to calculate how much everybody added to the economy versus subtracted from the economy. You'd have to do differences in law enforcement costs for different demographic groups. You'd have to bring everything into it. And I don't know if it would be a positive number or negative by the time you were done with an actual honest analysis.

Now if somebody actually did calculate reparations honestly, would you believe it, whatever number they came up with? No. Because I just got done telling you that all data that matters is fake. So whoever does the calculating for reparations, it's going to come up with a fake number. So if it's somebody who's pro-reparations, they'll just ignore a whole bunch of things and come up with a number that says yo, it's a lot of money. If it's somebody who's biased against reparations, such as me, if I calculated it would show that it's already been paid three times. So there's no such thing as the true number, and there's no such data for anything important that's real. This is no exception.

But certainly I would have included 50 years of discrimination against white males. I mean, that's pretty expensive.

And along those lines, Fox News is reporting that there's an Illinois university being sued because the professor says he was fired for objecting to race-based hiring. University of Illinois in Chicago. So Professor Stephen Klein Schmidt, he said he wasn't buying into being a racist. He probably just thought he wanted to be a professor. And then they said but you're also, you know, can you be a racist? And then he said how about no? How about no, I won't be a racist with you. And that was a lawsuit. I think he might win.

Trump says reciprocal tariffs are coming out today. I guess that means that everybody who's tariffing us for anything is going to get the same back. I don't know how any of this is going to work out, but I do see it as a negotiating tactic. And so far Trump's shown that he can navigate these negotiating tactics. All right, so we'll see.

Tulsi Gabbard got confirmed. Is it true that McConnell voted no on Tulsi Gabbard? That's a little suspicious, isn't it? Just a little suspicious. It makes you think he might be hiding something. But the half-dead turtle said no.

RFK Jr., I guess the vote on him was a tie, and we're expecting JD Vance to go break the tie, and it should be confirmed today. I don't know if it's today.

All right, so looks like we get Tulsi and we'll get RFK Jr. And wow, I just have to say wow. Good job. Good job getting both of them.

Mike Benz was on the Joe Rogan show, probably three hours of goodness there. But one of the things that popped out was Mike Benz talking about how USA and the intelligence communities have historically trained some musical artists, both in our country and in other countries, to be part of their, I guess, political narrative that the intelligence community wants to push. Or to do it for statecraft reasons.

Now some of the names he named, including working with Dua Lipa. So I guess there was some