would be to say that you're trying to help the government with cutting costs but really you get caught doing something that's the opposite like stealing. That's the worst thing that could happen. You would lose everything.

What person who's the richest person in the world would get involved in anything that would have a gigantic downside risk? Now what's the upside risk? He's already the richest man in the world, probably on his way to be the first trillionaire. Do you know what he could do if he wanted to stay the richest man in the world and even get richer? Stay out of politics completely. But nobody in their right mind who is already in that position financially would create a situation where everybody's watching and if he did something insane like try to use his access to steal money from the government. How could that be dumber?

So watching people look at one of the smartest people in the country and richest, Musk, and assuming that he would do the dumbest thing that anybody would possibly do in that situation is so pathetically dumb that I almost don't have words to describe it. Yeah, I just shake my head and think okay I don't know how you think that that would make sense in his world.

In fact if I had to make a list of all the people on the planet that I would trust the most if I lost my wallet it would be Elon Musk. If you dropped your wallet on the sidewalk and he was the first one to find it the chance of you getting it back with all of the money in it is 100%. First of all he wouldn't let you not get your wallet back. Like you'd give it to somebody, say make sure they get this wallet back. And secondly there isn't any chance he's going to steal any money from it. None. Zero chance.

So that's how I feel about him in the government. It's hard to imagine somebody who would be less of a risk. Now the DOGE employees themselves, I suppose everybody who has access to anything has some kind of risk. But do I have less trust in the DOGE people than I have in the government employees who have been there forever and have access to those same systems? What would be the reasoning with which I would say oh the regular employees of the government are all honest and good people but the DOGE people are not? Like what would be any evidence that we increased any risk to these databases? I don't know. There's just no connecting tissue because it's not like nobody had access until DOGE did. How many people do you think have access to all of our systems? It's got to be quite a few.

According to investing.com the European Union has postponed its plans to gradually phase out Russian gas. So I think you're going to see Europe, there seems to be some kind of an acknowledgment that Russian energy is going to be important to Europe and maybe it'll stay that way. Now I don't think that that would happen unless people saw that Russia and the United States were moving toward something that could be a more productive relationship in the future, whatever that looks like.

Now I have to again, and I hate that I always have to put all the qualifiers on this, but I don't love Putin. I understand that he is dangerous. I know he's a dictator. He's a murderer. I know he's not to be trusted. Okay, are we good? Did I say all the right things? Now I can just say what I want to say.

Putin is really good in the persuasion stuff. Just really good. And the fact that he's been doing joint military exercises with China I don't think that means he really wants to be in any kind of a joint military action with China. Like for what? Is he going to join China in attacking Australia someday? I don't see it. Is he going to join China in attacking America someday? It's hard to imagine that. But it's really good for making sure that America says you'd be better off if you were our friend instead of China's friend. And I think maybe that's what he always wanted, which is to have China and the United States fight over who's a better friend to Putin. And I think he got it. I think he accomplished that.

Now you could say Putin is the evil monster that you want him to be. No argument whatsoever. I'll let you have your opinion of him and that has nothing to do with my opinion. My opinion is that just from a pure persuasion perspective, damn he's good. He's just really good. And you can't take that away from him. He's got skills. And I do think that that's one of the things that bonds him with Trump is that they can see the player. And I think that they really appreciate that there's somebody who appreciates them because I'll bet they have a solid appreciation of the skill set of the other. That's what it looks like to me anyway.

There's a story on, apparently right after the Biden administration was about to end but before it did, you already heard this, that 20 billion got funneled into these new charities and these green charities that you never heard of. New York Post has a story about this but Mario Nawfal did a great job of summarizing it on X. So here are some of the charities that this 20 billion got speed funneled into. One group is called the Climate United Fund and they got 7 billion but has no federal filings or IRS records. So just sort of appeared.

And of course you all know what the Climate United Fund does right? Because those are three words that sound good. Fund, United, Climate. I like the climate but are they united? Yes they are united but you're going to need money. Is there any kind of, yes there's a fund. Climate United Fund.

And then there's another one that got 2 billion called the Power Forward Communities. Well is that a good thing? How could it not be a good thing? It's got communities right in the name. It's got forward. We all want to move forward not backwards. And it's got power right in the name.

And apparently the Department of Justice and FBI are now investigating, looking at their bank accounts and such. We'll see what happens. But here's what I love about the story. I love when you finally see enough in the news where a pattern can form in your head. And the pattern here is that the most suspicious sounding charities, the ones that get government money, they all have the following ch