g. Have you seen anything that's being cut? There might be some trivial little things they move around but basically the entire budget process is just fake. They're simply pretending that they're looking at it with a scalpel. They're not looking at it with a scalpel. They're just giving us the same budget they always do with a little bit added for military. There's no DOGE savings in it. It's just completely fake. And they're just going to put it at us just like they always do. And Thomas Massie will once again vote against it for all the right reasons and we'll end up getting mad. We'll say bad things and we'll just go racing toward the ledge that we can't possibly survive which is uncontrolled debt.

Do any of you think there's any chance that the budget is going to have any self-control whatsoever? I don't think so. And I don't think the DOGE savings are even big enough that they'll show up at all. I don't think any of it was real. So that's what I think.

Trump said today that he might cut tariffs on China to 80% from 145 and that would be before the weekend talks in Switzerland between the United States and Chinese representatives. And I don't understand this. Why would he offer to cut the tariffs before the negotiations? That would be like negotiating with yourself. Unless maybe he has some indication that China's going to be flexible and he wants to make sure that he looks like he was a little bit flexible himself. I don't know.

But the funny part is that when he posted about it on Truth he referred to Scott Bessent as Scott B. Scott B because of Bessent. But the good news is I'm still Scott A. So wouldn't you rather be Scott A than Scott B? Makes him my backup. But he's cool too. I like Scott B.

I don't know if you heard this but Steve Scalise is complaining that apparently we know now from some documents that have recently become available that the FBI deliberately withheld facts about the congressional baseball shooting which included Steve Scalise as one of the victims of the shooting. And at the time they said that the motivation was suicide by cop. In other words they said that the guy doing the shooting wanted to die in sort of an exciting way. So that's what he did. Apparently that was totally made up and that the FBI knew at the time it was completely politically motivated and it was simply left-wing violence.

Why do you think the FBI reported it as suicide by cop which would be a non-political thing instead of exactly what it was which was a left-wing person who got turned into an extremist by the propaganda? Well the only reason I can think of is that the FBI was politicized but Cash Patel seems to have fixed that by releasing some extra documents. So yes the FBI as recently as the congressional baseball shooting which wasn't that long ago were politicized and so their work could not be trusted. Do you think that changed?

Here's an interesting study by George Mason University. So they did a study where they were trying to fi