be able to do humor.

I believe that humor might be the last thing that an AI can master if it does at all.

Now, I don't know if super intelligence is synonymous with um the general intelligence that everybody's aiming for.

So maybe it's an LLM version where it can just do ordinary things better, but it can't reason.

I don't know.

We'll see in one year.

Well, according to uh CNN, uh RFK Jr. wants to get rid of drug ads on TV, which would basically put news models out of business.

People like CNN and maybe Fox News and some others.

And I'm gonna say again, we don't know what happens if the mainstream news goes out of business.

What would happen to all the senior citizens?

What would they watch?

Or would some billionaire um buy each of the networks and just run it at a loss?

Sort of like uh the Jeff Bezos Washington Post model.

That might be what happens.

So, if I had to guess, I think the brand CNN and MSNBC will probably live on, but who knows who owns it or how they make money.

So, that could get interesting.

Well, according to Fox News, um there was a uh a fellow under the Joe Biden administration who was associated with USAID.

Um and there was an $800 million contract awarded to a known con man uh who was asked to do Kamala Harris's job of fighting the root causes of irregular migration.

So apparently four men including a government contracting officer for the uh USAID and three owners and presidents of companies have pled guilty for their role in a decades-long bribery scheme.

So, I think the bribery scheme is that if you bribe somebody enough, they will give you millions of dollars in contracts for doing very little work.

Now, here's what I've been telling you for years.

For years, I've been saying that in any situation where it's possible to have corruption, it always happens.

So all you need for corruption is a lot of money involved, a lot of complexity.

So complexity, a lot of money, a lot of people involved, and then time.

If you have all of those things, you know, on day one, it might not be corrupt, but if you keep adding people to it and you add complexity and nobody knows exactly where the money's going or why, your odds of some corruption are 100%.

It'll happen every single time.

You don't even have to ask.

Every single time.

Now again, if you don't find the corruption, it's either because it did a good job of hiding or because the situation is too new, but eventually it's going to be corrupt.

So all the USAID stuff, all the NGOs, yeah, pretty corrupt.

Well, some people are making the connection between the uh USAID being unfunded uh and the fact that the news is telling us that the Democratic National Committee is out of cash.

Do you think those stories are related?

Do you think that the uh Democrats were siphoning off money from USAID into the Democrat party?

Well, I don't know about that.

So, I don't have any evidence that that is the case, but uh the DNC says there's a big drop in big donations.

Now, that doesn't surprise me.

Is anybody surprised that the Democrats are not attracting as many donations as they used to?

Maybe it has to do with losing everything all the time.

Maybe it has something to do with uh being on the wrong side of every 80-20 issue.

Maybe it has something to do with, you know, David Hogg and Ken Martin and, you know, not exactly exciting anybody or maybe it has something to do with having no national leader who seems worthy of funding.

I feel like that's the big one.

So, I wouldn't worry too much for the Democrats uh until they get a nominee.

If they find a nominee for president for 2028 um and then they don't get any donations, well then they're in trouble.

But my guess is as soon as they're happy with their nominee that the money will pour in.

Just a guess.

Well, the Supreme Court, um, you probably heard, has upheld a Tennessee ban on trans, um, surgery or gender affirming medical treatments for transgender minors, and it upheld it by six to three.

Now, Clay Travis has a rather severe opinion about this, and I'm not going to say that I totally agree with it because it's a little anecdotal, but um it's worthy of being surfaced.

So, here's what Clay Travis says about the Supreme Court upholding the Tennessee ban on um minors getting trans procedures.

Um he says there are seven parents on the Supreme Court out of nine and they voted, the parents voted six to one against minor children being permitted to have surgery.

And then he says, "Two childless women, Sotomayor and Kagan, voted two to nothing to permit it." And then he says, "The Democrat party to a large degree now enacts the political desires of childless women." Well, I'm not sure you could make that general assessment from this one situation, but if you see that pattern repeating itself, then we might take a second look at it.

It's a little bit early.

Um, I definitely think the Democrat party is a single woman dominated party, but I don't know if this is, you know, this might be a special case.

I'm not sure that this is telling you that.

All right.

So according to Grok, the majority of the court was focused on states rights saying that the states had a right to regulate um whether the children get those treatments and the two dissenters argue that the law discriminates based on sex and transgender status.

So that does sound like a single woman kind of an opinion, doesn't it?

Anyway, um there is news that the economy is doing well.

Um apparently the blue collar wage growth was up 1.7% since Trump got into office which is considered higher than other presidents in the same period.

But I don't know if that one data point is really telling us much.

But inflation appears to be under control and jobs look good.

If we were to compare that to Biden's performance, um, did you see a news item, I think it was yesterday, that said that the entire 400,000 jobs that Biden claimed to have created were all fake.

Like all of them.

Apparently, if you look at non-government jobs, it was minus a thousand.

So, how many of you remember when I had a debate with Michael Ian Black and I had him as a guest and before I realized he was not, you know, debating me in good faith, he was just sort of trying to be difficult.

Um he questioned me when I said that the Biden employment numbers tended to be revised downward and he won the debate.

Uh at least that part of it because I looked into it and sure enough it was not true.

It was not true that every single time it got uh lowered when it was revised.

A number of times it was, but not every time.

So I kind of conceded that point.

Boy, I should not have conceded that point because if you look at the entire picture, it looks like it was all fake.

Now, what does that tell you about the uh data under the Trump administration?

Does that mean that the Trump economic numbers are all accurate?

I don't know.

I don't know how these numbers are cooked up or who does it, but uh I guess the caution is don't trust the government when it gives you any statistics.

Anyway, um James Carville was making some news.

He was talking about his friend Tucker Carlson.

So the first surprise for some of you is that uh Tucker Carlson and James Carville have been friends for years now.

Tucker often says that he interacts and is friends with lots of people who were on the polar opposite side of politics.

And I guess this would be one example.

But uh they were talking about uh the recent podcast where Tucker Carlson was talking to Ted Cruz um and talking about the Israel Iran situation.

And I got to say, you know, I've had a mostly positive opinion of Ted Cruz, you know, just as a senator.

And I thought, you know, if he became president, that wouldn't be terrible.

I thought to myself, but uh he may have taken himself out of competition forever being president by his answers to Tucker.

Now, I don't know what he's thinking or what his internal mental processes are, but what he said out loud is really looking like a problem.

Um he said that uh um what did he say?

He said that when he came into office he wanted to be the most uh pro-Israel um senator ever.

I'm paraphrasing, but that's it.

And I thought to myself, that's really not something you want to say at the moment.

It would be perfectly okay to say, you know, that you're on Israel's side and you support Israel, but the way he said it sounded almost like Israel was his first priority.

Now, again, I don't know what he's thinking, and I'm not saying that's his mental process, but that's the way it came out.

And then he denied that AIPAC was influencing Congress very much.

He acted like they didn't have much influence, which flies in the face of everything that you and I probably think is true because they certainly put a lot of effort into doing what Ted Cruz says is nothing.

So, I'm not sure I believe that they have, you know, no real influence over Congress.

And uh and then he said that he takes money from AIPAC, but really you have to understand that it's Americans making small donations.

So it's not so much that Israel or some Israel uh group is giving him money, but rather it's Americans making small donations.

Now again, that might be technically true and we don't know what he's thinking, but it just sounds like an excuse for doing what AIPAC wants and for being pro-Israel in all situations.

So, you know, I'm uh well, I'll leave myself out of it.

Um, but according to James Carville, Tucker Carlson has been consistent with his anti-war opinions for a long time.

He says it's the same thing that Tucker is saying now is what he would have said in a green room in 2002.

So that's interesting that Carville has given Tucker sort of cover, you know, for being consistent.

Um, but as I've said, um, Tucker has what I call a half opinion, which is not a full opinion.

It's just half an opinion.

His half an opinion is that if we get involved in these, you know, foreign wars, it almost always goes bad.

So, it's a bad idea to do it.

So apparently he called uh Trump and uh at one point he must have apologized to Trump for going a little hard at him.

And uh Trump was talking about that conversation and Trump said, "I did ask Tucker, are you okay with nuclear weapons being in the hands of Iran?" And he didn't like that.

I said, "If it's okay with you, then you and I have a difference." Now, that's where Trump just um called out Tucker for the half opinion.

The half opinion is what we all know, which is if you get involved in a foreign war, it might not go well.

And if yo