nt and CIA, it looks like, and if we didn't know for sure that the Russia collusion hoax was organized by the highest levels of our own government, and they're still hiding it. If we didn't know that, I wouldn't even blink if somebody said, "Oh, these people have connections. They've got connections to the State Department." I would have said, "Oh, it's a big world. People know people. Doesn't mean anything." But now I just assume there's something to it. I'm so far into the conspiracy theory world just of the conspiracies that we know a lot about. We know which parts are true. That I find it hard to believe that both of those shooters were operating independently.

How many of you think that both of them, you know, there might be a difference between them, but how many of you think that both of them were doing it absolutely independently? It had nothing to do with any US government influence. Nobody tried to hypnotize them or pay them off or anything else. I don't know. It's a little bit harder to believe that they were operating independently given what we know about everything else lately.

This story might be a little bit of fake news, but I'm not sure yet. So keep an eye on this one. But apparently the Trump administration was going to cut federal emergency funding to cities and states that allowed boycotts of Israel or pursued boycotts of Israel. Now, apparently that created an uproar on the base. So it wasn't just Democrats complaining about Trump. It was his own base saying, "Wait, wait, wait. What are you telling me that a city is going to lose emergency funds because they backed a boycott of another country? That's not exactly America first." And so it looks like the Trump administration backed off of that. So that will not be a requirement. But in order to get that funding, you have to not be involved in DEI or immigration violations according to the AP I think.

In other news where Trump is punishing people, a lot of the news is Trump punishing people. Have you noticed that? It started slow, but now there's like four stories of Trump just punishing somebody with a government purse. So apparently the White House is putting together an executive order to punish banks for discriminating against conservatives. Now, I don't know if that means only in the past or if currently that's happening. And also the White House is preparing to crack down on the banks that have debanked Bitcoin and crypto companies. Wall Street Journal is reporting.

So if you're keeping track, have you figured out which oligarchs Trump is in favor of? He is apparently not too keen on the oligarchs who are bankers. He's going after the bankers. He's not too keen on the oligarchs that are big pharma because he's going after the big pharma, right? He's not too keen on the oligarchs who are oil companies because even though he's drill baby drill and trying to make it easy to drill, the net effect is drives down oil prices. So I ask you again, which oligarchs is he supposedly in favor of? So it's not banks, it's not pharma, it's not oil. So which oligarchs? Some maybe some crypto people or something? I don't know. It doesn't seem very oligarch friendly to me.

Did you know that India had cleverly figured out or at least people in India figured out they could buy Russian oil cheaply and then they could resell it for a big profit. So that was good for Russia because they were selling more oil but bad for the United States relationship with India because it meant India was supporting Russia basically. And so Trump says he will substantially raise tariffs on India over their Russian oil purchases. Right? So he's punishing banks for discriminating against conservatives. He's punishing cities for DEI. He's punishing colleges for DEI. And now he's going to punish India for dealing with Russia. He's got a lot of punishing. He's just doing a lot of punishing.

Here's a weird story. So you know that Murdoch owns not just the Wall Street Journal, but also owns the New York Post, one of the few conservative outlets. And now the New York Post is going to expand to California. So there's going to be a California Post. Now, what would be a less obvious thing to do than to start a new newspaper? How do you make money starting a new newspaper in 2025? Well, it could be that it's not so much a newspaper revenue play as it is controlling the narrative. Most of the news in both newspapers presumably will be the same, but maybe Californians will not read something that says New York Post on it. So maybe it just needs to say California and then they could add some California elements to it. But I suspect that Murdoch's real play is influence. I don't really think he would see it as a huge money maker to support a newspaper. Another one.

In big news, possibly big, really big, Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury probe into the Obama officials over the Russia hoax. So we don't know who's been referred to the grand jury. But as MSNBC's Nicole Wallace says, it's all over debunked allegations. So MSNBC is pretending like the Russia collusion hoax never really happened, I guess. And CNN is calling the Russia collusion hoax the Russian investigation. Well, that's kind of playing it safe, isn't it? Yeah, I suppose it was an investigation except that we know now it was a fake investigation or at least much of it was fake and it was intended just to hurt Trump. So CNN calls it a Russia investigation, not a hoax. It was just an investigation. Didn't go well.

So given that we know that grand juries once they are formed, they almost always indict because it's not a real competitive system where all the evidence is shown and everybody argues everything. So you usually don't even do the grand jury unless you know you're going to get an indictment and you usually do. So we are at a point where some very high level people are very likely to be indicted in how long is it going to take? Maybe a few months. So things are going to get really interesting.

And as other people have pointed out, sometimes the process is the penalty. So you would take these people out of their normal lives and have them open up their piggy banks to pay for ungodly expensive lawyers and their reputations will be dragged down and their businesses will suffer if they have side businesses, etc. So just being dragged into the legal process is quite a penalty before anybody even figures out if you're guilty of anything. So there are going to be some big names getting drag