e's a pretty long list, isn't there? Certainly the nutrition pyramid probably had 90% agreement of dieticians and whatnot and that was fake, right?

So if you knew how many times science had been wrong when nine out of 10 scientists believed something was true, wouldn't that change how you saw the climate stuff? That would be important context and I don't know it. I don't think you know it either but certainly there, yeah certainly eggs are bad. I'm seeing some other examples go by. Yeah and then we believe that our elections are pristine. Really everything's broken but our elections are fine and climate science. Once you realize that everything is fake. If it's complicated and there's a lot of money involved and it really matters, it's definitely fake.

All right. Scott Bessent was asked about getting a trade deal with China, which we don't have yet. And Breitbart News, Ian Hanchett is writing about this. And apparently Bessent's take is that we don't need a deal because we've passed tariffs along and the tariffs include things like grotesque higher tariff because of fentanyl and apparently China is our biggest source of tariff money right now.

Now I'll remind you it doesn't mean that China is paying it although in some cases they might by taking lower profit margins but the company that's importing is still paying it but apparently China is not complaining too much and we're getting all kinds of revenue toward the deficit and we don't really need to do anything. I have to admit I did not see that coming. I did not see us getting to the point where our trade deal with China is, you know what, if they want to keep having these tariffs, we'll be happy to keep them on there. So he just instead of solving the problem, Trump monetized it as he does. And Bessent says, "If it's not broke, don't fix it." So he's happy to just plod along and keep the tariff money.

Well, the US has a bunch of warships and 4,000 marines off the coast of Venezuela because Maduro, the leader, is accused of being more cartel than national leader, although he's both. And I guess Maduro is activating a bunch of reserves. So he's got millions of soldiers just in case.

And I'm going to give you my conspiracy theory of the day. Now I wouldn't say that I believe this is true, but some of you are going to say that's a pretty good conspiracy theory. You ready?

Like many of you, I also believe that when a president gets in office, that there's something like what I'm going to describe that happens. Maybe not exactly this, but it's what you imagine happens. That someday some spooky guy, it's always a guy in a nice suit, will visit the new president and say, "Let me explain to you how it works. The military-industrial complex runs the country and you're going to give us at least one ongoing war all the time. If you don't, we will probably take you out one way or the other." "What? Take me out? What do you mean?" "Like kill me if we have to. But the important thing is the country needs at least one war all the time."

So what if, and again this is just, I'm having fun with a conspiracy theory so don't believe this. This is just for fun. What if Trump knows that? And so in order to end the war in Ukraine, he knows the only way to do it is to promise a brand new war really fast. And so again it's just for fun. I'm not alleging that this is true. So then what he would do is put a bunch of military forces around Venezuela because you could credibly believe that he might be planning for a war and then you say to that spooky guy in the suit, "Hey, here's a deal. If you help me get out of the Ukraine situation, we'll start something locally and we'll have a brand new one with Venezuela. Deal."

How do you like that for a conspiracy theory? That's the most cynical you could get. That what matters is we have to have a war. So when you see the new one getting queued up just in time. Huh? Isn't that weird? It's just in time because the other one might be ending. Huh. That's a little bit of a coincidence, isn't it? Well it might be just a coincidence so don't take it too seriously but we'll see what happens in Venezuela.

Apparently the Department of Homeland Security has pulled funding from groups that are quote alleged terrorist ties. How much money does our government have that we don't know that some of it is going to organizations that have terrorist connections? Well turns out there's a good reason to believe we've been giving money to some groups that had terrorist connections. We're giving way too much money away. So Fox News Digital got this scoop I guess. 49 projects with alleged affiliations to terrorist activities have already been cancelled. 49 funded projects that our government and your taxpaying money went to support have some kind of terrorist connection. It took until now to say, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't be giving them money." All right. All right.

And in related news, Tulsi Gabbard, head of the DNI, is now sweeping overall and is going to get rid of 40% of staff. I love the fact that even though Trump is not crowing about his cost savings in government, that it seems like all the department heads know that winning means cutting costs. And so they're all doing it and it's almost like they're competing to see who can cut the most because that's how you win favor. But it is strange that Trump's not bragging about it. Good.

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