they're blaming the attack on Russia. Do you think that Russia tried to murder the European Commission president in a way that people would probably guess was Russia? Does that story track with you or does it feel more likely that the GPS equipment on the plane just malfunctioned? Which one sounds more likely? I don't know. I'm not automatically going to buy the Russia tried to assassinate the European Union leader cuz it's a little bit too on the nose, especially if somebody like Zelensky, just to pick a name randomly, was planning to try to assassinate Putin, right? If you could be sold on the story that Putin may have tried to kill the president of the European Union, wouldn't you be far more accepting if somebody like Zelensky murdered Putin? You'd say to yourself, well, I mean, he tried to take out a leader in Europe. Zelensky took him out. It's not like we started it.

So I'm just totally skeptical that this is the kind of story where we know all the details correctly. I mean, it could be anything. I'm not saying it's necessarily a plot, but I don't believe the surface story.

According to PJ Media, Katherine Salgado is writing that the DOGE people regularly do reports on what money they've saved or what programs they cut and they're cutting a lot of them. They have silly sounding missions or at least missions where you say to yourself, why is my tax money being used for that, for example? And apparently they're finding billions that they're cancelling. So over the last five days, they terminated 50 what they called wasteful contracts that were worth up to about three billion and they saved maybe 762 million. How many contracts does our government have? Oh my god. These are just that one week of canceled unnecessary contracts. Three billion. That's one week. Five days. It's not even a week. It's a work week.

So here are some of the things that got cancelled. Transgender health medical evaluation unit services. I don't know. That was in the Department of Defense. Now, we don't know what that was all about, but it does make me ask this question. Well, I'll give you the next one. There was also a Department of Defense contract that got cancelled for LGBTQ magazine advertising campaign. Do you think we really needed to spend that money on it? It was 129 million on an LGBTQ magazine advertising campaign. I don't even know that magazines are still a thing. When was the last time a LGBTQ member read a magazine? I can't tell you the last time I read one. I don't even remember. I guess they still exist.

And then there was a 49 million for a USAID contract for quote the Belarus regional initiative to provide transition activities in Belarus and other countries in Europe. Okay. I have no idea what that's about. It sounds like it might have been some spook or CIA or defense related thing disguised as some other thing. Maybe. I don't know. But I don't think I can live in a world where I pay my taxes into a black box and then a bunch of people say, you know, you shouldn't know what we're spending this on because it'll ruin the whole thing. It's a big old secret. So we're going to spend a lot of your money on big old secret stuff, but trust us, we looked into it really carefully and it's a really good use of money because we say so. I don't know.

So definitely I think DOGE will end up canceling some things that are tragic. On the other hand, I oppose the idea that some people have special problems. Don't you all have problems? You know, if your problem is that you're trans or LGBTQ or that you're descended from slaves, those are real problems. But why are they special problems? Why is somebody else's problem because they're a member of some group? Why is that more important than whatever problem you and I have? I'll bet I could randomly pick any one of you and say, "Do you have any problems?" and you'd say, "Oh my god, yes," there would be some health problem or you're short, which is a big problem in the US, or you have some body p