as to answer for that if he was lying to the public. But I'm not aware of how that hurt us. I mean you wouldn't want it to happen again right? But did it hurt us just in trust? Yeah. So yeah I'm agreeing that we'd have to do something about it.

All right. Thomas Massie points out that Congress spends tens of millions of dollars on secret projects that can only be viewed in a secure room. And if you go in a secure room to look at what those secret projects are they're all described in code words so you can't tell what they really are.

Are you comfortable with the fact that there are tens of billions of dollars on secret projects and that even a member of Congress who presumably would have the authorization can't figure out what they are? Well I'm a little uncomfortable with that. You like to believe that they have the right kind of controls and audits on that kind of stuff that even though you and I don't know what it is that doesn't mean the government doesn't have full control over it and they're monitoring their expenses and making sure that it's operating in the best interest of the public right?

No. One thing we know for sure is that our government is designed maybe unintentionally but it's designed by its design. It's a giant criminal organization because it just invites every criminal scheme that you can possibly do and the odds of getting away with them look like it's pretty good.

If I were going to give a young person career advice and they were afraid of robots taking all the standard jobs I'd say young man or young woman you should run for office because politics is where you can steal the most money with the lowest odds of being caught. No I wouldn't say that even though it's true.

Well Trump's gonna blacklist some countries for imprisoning Americans Newsmax is reporting. And so I guess that would the state sponsors of wrongful detentions would be punished in a variety of ways. And I thought to myself how many of those countries are there? Are there a lot of countries that are needlessly imprisoning Americans? Hm. I got questions.

I guess Venezuela is getting some Iranian missile boats. They're going to go try to threaten some of our naval assets maybe or trying to make us worry about what's happening. I'll tell you one thing that Venezuela would not want to do which would be sink a major American naval asset because if they haven't figured it out yet that would be a very bad thing for them to do.

Well I'm a little late on this story. Maybe some of you heard it but the New York Times reported and I don't know how they knew it that there was a SEAL team that penetrated North Korea back in 2019 and they were trying to install some electronic surveillance device but they failed because there was some fishing boat that kind of encountered them by accident. So they ended up murdering the fisherboat people, three, and puncturing their lungs with knives so they would float to the bottom. And then they cancelled the mission.

Now the real question is who told the New York Times and should the New York Times be writing about that sort of thing? I feel like that would be I mean just think about the public good. Isn't this very very very bad for the public good that that story was reported? What is the upside of that? Was there someone who would say no whatever you do don't plant any listening devices so we know better what is happening in North Korea? And it looks like it was designed as a leak strictly for the purpose of crippling Trump's diplomatic work so that North Korea would be mad at us. It feels like that was the only purpose.

So anyway and once again University of Copenhagen says that scientists have figured out how to transform plastic waste into a thing that absorbs CO2 from the air and captures it. And you know what you always say when I tell you there's a new story about some new way to capture CO2. What do you always say in the comments? But damn it Scott. That CO2 makes our plants grow better. We're all going to die if they suck all the CO2 out of the air. You fool. You fool.

All right so I did that for you so you don't have to.

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