at under control. I don't think she's necessarily the one stealing money, although her connection to Hillary Clinton would suggest it's a possibility. But I would give this question to Alexander Soros. Almost certainly you're being robbed in the biggest possible way because none of this looks organic. It looks like somebody figured out a way to take money from the old man and a lot of it. That's what it looks like.

Gavin Newsom of California is pushing back against Trump and his ICE efforts to deport people. And he wants the ICE agents to unmask. So now there's some kind of, I don't know, he's got some kind of state law or something that they're pushing to unmask the ICE people. Now, as far as I know, there's no way you can get away with that because the ICE agents are under federal control and as the feds say you definitely can't wear a mask. I don't think the state can stop them. So even if the state had their own little law, I don't think it would apply. I think the feds would overrule it. But we'll see.

However, I will note that Gavin Newsom has learned a valuable lesson from trying to copy Trump. I've been telling you for the last several days that one of the things that Trump does brilliantly like I've never even seen it is that he goes strong on every topic and he must know that some number of them will be blocked or he doesn't get away with it for one reason or another and then he can just adjust and he's already moved on to the next thing but the next thing he goes strong and maybe it works maybe it doesn't but the next after that goes really strong.

Now, if two or all three of those things that I'm mentioning hypothetically, if all of them didn't work out, what would you remember about Trump? The strength. You would forget about the individual topics pretty quickly, unless you had some special interest in them, but you would remember that he was the boldest, strongest, take no prisoners, I'm going to get this done kind of a president.

Well, it looks to me that Governor Newsom is taking that approach. Meaning that I don't know if he thinks there's any chance he can unmask the ICE agents. He knows that his people want him to go strong. So if Newsom goes strong, say you got to take those masks off, you bastards. And then things happen and it doesn't actually happen. No masks come off. What will you remember about that? You'll remember that Newsom was the only effective person fighting Trump even though he wasn't effective but you'll remember him as strong.

So it does look like and this is so weirdly ironic that part of Newsom's technique is literally overtly obviously and for humorous effect copying Trump like he's doing that as part of the act but he tells you I mean he's broadcasting his parody his satire it worked pretty well the parodies worked pretty well good job on that politically. But it looks now he's also copying his strategies. Trump's strategy is strong no matter what. If it doesn't work, it's better that you went strong. That's definitely what Gavin's doing. Strong first, even if it turns out to be wrong. I hate to say it, but it's an upgrade in his performance. I hate to say it, but he really is finding a little bit of purchase. And you know, a lot of us said the same thing. A lot of us said, you know, don't underestimate Gavin Newsom. I don't think he can win, but I wouldn't underestimate him. Well, maybe I just did, huh? Yeah, he's definitely got skills.

Apparently the state of Minnesota is having a problem. They're quote drowning in fraud. Apparently there was some taxpayer funded housing stabilization service and there's a lot of money involved in it and allegedly over a hundred million per year is stolen from one state and not the biggest state, Minnesota. $100 million a year stolen, not once, per year. And so it's like there are fraudulent health care companies being set up to collect money, fraudulent housing programs, rehab patient frauds, fake Medicare and Medicaid. So there's just this whole network of fake companies that popped up to do fake claims to steal the money.

Now, let me say it until it sinks in because I've been saying it for a while, but doesn't seem to be working. All local governments are criminal organizations by design. Now, it's not intentional design. I don't believe anybody sat down, you know, the founding fathers and said, "Let's make us a government where it's guaranteed to be all corrupt." Well, you know why it wasn't guaranteed to be corrupt back in the early days of the Constitution? They didn't have much money. They might have like a handful of projects and it would be stuff like, well, we need a street light on that one corner. And then you could sort of all pay attention to the few dollars it took to build the street light. And it wasn't nearly enough opportunity for fraud because it wasn't much money. And you could all just sort of watch it. Probably had multiple witnesses and stuff like that. Now, still probably there was a little bit of bribery and stuff like that, but not nearly as much.

But then fast forward and suddenly a city which used to be a smallish enterprise now has a billion dollar budget. A billion dollars. What happens then? Well, obviously it's going to attract all the people who want to figure out how to steal it. And there is no way to catch them all by design. So if you're the mayor and let's say you alone get to choose who wins some contract, you just make sure it's your friends. And then your friends have a whole bunch of extra money that they got. Where do you think some of that goes? Probably back to you, right?

So as long as you have this situation that very easily and by design everybody can rip the money out of the system, it's not going to stop. Here's where people get systems versus goals wrong. It would be a goal to not have corruption in local government, right? Everybody agree that would be your goal, my goal, their goal, the voters' goal. Everybody would have a goal. But what is their system to prevent that from happening? It's the opposite. The system is designed for the opposite of the goal. And as long as you have a system that's designed on paper, there's no way it can operate any other way except illegally in the long run. It's a design problem. It's a system problem.

We need to develop some kind of a system and test it on some city to see if we can make at least one city operate fiscally responsibly and not steal your money because we don't have that. You know, maybe smallish towns or something might get lucky, but we got to change the system. We can't just keep hoping that the next person we elect is the honest one. That's just a goal. Doesn't work.

All right. So reframe corruption as a design problem, not a moral failing of that one person who got caught. Every time you say, "Well, moral failing of this one guy that got caught, but at least we put him in jail, so problem solved." Nope. Problem not solved. Not even problem not even approached problem not even addressed if you don't change the entire auditing transparency system not a chance maybe put on the blockchain or something.

What about the Philippines? Oh guess what there's huge protests in Manila because $7 billion sort of went missing. Now there's a lot of corruption over there but when we say a lot of corruption it really means that it's just more overt. I don't know that we have less corruption here, honestly. So every government that has the same design about it has massive corruption. It's all the same design. The people in the government get to decide where billions of dollars go. So they steal some of it, like a lot of it, like 25% of it in this case. So the whole country is falling apart because they got caught stealing too much. And in a way what they did wrong was steal too much. If they had stolen maybe 10% there might not be any riots at all.

Meanwhile, over in Great Britain, some of the Brits are allegedly, according to a Telegraph poll, rebelling against their Prime Minister Starmer's decision to recognize a Palestinian state. That was not very popular at all. And 90% of Britons think that he jumped the gun by recognizing a Palestinian state. Jump the gun might be the kindest way they could have said that. I've got a feeling there's a whole bunch of Britons, you know, the ones born there, who are more than just a little put out by what's happening over there. So we'll see.

Well, here's interesting. According to news, James Marley is writing about this. There's somebody named Liz Truss who's a former UK prime minister. Somehow I never heard of that name before. How many of you knew that there was a UK prime minister named Liz Truss? Why have I never even heard that name? I usually don't pay attention to anything that's happening in Europe until I absolutely have to. You know, like there's a world war or something. But anyway, here's the good news. This ex UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, she's called for what she calls a mega moment in Britain. Well, you were all well informed. Good for you. Oh, she was prime minister for less than two months. Okay. Well, okay, now that makes sense. So only briefly.

All right. And she says that Britain needs sort of a Trump mega populist movement and she said that talking to Newsweek quote I want Britain to have its mega moment and i