t and then it would start driving. Is that wild? What would be better than just talking to your car and having it drive you somewhere?

Everybody who experiences that, and I have not yet experienced it, but everyone who does is just blown away. Like you can't imagine that anybody would use any other process. The thing I used to fantasize about is that I could take a vacation just by walking out to my car. So I'd just get in the car, you know, with maybe one piece of luggage and I'd say to the car, "Take me on a scenic trip to some park or something and make sure that when it's lunchtime or dinnertime that you find a nice restaurant to pull over for meals." And I think it would just do it, which would be pretty amazing.

Anyway, I also saw that Elon is trying to figure out how to combine the stocks of, well, there is, I don't think there's stock, there's no public stock yet for SpaceX, which is why it would be difficult to combine it with Tesla, which is public. But he's trying to figure out how the Tesla stockholders can get some upside benefit from some kind of ownership of SpaceX, which would be awesome. I'm a Tesla stockholder. I don't have much, but enough to mention. That'd be very cool.

All right, let's talk about everything that's corrupt. I feel like lately my podcast has the same theme. Well, somebody stole a hundred million dollars and somebody else stole a billion dollars. It's all just the same story. All I'm doing is changing the names of the organization.

Anyway, I guess the US Department of Transportation told Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, that they've got 30 days, the state has 30 days to revoke all licenses issued to illegals. I think this is for commercial. These are commercial driver's licenses. So they don't want the people driving trucks and doing commercial work to be illegal. But apparently one third of all the non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses in Minnesota were issued to illegal immigrants. One third. So that's apparently going to be reversed. Wall Street Apes is posting on that on X.

According to Fox News, the Minnesota fraud, which we keep talking about, the fraud seems to be in a variety of places in Minnesota. So the whole state of Minnesota appears to be just a criminal enterprise at this point, but they think that the total amount stolen might be as high as $8 billion. Can you even hold that in your head? That's the amount that's stolen within just the last few years. I guess $8 billion.

I keep telling you that there are too many people driving nice cars to make any sense for how many nice good jobs there are or even how many people have inherited it from their parents or whatever. There just seem to be way too many people who have nice houses and nice cars compared to the number of good jobs there are in the world. And I kept thinking for years, by the way, for years I've thought this. I thought, what percentage of all the rich-looking people, rich-looking meaning you have an expensive car or a nice house, what percentage of them got it from crime? And I've always assumed it was at least 20%. And now I'm going to up that. I mean, it might be as high as 50% of all rich people are criminals. And you know, it's these white-collar corrupt NGO money-laundering situations.

I love it when stupid people come into the comments. Let me repeat what a stupid person here says. This is all in caps. You believe everything you see on Fox News. No, I don't. You're just an idiot. I don't believe anything I see anywhere. And I don't believe you are as dumb as you're pretending to be. But maybe you are. Maybe you are that dumb.

Well, let's look at the other frauds. Now there's some thought that there's a massive Obamacare fraud that would be not just in Minnesota but in 2023 according to Stephen Moore maybe as much as one in three people who got Obamacare subsidies may have been frauds. It's possible that $21 billion has been fraudulently taken out of the Obamacare process. $21 billion.

All right. So let's see. We've got all kinds of fraud in Medicaid. We've got it in basically every program that you could have fraud. The SNAP, driver's licenses, fraud, fraud, fraud. How about the SBA, Small Business Association? Well, the head of that, Kelly Loeffler, has required that everybody who's getting the SBA benefits have to essentially provide evidence that they're legitimate. So it's sort of an audit. I wouldn't call it an audit exactly, but Kelly Loeffler is making sure that only people who deserve these SBA benefits, their loans, generally loans for small business, are getting them. So what do you think she'll find? Take a guess.

So it's the beginning of the process and the SBA is trying to find out how much fraud there is in the SBA. Just take a guess. Where do you think that's going to come out? I'm going to guess that one third of all the loans are fraudulent. Anybody want to take the other side of that bet? Do you want to bet that it's less than one third? I'm going to say one third of them are totally fraudulent because that would be similar to all the other frauds that like everything that's fraudulent. Everything that hasn't been scrupulously audited, it's just full of fraud.

Well, let's see. But at least the DEA, you know, that organization, the DEA, that are making sure that the drugs are not coming into the country. Oh, wait. The top Obama-era DEA official has been charged with laundering money for the Mexican drug cartels. According to Zero Hedge. So the DEA is corrupt. Well, it's everybody. Just everybody's corrupt.

Do you ever wonder why we couldn't stop the drugs coming from south of the border? It's not a big mystery. It's because of corruption. Otherwise I'm sure we could have done a pretty good job of stopping it. Corruption's got to be the worst when people have money to bribe you but also guns to shoot you and you know that they would do it if they have to. How do you get past that? Well, they can bribe anybody and they can kill anybody, but first they would torture you. Yeah, I think that's a problem.

Well, we found out a little bit more about the pipe bomber. The pipe bomber has admitted that he put the pipe bombs there. He is described as a, as Jake Tapper would say, a black man who he thinks was white. No, just joking. But he did call him white before he knew he was black. I have to admit that I assumed it was a white guy. I know, maybe I'm a little bit racist against white people, but when I hear that somebody is planting bombs, I just automatically think that's my people. I go, that's my people. Damn you, you're making me look bad. And then I find out it wasn't a white guy this time. It was a young black man who is being described as almost autistic. Almost. If he had been a little bit more autistic, apparently those bombs would have been functional. I don't know if those were real bombs.

Wasn't it Thomas Massie? I saw a post on X where Thomas Massie was asking the question, if a pipe bomb is made with a kitchen timer that only goes up to an hour, how likely is it that it was set for some number of hours? There's something inconsistent about what we know about the bombs and the idea that it actually could have been functional. So it's still a mystery.

I think one of the most impressive things about this story is that Mike Benz apparently had been sort of on to the notion that it might be a black guy from day one because of his $300 sneakers, footwear. Now, obviously there could be people of any race who have expensive footwear, but if you were just doing an FBI profile and somebody said, "Oh, somebody with really expensive footwear," you'd probably lean black. In this case, obviously it doesn't mean that only black people wear good sneakers, but he would have been right if he'd made that guess.

And do you remember when Christopher Wray told us that the cell phone data was corrupt and then we found out that what was corrupt was apparently Christopher Wray or the FBI. So let's see. The SBA might be corrupt, the FBI. And I think it's really clear at this point that they were intentionally not pursuing it. Now, I don't know why yet. I'm guessing that the narrative didn't work. That if the narrative did not support the idea that it was a bunch of MAGA people who were the dangerous ones, that they just didn't want to put that out there. So that's why I think it got stalled for several years. But as soon as Dan Bongino and Kash Patel fired the people who were in charge, as soon as they got rid of all the people who were working on it, they solved it. So I don't think we have to wonder what was going on there. Clearly it was just corruption of some type. So that was corrupt.

And now we're hearing that the pipe bomber may have believed or worried that the 2020 election was stolen except that we know that he was getting his bombs ready in 2019. So that story doesn't hold together. So pretty much everything we know about the pipe bomber looks like it could be fake.

If you're just joining, the reason I'm not in my regular chair is that I'm having just vicious back problems. And so if I move out of this position or hunch over my computer too much on the desk, I'll be in bad shape.

All right. What else is happening? So apparently there's some kind of new government document. Trump's got this national security strategy document that just went out and he's mocking Europe. So he's talking about Europe and he says, quote, their economic decline is eclipsed only by the real and stark prospect of civilizational erasure. Civilizational erasure. That's what Trump is accusing Europe of doing. Basically erasing their own civilization. He says if present trends continue the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years. And apparently they have lost their global share of GDP. This is the European Union. They've lost their global share of GDP that at one time in 1990 was as high as 25% of the global GDP. Now it's down to 14%. Uh-oh. I wonder if the European Union is doing anything else that could destroy their future.

Oh yeah. Apparently they've got this new law that they're using to go after X and go after Elon Musk and they're fining him $140 million. And I guess they're fining the company, but they're also fining Elon Musk personally. And what was it that they wanted? The European Commission says what they're complaining about is they say that X had a deceptive design of its blue check mark. Does that sound real? Do you think that X has a deceptive design for its blue check mark? Well, I haven't noticed a problem. Have you? Is there anybody who doesn't know what the check mark is? Or maybe this is old because they changed what the check mark means. W