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ing. Is it? Yes. Okay. All right then. Let's start with the simultaneous sip. Who's up for that? All of you. I know why you're here. You're here for the simultaneous sip. All you need is a cup or mug or glass, a tanker, a chain, a canteen, a sugar flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I'd like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous sip.…

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alled the simultaneous sip. It happens now.

Ah, divine.

Well, would you be surprised to find that scientists have discovered that roasted coffee is good for your blood sugar? Is there anything coffee can't do? No.

Well, Amazon has launched what looks like its one millionth robot. Can you believe that? Amazon has already launched one million robots, but they've tried to train seven hundred thousand people to be upskilled. So you know, the net isn't that bad. I feel like the only reason they need humans is for that last part from the truck to the door. And the only reason they need that is because it'll keep the robots from being attacked. I feel like the robots could already do that, but it would lack some humanity. So sooner or later your Amazon package will be delivered by a humanoid robot.

Anyway, here's more good news for Elon Musk. A court has decided that Elon can go forward with his lawsuit against OpenAI. Now you might know that Elon was one of the original backers of OpenAI, but he was under the impression that it was going to stay open sourced and be for the good of humanity. But Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, he alleges, plotted against the for-profit enterprise and tried to turn it into a profitable enterprise, which so far they have. But the funniest part is that Elon is referring to Sam Altman as Scam Altman. He said that on X: Scam Altman. And he says he lies as easily as he breathes now. Do you think he learned that from Trump, the nicknames? It feels like it, doesn't it? Yeah.

I'm going to have to take a sip. Stay awake, Scott. And that was me spilling all over my shirt. That was messy. Let's see if it helps.

But I love the fact that Elon is using nicknames now. Very Trumpian. And there's a very good chance that he might wrestle control of the entire thing back to whatever it was and OpenAI will just be in bad shape. Imagine being Elon and he contributed thirty-eight million to this thing under one set of assumptions and then the assumptions changed. I'd be pissed. But looks like he's going to win.

Well, apparently the Trump administration has launched a new dietary guideline and it looks about right to me. So it's got whole grains at the bottom, meaning don't eat as much of those, but at the top would be protein, dairy, and healthy fats, the vegetables, and fruit. That sounds exactly what I would have done. Why did it take so long? They could have just asked me. "Scott, where should we put it at the top of the pyramid?" I would know. I think I nailed that one.

Here's a story that is so unbelievable. According to Secretary Marco Rubio, the US is leaving sixty-six anti-American, useless or wasted international organizations. Now, how in the world did we get to sixty-six worthless international organizations? How does that even happen? Sixty-six. Now, I was a little skeptical until I saw the list. Once you see the list, it's just obvious that they're useless. So no other president but Trump would have quit. Again, it's an only-Trump situation.

Also, according to the New York Post, Trump is signing an order to get out of some UN coalition thing that was a racist organization. So apparently it was the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent and they were promoting racial grievances. So Trump just said, "We're not going to be part of a racist organization," and he's going to quit. Now, why did that take so long? How in the world were we supporting a racist organization? Well, it's DEI. So there was a time not long ago when people were dumb enough to think that DEI was an anti-racist thing, but it definitely was primarily a racist thing and Trump recognizes that.

Well, we got some fireworks. My voice is failing. We got some fireworks in Minnesota. Obviously you know about all the claims of fraud. And I guess the Minnesota state reps had some kind of a hearing. And according to them, there's no doubt about it that Tim Walz knew about all the fraud. And there's no doubt about it that Keith Ellison, their AG, also knew about it. He actually is on video and audio, I guess, actually saying that he would stall the investigators. So the claim was that there were about a thousand whistleblowers and all of them had to back off because they were threatened with firing and losing their pensions and stuff. So if you ever wondered if you can threaten a thousand people to back off, the answer is yes, and for years. But also apparently the newspaper backed off. So the local newspaper, which had been making reports about this for years, didn't run any stories about it or very little. So they were obviously in on it too.

Elon has posted "Prosecute Tim Walz" and I guess ninety percent of the people charged with the fraud are Somali background. Now this is the sort of thing that you wouldn't have believed a little while ago.

Some on my chin. I'm losing my feeling in my mouth, so I can't tell what's on me or not. Chin. Chin. Yeah. So you can see it. All right. Well, we're going to have to live with that. All right, that's the best I can do.

So once again, we live in awe that all of that went on for so long and thousands of people were aware of it and nothing happened. Thousands knew about it and nothing happened. Wow.

Apparently according to Fox News, this group organizing protests against the Maduro capture are funded by who do you think? Funded by George Soros-linked Open Society Foundation. How does George Soros stay out of jail? How in the world is it not the biggest thing in the world that he's funding things that are bad for America? There's no law against any of that. Weird.

Well, let's take a sip and see if anything gets better. I have to be careful sipping or I'll choke. Well, this might end very soon. Sorry about that.

Well, you've heard the story told by General Mike Flynn and Patrick Byrne and some others. But it's so amazing that this happened as well. As far as I know, I think this happened: that there was this major Venezuelan connection and they were going to cheat the election and allegedly they've been cheating for years in lots of different countries and getting away with it. But what I didn't know is how they took down the alleged Serbian data center before they could cheat in the election. Because the allegation is that the machines were tied to some Serbian data center and that's how the cheating happened. But I always wondered. Patrick Byrne said that it got taken down and apparently it was because Elon Musk looked at what they had, listened to the whistleblowers, decided it was real that the elections were being rigged by Dominion, I guess, and at some point our cybersecurity people got involved and just in time they took down the data center. And that's the only reason that Trump won, is that the cyber guys knocked it offline just in time.

But the part that is just mind-boggling is that several of them had to flee for their lives because the bad guys were after them and they should have, well let me put it this way: apparently this was in the domain of if you talked about it, you would be killed, as opposed to if you talked about it, nobody would listen. This was a serious "we're going to kill you all for uncovering this." And that makes sense because the scale of this crime would be kind of unprecedented. Yeah.

So the thing that I'm learning is that at some level of crime, they do chase you from country to country and kill you. That seems to be like a real thing.

Now, could it be that I've been fooled by the Kraken? Am I being, you know, is it part of you debunking something? I don't know if this will ever be fully uncovered, but it looks like Trump was not exactly fully informed about this until just about the last minute, maybe after the last minute. But this would be a case where Elon Musk saved the world if these allegations are true.

All right. Some of those New York City protests against ICE are being paid for by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Basically a billionaire who lives in China. So why is that legal? Why can some billionaire who lives in China organize protests in the United States and try to take down our government? Well, I think they should be going to jail.

Here's a story. I don't know if to believe it or not, but apparently Trump was negotiating drug prices with the French president Macron. Now, why would Trump be negotiating drug prices with a French president? I don't know. But Trump's version is that, quote, "I said, 'Okay, here's the story, Emmanuel. If on Monday you haven't agreed to every single thing that we want, I'm putting a twenty-five percent tariff on everything coming out of France.'" And then Trump says that Emmanuel said, "No, no, no, no, you cannot do that." I said, "I can do that and I will do that even for national security. I'll do that but this is for medical security." And then Emmanuel said to me, "Donald, you have a deal." I love Trump's, I like it when Trump tells a story in his own voice and so he's so pro-Trumpian, of course. So I don't know what that's all about, but maybe our drug prices are coming down.

Allegedly President Trump is announcing that he's going to take steps to make it impossible for big corporations to buy single-family homes because they're competing with people who are not institutions and it makes the price of the homes go up. Supply and demand. So that feels like a thing that would immediately help affordability. Just tell the institutions they can't buy private homes. Sounds like a good idea to me.

All right. Here's a story I don't understand. The president of Colombia had a good phone call with President Trump and he dropped the tough-guy act, they're saying, and that they got along okay on the phone and so they're going to get together. Would you feel safe if you're the president of Colombia and you were going to get together in the United States right after the president of Venezuela got nabbed? What would stop us from nabbing him? Do we have a bunch of indictments against the president of Colombia? And what if we do? Would it be wrong for us to nab him if he came for a meeting? Probably would be. Yeah, I don't think we would nab him under those conditions. But I do wonder what exactly he's going to offer and how exactly we would ever be made happy because I don't see any chance they're going to stop doing drugs or selling them. And I don't see any way that Trump will be happy unless he does. So what in the world can they accomplish by getting together? We'll find out.

Well, the Danes over there in Denmark, they said, "Our troops will fire immediately if America invades Greenland. No orders needed." So apparently there's some 1952 regulation that says Greenland can just start firing back if anybody attacks them and that rule remains in force. What would happen if they did shoot back? If Trump surged our military into Greenland and they fired, how long would that last? And would that even be a good idea to shoot back? So that looks like a bluff to me. I'm going to call that a bluff.

So apparently in Portland, Maine's public schools, there's going to be some training on how to resist federal officers from detaining illegals. In the months ahead, they say all staff will receive training in active bystander intervention in the face of potential federal immigration actions. So they're actually training their staff to resist legal orders in Maine. That doesn't seem like a good idea, does it?

And then as you know Iran's protests continue. I still can't tell how much of the Iran stuff is a colored revolution, meaning driven by the outside, and how much is really internally driven. But some say this is from the European Conservative that this time it feels different. But will it be? I think the regime has probably a better chance of surviving than other people do because we keep getting disappointed by that. And who knows if it's even better. Would it even be better for Iran? Because if the government falls, things can get dicey. So it might get dicey.

Well, here's a positive thought that we've reached the singularity. Now, people have a different view of what that means, but one view is that the robots will start doing all the work. And I saw a Jeffrey Weil post about this and he thinks that food costs could go down because you might have a robot that grows your food, does your gardening, and then prepares it for you. Do you think we're even close to that where a robot can be your gardener and make enough groceries for you that it would change your expenses? Well, you're going to have to save a lot of money on groceries to afford a twenty-thousand-dollar robot and all the electricity that will require, but I like the optimism. Yep. The robots are already going to bring down our expenses. Not really. Not anytime soon.

Well, Scott Jennings says he thinks we're having an epidemic of political vigilantism. Now, I think that has to do with the shooting in Minnesota. Somebody tried to stop ICE or something and got shot. I'm not really paying too much attention to that story, frankly. But what I didn't know is, did you know there have been, what did he say, hundreds, hundreds of situations where cars have tried to ram ICE agents? Is that possible? Hundreds already. It seems too high. But the fact that hundreds of people think they can drive their car into a bunch of law enforcement is shocking. And I don't know that there's going to be less of that anytime soon.

Well, JD Vance had an interview with Jesse Watters and made a bunch of news. He said we're going to have some big announcements in the coming days about the administration cracking down on fraud by illegals and others. And he points out that even if no fraud happens, eighty-five percent of Somali migrants collect welfare. Eighty-five percent are on welfare and that's unacceptable, as he points out. Yes it is. That would be unacceptable. Oh man.

And Representative Anna Paulina Luna, based on the testimonies given to Congress, I guess, she says she has enough evidence to believe that both Tim Walz and Keith Ellison were knowingly complicit in the Somali fraud scheme in Minnesota. So she has referred both of them to the DOJ for criminal charges. When do we just see the charges? How long does it take to put Tim Walz in jail? Because he definitely belongs in jail, it looks like to me.

Anyway, and then Tim Walz fighting back hard. He says, "I have a very simple message. We do not need any further help from the federal government." Okay. He says, "Here's where it gets dangerous." He says, "I've issued warning orders to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary. Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait." So not only is he the most obviously fraudulent governor of all time, but now he's going to try to weaponize his National Guard to actually have a military confrontation with the US government. That seems like the worst idea I've ever heard. But what options does he have? He's pretty much backed against the wall. Unbelievable. I don't think he would pull the trigger on that, but maybe.

So Elon Musk has predicted that the Tesla Optimus robots will someday surpass the best human surgeons. And he said that if you give them four years, it's absolutely certain. It might not happen this year or next year, but in four years your surgeon will be a robot. I don't know how much I trust that, but I wouldn't have trusted self-driving cars either, so I guess I'll get used to it, especially if it's way cheaper.

JD Vance is talking about Gavin Newsom too. He says the fact that those are the two front-runners shows how deeply deranged the Democrat party is. Let them fight it out. We'll figure it out. Maybe the dumbest candidate win. So he's just calling them dumb. Who's the other one? Newsom and I don't even know what other one he's talking about.

Well, Trump is threatening Raytheon, one of our biggest defense contractors, because they have not done enough to bring manufacturing back to the US. And so he's threatening them with, let's see what the threat is. He doesn't want to see them do stock buybacks and they have spent tens of billions. But they got to get their act together. Our country comes first. So he's leaning on Raytheon to be more America first and bring bigger manufacturing presence here. Good. Would Biden have done that? No.

And then apparently Trump has given the green light to a sanctions bill from hell that targets Russia. So the initiative would introduce a five-hundred-percent US tariff on imports from countries that purchase Russian oil, gas, uranium, and other raw materials. According to the bill's author, who would that be? Senator Lindsey Graham.

Now, I think I warned you earlier that I've reached a point of exhaustion that is caused primarily by the disease and not by what I'm doing. So I'm going to end early today with your permission or without actually because I can't stay awake and my mouth is too dry to continue talking. So you're watching the fast decline of my situation.

I heard from a nurse that the way you can tell how much time you have left, like a rule of thumb, is that if you're declining month to month, you probably have months to go. If you're declining week to week, you probably

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have weeks to go. And if you're declining day to day, well, it's pretty close. I'm definitely in the declining week to week mode. I should tell you directly. I think it's time to tell you that I've been in hospice mode for I don't know, a week now. So once you enter hospice, it's because you know that the other things won't work and all of the, you know, so I'm off the PLTO trial because I'm not h…

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