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d. Yes. It's a little after. But you have to approve them. Oh, yeah. We have to go approve them. They want to come in. Let's go approve some more. And let's accept some more. Okay. So now we have a bunch of people and this gentleman I guess the way I can tell if you want to come up is if you show up on video just to me. So it looks like Norm I can't see from way over here.
Hi.
Hi. What's your name?
Norm.
Norm. Hey Norm. Hey, Scott. Hey, Shelly. How you doing? Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you. Finally get on here. Hey, somebody else been a huge follower. Norm. Yeah. Gotcha. Yo behind you. What are you behind? Oh, holy. Surprise. Surprise. What's your name? I keep hearing myself over and over again. All right. Well, it looks like Norm and Ryan around here. Oh, hey B. Maybe that's better. I think I did it. You're both on the audio. So yeah. So who would like to talk? Well, I heard you talking about mortgage bonds and I'm in the mortgage business, so I figured I'd jump on because I'm pretty pumped about Trump's buying the mortgage-backed securities. That'll definitely pump the rates down.
Now, explain to us like we're dumb how that will help.
Okay. So the last time that the government bought mortgage-backed securities, which is the bonds they're talking about, was after the 2008 housing crisis. So what happens is these bonds are available for like think of it like a mutual fund or a stock, but they're not very attractive because they don't give high rates of returns like the stock market and other mutual funds. So no one really buys them. So if no one buys them, there's not a demand for them. So the only way to get a demand is the rates go up to make it appealing to an investor. They want seven, eight percent return on their money at least, right? So because there's no demand for them, rates will go up. But once there's a demand, meaning when the country starts buying in that amount, it pushes the rates down because now they're being bought by someone, in this case, the government. So it's the government's way of manipulating the rates to go down when the Fed doesn't want to lower them. So because he's going back and forth with Powell, and Powell won't lower the rates, the way the government can do that is actually buy the bonds itself in large quantities like it is. And as long as he keeps buying them, the rates will go down and go down and go down because now he's created an interest, so to speak, by manipulating the system. It's only been done once before and it was Obama did it a lot in 2008 to keep the rates down when the Fed didn't want to lower it and that's when rates were like three, four percent.
Did it work?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. It worked. It was one of the biggest mortgage booms in history besides the one we just recently had with COVID. It was the largest rate reduction when it was two or three percent. But yeah, I mean rates went down to three or four. I've been in mortgages for thirty-five years and been reading your column for about the same amount of time and totally can understand the whole corporate culture. It made me want to open my own business so I didn't have to answer to anyone.
Nice.
But yeah, it worked and it will work.
Yeah, thank you for sharing that.
Yeah, and look forward to your future streams. But I don't want to take everyone's turn, but isn't it sort of a projection that we have a 5.4 GDP? I'm not familiar with the gross domestic product but I know the numbers came out recently yesterday the unemployment is going down which always helps. I mean, at the end of the day, all the numbers are in line for lower rates, but it's become a polit
Episode 3068 ChattingWSA 01/10/26
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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 healthy enough to be on it and all the other things that you're going to suggest from ivermectin to fenbendazole. Those were the first things I tried and things got worse with no improvement.
A lot of you have suggestions. The worst suggestion is to fast. So a lot of people believe that you could cure cancer by fasting. Now if that were true, there'd be a lot of people who cured cancer. Cancer wouldn't even be a problem if you could cure it by fasting. So I'm being bombarded by people with good intentions who can't help me at all. Can't help me at all.
As of today, based on how I feel, I don't know if there'll be a show tomorrow or ever again. If I feel better, there will be. If I feel the way I felt today, this might be our last show. And so but I don't know that for sure. I'll probably be fast asleep two minutes after I'm done here. I won't be able to talk to the Locals people privately, but I'll definitely talk to you again.
Thank you for all this support. Just crazy support. Thank you for everything you've done for me. Thank you for letting me come into your home and simultaneously sip with you. I wish I could, well that I've also been told that my mental acuity was sort of dropping pretty fast and I definitely felt that today. Now in the past if I've been on painkillers or Ativan or something, there's a reason why I wasn't as bright, but I'm not on a painkiller right now. I'm not on Ativan. So this decline that you can see, that's actually just my body. It's not because of any meds I'm on.
So I hate to make a big deal about it because it ruins my experience of looking at X when it's all about me. It shouldn't be all about me. But if I could talk without slurring, we'd be in a lot better shape. So this is going to be a tough week because I'm doing some goodbyes in person and for the most part it's people I know I'll never see again and that's pretty tough. Pretty tough.
All right, I think I slurred my way across this enough. I think I said what I need to say for now. Thank you for listening and watching. I'll try to keep things off my chin. All right, bye for now. I hope to see you later, but it might not be.
Episode 3066 CWSA 01/08/26
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a claim. That’s nothing.” If only one entity had told us that that stuff was true, and it obviously wasn’t, we might have said, “Oh, but these other entities don’t say it’s true.” But what happened was for the first time in American history, I think, that the people who colluded were all of our, or what we thought were credible organizations.
So you had the fake news saying it was true. You had the intelligence agencies saying it was true. You had the FBI, the DOJ, and the entire Democrat machine saying it was true. I’m talking about the Russia collusion hoax. Now, that’s what I call laundry list persuasion. When you don’t have anything that’s individually persuasive, but you just throw a fire hose of claims and then on top of the fire hose of claims, you have a fire hose of previously credible entities that gave up all their credibility to go all in on it because they were so afraid of Trump.
So I call that laundry list persuasion. So I’ve explained this before that if you say Trump did one thing bad, people would discount it. But if you say he did this and this and this and this and this, people assume there’s truth in there because there’s so much smoke there must be fire. But that’s not the case. That’s just laundry list persuasion. And I guess this book does a good job of showing how screwed we were.
Well, did you know according to the New York Times that when Trump backed off on funding weapons for Ukraine, it didn’t stop our involvement. The CIA took over and they didn’t do the same thing that we were doing, but they didn’t have their funding cut. And the CIA helped Ukraine target the most sensitive Russian places they could attack.
So it looks like the CIA helped Ukraine work smarter not harder. So instead of raw weapons and raw military, the CIA helped them get the stuff that was affordable and would make a big difference on the Russian economy. How many of you are surprised that the CIA just kept doing what they were doing? Of course they did. Of course they did.
Now the indication is that Trump was in favor of that. So as long as it wasn’t obvious what they were doing, he wanted to keep the pressure on Putin.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, there’s not much news happening today. A lot of it looks like a repeat. Every time I turn on X, it’s another claim of another state with another giant fraudulent thing they just discovered. I’m getting tired of it.
But I am worried that there is no solution for California’s debt and that however bad I think it’s going to get in California, it might get worse. Now, I will say that the one thing we have going for us is the Adams law of slow-moving disasters. I hope that the disaster, which is California’s debt problem and fraud problem, I hope that we’ve all known about it long enough that somebody’s figuring out what to do about it. And I don’t know what that would be. It doesn’t look like it’s solvable in any mathematical way that I can understand.
But I would expect that maybe in the next year, maybe two, there’s going to be some shock to the system that’s beyond anything we’ve imagined. Now, I don’t know what that is. It could be maybe we default on debt. I don’t know. Maybe there’s an earthquake. There’s something, but whatever it is, it’s going to have to be big and I don’t know if we’re ready for it.
So it could be, well, I mean, what would happen, for example, if the federal government said, “Here’s the deal. We’re just not going to fund $1.5 trillion worth of stuff. We don’t know exactly how much is fraud and how much isn’t. But we can’t survive unless we stop doing it.” What would happen? Well, in theory, it would also cut a bunch of things we didn’t want to cut, or at least we thought we wouldn’t, but it might be the only way to survive. So we might have to throw a whole bunch of poor people under the bus.
Oh, Hans, you’re so stupid. Of course I’ve researched that. Of course I did. Stop assuming that I didn’t look into my options. Stop it. All right. So no more stupid suggestions.
So I will give you a little bit of a heads up. I talked to my radiologist yesterday. He was working on the day before New Year’s. And it’s all bad news. So the odds of me recovering are essentially zero. So I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t. So there’s no chance I’ll get my feeling back in my legs. And I’ve got some ongoing heart failure which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day. But at the moment I can breathe and I’m not in any pain.
However you should prepare yourself that January will be probably a month of transition one way or the other. Now, I haven’t made any decisions, but it was all bad news. No good news at all. So I will keep doing this as long as it makes sense because I like doing it. Keeps me busy.
You know what’s weird is that I have much bigger problems than the stuff I’m talking about in the news, but I’m so interested in what’s happening in the world that it’s very engaging. Totally engaging.
So after the show I will continue doing a robots read news comic which I do every day. I try to and I’ll try to make some new comics, Dilbert comics, and I’ll just act like nothing’s happening. I’ll just pretend I have no problems, which is weirder. It’s easier than you think. Then I’ll take some painkillers if I need them. There’s no real limit to what I can take at this point. And I will probably smoke massive amounts of marijuana because it puts me into a stupor. It actually feels kind of good.
In my current situation, if I do a full day’s work, which I plan to do, I allow myself to enter the stupor zone. I mean, yesterday, for example, I was doing work and watching the Warriors game high as a kite. It wasn’t bad. The only thing that’s really bugging me at the moment is the inability to breathe if I get one of these coughing attacks and that could last hours. It could last 8 to 12 hours. So it’s 8 to 12 hours of hell. But it’s not always hell. So but things are changing fast. So I thought I’d give you a little update on that.
Has anybody gotten an update on Victor Davis Hanson? Because I know he had some major surgery, but we don’t know what that was about. I hope he’s doing better than I am. Yep. And I do appreciate all of your thoughts. I will probably write down some closing thoughts today just so I have them just so you can see what I was thinking in my final glide path.
He’s recovering. Good. Good for him.
Well, I will tell you that my interest and my empathy for all of you and for Americans in general is very high. So to my final breath, if there’s anything I can do to make things better for you, I will definitely do it.
All right,
Episode 3059 CWSA 01/01/26
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said, quote, "I believe the adverse events from regular old vaccines" — so we're not talking about COVID, just the vaccines that kids get — "are far more common than we imagined, including things like allergies." So he thinks his weed allergy might be because of something called adjuvants that were in his early childhood vaccinations. He said one of his sons has seasonal allergies that are pretty bad. The other has an allergy to dairy that's pretty bad.
And then he says given all that education that I've now painfully received, meaning he's done a pretty deep dive on the vaccine world and he is qualified to understand that stuff scientifically. If I had to do it all over again, I would not end up giving any vaccines to my newborn children.
Wow. I am so glad that I don't have newborn children because this would be — I mean this is a big decision. It used to feel like it was automatic like of course you get vaccinations. You know the scientists all say you should do it. Of course you would.
But here's what Brett says. This is the important part. He says, "I'm not saying it's impossible that any of them are more beneficial than they are harmful, but now I note that I cannot trust the safety testing." So his opinion is based on the fact that we now know that the safety testing has been inadequate forever.
So being very careful here. He's not saying he knows that these are the problem. He is saying he knows that you can't tell and that his personal decision if he had to make it now would be to not vaccinate children. That is pretty extreme, but also I would say perfectly backed up by observation. And I'm obviously not qualified to do a deep dive on vaccinations, but he is and he has. And so it's a pretty shocking development.
So how much did you used to trust science and how much do you trust it today? Was there ever a time when you thought the climate scientists were nailing it and that they were totally legit and that big pharma must have been forced to do good science or else the stuff wouldn't be approved? And now it kind of looks the opposite, doesn't it?
Now we know that at least half of all scientific studies are not reproducible. We watched the pandemic pervert science like we didn't think was possible. And now we're coming to understand that even climate science, you know, one of the biggest most important domains we thought was probably full of the least qualified scientists who are not exactly being scientific. That they may have just been following the money if you know what I mean.
So that goes all the way back to do you vaccinate your baby. That's a big difference from even what I thought. I mean I've been skeptical about the power of science and how much might be fraudulent. I've been skeptical for a long time but not this skeptical. I mean, I've just fallen off a ledge in terms of trusting science. Probably some of you, too.
Well, remember I keep saying that if robots were going to be launched in 2026 and if those robots would be the general kind, they could learn something and be your butler that we would already see them in the lab.
Episode 3055 CWSA 12/27/25
