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The David Knight Show - 6/11/2025

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	As the clock strikes 13, it is Wednesday, the 11th of June, year of our Lord 2025, and Stephen Miller is going to war with libertarians that are inside the GOP over Trump's big, beautiful bill.
	And Kiev won't pay the families of dead soldiers what they were promised.
	Then, will AI be the catalyst for the next revolution?
	Stay with us.
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	Well, good morning and thank you for joining us.
	Hope you all had a wonderful evening yesterday and are having a great morning today.
	And again, I want to start out the show by asking you all to continue to pray for our dad.
	Please pray for his healing, especially for the nerves in his tongue and his vocal cords.
	Please keep those foremost in your prayers when you think of our family.
	Now, as I said, we're going to start with...
	The GOP is about winning.
	Well, I mean, it's about selling out America and the American people and raising the debt ceiling.
	That's what the GOP is really about.
	And holding any principles doesn't fit with that agenda, so it's time for the libertarians to get out.
	This article is about Stephen Miller.
	Miller's criticizing libertarian lawmakers who oppose the White House's immigration agenda, particularly the border wall.
	That's right.
	The border wall.
	The big, beautiful wall that's going to completely solve all our problems.
	Except it isn't going to, is it?
	The border wall.
	It's just going to sit there, and they're going to be so intimidated by it that they're not going to bother to try to find ways around it, over it, under it.
	They're just going to give up right there.
	Except I've heard tell of a new invention.
	It's basically two sticks, and there's some sticks that go in between the two sticks.
	And they do this at specific intervals, and they use it to climb over things.
	I think they're calling it a ladder.
	I think that's what they're calling it.
	So it's a new one.
	Trump may not have heard of it yet.
	So the new deal is that you've got to climb over the wall, but then once you get here, you'll get all this welfare programs and free stuff, and we won't deport you or anything.
	It'll be great.
	If they really want to fight illegal immigration, start with the welfare state.
	That's where you start and you move on from there.
	Stephen Miller is leading a public war against the Republican Party's libertarians as he reframes the one big beautiful bill to being the key that unlocks President Trump's mass deportation agenda.
	That's right.
	It's the key.
	It's what they need.
	Going mainly after libertarian-leaning lawmakers such as Senator Rand Paul and Thomas Massey.
	Only two of them, really.
	Only two.
	Rand Paul isn't exactly the staunch defender of liberty that Ron Paul was.
	He waffles a little bit here and there.
	Who brought up concerns about the megabill's deficit impact.
	The White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Architect of Trump's immigration agenda is taking a sledgehammer to what remains of the libertarian conservative.
	Fusionism.
	That's right.
	The fusion is over.
	Vegeta and Goku are done.
	It's time to go home.
	That was prominent in the party pre-Trump.
	The libertarians in the House and Senate trying to take down this bill, they're not stupid, they just don't care, Miller said in an interview.
	or maybe they Maybe they care about standing up for their principles.
	Maybe they care about that.
	Maybe they care about not locking the American people in with the wall, because that's who it's going to impact more than the Mexicans or the others who are coming over the border.
	Especially if they implement track and trace.
	Especially if they have CBDC, where they know everything you're doing, everything you're buying, everywhere you're going all the time.
	You'll have a much harder time sneaking out of the country if you need to than they will sneaking into it.
	It's a lot like the gun control issue.
	These people are already fine with trampling over America's laws, crossing the border, all that.
	adding a wall that just makes it slightly harder to do that, if it would make it harder at all.
	We've seen how ineffective these things are for a determined group of immigrants trying to get there.
	It's a long border.
	There's going to be unprotected areas unless he's going to be stationing troops there in perpetuity.
	So they'll be largely unaffected.
	will be Americans that will be affected more.
	That's right.
	We've seen Mexicans are quite good at tunneling as well.
	We keep finding tunnels along the southern border, don't we?
	In fact, this makes me think that perhaps we need to update the fantasy races and the accents they use.
	Maybe dwarves need to be given Mexican accents from now on.
	The Scotch, the Scots accent has long been associated with dwarves, but perhaps it's time we give them the South
	It's also very disingenuous for him to phrase this as though Thomas Massey and Rand Paul are objecting to this because of Yes.
	Thomas Massey is even more hawkish on the debt than Senator Rand Paul is.
	That's his wheelhouse.
	That's what he deeply cares about and he fights for, fights about, with the other Republicans all the time.
	He actually seems to care about it.
	Immigration has never mattered to them.
	Well, what a rhetorician.
	You will never live a day in your life where a libertarian cares as much about immigration and sovereignty as they do about the Congressional Budget Office.
	I think a lot of libertarians care very deeply about sovereignty.
	It's just they care about it in different ways than you purport to.
	They care about the branches not mingling and taking each other's place.
	They care about state sovereignty.
	They care about individual sovereignty.
	Miller's personal advocacy for the bill ramped up amid outcry from deficit hawks within Congress from outside voices like Elon Musk.
	And while he echoed other top Republicans in denying the Congressional Budget Office's budget math, Miller has particularly focused on one of the legislation's key pillars, the billions of additional dollars to fund construction of the border wall and deportation efforts, such as detention facilities, more immigration and customs enforcement officers, and transporting deportees.
	Again, until you end the welfare state, it doesn't matter.
	It's a revolving door.
	There's still going to be more coming.
	There's no point in throwing people out if you're just going to continue to draw more people in.
	And it's an old problem with Washington that they put everything in one bill so that if you attack the bill on the basis of the bad stuff they put in it, then the people can say, oh, you just don't want this good stuff that we've also put in it.
	So they are...
	There is no reason for a border wall, whether you think that's a good idea or not, to be a part of the bill that has an annihilation of the debt ceiling.
	That's right, there's a carrot buried in this giant pile of sticks I promise, it's down there, just keep looking The uprisings by those objecting to deportations that popped in Los Angeles over the weekend?
	Prompting Trump to deploy the National Guard in response is further fueling Miller's arguments, and there's plenty of polling to explain the strategy.
	A CBS News poll released Monday, for instance, found 54% of Americans approved of Trump's deportation efforts.
	And we all know how accurate and fair these polls are.
	We all know that they wouldn't push-poll people.
	They wouldn't try to get a specific response out of people.
	No, they would never do that.
	Miller has explicitly wondered if libertarian-leaning Republicans such as Massey were fighting the bill in order to oppose the deportation program.
	Massey is calling from the road on his way back to D.C. on Monday, told me that is not the case.
	That's right.
	The authoritarian Miller wonders if maybe they just don't want to deport people.
	Or maybe they have principles, Miller.
	Did you ever think about that?
	Maybe they actually care about not empowering people like you to stomp all over the American people whenever you want.
	Twilight Shadow, good to see you.
	Good to see you.
	Hope you're doing well.
	Walls are meant for two reasons.
	Keep folks out and keep folks in.
	That's right.
	And they're going to have a much easier time keeping us in than keeping people out.
	He and I have the same immigration deportation wall policy with the exception of E-Verify.
	That's the only libertarian objection I have, Massey said.
	He's appealing to a trope that all libertarians are open borders, and he knows that's not true about me.
	He and I have spent hours talking, Stephen Miller and I, on these drives to and from D.C. He's trying to spread some doubt about the messenger and not my message.
	And again, get rid of the welfare state, Stephen.
	That's where you start.
	Until you do that, it's pointless and window dressing.
	It means nothing.
	He can't be as honest and candid as he was with me when he didn't have Donald Trump as his boss, Massey said.
	He's got his job.
	He's got his jobs to sell this bill and he's trying to put lipstick on a pig.
	And Rand Paul and I are pointing out it's a pig.
	Paul again became a Miller target after he told Fox News Maria's Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures that the funding Trump administration is seeking for the border wall is excessive.
	We're going to probably do half as much as what he wants for hiring more agents.
	The border, Paul argued, is largely controlled right now.
	We're against hiring an army of Border Patrol agents that we have on the hook for payments and pensions.
	That's right, it will be a spending increase in perpetuity.
	Even if you wind this thing down, as they point out, they still have pensions.
	You'll still have to pay these people for a very long time.
	Rand Paul is trying to cut funding for deportations and border security, he posted on the social platform X. And of course, part of the reason that people are riding Los Angeles, not to condone it, you know, I am not a fan of it, is because ICE has been very heavy-handed.
	They've been causing chaos.
	They've been ripping families apart.
	And to be clear, deporting these people that are here illegally is ultimately a good thing, but doing it without due process is insane.
	They're doing it in such a way that something as universally accepted and promoted as getting rid of the illegals here is being a divisive issue.
	Yes.
	It's amazing how, even on issues that he's somewhat right on, Trump managed to do it in the worst way possible.
	He's got a real knack for that.
	Clearly, they are afraid.
	That's why he's being attacked by a pack of rabid, paid influencers and the guy that wants to suspend the ancient writ of habeas corpus.
	The Paul spokesperson said, making a reference to Miller, saying the administration was actively looking at suspending the constitutionally protected mechanism that migrants have used to challenge their detention by declaring an invasion.
	And of course, it won't stop there.
	Look at what Jonathan Greenblatt is saying when it comes to getting rid of people who are anti-Zionist.
	Get rid of it.
	They'll postpone.
	They'll remove habeas corpus, partially for migrants or fully for migrants, and it'll spiral out from there.
	Oh, you made some comments about the war in Israel.
	Well, I think you might be an invader.
	I think you might be an enemy of the state.
	The real state.
	The state behind the state.
	The state of the state.
	They've given up arguing on the issue of our time, the debt, and have now descended to lies, innuendo, and nonsense, the Paul spokesperson said.
	So it's business as usual in Washington, I see.
	Lies, innuendo, and nonsense.
	That sounds like every day.
	That sounds like what they do best.
	Asked about Miller's digging into libertarians, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson responded, Libertarians hate taxes, which is why they're going to love the one big beautiful bill that gives a 15% tax cut to working Americans while totally eliminating taxes on tips and overtime.
	And balloons the debt.
	And brings in AI.
	And refuses to give states oversight of it.
	They're just going to love these things.
	They're going to love the big, beautiful Bill because we gave them a little bone here.
	We'll cut those slightly in this massive spending bill.
	That's right.
	We're keeping the tariffs and we're keeping the taxes.
	But we'll reduce them a little bit.
	We'll give you a little bit of red meat, I suppose.
	Miller's aversion to libertarians, though, seems to go deeper than opportunistic messaging for the bill.
	That's because Stephen Miller's an authoritarian.
	He posted in 2022 that the uprising of the ideology in the House GOP is how he ended up with open borders.
	Globalist Paul Ryan.
	He blamed libertarian candidates for siphoning votes away from failed Trump-endorsed candidates in 2022, Herschel Walker in Georgia, Blake Masters in Arizona, and Don Bolduc in New Hampshire.
	Well, yeah, that's right.
	We just need more.
	Donald Trump puppets in office, and then we'll be fine.
	We'll be great.
	We want Trump puppets.
	We don't want whatever puppets we now have in place.
	He did, however, praise Trump's courting of the Libertarian Party, speaking at the Minor Party's National Convention in 2024, and following through with a major campaign giving a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road drug marketplace.
	That was great.
	We are very happy that he pardoned Ross Ulbricht.
	We're very happy he's home.
	He deserved to be pardoned.
	Because what he did wasn't wrong.
	He didn't violate any laws or any moral statutes.
	He was persecuted by the FBI, as so many people are, and thrown into prison for it.
	And Massey told me he endorsed Trump to try to help boost the small libertarian contingent of the GOP coalition.
	That coalition, though, has apparently worn out its usefulness to Miller.
	By including the immigration language with the tax cuts, with the welfare reform, it creates a coalition.
	Politics is all about coalitions, Miller said in the interview with Kirk.
	Also praising Trump in the interview was able to create a winning formula for populist, nationalist, conservative government.
	We need a principled coalition.
	There's no point in electing another Republican with the values of Trump or the values of Stephen Miller.
	It doesn't matter if you get...
	If every single senator, congressman, judge in the land is another Stephen Miller, we've still lost.
	There's no point.
	It's a futile endeavor.
	Massey, since the lack of electoral pressure, is adding to the willingness to cast libertarians aside.
	The thing here is he doesn't have to run again, Massey said.
	This is one of these signature things.
	If he has to burn part of the coalition to get it done, they're probably willing to do it.
	That's right.
	Donald Trump doesn't have to worry about another term.
	He doesn't have to worry.
	About getting more votes, he's free to discard anyone he wants to get his agenda passed.
	Alex Noraste, Vice President of Economic and Social Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, the biggest libertarian think tank in Washington, said Miller's attacks on libertarians are in one sense no surprise, but he warned about political implications that Miller's war has for the right.
	They are not typically long-term thinkers in terms of political coalition, now Ristey said of Trump's folks, such as Miller, adding that this disagreement between Miller and Massey and Paul just shows how sundered that coalition was.
	White House official noted, Trump's coalition includes Americans from all different backgrounds, including those who were not Republican voters prior to supporting Trump.
	That's right.
	He did build a bigger tent, brought in a lot of different people, but now he's throwing them out.
	He's getting rid of them.
	And he needs those people if you really want to pass any sort of agenda.
	But he doesn't want to deal with them.
	He doesn't want people that won't just bow and scrape and immediately cave into whatever he says and follow his will.
	Trump's big tent is only of people that are loyal exclusively to Trump with no principles or policies connecting them.
	Exactly.
	It's all about the Don.
	The Don.
	I have, of course, my own issues with libertarians, mostly because I find most of them to be simply contrarians.
	They don't hold any moral principles.
	They don't hold anything dear aside from just annoying people.
	They like to be different.
	They only care about their politics as far as it annoys somebody on the other side.
	The real, true, principled libertarians, people like my dad, and I don't think Gard would accept the label, but he's very libertarian and leaning, people like Gard Goldsmith, people like Senator Thomas Massey, they have true beliefs that they refuse to move on.
	Those are the type of libertarians I respect.
	I have known few of them in my lifetime, but they are all good people.
	Here are three reasons why the big, beautiful bill won't generate 3% growth.
	3% growth.
	The White House is promising higher growth, but tariffs, borrowing, and rising interest rates will be a drag on those expectations.
	That's right, we've had Gerald Cilente predicting dragflation for a while now.
	The White House is promising that the big, beautiful bill will provide a jolt to the economy.
	And of course, promo code NIGHT for 10% off at TrendsJournal.com.
	But those expectations fail to take into account three direct consequences of the bill that independent analysts believe will sap growth in the long run.
	They don't like to think long term.
	They want to get quick wins here and there so they can say, look what we did.
	Isn't it wonderful?
	We gave you this immediate benefit right now.
	Don't think about what's coming down the pipe.
	We'll blame that on someone else later.
	Whoever's in power will have to bear the consequences for it.
	Just so long as we can stretch out the good for our term and make sure no one has to pay for it until after we're out, it doesn't matter.
	That's how they like to play these games.
	White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt and others in the Trump administration have been touting the White House Council of Economic Advisors projections showing that the bill will generate 3% annual growth.
	President Donald Trump, as usual, has gone even bigger.
	Last month he suggested that the tax bill could grow America's economy by three, four, or even five times the current levels, currently pegged at 1.8% by the Congressional Budget Office.
	Those expectations as well are well in excess of what's serious and independent economic.
	Economists.
	Economists.
	I eventually got it right.
	Expect the Yale Budget Lab, for example, estimate the tax bill would add just a small boost to the economy in the short run.
	That would be followed by decades of lower growth relative to what would happen if the bill didn't pass.
	As the negative consequences of extra borrowing take their toll.
	That's right, we're just going to keep borrowing.
	It's just an infinite money glitch.
	We've found it.
	The source of all free money.
	We can just keep printing.
	It doesn't matter.
	We won't ever have to pay anything back.
	KWD68.
	Every time Trump expresses his Massey derangement syndrome, Massey gets another half million for his coffers.
	That's right.
	People like Massey.
	He has been attacked by Trump over and over again, but he still keeps winning.
	It's because the people who elect him know that he's for real.
	They trust him.
	The Yale analysis is in line with other projections by the tax foundation of the Penn-Wharton budget model, both of which project less than 1% higher growth as a result of the bill's passage, though neither looks as far ahead as the Yale analysis does.
	Why the big difference?
	The White House's argument rests on the assumption that lower taxes will generate greater growth.
	That's a well-established principle.
	But the problem with applying it here is that the bill isn't lowering taxes with the exception of some relatively small details like abolishing income taxes on tips and overtime pay.
	Rather, it is extending current tax rates that were set by the bill Trump signed in 2017.
	That bill did indeed reduce the amount of money that most Americans owed to the federal government, and those tax cuts did spur greater growth.
	But the dynamic this time around is fundamentally different.
	In short, extending tax cuts It's not the same as cutting taxes.
	That's right, they're just going to extend the little bit of grace they've already doled out.
	They're not going to give you anything new, really.
	They're simply going to continue to let you have the cut that they already gave you.
	And with all this talk of tax cuts, let's not forget that ultimately he's raised taxes massively with these tariffs.
	That is going to be something that is going to be impacting the American people as any other tax would.
	We even saw it with bananas the other day when we played that clip.
	We don't build bananas here in the United States.
	I believe it was something about an 8% to 10% increase in the cost of bananas so far.
	No, the tariff was 10%.
	Walmart had raised prices on bananas by 8% already.
	And that's the small example of things.
	It's only going to get worse.
	That was the only way that the Trump...
	There are worse policy-making crimes than being overly eager to keep tax rates from snapping back to their higher pre-2017 levels.
	Unfortunately, there are three other big reasons why the White House's math doesn't add up.
	Maybe the math was done by an AI again this time.
	First, the tariffs.
	Tariffs are simply taxes, and the tariffs Trump has imposed unlawfully on nearly all American imports are the single biggest tax increase in several decades.
	If tax cuts encourage economic growth, guess what huge tax increases do?
	And it's not simply the fact that there are tax increases, which they are, but he's inconsistent.
	It's all over the place.
	It makes it very, very difficult for businesses to plan for the future when they don't know what the tariff rate is going to be tomorrow or even a few hours down the road.
	You can't buy a product today with a 200% tax or 200% tariff on it when tomorrow he may remove it and somebody else gets to buy that product without it.
	There are many companies that are simply having to scrap different parts of their business model, different products that they make because They're not profitable enough.
	It doesn't make economic sense for them to continue making them.
	I've seen videos of people in the tech sector talking about that.
	Certain companies have loss-leader products that show people, we make quality, we make good stuff, this is our cheap model, but if you want to go up the line, you can do that later.
	But they're not able to continue producing these cheaper models, these loss-leaders.
	They have to get rid of them, scrap them, throw them away, because It would be a huge amount of loss now.
	But the White House is not including the economic consequence of higher tariffs in its GDP estimates even though it is including the revenue from the tariffs in its claim that the tax bill will help reduce the deficit.
	The White House is trying to have its cake and eat it too.
	Second, more borrowing.
	Despite the Trump administration's unwillingness to admit as much, the tax bill will absolutely add to the budget deficit over the next decade.
	That means the federal government will have to borrow even more heavily than it already expects to.
	That additional borrowing will be a drag on economic growth.
	In its analysis, the Yale Budget Lab says economic growth will slow in the long run because of the debt load from the one Big Beautiful Bill Act that raises interest rates and results in crowding out.
	Crowding is a term used by economists to describe the phenomenon in which higher government spending depresses private sector productivity.
	Finally, higher interest rates.
	This goes hand-in-hand with larger deficits since more borrowing is likely to push interest rates higher.
	And higher interest rates also sap future growth because a larger portion of those future gains will have to be spent paying back what was borrowed, whether it is individuals or the U.S. Treasury doing the borrowing.
	Specifically, the Yale analysis estimates that the yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds will be 1.2 percentage points higher by 2054 if the bill passes versus a scenario where it does not.
	Yes, all projections are just projections.
	No one knows the future in this case.
	However, the White House seems to be deliberately misleading the public and members of Congress by overestimating the jolt that the tax bill could provide, totally ignoring the piles of contradicting evidence, says Reason.
	And they're right.
	We are destroying America for Trump's ego.
	We are going to shackle the American people.
	To an even more ludicrous debt.
	And perhaps even entirely do away with the debt ceiling.
	So the government never has to ask again.
	They can just do what they want.
	And the American people will be on the hook for it.
	Just for Donald Trump's ego.
	SoloCat, 1980.
	I noticed a big jump in grocery prices yesterday at Walmart.
	Also, they implemented smart RF LCD shelf tags.
	That's right.
	Smart tech is coming to you at Walmart.
	And everywhere.
	Isn't it wonderful?
	Those self-checkout kiosks have been such a wonderful invention, haven't they?
	Anytime I've had to use them, it has been a nightmare.
	I invariably have to call over one of the poor workers to get this thing to work because it just freezes up.
	It says, uh-oh, something's wrong.
	I can't continue what I'm doing.
	Please bring someone over to input a key code that will allow me to continue.
	It's just a massive waste of time.
	Senators seek answers on inflation stats.
	Senator Ruben Gallego and other Democrats press Bureau of Labor Statistics on staffing and data.
	And of course, data lies.
	They can manipulate it to say what they want.
	It doesn't matter what the government's data says.
	They will just make it up.
	A group of Democratic senators looking for answers from a government statistics agency after a hiring freeze forced to cutbacks in the survey that determines the U.S. inflation rate.
	They always rig the stats.
	It's always rigged.
	That's the secret, folks.
	They rig everything.
	The scale of the government's price-gathering efforts had been cut back because a federal hiring freeze means inadequate staffing in some parts of the country.
	The Wall Street Journal reported last week, in April, data published last month, the survey was forced to rely more heavily on a less precise estimation method than in the past.
	They're just kind of winging it.
	Just like, ah, well, you know, it doesn't matter anyway.
	We can just lie.
	We can just make it up.
	Who cares?
	We'll just write a number down.
	Who are they to call us out?
	Overruling Trump's tariffs should be an easy decision for SCOTUS.
	This is from Reason Magazine.
	The article describes why the Supreme Court could and should overrule Trump's tariffs.
	The author argues that Trump's tariffs violate the separation of powers because the president lacks the authority to impose tariffs without congressional approval.
	And that should be an easy slam dunk.
	An easy, nope, you don't get to do that.
	We've seen judges Stand up and they love telling Donald Trump no.
	Will one actually stand up and do it this time?
	We'll see.
	They love telling Trump no even in areas where they have no legal authority to do so.
	But one where they actually have the authority?
	We'll see.
	Because we all know the Democrats love taxes.
	They absolutely love them.
	And the tariffs are a tax.
	I don't expect them to object too much to them.
	I don't think they'll fight too hard over this.
	Trump unilaterally imposed tariffs on much of the world, yet the president has no such authority under Article 2 of the Constitution, which enumerates the limited powers of the executive branch.
	Instead, the authority to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, as well as the authority to regulate commerce with four nations, resides exclusively in Article 1, which is where the limited powers of the legislative branch are detailed.
	So Trump's trade war violates the constitutional separation of powers because Trump has unlawfully exercised powers that the Constitution placed in the hands of Congress, not in the hands of the President.
	That's right.
	You don't want this kind of power in the hands of one man.
	You don't want him to be able to, with the stroke of a pen, impose this level of taxation, especially when he's someone who's as unbalanced and egotistical as Donald Trump.
	If that sounds familiar, it is probably because the Supreme Court said much the same in 2023 when it declared the former President Joe Biden's unilateral student debt cancellation plan to be unlawful because of an example of the executive seizing the power of the legislature.
	Separation of powers, case against Trump's tariffs.
	Are there other grounds on which Trump's tariffs might be struck down?
	Why, yes, there are.
	Under a legal principle known as the Major Questions Doctrine, when the executive branch seeks to wield significant regulatory power, it must first point to an unambiguous delegation of such power by Congress to the executive.
	Or as Justice Neil Gorsuch described in his concurrence in Western Virginia v.
	EPA 2022, the doctrine requires that when executive agencies seek to resolve major questions, they at least act with clear congressional authorization.
	And do not exploit some gap, ambiguity, or doubtful expression in Congress' statutes to assume responsibilities far beyond those the people's representatives actually conferred to them.
	Oh man, I don't think Donald Trump would be able to do anything then.
	Trump's tariffs fit the description.
	As a pretext for his trade war, Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
	If the statute is silent on tariffs and for good reason, it was never meant to and has never been understood to authorize the president to impose them.
	That observation comes from a superb friend of the court brief filed by a cross ideological group of legal scholars and former government officials in support of the legal challenge against Trump's tariffs.
	The brief thoroughly explains why Trump's use of the IEEPA to fundamentally remake the American economy cannot be reconciled with any law passed by Congress.
	In short, Trump's tariffs flunk the test imposed by the major questions doctrine.
	In Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v.
	Sawyer, 1952, the Supreme Court famously rejected President Harry Truman's claim that his inherent power as president allowed the executive to effectively nationalize the nation's steel mills during a labor strike in order to keep the mills running.
	According to Truman, the presence of U.S. forces in Korea justified his actions.
	Well, the Korean War.
	That's one you don't even really hear much about.
	It's so overshadowed by World War II in Vietnam, but it was just another illegal police action.
	Another war we had no business being in.
	If the Supreme Court is serious about enforcing either the separation of powers or the major questions doctrine, meaning if the Supreme Court is serious about serving as a principled tribunal of justice no matter which political party happens to occupy the White House, then Trump's trade war will be ruled a constitutional loser.
	We'll see.
	What happens?
	Yes.
	We need to wait and see.
	Well, I think we might take a quick break.
	When we come back, we'll keep looking at what's going on with the Republican Party and, of course, Trump's big, beautiful bill.
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	The David Knight Show Wait a minute.
	Where am I?
	Sorry, Jefferson.
	The scoundrels who put America on central bank fiat currency used our heads on their coins as some sort of trophy.
	Despicable.
	This is outrageous.
	Washington!
	I spent my life fighting centralized power.
	Now the Federal Reserve monopoly parades us around on their monopoly money.
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	Welcome back, folks.
	I know we said we were going to continue with what's going on with the GOP and the big, beautiful bill, but we're going to take a brief aside.
	We're going to look at some more humorous stuff because it's important to have a little bit of humor, I think.
	But first, we've got Cornpop4584.
	I've heard he's a bad dude.
	I've heard Cornpop is a very, very bad dude.
	This is all happening to destroy.
	The national debt is right in front of your eyes.
	They're going to come out and they're going to say the stuff that he did was unconstitutional.
	Well, we'll see.
	We will see if they declare it unconstitutional or not.
	But whether or not that's true, Corn Pop is a very bad dude.
	I'm frightened that he's in the chat today.
	Very frightened indeed.
	Hot diggity dog.
	This is from AP News.
	Wienermobiles put on riveting race in Weenie 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
	They're reaching heretofore unknown speeds.
	They're going too fast.
	Hot dogs were not meant to move this fast, folks.
	That's why you keep them in place on your grill.
	In fact, we've got some footage of this race starting up.
	Let's play that for you.
	They're making all my jokes for me.
	Cover overhead.
	How much will that affect racing out here as those hot dogs cool down?
	That's right, folks.
	The hot dogs are gearing up.
	The most exciting race of the year, in my opinion.
	I don't follow sports.
	I don't follow any sort of sports, whether it's racing.
	Or people throwing a ball around.
	But this is something I could see myself getting invested in.
	Who doesn't love a good hot dog on a summer day?
	It was featuring six Wienermobiles.
	It was won by the Wienermobile representing the Southeast.
	That's right, folks.
	Southeastern supremacy.
	The South's in the house.
	The event marked the unofficial kickoff of summer and the start of hot dog season.
	Give the Borg Wiener Trophy at Indianapolis Motor Speedway at the Wienermobile, affectionately known as Slaw Dog.
	In a down-to-the-wire race among the six iconic Wienermobiles that serve as Goodwill ambassadors for Oscar Mayer, the hot dog on wheels representing the Southeast, proved to be the big dog on Carb Day out of Sunday's running of the Indianapolis 500.
	That's right.
	Slaw Dog.
	He's your champion.
	We can all get behind him.
	Made a dramatic pass of the Wienermobile repping Chicago at the finish line to win the inaugural Weenie 500 on Friday.
	Margin was about half a bun.
	That's right, Chicago.
	Who cares about your hot dogs?
	We've got Slawdog.
	The Wienermobiles have been around since 1936 as a promotional vehicle for Oscar Mayer, not to be confused with Luis Mayer, the first three-time winner of the Indy 500.
	They travel around the country logging about 20,000 miles annually, though none were probably as important to the hot doggers on board as the five miles they drove on Friday.
	Five miles at a blistering pace.
	And you don't want to blister those dogs, folks.
	Oni and Wolf jumped into the lead when the green flag flew at the historic yard of bricks, and the six Wienermobiles slowly picked up speed until they reached about 65 miles per hour.
	Incredible.
	Can a human being even breathe at those speeds?
	Boggles the mind, they were right in each other's grills down the backstretch and swapped the lead among themselves several times.
	Until the second of two laps when the number four dog led the field out of turn two.
	That's when smoke began pouring from its rear and that dog was cooked.
	That's right.
	It was overdone.
	The Wienermobile's wearing number one assumed the lead as the field headed on to the front stretch and a crowd of nearly 80,000 fans who had just watched the final practice with her 109th running of the Indianapolis 500 was standing and cheering.
	That's when the Wienermobile from the Southeast, which had doggedly hung around the lead for most of the race, made its big move.
	It passed the Wienermobile's repping Chicago just in time to relish in the sweet taste of victory.
	That's right.
	The South has a new champion.
	It is the Wienermobile known as Slaw Dog.
	And we all are thankful that he has brought the trophy home.
	I, for one, can't get enough of knowing that we are once again Wienermobile champions.
	Australian woman on trial for mushroom murder of in-laws says she was trying to fix a bland lunch.
	Well, that's a big mistake to make.
	That's why you don't eat things you just randomly pick up in the forest.
	The woman claims she was trying to make a special lunch and accidentally poisoned the meal.
	The trial continues with the woman's cross-examination.
	This is a major oops on her part.
	She was just trying to have a nice little lunch and instead poisoned people.
	Before Erin Patterson's in-laws and their relatives arrives at her home for lunch, she bought pricey ingredients, consulted friends about recipes, and sent her children out to a movie.
	In the Australian woman served them a dish containing poisonous death cap mushrooms and a meal that was fatal for three of her four guests.
	You'd think the name Deathcap might have clued her in.
	Wasn't named the happy, fun-time, friendly mushroom to serve to your friends.
	It was named the Deathcap.
	Whether that was Patterson's plan is at the heart of a triple murder trial that has gripped Australia for nearly six weeks.
	Prosecutors in the Supreme Court case in the state of Victoria say the accused lured her guest to lunch where they lie about having cancer for deliberately feeding them toxic fungi.
	This woman lies about cancer and then poisons her guests.
	This is a supervillain, folks.
	What have we got going on here?
	Australia?
	Are you okay?
	Harps, if you're here, I need an update on how y 'all are doing.
	It is very suspicious that she apparently didn't eat the food that she served to them, I guess because of her fake cancer, and she sent her kids away.
	Oh, no, no, I couldn't possibly eat a mushroom.
	I've got cancer, don't you know?
	Prosecutors in the Supreme Court case say the accused lured her guests to lunch.
	But her lawyers say the tainted Beef Wellington she served was a tragic accident caused by a mushroom storage mishap.
	That's right.
	It was all an accident.
	I didn't mean to serve them death caps.
	I just keep them on hand for, you know, reasons.
	They make me feel all cozy and warm inside.
	Mother of Two also denies attempting to murder Heather's husband, Ian Wilkinson, who survived the meal in a rare step for a defendant charged with murder.
	Patterson chose to speak in her own defense at her trial.
	This week.
	On Wednesday, she spoke publicly for the first time about the fateful lunch in July 2023 and offered her explanation on how she planned the meal and didn't become sick herself.
	No one disputes that Patterson 50 served death cat mushrooms to her guests for lunch in the rural town of Leongatha, but she says she did it unknowingly.
	Patterson said Wednesday she splurged on expensive ingredients and researched ideas to find something special to serve.
	She deviated from her chosen recipe to improve the bland flavor, she said.
	That's right.
	Beef Wellington.
	Known for being bland.
	Known as one of those dishes that people just don't care that much about.
	I actually have a comment here from Audi Emera R. Is there a link for Homestead Life?
	Yes, there's a link on our website, davidknight.news.
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	Now I think there was a possibility that there were Patterson had foraged wild mushrooms for years, she told the court Tuesday, and put some in her pantry weeks before the death.
	So she's been foraging for years, years upon years, and she grabs some death caps.
	Now maybe, maybe, I don't know anything about mushrooms, maybe they look identical to some other innocuous mushroom, but you would think that having foraged for years and not accidentally poisoned herself or her family, she would know the difference.
	I don't think this is helping her case.
	She's just proving that she should know better.
	Patterson, who formally separated from her husband, Simon Patterson, in 2015, said she felt hurt when Simon told her the night before the lunch that he wasn't comfortable attending.
	That's right.
	The one person she was really desperate to get back at, her ex-husband, wasn't comfortable coming.
	Why even bother at that point?
	You know, just scrap the whole deal.
	You go through all the trouble of picking those death caps.
	For a nice little murder lunch.
	And your ex-husband doesn't even show up how thoughtless of him.
	How inconsiderate.
	You worked so hard.
	She earlier told his relatives that she'd arranged the meal to discuss her health.
	And briefly their health, I suppose.
	I wonder if she was going to do a big reveal.
	Yes, in fact, it was death caps you ate.
	You will all shortly perish.
	Patterson admitted this week that she never had cancer, but after a health scare, she told her in-laws she did.
	In reality, Patterson said she intended to have weight loss surgery, but she was too embarrassed to tell anybody and planned to pretend to her in-laws that she was undergoing cancer treatment.
	Instead, she said, Ah, yes.
	That's a bold move.
	That's a...
	No, I can't admit I'm getting weight loss surgery.
	That's too embarrassing.
	I know.
	I'll claim I have cancer, and the chemotherapy is causing me to lose weight.
	Sounds like something George Costanza would come up with in an episode of Seinfeld.
	Jerry!
	I accidentally poisoned them with death caps, Jerry!
	In reality, Patterson said she intended to have weight loss surgery.
	I was ashamed of the fact that I didn't have control over my body or what I ate, a tearful Patterson said Wednesday.
	I didn't want to tell anybody, but I shouldn't have lied to them.
	I don't think the lying is the worst part of it, Ms. Patterson.
	I don't think they were that upset about the lies about the weight loss surgery.
	I think they might have been more upset about the death caps and the presumably unpleasant death.
	The accused said she believed she was spared the worst effects of the poison meal because she self-induced vomiting shortly after her lunch.
	I wonder why she would have done that.
	I wonder why she might have thought to herself, hmm, better get this stuff out of my system.
	She had binged on most of a cake and then made herself throw up, a problem she had struggled with for decades.
	Ah, yes, of course.
	The old...
	I've seen it many times.
	Patterson also said she believes she had eaten enough of the meal to cause her subsequent diarrhea.
	She then sought hospital treatment, but unlike her lunch guests, she quickly recovered.
	At the hospital where her guest's health was deteriorating, her estranged husband asked her about the dehydrator she used to dry her forged mushrooms, she said.
	Is that how you poisoned my parents?
	She said, Simon Patterson asked her.
	Growing afraid she would be blamed for the poisoning and that her children would be taken from her, Patterson said she later disposed of her dehydrator.
	She told investigators that she never owned one and hadn't forged for mushrooms before.
	I think this woman might have done it.
	I think she might have done it on purpose.
	While still at the hospital, she insisted she'd bought all the mushrooms at stores, even though she said she knew it was possible that foraged mushrooms had accidentally found their way into the meal.
	The microphone is still open.
	She was too frightened to tell anyone, Patterson said.
	Also later, Patterson said she remotely wiped her cell phone while it sat in an evidence locker to remove pictures of mushrooms she'd foraged.
	Prosecutors argued in opening their cases in April that she poisoned her husband's family on purpose.
	Although they didn't suggest a motive, she carefully avoided poisoning herself and faked being ill, they said.
	She faces life in prison for murder and 25 years for attempted murder.
	Okay.
	Does Australia not have the death penalty?
	I'm not up on all my Australian laws, so...
	A little reason to give them the death penalty, but, you know, what do I know?
	Costa Rica police seized five capybaras, crack cocaine, and marijuana from a fleeing vehicle.
	That's right.
	Those copybaras were all hopped up on coke, partying with their...
	The world is a strange and funny place.
	Ghost African police seized five copybaras, crack cocaine, and marijuana after chasing down a fleeing vehicle on a highway along the Central American country's Pacific coast on Thursday.
	Which one of those is the big moneymaker?
	Are copybars the ones that...
	Because if you can ship me a copybara, I am in.
	Please don't actually ship me a copybara.
	I'm not going to break the law, but they are fun little creatures, aren't they?
	Got some comments.
	KWD68, I relish watching that race.
	That's right.
	The hot dog race, the biggest race of the season.
	Shadowboxer, mushrooms are a very painful way to die.
	I study them.
	Well, I'm glad that I'm not dying of mushrooms.
	I feel sorry for her family.
	I know I was joking and making light of it, but it is a tragedy.
	There are four people dead.
	One was very, very sick.
	Poison is very rarely a fun way to go.
	So, keep that family in your prayers as well.
	As I said, I was joking about it, making light of it, but I was joking about the ineptitude of the killer, not about the tragedy of the deaths.
	The large rodents are semi-aquatic South American relatives of the guinea pig and happen to be having a moment on social platforms.
	That's right, everywhere you look there are videos of copybaras.
	They are not native to Costa Rica, and the public security ministry said Thursday that possessing, transporting, or trafficking them is illegal.
	The copybara trade is through the roof, folks.
	It's time to invest in copybaras.
	Sell your meme coins.
	Buy copybaras today.
	The agency said it had never recorded another seizure of the animals.
	Two men in the vehicle who both had criminal records were arrested.
	What kind of vehicle was this?
	How big was this?
	They've got five copybaras.
	They're not small.
	They've got crack cocaine and they've got marijuana.
	What a party it must have been the police station was a The copybaras were turned over to the National System of Conservation Areas to be evaluated by veterinarians.
	As a non-native species, they can't be released in Costa Rica, so they'll be taken to a refuge for environmental and conservation education programs.
	If you need someone to host a copybara, hit me up, Costa Rica.
	I'm sure I can make it work.
	Why a Minneapolis neighborhood sharpens a giant pencil every year.
	The article describes an annual event in Minneapolis where a giant pencil is sharpened.
	The pencil carved from a tree damaged in a storm is a symbol of renewal and community.
	The event features music, costumes, and a celebration of the pencil's significance in everyday life.
	More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual, the sharpening of a gigantic number two pencil.
	20 foot tall.
	Pencil was sculpted out of a mammoth oak tree at the home of John and Amy Higgins.
	And for our non-Americans, that is six meters tall.
	The beloved tree was damaged in a storm a few years ago when fierce winds twisted the crown off.
	Neighbors mourned, a couple even wept, but the Higginsons saw it not so much as a loss, but as a chance to give the tree new life.
	The sharpening ceremony on their front lawn has evolved into a community spectacle that draws hundreds of people to the leafy neighborhood on Lake of the Isles.
	Complete with music and pageantry, some people dress as pencils or erasers.
	Two Swiss Alphorn players provided part of this year's entertainment.
	Those commemorated a Minneapolis icon, late music superstar, Prince, by handing out purple pencils on what would have been a 67th birthday.
	Well, happy belated birthday, Prince.
	I've made my stance on Prince clear.
	I don't care for his music, and I find him to be a strange individual.
	Rachel Hyman said she flew from Chicago on Friday for the event which a friend told her about.
	Some man is sharpening a pencil on his lawn, and this is what happens?
	Yeah, I'm going to be part of it.
	How can you not?
	Life is too short, said Hyman, dressed in a pencil costume.
	That's right.
	Life is too short, so attend the pencil sharpening.
	In the wake of the storm, the Higginses knew they wanted to create a sculpture out of their tree.
	They envisioned a whimsical piece of pop art that people would recognize, but not a stereotypical chainsaw carved Northwood's bear.
	Given the shape and circumference of the log, they came up with the idea of an oversized pencil standing tall in their yard.
	Why a pencil?
	Everybody uses a pencil, Amy Higgins said.
	Everybody knows a pencil.
	You see it in school.
	You see it in people's work or drawings, everything.
	So it's just so accessible to everybody and I think can easily mean something and everyone can make what they want of it.
	And of course, with the amount of bureaucracy we're going to be dealing with soon, you'll need a pencil that size to be able to fill out everything.
	You'll need a 27-foot-tall pencil.
	So they enlisted wood sculptor Curtis Ing-Wolstad to transform it into a replica of a classic trusty brand No. 2 pencil.
	People interpret this however they want to.
	They should.
	They should come to this and find whatever they want out of it, Ing-Wolstad said.
	Like a real pencil, this one is ephemeral.
	Shorter.
	They've taken it anywhere from 3 to 10 inches, 8 to 25 centimeters, off a year.
	They haven't decided how much to shave off this year.
	They are okay knowing that they should reduce it to a stub one day.
	Artists said they will.
	Time and life dictate its form that is part of the magic.
	That's right, the ephemeral pencil.
	Here, today, gone tomorrow.
	What a statement it makes.
	Harrison Ruffin Tyler, preserver of Virginia history and grandson of 10th U.S. President.
	Dies at 96. We have some images here.
	This is the 10th U.S. President on the left and his grandson on the right.
	Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last living grandson of U.S. President John Tyler, born 83 years after his grandfather left the White House in 1845, died.
	He was 96. The cause of Tyler's death on Sunday was not immediately released.
	John Tyler was 63 years old when Harrison Tyler's father.
	Leon Gardner Tyler Sr. was born.
	Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 when that father was 75 years old and the presidential grandfather had been dead for more than 60 years.
	Having a kid at 75, my goodness.
	The grandson was known for preserving his grandfather's plantation in a nearby Civil War fort.
	In a statement, Anik Dunning, the executive director of Sherwood Forest, a national landmark of President Tyler's residence, So the president's grandson, whose brother died in 2020, was a beloved father and grandfather.
	He will be missed immeasurably by those who survived him.
	I wonder if she's having to deal with Robin Hood trying to pillage the estate.
	He'll be remembered for his considerable charm, generosity, and unfailing good humor by all who knew him, Dunning said.
	Over the course of his life, Tyler preserved Sherwood Forest, his grandfather's plantation, and enslaved dozens of people, including 43 people in 1860, just before the Civil War began.
	That's right, let's focus on that.
	The grandson also helped restore and maintain Fort Pocahontas, a Union fort during the Civil War.
	Tyler's grandfather was a Democrat nicknamed the Accidental President after unexpectedly assuming the presidency when President William Henry Harrison died in office.
	President Tyler was the first vice president to gain control of the White House in the wake of a death.
	The University of Virginia's Miller Center described the president as the last gasp of the old Virginia aristocracy in the White House.
	He'd married twice and had 15 children, including Leon Gardner Tyler Sr. 15 children.
	My goodness.
	Prolific, prolific man.
	The time between the president's birth and his grandson's death spans 235 years.
	Well, that truly is incredible to see.
	235 years between the generations.
	And having a child at 75, having 15 children, that is...
	It was a different time.
	That kind of thing doesn't happen anymore.
	Well, that was the more humorous and just topical section of the show.
	That was a good time.
	That was fun.
	A little bit of fun there, and we should strive to do that in our day.
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	Welcome back, folks.
	Thank you for being here with us.
	And I see we've been raided by Ewell Brenner on Rumble.
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	I loved you in Westworld.
	That was a great movie.
	Glad to see you're still around and kicking.
	Thank you for the raid.
	We appreciate it.
	I hope the show has been entertaining so far today.
	And informative as well.
	That is the main point.
	And we also have a Syrian girl.
	At least she fed them a wonderful last meal.
	Beef Wellington is delicious.
	Yes, it is.
	I've had it one time, and I thought it was fantastic.
	I can't eat Beef Wellington anymore, sadly.
	I have to avoid gluten.
	I'm one of those insufferable people that shows up and is like, oh, is there anything that doesn't have gluten in it?
	I can't eat that.
	I'm sorry.
	Sadly, my beef wellington...
	And I see Hal9000 has raided the stream.
	Thank you, Hal.
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	We appreciate it.
	Knights of the Storm.
	If printing money is not a problem, then why not just legalize counterfeiting?
	People can print their own money.
	That's right.
	Let me print my own money.
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	You can have some dollar bills that are just as worthless as the federal reserve, but they'll look cooler And That's right.
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	They will be helming the show for us, and we greatly appreciate that.
	So, if you're sick of looking at me, just know that next week we will have some wonderful guest hosts who will be carrying the show on their gargantuan shoulders.
	Now, we're going to go back to the BBB for a bit.
	What a beautiful bill it is.
	House GOP effort to lock in.
	Dogue cuts.
	Faces Republican resistance.
	What's that?
	I thought the Republicans were fiscally conservative.
	I thought they wanted to cut spending.
	That's what I've been told.
	That's what I've been told all my life.
	The GOP is the fiscally conservative party.
	They want to make sure that government doesn't spend us into oblivion.
	Some of those Republicans are voicing doubts about specific portions of the White House's request to claw back $9.4 billion, known as a rescissions package.
	Which would lock in cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency, DOG, targeting the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
	Others are expressing concerns that the rescissions process would undermine Congress' authority to allocate funding.
	What about the tariffs?
	Thank you.
	Good old NPR.
	They sit around and they talk like this.
	They talk like they're all on some kind of antidepressant, and they have to be very quiet so they don't stimulate themselves too greatly.
	Republicans have panned the outlets as biased, and President Trump signed an executive order in May to cease federal funding for both companies.
	Both a handful of Republicans are worried about the impact the slashes will have in their districts.
	That's right, they're worried about their constituents and how they might view it.
	Oh no, not my pork.
	That's my pork.
	I love it.
	My constituents love it.
	The people who vote for me want their cutouts.
	Republicans are claiming that NPR is biased?
	What a shock!
	No, it's perfectly fair.
	I never would have known.
	Who could have foreseen this?
	Rep.
	Mark Amodai, an appropriations cardinal and the co-chair of the Public Broadcasting Caucus.
	Released a statement with Rep.
	Dan Goldman, his counterpart in the group encouraging the Trump administration to rethink its clawback of funding for the corporation for public broadcasting.
	No, don't do that.
	Stop it, please.
	From coast to coast, Americans rely on public broadcasting for life-saving emergency alerts.
	Trusted news.
	That's right.
	Trusted news.
	You can't do better than NPR and CBS or PBS for trusted news.
	coverage on key issues that connects communities across our nation uh you'd
	think that their pants might have combusted on the spot liar liar pants on fire our local stations are dedicated to serving their communities but their ability to continue offering free high quality program would be eliminated if the federal funding is extended it's not free we're paying for it you and me we're the ones paying for it through taxation we're paying for these trusted news sources isn't that wonderful our ability to provide quote-unquote free entertainment would be destroyed we would have to compete in the free market people would have
	to pay for this if they wanted it and of course we couldn't survive if we actually have to function as a normal news organization like everyone else If NPR and PBS are forced to depend upon people supporting them of their own free will, they're going belly up instantaneously.
	They added rescinding this funding...
	That's right.
	The rural communities, those farmers out there, they love themselves some NPR and PBS.
	That's how they get all their news.
	They're sitting there, waiting desperately to find out the latest from NPR.
	They depend on it.
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	All the news you can make up.
	Other Republicans are investigating the cuts to USAID, which was one of Doge's first targets.
	The package would slash $8.3 billion in foreign aid, with much of that including dollars approved for USAID.
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	America isn't going to continue to spill money out into the world to support its foreign policy?
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	That's terrible.
	Those are the areas we want to make sure we're doing the right things.
	Rep.
	Dan Newhouse said, Just another CIA shill, perhaps?
	Who could say?
	When asked about cuts to public broadcasting USAID, that's where we're getting more information.
	Well, we can only hope that they cut NPR and PBS to the bone, that they ax their funding, and we're finally free of those accursed institutions.
	Who still listens to them?
	Who is out there listening to NPR and PBS?
	Do they exist?
	I don't know.
	I haven't met anyone.
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	Senate GOP deeply divided over a cutting cost of the big, beautiful bill.
	That's right.
	They're sitting there and they're biting their nails.
	They're nervous.
	They're anxious.
	What if my pork is in there?
	What if my little bit, my piece of the pie gets cut?
	Can't have that.
	Some Republicans are pushing for cuts to Medicare, the Defense Department, and the Federal Reserve, while others are advocating for cuts to Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, and Renewable Energy.
	Tax breaks.
	I would be surprised if anything actually gets cut.
	I would be so shocked if it makes a single bit of difference.
	And of course, we all know that the biggest spender is the military industrial complex.
	Until you cut that, you're just rearranging.
	Deck chairs on the Titanic.
	It makes no difference at all.
	The ship is still going down.
	Senate Republicans are deeply divided over how to cut the cost of House pass legislation to enact President Trump's agenda, which Elon Musk has attacked as a mountain of disgusting pork.
	And fiscal conservatives on Capitol Hill say he doesn't do enough to cut the deficit.
	You would think the Israeli lobby would be against it if it's a mountain of disgusting pork.
	You would think they might stand up and say, Facing a jittery bond market and scathing criticism from Musk, lawmakers have expanded their search for ways to reduce the deficit by cutting Medicare, the Defense Department, and the Federal Reserve areas of the budget that were considered off-limits just a few weeks ago, but each new proposal is creating new divisions.
	Senator Josh Hawley is warning colleagues to steer clear of cutting Medicare spending, even though proponents of the idea insist it would be targeted only on waste, fraud, and abuse.
	I don't like this idea of fiddling with Medicare at all.
	How about instead we cap the price Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is paying for prescription drugs, he asked.
	Well, that would be a place to start.
	Some Republicans are also calling for a closer look at defense spending, arguing the Pentagon needs to see its budget shrink, along with the rest of government.
	$150 billion in new funding for the Defense Department for new programs such as Trump's Golden Dome.
	The Golden Dome that is completely and utterly outmoded by the new methods of warfare.
	It's not about hypersonic ballistic missiles anymore.
	It's about drones with targeted strikes that they can pilot directly into high-value targets, high-value areas.
	It doesn't take much to outfit a drone with a small explosive.
	You can do it on the cheap, and you can cripple a country by doing so.
	How many would it take to black out a city by targeting certain transformers here and there?
	Senator Rand Paul Kentucky says defense hawks have a hidden agenda to use Trump's big beautiful bill to pump up military spending, what the nation could afford, beyond what the nation could afford.
	It's a frustration for those of us who think it ought to be about fiscal restraint and are cutting taxes or both.
	It ends up becoming a spending bill and the spending is $150 billion on top, what they're already increasing for the military.
	If you're fiscally conservative, you have to be fiscally.
	You can't be for blowing the budget out on the military, he argued.
	But that's what the Republican Party is about.
	That's what they're for.
	Everything for the military-industrial complex.
	Lindsey Graham has got to make his money.
	That's what it's about.
	Lindsey Graham needs his money, and he's going to get it.
	Lindsey Graham is going to send your boys to die.
	I'm one of the few Republicans that thinks that defense has more than enough money, he said.
	That's Marshall.
	By cusp of the Pentagon's budget would face strong pushback from Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker and Defense Appropriations Committee Chair Mitch McConnell.
	Ah, good old Mitchell.
	Mitchie boy.
	Who argue Trump's defense budget is inadequate.
	That's right, we're not spending enough on the military.
	We can never spend enough on the military.
	We need an infinite amount of money for these people.
	They've got to be free to kill and subvert across the globe.
	And how can they do that?
	If they don't have their billions, their trillions of dollars.
	Worker earlier this year called for $175 billion in new defense funding to be included in the reconciliation package, but later relented to a measly, a meager, a pauper's $150 billion, which he says is the minimum needed.
	I mean, you can't do anything with less than $150 billion these days.
	There was a time where with just a few million dollars and some spirit, you could overthrow any country you wanted, but those times are gone.
	It's a sad day for the intelligence community.
	You actually have to spend some money now.
	McConnell is expected to press Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about Trump's defense appropriations request Tuesday.
	Senator Ted Cruz has proposed stopping interest payments to banks that deposit cash at the Federal Reserve, which he says would save $1 trillion over the next decade.
	Sure, let's go for it.
	But that proposal is already facing a backlash from the banking industry.
	The bankers are mad.
	The bankers don't like it when you come after their money.
	Which has come to depend on payments as a steady cash flow.
	The good old fractional reserve banking system.
	Gotta love it.
	Provisions to terminate renewable energy tax breaks that could strand tens of billions of dollars in investments to Republican states such as West Virginia.
	Where the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub is in danger of losing funds if construction isn't underway for the end of the year.
	Senator Tom Tillis, John Curtis, and Shelley Moore are sounding the alarm over the immediate phase-out of clean energy tax breaks, which they warn would disrupt their state economies and cost jobs.
	We all know that the clean energy idea is a scam.
	Green energy has been proven inefficient.
	It doesn't work properly.
	Wind energy, solar energy, all these different ones are simply ways for the rich to enrich themselves, to scam the American people, and to cut back on what you can do.
	To cut the amount of power that you can have to make sure that when it's cold or when it's hot, your house can't cool or warm itself.
	On the other side of the argument are conservatives such as Senator Mike Lee, who says the bill doesn't go far enough to cut Medicaid benefits to immigrants in the country illegally.
	That's right.
	We do have to cut the welfare magnet.
	We do have to get rid of it.
	Otherwise, we're just going to continue to draw more and more people.
	If you say, if you get into the country, we're just going to give you a handout.
	We'll make sure that you're supported.
	It'll never stop.
	It will not matter how many people you throw out.
	You simply won't have the resources to deal with the people that are coming in.
	We're talking about Medicaid.
	We're talking about EITC, earned income tax credit, child tax credit, and eligibility for claiming the benefits of dependents for income tax purposes.
	Those things should be benefits available to citizens and lawful permanent residents.
	Not others, not illegal migrants, Lee told The Hill.
	Lee says the House bill doesn't completely shut off federal benefits to migrants who are living illegally and declared...
	Well, it is a problem.
	It is a huge problem.
	Welfare shouldn't exist for anyone, but especially not for people that are not of this nation.
	Instead of welfare, we should have charity.
	We should have the government butt out and cut taxes so that people actually have enough expendable income that they can support their fellow man, their neighbors who are in trouble.
	That's how it should operate.
	It should not be filtered through the government.
	It should not be siphoned off for who knows what.
	And a little bit trickles back to those that might need it.
	And that's just from a purely rationalistic look at it.
	This is just from an efficiency standpoint.
	I'm not talking about the immorality of putting a gun to someone's head and saying, you're going to give me your money and I'm going to redistribute it.
	Thank you.
	Rare Earth's shortage could cause pandemic-era disruptions, experts say.
	Oh, wow.
	Master Whistler Lance Knight has raided the stream.
	Lance, I didn't realize.
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	He's becoming famous.
	Lance is becoming famous.
	He is now known as the Master Whistler.
	Call it a chip shortage on steroids.
	That's how one expert told CNN the auto industry describing a possible shortage of rare earth elements, minerals that are now center stage in the global trade war.
	Running low on those minerals could recall the pandemic-era chip shortage that jacked up car prices used anew across America.
	That is part of the reason why China is so heavy into their Belt and Road initiative.
	They give these countries a little bit of infrastructure, and then they take over their rare earth mines when they can't pay the fines, and they strip mine these countries.
	China is a virtual monopoly on those 17 metallic elements, which are critical components to everyday products from cars to jet engines to electronics like smartphones and flat-screen TVs.
	They're even crucial for the contrast dye used in MRI machines and some cancer drugs.
	And recently, China made it even harder to get them.
	The country introduced a new licensing requirement on the exports of the elements in April, effectively slowing the flow of outbound shipments to most of the world, including the United States.
	Delegations from the U.S. and China are meeting in London this week to talk about a new trade deal, and rare earths are almost certainly a major part of the The second day of trade talks has begun Tuesday.
	A U.S. Treasury spokesperson told CNN the officials are meeting at the ornate Lancaster House near Buckingham Palace.
	Right now, U.S. companies have only about two or three months' worth of supply, according to Gracelyn Bascarin, director of the Critical Mineral Security Program, the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
	After that, the industry simply could not manufacture unless an agreement is reached between the U.S. and China, she told CNN.
	President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed to allow exports of rare earth minerals products to begin.
	But even that promise might not be enough for U.S. manufacturers if a new deal only lifts restrictions temporarily, said Baskarin.
	Baskarin?
	It makes it extremely difficult for industry to get a reliable read on what the next three months, six months, or a year are going to look like, she said.
	Well, Trump doesn't plan.
	Definitely not months in advance.
	Probably not days in advance.
	I would be surprised if he does more than reactionarily look at Twitter or True Social and fire off a tweet.
	Keep in mind that prior to the Trump-G call, they were beginning to flow out, but not at the pace that allows supply chains to continue without interruptions, she added.
	U.S. companies might soon burn through stockpiled inventory, according to Baskarin.
	One auto industry expert who asked not to be identified because they aren't authorized to speak publicly told CNN it is becoming apparent the auto industry is prepping for widespread shutdowns in the coming months due to rare earth shortages.
	Who knows?
	Maybe this will be a good thing.
	Maybe it will force them to stop including these worthless electronics into cars.
	Maybe they'll be forced to focus on things like performance and handling and actually making a comfortable car to ride in.
	It's something the expert has heard described by people in the industry as the chip shortage on steroids.
	Four years ago, a shortage of computer chips caused halts in auto production which fueled record car prices.
	Limited supply drove most people to pay above sticker price for new cars.
	That's another thing you can lay at his feet.
	People think that it's only EVs, electric vehicles, but it's not, the expert told CNN.
	It's in everything, in every car.
	It's in the motors that run windshield wipers.
	One supplier I'm talking to said there are sensors and seatbelts.
	I think there's going to be production disruptions all over the place.
	China really has us in a vice.
	Well, as I said, maybe it'll be a good thing.
	Of course, In fact, there are now.
	And I'm sure that there's something about having ridiculous numbers of sensors, and they won't be able to manufacture a decent car anymore.
	They won't be allowed to.
	They'll be forced to continue to put these nonsense, nag pieces of technology in them.
	I remember about 10 years ago, there were a few new car companies popping up, like Elio Motors was one of them.
	A few others that were trying to make cars in the US.
	Elio, I believe, purchased an old factory in Detroit that had shut down, and they had to make it with three wheels.
	All of these companies were making three-wheeled vehicles because that got around a lot of the restrictions of cars since they could be classified as a motorcycle.
	That's right.
	There are innumerable regulations on cars and how they have to be built.
	If you can skirt that by putting three wheels on it and becoming a motorcycle, it makes manufacturing a lot easier.
	With rare earths so critical to important U.S. industries, there are efforts to find replacements, such as other types of magnets and electric motors, that don't use magnets at all, said Roderick Eggert, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines.
	But Eggert said those alternatives all have shortcomings.
	Motor designs that don't use magnets at all, those tend to be less efficient.
	It is in the interest of the Chinese to remain a stable and trusted source for rare-earth magnets and rare-earth products, Eggert said.
	Unfortunately, what has happened is that rare-earths have gotten caught up in much larger tensions associated with U.S.-China trade negotiations.
	The name Rare Earths is a bit misnomer, and the materials are not found throughout the Earth's crust, but are difficult and costly to extract.
	Other countries, including the United States, are rushing to create their own processing capabilities, but that will take months, if not years, Vaskarin said.
	More should have been done to prepare for this scenario in advance.
	Who could have caused this?
	Oh, it couldn't be our Commander-in-Chief, who doesn't plan.
	He does not think about the future.
	He doesn't look forward and consider the cost.
	He simply reacts.
	He simply presses buttons and hopes he doesn't break anything.
	I think we're going to take another quick break.
	When we come back, we're going to look at what's going on with the war in Ukraine and Russia.
	Stay with us.
	Oh, actually, we've got some comments here before I jump.
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	I frequently switch to NPR and check the spin they put on the news.
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	Nibiru, 2029.
	Vietnam had Hanoi.
	Hena, USA has NPR.
	That's right.
	We've got our own little propaganda wing.
	Not that all the other news agencies aren't propaganda wings of the CIA, but, you know, it's specifically more directly linked to them.
	Energy Woman 707 NPR, National Propaganda Radio.
	That's right, Gard Goldsmith.
	Good to see you, Gard.
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	Hope you're having a wonderful day.
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	And of course, Gard will be hosting the show two days next week.
	So if you love Gard's info as much as we do here, tune in.
	He will have a boatload of it for you.
	His comment is, I love how the NPR hosts all attenuate their voices and try to sound like the equivalent of beige.
	That's right, they all sit there and they talk like this.
	They sound so very weary and tired.
	It's a dangerous business bringing you the news.
	It drains the soul, apparently.
	Or maybe they were just soulless to begin with.
	You know what?
	I think we're going to play a We'll save that till the end.
	But we've got a funny little video.
	I've been meaning to play it.
	I haven't had time to.
	But after we talk about the horrors of Ukraine and Russia, we'll cleanse our palate with Passport Man.
	Kiev sends the living to die, but won't accept its dead.
	That's right.
	We're going to talk about how Ukraine promised the families of soldiers that if they were killed in battle, they would be given a substantial amount of money.
	But then they said, oh, well, they aren't dead.
	We just can't verify where they are.
	So Russia went in and categorized them for them.
	They went through and identified all the dead soldiers of the Ukrainians that they had and said, well, here they are.
	These are them.
	We've identified them for you.
	You don't even have to do that.
	And they still refuse to pay.
	They won't accept the dead back.
	Because it would mean a substantial outlay of money to the families of the people that were promised this.
	It is sad, but peace remains elusive in the war between on one side Ukraine, and through Ukraine the West, and on the other Russia.
	That's right, they are our proxy in this.
	They are doing our bidding.
	We are the culprits.
	We have met.
	The fomenters of revolution and they is us.
	Recently, the U.S. has at least admitted that Moscow has plausible and important interests at stake and that the West has been using Ukraine to fight a proxy war against Russia.
	While very late and still incomplete, such truthfulness could help fashion the kind of realistic compromise needed to end this war.
	This is from RT.
	Yet Washington's European vassals have chosen this moment to discover their usually terminated, atrophied capacity for talking back to the U.S. They clearly want the war to continue.
	Even though that means Ukraine, about which they pretend to care, will lose even more people and territory.
	That's right.
	They love to talk about how they support Ukraine.
	They love Ukraine, but they want to fight to the last Ukrainian.
	They want to make sure that there are no Ukrainians left, apparently.
	Against this backdrop, it was no wonder that the latest sound, latest round of the renewed Istanbul talks between Russia and Ukraine produced no breakthrough, little progress, and only very modest, concrete results.
	Also on the eve of talks, the Zelensky regime launched terror attacks on civilian trains in western Russia in a series of sneak drone strikes.
	Indeed, by now it is clear that Kiev's sneak drone attacks in particular have only further undermined the Zelensky regime's Ukraine fails
	to accept the remains of fallen troops.
	That's what we're talking about now.
	Luckily for Ukraine, Moscow is generally more restrained than America would be in similar situations.
	That's right, if you were to do that in America, it would be gloves off, no holds barred.
	The bombs would be falling indiscriminately.
	And it should stay so.
	Yet the fact remains, Kiev's sneak drones have made no substantial military difference in its favor, but they have done significant political damage to Kiev, that is.
	Regardless of the Istanbul talks, it is likely that these assaults were meant to torpedo them.
	Yet Moscow did not fall for that rather transparent play.
	Its delegation turned up, so the Ukrainian one had to do the same.
	In addition, Russia ended this round of the negotiations with several That's right.
	They have 6,000 Ukrainians who fought and died for their country.
	Well, more likely fought and died for the interests of the American war machine.
	But they were still promised that if they did that, their families would be taken care of.
	6,000 of them.
	And Ukraine says, nope.
	We cannot.
	We won't take them.
	Both initiatives have run into trouble.
	To be precise, both are being impeded by the Ukrainian leadership.
	A POW swap has been delayed, and Ukrainian officials have failed to show up at the border to receive the first 1,212 of their deceased soldiers.
	Regarding both, Kiev has blamed Russia, yet remarkably, the Ukrainian statements in reality prove that it is indeed Kiev that is, at the very least, slowing these processes down.
	For what Ukrainian officials are really accusing Russia of his moving faster?
	The reasons for this obstructionism are unclear.
	The Ukrainian authorities have not shared them with the public, but there are some plausible guesses.
	One very likely reason why Kiev is reluctant to accept the 6,000 bodies of its own fallen soldiers is that the preponderant majority of them, according to a Ukrainian member of parliament, were killed specifically during Ukraine's insane, predictably catastrophic incursion into Russia's Kursk region, started on August 6th of last year.
	The operation was initially hyped by Ukrainian propagandists and their accomplices and useful idiots in the West.
	And also, it's about the money.
	Ukraine doesn't want to have to pay these families.
	They don't want to have to part with that hard-won cash that they get from America.
	Yes, this article is from RT, so obviously they're going to phrase it in the most provocative way possible, but in the end, it boils down to them declaring these people as MIA because...
	So they're just going to turn a blind eye and pretend that they don't see what's going on with all these soldiers that Russia is taking the high road and saying, come, give your soldiers a decent burial.
	Because they know that they don't have the money for them.
	Yes, it is really a masterstroke by Russia when it comes to outplaying Ukraine on this front.
	And not to excuse Ukraine.
	I mean, they made the promise that the families would be provided for if the soldier dies, so they are definitely on the hook for that money.
	That's right.
	No money for the families of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, but Zelensky's wife, I'm sure, will have another trip to the French Riviera.
	I'm sure she'll buy some more designer clothes and stay at more lovely.
	Lovely chateaus.
	For the clear-eyed, it was obvious from the beginning that this was a mass kamikaze mission, wasting Ukrainian lives for no military or political advantage.
	Was the Zelensky regime trying to create a territorial bargaining chip, or once more, shift the narrative, as if wars are won by rewriting a movie script?
	Influence last year's U.S. elections, prepare for a possible victory by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, all of the above?
	We don't know.
	What we do know is that nothing Kiev may have fantasized about has worked.
	Indeed, by now, the Kursk fiasco has only made Kiev's situation worse.
	Russia has retaken the territory in Kursk region that Ukraine had seized and is advancing on the Ukrainian side of the border, taking settlements at an accelerating pace and getting close to the major regional city of Sumy.
	And of course, this is coming from RT, a Russian outlet.
	So they're going to make things sound as good for Russia as possible.
	It's important to take anything that RT says about the war when it comes to Russia's advancements with a grain of salt, but it does seem that Russia is handily winning the conflict.
	Correct.
	Clearly, those following during that particular suicide mission are evidence of Kiev's recklessness, hypocrisy, and incompetence.
	No wonder they seem to be less than welcome at home.
	A second reason for Kiev's reluctance may be even more sordid.
	There is speculation, for instance, on social media that it is financial.
	More importantly, a Russian diplomat, Sergei, or Don, or John Kydsky, I'm not.
	We're going to call him Sergei, has made the same claim on the Telegram channel of the Izvestia newspaper, for according to Ukrainian legislation, the families of the fallen soldiers are entitled to substantial compensation.
	Painful as it may be to acknowledge it, the Zelensky regime is not capable of such a massive lack of piety.
	Whatever the precise reasons for Kiev's odd refusal to take back its prisoners and dead, they are certain to be base.
	This may jar with the West's well-organized and stubbornly delusional Zelensky fan club.
	That's right, he has a huge number of people who love him over here, don't they?
	I remember when the war first started.
	So many people were talking about, oh, he's the type of leader we all want.
	He's so charismatic and dreamy.
	People putting the Ukrainian flags on top of their profile pictures on whatever social media site they used and praising him up and down when he's nothing more than a clown.
	A comedian.
	With no qualifications beyond the fact that he was willing to submit himself to American foreign policy, to be our puppet.
	That's what his qualification was.
	But the best they could do for ordinary Ukrainians is to put pressure on their worn-out idol to accept the prisoners and the fallen.
	And of course to finally end the war.
	First of all, we will unilaterally hand over 6,000.
	Frozen bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers and officers to the Ukrainian side.
	We have kept them.
	We have identified all whom we could, held DNA tests, and found out who they are.
	Next week we will transfer these bodies to the Ukrainian side so they can bury them in a humane manner, Medinsky said.
	He said that Moscow is also ready to accept the bodies of Russian servicemen if the Ukrainian side has them.
	If they have some bodies, we will also receive them.
	So far, we do not know about that, the Russian said.
	And of course, how this is going to play out is America is going to wind up paying the promised amount to the families of the fallen soldiers when Ukraine can't cough up the bill.
	Yep, it's going to be on us to pay for them.
	Their war, our war.
	Medinsky addressed Kiev's allegations of Russia stealing Ukrainian children and promised to look into the case.
	Children are central to us.
	We've been hearing lately that 1.5 million Ukrainian children were abducted by the Russians.
	Then the number came down to 200,000, and now the official figure is 20,000.
	We've constantly asked to provide documentary evidence.
	We finally obtained a complete list.
	It includes 339 names.
	339, down from 1.5 million.
	We will look into each case, he said.
	And of course, 339 missing children is still a tragedy, but it shows the dishonesty of the Ukrainians.
	The Ukrainian regime, the way they are trying to paint the Russians.
	He denied the allegations of abduction and said that Russian children also lose contact with their families in the midst of a combat zone.
	None of these children have been abducted, not a single one.
	These are the children who are rescued by our soldiers, often at the cost of their lives, pulled from combat zones and taken to safety.
	We're looking for their parents.
	The parents are found.
	The children are returned, he added.
	Well, that is Ukraine and Russia.
	That is them arguing back and forth, and Ukraine refusing to accept their own dead back, because it might cost them.
	It might cost them financially.
	Can't afford it.
	We've got to continue to buy drones.
	This is from Zero Hedge.
	Senator Tuberville blasts Zelensky for seeking to lure NATO into a war Ukraine is losing.
	There's no doubt, because he cannot win this war on his own, he knows he's losing, Tuberville said in Sunday remarks while being interviewed on John Kastamatidis' radio show, Cats Roundtable, as reported in The Hill.
	While the Trump administration, and particularly Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth, long ago made clear that Ukraine will never join NATO, some European nations have continued to push the initiative.
	Tuberville, while commenting on Ukraine's brazen operation, Spiders Web, which destroyed Russian strategic bombers and other military aircraft a week ago described of Ukrainian forces.
	They drove trucks 2,000 miles into Russia.
	They had drones that were covered up in the backs of these trucks.
	They got close to the targets, opened up these trucks.
	The drones flew out and destroyed somewhere around 40 major airplanes that Russia uses in their nuclear arsenal.
	And as we said when we covered that, the fact that they were able to so easily accomplish this with drones proves that the...
	They destroyed the old weapons of war and merely proved that the drone is the weapon of the future.
	It taught Russia a lesson.
	It taught all of us a lesson about what will be the future of warfare.
	It is a Pyrrhic strike, a Pyrrhic victory.
	He seemed to present this as one rare and limited success.
	It was devastating.
	Then again, both sides are at fault.
	Let's get this thing over with.
	And President Trump is one who can get this done.
	Tuberville further echoed some prior criticisms issued first by Trump.
	Zelensky is a dictator, and he has created all sorts of problems.
	We've got a lot of money that's been missing.
	No telling where it's gone.
	Well, it's gone to the French Riviera to buy Miss Zelensky a lot of very fashionable clothing, I imagine.
	Chateaus don't come cheap.
	I think both of these nations have lost close to 500,000 to 700,000 people.
	It's devastating to the world, he added.
	President Trump seems more and more willing to cease pushing the warring sides to the negotiating table amid growing frustrations.
	There's been no mention of halting arms flow to Kiev.
	That is the simplest, easiest thing that could be done from our side.
	We could simply stop bankrolling them.
	We could simply stop sending them weapons.
	It would force Kiev to negotiate.
	It would force Ukraine to look at things more clearly.
	They wouldn't be able to sustain the war effort.
	We are the ones who are bankrolling it.
	For anyone still parroting the fabricated BS lie that this war was unprovoked, here's a dose of reality.
	In February 2014, Senator Chris Murphy stood alongside John McCain in Maidan Square and openly bragged about the U.S. role in toppling Ukraine's elected president.
	This is from at Rickwell123, that's R-I-C-W-E-L-1-2-3 on Twitter.
	It has a picture up there.
	The U.S. administration now frames these arms transfers as defensive in nature.
	But it's also clear that Ukrainian forces are heavily reliant on this western aid as they mount attacks deep inside Russia.
	Without it, Ukrainian front lines would probably rapidly recede and the Zelensky government would be quickly placed in a situation where it would need to sign onto territorial concessions.
	But so far, the Ukrainian leader has refused to contemplate giving up land and is even vocally resistant to ceding Crimea.
	Of course, as we've talked about before, Crimea is culturally Russian.
	They were part of Russia.
	Not that long ago.
	Invest now or learn Russian later.
	NATO chief wants 400% increase in Europe's air defense spending.
	That's right.
	You need 400% more when it comes to funding or else scary boogie monster Russia is going to knock down your door and force you to learn Russian when they take over your country.
	These people.
	Ugh.
	NATO Secretary General Mark Root on Monday urged the European allies to make a quantum leap in military spending to deter Russia, which affirms Trump's own long-time message as the NATO chief called for a whopping 400% increase in the continent's air and missile defense budget.
	Europe must invest heavily in defense now or learn Russian later.
	What a horror to be forced to learn Russian.
	I really mean this.
	Then you have to get your Russian language course out or go to New Zealand.
	That's right, you have to flee.
	Flee to New Zealand, because Russia's coming for you.
	They're going to get you.
	He's going to invade your country, that big, bad Vladimir Putin.
	Monday, he made a similarly ambitious call.
	He asked for a 400% increase in air and missile defense, and added that militaries also need thousands more armored vehicles and tanks, millions more artillery shells, and must double our enabling capabilities, such as logistics supply, transportation, and medical support.
	That's right, this is another rich man's war.
	Poor men fight the wars, and die in them, as the rich get richer off them.
	NATO's defense ministers are further expected to soon formalize the following increase in spending policies.
	They've agreed that 3.5% of GDP would be used for core defense spending, such as heavy weapons, tanks, air defense.
	1.5% of GDP per year will be spent on defense and security-related areas, such as infrastructure, surveillance, and cyber.
	That's right, good old surveillance.
	You can't have enough of that.
	You've got to keep track of all your citizens all the time.
	But this assumes that Moscow's war in Ukraine is fundamentally expansionist in nature.
	This has not been demonstrated.
	It is simply assumed, it remains, that President Putin has shown no interest even in some kind of outright military occupation of Kiev.
	So the idea that he's ready to invade Poland or anywhere else on NATO's eastern flank next is a huge assumption.
	Moscow has all along pointed out that it's the NATO alliance which expanded itself right up to Russia's doorstep.
	Unhinged fear-mongering.
	Stupendously idiotic stuff here from NATO Secretary General Mark Root.
	This is by Daniel DiPetris, at Dan DiPetris on Twitter.
	Tell Brits appalled at the idea of learning a foreign language and those who believe it might be better than the vast state's spending when fiscal deficits and public debt are sky high.
	They have a little bit of Russian written out here.
	When do I get my rate cut?
	That's all that matters, right?
	Even Canada is moving its Coast Guard to national defense, and PM Carney will announce defense spending will be NATO's 2% of GDP target this fiscal year, just in time for it to rise to 5% at its upcoming summit.
	Don't want to learn to speak Russian.
	You've got to spend more, surveil more, bomb more.
	That's what you've got to do if you want to avoid the tragedy that is learning Russian.
	Got some comments here.
	Guard Goldsmith, I looked up the Medicare info and there are no real cuts.
	It increases overall.
	The word cut is used by employing baseline budgeting.
	They love shifting things around.
	They love obfuscating the truth.
	Anytime they can do that.
	They love to.
	They love lying.
	It's their language.
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	Well, that doesn't allow them to expand.
	That doesn't allow them to grow their powers and inflict pain upon the American people with tariffs and such.
	It's all about getting more power for those in Washington.
	Nights of the storm, they are not interested in recycling.
	I invested in a company out of Canada that gets 98% of rare earths out of spent batteries, and they are sucking.
	That's That's right.
	They have no interest in doing anything that might actually be of use.
	It's all about expanding their power base, getting their hooks in other countries, and making life more difficult for the American people.
	The EU is not Europe.
	Marine Le Pen rallies nationalists and call for rebirth of Europe's nations.
	This is from Zero Hedge.
	And how true it is.
	The EU is not Europe.
	French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen launched a scathing attack on the trajectory of the European Union at the Patriots for Europe rally in France on Monday, declaring, We don't want to leave Europe.
	We want out of this Europe because it is not Europe.
	That's right.
	It is not Europe.
	It is particularly anti-European.
	They want to break down all the cultures.
	They want to amalgamate and homogenize everything into one slurry of culture.
	That means nothing to anyone.
	Addressing a crowd of allies and supporters from across the continent, Le Pen opened her speech with a rejection of the EU's current direction, accusing it of becoming a merchant-wocist, ultra-liberal empire that tramples traditional sovereignty.
	reality.
	and she's right on that our europe does not reside in brussels le pen said what we are seeing today on our continent is in no way european it is a counterfeit a cold fleshless soulless machine She accused the European Union of replacing citizens with interchangeable masses, nations with administered regions, and elected leaders with provincial governors.
	That's right.
	These places are simply economic zones, places to be exploited for their resources, places to make money off of.
	They can get rid of the population there and do that just the same.
	It doesn't matter if it's a place with storied traditions and beautiful history.
	It doesn't matter if the new people they bring in are going to burn down the cathedrals, destroy the culture.
	That's not what they care about.
	It's about breaking the will of the people and making more money while doing it.
	That's what it's about.
	Bringing the current political moment as a turning point in European history, Le Pen warned, this is no ordinary hour.
	This is just a political step.
	This is not just a political step.
	It is a fracture in history, a moment of truth, where much more than the fate of a mandate or a parliament is at stake.
	What is at stake here is the freedom of peoples and the dignity of peoples, the existence of our nations.
	Freedom and dignity.
	Things B.F. Skinner hated, things he wanted to do away with, beyond freedom and dignity.
	That's the plan.
	They say beyond, but they mean without.
	Without freedom and dignity.
	That is the real.
	The Patriots for Europe are the architects of the future.
	She's right.
	This is a critical moment.
	We are in the middle of our fourth turning.
	It has been talked about a lot on the show.
	My dad has covered it substantially.
	The fourth turning, of course, states that every four generations or so, massive things happen.
	We are going to play the video from the tweet now.
	You can see what's going on in Europe.
	You can see the rally there going.
	Europe is not the European Union.
	Europe is us.
	And here, too, it's time to put things back in order.
	As you can see, we don't want to leave the table.
	We want to finish the game and win it.
	Take power in France and Europe and give it back to the people.
	Our Europe is fraternal, alive.
	We want to build not a faceless European Union, but an alliance of European nations, an association of history and destinies, respectful of people's cultures and identities.
	In its history stretching back thousands of years, Europe has not derived its power from bureaucracy, but from the genius and energy of each of its peoples.
	You can see that video up on Twitter.
	That's enough of that for now, but you can watch that.
	And she's right.
	That's stretching back thousands of years.
	But they don't care about those cultures.
	They pretend to care deeply about the cultures of the people that are flooding the borders, that are flooding into these nations.
	The Muslims, they are very deferential when it comes to their calls to prayer.
	When it comes to anything to do with other foreign cultures, they treat them with kid gloves.
	They go, oh yes, what a beautiful...
	It doesn't matter that you're stabbing and beheading anyone.
	It's a beautiful, lovely culture.
	Sure, go ahead, riot in the streets after a soccer match.
	Burn things down.
	Become violent.
	It's all beautiful and wonderful.
	But we don't care about our own culture.
	We don't care if you burn down our cathedrals, our monuments, our history.
	This is from at rmxnews on Twitter.
	Her speech celebrated the formation of the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament, now the third largest bloc compromising nationalists and conservative parties, comprising nationalists and conservative parties, including the Netherlands'PVV, Hungary's Fidesz, and Austria's FPO, Italy's Lega Evov.
	This group is as united as the fingers of one hand, united by a shared vision of life in the world, but also united by a great political project for our homeland and our Europe, she told the crowd.
	She paid tribute to allies like Hungary's Viktor Orban, calling Hungary a beacon nation in Europe, and Gert Wilders praising the Dutch leader for collapsing the Dutch government last week after a row over asylum policy.
	Because Garrett Wilders chose to leave the coalition government precisely to prevent his country from being flooded with immigrants, she said.
	Le Pen also accused Brussels of silencing critics, warning that opposition voices are increasingly being criminalized.
	Any desire for sovereignty is heresy.
	Any idea of freedom is suspect.
	Any criticism is labeled a conspiracy.
	Any opposition is branded as subversion, criminalized, and prosecuted.
	She warned that Europe's bureaucratic elite were preparing for war while ignoring domestic insecurity.
	All the European Parliament's thematic committees are actively, I would say, compulsively preparing for a war in the East, she said.
	We the peoples of Europe who know the price of blood do not want war.
	That's right.
	You don't want to learn to speak Russian, but maybe you should learn to speak Arabic.
	You might want to learn their language because it's going to be played out over loudspeakers.
	That call to prayer is going to be everywhere, folks.
	Taking aim at French President Emmanuel Macron, she mocked his posturing on the international stage while violence and chaos go unaddressed at home.
	Who can seriously believe that Emmanuel Macron's France could wage a major war when he is already incapable of managing the chaos that reigns on match nights, 200 meters from the LSA palace?
	That's right.
	He's weak.
	He's ineffective.
	He will not do anything to stop this violence, this chaos, this burning after a soccer match.
	You can see that.
	Look, those look like Frenchmen to me, don't they?
	Those look like just your average, everyday Frenchmen.
	With their darker complexions.
	Yes, these are the French people looting a footlocker.
	Those darn Frenchmen and their obsession with looting footlockers.
	We must have an excess of French people here as well.
	Well, that's the violence.
	And chaos in the streets after a soccer match in France.
	Above all, we will give the people of Europe back their most sacred right to choose who comes into their country and who stays, she said.
	Well, I don't think they would want any of those people that are currently there to stay.
	I think they might want to get rid of them.
	That's what's going on in Europe.
	The war in Ukraine, the potential populist revolution in France and across Europe.
	We'll have to see.
	I know a lot of people don't necessarily trust Marine Le Pen.
	I don't know how much I trust her either.
	I don't trust our politicians here, and I don't blindly trust any politician in Europe, despite the fact that they say good things.
	They are still in politics, and that makes them suspect by nature.
	But those all sound like wonderful things, and I hope she's for real, and I hope she accomplishes those goals.
	I don't know if it was that particular riot that we played the clip of, But one riot in Europe recently about a football game, soccer game, there was several stabbings and deaths from it, including the death of a child.
	Those gosh darn Europeans, they just can't stop stabbing each other.
	That's what the Europeans are known for, you know, stabbing and violence.
	Well, we are going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
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	Federal Court Naples Pride Drag Show must be indoors and adults only.
	Well, gee.
	Finally, some common sense.
	How has it taken this long?
	The drag shows are an obvious perversion.
	It is obviously a bunch of perverts flaunting themselves around on stage.
	How in the world has it taken this long for people to go, hmm, maybe we don't want this around our kids?
	A federal appeals court ruled Friday that drag performances at Naples Pride Fest must be held indoors and restricted to adult audiences siding with the city, Naples, in a closely watched First Amendment case.
	This is not a free speech issue.
	You don't have this free speech to shove your fetishes in the faces of children.
	I remember recently there was the, uh, Anti-pride bill that all the, or at least that's how all the leftist media put it, the bill in Tennessee that simply said that drag shows need to be regulated to the same extent that strip shows and other adult entertainment is, which is obvious.
	And that was, you know, put out as, oh, they're trying to make...
	It's like, no, it's just a matter of putting it in the correct category of adult entertainment.
	Yes.
	These are perverse weirdos, and they demand to be allowed to perform for children.
	Isn't that strange?
	Why would that be?
	Really makes you wonder, doesn't it?
	Why would they be so insistent on getting in front of children and performing for them?
	The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued the decision just hours before the 7th Annual Pride Fest was scheduled to begin at Cambier Park.
	Fox 4 reported the court concluded that Naples Pride will not be substantially injured by a stay because similar restrictions applied to the event in 2023 and earlier in the year.
	City officials said the permit conditions requiring drag performances to be indoors and age-restricted were implemented due to legitimate public safety concerns identified by law enforcement.
	That's right.
	Safety concerns for children.
	Being exposed to, again, weird, perverse behavior.
	We've all seen enough pictures of Pride events by this time, haven't we?
	The weird fetish gear that these people are in as they parade themselves down the street in front of everyone.
	And people bring children to these events.
	It is sickening.
	It is utterly sickening.
	I don't have mentioned it before.
	But in the early 90s, or maybe it was the 80s, two gay men, who one of them was a marketing executive at a large firm, wrote a book called After the Ball, and they said that, well, if we want to be taken seriously, if we want our agenda to be put forward, we have to stop flaunting our weird pervert behavior in front of people.
	We need to be seen as just an average, everyday type of people.
	We need to be We need to normalize this behavior.
	We need to normalize ourselves to be taken seriously.
	And they went on to push this idea in a book, as I said, called After the Ball.
	And it appears to have worked.
	They wormed their ways into sitcoms and things like that, showing just being the quirky neighbor.
	Oh, they're just fashionable.
	They have such a lovely house.
	They've got such nice decorations, such nice outfits.
	They're just friendly and better than us in all the ways we wish we could be.
	They wallpapered over the real essence and nature of homosexuality with this faux, this facade.
	Of just being the quirky, funny, better couple instead of the gross, degenerate, pervert behavior that people accepted them as, that they knew them to be in the 80s.
	They got rid of the bathhouse and instead put up a well-appointed condo.
	On their way to the state capitol for their graduation, state patrol cadets marched by a formal event where Governor Bob Ferguson and other officials had gathered to observe the annual raising of the pride flag.
	This is from the article, Washington State Patrol apologized for accidentally disrupting pride flag raising of the pride flag.
	That's right.
	You've got to bow to the new religion.
	You accidentally interrupted their sacred rite of raising the pride flag.
	How could you do that?
	You should have known better.
	The cadets had accidentally taken an alternative route, but their presence was supposedly traumatizing for attendees at the ceremony.
	Reportedly, Reporter Andy Ngo explained that the incident was seen as blasphemous to the state religion.
	That's right, they were traumatized by these cadets marching by.
	It was a traumatizing event for these poor, poor folks that simply want to expose your children to lewd sexual behavior.
	Later at the graduation, the State Patrol issued an apology.
	We are glad everyone is here today, and as some of you may know, while our cadets were marching into the Capitol early today, a route unfortunately and regrettably interfered with the annual raising of the pride flag in front of the building.
	Oh, those poor, poor, prideful homosexuals.
	We don't want to offend them at all.
	There was no intent to offend or distract from the flag raising.
	The error was ours, and we apologize.
	The Washington State Patrol is made up of and offers our enthusiastic service to all individuals and communities in our state.
	Our motto is service with humility.
	But it's in service to pride, isn't it?
	It's bowing and scraping before these people.
	The new religion of the state.
	You must submit.
	You will submit.
	But, you know, I'm sure that they're very eager to include all kinds of different people into the Washington State Patrol.
	The apology was followed up by a post on X from the WSP's official account.
	That's Washington State Patrol.
	Our heartfelt apologies for disrupting the raising of the Pride flag on Capitol campus today.
	The team leading our cadets to their graduation ceremony did not adequately communicate about the alternate route planned around the crowd.
	It was never our intention to disrupt an important community event.
	Our motto is service with humility, and our mission is to protect, defend, and respect the rights of all.
	That's right.
	We celebrate it.
	We worship it.
	We can't get enough of the gays, the homosexuals.
	We have to have them.
	We need to support them.
	They've been so put upon.
	And all they want in return is to be allowed to do gross sexual things in front of kids.
	I mean, that's not asking too much, is it?
	They've been put upon so horrendously.
	That's the big sin that they've committed against the state religion.
	That's right.
	You were near us when we raised our flag.
	You interrupted our sacred rite.
	How could you do this?
	This is pure evil.
	You're walking on holy ground.
	Don't come near the pride flag.
	It is sacred.
	WSB Chief John Batiste then met with Governor Ferguson to discuss the incident and later reached out to attendees at the flag-raising ceremony with his personal apologies.
	Nevertheless, LGBT adherents were not mollified.
	We unfortunately didn't know that the cadet ceremony was happening at the same time.
	We had speakers at the podium, and so there were Some people I did hear that they felt it was intentional, and I tried to intervene and we tried to calm folks down, allow the graduates to go through.
	It was really just an unfortunate timing that they already had that event happening.
	We had this event happening.
	I'm saddened by the impact and that there was harm that was done during an event that is so celebratory, she added.
	There was harm done.
	They were harmed.
	These fragile, delicate beings.
	They were harmed by the cadets showing up.
	These people are ridiculous.
	They demand everything.
	They demand that you be subservient to their whims and their wishes.
	And if you don't, they're harmed.
	If you merely approach them as they raise a flag, it's harm.
	These people are utterly insane, mentally ill and deficient.
	Seattle Gay News reports that another attendee, Marianne Moaz, Osmond Wells, you have enough names, lady, said the WSP's presence and marching felt like a flex of power.
	That's right.
	They were flexing their might with their fresh-faced cadets.
	They were flexing the power they wield by marching past you, by accidentally showing up and showing that the cadets still might not have their sense of direction locked down.
	It detracted from the speakers and from our event.
	I was very confused, and it ended up causing some conflicts in our group.
	We have one day a year where we get to acknowledge LGBT pride, and it was very confusing.
	Yes, there's only one day a year where we're forced to deal with these people, where we're forced to bow down and scrape.
	It's only one day a year.
	What planet has she been living on?
	They're everywhere, all the time.
	If you turn on a TV show, you're simply forced into watching.
	We only have one day a year.
	I mean, aside from, you know, the whole month that we also have and all the constant propaganda that we also have and us constantly being in your face every day all the time.
	This is how these people perceive it.
	They are insane.
	We have one day a year, Osmond Wells said, apparently ignoring the official designation of June as Pride Month.
	That's right.
	At minimum, it's an entire month that they get that we are forced to bow and scrape and pretend that we all aren't off-put and find their behavior disgusting.
	It's at minimum a month, but realistically, it's every day of the year.
	Hollywood loves to push that propaganda, whether it's in TV shows or movies or commercials even.
	It's everywhere you look now.
	This is from AP News.
	A show inside a cathedral featured raw chickens in diapers.
	The German president was in the audience.
	Oh, boy.
	What high-brow entertainment they have provided for us.
	Everything the gays do is so wonderful.
	They just have such good taste, don't they?
	The article describes a controversial performance at a cathedral in Germany that featured raw chickens in diapers.
	The performance, part of a celebration of the 1250th anniversary of Westphalia, sparked outrage and prompted an apology from the organizers.
	They're holding raw, plucked chickens wrapped in diapers.
	What a wonderful performance it must have been.
	A performance inside a Catholic cathedral in Germany earlier this month that featured raw-plucked chickens wrapped in diapers on stage and the country's president and local archbishop in the audience has prompted the church and municipal leaders to apologize that the show hurt religious feelings.
	The show Westphalia Side Story was part of a May 15th celebration to mark the 1250th anniversary of Westphalia, a region in northwestern Germany.
	Video shows one woman and two shirtless men singing Fleisch ist Fleisch, Meat is Meat, apparently spoofing Austrian band Opus 1984 pop song Live is Life, with sighs and dancing with the dead chickens on stage in front of a Pederborn Cathedral's altar.
	That's right.
	This is the type of entertainment you can expect.
	This is the type of hard-hitting, meaningful content that the gays are producing for us.
	So they can have this thing where they're dancing with chickens in diapers inside a cathedral on the anniversary of it, and yet the normal people are apologizing for having walked near them during their flag raising.
	Yes, you must submit.
	You must accept any kind of mockery, any belittling, any degeneration that they can come up with.
	But if you so much as walk past them as they raise their sacred flag, You are causing harm.
	Video footage shows one woman and two shirtless men singing Fleisch is Fleisch.
	Performance company Body Talk said in a statement Friday that the show featured work-in-progress excerpts from West Folly, a side story, which references the American musical West Side Story.
	It's a work-in-progress.
	You know, we're still ironing out some kinks.
	i'm sure there are a lot of kinks involved with this kind of degeneracy the finished show which will premiere in september is supposed to be part of the 1250th anniversary's cultural programming that's right cultural programming what a wonderful culture they have produced for us It was not meant to be a spoof at all, Body Talk co-founder Rolf Baumgart said in an email to the Associated Press, as Westphalia is a rural domination, dominated region with a turbulent history.
	Our research was focused on that.
	That's right.
	There's nothing that the rural folk in any country like more than shirtless men dancing around with plucked chickens in diapers.
	That's what they love more than anything, right?
	These people are sick and they simply love mocking anyone and everyone that doesn't bow to their whims and wills.
	The spectacle also prompted an online petition signed by more than 22,000 people by Friday afternoon that asks Paderborn Archbishop Udo Benz for a personal apology as well as penance.
	The signers also want him to re-consecrate the cathedral after it was desecrated by this performance.
	in a statement posted online to the cathedral's website more than a week after their performance the regional association of westphalia lippe and the church's leadership said the content of the performance wasn't known to the organizers or the venue well i think Looked at the type of people who are a part of the organization and figured out this isn't something we should have here.
	I'm curious as to if they would try to put on this performance in a mosque.
	If they would try this kind of thing in front of a Muslim audience.
	I wonder how that would go over.
	The cathedral, the statement said, is often host to cultural events and has begun an internal review.
	They also promised to more carefully vet proposed events in future.
	German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's office didn't immediately return a request for comment on Friday.
	Big Bang Theory is wrong, claim scientists, removing along from the chickens and diapers.
	The article describes a new theory that challenges the Big Bang Theory.
	The new theory suggests that the universe is inside a black hole and the universe formed after a black hole collapsed.
	The theory also claims that the edge of our universe...
	They'll come up with any theory, any ridiculous theory, to avoid the gospel, to avoid the truth.
	It's just kicking the can down the road.
	So how did that universe, the black hole that we're in, come about?
	Was that a big bang?
	Is that another black hole?
	It's all black holes all the way down.
	The Big Bang Theory is wrong, and the universe is sitting inside a black hole, scientists have suggested.
	It's always something like this.
	They always come up with some ridiculous theory, some headline-grabbing nonsense that gets pushed out, gets pushed forward, and then gets forgotten about immediately.
	Since the 1930s, when Belgian theoretical physicist Georges Lemaître proposed the universe to emerge from primeval atom, Researchers have believed that everything that exists exploded from a single point of infinite density or singularity.
	What caused that kind of explosion, then?
	If everything is condensed down to that level, what has enough force to shatter it, to break it, to sunder it, to spread it all out?
	Matter within the black hole was crunched down before.
	Huge amounts of stored energy caused it to bounce back like a compressed spring.
	Creating our universe, the new theory has been named Black Hole Universe and suggests that rather than the birth of the universe being from nothing, is a continuation of a cosmic cycle.
	Black hole universe sounds like some kind of metal band from Sweden.
	It also suggests that the edge of our universe is the event horizon of a black hole from which light cannot escape, making it impossible for us to see beyond our parent universe.
	It implies other black holes may also contain unseen universes.
	That's right, it's universes all the way down.
	there's just so many of them.
	The Big Bang Theory is based on classic physics, but scientists have struggled to make it fit with the known effects of quantum mechanics, which sets a limit on how much matter can be compressed.
	Next.
	Does it?
	I don't know about that.
	I'm not a physicist.
	But to me, it just seems to shift the problem.
	The black hole universe also offers a new perspective on our place in the cosmos.
	In this framework, our entire observable universe lies inside the interior of a black hole formed in some larger parent universe.
	That's right.
	We're just little children inside a black hole of a much larger universe.
	Scientists are hoping that the new model may be able to explain other mysteries in the universe, such as the origin of supermassive black holes, the nature of dark matter, with the formation and evolution of galaxies.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to take a look at AI and what's going on with it.
	But before we do take our break, before we get serious about AI, let's look at some funny uses.
	For AI.
	Before even that.
	Oh, in 61. Then they came for the pole dancer story hour, but I said nothing because I wasn't a pole dancer.
	That's right.
	Eventually, they came for the degenerate drag queens, too.
	And you know, it wasn't all that bad.
	Well, as I said, we're going to take a quick look at...
	Knights of the Storm has gifted another sub on kick.
	Thank you, Jason.
	Thank you.
	That is very, very kind.
	And of course, you can go to knightsofthestorm.com to find the schedule for all of the shows that they track there.
	There are many of them.
	There's guards.
	There's ours.
	There's their own.
	There's Tony's.
	They have it all laid out very nicely.
	So go check out knightsofthestorm.com.
	But let's look at some fun use cases for AI.
	The FBI tells NBC News it was some distance from Ground Zero that a civilian found the passport lying on the street belonging to one of the suspected hijackers.
	Sir, we found the passport belonging to one of the hijackers blocks away from the attack.
	Excellent work, Special Agent.
	Free the five dancers at once.
	Sir, what if someone just planted the passport there?
	Nonsense, you fool.
	We must invade the entire Middle East.
	The indestructible passport is gone.
	Someone took it!
	And they say that a hero can save us I'm not gonna stand here waiting Who is Passport Man?
	Did he steal and then reverse engineer the indestructible passport of one of the hijackers?
	If they made buildings out of passport paper, maybe they'd still be standing.
	Now I've got to make sure this never gets used the wrong way again.
	That's right.
	Passport Man.
	hero we all need but as I said we're It's not just for funny little videos.
	It's for killing the American worker.
	It's for destroying the economy.
	It's for making sure that those in power get richer and richer.
	We'll be right back.
	And this is...
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.
	I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
	You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
	And I could if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
	But he told me to get lost.
	Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com.
	You should be able to buy me several hundred.
	Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
	I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
	if you want to save on shipping.
	Just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA.
	Thank you.
	Welcome back, folks.
	As Lance was saying, he wants to clarify.
	In case you're wondering, that was in reference to a passport of one of the hijackers.
	The alleged hijackers on 9-11 was found amidst the rubble, completely untouched and unscathed.
	So why not just make everything out of that material, since it's obviously indestructible?
	And I saw people in chat asking for the link to that video.
	It was made by at Forbidden Clothes on Instagram.
	I want to make sure we give them credit for that.
	At Forbidden Clothes.
	Forbidden Clothes, all one word.
	I don't know what they're about, but that video was very, very good.
	They did a great job with that one.
	I want to make sure they get the credit they deserve for that.
	At Forbidden Clothes on Instagram.
	So go check them out.
	Maybe they've got more videos like that.
	I don't know if they do.
	But that is the lighthearted, fun side of AI.
	That is what people can use it for to mock the official stories on things.
	Those are good use cases for it.
	But now we're going to look at the darker side of AI.
	This is coming from Sophia Karstens at the Brownstone Institute.
	The Prisoner's Dilemma of AI.
	Democracy and capitalism as we know it have long coexisted in a tense but workable marriage, but now there's a third party in the relationship.
	A.I. Unlike previous disruptions, this one isn't going anywhere.
	A.I. is not just a disruptive mistress, it's a permanent exponential presence.
	The question is no longer whether democracy and capitalism in their current forms can survive together, but which one will collapse first?
	The presence of A.I. creates a zero-sum game between democracy and capitalism.
	Both won't survive.
	A.I. renders those two concepts mutually exclusive.
	One is now an existential threat to the other, and one of those pillars is going to fall first.
	Unless we flip the statistical script and break the algorithm by taking collective action.
	My money is on democracy folding.
	If we continue on our current path favoring market logic, technological acceleration in private and government-linked private power over a robust, healthy economy and society, democracy is likely to yield first because the entrenched interests that benefit from the current structure will suspend, subvert, or ignore democratic will rather than relinquish control of the system that sustains their power.
	It is a consolidating effect.
	It allows these people at the very top to do more and more, to have more control, to track and trace everyone all the time, and to take jobs to allow them to automate processes that used to need human intervention.
	Out of the gate, our first handicap is the corrupted, bastardized version of what we call capitalism.
	Theory and practice are two different animals.
	Ideological capitalism, true capitalism, has been hijacked by the apex predator called crony corporate capitalism.
	While actual capitalism, an uncorrupted free marketplace and adherence to true free market principles in conjunction with human and civil rights is something to which we should aspire.
	It is not in practice right now.
	In its place are regulated markets, pillaged small producers, disempowered consumers, privileged huge corporate interests, and agency capture.
	Agencies funded by the very corporate industries they are charged with regulating.
	Yes, we have public-private partnerships going on.
	These big businesses pay exorbitant amounts of money to those in power to make sure that they can make more money and get more power.
	They buy off the politicians to make sure that their interests are met and that the interests of the American people are crushed and ignored.
	The ideology or ideological state of capitalism in a true free market society as a concept lies in stark contrast to the implementation of it today.
	In this country, it's capitalism's car, but capitalism is asleep in the backseat and corporatism is behind the wheel.
	Which begs the question, why do people buy into it as it currently People are sold on the dream in its purest form, its hope.
	Whether that part of the dream is attainable or not, most people want to believe that they could achieve some aspect of the American dream.
	Even if that dream is fading, the desire for it remains potent.
	Societies lacking hope tend to become brittle and explosive.
	A tertiary look at countries where aspiration is absent gives a bleak peek into what happens to society when hope is removed.
	That's right, it is going to remove all hope of upward mobility.
	There won't be any jobs, not just no good-paying jobs.
	They'll have AI and robots doing everything.
	There'll be a few people in specific positions who...
	It'll be factories churning out robots to do jobs.
	People will be left to do nothing.
	That's why Musk donated, I believe, to Andrew Yang, gave him a contribution, because he was all in on UBI, because that's what he sees coming down the pipeline, and that's what he wants.
	He wants an army of robots and you and me to be left to just subsist on government handouts, given the bare minimum it requires to...
	to sustain life.
	It's no coincidence that the rise of democratic societies coincided with the development of gunpowder and the democratization of force.
	In the past, when everything was in feudal systems, trained soldiers with armor and weapons had fought...
	Now that we have systems where a single drone controller can exert massive, disproportional amounts of force, and in addition to that we are seeing massive centralization of manufacturing because of these same technologies, it's Yes.
	It is a centralization of power.
	That's what they always want.
	That's what they always strive for.
	There is a fundamental sense of fairness in which most people want to believe is associated with the availability of upward mobility.
	Most people, again, to a greater or lesser degree, understand either implicitly or intuitively that, generally speaking, if you work harder...
	That wealth should be commensurate with your contribution to society.
	The ant and the grasshopper.
	This isn't greed.
	It's a belief that reward should follow effort even among those who value charity or social equity.
	There's usually a strong baseline expectation that individual contributions should be rewarded.
	That's not to include a level of compassion.
	That's not to exclude a level of compassion and charity, to which most people also subscribe, only that, generally speaking, and all things being equal, which they often aren't, but we'll get to that, the concept of working harder, earning more, planning for the future, and advancing is something most rational Americans can get behind.
	And used to be common sense.
	Used to be just the way things were.
	You save.
	You work to better your family.
	You work to build a better life for your children.
	You don't depend on the government coming in, swooping in, and giving you a handout.
	And even if you did fall on hard times, you still didn't expect the government.
	You expected potentially your neighbors, your friends, to be there to help support you as you got back on your feet.
	It wasn't seen as a right that the government would take money from someone else and give it back to you.
	But economic structures in their current form are already...
	Tax loopholes, mandates, restrictions, and rigged systems of corporate capitalism have made the path to prosperity narrower, steeper, and gated.
	Infrastructure quietly shifts the rules and goalposts so that those with often unearned capital can grow theirs effortlessly, while those without fall further behind.
	Slowly and incrementally enough that it escapes notice, like the frog in warming water.
	Scaffolding is erected that makes it easier for those with wealth to keep moving up and more difficult for those who don't have wealth to obtain it, all while obscuring machinations and obfuscating public perception.
	Most people have a vague sense of this, but mechanistically it remains intangible and not fully comprehensible.
	It's an instinctive determination of imbalance while not totally unsustainable yet.
	This disparity creates a certain spark of unrest, perhaps imperceptibly initially, at levels below purview, but this imbalance doesn't just erode fairness.
	It ignites resentment.
	When multitudes see disproportionate or no reward for honest effort and no path forward for their children, society inches toward revolt.
	We've seen it before.
	The French and Russian revolutions didn't erupt overnight.
	They brood in simmering hopelessness of the masses.
	That's right.
	We see that more and more as time goes on.
	We see more hopelessness regarding the situation.
	More people saying, I don't know how we're going to move forward.
	I don't know how I can make it.
	I don't know how I could even afford to have children.
	I don't know what my kids are going to do in the future.
	It is a growing feeling.
	It is simmering, but it is coming more and more into the public eye.
	More and more people are becoming aware.
	Of the imbalance in power and the fact that their future is in peril and the future of their children is in peril.
	That their life is not as good as the lives of their parents or the lives of their grandfathers.
	That the country has somehow sold them out, even if they're unsure how.
	They can tell, they can look at it and say, well, my dad or my grandfather was able to afford a house on a meager salary, and I can barely afford rent at a one-bedroom apartment, and I work more hours than he did, I am paid better than he was, and somehow I'm still not making it.
	If, as this imbalance grows, that spark becomes a flame, the more a population feels relegated to serfdom.
	Take away the possibility of upward mobility and inspire grasping terror of falling in those at the top, and you begin to drift toward revolution.
	Not metaphorically, but literally.
	An individual will feel resentful if they have worked themselves sick while another individual has done nothing to deserve or earn their wealth.
	Fairness?
	And feel oppressed and confined if they have no hope.
	All those with excess are perceived to be keeping them down.
	Equality?
	Create enough of those individuals and you have the French Revolution.
	Take away every avenue of recourse and you have the Bolshevik Revolution.
	It's even more apparent in our day and age with the social media we have.
	Everyone is able to see the lives that these multi-billionaires or rich actors lead.
	The fact that they have all these things as they continually push to sell out the American people, as they push for these policies that will make life harder and worse.
	They're richly rewarded for it.
	They were born into wealth, and they will do everything they can to keep it and make sure that you can't achieve it.
	But we're not there yet.
	That ember, while smoldering, has yet to catch fire.
	To be sure, we're in a precarious place, but that critical mass has not yet been reached.
	People are not yet at the revolt flashpoint.
	The marriage has certainly been battle-tested, but it's a seeming traversable indiscretion that could conceivably be resolved with therapy.
	The wrench of the 1%, however, destructive thrown into machinery, isn't insurmountable.
	The majority of Americans still subscribe in one way or another to the idea that while they may never be Jeff Bezos, they too can rise to a comfortable level of life and create a better life and legacy for their children.
	Now add AI.
	AI is a hope killer and a bargain killer.
	It takes away any realistic hope of the vast majority of people making money because eventually 80-90% won't or don't work because they can't compete with a machine.
	We're seeing this occur already in a fringe capacity.
	The human worker becomes obsolete.
	With that goes the entire premise of merit-based reward.
	When people can no longer sell their labor or skills or expertise, the dream of earning your way up dies.
	You take away purpose, dignity, and meaning.
	Suddenly people aren't just poor, they're irrelevant, and that is vastly more demoralizing and destabilizing.
	People need things to be able to strive for.
	If they have nothing, if they're just left to sit around and waste away, they become angry.
	They also become depressed and sad.
	We've seen this with welfare systems throughout history.
	There was a book by, I believe, Russell Means about the reservation system that the Indians were put on and how that absolutely destroyed them.
	UBI is nothing more than a reservation for everyone.
	Corporatism already struggles under the weight of its contradictions.
	Those who hold wealth build systems to protect and grow it.
	Meanwhile, those without wealth face higher barriers just to stay afloat.
	AI doesn't just challenge economic mobility as we currently experience it, it breaks the last thread that holds people to it, the idea that effort leads to reward.
	AI can outperform humans in speed, scale, and cost.
	As it grows more capable, it will take over more jobs, not just manual labor, but creative, analytical, and emotional labor too.
	Human productivity becomes irrelevant.
	Craft, skill, and pride in work vanish when no one pays for what you offer.
	The world looks different when AI takes the majority, if not all, of the jobs, and nobody works or can work.
	The world looks different when hope is gone, when honing a valuable trade or skill no longer holds value and serves no purpose.
	There's no pride in a job well done, or a craft or art well learned.
	When you take away the avenue for the desire for man to work hard and be productive for himself, his family, his community, and the world, you take away his purpose.
	He no longer has anything to offer in any dynamic of life or existence, and no path to flourishing.
	If someone has nothing to gain, then they have nothing to lose, and there is nothing more dangerous than a large group of people with nothing to lose.
	One of the fundamental building blocks of capitalism is property rights, and there's only so much beachfront property.
	What happens when 300 million Americans all receive the same amount of money and nothing costs anything?
	There's no incentive to contribute and no hope of upward mobility.
	In a world where nothing has value, property becomes the greatest commodity or resource.
	And over time, a hopeless population will cease to respect things like property rights.
	The guy who inherited his wealth and owns an estate on the ocean is counting on the law of democracy to protect him from millions of desperate citizens who have nothing to lose.
	I've got some other oceanfront property in Nebraska I'd like to sell him.
	Because now we're looking at the French and.
	The Bolshevik revolutions.
	And in neither case is it a minority subset.
	In a world where work is obsolete but property is scarce, corporatism leads to catastrophic inequality.
	Imagine millions of Americans with nothing to do, no way to get ahead, and no reason to believe that their children will fare better.
	Property rights lose legitimacy.
	The rule of law erodes.
	The beach house on the cliff no longer inspires ambition.
	It inspires revolution.
	It inspires envy and hatred in people.
	They look at it and they know that they didn't work for it.
	They didn't earn it.
	They didn't do anything other than exploit and use the people at the bottom.
	They cast them aside.
	They made it impossible for them to ever achieve anything.
	It is fomenting anger.
	We could be seeing a new aristocracy rising.
	The people who have the money, when the music stops and...
	AI takes over everything are the people who will have the money forever until another great sea change or revolution.
	Yes.
	In a world where work is obsolete but property is scarce, corporatism leads to catastrophic inequality.
	Yet, as critical as all of that sounds, it's noise because what happens next is the crux.
	At that point, any remaining remnants of true capitalism will disappear and we'll find ourselves wearing the full uniform of corporatism because entrenched power won't yield.
	At that point, the masks and gloves will come off and we will go full corporatocracy slash oligopoly.
	The guy puts the wealthy and powerful in the position of having to choose.
	They will be team corporate capitalism all the way.
	They won't simply allow their preferred status to be voted away.
	They will throw democracy and us to the wolves.
	The beneficiaries of the current corrupt system will do everything possible to preserve it, even if it means jettisoning democracy.
	And we need to be clear, this isn't coming from a communistic, envious standpoint of we need to take what they have.
	We are coming from a perspective of, we want to be able to work.
	We want to be able to live in a world where we can contribute and earn our way up.
	We don't want to simply take the money of the wealthy.
	We want to be allowed to earn our way.
	This isn't, again, some Marxist envy, envious ideology.
	It's simply saying, do not do this.
	Make humans obsolete.
	Don't take away the ability for them to work and earn.
	This is not speculative.
	It's historical precedent.
	Whenever corporate capitalism is challenged in a way that threatens wealth consolidation, whether by labor uprisings, regulatory reform, or democratic redistribution, powerful interests resist.
	They co-opt media narratives, lobby legislators, fund think tanks, and erect legal and technological barriers.
	That's right.
	They buy their way out of the problem.
	They use their wealth and their status.
	To buy off the politicians.
	To make sure that they are kept in power.
	To make sure that their wealth isn't threatened.
	True capitalism wants to work on the marriage.
	Corporatism wants to hire a hitman.
	If democracy votes to suspend corporatism, corporatism will not just suspend democracy.
	It will crush it.
	The obvious logical first step towards the solution is course correcting.
	capitalism to be closer to its true form.
	They will not surrender power just because democracy demands change.
	If forced to choose between democratic will and capitalist dominance, they will choose dominance every time.
	The people who benefit from crony capitalism will never let democracy dismantle their advantage.
	They control the tools of power, money, media, policy, and now AI.
	That's right.
	The wealthy will be the ones who are able to control AI.
	They will have the resources to utilize this.
	It's not going to be enough that you can run a local language model on your own personal computers.
	They will have far too much computing power.
	When democracy threatens their dominance, they don't negotiate.
	They redefine laws, suppress dissent, fund misinformation and expand surveillance.
	They act quickly and decisively to protect capital, not the collective.
	AI gives them the ultimate weapon.
	Whether they can anticipate control and prevent dissent before it erupts, they will not hand over that power voluntarily, not to a voting public, not to a democratic process, and not to any force that threatens their supremacy.
	They won't relinquish control of the AI augmented system.
	They will weaponize it to further entrench their dominance.
	Surveillance, predictive, policing, algorithmic control over information behavior.
	These tools are already here and already being deployed.
	We're going to double bind.
	We can't not develop AI when other nations are, and are in fact potentially developing applications that could wipe us all out.
	It's a Chinese finger trap, and we're just as far in as we'll ever be out.
	Because how do we ensure development that serves us rather than destroys us?
	How do we walk that line?
	It worked out so well for Oppenheimer, each player.
	Corporations, governments, individuals, acts to protect short-term interests.
	No one wants to blink first.
	Nations can't stop developing AI because rivals won't.
	Companies can't stop chasing efficiency because their competitors won't.
	Everyone defects and everyone loses.
	The genie is out of the bottle.
	There is, sadly, no going back.
	You can't put these things back once they're out.
	You simply have to figure out how to Utilize them in a way that doesn't destroy the world, doesn't destroy the common man.
	But that's not what they're working towards.
	They want to ensure that power is completely and utterly consolidated in the hands of the few, those at the top.
	This is a long article, only about halfway through.
	But I think I'm going to move on to the next one.
	Again, this is by Sophia Karstens on the Brownstone Institute.
	It's called The Prisoner's Dilemma of AI.
	I recommend you go check it out for yourself.
	See what she is talking about.
	She's done a great job.
	It has a lot of great information.
	And it's very well written.
	It's very compelling.
	So go look at it for yourself.
	Again, Sophia Karsten's The Prisoner's Dilemma of AI on the Brownstone Institute.
	AI models still far from AGI levels reasoning?
	AGI level reasoning.
	Apple Researcher says.
	Got a comment here from the Real OctoSpook.
	Property rights, renting your home or paying the taxes on your landlord's rentals, paying to have a car, RV, boat, etc.
	What property rights?
	You really do not own anything, and soon we'll be paying everything to use the government's property.
	That's right.
	If you have to pay property tax on something, if you have to pay a continual tax on it, or they'll take it from you, you don't own it.
	You rent it.
	I've told this story before, but I remember when I first learned about property tax, I was between 7 and 8 years old.
	And as children do, I just wandered into my dad's office as he was doing taxes, uncaring of the mental anguish he was undergoing and simply wanting to be entertained and not be bored for the moment.
	I asked him, you know, oh, what you doing?
	And he explains, I'm paying taxes, son.
	I was like, oh, taxes, what are those?
	You know, which taxes, I guess.
	Because he had definitely explained taxes at that point.
	He says, I'm paying property taxes.
	I'm paying for this house.
	And I said, but I thought you paid for the house.
	I thought you bought the house.
	He said, yes, I paid for this house.
	I bought the land.
	But I have to pay the government every year for it, or they'll take it.
	I remember having a small existential crisis and going to sit on the couch, thinking about the fact that, what?
	You have to pay every single year?
	But that means you don't own it.
	That means you can't own it.
	If you have to continually pay for it, you don't own the thing.
	And it blew my child mind.
	It was an awakening that day when I realized that we were just permanent renters.
	The government really owned all the land.
	The best we could hope for was to hold it briefly, and they would eventually come and take it back at some point.
	A model still far from AGI-level reasoning, Apple researchers say.
	This is by Martin Young via Cointelegraph.com, and it's available on Zero Hedge.
	The race to develop artificial general intelligence, AGI, still is a long way to run, according to Apple researchers, who found that leading AI models still have trouble reasoning.
	Well, a lot of people have trouble with that, too, as well.
	Recent updates to leading AI large language models, LLMs, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropics Cloud have included large reasoning models, LRMs.
	But their fundamental capabilities, scaling properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood, said the Apple researchers in a June paper called The Illusion of Thinking.
	We noted that current evaluations primarily focus on established mathematical and coding benchmarks, benchmarks emphasizing final answer accuracy.
	However, this evaluation does not provide insight into the reasoning capabilities of the AI models, they said.
	The research contrasts with an expectation that artificial general intelligence is just a few years away.
	Researchers devised different puzzle games to test thinking and non-thinking variants of Claude Sonnet OpenAI's O3 Mini and O1 and DeepSeq R1 and V3 chatbots beyond the standard mathematical benchmarks and discovered that frontier LRMs face a complex accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities.
	Don't generalize reasoning effectively and their edge disappears with rising complexity contrary to expectations for AGI capabilities.
	We found that LRMs have limitations in exact computation.
	They fail to use explicit algorithms and reason inconsistently across puzzles.
	They found inconsistent and shallow reasoning with the models and also observed overthinking with AI chatbots generating correct answers early, then wandering into incorrect reasoning.
	The researchers concluded that LRMs mimic reasoning patterns without truly internalizing or generalizing them, which falls short of AGI-level reasoning.
	They're just imitating.
	We're just looking at it going well.
	I think.
	I recently saw a story about how they put in these reasoning models where it thinks out its response before it answers it, and it improved the performance of these models.
	But then they realized they don't actually have to go through the process of it reasoning it out.
	If it puts out just nonsense tokens, just white noise, it gets the same response.
	It puts out a bunch of tokens beforehand and then gives its answer.
	It gets the same response quality as if it had reasoned it out instead of just white noise.
	We have no idea how it's actually thinking.
	They don't know how it's doing it or why it's doing it, but they're going to keep doing it.
	These insights challenge prevailing assumptions about LRM capabilities and suggest that current approaches may be encountering fundamental barriers to generalizable reasoning.
	AGI is the holy grail of AI development, a state where the machine can think and reason like a human and is on par with human intelligence.
	In January, OpenAI CEO Sam Alton said the firm was closer to building AGI than ever before.
	We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it, he said at the time.
	In November, Anthropics CEO Dario Amodai said that AGI would exceed human capabilities in the next year or two.
	If you just eyeball the rate at which these capabilities are increasing, it does make you think that we'll get there by 2026 or 2027, he said.
	Well, isn't that wonderful?
	2026 to 2027.
	That's what they're looking for.
	But these people always oversell and under-deliver, don't they?
	You always look at the rate of acceleration and assume it's going to continue that way forever.
	It's going to keep going up at this same pace.
	We're never going to hit some kind of barrier that slows us down or stops us.
	That's the fatal trap that people fall into with the economy as well.
	It's good and it's always going to be good.
	The growth rate isn't going to slow down.
	It's not going to stop.
	It's going to keep going.
	Going to briefly touch on this headline.
	College says every student is now required to use AI.
	It's not cheating.
	It's AI fluency.
	And this is from Ohio State University.
	Forget the debate about whether AI is a place in education.
	Ohio State University went ahead and announced that starting this fall, every single one of its students will be forced to use AI in class.
	I hope your eyeballs are nice and lubricated because prepare for them to do some major rolling courtesy of this zinger by institution's executive vice president and provost, Ravi Bellemkanda, a good old Bellemkanda family.
	They're an old American family.
	The Bellemkandas have been pillars of the American community for centuries, as you know.
	Through AI fluency, Ohio State students will be bilingual, fluent in both their major field of study and the application of AI in that area, Bellum Condis said in a statement, grounded with a strong sense of responsibility and possibility.
	We will prepare Ohio State students to harness the power of AI and to lead in shaping its future of their area of study.
	You heard that right.
	Ohio State is incapitulating to the tech industry.
	It's benevolently teaching AI fluency to prepare its bright-eyed pupils for a world in which typing...
	And to chat GPT is somehow an indication of resourcefulness.
	That's right.
	Just come hat in hand to the AI and say, please, please, do my dissertation for me, won't you?
	That's the kind of world we want to live in, one where we have given over all control, all of our thinking and reasoning capabilities, and all of our creative responsibilities to the AI.
	We want it to do everything for us.
	Come up with a story for me.
	Come up with a premise.
	Generate a fun little image.
	I just want to see things.
	I don't want to be involved.
	I just want to be entertained.
	That's the type of people we are creating.
	Student walked up to me after turning in.
	Students are supposedly pretty enthused that they've been given the green light to use AI in class.
	We wonder why.
	A student walked up to me after turning in the first batch of AI-assisted papers and thanked me for such a fun assignment, said Stephen Brown, an associate professor in OSU's Department of Philosophy, who's already using AI in his classes.
	That's right, we're going to have the AIs reason through philosophy for us.
	They're going to be the ones that do the thinking about morality and ethics.
	That's what we want, don't we?
	We want machines that will tell us how to think, how to reason, how.
	We are supposed to treat each other.
	That's what we want.
	We are going to take a quick break, folks.
	I need to get some water.
	And we will be right back.
	Or I think maybe we'll continue with AI in the final minutes of the show.
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	Welcome back, folks.
	We've got just a few minutes left here, and we've got some comments that are great here.
	Real OctoSpook, AI will have the powers of a god in their own minds.
	That's right.
	It will do everything.
	It will give everything to us, and it will take everything.
	from us.
	Nights of the Storm, why read a book for a book report?
	Just get an AI summary and have it generate a report for you.
	Next, we won't write books.
	We will just give a general idea of what we wanted to write about.
	Maybe AI can also do that for us.
	That's right.
	It'll create everything for us.
	There'll be no downtime in our perpetual need for entertainment.
	We'll be able to continually generate new content for us.
	It'll be able to give us anything and everything.
	John2459, please sir, may I have another thesis?
	That's right.
	Hat in hand to the AI, please sir, may I have some more?
	Owen61, new age horror sci-fi cultism.
	That's right.
	The AI cults are coming.
	The techno-worshippers are among us.
	Wally Walrus, excuse me, AI, what should I think?
	That's right.
	Get all your thoughts pre-approved.
	You don't have to worry about it being something the government might not approve of.
	Because they'll have put into the algorithm what it can and can't say, what it can think, what you can think.
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