I specifically chose right now to go scale back and do two times a week on Thursdays and Sundays in order to hit the quality over quantity because there's a lot of stuff that I want to do behind the scenes in order to get this show to where it needs to be.
And in order to do that with everything else I'm doing, I'm trying to maximize my energy.
So instead of it just being Rex is still going live every single day, which is good.
He's keeping us going, keeping the show going.
But specifically for me, all the information days are going to be those Thursdays and Sundays.
Sundays, we're going to keep the guests coming in, keep the segments going.
And then I'm working off scene on some things specifically.
Right now, you guys don't know, but we aren't controlling anything.
I think the thing that people don't realize about us is like they come and watch the show.
I know other people that stream and do shows have different jobs, right?
But me and Tim both have full-time jobs.
Like I'm running a business.
Tim is running a business.
Tim is also working.
Tim is also working doing this.
So we have to maximize the way we spend our time.
And for me, just classically being raised in a newsroom environment where people are always running around with headlines and stories and doing a news split style of show, it's very easy for me to do just a news roundup every day and keep like a pretty tight, pretty smooth two-hour where we can do like a 30-minute to 45-minute news coverage, maybe cover an exciting topic or a supplement topic.
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But Thursday and Sunday is the marquee show.
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This is one of our big goals.
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We, we will, this is the next, this is the next, uh, the next domino.
But that being said, with everything, um, I, I just, I'm like, I'm, I'm here, but I'm not fully here because I just spent another hour prior to this, like getting this stream to work perfectly.
So, if anything messes up tonight, you guys are guinea pigs, okay?
So, yeah, we've got a good, I'm a lot of stuff going on today.
We're going to keep it educational, but we're also going to keep it light because, like I said, we've been troubleshooting a lot today.
But the main things that I've-oh, I've got, I don't have the slop in terms of the jokes, but I got the slop in terms of what's the daily news going on right now.
Well, we got, I'm just going to give you guys an overview first, and then we'll go into this stuff specifically.
We've got the UK and some other countries that are involved in banning Grok potentially.
Actually, a couple companies, a couple countries actually did this already because of the child nudity and the AI slop that you can be able to create nude images of minors as well as other people who are actually famous, which is a big problem because the deep fakes are an issue.
So these other countries are cracking down on Grok because Grok seems to be one of the most unhinged versions.
It might be a little targeted towards Elon, though, at the same time.
I'm not going to lie.
There's other platforms, maybe not as big as X, that are allowing you to do these crazy deep fakes.
There's also the ones where, have you seen people moving?
And then there's the person on top of it that has the full image of some AI and the AI is like moving the exact same way where you basically can create a deep fake that way.
And then we've got the last piece of information that we'll be jumping on will be, what was it?
Oh, yes, It's about the insurance.
President Trump has now come out with his own version of like the Affordable Care Act and all of these rules.
I forget the name, but we'll pull up the exact name.
But it's basically he's, they've got they're, they're coming down to to, to crunch hours with the midterms, as well as some of these other things.
With the uh government shutdown, they had pushed everything back.
But he has to have a plan in place in order to figure out these Affordable Care Act situations.
And we did a deep dive.
Uh well, that's already happened right, the thing where everyone's deductible, or whatever it was, has the cliff yeah the, and i'll, and i'll re-explain that for people when we get to that segment.
But uh, let's start off at the top.
Um, since we already have this up, let's talk about Venezuela.
Uh Andrew, can you go ahead and pull that up?
We'll, we'll give him a second.
Uh, pull up that AP article describing the uh War Powers Act.
Uh Senate Republicans voted to dismiss the war powers resolution on wednesday which would have limited uh president Donald Trump's ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela.
After two Gop senators reversed course on supporting legislation.
Uh Trump has put intense pressure on five Republican senators who joined the Democrats in the advance of the resolution last week.
Ultimately, they prevailed.
Heading off to the passage of the legislation, two of the Republicans, uh senator Josh Ross Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana, flipped under pressure.
And that is one of the biggest things about the VP is that is his ability to actually show, you know, he can have the final vote.
But other than that, if it's never split, then he really doesn't anything.
He doesn't do anything besides like proceed with the whole like, this is our, well, he's the head of the set of the Senate.
So he just talks as the head.
Go ahead and scroll down a little bit more.
The outcome of the high-profile vote demonstrated how Trump still has command over much of the Republican conference, yet the razor-thin vote tally also showed the growing concern on Capitol Hill over presidents' aggressive foreign policy ambitions.
So, I mean, this is what we've been talking about.
It's like, it's not going to stop.
And like, we have a position.
I have a position at least against it.
I don't want to speak as to what Tim believes, but like the fact that the fact of the matter is, we don't really have a choice in the system right now.
As I told you guys last time, even if these Republicans were to go ahead and do this thing, right?
It would have stopped either at the House or it would have stopped at the executive branch where they would have done an actual veto, which would have sent this back to the House.
And then you need a two-thirds majority out of both the Senate and the House in order to actually get this resolution passed.
And they didn't have the two-thirds in the Senate to begin with.
So if we had a military operation, we were in there for longer than 60 days, then you have another 30 days after the 60 to actually withdraw the troops totaling for that 90-day period.
Republicans should be ashamed of the senators that just voted with the Democrats attempting to take away our powers to fight and defend the United States of America.
Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Red Paul, Judge Howley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again.
True, but you really, I think with Trump, I think you really are able to peer into the situation a little bit because he'll tell you, right?
And he'll tell you in like a braggadocious, false way, but you can, you can, like, there's a nugget in there, you know, like he's asserting his authority here.
This vote greatly hampers American self-defense and national security, impeding the president's authority as commander-in-chief.
In any event, and despite their stupidity, the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, totally violating Article 2 of the Constitution, as all presidents and their departments of justice have determined before me.
Nevertheless, a more important Senate vote will be taking place next week on this very subject.
So he definitely talked to them prior to this vote.
Like there's no doubt about that.
Also, they said something about like Rubio and some other people assured that like U.S. wouldn't keep boots on the ground and do all these extra military things as promises.
I think that's where the fluff is.
I don't think that there's no validity to that in my mind.
I think the main thing was like, look, we're going to do stuff to you.
The thing is, and it's like the bully pulpit, as Roosevelt talked about, that's what Trump has essentially.
That's why he has his own social media of Truth Social, right?
Is because that really important Republican base of people that still really care about what Donald Trump says, he can just go on True Social and take away like 30, 40% of someone's support.
Like just with one tweet.
And then oftentimes he doesn't even just do that.
If he comes out against you, not only is he going to attack you in that way, he's going to introduce someone to run against you who's worth or has been given a ton of money.
That's what we see with Thomas Massey, right?
He's got, of course, like the perfect straight from central casting, which is something that Trump likes to say.
He said it many times.
It's like a Green Beret guy, Army guy, family guy, farmer guy, all the things you want, right?
But oh, you know, Miriam Edelson, giving him a ton of money.
So let's go ahead and pull up that last video you got there, Andrew, and kind of what the news is saying about this.
Man, I love this idea.
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And you are looking live at the Senate floor where lawmakers are preparing to vote on a resolution that would limit President Trump's military action in Venezuela.
It initially appeared enough Republicans were ready to support the bill, but now it's expected to fail.
And Torian Small joins us from Capitol Hill with an explanation as to why that may be.
Torian, walk us through this.
The motion to advance to final consideration of this bill, a key procedural hurdle, as they say in print, passed last week, 52 votes, which meant five Republicans are joining the Democrats.
Now it sounds like at least some of those Republicans are going to vote with GOP leadership to set this aside for now, at least.
Not necessarily kill it, but stuff it in a drawer somewhere until a later day.
Reason why this only required a simple majority is because this war powers resolution was fallen or put under the category of a privileged resolution, meaning that it only required a simple majority.
Now we're seeing that there's this effort by Republican leadership, in addition to helping the president and to sway the minds of those five Republicans to put forth a point of order that would change that designation from a privileged point.
The leader in John Thune saying that the reason why for this change in his mind is because there are no ongoing hostilities.
Senator Josh Hawley was one of those five who was quite surprising in his support for that resolution with Democrats.
The reason why is because he said he wanted this to be a prospective move.
He didn't want the administration to move forward, even though he supported the president's previous actions.
He didn't want it to move forward with even more hostilities without the approval of Congress.
He told us during this week that he's had conversations with the president and members of the administration.
They gave him guarantees that there will be no boots on the ground in Venezuela.
That is enough in his mind to support this point of order.
The problem though is they'll need to get one other Republican that previously defected from the party to change their minds.
Imagine how much distrust people have for each other, like in the White House, not even just the White House, but just like Congress and the entire, like that entire sector.
Everybody's got knives behind their backs and they're like, oh, we love you.
We're going to do these things and we're going to do that.
It grants you your wish, but you're like, no, this isn't what I wanted.
Because when I remember explicitly and very vividly what I had said at that time.
I'm like, I'm talking to my friends.
I'm like, look, Biden has no backbone.
This war and Russia and all these things wouldn't happen if we just had a strong president that would just go out there and fight for America and just basically put his foot down and just basically become the man.
Well, Trump is kind of the man right now in terms of the world.
Now, that doesn't mean that he's not hated, but at the end of the day, like he's, he's playing tough.
I mean, taking somebody's president right out of their, right out of their freaking White House, can't get any badass than that, especially after it was just a three-hour operation.
We got trans Tim Kennedy who says Biden was not the one running the country.
I agree with that.
I'd say much the same with Trump, right?
Like the critique of Trump has always been not necessarily of what he does as commander-in-chief.
It's what he does by appointing these people, right?
Like Dan Bongino, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi.
Great examples.
Verse term, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Jeff Sessions, all these fun people who everyone knows are like the worst people around, the worst people on earth.
But it's like, oh, no, I've got to have him in my administration.
So the Republican field in 2016 was very wide and included people like Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, of course, we all remember John Kasich and Lindsey Graham was initially running at the very beginning.
And so Thomas Backfire says, at least with Biden, everyone would be together in trying to find out the corruption instead of what we got, which is a total slot for the people like Cat Turd.
But leading into Trump, a lot of people just got so excited and high on hopium and thought that he was the great emperor that would rule for a thousand years, myself included, by the way.
And then it's kind of been a buyer's remorse thing where like people, some people haven't been able to throw it away.
I, it's like, oh, this thing, he did a thing you might like.
And it's like, yeah, but like the degradation on the world stage, the continued degradation of our economy, the taxes on us, ultimately, tariffs are a tax on us that we pay.
And all of it, altogether, the military interventions, the violations of international law, what I believe to be genocidal campaigns waged in the Middle East and in Ukraine.
I just like, he said he would stop all this stuff.
It's, it's not like you have a guy like Biden or Kamala who goes like, I'm going to make the world sunshine and rainbows and everyone's going to raise their hand to ask you questions.
But I, but I think that, okay, on the outside facing, whether or not they do it or not, and don't call me a libtard for this, guys, but like on the outside facing for other countries, even though that's what people want to hear and you may not do it, you at least got to give people what they want to hear so that there's a fantasy painted.
At least so you don't make everybody pissed off.
You know, if we got to live, if we've got to live in the matrix, at least lie to me, right?
And I watched a video or a couple videos on somebody who was like one of the major donors for the Democrats who knew inside information, was talking to people.
And she said somebody, the PBD asked her a really good question.
He was like, well, who's the one running it?
And she was like, it's Jill and Kamala.
Those were the two people that she clearly pointed to.
Now, whether there's validity to that, maybe or not, maybe not.
Okay, so Obama tried to appoint him to the Supreme Court and the Republicans blocked it.
And there's kind of was like a debt to him owed or seen.
So when Biden got in power, he couldn't appoint him to the Supreme Court because at that point, RBG or Ruth Bader Ginsburg hadn't died or dropped out or whatever.
And it's so weird because instead of picking people who are qualified, shouldn't you pick the person who actually has merit and should actually be in position?
The fact that he felt entitled that because I didn't get in this position of Supreme Court, that now I suddenly know everything about, what is it?
He was a new DOJ.
Yeah.
Okay.
Fine.
It's still kind of similar where you know the law.
Today I'm thrilled to announce my plan to lower health care prices for all Americans and truly make healthcare affordable again.
We're doing things that nobody's ever been able to do.
We're calling it the Great Healthcare Plan.
Instead of putting the needs of big corporations and special interests first, our plan finally puts you first and puts more money in your pocket.
The government is going to pay the money directly to you.
It goes to you, and then you take the money and buy your own health care.
Nobody's ever heard of that before, and that's the way it is.
The big insurance companies lose and the people of our country win.
This proposal locks in the massive discounts on prescription drugs that my administration is achieving through our most favored nation drug pricing agreement.
Now, when you hear about that, for 40 years, they've been trying to do it, but they never were able to do it.
When Obamacare came out, very difficult situation because prior to Obamacare coming out, there was nothing.
I mean, it used to be that private companies would actually provide health care for the people and they would, there was a lot more benefits for the people just from the private sector.
And then at certain points, it became too expensive for these companies, especially the small businesses that didn't have like giant bankrolls of payroll for people to actually keep those.
So they kept like chopping different things and giving like basically shitty insurance.
And then eventually got to the point where you had like some crazy number, I think 40 million or some crazy number about the number of people that were underinsured.
It was some astronomical amount, right?
And then at that point, Obama comes in 2012 and he's like, all right, this is what my plan is.
And then that's where you get Obamacare.
And so like Obamacare, like there was a lot of problems with Obamacare to begin with.
I mean, they didn't have a real strategy for like long-term what would happen.
They kind of just did, you know, kick the can down the road situation.
So now, you know, the Democrats, what they would argue at that point was like, the Republicans, you guys have no other plan.
What's your plan to replace Obamacare?
And to their credit, the Republicans had no clue.
They had absolutely no clue how to actually replace it because this was better than nothing because it was at least providing subsidies, but it was actually expensive at the cost of the government and causing our debt to go up.
By the use of tariffs and other things, they all approved it.
Nobody else got it.
No other president got it.
And for the most part, they didn't even try because they felt it was impossible.
It'll bring down drug prices 80, 90% in some cases, just numbers that nobody's ever heard of before.
Your prescription drugs will come way, way down.
And under this policy, the prices of many drugs will be slashed by 300, 400, and even 500% starting this month at the trumprx.gov.
So instead of Americans paying the highest drug prices in the world, which we have for decades, we will now be paying the lowest cost paid by any other nation.
So any other nation that's paying the lowest cost, that's what we're going to pay.
And the American people will get the savings.
So I have to reiterate, the lowest price in the world is what you're going to pay.
Before you were paying the highest price in the world by far, and the politicians did nothing about it.
So I'm asking Congress to complete the work that we've started.
Next, my plan would reduce your insurance premiums by stopping government payoffs to big insurance companies and sending that money directly to the people.
The thing is, ultimately, though, through our FDA and other such instruments, we are the ones that pay for all this developmental research to be done with our tax dollars.
And something I learned from reading RFK's book, The Real Anthony Fauci, is that I think like 75% of the funding for groups like FDA and other such regulatory bodies is given to them by pharma.
Obamacare was designed to make insurance companies rich.
I call it the Unaffordable Care Act with billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies that help their stock prices skyrocket over 1,700% as you paid more money for health care every single year.
More and more.
The premiums went higher and higher.
I want to end this flagrant scam and put extra money straight into the healthcare savings account in your name.
And you go out and buy your own health care and you'll make a great deal.
You get better health care for less money.
That way you can choose the care that is right for your family to further reduce insurance premiums.
My plan ends the giant kickbacks to insurance brokers and corporate middlemen that only drive up the costs.
And that's what they're intended to do, drive up the cost.
He's saying a lot, doing a lot, but is it feasible?
We have yet to see.
So what he is saying specifically around this is, all right, give the money to the people, not the insurance companies.
So instead of the government spending the money on the subsidies, and a subsidy is basically the government paying the insurance company on your premium to make the cost of whatever drug cheaper.
So it's just basically like a copay where the government is making it, is paying that other half for you.
And sometimes, depending on the percentage that you are on the poverty level, that subsidy is bigger or smaller.
And then to Rex's point with this whole thing, the reason why this is even happening, guys, is I think the 19th or the 20th, the whole, do you guys remember when the government shut down for like 40 something days, 41, 42?
Is that, I think that's the number, right?
This is the government shutdown coming back again because all they did was pass a resolution in order to push this to actually be voted on on the 20th of January.
So now, during that time period, remember, I covered this in a deep dive a really long time ago, but I'll do a quick recap.
The primary reason why the government was shut down was because the Democrats and Republicans could not agree on this one issue, and it was the Affordable Care Act that Trump is talking about right now, aka Obamacare.
Again, during that time period, there were subsidies that were in place during Obamacare.
Then Biden comes in 2020, right?
And then when COVID happened, he's like, we got to do something for the American people.
Then he's like, all right, what we'll do is we'll give a bigger subsidy to the people, as well as, I wish I really had the screenshot because it's a lot easier if I show the screenshot.
But long story short, there's like percentages above the poverty line.
Okay.
And at a certain percentage, at a certain percentage above the poverty line, 400% was like the maximum, which was like, I think the poverty line was like 20,000 or 30,000.
And then 400% of that is like you're making household income of like 94,000 or something like that.
Wow.
Doesn't really matter what the number is, but let's say at 94,000, when Obamacare went in place, they said there was what you call a cliff.
As soon as you made more than $94,000, if that was 400%, as soon as you made $94,001, all your subsidies go away.
Gone.
So what Biden did was like, okay, we can't have this cliff.
What he did was create like almost like a nice slow drop off.
Or actually he removed the cliff entirely and said, okay, we'll just, yeah, yeah, that's what he did.
He removed the cliff entirely and basically said, okay, anyone above that 400% will still get a subsidy if you need it.
And so that's what they were talking about.
Now he only did that until the end of 2026 in the law that he wrote for that.
He said, all right, that rule that I'm putting in place to help the American people ends on December 31st.
And then you saw in December and November, all of these Republicans and Democrats fighting and specifically the Democrats are like, you go out there.
They're going to raise your health care.
You can't do that.
But really, it was a provision in place for that to fall off.
So what they wanted to do as the Democrats, they were like, all right, look, we got to extend the health care.
And then the Republicans were like, oh, hold on.
We're already spending a bunch of money.
And this was like their sticking point because they want to do it for the American people.
They're like, well, we created those.
We got all these different things.
We got to get the money up.
We got to make sure we're saving money and we can't keep paying these insurance companies because you're not addressing the problem.
Do you remember this?
I do.
So long story short, this is what the debate was about.
So now we get to this situation where they said, all right, we're going to extend and just keep things where they're at until the 20th.
And now Trump feels like he's got to get a win before that happens.
And so what you're seeing here is, you know, he's saying, all right, we're going to go after the drug price middleman, which, you know, the plan targets the PBMs, which is the guys who negotiate behind the scenes the rebates that like the that and they can raise the drugs for patients.
And then he's saying, all right, we're going to be forcing insurance agencies to be more transparent.
So insurance insurance agencies will be required to explain plans in plain English and show how much a premium goes up and how much it, how much it costs for care, as well as like how they publish their claim dental records.
And then they're also going to try to expand the health savings accounts, which are HSA, which basically people can put pre-tax dollars into an account so that they're not getting taxed on this thing where they can actually pay for their insurance for their health care problems.
And then I think the last part of the provision is he wants the continued hospital price transparency rules where it builds from his first term where he wants the hospitals and insurers to show prices upfront.
So lower drug prices, slash prescription drug prices, lower prescription drug prices for all Americans by codifying Trump administration's most favored nation deals to get Americans to the same low prices for prescription drugs that other countries pay.
Oh, no, it went away from me.
This would build off President Trump's landmark actions that made insulin more affordable in his first term and the successful voluntary regulations following his most recent executive orders to lower drug prices.
Voluntarily negotiated deals with Health and Human Services and CMS will be grandfathered in.
Allow more over-the-counter medicines.
All right.
So this is the expansion of the online pharmacy stuff that we see.
So just like the gambling, just like the casino stuff, all of it, it's all just like regulation is getting cut.
And to be fair, like that is a part of what like a lot of people voted for, right?
Is they want to see chains get taken off, but ultimately it's only going to profit the small group of billionaires.
But they do it in a way to where it's like a modern interface where it's all like, oh, it's a nice website.
Oh, it's a nice website.
But getting back to the document, lower insurance premiums, send the money directly to the American people.
Stop sending big insurance companies billions and extra taxpayer-funded subsidy payments and instead send that money directly to eligible Americans to allow them to buy the health insurance of their choice.
Lower insurance premiums, send it directly money to the American people.
So what they're saying is instead of paying, so like a subsidy, right, is like the government pays the insurance company to actually cover how much.
So like, let's say an operation or your insurance costs $2,000, let's say a year or something like that.
You make a certain level below, let's say at the baseline, the government will cover, let's say, 70% as a subsidy or 80%, or maybe actually I think it's 90%.
They'll cover like 90% of that premium, but they'll pay that 90% directly to the insurance company.
I think what they're saying now is to the person instead of how do they know that that person is going to actually spend the money on the insurance.
Well, I got stage four, multiple parts of my body, but I always wanted a McLaren.
I got the truck check.
And I just want to say, thank you, Mr. President.
Now I can live my dream.
Just a joke, just a thought experiment.
If we want to go back to that article, but just having fun.
Man, okay, so fun cost sharing reduction program.
Fund a cost-sharing reduction program for healthcare plans, which would save taxpayers at least 36 billion and reduce the most common with Obamacare, yes, billion common Obamacare plan premiums by over 10%.
Cut kickback costs.
Oh, I can look at the bigger one.
That's easy.
In kickbacks from pharmacy benefit managers to the large brokerage middlemen that deceptively raise the cost of health insurance.
The only thing I, okay, fund cost sharing program.
The only thing I can think of is if they have a fund that they're putting money into, almost like insurance right now.
Like, all right, this is the only thing I can think of.
I have to fact check myself on this.
I could probably look this up on Chat GPT really quickly as well.
But insurance, how it works for other things is in order for premiums to be lower, like your car insurance, or like, let's say you've got Geico here and also a guy who has Geico all the way in New York, right?
That premium is that cost is being spread among all the all the people in order for the premium to be actually lower.
So like each person's basically paying into a pool.
And then when somebody needs the insurance, like you're not always going to need it.
And the next guy isn't always going to need it, but somebody else will.
And so they take that money that you're already still paying into it.
And it's basically covering the cost.
And so it's like mutual benefit is how they try to do the insurance.
AI overview, a fun cost-sharing program involves an entity contributing resources, money, in-kind services alongside a grant where sponsors' funds often mandatory for federal grants showing commitment by covering the non-federal share to achieve product goals or project goals, excuse me, calling it infrastructure, research, and health initiatives.
And then, like, that means like that, that actually means if you look, if you look at the definitions and legalese, that'll mean like Satan runs America.
Hold big, the big ones, the ones that like big companies, big insurance companies accountable.
Create the plain English insurance standard, which is requiring health insurance companies to publish rate and coverage compensations upfront on their websites in plain English, not industry jargon, so consumers can make better insurance purchasing decisions.
Publish costs of overhead versus claim payments.
Require health insurance companies to publish the percentage of their revenues that are paid out to the claims versus overhead costs and profits on their websites.
Display claim denial rates.
Require health insurers to publish their percentage of insurance claims they reject.
Ooh, that's pretty cool.
And average wait times for the routine care on their websites.
That creates a little competition.
That's not bad.
Like, that's a horrible system, but that's a decent point on there, I think.
Require any healthcare provider or insurer who accepts either Medicare or Medicaid to publicly and prominently post their pricing and fees to avoid surprise, surprise, medical bills.
Maybe it's because of those $10,000 bonuses he gave to people, which I actually support that.
You know, I think the people who did stay, even though they didn't have to, actually, legally, you're required to by the FDA, by the TSA and the federal agencies.
But nonetheless, the people who stayed, props to you guys.
Glad you guys did that.
But all he's trying to do is save grace right now because he's now worrying about midterms and he's worrying about the government shutdown.
But don't you think this should have been like within the first hundred days?
Right.
You know, why isn't this in the first hundred days?
He says the healthcare change is going to make a positive impact.
Insurance companies can't raise premiums now because then they won't be able to sell any because people will only buy the cheaper ones since transparency is now mandated.
I mean, the transparency thing, like that should be a thing already.
We're going to do a little distraction and we're going to do a little government shutdown and then we're going to launch the bomb and no one's going to be working when we do it.
Like that's like probably, you know what?
February will probably nuts, right?
Because February is when the Russians came in to Ukraine in 2022.
He also said insurance companies may raise premiums, but since this mandate is transparency, people can choose the lowest cost premiums, which forces the high-cost ones to lower in the order to sell and compare in sales.
I love this, actually.
And if you were correct on this, yeah, it is a win.
But again, this should have been done before we put tariffs on like China and India and the EU and Mexico and fucking Canada.
What's the honest solution other than Lightning of Christ?
Because honestly, nothing else is going to work.
Well, I think it's just leaving this political system behind, man.
Like, I'm not a Democrat.
I'm not a Republican.
I don't identify in either of those camps.
I'm an American that cares about American policy, both domestic and foreign.
I care about the interests of me, my family, people who live in my state, people who live in my country, all of us here.
And a real America First campaign would be a campaign to make all these other countries like us, want to do business with us, want to make deals with us.
100%.
Instead of that, the America First campaign that we've been sold is war.
It's war and it's partnership with big AI companies.
Because if you really wanted to do America first, you would address the issues that America is dealing with first.
We don't have any conflicts of interest with the future of where the raw materials go from China, right?
Like that's his play with Greenland because he wants to make sure the United States isn't in a situation five years or a year or two from now in which, you know, let's say they take Taiwan and then we go to war with them and then they take our raw minerals.
Maybe you could be preventing a bigger issue.
But for right now, what the American people are caring about is, can I afford health care?
They're weapons of abuse, disproportionately aimed at women and girls.
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Grok has been used to produce graphic deepfakes of real women and children, stripping them down to bikinis or worse, and sharing these photos without consent.
The UK is the latest country to launch an investigation.
If you're using Grok like that, I don't even, I don't really use it like that.
Well, I'm just saying, like, if you're using Grok to do stuff, like if you have Grok and that's your primary AI, like the one I use, if I do use it, is usually ChatGPT.
My thing is, is with the AI, like we knew, like when I found out about ChatGPT and that it was real, you could do like things are just like, it's how I thought Google would always work as a kid, right?
And now it's kind of hit like a short-term plateau.
It's not significant, but the growth going from 2022 to 2023 is not as high as going from 2025 to 2026 in terms of the growth steps.
Regulation is so far behind right now.
Dude, do you know how many things that like we just talked about, like these deep fakes and stuff like that, and AI not like not being able to create similar music?
Like Nintendo, you know, they hate when people use like their cartoons or animations, Disney 2.
You know, it'll be weird because at a certain point, I think it was Disney because I think it was at first it was 47 years before something got dropped into public domain.
Right.
And that's why you could use like Frankenstein or like the Little Red Riding Hood story or like any of these examples.
It's like something you could just rip off the IP and it wouldn't be ripping off the IP because it belongs to everybody.
But Disney is like, no, we're going to make it 98 years.
I think it's even been extended past that now.
So they're very serious about this stuff.
And as media companies, I bet they plot it all out.
I'd be very interested to see if there are any meetings at the White House anytime this year related to this.
What they're doing, being able to gather data and information, it's next level in terms of how they're going to do facial recognition, catch you if you do the bad thing.
It will crack down on catching terrorists sooner.
I support those types of things, but how they'll use it, it's like if they use it responsibly, is another thing.
It's going to be used to do like, there's this story I want to do.
I'll cover it tomorrow.
Maybe we'll talk about it a little bit on Sunday where there's a line of code you can type into Grok and it'll give you like your like threat assessment basically.
It is, but like I try not to think about it because when you think about it, think about it quite a bit.
I know, but when you think about it, sometimes you can have your brain go into these like crazy loopholes and be and panic, almost like get yourself in a little bit of a panic when you're neutral because it's a problem.
But we don't, but we don't actually know the full extent to which they are or not using them.
So that's what I'm saying.
Like you can trick yourself into an anxiety before you actually know what the thing is going to be about.
The guy that runs Palantir, blank, you know, his name, Alex Carp, Alex Carp, the guy who runs Palantir, he at like a conference or whatever said that he's got like higher aspirations and he's also got lower aspirations.
And one of his lower aspirations is wanting to fly an FPV drone at protesters and spray them with a light fentanyl-laced urine.
This is a video.
I'm quoting Verbe.
It's not slander or anything like that.
I mean, welcome, welcome to new boss.
Same as the old boss.
And here's the thing: I want a national referendum against all this stuff because we didn't ultimately, we were tricked into giving consent to give our privacy away.
We have a constitutional right to our privacy.
They are not allowed to do these things, even if they do them.
And this is a key thing with our government.
Our government does something.
It's like, well, they did it.
What are we going to do?
It's like, no, like we have it, we have grievance here.
And that's like a fundamental argument that I won't disagree with you on in terms of those things.
I think my biggest perspective with all of that, and not to get away from the main point, is like, I live a fairly normal life and I'm not doing anything illegal for them to know like I had a Starbucks latte the other day.
It's convenient to you, but it's the Benjamin Franklin quote, man.
We used to have him behind us on the wall.
It's those who desire to give up liberty for security deserve neither and will lose both.
And I think that's true.
I just think that's a fact about the world.
And that's the thing that just makes me reject it out, right?
And I'm just like, man, I see that Optimus robot.
And I'm like, in 10 years, it's going to be the Terminator.
And it's going to be the police officer.
They go, well, you know, people have racial biases and we can't have these white police officers beating up these minorities anymore, introducing cop bot.
And then the robot will come out and like it'll immediately like open fire.
So, yeah, no, this is like the UK parliament, what they're doing.
Very interesting.
I never really saw their hearings, but go ahead and play this clip.
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Shadow secretary of state, Julia Lopez.
Thank you, madam.
Thank you, speaking to the secretary of state, for advance notice of her statement.
Last week, the public outrage was rightly expressed about the use of artificial intelligence to undress women and children in photographs by X'S AI assistant, GROK.
The use of AI in this way without consent is wrong, it is disturbing and in many cases it is illegal.
We support ofcom taking enforcement action where an AI tool is used to generate illegal content, especially that of children.
We support the government's stance on nudification tools.
X itself has warned of consequences for anyone prompting GROK to make illegal content.
The tools in question have been put behind a paywall for the easy identification by name and bank details of anyone misusing them.
Beyond the platform however, the Internet Watch Foundation has identified cases where perpetrators have used Grok in tandem with other AI tools to generate category a material as, yeah, they're just yeah here I think that's the funniest thing when I saw the video like they're just all like mimes, like here, like that's the southern accent.
So it's very interesting, but that I think the only state or states that don't really have one Connecticut's one of those ones.
I don't think we have an accent like right, I think South has an accent.
Texas for sure has an accent.
New York has that.
Massachusetts got that Boston.
But I mean, America, I mean, it's interesting.
Like, I want to know what other countries, like, we have an accent, obviously, as Americans, but like for us, it's like, this is totally normal.
But, like, I hear, I'm not going to lie, I can't watch like British videos, like British, like Netflix movies or anything like that because I hate the British accent so much in my ear when I'm all.
So, I mean, like, the whole thing about this, X is reacted, but it's kind of like a half-baked reaction.
Go ahead and let's pull up X Safety.
Andrew, let's go ahead and pull up this tweet and what their response is.
But they have responded because they need to.
They can't choose not to respond to something like this.
Let me go ahead and pull this up too.
Okay.
So X has shared new safety updates regarding Grok image generation, new Grok image safeguards, editing images of real people in revealing clothing, aka bikinis is now blocked, applies to all users, including paid subscribers.
Image creation and editing of X via Grok is now paid only, improving accountability.
Yeah, because you could create a fake account and just like not have any way to track that person.
Enforcement actions, zero tolerance for sexual exploitation, CSAM, non-consensual nudity, or unwanted sexual content.
X rules still apply to everyone regardless of how content is created, AI or manual, free or paid.
All posts must comply with X rules.
Violations lead to removals, permanent suspensions, and cooperations with authorities when required.
X says generative AI is evolving fast and safety systems will continue to tighten, working with users, governments, and industry partners to address issues as they emerge.
Well, you know, when you don't give humans some sort of guardrails, there is a small demographic of the population that will abuse it.
I mean, it's as simple as that.
I mean, if they have the capability to grift and you've got like guys who want to create deep fakes and guys who goon into little girls and shit like that, like there are people that there's like a real audience for that type of stuff.
And even Elon has responded to this and he's like, we will comply with the law.
Anybody doing these things specifically with minors will be prosecuted the exact same way.
Yeah, like, okay, for that type of stuff where like, you know, somebody's got either like the VR headset and they've got like the virtual girlfriend or the AI.
Like, I think that stuff is degenerate.
And like, you know, the you're in the goon bunker.
They say that the corn industry is always ahead of technology.
They'll often implement something before it's widespread, before it's like a technology.
So like they just do it in like a sexual way.
And often they were like the first pioneers for a lot of different things.
But like, for example, these AI people things where like people are gooning to like their fake wife, you know, eventually you will have like some virtual assistant, which you can sit there and interact with, which is a better purpose than just sitting there gooning in your basement.
But there is kind of like, he's having fun with it to a degree, you know, and to a degree, maybe he shouldn't be like messing with such powerful technology by like, it's been like trying to sexualize the AI model in general.
You know, like, where does that go, you know, long term?
Like, like, what is, what does that mean when that's core training data for the thing 10 years down the line?
So there is a nice balancing act to where, yeah, I don't want to end up where all my rights are taken away and somebody can tell me everything I should and shouldn't be doing, but it's, it's a balancing act.
So they'll say, they'll say, like, this is the word the Democrats specifically have ran on it, but you'll hear even the Republicans say, like, we're defending democracy.
So whether or not, you know, yes, the 50, 51% thing doesn't work out, you have people elected, but then you have to trust that those people who are making the decisions are actually doing right by the people.
And so you'll notice like we've shifted from like, I mean, the distrust in the United States actually started as far back as like Vietnam.
Like it went as high as 80% during that time period.
If you guys go watch history and just go watch videos, and I've been doing this, I do this a lot.
You just see history repeating itself with just new technology.
There's always something that comes out that's really good, good for the people.
And too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing.
It always cycle repeats itself.
And so you're just going to see this trend on the long term.
Something gets new and introduced.
People do really bad things with it.
It has to get really bad before it gets good.
And then the rules come out once like, you know, somebody's broken enough things and you know where to patch, you know, the situation.
Now, I don't want to get to a point where, you know, some of this stuff has done so damn so much damage beyond repair.
That's my ultimate thing that I'm afraid of at the end of the day.
But I don't know.
I think with the whole AI situation, it's a necessary, you know, people are like, oh, it's bad, but I think it's a necessary evil because there's a lot of good things.
There's actually more good things coming out of this stuff than bad.
And you just don't see it because now it's actually being baked in society and we take it for granted.
And I will say, as an engineer who is very like into robotics and technology and stuff, people were afraid back in the 90s and even in the early 2000s before like, let's say 94, when the internet, they had the same problem with the internet where they were like, well, the internet is going to be the bane of existence and it's going to be the worst thing that's ever happened to society.
And we always discredit the good things that come out.
Dude, I'm telling you, like right now, the fact that we get a chance to like talk and interact with people.
And, you know, we'll, we'll, uh, well, he can also at certain points throw himself to where you guys can hear him at certain points, um, you know, at a certain point when he's uh feels comfortable with that.
But actually, Andrew used to be a caller.
Um, yeah, he reached out to us a really long time ago and was like one of our very first callers.
And we just conversations X, Y, and Z, and he just reached out to us.
And he's just been a super, he's just been helpful, honestly.
And we're, we need more people like that.
I'm not going to lie, who are just go-getters.
I'm thinking about, you know, potentially having one more person who's willing to grow with us.
And I haven't talked about this openly, but yeah, we're still in need of more help to get this thing going and grow and just grow with us.
So, yeah, and Tim is really managing that project.
That's that's really his baby.
He's managing that project.
We're trying to make this to be something where you tune in and you're like, wow, because like production value really does matter to us, right?
And like, just with the elevation today with the new screen and all of it, not fighting over the keyboard and just like being able to truly be relaxed in the studio and not really have to worry about anything because we got somebody helping us out.
I will let you guys know what the person that I am looking for for something like this.
And if you guys decide that you want to, we might be able to have a conversation about this, but I need somebody to help Andrew out here and co-produce.
There's other things that we have to do, like we do transcripts and trying to make sure that we're covering the right segments for clips and things like that.
So if you've got any expertise and doesn't require you to be super technically savvy, but just being able to work hard and be in the system, feel free to reach out.
You can DM me.
You can DM Rex.
Just DM me because it's probably easier because I'm figuring all this stuff out and he's got a lot of stuff.