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Well, did anybody watch the Grammys last night?
If you did, I'm sorry.
Did anybody have the experience I had?
I tried to watch a little bit of it, and I was just so grossed out.
So first of all, the aesthetic, just sort of the look of the whole thing, it seemed to be like a drag queen on LSD. Now again, if you like your drag queens, I don't care what anybody does as an adult, but as a design aesthetic, I don't know.
It just looked like it was a little too much of whatever is too much.
But here's the overwhelming thing I thought.
Could you get it out of your mind, all the Diddy stuff?
So, in the wake of the Diddy stuff, they got lots of attention on Jay-Z and Beyonce, because Beyonce won, I guess, the album of the year or something.
They brought their 13-year-old daughter.
Now, you know that Jay-Z is being accused of something with a 13-year-old, not his daughter, right?
Just to be clear, there's no accusations about anything with a daughter.
But he's being accused of some bad behavior with a daughter.
Now, I don't know if it's true.
He's innocent until proven guilty, unless it might be a civil thing.
I think it might be a civil thing, not a criminal thing.
But I'm not sure.
Actually, I did a fact check on that.
Is it criminal or civil?
But all I could think about was that.
And every person they showed on screen, I thought to myself, did you have to, you know, go to a ditty party to get where you're at?
Because I wonder.
So the whole thing to me looked like a bunch of sex offenders and their victims.
And they were dressing in drag and looking like they were all on LSD. And I thought to myself, it's not just because I'm old, right?
Now, I get that at some age you don't connect with the modern music, but I've never really had that problem.
You know, if the music is good, I tend to like it no matter what genre it is or anything else.
But there was just something deeply disturbingly broken.
About the vibe of the whole thing.
And I think it's because the Diddy thing just is like a wet blanket on the whole situation.
But then Ye shows up with his wife, or not wife, wife?
Yeah, wife.
Bianca Sensori.
And as he likes to do, she drops her fur jacket for the cameras and is wearing only a transparent...
Cover up that doesn't cover anything.
She's literally just naked with something that's like a dress but not, you know, because it's transparent.
And they make sure everybody gets a good look and everything.
And I'm trying to think, well, what's behind that?
It's not mental illness.
You know, and Ye may have some issues with mental illness, but I don't think that's what's behind that.
It looks strategic.
It looks like he knows how to get attention.
But it looks to me like revenge on his ex-wife.
Now, I'm just reading minds here.
I have no idea what anybody's thinking.
But when I watch him go that far over the top, it's almost like he's sending a message to Kim Kardashian that maybe you should calm down your, let's say, sexual presentation of your brand while you've got kids.
Because I believe he complained about that, right?
Didn't Ye try to get Kim to tone it down because it seemed inappropriate in front of kids?
So instead of going with that approach of, hey, maybe you should tone it down in front of the kids, he goes with, all right, if you're not going to tone it down, let's see how far we can take it.
So it's almost like he's challenging Kim to say that he went too far.
Because that would be a win to say that he went too far.
So this might be entirely just a drama between two people that's being played out in front of the world.
And that's just a guess.
Just a guess.
Because it's hard to imagine what would be any other reason for it.
Ye's wife has resting hostage face.
You know, I don't think that's what's going on.
Again, I can't read minds, but I'll just tell you the impression I get.
The impression I get is that she's submissive by preference, just lifestyle preference, and the fact that he requires her to do things that are way beyond what you would expect a normal person's limit to be might be exactly why she likes him.
So if you're saying, oh, he's abusing her and she's putting up with it and you're watching some kind of crime in action or something, Maybe.
Maybe, right?
I can't read the minds.
But it doesn't look like it.
To me, it looks like she's a full participant and has agency.
And the way she wants to use her own agency is being a part of this thing.
So it doesn't look like she's fighting it to me.
I don't know.
I hope not.
I mean, I hope she's not any kind of a victim.
But she looks like she's fully on board.
Someday she might look back at it and say, I wish I hadn't done that.
But that's true of all of us.
We all have those things.
Maybe I shouldn't have done that.
But that's later.
Well, MSNBC's January primetime demographic, they're down 41% from this time last year.
Have you thought about how hard it would be to be MSNBC in the face of overwhelming success by Trump and Doge?
Their only job now is to somehow Stop the success.
To stop the success.
The things that Trump is doing are definitely popular with more than half of the public.
Maybe you could find one thing or something that isn't.
But generally speaking, reducing the expenses of the government and closing up the border and getting rid of the pronouns is mostly pretty popular stuff.
So if you're the network whose job is to stop the government from doing popular, useful, successful things, I guess people don't watch you so much.
It's kind of hard to keep the illusion up that there were ever two sides.
Not really.
I mean, there was one side that was just like a negative force.
Anyway, I keep waiting for Trump to steal my democracy.
And I think it's going to happen any minute now.
I mean, I was warned.
MSNBC said he's going to steal your democracy.
And I just, I quake in fear every day that he's going to go steal my democracy.
No, don't steal my democracy.
Anyway, as you know, the five or six viewers who are still watching MSNBC are not going to be fooled by Trump's overwhelming and rapid success.
Because you know what they know about his overwhelming and rapid success of fixing every problem in the United States?
Clearly that's a distraction from his real attempt to steal your democracy.
Yeah, he's coming for it.
He's coming after your democracy.
Well, let's check on the Trump effect in other countries, shall we?
If the Trump effect is what we say it is, this all-powerful force, it would have an effect on not just domestic stuff, Not just on Republicans, but might have an effect on other countries.
Let's do a little survey of the other countries and find out.
Let's see, France.
What's happening in France?
Oh, Europe's richest man, who's French, Bertrand Ornau, he praised Trump and he said, I just returned from the U.S. and I have witnessed the winds of optimism in that country, he said.
Coming back to France is a bit like taking a cold shower.
And he's looking to do a lot more business in America because that's the good place to do business.
So I guess France just decided that they suck compared to America's winds of optimism.
How about Venezuela?
You know, we've had a tough time with Venezuela.
They've had words.
We've had words.
They say, we're not sending our criminals.
And we say, you're sending your criminals.
And they say, we're not doing that.
What are you talking about?
And then we say, we're shipping them back.
And they say, you can't ship them back.
They don't exist.
Or something like that.
But Venezuela just agreed to receive back into the country all the gang members and Venezuelan illegal aliens.
So they've agreed to take back.
Everybody we capture in that Trenda Aragua group.
Okay.
Now, how did that agreement quickly come about?
Happened kind of quickly.
Well, it turns out that Trump sent his secret weapon to Venezuela, Richard Grinnell.
So Richard Grinnell, I didn't know this, but I guess they're going to call him a special envoy.
Wow, is he special?
It seems like wherever you send Richard Grinnell, something good happens.
It's very consistent.
What'd you do?
Well, we sent Richard Grinnell and we got some hostages back.
What'd he do on Tuesday?
That's Monday.
What'd he do on Tuesday?
Well, went to Venezuela and arranged for all the criminals in Venezuela to be sent back.
Oh, that was a one-day meeting?
He did that with one meeting?
Yeah, that's what he does.
He has one meeting.
And then he gets what he wants and he goes home.
And then he's a special envoy for something else.
I've never seen a special envoy who was a, what would you call it in baseball?
A utility player?
Or somebody who can play every position?
Every now and then you get like a baseball player who can literally play every position.
You know, very rare.
But apparently Grinnell can do that.
So I guess Trump will just keep sending him wherever something needs to be fixed.
How about Panama?
Well, while many of you were taking the weekend off, guess what Trump was not doing?
Taking the weekend off.
Guess what Doge was not doing this weekend?
Taking the weekend off.
And Musk was bragging that it's like a superpower because all the enemy goes away for a weekend.
And then the doge people can do their thing.
And since the enemy, I'll say the deep state or whoever wants to prevent them from success, let's call them the enemy in this context, they just don't do the work.
So Musk comes in with people who do the work and do more than the work and then do more work than you've ever seen anybody ever do and sleep at the office and get up and do more work.
How do you compete with that if you're some government bureaucrat?
It's like they don't have a chance.
So, anyway, speaking of Panama, so Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, went down there to talk to Panama about the fact that China's got too much control over their operation.
And Panama said, you know what?
How about we just don't renew their contract?
And I guess Rubio said, well, I'll take that back to the president.
That might work.
Now, did we really want to send the military down to Panama?
No.
Did we want to conquer Panama and make it a state?
No.
Did we want any military action at all?
No.
No, we didn't.
But here's what Trump can do that nobody else can do.
He can make you believe it's coming.
And the thing is, he doesn't really bluff.
You know, he does hyperbole a lot, but he doesn't bluff.
If he says, if you do this, I'm going to do this, he does that.
And he's so consistent that people know, okay, man, that's not a bluff.
If anybody else does things like that, the other side treats it as a bluff first.
The first thing you do is treat it as a bluff, just to see.
You know, maybe you can work with it.
But if you know he's not bluffing, you go immediately to the solution.
Because everything else would be a waste of time.
So you go to the solution.
Apparently that's what's happening.
So Panama's offered this deal.
I don't know yet if Trump is going to say this is good enough.
He might push again.
You know, because the deal is that Panama would wait two years for their contract with the Chinese that are apparently managing some part of the canal.
And they would just go home, I guess.
So that's a win.
Looks like a clean win.
It happened so quickly that there was a picture of Rubio getting off the plane.
And I posted something on X about, wouldn't it be good to have a quick win?
Because it really sets the stage if you have some fast wins.
By the time I posted it, it was already being reported that he got a deal.
Like, wow.
On a Sunday, he's working the weekends, getting deals.
Nice.
Well, you've also probably heard that Greenland is getting a little flexible.
Now, if you haven't seen a good map of the top of the world, where you can see the extensive, say, border of Russia, and you see the passage that Russia wants to have control over through the Arctic, and you see where Greenland is situated, One thing that's very clear, and apparently the NATO Secretary General said the same thing.
He said, quote, he just agreed with President Trump on Greenland and is calling on Denmark to immediately begin negotiations.
So NATO was saying, yeah, this is a risk bigger than we want to take.
Greenland has to be controlled by a serious military or it's vulnerable.
And it's vulnerable in a really bad way.
So now we know that, I guess, Denmark has softened to the point of saying, well, the people in Greenland have to decide.
And I saw at least one poll that said 57% of Greenlanders want to become part of the United States, but I don't believe that.
I think it's more likely that the Greenlanders want to be left alone and have their own autonomy.
So it looks like they may have offered that the U.S. can have a lot more military presence in Greenland, but that it wouldn't be controlling the government.
Does that work?
Let me describe what it means if the entire military in your country is from another country.
Thank you.
If you agree that your entire country will be populated with someone else's military, You just hand it over the country.
The only reason it's safe is that we don't give a shit about their tiny population of Greenlanders, and we wish them well.
When I say we don't give a shit, I don't mean that we dislike them.
We like them.
I mean, Don Jr. went there.
They got along great.
They seem like terrific people.
And I hope that they get as much autonomy as they want, and I hope they do great.
But...
If the U.S. military is the only military in the country, I'm not sure you can exactly say that that's autonomous, but if it works for them, and it might, it might, as long as we agree to leave them alone politically, because they're not doing anything that would hurt us, right?
They're completely harmless.
They have no ill will toward the United States.
We have no ill will toward them.
Maybe they can just do their thing, get richer.
Maybe make some deals with America.
Maybe there'll be some American enterprise working there, give them some more jobs.
To me, it's all upside.
It looks like it's all upside for them and us.
So it looks like the Trump effect is going to make something happen in Greenland that's good.
Let's check on Mexico.
Let's see.
The funniest thing that happened recently, it wasn't yesterday, but the Mexican government agreed or offered.
That they would work with the U.S. military against the cartels.
Do you have any problem with that?
The Mexican government offered to work with the U.S. military to get the cartels.
Does anybody see a problem with that?
Like, the government is the cartel?
Or at least works closely with them?
The last thing our military is going to do...
Is allow the leaks in the government to destroy all their military plans.
There isn't the slightest chance that the U.S. military, if they were to plan an attack on the cartels, there's not the slightest chance they would tell the Mexican government what they were planning to do.
That would just be telling the cartels.
Everybody knows that.
So it's kind of hilarious that the Mexican government would say, hey, why don't we help with our military?
You can imagine the U.S. military saying, thanks for the offer.
I think we're good.
I think we're good.
We'll take care of this.
So that's happening.
Meanwhile, P. Eggstaff is heading to the border, and he says he's going to observe the military deployment there.
Again, this is perfect presidenting.
Now, that doesn't mean that the president ordered Hankseth to go to the border, but don't you feel better about everything when the leader goes and he's there on site?
No matter how many times he does it, he or she.
Whenever the leader goes to the place, we all feel better, and we know that.
But when it was Biden, he couldn't go to the place, and I don't think enough of his people did either.
So, yeah, the power of just going to that place, whatever that place is, if you're a leader, very powerful.
And the Trump administration uses that really well.
Now, I think that Hegseth is probably doing a lot more than just checking out the deployment to stop people from crossing the border.
I assume he's also having conversations about offensive attacks on the cartels.
In the context of that, we have this report that the cartels allegedly have authorized using deadly drones against Border Patrol if needed.
I don't think the cartels are going to do that.
Certainly not if it's ordered from the top.
They're not going to do it.
Because it would be crazy.
It would be crazy for them to give the U.S. the green light if the cartels kill one American service person or even injure them.
It's so on.
You realize that we've got 350 million people who are just saying, go, go, do it, do it, do it, don't shoot us.
But we're certainly rooting for the military to get rid of some cartel leaders.
So we'll see what happens there.
Well, how about Canada?
So Canada has a unique...
They've got a strategy for fighting back against the United States.
I don't know if you saw it on the weekend.
But they sent their designee who would act sad.
So on one hand, you've got Trump, who's putting tariffs on Canada that are so big it could destroy their entire economy and their country.
And the response is to tell us, it makes us feel sad.
It makes us feel sad.
We were so friends.
But we were such good friends.
Why would you do this?
It makes us feel sad.
But we're all sad now.
What if we stop being friendly?
We were so friendly, but now we're sad.
So that's their defense.
So it turns out that the biggest export of Canada was testosterone.
There's something about they're also going to have some tariffs on American stuff that we don't care about.
We may never even notice.
The difference in size of our markets is such that their tariffs won't have the same effect as our tariffs.
But it gets better.
Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, he's not going to have any of this American bullying.
So he's decided that he's not going to give contracts to Americans for some stuff they're doing in Ontario.
To which I say, well, wait a minute.
Why would Americans get those contracts in the first place?
I can only think of one reason.
That they were the best bid.
So, to hurt us, they're going to use the people who are not as good to build their stuff.
Okay, good luck with that.
You know, there was a reason you picked American companies, but hey, if you can do it on your own, let's see.
But here's the best part.
He decided that he was going to turn off access.
at least in Ontario, to Starlink.
So, who taught Canada how to fight?
They're going to turn off their own internet.
They're going to turn off their own internet to teach us a lesson.
But they're also sad.
They're sad, too.
So it's not just that they're turning off Starlink for their rural and poor population.
They're also sad.
So you put those two together, I don't know what Trump's going to do about it.
Oh, my, oh, my.
Anyway, so those are the silly countries.
So now we know how the silly countries act.
How about China?
Now, say what you will about China.
They're a pretty serious country, right?
They're not like the silly ones.
So what did China do when it entered what looked like a trade war with the United States when the United States said it was going to raise the tariff by 10%?
China, the most rational country in the world, said, oh, well, that would be a trigger to have larger trade talks.
And then we say, oh, yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
That's what we want.
Let's have some larger trade talks.
And apparently, they may have made some promises to further reduce fentanyl precursor exports, which they say they weren't doing.
So China went from, we're not producing any fentanyl, to, let's talk, by the way, we'll try to reduce all the fentanyl.
Wait, you just said you don't have fentanyl.
That you already fixed that problem?
Yeah, yeah.
We fixed it.
But we'll fix it way better if we have these comprehensive talks.
Well, I don't expect China to do anything on fentanyl because they have a track record of promising and not doing it.
But now we've got a hammer and it's the tariffs.
And I don't think they're going to avoid them.
I don't think Trump is...
Here's what we did wrong before.
When they promised to do something, We've pulled back on any punishment.
Now, I'll need a fact check on that, but I think that's the case.
Shouldn't we keep the punishment on until we see results?
I mean, if the punishment is tariffs, shouldn't we keep them on until the fentanyl stops coming from China?
Why would we take off the pressure when we know they lie about this exact thing all the time?
Well, we'll see what happens.
Let's see how South Africa is doing.
Trump just cut off American funding for South Africa, which was $660 million a year, and $400 million of that was for AIDS, to battle AIDS in that country, but also a lot of it was for education and economic development.
And Trump basically said that bad things are happening over there, that the government is confiscating land and treating certain classes of people, white people, very badly, all in caps.
Now, I went to perplexity, and I said, what percentage of the GDP would $660 million be?
It's not much.
I mean, it's less than 1% of their GDP. So they can fund all those things if they want to move their priorities around.
So I'm not even sure why we were involved in giving them so much money.
If it's a tiny part of their GDP, it kind of means they didn't need it.
But it was expensive.
So maybe it was just to control them or, I don't know, seem like we're good people or something.
But according to Perplexity, it's based on a fake issue.
And that the fact that farmers are being attacked is not about white farmers.
According to Perplexity, which I'm pretty sure wants to do business in China, the attacks on the farmers include black farmers.
So there you go.
You thought that it was against white farmers, but Perplexity says black farmers also have been attacked.
So, it's not really about the white farmers, is it?
According to Perplexity.
No, I don't believe any kind of search engine that says anything about China.
Can we agree on that?
I don't believe anybody in the NBA who says anything about how good China is.
There are some entities that, by their nature, you should not trust whatsoever.
And one of them is the news, and the other is search engines, and the other is anything anybody in the NBA says about China.
None of that you can believe.
So, I do believe that probably some black farmers have been victims of crime.
But I think the bigger picture is the white farmers are being driven out.
That's my guess.
I'll take a fact check on that, but I don't believe anything that perplexity tells me on China.
Otherwise, it's a great app.
I recommend it.
Well, here's a little announcement for those of you who are...
If you're...
Subscribing to Dilbert, either on the Locals platform where you get the politics as well.
But if you only want Dilbert and no politics, you could subscribe on the X platform.
And if you did, on one week from today, you'll see that Dilbert will be joining the Doge Project.
So Dilbert will go to D.C. He will be recruited by Elon Musk himself.
And he will go to work on the Doge Project.
Look for that.
The subscription button is on X in my profile.
$3 a month.
Worth it.
All right.
Let's talk about Doge.
I don't know about you, but a number of people said the same thing.
I was just glued to X for the last several days in a way that's making me sick.
I mean...
Just so much overload of new stories coming out, and they're all a little bit complicated because you have to understand some context, but so much, so much.
So I'm going to do my best to try to explain it to you who are not following it closely.
It's worth following closely.
It's the most fascinating thing I've ever seen.
If you're going to follow it closely, I recommend Mike Benz.
B-E-N-Z. So follow him on X, and you'll get all the context you need, and just really well explained.
But let me just say that for now, the Democrat attack on the Doge thing was that, oh, it's an unelected government, and Musk is really in charge, and trying to make it a thing to put a wedge between Trump and Musk.
But they've, again, Praised each other in the news.
Musk says he loves Trump, literally loves him.
And Trump's saying Musk was doing a great job with the Doge stuff.
But here's my take.
I think Trump is the only person who could have made this work.
And by this, I mean allowing Elon Musk to have as much say and as much influence over the cost-cutting as possible.
And the only reason he's the only one who can do it is he has unnatural confidence.
That's what we like about him.
He's unnaturally confident.
So when you bring in a threat to Trump, I don't even think he sees it that way.
And he shouldn't.
Because the one thing that Trump brings that nobody's ever brought as a president is the boss charisma of all boss charismas.
For effect, right?
He knows the show.
He understands how to put on the show.
But genuinely, in addition to the show, he has the most boss charisma I've ever seen.
Now, Elon Musk has the sort of leadership charisma that we've never seen either.
But if you put them together, Musk would overshadow anyone else.
Anyone else, this wouldn't work because the president wouldn't be strong enough in our minds.
Not just in reality, but in our minds, we wouldn't say, oh, this Jimmy Carter can control this situation, right?
Would we have said, oh, don't worry, Biden is really the boss.
No, you would never say that because you wouldn't believe it.
And you could even go through some Republicans if they were president.
Would you really think they were in charge if you saw Musk running wild?
He's not running wild.
He's authorized to do everything he's doing.
But I think we have to take a moment to recognize how special this is.
Trump is the only person, the only person who could make this work.
Nobody else has the confidence.
Nobody else has the boss charisma that even when it's done, you could look at him and say, yeah, Trump was in charge.
He was in charge the whole way.
So you're going to see Trump maybe reverse some of the decisions, and he's hinted that he would do that.
There's some that he's not completely on board with.
Some he will be.
Some he might get talked into.
But, yeah, nobody else could make that work.
It's a very, very special situation.
Anyway, let's talk about what Doge is doing.
There is a...
Heart of the Deep State.
And I didn't know if Doge could find it because I thought, man, they're going to try to drill everywhere at once and they're not going to know how to decipher the government.
It's too complicated and the money is flowing in so many directions.
You'll never know exactly who's funding what or who's behind everything.
And so I said to myself, you know, the best person in the world to decipher the complexity is...
You know, Elon Musk and whoever he picks to do it.
I mean, you couldn't get better people.
But I still thought it's beyond what a human can do.
Like, no matter how smart the human is, I thought, nah, never going to get there.
But this is where Mike Benz comes in.
Because Mike Benz, for the last several years, has been detailing the architecture of the, I'll call it the deep state, and you could argue whether that's a good name or not.
But he's detailed where the money goes, where the real power is, which entities are essentially fake cutouts for intelligence, etc.
And so the Doge team had a map.
They had a map.
They were not drilling randomly.
I'm pretty sure, and this is not confirmed, but common sense tells you it's true, because Benz and Musk, they're familiar with each other's work.
So you don't have to wonder if they're familiar with Mike Benton's.
They are.
They're very familiar.
And I think that was the big break.
I think that Benton's has a place in history that I don't know if he'll ever be fully appreciated for what he's done so far.
He's not even done.
But, oh my God, I think it made this possible.
So, but then you've got the complexity.
You might drill in the right place, but you're immediately going to be lost in complexity.
Except, it turns out that Musk may have hired just the right autists for the job.
There are reports that he has really young people and really brilliant people.
And they can handle just about any level of complexity.
But it gets better.
They might be using AI. They might be using AI so that they can use their own intelligence to get purchase, right?
They can get in there and grab on.
And then before they're forced to release by the overwhelming complexity and bureaucracy of it, they can use the AI to figure out where the tendrils are and figure out where to start snipping it.
And that's what they're doing.
So I'll explain more about this in a moment.
But the deep heart...
of the deep state appears to be one or two entities, and the biggest among them is something called USAID. Not to be confused with anything about AIDS, it has nothing to do with that, although there may be some funding for that too.
And it's not for aid to other countries.
It is specifically for manipulating and controlling other countries, and also for controlling the United States.
Via a mechanism by which the funding of external entities allows the government to do things, our government, to do things that would be illegal if they funded it directly.
How bad is it?
Well, would you like some examples?
So this is a $50 billion entity that most of you have never heard of, right?
In the comments, tell me.
Unless you're following Mike Benton's, you've probably never heard of USAID. $50 billion budget.
Here's some of the things that they've done.
Let's see, they've...
God, there's so many things they've done.
Here's some of the things they've done.
They do capacity building in other countries.
You should know what that phrase means, capacity building.
What that means is they create organizations and they fund them in other countries so that they can use them later to control the other country.
So, for example, it might be a labor union they get control of or some other charity group that's big or basically any entity they can control.
So the USAID would be the funding for the spies and things to control other countries.
They might be controlling our country, too, because if it's the same entity that funds people in other countries that say, hey, we're going to censor X, well, maybe that's not for the benefit of the other countries.
Maybe that's how the United States, the deep state, controls Elon Musk, by funding something in another country that turns out to come back to the United States as, hey, you can't do that in Europe.
So you can't make money, so you can't have X anymore because you won't be able to make enough money because you can't operate in Europe, for example.
So there are all these dirty tricks that involve our government giving money to somebody in another country so that they can do the thing that our government can't do directly.
How bad is it?
When Elon Musk said to Trump, we should get rid of the entire thing, and it has a vast, just a vast number of things it's involved in.
Trump said, yes, the whole thing is going to be erased.
The entire fucking thing.
Here's what else they've done.
Besides capacity building and overthrowing other governments and censoring Americans, they funded the EcoHealth Alliance.
Do you remember them?
Oh, no, our government never, we never funded that Wuhan lab.
What are you talking about?
No, no, there's no record of...
The government of the United States funding the Wuhan lab and their coronavirus stuff.
No.
Oh, they did fund USAID, and USAID did fund EcoHealth Alliance, and EcoHealth Alliance did fund the Wuhan lab, but not the American government.
No.
See, that's how they do it.
If there's anything deeply illegal and wrong that the public wouldn't want to know we did, they do it that way.
Did you know, and this one blew my mind, you know the Soros prosecutors?
This is another Mike Benz discovery.
The Soros prosecutors.
So we know that George Soros, now Alexander Soros, has funded various prosecutors and people like that in different states.
And using it to do what to the United States, we don't know.
But it turns out, the Soros was only the second biggest funder for the so-called Soros DAs.
Do you know what was the biggest funder of the Soros DAs?
USAID. It was coming from inside the house.
Oh my fucking God!
It was coming from inside the house.
The whole time.
And we didn't know it until Doge got a hold of the documents that are now becoming public.
Wow.
So, just imagine that every bad thing that could happen, that you wouldn't want to happen, went through the same entity, basically.
And there's another entity involved with that.
I've just got some other letters in the name I'll remember in a minute.
All right, but here's the thing.
Oh, the National Endowment for Democracy.
I think that's the one Victoria Nuland's on.
But here's the fun part.
When Doge starts pulling these strings, there's a certain group of people who emerge like prairie dogs.
Boop!
Their little heads pop up to complain.
Those are the deep state operatives.
Now, Maybe there'll be some exceptions.
But I think you're going to find out the entire architecture of the bad guys, because they're the ones who are going to start fighting this the hardest.
So here are the prairie dogs that I think you're going to see fighting the hardest.
Probably AOC, check.
Suddenly AOC really cares about keeping this funding.
You're going to see Jamie Raskin, Adam Schiff, Swalwell.
Maybe Brennan Clapper seems to be in hiding, but if he came out of hiding, he'd probably say, oh, we should fund it.
Have you noticed that Hillary is quiet?
Nobody's been more quiet than Hillary lately.
What's up with that?
Hillary used to say a lot, and now she's kind of quiet lately.
We'll find out.
And then Bernie Sanders.
Here's what Bernie Sanders says about the whole doge thing.
Quote, we're looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy.
We're looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism.
And I fear that we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well.
All right, let me put that in a summary.
Here are two things that everyone knows don't work for Democrats.
All right, two things that don't work.
One is identity politics, and the other is saying, bleeding, if you will, bleeding like a sheep.
Trump's going to steal our democracy.
That's my impression of a sheep, bleeding.
Trump's going to steal our democracy.
He's glyptocracy.
So those are two things that Democrats know for sure don't work.
Identity politics and bleeding that Trump will steal your democracy.
So what are Sanders and the rest of the Democrats doing about that?
Well, it looks like they're going to double down on identity politics and say even louder that Trump's going to steal your democracy.
But louder, louder, louder.
He's going to steal your democracy with his kleptocracy and his oligarchy.
Stealing your democracy.
That's all they have.
They don't have anything else.
So that's fun.
We're also seeing Norm Eisen and somebody named Mark Zaid.
They're claiming that the firing of the DOJ people and the FBI is violating their due process.
So really, the identities of everybody on the Hillary Clinton, Obama, deep state, worst people in the world list, they're all...
They're all coming out.
They're prairie-dogging.
So every single person you see who pops up their head and says, oh, Musk is running the country.
He's an oligarch.
You can identify the deep state.
Their disguise is completely blown now, or their undercover is completely blown.
That's fun.
As Elon Musk said on X, He said, one lesson I remember from the PayPal days, he said, do you know who complained the loudest?
The fraudsters.
There would be immediate over-the-top indignation from the fraudsters.
Normal people will say, quote, I think there's something wrong.
But fraudsters will come hot out the gate with fake outrage.
Huh.
Fraudster, fake outrage.
We're looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy.
We're looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism.
And I feel that we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well.
That feels like coming out of the gate hot with fake outrage.
I guess he called it.
They'll claim that they're a single mom with kids and blah, blah, blah, blah.
So that's how you find the fraudsters.
All right.
Do you remember when...
Do you remember when Schumer said, it was a few years ago, several years ago, he was on Rachel Maddow's show, and he said that Trump was messing with the intelligence community, and that was dumb because the intelligence community, quote, has six ways from Sunday to get back at you.
Now, how do you interpret that other than Schumer working for the intelligence community?
And when I say working for them, I don't mean they pay them.
I mean, Schumer's their bitch because he told us that, right?
If he says you don't go against the intelligence community because they will get back at you and it will be stupid to do it, doesn't that admit that he would not do it?
Doesn't that admit if they told him to dance, he would dance?
If they told him to jump off a ledge and break his leg, he would jump off a ledge and break his leg.
I mean, what else does it mean?
He's telling us directly, you can't go against our own intelligence community or you'll pay for it.
Now, connect that to USAID. So USAID was sort of a multi-faced outfit.
So they would do stuff for the State Department.
They would do stuff for the intelligence community.
Basically, if anybody had a dark project, they would all go to the same budget because it wasn't really being...
monitored or audited in the way it should be.
Now, at the same time, Musk somehow got access to the Treasury payment system so that now they can look at every payment made, and apparently the rule in the Treasury was to never question any payment, including if they knew it was going to terrorists.
They would still have to pay it.
I suppose the reason for that was if the intelligence community wanted to put some money into play to get something done, you don't want the Treasury people to say you can't do that because it's already sort of an undercover process.
So between penetrating the U.S. aid and having access to the Treasury payments, and then you add all of Elon's alleged autists, And then you add AI. Oh, my God, this is going to be fun.
As they keep drilling down.
So, yeah, we certainly found out who's in charge of the country.
We'll see if that changes.
Democrats are doing great.
The New York Times did some reporting on Sunday.
I guess they went and talked to a bunch of Democrats to find out what their strategy is.
And the Democrats say, We don't have a strategy and we're all in trouble and there's no leader.
But they got a quote from the one I call the dumbest Democrat, Representative Jasmine Crockett.
Now, I love when she's in the news because she honestly seems to be the dumbest Democrat, but she's also loud.
So if you're loud and dumb, it's just extra fun.
So here's what Jasmine Crockett says, Representative Crockett.
She says, quote, we have no coherent message.
Okay.
So far, that's what a lot of Democrats say.
So that's not dumb.
That's not dumb at all.
We have no coherent message.
But she goes on.
But she's talking about Trump when she says this.
She goes, this guy is psychotic.
Psychotic.
Let's see.
Did anybody else say anything about him?
Let's see.
Sanders.
We're looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy and looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism.
I feel that we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy.
But maybe it's a rapid growth of psychotic behavior, too.
Let's throw that in the list, because that works.
That's a good strategy.
Throw in these vague insults.
That'll get Trump.
He just buckles when you insult him.
Nobody ever thought of it.
Then she goes on, and she says, this guy is psychotic, and there's so much.
Good point.
There's so much.
He's not only going to steal your democracy and be a kleptocracy, but there's so much.
There's just so much.
And then she goes on, but everything that underlines it is white supremacy and hate.
There it is.
And that's why you're the dumbest member of the Democrats.
Did nobody give you the memo that this is exactly why you lost?
This is exactly why you lost.
It's this.
Anyway.
And he says, there needs to be a message that is clear on at least the underlying thing that comes with all this.
So she'd like the Democrats to really focus on the white supremacy.
Because that'll get you elected.
Anyway.
So here's what I think.
If the Democrats agree, and they all seem to agree, that they don't have a coherent message going forward, What does that tell you about the message they had?
Why would they abandon the message that they felt so strongly about?
You know, all the messages of the last four years.
Why would they give up on all the things they were fighting to the death for?
I can only think of one reason.
They knew it wasn't real.
Right?
Did the Uyghurs stop fighting?
No.
Because their issue is still the same today as it was yesterday.
But the Democrats just decided they need a new strategy.
If you need a new strategy, it means all the things you were trying to sell, you knew were bullshit, or you found out were bullshit.
How in the world would you ever trust somebody who said, let's reinvent ourselves as a completely different thing and care about different things?
Like, who would trust that?
At least the Republicans have largely been Republicans for a long time.
You can kind of anticipate what a Republican will do in any situation.
Now, a MAGA Republican is a special brand, but you can predict them as well.
And I guess you can predict what Democrats will do, which is whatever is the dumbest fucking thing you can do.
So why is it that Democrats have any power at all when their message and their priorities were Just flat out stupid.
And the answer is, they controlled the media.
If you control the media, you can sell to half of the country that stupid things are smart things.
And that's what they did.
They sold to half of the country that stupid things were smart things.
And then when Trump basically destroyed the legacy media with Elon Musk and Axe, once the legacy media was so crippled that it couldn't do what it normally does, Then it became obvious that they were selling bad ideas from the start.
They only had bad ideas.
That's it.
So, yeah, the destruction of the legacy media makes everything a lot more clear.
Here's a funny story, according to Newsmax Money.
So Obama is building a presidential library, and he's being sued by one of the subcontractors for racism.
That's right.
Obama is being sued for racism.
No, not Obama.
I think probably just whatever the entity is that's building the library.
Probably not him personally.
But so what does your mind say?
Your brain automatically goes to, oh, oh, there probably was some white contractor who didn't get a deal, right?
So the white contractor is going to sue Obama.
And claim that only the black contractors got the jobs, right?
Nope.
Nope.
That's not what it is.
Turns out it was a black contractor who was suing for racism, suing the Obama Library Project for racism, saying that they discriminated against him for being black.
Now, the counter-argument is that the subcontractor did not perform and wasn't even close to doing a good job.
That's the counterargument.
So, that's happening.
So, in other words, the contractor, if you believe the counterclaim, the contractor was picked because he was black.
In other words, it was probably a DEI decision, meaning that the Obama library couldn't really be built by a bunch of white people.
I mean, you can kind of see how that wouldn't be the...
The ideal look, not what he's going for.
So he went with the DEI choice, and the DEI choice allegedly failed to perform.
And now the DEI choice that failed to perform is suing them, saying that they're discriminating.
So the simulation has allowed us to watch as DEI destroys the Obama Library construction project.
Talk about everything going well for Trump.
The Democrats are in full self-destruction mode in every way.
Now, you can't say we didn't warn you.
Remember, the warning about DEI is not about any individual.
It's not about anybody's genes, and it's not about anybody's culture.
It's just if you artificially constrain yourself to a small population of the public for all of your services, you're probably going to Find out that that doesn't work as a system.
It's just not a good system approach.
So, yes, DEI as a system probably killed the Obama library.
Elon Musk said he's going to have a conversation with Jamie Dimon.
We don't know what that's about.
But do you remember that Jamie Dimon is the only person who has the following two qualities?
He's unambiguously very smart, and he is...
And he's propping up DEI and says he's going to definitely not back off on DEI. Now, how can both of those be true?
How can Jamie Dimon be unambiguously really, really smart?
And he is.
That's just the fact.
He's just really, really smart.
But also supporting DEI. Well, I'm guessing that for social reasons and maybe business reasons, it might be a good decision.
Because remember, he's very smart.
But...
Times they are a-changing.
And if I had to guess, the one thing that Musk might be trying to accomplish, since Jamie Dimon seems to be largely in favor of some of Trump's policies, such as the border, such as maybe cutting costs, etc.
But wouldn't it be good to get all the smart people on one side?
The people that we all look at in the public and say, okay, that's a smart one, that's a smart one.
That's not so smart.
But when Jamie Dimon comes on, everybody says, okay, smart guy talking.
We better listen to this.
That's what I say.
I say, smart guy talking, and I just stop what I'm doing.
Because you don't often get to hear from somebody that smart.
So if Musk can, I don't want to say persuade, but maybe show Jamie Dimon a context that would allow him to change his own mind, that could be really good.
Now, I have no idea that that would be even a topic at their meeting.
They may have completely other business that they're trying to do.
It might be economics, something else.
But that's what I want.
I want to make sure that the smartest people are solidly against DEI. All right.
Here's more of the Musk effect.
Remember that Delaware is where a lot of big companies incorporate.
And then if Delaware doesn't like you, like they had a problem with Elon Musk and his companies, they went after him.
They went after his pay package.
So Elon moved to Texas as his home country.
Now, Delaware doesn't have a lot of things going for it, but one of the few things it does is that it's the place people like to register their corporation.
So that's presumably a lot of businesses get sent their way.
And Bill Ackman just said, To hell with Delaware, and he's moving his corporation to Nevada.
I don't know how many more people will do it, but already the governor of Delaware said, we need to fix this.
So the governor of Delaware is saying, something's broken on our end.
We need to fix this.
Yes.
Yes.
Absolutely.
This is one of those cases where you want to say, why didn't you do it already?
Why'd you wait so long?
I always warn you, don't do that.
If he's on board today, good.
He's on board.
Let's get something done.
So maybe, maybe Delaware will shape up.
There's a, God, the Overton window is working so hard right now that you just can't even focus on anything.
And I think the Democrats are having trouble finding a way to attack.
Musk and Trump, because they're moving so fast.
They don't have anything they can focus on for a few days and really drive some message through.
They got to deal with a brand new thing that's coming, you know, like a rocket fire.
And one of the new things is Musk wants to end property tax.
Now, I understand that, because I pay a lot of it.
And if you pay property tax, you don't really own your home.
It's basically the government stealing your house.
Because if you don't pay them, As if it's a lease to your house, except they call it property tax.
If you don't pay them, you don't get to live in your house.
So you don't really own the house if you're paying property tax.
And that's a good argument.
But what would happen to California?
My taxes in California are already over 13%.
State taxes, 13%.
If they got rid of property tax, Do you know how much income tax I would have to pay?
Probably, I don't know, I haven't done the math, but would it be like 25% state tax added to my federal tax?
Would I be paying something like 65% or 70% of every dollar I earn to the government, state or federal?
I don't know that there's any practical way to get from here to know.
Tax on property.
But there might be.
I mean, I would have said a lot of things were impossible before they did them.
So, even if it's not possible...
John, you're such a turd.
Listen to this useless troll comment.
Oh, now Scott's an expert on construction.
Is this your first time ever watching a podcast?
First day on the internet, where everybody talks about the topics that are in the news without being experts?
You know that's what everyone's doing, right?
That's such a dumb comment.
That's like extra dumb.
I love it when my critics are extra dumb.
It just makes me feel good.
I don't like having smart critics.
That bothers me because then I have to examine what I'm doing.
It's like, oh, damn it.
Why did a smart person say I did something wrong?
I better look into this.
But when dumb people like that comment, oh, Scott's an expert on construction.
Let's talk about Delaware.
Oh, Scott's an expert on Delaware suddenly.
Suddenly he knows everything about Delaware.
So dumb.
All right.
Apparently, there's a lawsuit that X is running against some of the major brands that allegedly colluded with each other to put X on a business by not advertising on the platform.
And some new big companies have been added to that.
I kind of wonder where that's going, because there does seem to be a legitimate claim that there was some illegal collusion to put X on a business.
Do you think that'll work?
Do you think it'll bring back the advertisers or get them some big award?
I don't know.
I like that he's being aggressive about it.
In other news, according to interesting engineering, there's some U.S. scientists who are trying to harvest the mineral nickel from plants.
So apparently there's some special kind of plants.
And I guess you can tweak them a little bit.
And the plants will create nickel.
And you just harvest the plants.
And then instead of mining for nickel, because mining is destructive to the atmosphere and the land, etc., you could just grow plants and get your nickels.
Now, I'm wondering, maybe I should become a nickel farmer.
I mean, I wish I had a nickel for every plant I've grown.
But I could.
Maybe you could have a nickel for every plant you grow.
You'd have to sell the nickels.
You'd probably need some kind of a fabrication plant to turn all the plants into just minerals of nickel.
But that's kind of cool.
There's also, according to Live Science, there's new fabric that can heat up almost 50 degrees just by having the light hit it, the sunlight.
So you can keep people warm enough to stay alive in ultra-cold weather.
So it's a smart fabric.
After just 10 minutes in the sun, it heats up like crazy.
So they figured out how to make the fabric be extra, extra absorby of light.
That's cool.
And it made me think if there are other uses for it.
But you'd have to be able to turn it on and off.
See, the problem is, if you made your building with that material, it would keep it warmer, but in the summer it would keep it too warm.
And I was thinking, is there any way you could weave this into roads so that a little bit of sunlight would melt the snow that's on the road?
I wonder if that'd work.
So it makes me wonder what else you could do with it.
But you probably need to be able to turn it on and off for most purposes.
Meanwhile, a UK team, according to the Guardian, figured out a way to avoid cracks in your road and potholes.
They've invented a self-healing road.
They use tiny plant spores mixed into the bitumen, and it increases your road life for 30%.
Isn't that fascinating?
Yeah.
Your road is going to heal itself.
All right.
So there's the big picture.
Doge is just killing it.
And I hear the fires in L.A. are now controlled.
The big fires in LA are now 100% controlled.
Maybe.
What's this about AOC? Case in point, AOC is a stooge of USAID. So the claim is...
The AOC was getting some kind of benefit from USAID. Maybe Bernie was too.
But basically, all the people who were complaining the loudest, there's a reason.
There's a reason.
All right.
Now, the thing I don't understand about Doge is the numbers don't add up in my head.
So if you got rid of USAID and all the other things they're talking about getting rid of, I think the Department of Education is coming up.
What's this?
So Mike Benz says, case in point, AOC promoting USAID all over X today actually came from a USAID program in college to jumpstart her miracle career.
Oh!
Benz, you've got all the receipts.
You've got all the receipts.
So remember I told you during the show that the people who complained the most are the ones who have some...
Dark connection to it.
And it turns out that most of you know AOC was a, let's say, an artificially generated politician, meaning that there was a whole process where she was culled from lots of applicants and then trained to be who she is.
Apparently, the funding for that came through USAID, just like the funding for everything else you don't like.
Do you think there were any Republicans?
Do you think any Republicans were picked through USAID? How many Republicans do you think are involved in USAID at all?
Almost none.
It's almost entirely a Democrat structure.
Well, that was perfect.
Good timing on that.
Good work on the comments.
Yeah, Bill Kristol.
Bill Kristol also complained.
And it turns out he's got some connection.
He's ahead of some...
That is something that's being funded by USAID. I'm thinking, why would he get any funding or be involved in it in any way?
There's a California refinery?
I don't know about that.
All right.
So...
I think we've figured out everything that's wrong with the government.
We found the beating heart of the deep state, and Doge is in the process of driving a stake right through it.
But, as I was saying, here's the part I don't get about the numbers.
We're trying to cut, you know, one or two trillion dollars out of the budget.
Musk says one would be enough.
But, because we could grow our way out of the rest if we stop spending.
I don't know that we're going to stop spending.
That seems ridiculous, but okay.
I don't know how you can take a small part of the budget, which is the discretionary stuff where USAID would be.
If you got rid of all of it, it wouldn't be enough, would it?
So I don't understand how working with the part of the national budget that isn't possibly enough can get you 100% of what you need.
So there's something wrong with what we understand about it.
I don't see any path for Doge to get to paying off a trillion dollars.
I have no idea why they're optimistic.
But they are.
And so I'm going to go with the optimism under the assumption that they know something I don't.
And then I hear the number of something like they're saving a billion dollars a day.
Well, does that mean $365 billion they've already found in annual expenditures?
Or is the billion what they saved over 10 years?
See, if you don't know that, you don't really know what's going on, and I don't know that.
So I'm skeptical that the big numbers can be hit.
I'm not skeptical on whether they're finding good things to get rid of that the world is better without.
And I think that's happening for sure.
So I think the government will be more efficient and more responsive when we're done.
There will be some bumps, of course.
National STEM Award.
Savings actually double-fold because the offset in interest payments.
Well, ideally, yeah, you get double because you offset in interest payments.
But I still don't think that's enough.
So I guess I'm skeptical on the numbers, but I love everything they're doing so far.
So I'll remain optimistic.
What's happening?
There's a Mexico deal.
Oh my God, there's news breaking right now.
So this is Trump announcing.
I haven't read this yet, but Trump is announcing.
I just spoke with President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico.
Here it comes.
It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican soldiers on the border separating Mexico and the United States.
These soldiers will be specifically designated to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal migration into our country.
We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one-month period.
During which we will have negotiations headed by Marco Rubio and Scott Besant of Treasury and Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce, and high-level representatives of Mexico.
I look forward to the participation, blah, blah, blah, as we attempt to see...
Oh, my God.
That's pretty much everything you wanted, wasn't it?
I think that's everything you wanted.
For those asking if I'm still left or Bernie, ask a better question.
So, asking your little gotcha questions, I just am not interested.
Oh, you once said this, how does that line up with the new thing you just said?
I don't care.
Nobody cares.
That's a gotcha question.
So, yeah, looks like Trump's...
Making progress in every country that he's dealing with.
Yeah, and Mexico didn't have to turn off their own internet connections to get it.
Maybe they should listen.
You know, if the only thing that Canada did was the same thing that Mexico and China did, Canada would be probably in good shape.
Who is their conservative candidate, Pierre?
How do you pronounce his last name?
Polivare.
What's the name of the conservative guy in Canada?
He's not in power, but he could be someday.
All right, you'll see it in the comments.
Polivare.
Poliv?
How do you pronounce it?
Poliv?
Poliv?
Pierre Poliv?
Anyway, I saw some video of him saying that the things that Trump was demanding, this was even before Trump did the tariff stuff.
Even then, he was saying the things that Trump is asking for would be good for Canada too.
We want a stronger border.
They want a stronger border.
We want to stop the fentanyl.
They want us to stop the fentanyl.
We want to control our immigration.
They want us to control our immigration.
So how can we not reach a deal?
Which is a pretty good point.
Pretty good point.
All right, that's all I got for you now.
I'm going to talk to the good people on Locals, my subscribers privately.
For the rest of you, thanks for coming.
Let's keep watching that stock market.
I think it's just taking a shock today, but should...
Oh, let me look at that.
Oh, here's End Wokeness giving a little summary before I go.
So two weeks in, this is what happened.
Mexico caved.
Panama caved.
Columbia caved.
Venezuela caved.
Canada panicking.
Mass deportations.
Hostages are home.
DEI programs ended.
Bureaucracy slashed.
FBI purges underway.
USAID funding canceled.
Gender ideology eliminated.
Doge already saved.
Billions 51 intelligence lost.
Clearance border crossings dropped by 93% reservoirs filled up in California, just to name a few.
