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And Well, according to New Atlas, there's a new study out that says that eating one egg a week lowers heart disease risk by 29%.
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Now, I'm telling you this so you can start saving up.
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And using that money to buy an egg.
Same outcome, really.
Well, here's some news that might sound nerdy and small to you, but it might be really, really big.
The company called Figure, they're making robots that look like humanoids, much like Tesla.
And their latest announcement is they're not going to use OpenAI.
As the brains of their computer, or the brains of their robot.
And that's a big deal because they had an agreement with OpenAI.
So they were already in association with OpenAI.
But what they found was that OpenAI was great for sort of general purpose stuff, but it wasn't optimized for robots.
So somehow, Figure made its own AI or found a different one.
But they got an AI that's optimized for robots.
And the head of figure is predicting that the world will not be lots of machines filled with generic AI, but rather every device might have its own AI, an AI that's trained on the specifics of what you need to be a robot or something like that.
So I don't know if the robot would then not be able to answer general questions the way an open AI would be.
But apparently it's going to give them the ability to roll out an operating robot way faster than if they used a generic AI. So that's coming.
Something coming in the next 30 days, they say, that's going to be a big deal.
Here's some good news.
Every now and then there's a story that...
Just makes you feel good.
And this one is the, let's call it the conclusion, I hope, of the Daniel Penny story.
You remember Daniel Penny?
He tried to save some people in a subway, but unfortunately the person he was holding down died.
He was cleared of all that in what I thought was a racially motivated case.
But once you go through that kind of thing, It's hard to get your life back together.
So here's the good news.
He was just offered a job by Andreessen Horowitz.
So Mark Andreessen's company with Ben Horowitz.
And it's one of the big venture capital companies in Silicon Valley.
One of the most famous, noted ones.
And they're going to teach him investing.
Now, I don't know if that means...
He's actually going to be making investment decisions, or if it means that he needs to learn what the company does so that he finds his role there.
Because I don't know what background he has to make him a venture capitalist.
But on the other hand, maybe it's not that hard to train somebody to be a venture capitalist.
It's not like they get most of their plays right.
Most of the bets, even by the smartest people, end up being...
You know, the wrong bet.
But they can play the numbers, make it work.
So, that's great.
That is nothing but good news.
And I love the fact that Andreessen Horowitz stepped up to just right that little bit of wrong in the world.
And I'd like to thank them personally.
So, Andreessen Horowitz, nicely done.
I think the country, or at least a big part of the country, just appreciates that.
It just tied up that story just the way it needed to be.
Because you want to know that somebody who put their, risked their own knack, which is what he did, you want to know that if somebody risks their knack for other people and doesn't ask anything in return, can still, you know, have a good outcome.
So, wow, made me feel good.
I guess Trump's going to keep things interesting today by allegedly he's going to sign some kind of executive order that would ban biological males from women's sports.
Now, we don't know how deeply that goes.
Would that include professional sports?
And would he even be able to do that?
Would it include all high school and college?
We don't know.
But we'll see.
I would argue that although he genuinely wants to do this and his base genuinely wants it to happen, I think the majority of the country, actually, over 50%, are completely on board with this.
But what I love about it is that part of it is overwhelming the news.
I didn't realize.
I saw a video.
I think it was maybe at the beginning of the first term of Trump.
You know, his first four years.
And it was Steve Bannon explaining how to defeat the fake news.
And you do it by overwhelming them so that they can't get a beat on anything.
There's just more coming than they can handle.
And you see that in action.
So this was perhaps Steve Bannon's original strategy.
Maybe he got it from someone else.
I don't know.
But it was fun to see the origin of that.
It looks like that might have been the origin of just overwhelming the news.
So I see this executive order as well as a lot of the other ones as part of that strategy to make sure that they just can't figure out what he's doing.
There's just too much going on.
And this one's wonderful because it gets everybody worked up.
Oh, biological men in women's sports.
We've got to fight about this.
Perfect strategy.
Meanwhile, I don't know if this is true, but I think it was Wall Street Journal that was saying that RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard are on a glide path to confirmation.
Do you think that's true?
I guess they both got out of committee, which is the step before the full vote, and getting through the committee is hard enough.
And probably that tells you what you need to know about what the vote will do.
But I don't know.
Is it really a done deal?
I guess the thinking is that the Republicans who might have resisted have been co-opted.
So they either got some kind of thing in response or they got some assurances or something.
But it's looking like maybe they're going to go through.
Maybe they're going through.
Now, what I like is that the reason given that the RFK Jr. nomination would go through is that the politicians were afraid of saying no, which I don't think you see with most nominees.
But what you saw when it looked like RFK Jr. might not be confirmed, people went fucking nuts.
And they should.
Because we had a deal.
You know what I mean?
We had a deal, which is if RFK Jr. takes the enormous risk of playing with Trump, we got to back him.
And, you know, not only did his own, you know, Maha people who kind of allowed themselves to be wrapped in the Trump world for at least to get their stuff done.
I think we own them.
The deal's a deal.
Right?
A deal's a deal.
So if we don't get RFK Jr. through, I'm going to go nuts.
And I'm going to make sure whoever voted against him, who's a Republican, definitely knows that was a bad idea.
Eventually, they're going to know that was a very bad idea.
But it looks like maybe they'll get through.
So, could be good news.
According to Futurism, a publication, The FBI has quietly revealed that it has a real-life UFO office.
The FBI has a UFO office.
Just like the X-Files.
Now, apparently the Pentagon also had a UFO office.
Or maybe it was a UAP, but really UFOs.
So...
I've got a suggestion for Doge.
If you're looking for an easy cut, I don't think we need a UFO office.
Have they found one yet?
Let's put it this way.
If the UFO office of the FBI has found a real UFO, they can stay.
If they haven't found a UFO yet...
Maybe we don't need the UFO office.
It's funny that it even exists.
Anyway, apparently El Salvador keeps doing smart things.
Have you noticed that whenever El Salvador is in the news, no matter what the specifics of the topic are, the general theme is, oh, that's like really well done.
Or, oh, looks like you got another good idea there, El Salvador.
Or, Huh, strategically, that's kind of brilliant.
Have you noticed that?
So I guess Bukele is just, you know, slaying it.
And one of the things he did when Marco Rubio was down there yesterday or whatever it was, I think it was yesterday, they worked on a deal where the United States has offered to help El Salvador build a domestic nuclear energy structure.
Now, I worry that the United States doesn't have enough nuclear energy experts to build our own stuff.
But we better be developing that really quickly.
Because if we're not, we're dumb.
So how important is it that the United States becomes sort of the big brother to South American countries that are looking for clean energy?
Really, really important.
Because the last thing you want...
It's for somebody like El Salvador to say, you know, we need energy.
We're not going to do without it.
So China, can you help us build a nuclear reactor?
We can't go there.
So yes, everything about this is good.
El Salvador being smart again.
Good job.
Read about this in Breitbart.
All right, we have to talk about Trump and Gaza.
That's what you're waiting for, right?
So this is a story that just, I almost fell off my chair.
So if you're watching my posting on Axe, you may have noticed a change of opinion on my part.
So this is a complete 180. When it was first announced, and I saw the video of Trump saying, Hey, maybe the United States will just take over Gaza.
We'll be in charge of cleaning it up.
And then we'll just own it.
And we'll rebuild it into the Riviera of the Middle East.
And it'll become an important port for the whole world and everything will be great.
But the current residents...
Will not be there for many years while it gets cleaned up.
Apparently it would take years to even make it safe to live there.
So he drops that.
What was your first reaction?
Probably like mine.
Some of you just like anything that Trump says he's going to do.
But your first reaction, if it was anything like mine, was, hell no.
Are you effing kidding me?
How in the world does that make sense for America?
How about America first?
We stay the F out of the entire Middle East, because if we put our stupid foot right in the middle of their business, we're going to be pestered forever.
We're going to become target number one.
We're going to have our troops are going to be dying in the sand over there for nothing.
The odds of it becoming a prosperous place seem not so good to me.
Because it'll always be under risk of attack.
Iran's going to hate it.
Saudi Arabia hates it.
I don't even think Israel likes it.
I think Israel hates it.
I think 100% of the people over there don't want us there.
So that's bad news.
And guess what?
Most of America doesn't want this to happen.
So somehow, Trump came up with an idea that 100% of the world thinks is a bad idea.
Except for, you know, there'll be some...
Whatever you say, Trump.
There are a lot of those, right?
A lot of people are like, you want to murder all the people?
Okay.
So some number of Trump supporters are going to say, whatever you say, dear leader.
But a lot of Trump supporters, like me, and even the Israeli ones, I imagine, are thinking, I see why you think this is a good idea, but...
Do we really need you occupying this land that Israel just cleared for itself?
Because it would be basically taking land from Israel.
Because for all practical purposes, Israel owns Gaza.
They already own it.
I mean, by functional control.
So, that's what I thought when I first heard it.
Does that match what any of you thought when you first heard it?
Was that your first impression?
All right, now I'm going to give you a more nuanced take because I slept on it.
The first thing you have to remember is that Trump doesn't operate like anybody else.
So as soon as you imagine that the frame you're evaluating him in would be some kind of standard frame, the standard frame would be, is it a good idea for America to own Gaza?
Right?
That was my frame last night.
Is that a good idea?
Is that good for America?
No!
So if that's the frame you're in, you just kind of only want to answer.
Bad idea.
But let's put it in a Trump frame.
Because that's the one that matters.
He never operates in the normal frame.
So you've got to find his frame.
You know, like, how is he operating here?
Here's what I think happened.
I think Trump just ended a permanent war.
Between Hamas and Israel.
He just ended the war.
The war's over.
Because what he just told both sides is, you're never going to have a common border again.
Because the common border was the problem.
The fact that they're right there, and they'd like to be even closer right there, and they're going to get ready behind their border.
Until they're ready for an attack, and then obviously, surely, 100%, there'll be another one.
So how do you solve an unsolvable problem?
So Israel and really the entire Middle East had an unsolvable problem.
There was no solution.
Israel can't just keep it, because that would be ethnic cleansing, right?
They'd say, okay, Israel, you've just turned into the very thing that you complain about the most.
So in terms of Israel's brand, just destroying Gaza and then just keeping it would have been really bad for their brand.
Now, it might have been good for them in the long run.
30 years from now, they would just have more land, more safety, more security.
So in the long run, it was probably all good.
But for decades, it was going to be really bad.
So Israel didn't really have a clean path to a win.
They couldn't depopulate it because that looks like ethnic cleansing.
They couldn't say, hey, now that we've killed most of the people we hate, why don't you go back there and live there?
Well, first of all, it's too unsafe.
Second of all, they haven't gotten rid of Hamas, and it looks like they're not even that close.
And so there wasn't a solution.
It was a 100% unsolvable problem.
So what does Trump do?
What do you do if you have people who can't unite and come up with a common solution?
What is the one thing that will make people who absolutely are at each other's throats stop fighting each other and unite?
There's only one thing.
An external common threat.
An external common threat.
That's the only thing that makes people who hate each other for this long put down their weapons and say, all right, temporarily, temporarily, we need to get together and fight this other external threat.
Trump's the external threat.
He's not good for Israel.
He's not good for America.
Any of the residents of Gaza, it's not good for Saudi Arabia.
They're already complaining.
And I haven't heard what the European countries are saying, but you know they don't like it.
I haven't heard what China and Russia say about it, but I don't think they're in favor of it.
So not only did Trump end the war, let me say that again, he ended the war.
There can't be a war.
If there's nobody next to somebody else.
Because Hamas, wherever they end up under this plan, if this happens, wherever they end up would be spread around in different places and it would be really hard to mount any kind of a real attack on Israel proper.
So he just basically said, Trump did, the war is over.
The only thing you get to decide, you meaning Israel, Gaza and all the related countries.
All you get to decide, do you have a better offer?
That's it.
That's it.
The only thing they get to decide is, do you have a better offer?
And they don't.
They don't.
But you know what's going to happen?
You're going to see some creativity and some flexibility that you never thought you would see.
Suddenly, countries that thought, okay, we can offer this, but that's as far as we're going to go, suddenly they're going to get flexible because the last thing they want is the United States to set up a giant military base right in the middle of their business and have a dominant role in controlling the shipping in the region.
Because Gaza, if they build a little...
I guess they'd have to build an artificial island and then turn it into like a harbor.
But it could be the controlling place for a huge amount of trade through the area.
So do you think that the Islamic countries, whether they're allies or not, do you think any of them want that?
No.
So let me say it again.
Trump ended the war.
The war's over.
Because they need a common border.
For that Hamas versus Israel thing to continue into the future.
He just took away their common border.
Now, if they come up with a better idea, and I don't know what it would look like, maybe Saudi Arabia says, oh, we'll do more.
How about we take over?
Right?
What if Saudi Arabia came in and said, all right, here's the deal.
I know we want to do this wider, bigger than the Abrams Accord thing.
But we're not quite ready to step up to that.
We can't just have everybody embracing Israel like nothing ever happened and go into this big old deal.
But now you can.
Because maybe the larger deal in the region depended on everybody thinking, if we don't do this, we're going to get something we really don't want, which is a big old Trump boot in the middle of the Middle East.
So, watch how this sharpens everybody's thinking.
Watch how it makes people who weren't flexible, flexible.
Watch how perhaps Jordan and Egypt, who had said, no, no, no, we'll never take any of these Gaza immigrants, maybe they'll say, well, yeah, well, maybe we could if, you know, maybe Saudi Arabia or somebody helped us fund it.
And then Saudi Arabia would say, we don't want to help you fund it, but we don't want Trump in the Middle East with a giant military base.
Watch how creative people get.
So this is what only Trump can do, and he does it all the time, so you should recognize it by now.
What he does is he shakes the box so hard that everybody involved just wants us to stop shaking.
And they all get flexible, and they all think, all right, this is the time to make a deal.
Because if we don't do it now, the United States is going to own Gaza.
Now, did you see, if you haven't seen it yet, you have to watch Netanyahu's reaction when Trump is rolling out this idea in their joint press conference after they met yesterday.
I can't read minds.
But watching Netanyahu squirm, because he didn't know how this was going to work out or how it was going to go, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't his idea, and I don't know how much he even liked the idea.
He may have just decided he had to go long because he was in Trump's house, so to speak, and he needs Trump on board, and they've got a good working relationship.
So, you know, he's not going to throw that away.
And he just sort of let it happen while looking really uncomfortable.
Again, I can't read his mind, but he didn't have the look of someone who was embracing the idea.
So we might end up with the best possible situation, but I want to be clear about this.
It's not a bluff.
It's not a bluff.
Trump would do it if they don't come up with a better idea.
I'll bet they'll come up with a better idea, which they never would have before.
So we'll see.
All right.
So the things we're learning about USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, which is another one of these alleged CIA cutouts.
That the U.S. uses to control other countries and run coups and do, what do you call it, capacity building at other countries, which is getting kind of a foothold in other countries in some entities within those countries so that we can have some future control.
As you know, the only reason we know about this is that Mike Benz has been explaining it for...
But then Doge got in there and started looking at USAID and all the things it's doing and decided, oh no, it's a ball of worms, as Elon Musk says.
And although it might be doing some things we like, we're going to have to close down the whole thing.
And then if there's a good argument for adding anything back, they're open to listening to it.
But the only way to fix it is you just got to get rid of the ball of worms.
And then see if you can find a little bit of Apple later.
So here are the things we know.
Yeah, and Mike Benz says, when a job is too dirty for the CIA, they give it to USAID. So here's what you need to know.
The Mike Benz take on USAID is, it's not a mixture of bad things, like overthrowing countries.
We're the mixture of good things, like helping countries battle the AIDS crisis in their own country.
What it is, is in every case, a CIA takeover of a country.
Sometimes they help them with the AIDS, but that's really just the easiest way to get our assets into their country.
So it's really about maybe collecting some information through the AIDS process, maybe using it to...
Get some spies in there so they can work their thing once they're on the other side of the border.
So the Ben's take, which I accept, is that there's no such thing as USAID just doing charity.
All the charity is a cover for something that the U.S. wants.
So, in some sense, USAID is doing the bidding of the United States.
Except, who in the United States?
It kind of matters whose bidding they're doing, right?
So if it's not Trump's bidding, should they be doing anything?
So at the moment, USAID looks like just a weapon that we use against other countries.
And what we've learned about how they do it is the fun part.
So I'm going to tell you what to look for if you thought that USAID and the CIA were trying to...
Take control of your country.
So here are the telltale signs.
So if you're in another country and you see this happening, you should say, whoa, whoa, red flag.
This looks like a takeover of our country.
Ready?
Number one, usually the takeover has to do with getting rid of a populist.
Because a populist is not a puppet.
And if we're going to try to control some smaller country, we want to get a puppet in there.
So the existence of a populist is usually a trigger for the other things.
And if the result is a puppet, then probably there was this undercover effort.
Now, there's a name for this kind of takeover, and there's some more details I'll give you.
They're often referred to as color revolutions.
The reason it's a color revolution is that there's some history of some of these fake revolutions that the CIA and USA gins up, that they have some kind of color as their banner.
So I guess Georgia had an orange movement, and Ukraine, when it was doing its thing there, had a rose movement, right?
I think somebody else had some other color.
So often there's a color.
associated with the movement.
But that's not a requirement, but often there.
You would look for outside money flowing into the country.
So you'd look for that.
Or USAID specifically.
So if you saw that USAID was sending money into anything in your country, that would be a sign that there's a planned takeover.
So you're looking for a populist, Who triggers it?
Looking to be replaced by a puppet, the puppet being run by USAID and CIA. Some outside money from USAID and capacity building.
So the capacity building would be getting your own puppets into the media, getting your own people into the important institutions, either by bribery or blackmail or usually bribery.
So you look for that.
But here's the big one.
You look for an artificially generated social instability.
So the way you get a good revolution going is you've got to get the social instability really high.
So then it all makes sense.
Oh, it's obvious why this country got rid of their leader, because look at all the social instability.
So you've got to create some social instability if there isn't any.
You might, for example, the number one way to do that is to get a country racially divided.
So if there's any minority groups that are being abused, they're already primed.
So you've just got to organize them, give them money, make sure they've got a leader, make sure they know how to organize, and then...
Suddenly you've got people on the streets.
Suddenly it's a battle.
Suddenly the news, which you've also done capacity building, so you've got some control of at least some of the media, so then the media starts saying, hey, look at the population.
They're so unhappy because of all the division.
They're taken to the streets.
And then that's the next thing.
If you see movements literally on the streets and they haven't existed before, They might be fake movements.
So it would be typical for the color revolution to, say, co-opt a big union.
If they could get control of the leaders of the union, then the union would be part of the marching in the streets.
So you look for any big organization that maybe already exists, but they're not organized, and you get them organized and get them on the streets, and that would be part of a color revolution.
Two of the things that USAID does for other countries, which you could say, huh, is that part of the social instability?
What is they push DEI on other countries?
Do you think they're pushing DEI on other countries because that's good for America?
Is it because it's just charity?
Or is it social instability?
Well, DEI causes tremendous social instability, so there's that.
What about climate change?
Apparently, climate change is something that gets introduced in a country you want to take over, because there's always some green people who say, yeah, hell yeah, climate change.
Our government's not doing enough.
We're going to take to the streets.
So you can get some climate change people marching.
You can get some race-related groups marching, and then you've got your social instability.
But none of it works unless you've got control of the media or enough control to tell your story.
Oh, everything's bad here.
We're going to have to get rid of this populist leader.
This populist can't do anything right.
We better put in this well-respected, boring puppet.
All right.
So look for the capacity building.
Look for billionaires funding things.
Look for the racism and the fake groups and all that and the media propaganda.
And you look for the USA behind it.
And then there's one tell that's like the good one.
If it also looks like Russia is a threat...
That's almost a guarantee that the United States is behind it.
Because we love to blame Russia for stuff.
Especially if it's Ukraine or Georgia or just about anybody else.
We're going to say, you know, we could save you from Russia.
Or this new leader could be the person who protects you from Russia.
Yeah.
So look for that.
So that takes us to 2016. Do you remember 2016 when this populist American became president?
His name was Trump.
You've heard of him.
And the powers that be in this country, even the people who control USAID, probably were not happy about it.
Turns out the USAID is 98% Democrats.
So you can imagine how everybody felt when this non-Democrat Populist.
Became president.
And do you remember what happened soon after he became president?
Some changes in the country?
Anybody notice those changes?
I'll give you some examples.
There were the pink pussy hats.
A lot of people were in pink.
Pink's a color.
But there was also Black Lives Matter in Antifa.
Seems like they were wearing a lot of black outfits.
There was the black motif of Black Lives Matter, but then Antifa always dressed in black.
It was almost like black was the color, almost like they were color-coordinated.
Do you remember the Charlottesville marchers?
You know, those neo-Nazis marching?
Isn't it weird that we had never seen anything like that in modern America?
And then it happened once, and then we never saw it again.
And it became the biggest story in America, and it was based on a hoax.
The hoax that Trump was on the side of the Nazis.
Now, I said it at the time, but I didn't have any context to back it up.
I said, there's something about this Charlottesville event that looks completely non-organic.
How did all these people afford to be there?
How did they get the tiki torches?
How did the most disorganized group of people in the United States, the neo-Nazi racists, how did they suddenly mount this camera-perfect media event, but only once?
They could only pull it off once.
Isn't that interesting?
Huh.
So that would look like exactly the kind of thing that the USAID and the United States and the CIA would do to another country.
Just what they do.
And then, of course, there was something weird about Black Lives Matter and Antifa that popped up around the same time that seemed to come out of nowhere, seemed to be funded by Soros and who knows where else, and they disappeared as soon as Joe Biden became president.
So that would kind of suggest...
That Charlottesville was never real, because it never reconstituted in any way.
It would suggest that Black Lives Matter was never real, except that it had some kind of exterior backing that made it active for a while.
And it would suggest that Antifa was never real.
So who would be backing things that aren't real, that would create racial division?
At the same time, DEI was going wild.
And one of the biggest complaints about this populist president was, not good on climate change.
Huh.
DEI and climate change, two things that we know are used as weapons against other countries to create social divide.
Both of them happening at the same time our populist president got in.
That's kind of a big coincidence, isn't it?
And then, of course, the J6 insurrection.
We don't know what role the government had in fomenting that, but it doesn't look like something that happened organically to me.
To me, it looks like a bunch of people who thought the election was rigged, but for some reason a bunch of bad people got in there too.
What do you think was the organizing principle that got all the bad people in there too?
It was surprisingly organized, and yet, And yet, after January 6th, nothing like that has ever happened again.
So it never happened before.
It hasn't happened again.
It's almost like that's not a naturally organized group of people.
It's as if there's some exterior force organizing Black Lives Matter, organizing a Charlottesville march, organizing Antifa, and organizing perhaps the violent part of January 6th.
And then we've got the anti-Israel protesters.
So I'm not sure if that's related because that one actually could be organic.
But anyway, you don't have to worry about some color revolution in the United States because that would assume that the CIA was turning its weapons against a domestic enemy.
Except we know that they are allowed to do that now.
And we know that they did that for censorship by using funding of foreign entities that would then try to suppress our social networks and create censorship in our country by building capacity in other places.
When USAID pushed DEI in the United States, somebody's saying in the comments.
I haven't seen that, but that wouldn't surprise me.
But the way to know if there was some kind of color revolution in this country would be, and obviously this didn't happen, but imagine if the person who replaced the populist candidate, imagine if that person was a puppet.
Oh, wait.
Joe Biden was a puppet.
He was the...
The only candidate we've ever seen in which neither side believes he was actually in charge.
Never seen that before.
But at least he has this vice president who...
Oh wait.
We learned that the vice president was so incapable that she couldn't possibly have been in charge of anything.
And if she became president, would have been a puppet.
Because she was weak and incapable.
So, I'm not going to say that there was a color revolution in the United States driven by the same people with the same tools that did it in other countries.
And by the way, not just once in a while, but dozens of other countries.
Dozens.
And it always looks the same.
But there were fake organizations.
There were...
Fake media.
Do you know why the Charlottesville thing worked?
It's because the hoax that came out of it, the fine people hoax.
Do you know why the mainstream media, who all knew it was a hoax, do you know why they didn't report it as a hoax?
They reported it as fact.
And they kept recording it as fact long after it got debunked.
Do you know why?
Well, it's not because they didn't know it was fake.
It looks exactly like...
USAID and the CIA and all their evil trolls ran an overthrow of this country.
Under that context, given that context, do you believe the elections were not rigged in 2020?
I went from open to the question in 2020. I was like, well, I'm not seeing any proof, but I'm open.
Open to the possibility of anything happening.
Possible.
At the moment, I think the odds that 2020 was rigged are 100%.
Because once you see the entire mechanism from the fake media to the fake street movements to the fake division about race, fake division about climate, it's so textbook that if they didn't rig the actual election, Why'd they do the rest of the stuff?
All the rest of the stuff was to get a result, and they're not playing.
That's the thing you need to know.
Whoever would be behind this sort of stuff, they're not playing.
So yes, of course they would rig the election if that was the only way to win.
And it might have been.
So I would say that if they didn't rig the election, they were ready to rig the election.
Maybe they didn't have to.
I mean, it's possible that Biden, the puppet, the brain-dead puppet, got the most votes that any Democrat has ever gotten.
And then the very next election, it goes back down to the baseline.
Maybe.
Maybe.
But how likely is that?
I would say the odds of the 2020 election being stolen, I'd give it 100%.
I don't think there's any doubt at this point.
But I'll give you the only out I'll give myself is that it's not proven, but how many times has the United States rigged an election in another country and they couldn't prove it?
Does that never happen?
And I'd like somebody to explain to me why is it we have voting machines?
When you don't need them, they're more expensive, they're harder to maintain, they're not as fast, or at least there's no advantage in anything.
So why would you have them?
I can only think of one reason.
In the early days, I can imagine the vendors just sold them with their bullshit.
Oh, this will be faster.
Oh, much better, much more accurate than the paper.
But now that we know that none of that's true, Why do we still have them?
Why do you have a voting machine?
There's only one reason.
Once you've actually had them long enough to know that they're not faster, more accurate, more reliable, they're nothing.
Why do you still have them?
There's only one reason.
And if nobody will even come on TV and say, oh, Scott, you're wrong.
There are some good reasons.
I'd be open to that, by the way, if there are some good reasons.
I'll change my mind tomorrow.
But you don't know any reasons.
I'm a voter and this is one of the biggest issues in the country.
Was the election fair?
And not a single person has ever that I've seen, maybe you've seen it, but I haven't seen it, going on TV or in the news to defend why machines are safer, faster, cheaper, better than paper.
Haven't seen it.
And that's a dog not barking pretty loudly.
So that's where we are.
Now, the good news about this USAID debacle is that the leaders who are prairie-dogging on this, and otherwise the ones who are sticking their heads up and saying, no, no, no, you cannot cut this.
No, no.
They're all the ones who are part of the grift.
They're ones who are either directly or indirectly funded by USAID. Even though there are politicians in this country, there are lots of indirect ways to fund things.
But all the definitely corrupt people have decided to go public.
Now, they don't know that it's so obvious that this is the corrupt crowd.
I sometimes call them the designated liars.
But look at the names of the people who just went public, trying hard.
To keep that USAID. Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy, Jamie Raskin, AOC, as Mike Benz pointed out, AOC is only a politician because it was a USAID process to find her in college and jumpstart her career.
So AOC has always been a creation of the machine.
And she's out there, oh, defending.
Need that USAID. Swalwell, Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta.
Need I say more?
Also, let's see.
I think Jasmine Crockett was there and Presley and Ilhan Omar.
The last three on the list, they may just be jumping in because they like to jump in.
I'm not sure they're all USAID beneficiaries.
They might be.
Ilhan Omar might be.
I don't know.
But that's the thing to look for.
Anyway, they've all revealed themselves as part of the dirty money plot.
Now, if you saw Schumer, the second day in a row, he went out in public and embarrassed all of the Democrats.
Remember, he held up the can of beer and the avocado.
And he mansplained to people what an avocado is.
An avocado makes your guacamole.
You will not have a beer as inexpensively as before on Super Bowl.
And it was just so weak and so poorly done.
And then the next day he's out there trying to save USAID and he's giving his inspirational speech.
And I'd like to give you my impression.
Of Senator Schumer inspiring the crowd.
Preparing myself.
Get the glasses.
And we are going to win, everybody.
We're going to win.
Okay, you say it after me.
We're going to win.
No, this is where you say it the same time I say it.
Everybody say it loud.
We're going to win.
We're not going to rest.
No, you say that too.
We're not going to rest.
Don't say the first part.
Say the second part only now.
We're going to rest.
We're never going to rest.
And it was literally just hilarious.
But I thought to myself, maybe Democrats love this.
Maybe my bias filter is so sensitive that anything the other team does, I don't like, right?
But then I turn on Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart is begging Democrats to stop...
Jon Stewart is begging Democrats to stop sending Schumer out.
And after mocking Schumer as badly as I did...
Stuart just leans into the microphone and he goes, he's not good at this.
He's not good at this.
Yeah, he's not good at this.
Anyway, so all the bad people are going to try to stop Doge.
The federal workers are suing Doge for connecting some server to something.
Wired is reporting.
Who knows where that'll be?
I guess 20,000 federal workers have taken Trump's buyout offer.
If they take the buyout, they get paid through September with benefits.
20,000 said, yep.
So I read that in just the news.
And that's going to save, they say, $100 billion a year.
So that's nice.
Saved $100 billion a year.
Apparently the entire CIA has this offer as well.
And I'd expect some of them to take it.
In other news, Ukrainian President Zelensky, according to the Gateway Pundit, he thinks that the United States should supply him with nuclear weapons.
You know, the puppet that the United States installed?
I don't know.
You know, anything could happen.
But I don't think we want to give him nuclear weapons.
I don't think that's going to happen.
Not under Trump, anyway.
Anyway.
Yeah, he's a crazy maniac.
I can't imagine how that would make anything better.
Apparently, according to Doge, and there's an article in Breitbart, that the Biden administration made improper payments Totally $236 billion just in 2023 alone.
Now, that was mostly overpayments.
And even though it's a lot of money, $238 billion, it's just a portion of the $1.8 trillion annual deficit.
But think about that.
So $236 billion.
It's the amount we've identified as fraudulent or overpayment.
Let me say that again.
That's just the amount we identified.
That is by no means the limit of what the fraud was.
It's only what we've identified.
Oh, my God!
You know, we found out through the Doge effort.
That the Treasury was signing off on everything that came to them.
They didn't look at anything and say, wait a minute, you're paying a terrorist?
It just wasn't their job.
They just processed the payments.
So we had this huge, unaudited, immense pile of money that wasn't being managed in any practical way.
Maybe it will be now.
I'd like to go on record as saying, I don't understand how Doge could possibly save enough money to balance the budget.
All the numbers I hear don't make any sense to me.
So USAID, for example, is like 0.7% of the budget.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think 100% of what Doge has been working on is maybe 1% of the budget.
So if they save...
You know, 30% of 1% of the budget, that's not even getting anywhere near the amount of the deficit.
But when they talk about it, they act like it does.
What am I missing?
Why don't any of the numbers make sense to me?
None of it makes sense.
And when I say it doesn't make sense, I mean, it's like a butterfly to an elephant.
I don't understand it.
What I see is a butterfly-sized number of cuts.
Even though the numbers are enormous in terms of percentages, it's like a little butterfly.
What needs to be cut would be the elephant.
The claims are they found enough butterflies to equal like half an elephant already.
I don't think so.
So I don't know what's going on exactly, but I don't know why I can't understand the difference between a butterfly and an elephant.
I mean, I'm not even in the same zip code with seeing that we're cutting enough to make a difference.
But maybe.
I'd love to be wrong.
I mean, that would be ideal.
So we'll see what happens with that in terms of the deficit.
But certainly I like everything that Doge is doing.
I like them moving fast.
I like them breaking stuff.
I like them turning off things that we desperately need just to find out how desperately we do need them.
Every part of that is looking good to me.
I like the aggressiveness that they're using.
I like that they're bending, you know, maybe bending some rules.
No bad ones, but they're bending rules in the service of doing something useful.
You can do that all day long as far as I'm concerned.
So we'll see.
Apparently, according to Zero Hedge, Seven Americans have been charged with this gigantic COVID-related tax credit scheme where they filed for over $600 million of fraudulent payments.
Now, they didn't get all $600 million, but they got $45 million.
Seven people filing fake tax returns and asking for the COVID money.
$45 million.
They could have gotten $600 million.
Again, Those are the ones that got caught.
How many didn't get caught?
The numbers of fraud during the pandemic and just in general are just mind-boggling.
So yes, the entire government is broken and I don't think Doge can break it harder.
It's completely broken.
It's throwing our money out the door for things we don't even know about.
So if you break that, you're breaking something that was already broken, right?
You can't break something that's already completely broken, and that's what our funding and spending were, completely broken.
So you can't break it harder than it was already broken.
All right, so the Wall Street Journal, in their editorial opinion, is describing Trump's...
Negotiating victories with Canada and Mexico as, quote, minor concessions and treating it basically as an embarrassing failure because he got nothing of substance, but he backed off at least for 30 days on the tariffs.
Does that really look right to you?
Why are they calling a major concession a minor one?
Is it because they think they won't actually do anything?
So I think the complaint is until Mexico and Canada do something that is big and what they promised, he got nothing because they haven't done anything yet.
To which I say that's why he postponed the tariffs for 30 days because our good friends and partners and neighbors Said, yes, we plan to do these things.
And so Trump said that those are things I want.
So if you're going to do those things, I'll wait 30 days for the tariffs.
And in 30 days, if you've done those things, we're all good.
Maybe.
You know, he always says maybe.
He doesn't say for sure.
But isn't this the way it's supposed to work?
And so if the Wall Street Journal is right, And the only thing Canada and Mexico did was make some promises that they have no intention of keeping.
I saw an article just before I came on that suggested that Canada had no intention of sending extra people to the border.
Maybe that's true.
And then you know what you do?
You crash their economies.
You destroy their economies.
Because if they really promised us something that's that important to us, if they promised it, And it was bullshit?
That's when you're not friends anymore.
That's the end of being friends.
That's when Trump's going to crash your economy.
And you'll probably recover, but it's going to take you a while.
And we're never going to stop tariffing you because we can't trust you now.
If we can't trust you when you make a deal, your economy's going to the toilet.
And I think Trump needs to do that.
But...
Because we're dealing with allies and neighbors and partners, you can't say no when they say yes.
In other words, if you ask for something and they say yes, you can't tariff them then.
They said yes.
They offered something you wanted.
But if they lied, which is what the Wall Street Journal is suggesting, or they allowed Trump to think it was more than it was, which would be kind of a lie, It's going to be really expensive.
And they're going to wish it didn't happen.
So my guess is they're going to step up because when it gets close to that 30 days, it's going to be pain.
And I don't think Trump's going to...
I think if they say it again, oh, wait, give us another 30 days, I don't think they're going to get another 30 days.
I think the next 30 days, both Mexico and Canada get to decide if they still have an economy.
And I think Trump will just take both of them down if they lie to him.
All right.
Wow.
According to one source, over four years, the administration unintentionally misspent close to a trillion dollars.
Wow.
This is according to Rachel Gressler in the National Review.
Well, I suppose there'll be lots of different opinions on how much was misspent.
But that's a big number.
Right.
All right.
Trump says he left instructions that if he gets assassinated by an Iranian asset, that Iran will be obliterated.
Now, we don't know if obliterated means the whole country or just the leadership.
I would imagine it would be the leadership.
But that was exactly the right way to play it.
Now, who knows if Trump has really left instructions to obliterate them?
I don't think he'd have to tell us.
I think we'd go hard at Iran's leadership and destroy them if they took out Trump.
It's probably not maybe technically true that somebody's going to obey the president who's no longer with us.
So would it make any difference if he left instructions?
All that matters would be if J.D. Vance wanted to do that.
But I don't think you'd have to twist his arm.
So I like that Trump puts it out there, and he makes it clear, as he did with North Korea, if you cross this line, You don't get to come back.
So, I like that positioning.
Weirdly, Elizabeth Warren is agreeing with Trump that banks are debanking too many people without cause.
How about that?
That's a weird one.
Now, apparently Warren is getting lots of complaints from people being debanked.
Probably in those cases, those are...
Left-leaning people getting debanked.
Now, there are lots of reasons to be debanked, and usually it's because the account did something suspicious by bank standards.
It doesn't mean that they broke any laws, but there was something about the way they were operating that a bank says, we can't touch that.
You're a little too close to weird crypto, a little too close to scams.
You're operating as if you're doing something illegal, but we can't tell.
So apparently there are a whole bunch of gray areas where you can get debanked pretty fast.
And Elizabeth Warren is actually asking Trump for support and is supporting the idea that the banks need to explain and have maybe a better process for deciding who gets debanked.
So, hey, a little bit of minor agreement there.
This story already got reversed from the time that I wrote it in my notes.
For a moment there, the post office was halting all packages from China.
And that was related, I guess, to the fact that China sends gazillions of small packages to get past the tariffs and duties that would apply on larger dollar items.
Huh.
So, but apparently that's been resumed already because it was too dramatic a change and too much involved would hurt American companies too much.
But I recommended that back in probably 2018. I said, if fentanyl is coming into the country from China, we should stop all shipments from China, which seemed like a ridiculous idea.
But it happened for maybe a few hours.
I don't know if that's going to happen again.
All right, so here's the nerdiest thing I'm going to tell you about AI. This is actually a big deal.
But if you're not following the field, it won't look like a big deal at all.
Did you know that AI can't read spreadsheets?
It can read them.
You can feed it to them and it'll tell you some things that are in there.
But it can't reliably...
Tell you what's on the spreadsheet or make an estimate based on it or extend it or anything.
It's sort of dumb and blind when it looks at any table of data.
I don't know why.
I think it's something that's built into the character of AI, so it's hard to change.
But there's a company, according to Fortune, a German startup that figured out...
How to make AI capable of reading spreadsheets and small tables of data.
Now, why this is such a big deal is this is exactly why I don't use AI. The biggest uses I had all involved it needed to look at a data or a document or some numbers.
Because if I wanted to build an agent that could ask questions such as, Can you find Dilbert that had this topic on that day?
I have that information in a table on a spreadsheet, but I couldn't read it.
So I couldn't build an AI agent that would just look at my spreadsheet and say, oh, you're looking for the one about the robot?
Here's some dates where the robot was and then show you the comic.
Can't do it.
Then I also tried to train it to simply replace me, to know everything about me.
And I thought, oh.
I'll put a whole bunch of facts about me in a document, and then it'll just refer to the document, and it'll know about me.
Couldn't do it.
So pretty much, I don't know, maybe two-thirds of the things you would ever want to use AI for would require the AI to look at a document or a little bit of data and incorporate that into its answers.
And if they make that work, that really is a big difference.
It just seems like a small one, but it's a really big one.
I would use AI immediately if it can do that.
One little thing.
Well, in Greenland, the elections are coming, and most of the residents of Greenland want independence, but that doesn't mean they want to be owned by America.
They would like to be independent from Denmark, but a majority of them also think there's no way to do it because Denmark provides Half a billion a year to keep them alive.
And they don't want their lifestyle to go down by half a billion a year, because there aren't many people there, so that's a lot of money.
And they'd love to be independent, but not with the economic hit they would take by becoming independent.
So, let me tell you what the most obvious solution is, where America gets what it wants, Denmark gets what it wants, and Greenland gets what it wants.
Which is that Greenland and Denmark both agree that the U.S. military can have a strong presence in Greenland and essentially be the national defense.
But we'd be doing it for our own national defense.
It's just that Greenland's better situated geographically.
So it seems to me there's an obvious end point.
I don't think we really need Greenland to be a state.
I don't see that that benefits us.
I don't think the Greenlanders need to be part of America.
But they need defense.
They need Denmark to keep paying them.
So Denmark keeps it.
They keep paying them.
Lifestyle's good.
And then the United States adds the military muscle to keep them safe.
And then I think we would have everything we wanted.
Except, wouldn't it be nice...
If Denmark paid for the U.S. military presence in Greenland so we didn't have to pay for it, would that be nice?
Now, Denmark's alternative, they might think, is that we just take the country because we can and just say, sorry, you're a good ally, but this just has to happen for geopolitical reasons.
So there's some possibility.
That Denmark would keep paying the residents their half a billion a year and maybe pay us a billion dollars a year to help keep the military there.
Who knows?
Possible.
All right, that's all I've got for now, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm going to talk to the people on Locals Privately.
And today will be another big news day.
I'm sure there have been lots of things that happened since I started.
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