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Well, after the show will be a Spaces event hosted by Owen Gregorian.
If you want to talk some more about whatever happened here or I suppose anything else that's on your mind.
So right after the show, look for Owen Gregorian and a Spaces event.
That will be more fun.
All right.
Spaces is the audio-only service that's on X. Well, First Lady Melania Trump has announced she's going to be doing an Easter egg roll.
You know, they always do that at the White House, an Easter egg roll.
But I remember the days when I used to do Easter egg events when I was a kid, and it was always about the money.
You know, if you found an egg of a certain type, you'd get a certain amount of money.
It wasn't much.
It was like 10 cents or 25 cents.
But I think if I went to the White House egg roll, I would just, like, grab the eggs and run away.
Maybe resell them.
How can they afford to have an egg roll?
Maybe Doge found enough money so they can afford eggs now.
Meanwhile, core inflation has dropped to a seventh-month low of 2.6.
Do you know what core inflation is?
Core inflation is the one you don't care about because it doesn't include food or energy.
The two things that have gone up the most.
No food, no energy.
Well, at least the rest of the stuff isn't going up too much.
It's still too high.
You want your inflation to be around 2%.
But, hey, it's the best in seven months.
Meanwhile, let's talk about all those Epstein files we've seen.
What Epstein files?
And I'm going to say again.
I realize Kash Patel did some kind of a post the other day, but he's been really quiet.
Do you think there's anything going to happen on these Epstein files?
I'm going to double down on my prediction and say that no matter how well-intentioned the administration is, no matter how much they really, really mean it, and they're not lying, I don't think there's any chance.
I don't think there's any chance we'll see any good Epstein stuff.
Anyway.
So, you probably have all seen by now the video of the Zelensky debacle, some say, in the White House.
But you haven't gotten my take on it yet, so that's why you're here.
You know, I hate it when something happens right after my show, and then I have to wait all day to talk about it, and everybody's already picked it over, so there's not much to say.
But I'll just say this.
Two reality TV stars who both became presidents walked into the White House.
What do you think was going to happen?
These are two experts at making a spectacle in front of a crowd.
Nobody better.
I mean, they're the most experienced spectacle-making put on the show.
And it's funny that when it was over...
Trump, you know, looked at the media and said, you know, it's good TV. So I think a lot of people are confusing the show with anything that matters in the real world.
And I think the show is really fun.
And probably in the end, none of it will matter in the real world.
One way or another, it won't really matter.
So here's what we got.
It looks a lot like an episode of The Apprentice, didn't it?
Where Zelensky was You know, basically getting fired by Trump and kicked out of the White House.
It was just like The Apprentice.
You're fired.
Get out of here.
So, anyway, what Bannon was saying and some others have said, I don't know the details, but apparently Zelensky was getting some advice from other senators.
Some are calling them rhinos.
And I guess he had a breakfast that day with some rhinos.
And there's an indication that maybe Susan Rice was advising him, which some would say would be a violation of the Logan Act, where you're not supposed to be negotiating for the United States unless you're in the government.
And they're not.
So maybe he got bad advice.
It sort of looked like he was a little emboldened, like he could push Trump a little bit.
But that didn't work out.
So I guess the big problem is that Zelensky agreed to this mineral deal, which seems like it was part of a larger package, which we don't know about yet.
But then he gets there and he says he doesn't necessarily want a ceasefire.
He wants a security deal.
And that wasn't part of the deal.
So he made the mistake of trying to negotiate with Trump and J.D. Vance while indicating to them and to the world, Right in front of them, that maybe they didn't understand the risk of Putin.
Now, how do you think that went over?
Didn't go over well.
So J.D. Vance goes first and starts dressing him down in public for not being thankful enough and trying to come to the White House and being a little bit of a jerk.
He didn't use those words.
But once J.D. Vance lit into him, you knew that Trump would have to double it, which he did.
And by the way, Trump is the best talkover debater I've ever heard.
He can talk over somebody as long as it takes until they just give up.
And that's what happened.
He and Zelensky tried to talk over each other, and Trump just wasn't going to lose that.
No, I'm going to keep talking until you shut up.
And he just talked over him, and you didn't hear anything that Zelensky said for like two minutes in a row.
And finally, Zelensky just gave up because he couldn't even hear what he was saying.
And then Trump went on, and that's what happened.
Anyway, when Zelensky said that Trump might feel different or feel differently, When Putin crosses the ocean someday and comes for them, and Trump says, don't tell me what I'm going to feel.
You don't have the right to tell me what I feel.
You have no cards.
No cards.
So, basically, it looked like Zelensky was criticizing Vance and Trump for either not doing enough or not understanding the real threat with Putin that you can't appease him.
he's just going to come for you eventually.
But...
So he kicks Zelensky out.
And, you know, I thought there was some chance he might come back the same day, but it didn't happen.
He's already going off to Great Britain.
Zelensky has.
Now, I'm going to judge this whole event on at least two dimensions.
Dimension number one, entertainment.
Oh, my God, it was entertaining.
It was wonderful.
I felt proud.
To be an American and have my president not take shit in the White House.
I just like that Vance and Trump weren't putting up with it.
That's exactly what I wanted to see.
So entertainment, it was a 10. I replayed it multiple times.
It was just fun every time.
But here's the thing you need to know.
In big deals like this...
Whether it's a merger or any kind of really big deal, it's pretty common for one of them to walk away.
And it's pretty common if they both want the deal, and there's a deal to be had, and it's a good deal, that they'll probably come back.
The one thing that people say about Trump that's meant to be an insult is that he's transactional, meaning that he would immediately get over his feelings if there was a deal, because he'd rather have the deal than anything else.
So, the funny part, even Lindsey Graham sided with Trump.
Now, Lindsey Graham is sort of a famous Ukraine war hawk, has been supporting cranes, getting weapons and everything.
But even Lindsey Graham said that he was a strong advocate for Zelensky in Ukraine.
He said he's devastated by Zelensky's behavior and that undoes all the hard work of recent years.
And he suggests that Ukrainian people find a new leader.
And he praised Trump for standing up to him.
So that's interesting.
But remember I told you that, well, James Garville told you, and then I told you what James Garville said, that the Democrat's strategy now is the way for Trump to make a mistake.
Because they don't have anything to add.
So literally, they're going to wait for Trump to make mistakes and then they can attack him.
So that means that they're going to define everything that Trump does as a mistake.
Not really different than the past.
But they're not going to put up with anything he does at all.
They're going to say, well, there it is.
That's chaos.
That's the end of the world.
He walked across the lawn.
Well, look at how he walked across the lawn with that chaos legs.
All that.
But the funny part is watching the theater kids on the Democrats because they have to pretend that they don't understand the situation and that they feel really bad.
So they all put on their disgust face.
You need to look at the...
There's some compilations of people on MSNBC pretending to be very sad about this event.
And they all have the...
Oh, face.
Oh, I'm so sad.
Oh, my country got embarrassed.
And they're competing to see who can do the most theater kid thing.
And it's so unserious that it's ridiculous.
Let's see.
Was it David Axelrod?
He goes on a post to the next.
He says, I love my country with all my heart, and I've never been more embarrassed for America.
Really?
This is one of the guys who supported Joe Biden through four years of obvious dementia.
And then we all found out that they all knew it and they were all covering it up.
And that was not more embarrassing?
What is it that makes you embarrassed, David Axelrod?
It makes you embarrassed when the President of the United States stands up to Some pissant in the White House who's challenging him.
That's what embarrasses you.
But keeping a mentally, you know, mentally deficient president in the office while nobody knew who was in charge, lying to the world and then getting caught because he does the debate and it became obvious that he wasn't there.
None of that was embarrassing.
Nothing.
But this.
Yeah.
No, none of this is real.
Meaning that the Democrats are pretending to be terribly upset.
Are they terribly upset?
No.
No, nobody's terribly upset.
Nobody's really embarrassed.
Nobody's shamed by it.
I think we'll survive the shame.
I think we'll survive it.
Anyway, in my opinion, Putin probably should not increase his military attacks.
Probably he doesn't want to do a ceasefire unilaterally.
But if Putin is smart, he's already got a little bit of a win.
So he should just play it really cool and still look for some way to end the war.
I think he will.
But as long as this deal ever made sense, and I'm not sure it did because I don't know the deal, but if the deal ever made sense, And Zelensky ever liked it, just the mineral part, then it'll get done.
I mean, it might take a while or whatever, but if they both want it, the fact that they had a little dust up in the White House, it won't stop anything.
Now, let me put this back in the context of the reality TV stars.
If this were a reality TV show, how would it end?
It would almost certainly end with the two combatants.
Three if you count J.D. Vance.
Doing another public event because you would have to tune in.
You'd be like, oh my god, it's going to happen again.
It's going to happen again.
It would be must-see TV. But this time, maybe they just signed the deal.
So I don't think you can discount that you have two individuals who operate at the highest level of understanding the show.
The show.
It's part of politics.
You've got to put it on a show.
And the fact that they put on a tremendous show, everybody was entertained, even if you were embarrassed.
Oh, oh, I'm so embarrassed for my country.
Even then, you probably enjoyed it.
So, yeah, if I had to predict, I would say if it was ever a good deal, and that's a big if, because I don't know that it was a good deal.
But if they both liked it at one point, it'll get done, and it'll be another reality TV. Biggest ratings for a political event of all time.
No real lasting problem.
If I had to guess, there's no lasting impact on the real world.
The deal will be the deal if they like it.
There'll be a deal with Russia or not.
But none of this will matter.
It's not going to make a difference.
One of the things Trump said was that...
That Trump and Putin went through a lot together with the Russia collusion hoax.
So people said, my God, do you love Putin or what?
Why are you saying that you went through a lot together?
Well, let me explain this.
Putin is trying to flatter and, let's say, pace Trump.
And he's doing a good job.
Trump is trying to flatter and pace and tell him he's a friend.
To Putin, and he's doing a good job.
Both of them are operating at the highest level of persuasion.
Both of them are right on point.
And let me say it again.
Trump is the best when it comes to this, but Putin's in the same weight class, right?
It's not a completely unfair fight.
They both have the skills all the way down.
What we're watching is that there might be some larger deal that Trump wants to do with Russia.
We don't know what that is yet.
But it's funny that we talk about Russia as our enemy when China, Mexico, and Canada are poisoning us with fentanyl and Russia isn't.
Russia's just trying to sell us energy.
Now, I get that he has imperial ambitions.
He wants to conquer some of those countries.
And maybe all of Europe for the greater good of, I don't know, who knows what he really wants.
We just assume we know what he wants.
How about Ukraine?
Who's been a bigger pain in the ass to us lately, Ukraine or Russia?
Well, our money is going to Ukraine and it's dividing the country.
So it's hard to talk about it without being called a Putin lover because that's what all the dumb people do.
You know, Democrats, if you say anything they don't like, they call you a racist and a bigot.
And it's just automatic.
It doesn't matter what you say.
If you mention Putin in any context other than, we must spend all of our blood and treasure to destroy the evil Russian Empire.
If you say anything but that, oh, oh, I see you want to have oral sex with Putin is what you're saying.
Oh, oh, you love him?
Did you send him a Valentine's card?
Oh, well, you seem to be a Putin apologist, some kind of a Putin puppet-pologist.
So it's just the latest stupid Democrat thing to say.
It's so unmoored from any adult anything.
So I saw Sean Davis say, wait till Democrats, wait till Democrats are other people too, I guess.
Wait till they find out who we partnered with in World War II. Stalin.
So, the dumb people, the people who, I don't know, they just don't have good arguments.
Their argument is that the only people we should be nice to are other democracies, like Europe.
And that if somebody's a dictator, we shouldn't be nice to them, or work with them, or do deals with them.
But I live in the real world.
Dictators exist.
If they didn't exist, well, that would be great advice.
But they exist.
And they have access to huge amounts of energy, which matters.
And they have lots of weapons, which matters.
And sometimes we have, you know, things we disagree with and sometimes we agree.
So if you can't work with dictators and democracies, you're just a crippled government.
You would be a government that just can't do anything.
Because there are so many dictators, if you only were nice to democracies.
And by the way, the democracies we're talking about are the ones trying to censor Americans through the social media networks.
I don't know that Putin has ever tried to censor me.
What problems has Putin caused for me?
But Europe has caused some really damn problems.
I still blame the UK for whatever happened with that Russia collusion thing, because there were just too many British people involved in that whole deal.
So, I don't know.
I would say maybe our friends are kind of a problem, too.
You know, not as big a problem as, you know, maybe Russia, if you want to rank it.
But there's nobody here who's innocent.
At all.
Alright, so...
Here's the thing that I wonder about.
If the only way that Ukraine were going to be protected from any further onslaught by Russia, if the only thing that would be protecting them is America's contribution and weapons and stuff and then Europe's,
does Trump's idea of just doing a mineral deal with no security guarantees Does that mean that you basically were giving away Ukraine and it's not ours to give away?
Although you could argue that we did overthrow Ukraine and install a puppet, and maybe it was ours at one point, and maybe we do kind of own it.
We do kind of own it.
We're just pretending we don't.
So, anyway.
How does it work that Putin would not attack Ukraine because we did a mineral deal with Ukraine?
If we didn't have military assets there, is it just the risk that we would turn on the flow of money and fund Ukraine with better weapons?
See, Trump has made the claim that there wouldn't have been a war if he had been president.
But he also makes the claim...
That if he makes a peace, it will hold, again, because of the force of his personality and whatever relations he's created with Putin.
Do you believe that?
Do you believe that if Trump is president, he could do an adequate risk assessment and threat so that Putin would say, you know what, this is really not the time to get adventurous.
Because we're sort of getting along and I don't really need to own Poland.
And all right.
But what happens when Trump leaves?
What if Trump leaves office?
Is Putin going to be held in check because he either respects the new president or he fears the consequences?
I don't know.
So I do think that Trump needs to do a better job of explaining What it looks like and why anything that we're involved in would keep Putin from taking the rest of Ukraine the moment it's underfunded.
Now, you might say, Scott, it'll never be underfunded because Europe can just step up.
And if they want, it's completely up to them.
They can put a massive amount of money in there to replace whatever money we were given.
And everybody's good.
Now, that would be okay with me.
If Europe wants to be paying nearly all of it, and we're just out from the funding perspective, but maybe we sell weapons to Europe to give to them or something, that would be fine.
I wouldn't have any problems with that.
Well, a million dead Russians, that is a domestic problem for Putin, but it's not like he's going to be kicked out of office.
He's pretty secure.
All right.
So, Fareed Zakaria on Real Time.
So, let me just finish that point.
I think Trump needs to do a better job of describing what the future of Ukraine looks like if the only security guarantees are no security guarantees.
We're just doing a big deal with you.
And so, Russia wouldn't dare attack your country when we have major assets there.
Is that the whole game?
Or is there something we don't know about yet, but that part is the important part?
Now, I told you before that the real secret of this negotiation is that it can't be just about Ukraine and Russia.
It's got to be about a more comprehensive, how do we deal with Russia in the future, you know, on all levels, militarily, energy-wise, economically.
Are we increasing NATO or not?
So that stuff hasn't been discussed yet.
And I've heard people say, oh, Putin's the big winner.
To which I say, how do you know that?
How do we know anything?
We don't know what any kind of a deal would look like.
Is Putin the big winner?
And then I say, if two countries are at war and they don't want to be at war, and the people who are paying for it don't want to be paying for it, and then somehow Trump can make all that a stop, who's not better off?
Isn't Ukraine better off not being in a war?
Are we better off not paying?
Isn't Putin better off consolidating his gains?
So a good agreement would be good for everybody relative to the alternatives, which are ugly.
Here's what Fareed Zakaria said on Real Time last night.
He basically jokingly said that Zelensky's mistake...
Is that he should have gone in there and said, Mr. President Trump, I'm paraphrasing.
You've been such a godsend to Ukraine.
You're the greatest.
We want to give you the highest Ukrainian civil award.
And maybe build a statue to you.
I'm paraphrasing a little bit.
But the idea was, Fareed said, he didn't play to Trump's ego.
And that's what went wrong.
To which I say, what kind of an analysis is that?
The deal was already done.
All Zelensky had to do was sign it.
That's it.
He didn't need to do any flattering.
There was no flattering requested, no flattering given, and they had a deal.
So I would say that maybe he didn't have to offer anything because they already had a deal.
So that's sort of a dumb analysis.
Speaking of dumb analysis, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, I swear that their editorial board, it read like a high school essay.
I just read it and I thought, what?
What is wrong with you?
So their headline for their editorial on this is, Putin wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office spectacle.
Is that really the way to frame this, that Putin won?
Now, we know that Putin liked it.
And the Russians thought it was great entertainment, but so did I. Why don't they say?
And the MAGA people won, because they really enjoyed it.
So Putin enjoyed it, and we enjoyed it.
What will be different?
I can't think of anything.
I don't think it'll really affect the real world.
I don't think it'll change what would have been their funding, because Trump wanted to get out of that anyway.
And I don't think it'll affect anything.
But they think somebody won.
That's just the worst way to look at a three-way negotiation.
Four-way if you count Europe, and I guess you should.
And they said that Vance, J.D. Vance, started the public fight.
Okay.
How many times do I have to read some dumbass in the news not understanding who starts a fight?
If I hear one more person tell me that, Russia started the war in Ukraine without any reference to the things that happened before he crossed the border, as in the NATO expansion and blah, blah, blah.
If none of that's mentioned, you're not really a serious person.
And the Wall Street Journal editorial does the same thing with J.D. Vance.
Do you think J.D. Vance should just sat there and let that little punk in the White House, While they're trying to help, do you think they should let him lecture them on how they don't understand negotiations and they don't understand Putin and he's going to come for them over the ocean and that this deal isn't really good and you haven't really done much for us, you've just weakened us?
In effect.
So who started the fight?
I don't think J.D. Vance started the fight.
I think he was quick.
He was quick.
To enter it.
But then once he entered it, Trump had to double it.
So then Trump did his thing.
Because there's no way that Trump is going to let J.D. Vance be the baddest mofo in the room.
That just isn't going to happen.
So J.D. Vance goes in as a really bad mofo.
Like, quite impressive, I must say, that he took him on directly.
And even from a position of number two...
Well, maybe number three if you count Secretary of State.
But he wasn't the one in power, but he just defended America, defended the White House, defended his president, defended everything.
So that was quite baller.
I have to say, that was a look from J.D. Vance that will probably go a long way to making him the top candidate after Trump.
But like I said, there's no way in any world that Trump is going to let somebody else be the baddest mofo in the room.
So he had to take it up a level as he does.
And it was brilliant.
It was brilliant in the showman way.
And that's all it was.
It was just a show.
All right.
So...
And then also the whole Putin wins just ignores the fact that we have a much bigger set of interests with Russia.
And until we know what that looks like, you know, what kind of a deal we would have with Russia, until we know what that looks like, you can't really say anybody won because we don't know what that looks like.
But did they imagine that Trump was just going to give Russia everything it wanted?
Doesn't sound like Trump.
She accused Elon Musk of supporting apartheid when Musk grew up in South Africa.
Now, he did not.
There's no evidence of that whatsoever.
But here's what she said, Joy Behar on The View.
The guy was not born in this country.
Okay.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh, my God.
She abandons the most core Democrat principle that if you decide to live in this country, you call yourself an American, you act like an American, you're an American citizen, and you're doing more for America than just about any other citizen.
And she has to start with, you're not an American, or you're not born in this country.
That's basically throwing away their most basic principle.
Just to get a dig at Elon Musk.
Then she goes on.
So he has this mentality going on.
Does he?
Because she's reading his mind, right?
He was pro-apartheid.
Now, there's no evidence of that.
As I understand it, he told her.
Then there was a break, and I guess she got her ass kicked by the management because there's no evidence that he's ever been pro-apartheid.
And if you call somebody pro-apartheid like it's a fact, and you do it on television, in our current environment, that's a $25 million mistake.
So they were probably 10 seconds away from losing $25 million to dumb old Joy Behar for just making shit up.
Just making shit up.
And then here's how she responded to it once she'd been corrected and that they came back.
I'm getting some flack because I said that Musk was pro-apartheid.
I don't really know for sure if he was.
Imagine saying that when you didn't know for sure.
God.
And then she goes, he grew up at that time when apartheid party was in full bloom before the great Nelson Mandela fixed that.
He was around at that time.
What?
Like, she's trying to still be right, even though there's no evidence whatsoever.
And she's trying to make the, well, he was around during that time, so QED. Oh, my God.
And then she goes on.
Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't.
Is that how you treat an American citizen?
That, well, you know, I don't know if he's a Nazi.
Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't.
I don't know.
It's sort of ambiguous.
Seems like he hung around with people who had bad opinions, even, you know, maybe not personally, but he was in the same country with people who had bad opinions, so you can't ignore the fact that he was in the same country with people who had bad opinions.
Yeah, you can.
So, this is terrible.
I can't believe she still has a job.
Then Elon Musk went on Joe Rogan.
You may have seen it.
And he was talking about that they were doing to him, meaning the Democrats, doing to Elon Musk what they did to Trump, which is the Hitler play.
And he says directly, they're basically trying to get me killed by comparing me to Hitler.
And that's exactly what they're trying to do.
That's exactly what they're trying to do.
So, unbelievable.
We're so lucky that Musk is still willing to help the United States when the United States is acting like it doesn't deserve it.
That takes a lot of character to still be all in on the United States when half of the United States is calling him a Nazi.
That takes character.
Well, the Wall Street Journal has an article by Joanne Lipman.
Can white men finally stop complaining?
And the subtitle of the article, this is the Wall Street Journal.
And for 50 years, we've been hearing from white men who feel threatened by the gains of women and minorities.
No, you stupid bitch.
We're not complaining because we feel threatened.
We're complaining because for 50 years, we've been overtly discriminated against for being straight white men.
You can't get a job.
You can't get a contract.
For 50 fucking years.
And the reason that you didn't know how bad it was is because white men are not allowed to talk, like you, saying, can white men finally stop complaining?
That's right.
We were trained that if we even complained for a minute, it meant we were fucking bigots.
Bitch.
That's over.
People like me gave up everything so that we could say what we were feeling.
I gave up everything.
I'm going to say what I'm feeling.
You're a piece of shit.
And you're the problem.
And this is pure racial discrimination and bigotry against white men.
And I won't have it.
And I think that we've outgrown this.
I think that we can just say, fuck you.
Don't care.
Move on.
Get rid of your stupid DEI. Get rid of your stupid ESG. And let's try to compete on merit for once.
How about that?
Piece of shit.
Anyway, speaking of...
So the Hill says that Kamala Harris hasn't decided to run for governor of California.
But here's the funny thing.
So because she hasn't decided, the other candidates can't really wade in and they can't really get any money because everybody thinks she would be the frontrunner if she gets in.
So she's really frozen the entire California Democrat Party, they can't kind of do anything.
They're just frozen.
Now, here's the funny part.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Kamala Harris destroyed the entire federal, let's say national, Democratic Party, didn't she?
Don't you think it was mostly Kamala Harris that just destroyed Democrats?
Because she was the ultimate DEI candidate.
And they just took DEI to the ultimate conclusion, and everything broke, just like you would imagine it would on paper.
And now she's taking that same toxic, destructive thing, and she's taking it to California.
Now she's going to ruin Democrats' chance of winning, maybe forever, by running for governor.
Now she might actually even win, which is the weird part, because we're such a blue state.
The fact that she's destroying the Democrat Party nationally and then started destroying it in the biggest state, boy, she's got something to put on her Wikipedia page right there.
Anyway, good for you, Kamala.
You're almost done destroying everything about the Democrats.
Well, Secretary of Defense Hegseth...
Has confirmed that Trump has lifted restrictions on military raids and airstrikes.
Now, that doesn't mean all restrictions.
But they won't have to get approval so much.
So I think this is just taking it back to where it was in the first administration.
And I do believe the reporting is that the military became a lot more effective because they didn't have to ask so much for permission.
And that makes a big difference.
So that's a good move, probably.
Speaking of Democrats, in New York City, former Governor Andrew Cuomo is getting ready, people think, to run for mayor of New York City.
Now, how bad is the pool of Democrats that Andrew Cuomo, who had scandals that involve sexual harassment, which he resigned rather than...
I suppose it could have gotten worse if he didn't resign.
And then he also had the scandal of the unreported deaths in the COVID nursing homes.
Can he overcome with sexual harassment claims if you're a Democrat?
If you're a Democrat male, can you get elected if you've got these credible sounding claims?
I'll say sounding because I'm not the one who believes claims are real.
Just automatically.
They might be.
Anything's possible.
But I don't know.
I wasn't there.
So I'm just going to say there are claims.
That's the only thing I know.
But do you think that the Democrats can get the white guy, the straight white guy who's got claims of sexual harassment, can they really elect him in today's environment?
I don't know.
But it's hilarious to me that he might be their best shot.
I will say that That Cuomo probably is the best talker they have.
We'll talk about Fetterman in a minute.
But Andrew Cuomo, he just has that leadership, charisma, voice thing going on.
So he can act like he's a leader.
And he can pull that off.
So he does have the chops.
I mean, he was governor, right?
So we know he has the chops.
I don't know.
I don't know if he can get over these scandals.
Well, meanwhile, Bill Maher on his show said that the best candidate for president, who is a Democrat, would be Fetterman.
And his argument was that Fetterman talks like a normal guy, and even Trump said he's a common sense guy, and he has authenticity and charisma and balls.
I was trying to imagine a President Fetterman having a meeting with Zelensky on casual Friday.
That would be the sloppiest-looking meeting you ever saw in your life.
Zelensky would be the well-dressed one in that case.
Well, I'm going to agree with Bill Maher.
The Fetterman is the only one I see on their party who, in my opinion, could make a serious play for the presidency.
You know, he may have other problems that we don't know about.
You know, maybe if you run for president, they bring out the big guns and the reports of things that we haven't heard before.
So anything could happen.
But I have to completely agree with Mar on this, that if you're just looking at the vibe he puts off and how he connects with ordinary people, on top of having, you know, Ivy League degree and some government experience, He would be one to beat.
I think he would be one to beat.
There's a public interest law firm, I didn't get the name of it, that's filing a civil rights complaint against New York and Wisconsin on behalf of contractors.
So I guess if you're contracting with the government in those two places, New York and Wisconsin, if you don't hit the just...
Right approval of diversity.
So if your firm doesn't have just the ideal diversity, you can't get the job.
And one of the contractors said this, multiple times a day we lose orders because we're not a minority business.
The source who supplies contractors for the government infrastructure projects requested anonymity because of fear of reprisals.
So there's a white man who can't even talk in public with his own name.
Can't even talk in public with his own name when he's complaining about being discriminated against.
And the case for him being discriminated against is not even controversial.
Well, it's controversial, but it's not in question.
There's nobody who says, oh, yes, you must be bad at what you do.
You can get as many contracts as you want.
Why are you white men complaining?
No, everybody knows.
That you can't get contracts unless you have some golden ratio of diversity in male and female.
So there's lawsuits coming.
Good.
I hope the lawsuits are successful.
Meanwhile, the White House said that 29 Mexican cartel members, and one of them is described as the most evil cartel boss, one of the evil ones, are being extradited to the United States.
29. That's a lot.
If they're really bosses, I mean, if they're just people, it's not a lot.
But if they're all kind of bosses, no, I guess some of them are just members, and at least one's a boss.
But here's my question.
We all suspect that the Mexican government has some kind of arrangement with the cartels, but at the same time, they have to pretend that they don't.
So do you think that these 29 Mexican cartel members just went through the legal system in Mexico and it's all perfectly copacetic?
Or is it slightly more possible that a competing cartel said, you know, you could get rid of 29 people for us.
You know, they're in our territory and we'd like to get our territory back.
So, why don't you pretend you're working with the United States productively, but really just get rid of our competition, and we'll bribe you to do that.
How would we know if that were happening?
See, every time there's a cartel person that Mexico gives up, you know, they capture them and give up, I always wonder if they're just working for the other cartel.
You know, they got better bribed by the other cartel.
I have a real problem thinking that the...
That what's happening is that Mexico is doing its level best to battle the cartels with the United States' help.
It doesn't feel like I live in a world where things are that clean.
So I guess I'll be skeptical about these cartel members.
Meanwhile, all the boxes from Mar-a-Lago, remember Boxgate and the accusations that Trump had taken with him, nuclear secrets, and just stored them in the bathroom?
At Mar-a-Lago?
Well, apparently they weren't that sensitive because they've all been returned.
So the charges dropped and 100% of what he had is being returned.
Now, to be fair, Trump could have just declassified him because he's the president again.
So he certainly would have the ability to declassify them.
But do you think he would have declassified nuclear secrets?
No.
No.
Do you think he said, I'm president, so I'm going to declassify this how to make a nuclear bomb, and I'm just going to keep it in the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago in a box?
No.
So do we have, do you feel that we can confirm at this point that that was all fake?
I think we can, right?
That was pure lawfare, pure fake, because otherwise they wouldn't give it all back.
If they gave 90% of it back, then I would have said, hmm.
Yeah, maybe there was something to it.
Maybe they did have some secrets in those boxes.
But if they give it all back, I have a real tough time believing it was ever a problem.
Anyway, according to New Atlas, two beers a day shrinks your brain as much as a decade of aging.
So if you have four beers a day, you'd be aged 20 years.
Alcohol is poison.
I've got lots of stories about this.
I don't need to go any deeper.
Accordingly, the Trump administration, according to the National Pulse, has removed 50,000 migrants so far, most of them ones who had legal troubles.
Does that sound like a good number?
Do you feel like you're getting your money's worth from Tom Homan?
50,000 in two months?
Well, less.
A month and a half, right?
50,000?
If they're the 50,000 worst, or they're among the worst, that's a really big deal.
Because this might represent a reduction of violent crime of like 50 to 100,000 per year.
Because these were the worst of the worst.
And if you get rid of the worst of the worst, you know, the violent ones and the dangerous ones.
It feels like that's a whole lot of crime that's been reduced.
That seems like a big number to me.
Do you remember the big hoax in Canada where there was some claim that there were over 200, I guess, I don't know what you call them in Canada, but is it First Nations?
They have a different term for the indigenous population before the...
Other Canadians moved in.
So in America, it would be the Native Americans.
I don't know what they call them in Canada.
But anyway, the thought was that there was some kind of indigenous mass graves that would be suggesting that the Canadians of not too long ago were just murdering them and putting them in a mass grave.
So there were big protests.
It was a giant thing.
There was a big story.
And Trudeau put together this committee of experts to go look for any more because they thought, oh man, this might not even be alone.
There might be other mass graves.
And so they looked and they looked and they looked.
Guess how many they found?
Well, none.
And they just disbanded the entire committee.
The entire thing was a hoax.
There was never any mass grave in that category.
And even after looking for it really hard, didn't find any.
So that's Canada's fine people hoax, basically.
Apparently, according to a publication called The New Arab, the U.S. is going to pitch to a bunch of Arab real estate developers Trump's Gaza plan.
So that's going to come up.
So the U.S. will convene a summit with regional real estate developers.
That seems like a productive thing.
Now, you could disagree whether that should be developed or who should own it and all that, but I kind of like the fact that the conversation is about who's going to develop it.
Because that feels like, you know, it's a little optimism, a little potential for the future.
I don't know that it'll be...
It'll be, you know, optimized and then people will move back, but we'll see.
But it's good that they're having that.
Did you know, according to SciPost, Eric Nolan's writing, that AI can spot depression of old people through their driving habits?
Don't all old people drive exactly the same?
I don't know how you can tell which ones are depressed.
Oh, it is called the First Nations.
Yes, thank you.
All right.
So anyway, that's happening.
And that's all I had today.
So after the show, fairly soon now, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces event on Axe.
And that will be for anybody who wants to...
Talk about this stuff for more.
I know you've got lots more to say about Zelensky.
By the way, how many ways are there to spell Zelensky?
I've seen it with Z-E-L-E, Z-E-L-I, and sometimes with one Y at the end and sometimes with two.
And AI doesn't help me because it just goes back and forth.
So I don't know what's going on with that.
Anyway, so join Owen Gregorian and Spaces.
You can just Google him, and you'll find his account, and you'll see.
I also reposted the announcement, so you can find the link there.
