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Go! You know, the responsible thing to do would have been to not do a podcast because I'm really not capable.
Like, I'm not joking.
I am absolutely not capable of doing this.
But we'll see what happens.
If you want to see a train wreck, came to the right place.
I often tell you it's a superpower to not be embarrassed about things.
No embarrassment at all.
I'm just degraded by 80%, so I have no idea what's going to happen.
Well, what else can coffee do for you?
According to No Ridge, coffee can help protect your liver.
That's why I soak my liver in coffee every day, and you should too.
So, is there anything that coffee can't do?
No. No, it can do it all.
Here's some news that I can't get enough of from the legal news line.
Apparently the state of Illinois is suspending their DEI scholarships because the Department of Justice went after them for being a bunch of racists.
I can't get enough of this.
Every time DEI is banned because the government says it's racist, I just feel like I'm redeemed.
It feels like...
35 years of my life have finally been validated.
So yes, no DEI scholarships at several universities in Illinois.
So good for the Department of Justice.
Well, it turns out that threats work.
Something I didn't know until recently, apparently the U.S. and Mexico have had this Very long-term water agreement, where we give them water from one of our sources, but they give us water from one of their sources.
And it's all for the farmers.
I think mostly for the farmers.
And Mexico is going to reduce the amount of water, and Trump threatened them with tariffs, and suddenly they released the water.
So how many times has Trump threatened somebody, and it worked?
You know, you don't want to think that threats work, but apparently they do.
Yeah, Trump's threats work pretty well.
So Mexico, we got our water.
Thank you.
So here's something radical and dangerous.
There are now several states that are getting together to put together what they call a criminal referral.
For a number of the characters that you remember from the pandemic.
Fauci, Birx, Walensky, and a bunch of others.
And what do you think they're being referred for?
Now, referred just means somebody's recommending that the Department of Justice do something.
Or in this case, I guess the states.
I think, wasn't it Fauci who has a pardon for any federal crimes?
So you have to go after him.
In the States, if you want to get any traction.
So the Viris Law Group and then former Feds Group Freedom Foundation, they've submitted their, I guess, their evidence and their plan for these guys.
But listen to the crimes that they're accusing Fauci and Birx of.
Murder. So they're accusing him of murder, negligent homicide, involuntary manslaughter, medical coercion and abuse, kidnapping, human trafficking for forced labor,
racketeering, operating a corrupt organization, and terrorism.
I feel like they had a good idea, which is to use the states.
To go after some people who maybe have some things to explain.
But once you add terrorism and kidnapping, I feel like you lose a little bit of credibility.
Murder was bad enough.
You could see where murder would come from.
But terrorism?
How do you get terrorism out of that?
All right.
RFK Jr.
He was saying that the deep state is real, and he called his FDA employees, so these are employees under him, he called FDA employees sock puppets of the industry, according to Politico.
Can you imagine if your boss called you a sock puppet of the industry?
The entire point of the FDA is to regulate the pharmaceutical industry.
But of course they get owned because the pharmaceutical industry has so much money.
And they can do things like saying, you know, you're the kind of person that we would hire for an outrageously high salary once you're done with the FDA.
But, you know, that would sort of depend how you do when you're at the FDA because, you know, if you were to rule against us, I just wouldn't be able to recommend you for a job here after your FDA stint.
So it's real easy to capture somebody who's working there, but just imagine your boss calling you out as a puppet.
Your entire job is to protect the public, but he's calling you out as somebody who is not protecting the public and is only protecting the bad guys.
That's pretty extreme.
So we'll see if RFK Jr. can survive any of this, but so far...
He's going hard at it.
I think he's hitting the deep state and the bureaucracy all at the same time, so we'll see.
How many of you saw that photo of Governor Gretchen Whitmer?
So apparently she was invited to the White House because there was some executive order that Trump did that even though she's a Democrat, it was good for Michigan.
So she was happy that Trump was doing something, and when he invited her to the White House, she said, oh, okay.
So she goes to the White House, and then she gets herded into a room with a bunch of other people for what was going to be a photo shoot.
And she's a Democrat, and she wants to run for, I'm guessing, wants to run for president.
And suddenly she would be photographed with all these Republicans and sort of celebrating Republican victories.
So how do you think she handled it?
What was her professional way of handling the fact that she got tricked into a photo shoot but was expecting just to meet the president one-on-one?
She holds a binder.
She holds a binder over her face so that the photographs just show the bottom of her.
So instead of being a...
She does the opposite.
It becomes the biggest story because it's so weird.
So now there's not a single person in the country who doesn't know that she was in the Trump White House getting her picture taken.
And she choked.
I don't know what I would have done in that situation.
I mean, maybe I would have asked to leave or something.
But it's hard to leave.
If the president's invited you in the room, you can't really walk out.
That'd be an insult.
So I guess she figured the best thing she could do is cover her face with a binder.
Anyway, according to the publication The Independent, female frogs fake death to avoid unwanted advances from males.
Now, they weren't specific, but I believe they mean male frogs.
Not just every kind of male.
But it sounds a lot like a wife.
You know, faking death.
Except when humans do it, they fake a headache.
But frogs are more committed.
They're more like the Democrats of amphibians.
So they're more into the drama of it.
It's like, instead of pretending I have a headache, which doesn't really work in the frog world, because the boy frog is just going to go at it anyway, they have to fake dead.
And it makes me wonder, how often does the boy frog actually care if they're dead?
Because if he gets in the right state of mind, that boy frog is just going to go nuts on that female frog, even if she's pretending to be dead.
And then once you realize that's their trick, and you're the boy frog, and you're like, I've seen this before, you're pretending to be dead.
All right, I'll just Cosby you.
So that's what's happening in the frog world.
Well, meanwhile, it's a real slow news weekend.
Bernie Sanders went to Coachella.
I gave a rousing speech that nobody cares about.
But Trump went to watch a UFC fight, which is always a big event and, you know, it's great.
Now, compare these two approaches.
If you were to just stop somebody in the street anywhere in America and say, do you know what Coachella is?
How many would know what it is?
I'm not even sure I know what it is.
I've been looking at it for years.
I always see pictures and people say they're going and I read accounts of what happened there and I still don't know what it is.
Apparently it's this really big, dusty, inconvenient thing that you go to so that when you come back you have stories of how horrible it was.
It was all dusty and the bathrooms didn't work and then we got stuck and we couldn't get out.
It's music.
Somebody says it's music?
Alright. So I don't think Bernie got a home run on that, but Trump, as usual, because he goes to the UFC and acts very manly, it's just a perfect fit.
So, Trump for the win.
I guess Meta, the Facebook company, is going to go to court on charges of being a monopoly, I guess.
So they're being brought up on antitrust charges.
And one of the possibilities is that they would be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp.
Because apparently that's too much social media for one company to have.
I don't really understand that.
So Facebook had a service that showed pictures and you could share them with your friends.
And then they bought Instagram, when it was still worth only $1 billion, and they built it into Behemoth.
So why did they have to divest?
Is it just because they were too successful?
I mean, it's not like TikTok doesn't exist.
It's not like X doesn't exist.
I feel like it just doesn't feel like they necessarily.
Should be broken up.
So, I'm not, you know, pro-oligarch.
Sorry, Bernie Sanders.
I'm not all about the oligarchs, but I don't know.
Is there any compelling reason why WhatsApp can't be part of meta?
That doesn't even make sense to me.
Well, speaking of Facebook, they're trying to make their AI Lama 4. More balanced, which means they have to figure out how to make it more at least conscious of what the right-leaning part of the country thinks and wants.
So apparently they're quite aware that the way they trained it, it made it a lefty.
Sort of turned it into a Democrat.
And to Meta's credit, they don't want it to be just a Democrat.
So they're putting effort into trying to figure out how to make it less left-leaning and more like Grok.
So that's cool.
I saw a good thread by Rod Martin on X talking about Trump's new play.
So apparently he went ahead and has executed.
We've heard of this before.
There's a 60-foot wide strip of land that runs across our southern border, and apparently that's now been designated to be military property.
And so our military can operate on that 60-foot wide space, which means that if you come across the border illegally, you're going to be on a military base.
And then the rules of how the military treats things are in effect.
So that would give them a little bit of flexibility, the military anyway, in how to handle it.
And there'd be no sanctuary there.
So when I see that, I think to myself, why does the Trump administration always come up with these kind of radical but good ideas?
It seems like nobody else ever had a good idea.
But this whole 60-foot strip, that just feels like a good idea.
So I'm kind of impressed by it.
You know Jasmine Crockett?
Everybody's been watching the Democrats' rising star, Jasmine Crockett.
She said the other day that it's beyond wild that no one is questioning Trump's mental acuity.
No one's questioning Trump's mental acuity.
Well, we all saw what happened when Bill Maher met Trump in person.
His biggest takeaway is that Trump is not crazy, but he plays a crazy person on TV, which he does.
So here's what the Democrats have gotten wrong so far.
So the Democrats were not able to judge that Biden, They were not able to judge that Kamala Harris obviously has some kind of a substance or drinking problem.
None of them saw it.
Still don't.
And then when it came to Trump, they got exactly the wrong answer that Bill Morrow tried to straighten him out on, which is, huh.
Turns out he's actually a really nice guy and interested in people's opinions and nothing at all like what you see on TV.
So, Democrats are 0 for 3, aren't they?
I don't like to brag, but I'm 3 for 3. I was calling Biden mentally incompetent in 2019, Jack.
I've been calling Kamala a...
A public drinker, meaning that she appears in public after drinking, for years.
Jack, of course I'm right about that.
And I knew that Trump was not crazy.
Indeed, you could argue that I was the OG of explaining Trump, starting in 2015.
I would be the one who would say, I know it looks crazy.
I know what you're saying.
I know it looks crazy, but if you look just under the hood, you can see it's all technique.
It's what I call the show.
So Trump knows the difference between who Trump is, you know, the private Trump, and the show.
And when he is in public, he puts on the show.
And the show is wild.
I mean, I was saying it yesterday when he talked about his medical examination.
And he said that his soul was healthy.
Like they check your soul.
It's something that nobody would say.
And I don't think he would say it privately.
Because it's just sort of outrageous and crazy sounding.
But boy, does he know how to put it on the show.
He doesn't know how to be boring.
You know, just talking about normal things when he's in his showman persona, you know, the public persona.
He could just make anything sound more interesting than it should have been.
I got a checkup and my soul is really good.
I'll be laughing about that for years.
Anyway. So the worry from Jasmine Crockett that Trump's Mental acuity needs to be tested.
I'm going to refer that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns with all the other Democrat problems.
Imaginary Concerns.
You probably heard that Trump created some tariff exemptions.
So, if you're trading smartphones and computers and routers and semiconductors and some other tech stuff, there will be no...
Extra tariffs on those.
So that's good.
Every time Trump makes an adjustment, the market should get a little bit happier.
So this is exactly the sort of adjustment that you'd want to see.
So yeah, good job.
Did you know that what I call the Gulf of America has apparently an insane amount of energy?
That can be tapped.
And now Trump is expanding the oil and natural gas production.
So Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered officials to hold an offshore lease sale.
So you'll get to bid on that.
You know, I do wonder what is the modern risk of drilling offshore?
Because, you know, we had that big spill some years ago.
But I wonder if they've figured out how to avoid that now.
I mean, I don't know how you could, but it makes me wonder.
Time has gone by, so I wonder if it's a lot safer for the environment than it used to be.
So that's good.
So now Trump has opened up Anwar, and he's opening up the...
Gulf of America.
He's also negotiating with Iran.
And if that went well, we'll talk about that, it would release Iran's oil.
And he's negotiating with Russia.
And if that goes well, it would presumably release more Russian oil.
So Trump's plan of making energy sort of a centerpiece of his presidency.
is looking really strong.
So, if he can keep the oil prices down and the price of gas down, everything else is going to cost less.
So, I really like the direction of that.
Now, apparently his tariffs, I don't know if it's because of the tariffs, but probably.
A big pharma company, Novartis, just said it's going to put $23 billion into the U.S. So, it's not an American company.
But because of tariffs, they're going to bring $23 billion investment here.
I think Trump's doing a really good job in at least promoting all these big deals that are coming through.
$23 billion is some serious money.
I mean, it's going to be over time, but still a lot of money.
Let's talk about Doge.
So I was confused by Doge, and maybe you had the same thing.
Which is, Elon had said very clearly that he was trying to take a trillion dollars a year off the budget.
And then we'd have some chance of surviving, so long as Trump did more than a trillion dollars worth of extra growth, which would cause extra tax revenue.
So that was a plan for survival, if he could get a trillion.
But according to the Daily Color News Foundation, Musk has slashed his Doge saving forecast by 85%, and instead of a trillion, it looks like he's targeting $150 billion.
$150 billion is not close to a trillion.
A trillion is what we needed to survive.
Did this really happen?
Where Doge went in and they had all kinds of...
Let's say they thought they were going to make all kinds of cuts, and then the bureaucracy came online, and the cabinet heads and the department heads said, oh, no, not so fast.
No, we can't cut that.
Can't cut that.
So I get that it's $150 billion so far, but I think that's also the final number.
Here's the weird thing.
I asked Grok how much Elon Musk's personal net worth has decreased because of all the Tesla stuff.
And apparently it's the same number.
So Elon Musk's personal net worth went down $150 billion while Doge saved $150 billion.
Now one of them is once and the other is every year.
He could have just written a check.
Saved a lot of money.
Saved a lot of time, not a lot of money.
But we're currently, this is my take, we're currently on a doom loop.
Is anybody going to admit it?
Is Trump going to tell us that we can't survive in our current plan?
Our current plan is not survivable.
Let me say that again.
Our current explicit plan, our budget, is not survivable.
It's not just suboptimal.
It's not survivable.
And I was counting on Doge to get that trillion dollars.
I thought it was a stretch.
I didn't think it would happen.
But I was like, well, Elon can do things that other people can't do.
Now, I get that it's $150 billion a year, but we were looking to save a trillion dollars a year.
Both of them were for a year.
So, I don't know.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it looks like Doge didn't work.
Am I wrong?
It looks like it didn't work.
Because working is not just that you saved $150 billion, although that's great.
Working is saving the...
So that was the whole point of it.
So I guess I'm confused by that.
Maybe there's something I'm missing here.
Thomas Massey, of course, he's the debt hawk.
He's pointing out that the current budget is going to be $2.5 trillion deficit every year for as far as you can see.
We can't do $2.5 trillion deficit for as far as we can see.
We're talking about being completely out of business in a few years.
I don't know what's going on.
Because I was pretty sure that this is an unsustainable level of spending.
And apparently we're just going to do it.
We're just going to do an unsustainable thing.
What am I missing?
Did we really decide that death was better than life?
Because life would require us doing a bunch of things that the bureaucracy doesn't like?
I don't know.
Well, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99% of all electricity will be used to power AI.
Do you believe that?
This is according to Joe Wilkins in Futurism.
Do you believe that 99% of all electricity will be used to power super intelligent AI?
What would the rest of us do?
Why would you even need super intelligence if it was going to use all of your electricity?
Like you wouldn't be able to iron a shirt.
But at least you'd have AI.
I know.
I think he's probably just making a point with hyperbole.
The point being we need a lot more energy.
According to the Washington Times, drug traffickers made $1.4 billion from fentanyl trade in 2024.
I don't know how they measure that.
How in the world could you know that number?
Anyway. As you know, China is the main supplier of precursor chemicals.
But I guess India is coming up fast, too, as a supplier of these precursors.
So, that's not good.
If it's that profitable, Nothing's going to stop it.
People will do anything for $1.4 billion.
You might know, or maybe you didn't know, that the Hollywood writers were on strike.
How many of you even knew that the Hollywood writers were on strike?
I didn't even know it.
But apparently, during the strike, the losses of jobs were tremendous.
42% of the writing jobs went away between 2023 and 2024.
42% went away?
Wow. So, I always thought the shows had too many writers anyway.
Some of my favorite shows had one writer.
Do you remember The West Wing?
And the guy who wrote it?
Most of those were written by the same guy.
Do you remember Babylon 5?
Most, if not all of them, were written by one guy.
So it seems to me we have too many writers.
That's what I think.
Anyway, there's some negotiations going on between Iran and the United States over in Oman.
They were there yesterday.
And both Iran and the U.S. team Said that it was a positive and constructive talks.
Now what does that mean?
So the one and only thing we're really asking of Iran is you can't have a nuke.
So what does a meeting sound like?
Alright, the one and only thing we want is you can't have a nuke.
Oh, we're definitely going to have a nuke.
And then what do you talk about?
What could you possibly talk about?
When the one thing that you want is the one thing they're never going to give you.
Is there nuance there?
Is there anything else on the table that they need to talk about?
Because if they get the no nukes part, probably everything else is easy.
Relatively easy.
So, I don't think anything happened.
I think they went in and said, we'd really like to talk you into having a nuke.
And then Iran said, we'd really like to keep our nukes because we don't trust you.
We're going to need one.
I can't possibly imagine that that's working out.
Meanwhile, also the Ukraine-Russia negotiations, I don't think anything's happening.
Trump tried to put a positive spin on it.
He goes, I think Ukraine-Russia might be going okay.
You're going to be finding out pretty soon.
I don't think it's going okay.
I would place a very large bet that literally nothing happened.
Because neither side wants peace.
Trump wants peace, but Ukraine wants to fight, and Russia wants to keep fighting.
So I don't see how you solve that.
So I don't think there's going to be an Iran deal.
I don't think there's going to be a Ukraine-Russian deal.
I think they're just going to...
Keep grinding at each other until something changes.
All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you're joining me late, I was confessing early on that I unwisely took a muscle relaxant before the show, not realizing the cognitive load that would put on me.
So my brain, not working at all.
Not working at all.
And... The news is kind of boring, so I didn't want to, you know, make it last too long.
But I did want to spend some time with you, so glad you showed up.
This is the conclusion of my short show today, and I'm going to talk to the locals people privately, the rest of you on X and YouTube and Rumble.