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So I think I've asked this before, but how many of you watch closed caption when you're watching TV because the sound that they give you is so bad that you can't hear the dialogue?
I swear to God, every movie starts out with blah blah blah blah blah.
And about five minutes in, it all turns into British mumbling.
It's all Charlie Brown's teacher.
One of the people in the comments said he downloads the movie and then runs it through some kind of an audio normalizer.
If you made a movie that has such bad sound that people are downloading it and correcting the sound before they watch it, you've done a bad job.
I think it's because they make the good stuff for the 5.1 surround sound.
So it's all mushed together if you watch it on a regular TV.
But wow.
So now I'm completely addicted to having the closed caption on.
And it's really, I'll tell you what it is.
It's sort of a confession that the people who make TV shows and movies don't even like you.
They make the show so it sounds good in their home theater.
You know, if you're a director, you probably have one.
But boy, if they should visit people's living room and see that the closed caption is turned on, they'd have a heart attack.
All right.
I wonder if there's any science that they could have skipped just by asking me.
Well, Tel Aviv University has a new study that shows that simply showing somebody an image multiple times even if it's a fake image so it's not something that happened in the real world let's say it's ai generated makes people believe it's real so let me say that again the more you see an image that's fake the more you think it's real now i assume that the people looking at the images did not
know that they were seeing real ones or fake ones they probably didn't know but the more you see a thing the more you think it's true that's basic hypnosis right there it's a lot of trump's success with persuasion is that he knows this.
If you just repeat the statement or repeat the image, it looks believable.
That's all you have to do.
You have to just keep doing it.
And Trump does that better than anybody.
All right.
I wonder if there's any science that would suggest that exercise is good for your health.
Oh yeah.
Dr. Rhonda Patrick tells us on X about a study that says that exercise, which they describe as moderate intensity exercise can cut diabetes risk more than the diabetes drugs.
Now, I'm assuming that doctors would tell you to do both, but exercise is more effective treating diabetes than the diabetes drug.
Yeah, you could have asked me that one too.
I would have told you it's probably as good as drugs, but it might be better.
But talk to your doctor.
Don't stop doing your drugs.
Don't listen to me about anything medical, as I like to remind you.
Well, Representative Anapoliton.
Anna Polina Luna was on Joe Rogan making some news.
So she has access to all the good secrets.
And she's, quote, very confident that there's things out there, meaning UFO kind of things, that have not been created by mankind.
Okay.
So she has seen photos that look like they're real.
Huh?
Let's see.
Back to my first story.
If you show somebody an AI image long enough or enough times, they'll think it's credible.
Well, I don't know if that's what happened but why don't we get to see the photos is there some reason we can't see that photo and have you noticed that the best evidence for aliens is somebody else told you they saw a thing once but they didn't touch it they they didn't touch it they saw a photo or they talked to somebody who did touch it but they've never touched it you know there's never been a downed aircraft or
you know an alien that looked real to me they all looked like paper mache and then she described um representative luna did a ufo or a counter that took place over a Vandenberg Air Base and she said that whatever had appeared over the base was basically bigger than a football field.
So do you believe that something hovered over a military base that was as big as a football field, not the base, just the thing hovering was as big as a football field and nobody got a picture?
Is that the photo you don't want to show us?
Really?
There's no photo of a thing that was over an Air Force base and was as big as a football field because I'm pretty sure you don't have to be on the military base to see a thing like that.
Couldn't you see that from miles away and nobody got a photo?
Nobody.
All right.
All right.
And then Representative Luna claims that she has seen evidence of quote interdimensional beings and that credible people are reporting quote movement outside of time and space.
They call them interdimensional beings.
I think that they can actually operate through the time spaces that we currently have.
And then she said, I can tell you without getting into classified conversations that there have been incidents where very credible people have reported that there have been movements outside of time and space.
Okay.
Would the credible people be the same scientists who 98% of them said that climate change is going to kill you?
Would it be the credible people in the intelligence community who said that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation?
Is that the credible people?
Would it be the credible people in front of the Bureau of Labor Statistics who didn't have the employment numbers even close?
Was it those credible people?
Was it the credible people in the NGOs?
Oh, no, they're all criminals.
Was it the credible people that are the head of the DNC?
Was it the credible people who ran the Russia Gate hoax?
Was it the credible people in the media who told you that Trump said neo-Nazis were fine people?
Who are the credible people?
I don't believe I've met any credible people, have you?
I've only met people that I couldn't determine if they were lying.
But credible?
We seem to live in a world where all that matters is if somebody has some incentive to fool you.
If they do, they probably will.
And it's not always Russia.
All right.
There are no credible people.
That's not a standard by which you would judge whether UFOs are real.
According to Unusual Wales on X, 62% of Gen Z, they use social media for financial advice over traditional financial advisors.
Why would that be?
Well, according to Business Insider, that's happening.
And I would offer you a few possibilities.
One is that Gen Z people can't afford a financial advisor.
So it could be just financial.
they just can't afford it the other is the best i i once thought of starting this as a business a long time ago the the financial advice i I would like to see the most is I'd like to have access to what other people in my situation are doing, especially if they're doing well at it.
So for example, I would love to know, oh, there's a person of a certain age and they have a certain family situation and a certain amount of income, and this is what they do with their money.
They buy, you know, a second house or not.
They have index funds or not.
So I would love to have visibility into the full financial picture of ordinary people.
But I want to know something about the ordinary people.
I want to know, do you know what you're doing?
Did you really research this before you bought a bunch of rentals?
So I like what Gen Z is doing.
I would use social media for my advice, but I would like better information about what other people are doing.
I would take that over the advice of a financial advisor who, by the way, are not credible.
because they get paid often by the people that they recommend.
So if your financial advisor says, you know, there's a fund that you should put your money into.
They're really good on farmers.
form or whatever that's probably because that fund is compensating the financial advisor to recommend that people get into it did you know that so your financial advisor is the last person you should trust social media even if it's just random people doing what they think makes most sense would actually be a better standard for deciding what you should do it really would be All right,
if you're not following the saga of Laura Loomer Lumer has got this lawsuit against Bill Maher because Bill Maher suggested that she was having an affair with Trump, which she is quite adamant is not a thing.
So apparently she's being deposed and for some reason we have access to the deposition.
And we're being told that the following exchange really happened in the real world.
Are you ready for this?
Now there are two different stories with Laura Lumer.
One of them is about Arby's.
This one's not about Arby's.
And I'll just tell you, if you want to have a good laugh, but you better have a good sense of humor, then you should go search for Laura Loomer and Arby's.
You know, Arby's, the roast beef sandwich restaurant kind of place, Arby's.
Now, I won't even tell you what that story is about, but you really want to catch up on that one, trust me.
But what I wanted to tell you about is that apparently in the deposition Laura Loomer said and I quote, several of President Trump's staff have told me in confidence that Lindsey Graham is gay.
And then Ms. Bolger, who I assume is the attorney doing the deposition, says, and I quote, hold on, Ms. Loomer, there's no question.
In other words, Laura Loomer answered a question which had not ever been asked because it was apparently had nothing to do with the topic at hand.
And she just goes, Several of President Trump's staff have told me in confidence that Lindsay Graham is gay.
Hold on, there's no question.
Now, that is one of the funniest things I've ever heard, especially if they knew the deposition would get leaked.
She just puts that little Easter egg there in her deposition.
Oh, well, I suppose this is the part where I'm supposed to say that we don't care if Lindsay Graham is gay or not, because we don't.
So if Lindsay Graham is gay or non-binary or whatever he wants to be, it makes no difference to me.
But it's a funny story.
All right, I'll tell you the RB story in case you don't look it up.
Apparently, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Loomer are having this big public spat, and they're insulting each other on X and other places, I guess.
And Loomer suggested that Marjorie Taylor Greene has Arby's in her pants.
Now, apparently that became part of the deposition, and she was being asked, what did you mean when you said that Marjorie Taylor Greene has Arby's in her pants?
Loomer tries to play it straight.
You know, it's a sandwich.
Are you saying that she had a sandwich in her pants.
Yes.
Yes, that's what I'm saying, that she has a sandwich that she keeps in her pants.
Now, that's just the funniest thing.
You have to read the whole exchange, but when you see how she's treating the legal process, probably without getting in any trouble, it is hilarious.
Well, in other news, in other spats, you know, Sam Altman and Elon Musk aren't getting along because of AI.
Maybe other stuff too.
But now Sam Altman apparently has co-founded a company that's going to compete with Neuralink.
It's called Merge Labs, a brain computer interface startup.
Now, I don't know if that has anything to do with OpenAI.
Yeah, I guess it does.
So I guess he's doing it in the context of OpenAI.
So Elon Musk will have an AI and a brain interface.
And now Sam Altman will have an AI and a brain interface.
And we are heading for a full cyborg future.
So cyborgs coming.
I love how billionaires fight.
All right, well, I'm mad at you, so I'll spend a billion dollars to buy this company to make your company look worse.
Well, I saw a clip that at first I thought might be AI, but I think it's real.
and it's alan dershowitz on adam carolla's podcast and he's talking about what he thinks about the obamas now as you know dershowitz is a registered democrat and you Well, he did not hold back.
And he said about the Obamas, this is Alan Dershowitz saying this on video, so he doesn't care who hears it.
He goes, I don't like them as people.
He says, I remember Michelle Robinson, I guess that's Michelle Obama's maiden name, when she was a student.
And she was very radical.
Obama was not.
But once he was re-elected, his true self came out.
And Dershowitz says, he's not a nice person.
Wow.
Can you believe that Dershowitz just absolutely just pissed all over the Obamas?
I did not see that coming and apparently Dershowitz has been you know invited into their White House events and stuff.
So he's been part of that world.
And he just says he's not a nice person.
Wow.
We had not really heard that from anybody, had we?
And I have to admit, I've had the same transition.
I was supportive of Obama when he first got elected because I thought, oh, this is sort of post-racial and maybe we'll just get over this whole.
this whole racial stuff if you have a black president.
Oh, and he seems pretty reasonable and he's not making too much trouble.
So I was generally in favor of Obama when he first got elected.
My current opinion of him is he's a terrible person, especially because of the Russiagate stuff that's come out lately.
That is a really, really bad person, like a really bad person.
So, yeah, when Dershowitz says he's not a nice person, I can only imagine.
Well, you probably already heard that U.S. alcohol consumption is at a record low.
But why?
And I don't know.
I feel as if there's probably more than one reason.
One reason might be the demographics.
Is it true that younger people drink more than older people?
I mean after they reach 21 or so.
So it could be that we just have an aging population.
That might be a little bit of the story and that people in their 20s are more likely to party and have a drink than retired people basically.
Could be that.
Could be the substitution effect.
Maybe they're substituting weed and microdosing on mushrooms.
Could definitely be that, especially the psychedelic mushrooms.
I do hear that there's a lot of soccer moms, a lot of soccer moms who are on the mushrooms and maybe then they don't need a drink of wine that night.
So it might be that, but I think weed is actually down in young people, right?
Isn't weed use down as well?
And it could be because people have realized that there's no such thing as a little bit of alcohol that's good for you.
So maybe the news has turned in the last 20 years from, you know, a couple of drinks every night is better for you than if you hadn't had any drinks at all.
And now we know that that's completely made up.
Do you know why?
Because the scientists who do studies like that are not credible.
They're not credible.
No one is.
There are no experts who are credible.
It's just not a thing.
It really isn't.
But I'm also thinking that maybe one of the big reasons that alcohol use is down is that there are so many influencers now who talk about not being drinkers.
Have you noticed that?
There are a lot, a lot of things lot of influencers who say they don't drink.
Joe Rogan's the latest one.
I'm one.
So I don't know, some combination of all that stuff.
So Trump's net approval on the topic of inflation, according to Harry Enton, the CNN data polling kind of expert, is really bad.
So when people are asked if Trump is good on the topic of inflation, They're not so happy with him.
He's negative 20 points, so he's way underwater on his approval for handling inflation.
But when he was running for office, he led Harris by nine points.
So people thought that he would do a great job on inflation, but they seem to be disappointed in what's happening so far.
Now, I should point out the presidents can't do a whole lot about inflation in six months.
What did people expect him to do?
He does seem to have been in charge when energy prices were stabilizing and food prices were stabilizing.
But everything still costs too much.
So my take on this is that Harry Anderson said that if these numbers hold, it would be practically impossible for the Republicans to hold the House in the midterms.
But I don't know if people have an expectation about this inflation stuff.
What exactly did they think somebody else was going to do?
And when you answer a question on inflation, it's not like a war.
If you have a war, there's always someone who thinks it's a good idea.
So you're going to have a mixed...
But if you say to people, what do you think about prices?
Is there anybody in their right mind who would ever answer the question with, you know what, I think prices are pretty low these days.
Yeah, yeah, I really appreciate that prices are low and I'm not bothered at all by inflation.
Inflation is one of those things that everybody thinks is bad.
So as soon as you say, how do you feel about inflation with Trump in charge?
Just the inflation part of the question alone guarantees it's going to be negative.
I guess the only way it can be positive is if you're comparing it to some other person like Harris.
and you believe this should be even worse.
But otherwise, just the topic itself guarantees that people have a negative opinion well project veritas has some kind of a scoop and a whistleblower but the story is too complicated for me to understand and i remind you that nobody's credible so i don't know what to believe but the whistleblower has a story about somehow being personally involved in over other countries bribing politicians in the us she's
naming eric adams says that he took money from Turkey Airlines and some other people.
Let's see who else is she naming.
Fanny Willis.
She thinks there's some evidence of Fonnie Wallace got paid off from something in the, I don't know if that came from another country or that just came from the Democrats.
And there's some other guy who got in trouble for it.
So it's a little complicated.
There are too many people involved.
So I'm sort of waiting to see if there's any other news sources that pick it up.
because I'm not too sure that the whistleblower is credible because no one is.
If all you have is one whistleblower and.
That's sort of as close as you can get to the lowest level of credibility.
Now, the good news is the whistleblower is not anonymous.
An anonymous whistleblower would be useless.
But at least she's giving her name and her picture.
So maybe.
I don't know.
Turns out a DC police sergeant.
was involved in a lawsuit because she accused her superiors of faking the Washington DC crime stats to make them look low.
In other words, the bosses gave orders to charge lower offenses, I guess, so that it looked like the crime rate was coming down.
Now, let's talk about the trap that Trump has set for the Democrats, which apparently, I'm morning, Joe, Mika and Matthews, what's his name?
Matthews.
Chris Matthews.
So Chris Matthews and Mika Brzezinski have both caught on that when Trump goes hard against crime in Washington, D.C., it forces the Democrats to be soft on crime, which is such a losing position.
It's such a losing position.
It's absolutely hilarious that they're falling for it.
Not only are they falling for it, but they know they're falling for it.
That's got to be the worst.
It's like, not only is the trap working, but I know it's working and I can't avoid falling into it because I can't agree with you.
No.
But it's causing a little division in the pundits because not all of the pundits want to look like idiots.
For example, if you've been watching CNN for a while, as I have, they have a legal analyst who's on there all the time, Eli Honig.
Now, Eli Honig, even though he shows up on these highly biased broadcasts, I've never seen him lie.
I don't know if he's ever said anything that turned out not to be right, He's pretty much a straight shooter.
And he says that he.
apparently lives or works or both in Washington, D.C. And he's basically siding with Trump on going hard on the crime.
So he's a CNN guy who's saying, yeah, I live there.
It's dangerous.
And they need to do something.
And what else are you going to do?
So Eli Honig, pretty much taking Trump's side.
which you don't see a lot on CNN unless it's, you know, Scott.
And then Hillary Clinton weighed in.
She's one of the designated liars.
So I want you to see if you notice this about the Democrats.
I always talk about the designated liars.
They would be like Swalwell and Schiff and Raskin and Hillary Clinton.
They're designated liars and Schumer.
But here's the thing.
Also Brennan and Clapper.
Don't they look like they're lying when they're talking?
Hillary Clinton has a liar smile that is such a tell.
She has a satisfied smile when she tells you that...
Look at my satisfying smile.
It's telling you that I know I'm just making this up.
I'm just lying to you right now.
And Schubert has that same liar's satisfied smile.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, President Trump.
I believe he ate a baby.
And the same thing with Brennan and Clapper.
You just listen to them and you say to yourself, they look like they're bad actors who have been cast in the role of being a liar in a movie, and they want the audience to know they're lying because the movie requires that, but they're not actually admitting they're lying.
They're just signaling that they're lying.
You know when you watch a movie and the evil character comes on and the evil character is saying, yeah, I'll take care of your friend.
Don't you worry?
I'll take care of him.
And you know, oh my God, they say they'll take care of the friend, but the way they say it looks so obviously like a lie.
Well, that's what the theater kids and the Democrats do.
When they lie,
She says on X, as you listen to an unhinged Trump try to justify deploying the National Guard in DC, here's the reality.
Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low.
Let's see.
The crime statistics are at a 30-year low.
And what is being left out of that story?
Well, it could be the fact that there was just a lawsuit dismissed against a DC police person who said the numbers are faked to look lower.
Hmm.
Same day.
And then there's also the argument that even if it's at a 30-year low, it's stills not at a 30-year low because the crime stats were game.
But even if it was, it would still be one of the most murderous cities in the entire planet.
Are you supposed to ignore that you're number four in murder because it's a lot better than it used to be?
These are pathetic, outrageous, theatrical lies.
And if you saw Clinton delivering this in person, I guarantee you.
She'd have her liar smile on because she'd be so happy to tell you her lie about Trump being unhinged.
And then Chuck Schumer put on his liar face and said, I feel perfectly safe walking around in DC.
They're full of it.
So I've seen a number of influencers suggest that these people who say it's safe strap a GoPro camera to their head and simply walk around at night and film it for us so we can see how safe it is.
So far, no takers.
For some reason, they don't want to put it on the GoPro camera and walk around.
But the D.C. police
Anthony Coley, who also was agreeing with Trump.
He says, I live in Washington.
This is personal for me.
Many people are frustrated with crime.
They go to CVS to buy deodorant and they have to get it from behind the locked plexiglass.
So if you're keeping score, MSNBC has been fractured and their pundits will not back the MSNBC story that Trump is unhinged and there's no problem to be solved.
And that's because they have personal experience there and it would be embarrassing to say that they hadn't noticed the crime.
But then as I. mentioned, Chris Matthews and Mika Brzezinski were talking on MSNBC, and they both agreed that it's a trap, that Trump has successfully laid another trap.
Now, here's my question.
Did Trump do that absolutely intentionally?
As in when he looked at all the problems he could work on, did he say to himself, All right, well, this DC crime thing I could ignore like everybody else has ignored.
But if I don't ignore it, it's going to be this excellent trap to catch the Democrats.
I feel like he plays on multiple levels, meaning that he knew it would be just a good thing to do, and he's right.
It's just a good thing to do.
And it would make him look strong.
And it would be a trap that the Democrats would walk right into because they really are that dumb.
And it turns out they walked right into it.
Not only did they walk into it, they knew they were doing it while they were walking into it.
I would like to do my impression now.
of a Democrat who's completely aware they're walking into a wood chipper that was put there by the president.
All right.
Now my impression of a Democrat heading toward the woodshipper.
Hey, it looks like there's a woodshipper over there.
And I seem to be walking right at it.
Oh!
Oh!
That's the first time I've ever done the Democrat walking into the woodshipper.
So if it wasn't perfect, just know it was my first.
So then Trump does his usual fantastic persuasion.
And on Truth Social, he went through all the.
problems in D.C. and why he has to get tough on him.
But look how visual he is.
He says everything has to be locked up.
Don't you immediately see the locks on the products?
It's visual, right?
Everything needs to be locked up.
People staying home, you can see it.
You see the family sitting in the living room all bored because they want to go out, but it's too dangerous.
You just see them sitting there.
He says, one of the highest murder rates in the world, getting back to the point, it doesn't matter if it got a little bit better, it's still one of the highest murder rates in the world.
Are you going to ignore that?
He says there's gang youth violence which i immediately can picture i see a gang of young people and they look dangerous um says people are giving up on calling the police i don't know if that's completely true but it definitely sounds like it could be so that's good persuasion um people are living in fear the he says people are captive prisoners in their own city so now you imagine them in a jail cell that that should be their home.
And vehicle theft is three times the national average.
And you see the car.
You actually see the car.
Now, look how visual that is because visual persuasion is the best even if it's being described if the if the verbal description causes you to form a picture in your head that's really good persuasion and if that picture is scary that's the best persuasion so you want it to be visual and you want it to be scary and he pulled off both of those he told you about all the scary things that the residents
were going through, and he made it visual.
And then he said that the White House arrested 103 people, not the White House, but the new forces that they've surged into D.C., the National Guard, and I guess there's some FBI people.
But with the extra help, they got 103 arrests in one week after it got federalized.
Now, I don't even know if that's a lot.
was that that a lot as someone who's not there it sounds like a lot i mean Where were these people that they got arrested?
Were they all at home or were they on the street doing something that got them arrested?
I'd like to know more.
But it sounds like progress.
So so far, I'd say this Washington, D.C. thing is just a total home run politically for Trump.
And then on the two-way podcast, I saw Democrat Dan Turrentine say, unfortunately, the Democratic Party is falling into a trap.
So he sees it too.
So the fact that they all see it as a trap and then they walk right into it.
Does that tell you everything you need to know?
That they're so addicted to being anti-Trump that he can say, look, here's..
this big wood chipper it's a trap i mean it's really just a trap if you get near it it'll just chip you right up so don't get near it oh oh so you're so unhinged you think we can't get near a wood chipper suddenly you think a wood chipper's all dangerous that would be the sound of the wood chipper yeah that's also the first time i've tried to imitate the sound of a wood chipper So if it wasn't that good,
remember it was my first try.
Might be more of that coming up.
And we But Dan Turrentine also pointed out that Trump was being a little hyperbolic.
He says, I share the frustration that Trump described D.C. as Mogadishu.
It is not, but crime is a problem.
Friends in D.C. tell him that it's changed even some of the nicest neighborhoods.
Now, here's how to know that you're winning if you're Trump.
If you can make the Democrats argue about whether or not Washington, D.C. is worse than Mogadishu or not, you won.
You can declare a victory if you spend any time at all talking about, I don't think it's as bad as Mogadishu.
I feel like you went too far comparing it to Mogadishu.
If you're even in that conversation, let's say Trump wins that conversation conversation.
Trump says that Democrats are being led by insane people and it's a waste of time to work with them.
How much do I love that?
that they're being led by insane people.
Yeah, they're the ones who are in favor of more crime in Washington, D.C. and men playing women's sports.
And he does have.
an argument that the most insane, you know, the open border people that know cash bail, it does feel insane.
Now, I'm no mental health expert, so I'm not going to say it is technically insane.
But when you're just talking to people, does it sound insane?
It does.
It sounds a little bit insane.
So when he says there's just no point talking to them, they're going to disagree with everything.
I agree.
And he says, he was talking to Breitbart News, I guess, with this.
He said that the Democratic Party is, quote, broke or broke itself.
He says the Democratic Party broke themselves and they're continuing to do so.
And Trump pointed out what I did, the men and women's sports and how bad their policy is tormenting them.
And Trump points out that the Democrats are taking the 90-10 issues and they're taking the 10.
And there are 95 fives and I don't know who the fives are.
There are 95-5 issues where 5% are on the other side.
He goes, and I don't know who the five are, which is funny.
All right.
And to prove his point, the DC mayor has now gone from seemingly helpful and agreeing with Trump about needing a little help all the way to she wants the residents of DC to fight back against the National Guard takeover.
And she's calling it an authoritarian push.
Do you know what the best form of government would be if you could get it?
Now, I'm not saying you could get it or that we haven't, but what would be the best form of government if you could get it and the answer would be a benevolent authoritarian a benevolent authoritarian in other words somebody who had the strength and power and personality of an authoritarian but they weren't doing it for their own benefit they were doing it for your benefit so they'd be pushing people around but clearly for the benefit of the greater good not for
personal benefit.
Now, Trump, of course, is not immune to wanting some personal benefit, but he's really transparent.
And so I'm having this feeling that every time they call him authoritarian, but they match that word authoritarian with something that I'm happy he's doing, they're actually making the word authoritarian turn into a positive.
Have you noticed that?
Because if you told me, well, the president decided to surge some law enforcement into the high crime area of Washington, D.C., and I would say, what kind of person does that?
And they would say, an authoritarian.
And then I would say, huh.
So an authoritarian is what does things that make common sense.
And I kind of like, okay, is there anything else?
Yes, he's closing the border and sending back people who are here illegally, starting with the criminals first.
It all kind of makes sense, doesn't it?
All right.
Here's a funny story that fits the time perfectly.
As we're finding out that nobody's credible and everything is fake, all our data is fake and our science is fake and our inflation numbers are fake and everything's fake.
But we now know, and you've heard of this before, but there's some new news on it, that there are companies that rent crowds on demand.
So if you pay them a certain amount of money, they will organize a bunch of people and pay them to show up.
So it makes it look like your protest is genuine when it's actually artificial.
So Adam Swart, who's the CEO of Crowds on Demand, he says that requests for his services are way up in Washington, D.C. since the federalization of the police force.
And he said the vast majority of people at political events in the nation's capital are in some way compensated.
All right, this is the guy who would know the most because his company actually sells or essentially organizes these fake paid protests.
And he's the one telling you it's not coming from someone else.
It's coming from the person who actually does it for a living.
He says that the vast majority of people at political events in the nation's capital are in some way compensated, whether directly paid, that would be his model, or attending as part of their professional duties, including Capitol Hill staffers.
Did you ever wonder why there are so many interns in the Capitol?
capital.
Now it might be because it's just a great way to start a career and some of the old senators want to sexually molest them.
So it could be a lot of different reasons.
But one of them might be that if they have enough of these interns and people, they can say, all right, all you interns and you low-paid staffers, if you want a future here, you'd better attend this protest, even though you don't want to.
So yeah, protests are almost entirely fake in the United States.
How many people know that, do you think?
If you were to stop people in the street, you know, if you stopped 100 people randomly and said, how many of you know that all the big movements like Black Lives Matter and whatever's happening in Washington, D.C., how many of you know that those are not organic and that they're mostly paid protesters, like all the Tesla stuff?
Those are so obviously paid protesters, so obviously.
It makes me wonder if, do most people know it?
Or is it still some I don't know.
Well, here's another 8020 issue.
Scott Besant says he's going to start pushing for single stock trading ban in Congress so they can't do the insider trading.
Because right now, members of Congress can legally do insider trading, meaning buying and selling stocks because they have knowledge that the public doesn't have.
And allegedly, people like Pelosi and Trump.
It makes it look like it's fake or corrupt.
It's not illegal, but Besant would like to make it illegal.
Now, when he says single stock trading, I assume that means they could still own stocks, but it would have to be in a fund of some kind.
So they're not making their own decisions about it.
Now, of course, you're going to say, but they could still get away with it because they can just tell a relative to do it or, you know, they could find some way to hide the fact they're monetizing their inside knowledge.
They probably could.
But I would point out that this might be another one of the traps.
because are they going to make the Democrats support insider trading?
I think they are.
Now, there are also a number of Republicans who are benefiting from this insider trading.
But if the Republicans shut up and just sort of play along, I don't know if they will, but they might, then it's going to be another trap.
Trump and Besson are going to trap the Democrats into saying, no, I think Nancy Pelosi should do insider trading.
Of course she should.
Why would that be illegal?
So if you'd like to see my imitation of a Democrat walking toward a wood chipper, Well, apparently Trump has turbocharged, some say, Secretary Sean Duffy saying this, American space dominance by getting rid of a whole bunch of red tape.
So it's going to be a lot easier to start a space-related company or to get some rockets in space.
I guess there are a lot of outdated rules and they're going to speed up the licensing and ditch some of the environmental reviews that could take years.
And once again, I would say this is probably an 80-20 topic, right?
Don't you think about 80% of the public would say, oh yeah, you should get rid of the red tape because we need to do great in space.
So that's another winner.
The West Point and the Air Force Academy apparently have agreed with the U.S. Department of Justice to be less racist, which is funny.
That's my take, but that's what it is.
So they're going to not do so much DEI stuff and they're going to try to become less racist.
Let's see if some more Russia Gate classified document dump.
Tulsi Gabbard released some more.
And I guess D ⁇ I, who he was the D ⁇ I had Clapper at the time, is on paper saying, talking about the CIA analysis that was being put together that was going to say that Russia was helping Trump.
And apparently not all of the analysts agreed that there was evidence to make that case.
So the people in charge were having a conversation that was on paper and we now know what they were saying.
So apparently Clapper was writing this.
He seemed to be aware that there was a disagreement, Clapper was.
So here's how he wanted to treat the disagreement.
And I guess NSA Director Rogers was pushing back against fast-tracking this analysis because his people were not convinced that they had enough time to look at it, that they had looked at all the top secret stuff because he wasn't even sure they'd seen the good stuff but he didn't want to sign off on it unless they had the time and full access and he said if we don't have the time or we don't have full access to the private stuff then we'll just back out and
you guys handle it but we're out whereas clapper wanted everybody who was in the intelligence group to be on the same page so they could sell this hoax And he even said this in writing.
He said in writing that they had to play as a team sport and it required, quote, compromise on our normal modalities compromise on our normal modalities now that would be bureaucracy speak to say they're going to cut some corners and they're going to take some chances and they're going to do some things that they would not consider normally good form he said it directly but it gets better Yeah,
and he said, as I said, he said, this is one project that has to be a team sport.
Now imagine if the top people say, on this one, it's got to be a team sport.
If you were a lower level person, unless you were willing to go full whistleblower, and you probably wouldn't have the goods, you would just have suspicions, you would probably say, all right, I don't want to ruin my career forever.
So if it's got to be a team sport, I'll just shut up.
But it gets better.
The following is a sentence that was actually written by James Clapper about this topic.
when he was telling people they should be in the same team and same page on it.
He goes, quote, in the spirit of, and then this is also in quote, in the spirit of this is our story and we're sticking to it.
When you say this is our story and we're sticking to it, doesn't that suggest that you know the story is not real?
That's the whole point of that saying, right?
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Isn't the entire context of that that you know your story is not real, you're just sticking to it?
Did he not tell them directly by saying this is our story and we're sticking to it?
Did he not directly tell the people, stop worrying about whether it's true?
He did, right?
How else would you interpret that it as he's telling them, don't worry if this is true.
It's more important that you agree.
That's what I hear.
I don't even know how to interpret it any other way.
I usually try to look for the generous interpretation on the other side just so you've heard it.
I don't think there is one.
I don't think there's a generous interpretation for this.
This very clearly to me says, we're going to lie.
and I need you all to back me.
That's what I hear.
Anyway.
But also separately, but maybe not that separate.
Sorry about the garbage trucks going wild outside.
Apparently, Cash Patel, director of the FBI, uncovered a bombshell, according to Just the News, a bombshell memo written in 2017 that showed the extensive political obstruction that career agents in three cities faced.
when their own bosses in the Obama Justice Department during the 2016 election told them to stop looking into the Hillary Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Foundation.
So we know now that on three separate occasions, there were entities in the FBI who believed they had enough information to move against Hillary Clinton and her foundation.
Now, the foundation, I think everybody understands, was a money laundering operation, right?
Don't we all understand that to be obviously true?
Some of it might have been donated money that ended up with charities, but that's the cover.
What it really is is a way for the Clintons to monetize their connections and their offices and stuff.
And when they were in office, it received tremendous amounts of funding from overseas.
And as soon as she was not in office, people cared a lot less about charity, it seems.
So I feel like we all know it was crooked.
And I've always wondered why no investigation ever happened.
Well, it turns out that on three occasions, the people whose job it is to investigate believed they had enough information.
that was negative, that investigation made sense.
And in each case, somebody in leadership told them to shut it down.
That would include then Attorney General Sally Yates.
And I think some other people as well.
So do you think that will get re-upped?
Do you think the Clinton Foundation will get a real investigation now that Kash Patel is there?
I don't know.
If it were happening, I suppose we wouldn't know, right?
Because they do the investigation before they announce.
that they're doing an investigation.
Isn't that the way it works?
So maybe it's entirely possible that by the end of this year, you'll see Obama and Hillary Clinton in handcuffs.
No, that's not going to happen.
In the real world, every one of these motherfuckers is going to get off scot-free.
You know that, right?
In all likelihood, every one of these absolutely dead-guilty trade-risk crooks is going to get off.
One way or the other.
I mean, I don't know if they deserve to get off or don't.
Maybe statute limitations.
Maybe the only witness will die suspiciously.
But one way or the other, I feel like every one of them is going to get off.
What do you think?
I'm sort of optimistic that maybe somebody like Brennan will get nabbed at least.
Now Roger Stone is posting on social media that his sources tell him that John Brennan has already escaped to Austria and he's pretending to be local when he does his appearances on MSNBC, but that he's already left the country.
and that he might not be planning to come back.
Now, I don't know what kind of extradition we have with Austria, and I don't know if that report is true, but it wouldn't surprise me.
It wouldn't surprise me if he's already left the country.
Because it does look like Brennan has the most to explain.
Representative Tim Burchette, he was complaining on video about how Congress is laundering millions of our tax dollars into Democrats billionaire donor NGOs.
How many non-government organizations do you think there are?
that receive massive amounts of money from our government, from our taxes.
Turns out thousands.
There are thousands of them and they all have the same nature they have some weird general name like the institute of freedom and liberty you know it's all it's all basically there's 20 words that they just all have in different order and it looks like the way this scam works and the reason there's so many of them is that they can very easily break the law without it looking like they broke the law Somebody says 63,000
NGOs.
I wouldn't be surprised.
And the way they do it is they have some billionaire donate some starter money to start a organization and then it looks legitimate because they got a name and they've registered and they've got funding.
Then they go to the government and they say we've got a little bit of funding but if we had a lot of funding oh the good we can do and then they get their their people that they plan to bribe later or maybe they've bribed them in advance in the government to say yeah I'll support that.
Yeah we'll get you $100 million for your thing, whatever your thing is.
And then the NGO finds ways to donate money back to the people who voted them their money.
So it literally is just a big money laundering theft ring called NGOs.
And there's 63,000 of them.
I always wondered, how in the world could the U.S. budget get to the point where we're $2 trillion underwater every year?
Like my brain couldn't hold that as a possibility.
Like, where is all the money going?
How do you overspend by $2 trillion a year?
How is that even possible?
And I think a big part of the answer is these NGOs are just, it's this normal.
just this enormous illegal cash drain from our pockets.
So they're probably behind maybe a third of all of our problems.
And by the way, I don't think they're going away.
It looks like even Trump can't make them go away.
It's too complicated.
There are too many of them.
They have too much support.
It's how everybody gets their fake paychecks.
So I don't think Trump's going to make any difference.
It does seem like you can make some kind of sweeping rule that would make all the NGOs illegal or make them transparent.
But there probably, not probably, there are enough Republicans who are also sucking off that same tit that Trump probably can't take half of the Republican base just to get to the Democrats.
Probably can't do it.
It might be no way to do it.
But Fox News, Rachel Del Gaitis is writing.
there is a separate shadow government that's pushing DEI and gender ideology in all the states including the red states.
So even though the DEI stuff is There are all these weird organizations that are not necessarily NGOs.
Let me see if I have some of the names of them.
National organizations.
They're often branded as nonpartisan or professional groups, but they operate as a shadow government because they force the people they're working with.
to prove that they're doing DI-ish stuff, in other words, discriminating against white males.
And if they don't discriminate against white males, this shadow governance organizations.
that are not government will give them trouble.
So I don't think that the banning of DEI is going to work at all.
I believe that the discrimination against white men is so popular among everybody who isn't a white man or Republican, I guess, that it'll just morph and change his name and they'll find new cracks to hide in.
I don't think it's going away.
Well, Google has apparently been caught.
I don't know how they were caught or by who.
Flagging GOP fundraising emails as suspicious and then sending them to spam.
Now, that's new news.
So this is not old news.
So the news is that people at Google are knowingly creating a system so that Republican fundraising is hidden and goes to spam, but not the crowd fundraising.
Now, you might say, I don't think that's true.
true that sounds too far i can't believe they're doing that but i saw a post on this topic from alex sears who says this has been going on for at least the last four years and a former Google employee I knew even bragged about it once.
So here's an eyewitness report that a former Google employee bragged about hiding the fundraising emails from Republicans.
It's a real thing.
So is Google credible?
No.
Nobody is.
There's nobody credible.
None.
Except me and you, of course.
Well, as you know., Trump authorized military action against the cartels, but so far there's a little bit.
I guess Mexico extradited over two dozen suspected cartel leaders to the U.S. Now, when you hear that, do you say to yourself, aha, the government of Mexico must be really serious about cracking down on the cartels?
because they just extradited a bunch of cartel leaders to the United States.
I don't believe any of that.
Here's what I believe.
I believe that the head of Mexico probably is in the pocket of one of the cartels.
And I believe that the two dozen suspected cartel leaders are probably in a rival cartel or cartels.
So my guess is that this allows the Mexican government to do the work of whatever cartel owns them to reduce the competition.
So I don't believe that this is on the surface what it looks like.
Oh, it looks like mexico and the us are coordinating really well to beat these cartels.
No, probably just Mexico is beefing up the one that they like and maybe they need to do that to stay alive.
But separately, apparently the U.S. Customs and Border Protection flew a military drone over 600 miles into Mexico.
And they were looking at one of the cartel strongholds and then coming back.
So I don't think they bombed anything.
I think it was just looking.
But isn't that what you always assumed was happening anyway?
Are we to believe that the U.S. military has never used a drone to look at the cartel operations in Mexico?
I assume we've been doing it for years.
I don't know.
Anyway, so Trump and Putin are going to meet.
And I saw an article in Axios that was very much in line with what I was saying, that Putin has made the mistake of making this personal with Trump.
And the personal part is that Trump says Putin is just tapping him along and essentially lying to him and making him look bad.
because, you know, it looks like he got succored.
So Trump is now going into this, and if he leaves this empty-handed, it's going to look really bad bad for Trump.
Would you agree?
It would look like Putin played him again, just bought some time, got some credibility by meeting with the president, but that it was all just another trick and that Trump would once again be duped by this clever Putin guy.
Do you think that Trump can allow that to happen this time?
So I think because this is now completely personal, it's political, but it's also very personal, I think that Trump is going to tell Putin, here's the deal.
I need to leave here with something real, you know, like a ceasefire, for example, or I'm going to just destroy your economy.
Oh, no, you won't, Mr. President.
You would never do that.
Yeah, I would.
It's personal now.
And when it becomes personal, Putin is, I'm sure, smart enough to know that his options got real limited real fast.
If he keeps it personal, I think Trump is going to take down the Russian economy.
Just take it down.
Now, can he do that?
Well, the general view for months, this is from Axios, and this is coming from the government people who were in the know.
So their general view is that they could bring down the Russian economy tomorrow, that they would do it, I guess, with banking mostly.
Yeah, I think mostly through banking and financial stuff.
They would basically turn off the spigot.
And there are only a few steps toward ruining them.
And most of them come from the Treasury, right?
So financial operations.
Some come from the Department of Justice.
So I don't know what Trump is going to say to Putin but I guarantee it's going to be a threat and I can almost guarantee it's going to be a direct threat against what's left of Russia's economy and we'll see if Putin wants to tap Trump along because I think Trump's going to say look you got a week and at the end of the week all the banking connections to anybody doing business with Russia,
it won't even be just banking restrictions on Russia.
there would probably be restrictions on anybody who does any business with them.
So suddenly India just...
Now, maybe they don't need it.
I don't know.
But yeah, this could get pretty dark pretty fast.
According to Zero Hedge and I-24 News, Netanyahu says he backs a, quote, greater Israel.
So Israel with lots more land than it has now legally.
And I guess there's some people worried that some of the most conservative people in Israel want to take over part of Syria now.
I don't know about that, but there might be more coming.
We'll see.
I don't think that Israel's going to make a move on Syria other than bombing bad guys.
Let me ask you this.
About a year ago, I was doing a lot of experimenting with AI apps, and I had a bunch of things I wanted to do besides just simple searches, and it didn't work for anything.
because of hallucinations or various limitations or I couldn't upload big documents or always just some problem.
It seemed like it was promising but it didn't really do anything So I waited a year and then I waited back in and tried to get AI to do some stuff.
And it just doesn't do anything.
It's really good as an interface for search.
But even then, you've got to check to make sure it didn't hallucinate.
So let me just tell you a couple of simple things that I tried to do.
Because people are telling me that I'm the idiot and that if I used a better super prompt, I could get better results.
to which I say, I'm not using any super prompts.
If I have to use a super prompt, your product goes broken on delivery.
If you tell me that I have to ask the question in some Harry Potter magic incantation or I'll get the wrong answer.
Your product is fucking broken.
I'm not going to adjust my Harry Pottering myself until I can say Excelsius Extremis or whatever you have to say to get a real answer.
But here are two things that I failed at doing.
They should have been easy.
One was I took a picture of myself at 14 years old.
I had a picture.
And I was sitting on a mini bike.
And I wanted to see if I could animate it so it looked like I was, you know, moving on the mini bike.
So I used a grock, the imagine feature, and sure enough, it took that photo and it animated it.
But it also changed me to a different character.
So it changed me into a 10-year-old who didn't look like me at all.
Now, what would I do with that?
Am I going to share a picture of a 10-year-old boy who doesn't look like me and send it to my friends?
Hey, everybody.
Here's a 10-year-old boy who doesn't look like me, but he's sitting on this mini bike just like I was when I was 14.
How about that, huh?
Has no value.
And a number of other things I changed my face so much that I thought I don't want to show this to anybody.
Then because I had some technical problems with the show yesterday and I didn't have the right microphone on, I wanted to use an app which I used before called Descript.
And one of the features there is you push a button and run your video through it and it changes the audio from maybe a poor quality audio.
to getting rid of the background sounds that sounds like a studio.
So I put in my video and I push the button and it gets to 85% processed and it just locks.
up.
Just doesn't do anything.
Just churns forever.
So I turn it off and I do it again.
It gets to 85% and it just stops.
So I do it a third time.
And this time it got to 0%.
Now there's no super prompt involved.
It's literally just a button that says studio quality audio.
Didn't do it.
Yeah.
So every time I try to use AI for anything outside of the most basic stuff, it just doesn't work.
And it doesn't look fixable.
It doesn't look like there's a way around it.
So we'll see.
I don't know if that's your experience, but so far AI looks like it way over promised.
Well, apparently the Gateway Panda has a story that says that the Pentagon had developed a self-spreading vaccine.
Self-spreading means that you would catch it from other people, except instead of catching a virus that would hurt you.
allegedly, it would be a virus that protected you from other viruses and whatnot.
Apparently this has already been worked on, but not rolled out can you imagine learning that your government made a virus that was meant to infect you and didn't tell you or get your permission can you even imagine that that's the sort of problem that would bring down the government i think so don't do that pentagon um So I guess Gavin Newsom is going to do some big event today to
push back against Trump's redistricting map.
And I don't know if he noticed, but now Newsom put out at least one post that was trying to mock Trump's style.
So he tried to copy how he talks, put it in all caps and ended with, thank you for your attention to this matter and tried to use the framing and the pacing of Trump.
But a lot of people didn't realize he was joking and they just started mocking him for looking like he's bad at social media.
Once you realize that as he's mocking, then you look at it differently.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, that's pretty good mocking.
I don't think it'll make a difference.
but at least they gave Newsom something to do for an afternoon.
Governor Pritzker of Illinois is talking about ending Illinois'ban on large-scale nuclear plants, to which I say, they have a ban on large-scale nuclear plants.
What's wrong with them?
It's 2025.
All right.
Then I'm going to give you, I'm going to end with a little bit of advice.
And one of the pieces of advice is from Rob Hedwig.
Henderson who was on the Boys Cast podcast and he was asked about one piece of advice he had given I don't know where he gave it might have been in his book if you're not following Rob Henderson on X you Should.
He's got a lot of good content on psychology and studies about psychology and how people act.
But anyway, he said one of the advices was to over deliver and do more than people expect of you.
And he credited me for where he saw that.
Now, I didn't make that one up.
You've all heard that one before, right?
do over deliver and under promise you should always do more than you say you're going to do it's some of the best advice and one of the reasons it's the best advice is just the easiest thing to do to get an advantage in this world.
And he talked about his experience as a dishwasher when he was a young man.
And he was getting praised and he was getting raises and he didn't understand why his boss was so happy with him because all he did was show up on time and do the work.
Well, if you've ever worked with dishwashers, They don't show up on time and sometimes they just don't show up and they don't always do the work.
So it doesn't take much to be the best dishwasher.
But it's also true in your corporate job.
It doesn't take much.
Maybe you work a weekend and your boss sees it.
Maybe you volunteer to help a co-worker on a thing.
Maybe you see a project that hasn't been asked for, but you know it's worth doing, so you just start doing it.
It's really, really easy to be in the top 10% of any group.
It just really is.
And so that's good advice.
Anytime you have a positive...
Yeah, show up one minute before your boss and leave one minute after your boss and your boss will think you're there all day.
That's one of my favorite tricks.
And then this bit of advice from Mark Andreessen, which you may have heard from me as well.
So I don't know that he was influenced by me on this.
It might be just obvious enough observation.
But he says, the person who writes down the thing has tremendous power.
When he says the thing that you're writing down, it just means it depends on the situation, right?
It's the thing.
And I've told you the same thing, that when I wrote down the list of hoaxes that the Democrats have used, it became really powerful because people said, oh, here's a list.
I'll send that around.
It's one of the most viral things on the internet right now.
And it's because I wrote it down.
Now, because I wrote it down, I got to decide what was on the list and what wasn't.
So I got to have an unusually large impact on politics because I wrote it down.
When I wrote the blog post, in which when Trump was running for first announced in 2015, and everybody said he's a crazy clown.
and I wrote a blog post that went hugely viral in which I said, well, he might be a clown, but he's a clown genius because he's using his clownery as part of his weaponry and part of his persuasion.
And sure enough, sure enough.
Now, the blog post was hugely persuasive because it was the first time people saw Trump being reframed into a brilliant operator as opposed to a classmate.
clown.
And why?
Was it because I was so smart?
Well, I mean, that might be my story.
But the reality is, as Mark Andreessen says, the person who writes down the thing has tremendous power.
So if you ever find yourself in a situation where you could take some time to do a little more than people expected of you, again, these two things fit together really well.
And you just take the time to write it down.
And maybe somebody will edit it later.
Maybe you're not the best writer.
Doesn't matter.
Whoever writes it down has a lot of power.
I've often also said that about speech writers for politicians.
The speechwriter has a lot of power because they can sort of test out ways to reframe things.
Now, the politician who's going to read the speech still has the ultimate power, but you can so often influence them by coming up with a great way to reframe something that they can't resist it.
So if you come up with a great reframe and you're a speechwriter, then your politician is going to be repeating that reframe.
So you have tremendous power writing stuff down.
All right, that's all I got for you today.
I went way long, so I'm going to say bye to everybody except for the locals, beloved subscribers.
