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So I wonder if there's any science that's been done lately that really didn't need to be done.
Oh, here we go.
In SciPost, Latimer Edward is writing that people interpret long eyelashes as a signal of openness to casual relationships.
Now, here's here's the question I ask.
Are they studying eyelashes because science um took care of everything else?
Was there nothing left to study but eyelashes?
And can you imagine telling your your proud parents, Mom?
Uh thanks for sending me to MIT.
I know it was a big sacrifice and expensive, but I'm part of an important study now.
Really?
Really?
What are you studying?
Eyelashes.
What?
Yeah, eyelashes.
It turns out that there is, and this study found this, an ideal length of eyelashes for attracting people, I guess.
So would you have ever guessed that people think that if your eyelashes are too long, it doesn't look good.
No, really.
Not that, yeah, really.
I know you never would have figured that out.
And also that if they're too short, they look less sexy.
But there's a there's a zone in between too long and too short.
I know science found this for us.
How would you even know this?
But between those two extremes is something called just the right length for an eyelash.
And if you nail it, oh whoa.
You can have quite a weekend.
That's all I'm gonna say.
Anyway.
Um According to uh ZME science, and uh I think you're gonna be amazed that science also has a handle on this.
Uh according to uh tutor Tarita, ultra-processed foods made a healthy young man, young men gain uh fat and lose sperm quality in just three weeks.
So they took some volunteers and they said, Hey, you healthy young men, uh, we're gonna measure you before and after.
And for only three weeks, they ate the ultra-processed foods, pretty much mostly that.
And uh, yeah, it made them less healthy immediately.
Now, who would have ever guessed that the fuel you're putting into your body would make a difference to your health?
A darn good thing they studied that because I was starting to think you could just put anything in that big hole in your face.
Hey, here's some dirt.
That's probably just as good as food.
Why don't I put it in my mouth?
So, yes, we're not surprised that the less healthy food produces a less healthy person.
Yeah, or we're not even surprised that it happens kind of quickly.
I mean, anybody who knows anything about blood sugar knows that that happens right away, but uh also apparently it just makes your hormones go crazy.
So it is so unhealthy.
My God.
You know, I always uh I'm always amazed because if I said to you, I've got an idea, why don't I put some dirt in your lawn mower engine?
You know, let's say it was a gas engine.
How many of you would think, well, that should be fine?
I mean, if it's only a little bit, and you only do it once, should be fine.
Well, your body is not less sensitive than your lawnmower, you know.
So yeah, don't put that stuff in there.
Um, here is uh another opportunity for me to tell you just how wonderful I am, if you don't mind.
Uh in this case, it's uh a prediction.
I guess you could call it that.
Remember, I told you that people would not like AI art, and I gave the argument that um art is really part of the mating instinct, and what you're responding to is the fact that there was a human who could make that art, and what you're impressed by is the human creator, it's not even the art.
So more to that point, not exactly on that point, but supportive of it, Scientific America, American has a uh story that says that uh survey revolt results show people prefer more human involvement in AI-driven art.
So people like human art more than AI art, so that part tracks, but hey, cats.
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Um, so yes, people like uh human-made art.
So if they know that a human made it, they might like it.
Just like I surmise.
Um it looks like the uh EU is finding Google 3.5 billion dollars over what they called uh ad tech abuse.
So I guess Google was favoring their own ad tech, and that's must be a no-no in the EU.
But the thing I wonder is, do you think Google even knew?
Do you think they were aware that they were violating the law Uh to the tune of um oh in terms of dollars is 3.5 billion dollars.
Yeah.
So how would you like to be the person in charge of that part of Google?
So how was the work today?
Well, found out that due to the fact that I did not understand the rules of the EU or how my own product works, uh, I just cost us um well, a fine.
It was a fine.
Ooh, a fine.
How much was it?
Like, was it over a million dollars?
Yeah, yeah, it was over a million dollars.
Was it over 10?
Yeah, stop it.
It was 3.5 billion dollars.
I feel bad enough.
Yeah, that was uh that was somebody's day at work.
I just cost the company 3.5 billion dollars.
Well, apparently uh there's something ruining community college that I had no idea was happening.
The Epic Times is recording about this.
Kimberly Hayek.
Apparently, they're all these uh fake college applicants that uh somehow if they enroll and they stay in school, they could get some kind of federal assistance, so it's a big old scam.
But as many as 30 percent of new students are enrolling in community college classes, but doing them remotely, but remotely, not really, because they're actually just bots and AI.
So AI has now destroyed community college because you try to get a class, and all the good classes are already taken by the the freaking robots that are scammers, and not just a little bit, like 30 percent.
Have I mentioned to you that everything is corrupt?
Everything well, what is not corrupt?
Did you even imagine that um I I guess at the low end it'd be like 13%, but up to 30% of the people who are allegedly in college and being supported by your taxes are just bots and crooks, and I'm just finding this out today.
I never even heard of this.
Have you?
Have any of you heard of that?
Unbelievable.
Is that could I have guessed that community college is you know a giant fraudulent thing, even though they don't intend it to be, of course.
Well, yeah, because it uh it appears that everything is.
Well, here's a story that's almost unbelievable.
PJ uh media is reporting on this, Kevin Downey, that apparently New Jersey is uh floating some uh they're they're considering anyway.
We don't know if it's gonna happen yet, but they're considering a bill that would force homeschoolers, homeschoolers, to be taught the uh the same kind of stuff that you go to homeschool to avoid exposing your children to.
Let me say it again.
Like the one of the main reasons, if not, I guess it would be the main reason that people don't want to send their kids to public schools, and the reason that they homeschool is so they're not exposed to all the things that would be forced upon them, even as homeschoolers if in New Jersey if they passed that bill.
That is so messed up, so messed up.
So in other words, it would force them into certain views on DEI and gender and climate studies, to name a few.
The very things that conservatives are running away from.
It's like, don't give that stuff to my kid.
Wow.
Well, I did not see this coming, and I'm not sure we know the real story here, But Howard Stern uh is not retiring and seems to have a deal, and he's just going back to work and acting like it was a big old prank, because they did prank it Up a little bit.
He pranked it toward the end and made it look like he was done, but he really was right there.
Um my guess probably the same as yours, that there was maybe a little bit of truth to it, as in they might have said, no way we're gonna renew you at your high prices, and then he probably said I I'd still be making a fortune at a fraction of what you used to pay me, so why don't you pay me that and I'll still be earning a fortune?
And uh that's probably what happened.
Probably it was something like negotiations and something like bad rumors, and nobody knew what was going on.
Um I think Elon Musk learned something from Trump.
Uh oh.
Yeah, well, we're good.
Um, because he he put a post on X today that was one of these mysterious one of you know, sort of a Trump-like uh keep you curious kind of post, and all it said was, you'll thank me later.
Now, what do you think that meant?
You'll thank me later.
The beauty of it is that he's on his way, depending on his pay package approval at Tesla, to becoming a trillionaire.
How many possible things might he be doing that we would thank him later for if he had a trillion dollars to you know apply to it, so to speak?
That's kind of uh kind of keeps me curious.
So the the range of possibilities are just I mean, it could be anything.
He he could have solved some major societal problem, but more likely it's just something like a joke or something, but it makes me just as happy to anticipate it.
So that's that's the Trump part.
The Trump part is that the real game is the anticipation, it's not even the announcement.
So uh I woke up this morning to find out that uh Elon had reposted a video that somebody had clipped um of me doing a whiteboard presentation of uh how to be less lazy, and it already had six million views.
Isn't that amazing that he that by buying X, he wasn't just like investing in a company that you know he turned around and you know made it viable, but uh he found a way that just with one touch,
because he's made himself such a character on X, that you know, he's got the gigantic account that he can he can boost anything, and the effect is like immediate and you're just stunning.
So that was amazing.
My name was not mentioned on it, so maybe that made it easier too.
Um so here's another test of my BS detecting skills that you get to watch it real time.
It's a real-time test.
Do you remember when the news was that Mike Johnson, Speaker Johnson, had said that Trump was an FBI informant on the Epstein case, and do you remember what I said about that story?
I said that doesn't sound right.
I do not believe that Mike Johnson knows that Trump was an FBI informant for the Epstein situation, and I mocked it by saying, Are you telling me that we're just finding this out now?
That somehow it could have been casually known by Mike Johnson, who just casually mentions it in the hallway, you know, press gaggle or whatever it is, and that and that we're just finding out about it.
And you remember what I said, you know.
I basically said, just wait.
This is confused, it's getting conflated with the other story that uh he was helpful to one of the lawyers, and now he has clarified that he did not mean that Trump was ever an FBI informant,
that he had in fact Um sounds like he had in fact conflated it with the real story that uh Trump was the most useful uh witness or forthcoming person to talk to one of the lawyers about what really was happening there.
So my BS detector worked on that story, if you're keeping keeping score.
Um I was laughing quite a bit this morning at the story that uh allegedly the Trump administration might require would-be citizens to complete an essay, so they'd have an essay portion to the U.S. citizenship test.
Now, is it just me, or does that seem funny?
That it would be an essay part of the citizenship test.
And what would you write on the essay?
And wouldn't it take about five minutes?
Because even the citizenship test has a study guide, there would they would obviously have to give you a study guide or some notes about you know what they're looking for in the in the uh essay?
But wouldn't it be the same, I don't know, list of maybe 10 things?
It'd be like, all right, make sure you say that you want to be loyal.
Uh be sure you say that you respect everybody's different religions, you know, it's gonna be whatever it is, it's gonna be a list of things that every single person will mention in the essay, or is the real trick here to make sure they can write something in English, because I imagine the essay would have to be in English, right?
So is it a clever way to have a language restriction?
Is that what's going on?
Anyway, so it does look like it's a way to um block certain people that you might want to block, whoever that is.
So there's a little bit of subjectivity to it, but I will uh I will copy what somebody said about having AI grade things.
Um imagine if AI grades their essays, their citizenship essays.
Would that be so dismissive if it if it failed you on your essay and it was just AI and no human being was even involved, and you wouldn't know how to appeal it, because everybody would appeal it if you could.
So they probably will have AI grade them.
Uh but I can also imagine how how dumb would you have to be, assuming that you could read and write in in English, how dumb would you have to be to not be able to pass the citizenship essay?
I mean, you kind of know what to write, right?
And it's not like they're looking for, you know, uh Mark Twain level writing.
They're just looking for, are you gonna like the country and you know be loyal to it and stuff?
Can't be that hard.
But I will say that requiring uh the essays into the US has one advantage that is not obvious to you, but it will be once I tell you.
It's uh the first stage of brainwashing, because a a healthy country does in fact brainwash all of its citizens to be in the same page and to say things like, Whoa, I live in the best country, and uh I would fight, uh give my life for the country.
That's all the basis of brainwashing.
You're you're not born with those feelings.
Those are given to you.
Those are assigned to you as a child, and they sort of never go away.
So even though I call it brainwashing, I do not say it's a bad idea.
It might be the only way you can build a cohesive country that can defend itself with a whole bunch of you know well-intentioned brainwashing, so everybody's on the same page.
Um, but one of the best ways to brainwash somebody is to ask them to write an essay.
This is a real thing.
That's um was it uh um in the book uh influence Chieldini's book, um that's where I first thought that if you get somebody to write an essay on one point of view and these uh essays on citizenship would have to be America is great, it's the best country, that's why I want to live here.
If you're if you're forced to write it, even if you're just lying to get into the country, the fact that you wrote it down and signed your name to it, will in fact cause you to start believing those things, and that's a apparently well demonstrated um psychological effect that if you're forced to write it, even though you know you're pretending, it will turn you into it, anyway.
Not every person, not completely, it's one of those statistical things.
All right, so I'm in favor of that.
Um I saw I I saw a uh article by John Forte, Blaze Media, an opinion piece, and he's talking about the importance of patriotic assimilation, you know, basically brainwashing.
Would you would you imagine that those are the same?
That we require people to quote assimilate, but that means more than just learning the language, right?
And learning, you know, obeying the laws and learning the language.
You it's more than that.
It's like getting that whole American vibe thing.
But if you call it a simulation, then people think it's a good thing.
They're like, oh, I'd like to assimilate, good idea.
But it's not really that different than brainwashing.
It's just brainwashing with a good intention, you know, with uh with the intention of benefiting the greater good.
But if you want to call it assimilation, that's fine.
So Marjorie Taylor Green is uh sent a I guess a formal request to DOJ and the FBI to investigate the 2020 election in Georgia.
Uh gateway pundits writing about this, Brian Lupo.
And do you believe that we would find at this late date some confirmed you know rigging of the Georgia state election in 2020?
How many of you believe that if they spend a little bit of time looking into it, they're gonna find it?
I don't know, because I'm having this groundhog day situation.
If you like me, and some of you are the algorithm has been giving you a steady diet of, well, here's another almost guaranteed proof that that Georgia election was rigged, and then you think,
well, if that's true, this will be this giant national story, and then you know, the legal system will operate, and then you wait, and it feels like nothing happens, and you think, wait, well, what happened to that allegation?
Did that get debunked?
And usually did.
So I am so used to a news story of oh, this time we got them, this time we got him.
We're so close, we got the goods, but it doesn't really ever seem like we got anybody, and I don't know why.
I don't know if it's all the same phenomenon, which is that the claims were ridiculous, and all we're doing is finding that out, or is there some other phenomenon happening?
But I wanted to just I took from the uh the article, the gateway pundit article, um, what some of these claims are, and I was reminding myself a little bit.
So you remember that Biden uh won Georgia by, and I'm gonna round off here just to make it simple.
You won Georgia by 12,000 votes.
All right, not quite, but round off to 12,000.
Did you know that uh there are 18,000 Votes of quote unknown providence, which means no physical ballot was in evidence.
So there are 18,000 phantom votes.
That's what I'll call them, because they don't match any physical voting thing.
There are also, and now these are the allegations, right?
I can't prove that these are true.
Um uh 21,000 votes that were counted from unreported and unidentified tabulators.
What?
How could they have uh unidentified tabulators?
I mean, it could be just uh you know, typo somewhere, or um the 10 tabulators used for the uh 21,000 votes have no record of existing, according to the tabulators' tapes, which include serial numbers for the tabulators, okay, and also no poll closing tapes were provided, no logic and accuracy test logs.
Again, I don't know how um common any of this is, you know, that it doesn't necessarily mean that all this missing sketchy stuff is proof of uh bad election.
It could be that even your cleanest elections have all these kind of minor problems, and it doesn't mean what you think it means.
And if you looked into it, you'd be satisfied that it was fine, maybe, maybe, but I don't hate the fact that Marjorie Taylor's green is gonna make them look into it because I feel like we need to know what whichever way it goes.
Don't you feel like you need to know?
To me, Georgia is just hanging out there as one of President Trump's um possibly biggest fake news, you know.
The thing that the Democrats believe when he when he said just find me, you know, X number of votes.
They imagined that what that meant, the find me, is uh he's asking him to cheat in front of a bunch of witnesses.
Now, that's as dumb as imagining that January 6th was an insurrection and nobody brought a gun.
Yeah, he asked him to throw the election in front of what he knew were lots of people listening at the same time, and of course it's the president, so of course it's recorded somewhere.
No, that didn't happen.
What he was certainly saying was, you know, make sure that they're not any lost votes or sketchy things going, and if you do that, it might find that I you know actually won.
So I'm all for it, the checking of it.
If you told me, Scott, I'm gonna put a gun to your head, and you're gonna have to bet whether they're gonna find that the election was stolen.
I wouldn't make the bet.
But I definitely want to know more about that situation.
And you know, uh I wouldn't rule out that it was rigged.
I would not rule that out.
I just don't personally have any uh evidence that pushes me over the line on that.
I could easily be pushed, but I'm not there yet.
I guess Trump attended the U.S. Open Finals, and are you surprised they would go to a big stadium um, probably with a lot of elites, because the tickets are not cheap, and that it was what I heard was pretty much all cheers.
I didn't hear booze.
Are we being totally gas-lit that there's so much resistance to them?
Or is it resistance just on TV and resistance on social media?
But if you went into the real world, would 90% or more, we'll say 90%, would 90% say, oh yay, look, it's a president, and and have sort of a little bit of a fond feeling for what he's doing for the country.
It makes me wonder.
It does make me wonder, because it it's not like a sporting event.
Now, the the only other way you could explain it is um the tennis, you know, tennis fans are usually tennis players, and They tend to be sort of a polite sporting group compared to other people.
Maybe it was just that.
Maybe they were just being polite.
But it kind of looked like he had broken the you know, broken the TDS bubble.
I mean, I don't know how you get a whole stadium full of people to sound like they're all cheering.
You know, no doubt there were some mixed-in booze or something, but sounded like you know, pretty general support.
So surprise me a little bit.
And it may it also made me wonder because Trump actually goes to sporting events that he would have gone to anyway, you know, stuff that he literally enjoys, not just you know, presidential stuff, but he he gets the best seats in the house, and I thought to myself, uh what one of the best things for him about being president is that he just gets great seats.
Um I'm also getting used to the the Trump persona, and I'm gonna miss it so much, assuming he ever leaves office.
Uh and what I mean by that is he's he's now able to get away with all kinds of behavior that used to drive the press crazy and give them stuff to talk about.
He's going full Don Rickles.
So for those of you who know now deceased, I believe, um, comedian Don Rickles, his entire act was insulting people in the audience and you know, friends and stuff, just insulting them terribly.
But the reason he could get away with it is that that was his sort of persona, and so you didn't take him seriously, you knew that that was an act.
Well, Trump, I think is finally, um, and it's not like there was a dividing line where it happened, it happened gradually, and then you notice it.
He's created his persona to the point where I feel like even his critics have given up on the fact that it's not an act, meaning that it's not like he's lying, and it's not like he's a phony.
He he's a genuine showman.
So the fact that he's putting on a show and that he's playing sort of uh an attenuated version of himself for the show, uh it doesn't make it fake, because you know he's putting on a show, and that the show is the Donald Trump show.
So somehow he he's made this thing that never existed before, which is uh president as showman, you know, beyond just being good politically like a Kennedy, he's putting on a show, so and it's it's sort of a reality show,
but there'll be little moments such as uh he was asked by I think it was Yamichi, one of the reporters asked him as he was leaving to go somewhere, and they stop him as they do.
And uh the question was, quote, are you ready to go to war with Chicago?
Why use the Department of Defense?
So Trump stops, he looked, he leans into her, he goes, be quiet, you don't listen.
That's why you're second rate.
We're not going to war.
We're gonna clean our cities so they don't kill five people every weekend.
That's not war, that's common sense.
Yeah, that's why you're second rate.
Now, do you even imagine that there'll be any other president who would ever put on a show where you would expect it would be pretty normal behavior that he would say to a reporter in front of a bunch of other reporters, you're second rate.
The only reason he can get away with it is that he's trained us that he's Trump.
So Trump just has he has the right to put on the show.
And once you realize that stuff like your second rate is not a is not an indication that he's out of control and uh that he must be 25th amendment, All it means is you finally figured out what the show is.
This is the show.
We've been watching it for years, but for I think the rest of the country, mostly the Democrats, I feel like you finally came along.
Not everybody, but a lot more, and that you finally understand the the show.
That was the show.
And here's some more of it.
Again, this is just examples of the show.
So Trump can't let go of the uh the autopen thing, but listen to the way he words it.
Now, I've often said he's the best writer we've ever had as a president, um, because it's just so you just feel everything he says, and he doesn't waste a lot of words.
And uh anyway, I'll say more about that another time, but just listen to the the beauty of the the brief powerful thing he says that just is part of the show.
He said, quote, um, the autopen was our president, the autopen was our president.
Now, isn't that the funny way to say that?
The autopen was the president, so dismissive of Biden, it's kind of perfect, and it uses no extra words, no extra words.
The autopen was our president, it's just perfect, and then he goes, Whoever operated the autopen was our president, just in case you you didn't get it the first time.
He goes, This is not allowed, it's not allowed.
Okay, uh, that sums it up.
And they gave they gave a pardon to the what he calls the unselect committee, which were really the select committee, is what they call themselves.
Um, after they realized the whole situation was a hoax and it was all their fault, including Nancy Pelosi.
So he throws in all the best of he throws in a Nancy Pelosi because he knows the uh the crowd will appreciate a a good Pelosi hit.
Um there's another there's another Pelosi reference coming up that you just have to wait.
You can't you can't miss us, so don't leave until I've given you that one.
Um what do you say?
He goes, they burned everything, it's all gone.
I guess that's the records that that was based on the autopen that gave those members of Congress on the J6 unselect committee pardons.
I think it's a tremendous scandal.
Now, here's the thing I wonder.
How how many people watch enough news that they would have identified all of his references?
First of all, what percentage of the general population even knows what the autopen scandal is?
What would you guess?
20% because you get you get fooled by thinking that if you follow politics that other people follow it.
Most people couldn't name the vice president of the United States.
You know that, right?
I don't know if it's most, but it could be a lot.
So how many even know what the autopen thing is?
How many know what he meant by the unselect committee?
That it was the select committee, and how many would even know what the select committee did?
So they were the ones trying to impeach him, right?
And then he just throws in Nancy Pelosi with no direct reference.
That's funny, and then they burned everything, it's all gone.
So again, you know how he he speaks in uh visual language.
He doesn't say that they destroyed the records, or he says they burned them because you could just see the flame when he talks.
Uh so you see the autopen, you see the flame, you you see Nancy Pelosi.
It's just so visual.
All right.
So I don't even think it matters that people don't know any of those issues.
Which oh my god, I'm I'm double catted here.
So it's um I'm not distracted at all if you're listening to this on audio only.
I have cats everywhere, they're all over me.
All right, um, So here's another Trump wins.
So Senator Corey Booker says it's outrageous, blah, blah, blah.
And he's talking about Trump using the post-9-11 laws to take out the drug smuggler boat in the Caribbean.
Is it Caribbean or Caribbean?
I try not to say that word in public.
But when you think about the fact that Trump authorized the taking out of the boats and that they got a nice video of it blowing up, is that the most perfect Trumpian visual image?
To actually get a nice, pretty nice video of the boat blowing up.
not so nice that you can see the, you know, any body parts or anything, because you don't want it to be gross.
So you want to be sort of like video game quality, you know, low-end video game quality, where you can see it blowing up, but you don't get any empathy for them because you don't see their faces, You don't see any body parts, and you don't you don't see them screaming for help as they drown with you know limbs missing and stuff.
Um but seriously, Kat.
Um, but it could not be a more popular, nationalistic, patriotic America's back kind of image, right?
Um plus it put the Democrats on the side of the cartels because they gotta they gotta talk against it, but just because the image was so popular, it's not I mean, it's not at the level of you know, fight, fight, fight after he got shot in the ear.
Now that was just perfection in terms of messaging, but the blowing up of the smuggler's boat and the way they made it just right visually, is really good work, you know, in the in the propaganda brainwashing uh world.
And again, when I say brainwashing, it doesn't mean it's bad.
I'm in favor of exactly this kind of winning imagery.
I think it's it's good for us.
Um Trump says he's talking about Chicago and sending in the feds.
He said we could solve Chicago very quickly, but we're gonna make a decision as to where we go over the next day or two.
So again, Trump does the uh the uh anticipation, the curiosity.
You know, is he gonna do it?
Is he gonna move him into Chicago, even though Chicago doesn't want him to?
Will he make Chicago argue even harder that that Trump is the only one who thinks black lives matter?
And I'm surprised he hasn't used that yet, but I don't think he won probably doesn't want that association at all.
But uh am I wrong to assume that in Chicago all these many murders and shootings are disproportionately uh black victims, aren't they?
So is Trump not the only one who seems to be caring enough about the black victims in Chicago?
And I kind of appreciate I guess I appreciate the fact that he doesn't bring that up because it just treats everybody as people, which is you know a superior high ground place for a president to be.
But uh kind of interesting.
He's the the Democrats are really weak on that.
So there is a senator named Tammy Duckworth, who I don't know if she's had work done, but I swear to God, when I look at her picture, she reminds me of a duck.
And I don't know that she always did.
I always thought she was a person whose name was Duck, but now I look at her and I think, why do you look like a duck now?
You you go look at her, the most modern picture you can find of her.
You tell me that you don't immediately think duck.
You do.
You do.
What's a duck worth?
Well, I don't know.
Depends on the market demand.
Well, she said um that Trump has declared war on a major city in his own nation, and this is not normal.
Now, let me point out again what Democrats always get wrong.
Um, at least lately.
All they're doing is what I call word thinking.
They're trying to win debates by getting you to agree with the words they used.
They're not winning the debates because they have more common sense.
Trump owns common sense at the moment.
That all they have is words.
So instead of saying, which you could have easily said, that uh Trump is looking to uh instead of declare war on a major city, he's looking to rescue a major city.
Wouldn't it look the same?
He's sending in the National Guard to rescue them.
So if you said that what he's doing is rescuing them, you'd say that's a good thing.
But if you said what he's doing is declaring war on a major US city, that would be a bad thing.
But what would be the difference of what you're both thinking about when one says it's declaring war and the other says it's rescuing?
Nothing.
You would both be imagining the same set of activities.
National Guard goes in, rate of crime goes down.
So you can't win the argument by making me use your words.
And look how often the the Democrats do that.
Look how often they're trying to get you to use their words so that they can win the win the argument.
Now both sides do it, but um the beauty of Trump's common sense as a theme is that he almost always locks to common sense, and so you know, he's got that working for him.
But wording, no good.
All right.
Um here's a ominous foreshadowing kind of thing that Trump also said.
He made a he made a lot of news this morning, just with his comments as he was going from one place to another.
Um he was asked if he's thinking about attacking the cartels inside of Venezuela, and Trump said, and I quote, well, you're going to find out.
Um, you're going to find out.
Only sounds like yes to me.
Do you get anything out of that besides yes?
And would he be saying yes, but maybe hasn't decided yes?
Would he have said it that way if he hadn't already decided to go internal to Venezuela?
Well, it sounds very yes like to me.
And I I was trying to remember a time when Trump would say something so unambiguous and then it wouldn't happen.
He doesn't really do that, does he?
Does he say anything that's such an unambiguous threat and that it doesn't happen?
I feel it sure sounds like it's already planned, and you know, the order has been given.
I suppose anything's possible.
Maybe they've got the plans drawn up and he's inclined to go, but he might change his mind.
So that maybe that's what he's saying.
But um, he certainly wants Venezuela to think it could happen any moment.
So, but he's not really negotiating, is he?
Uh he's not really asking Venezuela for anything, is he?
Because I don't think he thinks that Venezuela even has the ability to stop the drug trade.
Not really.
Um, you know, if they try, they'd get killed themselves.
So I don't think he's asking Venezuela for anything.
He's not asking them to surrender, he's not trying to take their property directly.
But um, as smart people have pointed out, Venezuela has you know these enormous oil reserves and you know, it's location in the world next to us, and uh it's near refineries, etc.
Near enough to refineries.
So it could be that Trump is making a big play to you know get a puppet there or literally take over the country.
Maybe and maybe the way he's doing it is I don't know, it could be anything.
Decapitation strike.
I believe he would have the would he have the legal cover because he's declared the whole country a terrorist place.
Would he have a the legal cover to capture or take out Madura?
I mean, I can't imagine he can get to him without you know just blowing up the whole block.
But uh I don't know.
Looks like things are gonna heat up there.
And uh Tom Holman said, yeah, we're at war with the criminal cartels in in our own cities and elsewhere.
But does it seem to you that Trump has started a whole bunch of what I'd call so far casualty free wars, and here I mean casualties only in the American side.
So we got this trade war with Russia.
We've got we're we're kind of in a hot war, except the US forces are not directly contributing.
So that's one war with no U.S. casualties yet.
Um we've got a trade war with China, and you know, this I I guess we have casualties, but they were ongoing with the uh the fentanyl, but those are reducing.
Whatever he's doing in Venezuela has not yet caused a casualty.
I don't know if that'll continue.
The whatever he's doing against the Mexican cartels is sort of law enforcement-like and doesn't seem to have any casualties, and then of course he's gonna take over Greenland any day now, and so far no casualties there.
Just getting Greenland.
That's how we joke.
But I do like the fact that Trump um he does seem like he's at least trying to be the most casualty-free, at least for Americans, um, president.
I kind of appreciate that.
Scott Bissant is uh backing up something that I've been saying for a while, that I I've been wondering if the US could uh collapse the the Russian economy.
And now Scott Bassent head of the treasury says directly that we're gonna try with with the EU to use sanctions that are strong enough, especially the indirect ones where you sanction the people who are doing business with Russia, not just Russia.
And he thinks that collectively the EU and the US could collapse the Russian economy.
I I don't know that that's true.
I I feel like we're always wrong when we estimate that somebody's just gonna go out of business on their own, and then when they're really gonna go out of business on their own, we don't see it coming.
So I feel like we're always wrong about that stuff.
We'll see.
Well, you remember Vivek, Ramaswamy is gonna he's running for uh Ohio governor, and uh bunch of good news there is funding is good and people are moving, some Democrats are moving his way, and they seem to be responding to his ideas for prosperity and uh you know business business success and uh all that.
So it it made me think that the the fact that he he ran for president without holding an office probably made it you know because Trump is Trump, he's a one of a kind, but it probably made it nearly impossible that he would win the presidency.
However, if you take a good run at the presidency and you miss, even if your polling is you know in single digits, everybody knows you ran for president.
So by the time you run for governor, People think, well, yeah.
I mean, obviously, I mean, if he if he got a few points for president, obviously he's a great governor.
So it might have turned out to be the smartest way anybody ever ran for governor.
You know, I'm sure he wanted to be president, but it had this uh this backup benefit that if he didn't make it to president, you're probably not too many steps away from Ohio governor, if that's what you want to do.
And then he's then after that, remember he's really young.
So after that, who knows?
Who knows what's left.
Well, Harris lost her uh security detail for the second time.
The first time uh Trump canceled it, um, which really just made it the same as other vice presidents, which is six months of uh being protected by the government's paychecks, and then uh Gavinusom wanted to make his play,
so he put police, I think he was the one who ordered it, um, ordered police in California to just replace the security and protector, and then apparently there was a big outcry from the people who thought that the crime was too high and we needed more police, and they should not be wasting their time protecting Harris, so they're getting pulled away.
No word yet if she's got private security, but I would assume I would assume she get she'd get private security.
But uh maybe maybe it would be better if nobody told stories about this at all.
It's too late now, so might as well talk about it now.
But uh, I I feel like it was like, oh, she uh she lost her security, so you know, if you wanted to try anything, oh well, hold on, hold on.
It looks like she got security back, it happens to be the police.
Hold off, hold off.
Oh, looks like the security's going away again.
Oh, hold off, hold off.
Don't try anything.
Looks like she has private security.
But wouldn't it be better, maybe if nobody had ever reported that at all from the beginning?
Well, Trump uh being operating in his persona, as I was saying earlier, where he can get away with anything, because it's just part of the show.
It's not like real politics, it's part of the show.
And uh more to that point.
Um he said around a thing that was agreeing with representative Luna.
Um, she's trying to get some legislation to ban lawmakers from being able to trade stock because they have insider um information, so it's not fair.
And Pelosi, of course, is the one who is most accused of abusing that insider trading, uh, allegedly, and there's now a deep fake of Pelosi, uh, a deep fake Pelosi talking, and she says stuff like that her trades collapsed after losing all of her insider information, and um she said, uh, since I left Congress, my trades are shit.
Uh, but then there's this one line of the the deep fake that made me laugh until I cry.
She goes, my husband is in love with a homeless hammer guy.
A homeless hammer guy.
He's in love with.
Oh my god.
And what's funnier about it is that Trump forwarded that.
He forwarded Nancy Pelosi being mocked for her husband being in love with a homeless hammer guy.
Now that's the president I want.
Oh, that's what I voted for.
Did you have you seen the meme of Homer Simpson whose uh mouth is contorted as if he's about to say the letter F. He's all like I I can't do the impression, but you see the picture, and it looks obviously like he's about to say something that starts with F. And somebody put that around, and they said, me about to form the words that I voted for this.
Oh, I definitely voted for I definitely voted for Trump forwarding memes about Nancy Nancy Pelosa's husband being in love with the homeless hammer guy.
Now, just to be clear, to the best of my knowledge, they are not in any relationship, nor have they been, the homeless hammer guy, not Nancy and her husband.
All right.
Oh, that's funny.
And uh the Epstein files never going away.
So the latest is apparently we cannot see the files, no matter what administration is in charge.
What does that mean?
What does it mean that we can't see the files?
And what we do see is a repeat and highly redacted, so it's nothing.
What does it mean that neither side will show you the files?
It's gotta be somebody really important in there.
Do you think it's more than one person?
Or is there just one person that is the reason we can't see those files?
It could be anything.
Could be a foreign country is begging us, and we just don't want to, you know, could be I don't know, Great Britain just to pick one foreign country.
May have asked us not to talk about it, maybe.
So I don't know what the real reason is.
But uh Thomas Massey and Rokana are trying to uh get a law that just makes them show us everything.
Will there be some blowback from that?
And will there be some negative, I don't know, giving up some sources and methods or whatever their problem is, probably.
But at this point, it just seems to me we have to do it.
We we have to get out of if it's possible.
You know, I suppose even if they release everything unredacted, people would say, but there's more.
I know there's more.
So I guess you can never get to the point where people would say, I guess we've seen everything, every all my questions have been answered.
So I think the public is now too worked up and too curious, and we've lost too much trust.
So I think I'd be in favor of releasing everything.
But if there are people who are absolutely innocent, but their names are in those files, we should do what we can to make sure that people know the difference between those who were accused and people who just knew them.
Well, isra Israel's Supreme Court allegedly, according to the AP News, ruled that uh that they can't starve prisoners.
But what they didn't I didn't see is that they ruled that they are starving prisoners.
And remember what I tell you about a war zone?
You can't believe anything coming out of a war zone.
So you can't believe that people are being starved, but you also can't believe that they're not being starved.
It's a complicated situation.
My guess would be that there are certainly people not getting enough food in pockets, and probably that they're trying not to make it a starvation situation, because that wouldn't be good for Israel.
It's not like they would be coming out ahead if people found out they were intentionally starving them.
So most likely they're doing the best they can, but there are some pockets where for a variety of good reasons they can't satisfy everybody all the time.
However, um what we don't know, at least I don't know, was there was there ever any accusation that it was intentional?
Would it ever be militarily or geopolitically intentional that Israel would try to starve the population?
Now, obviously they want them to relocate, but would they do that?
I don't know.
I know I don't know if they're even being accused of doing it intentionally.
So every but remember, it doesn't it doesn't matter what we guess, you just can't believe anything coming out of a war zone.
Just don't believe any of it.
And uh there was a terror attack um in Jerusalem, four killed, 15 wounded in a bus i guess some terrorist uh palestinian open fire with a submachine gun did you know that they make submachine guns um in the west bank i guess they've they must have little machine shops and they're making their own uh submachine guns i wonder how many they made um
gonna have a deal on Gaza very soon he sort of repeated that a few times as if it's already agreed or that whatever's left is so trivial that it will be agreed.
