Erica, Marcella, and Owen dissect President Trump's China visit with Jensen Huang and Elon Musk, debating safety amid reports of Russian economic support talks. They critique the algae-infested Reflecting Pool following a $34 million renovation and analyze Zohran Mamdani's controversial rhetoric linking immigration to classical Sharia law practices like inheritance disparities. The hosts examine OPEC's historic low oil generation, Israel-UAE Iron Dome deployments, and 6% inflation potentially triggering rate hikes, while noting an AI drug cut fentanyl use by 60%. Ultimately, the episode highlights how political maneuvering and geopolitical shifts continue to reshape domestic policy and international alliances. [Automatically generated summary]
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A Nervous Morning in China00:12:07
I am the beatable, you guys.
This is as far as you know, I'm alive.
Yeah, this has been a morning.
So, I got paper tapping, I have stories.
Owen's got stories, Marcella's got stories.
Oh, look, my things over here.
You guys, it's a morning.
I'm gonna take a simultaneous sip with all of you, but I want you to know it's been such a morning.
I don't even have my right mug.
Oh, Lord, let me regroup.
Here we go.
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Okay, I'm going to tell you guys something right now.
Hear me out.
I deleted that clip off of here yesterday.
I just want you to hear this is such a weird thing, okay?
I'm going to do it again.
I'm going here, delete, okay?
It's gone.
I did that yesterday because I played that clip twice already.
Immediately yesterday.
Okay.
Now, I also want you to know that before the show, I was listening.
I'm just telling you, this is a signal from Scott.
I'm not trying to be because that's crazy.
I was listening to one of Scott's shows before the show, and it's like, I swear, as I'm listening to it, I'm going, okay, this is such a wacky simulation because like every little segment and story, one after the other, after the other, after the other.
Is totally like what we talked about on our show yesterday.
It's about like what's currently happening, like Chump, Chump, Trump in China, Chump, Chump, the Chump meeting was happening then.
So it's from October 2025.
And I'm going to tell you guys, because you'll see, it's episode 3003.
Some weird simulation, Nike stuff is happening.
I'm a little freaked out, not going to lie.
Okay, good morning.
Hi.
I'm Erica.
I'm with Marcella and with Owen, and you are at the Scott Adams School.
So it is Wednesday, May 13th, and we have a jam packed show for you.
And we want to remind you tomorrow, Corey DeAngelis will be here.
And on Friday, Joshua Lysak will be with us.
We love him.
So, first, we just want to show you here's a clip where President Trump has touched down in China this morning.
Here's his plane coming in.
That's an impressive plane.
So, that was, I think that was like 7 30 China time.
That was R this morning.
So, you have him there.
And then here he is coming off the plane.
He had cheerleaders.
Yeah, he had cheerleaders.
Yay, team.
And so, I asked Owen if he could give us a breakdown of what.
They're going to be discussing today and who is with President Trump in China.
And Owen, if you want to get going with that, I'll just let this roll in the background.
Sure.
So, according to reports that I think came from some of the Trump administration, they're expecting to talk about economic and strategic support for Russia.
So, it'll include things like oil revenue, dual use components, professional weapons or potential weapons transfers.
On the economic side, I think they're focusing on trade arrangements.
Apparently, there is a proposed US China Board of Trade.
So, I guess he's sort of trademarking this whole Board of Peace, Board of Trade sort of thing.
But it says that that is meant to help manage commerce in non sensitive goods.
So maybe they're separating the sensitive things from the non sensitive.
But it looks like they're trying to put a framework in place for trade.
So I think it is obviously going to have a lot to do with the war issues going on, making sure that, to the best of our ability, that we're keeping China from supporting our enemies and working through a lot of the economic issues.
And then in terms of the people, I can read through.
Trump's Truth Social post about that?
I wasn't doing makeup, you guys.
There was a bug.
There was a bug.
I was laughing too because these flag people that were in the.
I was thinking of what Scott would say and I was thinking that he would be like, if they don't do it right, they'll get executed.
So I was just laughing about it.
It's kind of morbid.
All right.
So Trump's Truth Social post says CNBC incorrectly reported the great.
Jensen Huang of NVIDIA was not invited to the incredible gathering of the world's greatest businessmen, women, and proudly going to China.
In actuality, Jensen is currently on Air Force One, and unless I ask him to leave, which is highly unlikely, CNBC reporting is incorrect, or as they say in politics, fake news.
It's an honor to have Jensen, Elon, Tim Apple.
He's a Tim Apple.
Larry Fink, Stephen Schwartzman, Kelly.
From Boeing, Brian Sykes from Cargill, Jane Frazier from Citi, Larry Culp from GE Aerospace, David Solomon from Goldman Sachs, Sanjay Mero Tra from Mike Cristiano, Aman from Qualcomm, and many others, journeying to the great country of China, where I will be asking President Xi, a leader of extraordinary distinction, to open up China so that these brilliant people can work there and help bring the People's Republic to an even higher level.
In fact, I promise that when we are together, which will be in a matter of hours, I will make that my very first request.
I have never seen or heard of any idea that would be more beneficial to our incredible countries, President Donald J. Trump.
You're muted.
Erica, you're on mute.
It's China.
They muted her.
Hi.
Okay, so let's chat about this really quick.
One reason I wanted you to read that is because I'm obsessed that he calls him Tim Apple.
So that's amazing.
And he's done that several times, which is fun.
And it's like his little nickname for him.
But wow.
So.
I'm nervous because I keep saying people say that they're nervous about this trip and his safety.
So, you know, a sitting president hasn't been to China in a decade.
And the last time a president went to China was President Trump.
So, why is everybody nervous?
I'm nervous because they're nervous.
And I'm nervous because all of these like massive CEOs are going, which I'm wondering is that also for protection for Trump?
I don't know.
So, can we just riff about this for a minute?
Do you guys have an opinion on?
Why are people nervous?
Is it just because?
I mean, I don't think they're nervous, but I could be wrong.
No, I'm hearing people like news people and talking heads saying that they're worried for his safety and they're nervous about the trip.
And then I saw like Glenn Beck was like, I just don't have a good feeling about this.
I'm worried about his safety.
I'm like, what is happening?
Why is everyone saying that?
So I'm glad a lot of you aren't nervous.
I mean, China is an adversarial nation.
We obviously have this sort of cooperation, but also competition, and that they are considered, I think, by most people, one of our biggest military threats.
And You know, Trump is this unique figure where it would make a huge difference to how the United States does foreign policy, potentially, if Trump was killed.
And so, you know, I can understand why people would be worried.
I can understand, especially people like Glenn Beck, who obviously would be very, we shouldn't be there at all.
But I, you know, I think I don't see a lot of risk.
I don't think it's likely that China would do anything or allow anything to happen just because.
You know, it would clearly potentially result in World War III if it did, and it would be a huge disruption and bad for them and bad for us.
So, I personally am not overly concerned from a safety perspective, but I can totally understand that, you know, you're in a foreign country, you don't know how friendly they are to us, and, you know, potentially they could have some kind of other agenda in place.
But I personally would not be too worried about something happening there.
I mean, he's gone even into places like North Korea before.
A place where we thought we were about to go to war when he started, and he did that.
And, um, so you know, Trump is clearly not, you know, having any fear about these things.
And I think, um, I'm expecting it will go smoothly.
Um, I did see some of the lefties and reporters apparently saying that he couldn't walk when he got off the plane, but clearly I saw him walking, so I don't think that's true.
Didn't we just walk?
He went down the stairs too, right?
Yeah, yeah, he carried him.
Yeah.
The thing that I wanted to talk about is that Bill O'Reilly was on Chris Como, and I think some of you guys watched it.
That yesterday he had, I don't know, Bill, what connections he has in China, but he said that the Chinese want to talk to Trump.
Obviously, Trump is going to talk about Iran, and the Chinese want to help Trump with Iran.
And as we know, Iran and China have a good Like a solid trade partnership.
And what basically Bill Riley was saying is that, in exchange for talking to Iran or, you know, playing peacemaker China, that they want to talk about Taiwan.
And that would be the exchange.
So I don't know how far they want to go with Taiwan, but that's what Bill reported.
So I don't know.
We'll see.
Good.
Well, there's a lot of people there that I think will be rooting for, you know, Taiwan, for Jimmy Lai, for all those things.
I hope, I hope we pray.
And by the way, speaking of Jimmy Lai, you guys, thank you so, so much.
I was talking to a couple of friends yesterday and saying, like, oh my God, I'm so excited when I go on X. Like, so many people that were on the show are reposting about Jimmy Lai.
Maybe some of you watched the documentary, but I just want to say thank you so much.
Even if you already knew about him and his plight, thank you so much for amplifying that message.
It really meant a lot to me personally.
So I appreciate you guys.
I don't want to forget, you guys.
Don't think I'm slipping.
I'm having an off day, but I'm not slipping, slipping.
I just want to give you one quick animal update because we need to just quick do like a little palate cleanser because we were just like whacked at the beginning.
I just want to show you my little punchy, my little punch monkey.
For those of you who know, he's a macaque monkey in Japan.
The Reflecting Pool Scandal00:09:55
He's getting so big, and look at him, you know, testing his limits with a bigger macaque.
He's like, I won't really hit you, but I could, but I won't.
And now the older one's like, Yeah, listen, kid.
Look how he digs his feet in.
I love it.
He's so big now.
So I just wanted to give you that's my little animal cleanser.
Okay.
Speaking of cleaning and cleansing, so like the ballroom, everybody's crying about the reflecting pool in DC.
And I'm just like, This is my little light story for the day.
But Like everybody, calm down, please.
The thing was disgusting.
So, I'm going to show you a picture of what the reflection pool looked like.
Okay.
Look how gross.
This isn't our nation's capital, right?
It's supposed to be reflecting the buildings and be like beautiful and whatever.
It's disgusting.
So, this was after Obama's, I think, $34 million renovation.
$34 million renovation.
And look at where you're going to.
You're going to indulge us all with this clip.
So, this is from CNN.
There's plenty to take pictures of in downtown Washington, D.C. The Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial, and then there's this folks snapping photos of the reflecting pool.
It's really sludgy up this end.
And what's in it?
It's disgusting.
It doesn't, it's not right.
Algae.
It's like, smells like wet dog down here.
You know, when my dog came home from a stream, he always smelled like this.
And it's gross.
The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool reopened at the end of August to great fanfare.
After a $34 million renovation that lasted nearly two years.
But less than a month later, the famous pool of water is full of algae.
Algae are simple organisms that thrive in areas where there is heat and sunlight.
You have plenty of that here.
The water may not look great, but it doesn't pose a health or safety hazard.
It's really just the yuck factor.
If it's sunny, if it's really warm, it will rise to the top.
So on some days, depending on the weather, you will see algae at the top and it looks like Small islands of algae.
But why has algae suddenly become a problem?
The reflecting pool was renovated to fix cracks and leaks, but it also included installing a system to draw water from the nearby tidal basin into the pool instead of using city drinking water.
Algae naturally grows in the tidal basin.
Plus, the renovated pool holds less water.
That shallow depth is a perfect condition for algae to grow, a bit of an embarrassment for the Park Service.
It's really a shame that they hadn't planned out this a little bit better so you wouldn't have algae growing after.
After all this time and money, the reflecting pool is not reflecting much of anything.
Lisa Sylvester, CNN.
So I just found that interesting.
I just found that interesting.
And for those of you that are like, oh, it's a waste of money, just like the ballroom, just no, it's not.
It's not.
It's like your forward face.
How are you representing yourself in your capital?
I think that's money well spent.
I think it should look beautiful.
I think it should be completely safe and beautiful in our nation's capital.
So, that I like to see.
I'd like my potholes filled and other things to happen too, but I have no issue with us looking like a, I don't know, like the country people apparently look up to.
So, they're going to come here and see that crap.
So, I have no issue with that.
And you know who else doesn't have an issue with that?
Our one sane Democrat, John Fetterman.
I just want to tell you.
So there was an article on the, I want to say on the Hill, in the Hill.
So he just said, John Fetterman said, stop this henpecking 13 million.
This is an iconic American place and was in serious disrepair, Fetterman said on the social platform X, sharing a screenshot of the headline for the Times story, Get Over the TDS and Celebrate This Is Getting Done for Our 250th.
Trump earlier on Tuesday blasted the outlets reporting, accusing the Times of justifying.
Former President Obama and Biden's expensively botched attempt at fixing the long broken, unsightly, and unsanitary reflecting pool that now sits majestically between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Trump ordered the project to coincide with the nation's 250th anniversary, with the completion slated by July 4th.
And then, of course, an education and advocacy organization, however, filed a lawsuit last week.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation and its founder, Charles Birnbaum, said, The project violates environmental and preservation laws.
They accuse the administration of altering the historic character of the reflecting pool without following congressional mandatory procedures.
This latest desecration of the reflecting pool is part of a pattern, you know, and also because they destroyed the East Wing.
President Trump has done more to make our nation's capital a shining beacon than any other president in the history of this country, an Interior Department spokesperson previously told The Hill.
So, yeah, get over it.
You know, we don't need to have sludgy ponds and teeny tiny rooms and then put up a, you know, install a temporary tent to hold state dinners and galas in America.
So that's where my harsh opinion on that.
So, Marcella, I'm going to come to you first on this.
Are you crying in your soup over this?
You know, thank God that we have Trump, and then he is able to correct this debacle of a city because the crime was out of control.
Everything I've been to DC, I did not walk around at night because it was very dangerous when I went.
I mean, the Democrats complain about Trump wasting money, but as you showed in the clip, there was $34 million to get a swamp in there, you know?
So it kind of reflects the politics of the Democrats, the reflecting pool, right?
I just think it's hard.
That's Marcella, the reflecting pool, one reflects the swamp.
And one's going to be.
Oh!
Oh!
Sorry, that just bumped out.
I believe that President Trump has picked a flag blue or American flag blue.
Yeah, it's called American flag blue.
And people were like, they were reacting that way.
I just hope that the water in the reflecting pool doesn't come from the basin because as some of you guys know, There were issues in the basin and the water there.
So, hopefully, it doesn't do that because then you just have another swamp.
Owen, before I jump over to you, I have to just say one thing.
You should put a million of those in there.
Owen, are you all right with this story?
Well, I think it's a clear indication of TDS the way they're reacting to this.
They can't be positive about anything that Trump's doing, even when he's just cleaning up the Capitol and making things look more beautiful.
They just can't.
Approve of any of it, and they're doing that what they always do, which is to try and obstruct and stop anything.
I think they may even fight harder in some cases to stop the good things that Trump is doing because they just don't want him to look good and they want to make everything look as bad as possible.
And so, um, it seems like it's just a clear indication to me that these people have TDS and they're just trying to obstruct every single thing that Trump tries to do.
Um, I think you know, it's also an indicator of like how.
Much government waste we have, where they're saying, Oh, you need to follow these procedures and you need to go through all these studies and you need to do the committee and you need to do the extra thing.
And then it would have cost 10 times as much and gone five times over budget.
And I think they're angry that Trump is able to actually get something done at a relatively decent price where he hired some pool related person to do it at a much cheaper price than it would have the way that it was previously planned.
And I'm sure they're doing the same thing with the ballroom where they're just saying, Oh, you know, we can't let him do this.
But I think it's because they don't want any sign of Trump after he leaves.
That's right.
And so, even though it's beautifying the Capitol, they just don't want to see it.
And I'm sure that the arch that he's planning is going to be the same thing.
And every step of the way, they're just going to be, you know, being dragged, kicking and screaming as Trump cleans up our Capitol.
I like what Jim said 34 million to ruin it, 13 million to fix it.
And who complains the loudest?
And I want to make this prediction right now the new lib selfie is going to be of them peeing into it.
So, that's my prediction.
Because crying.
Oh, so Trump initially, they said, What color do you want it painted?
And he said, Oh, I think turquoise, like in the Bahamas.
And then the man doing the job with him just said, We can do turquoise, but it is DC.
And there is a great color called American flag blue.
And he said, That's it.
American flag blue.
Fentanyl, Deer, and Sharia Law00:13:01
Easy.
So that's how that happened.
Yeah, I think instead of filling it from the basin, they should just fill it with liberal tears.
And that'll be a perfect combination.
Too salty, no.
Yeah, you're not supposed to swim in it.
It's okay.
True, true.
Yeah.
Well, I'm sure it'll keep the flow going between the liberal pee and tears.
Get some chlorine.
I'm just telling you, it's going to be the new selfie.
You'll see they're going to just be doing that or spitting in it because, you know, oh, look at me.
It's like keying the Teslas because of Doge.
So stupid.
Okay.
So, did you guys want to jump into a story before I go to my New York story?
Before we get a little more serious?
So, the French are talking about their deer.
So, if you're going to France this summer, I know you might be planning on it, Erica or Owen.
The police in France are warning drivers in rural areas about drunk deer.
I guess they eat some of the fermented fruits, and they showed ABC a video of a drunken deer that was spinning around all day.
Over the place.
And so if you see an odd deer, just move along.
Just watch out.
Oh, that's sad.
So will they get like a DUI or do we get it?
Who gets it?
Sophia, yuck.
She's like, venison's delicious.
I am just so not that girl.
You can't, I don't know if you can kill them, but.
Oh, no.
I doubt you can in France, you know?
Yeah, the deer here will be like, car, and they'll just jump on your car and crash into you.
You know, Jersey deer are relentless.
Yeah.
Dear UI.
That's a good one.
Dear UI.
Okay.
Owen, do you have a lighter story you wanted to get through or no?
Well, so there's a new AI designed drug that reduces fentanyl consumption in animal models.
It apparently works by targeting serotonin receptors.
I know this was a topic that was very important to Scott, given that his son in law was, or I mean, his stepson was killed by a fentanyl overdose.
But apparently, there's a new drug that they say was developed with AI called GATC 1021.
And it says it reduced fentanyl intake over 60% in rats.
So, it's altering and reducing the addiction to fentanyl.
And they later analyzed the rats to figure out what happened.
And they said they identified these serotonin receptors as how it works.
So, it seems like it's working in an animal model.
I suppose the next step would be to try human trials.
It says we're kind of years away from that.
So, it's not something that would immediately happen, but there's at least some potential of a new drug that would help with fentanyl addiction.
So, is everyone thinking what I'm thinking?
Leah, why don't we start testing this on the drug?
Addled people like in San Francisco and Philadelphia.
Be interesting.
It's a test model.
Yeah.
I'm kind of wondering how you get a fentanyl addict to want to not be addicted.
That would be my question is how do you get them to take this drug?
But maybe tell them it's a drug.
Hey, I have a drug for you.
It's free.
Hey.
Lace fentanyl with it or something.
Yeah.
The problem with that is that these people that die of the fentanyl overdose are usually.
Trying a different drug.
They're not technically addicted to fentanyl.
They want meth or they want some other thing.
And then the drug dealers put in the fentanyl in it.
And then that's what causes them to pass away.
And usually it's new users, not your average, everyday professional, I guess, drug user, fentanyl drug user.
They usually know how to.
How to stand.
I know this because sometimes when I go to court downtown, you can pass by some of them and they are able to stand a certain way.
Or if you sit a certain way, it won't cause death.
I guess.
There's, oh, really?
Oh, yeah.
So you don't choke or whatever.
Yes, you don't choke.
Yeah.
So, yeah, there's whole Instagram pages of what's it called?
The fentanyl something, but like the maybe the fent bend, I forget, but it's like, or, and there's another one like People of Philadelphia or something.
And it's like, All of these, and the thing is, is they want fentanyl, they don't want a Xanax, you know.
Marcella, they want fentanyl, so it's different than like I'd say, like a college student or you know, kids messing around and just trying to get high.
I think the people on the streets are like, We want well, like Spencer Pratt said, they want what did he call it, super fent, or it was like a ramped up name for fentanyl, which I had never heard.
Yeah, the fentanyl fold, thank you, fentanyl fold.
It's um.
Really scary.
So, but that's interesting.
And somebody was suggesting in the chat, you know, maybe they can put this drug into the Narcan.
That could be a start.
But anyway, that's good news, Owen.
I hope that they find a way to get that into people and that it works and helps because I don't know how you get these people off of it.
Super meth, is that what it was called?
Super meth?
And you know what?
That drug that he was talking about should be used on animals because what they do in downtown LA is that they'll try it on their dogs.
And then there is a lot of animal abuse.
And especially dogs, and some of them end up dying of the fentanyl issue.
There's a ton of animal abuse amongst these people, you guys.
And also, vicious abuse.
We wanted to give you a light story.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Owen, thanks.
It was good news.
Come on.
We're reducing fentanyl overdose.
God, only we could turn it into this, and the animals are being abused and people are dying.
Oh, my Lord.
There is a class of opioid, by the way, that's more powerful than fentanyl.
I don't know if that was what Spencer Pratt was referring to, but it's called nitazines and it's even more powerful than fentanyl.
Oh my gosh.
All right.
Well, let's see what happens in China.
Come on, Trump.
Let's see if we can get something to happen.
Fentanyl China, right?
Fentanyl China.
Hashtag fentanyl China.
That used to be our thing.
And now we don't need hashtags anymore.
So we just talk about it.
Okay.
It can go dark quick, Morgan.
So I'm going to go a little darker.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So, this man, this man, okay, I'm going to play a clip.
I'm going to give you a trigger warning for any of you people that are just ready to rip your hair out.
This is the New York City mayor, Mandami, Mandani.
I don't know, Mandani.
Sorry.
Just listen to what he's saying about wanting to bring Islam, Islam, I can't say it like him, Islam.
Into America more.
Notice how he has like this uptick of using his accent and the words and everything.
Just listen to the whole thing.
I'm going to try to play all of it, but I might not make it through.
And then we're going to talk about some things on the other side because this is my like red alert warning for us.
So let's just, I want to get through this segment.
So here we go.
I think of the freedom from suffering that Buddhism teaches us is only possible.
If we remove the three poisons of desire, hatred, and ignorance from our daily lives, we need not accept suffering as unchangeable.
We need not treat hatred as the natural state.
We have the power to set ourselves free.
And I consider my own faith, Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration.
The story of the Hijrah reminds us that Prophet Muhammad was a stranger too.
Who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina.
Surah Al Nahal 1642 tells us As for those who immigrated in the cause of Allah after being persecuted, we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.
Or, as the Prophet Muhammad said, Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange.
So, glad tidings to the strangers.
If faith.
If faith offers us the moral compass to stand alongside the stranger, government can provide the resources.
Let us create a new expectation of City Hall, where power is wielded to love, to embrace, and to protect.
We will stand with the stranger today.
Hang on.
That's me right now.
That's like, that's me right now, too.
So, okay.
You guys, was that is all right?
The words, the sentiments in the chat, yes, F all the way off with this guy, with all of this.
It is dangerous, yes, grotesque, because you see what he's doing there.
Okay.
Oh, God.
Where's my signs?
This is my opinion.
My opinion is that he's just trying to like normalize what he's doing, right?
So he's just trying to, oh, I'm just a friendly guy preaching and, and, you know, everything's good.
Now, I want to just tell you something.
Let's look at this little graph here.
I'll make it bigger.
And I'm also going to read to you just a few things about his little Sharia law isms.
Okay.
Just listen, blah, blah, blah.
This is not every Muslim and not every country.
But the fun part about this is that while what I'm going to read you is true about Sharia law, some of the people are like, no, no, like if you beat your wife, it's lightly.
Like the more modern version is you only beat her lightly, not too hard.
So, I'm going to go through this quick.
Okay.
One, women cannot leave home without the husband's permission.
Two, women must cover their head and hair.
Three, women can be beaten by husbands.
It explicitly permits striking.
And then it says lightly, per some interpretations.
Oh, oh, and they can be hit for disobedience.
Yeah.
Okay.
Four, women cannot refuse sex.
Marital rape is generally not recognized.
A wife's refusal can be grounds for discipline and strict views, but they want you to know that the constraints of this are for married people.
So, okay.
Women get half of the inheritance.
So, daughters get half of the inheritance the sons get.
Women's testimony is worth half.
Also, what you need to know killing non Muslims for virgins.
Heaven, apostates, beheading non Muslims, sword verse terrorizing, stealing from non Muslims, lying.
These draw from the Quran verses of, it doesn't matter, but you can do all that.
So that's good.
Additional common elements death for homosexuality, child marriage, polygamy, etc. are also standard in traditional Sharia.
There's a couple of important caveats, okay?
Sharia is not monolithic.
Many Muslims follow personal ethical versions focused on prayer, charity, etc., rejecting the state enforcement of hoodooed punishments like amputation, stoning, and execution.
Reformist and modernist schools exist.
And the context, I just wanted to tell you this was because New York City mayoral candidate Zorhan Mandami, who is Muslim and has progressive less views, whether he Personally, supports implementing these is a separate political question.
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The list itself just describes classical Sharia, not necessarily his platform.
I think I covered myself, Marcella, but there are people saying that he would like to implement Sharia.
So I just want to say that, you know, you have to really be careful because they taught us, especially when 9 11 happened, that you have to be nice.
You have to be inclusive.
You can't, you know, judge anyone based on their ideology or their religion.
Oh, they didn't say ideology.
I think it's religion.
And this is not a religion.
This is sick.
So I just want you to know that, you know, maybe you have to fight and put up a fuss about mosques being built in your neighborhood.
There's a, you never see a mosque being burnt down, but you see a million churches being burnt down.
And this is my opinion, just Erica.
I'm not speaking for Marcella and Owen, okay?
But I feel like this is important.
So important that I don't know if you guys know Michael Rappaport.
But he's, you know, he has become somewhat political in New York, seeing all the nuttiness.
Like he hated Trump, hated him with a passion.
He'd go on Howard Stern and just, I hate him, I hate him, I hate him, I hate him.
And then all of a sudden he sees Biden and he's like, whoa, like I think I might have been wrong.
And then he's like, we need Trump back.
Like I want Trump, all the way to wanting Trump back to now this clip with my other favorite, Cuomo.
Michael Rappaport is thinking about going from.
Public citizen to public servant.
Do I have it right?
You have it right.
I appreciate you having me on, Chris.
Your producers are, I mean, relentless.
You got tigers for producers.
They don't play around.
The bookers, they're very serious.
But in terms of the mayor 2029, I am running for mayor of New York City.
I never thought that I would even consider running for mayor of New York City.
And I will do it.
With the best intentions.
And I won't do it the way any other political person has ever done it.
Your brother, Cuomo, Kung Fu Curtis, Kathy Hochul, Obama, Trump.
The only way to beat this guy is to make it and take it with a New York City street fight mentality.
There's no way to out nice him, there's no way to out slick him.
I think that he's the greatest bullcrapper in the history of politicians, and that's saying a lot.
But New York City needs to do something.
We need to plan right now because 2029 is around the corner.
And yes, I'm running for mayor of New York City, and I will only drop out until I feel like there's somebody who's more qualified that could actually beat Zoran the moron.
So, what's important about that is that he went from being pretty freaking liberal all the way to I'll run for mayor because I love this city so much and I can't take it anymore.
So, I'm going to come to you first, Owen.
That was a lot.
And again, you guys, I was just speaking for myself.
So I don't want to, like, you know, wrap you two into my grievance, but anything you want to say about this at all?
Well, I think the, the, certainly the, it is a big problem with Islam infecting our culture or being brought into our culture.
And I think there's a definite agenda within the Islamist community to try and take over and, You know, get control of things.
We've seen attempts, especially in Texas, of all places, where they've tried to have like their own city and their own.
You know, recently there was some water park thing where they wanted to have a Muslim only day and, you know, they're trying to implement Sharia law.
I think that, you know, the governor there has been pretty good at trying to shut a lot of that stuff down, but it is being attempted.
And I think there are other places like in Michigan where they're a lot more receptive to just letting them do those sorts of things.
And certainly in Minnesota with the Somali community that's Islam as well.
So I think we do have a big problem and we need to counteract it.
I think a lot of these.
Things you walk through in terms of the rules of Islam are incompatible with American values and American law.
And I think we need to make sure that we don't let any of that get into our society.
And I think Mamdami certainly has his agenda that he's making pretty clear that he wants that to happen.
And, you know, it sounds like he's trying to use migration or immigration as the way to try and whitewash it.
But clearly, he's basically saying we should just let all these people from other cultures in and, you know, Support them and all that.
I mean, that's the other part he didn't mention is that it's not just about whether or not these people get here and how they get here in terms of legal or illegal, which is a problem in itself, but because we don't have proper vetting of those people and we don't know whether they can support themselves.
But that latter part is more important to me that they're draining our society of dollars.
You know, they're straining our schools, our medical systems, our welfare programs, all our social support systems that we put in place here.
And I think the deal that we have to make is to say if you want to have some of these social support.
Things in place, you can't also have unbridled illegal immigration.
You can't just let infinite people come here.
That makes the whole system collapse.
And I think maybe that's part of their agenda is to make the whole system collapse.
And so I think it definitely is something we need to fight.
I'm reading your comments.
You guys are so smart.
You know, I'm just reading your comments about Islam and like how it's not compatible in a peaceful, freedom loving nation.
It's just not.
Okay.
So, Oh my gosh.
And they're calling me their Ebonic Italian because I said important instead of important.
Okay.
It's important.
Okay.
So, Marcella, tell me your feelings.
You know, one of the things that I saw in the chat is that why do like moderate Muslims not talk?
Why do they not, you know, say things against all of these kinds of Issues because there are moderate Muslims.
But one of the reasons is whenever you speak anything about the religion, you're killed.
I remember a while back, maybe 20 years ago or so, Teo in Holland was stabbed to death because he was drawing Muhammad and Allah or whatever you want to call him.
And then there was Charlie, the Charlie newspaper, where they printed a picture of.
Uh, Muhammad Charlie Abdo, yeah.
The Muhammad drawing contest or something, Muhammad drawing contest.
And so, basically, anybody that ever talks against it, that forcefully talks about it, has to be in hiding.
Or, um, Ayan Ali, what is her name?
She went into hiding when she left the religion.
You can't leave the religion, it's very hard to leave Islam.
Um, so Yeah.
So anybody, that's why you don't see that many people talking about it because you, it's very dangerous.
But the other thing is, you know, the context of this speech was an interfaith breakfast.
So he was, I don't agree with interfaith breakfasts of politicians or with government because there's a, to me, there's a separation from religion and government.
And Sharia law would not pass, you know, would not pass because of the First Amendment.
Now, you can say that.
In the future, if everybody's Muslim, you can change the First Amendment, you can pass another amendment.
But at this point, it would be unconstitutional.
And he doesn't have that kind of power.
But what he does have is he has the youth and the reach to them to erase history, you know, because the way that he talks about Islam, he talks about it like it's the religion of love.
It has never been the religion of love.
No.
It has always been.
Under a sword.
That is why you see the sword.
That's why you see swords and all those sorts of things.
People did not have a choice to become Muhammad, never gave them a choice.
Either you take this religion or you take death.
So, this idea, and to be honest, a lot of civilizations were very brutal in the past.
There was no like, there was no sensitivity.
There was no, oh, are we going to let you choose?
You know, that's how it was.
So, don't.
Don't do that, you know.
Don't paint this as like, oh, you know, when he went from Mecca to Medina and they welcomed all these immigrants, that's not true, you know.
So, this idea, but the youth, you know, wouldn't know better.
And so they're listening to this person they admire, and then they're being led to this idea.
And the revisionist of history is the issue.
And maybe he can't do Sharia law, but he can begin this ideological youth movement towards this kind of, you know, because to say, because when he talks about it, Erica, he talks about it as if Islam is, and all of things that have happened are so good for women.
Oh, you know?
Yeah.
And I just read you a list of what happens to women.
So he never talks about the things that you read.
Yeah.
He talks, yeah.
Well, also, you're against the light beating of wives.
I mean, how light is light?
You know, yeah, I'm against it.
But, you know, the other thing, too, that is freaky is that you're allowed to lie to anybody to fool them into like believing what you're saying.
So, you're allowed to like go up to somebody and say, Oh, no, I don't agree with that.
And I, you know, I think, You know, Sharia law is horrible.
Like, you're allowed to lie for being an Islamist.
So I'm like, oh, that's so good.
And I saw somebody in the chat said, you know, Christianity was brutal too.
Yeah, it was, was, was.
You know, things were brutal back in the day for a lot of different things.
And then we evolved, changed, and grew, and it's not now.
So, you know, this, like, their way of life, their ideology is for them to just be basically the only thing on this planet.
So, you know what?
I just want to say, you guys, I'm really glad that we could talk about this today and that the chat is like good, like the comments are good because the problem is not talking about it.
And I don't want us to be afraid to discuss this.
So, what do you see, Marcella?
What I was going to say is one thing that I hated about that speech is I speak Spanish, right?
I can even understand some Arabic and I speak German and I can like pronounce certain things in Arabic that.
In Arabic style, or whatever you want to call it.
And in Spanish, I can pronounce it in the Spanish way.
But I hate when people do that.
I hate when they try to show off, like, oh, I know Arabic and I can pronounce it this way to me.
I just don't like that.
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I think, you know, he's trying to get you used to the idea.
So I think it's even more sinister.
It's not showing off.
It's like, let's get used to this.
And maybe we'll have like our, you know, our little Sharia law of the day lesson soon at schools next to the Drag queen story hours.
So you have to be careful.
So honestly, thank you, you guys, so much.
I, you know, whether I mean EJ, I know you're freaking out, I'm sure.
But yes, Islam has messed us up in this country already.
And, you know, go to New York, try to cross the street when there's 5,000 asses in the air praying in the middle of an intersection that has nothing to do with their ideology or anything.
They don't do that in a church, they don't do that in their own countries.
But here it's like, we're going to dominate you.
It's just a sign of.
Dominance.
So, yes, it's affecting us.
Church is burning down.
I'm not saying who's doing it, but show me a mosque that burned down and I might change my mind, let alone hundreds of them.
So, EJ, I love you too, my little silly goose.
Okay.
So, thank you for letting us talk about that.
And I hope it's okay if we do talk about it in the future because I don't want to be silent.
Like, I want to be useful in this way because I am so America first.
It's disgusting.
And Or it's patriotic, either way.
So, thanks, you guys, for allowing this little dipping our toe in as a start.
I appreciate it.
Okay.
So, moving along.
Okay.
Owen, can you give us a news story you have?
And I'm going to breathe for a second.
Sure.
So, Trump is pushing South Carolina to delay their primaries for redistricting.
So, the redistricting war continues after it blew up in Virginia on the Democrats and they spent, I don't know how many, you know, tens of millions of dollars, 60 or 70 million or whatever it was.
Trying to get that done, and that didn't work out and doesn't look like it will work out.
I think they still have maybe one appeal left to the Supreme Court, but there's no chance that's going to go through.
But Trump is saying that states should be delaying their primaries to get the redistricting done before midterms.
And in this case, he was focusing on South Carolina.
So Trump said in his Truth Social Post, the South Carolina State Senate has a big vote tomorrow on redistricting.
I'm watching closely, along with all Republicans across the country who are counting on their elected leaders to use every legal and constitutional authority they have to stop the radical left Democrats from destroying our country.
Including leveling the playing field against their decades of egregious gerrymandering and census rigging.
South Carolina Republicans, be bold and courageous, just like the Republicans of the great state of Tennessee were last week.
Move the U.S. House primaries to August to leave the rest on the same schedule.
Everything will be fine.
Get it done.
So, looks like Trump is really pushing hard to get the redistricting going in the red states.
And I'm guessing they may have a lot more success with that because, in many cases, probably including this one, it's.
Essentially, in response to the Supreme Court ruling saying you can't have race based redistricting.
So they're eliminating the racism that was built into our voting systems.
And so I think they would have a much easier time getting that redistricting passed.
So my hope is that that would swing a lot of the advantage in the House back to the Republican side and we might have a much better chance of keeping control of the House and the Senate.
It probably wouldn't affect the Senate as much just because that's more statewide, but I think it would make a difference in the House, especially.
And so I'm hoping we'll be able to get a lot of that done.
The courts seem to really be favoring all of this nonsense for the Republicans, which is nice to see.
And who was it?
I don't know if you know, Marcelo.
I think it was, oh, Crazy Virginia, they were like, let's change the retirement age for the Supreme Court for their justices for their Supreme Court.
So I think it's 74 years old now.
And they were like, let's change the retirement age for those justices to 54, which means all of them have to leave.
All of them would have to go and then they can just put in new judges.
I mean, come on, Democrats, wake up.
How transparent, huh?
How transparent they can be.
It just shows that the Democrats are willing to do anything to get power.
They'll change whatever rules they have.
I mean, it reminds me of all the stuff they did with Trump, where they changed the law just temporarily, just so they could get that E.J. Carroll or whatever her name was.
And I don't remember the name, but the person who.
Carroll.
E.J. Carroll.
And, you know, but it was like so transparent that they were like, okay, we'll just change whatever rule we have to to screw Trump.
And even if it has to be temporary, because we know we don't really want this rule, we just want it temporarily in place.
For getting Trump, they're willing to do it.
They were willing to just throw everything out the window just to try and fight him.
And, you know, I think this is another example of that, where they're just willing to do whatever they have to to gain power.
Marcella.
You know, when I see them as dumb, evil villains, you know, like they're planning all these things and they try to do all these things, but at the end, it never works out for them.
Just like they were trying to do the Virginia thing and it didn't work out for them.
They tried to do the EJ.
Whatever name is Carol.
And, you know, Trump is president.
So they always try all these things and then it always backfires.
So I always think of it as a little bit cartoonish.
I guess it's the simulation showing.
I mean, to me, it's let them try.
They'll never get, they'll never win in the end.
So good.
All right, Marcella, give us one of your news items.
So I'll give you the rundown of the news items Iran update.
OPEC says that it's the least amount of oil they've ever generated since 1990, whatever.
And Israel deployed the Iron Dome to batteries and IDF troops to the UAE.
The UAE now confirmed it.
And so did our US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, confirm this.
So basically, there's a Gulf alliance between the UAE and Israel.
So Iran did the impossible, which is bring the Arab world in.
Israel together.
So that's great.
The UAE, excuse me.
Aren't they firing missiles already deep into Iran, is what I saw?
Yes, because Iran has been firing missiles to them.
So they've just been defending themselves.
Okay, but didn't that just start with them doing that?
No.
I thought it has been ongoing.
It hasn't stopped with the ceasefire.
I think it's now we're more focused on it, laser focused on it, because there's a ceasefire and you're not seeing other.
You know, and Hezbollah, I think, has stopped semi, but they might regain again.
That's Lebanon.
Shift has this alleged leak that we talked about, right?
That there was someone in the stats.
I think we can get to that tomorrow.
Actually, I have a whole thing on that because that's my other juicy story.
Okay.
The other story is inflation rose, and a lot of people think that because the inflation rose in April to 6%, where it was previously thought it would be 4.6 or something like that, like less.
That most likely the feds are going to do a rate hike instead of lowering the interest rates because things aren't looking good because of the oil issue.
Has allegedly, it's because of the pushing the oil and the fuel costs, make things more expensive for everybody.
And then there's AI babies.
Basically, AI is helping.
We're not creating AI babies completely like robot babies, but what it means is that IBF.
And other very impossible births that wouldn't usually, babies that usually wouldn't be born are actually helped by AI technology.
And that's really good about that.
And then the last story is that there's a Trump video game protest installation at Washington, D.C.
But what I found that interesting is that they're trying to protest Trump with this video game, you know, the old.
The old video game where you have Pac Man and all of those things.
But, anyways, it's like that.
But in itself, it actually pushes the Trump agenda.
Like, you have to laugh at it because one of the things about Trump is that he himself memes himself and it's very memeable.
And so I found that interesting.
It's called Operation Epic Furious Straight to Hell.
And then there's a scene in the video game, it's very like, 80s looking video game, kind of 90s, I guess, like Street Fighter kind of style.
And he's in the Oval Office and it's just Trump.
You can tell it's just him.
And then there's the office, the Oval Office, his desk.
And then it gives you a choice either do order a Diet Coke for him or invade Iran.
So you can order a lot of Diet Cokes and then the Diet Cokes appear.
And then the story is from Andrew Layden.
He's Penguin Six.
Check him out.
But he went and took pictures of this over there.
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Oh my gosh.
Oh, and any last words?
I don't know.
I think that one other story I could throw in is that the Southern Poverty Law Center is having more investigations apparently about Alabama.
Their AG announced they're going after them too and says they're basically helped in terms of proving what they've been doing by the U.S. Justice Department actions.
So it looks like they're in even more hot water.
They have a new subpoena they have to reply to by June 1st from Alabama.
So down with SPLC.
Yeah, you know me.
One last.
I can't.
I'm going to let her go now.
But him, her, I think her.
I'm not sure.
Anyway, Pat, Pat, we'll call her Pat.
Don't genderify.
Oh, all right, you guys.
Amazing.
So, again, thanks for letting us talk about some hot topic subjects.
I appreciate it.
And Marcella and Owen and I. Thank you so much, you guys, for showing up for the Scott Adams School.
Start your goodbyes.
Tomorrow, we have Corey DeAngelis coming on.
He'll be returning.
So that'll be a lot of fun.
We'll get all caught up on the crazy teachers' unions and what's going on with school choice.
And if you guys have any questions or topics you want us to really get into with him, when I repost the show on X, just drop them in there.
I'll put in the prompt, you know, if you have any questions for Corey, drop them here.
And then, you know, we'll both look at them and, Tell Corey to take a peep and we'll try to get to them, okay?
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And as always, we thank GadSat.
It'll be next week.
Yes, he will.
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