Episode 2774 CWSA 03/10/25

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Tube or Rumble today the the rumble studio is got a little difficulty sort of a Monday problem but uh I will upload the uh content from locals to the other platforms but we're good on locals and we're sort of almost good on X so we're going to do it by the way there was a French study that says that coffee has astonishing powers to protect your memory it might even be good against Alzheimer's that's right so the odds of you remembering this live stream very good if you had you coffee that says study by rolling out khil best is writing about that well um are you all waiting for the uh Epstein files and the JFK files and the MLK files all waiting for those good luck I don't think there's really any chance we're going to see anything we don't know or anything shocking if we see anything maybe we'll never see anything but uh lower your expectations to zero zero would be the right place uh according to sa post Eric Dolan is writing about this uh have you ever seen these online quizzes where you can decide who you should vote for so you say things like uh are you in favor of this policy or this policy and then you fill it out and then it says oh you're a Democrat you should vote for this person or you're a republican well according to a study um I think that the person involved with this you may have heard of U Robert Epstein so he's done studies of Google and Google's influence but he finds that these online surveys are more than just casual online surveys apparently they bias you toward One Direction or another so they can sort of turn you into a Democrat voter if you were on the fence so very diabolical so watch out if you see one of those uh let me tell you who you should vote for surveys they are meant to persuade not to inform so just know that that's a trick you've been warned well according to one americ news are saying that doge is reporting that uh during the co period um this is so bad it's just funny uh the $312 million loans that were meant for small businesses during covid uh were taken out by children so we don't know if they're real children but they seem to be children in other words fake $312 million of fake loans to Children it seems to me fairly consistent that whenever there's a large bunch of money from the government for anything at all it's gigantic fraud every time because they don't seem to do any kind of auditing or any kind of accounting or any kind of checking to see who gets it we should just maybe give no money to anybody you know if this were the only story today it I would be filled with outrage because my tax money went to loans to Children uh but I I'm having outrage exhaustion anybody else have that it's like every time I look at social media oh there's another $100 million somebody stole oh there's another 200 million somebody stole and it all starts just looking like Baseline after a while so I worry that we will stop being outraged by stories that are really outrageous well there's a new AI that everybody's talking about called Manis and it's a Chinese Ai and the people who have tested it and written about it on social media seem to be blown away by how good it is so it's not a regular AI it's uh it's an AI agent now the difference between a regular AI an AI agent is that regular AI you can talk to it and then ask it questions and it can give you good answers and it can tell you how to code something but an agent you can just tell to go do a thing and then it'll go do a thing now I'm not I'm not entirely clear about what things it could have access to which of your other apps or your databases or whatever but apparently it's wowing the people who are trying it and they think uh that China is not only not behind the United States and AI but if you look at Deep seek and you look at Manis uh together they suggest that China might already be be ahead now it could be that the only thing they're ahead in is doing things that we wouldn't do here such as unleashing an agent you know because the agent feels like that's a security risk and you would not be surprised that Tennessee is the first state to already baned so man has just came within the week it's already banned in Tennessee and I think uh there's more efforts by other attorney generals to ban all the Chinese AIS to ban deep seek and probably more of them want to ban Manis probably a good idea um I could tell you that there's not a chance I would put that on my computer I would never put on my computer something that's not only a Chinese AI but it's an agent isn't that just asking for it it's even called it's even called an agent it just sounds like the most dangerous thing you could put on your computer meanwhile according to the Wall Street Journal one in four new US jobs posted are going to ask for AI skills so it's not just that they want you to be an AI expert but that whatever your job is you should have a little capability with AI now if I could give you any job advice whatsoever it would be learn AI you know you don't have to learn how to create it you know that's that's for other people but you should know which AI do what and you should know generally how to make it do some stuff and you should know how to ask a questions and how to query things and um you should know AI it's not really optional if you're going to be a job Seeker especially so make sure you know AI meanwhile uh Justin Trudeau is out and uh mark Carney is got the new leadership position that looks like he'll be the the next prime minister as soon as they call it for a vote I guess that's how their system works so he's not officially the Prime Minister but there's nothing that would stop him from being one as soon as they go through the process but uh here are some of the things we know about him he was a banker and apparently he spent a lot of time in the UK because he was not only a former Central Banker for Canada but he was a former Central Banker for the UK interesting now uh here's what uh one critic on social media said so this is not representative of anything but one critics opinion somebody named John Paul Berg said about uh Carney the new head of Canada that he doesn't hold elected office meaning that he's never won an El election by the public in at large I guess and uh Nory lived here in over a decade meaning Canada so he hasn't lived in Canada for a decade he must have moved back recently and he's a self-described globalist and elitist I doubt he called himself an elitist but maybe a globalist and uh he's a central Banker with a world economic Forum membership so that's a lot of red flags but that if that's what if that's what Canada wants all right so here's my take my American take which is worth basically nothing um I think the Canadians felt they needed a banker because if you put Justin judau up against Trump doesn't it look like a mismatch like there's one serious business person Trump and then there's Trudeau who's worried about his pronouns and such so I think they needed to get a serious business person so you know Banker fits that um but but here's what he did on his first day so far uh Carney said quote my government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect okay first day of work not so good do you think respect is the problem here what when the United States is trying to get rid of fenel is the problem that we don't respect you enough when Trump says he wants uh Canada to be a 51st state is it because we don't respect it or it just seems like it'd be a good idea now he definitely didn't respect Trudeau but did Trudeau earn his respect I would say maybe no so if he's focusing on tariffs are related to Americans showing him respect not the best first day because that doesn't seem like a anything that's going to work out for him we're not really we're not really operating on the respect basis it's pretty much you know our interests and their interests and that's about it well uh Secretary of State Rubio has announced that he's uh cut 83% of the USA USA budget 83% the rest would be absorbed into the state department and he's a SL 5200 of the usaid contracts now that's all good news right yay this big po of money that yeah we thought was being used in ways that maybe we didn't agree with and there was a lot of it and it got cut yay except none of it's true it's just not true uh this is what Thomas Massie explains the the Congress is putting together a continuing resolution which is what they do when they can't decide on a budget they just say um I guess the budget will just remain the same so the budget they're going to pass will fully fund usaid none of this is real it's not real according to Thomas Massie and Massie points out that the Supreme Court ruled last week that it requires an act of Congress to defund these programs so not only is there no legal way to defund them but the continuing resolution that Congress does every time because they can't do their job of making a budget will just fully fund it now I don't know if you can fire all the people so even they have a budget they can't spend it is there some work around but my head just exploded and Thomas Massie is the only one who's on this the whole continuing resolution problem literally the continuing resolution is when the Congress says oh we don't know how to do our basic job we don't know how to do our basic job which is make a budget that works so we're not going to do it so we're just going to kick the candidate down the road and bankrupt the country with you know unworkable debt and then when we finally make some what looks like progress with Doge they just bulldo it like it didn't even matter now I suppose there are some surprises ahead you know I don't think doge is going to roll over I don't think Trump's going to roll over but it kind of looks like it didn't work I mean tentatively speaking that's not my five opinion I'd like to be wrong about it I'd love to be wrong about it but when it was last time Massie was wrong about something like this never this is his domain if he says this isn't real I'm gonna I'm going to take his word for it over Rubio and I hate it absolutely hate it but we'll see where this goes meanwhile the department of justice under Trump is in investigation into the price of eggs the Department of Justice what do they think they're going to find so I guess there's some uh concern that maybe the big egg producers are artificially keeping the price High which means you know artificially keeping the supply low I don't know maybe but it seems like it's simpler than that it seems like there's just not enough eggs now maybe there's something else there they wouldn't launch this investigation unless they meant it but so the Wall Street journals reporting on that but apparently eggs are expected to rise by more than 40% in 2025 another 40% for eggs wow anyway I guess we'll find out what's up with eggs but I think that's just a very narrow look they're just going to look at whether there's gouging basically that sounds like Biden um now here's my take on it you know I've looked into this whole chicken problem and I think where everything went wrong is where they allowed the chickens to work from home yeah that's all I had that's all I had they shouldn't let the chickens work from home the remote working chickens I don't think they're laying as many eggs I think they're goofing off yeah don't let him work from home anyway uh Howard lotnik is talking about Trump's tariffs and specifically the ones on H China and Mexico and Canada and he says if Sentinel ends meaning those countries step it out and keep it from coming into the US I think these will come off meaning the tariffs but if fentel does not end or Trump is uncertain about it they will stay this way until he's comfortable he said said that in Meet the Press now I hate to be negative Nelly but I don't really think there's much chance that the tariffs are going to affect in the long term uh fenel but I also don't have a better idea it's the only idea that looks serious that has maybe some chance of working but I would bet against it unfortunately now if I a better idea I'd say don't do this get rid of those tariffs it's a waste of time we should do this much smarter idea that's different but I don't have a smarter idea so if leaning on these countries hard so hard that it crashes their economy is the only play we have I'm in favor of it I just wouldn't bet my you know wouldn't bet my life savings is going to work but we don't have any better idea and you know even if we went in militarily and took down a bunch of labs wouldn't they just rebuild them in a week I I don't know how you could possibly stop this problem it just seems Unstoppable but again given the size of the problem if we have to crash a couple of economies just to find out if this works I'm in I me it's a you know drastic situation Rec calls for calls for drastic steps and it's the only one I can think of well Trump has uh indicated that things might get worse before they get better and uh I guess that got turned into a headline that he is not going to rule out a recession now the stock market seemed to shake that off because just before I got on the markets were up after after he admitted so here's what he said to uh I guess to Maria Boma um he said uh there will be a period of transition because what we're doing is very big now period of transition means things will look a little worse before they look a lot better and I think I've always known that the things he's doing very clearly have a you know let's say a destabilizing effect in the short term because people don't know what's going to happen with tariffs Etc but in the long term it could work out just great um there's a whole bunch of stuff that Trump's doing that directionally it's all great so if you could fast forward five years we might be an amazing situation it's very possible um so I'm very optimistic about the future but uh how are the Democrats doing let's see let's check in with Van Jones so van Jones was on CNN and he was talking about the prospects for the democ rats to come back and you know become a serious party and things are so bad that he actually was laughing at how pathetic the Democrat Party is and and the host was laughing it's actually become laughable but here's how he here's how he summarized it he said this is what the Democrats did he goes uh defending a broken status quo that nobody likes because they thought that Donald Trump was going to make it worse well I guess that didn't work out so the The Reflex to be against Trump no matter what had them supporting the status quo that everybody thought was a bad idea so that's part of it and then van Jones said that offending most people in the country and calling everybody sexist and racist and transphobic and every other name and then saying please follow us that's not a good strategy folks so every time I hear somebody who actually does understand what's going on and I think van Jones you know he he's obviously playing for one team but he understands this is a very clear statement of the problem and uh but it doesn't look solvable that's the funny thing they they've created a situation where there's just no way back you know they have too many people who want to be woke and and a bunch of people who don't and you can't reconcile that you the the the people who are just you know all down on wokeness they're not going to give it up so what do you do well let me tell you what the other Democrats are doing to try to write the ship according to Politico this sounds like I'm just making it up but according to Politico a lot of Democrats have started cursing in public so they give a whole bunch of examples of uh you know of of Democrats using the FW and the sww and the the GD word and apparently it's sort of a big Trend and I'm thinking to myself they are so out of ideas that they're really doubling down on this if we can get the messaging right if we could just get the messaging right and then they look at Trump and they'll see that every now and then he'll throw an sww into his speeches and stuff and they'll go yes yes that's what it is we need more cursing but no I'm joking it's not they didn't just say we just need more cursing they also need more cringe videos and then Elon Musk was pointing out that the Liberals seem to be getting violent you know they're attacking Tesla uh locations Etc and so they've got cursing they've got cringe videos they've got random violence and then they've got uh uh representative Hank Johnson Democrat from Georgia he just in public in public he actually said this he believes that Trump and the magum movement want black Americans quote confined and back to quote picking cotton so that that should move the ball forward and then uh and then uh uh Jasmine Crockett who might be the dumbest Democrat of all so they're giving her the most attention because they're like oh I I don't know if the cursing and the cringe videos and the violence are enough we better have our dumbest worst spokesperson be the most prominent one so Jasmine Crockett went on some show MSNBC and said it's not illegal for illegal aliens come into the country it's not a crime it's not a crime to come into the country illegally they're not sending their best anyway uh as you know the teachers unions are destroying America because the the foundation of American power is education if you get education wrong which we apparently are doing you you don't really have a future there there's no chance and that's where we're at and mostly I would say that's the fault of the teachers unions and the teachers unions of course would like the kids to have a good education but their primary uh let's say their primary concern is the good of the Union itself and whatever is good for the Democratic party so if your main criteria is not the well-being of the children and clearly it's not you're going to get the result that we see just horrible horrible outcomes and but there's apparently a a force that has been organizing to give an alternative to the unions it's called the freedom foundation and they're hosting they're just getting started but one of what they want to do is promote some kind of alternative for teachers that don't join the union so they would give teachers a liability coverage better curricula um some patriotic and pro capitalist teachings and professional development I assume those are things that the union does so they're trying to match the benefits without all the bad stuff which is basically just being a tool of the Democrats so if we can figure out how to break the hold of the teachers unions the United States has a chance maybe this is it may maybe they just needed an alternative uh meanwhile Steve Cortez just put out a documentary that looks fascinating and uh he's he's down in Star County Texas which is almost entirely hispanic and uh is prot Trump and you really have to see it um you know I've been telling you forever that if you have a lot of contact with the Hispanic Community the recent immigrants you could have seen it coming that they would be more Pro jump because they're all about uh God family work they're not about woke at all and they don't mind seeing deportations because it's a problem to them too so uh I recommend it Steve Cortez just look for his account on X and you'll see his documentary um very interesting I had a little uh conversation back and forth with Constantine kissen um you would know him from his podcast trigonometry but also a very smart common commentator about you know all things geopolitical and he had some things to say that I I thought really interesting and I felt like I didn't I didn't know all the elements of it so I had some followup questions but let me tell you where that went so it started out by he was talking about a 1997 book by uh this guy Alexander Dugan who wrote that among other things now this is 1997 so it's been around a while that quote Russia should introduce geopolitical dis disorder into internal American activity encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic and social and racial conflicts actively supporting all dissident movements extremist racist and sectarian groups thus destabilizing internal political processes in the US it would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics so that would be one way that Russia could you know destroy the United States now you've probably also seen uh the work of this guy a Russian guy named Yuri bezmenov who has a similar message and he's been saying that uh the Soviet Union at least had this plan to destabilize American culture by basically um amplifying destructive forces now I asked Constantine you know what would be the evidence that Russia is actually doing this because maybe there is you know maybe there's a whole bunch of places where we've spotted them doing it and he clarified that it wasn't about uh Russia per se but it might be something that you know all of our adversaries are doing China mentioned China cutter Iran and Russia but the weird thing is and one of the things he mentioned was the tenant media situation do you remember that it turned out that uh I guess Tim p and Dave Rubin and some other podcasters were receiving money uh from a group that had some Russian backing but they didn't know it and the group wasn't asking them for any different treatment or any any different editorial so there was no impact whatsoever on what they did they just got free money and then it was uncovered that there was this connection to Russia and I guess that got Unwound but I've noticed that whenever Russia is trying to interfere with the United States it looks like a a high school project level quality do you remember the uh the troll farm that was uh allegedly trying to influence the 2016 election but if you actually looked at how much they spent it was basically nothing and then you look at the quality of the memes they presented and they were just ridiculous just so empty of any quality or persuasiveness they were just just nothing and I thought to myself is that the best that Russia can do to disturb our internal politics is some memes that nobody saw and then giving free money to PE to people to do what they were going to do anyway that's the best they could do and then there was the story about the one hacker who got into what was it the Democrats or Hillary's email or something and then we're told by our own intelligence people that it was Russia and we know it well maybe but I'm not so sure so it seems to me there would be a lot more evidence of Russia doing something like that and then the other the other context is that it's what everybody does to all of their adversaries anyway so the idea is that if you're just boosting you're not creating you're not creating from scratch but you're just boosting those elements within our society that are the most destructive that uh that's all it takes and I'm thinking isn't that exactly what we do to overthrow other countries don't we routinely uh fund their most div divisive elements and specifically to weaken them and and Stage aoup so maybe everybody's just doing it to everybody but the bigger context the thing the thing that to me seems the most Salient is that there's nothing these other countries could possibly do to boost the most corrosive parts of our society that isn't already being done by democrats and specifically Soros so is Soros working for one of our adversaries because he seems to be more tightly wound around our Democrats and and and it feels like that we're being torn apart from the inside I don't see the impact from other countries and my own view with this Yuri bman who is sort of the OG of saying that Russia's got this plan to destroy our civilization with their clever Shenanigans I've never trusted him to be real I I have a theory that he's the op he's not the person telling us the op I think he's the op because if you thought that it was coming from the outside you would not be able to fix it so I think he's just looking at the fact that we're naturally divisive and that if we're naturally divisive you're going to see all these examples that you're going to say wait a minute did did Russia fund antifa well no evidence of it wait a minute is Russia behind the teachers unions well not that I know of we we have these wildly divisive elements in the US I feel like this Yuri bof was either just monetizing what was going to happen anyway by acting like he had this theory about why it's all happening I don't trust that guy at all like I feel like he's the op but that's just a feeling I don't have proof of that anyway so if all these countries are influencing Us by boosting the worst most corrosive parts of our society they don't have a chance compared to the boosting that the Democrats are doing to those ex act same entities uh and Soros in particular so anyway I don't know how to I don't really know how to think about that other than it doesn't look like it's the biggest problem in the world compared to what we're doing to ourselves the stuff coming from inside the tent well meanwhile Israel announced uh yesterday that it's going to be cutting off electricity to Gaza which would have the effect of cutting off water because the desalinization PL there would require that electricity um and I guess they're going to cut off humanitarian Aid I believe they have food that would last them maybe weeks or months but uh no more humanitarian Aid now this of course is try to try to squeeze them to you know give up or to give up the hostages but according to the hill uh Tera sud is writing that there's a the Trump host Envoy thinks that we might have a deal with Hamas or that we could have a deal soon uh to free all of the hostages within weeks so that's a Adam bowler is the White House special Envoy and uh he thinks that every hostage taken by the uh the militant group ofas could be freed all at the same time in weeks now that doesn't even seem remotely like to me do you think there's something we don't know about because if there's no new variables on the table I don't see how we'd get a different outcome so remember Trump said if you don't release them all they will be held to pay is it possible that we've delivered a threat that they completely feel is real maybe to the leadership maybe to I don't know to Iran you maybe the threats on Iran if we don't get them back we're going to take out your nuclear facilities so it seems to me that this is one of those cases where we may never understand what the real what the real deal was maybe we offered something of value maybe we offered a better threat um I don't see how this could just sort of work all of a sudden I don't know but we'll be optimistic now the other day somebody in the comments uh um challenged me to uh do the best I could to describe the Palestinian side of the Israel Palestinian conflict now that would be the ultimate third rail so of course I said yes because I think I'm attracted to trouble so let's see if I can do this and still be in business tomorrow all right so I'm going to give you the the best of objective uh description of the situation the first thing I would say if you're looking at the Palestinian and here I'm I'm not talking about just Gaza so we'll talk about the Palestinians more generally um I don't think you can understand the situation in terms of who's good and who's bad um who has the better long-term claim uh who's got the historical let's say the best complaints about what happened and therefore the best you know Narrative of how it should turn out as long as you're thinking about who's good or bad or the narratives or the history you're just lost nothing like that matters the only thing that matters in this region is who has the power at the moment Israel has the power if it were reversed it would be reversed meaning that the Israelis would be complaining that they were under occupation or worse and everything that the Palestinians are saying hey you're you know you're blocking us from statehood you're you're uh keeping us suppressed we're in a they'd say we're in a uh an outdoor prison it would just be the other way around because you have two societies two civilizations that are incompatible and they will always be incompatible there's no way that they're just going to live next to each other in peace so it's a power Dynamic and that's it so there's no good guy there's no bad guy it's just power and Israel is doing what would be good for Israel what's good for Israel is to increase their land uh for two reasons one is it could give them a little extra buffer against attacks but also wouldn't it be good to have a bigger country because in the long run very long run that will just all be good so Israel is doing what is in the best interest of Israel and they have the power to do it as soon as you start overlaying you know who's good or bad or who's moral who's ethical none of that makes any difference the ones with the power are going to get what they want and it will be at the expense of the other side now what makes it easy for the is Israelis is that the Palestinians apparently have some addiction to violence as at least part of the solution we don't know what would happen if the Palestinians suddenly came up with a Martin Luther King character who had you know amazingly I think this would be impossible but amazingly said all right we we just want to put our case to the world and we want the whole world to watch and we're going to say what our complaints are and then we're going to say what we want and we're going to denounce all violence but we think that when we make our case the world will back us maybe maybe that would work for them but it seems to me that the Islamic culture is more about fighting and again I'm not going to say it's right or wrong good or bad moral or immoral it's just seems to be the reflex and is seems to be based on cultural impulses and so as long as they're willing the Palestinians are willing to do a or at least some of them are willing to do a Non-Stop violence kind of opposition it just gives Israel a free pass they can just say well there it is again we better take this country well there it is again we better you know bomb these people and displace them well there it is again so in in terms of strategy the Palestinians have picked a strategy that sort of will lose forever because it just gives the other side that has more power the free pass to use it and so they do now if Israel is doing everything that's good for Israel that would be every country so you could say oh those bad people doing everything that's good for them and bad for other people no that's just everybody that's everybody throughout time every country does what's good for their country and and again this is not supporting it and it's not criticizing it because neither of those mean anything it's simply an observation the ones with the power get what they want that's it so you know of course there's there's other elements to this such as the military industrial complex in the US would like to have another the place where we can sell weapons we'd like to be able to project our own us interests through a proxy in the Middle East so the US has an interest in you know Israel being the strongest player in that region and so that means Israel will have the power and they will keep doing what they want now one of the claims that the Palestinians make is that when the Israelis say hey we gave you Gaza and it was just your own country and you could have turned it into a paradise but you turned it into a Hamas terrorist hell hole and now look what I bought you well the Palestinians and the the people in Gaza would say that never happened it it's it's true that you sort of you know pull out but you didn't stop bombing us but of course they always had reasons they were responding to some kind of an attack and they didn't have freedom of travel and commerce because they were sort of surrounded and again presumably entirely for security reasons the uh Israel couldn't let them ship in and out anything they wanted because that would be dangerous didn't let them travel unrestrictedly for for the things that you would normally do for Commerce and so the gazin never felt that they really had let's say the ability to run their own country they they felt like they were still under some kind of Siege even if there were no boots on the ground within Gaza itself now that would be their take I'm not endorsing it I'm not taking aside I'm just describing it if you ask them they'd say Yeah you sort of on paper gave us Gaza but it was never free in the way that other countries could be free you have to deal with everybody and then Israel would say how could we how could we give you that freedom when you're just a boil in uh stew of terrorists who if we open the roads or open the sea you'd be shiing in massive weapons and turning it into another attack and that of course would be exactly the right approach from their self-interest I'd also point out that the thought about having uh two separate countries were the the West Bank and the Palestinians even forget about Gaza for a second but if you want have the two countries solution you know that that ship already sailed right there are now so many settlements Israeli settlements you just peppering that entire area that there's not really any possibility of a two-count solution and again that would be presumably what the Israeli government wants to not have a two-country solution even if they use the words that they would and uh it looks like they have a long long term plan Israel to maximize Israel which everybody would expect again it's not good it's not bad it's just power and if you just revers the power instantly you would have almost the same situation except the Israelis would be the ones complaining and the Palestinians would be saying well look at you terrorists trying to fight back against our massive power I guess we'll just have to press you a little bit harder because you're still acting like terrorists because the weaker party doesn't have any tools so they're going to use some terrorism that wouldn't surprise anybody so let me see what else um yeah I think that that that pretty much does it so that's my take my take is as long as you're in the who's good who's bad who's got the historical claim you know whose Bible says what that's all just it's just power and who has the power is going to use it right now it's Israel that's sort of the end of the story everything everything else is just a normal outcome of who had the power and I don't see it changing anytime in the near future because I don't see them coming up with a Martin Luther King oh we were wrong the whole time let's just get the International Community to back us and we'll ask for a bunch of people ful things I don't see it happening so it'll just be more of the same I think for a long time um Jonathan Turley is writing about uh a crisis fatigue and he's he sort of mocking the uh the legal experts in the country which of course in many cases are leaning left and talking about how easy it is to get a thousand uh legal experts to sign on to any Democrat anything and then the news will treat it like it matters that you got a thousand legal experts to say there's a constitutional crisis and everything's a constitutional crisis until you're so tired of constitutional crises that don't seem to actually make any difference in your life that you see another list of a thousand legal experts saying there's another constitutional crisis like every week or two and just doesn't mean anything we're just exhausted by it and it never has real effect in the real world and we figure they're all biased and it doesn't matter how many people on the list because you can always get a list you can always get you can get a thousand people to agree to anything you know as long as you're not talking about the ones who didn't sign it just say well thousand people say we're in a constitutional crisis because of trump and it's all getting just stupid like it's the best the the best the uh Democrats can do is to try to get basically to reproduce the 51 intelligence people who say the laptop isn't real the most debunked method of truth it's all they have uh let's put together another easily debunked you know proof of what's real yeah we'll get a list of people ah it'll be long there'll be a thousand people on the list doesn't mean anything anymore in today's world and and we're smart enough to know it now not been following the situation in Romania so maybe I got a little this wrong I was seeing Mike Ben talking about it online so apparently Romania uh was having a presidential election that the EU and I guess the US probably was behind a little bit uh got the election cancelled because they didn't like who was going to get elected is that roughly what happened um but the uh European Union president this Ursula V laying um she's sort of quiet about it because as Mike Ben says and what can she say Ben says if she says she supports Romania cancelling elections which she does uh says mike the EU will look like a dictator it is says Mike and if she says she doesn't support it it would throw the very Network in Romania the EU leaned on to cancel elections under the so so the EU is basically overthrowing the government of Romania just sort of matter of factly you're right in front of everybody do I have that even a little bit right um all right so I don't know if I do but uh that that would be more of the same for the United States anyway to be influencing other Count's elections uh anyway according to Wall Street Journal um American defense companies are having a good time they're increasing their dominance of the global arms trade and the European nations are you know trying to buy as much as they can to protect themselves they're buying us fighter jets and missiles now how many of you have ever heard this um I'm going to call it a conspiracy theory but I think we're all sophisticated enough to know that conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's not true right so I don't know that is true so I'll call it a conspiracy theory but it's certainly not ruled out and it goes like this that the real reason that there's been such a push to increase the number of NATO countries is not to defend against Russia it's because as soon as you turn into a NATO country you have to American uh weapons to be compatible with NATO is that true that the real reason that there's always a continuous push to add new countries is because the military industrial complex in the US gets to sell more weapons because you can't be in NATO unless your weapons are compatible with the rest of NATO you i' hate to think that that's the whole story but it could be right it could be part of the story it could be just opportunistic stuff like oh yeah we want to protect we want to protect against Russia but by the way it's pretty good for business you know that's not the main reason we're doing it but it's also good for business you know it's it's a little hard for me to accept that the real reason is protecting uh the countries from Russia versus is the gazillions of dollars that the military industrial complex would make if we just add one more country so I'm a little skeptical there uh meanwhile RFK Jr has asked the CDC to look into the the link between vaccines and autism now that's interesting the Gateway pundit is reporting this now uh and apparently the that study would involve using the vaccine safety data link uh which monitors safety of vaccines and investigates uh adverse reactions um I don't believe anything about this story sorry I don't believe that there's an existing database that if you just looked at it carefully you would know if there's a link between vaccines and autism are you kidding me there's there's no way we have a database that if you just looked at it really carefully you would know the answer no now I saw in the comments before I came on that um all you'd have to do is study let's say the Amish or the I don't know the menites or whoever they are because there are some uh there are some groups that are not vaccinated so if you check the unvaccinated group and they didn't have any autism well then you'd say to your aha it must be those darn vaccinations but that won't work because there are too many things that are different about the Amish let me give you an example one of the hypotheses that I'd heard years ago but now I don't believe it's true but it is one of the hypothesis that what's different about the modern world is that smart people meet other smart people more easily so we go to college and you let's say you go to MIT you're more likely to meet somebody that you get married to um who is also a top engineer or basically nerd and there's some indication that if you take two people who are kind of sort of near the Spectrum uh and they have a child the odds of them being on the Spectrum are way higher now I can't promise you that's true that's just some something that's been around for long long time now the Amish don't reproduce that way so that's not their mating strategy presumably their mating strategy is old school where it's like Jake uh looks like you're ready for a wife uh Sally down the road she'd be a good wife all right she's the only one available so it feels like the yamish may just do old school mating and it would the the Nerds hooking up because they both work at Microsoft maybe I don't know um the other thing is that the Amish are not eating the same food they're not eating processed food the other thing is they're spending more time Outdoors so and you could probably come up with five different things that the Amish do that are just clearly different in terms of lifestyle and exposure to things I mean maybe it's something like you know I'm just make this one up don't don't take this seriously but what if it's like exposure to lead right I'm not speculating that I'm using it to make the point because the Amish wouldn't have the same exposure so it could be a pollutant that is common to everybody but the Amish so I don't think you can study the Amish and know whether vaccines cause autism but on positive there's no existing database that can tell you that I don't believe any of that now maybe that maybe that's just the first thing that uh RFK Jun has to do you know maybe he has to get past let's look at all our existing databases and see if it tells us anything before he can get to the next level of you know is there is there a better way to start tracking this so I'm in favor of the effort I just think maybe it's a little harder than it looks at the same time RFK Jun is going to meet with the uh according to zero Edge going to meet with the leaders of the processed food industry um what is that going to produce because it feels like they're not going to say oh yes I will greatly reduce my yields or I'll let my food rot faster um just so that we have fewer chemicals and uh seed oils and stuff in them I don't know that you can just talk them into it but maybe you maybe there'll be a few easy wins like oh yeah we can get rid of that one thing or yeah we we don't need that chemical in there so Something Good Can Come of that I I think the RFK junr problem is that when you go from concept you know I want to do these things and make everything healthier to bureaucracy um it's probably just like a brick wall you just probably just banging your head against a brick wall now we'll see if RFK Jr's got the clout along with Trump to uh make a real difference and penetrate the bureaucracy but it's super tough so if he can do it it'd be amazing according to science alert uh having children makes your brain younger later in life now that makes complete sense to me if you've had any exposure to being around children the complexity of your life if you add just one child to your life and you know often it's more than that uh the complexity of just getting anything done goes through the roof and I would think that your brain would be healthier longer if you added any kind of complexity and challenge to it especially if it's one you really cared about like your kids um so that make sense you know I wouldn't say that I would have necessarily guessed this but anything that an adult does to challenge their brain and their memory and their their thinking and if it's a continuous pressure like having a kid it seems to me that it do it would make a difference so anyway I do see some things in the comments about seed oils I'm I'm not completely convinced that the seed oils are all bad um but I certainly see a lot of smart people say that they are so I'm open to it all right um you feel younger than people your age who have older kids because you started late okay all right um that's all I have for today uh like I said the uh the technology was not H happy with me today so the found on the X feed is a little less than that this microphone's not connected to my phone um but we'll upload the uh high quality one from the locals feed onto You.

Tube and Rumble and we'll then we'll have it all and that's all I've got for today so thanks for joining everybody um I'm just going to say goodbye to uh to the X feed and I'll say a few words privately to the people on locals and uh thanks for joining we'll see you tomorrow

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that well um are you all waiting for the

uh Epstein files and the JFK files and

the MLK files all waiting for

those good

luck I don't think there's really any

chance we're going to see anything we

don't know or anything shocking if we

see anything maybe we'll never see

anything but uh lower your expectations

to

zero zero would be the right

place uh according to sa post Eric Dolan

is writing about this uh have you ever

seen these online quizzes where you can

decide who you should vote for so you

say things like uh are you in favor of

this policy or this policy and then you

fill it out and then it says oh you're a

Democrat you should vote for this person

or you're a

republican well according to a study um

I think that the person involved with

this you may have heard of U Robert

Epstein so he's done studies of Google

and Google's influence but he finds that

these online surveys are more than just

casual online surveys apparently they

bias you toward One Direction or another

so they can sort of turn you into a

Democrat voter if you were on the fence

so very diabolical so watch out if you

see one of those

uh let me tell you who you should vote

for surveys they are meant to persuade

not to inform so just know that that's a

trick you've been

warned well according to one americ news

are saying that doge is reporting that

uh during the co

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um this is so bad it's just

funny uh the $312 million loans that

were meant for small businesses during

covid uh were taken out by

children so we don't know if they're

real children but they seem to be

children in other words fake $312

million of fake loans to

Children it seems to me fairly

consistent that whenever there's a large

bunch of money from the government for

anything at all it's gigantic fraud

every time because they don't seem to do

any kind of auditing or any kind of

accounting or any kind of checking to

see who gets it we should just maybe

give no money to anybody you know if

this were the only story

today it I would be filled with

outrage because my tax money went to

loans to Children uh but I I'm having

outrage exhaustion anybody else have

that it's like every time I look at

social media oh there's another $100

million somebody

stole oh there's another 200 million

somebody stole and it all starts just

looking like Baseline after a while so I

worry that we will stop being outraged

by stories that are really

outrageous well there's a new AI that

everybody's talking about called Manis

and it's a Chinese Ai and the people who

have tested it and written about it on

social media seem to be blown away by

how good it is so it's not a regular AI

it's uh it's an AI

agent now the difference between a

regular AI an AI agent is that regular

AI you can talk to it and then ask it

questions and it can give you good

answers and it can tell you how to code

something but an agent you can just tell

to go do a thing and then it'll go do a

thing now I'm not I'm not entirely clear

about what things it could have access

to which of your other apps or your

databases or whatever but apparently

it's wowing the people who are trying it

and they think uh that China is not only

not behind the United States and AI but

if you look at Deep seek and you look at

Manis uh together they suggest that

China might already be be ahead now it

could be that the only thing they're

ahead in is doing things that we

wouldn't do here such as unleashing an

agent you know because the agent feels

like that's a security

risk and you would not be surprised that

Tennessee is the first state to already

baned so man has just came within the

week it's already banned in Tennessee

and I think uh there's more efforts by

other attorney generals to ban all the

Chinese AIS to ban deep seek and

probably more of them want to ban Manis

probably a good idea um I could tell you

that there's not a chance I would put

that on my computer I would never put on

my computer something that's not only a

Chinese AI but it's an

agent isn't that just asking for it it's

even called it's even called an agent it

just sounds like the most dangerous

thing you could put on your

computer meanwhile according to the Wall

Street Journal one in four new US jobs

posted are going to ask for AI skills so

it's not just that they want you to be

an AI expert but that whatever your job

is you should have a little capability

with AI now if I could give you any job

advice whatsoever it would be learn AI

you know you don't have to learn how to

create it you know that's that's for

other people but you should know which

AI do what and you should know generally

how to make it do some stuff and you

should know how to ask a questions and

how to query things and um you should

know AI it's not really optional if

you're going to be a job Seeker

especially so make sure you know

AI meanwhile uh Justin Trudeau is out

and uh mark Carney is got the new

leadership position that looks like

he'll be the the next prime minister as

soon as they call it for a vote I guess

that's how their system works so he's

not officially the Prime Minister but

there's nothing that would stop him from

being one as soon as they go through the

process but uh here are some of the

things we know about him he was a

banker and apparently he spent a lot of

time in the UK because he was not only a

former Central Banker for Canada but he

was a former Central Banker for the

UK interesting now uh here's what uh one

critic on social media said so this is

not representative of anything but one

critics opinion somebody named John Paul

Berg said about uh

Carney the new head of Canada that he

doesn't hold elected office meaning that

he's never won an El election by the

public in at large I guess and uh Nory

lived here in over a decade meaning

Canada so he hasn't lived in Canada for

a

decade he must have moved back recently

and he's a self-described globalist and

elitist I doubt he called himself an

elitist but maybe a globalist and uh

he's a central Banker with a world

economic Forum

membership so that's a lot of red flags

but

that if that's what if that's what

Canada wants all right so here's my take

my American take which is worth

basically nothing um I think the

Canadians felt they needed a

banker because if you put Justin judau

up against Trump doesn't it look like a

mismatch like there's one serious

business person Trump and then there's

Trudeau who's worried about his pronouns

and such so I think they needed to get a

serious business person so you know

Banker fits that um

but but here's what he did on his first

day so far uh Carney said quote my

government will keep our tariffs on

until the Americans show us

respect okay first day of work not so

good do you think respect is the problem

here what when the United States is

trying to get rid of fenel is the

problem that we don't respect you enough

when Trump says he wants uh Canada to be

a 51st state is it because we don't

respect it or it just seems like it'd be

a good idea now he definitely didn't

respect

Trudeau but did Trudeau earn his respect

I would say maybe no so if he's focusing

on tariffs are related to Americans

showing him respect

not the best first day because that

doesn't seem like a anything that's

going to work out for

him we're not really we're not really

operating on the respect

basis it's pretty much you know our

interests and their interests and that's

about

it well uh Secretary of State Rubio has

announced that he's uh cut 83% of the

USA USA

budget 83% the rest would be absorbed

into the state department and he's a SL

5200 of the usaid

contracts now that's all good news right

yay this big po of money that yeah we

thought was being used in ways that

maybe we didn't agree with and there was

a lot of it and it got cut yay except

none of it's

true it's just not true uh this is what

Thomas Massie explains the the Congress

is putting together a continuing

resolution which is what they do when

they can't decide on a budget they just

say um I guess the budget will just

remain the

same so the budget they're going to

pass will fully fund

usaid none of this is

real it's not real according to

Thomas Massie and Massie points out that

the Supreme Court ruled last week that

it requires an act of Congress to defund

these programs so not only is there no

legal way to defund them but the

continuing resolution that Congress does

every time because they can't do their

job of making a budget will just fully

fund

it now I don't know if you can fire all

the people so even they have a budget

they can't spend it is there some work

around

but my head just

exploded and Thomas Massie is the only

one who's on this the whole continuing

resolution problem literally the

continuing resolution is when the

Congress says oh we don't know how to do

our basic job we don't know how to do

our basic job which is make a

budget that works so we're not going to

do it so we're just going to kick the

candidate down the road and bankrupt the

country with you know unworkable debt

and then when we finally make some what

looks like progress with

Doge they just bulldo it like it didn't

even

matter now I suppose there are some

surprises ahead you know I don't think

doge is going to roll over I don't think

Trump's going to roll over

but it kind of looks like it didn't work

I mean tentatively speaking that's not

my five opinion I'd like to be wrong

about it I'd love to be wrong about it

but when it was last time Massie was

wrong about something like this

never this is his domain if he says this

isn't real I'm gonna I'm going to take

his word for it over Rubio and I hate it

absolutely hate it but we'll see where

this

goes meanwhile the department of justice

under Trump is in investigation into the

price of eggs the Department of

Justice what do they think they're going

to find so I guess there's some uh

concern that maybe the big egg producers

are artificially keeping the price High

which means you know artificially

keeping the supply low I don't know

maybe but it seems like it's simpler

than that it seems like there's just not

enough eggs

now maybe there's something else there

they wouldn't launch this investigation

unless they meant it but so the Wall

Street journals reporting on that but

apparently eggs are expected to rise by

more than 40% in

2025 another 40% for

eggs wow anyway I guess we'll find out

what's up with eggs but I think that's

just a very narrow look they're just

going to look at whether there's gouging

basically

that sounds like

Biden um now here's my take on it you

know I've looked into this whole

chicken

problem and I think where everything

went wrong is where they allowed the

chickens to work from

home yeah that's all I had that's all I

had they shouldn't let the chickens work

from home the remote working chickens I

don't think they're laying as many eggs

I think they're goofing off yeah

don't let him work from

home anyway uh Howard lotnik is talking

about Trump's tariffs and specifically

the ones on H China and Mexico and

Canada and he says if Sentinel ends

meaning those countries step it out and

keep it from coming into the US I think

these will come off meaning the tariffs

but if fentel does not end or Trump is

uncertain about it they will stay this

way until he's comfortable he said said

that in Meet the

Press now I hate to be negative Nelly

but I don't really think there's much

chance that the tariffs are going to

affect in the long term uh

fenel but I also don't have a better

idea it's the only idea that looks

serious that has maybe some chance of

working but I would bet against it

unfortunately now if I a better idea I'd

say don't do this get rid of those

tariffs it's a waste of time we should

do this much smarter idea that's

different but I don't have a smarter

idea so if leaning on these countries

hard so hard that it crashes their

economy is the only play we

have I'm in favor of it I just wouldn't

bet my you know wouldn't bet my life

savings is going to work but we don't

have any better idea

and you know even if we went in

militarily and took down a bunch of labs

wouldn't they just rebuild them in a

week I I don't know how you could

possibly stop this problem it just seems

Unstoppable but again given the size of

the problem if we have to crash a couple

of economies just to find out if this

works I'm in I

me it's a you know drastic situation Rec

calls for calls for drastic steps and

it's the only one I can think

of well Trump has uh indicated that

things might get worse before they get

better and uh I guess that got turned

into a headline that he is not going to

rule out a recession now the stock

market seemed to shake that off because

just before I got on the markets were

up after after he admitted so here's

what he said to uh I guess to Maria Boma

um he said uh there will be a period of

transition because what we're doing is

very big now period of transition means

things will look a little worse before

they look a lot better

and I think I've always known that the

things he's doing very clearly have a

you know let's say a destabilizing

effect in the short term because people

don't know what's going to happen with

tariffs Etc but in the long term

it could work out just great um there's

a whole bunch of stuff that Trump's

doing that directionally it's all great

so if you could fast forward five years

we might be an amazing situation it's

very possible um so I'm very optimistic

about the

future but uh how are the Democrats

doing let's see let's check in with Van

Jones so van Jones was on CNN and he was

talking about the prospects for the

democ rats to come back and you know

become a serious party and things are so

bad that he actually was laughing at how

pathetic the Democrat Party is and and

the host was laughing it's actually

become laughable but here's how he

here's how he summarized it he said this

is what the Democrats did he goes uh

defending a broken status quo that

nobody likes because they thought that

Donald Trump was going to make it worse

well I guess that didn't work out so the

The Reflex to be against Trump no matter

what had them supporting the status quo

that everybody thought was a bad idea so

that's part of it and then van Jones

said that offending most people in the

country and calling everybody sexist and

racist and transphobic and every other

name and then saying please follow

us that's not a good strategy

folks so every time I hear somebody who

actually does understand what's going on

and I think van Jones you know he he's

obviously playing for one team but he

understands this is a very clear

statement of the problem and uh but it

doesn't look solvable that's the funny

thing they they've created a situation

where there's just no way back you know

they have too many people who want to be

woke and and a bunch of people who don't

and you can't reconcile that

you the the the people who are just you

know all down on wokeness they're not

going to give it up so what do you

do well let me tell you what the other

Democrats are doing to try to write the

ship according to

Politico this sounds like I'm just

making it up but according to Politico a

lot of Democrats have started cursing in

public so they give a whole bunch of

examples of

uh you know of of Democrats using the FW

and the sww and the the GD word and

apparently it's sort of a big Trend and

I'm thinking to myself they are so out

of ideas that they're really doubling

down on this if we can get the messaging

right if we could just get the messaging

right and then they look at Trump and

they'll see that every now and then

he'll throw an sww into his speeches and

stuff and they'll go yes yes that's what

it is we need more

cursing but no I'm joking it's not they

didn't just say we just need more

cursing they also need more cringe

videos and then Elon Musk was pointing

out that the Liberals seem to be getting

violent you know they're attacking Tesla

uh locations Etc and so they've got

cursing they've got cringe

videos they've got random

violence and then they've got uh uh

representative Hank Johnson Democrat

from Georgia he just in public in public

he actually said this he believes that

Trump and the magum movement want black

Americans quote confined and back to

quote picking

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cotton so that that should move the ball

forward and

then uh

and then uh uh Jasmine Crockett who

might be the dumbest Democrat of all so

they're giving her the most attention

because they're like oh I I don't know

if the cursing and the cringe videos and

the violence are enough we better have

our dumbest worst spokesperson be the

most prominent one so Jasmine Crockett

went on some show MSNBC and said it's

not illegal for illegal aliens come into

the

country it's not a crime it's not a

crime to come into the country

illegally they're not sending their best

anyway uh as you know the teachers

unions are destroying America because

the the foundation of American power is

education if you get education wrong

which we apparently are doing you you

don't really have a future there there's

no chance

and that's where we're at and mostly I

would say that's the fault of the

teachers unions and the teachers unions

of course would like the kids to have a

good education but their primary uh

let's say their primary concern is the

good of the Union itself and whatever is

good for the Democratic party so if your

main

criteria is not the well-being of the

children and clearly it's not you're

going to get the result that we see just

horrible horrible outcomes and but

there's apparently a a force that has

been organizing to give an alternative

to the unions it's called the freedom

foundation and they're hosting they're

just getting started but one of what

they want to do is promote some kind of

alternative for teachers that don't join

the union so they would give teachers a

liability coverage better

curricula um some patriotic and pro

capitalist teachings and professional

development I assume those are things

that the union does so they're trying to

match the benefits without all the bad

stuff which is basically just being a

tool of the

Democrats so if we can figure out how to

break the hold of the teachers unions

the United States has a

chance maybe this is it may maybe they

just needed an

alternative uh meanwhile Steve Cortez

just put out a documentary that looks

fascinating and uh he's he's down in

Star County Texas which is almost

entirely hispanic and uh is prot

Trump and you really have to see it um

you know I've been telling you forever

that if you have a lot of contact with

the Hispanic Community the recent

immigrants you could have seen it

coming that they would be more Pro jump

because they're all about uh God family

work they're not about woke at all and

they don't mind seeing

deportations because it's a problem to

them too so uh I recommend it Steve

Cortez just look for his account on X

and you'll see his

documentary um very

interesting I had a little uh

conversation back and forth with

Constantine

kissen um you would know him from his

podcast trigonometry but also a very

smart common commentator about you know

all things

geopolitical and he had some things to

say that I I thought really interesting

and I felt like I didn't I didn't know

all the elements of it so I had some

followup questions but let me tell you

where that went so it started out by he

was talking about a 1997 book by uh this

guy Alexander

Dugan who wrote that among other things

now this is 1997 so it's been around a

while that quote Russia should introduce

geopolitical dis disorder into internal

American activity encouraging all kinds

of separatism and ethnic and social and

racial conflicts actively supporting all

dissident movements extremist racist and

sectarian groups thus destabilizing

internal political processes in the US

it would also make sense simultaneously

to support isolationist tendencies in

American politics so that would be one

way that Russia could you know destroy

the United States now you've probably

also seen uh the work of this guy a

Russian guy named Yuri

bezmenov who has a similar message and

he's been saying that uh the Soviet

Union at least had this plan to

destabilize American culture

by basically um amplifying destructive

forces now I asked Constantine you know

what would be the evidence that Russia

is actually doing this because maybe

there is you know maybe there's a whole

bunch of places where we've spotted them

doing it and he clarified that it wasn't

about uh Russia per se but it might be

something that you know all of our

adversaries are doing China mentioned

China cutter Iran and

Russia but the weird thing is and one of

the things he mentioned was the tenant

media situation do you remember that it

turned out that uh I guess Tim p and

Dave Rubin and some other podcasters

were receiving

money uh from a group that had some

Russian backing but they didn't know it

and the group wasn't asking them for any

different treatment or any any different

editorial

so there was no impact whatsoever on

what they did they just got free

money and then it was uncovered that

there was this connection to Russia and

I guess that got

Unwound but I've noticed that whenever

Russia is trying to interfere with the

United States it looks like a a high

school project level quality do you

remember the uh the troll farm that was

uh allegedly trying to influence the

2016 election but if you actually looked

at how much they spent it was basically

nothing and then you look at the quality

of the memes they presented and they

were just ridiculous just so empty of

any quality or persuasiveness they were

just just nothing and I thought to

myself is that the best that Russia can

do to disturb our internal politics is

some memes that nobody saw and then

giving free money to PE to people to do

what they were going to do anyway

that's the best they could do and then

there was the story about the one hacker

who got into what was it the Democrats

or Hillary's email or something and then

we're told by our own intelligence

people that it was Russia and we know it

well maybe but I'm not so sure so it

seems to me there would be a lot more

evidence of Russia doing something like

that and then the other the other

context is that it's what everybody does

to all of their adversaries anyway so

the idea is that if you're just boosting

you're not creating you're not creating

from scratch but you're just boosting

those elements within our society that

are the most

destructive that uh that's all it

takes and I'm thinking isn't that

exactly what we do to overthrow other

countries don't we routinely

uh fund their most div divisive elements

and specifically to weaken them and and

Stage aoup

so maybe everybody's just doing it to

everybody but the bigger context the

thing the thing that to me seems the

most Salient is that there's nothing

these other countries could possibly do

to boost the most corrosive parts of our

society

that isn't already being done by

democrats and specifically

Soros

so is Soros working for one of our

adversaries because he seems to be more

tightly wound around our Democrats and

and and it feels

like that we're being torn apart from

the

inside I don't see the impact from other

countries and my own view with this Yuri

bman

who is sort of the OG of saying that

Russia's got this plan to destroy our

civilization with their clever

Shenanigans I've never trusted him to be

real I I have a theory that he's the op

he's not the person telling us the op I

think he's the op because if you thought

that it was coming from the

outside you would not be able to fix

it so I think he's just looking at the

fact that we're naturally

divisive and that if we're naturally

divisive you're going to see all these

examples that you're going to say wait a

minute did did Russia fund antifa well

no evidence of it wait a minute is

Russia behind the teachers unions well

not that I know

of we we have these wildly divisive

elements in the US I feel like this Yuri

bof was either just monetizing what was

going to happen anyway by acting like he

had this theory about why it's all

happening I don't trust that guy at

all like I feel like he's the op but

that's just a feeling I don't have proof

of

that anyway so if all these countries

are influencing Us by boosting the worst

most corrosive parts of our society they

don't have a chance compared to the

boosting that the Democrats are doing to

those ex act same entities uh and Soros

in

particular so anyway I don't know how to

I don't really know how to think about

that other than it doesn't look like

it's the biggest problem in the world

compared to what we're doing to

ourselves the stuff coming from inside

the tent well meanwhile Israel announced

uh yesterday that it's going to be

cutting off electricity to Gaza which

would have the effect of cutting off

water because the desalinization PL

there would require that

electricity um and I guess they're going

to cut off humanitarian Aid I believe

they have food that would last them

maybe weeks or months but uh no more

humanitarian Aid now this of course is

try to try to squeeze them to you know

give up or to give up the

hostages but according to the hill uh

Tera sud is

writing that there's a the Trump host

Envoy thinks that we might have a deal

with Hamas or that we could have a deal

soon uh to free all of the hostages

within

weeks so that's a Adam bowler is the

White House special Envoy and uh he

thinks that every hostage taken by the

uh the militant group ofas could be

freed all at the same time in

weeks now that doesn't even seem

remotely like to me do you think there's

something we don't know about because if

there's no new variables on the table I

don't see how we'd get a different

outcome so remember Trump said if you

don't release them all they will be held

to pay is it possible that we've

delivered a threat that they completely

feel is real maybe to the leadership

maybe to I don't know to Iran you maybe

the threats on Iran if we don't get them

back we're going to take out your

nuclear

facilities so it seems to me that this

is one of those cases where we may never

understand what the real what the real

deal was maybe we offered something of

value maybe we offered a better

threat um I don't see how this could

just sort of work all of a sudden I

don't

know but we'll be

optimistic now the other day somebody in

the comments uh um challenged me

to uh do the best I could to describe

the Palestinian side of the Israel

Palestinian

conflict now that would be the ultimate

third

rail so of course I said

yes because I think I'm attracted to

trouble so let's see if I can do this

and still be in business tomorrow all

right so I'm going to give you the the

best of objective uh description of the

situation the first thing I would say if

you're looking at the Palestinian and

here I'm I'm not talking about just Gaza

so we'll talk about the Palestinians

more

generally um I don't think you can

understand the situation in terms of

who's good and who's

bad um who has the better long-term

claim uh who's got the

historical let's say the best complaints

about what happened and therefore the

best you know Narrative of how it should

turn out as long as you're thinking

about who's good or bad or the

narratives or the history you're just

lost nothing like that matters the only

thing that matters in this region is who

has the power at the moment Israel has

the

power if it were

reversed it would be reversed meaning

that the Israelis would be complaining

that they were under occupation or

worse and everything that the

Palestinians are saying hey you're you

know you're blocking us from statehood

you're you're uh keeping us suppressed

we're in a they'd say we're in a uh an

outdoor prison it would just be the

other way around because you have two

societies two civilizations that are

incompatible and they will always be

incompatible there's no way that they're

just going to live next to each other in

peace

so it's a power Dynamic and that's it so

there's no good guy there's no bad guy

it's just power and Israel is doing what

would be good for Israel what's good for

Israel is to increase their

land uh for two reasons one is it could

give them a little extra buffer against

attacks but also wouldn't it be good to

have a bigger country because in the

long run very long run that will just

all be good so Israel is doing what is

in the best interest of Israel and they

have the power to do it as soon as you

start overlaying you know who's good or

bad or who's moral who's ethical none of

that makes any difference the ones with

the power are going to get what they

want and it will be at the expense of

the other side now what makes it easy

for the is Israelis is that the

Palestinians apparently have some

addiction to violence as at least part

of the

solution we don't know what would happen

if the Palestinians suddenly came up

with a Martin Luther King character who

had you know amazingly I think this

would be impossible but amazingly said

all right we we just want to put our

case to the

world and we want the whole world to

watch and we're going to say what our

complaints are and then we're going to

say what we want and we're going to

denounce all violence but we think that

when we make our case the world will

back

us maybe maybe that would work for them

but it seems to me that the Islamic

culture is more about

fighting and again I'm not going to say

it's right or wrong good or bad moral or

immoral it's just seems to be the reflex

and is seems to be based on cultural

impulses and so as long as they're

willing the Palestinians are willing to

do a or at least some of them are

willing to do a

Non-Stop violence kind of opposition it

just gives Israel a free pass they can

just say well there it is again we

better take this country well there it

is again we better you know bomb these

people and displace them well there it

is again

so in in terms of

strategy the Palestinians have picked a

strategy that sort of will lose

forever because it just gives the other

side that has more power the free pass

to use it and so they do now if Israel

is doing everything that's good for

Israel that would be every country so

you could say oh those bad people doing

everything that's good for them and bad

for other people no that's just

everybody that's everybody throughout

time every country does what's good for

their country and and again this is not

supporting it and it's not criticizing

it because neither of those mean

anything it's simply an observation the

ones with the power get what they want

that's it so you know of course there's

there's other elements to this such as

the military industrial complex in the

US would like to have another the place

where we can sell weapons we'd like to

be able to project our own us interests

through a proxy in the Middle East so

the US has an interest in you know

Israel being the strongest player in

that region and so that means Israel

will have the power and they will keep

doing what they want now one of the

claims that the Palestinians

make is that when the Israelis say hey

we gave you Gaza and it was just your

own country and you could have turned it

into a paradise but you turned it into a

Hamas terrorist hell hole and now look

what I bought you well the

Palestinians and the the people in Gaza

would say that never happened it it's

it's true that you sort of you know pull

out but you didn't stop bombing us but

of course they always had reasons they

were responding to some kind of an

attack and they didn't have freedom of

travel and commerce because they were

sort of surrounded and again presumably

entirely for security reasons the uh

Israel couldn't let them ship in and out

anything they wanted because that would

be dangerous didn't let them travel

unrestrictedly for for the things that

you would normally do for Commerce and

so the gazin never felt that they really

had let's say the ability to run their

own country

they they felt like they were still

under some kind of Siege even if there

were no boots on the ground within Gaza

itself now that would be their take I'm

not endorsing it I'm not taking aside

I'm just describing it if you ask them

they'd say Yeah you sort of on paper

gave us Gaza but it was never free in

the way that other countries could be

free you have to deal with everybody and

then Israel would say how could we how

could we give you that freedom when

you're just a boil in uh stew of

terrorists who if we open the roads or

open the sea you'd be shiing in massive

weapons and turning it into another

attack and that of course would be

exactly the right approach from their

self-interest I'd also point out that

the thought about having uh two separate

countries were the the West Bank and the

Palestinians even forget about Gaza for

a second but if you want have the two

countries

solution you know that that ship already

sailed right there are now so many

settlements Israeli settlements you just

peppering that entire area that there's

not really any possibility of a

two-count solution and again that would

be

presumably what the Israeli government

wants to not have a two-country solution

even if they use the words that they

would and uh it looks like they have a

long long term plan Israel to maximize

Israel which everybody would expect

again it's not good it's not bad it's

just power and if you just revers the

power

instantly you would have almost the same

situation except the Israelis would be

the ones complaining and the

Palestinians would be saying well look

at you terrorists trying to fight back

against our massive power I guess we'll

just have to press you a little bit

harder because you're still acting like

terrorists because the weaker party

doesn't have any tools so they're going

to use some terrorism that wouldn't

surprise

anybody

so let me see what else

um yeah I think that that that pretty

much does it so that's my take my take

is as long as you're in the who's good

who's bad who's got the historical claim

you know whose Bible says what that's

all just it's just power and

who has the power is going to use it

right now it's Israel that's sort of the

end of the story everything everything

else is just a normal outcome of who had

the power and I don't see it changing

anytime in the near future because I

don't see them coming up with a Martin

Luther King oh we were wrong the whole

time let's just get the International

Community to back us and we'll ask for a

bunch of people ful

things I don't see it

happening so it'll just be more of the

same I think for a long time

um Jonathan Turley is writing about uh a

crisis fatigue and he's he sort of

mocking the uh the legal experts in the

country which of course in many cases

are leaning left and talking about how

easy it is to get a thousand uh legal

experts to sign on to any Democrat

anything and then the news will treat it

like it matters that you got a thousand

legal experts to say there's a

constitutional crisis and everything's a

constitutional crisis until you're so

tired of constitutional crises that

don't seem to actually make any

difference in your life that you see

another list of a thousand legal experts

saying there's another constitutional

crisis like every week or two and just

doesn't mean anything we're just

exhausted by it and it never has real

effect in the real world and we figure

they're all biased and it doesn't matter

how many people on the list because you

can always get a list you can always get

you can get a thousand people to agree

to anything you know as long as you're

not talking about the ones who didn't

sign it just say well thousand people

say we're in a constitutional crisis

because of trump and it's all getting

just stupid like it's the best the the

best the uh Democrats can

do is to try to get

basically to reproduce the 51

intelligence people who say the laptop

isn't real the most

debunked method of truth it's all they

have uh let's put together another

easily

debunked you know proof of what's real

yeah we'll get a list of people ah it'll

be long there'll be a thousand people on

the list doesn't mean anything anymore

in today's world and and we're smart

enough to know it now not been following

the situation in Romania so maybe I got

a little this wrong I was seeing Mike

Ben talking about it

online so apparently Romania uh was

having a presidential election that the

EU and I guess the US probably was

behind a little bit uh got the election

cancelled because they didn't like who

was going to get elected is that roughly

what

happened um but the uh European Union

president this Ursula V

laying um she's sort of quiet about it

because as Mike Ben says and what can

she say Ben says if she says she

supports Romania cancelling elections

which she does uh says mike the EU will

look like a dictator it is says

Mike and if she says she doesn't support

it it would throw the very Network in

Romania the EU leaned on to cancel

elections under the

so so the EU is

basically overthrowing the government of

Romania just sort of matter of factly

you're right in front of

everybody do I have that even a little

bit

right um all right so I don't know if I

do but uh that that would be more of the

same for the United States anyway to be

influencing other Count's

elections uh anyway according to Wall

Street Journal um American defense

companies are having a good time they're

increasing their dominance of the global

arms trade and the European nations are

you know trying to buy as much as they

can to protect themselves they're buying

us fighter jets and missiles now how

many of you have ever heard this um I'm

going to call it a conspiracy theory but

I think we're all sophisticated enough

to know that conspiracy theory doesn't

mean it's not true right so I don't know

that is true so I'll call it a

conspiracy theory but it's certainly not

ruled out and it goes like this that the

real reason that there's been such a

push to increase the number of NATO

countries is not to defend against

Russia it's because as soon as you turn

into a NATO country you have to American

uh weapons to be compatible with

NATO is that true that the real reason

that there's always a continuous push to

add new countries is because the

military industrial complex in the US

gets to sell more weapons because you

can't be in NATO unless your weapons are

compatible with the rest of

NATO you i' hate to think that that's

the whole

story but it could

be right it could be part of the story

it could be just opportunistic stuff

like oh yeah we want to protect we want

to protect against Russia but by the way

it's pretty good for business you know

that's not the main reason we're doing

it but it's also good for

business you know it's it's a little

hard for me to accept that the real

reason is protecting uh the countries

from

Russia versus is the gazillions of

dollars that the military industrial

complex would make if we just add one

more

country so I'm a little skeptical there

uh meanwhile RFK Jr has asked the

CDC to look into the the link between

vaccines and

autism now that's interesting the

Gateway pundit is reporting this now uh

and apparently the that study would

involve using the vaccine safety data

link uh which monitors safety of

vaccines and investigates uh adverse

reactions um I don't believe anything

about this

story

sorry I don't believe that there's an

existing database that if you just

looked at it carefully you would know if

there's a link between vaccines and

autism are you kidding me there's

there's no way we have a database that

if you just looked at it really

carefully you would know the answer no

now I saw in the comments before I came

on that um all you'd have to do is study

let's say the Amish or the I don't know

the menites or whoever they are because

there are some

uh there are some groups that are not

vaccinated so if you check the

unvaccinated group and they didn't have

any autism well then you'd say to your

aha it must be those darn

vaccinations but that won't work because

there are too many things that are

different about the Amish let me give

you an example one of the hypotheses

that I'd heard years ago but now I don't

believe it's true but it is one of the

hypothesis that what's different about

the modern world is that smart people

meet other smart people more easily so

we go to college and you let's say you

go to

MIT you're more likely to meet somebody

that you get married to um who is also a

top engineer or basically nerd and

there's some indication that if you take

two people who are kind of sort of near

the

Spectrum uh and they have a child the

odds of them being on the Spectrum are

way higher now I can't promise you

that's true that's just some something

that's been around for long long time

now the

Amish don't reproduce that way so that's

not their mating strategy presumably

their mating strategy is old school

where it's like Jake uh looks like

you're ready for a wife uh Sally down

the

road she'd be a good wife all right

she's the only one

available so it feels like the yamish

may just do old school mating and it

would the the Nerds hooking up because

they both work at

Microsoft maybe I don't know um the

other thing is that the Amish are not

eating the same food they're not eating

processed food the other thing is

they're spending more time

Outdoors so and you could probably come

up with five different things that the

Amish do that are just clearly different

in terms of lifestyle and exposure to

things I mean maybe it's something like

you know I'm just make this one up don't

don't take this seriously but what if

it's like exposure to

lead right I'm not speculating that I'm

using it to make the point because the

Amish wouldn't have the same exposure so

it could be a pollutant that is common

to everybody but the Amish so I don't

think you can study the Amish and know

whether vaccines cause autism but on

positive there's no existing database

that can tell you that

I don't believe any of that now maybe

that maybe that's just the first thing

that uh RFK Jun has to do you know maybe

he has to get past let's look at all our

existing databases and see if it tells

us anything before he can get to the

next level of you know is there is there

a better way to start tracking this so

I'm in favor of the

effort I just think maybe it's a little

harder than it

looks at the same time RFK Jun is going

to meet with the uh according to zero

Edge going to meet with the leaders of

the processed food

industry

um what is that going to

produce because it feels like they're

not going to say oh yes I will greatly

reduce my yields or I'll let my food rot

faster um just so that we have fewer

chemicals

and uh seed oils and stuff in them I

don't know that you can just talk them

into it but maybe you maybe there'll be

a few easy wins like oh yeah we can get

rid of that one thing or yeah we we

don't need that chemical in there so

Something Good Can Come of that I I

think the RFK junr problem is that when

you go from concept you know I want to

do these things and make everything

healthier to

bureaucracy um it's probably just like a

brick wall you just probably just

banging your head against a brick wall

now we'll see if RFK Jr's got the clout

along with Trump to uh make a real

difference and penetrate the bureaucracy

but it's super tough so if he can do it

it'd be

amazing according to science

alert uh having children makes your

brain younger later in

life now that makes complete sense to me

if you've had any exposure to being

around children the complexity of your

life if you add just one child to your

life and you know often it's more than

that uh the complexity of just getting

anything done goes through the roof and

I would think that your brain would be

healthier longer if you added any kind

of complexity and challenge to it

especially if it's one you really cared

about like your kids um so that make

sense you know I wouldn't say that I

would have necessarily guessed this but

anything that an adult does to challenge

their brain and their memory and their

their thinking and if it's a continuous

pressure like having a kid it seems to

me that it do it would make a difference

so

anyway I do see some things in the

comments about seed oils I'm I'm not

completely

convinced that the seed oils are all bad

um but I certainly see a lot of smart

people say that they are

so I'm open to

it all

right um you feel younger than people

your age who have older kids because you

started late

okay all

right um that's all I have for today uh

like I said the

uh the technology was not H happy with

me today so the found on the X feed is a

little less than that this microphone's

not connected to my

phone um but we'll upload the uh high

quality one from the locals feed onto

YouTube and Rumble and we'll then we'll

have it all and that's all I've got for

today so thanks for joining everybody um

I'm just going to say goodbye to uh to

the X feed and I'll say a few words

privately to the people on

locals and uh thanks for joining we'll

see you tomorrow