Ryan Reynolds (8:22)

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Scott Adams (8:53)

So I saw a long post on X yesterday by Stephen Miller. Now, as you know, Stephen Miller is an important part of the administration, one of the smarter people there. And he wanted to explain that people had it wrong about the big beautiful bill, the budget bill. And he went into great detail saying how it would lower taxes and lower the deficit too. And I couldn't understand the damn sentence in there. Almost none of it made sense to me. Now it doesn't mean he's wrong because he seemed to have a good grasp of the topic at a much greater detail than I've seen before. So he might be right, but I can't tell. I can't tell by his writing. It was just, just amazingly impenetrable. But might have been right, I don't know. But meanwhile, Ron Johnson, Republican, who is very much on the side of the president and the side of Stephen Miller, he says the opposite. He says that the budget's going to exacerbate the national deficit. So could it be true that Stephen Miller is right that it will decrease the deficit while Ron Johnson is right that it will increase it? We can't tell. It's really complicated. And the other thing that you need to know, and I wonder how many of you can do this. Essentially the budget is cut in two parts. There's a small part which is this, the so called big beautiful bill is actually the smallest part of the budget. And you only need 51 votes to pass it. So that works for the Republicans because they have a slight majority so they can get this budget reconciliation process, as they call it, through with a narrow vote if it comes to that. But the biggest part of the budget, they would need 61 votes to presumably beat a, what do you call it? The, what's it called when the other side just talks forever? What's that called? I always forget the name of that. I, I, I've been stuck on this one before. It's called a, you'll tell me in the comments in a second. Filibuster. Yes, filibuster. So the biggest part of the budget is not even part of the big beautiful budget. This is just the little stuff that we can change. And the big stuff probably won't be able to change it at all because we won't be able to overcome the filibuster. I'm thinking. Then there's a question about are we cutting Medicaid or not cutting Medicaid? So Speaker Johnson has settled on this weird messaging where we're totally cutting Medicaid but we're not cutting Medicaid. So he's literally saying both things at the same time and selling it. So he says, quote, we are not cutting Medicaid in this package. Johnson said Sunday and the State of the Union, there's a lot of misinformation out there about this. All right, so that's pretty clear, right? You can't be more clear than that. We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. And then later he says that the goal of the is to protect Medicaid for vulnerable Americans. I'm like, oh, okay, that's consistent with not cutting it by removing those who should not be receiving the benefits, such as illegal immigrants and able bodied adults who are not working. So he's not cutting Medicaid. And the way that he's going to do that is by cutting all these people who are getting Medicaid and taking them off. He's totally cutting Medicaid. He's just cutting it for a certain two classes of people, illegal immigrants, most of you would agree, agree with that. But able bodied adults, mostly men. So apparently. And then the Kaiser Family foundation estimated that nearly 200,000 people in Louisiana alone, that's Mike Johnson's own state, could lose Medicaid coverage because of the cuts there. So 200,000 people just in Louisiana alone will lose their coverage. And then Mike Johnson says, oh, we're totally not going to cut Medicaid. No, I'm not disagreeing with anything they're doing. I'm just talking about the messaging that they're getting away with saying they're not cutting it at the same time, they're massively cutting it, but they're massively cutting it from able bodied men who should get jobs and not be receiving it. And Johnson says the focus is on fraud, waste and abuse and specifically these young, able bodied workers who are taking advantage of the system. We don't want that. No. Taking advantage of the system. Now also, I only learned this today. Apparently they, Mike Johnson says they tucked into this big beautiful bill. He told Face the Nation this a provision for that would restrict federal court's ability to enforce some injunctions. So you know how every time Trump orders something, there's always some federal judge who says, not so fast, here's an injunction, I will prevent you from doing it. And then ask to go to the Supreme Court. And Trump usually wins. So apparently they stuck that into the bill and it's meant to restrict activist judges. We'll see. As long as the Senate doesn't try to take it out, I guess. So here's a thing that I'm going to agree with Trump on quite a bit. So I think we're something like 31% of Harvard's students were foreign students. Now, on one hand, you might say to yourself, there are plenty of good reasons why a foreign student should be allowed to go to Harvard. But Harvard was not allowing white men and Asian Americans to get into Harvard and the slots were being filled up by people from other countries. Now, the problem is that if you get a degree from Harvard, and maybe this is changing quickly, but if you have a degree from Harvard, isn't that like an amazing thing for the rest of your life? Why were we giving 30% of them to people from foreign countries when there were people who were absolutely qualified? You know, the Asian Americans who were being turned down for Harvard, totally qualified, probably lots of white guys too. And they just couldn't get in because of their ethnicity. But they're letting the foreign workers 30% of their, of their students. Amazing, Amazing. So I'm with Trump. Send them all home. We should have never been in this situation. So I'm glad he's fixing that. And you wouldn't be surprised that just the news is reporting that a judge has haltered, has halted. A judge has halted Trump's order to get rid of the foreign students. And that's why Speaker Johnson is trying to stick into the big, beautiful bill, something to prevent these judges from doing exactly this. Exactly this. So I don't think this will stand. I would imagine that Supreme Court would say, you can't do that or possibly the big beautiful bill will pass. And then it would be legal for Trump to say, we're going to ignore you, U.S. district Court Judge. So we'll see how that goes. Newsmax is reporting that one of the big problems with student loans is that there are so many people who are behind on their student loans. It's causing their credit scores to plunge. And the credit scores are plunging so much that if you wanted to do something like rent an apartment, you couldn't do it. Now you're probably not able to buy a house, you know, even if you had the cash. Well, I mean, you wouldn't have the cash because you're close to being a student. So if you can't buy a house and you can't rent one, what's going to happen to you? Are you going to have to hope that your parents take you in?

Ryan Reynolds (19:14)

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Scott Adams (19:48)

Somebody'S calling it a grift that I, that I had cancer. So some of the worst people in the world woke up early to watch my show. How many of you think that my cancer is a grift and I just made it up. There are some terrible people in the world. Terrible people. Anyway, so I know somebody who once got on the list of squatters. Now it was a special case situation with her boyfriend and they were breaking up and he tried to get her out of the house, but she squatted. She, and she squatted very successfully for a very long time. But once you squatted, you can never rent a place again because literally nobody in the world is going to rent a place to you if you've ever even squatted once. So we've got this big problem of people who made genuine mistakes. You know, that was a genuine mistake. But there's no way to recover. I feel like there's something that needs to be adjusted or fixed or, you know, there needs to be a special place you can go or something. But there's going to be a ton of young people who could never find a place on their own. And they're never going to have kids, they're never going to get married just because their credit score is low. And in some cases, the story is that they didn't know that they'd missed a payment. You know, they didn't get the mail and stuff like that. But your life could be just absolutely savaged by your student loan. Well, according to that Original Sin book, that's that Jake Tapper book and Alex Thompson, when we're learning more every day. So apparently the people who are really running the country when Biden was in office was a group that called themselves the Politburg Bureau. Now, Politburo is sort of a reference to communism, where there's a group of people in charge. But here are the names of the people that, according to the book, were actually in charge. So if you want to know who is running the country, well, we've got some pretty. Pretty extensive reporting on that. And I've said this before, but the scariest part about this is that we've never heard of most of these people, at least half of them. So these are the people who are running the country when Biden was in office. Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti, Bruce Reed, Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, and sometimes Ron Klain, sometimes Annie Thomasino and sometimes Anthony Bernell. So that was the politburo. So it was exactly what you thought it was. You know how you thought to yourself, I feel like there's some group of people who have just taken charge of my government, and I don't even know their names or who they are. That's what was happening. That's exactly what was happening. There was a small group of people you never heard of half of them, and they were running the country. Now, the book also says that, you know, Biden himself was usually involved in decisions, but I feel like this group might have been a little bit more involved. The troll of the all capital letters. Let's get rid of that troll with the all capital letters. Well, Alan Dershowitz had a suggestion that makes me feel good because it was the same thing I would have said. So whenever I agree with Alan Dershowitz, I think, oh, look at me, look at me. I didn't even have to be a lawyer, and I got that one right. He points out that if you want to use that Alien enemies act to get Rid of the worst of the immigrants, the illegal ones, the gang members, et cetera. And that's been kind of blocked because they need due process. He says this, you just have to give him due process. But it's up to you to decide what the due process is, because it's not defined. Now, due process for a citizen is pretty well defined. It's in the Constitution. But the courts just say there has to be due process for the non citizens. So all you have to do is make up a process, and you just say, this is our official process, and now I'm giving it to you. And that process could be as simple as you have 72 hours to mount a defense. And that's it. That's it. You just make sure that they all have 72 hours and maybe the ability to place phone calls or whatever, and then you can ship them back. And I thought to myself, before Alan Dershowitz said it, I thought, why don't we just make up a process and just make the process friendlier to the country than it is to the people that we want to deport? And Dershowitz just says, that's all you got to do. Just make up a process. Because that's the due process if you say it is, because it's not defined. So we're on the same page there, Dursh. According to the post millennial, about 25% of corporate sponsors have scaled back whatever they were going to do for the Pride Parade. So I guess that's coming up in June. And according to the New York Times, people are pulling back. They're afraid of overdoing it and getting in trouble. So 25% scaled back. And I always thought to myself that then I saw some reference to the fact that the. The. The Gay Pride Parade people, you know, were. They had less money. And I thought to myself, how much money do you need for a Gay Pride parade? Couldn't you just wear your street clothes and walk down the street? Do you have to dress in a wildly provocative way? Like, why does that give you more pride? Couldn't you just walk down the street whistling? And everybody would say, all right, good job. The gay, Gay community has done an amazing job in becoming part of normal, the rest of civilization, exactly like they want to do and take the win. I always say this. The lgbt, not so much the T, but the lesbians and gays have done such a good job in improving their brand in the United States. And I always say stuff like, have you ever gone to a neighborhood and said to yourself, oh, it's a dangerous neighborhood. It's a gay neighborhood. Nope. It's one of the most successful subgroups in the entire United States. Take the win. You have your parade, but does it really have to spend a lot of money? I don't know. I think just enjoy the win. According to Bloomberg, the profits from solar power companies have plunged. And the reason is it's too sunny. Now, I don't know how this makes sense, but part of the story is that they had immense amount of captured sunlight, but they couldn't store it because they don't have enough batteries. So they captured amazing amounts of sun just like they wanted to, and then they had to let it all go. So they had very little battery storage. I'm thinking to myself, is this another thing that Elon Musk needs to fix? I think Elon Musk could fix this. He's got batteries. So Europe, France and Spain is mostly France and Spain, so they didn't build their solar plant too wisely. How many of you saw the video of President Macron of France being pushed in the face by his wife? So Macron and his wife are in Vietnam. It's part of a international trip they're making. And I don't know what's going on, but you see Macron standing still inside the airplane, but he's getting ready to go down the stairs. So the cameras are rolling and everything. And suddenly you see his wife's hand push him in the face. Like, her hand goes over his mouth and just sort of pushes his head. And then he realizes that it's on camera and everybody's watching and he's got to play it off like, oh, that didn't happen. I think at first he tried to say it was AI. Deep fake. Nobody bought that, of course. And then it turned into, oh, just my wife being playful. But allegedly, when they were walking down the steps a moment later, he held down his arm to. So that she could hold his arm when they went down the stairs, and she did not hold his arm. So it kind of looks like Mrs. McCrone is not too happy with her husband. So let me give you some advice. If you're ever married to the president of a country, don't assault him on camera in front of the world. It's just not a good look. And none of it was important. It looked like, you know, maybe they were just having some argument about something. You know, it wasn't going to hurt him. It was just sort of a dismissive push away. But we. But. But you have to see the video yourself. You can, you can decide for yourself.

Ryan Reynolds (31:33)

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Scott Adams (32:03)

Well, there's a story that several days ago, Putin was in a helicopter looking at some of the front line and the war, and he was visiting Kursk and allegedly there was a organized drone attack against this helicopter trying to assassinate him, basically. And it was Ukrainian drones. And then allegedly the Russian defenses defeated all the drones and none of them hit the helicopter. Now, I saw a story that said, maybe this isn't true, but it would make sense in this, in the. If you looked at what Russia is doing right now, which is they're doing massive attacks on Kiev. So it could be that because of the attempted assassination, Putin's just going really hard and Trump's kind of mad at him. Trump said, I've always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolute crazy. He's talking about the severity with which Putin is attacking Ukraine at the same time that Trump's trying to get him to talk peace. But that would make sense if Putin had survived an assassination attempt. So then you could kind of understand you might be going a little nuts. So Israel has announced, they waited for a holiday, to announce this holiday in the United States that according to the Wall Street Journal, that the Israeli military on Sunday said it plans to capture 75% of the Gaza Strip within two months and push Palestinian civilians into just a quarter of the strip's territory as part of their effort to get rid of Hamas. Now, here's the weird part, the part that they want to push the civilians into. So presumably that allows them to really get, get tough on Hamas and their tunnels and finish them off. America is apparently the aid source. So to feed the Gazans, who are being pushed into a quarter of the territory, apparently that's your taxes and mine. To which I say, what? Why is America paying to feed the Gazans? I mean, I'd rather that they don't starve, of course, but are you saying that Israel can't afford to do it? Is there some reason that Israel's war requires the United States to feed the people on the other side of the war. What's up with that? So that part doesn't make sense. Yeah. I don't know why we're doing that. But you might remember that I've long suggested what I called the filter fence, where you, you move the people into a safe zone that can be determined that they're not combatants, and then you go wild on the. Whatever's left. And it looks like they've, they're doing the filter fence strategy. Now, when I talk about Israel, if you're new to me, I'm not endorsing anything they do. So I'm not pro or anti. Anything to do. I just observe and report. So my view is whoever has power over there, they're going to be accused of genocide by the other side. Now, is that good or bad? It's not up to me. So it's not up to me to decide what is moral or ethical or good or bad. I believe that the children are going to be the victims. No matter who had the power and who was doing what to whom. There will be children dying, and nobody likes that. So you could be against children dying, but if you don't have some kind of larger solution with all your brilliance to make it stop, and I don't, I don't have any way to make it stop. You can just observe. So I observe that they're doing what makes sense for Israel, and that's as far as I'll go. But you can't really be in favor of it. You can just watch it and say, well, makes sense for them. All right, you know the story of South Africa and whether or not there's a white genocide going on over there, and some of the evidence of the white genocide appear to be fake, but there's plenty that doesn't appear to be fake. And Laura Logan, I was seeing the vigilant Fox report on this. She, she says, oh, there's definitely a white genocide in South Africa. I didn't realize that she came from South Africa, so she has a little more connection to it than the rest of us. But here's, here's my question. I do believe that there would be plenty of examples of white farmers, you know, being tortured and having stuff stolen from them. But if it's also true that everybody is being. That the crime in general is just so bad that the black citizens are getting just as much crime. In other words, everybody is a victim of crime. If you live there, it doesn't matter if you're white or black. It kind of, it does kind of blur that whole white genocide area. Like it. If all you have to do to get to be a victim of crime in South Africa is show up and you don't, it doesn't matter what color you are, if you've got money, somebody's going to want to take it from you. I don't know what to call that. I mean, I guess it's white genocide. I guess it is. But wouldn't there be a black genocide happening at the same time? Or doesn't account if the people who are doing it, the crime are also black. So you have a different word for it or something? Well, I would say, generally speaking, stay away from massive crime if you can. Here's a story in the Daily Mail. I think it was in India. The story was a little unclear on that, but I think it was India. They convicted somebody for poisoning her fiance by putting sensors on her head and essentially doing some version of a lie detector, but a more high tech one. So they placed a cap with electrodes on her head and they played specific phrases about the crime and then they said, we can tell by looking at our readout that you're guilty. Now, apparently it works 90% of the time, but that would not be nearly enough. I do think, however, we're reaching a point where the lie detector or the ability to read your brain basically is going to be so good that your entire trial might be just putting on a cap and turning it on and asking you some questions. Now we're not there. 90% is not nearly good enough. You know, you need something like 100%. I think we might get to 100%. I think the technology for telling if you're lying could get to 100%. I think it might. Meanwhile, there's some kind of super bug, according to Neoscope, that it's a nasty bacteria that eats hospital plastic. So, you know, a lot of medical stuff and hospital stuff is made of plastic. Well, this, this bacteria that starts with people and then I guess it could get into the environment, will also eat the plastic and it digests medical plastic. It makes me wonder if there's. Yeah, it's also deadly, so you don't want it in your body, but. But it makes me wonder if they can modify that thing so it eats the plastic that's in my body, the microplastics that's apparently in my balls. I don't know, maybe I feel like the whole. Too much plastic and microplastics. There's going to be some kind of technological fix where they take one of these nasty bacteria and do a little crisper stuff on it and tweak it a little bit so it's not dangerous for people. But it still likes to eat plastic. And then you, you take a pill every morning with some of those bacteria in there. It's like it just eats all the plastic in your body and then it dies because it doesn't have any more food. All right. That's all I got today because it's Memorial Day and there's not much happening but glad I could spend this time with you. I'm going to say some private stuff to the people on locals. It'll mutate the people. Oh well, use the nanobots in the COVID shot to destroy the microplastics. All right. All right, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for joining. We'll show our respect on Memorial Day and I'm going to talk to the local subscribers privately. The rest of you, I will see you on Monday. Thanks for joining. All right, we got about 30.