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Switch upfront payment of $45 for 3 month plan equivalent to $15 per month required intro rate first 3 months only, then full price plan options available, taxes and fees extra. See full terms@mintmobile.com Speaking of other losers, Mayor Karen Bass of LA, she posted on X that homes are under construction throughout the Palisades ahead of Expectations. And then there was a little video from above of a house being built. And I said to myself, huh, this is kind of strange. If your claim was that house, houses, plural, are being built, don't you think that your evidence would be more than one house? Doesn't that strike you as odd? If you were trying to say, yeah, a lot of houses are being built, wouldn't you show more than one? And then I look at the comments. Apparently it's one house. Exactly, one house. Now, I don't know if it's one house, but she's definitely full of sh. There are some things happening and there are some action and there are some things moving in the right direction, but if you were to drive there, it might not look like anything's happening. Anyway, she says they've taken action to cut the red tape and expedite the permits, but she's going to get destroyed in the comments to that. All right, good luck there. Mayor Karen Bass, did you know that according to the Daily Wire, the Treasury officials in the US Are doing a good job of choking off the cash flow to the cartels? So they're figuring out what money flowing through the US Is cartel money, and they're shutting it down and sanctioning it and making sure that individuals are not getting it. And I said to myself, wait a minute, are you telling me that we always had the ability to know what was the cartel's cash, and it took until Trump's second administration to start shutting it down? Wait, what? Is that a little bit fishy? It does seem to me like Trump is the first person who's taken anything serious about Mexico or the border. Just hold that in your head that the treasury had the ability to identify the cartel's money flow and we were not messing with it. How in the world is that even possible that we weren't doing anything about it until now? The only thing I can imagine is that we were complicit. And something about the Trump administration has decided not to be complicit. I don't know. There's something to be learned by that story, but whatever it is, it's not good. But it's probably good now anyway. There's a story in the New York Times that is just full of anonymous sources. Oh, man, they got some anonymous sources. And as a Greta. Greta Van Sustern was mocking them for their anonymous sources. But the story is that Trump is backing away from sanctions on Russia because he wants to do business deals with them, meaning America wants to do business deals with them now. Do you think that's true? And all they have are anonymous sources? What have I taught you about anonymous sources? Anonymous sources have basically no news value because they're usually made up. So it doesn't matter if it's the New York Times if it's full of anonymous sources. I don't know about that. But it does seem that Germany, France, this is another related news of news. So that I saw this on Mario Novel's posts. The source is cgtn, whatever that is, but it says that Germany, France and the UK and the US have given Ukraine the green light to fire missiles with no range cap. In other words, go ahead Ukraine and just start lighting up Russia itself. That means that Ukraine will be striking targets deep inside Russia. Do you think that's first of all true? I don't know if it's true because it's not coming from a news source I've ever heard of, but probably it's true. I mean, it feels, maybe it's a little too on the nose, but it feels like the only thing that Europe could come up with is, all right, if Moscow and Russia are cranking it up and they're not talking about peace, let's just start sending missiles into the heart of Russia. What could go wrong? Well, a lot could go wrong, but it kind of makes sense that they might loosen up the, the distance cap. So I guess we'll have to watch and see if Russia gets lit up with these new missiles and if it makes any difference at all or does it make Russia just twice as aggressive? So we're going to find out. Now, what do you think is true? Do you think that there are two stories about Putin right now? One is that he felt under attack by NATO and that really he's acting in a semi defensive way by making sure that NATO doesn't surround him and that Ukraine had always been the red line and we crossed the red line. So you got to expect it. The other version of Putin is that he plans to dominate all of Europe and this is just one more step in doing that. Now, they can't both be true, right? It can't be true that he's, he's defensively attacking Ukraine, but he's also looking to roll over and control all of Europe. Or CGTN is China's state tv. Somebody says, is that true? Well, that would make a difference, wouldn't it? Yeah. So I guess, I guess the best take about the, anything about Ukraine is that we can't tell what's true. So that, I guess that's where I'll settle on this. We just don't know what's true. But we'll see if any missiles are going into the heart of Russia. Well, Jake Tapper was on Piers Morgan and he's still talking about his new book that talks about Joe Biden's mental decline. And apparently Jake Tapper has admitted that the Democrat cover up of Biden's cognitive decline might be. It might be worse than Watergate. I guess in his book he said it wasn't worse than Watergate, but now he's willing to admit, yeah, it might be. Might be worse than Watergate. What do you think? Is the COVID up of Biden worse than Watergate? Yes, yes, by a mile. It's not even close. And not only that, but the Democrats have done lots of things that are worse than Watergate. It's not like the first thing that's worse than Watergate. When I think of Watergate, it just seems so tame. Imagine if the worst thing that was happening in the United States was Watergate. If that were the worst thing happening, I'd be pretty darn happy. Stocks would be up. Everything would be good.

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Here's something I want to add to the whole Biden brain cover up. Now, most of you are probably into the opinion that everybody in the news business were completely aware that Biden's brain wasn't working, but they were just pretending they didn't know. I'm going to modify that a little bit. I don't think that's totally true. And here's why. Have you ever seen the psychology experiments where they'll have a bunch of a small group of people and they'll be asked to look at something and say, let's say what line is longer than another line or just some basic factual thing? And only one person will be an actual subject of the experiment and all the rest will be participants who know that they're participants and they're lying. And what happens is you can Somewhat easily make the person who is the real subject believe whatever the other people all believe is true. So it's so easy to change a person's perception until they don't see something or they do see something that just isn't there. Now, this is a very repeatable experiment in psychology, and you've probably seen it a million times in the real world. So here's my take, for sure. No doubt about it, there were people in the news business. Sorry, I gotta make an adjustment there. For sure. There were people in the news business who were aware that Biden's brain wasn't working and that it was a big problem. There's no doubt about it. I don't know if Jake Tapper was one, but maybe, you know, maybe. But if you have enough people who are pretending that he's perfectly fine, and there certainly were enough people pretending that, then you can guarantee that some. Some number of people were just sort of hypnotized into believing it was true, because when they looked at the other people, they weren't seeing anything. That's a problem. So my guess is that it's. That it was always a combination. It was a combination of people who knew they were lying and just were trying to prevent the Hitler from coming into office. You know, in their view, some people who just preferred the Democrats to win, that would be the Democrats. And some people who had the ability to know, but that ability was shut off by the fact they were put in an environment where it seemed like nobody else noticed, in theory, they would be cognitively blinded to the obvious. So I think you have to be a little bit careful about assuming that every single person was aware and knew it because you could see it. Because if you were not in that environment, then you would not have been influenced by it. You could just see it clearly. Right. If your experience was turning on my podcast every morning and listening to me, say, since maybe 2017 or something like that, saying, no, Biden's brain is completely broken. He's obviously incompetent. If you were listening to me say it every day, you would be completely immune from the cognitive blindness because you would have at least one person, and probably lots more who are telling you the truth. So you wouldn't have that problem. But when you look at the Democrats, they would definitely have that problem of being cognitively blinded by their own team who were lying, basically. Well, were there other examples where they were cognitively blinded? Yes. What about the fine people hoax? Do you think every single person on the, you know, the mainstream media do you think every one of them thought that the Fine people hoax was real? No, no, there, there were undoubtedly smart, influential people who knew somewhat early on that that wasn't true, but they had an interest in acting like it was true. Now again, take an innocent Democrat and put him in that situation where all these important people are pretending they're lying, but they're pretending that the Fine People hoax was true. Same problem, they would come to believe it was true because all these important influential people said it was true. Same with Elon Musk's Nazi salute, which was of course not a Nazi salute. Do you think it was even possible that people with normal brains thought that was a Nazi salute? Well, if you have enough people who are the credible people, the ones you trust, and they all seem to say it was, which was the case now, they were all liars. Probably the people who, you know, the prominent ones, probably just a bunch of liars who didn't want Trump and Elon to have power. But I'll betcha, I'll betcha some large percentage of Democrats who would have been perfectly capable of knowing that certainly wasn't a Nazi salute. I mean, you would have an IQ of 80 and you knew that wasn't really a Nazi salute, but you would have been cognitively blinded by your own side because they kept saying it was. So if everybody you talk to says it was, well, suddenly you start thinking, maybe I'm wrong, maybe it was. So it wouldn't even be unusual that people were cognitively blinded about Biden's brain. It would be the normal operating system of just how everything works. As long as, as long as the people in charge were lying in the same way, then the people who weren't powerful and were just sort of on the same team would believe it was true and they would believe it easily, even though it was obviously not true. Well, here's one of my favorite stories. Speaking of Jake Tapper, he was on the Scott Galloway's podcast and he was talking about his son, I guess he's got a 15 year old son and he was talking about it in the context of the Democrat Party and the Democrat messaging. So he talks about his son was a football player and he wanted to grow up and be a cop. So he's 15 and that's his goal. And apparently because he wanted to be a cop, the people around him, his friends, have decided he must be a racist. And what, he wants to be a cop because he, he thinks that's the best way to help people. And therefore his friends think he's a racist because he wants to be a cop. And so Jake Tapper is saying, quote, you're deciding he's a racist because he wants to be a cop. And why does he want to be a cop? He wants to be a cop because he wants to help people, you know, and he thinks that's the best way he can help people. And that's how the Democratic Party talks to men. Not just white men, but men. And then Jake goes on, he says the idea that he wants to be a policeman and therefore he's racist. My son. And like, you know, that was the big laugh. And then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff, and I thought to myself, this is why you fuckers are losing elections. So does Jake Tapper understand what's wrong with the Democrat Party? Yep. Now, I can't name names, but I'm going to tell you that there's at least one other person who is a big name in the media business who had the same enlightened response, meaning that it's one thing to support the Democrats until you have a son, and then it becomes impossible if you have a white son. So he is the second person I know of who had a white son. And he realized, holy fuck, the Democrats are against my own son. So I think that Jake is actually kind of brave to say this out loud. And it's important. So, you know, whatever you think of his other opinions and what he should have known and what he should have said sooner, and those are all fair criticisms, does he now understand. Does he understand what the problem is? Yes. Yes, he does, very clearly. Because when it comes home like that, you're not talking about the news. You're talking about your son and the trouble he's going to have in society. That's some reality coming home. So there's that. But let's see. Are the Democrats planning to do anything about this problem? Well, turns out, yes. Yeah. The Democrats have a plan. According to the New York Times, this is going to sound like I'm making it up, so I'm going to tell you in advance I'm not making this next part up. This is actually real. According to the New York Times, the Democrats are going to spend $20 million on a project they call, quote, Speaking with American Men, a strategic plan. They will, quote, study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and vitality in these spaces. Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone. Are you getting close? No. No. Could the Democratic Party spend about one minute talking to fucking Jake Tapper to Find out what the problem is. Hey, Jake, could you please. Could you please explain to these fucking idiots what the problem is? And if you're not going to, I refer you to Fisher King, which is a account on X you should be following, by the way. Fisher King, F I S C H E R King. And he commented on this. He says if Democrats want to win over young men, particularly white men, they need to stop actively hating them. Okay, okay, now we're getting closer. Was it a problem with the syntax and their spaces, or is it that they're actively fucking hating them? Which one do you think is the problem here? Because they need to stop actively hating them. Demeaning them. Yes. And putting up roadblocks such as affirmative action, dei sensitivity training in the path of their success. It's not about. Quote the tone. And then Fisher King follows up by saying. He says, of course this will not happen anytime soon because the coalition they've assembled won't have it. They're like the bar scene in Star Wars. Now compare that level, that level of analysis, which of course is perfect to. We're going to spend $20 million to study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and vitality in these spaces. Well, why don't you give the $20 million to Fisher King? Because he just solved your whole problem, but you're going to ignore it because you're the bar scene from Star Wars. All right, now, is the problem. That is the problem that politicians are uniquely unable to understand the public. Is that the problem, do you think? It's just that politicians are not good at understanding things. Well, here's a story from today about Trump. So I'm just going to read one thing that Trump is saying and you tell me, who understands the public? Trump does a truth, and he says that he's considering pulling $3 billion from Harvard and giving it to trade schools across the country. Any questions? Trump wants to pull $3 billion of taxpayer money from Harvard, which is a cesspool of discrimination, and put it in trade schools, which would be really good for men. Other. Other people, too. Now, is there anything to. Is there anything you don't understand about that? No, you understand that perfectly. Is it right on point with what that entire demographic is looking for and wants? Yes. Yes, it is. It's right on point. Does it treat them like children? No. Does it treat them like people who want to contribute and make a difference and be successful in life? Yes. It gets everything right. It's not a problem with politicians. It's a problem with politicians who can't do this. All right, I think I made my point. I've been following on X, Matt Van Swall, who's doing a great job of talking about the Doge situation here. He summarizes it this way. Doge is literally one of the most popular government initiatives in history. 73% of Americans say they support cutting government waste. Trump brought in the smartest man on earth to do it, and then the left destroyed Elon for it, and the GOP won't vote on it. I can't believe this. And then Elon responded to the post. Three words, did my best. Wow. There's almost nothing I can say about that. You know, you probably heard me early on in the Doge process, and I was saying, you know, I love everything Doge is trying to do, but when it gets to Congress, they're just going to spend his savings. But it's even worse than that. They're never going to even codify the savings. Not the Democrats, not the Republicans. They're not even going to vote on it. So all that work, all that sacrifice that Elon Musk did to get that right, Congress is going to shit on it. And I'm almost losing my mind that we can just watch this happen. Now, it's not everybody, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to get it codified, et cetera. But the fact that all that effort, it looks like some portion of it anyway, is going to be thwarted by your own Congress is such a tragedy, it's almost. It's almost impossible to understand. It's like we're running as fast as we can toward a cliff and we even have the smartest people in the world trying to prevent it? And even that doesn't help. What is going on here? What is going on? Well, in other news. Do you ever have one of these situations where there's something that you just assumed was always true, and then suddenly one day you realize or you hear something, you go, wait a minute, that couldn't have been true. So here's an example of that for me. So for years and years and years, I've been hearing that one of the reasons that Harvard and some of the other Ivy Leagues have a lot of foreign students is what? Do you know the answer? Why is it that Harvard and a lot of other Ivy Leagues have a high percentage of foreign students? You know the answer, too, right? Everybody knows the answer. The answer is that the foreign students were paying full price, full tuition, and so they'd make more money over the foreign students. Right? Just obvious now, you know As I. I tell you too often, I've got a. I have a degree in economics and I've got an MBA from a top school. And I would hear that and I'd say to myself, oh, okay, well, that explains everything. And then one day, which was just recently, I just realized what an idiot I am. So here's the assumption you have to make for this to be true. Are you ready for this? If you also believe that was true, here's the assumption that you and I both made. We made the assumption that if these foreign students didn't come in and pay full tuition, that the seats would be empty. That the seats would be empty because. Because they wouldn't be able to find a bunch of Asian American people who desperately wanted to go to Harvard but got turned away because they were Asian American. Or that all the white students who knew exactly what Harvard cost and they were applying but they got turned away because they were white, that they wouldn't fill those spaces. Obviously, they might have needed some financial support, et cetera, but it couldn't have possibly been true. It couldn't possibly have been true that Harvard would lose money if they said, well, the rest of these seats have to be full tuition. And they couldn't find enough Americans who had a 4.5 average and participated in every possible thing that you need that wouldn't be willing to pay whatever it took to get a Harvard degree. I've been laughing at myself for a few days. What an idiot. What a freaking idiot I was. Why did I ever imagine that was true? Now the actual truth, I think, is a little deeper. I don't know what it is, actually. But some people said that the foreign students parents were maybe making large donations. I don't know how, you know, how universal that was. Other people said, no, no, it's the real game here is to educate foreign people who have become leaders in their own country. So really, it's how the US Government controls other countries in the long term by educating them in Harvard. To which I say, really, sending them to the heart of communism. The heart of communism and then sending them home with a Harvard degree going to help America. Somehow that doesn't really track. Then other people were saying, Scott, the foreign students were also getting discounted tuition, to which I say, what? What? Now I'm really confused. So I don't know exactly what's true. I just know that I was a freaking idiot, an idiot for imagining that those Harvard seats were going to sit there empty because we didn't fill them with foreign students paying Full tuition. Is anybody having the same reaction that I had when I first thought of it? Is anybody saying, oh, I just sort of assumed that was true? I didn't really think about it that much. No, it couldn't have been true. It never could have been true. I don't know what is true, but it's definitely not that. Anyway.

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Is there any other news about Harvard that makes Harvard look stupid? Oh, yeah. Again, I have to tell you before I tell you this story. I'm not making it up. This is an actual story in the news. According to the Daily Mail, Harvard just fired a professor after finding that she fabricated research used in studies on dishonesty. Francesca Gino, she was considered a star business professor at Harvard and she'd been doing, I guess she'd been doing studies, you know, more than one study. I guess there were at least four studies she did about honesty and she had allegedly falsified. She lied. She lied on her studies about lying. Oh, my God. And she was like a star professor. Oh, my God. I swear I didn't make that up. Well, Dan Bongino is giving us a little update on X, but what's going on there? He said that he made the decision to either reopen or push additional resources into investigating three specific cases. He mentioned, number one, the D.C. pipe bombing investigation. You know how it seemed like nothing was happening with that D.C. you know, that was the January six who put the pipe bomb there? Because that all looked really suspicious. So that's good. I'm glad that he's putting some resources behind that. The next one is the cocaine discovery at the White House. Really, Dan? How many of you give a shit about the cocaine discovery at the White House? How many years ago? Does anybody care about that? Is that where you want your, your tax money to be spent? Do you want the FBI to go look into the who left the bag of cocaine? I have so little interest in that now. I assume that's purely political and I don't mind that political stuff gets done, but why are you wasting our money on a bag of cocaine? Even in the White House. So, Dan, why in the world are you spending time and money on that? Like, what could come of it? Like, what's the upside? Is the upside that we get one person in trouble for some drugs? What is the upside? Now, I understand the upside of looking into that DC Pipe bombing, and that's a pretty big upside because we could find out something that really matters, and I think the country cares. But really, the bag of cocaine just because it was a big headline story? How about no. How about you just don't waste my money on that? It's bad enough that the. The Congress is not going to vote on Doge, but you're going to. You're going to consciously waste my money on that one bag of cocaine somebody left? God, I could not be less interested in that. And the other one is the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case. Well, I think they do need to understand where the leaks come from, but I don't know if they can find it. Anyway, I saw a comment on x from retired Colonel Doug McGregor. Now, it means more because he's a retired combat professional, and he said this about. About peace in Ukraine. He said, in all honesty, I do not believe there's a chance for a deal with Russia and Ukraine at this point. He says, if you're Zelensky, the worst thing that could happen to you is for troops to come home. You know where this is going. He says they are likely to find him and kill him if he ends the war. He's the target. The lives lost on the battlefield exceed one million, and the wounded are one to one and a half to two times that number. Now, does that opinion sound familiar? That's my opinion. My opinion is if Zelensky entered the war, he would personally be killed so that we don't have any option for peace as long as he's in power. So. And it makes a difference when I hear from Colonel MacGregor, because, you know, he's got a deeper understanding of how the troops would feel in a case like that. But I agree, absolutely. I have a correction to make. I don't know the exact details, but I think my part of it was wrong. I told you about Gaza and I told you that the US Contractors were going to handle the. The. The aid and the food for the Gaza residents were being relocated into one quarter of Gaza so that the rest of it could be cleared of Hamas, I guess. And I mistakenly said that the US Was paying for that foreign aid. I think it's only true that US Contractors are Managing the aid but probably being paid to do it. That makes them contractors. But it doesn't look like America necessarily was paying for the aid. I don't know who is. Well, I saw Zubi on the X platform talking about some statistics about single moms, and he noted that the USA has the highest rate of children living in single mother households. We're about triple the global average. So 23% of USA households have a single mom. And Zubi asks, why do you think that is? Does anybody have an idea why do you think that the US has the highest rate of children living in single mother households? And the answer is, because it's an option. That's it. That's the whole reason. If it's an option, people will take it. And the better the option is, the more likely they'll take it. Now, in my own example, I have twice married single moms who had step kids. Now, do you think that that happens as easily in other countries? Do you think that in every country in the world a single mom with two kids can easily get married or remarried? Probably not. Probably. There are huge cultural disadvantages. Do you think that it would be easy for a mom to get divorced in every other country? Probably not. Do you think that the woman has maybe a job that pays before she gets divorced? Well, not in every country, but in the US a little bit more likely. So there's a whole different story in the black community in the US where the rate is even higher, it's like 50%. And I'm not going to pretend I know what the dynamics are there, but maybe has something to do with government support. Maybe there's just a little bit more government support going on. But generally speaking, things happen because there's incentives or because there are options or because it's possible. That's it. If we were in a country where getting divorced was sort of the end of your life, it just wouldn't happen as much. But we live in a country where people make it work. I mean, it's not easy, but they make it work. They have possibilities, they have options. So if their husband is drinking or not getting it done one way or the other, they have options. So I don't think it goes. I think there's no mystery to it whatsoever. In science news, surgeons are apparently getting some kind of special glasses that can look at medications and it will tell them if it's a big mistake to give this medication to the specific patient. So we're talking about literally picking the wrong stuff or something that maybe doesn't work. With some other stuff and it doesn't store the data, so it's not doing anything privacy wise. But basically, if they pick up the medication, the glasses will look at it and it will tell them, oh, don't use that stuff. So they're still waiting on FDA approval, but the technology has been tested and it works. NBC News is reporting on that. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that are the stories that, that are. Yeah, those are the stories for today that are worthy of your time. Thanks for joining. And did you, did you all see the video of French President Macron's wife pushing him in the face on the before he exited the airplane in Vietnam? I'm still waiting to figure out what that was all about. But on the other hand, it's sort of none of our business because whatever that was, it was personal. You know, it wasn't a state, state issue, but it was funny. I guess that's my only comment about it. It was kind of funny. We don't know anything else about it. All right. That's all I got for now. I'm going to talk to the people on locals privately. The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow. 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