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Scott Adams
Oh, there you are. Hi. I was just checking on your stocks. It looks like they're up a little bit this morning, so good for you. If you own any stocks, we will open up your comments so I can see everything you say. Something very loud is happening in my house, courtesy of my two cats who will probably make a visit. I'd be surprised if you don't see one or two of my cats. All right, let's get this working. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. And you've never had a better time. And if you'd like to see if you could elevate your experience up to levels that no one can even understand with their tiny, tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup of mugger glass, a tankard shell or stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. Doping beans at the day. The thing that makes everything better is called a simultaneous sip. And it happens, right? Yeah, exactly. Happens now. Oh, all right. That was your unparalleled pleasure. Exactly. Well, I wonder if there are any studies that could have been skipped. Oh, here's one. A new meta analysis. A study of studies found that aerobic and resistance training significantly reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety. Huh. I wonder if there's any way they could have skipped the meta analysis and found out the same answer. Yes, there is. They should have just asked me. Ask Scott. But they believe they found out that aerobic exercise is a little bit better for depression, while resistance training is a little bit better for anxiety. But guess what? They're both good for you in a variety of ways for your mind and your body. Surprise. Just like every other time. And in what I call summer news. Because in the summer, there's just less real news. So it gets filled in with weird stuff. A fourth dildo has been tossed onto a WNBA basketball court during a game. Now, apparently the betting line is on what color the next one will be. It's not even whether or not there is one. It's what color it will be. So the first three were green. Why? I don't know why not? But the new one was purple. So the reason you watch me is for the hard hitting important news. And now you know the quantity and the color of the dildos that have been thrown on basketball courts. Now you know. But did you know CBS News tells us that Americans get 55% of their calories from ultra processed foods. According to the cdc. Would you know the difference between a processed food and an ultra processed food? Do you know what the difference is? I'll wait for your answers. What is the difference between a processed food and an ultra processed food? Well, I don't know exactly, but I would imagine an ultra processed food would wear some kind of a cape, you know, some kind of a superhero outfit sort of thing. I am no longer ordinary processed foods. I was bitten by a spider and now it was a radioactive spider. And now I am ultra processed foods. Sounds awesome. Avoid those ultras, whatever they are. Well, Newsmax tells us that Obamacare premiums might spike 18%. Holy hell. How in the world can this one area of healthcare just always go up by a lot every year? It never goes down. Are you telling me that with all of these medical breakthroughs that not a single one of them has lowered anybody's costs? Instead, the entire medical community has turned into a scam. The scam goes like this. We could cure this thing, but it would make a lot more sense if we didn't. Or we could sell this, the supplies to you cheaply. Or we could sell you the machine cheaply and make the supplies really, really expensive. Forever. So my brief experience in the healthcare medical device area I have a little bit is that it's pretty much people who don't want you to get better and they definitely don't want you to stop using their medical devices. Well, but what about your veterinarian? Sure, human medicine is probably one big scam, but what about veterinarians? Well, it turns out that private equity firms are buying up all the veterinarian practices. Did you know that? So they currently own up to half of all veterinary clinics and 75% of emergency hospitals. And guess what they do when they buy a local veterinary practice? They substantially increase the prices. And that's why your veterinarian bill. Veterinary bill. Is through the roof. There's a reason. Because those big entities are buying them and jacking up the price. Well, what is the update on those Texas Democrats who, rather than stay in town and do their job, decided that they would stage a theatrical skit because it's what they do. Democrats, we have another crisis. The oligarch is trying to be an authoritarian. So what do you do? Run around in circles with our hair on fire. Well, that's the start. And then what do you do? Do we learn to swear? More like Orange man. Yes, exactly. Oh, damn it. Oh, damn. S word. F word. Well, and then most importantly, you must stage some kind of a theatrical event, a play. It could be a one man show like Cory Booker, but it needs to be, you know, put on a show. So the Texas Democrats, they put on a show with the help of their financial backers, they ran away to Illinois and other places. And then the governor of Texas, not one to back down from a fight, decided that he would send the FBI after them and there might be some arrests. I don't know exactly what law they're breaking, but I'm sure somebody will find a law. So, yeah, so Robert Reich, Robert Reich is pointing out that this is what fascism looks like. So what fascism looks like is your Democrat leaders leave town so they don't have to do their job. And then the governor of that state says, can the FBI round these people up so they can do their job? That's what fascism looks like. No, it's exactly like that. Stop doubting me. That's exactly what fascism looks like. You know what else it looks like? Looks like an oligarch who's authoritarian. Authoritarian. Yeah, that's it. That's what it looks like. So beware of all that. So Project Veritas has a scoop with a whistleblower that says that ex U.S. attorney General Bill Barr was a part of some kind of secret plan to prosecute Trump and get him out of office. But I would wait to see if we have other sources for that. I saw some people say that they weren't quite sure that the case had been made, but they do have some kind of evidence for that. So I'd wait. Bill Barr may have something to say about that, too.
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Scott Adams
Well, yesterday, the House Oversight Committee, they talked to Anita Dunn, who was one of Biden's close advisors, and they said it needed done. Can you tell us you know about Biden's brain? And was anybody, was anybody aware of it and keeping that secret from the rest of us? And so it was a case of Anita done, and the President was now done, and he's got a daughter. So sort of a done and doner situation. But Anita was kind of smart. Instead of taking the fifth, she did Biden a favor and said that he interacted as much as he needed to and basically it was fine. He didn't notice the problem. So I don't know that that's true, but there's no way to disprove it. There's a cat in my background that means you're probably going to watch the cat instead of me. But that's okay because the news is boring today and the cat always exciting. So what Anita said about Biden was, while I observed that President Biden aged physically during his time in office, which is something that happens to every president, he remains, throughout my interactions with him, fully engaged. Now, isn't that an interesting choice of words? Engaged? He was fully engaged. Huh? Is fully engaged the same thing as being completely mentally competent? Because I've seen videos of crazy people with machetes trying to kill people on the street. And one thing I would say about all of those people, they look fully engaged. So looks like I got a visitor here. So this is Gary the cat who's doing a walk through. Unlike President Biden during his last debate, according to Jack Jake Tapper, Biden refused to do a walkthrough of the debate stage before the event, which is a big, that's a big mistake for a public speaker. So Denmark is urging Israel to reverse their Gaza decision. I guess the Gaza decision is where Israel, I don't know if it's a done deal. They might need some more approvals, but they plan to occupy and basically just own Gaza and never give it back. And. But they would like, Israel says they would like eventually for some Arab country to take control of that area, but still Israel would do the security. Which raises an interesting question. If your country is doing all this security for a place, can you really say that someone else is running it? Because it feels like whoever has the guns is going to get anything they want out of that population. So we'll see how that works out. But the one thing I'm still waiting for is, and this will sound like I'm, you know, supporting Israel and all their plans, but I'm not. I am commenting on it. And you can, you can hear my comment and say, oh, that's reasonable, or that's not, but it's just a comment. Same thing you could see, have you noticed that people don't offer an alternative to whatever Israel is planning to do in Gaza? Now I think everybody has the same feeling, which is too many people are getting killed and it wouldn't be good if everybody got fed and, you know, wouldn't it be good if everybody could live in harmony next to each other? So we all agree on the obvious basic stuff, but what is the alternative to Gaza completely being dominated forever by Israel? Is there really some plan where they'll all just change their minds and decide that everything's fine? I'm pretending that there's not a cat putting his face in my face right now. No, it's not even happening. I don't even see it. All right, moving on. Pretend that another cat didn't fall off. Something in my house getting noisy in here. Well, apparently Germany is not happy with Israel either. And, and I didn't know this, but Germany is the source of 30 to 47% of Israel's imported heavy weaponry, and they're threatening to shut down that pipeline of weaponry if Israel doesn't do better. I don't know, taking care of the Gaza residents or do something, I don't think that's going to make any difference whatsoever. So if you're looking for a prediction on Gaza, Israel is going to do what they said they would from the start, total victory, change the reality on the ground forever. And they will certainly have control over that territory for. For the foreseeable future, if not forever. So apparently Trump is not happy that the TikTok deal is not getting approved by China. And, and China quite wisely is holding back on that because they don't have a trade deal yet. So it's just part of their leverage. But Trump's leverage has to be acting like he doesn't care if TikTok goes out of business or not. Now, he does care. He does care, but he has to act like he doesn't. So the latest Charles Gasparino is writing about this in the New York Post, is that he's letting his lips that he doesn't give a crap if TikTok goes dark for a while, because I guess he thinks it wouldn't be permanent even if it did. But he's downplaying that, and maybe that'll help get a trade deal. We'll see. Well, have I ever mentioned that all of our economic data is not to be trusted? Here's a bunch of economic data. So economist Steve Moore, who you probably know from a lot of TV hits, he's a big Trump supporter, and he was giving Trump a demonstration in the Oval Office that we got to watch that he said that every income bracket saw a boost under Trump, but under Biden, income inequality got worse. Do you believe that? Do you believe that every income bracket got some kind of a boost under Trump? Well, maybe, but it doesn't really help you if that boost comes at the price of your national debt. That's just borrowing your own money. So I don't know. I don't believe any economic numbers. I don't believe that. I just don't believe we have access to accurate numbers. And then same economist Steve Moore says that Biden inflated his job numbers by 1.5 million. Now how do we know that Biden was off by 1.5 million? Do you believe that there are that there is such a thing as accurate job numbers and that Biden just decided not to use them or he was lying about it and that now we have the accurate ones and nobody's lying? I think it would be more accurate to assume that we just don't have accurate job numbers so that anybody can can game those numbers by at least 1.5 million and get away with it. Really. Guys, settle down. All right? So don't believe any of the job numbers. Don't believe any of the economic numbers. They could be anything you want. Every administration is going to tell you that the one before had the wrong numbers, but thank goodness they have the right numbers now. As soon as you start believing that, you're lost. So James Carville is advising the Democrats that they've got to save democracy in 2028 or if they ever get back in power, that they should immediately add two new D.C. and Puerto Rico so they could get extra Democrats in the Senate and Congress in general and they should stack the Supreme Court and that that would be how they would save democracy. Now when I hear Democrats say, hey, if you Republicans keep doing what you're doing, then we're going to be less restrained in what we're willing to change. To which I say I feel like it's been a while that Democrats have pulled out every stop completely. So to imagine that there was ever restraint, there might be restraint on specific things because they were afraid of what would happen, but not real restraint. They did everything they thought they could get away with, including maybe trying to assassinate the President. We don't know about that, but certainly they tried to lawfare him into jail for the rest of his life. So it seems to me that if you tried to jail the president, the ex President, and you know, if they could, they would have jailed the mass President. If you're willing to do that with just totally made up, you know, BS Lawfare, then it's not really a big stretch to pack the Supreme Court. So I do believe them when they say they might do it.
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Scott Adams
Meanwhile, one of the one of the leading lights of the Democrat world, Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, is saying, according to CBS News, that their finances are a complete disaster now and they've reached a point of no return. So what would a progressive mayor do? If he were running a city and he ran out of money because he was doing such a bad job of managing the city, what would he do? Well, he says the state needs new, quote, progressive revenue options. What do you think that means? What would be a progressive revenue option? Take money from rich people? Yes, but not the rich. He wants to go after the ultra rich. The ultra rich. Do you notice the difference between the rich and the ultra rich? Yeah, capes. Yeah. The ultra rich, they actually wear capes. That's how you can tell. You know, you look at the Elon, he looks like he's ultra rich, but he's not. He doesn't wear a cape. Or does he? I bet he's worn a cape at least once. I'll bet at least once in his life he wore a cape. Most of us have. So Mayor Brandon will look for how to take money from the 127,000 millionaires who live there and the 25 billionaires. Imagine if you were one of the 25 billionaires who lived in Chicago. Do you think you might maybe be mobile? There's nobody more mobile than a billionaire. I would be out of there so fast. That's what I do. They want maybe tax, social media, advertising and corporate head tax and, oh, they got some taxing ideas there. Apparently, Energy Secretary Chris Wright is indicating that the government is looking at all the climate reports that the government backs, the ones they endorse, and they've temporarily taken them off their website and they're looking at them to see which ones they think are honest and useful. We're reviewing them now. What do you think will happen? What I think will happen is that when a government that was in charge and really wanted to, you know, move a lot of money around for climate change, they found studies that really said it was an emergency and existential threat because that worked into their, you know, their entire philosophy. And then when we have Our current government that doesn't really think that climate change is a risk and that it's mostly a hoax. Do you imagine that they're going to look at the science and decide that they found new and better science that suggests it's not that much of a problem? And might they find that the old science that the Democrats were using had flaws in the data or the methodology and could not be believed? So now that, in your mind, you have agreed with me, and I can feel your agreeance from a distance. All right, we're on the same page. If we agree that the science of climate change is going to conform to what was in the best interest of the political party who happened to have been elected, what does that tell you about science? Is there any lesson here? Have we learned anything about science by watching the fact that the scientific consensus will completely change based on who got elected, who is not a scientist at all? Very much like nuclear power. Yeah. So suddenly it feels like the science will change whenever the people in charge decide that it changes. I don't know. So I don't know what data will be real and what will be fake, but I believe, in general, that all of our economic data for the country is questionable. And all of our temperature and climate change data and models are also highly questionable. So what would be more important than our economic data and our climate data? Not much. And that data is probably just at least 50%. No matter. No matter. Even if some of it's true. Well, but at least. At least our crime data is reliable, right? You know, if. If a place says, oh, our crime level is going down, well, you could trust that, right? Because just because all of our economic data looks like it's warped and all of our climate data looks undependable, that doesn't mean that our crime data is going to be. Wait, what? Oh, yes. There's a story Today that the D.C. police commander is placed on leave for, quote, deliberately falsifying crime data. Oh, God. Everything is corrupt, and it's all because people make up the data. So the Post Millennial is writing about this. So the police union has accused this guy of deliberately falsifying the data. Apparently, the way they do it is by what they classify as what kind of a crime. So the actual crime in D.C. may not have gone down, but they found a way to report it went down without it going down. So I don't want you to feel bad. It might be true that all of our economic data is fake and all of our climate data is fake or not to be Trusted. But also our crime data is probably just made up. Bullshit. But don't you worry, because the election, I'm not even going to go there. So here's what we've been told. Citizens, get ready, open your minds. We're not hypnotizing you. This is completely believable. Our economic data is bullshit. Our climate data is bullshit. Our crime data is bullshit. But aren't you lucky that our elections. Pristine. All 50 states are holding elections with no real problems to speak of. And despite the overwhelming complexity of trying to run a national election and the, you know, through the roof incentive to cheat if you could find a way to do it. We're so lucky. It's the one thing that is just always accurate and never really has a problem. Okay, but at least those things sound bad. I know, but at least the local governments are not corrupt. At least we have that going for us. Right? Because the local cities, very honest. It's weird. You wouldn't expect them to be as honest as they are. But it turns out that local governments are very. What? Oh, well, have you heard the story today that Florida is trying to do a DOGE project on all of its cities, sending in a team to look where they could cut expenses and looking for fraud and stuff. And apparently the local governments across the state of Florida have been telling their staff to delete, alter or fabricate information before Florida DOGE visits. Oh, okay, well, maybe the local governments in this country are all criminal organizations because they have lots of money flowing through it and, you know, lots of complexity and nobody's paying attention and well, that's all it takes. But at least our elections are pristine.
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Scott Adams
Well, you probably thought to yourself, thank goodness I lived long enough to see the country come to the understanding that the Russia Gate hoax was a hoax and that there was indeed a RICO like criminal enterprise that involved the Clinton campaign and the FBI and the Department of Justice and probably the White House. And now we know, really with certainty, because the reporting is pristine, that that all happened, it was all true, and that those people must pay. We also know that the mainstream media was clearly in on the, on the hoax and they were in a hard. And they really were the gatekeepers that, you know, concealed the whole thing from the rest of the public. But thank God that's over and we're all on the same page that that terrible criminal operation happened and that something must be done to get justice for the country. Oh, wait, nothing like that's happening. Molly Hemingway is pointing out that the. The Atlantic, which is one of the Democrat media that pretends as something else, and Apple Bomb and others are, as Molly Hemingway says, clinging bitterly to the lie that they pushed against the American people. In other words, they're trying to argue that the Russia collusion story was based on solid reporting and solid data and that, yeah, I mean, there was definitely something there, and I'm sure Mueller actually said so. And there were things and indications and they had a good reason to believe. And so no history. History is corrupt and being rewritten as you watch. So let's see. Our economic data is bad. Our climate data is bad. Our crime data is bad. Our local governments are corrupt, and the press is erasing history because the history includes the press's own bad behavior. So they're just going to erase it. It's sort of like being a doctor. Somebody joked long ago that doctors get to bury their mistakes, but the press gets to do that, too. The press can run these massive hoaxes for years, like the Fine People hoax and the January 6th insurrection hoax. They could run a hoax for years, and then when they get caught, they just erase history because they have the power. So why not? You would, too, if you had the power. Well, President Trump has directed some of his federal assets to do a little policing in D.C. so he's not moving to federalize, per se? Not exactly. So he's not federalizing the city, and this is in response to the absurd rate of crime in Washington, D.C. but he is putting the U.S. park Police into action. So after midnight, I guess they'll have a presence in some of the touristy areas of the city. And I think some other entities might be part of this, too. So the Metropolitan Police Department, Capitol Police, Metro Transit. So he's going to bring some federal assets to just make it safer to walk the streets and touristy parts. That's not nothing. So we'll see if that works. Your comments suddenly got really slow there. There we go, Back in action. All right. And the FDA is apparently making some moves to simplify the approval process for companies that want to make their drugs in the U.S. apparently, it's very hard to get approval for your plant if you want to build a plant to make pharmaceuticals in this country. So the FDA is gonna tighten that up and make it easier. The Hill is reporting on this. I kind of like one of the things I like the most about the Trump administration is that he's made it a sexy thing to reduce regulations. And it's very clear that if you want to curry favor with the boss, the boss being Trump, that if you could come up with a story about the domain that you manage, getting rid of some regulations to make it easier to do business in the United States, you know that Trump is going to love to hear that. So you work on it so that you win, he wins, and the country wins. And so Doge did the same thing. So you see now parts of the government that are competing to tell you that they cut their costs. That wasn't really even a thing, you know, under the Biden administration. Do you remember any story, any story about, oh, this department figured out a way to cut their expenses 10%. Nobody needed to. It wasn't even a thing. But given that, you know that Trump would give you attention and your career could benefit if you did some cost cutting. Now it's. It's almost a competitive sport. Everybody's looking for a way to get in on this. How do we make the boss happy? So that's all good. I would love to see if there is a model for federalizing a city. You may be temporarily, maybe not. That would work, because in my view, the thing that breaks every city is that you have people get elected who are willing to steal money with one of the many ways that you can do that when you're in charge. Usually it means steering business in one direction versus another. And it's easy to hide that you're getting paid directly or indirectly. There's always a lot of money involved. Everybody's got a friend who works in that domain. It's like, oh, you want the garbage contract? Well, you know, if. If you made a donation to my wife's charity, you might get that contract. So one way to fix the cities is to not allow any of the elected officials to decide where money goes. Like, it's almost like you need some independent entity to make money decisions, at least in terms of awarding contracts. But I would love to see if you could do a government in a box where a city just says, all right, we give up. We can't fix it because we don't have the right people here. Everything's broken. And so some government in a box, ideally, American entity, comes in and just says, all right, this person will be your mayor for the next year. This will be your council, and we'll just make a bunch of fast decisions and change everything really quickly. And then when they're done, they can run it for a year or more or not, you know, the voters would still have control and they could adopt the new techniques or not, but the government in a box would kind of rapidly be able to just change everything. Well, according to Harry Ensign, the data expert for cnn, JD Vance has a lock on being the next nominee for, for president. And then nobody's even close. So apparently Vance had something like a 40% support and the next best one was like DeSantis as six. So it's really not close. And I would argue that he's earned that, wouldn't you? Because Vance is definitely a consequential vice president, maybe one of the top two or three, certainly in top three of consequential vice presidents. And I think people like him and he's sort of proven his ability to, you know, deal with the press especially. But the other thing that you cannot discount is that he's funny and that even south park recently, you know, included him in their commentary. And it was just funny and he liked it. And if you have a charismatic, funny person who's now got this vice presidential experience and would have, presumably would have Trump's strongest support, it's going to be tough to beat. That'll be tough. I've got my little co worker here for those of you watching the video. All right. Apparently there's some, I don't know the full story here, but I saw Mike Cernifetch post that apparently there's some documents we can see now that Mueller, when he was doing his investigation, he unlawfully investigated Mike Cernovich for his journalism about HR McMaster and about his assistant, Eric Sierra Mello. Now, I won't get into the whole drama of why McMaster and Sierra Mello were the subject of some sort of edge reporting, but I would recommend that you Google those things if you want to find out, just because it's a long sort of older story. But how would you like to find out that your name was in government documents and they were researching you over something that you did that was entirely legitimate? Yeah. His reporting is held up. And he says in his post, he says, I request that the case file on me be unsealed. I waive any privacy rights. So that might turn into something we'll see. Well, Pam Bondi announced that the government, our government, is offering a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, the head of Venezuela. Now, have we ever done that before where we offer a reward for information that would lead to the arrest of a president who's in our in, in Our part of the world. I don't know. That's weird. But apparently the alleged crime or crimes is that Maduro is not just the head of Venezuela, but that he's the head of or deeply embedded with the cartels, the drug cartels. And he's basically one of, if not the biggest drug dealer in the entire world. Did we do that with Noriega, somebody saying it in the comments? I was trying to remember that. I don't remember if there was a financial part of that. Probably there was Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile.
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Com. All right, so. Wow, he's so. Bondi calls him Maduro. One of the largest narco traffickers in the world. That's incredible. All right, so Trump and Putin are reportedly trying to pick a time and a place to get together, maybe next week. And the. Let's see. So people are watching, you know, what is it that Trump can do that would put pressure on Putin? And I would remind you that we never know if Russia is thriving or on the verge of collapse because all data is suspect. We don't really have a good data on Russia and I don't know, but I don't sense that Russia is feeling like there's a lot of pressure. Doesn't feel like they're in a hurry. And Trump's idea that he would put pressure on the, you know, the people were buying oil and gas from Russia, which would be mostly China. They wouldn't respond to the pressure. And, but India, India might respond. And there's some thought that that that battle there could raise oil prices into the 80s, $80. But Reuters, Reuters believes that there's no pressure that you could put on Russia that's going to end the war sooner. So why do you think Putin agreed to talk to, to Trump? What do you think that's all about? Because if Putin does one more round of Charlie Brown, you know, Lucy, pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, which is what I feel Like Putin has done to Trump a few times now, if he does that one more time, there's no way that Trump's ever going to deal with him again. I mean, at that point, we're going to have to say, all right, we're going to have to put you out of business. So it seems to me that Putin would know that, that he would know that he can't pull the football away one more time. That would, if you could read the room, and I think Putin's pretty good at reading the room one more time, would really weaponize America against him in a way that we haven't seen, because it would look like he's just fucking with us at that point, which is what it does look like. It does look like he's just fucking with us. But if he does this high profile meeting and then he just reiterates his impossible, you know, requirements, like, oh, you have to give all of Ukraine to me and I'll be in charge. It'll be some dumb thing if he does that again. And by the way, I think he will. I believe this is a fake. I do not believe that you're seeing the beginning of the end of the war. I think it's literally just Putin stalling again. And, and that he thinks he can do it forever, you know, like Iran did, because it works until it doesn't work. And if, if all you're trying to do is postpone the US Doing something, it's probably going to do anyway, like sanctions and stuff, maybe he thinks there's nothing to lose, but if he embarrasses Trump the same way, where Trump has already sounded the alarm, like he keeps screwing us and leaving us alone. So it's not like Trump doesn't know that Putin is one of, is a weasel who's likely to try just to delay things. But now it's personal, don't you think? I mean, this would be completely different because Trump was willing to sort of act like his friend as long as that would give Trump some benefits and give them some benefits. But now it's just humiliating. If Trump, if Putin does it to him one more time, it's gonna get real expensive for, for Russia in ways that maybe we don't even understand yet. So he shouldn't do that. According to just the news, we now know that 1/3 of the detainees released from Guantanamo Bay, you know, the terrorists have returned to terrorism. One third of the hundreds of detainees released, one. One third of them just went back to big terrorists. Now here's the problem, and it's sort of what Israel's problem is. What are you going to do with a population that would rather die than, you know, play by the rules? So there we go. Yeah, it's not like the terrorists who were, who had been at Guantanamo Bay, you know, is. It's not as if they were going to go get jobs and finance or something. What, what did they think they were going to do? All right, I guess Trump is having the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia comes to the White House for a peace summit. How many of you even knew that Azerbaijan and Armenia were having some military conflict? Did anybody even know that? I didn't know it, but here again, Trump is adding to his Nobel Peace Prize resume. Now, one of the things that Putin has working for him is that I don't think there's anything that Trump wants more than to be the person who solved the Ukraine and Russia war. Probably, you know, you could argue the economy or tariffs or something he cares more about. But if he solves Russia and Ukraine and gets credit for it, how in the world does he not get the Nobel Prize for peace? I mean, how does he not at that point, it would be just laughable if he didn't get it, assuming that people widely believed he was the agent of the peace. So we'll see. But I love the fact that Trump keeps racking up these little peace deal victories that we didn't even know needed to be done. So he'll add this one to his resume. Looks like. Good job on that. Here's something cool. According to the new atlas, the FDA has approved some eye drops that fix your nearsighted vision without glasses. So it lasts about 10 hours. You put in the eye drops and you don't need glasses to see up close if you were farsighted. And it's FDA approved. It's a real thing. Like, it's not even theoretical. You could. Looks like you buy it pretty soon, I assume it's going to be prescription, but I don't know. Last 10 hours, CBS News reports that a company figured out how to make butter and of carbon dioxide so they can suck the CO2 out of the air and add some chemicals and turn it into a butter substitute. You know what I like to make my butter out of? I like to make it out of pollution and shit that was flying around in the sky. Now I know CO2 is not pollution, it's plant food. Darn it. You don't want to use all that pollution. Plant food up, because then the plants will die. You don't need to tell me NPCs. I know. I know how it works. But nothing sounds more disgusting than CO2. It's like butter. No, thank you. So that's the good news, is that there's butter being made out of the air. Would any of you like to see my cat? So that is Gary. Gary's the one with all the personality, meaning that he's the biggest pain in the ass of my two cats. The other one is named Roman. And Gary likes attention. And let me tell you, my cat technique. I came up with a cat technique. I'm really happy about it. Number one, get bonded. Get a bonded pair. It is so much better when the cats are just loving on each other and playing and running around, and they're never bored as long as their brother is there. So. So it's two brothers. So that's the first thing. The other thing I did was I got a little bed that they like to use. They both fit in it really nicely so they can spoon each other to sleep. And I put it right next to me, their bed. I put it right next to me on my bed. And when I fall asleep, they're not there because they're nocturnal. So they're still running around and trying to get tired. But when I wake up, you know, even if it's like three in the morning or whatever, the little cat bed has the two of them sitting right next to me. But now they're like. They're like rags because they're all tired. And I can pick them up from their little bed without getting out of bed. And I can drag them under the covers with me and make them spoon me. And then they start purring up a storm. It's like, this is the best thing ever. Keep petting me. And then we have this basically cuddle session with two cats that want to touch each other really badly, but, like, being touched as well. It is the best thing. Those of you who are still sleeping with human beings, you should upgrade to cats. Sleeping with two cats who are bonded pairs and are very friendly cats is the best thing I've ever experienced. It really is. Every day I get to have a little bit, you know, because I go in more than once. Like, I have, like two naps a day with these cats because they just crawl all over my chest and they're luxuriating in every touch. And the oxytocin hit is just wonderful. It's just such a nice oxytocin. And so I would say that my quality of life went from sort of, you know, just day to day. Every day is the same to part of my day now is extraordinary because if you haven't had the experience of having two cats, you know, like, on your chest and, you know, cuddling you, and they're really soft and they're really into you, and they'll. They'll stay as long as you want, and you could just nap. It's the best. It is just the best. So I recommend it. All right, that's all I got for you. I'm going to talk to the local subscribers because they're my beloveds, and that'll be private. But the rest of you, I hope you can join me. Same time tomorrow, same place. Thanks for coming.