Episode 2749 CWSA 02/13/25

Date: 2025-02-13 | Duration: 1:00:41

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techncal difficulty today so I’m just streaming on my phone until the battery runs out I’ve got my laptop open so I’m doing a higher quality um feed at the same time on locals if you go to Scott adams. locals.com you could watch it there if you like if you like that concept all right what time is it oh I guess I guess it’s time for a show hold on I just assumed that nothing’s going to go right this morning that’s how was looking so [Music] far I can’t see the comments of anybody but locals right now but feel free to comment away got 1,500 people on X excellent how many we have on locals

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how many we have on locals 668 good all right good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it’s called coffee with scat Adams and you’ve never had a better time but if you want to take this up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a cuper marer glass of thanker chel suain 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 unparallel pleasure dopamine to the day thing that makes everything better it’s called the simultaneous Sip and yes it’s going to happen right now right now if you were expecting to be watching this on YouTube or Rumble that won’t be happening this morning but we’ll probably post the finished show after it’s live might take a little while well Story number one there’s a study in

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well Story number one there’s a study in the University of Zurich that shows that hypnosis does alter brain activity and neurochemistry do you know who they could have asked huh I wonder if hypnosis will alter brain activity and neurochemistry do you know who could have answered that question every hypnotist for the last 100 100 years every one of them it’s the most basic thing you learn if hypnosis didn’t have any effect on your actual brain it wouldn’t be doing anything there are a lot of people who think that hypnosis is just uh what is it that uh pen galette says I think he said some while ago the hypnosis was two people lying to each other the hypnotist pretending to be hypnotist and the subject pretending to be hypnotized but no there is a change in the brain and uh that’s the longest known thing

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and uh that’s the longest known thing that every hypnotist is known it’s just obvious anyway there’s another tragic terrorist attack it looks like uh over in Germany an Afghan man drove a car into a big crowd um he’s injured I think at least 28 people some of them really badly we don’t know anything about the motives yet but yeah I’ll tell you the the car related attacks they seem to kill as many or more people than bombs so maybe this is the beginning of a very long terrible Trend I don’t know let’s talk about hostage releases because that’s a better story um so I was listening to the US Envoy for hostages um and his name is his name is not written down on my notes so just imagine I said the name of the person today’s just a disaster I feel

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person today’s just a disaster I feel like everything today is just not going to work so that might be funny that might be entertaining in its own way yeah the most important thing I was going to write down was the name of the person who is the United States Envoy for hostages yeah that guy okay so you were saying that uh one of the reasons that Trump is successful getting hostages back is that uh you’re saying that quote when you hold our citizens will come after you at any cost that’s sort of the Trump message if you hold our citizens we’ll come after you at any cost now that is exactly the right now it’s not wickoff it’s uh it’s not wiof or grenell all right never mind stop guess stop guessing the wick caer grenell that will still be wrong no matter how many times you write it down all right I shouldn’t have even brought it up um but the right the right

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brought it up um but the right the right framing is that uh hostages are not really a negotiating tool at least with the United States because we’re going to take everything you have if you take our hostages we’ll take everything you have and and what happened when Trump put the extra threat on well now Hamas is getting a little flexible says they’re going to release some more hostages by Saturday maybe which was Trump’s deadline now that’s not all the hostages um Trump is said if you don’t release them all there’s going to be held to pay so if there’s some they’re holding back in theory they’re still held to pay now what would be held to pay probably just unleashing Israel and saying all right we’re out we’re out whatever Israel wants to do is fine we’ll even give them money to do it do you think Hamas wants to hear that that Israel just has a free pass and that United States won’t put any

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and that United States won’t put any pressure on them to ease up that would be the ultimate nightmare for Hamas but I think that’s where they’re heading they’re heading to their Ultimate Nightmare there was a story in Politico by Eugene Ludwig titled voters were right about the economy the data was wrong anybody who’s watched this show we always knew the data was wrong it’s not because you heard it from me didn’t you all know the data was wrong because they kept saying I don’t know what you’re talking about this data said you should be happy and have lots of money but people would say I can’t afford eggs and gas and then the Biden Administration would say yes you can look at the data and people would say I’m pretty here I know what’s in my pocket you don’t know what’s in my pocket and I don’t have enough money for eggs and gas oh yes you do just look at these highlight high level statistics so of course time goes by and then finally we can learn that it was all

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all fake now here’s something I’ve been telling you for a long time but I finally figured out a better way to say it I’ve been saying for a long time uh wait until you find out that all data that is important is fake all data that’s important you know not not something that let’s say a scientist did for a little study that nobody cared about right that’s probably okay or it might be but anything that’s big and important like the economy those are all fake numbers and there’s a reason for that there’s a systemic reason why all the important numbers the important ones just limitating it to the important ones are fake do you know what the reason is well it’s like that you don’t want the fox to be your only source of data of how many chickens are left does that make sense because we always we always put the fox in charge of counting the chickens and then you’re like uh do we still have 18 chickens uh no no it’s uh

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still have 18 chickens uh no no it’s uh we we have 14 chickens says the fox and then you say what did you eat those four chickens and the fox says I don’t know what you’re talking about there’s no data that says we ate any chickens there’s just 14 chickens all right we’ll check back tomorrow there are eight chickens what what what are you doing are you eating those chickens again I don’t even know what you’re talking about there’s no document that shows any chickens were eaten it’s just eight chickens so you can take the fox and the chicken analy to pretty much everything um who told us that vaccinations were perfectly safe the fox we we didn’t get it from anywhere except the company that is making money from selling it right was there some independent analysis that I’m not aware of no no so in every case the only people who are close enough to know what the real numbers are are the foxes they’re the ones in charge of the numbers and the foxes are the ones that

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numbers and the foxes are the ones that are stealing and lying and you know shaving things to make it you know biased in One Direction or the other so there’s a systemic reason it’s not a coincidence that all data all data that’s important is fake it has to be because it’s coming from the Fox as soon as you realize that all the data comes from the fox and not from the chickens then everything makes sense and if you find an exception where the chickens are in charge of counting themselves let me know about that because I’ve never heard of it never heard of it it’s always the fox counting the chickens and that’s where we’re at that’s why you need Doge because Doge lets the uh lets the rooster in lets the rooster count the chickens I’m torturing that analogy all right well uh you probably know that Trump was suing the Pitzer committee for giving pulit Sur prises to

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committee for giving pulit Sur prises to the Russia collusion Liars in the Press but worse than that I guess they said something else uh let’s see there was something they said after the war that Trump didn’t like and apparently this is going to go forward so there were some challenges to it that have been overcome but uh the appeals court the Florida appeals court says the burden of proof about that there was actual malice uh seems to be made in other words it wouldn’t go forward if there was no evidence of malice meaning that they did it intentionally but apparently there’s evidence they did it intentionally and that it was just a basically defame jump now this is interesting this is really interesting because I don’t know what kind of evidence they have that would demonstrate malice we know what they did but how do you get in their heads there might be some kind of document or maybe a witness or something

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document or maybe a witness or something who said oh yeah we did this just to get Trump so I haven’t heard that I’m just speculating but maybe maybe that’s what’s happening we’ll see meanwhile attorney general Pam Bondi she’s uh filing some charges against the bad people in New York the bad people in New York and now this is over the question of prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens so the idea would be that they’re not cooperating with the federal government to protect American citizens and that’s their job and they need to do that now I guess this is a criminal action it’s not a civil right uh if you’re F if Pam Bondi is filing charges it’s not a it’s not a civil suit it’s a criminal so they’re in real trouble but the people who are in trouble are the governor Kathy hokel the Attorney General Leticia James who as we know has been targeting Trump and

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know has been targeting Trump and decided to make up some reasons that he allegedly broke some laws so Leticia James is sort of one the um she’s like like a Sith Lord come after Trump oh and if I don’t get him the next Sith Lord will uh Ayana Presley will get you she’s a super villain if I don’t so I don’t know how many anti-trump people can actually have a Persona that looks exactly like a super villain it’s weird that there’s two of them I mean if if only ayna Presley dressed intentionally like a super villain which he does for reasons I don’t understand that would be unique enough but you got two Democrats who have total Sith Lord super villain Vibe I’ve never seen that before that’s weird anyway uh then also the DMV commissioner

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anyway uh then also the DMV commissioner I think that has something to do with issuing driver’s license to to a non citizens I’m guessing but it gets more interesting now you say to yourself huh huh it’s kind of a coincidence isn’t it um oh I think isn’t alen Bragg part of this or is it just Laticia James yeah Alvin Bragg is part of it too I think um although I didn’t see that in the list so that I may be conflating two different stories so Bill O’Reilly had a hypothesis he was on news Nation with Chris guomo and this is just some speculation from Bill Riley but he is very experienced and he’s sniffing some stuff out but he doesn’t have proof so what I’m going to say I want you to understand that bill O’Reiley wants you to know he doesn’t have any proof of this it’s just something he’s feeling um that the real Target of all this might be Leticia James and Al and brag the two two people who came after

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brag the two two people who came after Trump and it’s also possible that the reason and again this is just speculation there’s no evidence of this whatsoever that mayor Adams got his pardon from Trump um maybe because he knows where the bodies are buried with Elvin Bragg and Luisa James now I don’t know if he would but if somebody did know where the bodies were buried he’d be he’d be a top guess I would think so we we’ll keep an eye on that so it does look like maybe the Trump Administration is circling the the bad elements now if we didn’t know for sure that these are lawfare people the people who which tried the laware of trump I would not be in favor of kind of going after them but what they did was so inappropriate in our constitutional situation that it’s

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our constitutional situation that it’s effectively criminal without maybe breaking any laws but in effect it’s criminal so yeah should go after them as hard as possible meanwhile Democrats still trying to figure out what’s wrong with Democrats and on pod of America this is one of the big Democrat podcasts and the GU back Obama people on there and they’re they’re very Democrat so if I didn’t mention it they’re very very Democrat like super Democrat and and as you can imagine have been big critics of trump guess what they said yesterday Trump is doing what we should have done quote Trump is moving so fast they hit the ground running in a serious way it’s like genuinely impressive remember this is this is the most Democrat anti-trump people you’ve ever heard it’s genuinely impressive impressive and then they throw in this impressive in a dark and Sinister way but nonetheless impressive

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but nonetheless impressive so even when they’re even when they’re fully understanding that he’s doing some good stuff they they have to throw in the little propaganda phrase oh well dark and Sinister uh did I mention it’s dark and Sinister yeah he’s doing everything right but but maybe there’s a dark and Sinister undertone to it all the Democrats have are vague statements that can’t be supported by anything uh yeah so they they go on quote do we all know that government is slow we all know that government can be inefficient we all know that the bureaucracy can be bloed we all worked in the we all worked in the F and white house we tried to reorganize the government we tried to find efficiency it’s hard to do and then one of them said some of this is pretty annoying because it’s some of the stuff we should have done now I do appreciate the honesty of this so I’m going to call out this is a very honest take except for the dark and

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very honest take except for the dark and Sinister part uh yeah yeah they should have done it they couldn’t do it and then they’re watching it being done right in front of them um so I I thought I’d start a list of all the empty attacks the things that Democrats say about Trump they don’t have any meat to them whatsoever it’s just stuff to scare you so now we’ve got dark and Sinister that whatever he’s doing oh whatever he’s doing on the surface it looks perfect nothing wrong with it on the surface but underneath underneath we believe it’s dark and Sinister and then they’ve got uh um you know sure he might be uh Trump might be saving the Republic and ending Wars uh but really it’s just a preparation for stealing your democracy and setting up a kleptocracy stealing your democracy setting up a kleptocracy the ocracy is exactly what they’re

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ocracy is exactly what they’re dismantling and then there’s uh Dan Goldman um there’s no accountability or oversight with the Doge project there’s no accountability or oversight well here’s the problem of having politicians talk about things that make sense they can’t do it um I’m pretty sure that in the history of audits of big companies there’s not one time that the ca CEO went along with the audit you know with the Auditors so when when a big company does its own audit they’ll often audit themselves do you think the CEO follows them around and say what do you got there Bob did you find a document what’s it say what’s it say oh says that all right now what do you got what’s that can you read that to me there’s no world in which the CEO is informed about the audit while it’s going on except for the big stuff so the auditor might say

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the big stuff so the auditor might say we found this we found that we found that but is the CEO saying give me the document to prove it or is the CEO saying all right when you’re done with the audit write it up and then tell me everything you found I think the most normal way that Doge should be working is that musk should answer questions every day which he which he does uh what do you find what are you looking at and he said so but the onus is on him and Doge to provide documents when he’s done now will everything that he says preliminarily turn out to be will it check out not everything no this is a messy process and it has to be because there’s no way to do a clean process so you either give up or you do it messy there’s only two possibilities we don’t want to give up so there’s that uh and then the other one is uh CNN’s running with this one there’s no actual evidence of fraud what do you mean there’s no actual evidence do you need a court case they

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evidence do you need a court case they they’re doing the same thing they did with the election well there’s no actual evidence just because everything looks sketchy but there’s no actual Court who said that so let’s see we’ve got darken Sinister we’ve got stealing your democracy setting up a kleptocracy no accountability or oversight and no actual evidence of fraud what do all of those things have in common there’s not a single American citizen who gives a about any of it give me my straw get rid of these pennies solve the war in Ukraine cut the budget there’s a pretty long list of things I do care about but nowhere on that list is the darken Sinister stealing your democracy oh he’s also stealing your privacy they’re stealing my privacy uh there’s no accountability or oversight no actual evidence of

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no actual evidence of fraud it’s uh pretty weak weak sauce well here’s something I hate I hate waking up and being the second funniest Scott I’m kind of used to being the funniest Scott you know and at least in the news business there aren’t too many funny Scots but Scott Jennings is just lapping me lately I I just had a belly laugh over this one so Scott Jennings is commenting this morning over someone else’s posts so well it was a story actually on Fox News so his comment I’ll just read it in the order that is written um so Scott Jennings posts on X he says Trump let’s cut taxes shrink the government and unleash American Energy and then he says Democrats and he points to the Fox news story that says the house Democrats are reintroducing reparations reparations legislation so representative uh Ayan presle super villain uh says reparations

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presle super villain uh says reparations are a necessary step in achieving Justice now would it be fair to say Democrats are not good at reading the the room um was this really the time to introduce reparations probably not the right timing probably just a little off in the timing but uh I would go further than that and uh I would love to see somebody in the Trump Administration calculate reparations because I’m pretty sure it’s going to show that the money’s already been paid three times because you know what would be in that calculation right you’d first have to calculate how uh descendants of slavery would have done if they stayed in Africa versus how they would do over here and then spefic specifically The Descendants not not the actual slaves the slaves are unhappy right so everybody agrees there was nothing good about being a slave but the descendants of slaves ended up in a better place than maybe they would have

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better place than maybe they would have been now that’s no reason for slavery we all agree slavery is bad slavery is bad um but if you were going to calculate You’ have to calculate uh any social payments made you have to calculate how much everybody added to the economy versus subtracted from the economy you’d have to do differences in law enforcement costs for different demographic groups you’d have to bring everything into it and I don’t know if it would be a positive number or negative by the time you were done with an actual honest um analysis now if they if somebody actually did calculate reparations honestly would you believe it whatever number they came up with no because I just got done telling you that all data that matters is fake so whoever does the calculating for reparations it’s going to come up with a fake number so if it’s somebody who’s Pro reparations they’ll just ignore a

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Pro reparations they’ll just ignore a whole bunch of things and come up with a number that says yo it’s a lot of money if it’s somebody who’s biased against reparations such as me uh if I calculated it would show that it’s already been paid three times so there’s no such thing as the true number and there’s no such this data for anything important that’s real this is no exception but certainly I would have included 50 years of discrimination against white males I mean that’s pretty expensive uh and along those lines Fox News is reporting that there’s an Illinois University being sued because the professor says he was fired for objecting to race-based hiring University of Illinois in Chicago so Professor stepen Klein Schmid um he said he wasn’t buying into the uh being a racist he probably just thought he wanted to be a professor and then they said but you’re also you know

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then they said but you’re also you know can you be a racist and then he said how about no how about no I won’t be a racist with you and that was lawsuit I think he might win Trump says reciprocal tariffs are coming out today I guess that means that everybody who’s terrifing us for anything is going to get the same back I don’t know how any of this is going to work out but I do see it as a negotiating tactic and so far Trump’s shown that he can navigate these negotiating T tactics all right so we’ll see tulsy gabard got confirmed uh is it true that McConnell voted no on telsy gabard that’s a little suspicious isn’t it just a little suspicious it makes you think he might be hiding something but the half dead Turtle said no RFK Jr I guess the vote on him as a tie and we’re

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guess the vote on him as a tie and we’re expecting JD Vance to go break the tie and it it should be should be confirmed today is I don’t know if it’s today all right so looks like we’re we get Tulsa and we’ll get RFK Jr and wow I I just have to say wow good job good job getting both of them Mike Ben was on uh Joe Rogan show probably three hours of goodness there but one of the things that popped out was Mike Ben talking about how USA and the intelligence communities um have historically trained some musical artists both in our country and in other countries to be part of their uh I guess political narrative that the the intelligence Community wants to push so or to do it for statecraft reasons now some of the names he named uh including working with du leipa so I guess there was something early in

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so I guess there was something early in her career where she had some kind of USA connection Riot uh in Russia and he said possibly Taylor Swift there’s no evidence that Taylor Swift was connected any of this but there was there is a video of somebody in the intelligence Community suggesting that she would be the type of person that they would want influence there’s no evidence that they have so you probably heard that the AP Associated Press uh they lost their uh I think they lost their wouse press access because they refused to call the Gulf of America the Gulf of America they’re sticking with the old way Gulf of Mexico and I didn’t really understand why like why would they be the one entity that does that well their argument is that they’re an international news entity and if the other countries around the world don’t know what the Gulf of America is they can’t refer to it that way because

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they can’t refer to it that way because you know it would be against their style guide so they have a style guide that they’ll I guess they’ll use whatever is most internationally recognized but that also means that they’re not doing America First America First would be use America’s names for stuff and let the other countries work it out I mean you could always put it in parenthesis used to be called the Gulf of Mexico so um it’s not the worst defense in the world but it does feel like they’re not quite on Team America here so Trump’s letting them know I guess um here’s a story I hope there’s more context to this one because if it’s exactly what it looks like it’s pretty bad so apparently Reuters which does a lot more than news stuff um according to the Muse account I was reading uh that uh Doge found a document that actually says that uh a

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document that actually says that uh a part of Reuters was being paid a lot of money for doing what is actually listed on the invoice this is actually on the invoice large scale social deception what is that real did did our government pay Reuters to implement a large scale social deception now before I say that that’s true it’s being reported but before I say it’s true I’d kind of want to hear what reuter said about it which I haven’t seen yet do you think Reuters is going to say something like no no no we were supposed to guard against so we were working against large scale social deception it’s just list of that way on invoice so now we’re we’re against large scale deception we’re trying to end it you think that’s possible you know it wouldn’t be too weird if something on an invoice was

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weird if something on an invoice was ambiguous but it would really be weird to me if they put in direct words which are on the voice large scale social deception I’m going to put a pin in that one and wait for the other side of the story but it’s what it looks like on the surface well Trump is calling out the Politico and the New York Times for accepting some millions of dollars I guess each from USA and Trump asked what’s that for like why is the government paying you are they paying you to do fake news are they paying you to get good stories about themselves and he wants to claw back um so again we don’t know why these entities were receiving money but it all looks sketchy so I do like that Trump is going to treat it like it’s sketchy and you know go after it I I feel like Trump

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you know go after it I I feel like Trump can sniff out corruption and fraud faster than the average person [Music] because he’s really good at knowing what looks like and he can just recognize it anywhere so he’s probably seeing some there um now according to this is incredible so Lee zeldon uh did a video in which he’s claiming that uh that they’ve discovered a staggering 20 billion that the Biden regime they call it uh laundered to to NOS so what it sounds like is there was a video I think it was uh project Veritas uh at an undercover video in which the Democrats and the EPA were saying oh yeah we’re throwing the gold bars off the T Titanic what they meant was we’re trying to spend money as quickly as possible before Trump finds out what’s going

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out what’s going on and so they parked $20 billion dollar in some kind of a financial institution so they could get it out of the door and then once it’s out the door it could be allocated to their evil ways I guess but they wanted to like pretend it was already gone so they did some kind of intermediary little trick to make it look like it was already gone and couldn’t be clawed back but it might get clawed back we’ll find out now if this is all true this would be an example of a a staggering amount of corruption is it illegal I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know what law specifically it breaks but it certainly corrupt anyway apparently the uh government is planning to our government is planning to sell hundreds of the federal government buildings according to to wired um now I don’t think that’s going to

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um now I don’t think that’s going to settle the budget or anything but there are five 00 or more buildings that don’t seem to have a use use 500 Federal buildings that are sort of empty or not being utilized in any great way 500 over 500 that’s just shocking so yeah let’s go to close those buildings all right here’s the most troubling story of the day according to me according to the New York Post um the House GOP they’ve got a budget plan they’ve put together for Trump and they’re looking for 4.5 trillion in tax cuts now that would be over some number of years 4.5 trillion in tax cuts but so so far you’re saying I like that but uh the budget cuts would be more like two trillion so again there may be some

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trillion so again there may be some confusion about the what time window you’re looking at you know some might be what’s happening this year and some might be a 10y year kind of number so you have to be careful if it’s a one- year or a 10year number but but um is there a problem how in the world is Trump going to get away with increasing our public debt by $2 trillion which is what it would be now I get that I like tax cuts and I get that I like budget cuts but if your tax cuts are tremendously bigger than your budget cuts you’re making the deficit worse by trillions now depending on the time span we’re looking at it could be that the two trillion that’s going to be added to the budget you know maybe it’s spread over several years and if you keep cutting the budget during those years you know you might get to a much better

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you know you might get to a much better situation that it looks like in a in a direct line calculation so yeah I don’t know if the tariffs are going to I don’t think the tariffs are going to make up the difference but uh maybe I don’t know but let me tell you as a numbers person somebody who’s you know my early career before any of this was the finance guy in two big corporations not the finance guy but a finance guy and I was always working with you know big projections and numbers and what’s going to happen in 10 years more like five years but um I don’t see how this works to me it’s been looking for a while like the amount that Trump wants to add to the budget because they want to add 300 billion a year for border security and National Defense no I understand that the border security especially um but you’re going to add that expense and then you’re going to cut taxes

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cut taxes and the amount that Doge can cut out won’t be any won’t be anywhere near the amount that we lost in tax revenue so it’s not like this is going to Goose the economy enough so let me just say it directly as far as I can tell the House GOP is not on the same page with Doge I don’t think they’re on the same page I I think helon musk needs to tell us if this if this budget goes through and if Doge does an amazing job and gets rid of one or two trillion dollars in expenses do we fix our problem or do we just make it worse by voting in a bunch of expensive things I don’t feel like we have a plan it looks to me like there’s two separate tracks and one destroys the other one so doge is a great track if nothing else changed but if you add why don’t wildly cut taxes and add expenses

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don’t wildly cut taxes and add expenses at the same time as Doge and the things you’re cutting and adding far exceed the amount of budget reductions somebody needs to explain to us from the Trump Administration how the this works because I’m getting a little mad about it I mean maybe the public doesn’t follow these things closely enough to know that this can’t work they’re basically presenting us a Doom scenario and which we all die for sure can you give me any hope because this budget just tells me we’re going to let you all die that’s the budget the budget is your all debt because the whole reason that Doge exists is because our budget is out of control our debt is out of control so if you’re going to give us another plan that says you oh you’re going to be dead in a few years you and that and that’s for the Trump Administration you because that’s not what we signed up for we signed up for Less debt

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signed up for we signed up for Less debt give us less debt however you have to do it whatever you need to do give us less debt because this looks like you’ve planned to kill us you’ve planned to kill us that’s what the news is telling me now if I’m reading it wrong and I’m doing the numbers wrong I I would love to be corrected but it doesn’t look like it it looks like they plan to kill us and we didn’t invite we didn’t fight this hard to get a republican Administration so the Republican Administration can and kill us figure it out figure it out don’t don’t do this yeah I I’m am so out if they don’t balance the budget or make a good try it’s got to be at least a good try we’re not seeing anything that looks like a good try we’re looking like it looks like they’re screwing Doge looks like they’re screwing musk by giving him a

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they’re screwing musk by giving him a no- win situation not cool not cool anyway I would love to know that my rant was completely embarrassing and shameful and that I’m just getting the numbers wrong but I don’t think I am so we need some answers um according to Brett Adcock I can’t believe there’s a guy who’s who owns the figure robot company these are humanoid looking robots um that don’t have genitalia but the founder of the company is named Adcock I mean come on humanoid robots with no genitalia made by somebody called Adcock somebody’s going to add a you maybe it’s aftermarket but anyway so what Adcock says he says quote In Our Lifetime you will see more humanoid

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Lifetime you will see more humanoid robots than humans when you’re out and about trying to resist try to resist I wake up every morning trying to resist making any reference to Skynet no only NPC say skymet when you say the robots will outnumber the humans don’t do it Scott don’t do it try to resist don’t say Skynet or else you’re an NPC Skynet Skynet I could resist I’m sorry I’m weak I’m weak I don’t have much else to say about that story except stop making me think of Skynet because what as soon as I read this that there will be more robots out and about than humans my first question is is that because we made more robots that’d be the best case scenario or are there just fewer humans there a couple different ways you can get there well how could there be

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can get there well how could there be fewer humans well here’s one way even without Sky Net uh turns out according to the conversation an May Dwayne is writing that teenagers are using AI Companions and they’re saying it’s easier than seeing humans AI companions so teenagers are falling in love with chatbots well who was it who told you 20 years ago that when the the AI got good enough that people would prefer the AI I did yeah I told you that people would prefer it but I’ll be more specific here’s my calculation I believe that top 10% of Attractive people will have options of being with the other they’re Attractive people but the the bottom 90% of Attractive people which I’m certainly in the bottom 90%

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which I’m certainly in the bottom 90% but the bottom 90% are going to just prefer AI because the AI will not disappoint them it really is we really do no joke have a situation that we’re not quite ready for um I don’t even know if it’s bad I mean if if the PE if the bottom 90% are happier well okay you maybe maybe that is a good solution but no I think we’re already at a point where only the top 10% are likely to reproduce and everybody else is just going to be roboting up that’s what I think so speaking of AI uh Thompson Reuters uh won their first major AI copyright case according to wired so guess they found that uh there was some specific AI company uh what is it uh not one of the big ones doesn’t matter a smaller AI company you never

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matter a smaller AI company you never heard of uh apparently there’s evidence that they may have trained their model using some proprietary stuff from Thompson Reuters and it looks like uh the judge ruled in Thompson Roy’s favor said the the compy the AI company’s copyright or no their copyright was indeed infringed oh it’s by Ross intelligence Ross intelligence that’s the name of the AI company so it’s specifically for legal legal stuff I guess that’s what the AI was now remember I warned you that if you’re worried about AI you know suddenly taking over everything AI is going to have a tough it’s going to have a tough path through all the lawsuits because everybody who’s not getting rich from AI is going to be trying to Su it to stop it yeah and although it looks like this case was kind of clean that they could more easily prove that somebody trained on their materials without

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on their materials without permission um I feel like all the general AIS are just going to get sued and sued and sued until it’s tough to do business so I think that’s what’s going to slow them down lawsuits well meanwhile Ukraine is is going the obvious way how many of you already knew how to end the war in Ukraine for years right if IID asked you hey stranger what would you do to end the war in Ukraine almost everybody would say well you know zalinski is going to need to get flexible about losing some land Russia is probably going to keep what they’ve already gotten um and probably the only way the war ends is if Ukraine makes some kind of commitment and not to join NATO right yeah you and I could have done that and it looks like that’s exactly exactly what’s going to happen is that uh there will be a land for

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is that uh there will be a land for peace deal probably we don’t know any details yet so we’re just speculating still um and of course the there’s no way the NATO thing can stick they’re going to have to back off on that but as you knows um Scott bassent was sent over there treasur headed the treasury to work on a deal where America would benefit from the mineral resources of Ukraine and sort of pay it back but my understanding is just before I went live today I believe um I believe that Ukraine backed out so I think they got talked down of giving up their minerals so I don’t know who talked about of it but uh as of now they’re negotiating and saying nope no minerals what do you think Trump’s going to say to Ukraine before he starts negotiating with Putin well I don’t know but I think it’s going to go something like this uh if we do have access to your

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this uh if we do have access to your minerals then you can guarantee that there’ll be some you know American interest in keeping Ukraine a sovereign country if we don’t have access to your minerals you’re just an expense and you’re on your own well that’s should loosen them up a little bit don’t you think cuz I think that’s exactly the situation we’re either going to turn you into a profit Center or you’re on your own because we’re not going to pay forever for something we don’t need and don’t want all right I’m looking at yeah I think zinski is probably just negotiating but he doesn’t have a strong doesn’t have a strong hand so we’ll see how that goes um this is what Trump said himself about his conversations I guess he had big phone call with Putin and I’ll just read it because I want to I want to tell you what both of them are doing right uh I’ve decided that the three most persuasive leaders in terms of

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most persuasive leaders in terms of technique who actually understand persuasion are Trump number one best in the world Putin number two you don’t have to like Putin this is not a pro Putin statement I’m just saying that his persuasion skills are way above average and then I’d say buelli from El Salvador so I put him in the third spot but all of them are world class persuaders just completely in different they’re in a level of their own the if you look at Canada Justin Trudeau no skill at all no skill Great Britain no skill at all Germany No skill at all yeah the but America Putin and bu Kelly lots of skill and uh so I’ll read what Trump said in his truth post and we’ll pick it apart for the persuasion lesson okay so Trump said in a truth post I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with

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highly productive phone call with Vladimir Putin of Russia number one he’s now now essentially considering Putin a peer that he can work with and they’re already making success so this is a little bit of claiming success but also a little bit of allocating success to both of them equally this is technique he didn’t say I got something we’re going to get something he said that the two of us working together looks like something productive is going to come out of it perfect perfect persuasion then he says we discussed Ukraine in the Middle East energy artificial intelligence power of the dollar and various other subjects perfect because the way that you make an agreement that other people can’t figure out how to do is you bring in other elements now we don’t know that he’s done that but that would be the perfect technique oh well if ending the war with Ukraine you you’re not quite

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war with Ukraine you you’re not quite there yet how about if we throw in something else something else you care about and or or the other way we can deny you something else you care about so you bring in these other variables that are big just to just make it easier for the other side to say yes good technique if you kept the the conversation to the narrow narrow topic of Ukraine versus Russia might not be enough because you know both sides are a little stuck in their positions or have been we’ll see if they’re still stuck so that’s perfect bring in those other topics then Trump says we both reflected on the great history of our nations in all capital letters uh or capital capitalized uh and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II remembering that Russia lost tens of millions of people and we likewise lost so many now we didn’t lose tens of millions but here he is uh acknowledging

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millions but here he is uh acknowledging that Russia is a great nation that is good that’s good technique because what is one of the things that Putin wants to get out of all of this business Putin wants to get out of it that Russia is a great nation that’s not the only thing of course they have legitimate interests but it does seem very important to both Putin and probably Russians that they’re treated with full respect and if you consider that you know Russia was big reason that uh well the biggest reason that uh Hitler was defeated um that is worth calling out you know it’s not like Stalin was a good guy or anything but showing some respect for tremendous sacrifice tremendous sacrifice on your your I don’t know your your partner I’d say in this case I don’t want to say adversary good technique perfect technique now he’s made it easier for

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technique now he’s made it easier for Putin to make a deal because he’s given him one thing that he wants which is we’re going to treat you like like a real leader of a real important country and you have our full respect it’s just that there’s some things we need and we’re not going to back down that is really good um then he says we talked about the strengths of our respective Nations and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together there it is that’s classic Trump when Trump talks to North Korea he doesn’t say only we will bomb you to the Stone Age if you do something bad what just happened uh holy sh Trump just fired all federal prosecutors appointed by Biden holy all of them I don’t even know I don’t even know the implications of that wow all right we’ll catch up with that after the after the

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that after the after the show all right but anyway the thing that Trump does when he negotiates with another country he doesn’t just say um we’re going to kill you if you don’t do what we want he says if we can work together we can both get richer that’s really strong and I don’t believe anybody has said to Russia that uh that someday we could work together and it’ll be a great benefit to both countries now I don’t know specifically what he has in mind but don’t you think that if we were let’s say if we could find a way not to be at each other’s throats that we could make some money and be safer I think so I think so so that’s classic Trump and good technique um and then then Trump says but first as we both agreed we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the war with Russia Ukraine again just perfect I mean I might sound like just a fanboy at this point but I’m

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just a fanboy at this point but I’m showing you the actual technique I’m not I’m not just saying he’s awesome I’m showing you the details th this again is the right frame Trump has been right on frame CL this from the start we want fewer people to die blah blah blah NATO blah blah blah we want fewer people to die blah blah blah Russia’s natural defenses blah blah blah minerals we want few people to die stay in that frame because if you stay in the frame of we want fewer people to die there’s a solution if you leave that frame into all na oh 10 years oh oh you blah blah blah degrade degrade Russia’s military oh Russia had a good reason or didn’t they have a good reason nothing you got nothing but if you can if you can agree to enter the frame of saving lives then you got something to work with so that’s pure

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something to work with so that’s pure Trump pure perfect um and then he says this is what Trump says he says president President Putin even used my very strong Camp campaign motto of common sense so apparently Putin appealed to Common Sense knowing that he was echoing you know Trump’s great unifying um campaign idea so there’s nothing more unifying than common sense because nobody can disagree with it it’s common sense so it’s the ultimate High Ground it very much worked domestically but here’s a here’s a example of Putin being that good Persuader so you notice that Putin seems to be on board with all the framing that Trump has mentioned we don’t know but there was no sense of an objection so if he is then he knows what a good frame looks like and he’s willing to enter it a good frame would be can we

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to enter it a good frame would be can we include all these other interests that’s a good frame can we just figure out how to stop killing people that’s a good frame so Putin knows that but he’s also using a technique called mirroring so he’s he’s mirroring back Trump’s favorite thing common sense that is strong technique because it’s also a sign of respect and it makes you feel like the two of you don’t have much distance it’s almost like you’re one person because you’re both having the same thought yeah Common Sense let’s do that Common Sense thing very strong that’s why Putin’s good at this so um yeah and then that great benefit of working together it’s a carrot not just a stick it’s all perfect so Will trump get it done don’t know but if he does get it done and he gets also a mineral deal you know a rare Earth mineral deal with zinski he Trump might be able to do the thing that is so

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thing that is so trumpy here’s what I mean ending the war would be a real major accomplishment espe especially if he did it in a month it would be one of the Great accomplishments of a president but is that enough to just be amazingly end a war that couldn’t be ended by other people it’s not enough Trump wants to turn Ukraine into a profit Center and get our money back now I don’t know if he’s going to do that I don’t know if that’s going to work but if he ends the war in a month and turns Ukraine into a profit Center that’s standing ovation that that’s just like make room on Mount Rushmore like nobody could do that like no no president would even try to do that nobody would even think that it was worth doing nobody would even put like one minute of energy into trying it but I think he could get it done so that’s why we voted for him

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all right so those are all the comments I have my prepared remarks um if you’re joining late uh a little bit of technical difficulty probably on my end um so we’re only streaming today on X and on locals and uh I believe we’ll be able to put the recorded version on YouTube and Rumble later all right I’m seeing something going by in the comments uh zuie zuie said in a post we’ve collectively suffered uh through TDS for 10 years and now we must also suffer through EDS which would be I guess Elon Musk uh instead of trump derangement syndrome and Elon Musk says what if I get EDS

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funny RFK vote is 32 y to 25 24 n you shoveled two driveways while listening good for you hey we’re going to let the uh X people stay for a minute so this this is the after show normally I would just do this for the uh subscribers of mine on locals but since you were so nice on X to stay with us this long uh we we’ll keep you live for another minute or so all right usually I just look through the comments see if there’s anything to comment on that I um yeah you are correct if I gets to a bigger audience I’m happy with it all right I don’t have much else to uh talk about I guess so I’m going to say goodbye to the folks on X thanks for joining I hope your sound was good the microphone’s not actually connected to my phone it’s but it’s connected for the locals people all right everybody bye for now