Episode 2774 CWSA 03/10/25

Date: 2025-03-10 | Duration: 59:29

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Chinese AI, the economy, eggs, tariffs, autism, and the Palestinians

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go yeah we don't have access to YouTube or Rumble today the the rumble studio is got a little difficulty sort of a Monday problem but uh I will upload the uh content from locals to the other platforms but we're good on locals and we're sort of almost good on X so we're

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we're sort of almost good on X so we're going to do it by the way there was a French study that says that coffee has astonishing powers to protect your memory it might even be good against Alzheimer's that's right so the odds of you remembering this live stream very good if you had you coffee that says study by rolling out khil best is writing about that well um are you all waiting for the uh Epstein files and the JFK files and the MLK files all waiting for those good luck I don't think there's really any chance we're going to see anything we don't know or anything shocking if we see anything maybe we'll never see anything but uh lower your expectations to
to zero zero would be the right place uh according to sa post Eric Dolan is writing about this uh have you ever

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is writing about this uh have you ever seen these online quizzes where you can decide who you should vote for so you say things like uh are you in favor of this policy or this policy and then you fill it out and then it says oh you're a Democrat you should vote for this person or you're a republican well according to a study um I think that the person involved with this you may have heard of U Robert Epstein so he's done studies of Google and Google's influence but he finds that these online surveys are more than just casual online surveys apparently they bias you toward One Direction or another so they can sort of turn you into a Democrat voter if you were on the fence so very diabolical so watch out if you see one of those uh let me tell you who you should vote for surveys they are meant to persuade not to inform so just know that that's a

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not to inform so just know that that's a trick you've been warned well according to one americ news are saying that doge is reporting that uh during the co period [Music] um this is so bad it's just funny uh the $312 million loans that were meant for small businesses during covid uh were taken out by
children so we don't know if they're real children but they seem to be children in other words fake $312 million of fake loans to
Children it seems to me fairly consistent that whenever there's a large bunch of money from the government for anything at all it's gigantic fraud every time because they don't seem to do any kind of auditing or any kind of

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any kind of auditing or any kind of accounting or any kind of checking to see who gets it we should just maybe give no money to anybody you know if this were the only story today it I would be filled with outrage because my tax money went to loans to Children uh but I I'm having outrage exhaustion anybody else have that it's like every time I look at social media oh there's another $100 million somebody stole oh there's another 200 million somebody stole and it all starts just looking like Baseline after a while so I worry that we will stop being outraged by stories that are really outrageous well there's a new AI that everybody's talking about called Manis and it's a Chinese Ai and the people who have tested it and written about it on social media seem to be blown away by how good it is so it's not a regular AI

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how good it is so it's not a regular AI it's uh it's an AI agent now the difference between a regular AI an AI agent is that regular AI you can talk to it and then ask it questions and it can give you good answers and it can tell you how to code something but an agent you can just tell to go do a thing and then it'll go do a thing now I'm not I'm not entirely clear about what things it could have access to which of your other apps or your databases or whatever but apparently it's wowing the people who are trying it and they think uh that China is not only not behind the United States and AI but if you look at Deep seek and you look at Manis uh together they suggest that China might already be be ahead now it could be that the only thing they're ahead in is doing things that we wouldn't do here such as unleashing an agent you know because the agent feels

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agent you know because the agent feels like that's a security risk and you would not be surprised that Tennessee is the first state to already baned so man has just came within the week it's already banned in Tennessee and I think uh there's more efforts by other attorney generals to ban all the Chinese AIS to ban deep seek and probably more of them want to ban Manis probably a good idea um I could tell you that there's not a chance I would put that on my computer I would never put on my computer something that's not only a Chinese AI but it's an agent isn't that just asking for it it's even called it's even called an agent it just sounds like the most dangerous thing you could put on your computer meanwhile according to the Wall Street Journal one in four new US jobs posted are going to ask for AI skills so it's not just that they want you to be

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it's not just that they want you to be an AI expert but that whatever your job is you should have a little capability with AI now if I could give you any job advice whatsoever it would be learn AI you know you don't have to learn how to create it you know that's that's for other people but you should know which AI do what and you should know generally how to make it do some stuff and you should know how to ask a questions and how to query things and um you should know AI it's not really optional if you're going to be a job Seeker especially so make sure you know AI meanwhile uh Justin Trudeau is out and uh mark Carney is got the new leadership position that looks like he'll be the the next prime minister as soon as they call it for a vote I guess that's how their system works so he's not officially the Prime Minister but there's nothing that would stop him from

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there's nothing that would stop him from being one as soon as they go through the process but uh here are some of the things we know about him he was a banker and apparently he spent a lot of time in the UK because he was not only a former Central Banker for Canada but he was a former Central Banker for the UK interesting now uh here's what uh one critic on social media said so this is not representative of anything but one critics opinion somebody named John Paul Berg said about uh Carney the new head of Canada that he doesn't hold elected office meaning that he's never won an El election by the public in at large I guess and uh Nory lived here in over a decade meaning Canada so he hasn't lived in Canada for a
a decade he must have moved back recently and he's a self-described globalist and

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and he's a self-described globalist and elitist I doubt he called himself an elitist but maybe a globalist and uh he's a central Banker with a world economic Forum membership so that's a lot of red flags but
but that if that's what if that's what Canada wants all right so here's my take my American take which is worth basically nothing um I think the Canadians felt they needed a banker because if you put Justin judau up against Trump doesn't it look like a mismatch like there's one serious business person Trump and then there's Trudeau who's worried about his pronouns and such so I think they needed to get a serious business person so you know Banker fits that um but but here's what he did on his first day so far uh Carney said quote my government will keep our tariffs on

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government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect okay first day of work not so good do you think respect is the problem here what when the United States is trying to get rid of fenel is the problem that we don't respect you enough when Trump says he wants uh Canada to be a 51st state is it because we don't respect it or it just seems like it'd be a good idea now he definitely didn't respect Trudeau but did Trudeau earn his respect I would say maybe no so if he's focusing on tariffs are related to Americans showing him respect
not the best first day because that doesn't seem like a anything that's going to work out for him we're not really we're not really operating on the respect basis it's pretty much you know our interests and their interests and that's

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interests and their interests and that's about it well uh Secretary of State Rubio has announced that he's uh cut 83% of the USA USA budget 83% the rest would be absorbed into the state department and he's a SL 5200 of the usaid contracts now that's all good news right yay this big po of money that yeah we thought was being used in ways that maybe we didn't agree with and there was a lot of it and it got cut yay except none of it's true it's just not true uh this is what Thomas Massie explains the the Congress is putting together a continuing resolution which is what they do when they can't decide on a budget they just say um I guess the budget will just remain the same so the budget they're going to

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same so the budget they're going to pass will fully fund usaid none of this is real it's not real according to Thomas Massie and Massie points out that the Supreme Court ruled last week that it requires an act of Congress to defund these programs so not only is there no legal way to defund them but the continuing resolution that Congress does every time because they can't do their job of making a budget will just fully fund it now I don't know if you can fire all the people so even they have a budget they can't spend it is there some work around but my head just exploded and Thomas Massie is the only one who's on this the whole continuing resolution problem literally the continuing resolution is when the Congress says oh we don't know how to do

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Congress says oh we don't know how to do our basic job we don't know how to do our basic job which is make a budget that works so we're not going to do it so we're just going to kick the candidate down the road and bankrupt the country with you know unworkable debt and then when we finally make some what looks like progress with Doge they just bulldo it like it didn't even matter now I suppose there are some surprises ahead you know I don't think doge is going to roll over I don't think Trump's going to roll over but it kind of looks like it didn't work I mean tentatively speaking that's not my five opinion I'd like to be wrong about it I'd love to be wrong about it but when it was last time Massie was wrong about something like this never this is his domain if he says this isn't real I'm gonna I'm going to take his word for it over Rubio and I hate it absolutely hate it but we'll see where

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absolutely hate it but we'll see where this goes meanwhile the department of justice under Trump is in investigation into the price of eggs the Department of Justice what do they think they're going to find so I guess there's some uh concern that maybe the big egg producers are artificially keeping the price High which means you know artificially keeping the supply low I don't know maybe but it seems like it's simpler than that it seems like there's just not enough eggs now maybe there's something else there they wouldn't launch this investigation unless they meant it but so the Wall Street journals reporting on that but apparently eggs are expected to rise by more than 40% in 2025 another 40% for eggs wow anyway I guess we'll find out what's up with eggs but I think that's

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what's up with eggs but I think that's just a very narrow look they're just going to look at whether there's gouging basically that sounds like Biden um now here's my take on it you know I've looked into this whole chicken problem and I think where everything went wrong is where they allowed the chickens to work from
home yeah that's all I had that's all I had they shouldn't let the chickens work from home the remote working chickens I don't think they're laying as many eggs I think they're goofing off yeah don't let him work from home anyway uh Howard lotnik is talking about Trump's tariffs and specifically the ones on H China and Mexico and Canada and he says if Sentinel ends meaning those countries step it out and keep it from coming into the US I think these will come off meaning the tariffs but if fentel does not end or Trump is

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but if fentel does not end or Trump is uncertain about it they will stay this way until he's comfortable he said said that in Meet the Press now I hate to be negative Nelly but I don't really think there's much chance that the tariffs are going to affect in the long term uh fenel but I also don't have a better idea it's the only idea that looks serious that has maybe some chance of working but I would bet against it unfortunately now if I a better idea I'd say don't do this get rid of those tariffs it's a waste of time we should do this much smarter idea that's different but I don't have a smarter idea so if leaning on these countries hard so hard that it crashes their economy is the only play we have I'm in favor of it I just wouldn't bet my you know wouldn't bet my life savings is going to work but we don't

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savings is going to work but we don't have any better idea and you know even if we went in militarily and took down a bunch of labs wouldn't they just rebuild them in a week I I don't know how you could possibly stop this problem it just seems Unstoppable but again given the size of the problem if we have to crash a couple of economies just to find out if this works I'm in I me it's a you know drastic situation Rec calls for calls for drastic steps and it's the only one I can think of well Trump has uh indicated that things might get worse before they get better and uh I guess that got turned into a headline that he is not going to rule out a recession now the stock market seemed to shake that off because just before I got on the markets were up after after he admitted so here's what he said to uh I guess to Maria Boma

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what he said to uh I guess to Maria Boma um he said uh there will be a period of transition because what we're doing is very big now period of transition means things will look a little worse before they look a lot better and I think I've always known that the things he's doing very clearly have a you know let's say a destabilizing effect in the short term because people don't know what's going to happen with tariffs Etc but in the long term it could work out just great um there's a whole bunch of stuff that Trump's doing that directionally it's all great so if you could fast forward five years we might be an amazing situation it's very possible um so I'm very optimistic about the future but uh how are the Democrats doing let's see let's check in with Van Jones so van Jones was on CNN and he was talking about the prospects for the democ rats to come back and you know

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democ rats to come back and you know become a serious party and things are so bad that he actually was laughing at how pathetic the Democrat Party is and and the host was laughing it's actually become laughable but here's how he here's how he summarized it he said this is what the Democrats did he goes uh defending a broken status quo that nobody likes because they thought that Donald Trump was going to make it worse well I guess that didn't work out so the The Reflex to be against Trump no matter what had them supporting the status quo that everybody thought was a bad idea so that's part of it and then van Jones said that offending most people in the country and calling everybody sexist and racist and transphobic and every other name and then saying please follow us that's not a good strategy folks so every time I hear somebody who actually does understand what's going on

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actually does understand what's going on and I think van Jones you know he he's obviously playing for one team but he understands this is a very clear statement of the problem and uh but it doesn't look solvable that's the funny thing they they've created a situation where there's just no way back you know they have too many people who want to be woke and and a bunch of people who don't and you can't reconcile that you the the the people who are just you know all down on wokeness they're not going to give it up so what do you do well let me tell you what the other Democrats are doing to try to write the ship according to Politico this sounds like I'm just making it up but according to Politico a lot of Democrats have started cursing in public so they give a whole bunch of examples of uh you know of of Democrats using the FW

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uh you know of of Democrats using the FW and the sww and the the GD word and apparently it's sort of a big Trend and I'm thinking to myself they are so out of ideas that they're really doubling down on this if we can get the messaging right if we could just get the messaging right and then they look at Trump and they'll see that every now and then he'll throw an sww into his speeches and stuff and they'll go yes yes that's what it is we need more cursing but no I'm joking it's not they didn't just say we just need more cursing they also need more cringe
videos and then Elon Musk was pointing out that the Liberals seem to be getting violent you know they're attacking Tesla uh locations Etc and so they've got cursing they've got cringe videos they've got random

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violence and then they've got uh uh representative Hank Johnson Democrat from Georgia he just in public in public he actually said this he believes that Trump and the magum movement want black Americans quote confined and back to quote picking [Music] cotton so that that should move the ball forward and then uh and then uh uh Jasmine Crockett who might be the dumbest Democrat of all so they're giving her the most attention because they're like oh I I don't know if the cursing and the cringe videos and the violence are enough we better have our dumbest worst spokesperson be the most prominent one so Jasmine Crockett went on some show MSNBC and said it's not illegal for illegal aliens come into the
the country it's not a crime it's not a crime to come into the country

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crime to come into the country illegally they're not sending their best
anyway uh as you know the teachers unions are destroying America because the the foundation of American power is education if you get education wrong which we apparently are doing you you don't really have a future there there's no chance and that's where we're at and mostly I would say that's the fault of the teachers unions and the teachers unions of course would like the kids to have a good education but their primary uh let's say their primary concern is the good of the Union itself and whatever is good for the Democratic party so if your main criteria is not the well-being of the children and clearly it's not you're going to get the result that we see just horrible horrible outcomes and but there's apparently a a force that has been organizing to give an alternative

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been organizing to give an alternative to the unions it's called the freedom foundation and they're hosting they're just getting started but one of what they want to do is promote some kind of alternative for teachers that don't join the union so they would give teachers a liability coverage better curricula um some patriotic and pro capitalist teachings and professional development I assume those are things that the union does so they're trying to match the benefits without all the bad stuff which is basically just being a tool of the Democrats so if we can figure out how to break the hold of the teachers unions the United States has a chance maybe this is it may maybe they just needed an alternative uh meanwhile Steve Cortez just put out a documentary that looks fascinating and uh he's he's down in Star County Texas which is almost

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Star County Texas which is almost entirely hispanic and uh is prot Trump and you really have to see it um you know I've been telling you forever that if you have a lot of contact with the Hispanic Community the recent immigrants you could have seen it coming that they would be more Pro jump because they're all about uh God family work they're not about woke at all and they don't mind seeing deportations because it's a problem to them too so uh I recommend it Steve Cortez just look for his account on X and you'll see his documentary um very interesting I had a little uh conversation back and forth with Constantine kissen um you would know him from his podcast trigonometry but also a very smart common commentator about you know all things

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all things geopolitical and he had some things to say that I I thought really interesting and I felt like I didn't I didn't know all the elements of it so I had some followup questions but let me tell you where that went so it started out by he was talking about a 1997 book by uh this guy Alexander Dugan who wrote that among other things now this is 1997 so it's been around a while that quote Russia should introduce geopolitical dis disorder into internal American activity encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic and social and racial conflicts actively supporting all dissident movements extremist racist and sectarian groups thus destabilizing internal political processes in the US it would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics so that would be one way that Russia could you know destroy the United States now you've probably

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the United States now you've probably also seen uh the work of this guy a Russian guy named Yuri bezmenov who has a similar message and he's been saying that uh the Soviet Union at least had this plan to destabilize American culture by basically um amplifying destructive forces now I asked Constantine you know what would be the evidence that Russia is actually doing this because maybe there is you know maybe there's a whole bunch of places where we've spotted them doing it and he clarified that it wasn't about uh Russia per se but it might be something that you know all of our adversaries are doing China mentioned China cutter Iran and Russia but the weird thing is and one of the things he mentioned was the tenant media situation do you remember that it turned out that uh I guess Tim p and Dave Rubin and some other podcasters

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Dave Rubin and some other podcasters were receiving money uh from a group that had some Russian backing but they didn't know it and the group wasn't asking them for any different treatment or any any different editorial so there was no impact whatsoever on what they did they just got free money and then it was uncovered that there was this connection to Russia and I guess that got Unwound but I've noticed that whenever Russia is trying to interfere with the United States it looks like a a high school project level quality do you remember the uh the troll farm that was uh allegedly trying to influence the 2016 election but if you actually looked at how much they spent it was basically nothing and then you look at the quality of the memes they presented and they were just ridiculous just so empty of any quality or persuasiveness they were just just nothing and I thought to

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just just nothing and I thought to myself is that the best that Russia can do to disturb our internal politics is some memes that nobody saw and then giving free money to PE to people to do what they were going to do anyway
that's the best they could do and then there was the story about the one hacker who got into what was it the Democrats or Hillary's email or something and then we're told by our own intelligence people that it was Russia and we know it well maybe but I'm not so sure so it seems to me there would be a lot more evidence of Russia doing something like that and then the other the other context is that it's what everybody does to all of their adversaries anyway so the idea is that if you're just boosting you're not creating you're not creating from scratch but you're just boosting those elements within our society that are the most

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are the most destructive that uh that's all it takes and I'm thinking isn't that exactly what we do to overthrow other countries don't we routinely uh fund their most div divisive elements and specifically to weaken them and and Stage aoup so maybe everybody's just doing it to everybody but the bigger context the thing the thing that to me seems the most Salient is that there's nothing these other countries could possibly do to boost the most corrosive parts of our society that isn't already being done by democrats and specifically Soros so is Soros working for one of our adversaries because he seems to be more tightly wound around our Democrats and and and it feels

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and and it feels like that we're being torn apart from the
the inside I don't see the impact from other countries and my own view with this Yuri bman who is sort of the OG of saying that Russia's got this plan to destroy our civilization with their clever Shenanigans I've never trusted him to be real I I have a theory that he's the op he's not the person telling us the op I think he's the op because if you thought that it was coming from the outside you would not be able to fix it so I think he's just looking at the fact that we're naturally divisive and that if we're naturally divisive you're going to see all these examples that you're going to say wait a minute did did Russia fund antifa well no evidence of it wait a minute is Russia behind the teachers unions well

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Russia behind the teachers unions well not that I know of we we have these wildly divisive elements in the US I feel like this Yuri bof was either just monetizing what was going to happen anyway by acting like he had this theory about why it's all happening I don't trust that guy at all like I feel like he's the op but that's just a feeling I don't have proof of
of that anyway so if all these countries are influencing Us by boosting the worst most corrosive parts of our society they don't have a chance compared to the boosting that the Democrats are doing to those ex act same entities uh and Soros in
in particular so anyway I don't know how to I don't really know how to think about that other than it doesn't look like it's the biggest problem in the world compared to what we're doing to ourselves the stuff coming from inside the tent well meanwhile Israel announced

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the tent well meanwhile Israel announced uh yesterday that it's going to be cutting off electricity to Gaza which would have the effect of cutting off water because the desalinization PL there would require that electricity um and I guess they're going to cut off humanitarian Aid I believe they have food that would last them maybe weeks or months but uh no more humanitarian Aid now this of course is try to try to squeeze them to you know give up or to give up the hostages but according to the hill uh Tera sud is writing that there's a the Trump host Envoy thinks that we might have a deal with Hamas or that we could have a deal soon uh to free all of the hostages within weeks so that's a Adam bowler is the White House special Envoy and uh he thinks that every hostage taken by the uh the militant group ofas could be

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uh the militant group ofas could be freed all at the same time in weeks now that doesn't even seem remotely like to me do you think there's something we don't know about because if there's no new variables on the table I don't see how we'd get a different outcome so remember Trump said if you don't release them all they will be held to pay is it possible that we've delivered a threat that they completely feel is real maybe to the leadership maybe to I don't know to Iran you maybe the threats on Iran if we don't get them back we're going to take out your nuclear facilities so it seems to me that this is one of those cases where we may never understand what the real what the real deal was maybe we offered something of value maybe we offered a better threat um I don't see how this could just sort of work all of a sudden I don't

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don't know but we'll be optimistic now the other day somebody in the comments uh um challenged me to uh do the best I could to describe the Palestinian side of the Israel Palestinian conflict now that would be the ultimate third rail so of course I said yes because I think I'm attracted to trouble so let's see if I can do this and still be in business tomorrow all right so I'm going to give you the the best of objective uh description of the situation the first thing I would say if you're looking at the Palestinian and here I'm I'm not talking about just Gaza so we'll talk about the Palestinians more generally um I don't think you can understand the situation in terms of who's good and who's bad um who has the better long-term claim uh who's got the

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claim uh who's got the historical let's say the best complaints about what happened and therefore the best you know Narrative of how it should turn out as long as you're thinking about who's good or bad or the narratives or the history you're just lost nothing like that matters the only thing that matters in this region is who has the power at the moment Israel has the
the power if it were reversed it would be reversed meaning that the Israelis would be complaining that they were under occupation or worse and everything that the Palestinians are saying hey you're you know you're blocking us from statehood you're you're uh keeping us suppressed we're in a they'd say we're in a uh an outdoor prison it would just be the other way around because you have two societies two civilizations that are incompatible and they will always be

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incompatible and they will always be incompatible there's no way that they're just going to live next to each other in peace so it's a power Dynamic and that's it so there's no good guy there's no bad guy it's just power and Israel is doing what would be good for Israel what's good for Israel is to increase their land uh for two reasons one is it could give them a little extra buffer against attacks but also wouldn't it be good to have a bigger country because in the long run very long run that will just all be good so Israel is doing what is in the best interest of Israel and they have the power to do it as soon as you start overlaying you know who's good or bad or who's moral who's ethical none of that makes any difference the ones with the power are going to get what they want and it will be at the expense of the other side now what makes it easy

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the other side now what makes it easy for the is Israelis is that the Palestinians apparently have some addiction to violence as at least part of the solution we don't know what would happen if the Palestinians suddenly came up with a Martin Luther King character who had you know amazingly I think this would be impossible but amazingly said all right we we just want to put our case to the world and we want the whole world to watch and we're going to say what our complaints are and then we're going to say what we want and we're going to denounce all violence but we think that when we make our case the world will back us maybe maybe that would work for them but it seems to me that the Islamic culture is more about fighting and again I'm not going to say it's right or wrong good or bad moral or immoral it's just seems to be the reflex

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immoral it's just seems to be the reflex and is seems to be based on cultural impulses and so as long as they're willing the Palestinians are willing to do a or at least some of them are willing to do a Non-Stop violence kind of opposition it just gives Israel a free pass they can just say well there it is again we better take this country well there it is again we better you know bomb these people and displace them well there it is again so in in terms of strategy the Palestinians have picked a strategy that sort of will lose forever because it just gives the other side that has more power the free pass to use it and so they do now if Israel is doing everything that's good for Israel that would be every country so you could say oh those bad people doing everything that's good for them and bad for other people no that's just

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for other people no that's just everybody that's everybody throughout time every country does what's good for their country and and again this is not supporting it and it's not criticizing it because neither of those mean anything it's simply an observation the ones with the power get what they want that's it so you know of course there's there's other elements to this such as the military industrial complex in the US would like to have another the place where we can sell weapons we'd like to be able to project our own us interests through a proxy in the Middle East so the US has an interest in you know Israel being the strongest player in that region and so that means Israel will have the power and they will keep doing what they want now one of the claims that the Palestinians make is that when the Israelis say hey we gave you Gaza and it was just your

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we gave you Gaza and it was just your own country and you could have turned it into a paradise but you turned it into a Hamas terrorist hell hole and now look what I bought you well the Palestinians and the the people in Gaza would say that never happened it it's it's true that you sort of you know pull out but you didn't stop bombing us but of course they always had reasons they were responding to some kind of an attack and they didn't have freedom of travel and commerce because they were sort of surrounded and again presumably entirely for security reasons the uh Israel couldn't let them ship in and out anything they wanted because that would be dangerous didn't let them travel unrestrictedly for for the things that you would normally do for Commerce and so the gazin never felt that they really had let's say the ability to run their own country

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own country they they felt like they were still under some kind of Siege even if there were no boots on the ground within Gaza itself now that would be their take I'm not endorsing it I'm not taking aside I'm just describing it if you ask them they'd say Yeah you sort of on paper gave us Gaza but it was never free in the way that other countries could be free you have to deal with everybody and then Israel would say how could we how could we give you that freedom when you're just a boil in uh stew of terrorists who if we open the roads or open the sea you'd be shiing in massive weapons and turning it into another attack and that of course would be exactly the right approach from their self-interest I'd also point out that the thought about having uh two separate countries were the the West Bank and the Palestinians even forget about Gaza for a second but if you want have the two countries

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countries solution you know that that ship already sailed right there are now so many settlements Israeli settlements you just peppering that entire area that there's not really any possibility of a two-count solution and again that would be
be presumably what the Israeli government wants to not have a two-country solution even if they use the words that they would and uh it looks like they have a long long term plan Israel to maximize Israel which everybody would expect again it's not good it's not bad it's just power and if you just revers the power instantly you would have almost the same situation except the Israelis would be the ones complaining and the Palestinians would be saying well look at you terrorists trying to fight back against our massive power I guess we'll just have to press you a little bit harder because you're still acting like terrorists because the weaker party

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terrorists because the weaker party doesn't have any tools so they're going to use some terrorism that wouldn't surprise anybody so let me see what else
um yeah I think that that that pretty much does it so that's my take my take is as long as you're in the who's good who's bad who's got the historical claim you know whose Bible says what that's all just it's just power and who has the power is going to use it right now it's Israel that's sort of the end of the story everything everything else is just a normal outcome of who had the power and I don't see it changing anytime in the near future because I don't see them coming up with a Martin Luther King oh we were wrong the whole time let's just get the International Community to back us and we'll ask for a bunch of people ful things I don't see it

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things I don't see it happening so it'll just be more of the same I think for a long time um Jonathan Turley is writing about uh a crisis fatigue and he's he sort of mocking the uh the legal experts in the country which of course in many cases are leaning left and talking about how easy it is to get a thousand uh legal experts to sign on to any Democrat anything and then the news will treat it like it matters that you got a thousand legal experts to say there's a constitutional crisis and everything's a constitutional crisis until you're so tired of constitutional crises that don't seem to actually make any difference in your life that you see another list of a thousand legal experts saying there's another constitutional crisis like every week or two and just doesn't mean anything we're just exhausted by it and it never has real effect in the real world and we figure they're all biased and it doesn't matter

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they're all biased and it doesn't matter how many people on the list because you can always get a list you can always get you can get a thousand people to agree to anything you know as long as you're not talking about the ones who didn't sign it just say well thousand people say we're in a constitutional crisis because of trump and it's all getting just stupid like it's the best the the best the uh Democrats can do is to try to get basically to reproduce the 51 intelligence people who say the laptop isn't real the most debunked method of truth it's all they have uh let's put together another easily debunked you know proof of what's real yeah we'll get a list of people ah it'll be long there'll be a thousand people on the list doesn't mean anything anymore in today's world and and we're smart enough to know it now not been following the situation in Romania so maybe I got a little this wrong I was seeing Mike

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a little this wrong I was seeing Mike Ben talking about it online so apparently Romania uh was having a presidential election that the EU and I guess the US probably was behind a little bit uh got the election cancelled because they didn't like who was going to get elected is that roughly what happened um but the uh European Union president this Ursula V laying um she's sort of quiet about it because as Mike Ben says and what can she say Ben says if she says she supports Romania cancelling elections which she does uh says mike the EU will look like a dictator it is says Mike and if she says she doesn't support it it would throw the very Network in Romania the EU leaned on to cancel elections under the so so the EU is basically overthrowing the government of

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basically overthrowing the government of Romania just sort of matter of factly you're right in front of everybody do I have that even a little bit
right um all right so I don't know if I do but uh that that would be more of the same for the United States anyway to be influencing other Count's elections uh anyway according to Wall Street Journal um American defense companies are having a good time they're increasing their dominance of the global arms trade and the European nations are you know trying to buy as much as they can to protect themselves they're buying us fighter jets and missiles now how many of you have ever heard this um I'm going to call it a conspiracy theory but I think we're all sophisticated enough to know that conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's not true right so I don't know that is true so I'll call it a

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that is true so I'll call it a conspiracy theory but it's certainly not ruled out and it goes like this that the real reason that there's been such a push to increase the number of NATO countries is not to defend against Russia it's because as soon as you turn into a NATO country you have to American uh weapons to be compatible with NATO is that true that the real reason that there's always a continuous push to add new countries is because the military industrial complex in the US gets to sell more weapons because you can't be in NATO unless your weapons are compatible with the rest of
NATO you i' hate to think that that's the whole story but it could be right it could be part of the story it could be just opportunistic stuff like oh yeah we want to protect we want to protect against Russia but by the way

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to protect against Russia but by the way it's pretty good for business you know that's not the main reason we're doing it but it's also good for business you know it's it's a little hard for me to accept that the real reason is protecting uh the countries from Russia versus is the gazillions of dollars that the military industrial complex would make if we just add one more country so I'm a little skeptical there uh meanwhile RFK Jr has asked the CDC to look into the the link between vaccines and autism now that's interesting the Gateway pundit is reporting this now uh and apparently the that study would involve using the vaccine safety data link uh which monitors safety of vaccines and investigates uh adverse reactions um I don't believe anything

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reactions um I don't believe anything about this story sorry I don't believe that there's an existing database that if you just looked at it carefully you would know if there's a link between vaccines and autism are you kidding me there's there's no way we have a database that if you just looked at it really carefully you would know the answer no now I saw in the comments before I came on that um all you'd have to do is study let's say the Amish or the I don't know the menites or whoever they are because there are some uh there are some groups that are not vaccinated so if you check the unvaccinated group and they didn't have any autism well then you'd say to your aha it must be those darn vaccinations but that won't work because there are too many things that are different about the Amish let me give you an example one of the hypotheses

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you an example one of the hypotheses that I'd heard years ago but now I don't believe it's true but it is one of the hypothesis that what's different about the modern world is that smart people meet other smart people more easily so we go to college and you let's say you go to MIT you're more likely to meet somebody that you get married to um who is also a top engineer or basically nerd and there's some indication that if you take two people who are kind of sort of near the
the Spectrum uh and they have a child the odds of them being on the Spectrum are way higher now I can't promise you that's true that's just some something that's been around for long long time now the Amish don't reproduce that way so that's not their mating strategy presumably their mating strategy is old school where it's like Jake uh looks like

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where it's like Jake uh looks like you're ready for a wife uh Sally down the
the road she'd be a good wife all right she's the only one available so it feels like the yamish may just do old school mating and it would the the Nerds hooking up because they both work at Microsoft maybe I don't know um the other thing is that the Amish are not eating the same food they're not eating processed food the other thing is they're spending more time Outdoors so and you could probably come up with five different things that the Amish do that are just clearly different in terms of lifestyle and exposure to things I mean maybe it's something like you know I'm just make this one up don't don't take this seriously but what if it's like exposure to lead right I'm not speculating that I'm using it to make the point because the Amish wouldn't have the same exposure so

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Amish wouldn't have the same exposure so it could be a pollutant that is common to everybody but the Amish so I don't think you can study the Amish and know whether vaccines cause autism but on positive there's no existing database that can tell you that I don't believe any of that now maybe that maybe that's just the first thing that uh RFK Jun has to do you know maybe he has to get past let's look at all our existing databases and see if it tells us anything before he can get to the next level of you know is there is there a better way to start tracking this so I'm in favor of the effort I just think maybe it's a little harder than it looks at the same time RFK Jun is going to meet with the uh according to zero Edge going to meet with the leaders of the processed food industry um what is that going to produce because it feels like they're not going to say oh yes I will greatly

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not going to say oh yes I will greatly reduce my yields or I'll let my food rot faster um just so that we have fewer chemicals and uh seed oils and stuff in them I don't know that you can just talk them into it but maybe you maybe there'll be a few easy wins like oh yeah we can get rid of that one thing or yeah we we don't need that chemical in there so Something Good Can Come of that I I think the RFK junr problem is that when you go from concept you know I want to do these things and make everything healthier to bureaucracy um it's probably just like a brick wall you just probably just banging your head against a brick wall now we'll see if RFK Jr's got the clout along with Trump to uh make a real difference and penetrate the bureaucracy but it's super tough so if he can do it it'd be amazing according to science

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amazing according to science alert uh having children makes your brain younger later in life now that makes complete sense to me if you've had any exposure to being around children the complexity of your life if you add just one child to your life and you know often it's more than that uh the complexity of just getting anything done goes through the roof and I would think that your brain would be healthier longer if you added any kind of complexity and challenge to it especially if it's one you really cared about like your kids um so that make sense you know I wouldn't say that I would have necessarily guessed this but anything that an adult does to challenge their brain and their memory and their their thinking and if it's a continuous pressure like having a kid it seems to me that it do it would make a difference so
so anyway I do see some things in the

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anyway I do see some things in the comments about seed oils I'm I'm not completely convinced that the seed oils are all bad um but I certainly see a lot of smart people say that they are so I'm open to
it all right um you feel younger than people your age who have older kids because you started late
okay all right um that's all I have for today uh like I said the uh the technology was not H happy with me today so the found on the X feed is a little less than that this microphone's not connected to my phone um but we'll upload the uh high quality one from the locals feed onto YouTube and Rumble and we'll then we'll have it all and that's all I've got for today so thanks for joining everybody um

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today so thanks for joining everybody um I'm just going to say goodbye to uh to the X feed and I'll say a few words privately to the people on locals and uh thanks for joining we'll see you tomorrow