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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
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Now we're talking. Well, if you're thinking it's Saturday, so is Owen going to do his spaces? Not today. Spaces will be on Sunday after the show. There are Several stories in the news today about trans, and I'm going to ignore all of them, because I feel manipulated. You know what I mean?
Every time I see a trans story of any kind, I think to myself, you know, it was only a few years ago there were zero, and then suddenly it's like one of the main things in the news. There's no way that's organic. And it's no way that's national news. All right, there's somebody who's trans and somebody called them the wrong pronoun. I don't care. No interest whatsoever in individual trans stories.
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Chapter 2: Why are plastic straws making a comeback?
Well, President Trump, the ultimate crowd pleaser, the man who can read the room better than anybody, says plastic straws are back. Let me tell you how genius that is. Plastic straws have to be one of the most popular things in the country. And everybody tried the regular ones and didn't like them. So the beauty of this is not just that it's popular. but it's visceral.
See, this is what Trump does that you don't notice. When you think of the plastic straw, you can feel it, right? It's like a feeling. You can almost taste it. You can taste your beverage in your mind. So when he does this visual imagery that evokes taste and feeling, that's really strong. You can never forget that kind of stuff.
Now let's compare Trump saying plastic straws are back and you've got this whole visual image and you're happy about it. And it's not the biggest thing in the world, but it's absolutely what you wanted. Now compare it to Elizabeth Warren. who did a post in which she was talking about Doge and she's fighting against it. Now watch this generic, terrible communication. All right.
This is from a post on Elizabeth Warren, Senator Warren. I often talk about righteous fights. Some kind of concept. Make no mistake. We are in one. A what? A righteous fight. Okay, that's nice and generic. I can't taste it, feel it, see it. I won't remember those words tomorrow. This fight will be long. Okay, you're telling me I'm going to feel bad.
Trump will continue to distract, divide, and demoralize. Okay, concepts, concepts, concepts. But when things get tough, again, you're telling me it's going to be hard. There is only one option ahead of us. There's never one option ahead of you. That's kind of dumb, even as a concept. Nevertheless, we must persist. You see what I'm saying, right? Let me give it to you back to back.
Trump, I'm bringing back plastic straws. Got it.
Elizabeth Warren, I often talk about righteous fights. Make no mistake, we are in one. This fight will be long. Trump will continue to distract Biden to moral lessons, but when it gets tough, when it gets tough, there's only one option.
God, learn to communicate, will you? Learn to communicate. How in the world is she one of their strongest Democrats when she can't put a sentence together that anybody would want to care about? Meanwhile, ICE has, I guess, arrested 11,000 illegal migrants, according to the New York Post. So they're putting them in all kinds of different places. So that's just in the first 18 days.
They got 11,000 mostly criminals who mostly would have reoffended because criminals reoffend. Did they basically get rid of, let's say if they reoffended twice a year, did we get rid of 20,000 crimes? That feels like a lot. I mean, I get that it's a big country and we have a lot of crimes, but 20,000 crimes? How are you not in favor of that? 20,000 criminals, especially the gangs?
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Trump's actions on Biden's security clearance?
But the reason that I think the public was so interested in this story, you know, yesterday when I did my man cave program, almost everybody who came in said, hey, have you heard about this one? Have you heard about this one? And I think the main thing is we understand it. The Doge stories are all just a little complicated. Have you noticed?
You have to sort of know what the entity is, and then there's a whole bunch of different things they're doing badly, and then you confuse that with the other entity, and it's just really complicated stuff. So when we see a simple one, like Trump's bringing back plastic straws, we're like, okay, I got that one. Or Trump revokes Biden's security clearance. Oh, okay, got it.
Let's talk about that one. Easy. You know, all crime hides in complexity. Complexity is usually the way that, it's usually intentional to hide crime. That's why almost every domain has something in it that's way too complicated because there's crime in there and you can't spot it because it's too complicated. There's a study by DiverseIQ.com says that DEI didn't work.
So DEI has been around for a while, and it made basically no real difference. I could give you details, but the details all say it didn't make any difference. So we had years of severe racism against white men mostly, because white women were doing fine under DEI. But years of discrimination, just overt discrimination against men, no difference. The numbers barely moved.
A little bit more in management, which you'd expect. So anyway, DEI was a failure. We can say that for sure. Much like the... Department of Education at the federal level. Is it the Department of Education? Yeah. The Department of Education was formed because the students at the lowest end of accomplishment needed a boost.
So the whole idea was, all right, we'll do this federal thing so the states can't just let people go. And it made no difference. So years and years of funding the the education department, no difference. So DEI, no difference. Department of Education, no difference. So getting rid of those things that made no difference has got to be a good thing.
All right, let's talk about the story about the young man, I think he was 25, who got canceled but was brought back. So correct me if I'm wrong, But I think the story about Big Balls is not a story about him saying anything wrong. He just had a funny name online. It's someone else, slightly older, 25, I think, 24, 25. who was the one who said some things under a, I think under a pseudonym.
I don't think it was under his own name, but had said several things that a normal person would say. Well, that's pretty racist. That looks pretty racist. I would say that. If you were just looking at what he said, yeah. Yeah, I'm not going to repeat them because they're ugly thoughts. But yeah, if you were only looking at the sentences, yeah, that would look racist to me. But here's the thing.
There are real people who say bad things. I've told you before, I don't put the same standard on somebody young as I put on somebody older, but I also don't put the same standard on people acting anonymously. If somebody acts anonymously and then somebody outs them, I blame the person who outed them. That's my standard.
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Chapter 4: What are the issues surrounding DEI and the education system?
So the most normal thing that happens in our government is people who are not elected do important things. USAID, entirely run by people who are not elected. Who is the elected person at USAID? None. None. So it's beyond stupid to say that Musk as a private citizen is a problem. It's way beyond stupid. Now again, if I thought that they were trying to be a news channel... I'd be up in arms.
I'd be like, oh, can't you tell that you're distorting this story that really everybody's, most of the government is not elected. And the people who are elected are not going to be auditors. They're not going to be going in there. They're going to be senators or whatever, but they're not going to be doing this.
This is a totally specialized kind of work that very few people on the whole planet could do. Certainly not any elected people. That's how I would say before. Now I just think it's funny. It's funny that they don't have any argument and watching them flail. Little baldy Joy Reid. So apparently Trump's Pentagon, I guess this would be P. Hegseth, probably gave the order.
They've removed from the Pentagon CNN, NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Hill, and NPR. Why did they remove them? Because they would be considered propaganda and not news. I love this. They're not being removed for being biased. They're being removed for just being propaganda that pretends to be news.
They've replaced it with, and you can make the argument that there's propaganda on both sides. I won't argue with you. is replaced with Newsmax, OAN, New York Post, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart. So certainly all of these new entities that are going in, the right-leaning entities, I would say it's fair to say that they have a right-leaning bias.
But you know what seems different? And I could be wrong about this. I could be completely wrong about this because it would be easy to be fooled. It seems to me that the actual propaganda only comes from one side. Bias comes from both sides, roughly the same amount. But propaganda, where you say to yourself, they know that's not true, but they keep saying it anyway.
That's different because you don't see that on the right. On the right, when somebody says something happened and it's wrong, they believed it was real. They were just wrong. And being wrong is not really the biggest crime in the news world when everything's moving so fast and there's a fog of war. We're all wrong. Being wrong is pretty ordinary.
But being wrong and in a biased way is not in the same category of waking up and saying, how can I get rid of President Trump? That's really different. One is propaganda because you know you're doing it. The other is just it's a messy world. People make mistakes. People are biased. Well, here's what David Sachs said about USAID.
I try to get you the best explainers and then just quote them because it's so hard to summarize USAID and what's right and wrong about that place unless you've got really good communicators. So here's another really good communicator, David Sachs. He says, quote, we're in debt. I think this was on the All In pod.
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Chapter 5: How does censorship relate to USAID funding?
Chapter 6: What impact does cancel culture have on society?
If you don't give me money, children will die. Let me tell you my How to, if you get a chance to have a conversation with somebody who's saying, but they're cutting charity, children will die. If that's all they know, here's what you say. They are not a charitable organization. We only give charity where we're trying to control the country where that charity is.
And they use it as a vehicle to move our CIA into the country under the cover of the charity. And the charity is selected specifically for countries that we want to control. If it were a real charity, if it were a real charity, the giving would look completely different because the giving would be based on where the biggest problem was. Do you think that's what you're seeing?
No, you're seeing the giving completely directed where we want to control the country. It's just a coup. If you can't tell the difference between charity and a coup attempt, you shouldn't be in the conversation at all. Now, if you say to yourself, well, come on, okay, maybe one or two times that's happened within USAID. No, let me say it again. It's the only thing they do. They don't do charity
And then also separately, they do some, you know, some coups and things that are good for America. It's not separate. It's exactly the same mechanism. And it's always the same because that's the whole job of the USA. It's not about charity. It's about using charity to take over countries.
And it works really well because the country is going to have a hard time saying, no, don't help us with our AIDS epidemic or something like that. So now, just ask how the charity would look different if simply helping people was what you wanted to do.
I talked to my smart Democrat friend that I often talk about, and he was, like most Democrats, completely unaware of what I just said, that USAID is... well documented and known to be really in the coup business and the projecting power business, and that the charity part is just artificial. Now, here's the thing. I could be wrong. I mean, it's happened before.
Suppose that's not what USAID is doing. But that's not my point right now. My point is, that's what the most, let's say the Republicans were following things the most. That's what we think. Because we've been educated. I think it's educated. And the big story here is that his news sources, CNN and New York Times, will never tell him what the other side thinks and why they're motivated.
What we think is this is stuff we don't want to be paying for and we're motivated to get rid of it. What they think is, oh, you're just trying to get rid of our charities and kill children. So if you watch CNN, you will never hear What I just said, that USAID is basically for projecting power and the charity is a fake thing on top of it.
Now, even if you think that's not true, keep in mind, remember when Q was a big thing, 2016 or so? When Q was a big thing, CNN and MSNBC would talk about it because they say those crazy Republicans, they believe in this thing called Q, right? So they will generally show both sides when the Republican side has something embarrassing. Then you'll hear what the Republicans think.
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