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Chapter 1: What are the highlights of today's episode?
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The most important story of the day really is that Canada won the hockey game to become the leader or the winner of the, what the hell was it? You can tell how much I follow hockey. Oh, the highly anticipated Four Nations Championship game. Yeah. So Canada, congratulations. Nice win.
see how easy it is to be nice congratulations and i i did turn it on just to see if there'd been any fights over the national anthem yeah it was a little a little complaining about it but no big deal so uh it was probably just a good game i didn't watch the rest but i'm glad we're back to just playing sports and getting over it you know when we have uh disagreements with canada
doesn't really feel like other disagreements does it it feels it just feels so much like a sibling kind of a thing where you know one sibling say ah you're really a governor the other sibling is saying ah we'll you know we're a country none of it i take too seriously so it seems all performative but i'm glad we're at least not fighting about hockey
you'll be fascinated to know that Stephen King, who left X, is back. And he said, did you miss me? And Elon Musk said that he did. Which actually makes sense if your job is to get a lot of traffic on X. But here's my question. Are we supposed to believe that Stephen King left X because it was so terrible? but then he returned after it got, I would imagine, in his point of view, even worse.
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Chapter 2: What happened with Stephen King on X?
So I love having the guy who was fighting the Russia collusion hoax while it was happening, Kash Patel, now in charge of the FBI. And things might get interesting now. We don't know. Now, I wouldn't bet on it. I don't think Adam Schiff really has anything to worry about. But I see a lot of people saying, oh, when's the Epstein list going to be revealed?
Do you know what the answer to that is, of when the Epstein list will be revealed? Well, there are two possibilities. One is that it doesn't really exist, because do you really think there's a list? Really? You think there's a list? Maybe. I mean, anything's possible. But if it doesn't exist, it won't be released. That makes sense. Now, what if it does exist?
Well, if it does exist, it's definitely not going to be released because whatever's on that list would be far more valuable for the government to keep secret so they could do what Epstein was doing, which is have complete control over the people on the list. So there are only two possibilities. It doesn't exist, so it won't be released, or it does exist, so it definitely won't be released.
Only two possibilities. So no, you're not going to see any Epstein list. Forget about that. Well, at CPAC, I guess Javier Mille from Argentina showed up and gave Elon Musk a sort of ceremonial, cool chainsaw-looking thing. I don't think it was operational. And that was fun.
One of the things I love about having Javier Mille just insert himself into the American story and associate with Elon Musk is that, at least according to the news, what Mille did is working. Now, I don't think we're seeing all of the news. Do you really think that Javier Mille just took a chainsaw to a huge part of the government, and then it was just all good, like only good things happened.
That's not even a possibility. So if you're not also hearing about what the downside was, such as maybe somebody got not as good health care or not as good police protection or The garbage didn't picked up. I don't know. Must be something. But did he really just chainsaw the whole government spending and everybody was just fine and the only thing that happened was inflation went way down?
Does that sound real to you? Is there any real world in which you can do something that dramatic and it's only good? All good. No downside. I don't even think that about America. I mean, I'm 100% in favor of Doge. But I think we all understand it's going to break some eggs, so to speak. And there'll be some things you have to rapidly put back the way it was.
Like, oops, I didn't realize that was that important. So, I don't know. The whole Javier Mille story, I don't buy it the way it's being told. It's a little too on the nose, a little too weirdly successful in a way the real world doesn't work. But, Again, like Doge, I'm completely in favor of it. So I'm completely in favor of what's happening in Argentina.
I just think we're not getting the whole story. You know, we can handle it. There might be a downside. I think it's worth doing overall. It probably saved the country. And I think Doge is worth doing overall. It's probably going to save the country if anything can. But really, let's not act like there's never a downside. And then somebody challenged Elon Musk at that event.
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Chapter 3: Why is Kash Patel now the head of the FBI?
I just want to save the country and let everybody benefit from that. Anyway... Trump is threatening the state of Maine for defying his executive order about keeping men out of women's sports. He says, we're not going to give them any federal funding. So according to Trump, allowing men, biological men and women's sports doesn't get you any money in Maine.
It gives new meaning to the phrase, my Maine man. I worked on that all morning, and that's the best I can do. My main man. It didn't work, did it? It just sort of laid there. You're like, main? Oh, I get it. Sort of like a dad joke on the state name of Maine. Okay, got it. Yeah, we'll just leave that one there.
Meanwhile, over on CNN, Van Jones had some things to say about Elon Musk and all the doging. He said that Elon Musk is, now remember, do you remember my reframe from yesterday? The reframe was that the Republicans are mostly talking about real things. The debt is real. Russia, Ukraine war is real. Real stuff. You know, men and women's sports, that's real. But the Democrats have become sort of the
the fan fiction interpretive dance party, they don't really deal with real things. They imagine things that might go wrong in the future. And that's it. Imaginary things that could go wrong in the future. Now, you can't say they're wrong because it's things that could go wrong in the future. But you could say they're not doing anything.
because literally everything could go wrong in the future if you implement it wrong. If tomorrow somebody said, hey, we've got this free technology that will make egg prices really low, somebody would say, oh, so it's going to be like a monopoly thing? You know, could go wrong. They'll form a monopoly, put all the other egg people out of business.
Then the people with the secret egg making thing will be in charge of us all. So basically you're saying you're in favor of monopoly of eggs. Okay. That could happen. But why don't we deal with what did happen? The price of eggs just went down. So here's Van Jones on CNN. He says that Elon Musk, he says he's quote, abandoning his children.
and doing theatrics as he puts a chainsaw to the government, the government that, quote, our parents built. Is any of that like talking about the real world or anything you care about? Do I care that your parents built it? I mean, what exactly is the relevance of that? You either like it or you don't like it. I don't care who built it.
He said, you unleashed somebody, meaning Musk, who's doing the theatrics, abandoning his children, having some weird fantasy in front of everybody to be popular. Oh, okay. So the problem is his character. Remember, as long as Democrats are locked into bad character instead of any kind of policy and stuff, they can't possibly win. And they can't get out of the character mold.
They're completely locked in. Some weird fantasy that trying to be popular. Do you think that's what Musk is doing? Do you think that he's trying to be popular? Who in the world tries to be popular by siding with Trump? What? That's bordering insane. That's the last thing you do. If you wanted to be popular, you would just make really good electric cars and
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Epstein list?
This is what everybody who doesn't understand how the real world works says makes sense. Oh. Instead of using a chainsaw, they should use a scalpel. The next time you hear anybody say they should use a scalpel, you should ignore everything they ever say from that day on. If you really believe this could get done with a scalpel, you are so far from understanding anything about how anything works.
It wouldn't work. There's a reason that big companies don't do this either. If a big company takes over a small company, do you think they say, well, it might take us 10 years to get it done, but we're going to use a scalpel. Do you know what happens when you try to use a scalpel? The people you try to scalpel will tell you that won't work.
All right, managers, I just took over this entity or I'm Doge. I don't know all the details of what you guys do,
so can you tell me where the cuts will be with the scalpel because you know i don't have time to learn like all the nuance of your specific department and then the department manager says well we're actually underfunded by 30 percent so you can't really make a cut here and then you come back to him you say no but everybody's got to make a cut we're just going to do it with the scalpel and then the person says really well there's nothing to scalpel
Okay, but give me a list of things we could cut out with a scalpel. All right, you're going to have to give me a month. A month? Yeah, because I have to look at all the things we're doing, talk to everybody, really dig in and make sure we're using the right scalpel. All right. And then a month later, they come in and go, well, we looked at everything. There was nothing to cut.
Turns out we just need 30% more money. What do you do with that, Van Jones? What do you do with that? If you don't think that's what would happen, you've never worked in the real world. Here's what works. How much money do we give you? 100 billion a year. All right, now you have 50. That's it. Nothing else works. There's nobody who's ever made anything work but that.
And then everybody screams and quits and resigns and protests, right? And then you check back in a year and everything's working with half as much money. It's the same thing everywhere, all the time, all over the world, all through space and time. Only one thing works. You have less money. Deal with it. Everything else is just a bunch of people with scalpels lying. Here's my scalpel.
I'm getting ready to cut some only the fat. I won't get any muscle. Won't work anywhere in the real world. And I don't believe anybody except somebody who's a lifelong pundit would ever imagine the scalpel could work. It's so removed from any kind of common sense. Now, if you don't believe me, I would recommend that you check in with people who really know how any of this works.
Well, such as Elon Musk, literally the world expert at cutting the fat. You know, before he did Doge, if you were going to say, all right, who would be the best person to do this? You would have said Elon Musk. And then as soon as he starts doing it and doing it exactly the way any smart person would who had a lot of experience, everybody is like, whoa, I've got a better idea.
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Chapter 5: How is Elon Musk perceived in today's political climate?
Because it feels a lot like all they ever do is change the names. Because they can't really say we stop caring about diversity. That's not going to fly internally. So doesn't it really mean they're just going to hide it better? We don't know. But that's what I'd assume. George Clooney continues to be extra, extra worthless outside of acting. I love his movies. So within the
Within the realm of Hollywooding stuff, I enjoy his work. I'll watch more of it. But he conceded, I guess, in a Thursday interview with the New York Times, he conceded that the media, he says the media failed us in his coverage of Biden's fitness for office. The media failed us. What does this remind you of?
Reminds me a little bit of Mayor Karen Bass, who is putting together an investigation to find out why she went to Africa instead of handling the fires. She's looking for the real killer. It's a little like OJ looking for the real killer. If you're actor George Clooney, and you knew for sure that Biden didn't have it together, and you noticed that the news wasn't handling it,
and you knew that if you wrote about it, it would be the news, George, you are the news. Everything you say is the news, including this interview where you talk about the unfitness of the news. The news printed you saying that the news failed. He can get the news to print anything.
If he can get the news to print that the news failed, he certainly could have gotten the news to print, I know Joe Biden, and you really need to back off of this, he's... He's not where you need him to be. They would have reported that. Do you think there's any chance that if Clooney had broken ranks, they would have ignored it? There's no chance of that at all.
He had the complete power to make that not a problem. He could have actually probably gotten at least a better contest if people had listened to him early. although it probably would have ended up being Connell Harrison unless they took him out really early. Anyway, let's compare that to how Republicans have treated Mitch McConnell's obvious mental infirmities.
Now, with McConnell, we don't know exactly how much is mental and how much is physical because it's pretty overlapping, but In your experience, has anybody gone easy on Mitch McConnell? Have you seen any Republicans who said, stop bothering Mitch McConnell. He's perfectly fine. I don't see a problem with him. What do you see? Well, you crazy Putin puppet.
You must be a Putin puppet if you say that. Mitch McConnell looks fine. Who says that? Nobody. So for the longest time, the minute that McConnell walked on stage and looked mentally degraded. What happened? I'll tell you what happened. Every single Republican said, okay, that's a problem in public. We said it in public many times. Okay, that's a problem. We need to get rid of that.
That's our problem. So I feel though, I feel like the Republicans do a level of self-policing that just doesn't happen on the other side. It felt like somebody took a dump on our carpet. And I think if that happened to the Democrats, they'd be looking for the real pooper. Whereas the Republicans are like, oh, wow, look at that on my carpet. I better clean that up right away.
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Chapter 6: What are the effects of Javier Milei's policies in Argentina?
His ability to communicate is just way above the average Republican, that if he's not in the fight for the top job fairly soon, maybe he needs to get a little more seasoned, but I don't know. I think you'd be pretty happy with that kind of a voice on your side. So it's premature. Anything could change, but at the moment, a very high opinion.
So I'd like to give you George Clooney's opinions in interpretive dance. No rules count anymore. It's like letting an infant walk across the 405. It's like there's these pendulum swings. We can't let the eight years of a black president. That's my interpretive dance version. Let's see. CNN is telling some fake news about Pete Hegseth allegedly making deep cuts in the Pentagon.
Now, I do suspect there will be some eventual deep cuts in the Pentagon, but apparently what Hegseth is doing is moving existing funding from one bucket to another. So he's taking it away from climate initiatives. How could anybody be against this?
How could anybody be against the Pentagon moving money from their climate initiative to building a Iron Dome to protect the United States from incoming missiles? But boy, those two things are not similar. But CNN will call that as a deep cut. There might be deep cuts coming, but that's not right away.
There are four new polls showing that the public's opinion of Trump handling of the economy has turned, according to CNN. So there's a new CNN poll, Gallup poll, Ipsos, and QPAC. Now, what do we believe about polls? How many of you believe polls are real? Now, I don't want to cast any aspersions on any particular pollster or particular poll, but I don't believe they're real.
There was a time I figured, well, if there are four of them, you know, and they're in the same direction, they're probably real. Now, I also don't necessarily think they're wrong because America is dumb enough to that they would say, it's been a month and you haven't fixed the economy yet. That would be something that Americans would say. I don't know, it's been a whole month.
My price of eggs went up. So you said you'd lower it and it's been a month. So it's plausible. And by the way, if they did the poll, it means they were probably polling last week. So they might've been polling his performance after three weeks on the job. before you even had, like, as the people approved and the nominations approved. So just in general, let me say this.
When polls can be validated, meaning they can be compared to the reality, I think they're usually as accurate as the pollsters can make them. So, for example, for every polling company that was doing polls for the election, I believe their last poll, each of their last poll.
So the one that was closest to election day, I believe they all had an incentive because that was the day you could find out if they were way off or not. That was the only time they had any incentive to be accurate. All the other times, I believe, without proof,
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Chapter 7: How do Democrats and Republicans differ in self-policing?
And it looks like it surged in a way that's spectacularly different from the baseline. But again, it's China and data. I'm not sure we believe any data from China. But the suggestion is that they've got a deflationary problem and that people are just hoarding their cash and they're not consuming enough to drive the economy where it needs to go.
if you've got a deflationary problem maybe injecting it with some stimulus money that you printed maybe that's why they're doing it so we're just guessing at this point and it's not 100 sure that anything's happening at all because the data is so sketchy all right so marco rubio did an interview with i think it was catherine harridge
And he said that when he met with Zelensky, Zelensky was sort of a two-faced liar. And he said that when I talked to him about, let's see, about maybe the U.S. sharing in some of their mineral wealth, Zelensky seemed at first sort of positive about the concept, you know, at a concept level. But, you know, he needed to run it through his legislative process.
So he was acting like, oh, yeah, that could be a winning idea. And then two days later, he's saying he rejected the deal. Not that the legislative process did, but that he rejected it. And apparently that's just a lie. So Rubio is just calling him out to have been lied about that. And And Rubio is saying there should be some gratitude there because we're helping them more than they're helping us.
57%.
Huh. I wonder who did that poll. Let's see. Was it the Kiev International Institute of Sociology? Yes, it was. That's who did the poll. Were they funded by USAID? Well, it turns out they were. Guess what? USAID, the little, some say, CIA-related funding entity that we use to control other countries, allegedly, was behind that polling. And it came out at exactly the right time.
with a number that suspiciously looks like it was just made up on the spot. Huh, how about that? So the Mays account on X explains it this way. He says, a couple of days ago, Trump claimed that Zelensky is widely unpopular in Ukraine and that his approval rating is 4%. The very next day, the mainstream media collectively called Trump a liar,
And the mainstream media in the United States, this is so embarrassing, the mainstream media in the United States called Trump a liar, as did, let's see, CNN did, ABC, CBS, and they all quoted that 57% to show that when Trump said 4%, I mean, Trump's, what a liar, 4%, is 57%, people. So May says, I looked up where the number came from. It came from the Kiev International Institute of Sociality.
Guess when they released their poll results? It was the day after Trump made his claim. That doesn't sound too suspicious, does it? There were no poll results that said that until the day after Trump said it was four. How about that? I think there was a real poll that said 4%. And then there was another real poll that said 16%. Now, 16 would be devastatingly bad.
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Chapter 8: What does George Clooney think about media failures?
incentive to make it wrap up fast maybe but how does trump compensate for what looks like giving them stuff looks like but i don't think really is well he expands the variables so here what you would say is here's the deal it's not just about those territories and it's not just about nato we're going to make this a lot bigger
It's going to be a bigger deal, and there are going to be things that America wants, even if Ukraine doesn't. There are things that America wants, even if Europe doesn't. So we're going to talk about all the things. Once you've seen all the things, you might have a good idea of who gave up what, and what was real, and what was practical, and what might work, and then you could have an opinion.
But at this point, nothing's actually been given up. But there may have been some you know, just common sense reality. It's like, okay, if we're going to have this conversation, we know there are some things that are not negotiable. Let's say, for example, that Putin had been asking for NATO to be completely disbanded, not just in Ukraine, but just disbanded. Would we enter that negotiation?
We would not. But suppose Putin said, all right, I'm going to accept the fact that NATO will never be disbanded. Well, then you can talk. Is that an example of Putin giving us something for nothing? Aha, he wanted NATO completely disbanded, but he seems to have already backed off on that before we even started negotiating. No, he didn't give up anything because it wasn't going to happen.
There was no scenario in which NATO was going to get disbanded. So if you're giving up things that everybody knows were never really negotiable, all it does is allow you to talk. It looks like that's what Trump's doing. He's just being reasonable about the things that are negotiable and reasonable about the things that are not negotiable. And if you don't have some common sense approach
to what's real, you can't negotiate anything. So it's way too early to say it's going to work or not work. We have to see all the variables. And it could be, it could be there might be some secret variables, meaning that the public might not see the entire agreement. For example, one of the things we might want long term is that Russia takes our side if we have some
say, Islamic extremist problem? Maybe. Maybe we could use their help. Suppose we want their help making sure that something good happens in the Middle East, just in general. Maybe there's a secret agreement. Maybe we want to make sure that we drive a wedge between Russia and China so that if things got really bad,
russia would feel a little more likely to thrive if they're on our side i don't know if we'd say that publicly so we're not going to really necessarily see all the variables that went into whatever gets agreed on if something gets agreed on all right um so in my opinion you want to be uh here's the other thing you want to be complementary to putin and treat him like a serious peer.
That's the only way he's gonna make a deal. And same the other way. If Putin were treating Trump like he's Hitler, how would they get a deal? Trump wouldn't even talk to him. If Trump were treating Putin like he was Hitler, why would Putin meet with him? They'd never get a deal. So it makes complete sense that Trump would be complimenting Putin at the same time he's giving some tough criteria.
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