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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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Chapter 2: What news is there about space exploration?
When I look at the moon, the first thing I think is, God, it's dusty up there, isn't it? So they put a vacuum on the moon. I don't know if it's going to vacuum the entire moon or just the front side because we don't have to see the dark side. So that's good. Finally, somebody put a vacuum on the moon. Wait, what? Oh, okay. Maybe it's the vacuum up samples and bring it back. But I like mine better.
In other space news, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is getting ready to launch into space an all-women's flight aboard their New Shepard rocket. It's an all-women's flight. And Katy Perry, Katy Perry will be on the rocket. Now, I would call that a good start. If he could find a way to launch all of the annoying celebrities into space, just think how much a better world it would be.
I'd like to start a petition for... Let's see. Oh, you make your own list. So many annoying people. But at least if it's an all-women's crew, at least they won't feel shy about stopping and asking for directions. Am I right? Okay. A sexist would say. Here's a big one. BlackRock has announced it's going to end its DEI hiring goals. Huh. Now, Blackhawk was the big death star of DEI.
Chapter 3: What changes did BlackRock announce regarding DEI?
They're the ones who not only had DEI, but they were really super committed to it, like it was their main thing. But they were also forcing companies that they do business with to also do DEI. So this one's like, this is not an ordinary company. When BlackRock pulls back on DEI, and they're pulling back hard. They're not just tweaking it. It looks like they're just getting rid of it.
And that means all the companies that they had browbeaten into it also now are free to do the same. So if BlackRock does it, that sends a signal that everybody can do it. And I think they're doing it just for purely practical reasons. You know, there's a legal liability. It's literally illegal and always has been. It's just that now we have an administration that will follow up on it.
So I expect the rest of the dominoes to fall pretty quickly. Meanwhile, over at Citigroup, according to ZeroEdge, Citigroup accidentally credited $81 trillion to an account that should have been $280. But they caught it before the person got to the ATM and withdrew the 81 trillion. No, they couldn't have withdrawn 81 trillion.
Now, if you're worried that they could have somehow used that money or moved it around, not much of it, because any large transfers are looked at pretty carefully. So it's not like the person with the account could have just said, hey, I'll just take a billion. I think they would have noticed right away. especially if they were dealing with numbers like $280. You'd notice that.
But in related news, Vladimir Zelensky has moved all of his personal accounts to Citigroup. Just in case. Yeah, you never know. You might get that $81 trillion and you'd have something to spend it on. No, I made that up. That's not true. Meanwhile, the House GOP is moving to remove a giant Black Lives Matter mural. I think it's on the street. I'm not sure. From Washington, D.C. Plaza.
So this raises some questions. If they remove the Black Lives Matter mural, how will I know if they matter? Because I need written instructions on this stuff. It's so confusing. Wait, they're human beings. Do they matter? I'd better go read the street. Oh, there it is. There's the directions right in the street. Okay, they matter.
But if they take that off, people like me will be like, I don't know. I don't know. It's a little ambiguous. Without any written instructions, what will I do? What you will do is treat everybody as a human being and an individual. Anything else is D.I. Meanwhile, Trump says he plans to add a ballroom to the White House. He wants to add a big old ballroom.
Well, as you know, the White House under Biden had all the ballroom it needed because Biden had tiny balls. So you don't need much space. But Trump has gigantic balls. And so they're going to need a whole new structure just to hold his balls. So he'll be building his own ballroom. Yeah, true.
Trump is going to pardon Major League Baseball Pete Rose, who didn't get into the Hall of Fame because he was caught betting on baseball. Now, as Trump explains, he only bet on his team to win, which is the least bad version of betting on your own sport. But It's still not good. And Trump acknowledges that. That's not good.
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Chapter 4: Why is Trump planning to pardon Pete Rose?
So when the economics are good, as in oil prices are high, you get more drilling. And when the oil prices are low, you get less. So we're not seeing any indication of a Trump policy change that's made any difference to energy prices. I hope we do. But it could be that there's nothing the government can do because the economics drive it entirely.
So I don't know what the government would do to change the economics of oil. So we'll see. Maybe he's got some tricks up his sleeve. But there's a company, according to interesting engineering, there's an AI-driven robot technology.
There's a company that has AI and robots, and they're making them available to US power plants, and apparently they've already got a $100 million deal, so it's a serious thing. in which the robots will crawl all over the power plant, and they'll have maintenance suggestions, and they'll tell how to optimize, and it'll predict when they need maintenance, and it'll do a bunch of things.
So they're looking at it as a way to decrease the overall cost of the power plants. So that's good. So let's say they could maybe decrease the cost of the power plants by 10%. That's great, except that AI in other contexts will increase the cost of energy about 10 times because it's gonna suck it all up for AI.
So I think AI is gonna be a net negative for energy prices because it's gonna be competing with consumers. So I don't know how that's gonna work out. So I would say that Trump does not have, as far as I can tell, I don't see Trump having any kind of plan for energy that would lower the cost. And maybe there is none. Maybe there's nothing you can do.
It could be just pure economics, and we're a capitalist place, and you just can't make people do low-return business. They're going to do what they're going to do. All right, here's the funniest thing that happened. Now, I don't know if this story is true, so fact-check me on this. Because if it's not true, it's still so funny I'm going to report it.
But allegedly, Trump signed an executive order that said that Zelensky is officially spelled with only one Y. Remember I was complaining yesterday that Zelensky, there's at least three different spellings I've seen. There's two Ys on the end or one. There's an I in the middle or an E. And it was driving me crazy.
So if it's true that Trump did an executive order redefining Zelensky's name, that's just about the funniest thing he's ever done. Because it puts Zelensky in his place where, no, it's Gulf of America, Mexico. There's nothing you can do about it. No, we're going to call you Zelensky with one Y, and there's nothing you can do about it. We didn't consult you. It's an executive order.
That's your name now. Now, that is just pure funny. If you don't understand that as hilarious, you probably have serious TDS. That is just flat-out hilarious. If it's true. If it's not true, it's also hilarious. So I don't care if it's true. So one of the reasons that we know that Zelensky rejected, I'll say rejected, or gotten a little tiff with J.D.
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Chapter 5: What did Zelensky say during his meeting in Washington?
If you're going to try to get something major out of Trump, you better wear a freaking suit. And that should be your exception. You should say, no, this is important to the future of Ukraine. I'm not going to get this wrong. I'm not going to insult my host. This is really, really important. Do you think a Republican would have ever given that advice?
now the real problem is why did he accept it in the first place like what was going on that he thought it was a good idea and then one one breakfast with democrats turned it into a bad idea i don't know but lindsey graham as you know is completely lost so he's just totally done with ukraine and you know you could argue that it's too little too late because he was big on ukraine
But I don't mind when people adjust. I don't mind when they correct course. So I'm more likely to judge him by the course correction than from the being, you know, you could argue not so right before. But here's what he said. He said in a post, to the hand-wringing Europeans who felt offended by President Trump's rejecting being lectured by Zelensky, be my guest to defend Ukraine from Putin.
It is long past time for the Europeans to show that they are capable of defending their own continent. And then he says... This is a take I hadn't really heard before, but I guess I could have intuited it. They've allowed, meaning Europe, they've allowed their militaries to be hollowed out, and when Europe speaks, no bad guys listen. I say this with great sadness.
The last group of people that I would count on to defend freedom are the Europeans. Wow. So let me tell you where I got off the bus. Now, I was never a fan of the funding that war. But where I got off the bus on defending Europe is when they turned on us for free speech. And that was Europe. Well, let's say Great Britain seems to be the biggest one, but the rest of them seem to go along.
Now, you know the story. Europe created this fake watchdog censorship structure whose main point, and they say it directly, was to destroy the X platform, the primary resource of free speech in the United States. So let me say it again.
If you attempt and you put real effort into it, like a lot of effort, and it's an actual policy that you're gonna try to destroy free speech in the United States, I'm on Putin's side. Sorry, Putin didn't do that. So I'm not really on Putin's side, you know what I mean. I'm being hyperbolic. But I'm not gonna defend with one bullet or one anything if they're trying, and they're still trying.
They're still trying to destroy free speech in the United States. So no, you don't get anything. I would pull completely out of any defense with them because they cross the line. That's a line you do not cross if you're an ally. That makes you an enemy. Let's be clear. If you're going after free speech, probably our most valued right in the United States, you don't get to be our friend, ever.
while the same people are alive. And there's nothing you can do to make up to it. You can't make up for that, as long as the same people are in office and stuff. There's nothing you can do. That's game over. You're on your own, in my opinion. Well, meanwhile, Zelensky's over in Europe trying to pass that and get them to step up and defend Europe.
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Chapter 6: How is the border crisis being addressed?
That means that Musk does know with certainty how the bad guys are stealing massive amounts of money, and he believes that if he outed them, they would literally kill him. Now, he wasn't joking. It wasn't hyperbole. He said he literally thinks that if he outs these powerful people, that he would be killed. Do you think that's going too far? I don't. I don't think it's going too far.
And apparently Tim Burchett, you know, in Congress, he's a Republican, he had said in a video a while ago that if anybody ever leaked where the money goes in the Pentagon, because they fail all the audits, they never passed an audit, so we don't know where the money goes. He said if anybody leaked where the money goes, they'd be murdered.
That's Tim Burchette saying directly, if anybody told you where the money was going, really, they'd be murdered. And now Musk is saying the same thing. And he wouldn't give an example even though he knows it.
Now, I hope Musk is smart enough, and obviously he would be, that he's got some kind of a file that nobody could ever find that would basically activate if he got killed so that it would all be released if they actually killed him. Now, if he doesn't have that, he needs to get that going. He needs to make sure there's somebody else
who knows the exact story, or it's in a file, or it's in a vault so deep beneath the world that you can never know, maybe in multiple places, in case they torture him and say, tell us all the places, and he'll give them like five of the places, but they're really six.
I hope he's smart enough, and every indication is that he is, that he's done something so that we can definitely find that out someday. Hope so. That's the scariest thing we've heard. There's some thinking that cutting the Pentagon budget is actually not possible because the people trying to cut it will be murdered, like literally murdered. Now, I believe that completely.
I completely believe that that's a risk. Anyway, some people online are agitating that it's time to leave NATO and leave the UN. And Musk actually agreed with that in a post on X. Europe probably does need to defend itself. That just makes sense. It made sense to have NATO for a while, but it never made sense that we'd always have it.
So maybe this is the time to make sure Europe can defend itself. And then the UN just seems like an anti-American institution that we're funding. doesn't it? How often does the UN agree with us or do something useful versus thwart us and embarrass us? So I will listen to an argument on the UN and NATO, too. There might be a counter argument that's pretty good.
But I think they're both on the table. I don't think it's crazy to think that we could get rid of both of them. I just don't. I don't have a firm opinion on that. According to Just the News, we have evidence that Epstein had about $20,000 in cash, some of it in small bills. And the thinking is that maybe this is evidence of blackmail, because he had $20,000 in cash.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of AI in energy production?
So they've not included the full cost of the government in their budget calculations, and it pushed costs into the future taxpayers. So basically, most of them are underwater, but they're doing accounting tricks to look like they're not. Now, what do you expect when professional liars, politicians, are the ones handling your money? What do you expect to happen?
On paper, if you were to say on paper, how do you win an election? Well, the most corrupt person, lots of times, because they can get the most support and money and stuff if they're corrupt. So basically, the people who are the best liars often become the leaders, right? because they did a better job of lying about their opponent than their opponent did.
So I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that at least city officials are professional liars. Is that too far? Wouldn't you say they're professional liars? Because that's how they get elected. And then they lie about everything. And we could watch it. We could watch them lying in real time.
So if you take the most lyingest people in the whole country, and you say, all right, the most lyingest corrupt people, manage my money. And there's going to be a lot of it. How could this go any other way? So I'm going to say again, we need to completely revise the who gets to determine where money goes. that's just got to be taken out of the hands of mayors and politicians in the city.
The city can vote what they want to do, but when it comes to actually writing the checks and auditing, that's just got to be taken away from the city. That cannot be. You can't have the city auditing itself. You just can't do that. There's no way that works. So we need something that, I don't know if you can do that with an executive order. Seems like a little overreach, but I don't know.
Prime Minister of Israel just posted this on X. With the conclusion of the first stage of the hostage deal and in light of Hamas's refusal to accept the Witkoff framework for the continuation of talks, to which Israel has agreed, Netanyahu has decided, as of this morning, the entry of all goods and supplies to the Gaza Strip will be halted. So that means he's starving the civilians out?
I think that's what that means, right? Because the goods and services going in would be mostly food and medicine. So it looks like the last stage of depopulating Gaza is in effect. And one of the things I've noticed is that whenever Hamas acts, it's really bad for Israeli's citizens, obviously. So if Hamas does a terror attack like October 7th, it's terrible for the citizens.
They're traumatized or killed or captured or tortured. So if you're looking at it from a civilian point of view, Hamas is just all bad all the time. But here's the ironic thing. Every time Hamas does something big, Israel as a country gets stronger because it works to their narrative, and then they can capture more land.
It's not the first time that it's allowed them to just control territory that they wouldn't naturally control. So Hamas has this weird kind of thing going on, which is the more they attack individuals that are Israelis, the stronger Israel as a nation gets. And it's very consistent, and this will be another example. So it does look like, my guess is that they'll get rid of all the civilians.
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