Who Owns Power: Courts, Cities, Or The Crowd

A glitchy cold open gave way to a gut-punch: a farewell to Scott Adams and a promise to keep his “simultaneous sip” alive. From there we sprinted into a week that felt like a decade—RFK praising Trump’s improbable health, a Ford factory visit doubling as a campaign drumbeat, and a fresh wave of populist proposals that actually touch daily life: caps on consumer interest, limits on Wall Street gobbling up single-family homes, and data centers paying more so households don’t get crushed by power bills.

We waded into the ICE firestorm with a clear lens: what does “due process” mean when agents get rammed and cities refuse detainers? Minnesota’s prosecutor shake-up raised real questions about DOJ optics, while media frames kept flipping “victim” and “threat” depending on the headline. At the same time, judges reminded us how fragile accountability can be—one date error and an appointment quibble can vaporize a case. The legal wrangling spilled into the Supreme Court’s Title IX debate, where language drift collided with biological categories. If women’s sports need clarity, can policy survive word salad?

Then came the geopolitical curveballs. Greenland is back on the table—part strategic buffer, part resource play, part map rewrite—and Iran’s streets are roaring against a regime that’s losing air. We connected sanctions, Starlink, and the region’s shifting center of gravity without hand-waving the cost. Along the way, we tracked PPP fraud prosecutions and the UK’s retreat from mandatory digital IDs, a reminder that public pushback can still move governments.

It’s all one thread: power, incentives, and execution. Populism isn’t a slogan; it’s whether your bill drops, your street feels safer, and your team plays by rules that make sense. If that mix of humor, hard questions, and policy detail is your lane, hit follow, share with a friend, and leave a review telling us which segment hit hardest. Your notes shape what we dig into next.

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SPEAKER_18 0:10

Yeah, we can't be like making changes right at the beginning.

Remembering Scott Adams And A New Ritual

SPEAKER_16 0:28

We're getting screwed, man. Every time we turn around, we're getting screwed. Well, the revolution's gonna be true podcasting for sure. That's the only way we take. It's the little guys, the little guys that take the blunt of everything. It's gotta stop. Peasants, man. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those old movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. You might have noticed we were just a moment late this morning. That's because we had this great idea. We were like, hey, what can we do to improve the show and make it better? I was like, you know, when I read an article, maybe we could do like a split screen, not a picture-in-picture, but an actual split screen. Seems like a simple thing. Yeah, seems totally simple. Every podcast does that. A split screen, how complicated can it be? Apparently, it's a little more complicated than you think. So that's what cost me. Probably not. Yeah, as we were playing around and then we hit the hey, we have to stream in a couple minutes. Let's abandon what we're doing. Go back to the original settings. Our cameras were all zoomed in. We were basically looking at the tip of my nose. Couldn't figure out how to reset the camera. It was gonna be great. It was gonna be awesome. You were gonna get the whole show right here with me talking like this. So, anyways, Mada Easel, good morning, Brazor. Uh Brazor. Man, there's Hazel, Hazels, Azores. Good morning from Boise. Carlitz, good morning, everyone. Pony Boy, good morning. John Attackis, good morning. I feel like my mic somehow through our settings is now super hot, isn't it? Right here? Something like that? Okay. All right. So, in very, very sad news yesterday, our dear friend Scott Adams passed away. Um, I thought he was in his mid-70s. I guess he was only 68 years old. When I first started listening to Scott Adams, he was playing tennis every day. He was pretty active. He was saying he was kind of in the not the best shape of his life, but you know, the best shape of his life or a 60-plus year old. And he took the vaccines, and you know, here we are four years later, and he's dead of a of a very accelerated cancer. So very, very sad. Cancer happens to lots of people, so you can't just be on an individual level. Oh, that's because of the vaccine. But I think even him and his private conversations with people was kind of saying, I might have gotten the turbo cancer. So, you know, who knows? We'll see if you put out any written statements. He had a beautiful little thing that he wrote that was his last official statement. He turned himself over to Jesus Christ, said I look forward to being in eternity with him. And uh any proof of my belief will be quickly satisfied when I wake up with him. And so that was kind of fun. And uh, I've long since thought when Scott Adams finally stops doing his trademark signature at the beginning of his show, his simultaneous sip, I'm taking it. Uh doing the simultaneous sip as a homage to someone who I considered a mentor and a guru, Scott Adams. So this morning, if you would join me, and we need to do this every morning. This needs to become like a show tradition. If you would join me for the simultaneous sip, I know why you're here. You're here for the simultaneous sip. All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass or a tankered, a chalice or a stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip.

SPEAKER_19 3:59

That's good. All right.

RFK On Trump’s Health And Diet

SPEAKER_16 4:02

We have hosted Scott Adams. May you rest in peace with our Heavenly Father, and uh, we'll carry on the mission without you. So yesterday, a lot of stuff happened in the news. It's kind of an interesting day. Uh, it's a lot of like you know, you know, I don't know. I've been watching the news for 20 years as an adult, right? And every week you have something that's pretty big in the news cycle, and every now and then you'll have a couple stories that stack up. Usually there's like the intended narrative that's kind of building on itself, and the Hegelian dialectic leading us down a path to a sort of destruction. But then you'll have like uh a mass shooting or something that comes out of nowhere or an opportunity, and a hurricane. A hurricane might actually put some of those narrative stories on the back part, right? But during Trump's presidency, really the last 10 years, there are weeks that feels like there's decades worth of news. And this year, specifically, 2025, and I guess now 2026, this last year since Donald Trump's been in office, it's been nonstop. I mean, every day there's like it's coming from the left and the right. The news is super active. Obviously, that drives a lot of people crazy, which is totally fine. We take a look at it, we just want to see it. We want to see it for what it is, we want to understand the narratives as they're coming to us, and we want to understand these people that are our betters, right? Our elites, the people who run this place and make the rules that we have to follow. This is RFK, and he did an interview with Katie Miller. Now, it's interesting to know who Katie Miller is. When I say that name, does it ring any bells to you at all? No. So Katie Miller is Cash Patel's girlfriend. This is the country music star that nobody's ever heard, that she knows a highly successful podcast. This is one of those perfect examples of inside access. Katie Miller should not be interviewing RFK or any of the people she interviews. She gets these interviews clearly because she's Cash's girlfriend. But she got an interview with Robert Kennedy Jr., and he had something funny to say that uh Dr. Oz said when they reviewed Donald Trump's medical records. No! Oh, we were so close.

SPEAKER_18 6:05

I was saying this morning, we don't have to prove that we're not AI.

SPEAKER_16 6:10

But we still are self-evident. Okay, here we go. I mean, he's got his incredible health.

SPEAKER_08 6:17

Dr. Oz looked at his um his medical records and said he's got the highest testosterone level that he's ever seen for uh for an individual over 70 years old. I know the president will uh be happy that I repeat that.

Ford Factory Visit And Populist Optics

SPEAKER_16 6:36

He's got the highest testosterone levels of anyone over 70 years old. I believe it. I mean, look at this guy. Can you can you tell me that that does not look like a high testosterone real man? 2023, the mugshot, fight, fight, fight, assassination attempt, his inauguration photo. And this is Donald Trump yesterday. Did you see this by any chance? No. So what happened yesterday was Donald Trump visited the Ford factory in Michigan, and lots of great news come out of there. We're not going to really play any clips. I thought it was a fake image. No, no, no. So Donald Trump tours the Ford factory yesterday, gives some great speech. Ford manufacturer says we're, you know, running 24 hours a day, six days a week. We're building all of our cars here in the United States. We're building two new trucks, a small car, we're opening a new factory, tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. They're working, they're working, they're working. Yay. It's great, great cheerleading for Donald Trump's economic agenda. Also, yesterday, inflation numbers came out. They're low, no surprise there. Turns out only Donald Trump knows how to run an economy. All those PhDs over at the Federal Reserve, they don't do jack. Okay, so Donald Trump is at the Ford factory, and of course there's a heckler down on the factory floor, and he's yelling up at Donald Trump, calling him a pedophile protector, pedophile protector. So this is the image of Donald Trump waving at this license. This is really what happened here? Oh, you're gonna need the noise, it's part of the video. Mostly filled with boomers plus. Uh, that might not be the most attractive thing you've seen, but trust me, the zoomer waffin, you know, the guys that are like burn it down, I want your home equity, they love that stuff. And especially the black community loves that stuff. They get way into that thug life kind of thing. So Donald Trump doing that to most people, we kind of grow up with the politicians kissing babies and shaking hands and what's the artist's name that sings that song?

SPEAKER_18 8:57

Oh, I don't know. DMX or something like that.

SPEAKER_16 8:59

Anyways, that is hilarious. So I'm sure there's gonna be lots of people that are offended. Donald Trump flips someone off. Dude, the guy's got the highest testosterone of anybody over 70 UVs.

SPEAKER_18 9:09

I don't think anybody's gonna be offended by that.

SPEAKER_16 9:12

It's pretty fun. Uh RFK also talked about Donald Trump's diet. Now, Donald Trump gets a lot of crap about his diet, right? People, he's a big man, 6'3. Yeah, diet coke, got some aspartame poisoning. Also, another uh uh well, that was my simultaneous sip this morning. So Donald Trump uh is known for being a big guy, right? He's big. A lot of people thought he's fat over the years, and you know, he's I don't know, he's a well-built man. I don't know how else to say it. Say it. I love looking back at his pictures of like the 70s and 80s when he's walking around with all these girls and he's got his like Ferrari and he's you know tall, but he's got his he's got his belt and his belly button, and he's got a little stuff, you know, little muffin top over it, and he's he's a billionaire. He's like, it's not a problem for me. Look at all these women. Yeah, he don't care. Yeah, he don't care. But uh, Katie Miller asked uh RFK about Trump's diet.

SPEAKER_06 10:02

Who has the most unhinged eating habits?

SPEAKER_08 10:06

The president. Oh uh you know, the interesting thing about the president is that he eats really bad food, which is McDonald's, uh, and then you know Kathy and uh Diet Coke. He eats the drinks the Diet Coke all times. He has the constitution of a of a deity. I don't know how he's alive, but he is but he's at Mar-a-Lago. He says he says that the only time that he eats junk food is when he's on the road and he wants to eat food from big corporations because he trusts that he doesn't want to get sick when he's on the road. But when he's at Mar-a-Lago or at the White House, he's eating really good food. So I think you get this. If you travel with him, you get this idea that he's uh he's just pumping himself full of poison all day long. Trying to kill himself walking around, much less being the most energetic person you know any of us have ever met.

SPEAKER_16 11:14

He's the most energetic person we've ever met. He has the constitution of a deity. He's eating junk food all day long and runs around circles. Gotta fuel that testosterone. Lucy Weil said that Donald Trump was a high testosterone or uh, excuse me, a highly addictive person, right? He was like working with an alcoholic. She talked about her dad being an alcoholic. Well, that personality trait, the personality trait that leads people to be alcoholics or workaholics or drug addicts or you know, sex addicts, it's often chasing the dopamine, right? That's what it is. You're trying to get that high, that dopamine high.

SPEAKER_18 11:46

There's a drive.

Populism, Policy Moves, And Energy Costs

SPEAKER_16 11:47

There's a certain genetic type that translates to a personality type that your brain eats the dopamine faster than other individuals. So while someone gets a, you know, let's get some type of uh satisfaction dopamine high, right? For one person, that might last 10, 20, 30 minutes, lots of satisfaction. For an addict, someone that has this genetic marker, all of that's gone. It's gone in five minutes, right? Right. So then they're wanting to chase it again. So that alcoholism, that's why you chase the drunkness or you chase a high, right? So Donald Trump clearly has that alcoholic personality, but he's not an addict, right? He doesn't do drugs or alcohol or anything. So he finds his dopamine and making the deal and making a little more money or doing whatever he puts his mind to. The big deal addict. Our society needs these high functioning addicts, right? Because they're the ones who really drive the needle forward. Elon Musk probably qualifies for this as well. He probably gets no pleasure out of anything. He's like, I'm trying to make it to Mars, and anything shy of that is disappointment. Your brain is eating through the dopamine. Uh, high-level operators that are Navy SEALs, Green Berets, these guys often have these same personality traits. This is what allows one person under chaos to go into fight and flight mode and scared and stuff like that, while another person, all that adrenaline, your brain just eats through those chemicals. So Donald Trump clearly is one of those types of people, and he's completely unafraid to go on a total populist tear. Republicans are afraid of populism. They always have been because it's a form of collectivism that they can't really control. Populism engages kind of the mob rule mentality and it says what's good for the masses. Okay. So I personally feel like I'm a populist, but I'm an independent populist. I want things that are good for me specifically, and all of you guys can have the same set of rules to play with, right? That's that's like an independent populist. I don't know where Donald Trump falls on the populism spectrum, but Steve Bannon describes here Trump is on a tear with his populist policies the last week.

SPEAKER_13 13:50

And the president's on a on a populist tear. He's dealing with the mortgage issue, he's dealing with the affordability of housing issue, he's getting into the big banks about capping the interest rates at 10%. He's all over full energy, full spectrum energy dominance, and particularly dealing with these data centers to make sure they can't come back on the grid and uh and torch folks. He's all over. This is this is President Trump is on a populist tear right now for economics. And we love it. And there's even more to do, but we love what we're seeing so far.

SPEAKER_16 14:20

Populism is extremely popular. Barack Obama ran on a populist ticket. Bill Clinton ran on a populist ticket. The era of big government is over and welfare reform. A lot of the stuff that Clinton pushed back in the 90s was supposed to be good for the people, didn't turn out to be. And we know that the Clintons were really good about having two sets of policies, one for the bankers and one for the camera, TV cameras. Uh, but Barack Obama ran on a populist ticket. I mean, this is what Obamacare is. It's it's it's a it's taking a crack at universal health care, which is a completely populist agenda, no matter where you're at. So Donald Trump coming in and absorbing all these populist agenda items, but then doing them in a Republican business-oriented sense way has made dramatic effects and it's scaring the Democrats. The Democrats use these populist policies to create fodder, to create a buzz around whatever they're doing, but they rarely execute on them. And when they do, it's dumb stuff like free buses in New York. You know what I mean? Or free medical care for Somalis. I mean, it's not free medical care for me and my kids, or free child care for me and my kids, but if you're Somalian, oh, we'll cover that. The Democrats are scared because Trump's economic policies are working and they're hitting all the populist buttons that they need to hit.

SPEAKER_09 15:34

Blocking institutional investors from purchasing uh blocks of single-family homes across the country to sort of loosen up the inventory numbers out there. And this goes to what Kevin O'Leary was just talking about force big tech companies to pay higher electricity rates to cover the data centers. There's, you know, basically a public mechanism for paying for power. And President Trump himself said, you know, look, they have to pay their fair share of these huge um AI and tech companies when it comes to the drain that they're putting on the energy.

SPEAKER_16 16:04

So one of the things that Marjorie Taylor Green has been barking about is affordability. Trump's not doing things for affordability and the prices of healthcare, price of electronics. Trump has been, you know, we're going to pay the people, not the insurance companies. It's kind of playing a game of chicken with the Democrats on that one, as far as the tax subsidies and stuff like that. But when it comes to the electricity, this was another one that was brewing. You know, if you're up in, I don't know, New York, your electricity prices are going up because some data center came online. So Trump is simply looking at the data centers and he's like, listen, for you guys to double your electric cost is like a small line item on your bill. But if I don't lower the cost for the people in your community, they're gonna make me run you out of town. See what I'm saying? So suck up the extra electricity cost. Brilliant! What a great populist solution. It's a little communist, but the buses are gonna be free free regardless. Right.

SPEAKER_09 16:50

A couple others with around housing, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, um, also in the mix there. Uh, great to have you both with us. John, uh, your reaction to the speech and to these actions, clearly, this is the So Trump is really going on it.

SPEAKER_16 17:04

And Trump in his speech at the Ford factory, he talked about this. And again, this is that testosterone-injected American, red-blooded American. When he says something like this, contrast this with Barack Obama's speech in a similar spot where he goes, Oh, you're some business and you think you're successful. Well, you didn't build that, you didn't do it on your own, right? Do you remember this speech? So contrast this with that.

ICE, Due Process Rhetoric, And Media Frames

SPEAKER_07 17:30

As we liberate our country from this cultural scourge and the plague of corruption and fraud, we'll rediscover the natural energy and native spirit that truly makes America great again, like we're doing with Detroit and Michigan. If we get rid of fraud and do our job properly on the trillions that are being extorted out of our country from corrupt and incompetent governors like Gavin Newscombe, J.B. Pritzker, and Tim Waltz, we will very soon have a balanced budget, and that's the kind of money that we're talking about. We're talking about massive amounts of money. Our country wasn't built by people who tried to lie and cheat and scam their way to success. It was built by legends like Henry Ford, Henry Dow, Thomas Edison, the Kellogg brothers, Alfred P. Sloan, the founder of General Motors, men who lifted up American workers and strengthened our nation beyond even belief. We're doing the same exact thing right now. I think we're doing it even better. This is the fierce spirit of patriotic free enterprise that we're now unleashing. Once again, we are unleashing it like maybe never before.

SPEAKER_16 18:41

It is really inspirational. And he's dead right there, right? When Obama says you didn't build that, the people who built it were Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, you know what I mean? These people who wanted to continue on their legacies to the next generation. But right when they hit the peak of their power and the peak of their influence, Federal Reserve Act, IRS, now we're all in bondage, death taxes, forcing every generation to build their wealth from scratch again, turning over family's wealth to the state to be redistributed, taking your corporations public. You know, the best thing you can do in America is sell your business to the public.

SPEAKER_22 19:16

Right.

SPEAKER_16 19:17

So that all kind of ties in here where Donald Trump is really a man of the people. Not only is he a high testosterone red-blooded American, married four times and owned a Miss Universe pageant, right? But he's also willing to do the hard things. He's willing to take on the the fights and the and the challenges that other politicians have shirked away from. He's willing to take on Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, China, all simultaneously, while telling Canada, our greatest ally, to stuff it with 150% tariffs on milk. You know what I mean? He's able to do it all. He's even taking on the Federal Reserve. And in fact, he understands something that I preach nonstop over at 1776live.us. Please go to 1776live.us and register for. The ignite presentation of the shameless plug. Yeah, don't forget that. Shameless plug. But he also understands another core concept of our economics, and that is money's not real. Wouldn't the greatest populist president ever maybe want to do something like, I don't know, pay off the national debt and take the yoke of financial debt bondage off the American people? Maybe Trump could do it.

SPEAKER_07 20:23

They think it's good. Who knows? Maybe we'll pay off our$35 trillion, hand him a little crypto check, right? We'll hand them a little bitcoin and wipe out our$35 trillion. They think it's good. Why not?

SPEAKER_16 20:35

Why not just wipe out our national debt? I mean, while we're at it, let's make the buses free, too. You know what I mean? Guys, this is absolutely awesome. Now, a lot of people accuse Donald Trump and his administration of having no humor, not being funny, and most of all, not being compassionate or empathetic. But that's just not true. Lots of members of Trump's cabinet are not only funny, but they're actually empathetic too.

SPEAKER_08 20:59

I I love the this cabinet. I think the funniest guy on the cabinet is Marco. And um, all of them are entertaining to be around.

SPEAKER_06 21:10

We're now like five for five on every single person saying Marco's their favorite. We have yet to have one cabinet secretary on this show.

SPEAKER_16 21:15

You've had five cabinet secretaries on your show? You have like 19 episodes, Katie Miller. What the heck? Hello! Hey, I need a better booker. Cash!

SPEAKER_18 21:25

What episode are we on?

SPEAKER_16 21:27

Cash, help me your boyfriend. Let's I'm looking for a what was that video we played a week or two ago? I'm looking for a straight husband. Oh listen, I just need access to your Rolodeck people for the show. No, who says anybody but Marco?

SPEAKER_08 21:43

He's the funniest for sure.

SPEAKER_06 21:44

What's the funniest joke he's told you?

unknown 21:46

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_06 21:47

Or prank he's told you.

SPEAKER_08 21:48

He says something funny every every cabinet meeting. He he says something that puts people in. Is there I remember one time when Elon was talking about um he said there's a hundred and fourteen, or he said there's two hundred and forty thousand people that Doge had found who were over a hundred and fourteen years old who were collecting um unemployment. And Marco said, Well, in their defense, it's hard getting a job after you're 114. You know, that's the kind of thing that you hear from.

SPEAKER_16 22:25

So not only are they funny, but they're also very compassionate because Marco is right. It's hard to get a job over 114.

SPEAKER_18 22:32

I just had this vision that our entire uh political apparatus and all the people are it's just like a bigger version of it's a grown-up version of the sandlot.

unknown 22:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 22:45

It is. It is.

SPEAKER_18 22:47

Marco, that that image of Marco Rubio telling jokes in the cabinet meeting was just like one of the kids on the sandlot.

SPEAKER_16 22:53

Well, in fairness, it is hard to get a job after 114. So don't ever accuse Republicans or Donald Trump's cabinet of not being empathetic. Even Marco knows it's hard to work after 114. Okay, so this is oh, I can't even remember her name here. This is uh Congresswoman Representative Dexter from Oregon. So she, after this horrible incident where these trendy Agua gang members and a prostitute, uh trend Agua gang members, one of which was a prostitute, rammed their vehicle into the ICE officer, like totaled the vehicle. I mean, it wasn't a little bump and and you know, ding and go. It was like that car didn't drive away from there. It was completely totaled.

SPEAKER_21 23:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 23:32

So those are the people that the ICE officers took a shot at and put into the hospital. Well, this representative made a statement before we knew the identity of the victims, victims being the trend members. The victim was the ice officer. Okay. So she was confronted on the capital steps. Now keep in mind, one of the talking points for the left is to always try to draw on some string of empathy, not real empathy like Marco Rubio has for people trying to get a job after feigned empathy, fake empathy, which by the way, they're both fake because there's nobody over to 114 trying to get a job, right? That's the point. That's a good point. It's like a completely false premise. You've got empathy for people that don't exist. Yeah. So here I'm gonna show you how this congresswoman has empathy for a community that doesn't exist and shouldn't be electing her.

SPEAKER_17 24:14

Congresswoman, Bill Allugin with Fox News. Quick question Why didn't you wait for any facts to come out on the Portland Border Patrol shooting before you put your statement out?

SPEAKER_32 24:21

I did not make a statement about the You did.

SPEAKER_17 24:24

It's on it's on Twitter.

SPEAKER_32 24:25

No, I made a statement. I did not say anything about whether or not those folks were rightfully having You said ICE is terrorizing the community. It wasn't ICE, it was Border Patrol, and you said you wanted for you is did they follow due process? And the answer is no.

SPEAKER_17 24:37

Those folks were shot before they had those folks were two Venezuelan gang members who both local police and DH local police in Portland say they were.

SPEAKER_32 24:45

I met with the police chief, and it is not that clear. So alleged is not due process.

SPEAKER_17 24:50

So do you consider those alleged trendy Aragua gang members?

Minnesota Fallout And DOJ Optics

SPEAKER_16 24:54

First of all, the due process is pull over and show me your ID. And then the due process after you try to use your car to ram into a law enforcement officer is usually to get shot, right?

SPEAKER_18 25:05

Yeah, I I don't like it how they're always like train turn this language into alleged so that there's in action, there's no action.

SPEAKER_16 25:12

Yeah, well, there's no due process. Well, these are alleged gang members. Well, alleging they're gang members is part of the due process to find out if they are gang members. Yeah. At some point, we have to make an allegation to get the party started. Got it? So the the word salad here, the word play, well, they're alleged. That means that they're not totally gang members. Pay attention. Bullet points, talking points, snapshots, and sound bites. She is rattling off a couple sound bites that we hear over and over again. Okay. Alleged is not convicted. They need due process. This ubiquitous, big, like, what are you talking about? Like, before you can arrest me or pull me over, you've got to get me in front of a judge. Right.

SPEAKER_18 25:50

You have to know all the answers and have a conviction before you can even say anything. Yeah, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_17 25:55

To be your neighbors, you said we got to show up for our neighbors.

SPEAKER_32 25:58

We have to show up for our community, and our community is feeling terrorized right now. They are outraged that people are being shot without having any detained uh detainment or due process in the court of law.

SPEAKER_17 26:11

Did you see the photos DOJ put out of the Ram Border Patrol vehicle? Almost totaled.

SPEAKER_32 26:15

I have seen photos, sir, and I have nothing to say about these two people and whether or not they have criminal history or other things to be detained. That is not the issue. The issue is that we are not following due process. Our law enforcement should be accountable to the law.

SPEAKER_17 26:32

Last question we'll let you go. Yeah, and to all migration operations in Portland all house operations. Do you still stand by that given the fact that these do appear to be criminal, illegal alien gang members?

SPEAKER_32 26:44

Again, sir.

SPEAKER_17 26:45

Alleged is not criminal illegal alien gang members.

SPEAKER_32 26:52

Again, sir. Alleged is not being prosecuted in the court of law and having a jury find that that's true.

SPEAKER_16 27:02

So we can't call them gang members until we convict him on gang charges. But you don't get charged with being a member of TDA, because that would be against your free association. You get charged for the things you do because you're a member of TDA. Does that make sense? I can join TDA. I'll probably get surveilled, I'll be spied on because I'm part of a terrorist organization. But if I don't commit a crime, I'm unlikely to be arrested. So when she says, Well, alleged, we're it's not in a court of law. What opportunity is there for a court of law when they put it in gear and rammed it into an ICE officer?

SPEAKER_18 27:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 27:36

You know, oh hey, you're an alleged criminal. No, you are a criminal. You tried to kill an ICE officer.

SPEAKER_32 27:42

They have immigration violations that will be dealt with by an immigration judge. I stand by ICE meaning to be.

SPEAKER_16 27:49

What the ICE officers were trying to do was take them to the judge. In order to do due process, you have to process the people, which means you got to get them.

SPEAKER_32 28:01

Accountable to the law, and enforcement needs to be ceased until we can guarantee that there is accountability to the law.

unknown 28:08

Thank you.

SPEAKER_16 28:09

Okay, so we need to cease law enforcement until we can hold law enforcement accountable. Right. Okay. Get out of office. Our community is being terrorized. Who's your community? Who's electing you? What's going on here? What community are you protecting? Due process. Are we saying that every cop that gets shot on the side of the road when he pulls someone over? I mean, literally, there's hundreds of cops a year that on rant on just totally random traffic stops get shot. Do we tell cops stop doing traffic stops? Because if you would just stop enforcing speed laws, you'd never get shot. That's not how this has ever worked.

unknown 28:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 28:50

Elon Omar was on MS Now, and she says, again, reiterating this talking point. Well, alleged is not convicted. Show me a conviction.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

They have not been able to tell us what is the purpose for this search. They haven't been able to produce any evidence that they are finding people who are undocumented who have committed uh crimes. Uh, almost every single person that they have um information and shared information with us um has been someone that has already been adjudicated and was already in in prison. And so um there's no way to justify what what they are doing. It is uh compl unleashing complete terror uh on the residents of Minnesota.

Judges, Technicalities, And Accountability Gaps

SPEAKER_16 29:37

Okay. She just said the quiet part out loud that refutes their entire argument. They have not been able to produce any documentation from us for people that have been arrested that did not already have criminal records and an adjudication for final removal. So they're not terrorizing the streets, they're not pulling over every brown person, they're targeting people who have orders of removal. She's saying, well, they haven't been able to produce people that committed fraud, right, that are here illegally because they all have some paperwork and have been adjudicated. It's the opposite, but it's that talking point. It's drawing, it's drawing on that empathy of, you know, no due process, something's not right. Now, everything that was going on in Minnesota was being headed by the United States attorney up there. And the United States attorney last week was, you know, Tim Waltz was telling the United States attorney that he needed to quit and resign because he was horrible and corrupt. And, you know, for most of us, we were just like, yeah, right, Tim Waltz, you look like the horrible, corrupt one. But then yesterday, the federal prosecutor up in Minnesota just straight up resigned, kind of out of nowhere. And so this is a really bad look. Now, part of what happened here up in Minnesota was there was this Renee Good lady who was shot when she tried to ram the Ice Agent. Well, her wife or partner or whatever, I don't know. Some people say they're married, they have the same last name, but then it looks like they never got married, they just changed names.

SPEAKER_25 31:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 31:08

So, anyways, doesn't matter. We'll call it spouse, common law, whatever. Can you have a common law, lesbian marriage? I don't even know. I don't think so. We're gonna talk about the transgender stuff in the Supreme Court at the end of the show. Okay, so there the DOJ was apparently trying to go after her, right? Like, like this is provoked, you guys were part of this group that's targeting eyes, you might even be paid. So she just lost her best friend, spouse, lover, whatever, and now the DOJ's trying to come down on her. I can see how that's a bad look empathetically, but it doesn't really matter.

SPEAKER_24 31:41

No, right?

SPEAKER_16 31:41

I mean, if you're assisting in murder, you're assisting in murder. So this is uh Guy Benson talking about how this is a bad look for the DOJ.

SPEAKER_30 31:48

I'm afraid that it might be. And I think it's worth pointing out that just days ago, Tim Walls was attacking this guy and suggesting he should have been fired a long time ago over the fraud situation, as he was flailing in that scandal, Walls, that is. And then today, with the resignation, Walls put out a tweet extolling him as a paragon of public service virtue. So I think that goes to the hypocrisy of the governor. But to your question, Brian, I think this is not good news for Minnesota taxpayers. This guy was hard charging on that issue. And it appears that what forced him out, what made him decide he didn't want to be there anymore, is at least as far as I can tell with the facts that we currently have, overreach, in my opinion, by the Justice Department. The wife of the deceased woman has gone through something really, really traumatic. Her spouse has been shot dead. Now, I think sadly, tragically, it was a clean shoot. I think that these were radical activists. I think there's no question about that. I fully support the DHS surge in Minnesota for a number of reasons. I've defended all of that. But to go a step further, I think, strategically, politics, optics, these things do matter in terms of public perception of all of it. If DOJ is pressuring these prosecutors to go harder after the bereaved wife, and it was a bridge too far, even for a prosecutor like this, I just feel like, unless there's some information that I don't have yet, that seems like an unforced error and a bad political calculation at the very least.

SPEAKER_16 33:23

It feels like an unforced error, but do you really think a prosecutor would resign because he's going after someone who's got a sob story or a spouse that has a sob story? I don't buy it for one second. You know why? Because these prosecutors have ice that runs through their veins. These people on a daily screw people's lives up. These people on a daily lie about people. There's definitely some people misrepresent facts. I don't buy it for a second. Oh, I don't want to go after the lesbian spouse of a copper killer. I don't buy it for a second. Here's what I do know. The Somalis were willing to bribe a juror with cash. Here's what I do know. The Somalis are on a lot of videos threatening ICE officers, threatening politicians, threatening, threatening, threatening. I'm a little bit familiar with that culture because over the years I have dealt with a few of these Somali type negotiators, and it's kind of a zero-sum game working with them. I think this guy was threatened. I think this guy has a niece, a nephew, a son, a daughter, a wife, a friend, a brother, a mother, somebody that they got to that basically said, listen, man, the juice ain't worth the squeeze on this one. So that's my opinion. And remember, the scale at which these people can destroy your life, slander you, not only can they literally assassinate you, but they can character assassinate you too as well, even in death. Do you remember Abu Bakar Al-Bagadi, the austere religious scholar at the helm of the Islamic State, ISIS? So look at this picture here. This is from the Washington Post, or actually, uh yeah, the Washington Post. Now, the media can just talking point you to death. This guy was a rapist, this guy was a murderer, this guy was a terrorist. There is nothing redeeming about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He kept, you know, that one uh female austere religious scholar. Yes, after he was killed and died like a dog banged for his life, as Donald Trump says, right? They they decided to call him an austere religious scholar. He died like a dog. He died like a dog. Contrast that with Scott Adams, who really dedicated his life to providing value for people, explaining things, helping people see through both the blue and the red veil to try to see common sense and truth, to dissect things by narrative. Uh, he used his training as a professional hypnosis to be able to help us see how sometimes politicians start to hypnotize us and things like that. And his death yesterday was celebrated like this Scott Adams, disgraced. Gilbert Crater dies at 16.

SPEAKER_18 35:48

Oh, freaking People magazine. You are disgraced for putting that up there.

Sanctuary Policies And Local Pushback

SPEAKER_16 35:53

They will call the Trend Ayagua gang member and prostitute. Members of our community are neighbors. You don't defend drunk drivers, you don't just defend tweaker meth heads that are stealing copper out of your house. You don't defend, you know, these people. Why are you defending illegals? And it's not just that they're here without documentation, picking fruit, following all the laws. No. Elon Otmar said it best. Everybody they're going after has orders of removal. They're not able to produce people that are not in that category. Okay, Donald Trump put everybody on notice in his speech yesterday at the Ford Motor Plant. Politicians, bureaucrats, everybody.

SPEAKER_07 36:35

Last week we announced that I'm creating a brand new division at the Department of Justice, a legal strike force led by a really tough, smart new attorney general for fraud. He's a fantastic young guy. He's so impassioned to do this properly. We intend to imprison any fraudster politician or public official involved in these sick plots to loot and pillage our country.

SPEAKER_16 36:59

Last week they announced them creating a brand new division at the end of the looting and plundering our country. They intend to put them in prison. And they will. Just ask Senator Mendez or Rob Boglojevic. You can go to jail even if you've been a governor or heck, they even tried to put the president in jail. Scott Bessett was out in Minnesota and he said the same thing. They're going to start in Minnesota and they're going to spread.

SPEAKER_34 37:21

I I want to echo your statements because as I spend time here, uh it is good to be back in Minnesota, Minneapolis. Uh I am hopeful too, because even even though it is cold outside, sunshine is the best antiseptic. And we are going to clean this out, we are going to stop it, we are going to make recoveries, and the uh as Jennifer said, we are going to get the money flowing back to people like her organization who helped the children, seniors. So I am very hopeful that we will write the ship and that we will emanate out from Minnesota into the other 49 states and ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse. The GAO, the general accounting office, believes that there is between 300 and 600 billion of fraud that occurs via the US government every year, around 10% of our spending, and between 1 and 2% of GDP. Last week, President Trump indicated that he would like to raise the defense budget by 500 billion. We could do that and make our nation more externally safe by having an internal audit of where this fraud and abuse is coming from. And I'm gonna thank you for all your work you've done.

SPEAKER_16 38:46

Yeah, so they're coming. It turns slowly. I was in prison with uh actually I was in prison with quite a few people over the length of time that did PPE loan fraud, but there was one guy in particular, he did PPE and loan fraud, and you know, PPE loans came out in 2020. He got the loan, he overbilled or whatever for about 70 grand, and I think he got a two-year sentence and stuff like that. So uh the government starting in 2023, we started to see the first people go to prison for PPL loan fraud. Now, anybody who dealt with this loans, we got one as absolute earthworks, and uh we got like a$22,000 one. We did precisely what they needed, and we went through the whole process to get it forgiven at the end, so it was like done. But a lot of people over borrowed, and so then they created a loan now with the government. Now they have to pay the government back. A lot of people never intended to pay him back because they thought they were gonna be free money.

SPEAKER_24 39:34

Free money.

SPEAKER_16 39:35

I know of a guy who used his PPE loan in Idaho to buy a Lamborghini. So I'm not sure if he's in prison yet or not, but you know, he had enough quote unquote payroll to really juice the government and he was still working, so he was still generating revenue to pay the employees, and then he got like the extra, I think he got about 400 grand total.

SPEAKER_18 39:55

What is he showing up to work and getting his tool bags out of his I again?

SPEAKER_16 39:58

I know of him. Even name him. Okay. So Janine Pierrot, just in DC, prosecuted someone along these lines with the social services loan fraud. And this one was tied to the COVID relief funds.

SPEAKER_02 40:10

Hi, everyone. It's Judge Janine. Today, my prosecutors got a conviction and a sentence of 33 months for Ruby Jane Corrado, who created the nonprofit Casa Ruby that's supposed to benefit LGBTQ at risk community youth in the district. Unfortunately, she decided that she would take over$950,000 from a COVID relief program and economic loss program, and she pocketed that money for herself. She then fled to El Salvador. We were able to get her back from El Salvador as a result of the work of the Washington Appeal Office of the FBI. She is now required to pay back that almost$1 million, and she's going to serve 33 months in prison. I think this should be a message, a twofold message. Number one, we are going to protect the LGBTQ community, especially the at-risk youth.

Funding Standoffs And State Budgets

SPEAKER_16 41:16

I don't know about she threw she threw that in there. We're going to protect the LGBT community by preventing lesbians like her from stealing from you. I love it. So uh I just got a message from Jen, one of our great longtime loyal listeners from England. And she sent me a picture of her vessel for today's simultaneous trip. 7 a.m. Good morning. 9 a.m. Hydrate yourself. 11 a.m. You've got this. 9 p.m. or 1 p.m. No excuses. 3 p.m. Keep drinking. 5 p.m. Don't stop now. I don't know. A little bit more. A little bit more.

SPEAKER_18 41:49

Well done. Well done.

SPEAKER_16 41:50

Good luck. That's a lot of sips. It's like a gallon jug right there. So awesome. Very cool. Thank you very much. Yeah, it'd be fun if you guys sent simultaneous sip pictures every day. That'd be great. This is the interactive show after all. Pony Boy says Steve Miller is to be the funniest. I'm assuming that's Steve Miller. Yeah. Um, yeah. Okay, so this is ICE uh director talking about specifically in Minnesota, but this is the problem with any and all of the sanctuary states, cities, counties, jurisdictions at large is you're not helping it get better. You're making it worse. You're putting these illegals that should have detainer orders from ICE back out on the streets before we can get them, which is the reason why ICE is driving through your neighborhoods and not just making pickups at the back door of the local jail.

SPEAKER_28 42:44

You've already taken the actions and the steps to arrest and detain this individual. Why would you not want to turn them over to the federal authorities that could then handle that case to the next step? It absolutely makes no sense. When they talk about sanctuary cities protecting the public and protecting neighborhoods, how are you protecting the public if you re-release a felon back into society?

SPEAKER_16 43:06

But yeah, boggles my mind.

SPEAKER_28 43:09

Tell me, tell me, please.

SPEAKER_16 43:10

That's why they've had to surge 2,000 officers to Minneapolis is because you're not just letting 20 officers go to the local jails and pick people up as they get arrested for DUI petty theft and petty athlet. We wouldn't have to even talk about mass deportation if every single illegal immigrant, when they got detained for any reason, yeah, one-way flight out of the city.

SPEAKER_18 43:30

Trump wouldn't get the flex.

SPEAKER_16 43:31

Yeah, Trump wouldn't get the flex. So they're really shooting themselves in the foot right there. And here is our local Linwood. Okay, so this is Linwood City Council that's just across the sound from us, just barely north of Seattle. And this is one of their local council members, and she's proposing some new well, I I don't know, legislation, new codes for the city of Linwood.

SPEAKER_04 43:51

I want to introduce a draft resolution this evening, and I want to be very clear at the outset that I am not making a motion and I am not requesting a vote tonight.

SPEAKER_16 43:59

She's just getting the talking points out there. Shut up.

Alleged Pay-To-Play And Donor Access

SPEAKER_04 44:07

And it demands a response grounded in our responsibility to uphold the rule of law and constitutional democracy at the local level. For me personally, this work was prompted by learning about the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was killed while peacefully observing federal immigration enforcement. Okay, now we don't have to listen to anything else. This is not simply about people observing law enforcement. This is about federal agencies acting outside accepted legal and democratic norms and being used as instruments of intimidation under an administration that has shown open hostility to protest and constitutional limits on power. Regardless of political affiliation, the right to peacefully assemble, to observe law enforcement, and to protest government action is explicitly protected by the Constitution. When those rights are violated, or when law enforcement agencies act as though they are above accountability, local governments cannot afford to look the other way. This resolution that I have provided to each of you does three things. First, it makes it clear that Linwood stands for constitutional rights, nonviolent civic engagement, and the safety and dignity of all people in our community, and that we are deeply concerned by federal immigration enforcement practices that erode public trust and civil liberties. Second, it asks the mayor to direct the chief of police to ensure that Linwood officers are prepared and consistent with state law in their training to intervene if they witness excessive force or unlawful conduct by other agencies operating within our city limits. Washington law is clear that officers have a duty to intervene regardless of the patch the other officer is wearing.

SPEAKER_16 45:53

Does this not sound like the setup for a civil war right in our backyard? Yeah. Okay. I mean so she's saying declare Linwood's commitment to constitutional rights. Well, I'll just use one of your speakers and about this free assembly and we need to limit the first protection to save the first protection. It's the first amendment, right? So let's just throw it right back. You're using my virtue and my belief in the constitution and trying to uphold those principles in my daily walk of life. You're trying to weaponize my virtue against it, right? You're trying to weaponize it against me by by quoting the constitution. When probably just yesterday you were over there saying we need to change the constitution or it's racist or something else because you know what I mean? The mayor to instruct the chief of police to train and prepare Linwood officers to intervene in cases of excessive force. The mayor to direct the staff to research and propose an ordinance for council consideration focusing on law enforcement identification and accountability. They just don't want to enforce the law. They want to enforce the law selectively. This is a disaster.

SPEAKER_18 46:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 46:55

And for many reasons. This is a game of chicken between the state and the local governments and the federal government because Donald Trump has put down the gauntlet. Want to keep playing around? F-A-F-O? You're going to find out.

SPEAKER_07 47:08

We're giving 90-day notices to places like California, Scott. Right away, we're going to send out that notice. Who would bill the federal government as people poured into the state to send those people back because no country can afford to do it? No country can afford to take in millions of people, pay for their education, their health care, their hospitals. You just can't do it. And we all have a heart, you can't do it. But many of those people are murderers. They're people released from jails, prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums. They're people that are drug dealers, they're addicts. Additionally, starting February 1st, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens, and it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come. So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary city. What is that going to do?

SPEAKER_18 48:12

I don't know, but thank you. Huh? I don't know, but thank you.

SPEAKER_16 48:15

Well, thank you. But honestly. Hopefully it'll change people's hopefully it'll change things. How is Mondani gonna pay for these free buses if the state of New York and the city of New York get cut off from all federal funds? I wasn't even thinking about New York.

SPEAKER_18 48:29

I was thinking about my state.

SPEAKER_16 48:31

Well, same here. I mean, how are we gonna pay for these methadone clinics and stuff like that if if the government's not regular? We're not gonna pay for them.

SPEAKER_18 48:38

Huh? We're not gonna.

SPEAKER_16 48:40

Okay. Well, what about school? Because here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna find this weird situation where Democrat politicians in Washington and the other states are gonna try to tell you that you don't need that bridge to be fixed or repaired. What we really need to do is protect our two and three-year-olds that need pre-K education. So let's take the money from transportation, infrastructure, electrical grid, all that kind of legislature.

SPEAKER_18 49:07

They already do this all the time.

SPEAKER_16 49:08

All the time, right? All the time. That's what's gonna happen here. And and honestly, the budget shortfall will be legion. Because even with government money, Washington, Oregon, a lot of these states don't run a balanced budget.

SPEAKER_18 49:20

No, they don't know how to not spend money that they don't have.

SPEAKER_16 49:23

Yeah, they're supposed to run a balanced budget, but they don't. They just shuffle the debt off to the federal government. Like wow, that could be a big deal because that force is even down there at Linwood. They can't you can't operate without a checkbook, and you can't raise enough taxes to administer the programs that you administer.

SPEAKER_18 49:40

Well, they'll try.

SPEAKER_16 49:42

Not for long. Now, Governor Katie Hobbs down in Arizona, who might be the most annoying voice of a governor I've ever heard, probably only heard like 35 of the governors or so. She's probably got the most annoying voice, but she's got accusations that she met with a donor, and then that donor made a significant campaign contribution. And then they turned around and started billing the government a lot more, like up to 60% more for their services. And it all points back to Katie Katie Hobbs and her campaign manager.

SPEAKER_03 50:16

Uh we uh we I have followed every campaign finance law that there is, and even according to Stacy's own reporting, I had nothing, no conversation, no communication about the rate increase. Uh and and um and I have always I'm a social worker and um this is a contractor with with with with DCS, and I've always my career has been about helping vulnerable children, vulnerable families. Um, I am doing right by Arizonans, and this is just a distraction.

SPEAKER_25 50:50

Stacy Marchanger's reporting did include a report about a meal you and your campaign manager attended with this gentleman, and I believe his spouse. Is that correct? Yes. I uh why would you do that with your campaign manager? It seems like an odd thing to do. I with a government contractor.

SPEAKER_03 51:09

Uh we I have never talked to him about his government contract. Uh he is a political supporter, and I often uh have uh uh socialized with supporters.

SPEAKER_16 51:22

I um uh I don't know um uh I I'm a social worker, I take care of kids.

SPEAKER_18 51:28

Hold on. She never talked to a supporter, but she socializes with supporters.

SPEAKER_16 51:32

Yeah, I never talked to them. I socialize with them. Why'd you have a dinner with a campaign manager? Well, I mean it wasn't about it wasn't about the contract they were gonna give, it was just a given. Of course I was gonna let them building for the$400,000 donation, right? Unbelievable, right? It's just it's everywhere we look. And it's Democrats, it's Republicans, it's a target rich environment. Stephen Miller was on with Laura Ingram and he talks about the judges we have, some of these federal district judges, and all the way down to our administrative courts. Some of these judges, A, aren't even American, they're foreign-born, but many of them actually espouse communist political party affiliations. So this is kind of a big deal.

SPEAKER_11 52:14

A lot of them are also foreign-born communists. So you have you have foreign-born communists who are brought to this country, who don't believe in our constitutional order, who were appointed to lifetime uh seats on the bench. So it's a major problem. But none of that is going to deter or stop the president of the United States. And he's been he's given very clear directions, and they'll be implemented by Russ Vogt, the head of the Office of Management and Budget. Look, we are not judges. These judges that just genuinely die hard.

Iran’s Protests And Regime Pressure

SPEAKER_16 52:46

Now, this judge in the uh uh James Comey indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Novak, now I don't know if he's a foreigner, I don't know what his political affiliation is, but he wrote this opinion because he's going after Lindsey Halligan for not having an accurate uh title as a U.S. attorney, wasn't confirmed properly, blah, blah, blah, which by the way, is the exact same thing that Jack Smith did. Okay, so it's kind of like you can't have it both ways. You either allow these guys just to do what they're gonna do, or you've got to get down to the letter of the law. So this judge is trying to get down to the letter of the law with Lindsey Halligan on her appointment. But here's the problem. So here, the federal court, uh, this is from the judge. Uh, he says, the federal courts, the effect of the district court ruling the nature of our adversarial system, compounding these legal errors, the court fails to correctly identify the date of the indictment in the case, a factual mistake that forecloses the premise of misconduct, of which the court's inquiry is based. So, excuse me, this is Lindsay Halligan's response to the court. So the court eviscerated her, threw her off the case, said that she was an attorney when she wasn't, in fact, appropriately appointed at the time that she signed a document or something like that. And what ended up happening here was when they went to reply to this judge's scathing memorandum, says that error is dispositive. A signature blocks executed before Judge Curry's rulings cannot constitute defiance, noncompliance, or misrepresentation concerning orders that had not been issued. So basically, she just drafted a ruling, submitted it like you're supposed to. She was totally allowed to do that. And the judge got the date wrong, like literally misrepresented the date in his filing, excoriated her, and she's like, Well, if you get the date wrong, the entire premise is void, right? Your whole all these thousands of words you written wrote are nebulous and void because you got it wrong. Why would a judge do that with all the paralegals and all the tools you have available, especially with a case as high profile as James Comey? Why would you do that?

SPEAKER_18 54:41

Is that like poison pill type thing just to kill it?

SPEAKER_16 54:44

What it feels like, yes, because it dere they dismissed the case. And now we're back here arguing about it because the judge got the date wrong. They dismissed the case because Lindsay Halligan was not a duly authorized attorney. But the premise of that was based on a misreading or an error of a date that was incorrect. So she got fired, and now they're dealing with the fact that she got fired, and meanwhile, James Comey walks around a free man.

SPEAKER_18 55:08

Oh, jeez.

SPEAKER_16 55:08

See what I'm saying? No, no issue with the evidence, no issue with the crime alleged, purely an issue of the legality of the attorney.

SPEAKER_18 55:15

Now, as a J Sixer, we had prosecutors that weren't even attorneys. No, no, this what you just described is exactly what I was afraid was going to happen. You know, that these guys are gonna get off on technicalities and then we're gonna be left in the ashes trying to figure out where our butts are.

SPEAKER_16 55:31

Yeah, and it's in the tech, the devil's in the details. You know, is it really a crime to commit fraud and steal from the American taxpayer if it says in the code that you can commit fraud and steal from the American taxpayer?

SPEAKER_18 55:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16 55:42

You know what I mean? That's kind of what's going on with a lot of these social services fraud. It's like, well, nothing in the code says kids actually had to attend, it just says kids have to be on the rolls.

SPEAKER_18 55:51

Well, and you get that governor from Arizona. It's like, I didn't break any rules. It's like, I'll bet you didn't. But you still figured out how to get a whole bunch of money. I'm a social worker. Right.

SPEAKER_16 56:03

That is what creates a huge challenge for us. So this Greenland thing, I just love this Greenland topic because it's one of those things like our great-great-grandkids, like we're gonna be back there talking about oh back when Donald Trump passed the big beautiful bill. No, we're not gonna tell that story. The story we're gonna tell is when the map changed, right? We're gonna look at a map someday and we're gonna go, oh, it still says Greenland and not US territory of Greenland or something. Right.

SPEAKER_18 56:29

We can already get mileage out of the Gulf of America.

SPEAKER_16 56:31

Yeah, we're we're getting yeah, exactly. We can already look at any map and know if it was pre-2025, you know. So the United States needs Greenland for purposes of national security. It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building. NATO should be leading the way for us to get it. If we don't, Russia or China will. And that is not going to happen militarily, without the vast power of the United States, much of which I built during my first term, and am now bringing to a new, even higher level, NATO would not be an effective force or deterrent, not even close. They know that, and so do I. NATO becomes a far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the United States. Anything less than that is unacceptable. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. Now, uh this is uh this is uh what is this guy's name here? Oh, this is Representative Randy Fine. So Representative Randy Fine has actually actually put legislation in place to help Donald Trump take Greenland any way he wants to.

SPEAKER_10 57:34

You just released legislation that would make Greenland America's 51st state an acquisition that President Trump has been pushing for. Tell us how you see this playing out, and why would the U.S. uh out now be able to acquire Greenland?

SPEAKER_29 57:48

Well, what my bill does, it creates the statutory framework to support President Trump as he tries to make Greenland part of the United States. The fact of the matter is Greenland sits between us and Russia. And so to put a strategic barrier between Russia's interests in the United States helps America, as well as the trade routes that have become more and more used by the Chinese and the Russians. The fact of the matter is Greenland will become part of some power. The question will, will it become part of America or will it become part of Russia or China? We need to make sure that we assert our dominance over the Western Hemisphere. A Monroe doctrine that goes back 200 years in this country. The last thing we need is Greenland to become another Venezuela where we have huge problems we have to deal with in the future.

SPEAKER_10 58:31

Well, it's a great point. And I suspect Marco Rubio is going to be making that point with the Greenland officials that he's meeting this weekend.

Supreme Court Clash Over Sports And Sex

SPEAKER_16 58:37

They definitely don't want Greenland to get into the drug business because there's a lot of snow to blow up there. You won't be able to tell one white powder from another one. Is that testing in it as cocaine, or is that just straight snow? And then and then, you know, the blue ice up there. That's the problem because meth is blue and they call it ice. Oh no. We gotta go on a blue ice rate. Are we talking about glaciers? Who knows? Claudia Seinbaum, down from Mexico, she gave a speech yesterday. Now, this is in Spanish, so you're probably gonna want to mute it so I can read it. But she says something that everybody's thinking lost intervenciones. Oh, my God. Sometimes I could if I slowed it down, okay? All right, so here's what she here's the highlight of what she said. Okay. The last time there was an intervention by the United States, she's referring to Mexico, we lost half of our territory. Don't get in the way of American Manifest Destiny. That's all I gotta say. Yeah, I know. The last time America had an intervention with Mexico, the free the free territory of Utah, where my ancestors were trying to raise civilization out of the dust, got absorbed by the United States. We literally fled the United States in Missouri. My family members had an extermination order from the state. Of Missouri. We had to leave as refugees the United States of America. A lot of people don't know this about Mormon history. Right? But we fled the United States of America, which which border was the Mississippi River at the time. Went all the way over the Rockies. Not a small journey in 1840.

SPEAKER_18 1:00:19

People need to understand that they didn't go to Utah. Utah didn't exist. They went to the wilderness.

SPEAKER_16 1:00:26

They went to the wilderness. They went to a large valley with nothing throwing it and a salt lake. So uh, anyways, so then the United States came to us. So I sympathize with Shinebound there. She's like, the last time America intervened, we lost half our territory. Well, America is definitely getting involved in Greenland. And yesterday, Denmark's premier gave a speech that it was with the Denmark and Greenland, their little premiers or whatever their political figures, gave speeches. And the one of them said, Well, if I have to choose between the United States and Denmark, I choose Denmark. Trump responded to this.

SPEAKER_35 1:01:02

Greenland said today, we prefer to stay with Denmark. Do you see that as the premiere of Greenland?

SPEAKER_07 1:01:10

Well, that's their problem. That's their problem. I disagree with him. I don't know who he is. Don't know anything about him. But uh, that's gonna be a big problem for him.

SPEAKER_16 1:01:21

You want to see Jabak? Because when the United States intervenes, we take territory, especially in our hemisphere. Who is that? Oh, that's gonna be a problem. I don't even know who that is. We're getting Greenland, okay? The cars will be free, probably paid from a lithium mine in Greenland, right? With a limited water supply. It's fascinating. Again, we will tell our great-grandkids about when the map changed. You know, not only did we get Greenland, but Russia got Crimea. It just they reprinted all in the same year. Okay, so this is Trey Yanks, and he's talking about what's going on over in Iran. Again, there are weeks when decades happened, and there are decades when it feels like weeks happen. This entire 10-year period that we've had Donald Trump as one of the major political figures in America has felt like a century of stuff has happened. And probably in four or five years, as the AI boom sets in, these data centers get built, we've got Optimus robots doing our dishes, holding our laundry and removing your gallbladder, right? We're probably going to look around and go, that was the most consequential 10-year period ever because the entire trajectory shifted. We went from managed decline to explosive growth, right? Imagine having a country trims two, one or two percent off of the expenses and then raises the GDB to a solid five or six percent, add in the cuts, seven, eight, nine percent. We could see unbelievable amounts of growth. All of a sudden, now with the growth usually comes the disparity in the polar ends of the uh economic spectrum. So the poor feel poorer because they don't have robots doing their dishes, and the rich feel richer because robots are doing everything for them.

SPEAKER_18 1:02:57

Sure, but at least at that point, the poor will have opportunity to pull themselves out of the ashes.

SPEAKER_16 1:03:05

Which is what's happening in Iran. The people have an opportunity to topple the regime. Now, stuff has been happening. There's been protests, and for a couple days, those protests went on without any bloodshed, and then we started hearing reports of bloodshed. Now, report reports are up to about 12,000 people. Protesters may or may not have been slaughtered at this point.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:23

Dana, good morning. New reports indicate at least 3,000 Iranians have been killed amid anti-government demonstrations. The confirmed number is expected to be much higher. Overnight, thousands of people gathered in the streets of major cities once again, including the capital of Tehran. Further south in the city of Isbahan, Fox News was able to make contact with a man who is using Starlink. He described battles between protesters and security forces who are using live ammunition. On the call, he said the government has really repressed them using weapons of war against the demonstrators. At the moment, the situation for the demonstrators in the street, the atmosphere, is like a war zone, and some people are trying to escape from it. He goes on to say, I have to emphasize that among Iranian people, Trump is the most popular person right now. He has so much popularity because of the steps that he took toward preventing the growth of terrorism in the Middle East. They respect him. The internet blackout in Iran continues, making it difficult for people to get new information, although international calls were briefly going through overnight. The Americans, Israelis, and Europeans are watching these demonstrations closely, with German Chancellor weighing in today. Amid the crackdown, there is growing fear among protesters. One man in Tehran messaged me overnight saying, My days are numbered. Dana.

SPEAKER_16 1:05:02

That's pretty intense over there. So I saw some camera footage and and still pictures of body bags and stuff like that. You know, we lived through COVID. We saw body bags where people literally sat up and took a cigarette smoke in the middle of a CNN live. You know what I mean? Like literally, a la na body bags right here out of the central park in New York. And then all of a sudden, you know, someone literally sat up out of a body bag and lit a cigarette. It's like, what are you showing me? This happened on live TV. So when I'm seeing these images out of Iran and all these body bags, it's hard to know. I don't know, you know.

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SPEAKER_18 1:05:36

But you know, yesterday I was talking to my wife about this actually, this whole Iran thing, and she pointed out some things and educated me. I I'm I'm really ignorant about the Middle East, and she pointed out that Iranians are not um they're they're Persian. Yeah, they're not Arabs, they're not Arab, but they're being their government is basically run by the um and like an Islam backed Shiite. Yeah, and she's like, the people are done with it. And then she also said, Well, most there's a lot of Iranians that are Christian. And I was like, really? I had no idea. And she's like, Yeah, basically, they're Persian, they're not down with Islam, they're tired of this oppressive government, and they're done with it. And and then she said, It's really sad that all these people are dying in the and I'm like, Well, at the and at the time yesterday, I think the confirmed number of people that died was only like 500. And I was like, Well, in a country of when you have 500 reported deaths, it's not enough to um really have critical mass where you can kind of have any sense of that's that's real or it's attributed to anything because I mean we can look at COVID and go, oh, thousands of people died. He from what? Who knows? So it was hard to know really what's going on. But now here and and also hearing that the government was cutting stuff like Starlink and trying to keep um people from being able to talk outside of the country, but stuff is coming out, and it sounds like they are taking over, and they will be successful, but this is not gonna end without bloodshed. And the and now that we're hearing that there's at least 3,000, possibly you mentioned even more people that have died from protesting. Ugh, you know, we need to give these people some support.

SPEAKER_16 1:07:29

And how do we do that?

SPEAKER_18 1:07:30

I don't know. But let's talk about how America pushes America forward while we help people.

SPEAKER_16 1:07:36

Yeah, help people, democracy and oil out of the ground. Right. So, yes, Iranians are Persian in ethnicity. The rest of the world, the rest of that region of the world is Arab. Now, the Persians kind of have a you know a mountain valley that they live inside of, and it's protected them for literally like 5,000 years. It's like impossible to invade Iran. It's the Switzerland of the Middle East, right? Right. And so Iran, yes, as a culture, has been preserved for a long time, and it's clearly Persian.

SPEAKER_18 1:08:04

Well, on that, on that note, it's 1974. This is something my wife also mentioned was 1974. You know, before pre-1974, Libya was a great place, or I'm sorry, Iran was like up and coming, yeah. It was the center of the not just up and coming, they were there. I mean, they could they could probably compete with any of today's cities.

SPEAKER_16 1:08:22

So the Shiite sect of Islam became very sectarian. It was kind of just like an afterthought thing. And the more extreme sect of Islam was Sunni. The difference between Shiite and Sunni in the Christian world would be like Catholic and Protestant.

SPEAKER_21 1:08:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_16 1:08:36

Okay, so yes, they're both Christian, but they kill each other. Okay. Like by the millions. You know what I mean? So like they kind of have some fundament, like, and it has to do with the succession after Muhammad. I think I think this is correct. The Shiites follow Muhammad's brother's in law after he died, and the Sunnis follow his direct descendants or whoever he named as his successor. Something to that effect. My friend, my Al-Qaeda friend explained it to me. He was Sunni. He had no love for the Shiites. He didn't like Iranians. He was Pakistani. Okay. So, but and the Persians have this phrase they'll fight the West until the last era. Okay. So Shi'ite was not the extreme religion. The extreme side of Islam came out of Wahhabiism, out of Saudi Arabia and stuff like that. But once the Ayatollah took over, the regime itself became repressive and started to basically itself push the extreme ends of Islam for the purpose of control.

SPEAKER_18 1:09:32

And that and the and when Ayatollah took over, is that 74? Yeah, I think. Okay, because that's what my wife said. She's like, yeah, Jimmy Carter gave it to him. And I was like, what? Jimmy Carter? Yeah. He was like the only president that did all the good stuff, right?

SPEAKER_16 1:09:45

But did nothing good. He gave Panama away. He got our hostages in Iran. It was a mess. I know.

SPEAKER_18 1:09:51

But that's what I'm finding out. Is like the president that I thought had the least amount of trash attached to him has got all this stuff dripping off of the worst presidents, but he's also the president that gave me my judge.

SPEAKER_16 1:10:03

Judge Lamb. So so John Fetterman was talking. Okay, let me back up here. The Iran situation, I honestly thought in the trajectory of my life that my kids would be the generation, like my generation went into Iraq and spent 20 years there in Afghanistan. I really believed my kids would spend 20 years in Iran.

SPEAKER_18 1:10:23

I thought the same thing, too. Especially after hearing that Wesley Clark thing.

SPEAKER_16 1:10:27

Yeah, there just didn't seem to be any way. But what has Trump done in the last 12 months? Venezuela, Maduro, Cuba's about to fall, Iran's about to fall, right? I mean, he's done such precise military intervention and pulled back. He's clearly not interested in nation building.

SPEAKER_18 1:10:45

So what are we gonna do with Iran?

SPEAKER_16 1:10:47

I don't know. I don't know. But if the regime falls, I guess they'll figure it out, right?

SPEAKER_18 1:10:53

John Federman. We're not gonna swoop in and try to install democracy.

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SPEAKER_16 1:10:56

Yeah, John Fetterman was on with Fox News with Hannity, and he's saying that he's on the outs of his party because he's like, I mean, what's wrong with Iran falling? Didn't we want that like a year ago?

SPEAKER_15 1:11:08

I mean, it's disappointing, honestly. I mean, you know, I was fully supportive of Israel through that. Uh, and then that really kinds of isolated me within my party now. And then I was calling, calling, you know, we have to destroy these nuclear facilities. You know, if Iran acquires that nuclear bomb, that changes a much, much, much dramatic there. And now Iran's making these kinds of threats. I mean, remember also, Israel, they created air supremacy within two days. You know, Iran really's capabilities are severely limited at this point, and now they're in a death spiral with all these protests. Why wouldn't wanna be ready to provide the the kind of a bump to just to push it, you know, to kindly finally break this regime? And now they're so desperate, they are quite literally just executing thousands of their own citizens.

SPEAKER_16 1:12:00

Yeah, and you got to remember they were on the brink of collapse before when Barack Obama loaded up a C-130 with pallets of cash and sent it over to them. So that seems to be the pattern. Every time the regime gets pushed to the end, a new deal with a tech company, a pallet of cash from Barack Obama, something to accept. I mean, even when Trump came in, you know, Iran was pretty much starved out because Trump enforced the sanctions. And what did Biden came do? He immediately came in and gave them cash and gave them relief if they would just come back to the table and talk about negotiations for the bomb, right? Trump came in and just took it off the table. We're not even gonna talk about the bomb. You're not even gonna have the capacity to do it. Totally different. All right, guys, that's it for the public part of the show today. We are gonna jump over to the private, and we are gonna be talking about the transgender case that was heard at the Supreme Court yesterday. We're gonna listen to the Supreme Court justices talk about that case, specifically boys in girls' sports. We're going to talk a little bit about a huge Secret Service faux pas that happened, major uh security breach on JD Vance's detail. And uh, we're gonna hear about some conspiracy theories that RFK believes in, and then we'll head on out with uh a little video from Scott Adams. So we'll talk to you guys over in private. The rest of you will see you tomorrow. Bye. Okay, so this is Kathleen Hartnett. She's the attorney for transgender women, and we're gonna listen to her uh talking about the definition of women. She refuses to define man or women, and Justice Salito is like, if this case is about men and women's rights and we can't define men and women, how are we supposed to decide anything?

SPEAKER_18 1:13:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:38

Well, to pick up on the issue of discrimination on the basis of transgender status, let me just go back to let me go to some basics. Do you agree that uh a school may have separate teams for a category of students classified as boys and a category of students classified as girls?

SPEAKER_23 1:13:59

Yes, Your Honor.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:01

If it does that, then is it not necessary for there to be, for equal protection purposes, if that is challenged under the Equal Protection Clause, uh, an understanding of what it means to be a boy or a girl or a man or a woman? Yes, Your Honor. And what is that definition for equal protection purposes? What does what does it mean to be a boy or a girl or a man or a woman?

SPEAKER_23 1:14:24

Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I think that the underlying enactment, whatever it was, the policy, the law, the would have to, we'd have to have an understanding of how the state or the government was dis understanding that term to figure out whether or not someone was excluded. We do not have a definition for the court. And we don't take issue with the, we're not disputing the definition here. What we're saying is that the way it applies in practice is to exclude birth sex males categorically from women's teams and that there's a subset of those birth sex males where it doesn't make sense to do so according to the state's own interest.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:55

Well, how can you how can a court determine whether there's discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?

SPEAKER_23 1:15:07

I think here we just know we basically know that the sh that they've identified pursuant to their own statute, Lindsay qualifies as a birth sex male, and she's being excluded categorically from the women's teams as the statute. So we're taking the statute's definitions as we find them, and we don't dispute them. We're just trying to figure out do they create an equal protection problem? All right.

SPEAKER_16 1:15:29

For for you and I, this issue is like, what are we what are we talking about here? This is how word salad jumbled mumbled the thought process behind letting boys participate in girls' sports with. Which, by the way, the entire predicate of this case is not to allow girls to play in boys' sports. Apparently, there's no dispute. If a girl can make the team, she can make the team. It's specifically going the other direction. So here's Katanji John Brax Bra uh Jackson is basically saying that people that are transgender get discriminated against twice.

SPEAKER_36 1:16:04

We're indifferent to a person's gender identity in applying the law.

SPEAKER_31 1:16:08

But the law, but the law actually operates differently, I think, um, for cisgender women and transgender women. That is, with respect to their desire to play on a team that matches their gender identity, cisgender women can do it, transgender women cannot. And so we do appreciate a distinction, I think, that is being drawn on the basis of your gender uh status, gender identity status, trans or cis, right?

SPEAKER_36 1:16:42

So and I want to make sure I understand if we're operating in Title IX world or equal protection world, because I think it might make a difference to the answer.

SPEAKER_31 1:16:48

But let's start with Title IX.

SPEAKER_36 1:16:52

So Title IX, I think the question of I I look at this statute and see a distinction between boy and girl indifferent to gender identity.

SPEAKER_31 1:17:02

And I think that's right, but I'm testing that proposition, right? You see that distinction, and I see it too on the separation of teams level at the beginning.

SPEAKER_36 1:17:11

Right. And I I think what I'm hearing is that that distinction arises from a difference in effect, and I don't see a disparate impact analysis that's sort of hidden away in Title IX.

SPEAKER_31 1:17:20

Why is that a difference in effect? So it's like a second order discrimination, right? The first order is separating male from uh female, right? The second order is separating transgender women from cisgender women, right?

SPEAKER_36 1:17:38

Respectfully, I would disagree.

SPEAKER_16 1:17:39

So by separating the sexes at all, we create discrimination.

SPEAKER_18 1:17:43

But nobody's really going to argue that because it just makes sense. She's even getting confused on her own mental gymnastics. This is retarded. That's exactly right. This is so retarded.

SPEAKER_16 1:17:51

So she's saying that we separate men and women, which creates one layer of discrimination. So now women are discriminated because they were separated from the men. What if the men say they want to be discriminated against the city? That's not discrimination.

SPEAKER_18 1:18:03

No, no, no. That is not discrimination, that is classification.

SPEAKER_16 1:18:07

Oh, that's brilliant. Hello. Maybe somebody should tell Katanjay Brownson about the word classification. That's a great idea. So exactly, that's exactly right. But she's saying that that separation creates a discrimination, and then you separated the trans from the cisgenders. And that creates another so now the transgenders have been twice uh persecuted or discriminated against. It defies logic. Yeah. Right? I mean, now one of the really sad things about this case was Amy, Amy Coney Barrett, she adopted all of the language of the left: transgender, cisgender, trans woman, trans. Well, she premised all of her questions and and uh propositions using their language, not saying someone who identifies as a woman. She would actually say a trans woman, like it was a given thing. This is Justin's Clarence Thomas Thomas here, who in classic Justice Clarence Thomas fashion really stops on their argument.

SPEAKER_18 1:19:01

Unfortunately, I didn't pull the clip. No. We have to have it. We have to have the clip. We have to hear what we suffer through all these horrible clips.

SPEAKER_19 1:19:10

Yeah, let's uh let's see if I can pull it real quick.

SPEAKER_18 1:19:19

Go ahead. Take the time. Just me and you.

SPEAKER_16 1:19:24

Just us.

SPEAKER_18 1:19:37

Let's see if I can either read it.

SPEAKER_19 1:19:40

I don't think it's gonna let me have a good hit on this.

SPEAKER_16 1:19:52

He said, Justice Thomas bring a killer question on the ACL lawyer. What remedy are you seeking? If you're in for adjudication, what remedy? Are you seeking? Strangio, flummoxed by such a seemingly simple question, said an injunction. Thomas then asked, practically, you would get would you get different treatment based on sex? And the trap was laid. Strangio said the plaintiff, a girl who identifies as a boy, would be allowed to get drugs for a typical male puberty, despite having a birth sex of female. That answer made clear that girls who identify as boys get a right under the constitution to testosterone, but boys who identify as boys would not, which is sex discrimination. It is. This is something that these judges have to work through. For example, yeah, if we allow a constitutional right for girls to take testosterone, I guess now the men can juice up and take testosterone too. Yeah, so this on this topic. Otherwise, I'm being discriminated against because as a man I'm not allowed to take testosterone.

SPEAKER_18 1:20:50

No, my my face, my wife had it this exact thing happen. So she was talking to a doctor about getting a procedure done, and it was not going to be covered because she was it was elective, right? But if she happened to be a transgender person, it would have been what's the right word? Yeah, it would have been covered. Yes. Oh, absolutely, it would have been covered because it was um affirming her sexuality, right? And so, well, I said, well, why don't you just identify as a woman? It's fluid. Yeah. Well, no, you identify as a woman, and that this procedure is going to help me with my sexuality. It doesn't matter if you're straight. It doesn't.

SPEAKER_16 1:21:37

It's just gender affirming.

SPEAKER_18 1:21:39

Yes, it's gender affirming. So why can't that be gender affirming care? That's a good question. Bingo. There you go. You identify as you identify, get your affirming care. It doesn't matter what you are. I like that. That was the argument we tried to make, and it was like, oh, this whole thing fell flat instantly.

SPEAKER_16 1:21:57

Yeah. Yep. On great news over in the UK, they did something that I hope we do too. Now, the United Europe broadly has banned transgender surgeries and especially for minors. It's been a couple years now, right? So on some things, they're ahead of us. They're a little more communist, a little more socialist, you know, that kind of thing. But every now and then something goes the other direction, and Europe's a couple steps ahead of us. They have clean food. We just barely flipped our food pyramid upside down, right? They've had a different vaccine schedule than we have. We've been loading our kids up with stuff. Now, are they pro-vaccine? Absolutely, but not so many for the kids. So Europe sometimes is a couple steps ahead of us when social agendas break. So social agenda that broke was the transgender stuff. That agenda broke. Europe has a tendency to go too far too fast, and it broke under its own weight. The other thing about Europe is unlike the United States, mostly they have better elections. Like in France, they have real elections. They really did elect Macron.

SPEAKER_26 1:23:02

We've got some other breaking news tonight, and this is from Westminster involving the UK government and their plans for digital ID cards. John Craig, our GPT correspondent, is with us. John, I remember not that long ago, sat on this very chair, and I'm seeing that the government are going to bring in digital ID cards, mandatory for all workers.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:22

Has this not been ditched? Looks like it. It was September. The Prime Minister made a big speech at a conference of progressives. Um, and uh he talked tough in that speech there. He said um um he said that um yeah you will you will not be able to work in the UK if you don't have a digital ID. It's as simple as that. Scheme would make it tougher to work illegally in this country, making our borders more secure. Now he was selling it as a crackdown on illegal immigration. He said that uh a secure uh border and controlled migration are reasonable demands. And he said that uh which, by the way, is the argument why they're pushing real ID here.

SPEAKER_16 1:24:01

The real ID controls the immigration. And in England, the real ID wouldn't control their immigration because they literally can't deport people and they can't stop them from coming. So it's kind of a pointless exercise. I mean, it kind of lays the groundwork, but they're never going to change their laws, at least not anytime soon, without massive action. Although one of the things we see is there when the social things break, they rebound pretty quickly, policy-wise, right? So it'll be interesting to see here what happens in the United States if we can rebound.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:28

It'll make it tougher to work illegally, make our borders more secure. And he talked about benefits um and so on. But now, a U-turn. Although the government says it's still committed to the concept of ID cards. Now, uh the spokesman has told Sky News, we're committed to mandatory digital right to work checks. Not quite the same thing. Um, we've always been clear. Details on the origin on the digital ID scheme will be set out following a full public consultation, which will be launched shortly. Well, not sure the Prime Minister was talking about that last September. And then the government still says digital ID would make every everyday lives easier for people, ensuring public services are more personal, joined up, and effective while also remaining inclusive. Yes.

SPEAKER_26 1:25:16

Do we know why?

SPEAKER_05 1:25:17

Why the U turn two reasons. One, a lot of public opposition has petitioned the parliament, has uh attracted more than three million signatures. Uh, political parties like the Lib Dems and Tories dead the post to it. You may remember, perhaps you're too young. We've been here before. I do know I Blair government. I mean Tony Blair is a big fan of ID cards. And uh, of course, I remember quasi. You may remember this. I think you seem to remember David Cameron and uh Nick Clegg teaming up on this pre-the 2010 election, and then the coalition government dumped them straight away. Um, so and there's for fears really that the system simply won't work. It would deter older people for getting back into work, something that the government wants. And I think there's a real re li re realization that it's gonna be a bureaucratic exercise that perhaps won't achieve those objectives that the Prime Minister was talking about back in September. Big off.

SPEAKER_16 1:26:14

If you can't deport people, then you can't say ID cards will help deport people. If you can't check them at the border when they're coming in on a dinghy across the the English Channel, the digital ID card for grandma isn't gonna make a lick of difference. Pointless. Pointless, right? So I'm a super anti-digital ID. It's obvious.

SPEAKER_18 1:26:30

Me too.

SPEAKER_16 1:26:31

All right, so let's wrap up with this qu this video from uh Sam Adams, and since we're just watching us ourselves, I won't even introduce it. Ah, completely.

SPEAKER_33 1:26:41

Having uh having said as clearly as possible that the anti-vax people seem to be the winners, I want you to hear that clearly. The anti-vaxx people appear to be the winners. The anti-vaxxers clearly are the winners at this point, and I think it'll probably stay that way. And and I don't want to put any shade on that whatsoever. They came out the best. They they have the winning position. The unvaccinated have a current advantage. Because they they feel better. The the thing they're not worrying about is what I have to worry about. Which is I wonder if that vaccination five years from now. Because really the anti-vaxxers I think were really just distrustful of He said I have to worry about something.

SPEAKER_16 1:27:31

Right. Do I have a poison shot in me? Right. And guess what? It's about it's been about three years since he gave this speech.

SPEAKER_33 1:27:40

Companies and big government. That's never wrong. It's never wrong to distrust government. I wonder if that vaccination five years from now. Because really the anti-vaxxers, I think, were really just distrustful of big companies and big government. That's never wrong. It's never wrong to distrust government. It's never wrong to distrust big companies. So if you just took the position, let's just distrust everything the government did, well, you won. You won.

SPEAKER_16 1:28:14

You won completely. Which, by the way, was the conclusion I came to at the end of my political science degree. These governments suck. Every one of them. Not a one of them was good.

SPEAKER_33 1:28:25

I did not end up in the right place. Agreed? You would all agree with that, right? I did not end up in the right place. The right place would be natural immunity, no vaccination. You should take victory, and I should take defeat. We can agree on that, right? That that my position is now the weakest, and your position has gone from the weakest to the strongest, and that we can just say that's true. The people who didn't get vaccine are absolutely in the winning position. You win. You win. You are the winners. You are the winners. Let me say that part with no ambiguity. You won. You won. All of all of my fancy analytics got me to a bad place. All of your heuristics. Don't trust these guys, it's obvious. Totally worked.

SPEAKER_16 1:29:30

And sometimes that's all it takes, it's just a little bit of heuristic. Uh let's not trust big government. Seems like a good plan every time. So he did. He talked himself into getting the vaccine. I remember listening when he was like, I saw one of these temporary vaccine sites at some parking lot near my house, and I thought how amazing the government is that they could stand this up. And 90 days after the virus makes its way into the country, now we've given out mass vaccines.

SPEAKER_18 1:29:53

We're such an amazing country.

SPEAKER_16 1:29:55

Win, win, win, win, win.

SPEAKER_18 1:29:56

Right.

SPEAKER_16 1:29:57

Then he got the vaccines, then he got sick, and then he got better, and then he got sick again. And they start talking about do I have a vaccine side effect or do I have long COVID? Did long COVID come from the vaccine? Did long COVID come from just getting COVID and not being able to recover? Because a lot of people get that. And a lot of what you guys are saying are vaccine injuries or actually just, you know, long COVID. And he kind of went back and forth and kind of eventually just kind of moved off the topic, right? But it was a big topic for like a year and a half. He dealt with the kind of a lingering issue. He couldn't work out. Then he got better, and then he got cancer. In the same period of time that we found out Joe Biden had stage four prostate cancer, we found out Scott Adams had stage four prostate cancer. And so probably sometime in the next few months, this summer, we'll probably say goodbye to our fearless president Joe Biden, the auto pen signed. All right, guys, that's it for us today. We will talk to you guys again tomorrow.

SPEAKER_27 1:31:18

What knight lives in that castle over there? I'm 37. What? I'm 37, I'm not old. Well, I can't just call you man, you could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. What's your picture is you automatically treat me like an inferior? Well, I am king, old kingdom. How'd you get that, eh? By the workers. Well, hanging on to our stated imperialist dogma, which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. There's never going to be any problems. How do you do? How do you do good ladies? I'm asking of the Britons. Who has that? The Britons. We all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. You're authority yourself. Why live in the tractor? That's what it's all about. These good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that country? No one lives there. Then who is your Lord? We don't have any Lord. What? I told you. When I know those things in this commune, we take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer of the weekend. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special byweight commission. I order you to be quiet. Are you king? The lady of the lake. The arms had the purest humanites held a lot of excalibur from the bottom of the water. Signifying by divine prophets that I asked was to carry excalibus. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women, line important distributed swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some classical aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some water is passed through a sword. Saying I was an emperor. Just because some poisoned beast had loved a symmetry of me, they put me away. Shut up! We shut up! Now we see a violence inheriting the system! Shut up! Now we see a violence inheriting the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed! Oh, what a giveaway! That's what I'm on about. Do you see it repressed in me? You saw it, didn't you?