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all right trunk spoke virtually at Davos
at the world economic Forum this week
and we have a clip of something that I
think we all need to pay attention to
it'll make the United States a
manufacturing superpower and the world
capital of artificial intelligence and
crypto he came through with his speech
recapping some of his campaign promises
the initiatives that he's pushing but as
you can see that was my favorite part
really championing art artificial
intelligence cryptocurrency what do you
feel about Trump's speech at Davos uh I
really did feel like he was coming
through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man
uh he is pulling no punches this is when
you really think about what Davos is it
is the elite of the world getting
together um we recently interviewed Jen
or I recently interviewed Jen and uh I
was really surprised by one how much I
enjoyed my time with him and two that he
really brought to my attention something
that I'd never really thought about
before I think a lot about in terms of
left and right split but I did not think
about establishment versus populist and
so when you start viewing Trump through
that lens it gets very interesting now
what is the establishment The
Establishment are the elites that are
I'm smarter than you I know better than
you and if you just shut up and listen
we're going to run the world the way
that you want and everything has been
moving that way with the Davos crowd
this whole idea of you're going to own
nothing uh and be happy and it just had
always been sort of in the background
for me but never really been front and
center uh and so now really beginning to
put together uh a worldview that
incorporates the people that really
believe that they know better they are
smarter and they really should be in
charge that everybody's lives are going
to be better that bothers me a lot and
uh it's what I have referred to as the
dumb voter problem uh and so now really
beginning to see Trump push back against
that I love that energy and needless to
say Trump seems like on paper he should
be a part of that Elite and obviously
over time we're going to find out if he
is more of that or if he is that
Wrecking Ball from the outside um that
is trying to put power back in the hands
of people and look I am I'm still
cautious in my optimism but it really
does seem like he made a lot of promises
about reigniting the American economy
about putting America First and he's
going to be running things hot there's
no doubt about that I mean he's talking
about uh the fact that we have the
largest oil reserves in the world and
we're going to start acting like it he
is uh Flex in on the world and showing
them that we are the strongest economy I
mean you can just feel the way uh first
of all having him on the big screen
sitting there above the the panel of
plebs there uh and flipping that script
between um actually Americans are the
ones in the driver's seat and um you
guys are going to dance to our tune like
it sounds terrible to say it but that's
the energy and I I would be lying if I
said that it didn't make me feel
energized to feel like all right we have
an agenda to make the American economy
strong we have an agenda to put money
back in Americans Pockets the middle
class and I I mean that is just my whole
shtick and talking to Whitney Webb
another interview that we have upcoming
but talking to her about um this idea of
Neo feudalism because my whole thing has
been I cannot make the elites make sense
to me because it is so obvious that we
need a thriving middle class and the
whole thesis of Neo feudalism is no you
don't you can literally just make them
so uh scared and under your thumb and so
surveilled that you can strip all of
their economic power and they will be so
disempowered that they'll really just
put up with it and history shows that
you can get away with that for a long
time there is nothing more terrifying to
me than that situation uh it's
terrifying for a couple reasons one it
means the bulk of humanity feels
disempowered and I just hate everything
about that that's why my entire first
phase as a you tuber was all about quite
literally one-word empowerment um and
then two they do eventually come for
your head and so that just strikes me as
a really stupid way to set up life and
so all of the energy in his davo speech
was opposed to that and you combine that
with melee who I know we're going to
talk about in a minute and it really
does feel like um there's an energy
sweeping through the Western world right
now that is breaking the hegemony of
this we ideology of uh Elites are an
important institution now I will be the
first to admit I don't yet know what the
world actually the world can't run
without a group of people that are
representative of the people it is my
current worldview that direct democracy
does not work okay uh it would be a
fractal for another day to go into why I
believe that but given that I see the
establishment Elites trying to build a
world that routinely disempowers
economically and intellectually uh the
masses and um that this whole idea of NE
Neo feudalism might really be the point
but Trump is now coming in and
disrupting that it it feels really good
now I liken this to what happened with
the Arab Spring so the Arab Spring was
the first time where social media really
put itself forward and said we can make
tremendous change but for anybody that
watched that it just didn't go anywhere
and so you have a reestablishment of the
elites and this new Elite did not work
out well for Egypt they certainly didn't
go anywhere new you did not see a new en
vibrant Egypt step onto the world stage
so I haven't paid close enough attention
to it to know exactly what happened uh
but it certainly did not pan out the way
that for a minute it looked like it was
going to but as I see Trump and melee um
really representing this new tip of the
Spear of the masses saying we're going
to do what works we're going to do what
makes our economy strong uh to return to
common sense all of that just it feels
really good so my hope is that given the
energy and intensity with which Trump is
moving um that this really could be the
beginning of something now I know better
than to trust my emotions and right now
what I have for you are directional
hints just way too early for it to be
anything other than that with the way
that Trump is moving um and then a
positive emotion so I'm not giving
myself over to that I think paranoia and
skepticism are always well-founded uh
and should be kept front and center but
this is a really fascinating moment
where there's no longer right think
wrong think uh there is what are your
economic policies and what are they
yielding and so he's laying him out man
he made a bunch of promises when he was
running for office and he seems to be
actually trying to deliver on those
promises um releasing the files all the
nominees seem in keeping with what he
was talking about whether his uh
nominees end up getting confirmed or not
will be a totally different question um
but yeah I can feel him trying to put
these things forward and it's
interesting that we get this feeling on
the world stage this is different if he
would have did a rally in Pennsylvania
somewhere we like okay he just you know
campaign rhetoric part two but this was
something that he's saying to our
International colleagues allies you know
some enemies were in the room as well
and the fact that he had this bombastic
confidence and it wasn't just isolated
to to him to your point melee also had
like a new message uh could we play that
that's the third clip after a year ago I
stood here before you
alone and spoke some truths about the
state of the western world that were met
with some surprise and astonishment by
much of the political economic and media
establishment of the
West and I must
admit that in a way I understand
it a president from a country that as a
result of systematic economic failure
for more than 100 years as a result of
having uh the country taken weak stances
in major Global conflicts and as a
result of us having closed ourselves off
to trade we had lost practically all
International significance over the
years a president of such a country
stood on this stage and told the entire
world that they were wrong that they
were headed for failure that the West
had gone astray and that it needed to be
redirected
I think it's just interesting that melee
to his point coming from a smaller
country that we don't talk about is now
kind of this hero rolling in we see the
same thing happening with the um I'm
blanking on the guy from uh El Salvador
who's kind of having the same the these
new governing policies that are
happening in different parts of the
world are also being met with this
enthusiasm with Trump so it's not just
isolated to America but we starting to
see pockets of other places that have
these similar ideas that are getting
celebrated so yeah and I I should go
farther to finish my point about um what
happened in Egypt so right now what I'm
seeing is social media is allowing
people to have a voice I think this is
exactly how Trump got elected we had a
huge Battle of ideology uh thanks to
Elon coming in and freeing up X and
making it a place where um people
weren't being censored and so we could
actually have the debate of do we think
uh the far-left ideology is better or do
we think a more economic Le right
leaning ideology is going to yield
better results for the average person
and melee referred to um what's going on
in Argentina as we are showing you the
ghost of Christmases yet to come and we
know how it plays out basically he said
for about a hundred years they had
adopted all these socialist policies so
this big raging debate that we just had
he said we've been playing out for 100
Years and we're now showing you what
happens when you reject that you go back
to to capitalism you go back to Merit
which was a big part of Trump's speech
is this is going to be about Merit
and because we were able to have that
debate on social media those ideas were
able to rip through the culture
extremely fast and that was exactly what
was happening in Egypt that caused that
to pop off now uh for whatever reason it
was not able to gain the momentum that
I'm hoping it's going to be able to gain
in the west and so what I think you see
in America what I think you see in
Argentina is uh a culture that is able
to absorb those ideas and actually do
something with them and I think that
what happened and this is pure
speculation on my part again I'm not a
historian that that can really speak to
that but what it feels like uh from a
distance what happened in Egypt was they
didn't have the culture of
Entrepreneurship they didn't have the
culture of uh demanding a leader that
speaks for the people and because that
has played out in Argentina and over the
last year they've built up a surplus and
they've gotten their budget in order
they've had a surplus for the first time
and I forget how many years but many
years a and you feel that same energy
coming off of Donald Trump who's saying
look um I'm G to run this hot and fast
and we're going to become energy
independent we are uh going to remove
all these regulations so that people can
build new sources of energy for the
different things that they want to do uh
take AI for instance spinning up all of
this energy production he was even
talking about and this is where people
are going to get really weird but he's
saying like I even want them to build
like access to Coal for emergency use so
that if something happens that you'd
still be able to have that backup energy
so this is somebody that really
understands what drives the economic
engine and it's saying we're going to
protect the economic engine uh at all
cost and up until this moment it's been
a far more left-leaning ideology of um
what I'll lovingly call Fish over people
I get that that's just a meme but that
idea of um hey we have to do this at all
costs and even if that means that you
know people are freezing to death in
other countries and the cost of energy
is skyrocketing to very little apparent
um result we're rejecting all of that
and we're going to restart this engine
and that engine of just pure economics
is going to be the thing that carries
the day um and so my hope is that now
because of the setup that we have in the
west culturally because our institutions
are designed exactly for this with
Liberty as one of our leading values um
as he starts to deregulate that we be
able to innovate that will be able to
hopefully get our way out of this
horrific cycle of inflation stealing
money from the people and giving them
because you only have two levers you can
spend less you can make more and him
really doing both of those um my hope is
that my hypothesis is true that if
people are making more money over time
and they have a reason to believe that
their kids will do even better than they
will that it brings this optimism uh and
this drive to be great and to innovate
that has made America great for as long
as it has that we really recapture that
Spirit um and so it does feel like
somebody's had their thumb on the true
American Spirit and it's now lifted and
so um yeah my hope is that this is that
same kind of uh spring that we saw uh in
Egypt but now that it's really gonna go
into a full-blown summer 100% And now
jumping into specific policy
recommendations he talked about lowering
the corporate tax for companies who
produce in America bringing it from he
said it was 40 he brought it down to 21
and he's either offering it now to bring
it down to 15 as long as you make your
products in America do you think this
Corp this tax benefit will spur kind of
local production in America yeah so this
is where this gets really interesting so
it it is very easy to have the
conversation of how do we get money into
people's hands so do we want to give
money directly to the people or do we
want to do what will be mocked for being
trickle down economics and what Trump is
putting forward I think is ultimately
the thing that's going to work
corporations have developed a a terrible
[ __ ] name because of all the
corruption but if people cannot
understand that there's pathology on
both side so if you allow corporations
to get corrupt then yes they're going to
do the elite game they are going to
hollow out the middle class which they
have been doing that really is a problem
and we really must stop doing that or it
is going to create catastrophic problems
want to be very clear your corporations
can go too far if you let that happen
you create what we're living through
right now and it is [ __ ] bad now
having said that if you don't recognize
that the very thing that creates the
prosperity is capitalism and capitalism
is corporations and capitalism done well
incentivizes people to innovate to
please their customers more than the
next by making a product that is better
and better products are what have made
the modern world capitalism is the thing
that has pulled people globally out of
poverty there's been nothing else that's
done it even China when they realized
okay hold on a second we've got to get
out from under the tyrannical Mal
policies how are we going to do this
we're going to do this by leveraging
capitalism now they didn't let
capitalism go unfettered so we're going
to see what happens if hey is that
better where it's capitalism sometimes
and then you crush it down when it gets
too hot you let it go crush it Down Let
It Go crush it down don't know we'll see
but all I know is when they want to go
up in um life expectancy when they want
to make things better financially for
their people the thing they don't do is
more communism the thing they do do is
more capitalism so I'm just saying I
think it's going to have the same effect
here all the while we must watch out for
the tendency for tyranny the tendency
for oligarchy and the people that are I
think poised to help unlock America's
greatness right now are also the same
people that if we're not careful they
spill over and they become oligarchs and
they do everything to position
themselves to win um but corporations
pleasing their customers is exactly how
you generate Prosperity knowing all of
that now you it begs the question is
lowering the tax rate actually going
going to be the thing that allows us to
unleash that or is this simply going to
get back to Americans are not going to
have enough money into coffers to take
care of people and so this is where it
becomes a question of what unlocks more
tax dollars is it quantity of tax
meaning higher percentage tax yields
more dollars in the government coffers
or is it lower tax and you make it up in
volume because we increase GDP so for
instance if by lowering the taxes we
simply collect less tax money then
there's going to be less money for the
US government to start paying down the
debt there's going to be less money for
all the social safety nets and all of
our entitlements and people are going to
freak the [ __ ] out so I want to be very
clear if doing that causes deeper
austerity measures people are going to
hate it and and Trump is going to be
wildly unpopular if on the other hand
the onew punch of deregulating so that
inovation really can run free yeah and
by lowering the tax rate people are now
which by I want to remind people you
have to make your product in America to
get access to that lower tax rate so
make your thing outside of America
you're going to get tariffed into
Oblivion you're also going to be at a
higher tax rate come into America make
your products here you're going to have
a much lower tax rate and you're going
to avoid the tariffs so theoretically
because AI is in here somewhere but
theoretically that means that more
Americans are going to be getting hired
also because he is focused so intensely
on lowering the cost of energy by drill
baby drill now all of a sudden the cost
of manufacturing comes down and so again
the one thing you can trust people to be
a selfish you start giving people tax
breaks you start creating a better
regulatory environment you lower the
cost of energy now all of a sudden
America actually becomes the place where
you're just the most selfish thing you
can do is to go make your product in
America and so it's one of those there
are no guarantees that this is going to
work but man on paper does it look good
and I get it I understand the flip side
I I have already done in past episodes
the steal man of the argument of people
who say this this isn't going to work
but I look at it and
go my question is will it happen fast
enough for all of those things to
coales quickly enough that people feel
it over the next four
years if it does then I really think
that this is going to be a pretty
special moment in America but um I think
he is putting the right pieces in play
and it's really exciting it is and to
your point the deficit will indicate
that so if we are bringing in more
revenue and this was the appropriate
right move and here's the thing dude if
so if our GDP is whatever it's like 2.5
2.5 to 3% somewhere in there if he can
get it to four or 5% holy hell money is
just raining from the sky it would be
unbeliev now again AI is in this mix
somewhere and so it is entirely possible
that a lot of that GDP is generated by
Ai and you still have people that are
struggling to find work that's a very
real thing um but manufacturing at least
is something that applies to so many
people it's not like he's trying to
onshore uh a bunch of high-tech white
color jobs this is about making things
here again and to um I don't think horse
will ever be dead so I'm going to keep
beating it we are now competing with
China as a pure competitor and uh we
need to be prepared militarily we need
to be prepared economically and uh yeah
I mean he's really trying to do things
that will bring jobs back to America and
just to keep this going um we're seeing
people invest in America in a big way
yeah so all the pieces are there we'll
see one thing that he needs to get done
is his deal over in Ukraine uh Trump put
out a tweet on Truth social calling out
President Putin to get a deal done how
do you feel about this rhetoric I was a
little bit nervous about the Israel
Palestine ceasefire then you got it done
so I'm looking at this you were nervous
that it wouldn't happen I was nervous
that that might antagonize them um but
then it ended up ceasefire came out two
days later I ate my words I feel like
he's repeating that Playbook talking
tough telling Putin that Ukraine is
ready and kind of putting the ball in
their court so do you think they're
going to bite and Russ's going to come
back or what do you thinken um I think
this is a question of
amplitude we put a bunch of sanctions on
them when this first happened and it
didn't do anything yeah not only did it
not do anything it drove Russia China
Iran it started pushing all of them
together and I really hated that and
thought that some of the economic
sanctions that we did were a mistake
that it showed people if you hold us
debt uh it's a bad idea because we can
seize it um now Trump doesn't seem to be
talking about seizures but he is talking
about tariffing them and so if Russia is
really connected to the countries that
Trump has enough pull over to make the
Tariff amplitude so big that it dwarfs
the sanctions that couldn't get him to
behave then yeah this could work but I'm
always like what's the backup and the
backup is either do nothing and let it
rage MH send infinite amounts some money
to the Ukraine so that they can fight
properly uh which I think will piss
Americans off so I think that's more or
less off the table or actual kinetic
violence American troops on the ground
there's no Universe in which he does
that they they would have to invade uh a
NATO partner before he would do that
there's no way um so that's where I'm
like I don't know I don't know that we
have a slam dunk here and I'll be very
curious to see it play out um but I'm
getting the
feeling that given the strength of the
American economy and the fact that he is
just
Shameless in throwing that weight around
um in a way that the Biden
Administration wasn't prepared to do uh
that it might work but this would be one
where um I would really really like to
get people like
mimer uh in here to talk about John
mimer anybody that has a connect to John
mimer we've gone hard in the paint
trying to get him on the show um I would
love to talk to him somebody that really
understands real politique that
understands the musculature of all of
this stuff and how that plays out and
really understands the uh the
relationship between the US and Russia I
think he'll have a good read on whether
that would work or whether that would
just cause more problems um so yeah
we'll see we shall see we'll play it out
if you had the like 50/50 6040 what's
the percentage that Russia and Ukraine
approach a ceasefire deal over what time
period uh before the end of 2025 oh uh
if you're G to give Trump a whole year
of working on that I would say probably
7030 okay if I cut that in half in the
next three months in the next three
months then I'll just say coin toss
50/50 I don't have a strong sense got it
cool well we're going to continue this
Trump chain Trump train CU he has been
busy um he signed a a couple EOS today
the crypto EO was finally signed in it
he mentioned stable coins he prohibited
cbdcs and he proposed the potential to
set up a digital asset stockpile is he
is this the campaign promise being
fulfilled is this a good first step what
did you read about it the thing that
everybody needs to be very sober about
is that uh most of the things that he's
proposing he's still going to have to
get passed through Congress and so he's
basically indicating intent now the
intent that he's indicating is fantastic
are some of the things that he putting
forward things that he knows are going
to get shot down I suppose that's
possible uh with the Bitcoin strategic
Reserve specifically there's a reason
that he put that as well we should
explore it that's that's really all it
said was they're going to put forward
recommendations the other ones he was a
lot stronger about um so we'll see but I
do see this as the things he said are
the things he actually wants to do like
I have yet to see something where I feel
like oh he was just saying and doesn't
plan to make good on it he is like
moving fast dude he's been in office
three days I mean is that where we're at
three or four days so it's I mean he is
signing these to the point where I'm
worried he's going to get carpal tunnel
syndrome so he is definitely trying to
signal to everyone this is really what
I'm trying to do he's certainly not shy
about throwing his weight around both
nationally and
internationally um uh so yeah I mean
we'll see but this is somebody who I
think is playing to win whether he wins
is a much bigger question but he's
actually on the field trying to get it
done yeah and I think that's the one
thing I appreciate about it is campaign
promises a lot of times they're all talk
we have countless examples about how
presidents lie get into office and do
something completely different for the
most part in the first four days he has
at least signed executive orders that
have put forward some of his promises
that he laid out to your point he has to
get signed it has to go through Congress
it's not over yet but it's definitely a
win for you know team red and Maga that
he is making those moves he's taking
those first steps to the most that to
the best of his power so correct yeah
we'll keep we'll keep monitoring it um
okay we got to talk about your boy Elon
he was being petty on on X this is
pretty funny yeah let's pull this up so
we talked about this on the last episode
we had the historic announcement $500
billion for AI infrastructure into the
US Elon which by the way a big
announcement from Trump a key thing the
press conference with uh masaan like hey
you know I asked for 100 then it was 200
Masa rolls up with the
500 big press conference and then Elon
hits him with they don't actually have
the money and it was like uh oh uh next
tweet soft bank has well under 10
billion secured I have that on good
authority and I've got to imagine Trump
was not loving that tweet exchange so of
course the headlines were like has the
Bromance ended between Trump and Elon to
your AI EO just hours after after you
made that big star date announcement
Elon Musk tweeted that they don't
actually have the money is that true I
don't know if they do but you know
they're putting up the money the
government's not putting up anything uh
they're putting up money they're very
rich people so I hope they do and I mean
Elon doesn't like one of those people
so this this one is going to be very
interesting to see play out because if
you look at um scaramucci he's like he
just cannot work with strong
personalities he can't do it he's got a
Lego Trump and uh yeah he's never going
to be able to play for the long run with
these guys and so a lot of great ideas
he is not a consensus Builder it's all
going to fall apart wow and you start
seeing this and it'll be interesting now
if Trump can um focus on the art of the
deal and actually get things done then
we might see that yeah he's going to let
uh Elon let off a little steam say what
he needs to say and he's just going to
keep pushing things forward in the way
that he sees fit uh and as long as they
can disagree and um you know say the
things that they need to say to protect
their own egos but they keep moving
forward and they have enough in common
that they you know just keep pushing
forward for instance if what Elon is
really hungry for is get to Mars and
Trump's message I'm obviously
speculating but if Trump's message to
him is listen I'm gonna deregulate a
bunch of stuff so that your businesses
will finally be
Unshackled then what you do is up to you
M but the Mars thing I'm really going to
get behind that and we are going to
plant the stars and stripes on Mars I'm
here for that and however we can help
you get there we're going to help you
get there and Elon just has to pick his
horse and say fine AI is going to be one
of the things that I do but maybe that's
not going to be the key thing that I get
his help with just deregulate let me go
in and compete you know Elon believes in
himself in terms of being able to
compete and let us not forget as of
right now today X aai has the biggest AI
infrastructure period full stop end of
story did it faster than anybody thought
possible uh Jensen hang of Nvidia said
he did in like six weeks what most
people do in five years and he's like
this is incredible I've just never seen
anything like it so I think Elon is more
than happy to bet on himself and so if
they have sort of a gentleman's
agreement that okay look Mars is going
to be the play I'm G to back you hard
there but I'm going to be doing other
things with her without you uh because
there's I can't fathom that Elon didn't
know the AI thing was coming yeah um so
the fact that they haven't like fallen
out yet there's been no major fall apart
as far as I can tell um and I imagine he
knew about that long before uh standing
at the inauguration and being excited
about all the announcements about Mars
and all that stuff so that's my gut
instinct it's pure speculation at this
point but I could see that but you're
never going to get Trump to shut up
you're never going to get Elon to shut
up uh and so I think we're all gonna get
a great TV show of these guys like
saying things like that now if they
start taking shots at each other
directly then I would read that
differently but for now I think that
it's uh it it's a level that won't break
up a friendship how about that yeah have
you seen something like this in the
business world where two strong
personalities kind of clash and where
they could just collab and make money
they instead like get Petty and it is
hilarious and ridiculous and dude I've
seen people that are terrifyingly smart
and they cannot get out of their own way
I've heard people say things like I'll
build people up until they make me
nervous and then I have to tear them
down and I'm like you're aware you do it
and you can't stop yourself like that's
ego because let me tell you the this is
a famous quote I have no idea who said
it the first time but it is so true I
real realized you can get anything done
if you don't need the credit for it and
so people that really get [ __ ] done they
they'll let it be somebody else's idea
and oh man am I going to pay the price
for this one day probably but I'll say
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going to be times where you have
somebody who's so problematic that you
have to take your best ideas and just
say things like man drew that idea of
yours the one that I just said uh uh
it's so brilliant I'm so glad you came
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person knows they didn't come up with it
if you give them that credit in front of
other people they either have to turn it
down and say no no no that wasn't me in
which case they lose whatever credit you
just gave them in front of other people
or they have to take credit for an idea
that wasn't theirs now obviously the
more you can do it in a subtle way where
they don't notice that it was your idea
and that now they can just subtly take
credit for it um
that's obviously better but it works to
a freakish degree because so often
people are being driven by their ego and
not by a desired outcome which is really
bizarre and so the people that really
really really can win in life are people
that can balance it because the reality
is you do need to get credit for some
things otherwise um you'll lose power
because people don't realize the
influence that you have uh but if you're
willing to give credit to other people
to give up a lot of that to share the
credit uh man it goes a long way but
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slsc we'll keep monitor in the situation
but uh the one thing Trump didn't do he
didn't tweet about it he went and got
another check so Saudi Arabia pledged
$600 billion so just again first week of
office Trump had attracted $1.1 trillion
in foreign investment 500 from soft Bank
allegedly if Elon says it and now 600
billion from Saudi Arabia that's that
has to be like a fundraising goal or
something right like this is kind of
crazy it so one let us officially put on
the table you and I are both very very
aware that this is sort of a breaking
story and some people are saying that
some of the 600 billion is actually the
500 billion that masan was already
talking about so we don't know if it's
complete 1.1 trillion or if it's a
little bit muddy that'll come out in
time um but if regardless of whether
it's just 500 or just 600 or all the way
to 1.1 trillion to be this early in his
term and uh to have attracted that kind
of international financing
of American companies I mean star
Stargate is aany so this is not a
government initiative this is the
government saying this is something we
want to see happen and I'm helping
broker these deals and it's a really
fascinating insight to look at Trump as
somebody who's about the art of the deal
that that's what he wants his legacy to
be I can get deals done whether it's the
Abraham Accords the thing that nobody
said was going to be possible to try to
uh bring people in the Middle East
together he was able to do that hopes to
continue moving that forward forward now
that he's back uh getting Japan to make
huge investments in us getting Saudi to
make huge Investments uh doing the tax
break stuff that he's doing to try to
get even foreign companies to
manufacture here get American companies
that had sent manufacturing overseas to
bring it back um it it is it is really a
great sign to see if he's able just to
play a pure economic game and say yeah
I'm going to create scenarios where we
win and other people people win and look
at how he's handling the Tik Tok thing I
think it's hilarious but the fact that
he's saying America should get half of
this like it's just you it's a little
crazy but it's also like what did he say
in his first term yes I'm a bully but
I'm your bully it's like I don't know
this time it rings true I'm sort of over
the I hate the way he talks and all that
stuff that really turned me off the
first go round uh and am now just like
yeah yeah go get a little more for us
you know what I mean like it's uh it's
interesting yeah Tik Tock like thanked
them when they took came back from the
band like his name was actually on like
Tik Tok is now restored in the US thanks
to president Donald Trump so like he's
he's able to put himself in interesting
situations uh I think you're going to
see more of that I think that's going to
be a big thing I think he he lives for
that and I think people know that he
lives for that and uh it's something
that the left has derided him for that
oh if you say something nice to Trump
that he'll do whatever you want um
obviously it's not that simplistic but
if he's able to get people to do things
for him to the point where they're all
like game to thank him publicly because
he's obviously doing a thing um that
they're like whoa this is really helpful
for me um that's reciprocity and if you
can get a lot of people that feel like
they owe you one man don't don't
overlook that yeah don't overlook that
now of course you got to be careful
because that kind of thing turns into
corruption turns into nepotism etc etc
uh so I think people that are paranoid
ought to remain paranoid I think people
that are skeptical ought to remain
skeptical um but I think we're going to
see the proof is in the pudding that
ultimately people want things and the
Art of the deal is helping them get the
things that you want all the while
resounding to your benefit um so we'll
see man we'll see I get this is all
emotion this is all excitement none of
it's real yet um but at least there's
something to be excited about all right
I mean you said it so I feel like you
gave me the the segue I can't even take
credit for it are you ready to get
paranoid now I'm ready Drew okay I got
to set up this is your idea this is your
idea I got to set up for this one okay
we got a couple we're going to start
from easy and we're going to get more
and more tinfoil okay so right now all
right so we're in conspiracy Corner
we're in conspiracy corner right now
right now we're locking the doors okay
we're still outside we still have yes a
normal social routine but we're going to
get full like Doomsday conspiracy
theorist at the end hold on okay number
one the Deep state is real James O'Keefe
got another one I don't know why people
in DC keep swiping bro but this is crazy
to me he called another person the guy
was like you really had somebody you
found somebody fake to go on a date with
me he's like yeah he was so hurt like
you could tell he was thinking like I'm
about to text him this like he was so
ready for date number two and O'Keefe
just took it so okay this one wasn't as
bad so that's why this is the softball
he was like yes I'm admitting that the
Deep state is real but he kind of uses
bureaucracy and commissions to kind of
Muddy the water slow it down I think you
your Barnacle analogy almost so I feel
like this one you kind of seen coming
this is like a d we all there there's no
way that anybody thinks that the
bureaucracy isn't real some people just
don't like the word deep state but we
all know even in a normal company oh my
boss is such a [ __ ] like I'm just
going to slow roll this or I'm gonna do
this or whatever I know I'm GNA go talk
to that person and they'll kill it like
humans humans going to human you get a
large enough group and people are going
to be working at Cross purposes that
there's no way that there is a single
human being on planet Earth that doesn't
acknowledge that that's true of humans
so if we know that's true of humans you
scale it up to the size of the US
government it's obviously going to be
happening where I think people get weird
is when you call it the Deep State and
you start talking about these are people
that are intentionally trying to
sabotage uh Trump or whoever I'm sure
there were people trying to sabotage
Biden so I'm just saying this is
obviously real but there's something in
fact I loved what James O'Keefe said at
the end of this in fact CU queue up the
very end of this because uh James
O'Keefe said the exact right thing which
is pause it real fast the paraphrase and
we'll play the exact thing uh is
that if you're going to be doing this
stuff you have to say it out loud and do
it openly to people's face otherwise
we're going to keep catching you on
hidden camera you know I think he was
surprised surprised at first but he kind
of talked to us a little bit I think
he's just in a state of total shock and
you know what bureaucrats in Washington
you're on notice okay you are on notice
you either say these things openly and
publicly and transparently or we catch
you on tape also known as investigative
journalism okay so
it the thing that
I am really tripped out by m is that
most people do not take the time to say
this is my value system this is what I
believe this is what I'm steering
towards and once you make them say it
out loud there is often clearly not
always because this guy was willing to
say it to that woman he was perfectly um
happy to but often times you be like
yeah this is kind of gross yeah and
merely saying it out loud and having to
present it to the public you the second
you go to say it you're like wow yeah
this really does sound terrible and uh
my life as a content creator changed the
day I realized oh I go on X to fight oh
I should be reading all the comments in
my YouTube because I should be there to
fight for my ideas cool then I'm only
going to say the things that I'm
prepared to fight for um and look I'm
always open to changing my mind and
people will see me in the comments if
somebody's like this is a [ __ ]
moronic take PS that's all they'll say
they won't even explain why but I'm
really like cool tell me in what way
it's dumb because if it actually is dumb
I want to update my thinking but when
you're like I'm going to say these
things because I believe them I'm
prepared to defend them I'm prepared to
go in and be faced with a reaction to my
ideas now all of a sudden it's like you
really do start to limit the things
you're going to pop off on um that's
what I want to see the Deep state do
just say what you stand for say it
publicly say it transparently um because
especially if you believe that people
were elected to enact the will of the
people which the guy actually said when
he was being uh follow by James O'Keefe
um then it's like then why are you
working against what the people voted
for it's very true it's very true and I
like how he ended it too stand on your
morals if this is what you're doing if
this is what you're about don't throw
rocks with your in hide your hand like
stand 10 toes down about it so we'll see
we'll see all right we're we're going to
level two now Trump just sounded the EO
declassifying docks that surrounded JFK
RFK and MLK's murder
I think we're gonna find something there
this is going to be crazy the fact that
they have not released these even though
they've had foyer requests even though
the time is expired but they decided to
reut it down now my thing is what did
Trump know the first goor round the way
he explained it when he was asked was
like oh people that I really respect are
like n no no you want to leave this one
alone now it's entirely possible Trump
was like okay for real and they're like
for real you don't even want to look
because then you don't have plausible
deniability and it's possible that Trump
was like all right cool don't even show
me uh man if it were me I'd be like no
no no let me see real fast like I would
have to know you know what I mean and
then at that point it's like okay if you
looked at it and you know what's up and
you still didn't want to show it then
that means there's really something
spicy in there um but I have a feeling
we have all been so
desensitized to human evil the fact that
our government does sinister [ __ ] when I
heard the again I don't even know if
this was AI if it was real but when I
heard the like breaking news about JFK
and he was murdered by LBJ I was like
okay like I was shocked that I wasn't
shocked I was just like yeah okay I sure
I buy it like I don't know what you
could say where I'd be like holy [ __ ]
the only thing for me because I so don't
believe we've been visited by aliens if
it was like no aliens took him out or
whatever and they just had like stone
cold proof I'd be like holy [ __ ] some
green sh
it's really the X-Men it was actually
Mystique then I'd be like oh [ __ ] uh
anything short of that and I'm just
gonna be like yeah [ __ ] like I I who who
could it be that killed him where I'd be
like no way uh it was his wife she had
him killed yeah okay Marilyn Monroe had
him killed okay from the grave yeah I
buy it LBJ did yep sure CIA yeah I got
it no it was RFK it was Tupac whatever
nothing nothing is going to shock me
just dude humans are [ __ ] Psychopaths
if people read enough history at some
point there really should be nothing
they could say it's only if it happened
right now in the moment that's when it's
like the the danger feels imminent like
if we found out that the um the Biden
Administration was trying to kill Trump
then I would have freaked the [ __ ] out
like if we learn that now just because
it's all happening right now in the but
it's not like I wouldn't believe believe
that of somebody former in the past um
but that would feel like you're in a car
you step on the brakes and the brakes
don't work that's what that would make
me feel like whereas now I feel like oh
the brakes are back on the car the fact
that the brakes didn't work you know
whatever 50 60 years ago it's like
whatever um but yeah I can't see I can't
see it creating any sort of big drama
now I think it's just that somebody
still alive is involved and so now it's
trials things like that and all that
that's my gut as to why they kept saying
don't do it okay okay all right level
three we're going to get there we're
going this one's a little funny so this
one goes to our AI um our AI take that
we talked about earlier can we do the
next one Stargate gets announced Oracle
Larry Ellison open AI Sam Alman SoftBank
500 billion Oracle gets exposed as a CIA
contractor Eline says they ain't got the
money a Microsoft exec that oversaw the
open AI partnership quit quits
abruptly Microsoft confirms that they
have 80 billion on him to build out a
zero in their kind of AI products Elon
calls out soft bank for not having the
liquid assets and then the stal step up
and want to invest 600 billion out of
nowhere is it because soft Bank didn't
have the bread and Saudi Arabia is is
kind of carrying the load and Elon
exposed
them yeah I don't know what to do with
that one so uh I don't know that one is
like just going to play out and if that
all ended up being true let me tell you
how business at that level works it's
kind of like Hollywood movies where you
go to somebody and you say hey look Tom
Cruz is gonna be in this movie um but
he's only in if you're in are you in
that person's like yeah oh my God like
100% let make it another bigname actor
uh um God who's Big anymore uh Hugh
Jackman and so then Hugh Jackman's like
yeah I'll do it if Tom Cruz is in it
then you go and say hey we've got Hugh
Jackman uh Tom Cruz would you like to be
in a movie with Hugh Jackman yeah I'll
do that and so you used the first person
who wasn't actually in it so I could see
where SoftBank is like look I can get
the 500 billion but I need the following
things to line up and uh Mr Trump so
that you feel comfortable making the
announcement here's the 10 billion
sitting here the remaining 400 190s
contingent on these things because it
even said up to 500 billion so it's like
I'm sure it was just contingent on a
bunch of different things Elon hears
from somebody else is like man they
don't even have the money you know
better than that like it's
XYZ now whether the Saudi thing is
related in any way shape or form that I
have no idea and I don't know what the
Microsoft guy quitting has to do with
anything um but if he shows up dead
somewhere uh hung himself after being
shot six times in the stomach it's like
well uh that I don't know open AI is
good for that allegedly allegedly
allegedly so I mean that's one of those
trippy things like how many
whistleblowers have wound up dead it's
like uh I don't think we're going to
like that number okay but then it's like
is it just the pressure of doing that
and these are people that had some
conflict it doesn't mean that they were
killed uh but also people kill people as
we're about to find out with those files
being released so uh yeah we'll see man
but this I'm definitely in tin foil hat
territory here this one I feel these
feel more like a scatter plot they don't
feel like dots that actually connect yet
but we'll see okay I came up with three
I didn't get you this time but I'mma get
Tom in a tinf foil hat that's my goal
all right I got one last thing and then
we can wrap this up uh the best ad I
seen today is from Pakistan Airlines
Paris we're coming today I don't think
not quite what they had in mind for
anybody that was around for 911 that ad
is is going to be a wee bit triggering
uh so they pulled that right yeah intern
definitely got fired today uh I just
thought that that was hilarious maybe
he's Lost in Translation I don't know
that was I mean dude look if that was
done by somebody in their early 20s they
were not either alive or cognizant uh
for what happened in 911 so but that is
yeah that's pretty fun it's like the
flag is off center the Eiffel Tower is
not even like it's just top to bottom
was a bad design but whoops um there it
is they can't all be bangers Drew they
they can't they can't all be bangers not
everything is going to come together uh
it is what it is that's all I got all
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