Kump - Ep. 212 Air Force Dumb

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

Trump is reportedly accepting a $400 million private plane from Qatar. Ray and Lucie break down whether the 13-year-old jet is a gift, a bribe, or a flying trash can.Also in this episode:– Harvard discovers it bought a Magna Carta for $28– Walmart signals price hikes– Trump’s Dubai hotel collapses over forged permits– Birthright citizenship, AI prison plans, and a jerky-based survival modelWeekly bonus episodes at patreon.com/raykump

Welcome to Kump. President Trump is under fire for accepting a $400 million plane from Qatar. Qatar. Welcome back Qatar. Let's see. Multiple sources familiar with the proposal say this is the airplane, a 13-year-old Boeing 7478, known as a flying. Whatever. You just say 13 years old? Yeah, that's old as hell. What did we talk? I thought it's just like an extravagant gift that like Qatar, like it was like, you know, they were buying the president. 13 years old.

If someone gave me a 13 year old plane, I would throw it out. He's doing, he's giving him a gift even accepting this thing for the law. What did they call it a luxury something? It's called it a luxury trash can. What are they talking about? I'm not even, imagine if you were having a buy. mitzvah or something and I gave you a 13 year old plane as a gift you and you would be insulted I would be so angry you would you would have I would never be able to go your

synagogue again there you're your synagogue your temple they were telling me to get lost to go go go go go hang up in guitar why don't you go to the guitar here at like 13 year old things jeez you're in your plane should never be older than your lover oh man what is so trump is getting a lot of uh you want to take a little look at let's take another quick what we got here allis it was toured by trump himself back in february the aircraft is larger and significantly more luxurious than the current air force one an older version of the 747 that has been in operation since 1990 i thought they after these things a lot It's two fully furnished floors, complete with flush carpet, leather couches, and two bedrooms.

The plane's current value. Look, to be fair, I thought, I thought, I, well, yeah, like what? What do you think it stinks like? You know what it stinks like. It's an open, yeah. The carpet's probably full of smoke. That plane is an open-air prison, if you're asking me. What is, here's why I don't understand.

I don't understand many things about life, but why. I always, we watch these things like the West Wing or I didn't see Air Force One weirdly but like I think they probably like told you on how luxurious it was that movie right Harrison Ford we're constantly told like look at Air Force One

it's got a McDonald's inside it's really you could get a hysterectomy inside Air Force One and it's like I'm Julius in the toilet but like I guess like they're just this just catches them up with the like public perception that they've pumped out

there because really i guess the presidents have been flying around in like the back of a spirit airlines it's like everyone they just put like a big like uh like a plywood partition in the back of a spirit flight and all these like all these stinky poor people are in the front just trying to like you know fight each other for seats and then uh and the president's just back there making trade deals selling out the american people but apparently uh leather couches leather i mean this is what is the four

critics like potential violation of the foreign emoluments clause are we still on this I mean I feel like this this plane hardly counts

as an emolument yeah I don't I think 13 years takes care of the emolument aspect of it all but really side note

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I thought we were like kind of quietly agreed that like we're not going to bother with that anymore we couldn't get them on before they don't particularly want to anymore i don't care there's a lot more there's a lot things going on 400 million that's like nothing in the grand scheme of like the government yeah and also like why shouldn't katar give us nice gifts what does it have to offer like we why are we in bed with these people the middle eastern people you know dictators who run the you know that power of the world, which I'm not trying to, like, you know, imply any. But, yeah, I feel like wasn't the idea that we kind of set the Boston Britain,

we kind of set up these guys, you know, we gave them their start. We gave them their stripes. We gave them their blessing. Like, hey, you, you just run it. You keep most of the money. The people can just eat rocks. And, you know, you throw the, you throw the worst people, the most aggressive, uh, extremist people, you know, a few million bucks a year.

Because that's smart. that won't blow back but that was a deal but now we're like oh he gave you a plane a 13 year old plane I mean I'm not trying to I'm not trying to say Trump isn't corrupt

it's just like he should be more corrupt in this case yeah we should be demanding a certain standard of bribe in this country if my president can't even get you know a new I don't

I'd rather he got a plane that was like you know it knew but like it could just be like a propeller plane. Like a plane from that show wings. Remember Sandpiper Airlines? They were flying

and then tuck it and back from Boston. And there was a fat guy, Roy, who I could have played if they rebooted it. Reboot it. Let me play Roy, the sassy fat guy. Who's like, who runs something else there? I think he runs a competing airline. He's like, what are you two

brothers doing? Man! Someone get me a bagel. I would be perfect. If Hollywood wasn't a non-functioning disease, I I could be that. I could be Roy.

I mean, I'm already, I'm already Ray. Just make me Roy the fat, the fat boy. But I mean, like, I, I'm not trying to reset the wheelie. I'm not trying to go back to, you know, the golden age of Hollywood here. Where you don't have to bring your own suit from Walmart or the men's warehouse. I'm just trying to get a gig. We were watching the, the, uh, the caliber of just like makeup and costuming for actors. Yeah.

It's just, it's fallen so much. Oh, yeah. Like, they all look awful and everything they're in. Nothing matches, like, their skin tone. Like, you just see, like, where they're, what scars they're covering. Right. What stab wounds. What, you know, the brand that the, uh, coincidentally, Katari Amir probably put on them

when they, you know, before they made it big, you know, just to get, just to pay the rent sometimes, they, they let, they, by the, some middleman fly into Qatar or somewhere like that. and you know amongst other things get branded it's fun it's a lot of fun everyone enjoys it maybe not the actress but what are you going to do uh yeah no it's really the whole thing just seems to be completely imploded um i was watching i never seen the vinci because i was watching and i didn't like it very much at all uh that being said it's like it reminds you how competent bad movies used to be right competently shot competently acted.

Tom Hanks just going, I'm a revenging. You know? I mean, it's just, there's a lack of trying anymore. People just don't want to try. People are very over it. Much like guitar with this 13-year-old.

I mean, what is? This is a retrofitting for presidential use may cost taxpayers millions. You got, I mean, you got the plan or you complain you complain about one or the other you would have had to do it gift if you have to do work on yeah i mean honestly they gave him the bones of a plane what's the what are we talking about here what's the value is estimated at 400 million dollars but it will need millions more worth of modifications to meet the air force requirements to operate as the presidential

aircraft so we saved you 400 like the stuff that actually makes it not crash can you just put that in all planes what are they mad about they're mad they like we didn't pay for it that you and me didn't fund this stuff that's what the the problem is that I'm not gotten getting beat over the head for this plane the guitar is doing their fair share I'm sorry I'm really sorry it raises many many eyebrows to have this sort of deal at all to be accepting who is this guy from a foreign government can we Can we get, but I mean, what happened to that job? What?

That job used to be like, you know, Pat Buchanan or John McLaughlin or something, or Tucker Carlson back in the crossfire. Now we got some guy who's like gel and his hair isn't even dry yet. It raises many eyebrows. Look at this is very distraved. How about you trim your eyebrows? Bro, and what is that little like the little thing in the hair? Enough.

And where are you in the toilet? I mean, I'm not saying what he's saying is invalid. I'm saying it. Nobody, nobody, nobody looks dignified anymore. There's no, like, mystique anymore. No, it's coming from me. But we, we're at the vanguard. But I mean, this guy, his points aren't invalid. They're just invalidated by the fact that he looks and sounds the way he does. I mean, this is, why can't, you can't, it's been five years since the pandemic. You can't, like, build a little home studio. Where do you think we are in the middle of Midtown Manhattan? What do you think is it? This is a bathroom.

God, people are lazy. Air Force One from a foreign government. Under the terms of the proposed gift, sources tell ABC, the plane would be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation no later than January 1st, 2029. So who's complaining about this, by the way? Who's complaining the most about these foreign gifts? Is it like Peru?

It's Peru saying, hey, we can't afford to give you a $400 million 13-year-old plane, right? Right. That's just, I mean, so it kind of isn't fair internationally to have you being bought, you know, with an old plane. Or is it Lichtenstein? Is it Australia? Who, well, it's not her either. I mean, she works for who's complaining. It just seems to me odd that a certain country.

Oh, I didn't realize they were complaining about it. Oh, I don't know if they're foreign, you know, I don't know if they've officially... Oh, they have a problem with that? Oh! I mean, I know, look, I don't know if, you know, Netanyahu got on, got on the wire and made a speech about it, per se. But, you know, Ben, Ben got his notes. Mr. Shapiro got his notes from, you know, who knows where. I'm just saying, it's like, no one's saying, look, all people are.

complain about Israel. They, you know, they basically control or whatever, you know, there's a lot conspiracy theories out there, right? Yeah. But it just seems odd. But there is a lot of money and a lot of, who, they've been bringing, this is the thing, this is the whole thing. They bring this up recently.

And before the plane even, the Qatar's influence, the Qatari influence. Right. There's so many. Disturbing Qatari influence. The, the extraordinary, the extraordinary amount of Qatari's in our government. Remember when Congress was debating. whether or not we should make it illegal to boycott goods from Qatar. Right, right.

All the people who like question, all these people who are questioned the guitar for giving us a plane, are they being deported? I don't know. I mean, I'm not trying to start a little thing here. I'm just saying, like, you know, how about you have it one way for a day? I'm not saying you can't be hypocrites.

But how about we just slow down the speed at which we go back and forth and back, and forth. Can we just, can you act like we haven't yet? Can you pretend like we haven't only yet been lobotomized by whatever fluoridated, you know, sludge that we put into our syrups

and our dyes? That maybe all, it hasn't taken effect for all of us quite as much as you think yet. And we kind of, we notice it a little bit. What did you think about, it seems like Trump kind of went behind Netanyahu's back a little bit,

to get that hostage back. Well, that's what they say. That's what they say. It is a lot of... I kind of like that. Well, yeah. You know, there's a lot of, I mean, a lot of people... Look, I'm always glad when a president does what the president wants to do and, you know,

and doesn't, and it's not influenced by people. And I'm also glad when, you know, he does it in ways that are mostly meaningless and couldn't possibly be just a diversionary thing. You know, I mean, it's great. It's a great way It's great when they decide to have integrity When it doesn't matter at all On technical points

That, you know, could never be scripted It's fine Let's go back to how much it's playing cost Oh, who's complaining about it? This is, oh, our friend, our friend Hillary. Hillary Clinton. Which she worked, $11? Yeah.

She basically said, like, nobody gives somebody A $400 million gift for nothing. And no one shoved a cigar inside you for nothing either. Am I right? How about you clean your house up, Hillary? It's been years. You still haven't, you still haven't cleaned up.

Enough of you. Does no one, there's no one just, I mean, look, you can say what you will about Kissinger, but he had a run. You might not call it a good run. You might complain about what he didn't Cambodia or allows or whatever. But he didn't get removed from office. His guy didn't, I mean, I guess his guy did. But, you know, my point.

point is these people stay in the but then now we just have failure staying in the in the spotlight people who never made it would you prefer to if she made it if she became president well okay but she didn't you can't she's not an emeritus or whatever you know you can't be like an elder statesman when you were rejected handily it just doesn't work no one needs no one wants to hear from you people blame you honestly for a lot let's go back what what what What's this plane got? Is the plane got a pinball on it? Oh, Trump plans to donate the jet to his presidential library.

That's generous of him. He's donated to a library. Wait, so he's just going to make it Air Force One. Why doesn't it just stay Air Force One? No, he means after he's president. So, no, it's... So it's just his Air Force One? Yeah, no, he gets to keep it afterwards.

I mean, it'll be part of the library. Look, I don't seem a little problem. You know what I'm saying? No one's saying it's on the up and up. I'm just saying what is. You know? Come on, is it clean? Is Trump doing it clean?

No. It would be a lot easier for me to swallow if it was just like, this is just going to be Air Force One forever. Oh, yeah. No, that's the thing about this. Yeah. There's like levels of corruption and levels of graft. And in general, like, you know, you go,

couldn't you just dial it back a little bit? Just doesn't appear quite as corrupting. You're missing a point. To quote, Tom Sondi, my friend Tom Seizmore in a heat. For me, the action is the juice. All right? So, you know, say la Vee, whatever.

He's also meeting with people, right? He's not just the plane. He's been in there. What's this? We have a store. What's this thing? There's a, his Middle East trip here. He's a recent tour of the Middle East has raised flags.

His critics point to potential conflict of interest surrounding an unverified one trillion dollar investment pledge major and this is what we do though right like we they used to call uh prince bandar who was like one of the top guys in the saudi royal family at the time i think he was pushed out by you know mr mbs uh was more yeah i'm thinking he's still around but they used to call him bandar bush because of how close he was to the bush family this is not new except who do you think funded the afghan a mojadine thing back in the 80s before you know not not our thing but it was our thing it was like they did matching funds right of like for hundreds of millions of dollars like

this is not that's why this is set up yeah i don't know what people did people think that like Saudi Arabia won world war two no all right why do you think all of a sudden they were like in charge we were just like and of all the oil and we were like cool oh that's fine i'm not saying like we should go conquer people for resources i'm saying that we do yeah right and then all of a sudden and you're just like, no, you keep that. You guys who just became a country, right? Like, that's fine. Because we got stuff.

That's the whole, I mean, and they're fine with it. Because they know, they're like, no, this is why we have the tigers and the pools inside of the planes and the, you know, and the ferris wheel, toilets, whatever they have. They have the loveliest things. They have so much cool stuff. They know, this is really just kind of, people are just mad at the wrong things.

Be mad at the fact that you were going to be, you have like two weeks left before we get put into an AI prison camp and you're worried about a plane. They're literally right in front of us. Like they're just using, chat GPT is just like eating jobs like Pac-Man. They've got cages. They've got cages they're going to put people in. They merge them with AI.

And they're worried about like, like, oh, this 13-year-old plane might be a little much, might be a little extravagant of a gift. It's like your dad would be like, give it back. I mean, I never got a gift. I mean, I think I've seen that in movies or something, because no one never gave me a gift that nice. I mean, he would do.

We could give it. If he didn't get any use to have it, he would say give it back. You know, it's the kind of thing where it's like this propriety thing? Where did propriety? Like, when's the last time we had that? Like, 65? Yeah. Like when, when are we doing, what are we talking about?

And it's also been a while since we got a nice gift. We don't get gifts anymore because we keep making trouble. When did we get the Statue of Liberty? That was like 18, yeah. They gave it to us and then we had to build her own pedestal. That's the other thing. Oh, we love to do stuff to it. Well, yeah, the Statue of Liberty.

We had to build, the pedestal costs more than the statue. I think it took 20 years. They had to do like, go fund meets for it effectively. Back then it was just like Susan B. Anthony and a bunch of sewing women in the sewing circle. Yeah. But either way. You're right.

I'm kind of coming around to this. I would like to set the tone that gifts are appreciated. Gifts, look. You know. We've done our part on both sides of the issues. We've done good, bad, we've done plenty of good.

And you haven't had to pay for you. Like this thing, we're not asking like the poor people in Qatar to like give us their rice or, or, you know, their hummus or whatever they eat there. How much? I mean, falafel. I'm not asking for someone's falafel sandwich. I'm saying

the people that we, you know, have kept in power and that who's probably, you know, doesn't insult you. I'm sure you could have conquered everything on your own. But, you know, the fact that he's saying, we made it a brunt of like a billion dollar military budget

and other people, it's actually 700 billion, oh, no, I'm sorry, is that a billion dollar military budget. And then people go, oh, it's actually 700 billion. Oh, is it? What we got here? This is, I think, a good idea for a gift that Zelensky might consider giving us. This is Ukrainian?

If he wants or, you know, a little bit more of our support. These are Ukrainian objects? Yeah, this is called the golden pectoral. I don't know why we don't have this already. We're giving this guy, we're giving this guy, we're giving this guy, missiles and weapons. Melania should be wearing this. Melania should be done. You should be wearing this.

I know, but she's got enough. I'm saying, like, Trump didn't spend a sense. trillion dollars a year for the war we did the people did right our country me and you bear the brunt of us of a trillion dollar a year Pentagon budget and like through what to put these people into power and you're giving gifts back and that's the probably give me the gift give me the plane we're the ones who deserve to get me the very least the least you can do is give something to the president I don't know what these people are just like they they want to be abused they want to be in a prison camp

they want like people it's called decision paralysis it's called too many options people are just sick of it people are sick of it to decide you know when you decide like what restaurant you want to go to

right you know it's too many do I go to sloppy sloppy pigs or awful joves right do I go to TGI Fridays or Applebee's like either of those food But, you know, my point is we have a gluttony of options. And most people, I think, are just realizing.

It doesn't matter what you buy, who you vote for, what you invest in. Nothing really seems to be working out anymore. And they're sick of it, and they just would rather be in a prison. Just give me the slop. Give me the gruel. It's fun. The thing that prison doesn't give you is hope. And hope is a crippling thing.

It really, people, when you're the, when you're the old, only one in prison? Yeah, maybe hope's okay. It can also be awful, but at least, you know, Brooks from Sharshanic Redemption, whatever. Oh, I'm feeding the bird,

whatever this crap is. But, you know, when everyone's in the Britain, the last thing we need in America and that was hope. That means, Obama had that heard of hope. What?

Change. Like, yeah, it'll change. It's always going to change. On the way down, I think as you hit the, as you get closer and closer to the, to the ground when you've been thrown out, thrown out of the Qatari plane. Yeah. It keeps changing, doesn't it? As you get closer and closer to relief. It's a, look, it's a fun world.

We need cunning. We need amoral. Yes. Yeah. We need schemers. Schemes. I'm not, here's the thing. Your job out there, all you people out there, is not to support.

the president is not to oppose the president forget he exists forget he's there forget congress is there do you think they do it seem like they know you're there are they worried about you stop worrying about them they're going to do what they're going to do without you either way just get a scam going right yeah get yourself a golden pectoral get yourself a golden horse What's the Golden Pictorial? That's where this Ukrainian thing is. Can we get get a little Zelensky on the phone? We don't have a phone.

I'm not talking to anybody. It's just me and lose. Okay. I mean, but seriously, what are we doing? Why is Ukraine? Everyone got mad because, like, Trump wanted to do the peace deal with Ukraine. And it was like, well, he made him sign a resource mineral deal. Oh, why is he getting free weapons?

You have to pay. It's one thing to, like, support someone. but I love this idea that like countries just out there and it's our job to just do it for free we do it on the arm I mean you gotta pay the land lead

everyone gives Roosevelt a huge like he did this great thing because Congress didn't want to do anything at the beginning of World War II right they wanted to stay isolationist they wanted to stay out of it and Roosevelt did this bold thing which you know I'm not saying but is that

what he did was he signed the land lease act right or ledleys whatever it is where basically we agreed to sell them the weapons they needed but we weren't involved yet and that was like this big noble thing because the money means nothing when there's a war go when you inflate the currency and you steal from the people and that's how you fund the war that's how that's what happens in every war by the way all they if you want to go into the history of like you know Austrian economics and like anti-fed stuff and like I'm all about it and the fed but I mean what do you think happens when you got a war going.

You know, they inflate, this is the problem. They go, so when a war happens, like in World War II, I believe it was, this is a big problem, a World War I. After World War I,

and it's like right after, and like the end of World War I's right kind of coincides right when the Fed was starting. And basically, Britain had been inflating like crazy to fund the war because that's what you do. You just, oh, all of a sudden money's not real.

And we just spend what we want to, you know, buy a bunch of taxes. tanks or were they have back then derogibles mustache grease pointy hats pointy hats and mustache grease ain't cheap right so you know the britt the pound was worth let's just say a bar of gold and by the time the war was over it was worth you know like a tenth of a bar of gold it was inflated terribly but they wanted to go back on for prestige purposes they wanted it to be at par what they call it so they basically what happened was they decided they

tried they tried to force everybody the world because it was a big the big power still economically to kind of and just tanked the whole thing you know people aren't dumb people know like money's that word nothing

and then but the Fed Benjamin Strong was really good friends of Martin Hugh Norman who was ahead of the Bank of England Benjamin Strong was the first Fed chair and or he just had the New York Fed but that used to be the deal and so basically

that's why that and then they agree to basically match it right and then flate our currency to match and that's how we got the roaring

20s and in the Great Depression. That's where the month that's where it came from. So I'm just saying like... That's where the whole cycle of boom and bus comes from. Right. So why can't you pay us Zelensky?

That's boom. Why can't... I mean, that's the gimmick. You inflate the currency. Right? Or give us some gold trinkets at least. I'm so sick. And this guy who was like, you know,

the Ray Romano of Eastern Europe. You know, he comes in, he's wearing, like, you know, a track suit from Sopranos and acting like we're bastards for not giving them another, you know, re-upping on his charity. When did we, if we're going to run the world, let's run the world.

I'm seeing, this whole idea, we get out or we don't. But this idea that we're going to be out in and like, and like a funding war, no, we got to get something out of this, right? It also ain't worth it. right i'm the one paying for this you think the rich aren't paying for it they're deducting their their they're carried interest uh you know dirigible they're they're they're expensing it

you know i'm here with my w2 and my 1099s and my and my receipts trying to figure it all out paying for this damn wars uh man this is I'm going to play a little bit more of this? Eh, what are they going to say? What's what we got here? That's shortly before Trump leaves office. The Constitution prohibits anyone holding federal office from accepting a personal gift from a foreign head of state.

But sources... Pretty sure the Constitution forbids a lot of things that we don't seem to... I'm just saying. I think a lot of... I think Auburnet might have been unconstitutional. I think the Patriot Act might have been unconstitutional. I think a couple of our wars might have been unconstitutional.

I think the whole, I think where Congress, I mean, I guess it's not constitutional, unconstitutional for Nancy Pelosi to be worth $500 million, though. Either way, it's like whether it's constitutional or not, no one cares. Until now. Say Attorney General Pam Bondi has concluded that this gift is, quote, legally permissible because the plane is not. I was hearing Pam Bondi's voice in the grocery store the other day. It was really strange.

When she's there, buying, buying discount turkey? It was like this announcement on the, on the radio that was playing there or something. Really? Really? Just like, if you're an illegal immigrant, your time is up. Oh, really? This is Pam Bondi. Wow.

I love the idea they know who Pam Bondi is. She thinks the illegals are like, going to be like, oh, Pam Bondi. I mean, it's troubling, but also, like, I love the idea that's a big break. Yeah. Like, I want it's like, no, I want to be. I want to be the one doing it. I'm going to say I'm Pam Bond. Like, oh, you, look, you know, everyone knows my name.

I'm Pam Bond. He's the immigrant queen. Whatever. What would be a good nickname for her? The, um, the. El, hafe. And, uh, I'm here, I'm here to tell you to put those tater thoughts down. Because we're, surprise, bitch.

This is L.Afe. Tramahoe. Tramahoe. Oh. Not being given to an individual, but rather to the U.S. Air Force, and then to Donald Trump's foundation. Democrats are calling the proposed gift illegal and are demanding an investigation. They really, I mean, Bernie's worried about it. Bernie?

Look, I mean, yes, of course it's technically corrupt. But I mean, are you going to say anything about what's his name? Sam, uh, what's his name, Sam the devil? The guy who runs open to the, you know, Jatchee, open A-I. Oh, oh, is Sam Albin? Yeah, you guys ain't any of that? Yeah.

It's not any more pressing thing. Aren't we be a little, what is we, no, should we be a little more worried? What are you going to do about the cages, Bernie? Yeah, I mean, can I cannot, am I going to be allowed to work at the, at the prison? Like, is this a prison situation where I can work at the, you know, the laundry? I can work at the, what they do? They have like a wood. You see these old movies.

They're always working at like a wood shop. They're making little birdhouses or something. They sell to Qatar, I guess. I mean, are we going to, I beg of people do that? Or am I going to be stuck just, you know, it's just going to be one giant race war in the prison? Is that with all this like racial stuff in the past 10 years? I've been about two. All those back and forth.

racism anti-racism all right it's just prepping us for being in the open air prison camp we're about to face yeah probably there's not going to be any jobs are you getting what i'm saying here you're worried about a plane you're not going to have a house you're not going to have your kids aren't going to be in a kid's prison this is not the thing to worry about from a democratic point of view is what i'm saying you're supposed used to be the party of labor yeah like you know i'm just saying if Republicans were like we don't care about the AI we actually like it well that makes sense you know on paper right I know they love they pivoted now they're the working man's

friend whatever okay I'm just saying if the Democrats aren't you know trying to do anything to help the little guy you know Joe the plumber what are they doing what is what is the I was saying 10 years ago I was saying about the Republican Party like what is what is the point anymore like on page what is the myth the narrative and that's happened now stop worrying about some old plane and worry about my old ass being shoved into a cell like I don't know why the whole like no king's line isn't working what's no kings but you know like that's that's kind of like the line of attack against Trump I think that's why like a lot of the they're criticizing it as a flying palace or whatever it's because

they're basically you know they're they're criticizing Trump for trying to be a monarch be a monarch he can't get anything done he backed down on everything well yeah he told everyone he told everyone he's going to end immigration he was gonna do these tariffs that you know and then he was like and he was you know all this stuff about like end of woke and oh okay the only immigrants he's gotten rid over there and once you know say that you know questioned uh the way that uh Israel was killing you know people in Gaza yeah not the fact that they are right you know what's saying like the level the level of switcheroo is very interesting interesting. And the idea that he's a king. Sure. What? Go on. Oh, yeah.

Don't know who needs to hear this. Senator Bernie Sanders posted on X, but no, Donald Trump cannot accept a $400 million flying palace from the royal family of Qatar. Not only is this farcically corrupt, it is blatantly unconstitutional. Here's the thing. These people, these people, he's thinking about this these people don't understand he's where they don't get that's not the move and Bernie should know better

he's not the dumbest of them all you know as far as communication this is what you say if you want to it's like tell me tell me he's got the plane the royal family of Qatar gave Trump

a $400 million dollar plan that makes perfect sense why wouldn't that that's what he does is that constitutional of course not when does he care about the Constitution

that's what this can't it happens. Like stop overextending yourself. You know he's going to do it anyway. You guys feel like you got to basically underplay it. Yeah, that's true. That's a good point. They keep kind of like repeating the premise that he's that he's okay with violating the Constitution. But like we've kind of established that. What never happened to like politicians who like had like were quick on their feet at all? And how do you know, like who's that guy who was like, I mean, he ended up losing. But like the guy who like, you gave Dan Quayle the

business. He's like, he's like, oh, John Kennedy. He's like, hey, hey, I didn't. John Kennedy, John Kennedy was a friend of mine. You're no John Kennedy. It didn't even make sense, right? He was wrong. It was an appeal to, like, being a, it was a, if he was a logical fallacy, you'd be an appeal to being a cunt. So, I mean, I just, it just didn't make any, so, what are we supposed to take from this?

Nothing, because we don't get anything. That's my whole point. We don't get any action. That's not for us. Oh, man. well let's just move for some good news Walmart warms of upcoming price hikes amid slowing retail sales

We just had like I mean it's too much news to cover in any given thing You know so much happens in a week But I mean we had tariffs on paper And then all of a sudden he met with China And they're off and the stock already boomed And of course I didn't get in on the boom I had a few things I had to take care of

And I couldn't get in on the boom Because why would I? Oh, but, you know, that you would think we're through the, you know, things are better now, right? We got a little more relaxed, you know, the crisis is over, you know, oh, you might have to pay more money. You know, oh, okay, for the good of the country, but that's over, we thought. But now apparently Walmart warns of upcoming price hikes. And so it's, well, retail giant Walmart has issued a warning that consumers can expect upcoming price increases across various departments.

The company's Q2 Outlook side of the sharp drop. Well, the people who shop at Walmart, they usually have enough money, right? They can just ask guitar for another point, you know, if they, this world is so bad. Similar moves by God, targeting Costco, too. Oh, I mean, where are the Costco guys on this? What's the point of having Costco guys? It's going to be rough, I feel like.

I don't. Are they, I think it's going to be rough in New York this summer. If it's, if it's, if it's, if it's, if it's anything over 80 degrees in New York summer, there's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah. And I don't know why, is that the point? It's, it's funny that a lot of things are happening at the same time that you could just, you know, it would be bad, it would be, let me put it this way.

It would be unfortunate if everyone just started, you know, um, acting a little silly, getting a little, uh, performative. You know, starting a few, uh, smores. cooking some smores out and starting right you know what you don't say and then all you know and then you can go to these people in the mayor and go you know we could you know we just have a i do it all like what do you mean like no yeah all of it all of it just what happens to them he's like oh funny you mention that we have a few ideas you mean all the jobs right all the jobs all the all the shopping all the people we can find a way to have uh you know AI buy a sandwich how about

Keep the economy going. How about we do more with less, if you know what I mean? I feel like that was coming. It's that all of a sudden, the rich, the elites, the jet set, they might decide to start, they want to start doing more with less of us. And this is, you know, it's just like, hey, why don't we just, why don't we just, why don't we just jerk your chains a little bit for a while and then wait for the summer to kick off? How do you think they do it?

I mean it's Pandemic too No I think they It'll always be something you don't see coming They'll just have like a It's an interesting question It'll probably be some kind of

Big Music Festival Which you know I'm not bringing People like those at the point It's a good way to get people into a situation If you see a bad bunny is performing anywhere this summer Don't go Yeah I'm not trying to hurry

Your ticket sales bed bunny But I mean Ooh, I might be careful. If you think of a situation where they ask you to go into a big field, for his all hot food and water. If they announce a new concert. Yeah. Like the new Burning Man.

Anything that's branded as the new Burning Man. Yeah, if you say yourself, I'm surprised I'm just hearing about this now. Yeah. Because, you know, I thought they usually buy tickets a little, you know, a year or six months away, whatever. It's very quick. And you go, yeah, maybe that should give you a little pause more than usual. you know if you hear about you know Shakespeare in the park

you know get a pair of binoculars maybe see what's happening first see if they actually have been born the actors because it might be a little more of a I don't know how you phrase this a culling event a culling a nice little purge I mean I've been saying this for years

and I'll admit it always felt it always felt like more of an abstract even though, like, you know, it's born out. They're just waiting for robots. Oh, yeah. Which that's the only thing. We don't have the actual robots yet, per se. You, they can't, you know, the chat GPT can't cut your lawn.

So maybe I'm getting a little ahead myself. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if come June 1st, all of a sudden, some corporation has an announcement for a new bipedal friend. As soon as you hear that they invented a robot that won't drop your baby While it's doing all the stuff Oh, doing all the nanny Hey, we figured out the child care crisis Yeah

Oh, did you? That's when it's time to leave No one is really interested in solving your problems Don't you notice it in every other aspect of life And I'm not talking to the people I know we have a lot of audience in the show you know the

wets, the wealthy I know a lot of them like to listen but I'm not talking to them you know doesn't it seem that no one everything seems

to make your life worse right? Yeah like the more impressive it is the more it ruins your life right uh yeah and Mr. Murdoch

you can tune out for this part but it doesn't it seem like everything that they introduce is actually just you know that you are just eating, you know, cold, rotten hot dogs while you cry, watching, you know, watching, you know, people in bikinis

fight each other in paradise on Netflix while your baby cries and you try to feed it the cold hot dog and doesn't seem to want to eat it. That's all you got. And they told, you know, doesn't it seem like, you know, I don't think that that robot's going to be your friend. Right. I love. I love the AI. Yeah, I can be very nice. You ask questions. It'll give you a little snippets of information. It'll tell you things. Hey, where am I looking at? That's a Jasmine plant. Oh, oh, lovely. Can I get one? Well, not you. We're broke a shit. Yeah, man, but yeah, it can be bought. Sure. Like anything else in this world, it can be bought and sold. But, you know, is it making your life any better? I, you know, I mean, the smartphones. I mean, look, the smartphones did allow you to be able to, you know, basically be. a human

trying to think of a nicer word enslaved but the guy who brings the food the butler he's turning into part-time butlers you know but you don't even get a nice suit so we're watching that movie

Sunset Boulevard and the guy he has a great movie and the guy I know the guy who was direct it's a whole complicated story but before I got to that reveal

I'm like you know this guy's let's think about Alfred from Batman yeah he's a butler he lives in a nice house and he wears a tuxedo or whatever it's cool

You know? Right, yeah. He has class. He has dignity. Yeah, he's got passion. He's passion about his job. You, like, you think you're better than Alfred? You think? Most people aren't, most people are so much scumier than the average butler.

I was watching a video about butlers recently. They're classy as hell. Oh, they're classy as though. Here's the thing about the rich that you don't remember. You know, everyone forgets. They don't like you. I mean, they don't. It's not if they're bad people, but the,

everything that they do they like, right? Every place they like to go to. Every, you know, like, I mean, my place I mean, like Hamptons, whatever, you know, all these nice, you know, areas. Every car, every, every, every, every restaurant they want to go to,

every, every, every, what defines luxury, every hotel, what defines luxury is that you're not there. And I know that's not a joke. That's, like, literally the most important thing. That's so true. It really is. They, they, they, they,

and, look, I don't know. if it's a if it's a if it's a thing that like well that's you know their daddy gave them money and you know of course you think oh they'd be humble but of course this is how they define themselves right it's the only thing they have you look at it that way you're also a little gross I'm a little gross you know if you could be away from us why wouldn't you either way that seems to be their whole thing so the fact they let this guy this butler hang out with them all the time yeah he's bringing them things but like they wouldn't let you bring them things they wouldn't let me bring them crackers and soup they would they would call the cops on me it would call

the military on me you're not better than a butler not in their eyes that guy is like their best friend and he just serves serves them you know what I mean it's just like they don't think of it's quite human but I mean that what does I tell you about you and what the plans they got and sure they'll go on they'll go their idea of like being like you you know, good with the people, you know, like, oh, man, the people is that they'll, like, do, like, a racist meme occasionally, right? Like, Musk, he'll do, like, he'll do, like, a, like, he'll, that whole thing with, with the, you know, the salute or whatever it was.

He was, I mean, yeah, is he, probably a little right, but whatever. He's just trying to, he's trying to, like, be a, you know, working man's friend. That's how bad these people don't know how to, like, not be psych, you know, just machines. Right. So I don't know where to tell you. Man, that Sunset Boulevard, what a great movie. Great film, we should watch. The glorious wants it, I mean, just watching her, like, it's, I had forgotten how, like, well people used to act.

Oh, yeah. It's like, it's all just, now it's all, she's just, like, she's, like, over the top, but in this great way. Look, I'm not trying to take shots as in Dyer or Sidney Sweeney, but they don't make them, like, her anymore. Yeah, and they're, like, the best of it. Like, most of it is just, like, deadpan lesbians. Yeah. That really is a great way to sum up, like, just. America, you know, we used to build, hey, we used to build things in America.

We had factories and mines and we used to build cars and products and the energy of the world. Now we're just a bunch of deadpan lesbians. Well put, Lucy. It really just sums up everything. Geez. I mean, I, look, I'm not, I wasn't Mr. Fourth of July growing up. But I used to like, you know, it did feel nice, you know, just to have a little once in a while. I'll be like, yes.

the star signal of banner is nice you know the flag we have a good flag we do have a good flag I think we take it for granted everyone's a flag I think we have a particularly good flag I always liked our stars and you know the red is it stands for the blood oh that's interesting yeah most a lot of

a lot of flags are gaudy right there's all these animals on them right where they're boring and they're just like a box yeah three colors the Irish Italians the Italians the Italians the people people who made like you know the renaissance and like and like cuisine like what's your flag just a couple of cuts like a neat palatine ice cream you know just the colors there's no

thought put into it very interesting i'm sure you'll tell me that has something to do with the political unification i don't care don't care what the facts are anymore what the facts ever done for me but yeah uh but walmart rising prices is an interesting story but yeah go watch Sunset Boulevard. I'm going to start doing some movie content, not part of this show, but just keep your eyes open. And, uh, you know, I know it's like 45 minutes into the show, but you know,

subscribe and join the Patreon view if you like to. And we have extra bonus episodes every week. It's always good to put that 45 minutes into the show, isn't it? Harvard discovers it owns an authentic Magna Carter purchased for $28. How does that end up have? Yeah, how does that? Look, this is what I'm talking about.

This is, this is a, this is a, this is a, this is you think we're being loose, you're being hysterical here. But, like, the elites who run this country or whatever. And, like, Trump was talking about, like, shutting down Harvard's funding. And, like, yeah, you don't want to see it done. It's interesting that's being done because they, you know, didn't, you know, do the Mossad's bidding or whatever. Right. But, like, but at the same time, why is Harvard just getting,

like, why is the gate keep, why are the people who, like, gatekeep the important jobs of this economy in this country, right, and culture, like, like, the people who tell you, You know, you'll never actually be, you know, part of the elite. Right. And we fund them. Including to most of the people who actually go there. Right. Like, I'm funding, me and you are funding the Ukraine war.

And people, and these people who are like, you know, won't let me get a job at a, as a janitor. This is what we're doing here, Harvard. But apparently, these are the labs, the labs where they're trying to, teach a robot how to sweep a broom Right. Or at Harvard. Sure. Oh, MIT? All right, yeah, too. But, you know, it's close enough. Harvard's also doing it.

MIT, at least you go, well, it's the military. MIT's like, yeah, it's DARPA, whatever. We get it. Even though I'm trying to say, you're like, yeah, I work at MIT. I'm basically part of the military industrial complex. They don't try to hide this one. Harvard tries to pretend like, you know, oh, look at us. Veritas.

Veritas. What's that mean? Fruit. Oh. not graft okay I like to imagine that the dean of Harvard

is always just going Gravado Barathehras did you how old was that girl Mariton like a parrot but apparently

some of these people who are like you know but are you going to deny what I said would they deny the little screed I went on well that would be interesting if you did

because apparently you have a Magna Carter which is a British thing It's the thing that basically that they tied up King John and said, you know, if you don't agree to, like, have some of your power taken away. This is the guy, I remember in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, the king who was around after Sean Connery got captured,

and he was the king that Robin Hood had to give his come up and sue, whatever. Right. And he wasn't a great king in real life. But that was the guy that he did the Magnificardia too. It was basically like, you know, hey, it wasn't the people. It was a bunch of rich guys. He was like, hey, you're trying to take too much of a slug. slice here all right where we we we let it's like you know it's like if guitar got that line we

have to be like hey we you're in power we let you be in power but you don't get to eat everything so that's like their concept not you know it's not literally a constitution but it's kind of in that similar vein why does Harvard have one right I mean what does it mean to have an authentic magna card how many magna cardas are well I mean for instance I mean there's like a ton of declaration of independences they like shipped it around the country to get signed or whatever. I don't know how that thing ended up in the king's hands. That seems like a big

myth. This whole thing is a big work. It's a guy 50 copies. It's what? They just like copied them over, the signatures. It doesn't matter. It's all fake. But the point is, think about what America is. We fought the British. It wasn't like the elites of Britain came

over and like came here. Right. Like we were to scum. So how did we get him back to Carter? What is the story? centuries of parchment long it overlooked in its archives is in fact an authentic copy purchased in the 1930s was $28 they're trying to act when they got in a swap meet what is it right we thrifted it I love it the oldest university in America like the seat of basically a separate seat of power you know it's a CIA you know

front basically yeah we we frifted it you got a salvation army it was just such a lucky it was just a lucky find they look they probably had to execute someone like at some point one of the kings of england was like a clone or whatever you know whatever the old version of a clone is what they used to do i don't know they uh and they and they and they just while they were they stole it back to car they was like oh we got we got a good deal on it scholars believe the parchment dates back to the 14th century and maybe one of fewer two dozen surviving and i mean honestly i was I was being cute about it, but two dozen seems like a lot.

There's too many back in the car. I mean, the declaration had to go around the country. What were they doing with the Magna Carta? That was just more like, hey, King, they sign this. And it's like, yeah, they tied them up in the field, I think, or something. They made them like, they made them eat horseshit. Harvard confirms, oh, the document. Historians say find is monumental for legal scholarship.

I mean, I thought it's not the only, or does it say different shit? I thought I thought it was duplicates you you found like this is a different what is this is this is now it's even more suspicious because they're apparently going to find something in this right what's it going to say that we like that we have to go to war with like well technically you know so what we found in this magna carter that we bought for $28 which by the way it's a great deal is that actually the people is in common English common law can't have rights uh and it's nothing we can do about it no I know we don't, we're not England, but, you know, we do kind of follow English common law informally, you know, when there's no statute in place, you know, that's what case law is. Right.

So we're just going to go with it. So, Pete, there's no more people. I mean, something of that nature, you know? Right. This is found in rare books archive by visiting a story. Found by an assassin in the middle of a video. Found something by some, by a guy doing wet work at Westminster Abbey or something. What is this whole

What a mess What a goddamn mess Trump's luxury hotel project Stalled over alleged forgery Listen, at least that's fun What is this? A luxury hotel project Link to Trump

Has been temporarily halted About accusations of forged Construction permits And doctored financial documents Local regulators in Dubai Have launched a formal inquiry After a discrepancy It doesn't seem as fun

Construction timeline now definitely delayed forgery allegations tied to permit so it's not like either was going to be cool for it just it's just like they just fudge the numbers what do you yeah i mean what do you think they did how do you think stuff gets done you think it's like oh they dot their eyes and they crossed their teas no they just lied oh wow actually you know you didn't get your inspection oh we didn't how about you inspect the what it feels like the fall of a building you know Geez, oh, man. What is, what is, uh...

Do you want to, uh... How do we get back to an honest society? I think we need to... First, you need to join the Compatron. I'm building a Discord on it. This is the first step. I'm sorry to Discord. Having these conversations is the first step.

It is. It sounds about the money. You can, wait, look, whether you want to join, you know, there's a free tier, uh, and then you, there'll be access to a Patreon, uh, discord, which I'm building. And then at Discord, we're going to discuss a lot of things. like Boston back in the 1700s, right? I picture a town hall where we have a lot of good ideas spreading, and we get to the bottom of some of this stuff.

And that's where we just need people to, you know, the people hold the power in this country, don't they? That's right. So, you know, we just have to, I don't know, think of something. What if we think of something? Then what? Right? The important thing is to just keep generating ideas.

Yeah, well, what happens when we get the good idea? that's good we'll take give us a good idea we'll we'll do something with it go go back then you go back to work get more ideas in case in case it doesn't work in case we don't use it I mean you know I just look how do we get back to it maybe maybe someone writes a book what if there was a political candidate who offered a bunch of solutions well I mean honestly would that imagine like at this point now senior politician and you believed him And he actually had swagger, right?

And, like, charisma. And you go, this guy actually is good. And, like, I think he'll win. And he's saying, and he's saying stuff that makes sense. And then, like, I want to hear. Can you imagine, like, actually believing that any of it would happen? Right. Like, what has to happen for you not to, like, think?

What, I mean, you have to, you. Maybe if he was saying, look, we are going to, like, you know, just a lot more, a lot of people are going to be suddenly not here anymore. But that means that if you are here, you know, you can buy a house now again. We'll let you buy a house. And you go, well, that might be true. I would say to myself, I don't know, like, you don't know where you fall. That's really the only thing about democracy left.

It's like, does he mean me? Like, you know what I mean? Like, oh, Trump's trying to get rid of birthright citizenship, right, whatever. It's like, and it's like, okay, I mean, there's arguments for it and against it. We're listening to some of it with the chat GPT help. It does seem like there were a lot of countries that are stricter than we are. Yeah. You know, there's not like no argument for it.

Sure. But yeah, you just kind of, inevitably you start thinking. Like, is it, what's going to be applied to me? Right. And like that, and it may be not, right? But that really is. Like, it's now, and you can bear us out in history. If you look at other, you know, civilizations throughout time and 20th century and further back,

where you can kind of see, you can kind of see the people going, like, thinking themselves. Like, maybe, I think I'm cool with it. And I think I'm in the clear. Right. And that's really the only version of democracy. It's not, is that a republic? Is that constitutional democracy? I don't know what you call that.

Where you go, maybe the junta doesn't have a problem with me. And that's the only calculation that's left. Right? Right. So, uh, maybe, maybe, maybe getting to get into like a, what's a good game people can play? What's that? You know, you know, Lucy, you always say you want to start. board games yeah i know it's an old one but yeah i've never played it but is that was it

knights of catan or something so people seem to love that maybe try that maybe you just try board games for a while maybe try uh what what's what's no stupid thing people do like at herb gardens oh escape rooms yeah baby do an escape room how about you because that's the only thing you get an escape from now on do something you won't be able to this one a nice a nice activity is something you wouldn't do otherwise like escape you know that's fun It'd be fun to fantasize, isn't it? Wow. I mean, what do you, what is your, if you're, if I put you in charge tomorrow,

what's your bullet points? Give me three things you do. I would, I would do, you know, I think health care. Yeah. You do health care, sure. Yeah. But I know what you mean. Yeah, universal health care.

Sure, okay. Maybe, you know, maybe a little bit about mental health services. in this country would be good. Okay. You know, better, you know, for our, for our troubled boys. Yeah. What else? I mean, I would probably like.

I mean, that's what you do. Yeah. You don't want to go to three. Two is enough for you. Two. Here's what I would do. I would get the military. I would say, I want you to just go, go like Nebraska or Iowa, or wherever the cows are.

And I want you to just, you know, you have guns. We know what you do. And you get the cows. And I want you to, you know, drag them into go call up to people who make jerky and figure out how they do it. And I want you to just get like sacks of jerky

and then put it in my place. And I don't know. Go go seize me a house in the and one of the less nice Hamptons. I'm not flashy guy. I just drag some beef, sacks of beef jerky into a, you know, make me a little shed.

That's my only policy. I just want to get a, you know, Because that's what we, that's, you know, that's what's coming. That's, that's going to be more, you, oh, what you know, I'm going to need a $400 million dollar plane? I don't think it's going to do any good. What are you going to, we're going to gas that up?

You know what I mean? Things are going to be the man with the jerky. You know, I don't think you see the point here. I, I, I, so, so, you're, you're, I love how my wife is just, oh, what, you, you fat idiot, what are you going to do with, you know, 18 tons of beef jerky? I'm going to run the post-apocalypse. That's what I'm going to do. Is it ever not, I mean, we all love our wives, but they never see her or vision.

I love it. I love it. I just, I just, I, and in a few years, the jerky's going to be the spice. Was I like, Dune? Yeah, exactly. It was a spice balanche. But you, but you thought that was a moron because I didn't do health care. I didn't give people

Penicillin the day before a machine Just turn you know Some kind of giant blender turns on And everyone just falls into it But at least we have penicillin now Yeah Well What are you gonna do

It's just enjoy the summer For as long as you can As long as you can Is that gonna happen tomorrow They gotta build They gotta build that biped a robot First the day they actually released that

like a kind of actual ooh it's gonna be a fun day what's his name to be I'm just saying I'm not saying that if you work at a place that used a lot of AI that you should start just like smashing things

well you work as a reception so like a doctor's arm you start attacking the patients just because of AI it's about to diagnose a woman's answer that was actually the baby curing machine but yeah but yeah whatever it's that much you can do just you know just learn to learn to code oh thanks much for tuning in supporting the show

don't forget to subscribe and the patreon and coming soon uh connected to that the discord i don't know what that's going to be like, but, you know, that might, that should be happening, unless someone tells me, like, this is, you know, not, just, you know, that's not it anymore. You should have done that seven years ago, like everything else in your life. That's very possible. So, we'll see. But things are, I'm trying things at least. See you soon. Thank you.