Kump - Ep. 253 This Doesn't Make Sense

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every weekIn this episode, Ray breaks down the cruise ship viral outbreak, the disappointing Pentagon UFO document dump, and the rising geopolitical tension between Donald Trump and the Pope. Plus, a look at the U.S. revoking passports for unpaid child support, the absurdity of gerrymandered voting maps, and the reality of congressional insider trading. Nothing works here, but at least we still have Taco Bell and pills.

Everybody is suddenly worried about the hauntavirus. But I got to be honest, as a nation full to the brim with backstabbing rats, I really think we should have seen this one coming. An outbreak on a cruise ship, apparently caused by some Dutch boomer who went birdwatching in an Argentinian garbage dump, has people panicked. But the World Health Organization has assured us this will not be a repeat of the COVID pandemic. Moderna is already working on a vaccine. So what are you worried about?

But just to be safe, they've already started sending passengers back to the United States. Because what's the difference? Nothing is real anymore. The Pentagon's UFO document dump was supposed to make us question the very existence of God. But it turned out to be the same blurry shit we've been fapping to for decades. It's obviously an attempt to distract from the Epstein file. the price of gasoline, and the upcoming war with the Vatican. But the lack of effort is surprising.

But it's also the point. We're no longer important enough to lie to. Soon, nothing will make sense. You can't trust the news. All of your friends will be feds. And your only guide through this fractured reality will be a constantly hallucinating chatbot, which will gaslight you into political.

violence and tell you where to buy eggs. The only way to make money will be to live stream yourself getting mugged at a Chucky cheese. Your only means of protection will be the curry favor with influencers who have the ear of tech entrepreneurs who might just pay for your son's new kidney as long as you keep running their clip farms. We used to build things in this country and we even used to manufacture consent. But none of us consented to what's coming next.

Nothing works here. But at least for now, we still have Taco Bell and pills. Welcome to the pharmacy. Welcome to Kump. Authorities say there are no plans to quarantine the 17 Americans returning to the U.S., but they will be met by officials with the CDC and then taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Authorities are now monitoring at least nine other Americans in the U.S. six states. So far, none showing signs of illness.

I mean, this bodes well, I suppose. It seems to be the problem, because I'm not trying to be an alarmist here, but you keep getting these, like, you know, it's only been a week, and they're telling us there's a boat out there in the ocean that has the hauntar virus. Oh, no, at least it's on the ocean. I guess it's contained. Oh, but one person flew away already. What do you mean someone flew away? It's on a boat, it's on a ship. Oh, well, her husband, I don't even know what's true. People keep, I keep hearing existing information leaks or whatever. Someone said, oh, her husband died or her mother died.

So she was escorted off the boat and went to the funeral and then she died. And then they went out to different countries in Europe. Did they track them down? We don't know. They're telling us, oh, this is not going to be COVID. Well, that's good to hear. We're already working on the vaccine. Why are you working on a vaccine?

Again, not trying to be an alarmist. It just seems odd. you think they would have led with some of this stuff earlier because at least all that's the most of these people are on a boat most of these people are on a boat and you go you know I guess just kind of keep it kind of under wrap and you go we're taking them off the boat well you're taking them off the boat what's very interesting I would have thought you would have kept things

isolated for now not to panic I'm not saying these people have to live in a rat infested boat if that means apparently there's no rats in the boat Apparently, it travels from people. See, how the virus usually goes from rat feces. Rat feces infect the person, and they spread it. But there's also occasionally person to person. This one's person to person.

But then they're taking them off the boat. All right, but you're going to bring them to Nebraska. Oh, okay. You bring them to Nebraska. That makes sense. And then we're going to, like, talk to, they're not going to be quarantined. I don't understand what you mean. you're not going to be quarantined.

You're going to bring them to the brand? And what debrief them? What happens in Nebraska? What is the plan here? It just seems you would think we spent like a big chunk of time and capital resource. We're still reeling from the last pandemic, right? That we all kind of, you know, that one if you remember started out, you know, in a similar, similarly vague way. and they're spiraled into shutdowns and vaccine conflicts and supply change,

we're still having issues with that. And distrust to the government and then it led to burning cities. It's a lot of drama. And if I was in charge, which I should be, I would have like beat this one of the path and said, hey, we got, even if we don't, just lie and say you got this. They're not telling us they got this. It all seems very ad hoc.

And I'm supposed to tell, I'm supposed to believe that, but these are the people who know what they're doing. But aren't the people in charge who said they didn't know what they were doing? I got not, it's fine. Maybe you're right. But I mean, just, just have RFK come out with a dead raccoon and say, I killed this raccoon. I go, oh, and what about the Honda virus?

I haven't heard about that, but I'm sure it's fine. I mean, I'm just not, maybe, I hear it about that. It's probably, look at the raccoon, look at the dead raccoon. Isn't it fascinating? You know, it's like, at least that would calm you. Some people wouldn't be calmed by that. I would find it calming. Hello, yeah.

I mean, I, I'm not against roadkill, especially if I was a big fit guy, like, like RFK Jr. He does push-ups and pull-ups. He's a bad, like a rugged guy. You know, if I go looking at a road kill on the side of the road, people, it's just, you know, I know what it looks like. I know how I'm being judged. A guy like him, you know, he's a little older, he's a good-looking guy.

He's a Kennedy. You know, he pulls off on the side of the road and picks up some dead rats, a deer. He ran over. And like, women are still like, ah, look at that guy. I wish he was my child's father. Me, they're calling all sorts of government agencies. What's going on? Why is this fat man on the side of the highway playing with the.

a dead rat. So, I mean, you know, if you got it, flaunt it. So, you know, I would like to have, you know, it would be nice if they just came out and said, hey, look, hey, look, we got this. Even if you're, especially if you're lying, especially if you're lying, if you, if you're actually doing the right thing, then like, you know, cool. But I don't know what's going. I don't I'm sure the doctors in Nebraska who are debriefing these people and giving them their scripts. Do I mean movie scripts or do I mean pharmaceutical scripts? Who knows? It could be either, both, neither.

They're giving them Taco Bell. Well, Baja Blast. Take the edge off. It's just, no one, no one's, I just want to be taken care of by daddy government. What happened to daddy government? Me, tell us everything's going to be okay. Just lie to me for Christ's sake. All right, before, before we go any further,

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Or, you know, just get into a get into it with each. other talk about the pandemic that's coming or not coming just discourse because here's the thing here's the thing about being a part of you know the pandemic last time it started with a pangolin right am i remember that correct remembering correctly the pangolin it was like a a little ardvarky kind of like a road like a little possum kind of looking thing and a man supposedly made love through a pangolin or they eat the pangolin But then years later, it's like, no, no, no, it was the Wuhan League probably. But all people were saying that and you were saying they were crazy.

He's like, no, we're liars. Oh, right. Yeah. So, you know, it's that's another, when it came out that, you know, I wasn't a guy who was going around calling, you know, Fauci or calling the vaccine the Fauci-Oci. That was a thing back in a few years ago, right? I wasn't one of those guys. I didn't jump on onto the bandwagon.

Maybe I should have. remains to be seen, right? I, you know, judge not let's he be judged. But, you know, it seems like if that happens, no, actually, we, I think we did. Like, the government was like, we did this, I think. You know, at first it was like China, but now it's coming out, though,

China's like proving that we did it. I mean, it could be misinformation. You think you'd want to get ahead of this. But it's all very much like meeting up with your friends at a bar. You know, now we have cell phone. But back in the day, where are you guys going to be? We're going to be at Mulcahy's or flaggy malligans.

And they got, you know, I don't know. I mean, I might have to work. I don't know where it will be. Well, I mean, well, you're going to get, even that one phrase just never wants to tell you. They ever wants to put anything concrete. Because, you know, he doesn't know. He might get kicked out for getting drunken, like, you know, at 6 p.m.

Just, you know, you have to drinking 10 shots of Jack. And he got in a fight with a bouncer. He likes to fight bouncer. That's not my friend I never hung out with guys who like to fight bouncers. That was ever my thing. But that's kind of that that is America. Right. And so you think you'd want to, you know, we're getting a very vague despondent kind of vibe is my point.

I don't know. I mean, we have this, is the guy? Where's the guy? I had the thing. The guy who, I don't want to blame the guy. I don't want to blame this guy for, uh, for, uh, for, starting anything whatever it is is on college not oncology the bird watcher i don't want to blame the bird watcher he's dead i mean rest in peace but i mean why let's just take everything at face value

you don't need to be looking at birds and garbage dumps that seems to be a low priority move you know the world where we've we're entering into a low trust kind of world I feel like a 90, we talked a lot about the, how, you know, at the end of the Cold War and the 90s was kind of bridge between, you know, the Cold War and the unipolar moment. Right. Well, that whole, that whole 10, 15, before 9-11, but there was an effect, right? We're like, oh, things are better and we can do what we want. A guy from the Netherlands can go to a garbage dump in South America and just look at

warbles, take pictures of war. I guess that was his job. Who pays you to go with a garbage dump to take pictures of warbles? I don't know. It seems like but it seems like maybe

that's the kind of thing you do in like 1998. Maybe 2006 if you're from Europe. You know, they didn't do, they didn't have 9-11. 9-11 was us. So maybe you give them a little leeway.

But I think we're all catching up that this is not the time to be transversing the globe to get I mean, this is not, you know, back in the day, National Geographic would pay you for pictures of birds. I don't know which ones. You know, if you got a picture of an eagle, you got a picture of a, of a crane, you know, you might get a few hundred bucks, a few thousand bucks. I don't know, there's a lot more than this now.

Magazines barely exist. Every idiot's got a camera. Now, I guess this guy was a bird watcher by like trade, so maybe he wasn't, you know, he'd probably take issue with me. saying, well, I'm not some guy who just sells my bird pictures for money. It's science. Well, forgive me. But, you know, is the garbage dump the natural habitat of a bird? What are you trying to see if we could, if we could grow more birds in the dump?

Isn't bird flu? I mean, I'm hearing other things that are bird flu. I don't repeat rumors. Bird flu, someone saying bird flu might be airborne. Well, the birds are airborne, so why not? You know, we all just need to kind of take a, take a, take a, take a, step back stop doing weird things you know just get you judge you whatever that job is can't a i do that you have all the jobs they i can take how about you how about you take the job of the guy who got to go

to the dump and get haunted virus and bring it back that's why why is that guy getting not getting replaced why why is though like it's just the coders and the and the people who have families and you know and and the things that aren't even related, whatever, everyone. We replace every job, except the guy who goes and, like, stands next to brat shit for weeks on end. Seems like a misallocation of resources. What are you going to do? What are you going to do about anything? I mean, it's maybe a time, though, that we can, you know,

perhaps there's a bright side of silver lining to whatever. might come, you know, because again, I know, I want to be clear. I don't want to be the guy saying, oh, panic, panic, panic. But they, you know, they kept saying the last time I was like, ah, there's no big deal. I think I even said in my podcast years ago. Like, it seemed like COVID-19 wasn't that big a deal. And it's going to be a big deal. So if it does, I'm just saying, if it does, maybe it's actually a blessing in disguise.

Now, I understand Honda virus has a much higher mortality rate, 40%. That sounds bad. A lot of us didn't get done what we wanted to get done last go around in the pandemic. Some people had very productive pandemics. They made a lot money. Their stature rose. They thrived. And other people, you know, maybe showered in the shadows

and didn't realize that this global, viral outbreak was actually a time to strike the iron while it's hot, you know, to becoming influencer, to become some kind of, you know, just to become a science blogger to just start talking about the vaccine. One way or you know, a lot of people made their bones in the pandemic and I should have. I miss that, I feel like I missed that boat. I should have been, you know, I should have been out there. It doesn't matter what you say, just be confident.

I used to not be confident enough. I used to have been hard. Maybe it's a virus. Maybe it's not. It's we're going to have to swap families. You know, your kid might, you know, your wife might get it. We might have to combine families. I'm going to be that.

Maybe I'll be that guy. We're going to have to combine households. We're going to have to turn back to futile. I mean, again, I don't know if this is sells. I'll have to sell kits, right? Maybe guess the thing. You have to have a kit. you have to have a product where there's supplements.

The best thing to do is just get some kind of root that's in pill form. People love pills. So some kind of, you know, or matcha powder that you mix in some, you know, you mix in some creatine and you call it, you know, you get some doctor. Your doctor is getting replaced left and right. A lot of doctors nowadays, a lot of doctors, they don't make as much money as you might think right here. I mean, a lot of them do well still, I'm sure.

Well, you know, these urgent cares, a lot of them don't necessarily do that great. It's not what they thought it would be. And, you know, so I'm sure one of them, you know, I'm sure they have plenty of time to write you a testimonial, if you know what I mean. Hey, Doc, I know you're a little underwater on your mortgage, right? Those interest rates, ha.

You know, you get some guy who just came out of med school. He wasn't expecting, I mean, I'm barely a functioning person in society. I don't know what the interest rates are in houses now. But it's not great still. You go to that dog. You just babble to the doctor. And he's, all right, fine. You know, $300 here.

And you're, you know, your creatine powder with matcha, matcha tea. And you sell that. My point is you get out there. You know, maybe you start some kind of bread. You know, people during the pandemic were making these companies that would, that would, you, they have restaurants coming out of the goddamn apartments in the city. documentaries about it. Start, start a fucking, you know, a diner kebab in your driveway. Start making tamales. We all need, we all need to pivot. We all need to pivot.

Anyway, so this is a blessing of the skies. You know, because it's not always easy to say, I'm going to quit my job and start a Mexican restaurant as a guy from, you know, who has no, I mean, I'm a Latin guy. But, you know, those kind of pocket, they have good pocket foods. And then panata is always enticing. I mean, what are they going to make, you know, German food? You know, it can be good, but it's not very, it's not really suited. Here, have some schnitzel on your way to the, on the way to the sulfur mines.

You know, Mexican food's great. Or maybe, maybe you, you become some kind of, you know, like a preacher. maybe I should be a preacher. Maybe I've missed my calling. Maybe I need to get into the realm of God. This alien thing is that, you know, it's a nice, it's a good segue. Because the alien thing kind of bleeds into the whole pandemic thing, right?

Because they want people to have, the same way with aliens, right? The same way they were always saying, well, maybe we'll have world peace if the aliens come, right? Because then what was the gimmick? That, like, you know, we'll have to kind of unite

to defend ourselves against the alien. Oh, that's all it'll take. They figured that are interdimensional or faster than light travel. But yeah, give us a year and we'll peek together some kind of, some kind of frigging, maybe, oh, you know, like,

but that movie signs when they were allergic to water? They couldn't figure out, They took their space helmets off. How do you travel through dark matter? But then you get murked. Don't you have probes? That's my point.

We're not ready for that. And I realize, here's how it's going to unite us, though. They don't want us to, like, we're not going to do that. It's not real, right? But they want people to have this threat so that they can find God. And then with God, they can fight. each other, you know, because it's not enough to be Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, whatever he's religious, you know, that's fine. But there's too many of all of them, right?

It's too established. They want, like, there's all these different denominations. There's episcopal, episcopal, right? Episcopal. There's all sorts of different churches out there, you know, these different subdivisions. We're going to have a kind of a mad, max feudal situation eventually and they want to get that on board uh so when we have we have this pandemic it's going to be a time to like you know really kind of start questioning the with the questions comes reinforcement you know people don't really like change their point of view don't forget very few people i i tend i try to uh pride myself that way oh i'll i'll take a good argument and I'll change my mind.

They have in the past a few bunch of times totally changed my, you know, not like on a whim, but, you know, be convinced by the facts on the ground. And that's what makes you weak. Because America's about it's having nothing change fundamentally what you believe, what you know.

So do aliens do come? Well, it'll just reinforce God, right? You'll just have to come up with even crazier explanations. I'm not saying God's crazy. I love the power of Christ. You know?

I'm not just saying that to be polite. I love him. I think Jesus is a great guy. But there's God or not. I think he's a great guy. One of the best guys ever, ever, right? That's what's so great about Jesus. He was just a good guy.

Unless you were, like, trying to, you know, sell t-shirts of the temple or whatever was happening and he got mad. So my point is, uh, religion, these religious guys would kill, oh, they were trying to have these meetings where they kind of were talking about how we got to be. going to keep people in line. Because it's really about how we're going to merchandise this. They know it's going to be a windfall. Now,

these documents, what's come out so far as nothing. It's just a bunch of blurry crap. And I tend to think it's not going to be, but you know, I will stand corrected if they start showing me like alien dicks, right? Well, here's a, is alien. I mean, whatever, I don't need to see the dicks,

but you know, alien, here's an alien drinking a fucking beer. What could they have? What are they going to show? I mean, here's the thing. I don't understand how a government can be like, well, here's nothing, but we have something else later, right? You can't lead nothing with like, well, here's an actual alien.

Or he's even, like, then you're just a liar. You know, I mean, what would even be the point of that? What would be the point of that to cover up for, for a different set of documents? Jeffrey documents? Should we call them Jeffrey Docs? Like Jeffrey the Has anyone done a mashup of Jeffrey the giraffe with Jeffrey Epstein?

I'm sure, I mean, Toys R Us isn't even a thing anymore. Some private equity company drove him into the ground, right? What if someone, why, how about the onions? The onions should not have done the whole thing with the, oh, we bought Info Wars and Tim Heidecker doing a bad Alex Jones. It would be much better if they,

maybe I should, I mean, can I, maybe I can afford, Maybe I can start a go fund me and we could buy the rights to Toys Russ And so I can get the rights to Jeffrey to Jeffrey the giraffe, right? And, you know, and then I can do some kind of mashup with Jeffrey Epstein Maybe that will get these files released eventually. Finally. We all know what Jeffrey the giraffe is, right?

We all went to Taco Bell. I'm not a Taco Bell. This guy. This guy. You've all seen Jeffrey the giraffe. I mean, you know, make him the mascot for the Epstein Docks, you know?

Whatever. It's just a brainstorm I had. What would convince me of aliens? I mean, it's like, you know, just, just show me any. All they show me is just, it's like little orbs moving around all the time and then a pilot getting confused. I would get confused. If I'm a pilot, I'm the first guy that'd be like, what the fuck is this?

and you're flying for like eight hours you're you yeah i think they used to give you infetamines right to keep you up well uh what they call them little gooseies little black beauties to keep you keep your alert and you do that thing when you're flying when you're a fighter pilot you have to go oh who hook right whatever you know drunt like to keep the air the blood you i think that's the last time so i mean i know they have a mission critical thing right i'm not trying to like make them look but you know These are the guys who were supposed to be the most likely to like, you know,

you see some lights go, you know, I clock in the lights. You know, it's probably, here's where a fire, I'm a man, again, I'm just, I'm respectful. But imagining a fighter pilot, you have a moment where you're like, should I shoot that? And usually, you know, usually the answer is no. And they're good at that. But that's the thing. I don't know. I wouldn't ask a fighter pilot to like, you know, give me crop reports.

you know how you know I just bombed Tehran oh very good thank you for doing the mention by the way how is there a rice crop how is the saffron

look at I don't know dude I don't know I was trying not to get shot I'm hooking I'm doing that thing the blood thing right right the hook yeah

oh yeah I didn't see I wasn't look at the saffron so what makes you think they're like able to like you know they they clock stuff and they go should I kill it or not that's what makes them

they're they're one years in the sky so i'm not taking shots at them oh you're probably he's apollo uh astronauts the apollo it was 11 or whatever you best not for years right what you're gonna it's like i i want to hear some alien friggin you know like screaming and his wife whoever's co-pilot is i want to see him i want to see him you know just getting and getting angry just show me show me uh you know any kind of intent show me you have AI that's the thing you have these tools now to like to trick us and you still just showing us trash what is actually happening behind the scenes that's kind of what I'm getting at what is really going on that you're not showing why what are you covering for if you're not even

going to bother to like you know just go into chat GPT and be like you know make me an alien It's not too, you know, kind of realistic. Do it in the way of like a, like a, make it kind of blurry. You can do it. They're very good now. The Will Smith eating spaghetti is very, they have the comparisons. And last year already was much better. But now he's like talking to his son.

And he's like, oh, this is good spaghetti. That's how good AI is that Will Smith is talking to his boy. And he's going like, oh, yum, yum, I'm spaghetti. And he's like, I love this spaghetti. Me too. I'm spaghetti boy. So don't tell me you couldn't have made some kind of UFO. Don't tell me you couldn't have fucking put in the goddamn effort.

What are we even doing anymore? We turned out of that big new release of UFO documents tonight. President Trump telling the public to have fun deciding for itself what's going on. Among the sightings, an object over Kazakhstan doing corkscrews, something else over the AG&C making 90-degree turns, and NASA's Buzz Aldrin in an Apollo 11 debrief reporting a sizable mystery object close to the moon. See what I mean? It's just a mishmash of shit. You know, it's like, whoa, it's a half fun with yourself.

It's like, how about you like, take the effort to lie to me? You know, if you're the kid of a divorce, right? If a divorced dad, it's your birthday. Do you want to hear, hey, I'm sorry. I was on my way. I got in this car accident. Oh, my God, you're okay? Yeah, I mean, they told me, I might have a concussion.

It's bad the car is. the car is not great I mean I think the car might be total maybe you could do something with the car oh wow yeah I'm gonna get back you real soon son you you you matter than me

that's like you know it's disappointing but you know you dad got in a car accident you pivot right it's not like you know hey son you know I'm just trying I'm really okay I got pretty drunk why do you just uh why don't you just watch

he's watch some power rangers so you know does that feel better to you Does I feel better? Hey, go futz around on your own. No, you want Daddy to give you, like, you know, a story. I'm not, you know, a grown man, I don't need a daddy. I'm just saying.

It's like, that's kind of what the job is. The job's not supposed to be, you know, uh, I don't know. It's not the job, you know. What do you think this is? Hmm? Whatever. You know, you just fucking selling, just buying and selling futures and making polymers.

and making polymarket bets. I mean, it's just like, you know this is happening. You could still, you could still fleece the cut. It's fine. I'm not even mad.

I don't know. Look, at the end of the day, if he wants to, you know, have people, I'm not making allegations, but he wanted to have people, you know, three degrees removed,

whatever it is, make the bets. They go in the account. How much could it, is it moving the market? Who are you hurting? Other people in polymarket? What do I care?

You know, but, but just do a little more the job you can you can be corrupt as hell i don't care oh don't just call him corrupt why it's if you're telling me don't trump and you're in his purest form word like that's the best thing the best thing let's just say you like everything he's doing i don't understand i don't understand people who would be like well he gave me what i want he i built a wall which i don't know whatever he'd be deal this the economy this and you know and you made him and he made three billion

dollars what what a guy i mean that's that's the vibe i'm not saying like my normal standards or historical standards but everyone who likes him likes that they like him so don't tell me it's just but just do the other i'm not even doing the other stuff just lie to me just give me a lie no one wants to hear you know how can you know hey just figure talk amongst yourselves it's just kind of i mean look at these what we got these docs or whatever is a note from Epstein, by the way. This is the Epstein note. They supposed to left.

They investigated for a month, found nothing. So a 15-year-old charge was resurfaced, whatever. It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye. What you want me to do? Burst out crying, no fun. Not worth it. Yeah, I don't think that he wrote. I mean, his brother doesn't think he wrote it.

But even before that, I'm like, this, if anything, he was like Trump wrote it. No fun. Not worth it. I mean, that would be hilarious if he just sketched this out. Again, if, like, if he made it, if he did, if you released this. If Donald Trump released, if White House released this or we're doing, I mean, technically a judge said to release it, it was hidden in a graphic novel? What graphic novel was it hidden in?

Some Dragon Ball Z omnibus? I mean, you know, but like in, the guy who he had a cell with, who people think murder, I think that guy was a cute, you know, the ex-cop guy, and some graphic,

not what was he reading the blue is the warmest color? I mean, what is this? But if he came out and said, hey, you know, no, I wrote,

no, yeah, that's me. I mean, at least that, I get, we're past the time of, uh,

of pearl clutching is my point. But it's, it's, what's really, uh, brings you kind of pause is when, it's like, it's like,

it's like, it's like, it's like, marriage, right? You heard these anecdotes of people go, you know, uh, repeat, we fought and we fought and you know, and then we, you know, when I knew it was over and we stopped fighting. And you know, that's kind of what, you know, when you're no owner being lied to, that's when you know, eish, each, well, that's not really great. Eish, what am I, Charzar? Um, so we have the U.S. Speaking of bad parents, by the way,

U.S. is, you're going to start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support, which just sounds on the surface like, you know, good. Like, that's your kind of gut emotional reaction. Not, you know, not if you're a libertarian, right? But you mean, but a lot of people, right? This is why they do these things. The U.S. State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports

of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support. And, like, you know, your first thought is like, oh, well, you're a scumbag that beat that. And look, I'm not here to hold water. I don't, you know, for that, I do know that, you know, times are weird. And I know it can be hard to adjust what you owe. And like these things, I don't know what these things are based on.

Yeah, again, I'm not trying to, I am not trying to defend the deadbeat dads, whatever one call them. But it does seem, you know, like it's a move where they're pulling passports. Right now it's a hundred thousand dollar limit, but apparently it's going to go down to the 2,500. it seems though just from like an intuitive sense like you're gonna start with this but you know it doesn't set of precedent for like you know what parking tickets that's also a problem too many parking tickets no more passport for you you know library books what what happened to uh what happened to that dragon ball z omnibus that we found like i stole the name and they hit the

epstein note in it right well no more passport because it was on your library card well shit I can't go to China. I'm just saying these these are, it's always, it's always someone who you, it's always going to be someone, uh, who you hate or you despise, right?

Who's, uh, gonna, they pass these things for, right? The war and terror, they pass, they, they, bin Laden.

Who's worse than bin Laden? No one's worse than bin Laden, which I'm on, you know, on paper, yeah, the way they describe them. Terrible guy.

I am not a fan bin Laden, but a lot of those patriotic things were used against people. Citizens, I mean. So the Department of Totally Associated Press on Thursday that the revocations would begin Friday. It's already in place now.

Imagine owning 100 grand child support. I mean, the economy is bad. Jobs are bad. It is kind of a situation where you do wonder, I mean, you have to do a study. know. I could, I could, I could, you know, based on what you kind of hear over the years, you know, it sounds really terrible at first. And maybe it is terrible. Maybe these guys are all just selfish and they're starting, starting separate families and I say, screw my kids. Maybe.

Or maybe it's just like, you know, I do know sometimes people get underwater and they can barely pay their rent. And, uh, there is no good answer. I mean, you force people to stay married. Some people say we should force people to stay married. I, I, that seems, uh, doesn't seem very free to me. It was not clear on Thursday how many passport holders. Oh, more than $2,500, but don't worry, we're also going to start putting people who wear hats.

This guy's got a hat. I'm kidding. It wasn't a great show. Until this week, only those who apply to renew their passports were, oh, so it's just people renewing, so you can't get a new one. But under the new policy, they will inform the State Department of all past due payments of more than $1,200, had them revoked.

So it seems like we're expanding a common sense practice that have been improving effective at getting those who owe child support to pay their debt. Hopefully that's all it is. Hopefully that I hope you know, these guys are as bad as everyone says, which again, I'm not defending.

I think, you know, I just know that, you know, what they, the government, especially this day and age, you just don't, you know, it's like, you hope for the best. You hope like, oh, you know, they can tell you like, oh, we're going to start, you know, arresting people who, you know, home invasions and go that's good and you know yeah we're technically we're gonna arrest the victims

oh that that's where we're around i feel like you know so i'm saying you want to make sure it's actually the guy doing the home invasion and that the guy who's you know beating you up in front of your wife you want you know you just want freedom that's all man i mean i don't think uh i'd like to go back to being a libertarian right because i don't feel like anything works you know, I had kind of a libertarian streak or an anarcho-capitalist streak, and I kind of got away from it, you know, while back because I just didn't think,

like, you know, for instance, the gold standard thing, like, you know, let's just say you got someone in power and then you pass a gold standard, like the Mises Institute would say back in the day, right, right, right, right, you know, here's actually a way you could do it. Like, oh, all right, yeah.

I just, you know, over time, I kind of started to think, yeah, but, like, you get, if you get the people in, it's going to control, the economy, right? And it's going to, like, hurt jobs, you know, in the long run, in theory, right?

But, you know, it's going to contract job. People are, you know, it's like you need a little pain up front to get a good result. And I'd be like, I don't know if it's workable, which is the crazy, in hindsight, it's the craziest thing. Because nothing works, right? No one's actually trying to get anything. I'm not trying to save people who are, you know,

that you're like, you know, purposefully or, you know, whatever. I'm not trying to, like, you know, dog anyone out for having, you know, political philosophy. But just go with what makes, they really need to start going what you feel. We need to go back to intuitive politics, right? Because it's just about, like, you know,

they're going to find a way to make sure your vote doesn't matter. You know, so much like, oh, we got to make sure. It's Heming and Hong about the votes and the stealing. I don't think that votes were stolen. Maybe you do. But if it seemed like it makes that much of, it's like, they don't care what you vote for anyway. And, like, you know what I mean?

they're not like responsive to the people this gerrymandering thing right that happened this week where are my damn news stories i should be screaming at myself well whatever there was a thing where they passed they you know the uh supreme court overturned uh this jeer you know basically this map i think it was for louisiana that they drew and i think they were saying well you can't drawing on racial lines, but then they were using them with the, really should, I'll just, you know, I'll just type gerrymandering into Google. Where's my story? I can't find this story. It's right here.

All right. A private call, Democrats desperate over toxic of map, a conversation, Democrats are struggling to respond to a major redistricting, I was in Virginia, redistricting setback in Virginia with some party leaders discussing an audacious and possibly far-fetched idea for trying to restore a congressional map voided by the court which, you know, the government's like the...

Conversation reflected the desperation and fury that have gripped the party after the state Supreme Court, of State Supreme, struck down a favorable map that has been ratified by voters. The most dramatic idea they discussed, which would involve an unusual gambit to replace the entire state Supreme Court with a goal of

reinstating their gerrymandered map through mixed reactions on the call. you know like these things here's a thing um on the surface it sounds like this sounds like we this all sounds like fuckery and you only mean you know all right are the Republicans doing it too and they seem to be too like you'd be back and forth and I can't keep track of it is my point and I don't know of anyone I mean you could ask AI if you want what's it going to tell you it's going to tell you you know it might tell you to go bring a gun through a starbucks who knows you know you know you really really care

about taking advice from AI, in my opinion. So, you know, I think this is just, I have a plan is why I'm bringing this up. I have a plan. I don't know what these districts are for anymore. You know, I don't know who my, this is not, I think in the 1940s or 1920s, you'd have a congressman in your district and you go to him and you go, hey, I want to get, you know, my, my, my CDL, I want to get my truck driving license. I want to get, I'll get a job at the docks.

and you have to do political patronage. Now, I don't know how you, like, you know, he's a guy from your neighborhood. You know, like, who's like Al, Smith was a, you know, he was a governor in New York. I think, you know, he was part of the whole political, I think he was the Italian machine at one point. The political machines back in the day.

And like, so these congressmen were kind of, you're accountable to you and like, also like, hey, you know, there's stuff in my district. Like, there's a sewage pump. Maybe I'll get this fixed. Nothing gets fixed, right? These guys, it doesn't matter. You just shuffle these things up.

That's the thing. You just random shuffle it. And so you draw that. You need districts, right? You need that. You can't just have people just vote for Congress. I'm not voting for 10 congressmen, right? I mean, New York gets what?

Probably 30. How many Congress? How many representatives of New York? Let's just Google this real quick. how many representatives does New York get 26 I am not gonna vote for 26 and fucking people I can bear I don't even know who the fucking one person is as a thing you get these things yeah I even know his guy is as the other it's like you don't get an option you go to the primary who votes a congressional prime and

then even then it's like who seems to what are not gonna do like follow these people around. It's not like a, it's not like there's this huge treasure trove of like information about people who are in the primaries and comedy. It can be any guy, right? Especially like, I mean, some of these like smaller states. You know, we, we know, read like the college newspaper. There is no, we go, we're going to get together a higher private eye.

I don't know that voting. You basically just want to, you know, it's all just politics anyways, my point. It's political party. So you just like enough of this Just just just randomly draw the districts People are gonna vote the party they want right No one's gonna hey I mean I guess I guess that's all it is though

These primaries are really mostly what it is It's maybe then you get people who are actually They have to be more accountable Because I feel like it's the only people voting Or like who's the main thing doesn't even matter Because these districts are all either Very Republican and very Democratic very few of them, I think, are like, you know, go back and forth.

So it's just, you mix it up and then you get some guys. People have to get creative. We're too encamped. We need to have people who are like, you know, and not to glaze John McCain, but mavericks, political mafriks. Like a Republican who says, but I want to, uh, I'm a Republican, but I want to, we'll be unpopular for a Republican. I want to outlaw guns. and that's not fun. I'm a Republican and I'm a communist.

That's nice. I'm a communist Republican. Could I run as that? I'm going to run. I mean, that's what we're getting at. To the point of the whole episode of whatever, right? Like, it's these things just don't work. These things are like, and we're just kind of beating our heads against the sand.

or the wall, maybe you run a communist Republican in a district, right? Like a laissez-faire communist. Like, what the fuck does that mean? It doesn't even make it. It's a contradiction. Of course it is.

Donald Trump's a contradiction. He's very effective, I mean, politically. Will you like him or not? He's very good, you know, unintitively, you know, based on, like, political theory or whatever, you know. They all said he was crazy, but he has this sense

because he keeps people on your toes enough of this like you know everyone expects AOC to say she wants you know health care it's not going to get anything to happen everyone expects you know who's Nancy Mace to say

she wants to you know throw a dog down a well or whatever she does you know whatever she's into she's always saying pray for the president you know the guy of course I'm praying for you don't think I'm praying for the I have a charismatic prayer group that meets every Thursday and we pray for the president.

Don't tell me how to pray for the president, Nancy Mace. My point is, it's boring. People are used to it. They're numb to it. And we need to be lied to you a little bit. You need to grease the wheels. What's happening is this kind of waking dream in America, where we're all just kind of, we're all just kind of know. it's not it's kind of you know no one's everyone's being doom-pilled black-pilled everyone's a fed right

everyone's accusing each other of being feds like a departed you a cop you know and a lot of time it doesn't help that a lot of people are feds you know and a lot of people are agitators a lot of people are astroturfers uh just you know it doesn't uh uh it doesn't uh You know, when you buy a car, you want some, you don't want something, you know, you don't want to be lied to, but you came to buy a car. You want someone to like help you convince you to buy, you know, you don't come in a lot less you want to buy. You want to be sold. Sell me. Sell me on this country.

Maybe bullshit. Maybe it's all dying. But, you know, put a new coat of paint on it. make make make a you know what's the opposite what what's the old the version of a of a of a Marxist Republican you know some kind of a Democrat who wants to um to seed no that's not they might want to do it you know a Democrat who wants to you know anti-immigrate I mean again these things used to exist there were just anti-immigration Democrat you know whatever like it'd be guys who I feel

like when I was growing up these things weren't even crazy that now to say that would be sound crazy you know some man some pro-gun Democrat and they say that Bernie's like I like my guns but they didn't you know no one's taking you know no one's willing to take away the guns it's just also predictable you need you need some guys who are like uh just keeping the blood flowing maybe maybe maybe maybe you need some ex-con we need maybe we need to make some felons be able to hold office.

I don't mean, you know, like violent criminals per se. I don't want a guy who, like, again, bring up a home invasion guy, but a gang leader as a congressman, right? A reformed gang leader, a guy who was in one of the prominent street gangs, which I won't name because I don't want to be assassinated for mentioning. I don't know how they feel about being mentioned on podcasts, you know, if I mentioned, you know, but I feel like, is a thing we've got back to them even though like everyone you know there's movies about these

gangs if you said the name out loud they'll be like what's this guy you know and they'd whack you i don't want to be whacked but a prominent street you run a prominent street gang and then you know because you could be a rapper right i mean i guess they were you know i'm not saying they write but you know no one's a problem like buying rap albums and making these guys right why can't they be a congressman no one has a problem with a with an ex-con with an act with a person who did sold drugs, maybe the violent shit, becoming like a multimillionaire,

even dare say a billionaire, right? Was that Jay-Z's whole story that? He's like, you know, I was in the game. I had to detect on the dresser. Like the tech dine, right? I took my guns. Dre was like talking about guns. He ain't got none.

What you think I sold them all? You know? And they're billionaires, a lot of them. That's fine. I mean, how is that you don't think, you don't think they can influence politics? Why are we so pro-clutchy about who gets to be, you know, or congressmen? We need people who are to take initiative.

We need people who are, like, you know, are decisive. We need people who can put a little fear into people. You know, maybe some guy who get, you know, let them carry a gun. Imagine if you had a mayor who was like, you know, fill that pot who up, fill your face with this, his point of gun. Oh, man. that would be such a powerful moment if I'm, let's say, make me the mayor

and I'll do that. If you elect me mayor of New York and I do that and I'm not saying federally but in New York I'm exempts from being prosecuted, right? Like I can't go to jail for pointing a gun in a pothole maker, right? What are they call the guys who fill potholes

or garbage, you know, there was whoever these people are, these public workers who, you know, whatever, not the workers themselves. I feel like it's the the management class, the bureaucrats above them. I go, I go to the, as the mayor, I go to like the head of the department for pot holes.

I'm a gun and I'm just waving around. And they go, time, time to, time to make a choice. You know, life or pot holes are your life, whatever. I mean, I have someone, you know, punch it up. I, you know, what you call them? Speech writers. But imagine that.

Imagine it would be like, well, you know, sometimes these kind of like Singapore back in the 90s. I feel like did this when they came, like, you know, like I got caned because they were reforming Singapore. It was very fine. And there's other other places that are like that too. Sometimes you need like a wild card to come in and be dynamic and give people hope again.

Now, yes, I would be like, you know, probably stealing behind the scenes, like all politicians do. Why else would I do it? You know, that's the thing. like it's implicitly understood we need to stop like worrying about if a guy's stealing a few hundred grand a few million if you you know if you 20 I mean after 100 million I think you're fine any politician who's not worth 100 million when they die I mean I'm not saying like a state senator you know oh Nancy Pelosi insider traded oh yeah it's like what we're going to

do get someone honest why would they do the job you know oh this fucking other guy Republicans, Democrat, they all are all inside trade. We all inside trade. I mean, me,

I don't know anything. But that's what they were saying. They all do it. She was pretty bad. But maybe she was just good catching, you know, catching tips.

Maybe, maybe they miss, they miss, uh, they, what they call it? They know, she's a woman.

She doesn't know anything about it. They were just talking about it right in front of her. Because she's such a woman. You know, ah, you dumb woman. What do you know about it? And,

and they're like you know Microsoft 2 4 and she would write it down if I was Nancy I mean yeah I'm being for seizures but if I was Nancy Pelosi I would make that point I would lie I mean she's obviously it's you know I would say as emphatically as I can say without slandering you because I don't proof but everyone says it right it seems to be a thing it's just everyone not just her right everyone seems to be dead yeah if I'm wrong I'm wrong I allegedly or whatever but if I was her I would get out ahead of it and go, I don't think this thing, it's not even illegal. But the legality is not the point.

We just stop worrying, no one's getting caught. You can steal, as my, like, we're letting them steal anyway, effectively. Just tell me that, give me some story about how you're, you're hitting the men's bathroom with a pad while they were smoking cigars, like Jay Leno in that movie, the late shift. And you were listening in, and you're writing on a little pad like it's bad men or some shit. And you're Peggy Olson. And that's how you got the stock tips, you know. Are we going to bomb the Vatican?

I don't know. I mean, this is a wrap it up with this. It is a, one second. You Vatican's a, here we go. Rubio and Leo meet the Vatican to discuss Middle East after weeks of tension. And there was a Trump quote in here. wanted to get to. Rubio met with Trump, Thursday.

The Vatican discussed the situation in the Middle East and other matters, a meeting that came after weeks of tension between the American born Pontiff and President Trump. Secretary of State Marker Rubio met today with his holiness Pope Leo 16 to discuss. I just too much of my name. Just say Pope. You made with the Pope. Which Pope? The one that's alive. I mean, I know for a while we had two popes, that's over.

The meeting underscored the strong relationship. between the United States and the Holy See. Where's the Trump quote, though? Paul Week on Crime. Hold on. There's another one. It was. You know, there's a great, there's a great quote I wanted to.

Yes. Rubel. There's a different one. Okay. Because Trump told a conservative talk show host on Tuesday that Pope Leo was, quote, endangering a lot of Catholics. As the Pope, we'd rather talk about the fact that it's okay for Iran to have a new other weapon.

I don't think it's very good. Now, look, on the service of that, this is why it's interesting, because we've covered this conflict going forward, going back. You could say, well, he's endangering a lot of Catholics by trying to help, you know, Iran and get the bomb, which, you know, he's not a person trying to do that. he's just, but whatever, that's his line of thought. I think it's, because the Pope doesn't just talk for Catholic. He's too big for that.

Not to be arrogant. I know a lot of people, you know, I know a lot of Protestants are like, you know, we don't want your Roman Pope. I get it. But, you know, it seems like more like what he's saying is like, I think what Trump might be saying and don't, you know, quote me, don't quote me, whatever. You're endangering a lot of Catholics in the Vatican.

that if you don't quit, you know, running him out, you know, who knows how drones work? And we mean who knows how drones work? I don't know. Hey, I'm trying to do off the cuff, my... Hey, Pope. I don't know. These drones, I'm Tehran. Everyone goes to the Vatican.

I don't know. I mean, I'm the Pope. I'm not an extra drone, but I would think, you know, it's totally different part of the world. maybe goes Italy, I don't know, we launched from Italy, we launched from Sweden. Oh, vacants, no more. Now, with the Pope, would the Pope, I mean, that's the best case in my thought.

I mean, best case doesn't do anything, I guess. But I mean, you know, because he might just, I've always wondered, you know, in recent days if he'll nuke the Vatican. Because the Vatican can't really defend itself. And I don't know what, what he would, you know, he might see that as a political, like, I'm worried that he's starting to view the Pope as a proxy. You know, like in the Cold War, we couldn't go bomb Russia,

but we could bomb Vietnam, right? We could bomb Guatemala, Cuba, right? We didn't bomb Cuba. We know what I mean? We got a lot of proxy wars. We funded the Mujahideen, and they went after Russia or they were defending themselves, I guess. Whatever, you know what I mean? A lot of violence. And you hope that the Pope, that Trump is not trying to use the Pope as set him up as a proxy to Iran, which seems unintuitive, right? You know, the head of the Catholic Church would be some kind of proxy for the, for the Iranian Ayatollah, you know, a Supreme Leader of Iran, a prominent Muslim leader.

you wouldn't think it's like you know but it's it but he's he's kind of framed it Trump is a talent for framing things we've framed Leo's kind of hey maybe don't bomb schools and you know just show out with the bombing as he wants Iran to have a bomb and so if he's one you know if he nuke there's no oil in the Vatican so I'm I hope I'm a Catholic I don't want this I I'm hoping that Marco Rubio was able to you know kind of explain this to the pope. I don't like the idea of Rubio being able to... I don't want, as a Catholic, like, Rubio,

to have this kind of sway where he can't come in and threaten the Pope. It doesn't sit right with me. But here we are. I don't want to see the Vatican destroyed. So we'll see how it goes. I mean, hopefully, cooler heads prevail.

But as this war is, like, it's like, you know, we had a peace agreement, but then bombings have, I don't know, back attacks. They attack, you know, Iran attacks. some ships that we're trying to go through the street, I guess, and we attack them. It seems like, it just seems odd. Like, you, all of a sudden you have this like very, this deal is kind of on the cusp, but then,

so whatever. My point is, uh, they, they want to make a strong point and they am worried that the Vatican is a soft target to them. And there's a lot of stuff in the Vatican, you know, there's a 16 chapel. You don't like that to get nuked. And the Pope, he's just, you know, he says, you know, You know, Pope is an important guy. It's all going to be okay.

I want you all know that. I want you all, you know, I'm looking out for you. And we're all going to get through this. And even if the worst happens, you know, we'll rebuild. We would rebuild. I mean, if something, you know, it's always a great thing. You know, whether it was a pandemic, whether our passports get to. taken away, you know, all of a sudden, you know, we're all deadbeat dad somehow, whether,

you know, whether I go to jail for threatening the head of a, of a bureaucrat, you know, has to get elected mayor first, honestly, but, you know, we, there's always, there's tomorrow. So, you know, don't get, don't get down. Uh, but, you know, thanks for tuning in. Uh, again, you know, like and subscribe if you can, Patreon.com slash Raycomp, or, uh, you know, YouTube membership is these are all options and yeah and it's all just just optional and you can just also just enjoy the show as it is and I appreciate you being here and I'll see you next week have a great week