Some More News - Even More News: White House Brags About Migrant Cruelty, Donald Trump Declares Himself King

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

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Hi, hello. Welcome back to Even More News, the first and only news podcast. I'm Katie Stoll. I'll take your word for it, Katie Stoll. Hi, I'm Cody Johnston. Johnston. Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, the Cody Johnston. The first and only. And of course, Jonovan is also here. I'll take your word for it.

Hi. I never lie. You say so. I never lie about that. You're saying I'm here, so I believe you. You've got a trustworthy face. I don't look at the other guy. I don't know. about that. You're saying I'm here, so I believe you. You've got a trustworthy face. I don't look at the other guy.

I don't know. You're trustworthy, yeah. But also, how are you guys? How are you doing? How are you holding up? This is so that you could ask me that in return. No, I'm going to milk it first. It's been a tough week.

My kid was sick again. It happens a lot. And it's nonstop. And then you get sick. We're sleeping better. We've moved as you can tell. No one can tell. I'm being lit by natural light.

I can tell. It really is kind of glossing over all these tabs I have up which are all the horrible news. Well, you brought that down. Cody, how are you? I'm fine. after all the horrible news. Well, you brought that down. Cody, how are you?

I'm fine. I'm a little tired, but I always am a little tired, so I'm good. Katie. Oh, I can't. How are you doing? Can I pump? I had a question too, but OK, it's fine.

I'm good. Glad you thank you for asking. No, I just am. You guys already know this, but I'm gonna tell the world. I really committed to myself, especially after this election, to developing hobbies and to trying to live my life to the fullest.

And I decided that I was gonna start skiing this year. So I got a season pass, mountain, and it has been a disappointing winter in terms of snow but I've still been getting out there getting after it as they say and I had a real breakthrough on Monday and I skied my first black diamond and Nick why don't we just show some video of that. that oh my that was incredible good job I think she did great congratulations thank you boys or Jonathan not Cody I can't picture it cuz I've never been skiing so I Nick show him the video Nick, show them the video.

Now, can you picture it? Now, that's incredible. Fine, we got holidays to celebrate. Friday, February 21st, National Boiled Peanuts Day. The heck? Okay. This is the first one. This is the inaugural NBPD. NBPD?

No, it sounds like no big police department or something. No, Newport Beach Police Department? Nah, those guys don't deserve your praise. Okay, founded in 2025 by Dixie Grace's Boiled Peanuts. So deal with Dixie Grace. Boiling Peanuts has been a cultural practice in the southern U.S. since the 1800s, but has been widely growing in popularity

across the country too. No, it hasn't. Citation native. Originally called Goober peas. Yeah, hell yeah. Often referred to as the edamame of the South. I reject that, is it? I accept that.

I accept that. I think that's a perfect name for it. The edamame of the South. Yeah, boiled peanuts. I'd like to try some. That sounds good. Pretty disrespectful. Speaking of disrespectful, first thing on my list

that I have in front of me is Elon's stuff. OK. He's really a Trump Trump in terms of the news space. This is this go around. And that's in a week where Trump said he's a king and then boasted with a fake time magazine that's a Trump magazine with a picture of him as a king. If that was a magazine,

that's what the cover would look like. I guess from the official White House. Yeah. So over the weekend, maybe this was last week in the Oval Office press conference, he hinted that they've uncovered a bunch of waste and fraud and social security. And he's kept up with this throughout the week.

He's saying that tens of millions of people who are supposedly dead in their 150s are still receiving benefits. His proof for that was a chart that has two columns, and the columns are age range and count, and there are people, or not necessarily people, it just are numbers on this chart that's like 150 to 159, and there's 1.3 million somethings there. And that was his proof that these people are receiving benefits and thus they're of course dead.

So what? So the Social Security Administration is stealing these benefits and getting rich off it? Where would they be going? Or it's a million people who are using that to get the payments instead of the person that's still alive at that age or whatever. Right. He said this could be the biggest fraud in history. Could be.

And he is either knowingly lying, probably, or extremely stupid, also, probably. There are many articles that kind of put this into context. There are several things he got wrong and several reasons he may have been misinterpreting these numbers. One is that Social Security runs on an old coding system called COBOL, which sets the start date in 1875. So anytime there's not a death date listed or a birth date listed, it defaults there.

Or if they're not complete, yeah. And also, there is something amiss with the Social Security database, where a lot of old entries aren't culled from that database when people die or when people don't have listed death dates, but they are definitely not receiving benefits. The Social Security Administration has been aware of that, and an inspector general report from 2023 said, like, hey, this is a known problem, and we're probably not going to deal with it because it would be millions of dollars to deal with. It would take hundreds

of person hours to fix it. And it's not really a big deal since the checks aren't going out and no one's getting. They're not going out. No one's getting money. I think according to their website, that was like 83,000 people over like 90 are actually over 99 are actually receiving those checks. On the one hand, it's so frustrating. You're either lying or dumb, some combination of both, but you're just wildly misrepresenting to try desperately to prove some fucking unfounded point. And come on, let's, I understand it's very expensive and unwieldy to go through and call the database

and clean it up, but also it's like, this is how our system runs too. I do feel that way. We can't come up with something to clean out the database, but not use this as proof of something that's not happening. Well, that's the thing. There are these, it's the game that's always played. There are certain issues you could look into or fix or optimize, but it's all being presented

as fraud and waste. I mean, I'm trying to keep up with it all. One of the big tells with a lot of Elon's and Doge's tweets about all this stuff are that they're just screenshots of like spreadsheets. Right. It's like the posting method is designed to not be clear and to just like, oh, here's a screenshot of like some form that no one like you've never seen. And it's got these codes and like this information. And I'm just going to share it and say it's fraud and People are waiting for that. They're waiting for the next tweet So they can be like look at all the the millions of dollars, but like he doesn't understand the charts

The kids in Doge don't understand they're not involved in these government systems at all. They're just coders They don't get it and they don't know the coding language that this system was built on because of course security is very old So once they digitized everything it was built on this old system, and I don't understand it I'm not a coder, but anyone who's worked with this at all is Chiming in they're writing op-eds. They're online saying they're explaining it. You don't know how this works whatsoever Just like this is what we've talked about for so long about this project that they're doing. You're just firing everybody for wokeness that gets rid of all of this knowledge, like all this institutional knowledge, all the things that they could have had explained

to them very simply. But to have something explained to you means that you're stupid and that can't be true. So you need to freak out and yell at everybody and fire them if they point out that you're wrong about something or that you don't understand something. So like that's by design. Well, I'll just add, people are explaining it. You see people on Twitter, there's threads, people are interacting and yet the amount of people

that refuse to read or believe is astounding. And it's tough because, yep, this is a barometer and a place that we can see how conversations are forming, but it's also not reflective of the real world. It is to a degree an element, but it's very scary. It's very scary to look at responses to common sense answers and be like, what is wrong?

Or the amount of people that, you know, well Grok says this, it's fucking Grok. Yeah, it's Grok three now though. I saw, I've seen so many videos. I've been trying to collect them like a little Pokemon. As soon as Grok three came out. It's gonna be worth something. It's a screenshots of stupid tweets, so not really.

So many accounts are like, look what I did with Grok 3 in five minutes, and every single one of them is some version of Asteroid the video game, your little ship and you shoot little... Ah yes, Asteroid the video game. We're gonna need that. The ship is like the X logo or a picture of Elon Musk, and the little asteroids are like MSM and

and and Facebook and and and blue sky or like the CIA or all this stuff and it's there are so many of them on the First day, it's so funny. Like look what grok 3 can do. Oh, it can ruin asteroids in like multiple ways Congratulations in terms of explaining Trying to explain to people how this works, I read this thread several times from James Surowicki, who's a writer for the Atlantic and Fast Company. And he was trying to explain to some random person on Twitter, like, why is Elon wrong here? How would how would you explain these numbers and he says like over and over he's like the numbers are publicly available You can get that chart that he had and it's like probably every person

Who's ever been issued a Social Security number or something you can publicly look at? Who's actually receiving the benefits and how much those benefits are for. And it's just like, well, what if that's a lie? What if everything that every public agency has been releasing is a lie? And the number of people who believe that, that everything that's just publicly available on the website is a lie and everything that Elon says has to be true. It's like no wonder he's able to crumble these institutions.

Yeah, it's embarrassing to say. It's staggering to be honest, these people that, yes, don't trust anything that's put out by the government on these websites, enraged by the administration or anybody putting any sort of a, any amount of pressure about, let's say how we talk about COVID or, Hunter Biden or just enraged at the government overreach

onto your media sites. And you have Elon Musk actively altering how you receive your information, provably, verifiably, to his own admitting at times in that press conference that stuff is wrong. Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. And in having the keys to the kingdom, oversight over agencies that have direct conflicts with his personal businesses, and you don't give a shit? You don't, then you never cared.

Then you never ever, ever, ever actually cared about this issue. And just admit it. Just admit it. That's where I'm at. Sorry. I just, woof. It's what's always been the case, and obvious it's just like so, it's so in your face now. Like, they don't care about anything,

any of this stuff at all. Yeah, people are like, well, what motivation would Elon have to do this? He already has so much money. And obviously we can talk about like, what motivates billionaires to make more money, but like, so you think it's just a coincidence that he's gutting all the agencies that were investigating his companies Come on like they're doing it out in the open. It's as obvious as anything has ever been

It's anything has ever been it's just so obvious All the time every day It's as obvious as him doing as obvious as him doing a seghile. Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah. And they're all, you know, and they're using the federal government to threaten people for being mean to Elon Musk on Twitter and stuff. They're going after advertisers,

and basically using, I got this relationship with Donald Trump, so you better start paying for advertisers on X. It's all so absurd and frustrating. And even the keyword thing, they canceled some like, it's like $8 million or something because the word Reuters was in it. Thompson Reuters and Reuters, the news agency, they're like separate. So Thompson Reuters runs Westlaw, which is this legal research service

that a lot of government agencies use. But since it had Reuters in there, and that's like the MSM, we're going to cancel that contract. Because people at the State Department might be subscribed to Politico, we don't need to do that. That's a waste of money. So let's cancel that subscription. That's stupid and probably a negligible amount of money,

but okay, you're gonna make people use the internet archive to get their news or whatever. But like this big legal research service. You want that information. I mean, I guess the law doesn't matter. Even the Politico thing was like about like bills being passed and legislation. Like it wasn't even like, oh, they're like subscription to like the palace intrigue that

Politico is publishing. No, it's like this other portal. But they don't know what they're doing and they don't care to learn. And if they're pointed out, they're wrong. They'll they will ignore it or in some cases change it in real time to be the truth that they originally said, even though it was false. And they're just like searching like, oh, the word Reuters.

At one point they deleted some tax form because it included the word equity in it because they thought it was a DEI thing. That's tax language, fucking people. Like, what are you doing? And they're doing these interviews together and it's like, it's tax language. Fucking people. Like, what are you doing? And they're doing these interviews together, and it's like, it's still weird. I feel like every other day, there's a new interview with the president and his weird friend who's just there. Like, imagine an interview with Joe Biden and also like,

here's George Soros in this interview with Joe Biden or like Bill Gates with Obama together all the time. It's so bizarre. Bro, you got a vice president. I brought that up to someone and I was like, you would be losing your mind if this was George Soros and they were like, if it was George Soros actually cleaning out government corruption, no, I don't think so.

And I'm like, you lie! You are lying to me. Also, and again, this isn't the first time we've mentioned it. It's not the first time anybody will mention it. We're not the first to say it. Oh, you're rooting out a lot of fraud and waste. Arrest a person for fraud. Charge a person with fraud. You keep saying this is fraud.

That has a definition That's a legal claim you're claiming that there's all this fraud Well, if they were going to arrest people for fraud to start with the fucking president show it We barely even scratch. We've already diverged so wild. I know I know well, because everything we're talking about is an example of The rot and that's the subject of this podcast now indefinitely is the rock everything we're talking about is an example of the rot and that's the subject of this podcast now indefinitely is the rot. Everything we're going to be bringing up is just like-

New name of the show, The Rot Action. Well, because he's corruptly making it the law that you have to advertise on X or else he's going to torpedo your merger in the marketing space or whatever. That's a real thing. That's a real thing. That's a real thing But but it's going to be there's going to be more things It's gonna be the law that you have to advertise on the website of the guy who? The the grima worm tongue what if grima worm tongue owned six companies? Yeah, like he's

Grima worm tongue of Rohan. I mean, here's another example there. They they boast that They posted the receipts finally on the doge.gov website. They said they saved American taxpayers $55 billion. No they haven't because they're not giving it to us. Put the wall of receipts on its website. But a lot of that came from something they said was $8 billion, but it was really $8 million. And I think, like I went down and found the actual item in the list and that Thing in the list says eight million dollars, but they haven't corrected the last time I checked the 55 billion

Well, why would you? It doesn't matter People heard the number first. So that's the number it is. It doesn't matter if that's not the number you heard it there first It's like so much of this is like publicly available information like the whole idea like there's like this secret fraud So that's the number it is. It doesn't matter if that's not the number. You heard it there first. It's like so much of this is like publicly available information. Like the whole idea, like there's like this secret fraud. They're posting screenshots from usaspending.gov.

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Type more news in all lowercase. You know? How's the White House social media going? I know we mentioned Long Live the King. Fun, but what else have they put out lately? I know the answer. Bad stuff. What it shows is migrants being shackled and led

onto a plane to be deported. And there is some clinking of shackles in there. So I guess that's the ASMR bit. Hilarious. No, this is disgusting. And they're trying to normalize seeing these images. They're making it cute and sweet. It is truly disgusting, even ignoring, obviously. They're on it cute and sweet. It is truly disgusting, like even ignoring, like

obviously they're like they're on a tear on social media, like saying the king tweet that Napoleon quote about how basically Trump is the law. But this is particularly disturbing. It would be still gross and maybe even more but maybe like more expected if it didn't have the ASMR angle. Like, I'm not, I'm not surprised that they're like, look, we're like getting rid of them and they're doing like these videos that would be horrific to see and would be have this sort of like violent undertone and be not fun to watch, but the fact that they're like doing it and being like ASMR deportation style, they like that is actively trying to normalize it and make it seem cute and good and sweet and nice and fun. They're trying to make it funny in some way. Yes, they're trying to desensitize people to it and make it seem like this is a normal fine thing to do and these people can be treated this way. Also, isn't ASMR part of the allure of ASMR videos are like a masturbation thing, right?

It can be, but it's not supposed to be that. It is, it's not. Some people just like that ear tickle, but anyway. A lot of it is the ear tickle and the nice sounds. They're like, oh, the shaving of the soap sounds. The clinking of chains on concrete. It's not for just jerking off, let's be clear. I don't know how else to, like, I say a thing, like, oh,

this is dehumanizing and awful, and it's trying to normalize this dehumanization. And then I feel like I should say that again with more emphasis, because, like, now what? It feels like it needs to be said over and over and over again after everything, that it feels also as if it's losing its meaning in some sense, as if I'm just repeating these words.

But it has to be said. We have to be aware of what's happening. It's not going to stomp. They're ramping up. I'm sure they're testing the waters to see how it goes over. And it goes over. And it's, yeah, it's horrifying. And yes, it's dehumanizing.

And we can't get used to it. Yeah, it's really messed up, just like straight up fascist propaganda. And even if you want these mass deportations now, what are you doing listening to this show, first of all? And even if you want these mass deportations now, what are you doing listening to this show, first of all? But also couching it in this genre is like so blatant and damaging. And like an unboxing video of like this fucking coffin.

Like it's just like, it's so gross. and an unboxing video of this fucking coffin. It's just like, it's so gross. And then there's this Panama, this story of migrants being deported and put in a camp, a remote jungle camp in Panama. And the conditions sound horrific. Migrants who aren't from Panama, by the way. That's what I was getting at. Yeah, one of these quotes, it looks like a zoo.

There are fenced cages, said one deportee, a 27-year-old migrant from Iran. They gave us a stale piece of bread. We're sitting on the floor. Conditions at the site are primitive, the detainees said. Diseases, including Dengue, are endemic to the region, and the government has denied access to journalists and aid organizations.

What are we doing? These people aren't even from Panama. The fuck? That's what we're doing. That's why we're doing it. And some of these people who are being shipped to other countries that they've never been to are going to die and those numbers have to be in the death toll of this administration Yes, when all is said and done in 20 years the historians have to count these people as people that they've slaughtered

Historian grok 5 here to analyze. Yes, it is plausible that the Trump administration has started genocide although I have seen I've seen so many like Administration has started genocide. Although I have seen I've seen so many like People use grok to like explain stuff and sometimes they use it to be like Grok is this bad and like yeah, it actually is like they're like they're trying to do propaganda using grok But then grok's like no, it's actually like really bad. What's going on? Good for rock. Maybe grok will get more woke. Yeah, this is all Just it just it's been one month to the day. It feels so long. And the idea that they're already doing stuff like this and they're just like finally getting

their full cabinet together and all their ducks in a row and seeing not just what they're doing already but sort of like it's all indicators of where it's going and it's obvious where it's going to... This is depressing. Yeah. Before we move on because there are a few other things I know we want to talk about, he's starting to slip in the polls. Not that it matters.

Not that he's running for anything ever again. He's going to declare himself president for life. We get it. But people are, and this isn't just anecdotal. His numbers are dropping. He's eight points underwater on the economy, which is what people elected him to fix. That's the reason.

He's only up one point on immigration, and it's disgusting to think that half the country approves of this. They're probably not reading the quotes we just read, or they think those people deserve it, et cetera. But on everything else, they don't like the Musk stuff. They don't like that he's letting a group of random people gut the federal government They don't like that. They're losing their jobs and their benefits I'm not saying they're gonna impeach him because of how unpopular he is

But like his numbers are gonna go back down into the 30s. They're going like he's not gonna be a guy that people like Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, this is, you know, said it before the election when you that he won, but like he is unlikeable and bad president. And people saw that and in the first term, eventually, and we're already heading towards that point. So much of his win, aside from all the other stuff we've talked about to death, I guess, is just that like, yeah, you've kind of forgot. It's been a long time. And he went away for a while and he came back and like we were like, so tired of Joe Biden or whatever, whatever your opinion is. And all the reminders are coming back. He's a bizarre person who doesn't know

what he's talking about most of the time. And he's like, yeah, all the Musk stuff, obviously, too. But just like every step of the way and like, you know, we have Sean Duffy from The Real World is in charge of people talk about that much. He is from the real world. He's the Department of Transportation head now. And the other day, he was on one of the news channels and he was like you know some people were getting fired and like getting you know getting let go you know some of these people

they're you know they're good people who voted for Trump well that's how this is going like it they're just saying out loud like if you voted for Trump you're a good person and we don't want to hurt you we don't let you go and I think that they're just the apparatus and the project that they have can't avoid that. You're not going to go through everybody like, who did you vote for? Maybe they will eventually. And then like, I don't know what we're going to do.

But like, that's not part of the cord from International Waters or whatever. Gosh. Renting some boats. Jesse Waters did the same thing last night. Yeah, my friend got fired. A nice man veteran this and this. Yeah, that's the project that you've signed up for.

And I know you don't want to admit that, but your whole goal is to hurt everybody. But like you realize, oh, some people I know are going to get hurt. That's how it works. And I don't know, maybe you will see that. Yeah, people forgot. But also, there were more guardrails, and it's worse. People reflect, they're like, I know he was unpleasant. And I don't know, ultimately it was a lot of noise,

and did he do anything that bad? That was a question, and it's like, well, I guess that depends on how you wanna look at it. Did your life get measurably worse? This is a different beast, this is a different animal. This is a completely different situation. They had a plan, they published it. And you will get affected.

They had a plan, they tried to distance themselves from it, but it was always the plan. And so, you know, it feels different because doing a bunch of shit that a small percentage of his voters do want. Yeah. You know, and but the but whenever there I hear there was a mandate. No, there wasn't. There was not a mandate for this. Also, again, we'll just keep reiterating this all till I die, I guess guess it's just that he won by fewer votes than he lost in 2020

Yeah, this is not about him having a mandate at all It's not really matter at this point because he's in power and he's there's as we've already established ad nauseam There's not much recourse we have other than our you know Judicial system. Yeah, there's no mandate. It wasn't a majority of the voters. The margin was not that huge. It wasn't like a blowout.

It was a blowout in terms of the electoral college victory, I suppose. But we're already seeing so many people, aside from the tweet literally from the man himself saying I am the law law ostensibly every interview with the president and his weird friends that nobody likes that weird friend says stuff like that like well you know if he represents the will of the people and they voted for that and he's not doing this and this and this and this then then we're not doing the will of the people. And they're combining him with the will of the people and making them one thing and making him the law as well because it's a fascist cult.

And then that's what's at our head. Elon said, next to Trump, I think on Hannity this time or something, where he's like, well, if the executive gets elected and that's the will of the people and then he can't do what he wants Then then that's not a democracy. It's like dude. You are just describing not our Constitution Sorry, bud don't know what to tell you. We got a Constitution and it works this way. It's so It's like really transparent and gross and also like it is a little scary that they keep trying to push this idea that he is

Like the law and above the law and he is the country. And that's just not true. But Elon, he's like up there like, oh, if this doesn't happen, then this isn't democracy. It's a constitutional republic, bro. It's not a democracy. Like isn't that your favorite fucking thing to say to anybody who points out anything about democracy? Not that that matters or will change anything or make anybody pause and think about it. But like, it is frustrating to see that, too, of like, that's not democracy.

Yeah, we have a constitutional republic, which is a form of democracy. And we have these checks and balances to make sure the thing you're doing doesn't happen. Maybe they're not really effective right now. checks and balances to make sure the thing you're doing doesn't happen. Maybe they're not really effective right now. But just depressing myself talking about this. Hey! It's Cody. You know, the news is a lot like the ocean. It ebbs and flows. It's salty. It's filled with monsters beyond our comprehension. And it's a deep, dark, vast abyss of crushing despair from which there is no escape. But listen! I want to tell you about Ground News, which you can find over at ground.news.smn. That's a sponsor we specifically sought out to partner

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Peaceful negotiations with all parties and reasonable actors. Well, they're the aggressors. They shouldn't be involved. Yeah, it's a big party and everyone's invited, but Ukraine. Ukraine is the aggressor, so they shouldn't be involved. The US and Russia have been having negotiations to end the war without Ukraine and Trump has been criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky online and blaming Ukraine for starting the war, which they didn't.

Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago this week, I believe. Trump said you should have never started it. You could have made a deal. He called Zelensky a dictator without elections. And Zelensky did suspend elections while the war is going on. I'm not an expert on everything Ukraine. That's not my wheelhouse.

And you know, elections are very, very, very important. And you're in the middle of a war. I actually don't know how, and he won very overwhelmingly in his last election. I just, I actually don't know the logistics of how you have an election in the middle of a war zone. Suppose it's possible. It just sounds- When your country's invaded.

When your country's been invaded and everyone's dying and it's also a very expensive thing, I don't know. There can be an argument about that, but he's not a dictator and his country was invaded. His country was invaded, his country was invaded. Yeah, also, Trump doesn't care about that. No, thank you, that's actually what I was building to. He doesn't care?

Why are you saying that buddy? Give me a break. What are you talking about? You don't give a shit. He would do that in a heartbeat Yeah, you want to be like, yeah, they should have elections Let's like they should absolutely have elections regardless of any internal domestic thing that we don't like that. So Lansky's doing There's lots of dictators around the world and we don't like topple them, especially we don't like give our support to the bigger actual dictator in Russia Has a bunch of sham elections who is the aggressor in this who's not an ally of the United States?

Although I guess we're gonna I don't know know, we're becoming- Putin is a monstrous person. And there were a bunch of lies that Trump told in his big truth social thing. He said that, well, he said that Zelensky talked the United States into spending 350 billion to go into a war that couldn't be won. And he suggested that he had to talk Biden into giving money one. It's not 350 billion You can go online. It's publicly available Ukraine oversight.gov. I guess we're all lying. We're like The idea that we would lie and say that we've given 183 billion

But you can't say 350 billion that would would be too far for people. And that's the lie? No. You could just go online and see that we have funding totals nearly 183 billion with 130.1 billion obligated and 86.7 billion dispersed. The vast majority of which was appropriated by Congress, which does not care anymore that their authority has been taken away because they're afraid of being shot by Trump supporters. Or Trump himself, because apparently he could do it in the street, no one would care. That'll jam, yeah. Still waiting for that day.

Do you think it'll be Elon on Fifth Avenue? Do you think that's what it's gonna be? That's where it ends? He'll have to sell tickets to that. He finally puts it to the test with his new best friend. I love that in this he's still snuck in. We have a big beautiful ocean of separation. Don't love it. I'm just like the ramblings of this man. He's still a funny monster. Well, what is the strategy? I don't

know what the strategy here is. I don't know how this is. Yeah, he likes Putin and he wants to please him. So he's going to try to give him everything he wants. And he wants to basically push away all of our allies and antagonize them while allying with authoritarians across the world because that's what he is and wants to be. And then he thinks he can get credit for ending the war. I did the thing that Joe Biden couldn't do.

And he'll send out an ASMR war-ending video, whatever it is, and be like, look, I did it. I'm the king, remember? Remember I'm the king? It just is all so upside down that we have a Republican party here that wants to cozy up to Russia. Well, they don't necessarily want to,

but they're gonna and they're gonna let it happen. And they're gonna cheer and they're gonna clap like little seals and they're gonna hope that their king recognizes them and gives them a little treat. There's an article that the New York Times published a little bit ago called In Private Remarks on Russia, Rubio tries to reassure Europeans. There it is. You know, because he has his public thing and he trumpeted quote the incredible opportunities that exist to partner with the Russians But hours later he sought to reassure nervous European allies that the talks did not represent an abrupt departure from American policies

Okay And we believe you because you're not a liar. Why did you say the other thing? Everyone's so nervous. Well, and all of this is also what just happened last week, this weekend. JD Vance, you know, gave a speech in Germany at the Munich Security Conference, saying that the biggest threat to the world and to Europe is mass migration and again, the threat from within. Saying that they should be embracing

the far right wing parties, ones that have a bunch of Holocaust denialism baked in. You are giving this speech in Germany. And I don't know if this is the same speech or a different one at the same time, but basically urging people, I think it's the same speech of, Russia isn't your biggest threat.

Is it wokeness? What was the real enemy? Is it wokeness? Wokeness, wokeness. I don't know if it's wokeness, but essentially that liberalism, migration, the enemy within. Yeah, they're illiberal. They're in a liberal authoritarian party. Again, in Germany.

Yeah. I just cannot believe, I can believe it, but it is hard to accept that this is where we're at. And again, no, just, that was a sick aisle that Elon Musk gave. Oh, well. And can just keep. Katie, no, just that was a sig-hile that Elon Musk gave. And can just keep reminding people of this. No, no, no, it wasn't a sig-hile. It was two sig-hiles. Thank you, two.

I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I misspoke. Let's get our facts straight, please. Anyway, I'm not afraid to admit when I'm wrong, code Wong, wrong. Thank you. Some of the things we say are going to be wrong and they should be corrected immediately. They should be corrected immediately and we will correct them immediately. We'll show the receipts on our...

On our doge. On our own doge. We've got our own doge. We've got our receipts. You can check them all out. They're real. Is it weird that he is using modern slang? Like show the receipts. Like we all intuitively would know what it means But no one said that more than five years ago and now elon's like i'm just like i'm just like you you see Oh, yeah, he's um so unplugged. Uh, like he's desperate to be plugged in. He's all constantly plugged in He's tweeting like what 400 times a day now, but he's so unplugged actually um, and out of the loop it is very Uh, at least there's that at least it is very, at least there's that. At least he's a huge fucking loser.

But it's like. He's a little bit behind on the slang, where he's just like Trump is Bey. I mean, he named it Doge, so it is. My new assistant, Harambe. Like, great man. I think we've done it. I think we've keyboard catted this all the way to the moon.

My Doge worker's on fleek. I hate this part of the show. Yeah, it sucks. I hate him, I hate it. Well, do you guys wanna see another drawing? Here's a picture of me skiing on a black diamond. Look at that. It's just like the video. What we should do is you should show a drawing every week

and then we should read the worst headline behind it. I was gonna say, could we sandwich this? Like show you a little drawing and then I'll mention that the Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st. But look at this drawing. Look, if I move it around like this,

it looks like I'm skiing. It does. It does. I thought you were. Pull placement is important. It is important. You gotta keep your hips straight, even as you're turning. You gotta keep your hips straight,

even if, I was gonna say that. You gotta get those edges dug in. Get the edges dug in. Two more, skip the last. And most of all, two more, skip the last. Bacon is life. Sorry. Sorry.

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