OK, so nothing interesting happened in the land of politics at all.
And I don't I don't really know.
Let's see here.
Can we like and this is probably all outdated from what?
Two days ago that I wrote this.
No, they're still talking about it.
It's all it's all still up to date.
He was talking about it today after Jimmy Carter's funeral.
Oh, God. So yeah.
For those that missed that, all of the living sitting presidents
were all at Jimmy Carter's funeral.
There was a lot of attention paid to some of the video, and we'll get into that later.
But they were all at Jimmy Carter's funeral today.
So Trump was there, Obama, Bush, Clinton, all of them.
So anyway, why don't you talk about what are what are our soon to be
presidents up to this week?
Oh, God, let's see.
Here's so you talked about literally a land grab, a quote.
You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like.
Talked about January 6th making made quote major
pardons to a lot of the people that were facing charges or did face charges on
January 6th because that is what he does.
If you have his back, he has your back.
He called out Hamas, quote, if those hostages aren't back dot, dot, dot.
By the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East.
And it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone.
Yeah, he doubled down on the Panama Canal.
Asked when he was asked directly whether we would rule out using military
or economic corrosion to get the Panama Canal.
He said, quote, no, I can't assure you on either of those two, but I can say this.
We need them for economic security, whatever the hell that means.
Let's see here.
I don't know.
It's just it's a never ending line.
He said that Denmark should give up their control of Greenland
or it would also have to face Steve Tariff's.
He also suggested the people of Greenland should vote for independence
or to join the United States.
He wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.
I don't know.
He said he said, when mills are quote littering our country
and compared them to quote dropping garbage in a field.
I have.
Yeah, there was that.
I don't even know what that means.
Let's hear.
And then also because, you know, Mark,
sucker bag kind of came out and it seems like he tried to suck up to
Daddy Trump and also Daddy Elon.
And.
In case you don't know, they Facebook is getting rid of all fact checkers
on Facebook and Instagram.
So Trump commented on that, saying that, well, Mark has come a long way.
So it looks like he's becoming friends with Mark.
Suckle bag.
And yeah, there's so much.
There's so much garbage.
And he's not even in office yet.
He's not even in office in it.
It's literally the thing that like I heard it.
And I was like, oh, that's funny.
Like that can't be real.
And then you watch the like video and you're like.
And it really kind of seems like he, during the press conference, he was
like, how much shit can I just dump into this one press conference?
And he went on to like make really weird comments about water dripping out of
faucets.
I don't freaking know.
Yeah, I don't know.
What are what are your thoughts on this?
Alex, there's so much to so much to take in here.
So I like to break it into constituent parts.
Right.
Like themes, right?
Mis on Sen, if you will.
OK.
Let's talk about about Palestine real fast.
I heard this quote this week and I think it's it's an apt quote.
Right.
Trump says he's going to make it hell on earth.
And the Palestinians are looking around going.
I'm sorry.
What now?
It can't be worse.
Like, what are you going to do?
That's that's my thing on that particular negotiating tactic that he's using.
What are you going to do?
The Israelis already did it.
It's it's done.
There are no more hospitals in Gaza.
They've moved into the West Bank.
They've they've literally fired shit at Iran, Syria, Lebanon, anybody that got even
a little bit squirrely with them.
OK.
What are you going to do?
Like seriously, so I on the on the Hamas thingy, I'll be honest, I'm not
going to do squat because I think he's a paper tiger and I think that that he's
just going to.
I there's nothing left to do.
That's it.
You've done it.
Right.
OK.
He has 11 days until he takes office.
They're not going to get if anything, the Israelis might just agree to a ceasefire,
just to agree to a ceasefire.
I don't think he's going to do that.
The Israelis might just agree to a ceasefire, just to agree to a ceasefire,
but has nothing to do with him or anything else.
I don't know.
This weird manifest destiny expansionism shit he's on with Panama and Canada and
and Greenland.
One, Canada is still a Commonwealth country.
Like they would have to go through the process of leaving the Commonwealth of the
United Kingdom.
Because they have a monarch right now.
It's King Charles.
He's already there.
Like I don't even know what that process would look like.
Right.
And even the new guy because Trudeau resigned.
Right.
So the guy they think that they leave the conservative party in Canada is like,
no, no, you're not going to take over Canada.
You can keep talking.
No.
No. So.
And again, I honestly don't think the Danes are going to give a Greenland.
But did you see that Don Jr. went to Greenland?
Oh, I did not.
No, yeah, no, yeah.
Don Jr.'s been in Greenland all week doing doing photo ops with whoever he can
con into putting on a MAGA hat.
Okay.
In Greenland.
Yeah.
Panama, I can see him trying some crap.
It is a strategic, important strategic point.
Right.
You don't want to go all the way down around.
It's the only way to go through the panel.
Can now these upgrades, it's actually pretty much shape right now.
It can't handle most of the major super tankers anymore.
It's the ships are too big.
It wasn't designed for them.
None of this has anything to do with the price of eggs.
He's been saying the same shit about windmills for a while.
And of course, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos and all those motherfuckers are
kissing the ring.
That's what they're doing.
That's why he likes Trump likes tick tock now.
Because I'm very popular on tick tock.
They love me over on the tick tocks.
So no, we shouldn't shut down the tick tock.
They should sell to an American company.
By dances and so.
Sorry.
They came out today.
No, Greenland.
Yeah, Greenland will not let themselves be part of the US.
And did you see Denmark's response?
No, I did not.
Yeah.
The prime minister of Denmark said, well, since everything in
America is for sale to include the presidency of the United States,
we'd be happy to buy the United States.
We think with our socialized medicine and our social safety
nets and things like that, we could really transform and make America great.
Not again, just great.
Okay.
I.
I don't know.
Who is putting this shit in his head?
I don't know.
Who is putting this shit in his head?
Because it's not him.
It is the people around him who are feeding him shit.
This is the way it's always been with with with Don.
Okay.
He doesn't come up with these ideas on his own.
Are we sure about that?
Yeah.
Oh, I'm 100 percent sure.
100 percent.
I had a friend who this is before Donnie Boy got into politics.
Please keep mine.
I'm in my 40s.
So, you know, I remember the time when he was just on Celebrity Apprentice
and had stuff.
I had a friend who was on Wall Street when when Trump was trying to
refinance properties.
You know, this is before his political days.
And most of the street wouldn't deal with them.
That's why he ended up going to Deutsche Bank because they were the only
ones they were shady as fuck.
Notice Deutsche Bank was sanctioned for, you know, money.
Money laundering for drug cartels, you know, you know, to deal with him, right?
Because he's nuts.
Yeah.
Somebody's feeding him these ideas.
I don't know who it is.
I don't know if it's Elon or Flynn or who the hell it is.
Yeah.
You do.
Can do you honestly think, Jay, that before a week ago, he spent any amount
of time thinking about the Panama coming out before somebody said, China's using it to him?
Well, I'm not really sure how the lizard people race really think, you know, like,
I don't really know, like, what goes through their minds, like how thoughts are
formed.
But yeah, you know, I could, I could see it.
I could so also kind of like tie in this end to what was that called Project 2025?
Because he had nothing to do with that, right?
That document, that like, no, we're under each garbage.
Yeah, that was the Heritage Foundation.
So someone obviously a group of people came together and did that.
Yeah.
So there are crazy people out there in America, not just the Trump.
The Heritage Foundation put out a similar document before every presidential
election since basically since their inception.
It's usually called like the mandate for leadership or some other goofball fucking
term.
The Heritage Foundation is a bog standard right wing think tank, right?
That's what they do.
And they are one of those think tanks that help funnel people into government.
What the Heritage Foundation figured out after Trump's first term was and Trump
admitted this himself, they didn't know what the hell they were doing.
So what the Heritage Foundation has spent four years doing while Biden was in
office was setting this up.
Project 2025, the biggest thing they did that nobody talked about was they had this
whole website set up for recruitment, right?
They knew they needed to staff the government quickly so they could start
enacting the agenda, right?
Project 2025 actually had disagreements in and of itself because it was a lot of
right wing people trying to decide how far they want to take this, right?
But it's all about staffing and getting the administration into a position to do
the things that the right wing project people want to do, right?
So he had nothing to do with it.
The Heritage Foundation did.
That's why I say he doesn't think up these ideas.
He, somebody's feeding them.
So again, as far as the land grab stuff, like, I don't know, Don, are you ready to
go to war?
Are you ready to go to war?
Like, seriously, like, and I don't think you are.
I don't think you have the stomach for it.
And furthermore, I don't think the American people do right now either.
You want to watch your approval rating drop into the twenties?
Attack Denmark.
What are you going to do?
Invade Canada?
I don't even know what happens when you invade a fellow NATO country.
Yeah, I honestly, I don't know.
Because it's insane and no one would think of doing it except you.
But I don't think you actually want to do it because I think you're a chicken.
Yeah.
He also, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just,
I'm just not the one.
He's American.
Fuck you all.
Workers really suck this guy.
Shit Panda.
Hugs.
Good job.
I, I, I, I just, I, I thought they didn't handle it, Erik.
You did really well for me.
Yeah.
I mean, having, having the American people is a wonderful thing.
And having the American people that's doing it.
Nobody pays NATO.
It's not them paying their bills.
The agreement amongst the NATO countries is that they will spend 2% of their GDP, right?
So for simple sakes, if your GDP is 100 billion, you spend 2 billion.
Each of the NATO countries is supposed to spend 2% of their GDP on defense.
So that in the event that we got to go fight the Soviet empire, everybody's got an army
big enough to contribute to the cause, right?
That's what it is.
It's not about paying NATO.
Now yes, were there European countries that weren't doing that for a long time?
Of course there were, because they were like, fuck it, the United States is doing it and
Russia is not doing shit right now.
So we'd rather spend our money on things like universal health care, housing, taking
care of our people.
God, what would 5% of the US GDP be?
My God.
I mean like fathom what that would be.
Oh, wow.
What is our GDP?
30?
27.36 trillion.
Okay.
So let's pull up a calculator, ladies and gentlemen.
27 trillion, 360 billion times.05.
So what he's talking about is adding another, and we already spend 800 billion a year on
defense.
He's talking about spending another 570 billion, 470 to 570 billion a year on defense.
On what?
And I thought you guys were cutting the budget.
Where's Elon with his $2 trillion worth of cuts?
We're going to need that defense with us like pissing off every country out there.
So do you want the upside?
Because I have an upside for you.
Yeah.
If this is what his next four years is like, none is going to get done.
Yeah.
He will be as ineffective as he was his first term.
His first term, the only thing he did was lower taxes for rich people, balloon the deficit
and screw up COVID.
He basically didn't do anything else.
He was never able to get anything real done.
And I'll be honest with a razor thin majority in the house and a bare majority in the Senate.
I don't know what he's planning on doing.
They're walking back to tariff talk.
They're walking back to deportation talk.
Right.
Because I think that now that they're now the again, it makes for great campaign rhetoric
for the mass deportations day one.
Well, guess what?
Now it's time to govern.
You don't have the bodies.
The manpower to deport every undocumented person in this country.
Right.
And you know how I know it's all BS?
Because when Elon and them, did you see over Christmas when they were fighting about the
H1Bs?
No.
So that like Elon, the tech right and the far right got into this big fight over the
holidays about H1B visas, right?
And all the far right people were like, stop the H1B visa, stop them, stop them, stop them.
And Elon's like, yeah, no, no, we need the H1B visas.
And we're going to do that.
And then it was like, but Donald, what do you think?
And Donald went, talk about it.
I'm on Elon's side.
Right.
And he pissed off the anti-migration right.
He's like, no, we need to reform.
We're not going to get rid of it.
And now the other day, Don came out and was like, I'll work with the Democrats on Dreamers
on the DACA people.
Okay.
But now he's far right.
People are like, wait a minute, you're not supposed to be negotiating with the Democrats
on the Dreamers.
He doesn't really care.
Again, it's great campaign rhetoric.
And I'm sure he'll do something nominal when he comes into office or going to start with
the criminals.
Okay.
Then what?
Start talking to me when you start raiding dairy farms in Iowa.
Okay.
Or processing plants in, you know, Missouri in the States where it's really going to
fuck them up.
That's why I never bought it.
I still didn't vote for the guy.
And I think again, but that's the other reason why I think he's a paper tiger.
Because Don, I think you're a chicken.
Do you remember back to the future three?
Remind me.
So when we're there in the old West.
Yes.
And you remember this like, and you remember how Marty used to get mad about being called
chicken?
Right?
And then he's a yellow-bellied chicken, right?
Don's chicken.
He's coward.
Okay.
And I also don't think, again, he's a good marketer.
He knows what he's doing.
He's got a natural marketing ability.
He knows if he goes to war with Denmark, his approval rate is going to drop into the 20s.
And he can't stand it.
He can't stand it because he wants everybody to love him.
You know, Canada doesn't want to be part of us.
Although I didn't see Nate Silver.
He posed on his Twitter account.
He was like, what states would vote to leave to go to Canada?
I was like, Washington, if you put a ballot initiative on Washington state today and said,
simple majority vote, we go to Canada, we become part of Canada, that shit would pass.
He'll be like dope.
We're out of here.
I mean, there's a lot of upsides.
There's a lot of upsides.
I'm thinking one, the Kraken's might be better.
If we were Canadian, our hockey team would be better.
That's a good point.
That is an excellent point.
If we were Canadian, our hockey team would automatically get better.
That's true.
Oh, God.
A second, Maple Syrup would be cheaper for us because we're Canadians.
Yeah, Maple Syrup would be cheaper.
Lumber would be cheaper because it's for all our stuff, you know.
And we'd have universal health care.
Yeah.
And semi-legal prostitution.
What?
No, yeah.
Yeah, it's like semi-legal there.
What does that mean?
It's decriminalized, but there's very specific ways that it's decriminalized.
It's actually going before their Supreme Court right now.
I was listening to a podcast about it the other day, a news report, because there's
a new case going to the Canadian Supreme Court to try and clarify some of the points on their
rules.
So it is not illegal to sell sex in Canada.
Right?
Yeah.
So if you want to say as a person, I want to sell my body for sex, right?
That is not illegal.
Everything surrounding it is illegal, right?
So if you were to start a service to be like security and drivers for escorts, right?
The act of them being escorts is not illegal, but you being the driver is illegal.
Does that make sense?
So again, it's not illegal to sell, to do the actual act of selling sex, but if you
were in any other way, making any sort of money, there's any sort of business operation
around it, that's illegal.
That's so weird.
That's why it's going back to the Canadian Supreme Court.
So weird.
Okay.
We can, we, and I'm saying we as part of Canada already, we can like, we can, we can
fix that.
Yeah.
It's, it's really strange.
Again, I was listening to a news report about it the other day, and it was like, well, this
is going on in Canada.
I was like, that's, that's neat.
That's so weird.
But I, okay.
You know, like the first, the first thing that popped in my head when you were like, it's
kind of, you know, not illegal anymore, kind of picturing that like loophole that the Mormons
go through where like, if you can like lay on top of each other and have someone shake
the bed or something.
Oh, soaking.
Yeah.
I've heard about that.
It's like, is that what we're talking about?
Nope.
Again, I look, we just, I don't know what's going to take to get past this puritanical
nonsense that these governments want to put into place.
That doesn't work.
But we've come far afield from our original topic, which is the crazy crap our president
let to say, by the way, the Supreme Court arguments about Tik Tok are tomorrow.
They're tomorrow.
So yeah.
So there you go.
It's only going to get crazier from here.
Wrong and acceptable in this one.