Ep. 2428 - Here's What The Future of America Looks Like… If DEMOCRATS Win

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They wouldn't have to resort to this cheating. Okay, so, so again, they're being deprived of the votes. You understand it's all part of the American projects to deprive black people of the vote. Representative Ayanna Presley, the Ringo star of the squad. You never hear her mentioned anymore, which is sad for her. She's a Democrat from Massachusetts. She says that this administration would rather have black Americans pick cotton than pick the president, which is kind of a strange thing to say. I don't feel like that's true. I mean, I think that, actually, that hasn't been the practice in the United States for quite a while last I checked, actually. I mean, I'm unaware of why Anna Presley would think that, but here we go. There are people in this hostile anti-Black administration that would rather black Americans pick cotton than pick the president. Hmm. Hmm. I feel like that's not true. But again, the goal is to ramp up the rhetoric so as to get the vote out for minority voters, for Democrats. I have to say they're not sending their best. The Democrats are not sending their best. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is, of course, the John Lennon of the squad. She's by far the biggest star in the squad. Well, she says that it was only after civil rights that we got the great society. So do you see that the idea here is you're not going to get democratic socialism until you get... mandatory racism by law. That's what she's pushing for. She's pushing for affirmative action programs and forced minority majority districts and all the rest of it. Here she is saying a bunch of dumb things all at once, which is her way. It is not a coincidence and our whole country must understand that it was not until voting rights were ratified in this country that we got the great society. Because when black Americans have the right to vote and that vote is protected, our schools get funded. When voting rights are protected, health care gets expanded. When voting rights are protected, our country moves forward. And Montgomery, that's what they're actually afraid of. They're afraid of us coming together. They're afraid of us protecting one another. Alabama is the crucible. Georgia is the crucible, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi is the crucible. So if you are not from here, it is time to pull up. Because what they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo. It's the opening silo, guys. She means salvo. She does not mean the opening silo. Like what, a grain silo? It's the opening grain silo, guys. She's going to open a grain silo. Or she's going to open the silo, you know, like the show on Apple TV. It's the opening Apple TV silo. By the way, she's totally wrong on the facts. The idea that the Voting Rights Act preceded the Great Society Programs is not true. That is a falsehood. The Great Society programs began in 1964 with things like the Food Stamp Act of 1964 and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. And the Voting Rights Act was, wait for a wait for a minute, 1965. So, yeah, no, she's just wrong about that. Again, it is not to make the case against voting rights. Voting rights are great. I'm very, very glad that black people can vote.

in outsized numbers in the United States as they do, which is why it is so stupid that we keep hearing that black people are somehow not represented in the United States government. That is incredibly dumb. Senator Cory Booker was doing the same thing over the weekend. After all, it was the anniversary of the March on Selma, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge over in Selma. And so Cory Booker showed up with his angry eyes in tow. He popped them in and he got very angry. He got very angry his angry eyes. Because if we in our generation do not now do our duty, we will lose the gains and the rights and the liberties that our ancestors afforded us. Now is our generation's time to prove worthy of the blessings. Now is our generation's time to respond to the assaults. You see, we have seen this before where some people in black robes try to deny or take away our rights. We saw it with Dred Scott. We saw it with Plessy versus Ferguson. We even saw it with Korematsu. But the solution in those days was not to sit back and agonize. It was to stand up and organize and mobilize. Because we still live in a democracy no matter how much they try to undermine it. We still live in a nation where the power of the people is greater than the people in power. I'm just going to point out here that his history is a little flawed once again. So comparing what the Supreme Court has said about the drawing of particular districts in the South in 2006 to Dred Scott, which ruled that under the Constitution black Americans weren't people. That's what Dred Scott says, or Plessy v. Ferguson, which ruled that segregation legal or Korematsu, which argued that Japanese Americans could be interned in times of war. I have a feeling that's not quite the same thing. But again, the goal here is they're all addicted to this Obama program from 2012. And 2008, Barack Obama ran as a broad liberal who's going to bring Americans together without regard for race. And then in 2012, he decided he was going to create a majority minority coalition with some college-educated white ladies. And this was the new majority going forward. Democrats can never let go of it. They will not let go of it. And so they continue to push this forward. We'll get some more on the third worldism of the Democratic Party and what's been happening over in London in a moment. First, running a business is not easy payroll, HR, taxes, compliance insurance, especially. insurance. You got to keep track of, like, lots and lots of policies and logins and vendors. That becomes a full-time administrative job. The reality is most business owners end up juggling multiple brokers, multiple policies, multiple applications, and no real central place where everything actually makes sense. That's what SuperShure is trying to fix. SuperSure is what they call a super agency. One brokerage for your business coverage across key lines backed by licensed agents who work with you year round, not just once a year at renewal time. One of the best things they offer is a tool called Fine Print Fair. which translates insurance policies into plain English so business owners can actually understand what's covered, what isn't, and where potential gaps might exist. Because one of the worst feelings in business is thinking you're protected and then you find out after something goes wrong that you weren't. SuperSure also organizes policies, certificates, and documents in one insurance vault helps reduce redundant applications and gives businesses access to more than 50 carriers and 180 product lines. Right now, you can go to supershure.com and get a full report on your current policies with no obligation. Find out whether you're over-insured.

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not see elements of that as being like a reality, especially in resistance to fascism. We didn't beat the Nazis with smiles. We did beat them with a war. I don't think it's a very controversial statement to tell you the truth. I'm just going to point out that you know what's one way we didn't defeat the Nazis is by getting Nazi tattoos on our chest. or by going on Nazi podcasts. Also not a way that we defeated the Nazis. Listening to Graham Platner talking about defeating the Nazis is like listening to Hasan Piker talk about defeating the communists. What are we talking about right now? But Graham Platner, again, is emblematic of the new Democratic Party, more and more radical. He's out there apologizing for Iraq, apologizing for Afghanistan, and of course blaming everybody else for the fact that he actually joined the United States military voluntarily. Apparently he was bamboozled. He was suckered into it. We destroyed Iraq, and we destroyed Afghanistan. And all the suffering, all the killing, all the dying, all the displacement, all of it was, was, we brought that. We, the United States did that. And it is a, and that I'm ashamed of. I'm just going to point out once again. Iraq was a hellhole tyranny governed by Saddam Hussein before we got there. Their GDP is now multiple times what it was before with all of the problems that Iraq is experiencing. And as for Afghanistan, it turns out that before we got there, the Taliban was running it and head chopping people. And after we left, the Taliban is running it and head chopping people. So things aren't so great in Afghanistan without us there either. But Graham Platner, again, the new Democratic Party, he says. that what we really need to do is we need to basically end America's involvement in the world in order so we can spend the money here at home. And these are some of the dumbest talking points. These talking points drive me up a wall. They are so stupid, but they are part and parcel of the Democrats trying to sell dumb talking points to people because what they really want is weaker America on the world stage. This is actually what they want. So we just spent $50 billion in two months in the war in Iran. And I haven't heard a single question of where it came from. I am always amazed that this nation can just expend billions, trillions of dollars on wars that enrich the military industrial complex. protect people in power, and we never have to have a conversation about where the money came from. But the moment you say that Americans deserve to see housing costs come down or energy costs come down, the moment we have to talk about health care, suddenly we have to pull our pockets out and pretend like we're poppers. What in the world is he talking about? We spend multiple times the amount of money on our social welfare programs that we spend on the United States military. As a percentage of GDP, we've been basically flat in terms of our military spending for many, many years. That is not true of our social spending. But again, this is one of these dumb talking points. The left likes to repeat because what they actually want is a weaker America in the world. Zohran Mamdani is doing the same thing, by the way. Again, Zohran Mamdani Zohran Mamdani, the brand new hero of the Democratic Party. He's now quoting Tupac Shakur on the Iran War.

Again, maybe voters are just dumb who vote for these people. If you're the kind of politician who finds yourself quoting Tupakshakur, I don't even know what to make of you other than you are appealing to idiots. Not because Tupakshakur wasn't a great rapper, but I don't think he was a great political commentator. I just put it out there. I don't think that he had tremendous wisdom when it came to his global view of foreign policy. But here is Mamm Zohran Mamdani, quoting Tupac Shakur's wise advice on the Iraq war. I've made clear my very deep opposition to this war in Iran. It is an opposition not just of a procedural nature or a political nature, but frankly of a moral nature. We are speaking about a war that has killed thousands of civilians, a war that is deeply unpopular across the city and across this country, not just because of what we are seeing it result in, but also because it is utilizing tens of billions of dollars to kill people money that could otherwise be spent on making life easy. for people across the city in this country. You know, I mean, Tupac said it decades ago. It continues to be true about the fact that we always seem to have money for war, but not to feed the poor. And that is not the way that politics should be. That is not what Americans want politics to be. For Zohran Mamdani, obviously, this anti-American involvement in the world is part and parcel of a broader third worldist view in which America and its allies are guilty for literally everything bad that happens on planet Earth. So Zohran Mamdani, remember that time that Zohran Mamdani said in a New York city debate for mayor. He was asked about policies of Israel. He said that. I'm not interested in that because I'm the mayor of New York. I'm not the mayor of the Middle East. Remember he said this? And then he spends pretty much every day just talking about the politics in the Middle East. It really is astonishing. It's pretty much the only thing he truly cares about is sinking America into the mire in honor of Third World peoples who he believes have been victimized in some way. So over the weekend, Zohran Mamdani decided he was going to honor what anti-Israel people and Israel extermination is, who wish to see Israel exterminated, called Nakpa Day. Now, in order to understand what Nakpa day is, you have to understand. Nakpa means disaster in Arabic. It was a term that was originally coined by a Syrian historian to refer to the failure of the Arab countries to destroy Israel in 1948. That's what Nakpa meant. The Nakpa was the failure to destroy Israel. Then... There was an adjutop effort by anti-Israel forces to claim that Nakhba didn't refer to the failure to destroy Israel. It referred instead to the refugee problem that emerged from the war between the Arab states, which remember attacked Israel upon its establishment in 1948 and Israel. And the idea was that was the Nakhba. The Nakhba was the expulsion of Palestinians from Israeli areas. We should be clear, the Israeli Declaration of Independence offered citizenship to Arabs living in Israeli areas, which is why there are 2 million Israeli Arabs today. There are villages directly around Jerusalem, like Abu Ghosh, that have been there since before 1948, Arabic villages, since before 1948, that decided not to pick up arms and fight the Israelis, and they're still there. Weird how that works, because there are no Jews anywhere in the Middle East, because the Arab nations expelled pretty much all of them.

850,000 Jews were expelled in the next decade and a half after the establishment of the state of Israel. Israel took all of them in. In fact, Azam Pasha, the Secretary General of the Arab League, said in early 1948 that Arabs should move out of the areas where battle would take place because, quote, this war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades. The Iraqi Prime Minister at the time called on the Jews to pack their bags and leave while there was still time. And there were broadcasts that went out from Arab leadership, from the Arab League, telling people to leave those areas because there was going to be a war. In any case, Part of the propaganda effort by anti-Israel people is to claim that Israel purposefully expelled some 500,000 Palestinians or more during the 1948 war. And so the mayor of New York, this is why it's important. Otherwise, this is just obscure Middle Eastern history. The reason this is important is because Zohran Mamdani believes that the foundation of the state of Israel was fundamentally illegitimate and he is using his office as mayor of New York in order to push eliminationist rhetoric with regard to Israel. Here was Zohran Mamdani over the weekend. I was nine years old. It was nighttime and my father came into our bedroom and told us, surprisingly, to get on all fours and make our way to the staircase that goes in to the roof. There were no windows on the staircase because bullets had come in through the wood shutters at that stage. And next day, we just took what we could carry and went to my uncle, Hussein's house in Nablos, because there was no fighting in Nablus. The Zionists were, you know, coming into Jerusalem. Nablus, by the way, is located in, wait for it, Judean Samaria, the West Bank, which is in Israel. And it was controlled by Jim Jordan between 1948 and 1967. So again, the only reason this is important is because this is the democratic ideology that has taken the front, is an ideology that says that the West is guilty for every single thing in the world. And that domestically, America needs to believe that racism has won the day and the only solve is democratic socialism. That is the way the Democratic Party is moving. In just a second, we'll get into what the UK is looking like this weekend, because the future of America looks like that if the Democrats win. Plus, we'll get to Iran and China and Cuba and all the rest first. The reality is most Americans don't eat enough fruits and veggies. That's just true. Everybody knows we should eat better. Everybody has plans to become the kind of person who's juicing kale at 5.30 in the morning. And then there's actual life. You're traveling, working, grabbing food on the run, eating whatever's available between meetings or kids' activities. Suddenly your balanced diet consists primarily of caffeine and convenience food. That's one of the reasons I like balance of nature. Balance of nature takes whole food ingredients from fruits and veggies and uses a special vacuum cold process to stabilize the naturally occurring phytonutrients. The ingredients are then powdered and encapsulated, making it easy to supplement your diet with real whole food ingredients. The goal isn't to replace eating fruits and veggies, it's to help supplement.

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That kind of hatred totally fine. That's a crowd singing it, by the way, at the Nakhba March. Also, Nakhba Day protests screams for Intifada revolution. Intifada would be an armed uprising. That's what Intifada means. This kind of stuff, totally okay, according to Keir Starmer. The real threat is the Unite the Kingdom March that oppose this stuff. It's a very, very large crowd. calling for armed uprisings and revolution. One of the speakers on the stage suggested that actually Great Britain had planted the Zionist cancer, as though Jewish presence in the Middle East is solely due to Great Britain, which would come as a surprise to, you know, all of Jewish history. But okay. Here in the capital of the country that planted the Zionist cancer, that hundreds of thousands would march in solidarity with them. Never would they have imagined that people from all corners of the globe in their hundreds of thousands, no, in their millions, would march in solidarity with them. From every corner, people of all walks of life, of all religions and none, opened their eyes to the evils of Zionism and decided to take a stand. And for that, the Palestinian people thank you. The UK government imported all of this. They imported all of this. This is the future that Democratic Party wants, a socialized medicine, socialized healthcare, socialized everything system. They want an open borders, green revolution. They would like to look like the UK. So if you look at London and you think that's being governed well, then wait until Democrats have charge again. They will do it. This is a thing they want. And pretending that away is not going to make it go away. So I know there's a lot of people in the Republican Party these days who have heartburn over things that they don't like about President Trump. There are a lot of Americans who are independents who are thinking, well, you know, the Democrats, maybe they won't be that bad. I would just like you to look across the water and see what this will become. Zohran Mamdani Mamzani and the mayor and city con, the mayor of London, the same. They have the same ideology. They have the same belief system. If you want to see what is happening in London happen more broadly in the United States, then please give Democrats power. If not, maybe we should have some second thoughts. Meanwhile, when it comes to Iran, it turns out that once again, the Iranians are not going to just give up the ghost and hand over their nuclear program. That always seemed far-fetched to me. According to Iran International, the United States had set five conditions in response to Iran's current proposals, including no payments of damages and the transfer of 400 kilograms of uranium. Iran apparently instead is saying that they want a cessation of all violence on all fronts, the lifting of sanctions, the release of all frozen funds, compensation for war damages, and recognition of Iran's sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. So it's a non-starter. It's a non-starter. But the actual harsh reality is beginning to sink in in Iran. Their economy is in serious trouble. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Miod Maliki. writes, multiple officials have now openly acknowledged Iran's structural gasoline deficit, war-damaged energy infrastructure, and the urgent need for consumption management. Fuel shortages and tightened rationing are pushing drivers across the country into a rapidly growing gasoline black market. Citizens are describing hours-long lines at filling stations and sharply inflated under the table prices. A clear sign the official quota system is breaking down on the ground. Iranian crude exports have collapsed by more than 80 percent between mid-March and late April.

measured against a March baseline of 23.4 million barrels. Again, Iran is in trouble. And the only thing that Iran can do right now is try to rally all of those members of the left, all of the people on the left in the United States and the horseshoe right, all of the people protesting in London to their support. It is just third worldism. It's third worldists unite. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is the head of the Iranian parliament, which is a fake organization in the first place, he tweeted out the world stands at the cusp of new order. As President Xi Jinping said, the transformation unseen in a century is accelerating across the globe, and I emphasize that the Iranian nation's 70-day resistance has accelerated this transformation. The future belongs to the global south. He's trying to make common cause of China. trying to make common cause with the Russians, obviously, and obviously trying to unite the third world. This is not the first time we have seen this sort of tactic happen. This happened also in the aftermath of the 1967-6-day war when the Soviet Union decided to promote third-worldism as an alternative to Arab countries who are thinking about uniting with the United States. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Pazeshkin, who is the president of Iran, he praised Iran's communications and IT services on World Communication Day. We should note at this point that Iran is on day 79 of its internet blackout. So things are not going particularly well for the Iranians. There is the possibility that this war goes kinetic sometime in the near future again. Obviously, that's up to the president. Right now, this blockade is doing terrible harm to the Iranian economy. They are going to have to cap wells soon. They're going to have to take... refineries offline because they just do not have any place to put all of the oil that they have since it's not going out anywhere. But, as I've said before, the real solution here would be to reopen the Strait of Hormuz through force and bomb Iran's oil facilities, defenestrating their economy and making it impossible for the regime to recover in the near mid or far term. That is what Iran is risking right now. And the president of the United States keeps saying that over and over at a certain point. He will run out of patience. The president of the United States went on truth social over the weekend and put out a statement to that effect. He said, quote, for Iran, the clock is ticking and they better get moving fast or there won't be anything left of them. Time is of the essence. Well, we'll find out in short order. When it comes to China, The president has taken an awful lot of measures, as I've pointed out, to basically cut off the tentacles of Chinese power. That's what Venezuela is largely about. It's what Cuba, as we'll get to, is about. It is also what the closing of the Iranian shipments from the Strait of Formoos is about. Zenebara Boy of Hudson Institute points out that the president has made a number of strategic moves to box in the Chinese, ranging from the building of AI infrastructure in the UAE to... maximizing U.S. India trade with an LNG deal to U.S. government industrial enclaves in the Philippines. The president has always seen China as a serious geopolitical enemy. Now, with that said, the president does want to reshore key resources for the United States. That includes, for example, the production of sophisticated microchips. The president, I'm not sure I love his language here with regard to Taiwan.

But obviously, it is in the United States' interest not to be totally reliant on Taiwanese microchip manufacturing at this point, considering how vital those supplies are to pretty much everything in our economy. Here is the president over the weekend. If you look at the history of Taiwan, Taiwan was... developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. Because if they would have put tariffs on chips coming in, they would have never left. Everything was about Intel and everything was about our chip companies. They stole our chip industry. So I've said that for years. I said, you know, for years, they stole our chip. If we would have had one of our presidents just said, we're going to say, We're going to put 100% chip. You can leave. You can build in Taiwan, but you sell it back into the United States. We're going to put 100% or a 200% tariff. We would have never lost the chip. We lost the chip industry. It's all coming back. So that should not be a reason for us to give up Taiwan to the Chinese. But it is good, of course, that the United States is making our resources safer, obviously, so long as we are not. basically giving a green light to the Chinese. The truth is it's not just about Taiwan. The Taiwan straight is a bottleneck when it comes to shipping supply that we cannot allow China to drive control over. Other areas where China has an interest that may be on their last legs, Cuba obviously is on the menu. A report from Axio says that Cuba has now acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. military vessels and possibly even Key West, which of course is in Florida. The intelligence shows the degree to which the Trump administration sees Cuba as a threat because of developments in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisors in Havana. According to U.S. officials, Cuba has been acquiring attack drones of varying capabilities from Russia and Iran since 2023 and has actually stashed them in strategic locations across the island. And they are working with the Chinese in order to facilitate all of this. Cuba may be on its last legs. That doesn't mean that they are not dangerous. I do want to give a shout out to producer Savvy, by the way. She has a fantastic piece over at Daily Wire that everybody should read all about growing up as a Cuban American talking about being raised by Cuban exile parents. She writes about what it means for the left to take over in America. She said that her grandparents, for example, watched in anguish when Barack Obama was elected president, quote, my abuelo Ernesto was tapping his foot uncontrollably. My abuela Norma had one tear lightly streaming down her face. Then she leaned over to me and said something I will never forget. That sounds exactly like Fidel Castro. I thought she was absolutely insane. Socialism does not arrive all at once. It keeps in through rhetoric that reshapes how people think about success, fairness, and their own country. Go check out the piece over at Daily Wire.

Now, speaking of anti-market forces, left-wing billionaires, according to reporting at the Daily Wire, are now funding groups attempting to cripple AI infrastructures. We've been talking about on the program. The AI race is imperative for the United States. It's imperative for our economy, and it's also imperative for our military. If we lose to China, we just become more dependent on their supply and manufacture, and their military makes leaps and bounds beyond our own. We cannot lose the AI race. And as far as the notion that AI is going to cripple the United States economy, that is absolutely untrue. We are beginning to see, by the way, the gains in American productivity, materializing in actual profit margins for places like Anthropic. According to the Daily Wire, a report from the American Energy Institute found the anti-AI data center movement, which has been billed as organic, received more than $39 million in funding from left-wing foreign billionaire donors, among the major donors. Our Swiss billionaire Hans Jorg Bari Weiss, known for donating to left-wing advocacy groups, as well as a major fiscal sponsor in dark money hub for liberal causes. Top recipients for those $40 million are indivisible $350.org oil change international, Gaia and the Sierra Club. So again, left-wing billionaires from abroad are using America's openness to turn against. the things that actually make America more innovative. And it has a bleed down effect. I've said this a thousand times. I'll say it a thousand more. There are a lot of people, my age and above, who think of the online world is unreal, because it is. And I've said, go touch grass, go talk with real people. The problem is for young people, online is real. They spend a massive amount of time interfacing with, in many cases, bots, in some cases, people who they've never met. experiencing things that they really don't experience in real life, and developing thought patterns that are totally at odds with reality. This is how you end up with a university commencement speaker being booed for making pro-AI comments over at the University of Central Florida. And if this is any indicator of where we go economically in the United States, we got a problem. The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.

What happened? Okay, I struck a chord. Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives. Okay, so people cheering the idea that AI is bad. I promise you every one of those students is using AI to get their information about AI. It's pretty impressive how brains can be captured this way. Now, this is not to say that there aren't risks to AI. Anthropics CEO Dario Amodi says that we could have high GDP growth and also high unemployment. My view is the signature of this technology is it's going to take us to a world where we have very high GDP growth and potentially also very high unemployment and inequality. Now that's not a combination we've almost ever seen before, right? You think of it as high GDP growth, that's lots of stuff to do, lots of jobs for everyone. It's always been like that in the past. We've never had a technology that's this... disruptive. So the idea that we could have 5 or 10% GDP growth, but also, you know, 10% unemployment, it's not logically inconsistent at all. It's just never happened that way before. Now, again, I think he's wrong. I think that AI is going to cause temporary dislocation in the job markets, but it is going to open up way more ways for you to do your job than ever before. You might not have to work as many hours because you're more productive in the hours that you are working. Secretary Doug Burgum, the U.S. Interior Secretary, I think, says this well. He says, we are now converting electricity into intelligence, which again, if you said to everybody on Earth, we can make you 15 IQ points smarter today. Would that be a bad thing or a good thing? You would imagine that would be a pretty good thing. That's essentially what AI is doing. You're actually manufacturing intelligence for the first time. You could turn electricity, turn it into light, like these bright lights that are facing us. They're very bright, by the way. That's right. And we, or, you know, heat. I mean, that's a miracle. I mean, thank you. You know, Edison, Tesla, Benjamin Netanyahu Franklin. I mean, thank you for harnessing electricity. But now for the first time in our lifetimes in history, human history, you could convert electricity into intelligence. That changes everything. Now, the administration is doing good work in tamping down some of the concerns about AI. So, for example, the White House has pushed in March of 2026 the so-called ratepayer protection pledge in which he called on leading U.S. hyperscalers and AI companies to build, bring, or buy all the energy necessary for building and operating data centers and pay the full cost of their energy and infrastructure no matter what.

And that is good because obviously we don't want to tax everybody else with higher power prices because the data centers are eating too much power. It turns out actually the biggest price disruption we saw last year occurred when a data center went off the grid and that overtaxed the regime. The truth also is that it really isn't about AI data sensors, energy pricing. It is that red states just regulate energy far less than blue states. Here's a chart. of median residential electricity rates in red states versus blue states. Look at those blue states. I mean, just skyrocketing since 2021, just up and up and up. And as for the argument that data centers are going to disproportionately consume water, we should look at what actually disproportionately consumes water in the United States. It turns out the answer is, wait for it, wait for it, almonds. almonds consume enormous amount of water. By the way, many of the people who are very much against the water usage for data centers are very much in favor of the almond growing because it's agricultural in nature. And an enormous amount of the anger at AI is being driven either by people who are anti-capitalism or by people who actually have an interest in America losing the AI race, which is why you are seeing... the Singham projects of the world funding enormous anti-AI propaganda. Okay, back to politics. So the big political story over the weekend, Bill Cassidy, the senator from Louisiana, lost his Senate primary. According to Politico, Bill Cassidy is the first previously elected senator of either party to lose in a primary since 2012. Now, he was defeated. He didn't even make the runoff. He finished third in the actual election. President Trump had loudly opposed him. His two rivals benefited from the fact that Bill Cassidy voted in 2021 to convict President Trump on impeachment charges related to that January 6th insurrection. It was really about that. He also opposed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary rhetorically. He ended up, I believe, voting for him in the end. He may voted against him, but I think he voted against Casey Means. In any case, Bill Cassidy crossed swords with the president won too many time, and the president really ripped him. It was really more about the impeachment. Impeachment came to be seen as a sort of litmus test on whether you were an effective Republican or whether you just wanted to win some brownie points with the left. I am amused that some Democrats are now claiming that they love Bill Cassidy, Pete Buttigieg, who is playing now in the movie bearded Pete Buttigieg. Pete Buttigieg 2.0, the same but slightly more masculine. He now says that Bill Cassidy was a normal, honest Republican, and we like him now. One of my favorite games the Democrats play is when suddenly Republicans, who they hated for years, become good. so that they can contrast them with other Republicans. It's the whole Mitt Romney. Man, I miss Mitt Romney after they destroyed Mitt Romney. Here's Pete Buttigieg, doing the usual routine. My experience, Bill Cassidy is a normal, honest, and very conservative Republican. And it turns out people like that have less and less of a home in Donald Trump's Republican Party. Well, I mean, one could say that perhaps your own party has basically thrown out anyone who is purportedly moderate.

Bill Cassidy on his way out mocked President Trump's election take in 2020. I've been able to participate in democracy. And when you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn't turn out the way you wanted to. But you don't pout. You don't whine. You don't claim the election was stolen. You don't find a reason why. Now, again, I have a lot of sympathy for Bill Cassidy continuing to claim correctly that the election of 2020 was not stolen like through voter fraud or whatever. It also happens to be the case that if you vote for the impeachment of the president of your party, it is probably not going to go well for you. Well, we'll see the extent of the president's reach. She's going after a wide variety of Republicans who have crossed him at this point. That includes Thomas Massie, the wayward congressman from Kentucky, who spends most of his time ripping the president's foreign policy and making time with rather unpleasant people in the podcast sphere. The president put out a statement, Tom Assy of Kentucky, the worst and most unreliable Republican congressman in the history of our country, is an even bigger insult to our nation than Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who suffered on unprecedented loss tonight by not even being allowed to run in the Republican primary. This is the first time such a thing has ever happened to a sitting U.S. Senator. That's what you got. by voting to impeach an innocent man, especially one who made it possible for Bill Cassidy's Senate win. Very disloyal, but Thomas Massie, a major sleaze bag is even worse. Kentucky, get this loser out of politics in Tuesday's election. His nickname Rand Paul., another real beauty because it was absolutely terrible voting habits. Vote for Ed Galrine, a successful Kentucky farmer and American war hero who only ran because he thought Thomas Massie was so disloyal and disrespectful to your president me. By the way, we should point out that Thomas Massie's been running ads in his district trying to claim he's an ally of President Trump while President Trump dunks on him. President Trump says, this is a great man in Gal Rhine Central Casting, in fact, who truly deserves to represent the fantastic people of Kentucky at Commonwealth. I am proud to have won all three times in record fashion. Ed will never let you down. Make America great again. This House primary battle is drawing tons and tons of spending. It has drawn almost $26 million in TV, radio, and digital advertising. Thomas Massie's campaign has outspent Galrines, 5.8 million to 2.6 million, but Super PACs heavily favor Galrine at this point. Again, it'll be fascinating to see what happens in Tuesday's primary in Kentucky. All righty, over to culture. So I have to say, the funniest moment of the weekend came when clavicular. You remember clavicular? That's this young streamer who has been a lot in the headlines for almost overdosing on drugs and smashing himself in the face of the hammer and suggesting that Gavin Newsom would mug JD Vance. Mogg means to apparently defeat someone visually. Well, he had an unfortunate experience over the weekend. No, not that he had to show up in court for shooting a dead alligator.

which is a thing he had to show up in court for in Florida. No, he had the unfortunate experience of being mugged himself. See, the problem with being a look smackser is that like an old school Western gunfighter, except significantly more gay, you might run up against a faster gunfighter who is less gay but also more handsome. And that apparently is what happened to clavicular over the weekend. And it would take a heart of stone not to laugh. Here's what it looked like. Social media streamers accused of firing a gun in the Everglades during a live stream. They have now pleaded no contests to the charges. Andrew Morales, known online as Cuban Tarzan and Bradham Peters, who goes by clavicular. They were each charged with unlawful discharge of a fire on a public place. This case stems from a March live stream that appeared to show a dead alligator being shot in the Everglades. As part of their sentence, both men received six months. The internet went crazy over the judge because the judge appears to be better looking than clavicular. So, man, must be hard to be frame-mogged consistently by the people who are out to get you. Climicular, having a rough time of it. Well, over the weekend, Chelsea Handler also decided to sound off on politics. She's going after Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles with her usual brand of bizarre non-comedy. Oh, hi, if you're seeing this video, this is a reminder that a straight white male former reality star that has no previous experience in government should not be a legitimate political candidate. Have we learned anything yet? The bar is on the floor, people, and I need you to jump over it. Okay, thank you. Have a nice day. She seems pleasant. And somehow even less pleasant when she's drunk. That's a thing. I will bring you what was the most pleasant story of the weekend. The most pleasant story of the weekend is ironic. So remember that New York Magazine piece that we talked about on Friday of last week? Well, it turns out that the writer of that piece is now under investigation for, wait for it, plagiarism. Oh no. It turns out that NPR found at least two other instances in which the writer, Ross Barkin, apparently pulled partial paragraphs from other stories that appeared in the publications The Intercept and Compact magazine. Hmm. Well, isn't that sad after he plagiarized a piece about the downfall of the Daily Wire from the Washington Post. You know, karma. Over the weekend, Bill Maher on his HBO show gave a tremendous monologue on anti-Semitism, specifically ripping the Democratic Party for its embrace of anti-Semitism. It's worth noting. Here's what it sounded like. Now, it's everyone's right in a free country to be anti-Semitic, but enough with hiding behind Israel or Zionism or Benjamin Netanyahu. If you think, as so many do now, that when it comes to human rights, Israel is the monster country of all time, you either don't read or you don't care about your own hypocrisy. Because there are so many worse places. But that's where we are these days. No Jews, no news. Okay, so he went off, and he went off on the Democratic Party specifically, which I have to say, Megyn Kelly, ooh, got to hunt those clicks. Girl, go get them. Woo!

She put out a tweet, he's such a hypocrite, anti-woke warrior, except when it comes to the one identity he shares, and then he's full BLM 2020. Well, no, actually. BLM claims that the entire system is rigged against black people. Bill Maher is claiming that the Democratic Party has gone heavily anti-Semitic because it has. And also that there are people on the right who have been promoting that anti-Semitism, which they also have. But I guess if you string words together in something that appears semi-coherent fashion and you invoke BLM, then that makes you... you know, girl power or some such. All righty, folks, the show continues for our members right now. We'll jump into the mailbag and answer some of your questions. Remember, in order to watch, you have to be a member. If you're not a member, become one. And use Coachapiro Checkout for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us.