Ep. #724: Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Stephen A. Smith, Laura Coates

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All right. Thank you. I know why you're happy. Trump says there is a way out of Iran. Unfortunately, it's through the airport.

“That's just, oh, I'm here. Anybody here out to come through the airport to woo, it's easier to get through the straight or her moves than the airport, each day or so.”

And you know, this impasse that has been going on since January 31st, as when this bullshit started, you know,

the funding of the TSA. I always, everything in this country is a hostage situation. Every side's like, the dog gets it.

And once you do what we say on this or the note to TSA, they're going to do this. So the latest planning, Trump had this week that just send ice to the airport. Okay, forgetting that ice does not perform any sort of task that would be alleviating the actual problem there. So it's just more people standing around. Plan B was just send to every airport, 100 raccoons. That was... But finally, today, Trump signed an executive order. Don't know why you couldn't have done that five weeks ago.

And that will pay the TSA, and you didn't have them been paid since Valentine's Day. You know, it's not good when people with no money work in a place where water is $6 a bottle. Okay. So, but finally, some good news. Listen, gentlemen, Donald Trump is getting the America First Award.

I'm not, no, maybe you never heard of it because they just made it up.

But it is a real thing, and he's getting it. Mike Johnson says we'll be given annually two Donald Trump. But speaking of awards, I'm finally getting one. Yeah, there was a lot of... I don't know what's asked for me to explain what was going on because a lot of back and forth about this.

It's an award given at the Kennedy Center, but of course, that is now the Trump Kennedy Center. So, I was going to get it, and then Friday, Trump's...

Both his spokespeople come out and said, "Fake news, Bill Mars never getting it."

We have reached a compromise. Okay? And the compromise is, I am going to get it, and then I'm going to give it to him. [ Laughter and applause ] Everybody's happy. I'm just one thing to work out, and also, I say thank you. Okay, I'm not looking for a fight, and I'm not mad that he did this.

You know what, me and the President, we have a complicated relationship. Goes back to the orangutan lawsuit. You know, this is going on a long time, so him trying to block me from getting it.

“I respect the move. I respect them, keep the game going, baby. Okay?”

I'm all about engagement, disengagement, get you nothing.

and I'm a lightweight ratings bluser, get it off your chest, big man.

“Okay? I'm totally fine with it. I was proud of these last insults you gave me.”

I added them to the list of its insults that I brought to the White House, that he signed racistly when I was there. Yeah? So I would just like to say, as a low ratings lightweight, and a rather dumb guy, and a pathetic bloated sleazebag, a dummy, a terrible student, a nervous-failing comedian,

and someone who was sick and sane, very sad, totally shot in a crazy maniac. I am honored to accept the Mark Twain. Thank you very much, and I will be there, John, and I hope you will be, too. I mean, the place is named after you now. You really should show up. You could show up. You could thank me in person for being one of the few people on the Lutetick

“Left, who's glad you hit Iran, and is hoping we win that one. Okay?”

So, oh, the war, the war, you know, all wars are foggy, but this one's very foggy. Trump says, boy, this is interesting, and he says they're in talks with the Iranians, and the Iranians say they're not talking at all. It's a real, he said, she has said. Instead of this, Trump's quote, he said, they want to make a deal so badly.

And Iranian, the negotiator, he said, "Our first and last word has always been that someone

like us will never come to terms with someone like you, not now, not ever." That doesn't sound just like a no. That sounds like a Taylor Swift. We are never, ever, ever getting back together enough. The Trump gave an absolute deadline today about the straighter promotes. He said, "You, they're open that else, or else, and Iran picked or else." And then he extended the deadline to April 6. And then he said, "Okay, if you don't do it,

we're going to blow up your electrical grid, and then they didn't move on that, and so he extended that to April 17." He's kind of like that dad in the car who says, "You don't make me turn this thing

around, because... And then, never does, you know, it's... And listen to this. Last week, we found

how this could be a gold Trump coin. Now, he's putting his signature on the currency, which the treasury secretary's always had forever in this country. And I don't know about this, because whenever Trump named stuff after himself, it never really works out. I mean, you think about the Atlantic City, you can see, you know, it's Trump University, Don Jr. All right, nice kids. All right, we got a great toast to you today Smith,

but we're closer here. Well, first up, he's a former CIA analyst in coming on, especially when now serves as a Democratic Senator for Michigan. Senator, let's us lock it in here. All right. How you doing? Good to see you again. Oh, you love all of you. All right. All right. Did you get out here, okay, with the airlines? I did. We had a 2 a.m. vote yesterday, and then got on a plane this morning.

Wow. Thank you very much. And the airport was okay. The airport was good. Wait, we saw, I saw some of the ice officers. They were actually moving packages, Amazon packages when I saw them, but it was moving well. And I, I think, I think we want, you know, we want TSA paid. So that was the point of the two a.m. I see such a Swiss army knife, right? What can they do? What's my question? Police are streets. The way we want them to be police.

“Well, that's the, yeah, that's the whole skipping point, right? But that's what I just mentioned there.”

It seems like every problem that we used to be able to solve, like adult, is a hostage situation. Does it strike you that way that everything is like, unless we get everything we want? Because Trump, I'm the anti here at 1.2. Okay. I'm not doing this unless you also throw in the trans issue. Yeah. Trans. All right. I think, I think, like, I don't think it takes a, you know, a genius to understand that we are like ill as a country. We're not functioning the way we feel

most Americans feel proud of our political system. And it used to be that, you know, you would argue

get a deal. And that has become, I've been a senator now for a year and change. And that is just

not the way it's functioning. And I don't, again, I'm from Michigan. We are a practical people. And I don't, 80% of the people that I talk to cannot stand the way politicians are representing themselves right now, period. Well, I see even in the conservative press this week, people who, you know, we have the California post out here now, so they kind of keep that liberals honest. And they're usually, you know, I got their head way up Trump says.

Even they are on to this story about irregular trading that's going on. What is your feeling about that? I mean, they're using words like curious in that a curious, because like a couple of minutes before Trump makes some pronouncement, people will be trading and making

“enormous money. This is on the war in Iran and where oil is going. What is your make of this?”

I mean, I just dropped a bill yesterday on prediction markets and that no one in the government, whether you're a career government person or a political appointee like the president is kids, anybody. No one should be able to place a bet, because on insider information they have, on especially on issues of war and peace. And so what we know from the, I mean, it's a simple, but just a political perspective, you know, you would, you would have people

before we went into Venezuela. You had a bunch of people get online anonymously and go under the prediction markets and say, I bet we're going to have some military action in Venezuela tomorrow and made a ton of money, same thing ahead of the Iran war. And these are people we can assume who have insider information that we're launching military operations. Number one, that's insider trading. Number two, it's also a complete operational security risk. If you're the Iranians

and you're sitting there and you're like, huh, I noticed there's a bunch of bets coming in for a war tomorrow. It's like, oh, shit, I think we're about to have a war. So I think that's a bad thing whole round. So what do you do about it? In the past when Trump has done stuff like this, I'm thinking of the first impeachment over Ukraine and, you know, plainly, it was things that

“you should not have been doing, but that didn't really work and then they took them to court.”

A number of times when he was out of office, that didn't seem to work. Robert Mueller, died last week and somebody wrote a column in the basic idea was, you know, you guys, you put your

energy into these impeachments and court rulings and that's never going to work. You got to win

this at the ballot box. So for something like this, do you take this to the level of impeachment, do you take this to the courts? Well, I think I think they're, we are going to have to grapple with the unbelievable corruption that is coming out of this administration. I mean, the president just has kids alone have earned a billion dollars since he became president. So we're going to have to grapple with that, but the bigger question for us as Americans is it turns out a lot of the

things we thought were laws, we thought were real rules, we're actually just kind of traditions, right? We had presidents who just, they would feel ashamed if they got involved in business dealings in the middle of their administration and there, there just wasn't real law there.

“So I think no matter what, whether you're a Democrat or a public end, we're going to have to”

take a hard look at how some of those traditions that were based on good behavior actually need to become law with real teeth. Well, good luck getting the Republicans to sign on to that, though. Well, you know, it will be interesting right now. I mean, a lot of my peers really just like salute whatever the president tells them to do. They've sort of seated their power as a separate

branch of government. It's amazing. No, it's amazing. Oh, I agree. I'm just saying it's curious to me.

I mean, both parties do it to a degree. I feel like there was one viewpoint that came out after he started this war with Iran. I mean, there's one guy, John Federman, who I can think of, who was descended from the Democratic Party line. Is that really the case that really there's only one person in the whole party who thinks differently? You're all miraculously came to the exact same conclusion. No, I'm not Iran. I think it's different than that because, you know,

I'm someone I'm a former CIA officer. I think three tours in Iraq. And so I have no love loss for the Iranians. I mean, the Iranian leadership, you know, killed friends of minds with rockets and mortars and IEDs. But that's different from just running headlong into a war without being able to articulate your goals and how you're going to get out of it. That's the Democratic talking point. I hear

did it or not. And then he did it and they just kept saying it even though they did say many times.

“Okay, we found out that there are very close to the bomb. I mean, that's what came out in”

the negotiations. That they were bragging that they were weeks away from having enough to make 11 bombs. That's pretty clear. But look, I can say very openly, as a national security person, we have for sure degraded their nuclear capabilities, for sure degraded their ballistic missile capabilities. Important things in terms of the Iranian government. But until the Strait of Hormuz is open, you literally just can't say that we've won this war when another country

has a veto over what ship goes in and out. So I don't think it's a month old. It's a month old, but we're sending in ground troops into that theater. We're not there yet, but yeah. Well, they're

moving into, they're not on the ground yet, yes. Okay, but he's announced that they're going.

So I think, and I'm not saying he's going to use ground troops, but I'm just saying, like, look, Saddam Hussein was a horrible guy, right? Muse chemical weapons on his people, just murderous for years and years and years. So there's no love lost for Saddam Hussein. That doesn't mean that Americans feel great after we got bogged down for years and years and years in the Iraq war. It's not a lot to ask whether you're a Democrat or a Republican

for a plan when we're just coming off of 20 years of being bogged down in the war. But the difference we're in Iraq is they were absolutely no threat. We absolutely attack a country that nothing to do with 9/11. Yes, because we had this idea of planting a democracy in the middle of the middle of the middle. No, no, I'm sorry, at the time it was that they had WMD. Remember, it was they, they were, they could threaten us. I mean, it would turn out not to be true. Fair, but they just

wanted to do it. They excuse, right, the reason. Right. But Iran has been attacking the West for a long

time, including the ally that is our most important ally in the world and that is Israel.

“It's not NATO. Again, you're not going to get me this to put love on the Iranian government, right?”

I've seen that all up and close myself. But I don't, again, I just feel like, especially as someone who served three tours over in Iraq, it's just not hard and it is totally fair to ask for a plan and to know that we are better in America, what we do, shot like shock and awe, hardcore, quickly, rather than get us bogged down like long term. We just, as a nation, nation building is not our strength, the law. And, and he would lose me in two seconds on this, it would be

started doing that. I don't think he, well, I think he's, he's, look, he's the kind of guy who will definitely abandon you. And that might be a good thing in this one. I mean, I don't want to abandon the Iraqi people and of the Iranian people and I wanted to ask you as the CIA analyst, are you surprised that the uprising hasn't happened yet and did you think it would? Do you think it might? I mean, look, my entire life, the Iranian people have been under the thumb of an Iatola

and not, they've had periodic moments where they've really done brave things, but they haven't really pushed it all the way through. The Iranian government has a, has a tight grip on that place and now we've replaced one Iatola with another Iatola. So I just think the Iranian people are just kind of waiting to see what happens. I don't think any Middle East specialists would tell you that if we went in, they would automatically just rise up and overthrow their own government.

Okay. Well, it's realized the way of surprising you. We're stuffed, they're doing behind the scenes. We'll see if any pages will open. In the meantime, though, I mean, I have to say one of the last things I saw when I left Michigan a week ago was a 90-minute line outside of Costco for gas, right? I mean, the American people are feeling the impacts of this war. Many, many miles away and that's a very real, real thing for people. I mean, the Democrats could have a whole good slogan about,

hey, you're getting rich from the war and we're paying more at the pump. Yeah, I mean, that would work, wouldn't it? Well, it, you know, well, how I know you won't do it. It's simple and easy and concrete. You're not going to get me to defend democratic messaging. That's not going to be ever something that I'm going to defend that that's part of the problem and why we lost the

“last election and we can have a whole autopsy about that. I think for me what is important going”

forward, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, is like the American people, they're telling us something. They want something different out of their government. They want, like, they want some alpha energy from their leaders. And they certainly, whether you agree with them or not, are getting that from some of the Republicans. And my plea to my own parties, like, can we have a little bit more alpha energy, punch and believe in what we believe in and show people that we

been a struggle. And I'm here to be a part of that change. You could want to present for me on that one.

“Thank you very much. I appreciate you making this riff by now. What an easy.”

All right, let's hear our panel. All right. All right. All right. He had me with that last speech. All right, he is the host of straight shooter with Stephen A. And the Stephen A Smith show on Terry's XM and YouTube. Stephen A Smith is over there. And she is seeing a chief legal analyst in author of Laura Coat's Live Erring Weeknight on CNN. Laura Coat's scratch on this. Okay. I hope it wasn't a mayor for YouTube to get here. Was it airports and so forth? We okay? I'm good. Okay. All right.

Because it seems to be such a primer in the dysfunction of the way this country works, this whole mess. I mean, you could start with Biden and the Democrats for reasons unknown or Republicans at their theories had completely open border policy. So Trump gets elected on that and then goes way too far the other way and has ice act like paramilitary groups in Chile in 1974. And so then when the funding comes up for the Department of Homeland Security, which TSA is a part, the Democrats say,

we're not going to do it. We're not going to even any more money as long as ice is wearing masks. Doesn't need a warrant to break into your home. Nobody cameras. That was the big sticking point. And because TSA is in this department, and they just want to hang out at the airport and do what they do, which is not stop anything from getting through any work. 80 to 90 percent of the stuff that's supposed to get stopped doesn't get through any way.

My stuff always gets stopped. So does mine. Hell, I get stopped.

This ridiculous sometimes. I mean, times when you're flagged, you got into the extra, you know, we got to scan you a few extra times. It's annoying, but you know, I'll take it to be safe 30,000 feet there. Yes. Well, then my guilt, though, my guilt is out of problem, my perfume. But I've been a federal employee, not getting paid during a shutdown. The idea that you're supposed to do your job well and not know where your child care, daycare, mortgage, rent, gas, food is coming from.

Those are fields that you want people to feel as though they are invested in the job, but they want to almost have an itching to stop whoever comes because they want to show that they're actually in financial security to not to pay them and have them be upon. I don't know anyone could feel safe. Well, I'll take it to step further. I slightly disagree with like to modify what she says. She said to do your job well, how about do your job period? So you go to work and you don't get paid

for me while the politicians that we send on Capitol Hill to handle their business, to reach the courts. So we don't have to go through such things. They're the ones getting paid at the same time that you don't get disgusted. We got to look at it from this standpoint. 480 TSA workers have quit according to the latest report. 61,000 went unpaid over the last month. 61,000 American citizens. Now you got to look at it from that standpoint and say it's disgusting as it is. It gets a bit worse when you're

looking at the president of the White House and they're projecting that he's made him and his family

“over 1.4 billion. I think it's about triple that, but that's neither here nor there. You've got”

other politicians that are doing what they're doing. You got the Democrats sitting up there and talking about how there are some people who the Americans need to suffer because they should have never

the 77 million people who voted for president Trump should have never voted for him to begin with.

So maybe we'll show we'll allow them to feel voters remorse so they won't make the same mistake twice and then on a Republican side, you've got them gung-ho about the fact that they regain power and office that they had to deal with the nonsense that they were dealing with when Biden opened the damn borders. Either way, you slice it, they're okay. The Americans get screwed and we're left to talk about the horrible job again.

That's the second good presidential speech I've heard tonight. It's amazing that when people actually aren't running for president, they sound so much

“better than the ones who do. What is that? Well, what did you have to not give a shit?”

Well, ladies first. I know.

You know, Kennedy it's first. You know what? He told me, you know, if they don't mess with my money, I will be a candidate.

and keeping their jobs instead of doing their jobs. What they're doing there in office, they've got a little bit of power. In some cases, a lot of power. And they want to make sure to do things that are politically expedient to maintain their status quo. But in the end, what you're really highlighting is that you're thinking about yourself. Instead of thinking about your constituents and American people, we've been lamenting this for quite some time.

It's just become a bit more flagrant with Trump and office because you have so many people who hate

him and you have so many people he hate. He hates that ultimately it comes down to the American

“citizen being the distant third on the chart of things that you should prioritize.”

You've been taught that just the last day with the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche making a comment that they've gotten rid of a bragging. They've gotten rid of everyone who has helped in the prosecution or investigation of the president of the United States suggesting that in order for you to be a good public servant. And the executive branch, you have to have the ultimate loyalty to the president of the United States. Well, I was a prosecutor and I would say Laura

Pots on behalf of the POTUS. It was the people of the United States. Not the president. And so the obvious idea that you're supposed to have loyalty to the wrong person. We're not supposed to be a nation where one person is king and the rest of everyone takes a knee. What? I'm going to tell a few of you. I'm going to tell a few of you, Bill. I'm feeling a little

“bit better right now. But I have to confess to you that over the last couple of weeks I”

threw up about three times watching these damn people working for Trump. If I see another one of these administration officials falling over Donald Trump, I'm going to lose my damn mind. What happened to just doing your job? If somebody wants, I don't care if it's Pete Hakeseth. I don't care

if it's Christy Known before she ultimately was reassigned. I don't care if it's Mark Wayne

Mullin, who's the new secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. I don't get anybody but Rubio because he hasn't done it. He's been the adult in the room. The vice president himself. If they went and got the president a cup of coffee, they literally said, I just want to point you greatly to ship you such a wonderful crowd. We are so lucky to have him in August. I mean, the kiss excuse my language, the kissing of his ass. His soul is so nauseated. It's so

nauseating. I'm not saying I'm not saying I'm not saying don't do your job. I'm not saying if you believe in this vision, don't be loyal to him. I'm not saying any of that. But the fooling, they don't know breed such a flagrant level of distrust because if you fooling over him so much, you're shoving a throwing objectivity right out the window and then the chances of us believing that you would ever disagree with him. Or you would ever speak against him in any way. All be half

of the American people. It's not something we can trust. I mean, I thought it's all true. I couldn't argue about it. I'm just amazed that 10 years on people are just still that agitated about it. Like I just, I'm used to it. I'm just teasing about what what you just said, the forening. Yes. I mean, I was doing bits about this, you know, back before I was wearing glasses. I don't know if it was this big. I know, but it's been going on for a very long time.

I just, like, he is who he is. I just can't get constantly. I'm not talking about him. Endless little stuff about the same things, which I recognize. I don't condoning them. I'm just saying it amazes me that people could be like Donald Trump is getting his ass kissed all the time. But yeah, yeah. But if you, if you stop caring, and then you stop getting ass dated caring about it, but that's, you know, that's the net in the tennis game. It's not going away. How do we still win the game?

But it's not, it's not that it's not going away. It's growing. It's, I mean, it's worse than I literally mean if they walk up to him and handing him a cup of coffee. They have to break. They have to give

“you a salilla queen about how wonderful and marvel. And here's the thing. Here's the thing. The”

Democrat, we're going to have a mentor in my elections very soon. You know, here's the stats that are important. Seven and ten people say tariffs have cost the money. Food is up 2.9% since January,

household debt up 4%. Utilities up 6%. Abomacare subsidies cut 22 million people. The Democrats

are not going to win this election. The Republicans are going to lose it. There's a difference between not winning and losing. Okay. The Democrats can't not win this because of all this that's going on. But that's kind of the Democrat. Not the midterm. Not the midterm. They've invented wheat. Not the midterm. Not the midterm. Not the midterm. Not the midterm. The midterms do just going to say let Trump win this one for us and that's going to happen. But it's kind of like,

and they, they won. Like 138 to 132 and the coach after the game was pissed. His team won. But he said, like, if we're going to give up 102 points, we're not going anywhere in the playoffs. He's right.

“And that's what this reminds me of. Well, that's because to your point, maybe. If you are”

simply campaigning, I'm being reactive. If you're simply campaigning on somebody clutching their pearls and being horrified by what's become normalized, then you will not be successful at pointing out what ought to be. If you spend your time focusing on what the standard are, what the national practice is ought to be, what the law actually says, what free voting looks like, what the idea of an accessible and free democracy and free press looks like. If you are

active and proactive about those things, I think it's difficult for people to look a different direction. But if you spend your time assuming that everyone is going to be as shocked, as disgusted, and as willing to be worked up as long as they are, then that is the losing game. Look at your point you just made. You're shocked if people are still caring about it. If that's it's easy. I didn't say that. I didn't say caring. I just worked up. I'm like,

I can't help. I can't help. You can't much work. It's so different. It's so different. You still care, but you just, after 10 years, you just can't, I just can't get it off. For me, just for me, for this issue, for this issue, let's just, I look at it from this table. I will say this. If Trump and the administration

had stayed on the same path and never sent Tom home and then to Minnesota. And after the two

individuals were unfortunate that they unfortunately lost their lives dealing with ice in what have you. If they had stayed on that path and hadn't sent them to Minnesota to handle that, to calm the waters per se, you know, Cristiano still was allowed to go out there and spend about $200,000,000

“advertising herself and talking about DHS and all the things that they would do. I think that they”

would be on a path to their own self-destructible. Okay, between them. Have you calmed that down? I think that it's still possible. And that's the difference between the midterm. And that's the difference between things that matter. Those are actions that actually matter. Yes. The ass kissing and his craziness and that's just, that's just not going to go away till he does. Anyway, other stories to cover really important stories can you show the headline

about Barbie. I thought I had seen everything. This was so disturbing. Barbie sold a discount store test positive for cocaine and fentanyl. Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water. I tell you, this was so disturbing to me. And it's true. Apparently Barbie is into the drugs.

And I don't know if you have kids who have Barbies, but we thought as a PSA because we're always

trying to do the right thing for America. We would show you some of the signs, which you like to see. If you're a kid, as a Barbie, you might want to look after these, for example. Barbie, you know, she looks like a troll doll now. That's, the Paw Patrol dog always barks at her purse. Um, she's dating Lamar Oda.

“All of her conversations now end with the words "We good," right?”

Um, "Perfemeist Pink Corvette now has Florida plates and trash bags to read us." Bob the builder found her stealing copper wire from a job site. And, and the Barbie sequel, she's not being played by Courtney Love. Oh, um, she told Ken, he needs to get himself tested. That's... And, she's sleeping in the box, she came in. Oh, that's so slow.

So slow. All right, so, big big story. We have not mentioned yet. Let's do it now. Big tech. Finally, lost one. Finally, lost one. A lot of people are just happy to this

because they've never lost one. And, this is the two trials when at New Mexico, 375 million dollars

awarded, this is against meta. That's, that's Facebook and Instagram. And, YouTube, I think, is an all-business, but mostly it's Zuckerberg who got their headlines.

in LA, we heard a lot about a young woman named Kaylee, got $6 million claim that she was hooked

on YouTube at Instagram. And, uh, the difference here is that they've always been safe because there was

a shield law from 1996 that said, "You can't hold the companies responsible for the content." This is making the case. The app itself is addictive. They're making the analogy to tobacco companies. You knew it and they have quotes, by the way, from meta-employees like LOL, I mean all social media were basically pushers. That's kind of a smoking gun. So, they knew they were doing it just like the tobacco companies and they did it. The counter argument is, doesn't all media try to hook you,

doesn't every product try to hook you and make you come back for more of it, isn't that the American way? Well, this is a design defect, right? They are thinking, essentially, that they're trying to hook just like picked tobacco as long as possible the biggest audience by confronting and trying to go after the most vulnerable minds who don't have perhaps the wherewithal or the restraint or even the ability plain and simple to put the phone down to turn away from it. And so,

you've got this issue with, they were intentionally trying to design an app, whether it's the auto scroll or it's the infinite scroll, whatever the scroll might be, to make sure that you stayed on it, kind of like the way they would go after with Joe Campbell and everything else, young people.

“So, I think this is a very creative and necessary way to go around the section 230 you're talking”

about that suggests that you're always going to be immunized. You can do no wrong because

somebody else actually said the content. This is, I'm pushing the content. I'm making sure that you never can turn away from the content, isn't that very much like big tobacco and it punished? It's very much like lays potato chips. Why can't you just want it? You can eat just wrong? I can't eat just wrong. Okay, but... That's the thing we didn't know about Joe. I would say there's two things to be true.

Everything that you just highlighted is right on the money and I get that. And when you consider the algorithms and how things are targeting towards adults, then one could easily argue, you know you've got malintent when you're targeting children because they're more vulnerable. And so you're willingness to do that. You definitely need to be called to the copy for it. But in the same breath that that can be true, it's also true that parental supervision to

some degree definitely needs to be something that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of people out here that are deadbeat parents that they're not paying attention to what goes on with their

“children. That's why they think this may lose on appeal. They'd probably will lose on appeal.”

Boy, at least be modified to be a lesser penalty. Well, first of all, it's gone dead. It's expected to be. There's a problem with the tobacco analogy there because this the parents are the cigarette companies in this analogy because they gave the kid the phone. I mean, this kid was on Instagram at eight. Eight. Okay. You know, this is like parents all over the country. Let their kids go to their room with the phone.

Right. It's like, don't you have room kids and smoke cigarettes in your room? You know, I mean, that's crazy. There's a level of culpability that has to be placed on the shoulders of the parents at the point where, you know, what it ain't just companies that need to be targeted to some degree. You got to investigate and probe into what role the parents play than the assistant that children being vulnerable. There was their their religion of duty that

you pay attention when you on top of things, when you even interested in being on top of these all of those things fall in line as far as I'm concerned if you're going to go to court.

“If a judge is looking at it, you should look at all of those things. I think it's a cop out”

though in some respects to say that it's just the parent responsible. I agree. I'm a parent. I'm a parent. I'm not just a judge. I'm not just a judge. I'm saying that I am a parent and I am a very vigilant parent. I'm driving my kids. I'm the one who asked the car and yet I noticed that they

know the words to songs I've never played. Now, how does that happen? Right? They're in school

or how many hours a day. They're in sports or how many hours. They're in band or whatever else. They're in my car. They're in my house. How do you know all the words to this song? And I'll tell you, that's part of the idea of what I like to know the answer to that bill. We never want you to know. That's how the thing about it is. That is that gap. That question that's fair is exactly where some companies say a high. Here's where I will find myself nest

and make sure that it flourishes to take advantage of taking their child. We just all the time. We bring things into our homes that we don't know are okay. I don't have kids, so I'd be in a way if I had off base here. Can't you say to your kid, how do you know those words? I do. I guess what they say. I hear it. We're not friends. We're in school. I mean, you hang out with all the stuff. That's a radio. I got two daughters. And so I say this not to say that parents

monetary interest and making sure that they can hook a consumer for a lifetime are not looking

“for the moments of vigilance being let down. That's the whole point. And so why do kids drink?”

Why do kids get smoke? What I'm saying, Laura is absolutely right. But the flip side to that is that doesn't mean that if you're a court and the case comes before you, you don't ask because every parent in his diligence law coats. A lot of parents drop the ball. A lot of parents ain't doing their job. A lot of the parents are out doing their own thing. And they don't give a damn about what their kids are doing. They literally say, hey, I get you got a roof over your

head. You got a flute on the plate. Go live your life. And they're not putting forth their due

diligence to make sure they're actually parenting. And as a result, it has a harmful effect not just

on the kid, but on society because of the kind of kid you raised, because you want raising it at all. When those kind of things happen, if you got you in a court of law, you know, you probe that. You look into that and say, well, a case by case basis, as it pertains to parent involvement, definitely is warranted. Especially in cases like this. Did you see what Sir Charles said yesterday about whopping kids? What did he say?

It shows what you got to spank him. Oh, no, no, no, I don't, I've said this many, many occasions. I mean, luckily, I haven't had to in the last few years. But I'm a dad. I will whip your ass. Make room to stay. You act up. You act up. I'm a black man. I'm not at any time out in the corner. Not this way. Oh, no, no, no, no. You act up. You're going to feel sunk. Okay, make no mistake about it. Now I'm just staying. And this is where we're living in, and I call it the opera five society,

because it started with her. And all of these damn explanations for every little thing that went on,

Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz and everybody in between came along. They're after what? It never changed in the

Smith household. When I acted up, I got my ass whipped. When my father did, he got his ass whipped. May it, it's been passed down through generations. Okay, he changed it. You're saying, you act up. And you're kidding. And you're disobedient. You're going to get your ass whipped. They're going to be corporate punishment pulling a tree branch. No, he did that in my grandfather's days and stuff like, you're going to do it now. But where you get a spank in in the Smith household,

hell yes, I'm going to come to your house. Okay, you don't do that. I don't like to be spank. No, no, no, no, no. That's the point. They say, don't like it.

“That's why they didn't act up. I'm going to leave it alone.”

Yeah, this is a... This conversation is getting weird, it's not, it's not. You've only a few minutes. But here a big sports guy. And this is a big issue more than so it's Olympics. What do you make of that story today? That the Olympics have said they are not allowing trans women anymore, competing in women's sports. I imagine, I imagine this is going to be an issue in the Democratic Fine Arts. It's another one where you can make Democrats die on the

Hill that they died on the last time. If this an issue with an Democratic party, that's their own damn problem. Biological men should not be competing against biological girls in sports. I am a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community. I don't want to get in the way of anybody civil rights, civil liberties or anything like that. But what about protecting young ladies? Young ladies going up against men, biological men. There is no excuse for that. And by the

way, you know what, you can be, you know, Liam Thomas, for example, was a male and he was a swimmer. Yeah, the swimmer. He was ranked like over 400th in the world. And then she, and then he became a she, okay, he became, you know, transitioning. And number one. Well, David, it doesn't really take an Einstein to realize that there's something wrong with that picture. You mean, are we kidding? I said no, but this is what you're talking sports. But that's not right. And I'm telling you, there is no reason

for a biological male to be competing in women's sports. We certainly don't see biological women transitioning in trying to compete in men's sports. I don't hear about that. But, but is there when the democratic debates come? Yeah. Is there one candidate on that stage who's going to be

“clear like this? Who's going to just say it outright like that? No. Exactly. And that's why they're”

going to be vulnerable after they kick ass in the midterm. That's why they've been vulnerable. All right, thank you very much. Time for new rules.

their victory over the US and the world baseball classic that we didn't even know that was a thing.

“No, really. Enjoy the victory. Just know that while you're hunking your horns and dancing”

the night away RCA planned this as a distraction so Trump can take your oil. No, we're a little woke ain't dead. Here in California this week, they canceled the governor's debate because some people were outraged at the top six candidates for all white. Even though this is what the people voted for and the people are 62% minority. If their opinion was

heavy air, besara is fucking awesome. We've no. And for the record just because the top six

candidates are all white. It doesn't mean there's no diversity. I mean, I see all different types of people I don't want. You're all now that young people have started nitty. To avoid spending too much time on their phones, someone must congratulate them for finding a bigger waste of time than social media. I mean, knitting made sense when we had to make our own clothes, but now we have factories of children for that. Seriously, just shake your ass kids on

TikTok, if option B is to spend all day making a pot holder. That's all I'm saying. You're all to save everybody a lot of time. The news media must only report when a member of the

“Dougher family isn't accused of molesting it. Also, you should change the name of the show from”

19 kids and counting to 19 counts. I'm not kidding. No, don't make me look at a baby picture of your new grandchild. They all look alike to me. I don't have kids. I don't like kids. I don't want to see kids. So to me, this is the equivalent of sending me an unsolicited dick pick. Now I know what women feel like. I have to pretend to like it and also be amazed at how proud

you are of something so tiny. Finally, no real given the increasing number in recent years

“of sightings by serious military personnel of unknown aircraft operating outside our current”

abilities. But at this point, you don't believe aliens are here and observing us. Maybe you're the conspiracy theorist. Now, in the past, when it came to alien life, I was like a liberal college girl who's roommate as a lesbian. Not sold on it, but open to the possibility. Look, my opinion changes when the information changes. Yes, there was a time when the only actual contact we heard from about aliens was rural people who had been abducted and analy probed.

But you don't hear about that anymore. Why? My guess is the aliens gathered all the information they needed about us that they could get through our ass. It's where I look. But now they seem to be onto another phase. They seem to want to be spotted. Why else does constant playing peek-a-boo with our military? And it's serious people now. Not hippies or hillbillies, serious people, people with Mike Pence's haircut.

Who are saying that they keep seeing things move through air and ocean in ways that defy our physics? Military pilot who say, "Yeah, I saw something doing mock 10 and then it stopped on a dime and disappeared." That's not a drone. That's not something from another country.

Now, the government's official public line is we don't know what these things are, but in private what they say is, "No, seriously, we don't know what the fuck these things are."

“But they didn't leak from a lab in China. That's why in 2022 Congress had historic”

first of its kind hearings on what the defense department calls unidentified aerial phenomena.

Formerly called UFOs, but don't dead name them. And again, it's not weirdos and beardos saying this. It's the guys with buzz cuts and security clearances who are spilling the tea. And politicians who you don't think are crazy people like Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Marco Rubio, Kirsten, Gillibrand, they're not disputing it. Jimmy Carter said he saw UFO. George Zavia Bush said, "Yeah, there are secrets about aliens and no, I won't tell you."

Barack Obama recently made headlines when he said aliens "are real, but I haven't seen them."

“Former Director of National Intelligence General James Clapper is on board”

and our current director of National Intelligence has indicated that she believes in the possibility of alien life. Also, that it illegally voted for Joe Biden and Georgia. If you don't believe me now, you will in June when Steven Spielberg's movie called Disclosure Day comes out. This on the heels of the documentary from last year called Age of Disclosure. You get it? Disclosure? We're at the disclosure moment in human history.

So, when we cut the crap, they're here, they came in a sphere, get used to it. So, if I may, I would now like to address the aliens directly

“in my capacity as the most rational person on earth, which I'm sure they know.”

I'm sure they know everything about me. If they figured out intergalactic travel, I'm guessing they have cable. And so, as the representative of all humans,

the first thing I'd like to say to you is, "Hi, please don't kill us even though you could."

Probably just by pushing a button and I'm guessing you think about it every time you see Jake Paul's podcast. We've seen you go from zero to what the fuck was that in half a second. We get it. There's no sense drawing to fight you. Two years ago, one of our drones launched a health-fire missile at a high speed orb and it hit it and just bounced off. First of all, I'd just like to offer an apology.

For that, on behalf of all humans, that was our bed. That was dumb. And yes, we do have a lot of dumb people here, assholes, hotheads, shitheads, menace fair morons, meatheads, and that's just the conservatives. Don't let me start it on the wall. So, it certainly would be understandable if you decided we were just too stupid to live. It must be maddening studying us because we are obviously capable of advancements that aren't

completely embarrassing, like gene editing and cloud computing, but we're also idiots. We're the species that created the internet, but also the one that once broke it with this checks ass. So, I don't know what we can offer you. The stuff that we think makes living here great. I'm guessing your way beyond sex and good food and getting fucked up. I doubt if you care about that stuff. Minerals, we got them. I don't know if that's still interest you. You may be beyond them

or maybe ours are obsolete, although have you heard about clean coal? But yeah, I don't know

but who knows what you have, but just so you know ours has trillions of viruses in it,

“and that's what killed the aliens and more of the world.”

Just pointing that out as a friend. Because I'd like to think we are friends. After all, if you wanted us dead, we'd be dead already.

Truth is, you may be here to save us, not kill us. In 1967, an Air Force captain and nuclear

crew commander who were there, revealed an incident when something unidentifiable hovered

“over Melstrom Air Base in Montana, and then miraculously, 10 nuclear weapons suddenly became disabled.”

Was something about to go terribly wrong and you stepped in? Whatever it is, please do more shit like that.

Feel free to beat our swords into plow shares, because plainly we're not going to do it.

Yet us off oil, get us off our phones. And AI, the father of AI, said there was a 10 to 20% chance of it being an extinction event, and yet we keep hurtling forward with it, as we do with global warming and the factory farming that causes pandemics. Look, it would be great if we could

“stop ourselves from self-destructive behavior, but the truth is, you should think of the human race”

as Britney Spears. It would be nice if we didn't need a conservatorship, but in reality, we really do. Thank you, Aliens. Thank you, people. That's our show. Well, off the next week, and back on April 7th, I want to thank Steven A. Smith, Laura Coutz, and Senator Alistair Slotkin, plop around, and there's not every Monday on YouTube, or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Now go watch over time, on YouTube.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. But I don't understand. Egal, Zauberwort, Verlusfortrag, make the whole thing like this, and when they then work, he says, "Catchin?" "Safe, like this, steuer." "Hold your money, sir."

Now, cost us out.