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I'm in a Stein. It's a Friday. That means we're going to look a little bit. It was happened this week, a little bit at next week. And we're going to start right now with Menace Stein.
And I'm taking us outside of the US for our first story today with.
Well, that was, that was to press his list of ships because nobody gives us a shit about Ford Bonesy. But yeah, okay, let's go. Let's go outside. I was actually I chose this story because I was curious what your opinion would be on it.
“So I'm excited to hear what you have to say.”
Well, that's very sweet of you. I'm so convinced that you like heard my opinion so much. They're like, oh, for God's sake. So I have to, anyway, go on. Yes.
No, no, no. That's that. Mexico's Chamber of Deputies approved a controversial constitutional amendment that would allow for local and national elections to be formally annulled if evidence of foreign interference is uncovered.
Passing the lower house in a 307 to 128 vote, the measure now heads to the Senate, carrying sharp warnings from critics who argue at weaponize as the electoral process and provides a broad legal loophole for losing parties to systemically overturn legitimate democratic results.
“Yeah, well, I guess the issue is what the bar for proving foreign interference, right?”
You know, if somebody can say, oh, there was a television ad and it was partially funded by the American to lower bar, right? If somebody can say the Russian government intervened in our elections and, you know, when into 100 precincts and changed the results, then that election probably should be annulled. So I think the real issue in this kind of a thing is, you know, what is the, what is the
bar and what is the burden of proof and, and if it's high enough, then this kind of legislation makes sense. And if it's too low, it doesn't. Now, there is another component, which is what's the process, because if the bar is high enough and if the burden of proof is high enough, but a mere accusation can throw
the whole process into chaos, that's bad. Because, you know, the, for example, in our country, Donald Trump would challenge the result of every election that didn't, you know, work for it. So it does open a can of worms, but on the other hand, we do live in a time where there are examples of election fraud and foreign interference and if those things happen and you
can prove it and you can prove it had a material outcome, then you probably ought to be able to do something about that, right, but doesn't that make sense, isn't it? Yeah, I just, I don't know, I was just thinking about it, maybe from two American of a
point of view, I was like, we would literally never be able to enforce it, handle it.
Like, this would just be a disaster. So I was curious if you had a more optimistic view, or if you were like, no, no, I'm afraid I'm blindly rational on this this morning, but the reality is, of course, you're right and here in the U.S., where our countries run by crime family, you know, they would do anything they could to cheat and we know they're about to do more to try to cheat because we know
that if the election is held fairly based on what we know to be the opinions of the American people, Democrats, Independence and Republicans right now, their Republicans would get their asses kicked and they don't want that to happen, so they will interfere. And, you know, that's the other side of this, though, right, which is if the Republicans
Cheat shouldn't there be some mechanism by which if we can prove it, we can r...
And it's challenging and Lord knows it's all going to get more challenging when you can drive these things with complex AI, which allows one to go out and mobilize millions of computers and hide what you're doing and so on and so forth. So I don't know, it's a canterworms, but you gotta get credit to Mexico, by the way, Claudia Shane Bow, holy macro, what she is doing with healthcare, with education, with writing
off, you know, the deaths of the poorest people in the country, she is making things happen in Mexico and, you know, for sure, if you rank the three leaders of the countries of North
America in terms of their effectiveness, she is first, our Canadian brother is second
“and we're not, we don't even finish, I think the United States is in DNF territory there”
because Trump is such a miserable president. By the way, if you, by any chance, feel Trump is a miserable president, let me suggest if you have not already listened to words matter from yesterday with North Warrenstein and I, that you make a little time for that one, it'll take about 45 minutes. It was a real good episode, it got to some real big issues that you are not going to hear
discuss anywhere else and I strongly encourage it. We also did an episode of Need to Know, by the way, yesterday which dealt with nukes and Trump's attitude towards nukes and the Iranian deal and so forth, with Jocers and Sion and John Wolfstall, that I really encourage you to also listen to because the damage being done
by this administration is sometimes being done in ways that most people aren't even paying
attention to. Right? Well, our esteemed treasury secretary Scott Bessant is going to deliver a speech at the Reagan library today, but thankfully the good folks at Reuters already got a hold of the speech.
I don't know how what they did. What a relief. I've been so lucky forward to hearing you. So we already know what he's going to say and it's all all day. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As I said yesterday about Scott Bessant, if he were any more of a worm, he would be living in RFK juniors head.
See what I did there. I like it. Yeah. Thank you. But what he has to say is not too surprising.
He's going to argue that the US has been asleep economically up until Trump, which I mean,
“if this is being awake, I think I'd rather go back to bed, but that's just me.”
And what? Right. Right. It was asleep. And then we had a Trump mayor.
Yeah, which is an economic nightmare. But going. Yeah.
I'm going to argue what exactly you'd expect, Trump's America first agenda is reversing
decades of policy failures, emphasizing that economic security is national security and that we're too rely on China, the usual stuff, but kind of hard to make any of these arguments when the economy is in a free fall direct. Yeah. When you're a administration, right.
When you're a terrible treasury secretary, who is known primarily for kissing your losses as who lies constantly about the economy and you are overseeing an economy where prices have spiked, where jobs have been flat, where investment has faltered, where the steps taken by the government have driven inequality worse, where those in society who have the most need for government support are getting less and less of that support.
And that's your signature, guess what, you have no credibility when you make a speech like this. So, Scott, they may applaud at the Reagan Library, they may applaud in the Oval Office, but outside in America, who living through this, you're not going to be able to persuade them that the misery that they feel isn't real.
“Okay, that's how you beat Joe Biden and it's how you are going to lose because at the end”
of the day, the thing that drives elections, and this is contrary to Maga theory, is reality. It's the, it's the live reality of voters. Well, our next story is in our section kind of recapping things, and I put it here because it's a little bit of the same old same old, although I do think it's important to remember
That there's a war going on US and Iranian negotiations reached a tentative a...
to extend their extremely fragile ceasefire by 60 days and launch a fresh round of diplomatic
“talks targeting Iran's nuclear program, the emerging memorandum of understanding arrives”
at a highly volatile moment, coming less than 24 hours after Kuwait, air defenses intercepted an Iranian ballistic missile aimed at a US military base and incident U.S. central command slammed as an egregious ceasefire violation. Well, I'm not, I'm like our attacks and Iran for the best. I'm sure totally fine.
With their fine, yeah, exactly. J.D. Vans confirmed the existence of the pact, he emphasized that the text remains stuck in a back and forth over nuclear enrichment language, and that it is still entirely unclear
if Trump will ultimately sign off on it.
Well, that sounds like the story from yesterday and the day before and the day before and
“the week before and the week before that.”
And the interesting thing about all of this, of course, is they're not actually negotiating the terms of how we deal with Iran's nuclear program or how we deal with Iranian missile programs or how we deal with this journey, they're negotiating a memorandum of understanding to give us time to negotiate the terms. It's not even, you know, it's, it's an agreement to talk about agreeing some day.
And of course, that's as far as you're going to get. If you expect more than that, ha, or as I might say for emphasis ha, ha, because that's ridiculous, you know, hopefully they will get the straight-of-war moves back to allowing some kind of commercial traffic, but from today onward, from the beginning of this war onward, Iran now sees that as an area over which they can and should exercise influence.
“So that's something this war has changed that is not for the better.”
And as far as the nuclear program goes, again, I urge you, please listen to the conversation between me and Joe Serencian and John Wolfstall about this yesterday. There are two of the leading experts in this country, on these issues, John Wolfstall was one of the guys who will put together the JCPOA agreement with Iran on 2015.
Well, let me tell you, we're not getting there pulling out of that agreement was the first
mistake that Trump made with regard to Iran policy. That is why Iran has so much enriched uranium and say Iran takes all their enriched uranium and they agreed to take all of it and destroy it on site in Iran or ship it out of the country. Let's say that happens.
Why is it different today than it was, you know, a year ago or two years ago, three years ago because Iran has the capacity to enrich uranium. That's the important thing. They now are six generations more advanced in terms of the centrifuges they have. They have scientists who've done this before to get them from if you have no enriched uranium
to the point where they have weapons grade uranium takes much less time now than it would have in the past because they have the capacity so, you know, the focus here is on the wrong things but that shouldn't surprise you because the people who negotiated this on behalf of the United States are people who don't know anything about nuclear agreements. The people who do know about nuclear agreements weren't consulted and many of them who were
in the US government were fired and that shouldn't surprise you because the people who knew that attacking Iran would lead to this kind of an outcome were also ignored in this process and Trump went off and did it despite 50 years of people saying don't do this because this will happen and so that's where we are here. A fake deal will at some point be struck which will not include any substance which will
put things off into the distance and then we will get into more extensions of this and Trump's main goal is to get more people to forget about it before the election. Problem is price of oil is not going down, price gasoline is not going down, price fertilizers is not going down, price of food is not going down, periodic breaks in the ceasefire will rile the markets and push prices up again and everything that we know about the Middle East,
About a relationship with Iran, about the relationship with countries within ...
with one another, about the world economy, all of these things have been made worse by
“this disastrous stupid illegal war that has cost thousands and thousands of lives in the”
region, it's cost 14 American lives, hundreds of American casualties, tens and tens and tens of billions of dollars of US money. So when they try to celebrate a non-deal that doesn't deal with the core issues and inevitably will leave us in a worse place than we were in February and after the 2015 deal, don't buy it.
Well I have another space story since we've talked about Massa earlier this week and I figured I love space. I love space. I love space. I love space.
I love space. I'm a space boy. I'm watching for all mankind down, I really enjoy it. Anyway, guess what, well bad news, because Blue Origin's new-glant rocket exploded during a test at the Kennedy Space Center and caused severe damage to its sole launch pad, grounding
the program for months, the setback, deeply impacts Amazon's Leo Broadband Network, making it harder to meet strict FCC deployment deadlines and catch up to SpaceX. Grounding also threatens NASA's timeline for upcoming lunar missions and a permanent moon base, putting further pressure on the agency as China advances its own lunar plans. It's interesting that you would throw China in there because everything, right?
Everything's a competition. It's not a weird China. Yeah, it's got to be a competition with China. I couldn't be that we're all human beings and we're all exploring the moon and outer space to the benefit of all of us.
That's ridiculous.
“The other thing here, though, and I think this is an important takeaway from this.”
This is, there has been four decades, for as long as I've been in Washington, this notion that the best way to solve problems, it's a real Republican idea, is privatized. The government can't do it well, let's let some private sector company do it. They'll do a much better job because they have economic efficiency driving them and they are much more nimble and able to work.
Well, here's the thing, that's just not true.
And leaving it to the billionaire so that they can make billions of dollars doesn't actually put us in a better position. Should we have continued to fund NASA and let NASA do this? Because this is one of those things, like running a military, where having the government in charge is better, like providing other certain kinds of basic services, like having
people in charge who are looking at the national interest and the bigger picture with greater attention than they paid to the bottom line, of course. And Elon looks at lunar missions and he talks a big game about going to Mars, but he's looking at Kitching Kitching.
SpaceX going public will make them the world's first trillionaires.
We don't even need billionaires.
“We have a trillionaire, holy shit, but that's what's going to happen.”
And we are going to be dependent on a company which is run by an individual for the needs of the shareholders, not the people of this country, not the people of the world, not the greater good, but purely so that the shareholders get a higher return, it's the wrong way to do it. And it's a tragedy for the human race, frankly.
It's not just bad policy. We ought to be out exploring the rest of the universe, looking for the breakthroughs that science brings us, and having those breakthroughs become part of the public domain as opposed to the personal private opportunities for monetization of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. Two people who have not only proven unworthy and unable to fulfill their responsibilities in
these tasks, would have also proven themselves to be among the most odious human beings who ever sucked air out of our atmosphere. So I don't know. I saw that and I'm not a safe, I'm very despairing and hard breakache about the direction this is all taken, because people have fallen for the siren songs of the billionaires
Who happen to be their big political donors.
And that's the problem when the checkwriters become the people who write the laws in a country.
“And remind me, the other story we did about space this week was that we're launching”
the first podcast network on the moon.
That's we are. You will soon be transferred to DSR Moonbase and Menna will be broadcasting live from the moon. There were a number of wags out there who noted that in a speech, not very well received, speech earlier this month, Eric Schmidt, one of the founders of Google, said, "When you're
given a chance to have a seat on a rocket ship, you don't ask which seat it is, you just get on board." And a lot of people said, "On that rocket, Eric, that's the one, that's one, just blew up."
But anyway, just as soon as we can get Menna safely to the moon, she will be doing
Menna's Mooncasts for you all, and I'm firstly, I will miss Menna and her hair in zero gravity is going to get a lot of comments in the comment section, but I'm going to be a bloodbath. It's going to be a lot of you to the care about Menna's hair, a fewer who care about Riley's hair.
Thank God, well, you've taken care of that, the hard way.
“Okay, is there any other stories you guys want to talk about in here?”
One last story that is forward-looking and that it is ongoing, a pregnant, Ghanaian mother
and her four-year-old son have been detained for over a week in a window-less airport holding
room at Dolis International Airport, triggering a high-stakes federal lawsuit by the ACLU. The family's confinement stems from a controversial new DHS mandate and acted last month requiring strict physical custody of all asylum-seeking individuals at U.S. ports of entry. A U.S. district judge intervened issuing an order demanding that the Trump administration immediately demonstrate a valid legal basis for the families' continued tension or face
an order of their immediate release. Imagine your mother with a four-year-old and you're going through all this. I mean, how hideous is that?
“Imagine you're the rest of the world looking at this, thinking that could happen to me”
when I go to the United States. Now imagine that this particular case is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the kind of abuse that is being conducted by the United States government, a people who are coming to this country legally, a people who are in this country legally, a people who are seeking asylum in this country, a people who are in part of the legal system to gain legal entry
in this country, people who are paying taxes, people who are not threatening anybody, because right now, this woman and her four-year-old are not the only ones suffering. There are tens of thousands of people in warehouses without light, without the proper amount of food, without medical care, and dozens of them have died who are being beaten. There were stories this week of people being beaten, beaten bloody in these kind of places
who are being abused, many of whom are being abused by private sector companies that are providing these services, see prior story. We're living in an era of enormous abuse, and frankly, not only should those who are conducting the abuse, be removed from office, not only should they be prosecuted, but there are to be armies of lawyers stepping up for these people whose rights were infringed upon,
who were abused, and demanding civil settlements from the United States. I mean, the Trump wants to give civil settlements to people who conducted a coup and attacked the capital. We should add that as we are recording this podcast, a court order has come down pausing that idea, Trump's slush fund, who knows where that will go, but it's just the kind of thing
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