Cole dives into the excitement and reflections surrounding Super Bowl Sunday. Transitioning from sports, Cole discusses the recent buzz around Doge and Elon Musk's involvement in uncovering government fraud and wasteful spending. Throughout the episode, Cole touches on the broader themes of freedom, spirituality, and the need for personal and governmental introspection.
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Bing bap boom bap bing bap bam. The kind of shit you just don't understand. What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Coleman McCormick. It's another week. Another episode. What's going on, everybody? Happy to be here. It's Sunday. February ninth, '7 '50 '6, the PM. Super Bowl Sunday. Sunday. Sunday. Sunday. It's the Super Bowl. I just saw the Eagles win. Great win for the Eagles, folks. The Eagles won. I predicted it. I posted that shit on Instagram this morning. I predicted the win because I'm a freaking boss, dude. I'm connected to the outer universes, and I am living large right now, folks. So I'm just happy to be here.
I'm live streaming again, of course. Get in on this live stream. I'm on Nostr. I'm on Fountain. I'm on RSS. We're in all the apps. I'm just experimenting and troubleshooting all this stuff, and, we're gonna see if we can get more more viewers, more zaps, more boosts, more sats. And, that's just the vibe right now, guys. What I wanna talk about this week is, first, the Super Bowl. Let's just go over the Super Bowl, then I'll go over I wanna talk about the government. Like, what's going on with Doge, dude? So first of all, the Super Bowl, it was sort of boring. Right? Like, it's sort of lame.
Did anyone else think that? Does anyone care about sports? I barely care about sports anymore because as I've gotten older, I've just been thinking about more and more about what's important in my life. And what's more important in my life is things that are about family, health, my body, my spirituality. These things are objectively more important than any freaking game. And, I I just wanna be part of the party. You know, that's where I'm at as well. I don't care about the game, but I care about the party. And I'm a guy who likes to party. And so it's, it's one of those things where I it's like I'm at work, and then I'm hearing these people talk about, dude, did you did you catch the game, dude? Did did you see the fight, dude? Holyfield. Oh my god, dude. Like, oh my god, the quarterback. Oh my god. Like, I just can't relate to those types of conversations at work anymore.
And it's gotten to a point where I just I'm just checking out. And especially with the Super Bowl, like, I try to set myself up for success. You know? I got I got the taco meat. I got the corn tortillas. I got the can of wine. I bought this can of wine that's like it says on the can equivalent to half a bottle. I was like, okay. Great. Let's do it. And even though I said I'm not I'm not drinking anymore, you know, there's, like, these moments where I think I should. And so maybe that's stupid of me. But I I'm interested in engaging with the party. And right now, as I'm recording this, I am not really enjoying it.
I'm not really vibing with it. And I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but, it's like I don't regret drinking the wine, but I was like, what did I think was like, what value did I think the wine was going to give me? Any value? Like, probably nothing. Right? So I'm dealing with that right now, and I'm sobering up right now. And my mouth's pretty dry, so I have I barely have enough water right now. Very little water. But the game was good. The Eagles, like, just blasted out. The Chiefs fuck the Chiefs, dude. I wanted the Eagles to win because the Chiefs win way too much, and they just need to they just need to lose once in a while. You know? Like, that's really what needs to happen.
People need to lose. I remember when I was a kid, I was playing football. When I was in middle school, okay, my deepest memories and lessons that I learned happen in middle school. Seventh grade, I'm playing tackle football for the first time in my life. My team was the best team in the entire league, dude. In the entire school district, the entire Florence Unified School District, Walker Butte was number one. Two thousand nine, dude. We were killing it. And, we went undefeated. And then we get to, we get to the championship game, and we all thought we were gonna win. We thought we were hot shit. You know, dude, like, the seventh and eighth graders. I was in seventh grade. Like, we're like, we're gonna fucking win, dude. We're the biggest people there. We're the fastest. We're the best. We're the best team. We got the heart. We got the soul. We got everything, man.
And then we lose. We lose the undefeated season. And that was the first time in my life that I actually experienced a giant loss. I thought I was gonna win, and I lost. And I remember seeing my friends cry that night. I had friends on the team who were from Texas. And if you know anything about Texas and America and football, Texas takes their football very seriously. And I remember seeing my my my friend, Emilio and his brother. They're just crying, dude. Like, they're just sad. Like, they put their heart into the into the game. And I was like, damn. Like, I can't believe they're crying right now. Like and I wasn't super emotional because, you know, this is not how I am. Like, I'm not attached to games like that. But I was also sad that we lost. Like, I and and I definitely wanted to win.
But seeing my friends cry that night, I was like, holy shit. Like, I actually wanna win for them. I wanna win for them. And going through that loss taught me that even when you think you're hot, you're probably not. And that that's just a real thing that people need to go through. And then the next year, you know, we go through a whole year. The next year is eighth grade, and that loss is, like, simmering within us. It's, like, sinking in deeper into our bones. Like, I can't believe we lost, man. We're not gonna fucking lose this time. Like, the refs suck this time. I I I heard they fired the refs, and, we worked super hard.
The that eighth grade year, we we worked our asses off, and we actually did it again. And we went undefeated again. And we get to the championship game, and what do you know? We win. Oh, yeah, baby. We won. And that was, like, it it was, like, bittersweet because it felt unreal, but it was also an undefeated season. And so we had that we had that power. We had that machleness in us, dude. And, watching these games right now in my life, watching the Super Bowl, I can only relate to them as I was an eighth grader. And so does that mean that, like, sports and these competition games are, like, are amateur or they're, like, childish?
You know, I'm not trying to judge these things because, you you know, we all need an escape, but it's definitely something to think about. And I just don't know how to engage with them anymore, I guess. It's it's something where I it's like I really want to, but I can't. Like, there has to be something else that I engage with. And so I'm just looking for I'm looking for that new connection, you know. Yeah. But whatever. I digress. I digress. So that was today. What I wanna talk about so there's been a lot of news this week about Doge and Elon that I wanna talk about. And on a side note, Kanye, dude, Ye was on. Ye, he's been tweeting a lot. If you haven't been following this Ye news, oh my god, dude. He just keeps going on a rampage, just expressing himself like like the maniac that he is, dude. I'm not trying to judge him or anything, but, you know, Ye is just posting like Ye does.
It's been a really entertaining week. I'll say that. Elon said that the most the most probable outcome is the most entertaining outcome, And, that's sort of being proven right now with the discoveries of Doge, paralleling with, with the with the post of Ye. But I wanna focus on Doge right now, dude. Ye posting porn is like a totally different topic. Doge. Has anyone been following Doge, dude? Like, Doge has been nuts. Right? Like, Doge has been really crazy. I got some stats right here. So Doge has claimed to uncover approximately $236,000,000,000 in fraudulent activities within the federal government. That includes both direct fraud and wasteful spending.
Does anyone believe that number? I am inclined to believe that ginormous number, dude. Over $200,000,000,000. That's, like, that's insane. That's absolutely disgusting. And most of it most of the headlines was revolving around USAD or USAID. This is involving I guess USAID is supposed to, quote, unquote, provide aid to foreign governments to increase democracy, quote unquote. And I just think that's a load of shit, dude. And this is something that I was never fully aware of. I knew that the government had some sort of aid programs. You always hear that word, aid, USAID. The government should aid these other nations.
But you never really know the details about it until Elon Musk comes in. What's incredible about Doge is that it's not a new department. It's actually a rebranded department. Trump rebranded the this, department of security, or the Department of IT that Obama made. And now Elon's in charge of it, and he has access to all the computers, which I think is necessary. And that's how we know all these numbers because Elon is going into the computer system and to and he started with the, with the Department of Treasury, payment systems, and he's just been take I guess they've been taking screenshots and just posting them.
This has been a really weird thing because they don't have any control over spending the money, but they do have full authority to just publicly post the transactions, which I think is crazy. That's like that's like some ex girlfriend shit. That's like your ex girlfriend getting into your phone and just, like, just putting you on blast of of all the other DMs that you got in there. That's like, this is some really shady shit. And the government's been going wild. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, AOC, everyone's claiming that Elon is just, you know this billionaire this billionaire is just too powerful. He we did not the people did not elect Elon Musk. Elon Musk.
And meanwhile, all the memes are like, yes. We did. We absolutely voted for Elon. That's like it's not like Elon wasn't on the campaign trail with Trump. Like, everyone who voted for for Trump was absolutely aligned with with Elon, you know, for the most part. You know? Not to say that you were, like, totally 100% for him, but, you know, it was no secret that a vote for Trump was also a vote for Elon to get in there. And so I've been enjoying this whole Doge thing. I spoke on Doge a few months ago back in December, I think, or November, hoping that Doge would actually, come through with with their promises. And I believe to this point, they are. Elon is is staying true to his word. Trump is staying true to his word. They are doing what they can to uncover the bureaucracy and the fraud and the wasteful spending, and they're trying to make the government more efficient. This is what I want as an American citizen.
As a person in my position, as a 27 year old, I turned 28 in about a month and a half, I want my government to be in peak peak fashion, peak fitness, dude. I want my government to be like freaking Robert Kennedy junior on the lifting weights. You know? He's freaking we got this 60 year old doing doing presses, doing chest presses. Like, that's what I want my government to be like. Like, it's old, but it's fit. Like, it can pick up some heavy weight, dude. And, it's been pretty incredible to see. And this USAD, department, this needs to go. This needs to go away. I don't see any reason why The US needs to be supporting any sort of any sort of government for any sort of reason. Why are we doing that?
Maybe it made sense at at one certain point in time, but I think in this moment in time, it makes no sense. Because of inflation, because of, turmoil, because of risk of war, because of all these different things, we need to go within. This is on, like, a national level and an individual spiritual level. It's time to go within and self regulate. You know? This is like a deep truth. You know? And on a government scale, this is referred to as nationalism. But on an individual scale, this is referred to as personal choices and spirituality. And, the way I think of it, I think everything begins with spirit.
And if America wants to be great again, we need to align our spirit with with truth, with love. And if we have departments that are just giving out money willy nilly to these trans musicals in Guatemala, That ain't spiritual. That's not holy. That's not correct. You know, that's my real opinion on that, dude. Elon continues to go through, and reviewing outgoing government payments for potential fraud and waste. He needs to keep going. Trump gave him permission to go into the military, go into Medicaid, go into Medicare. Elon needs to see everything. We need to know everything. This is the government files, dude. There were the Twitter files, and now we're getting the government files.
This is absolutely important. I got this I so I got Grok up right now. I'm sort of just reading off the bullet points off Grok. Musk's actions with Doge have not been without controversy. There have been complaints from some politicians, which Musk has suggested, might might be due to their involvement in or benefit from the very inefficiencies DOGE aims to eliminate. Additionally, there are ongoing legal challenges regarding DOGE's access to government financial data with concerns about privacy and data misuse. That's a load of shit as well, dude. I do not care what what data do I have to give the government that is not already on Facebook?
What data is so important in my world, in my neck of the woods that needs to be protected by the government? What what is privacy? What is transparency? When every single app that I have is asking for my email and I gave this, like, I like I just did my my taxes on Cash App. Cash App has my Social Security. Cash App is working on top of a banking system that is also engaging with some separate tax system. And so I have this, like, I have this, like, triple decker layer of a system that has my Social Security number, and I'm supposed to think that that's safe with those private companies, private and public companies. And for some reason, the government and politicians want me to be upset that there could be privacy issues with Elon looking at it.
Like, I don't buy that one bit, dude. I don't I'm I'm not afraid of that, and I don't know what's gonna happen. Like, as in I'm not afraid with what could happen if my government data gets out there, dude. If my data gets out there, then that's the government's fault for not being efficient and not being strong. That's just how it is, dude. If a credit if there's a, a credit company, a banking system, if if any company that has your data has a leak, that is that company's problem. So if the government system is not secure enough for there to be an audit, then that means that that system is not strong to begin with.
And so I just have no emotion towards this. I am not afraid of this. I'm just a I'm just a pleb who does my taxes. I just go to work. I do my best to be on time and clock in, clock out, do my job, and just move on with my life. Politicians who want me to be mad at Elon or afraid of this sort of system, looking at these transactions, I I think I agree with Elon and and to say that these politicians most likely are benefiting from the fraud and abuse and inefficiencies. Like, this is just true, you know. Bernie is getting paid from Big Pharma. Warren, Elizabeth Warren, Pocahontas is getting paid by Big Pharma.
They're they have access to slush funds. You know? Different people in the military have access to money, dark money, dark pools. These things exist. And I I just want everything to be in in the light, dude. If people who are on the Bitcoin side and the Nostra side and the Freedom Tech side, we all have this agreement that, like, government is dark and, like, government is bad. If the dark entity already has access to my data, why should I be afraid of some other entity having access to my data? Why should I care? Zuck already does. Elon already does.
Like, every other like, every other company already does. So I just I'm just not worried about that, dude. I'm not worried about that. But it seems like people are pretty in alignment with that. I I from my point of view, most people are enjoying, the the revelations coming from Elon and Doge. I think it's important. And I just wanna see this whole thing. I I wanna see everything coming into the light. I wanna see everything have truth or or or or be or have truth be be shed on that because I think it's I just think it's important. I think it's hyper important, and I think it needs to happen because that's the era we're living in.
Adam Curry says that we're in the season oh, hang on. We're in the, the the the the what's a good one? We're in the season of reveal. That's that's what Adam Curry says. You know, I agree with that, and I think that, you know, we're in this, like, season of light, where even though things are getting more chaotic, there's also things that are becoming more in light. And some people's reactions are gonna be chaotic. You know, it's going to it's going to seem like chaos is increasing. But as we move forward through this time, you need to remember to stay calm.
You need to remember to regulate your emotions and your reactions. Here's the truth. You are in charge of how you react to the present moment, And you need to make the mature choice to stay calm and to not react with an anger, to not allow your emotions to control you, and to not especially do not allow anger to guide you. And that's what a lot a lot of politicians want, you know. And I think that's a big sign. That's a big difference between Trump and all the other politicians. It was a pretty clear distinction towards the end of the campaign that Trump was not leaning on a person's negative emotions.
He would bring up negative things. He would bring up, you know, things that are that that are no good, but those are also, like, there's a way to bring up negative things and to think about negative things as just objective truth and not as, like, emotional issues, you know. So many times people like AOC and and and Elizabeth Warren, they wanna project this story that gets you emotional, that makes you think a certain way, mostly negatively. They want you to feel negatively, and they want you to hate somebody. They they they real there's a system that feeds off of your anger, dude. And, you know, it just reminds me of Star Wars, like, let your anger fuel you.
Like, this is such a it's such a fundamental thing. And as I grow older, it's getting more and more important for me to combat that within my own spiritual practice, and to encourage others to not lean into that. And so, from my perspective right now, I think Elon is on the side of light. I think Trump is on the side of light. And I think, you know, the the entire side of the right, the entire or I guess, I shouldn't say the entire, but, you know, most of the people who are involved with with the GOP or the Republicans, you know, they are they want disclosure, and they want they want things to be more efficient.
And that's what I want as well. So I'm sort of leaning into that more. If you've been following my Instagram, I'm posting more videos on there. I'm, I'm posting more about health and politics. You know, I'm evolving, you know. I'm constantly evolving my content, and, I feel compelled to talk about these political issues, and I feel compelled to, to speak firmly on them. Elon is good. Trump is good. I wear this hat on purpose, dude. I wear this, like, it's MAGA for a reason, dude. It's make America great again. It's make America great again for a reason, dawg. Like, this is not no joke. This is not no bandwagon. Like, I firmly believe that this is what needs to happen right now. And for anyone else watching this that are that's in any part of the world that might disagree with me, I'm not afraid of your judgment, and I would encourage you to think about what does freedom really mean, And what does freedom really look like? If you're a Bitcoiner and there's, like, this side of of Bitcoiners and people online who are, like, anti Zionist and they think Trump is, like, a Zionist and they always wanna point back to the Jews.
Yay wants to hone in on the Jews. Like, we gotta stop justifying hate. We gotta stop justifying hate, y'all. That's not to say that I support Zionists. That's not to say that I support these, like, large scale international conglomerate plans, you know. But that is to say that I trust my leader, to make wise decisions. And I believe and the reason why I voted for this guy is so that he can decrease conflict between these nations. Okay? For anyone who says that, you know, Trump is a Zionist, does that mean that they support the war? And if I support Trump, does that mean I support the war as well? I don't think so.
I don't think so. I think it's getting to a point where you gotta choose conflict or no conflict. Okay? And it can seem like from my view like, from my stance, someone looking at me, maybe I'm choosing conflict for being so firm in this belief and wearing this red hat, but I'm not seeking conflict. I don't want to call you a name. It is those who are who seem to be against this red hat, who seek to call names, who seek to belittle people. People in England, people in Australia, people, people on the East Coast, people on the West Coast. There are people and swaths of communities who snob, who pick up their nose against this idea of an enlightened people, an efficient government.
These are people who are lost. These are people who are trapped within an ideal of the matrix. Okay? I don't have the firm definition of the matrix yet, but I can tell you that the matrix is a projected narrative that you do not fully comprehend yet. I am trying to fully comprehend how I think. I seek to fully comprehend why I make a decision. And so, therefore, I move forward with making decisions and and discuss these, and I'm willing to talk about these online. And within this era of Trump two point o twenty twenty five, like, the forty seventh president is making America greater again.
And, I want every nation to be like this, and I think this can go into you as an individual. You need to audit yourself. You need to doze yourself, bro. You need to doze yourself. You need to be more efficient with your finances. You need to be more efficient with your spirit. You need need to be more efficient with how you clean your house and how you make your bed. That's what Jordan Peterson used to say. You need to make your own bed. And that's what that's what's happening in America right now. We're trying to make up our own bed. And the people who have been comfortable living in slop and lying about that slop are getting angry.
And, that's just a part of the ride, yo. That's just a part of the ride. So I guess that's my spiel. I guess that's my, I guess that's what I have to say about that. If you agree with me, cool. If you don't, it's okay. I just keep on moving forward. Let's move move into the value for value section. Yeah, folks? The America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is, value for value. That means it's time, talent, and treasure. You can engage me in whatever way you like within those three ways. Time and talent, you coming in, you boosting in, just hanging out with me on the live stream. You know, thank you for doing that.
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Bing bap boom bap bing bap bam. The kind of shit you just don't understand. What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Coleman McCormick. It's another week. Another episode. What's going on, everybody? Happy to be here. It's Sunday. February ninth, '7 '50 '6, the PM. Super Bowl Sunday. Sunday. Sunday. Sunday. It's the Super Bowl. I just saw the Eagles win. Great win for the Eagles, folks. The Eagles won. I predicted it. I posted that shit on Instagram this morning. I predicted the win because I'm a freaking boss, dude. I'm connected to the outer universes, and I am living large right now, folks. So I'm just happy to be here.
I'm live streaming again, of course. Get in on this live stream. I'm on Nostr. I'm on Fountain. I'm on RSS. We're in all the apps. I'm just experimenting and troubleshooting all this stuff, and, we're gonna see if we can get more more viewers, more zaps, more boosts, more sats. And, that's just the vibe right now, guys. What I wanna talk about this week is, first, the Super Bowl. Let's just go over the Super Bowl, then I'll go over I wanna talk about the government. Like, what's going on with Doge, dude? So first of all, the Super Bowl, it was sort of boring. Right? Like, it's sort of lame.
Did anyone else think that? Does anyone care about sports? I barely care about sports anymore because as I've gotten older, I've just been thinking about more and more about what's important in my life. And what's more important in my life is things that are about family, health, my body, my spirituality. These things are objectively more important than any freaking game. And, I I just wanna be part of the party. You know, that's where I'm at as well. I don't care about the game, but I care about the party. And I'm a guy who likes to party. And so it's, it's one of those things where I it's like I'm at work, and then I'm hearing these people talk about, dude, did you did you catch the game, dude? Did did you see the fight, dude? Holyfield. Oh my god, dude. Like, oh my god, the quarterback. Oh my god. Like, I just can't relate to those types of conversations at work anymore.
And it's gotten to a point where I just I'm just checking out. And especially with the Super Bowl, like, I try to set myself up for success. You know? I got I got the taco meat. I got the corn tortillas. I got the can of wine. I bought this can of wine that's like it says on the can equivalent to half a bottle. I was like, okay. Great. Let's do it. And even though I said I'm not I'm not drinking anymore, you know, there's, like, these moments where I think I should. And so maybe that's stupid of me. But I I'm interested in engaging with the party. And right now, as I'm recording this, I am not really enjoying it.
I'm not really vibing with it. And I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but, it's like I don't regret drinking the wine, but I was like, what did I think was like, what value did I think the wine was going to give me? Any value? Like, probably nothing. Right? So I'm dealing with that right now, and I'm sobering up right now. And my mouth's pretty dry, so I have I barely have enough water right now. Very little water. But the game was good. The Eagles, like, just blasted out. The Chiefs fuck the Chiefs, dude. I wanted the Eagles to win because the Chiefs win way too much, and they just need to they just need to lose once in a while. You know? Like, that's really what needs to happen.
People need to lose. I remember when I was a kid, I was playing football. When I was in middle school, okay, my deepest memories and lessons that I learned happen in middle school. Seventh grade, I'm playing tackle football for the first time in my life. My team was the best team in the entire league, dude. In the entire school district, the entire Florence Unified School District, Walker Butte was number one. Two thousand nine, dude. We were killing it. And, we went undefeated. And then we get to, we get to the championship game, and we all thought we were gonna win. We thought we were hot shit. You know, dude, like, the seventh and eighth graders. I was in seventh grade. Like, we're like, we're gonna fucking win, dude. We're the biggest people there. We're the fastest. We're the best. We're the best team. We got the heart. We got the soul. We got everything, man.
And then we lose. We lose the undefeated season. And that was the first time in my life that I actually experienced a giant loss. I thought I was gonna win, and I lost. And I remember seeing my friends cry that night. I had friends on the team who were from Texas. And if you know anything about Texas and America and football, Texas takes their football very seriously. And I remember seeing my my my friend, Emilio and his brother. They're just crying, dude. Like, they're just sad. Like, they put their heart into the into the game. And I was like, damn. Like, I can't believe they're crying right now. Like and I wasn't super emotional because, you know, this is not how I am. Like, I'm not attached to games like that. But I was also sad that we lost. Like, I and and I definitely wanted to win.
But seeing my friends cry that night, I was like, holy shit. Like, I actually wanna win for them. I wanna win for them. And going through that loss taught me that even when you think you're hot, you're probably not. And that that's just a real thing that people need to go through. And then the next year, you know, we go through a whole year. The next year is eighth grade, and that loss is, like, simmering within us. It's, like, sinking in deeper into our bones. Like, I can't believe we lost, man. We're not gonna fucking lose this time. Like, the refs suck this time. I I I heard they fired the refs, and, we worked super hard.
The that eighth grade year, we we worked our asses off, and we actually did it again. And we went undefeated again. And we get to the championship game, and what do you know? We win. Oh, yeah, baby. We won. And that was, like, it it was, like, bittersweet because it felt unreal, but it was also an undefeated season. And so we had that we had that power. We had that machleness in us, dude. And, watching these games right now in my life, watching the Super Bowl, I can only relate to them as I was an eighth grader. And so does that mean that, like, sports and these competition games are, like, are amateur or they're, like, childish?
You know, I'm not trying to judge these things because, you you know, we all need an escape, but it's definitely something to think about. And I just don't know how to engage with them anymore, I guess. It's it's something where I it's like I really want to, but I can't. Like, there has to be something else that I engage with. And so I'm just looking for I'm looking for that new connection, you know. Yeah. But whatever. I digress. I digress. So that was today. What I wanna talk about so there's been a lot of news this week about Doge and Elon that I wanna talk about. And on a side note, Kanye, dude, Ye was on. Ye, he's been tweeting a lot. If you haven't been following this Ye news, oh my god, dude. He just keeps going on a rampage, just expressing himself like like the maniac that he is, dude. I'm not trying to judge him or anything, but, you know, Ye is just posting like Ye does.
It's been a really entertaining week. I'll say that. Elon said that the most the most probable outcome is the most entertaining outcome, And, that's sort of being proven right now with the discoveries of Doge, paralleling with, with the with the post of Ye. But I wanna focus on Doge right now, dude. Ye posting porn is like a totally different topic. Doge. Has anyone been following Doge, dude? Like, Doge has been nuts. Right? Like, Doge has been really crazy. I got some stats right here. So Doge has claimed to uncover approximately $236,000,000,000 in fraudulent activities within the federal government. That includes both direct fraud and wasteful spending.
Does anyone believe that number? I am inclined to believe that ginormous number, dude. Over $200,000,000,000. That's, like, that's insane. That's absolutely disgusting. And most of it most of the headlines was revolving around USAD or USAID. This is involving I guess USAID is supposed to, quote, unquote, provide aid to foreign governments to increase democracy, quote unquote. And I just think that's a load of shit, dude. And this is something that I was never fully aware of. I knew that the government had some sort of aid programs. You always hear that word, aid, USAID. The government should aid these other nations.
But you never really know the details about it until Elon Musk comes in. What's incredible about Doge is that it's not a new department. It's actually a rebranded department. Trump rebranded the this, department of security, or the Department of IT that Obama made. And now Elon's in charge of it, and he has access to all the computers, which I think is necessary. And that's how we know all these numbers because Elon is going into the computer system and to and he started with the, with the Department of Treasury, payment systems, and he's just been take I guess they've been taking screenshots and just posting them.
This has been a really weird thing because they don't have any control over spending the money, but they do have full authority to just publicly post the transactions, which I think is crazy. That's like that's like some ex girlfriend shit. That's like your ex girlfriend getting into your phone and just, like, just putting you on blast of of all the other DMs that you got in there. That's like, this is some really shady shit. And the government's been going wild. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, AOC, everyone's claiming that Elon is just, you know this billionaire this billionaire is just too powerful. He we did not the people did not elect Elon Musk. Elon Musk.
And meanwhile, all the memes are like, yes. We did. We absolutely voted for Elon. That's like it's not like Elon wasn't on the campaign trail with Trump. Like, everyone who voted for for Trump was absolutely aligned with with Elon, you know, for the most part. You know? Not to say that you were, like, totally 100% for him, but, you know, it was no secret that a vote for Trump was also a vote for Elon to get in there. And so I've been enjoying this whole Doge thing. I spoke on Doge a few months ago back in December, I think, or November, hoping that Doge would actually, come through with with their promises. And I believe to this point, they are. Elon is is staying true to his word. Trump is staying true to his word. They are doing what they can to uncover the bureaucracy and the fraud and the wasteful spending, and they're trying to make the government more efficient. This is what I want as an American citizen.
As a person in my position, as a 27 year old, I turned 28 in about a month and a half, I want my government to be in peak peak fashion, peak fitness, dude. I want my government to be like freaking Robert Kennedy junior on the lifting weights. You know? He's freaking we got this 60 year old doing doing presses, doing chest presses. Like, that's what I want my government to be like. Like, it's old, but it's fit. Like, it can pick up some heavy weight, dude. And, it's been pretty incredible to see. And this USAD, department, this needs to go. This needs to go away. I don't see any reason why The US needs to be supporting any sort of any sort of government for any sort of reason. Why are we doing that?
Maybe it made sense at at one certain point in time, but I think in this moment in time, it makes no sense. Because of inflation, because of, turmoil, because of risk of war, because of all these different things, we need to go within. This is on, like, a national level and an individual spiritual level. It's time to go within and self regulate. You know? This is like a deep truth. You know? And on a government scale, this is referred to as nationalism. But on an individual scale, this is referred to as personal choices and spirituality. And, the way I think of it, I think everything begins with spirit.
And if America wants to be great again, we need to align our spirit with with truth, with love. And if we have departments that are just giving out money willy nilly to these trans musicals in Guatemala, That ain't spiritual. That's not holy. That's not correct. You know, that's my real opinion on that, dude. Elon continues to go through, and reviewing outgoing government payments for potential fraud and waste. He needs to keep going. Trump gave him permission to go into the military, go into Medicaid, go into Medicare. Elon needs to see everything. We need to know everything. This is the government files, dude. There were the Twitter files, and now we're getting the government files.
This is absolutely important. I got this I so I got Grok up right now. I'm sort of just reading off the bullet points off Grok. Musk's actions with Doge have not been without controversy. There have been complaints from some politicians, which Musk has suggested, might might be due to their involvement in or benefit from the very inefficiencies DOGE aims to eliminate. Additionally, there are ongoing legal challenges regarding DOGE's access to government financial data with concerns about privacy and data misuse. That's a load of shit as well, dude. I do not care what what data do I have to give the government that is not already on Facebook?
What data is so important in my world, in my neck of the woods that needs to be protected by the government? What what is privacy? What is transparency? When every single app that I have is asking for my email and I gave this, like, I like I just did my my taxes on Cash App. Cash App has my Social Security. Cash App is working on top of a banking system that is also engaging with some separate tax system. And so I have this, like, I have this, like, triple decker layer of a system that has my Social Security number, and I'm supposed to think that that's safe with those private companies, private and public companies. And for some reason, the government and politicians want me to be upset that there could be privacy issues with Elon looking at it.
Like, I don't buy that one bit, dude. I don't I'm I'm not afraid of that, and I don't know what's gonna happen. Like, as in I'm not afraid with what could happen if my government data gets out there, dude. If my data gets out there, then that's the government's fault for not being efficient and not being strong. That's just how it is, dude. If a credit if there's a, a credit company, a banking system, if if any company that has your data has a leak, that is that company's problem. So if the government system is not secure enough for there to be an audit, then that means that that system is not strong to begin with.
And so I just have no emotion towards this. I am not afraid of this. I'm just a I'm just a pleb who does my taxes. I just go to work. I do my best to be on time and clock in, clock out, do my job, and just move on with my life. Politicians who want me to be mad at Elon or afraid of this sort of system, looking at these transactions, I I think I agree with Elon and and to say that these politicians most likely are benefiting from the fraud and abuse and inefficiencies. Like, this is just true, you know. Bernie is getting paid from Big Pharma. Warren, Elizabeth Warren, Pocahontas is getting paid by Big Pharma.
They're they have access to slush funds. You know? Different people in the military have access to money, dark money, dark pools. These things exist. And I I just want everything to be in in the light, dude. If people who are on the Bitcoin side and the Nostra side and the Freedom Tech side, we all have this agreement that, like, government is dark and, like, government is bad. If the dark entity already has access to my data, why should I be afraid of some other entity having access to my data? Why should I care? Zuck already does. Elon already does.
Like, every other like, every other company already does. So I just I'm just not worried about that, dude. I'm not worried about that. But it seems like people are pretty in alignment with that. I I from my point of view, most people are enjoying, the the revelations coming from Elon and Doge. I think it's important. And I just wanna see this whole thing. I I wanna see everything coming into the light. I wanna see everything have truth or or or or be or have truth be be shed on that because I think it's I just think it's important. I think it's hyper important, and I think it needs to happen because that's the era we're living in.
Adam Curry says that we're in the season oh, hang on. We're in the, the the the the what's a good one? We're in the season of reveal. That's that's what Adam Curry says. You know, I agree with that, and I think that, you know, we're in this, like, season of light, where even though things are getting more chaotic, there's also things that are becoming more in light. And some people's reactions are gonna be chaotic. You know, it's going to it's going to seem like chaos is increasing. But as we move forward through this time, you need to remember to stay calm.
You need to remember to regulate your emotions and your reactions. Here's the truth. You are in charge of how you react to the present moment, And you need to make the mature choice to stay calm and to not react with an anger, to not allow your emotions to control you, and to not especially do not allow anger to guide you. And that's what a lot a lot of politicians want, you know. And I think that's a big sign. That's a big difference between Trump and all the other politicians. It was a pretty clear distinction towards the end of the campaign that Trump was not leaning on a person's negative emotions.
He would bring up negative things. He would bring up, you know, things that are that that are no good, but those are also, like, there's a way to bring up negative things and to think about negative things as just objective truth and not as, like, emotional issues, you know. So many times people like AOC and and and Elizabeth Warren, they wanna project this story that gets you emotional, that makes you think a certain way, mostly negatively. They want you to feel negatively, and they want you to hate somebody. They they they real there's a system that feeds off of your anger, dude. And, you know, it just reminds me of Star Wars, like, let your anger fuel you.
Like, this is such a it's such a fundamental thing. And as I grow older, it's getting more and more important for me to combat that within my own spiritual practice, and to encourage others to not lean into that. And so, from my perspective right now, I think Elon is on the side of light. I think Trump is on the side of light. And I think, you know, the the entire side of the right, the entire or I guess, I shouldn't say the entire, but, you know, most of the people who are involved with with the GOP or the Republicans, you know, they are they want disclosure, and they want they want things to be more efficient.
And that's what I want as well. So I'm sort of leaning into that more. If you've been following my Instagram, I'm posting more videos on there. I'm, I'm posting more about health and politics. You know, I'm evolving, you know. I'm constantly evolving my content, and, I feel compelled to talk about these political issues, and I feel compelled to, to speak firmly on them. Elon is good. Trump is good. I wear this hat on purpose, dude. I wear this, like, it's MAGA for a reason, dude. It's make America great again. It's make America great again for a reason, dawg. Like, this is not no joke. This is not no bandwagon. Like, I firmly believe that this is what needs to happen right now. And for anyone else watching this that are that's in any part of the world that might disagree with me, I'm not afraid of your judgment, and I would encourage you to think about what does freedom really mean, And what does freedom really look like? If you're a Bitcoiner and there's, like, this side of of Bitcoiners and people online who are, like, anti Zionist and they think Trump is, like, a Zionist and they always wanna point back to the Jews.
Yay wants to hone in on the Jews. Like, we gotta stop justifying hate. We gotta stop justifying hate, y'all. That's not to say that I support Zionists. That's not to say that I support these, like, large scale international conglomerate plans, you know. But that is to say that I trust my leader, to make wise decisions. And I believe and the reason why I voted for this guy is so that he can decrease conflict between these nations. Okay? For anyone who says that, you know, Trump is a Zionist, does that mean that they support the war? And if I support Trump, does that mean I support the war as well? I don't think so.
I don't think so. I think it's getting to a point where you gotta choose conflict or no conflict. Okay? And it can seem like from my view like, from my stance, someone looking at me, maybe I'm choosing conflict for being so firm in this belief and wearing this red hat, but I'm not seeking conflict. I don't want to call you a name. It is those who are who seem to be against this red hat, who seek to call names, who seek to belittle people. People in England, people in Australia, people, people on the East Coast, people on the West Coast. There are people and swaths of communities who snob, who pick up their nose against this idea of an enlightened people, an efficient government.
These are people who are lost. These are people who are trapped within an ideal of the matrix. Okay? I don't have the firm definition of the matrix yet, but I can tell you that the matrix is a projected narrative that you do not fully comprehend yet. I am trying to fully comprehend how I think. I seek to fully comprehend why I make a decision. And so, therefore, I move forward with making decisions and and discuss these, and I'm willing to talk about these online. And within this era of Trump two point o twenty twenty five, like, the forty seventh president is making America greater again.
And, I want every nation to be like this, and I think this can go into you as an individual. You need to audit yourself. You need to doze yourself, bro. You need to doze yourself. You need to be more efficient with your finances. You need to be more efficient with your spirit. You need need to be more efficient with how you clean your house and how you make your bed. That's what Jordan Peterson used to say. You need to make your own bed. And that's what that's what's happening in America right now. We're trying to make up our own bed. And the people who have been comfortable living in slop and lying about that slop are getting angry.
And, that's just a part of the ride, yo. That's just a part of the ride. So I guess that's my spiel. I guess that's my, I guess that's what I have to say about that. If you agree with me, cool. If you don't, it's okay. I just keep on moving forward. Let's move move into the value for value section. Yeah, folks? The America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is, value for value. That means it's time, talent, and treasure. You can engage me in whatever way you like within those three ways. Time and talent, you coming in, you boosting in, just hanging out with me on the live stream. You know, thank you for doing that.
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And so that's what's going on. And I just wanna give a quick shout out for last week, number one forty six. I had some people coming into the livestream last week, at Pies. I no. No. No. Who's in? It was Lyceum Lyceum. My guy, he came in with a few thousand sats. Thank you for thank you for that. We got we got my cat Blue here. What up, Blue? Wanna see Blue here? Blue, you wanna say hi to the people? No? Okay. Cool. Cool, blue. Cool. Who else came in? Chad f, came into the live stream last week. Thank you, Chad f, for doing that. Thank you for sending in some boost. And then, the boostograms, from last week. The people who boosted in after the live stream.
We got one of them from, our friend at Pies. Okay. I used it now. A quick note on Pies. I used to say, Pies. And for some reason, I just thought that was how it was pronounced. But on Nostr, I saw this guy boost in to a different podcast, and I guess they were discussing how to pronounce his name. And he said, it's pronounced Pies, like Pies. And I was like, what the fuck, Pies? Like, I didn't know this the whole time. He doesn't wanna correct anyone because he just loves the podcasting people. So I guess that's nice, but, Pai sent in a boost to gram. He sends in a wonderful 420 sets, and what he has to say is, v for v. Yes, sir.
Boost is basically you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Pies was the only boost to grammar last week, so just shout out to Pies for being the number one supporter. I love you, man. Thank you for chiming in. Thank you for doing your thing. And, if you're boosting in right now, I still don't have a way to see the boostograms live on my computer. Let me go back to Nostur. Nostur. That's that's Noster with a u, n o s t u r. What's the best way to look at these things? I don't fully know yet. But regardless.
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Introduction and Super Bowl Recap
Reflections on Sports and Personal Growth
Doge and Government Fraud Allegations
Nationalism and Personal Responsibility
Transparency and Political Critique
Personal Beliefs and Political Stance
Value for Value and Community Engagement
