Evening News with MarkZ. 03/05/2025
This is a test. Moose can cook for me. Sounds like he and I have the same taste buds.
Hello, Miss Jeannie. Hello, Beach Frat Eatpans KKB. See how the folks over there.
Goldleaf is in the house. Halfpint’s in the house. Gaga Mama, it’s good to see you over there on the kick side.
Hello, Valerie Hevia. Uh-oh, Cyclone Alfred has slowed down. Now predicted to make landfall late Friday, early Saturday.
Our time looks like southern suburbs of Brisbane and the Gold Coast will be most effective. Still cat, too. Praying for you guys.
Hello, Tabitha. Said, who else saw JD Vance and Tulsi Gabbard at the border today? Welcome back, America. I did not see that.
Hello, Salty Life. Hello, Gator. Hello, Jason D. Abbott.
Hello, Becca Gwen Patriot. The chicken soup. Hello, Patty Peary Victoria.
Hello, Brittany. Just trying to read all you guys. Caroline, I wouldn’t read too much into that one yet.
Hopefully, we’ll still. It’s going to take time, guys. Doge has to save enough to have a dividend.
Adam, I’m going to remember that. I think you might be the first call. Hey, Adam, I got the number you wanted.
Right before we go live. Freedom, I’m on the northwest coast. Northwest coast.
Well, not on the coast, but close. I can see the coast. It’s all the President talking.
Notice that the Lollipop Guild is still a special group of people. They are special. They’re so darn clueless.
I mean, it must be painful. Think about that one. Cheering for the young man with cancer that just the young boy who just wants to be a police officer just hopes.
Terminal, most likely, just hopes that somehow he will survive it and get to have his life dream. No cheers. Ridiculed, even.
Megan Riley’s family, pretty much ridiculed. The other mother who two violent illegal immigrants killed, raped. I mean, just at every turn.
And they sat there just numb to it, making their, wearing their whatever, holding up their signs. I mean, it really was absolutely. And it is showing.
There are a lot of internal pollings right now. The DNC is in pure panic mode, or at least much of the staffs are the elected officials. They’re clueless.
They’re still going to double down on stupid, do it and keep doing it. Because the reality is they don’t care. Unwashed masses, the plebeians, they don’t care.
Pretty daggone evil in my book. They simply, somewhere they lost their humanity. Their virtue signaling became more important than their love for humanity and other people.
Sad, but anyways. GKM, it’s too difficult to say what the best beach is in Puerto Rico. There’s so many.
If you’re just looking for fun and a party. Crash boat beach is awesome. Combat beach.
I mean, there’s so many. It depends on what you like. If you want a beautiful beach, there’s so many hidden beaches that tourists don’t go to that are exponentially prettier.
Depends on what you like. Reading a few of these. Sorry about that.
I get quiet when I start reading. See what you guys have going on in your lives. No heart, no humanity.
At what point do you wake up and you look in the mirror and you realize you’ve lost your humanity? At what point do they recognize the fact that the virtue signaling is more important than the people? That would have to be tough. That’s right. I am glad you said that.
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Are there homeless in the streets in Puerto Rico? No, not really. Probably each little Pueblo area may have one or two, but nothing like we have stateside if that’s the question. And people here take care of each other.
So even if they are in that condition, local bakery will feed them lunch. Somebody will drop off bottles of water. It’s very different here.
It’s not perfect. It’s just different. I like it.
Angelina, once again, we should have that link for you by the end of the week on the Ben Ben Ivermectin source, et cetera, for all your research chemical needs. Hello, Clifford. Just reading a few of these.
It is about time for Penny to lay on top of the keyboard. Right now, I’m like, actually, wait. Looking behind me to see if she was behind me.
She’s been sleeping on the couch behind me nonstop. Not yours, no. Not really anything new in that speech last night.
It was more confirmations of what we’ve already been doing and where we’re headed. It was a great wake-up call for the masses. It was surprisingly well-watched, especially when you consider 76% of the people very much enjoyed it.
And then the breakup was surprisingly only about 60% or so MAGA slash Republican. So when you do that math, roughly about half of every Democrat that watched it loved it, thought it was a huge win for Donald Trump. So what do you have? You’ve got 98% of Republicans that watched it, thought it was just an enormous, just a fantastic success and was well-liked.
And about half of Democrats that watched it felt the same. Yeah, the internal polling right now in much of the congressional and senatorial camps around D.C. right now are very much realizing that they missed their target audience completely, utterly. And then they continue on social media today to double down on it.
No more updates on any Tier 3 people getting a currency appointment. I have one that is still slated for one later in the day tomorrow. And we’re going to see if that changes.
Checked in again today. Still no change. Still set for tomorrow.
We’ll see. I don’t have much hope for that one. I think he’s just a few days premature.
But I’m ready. Let’s see. Yeah, Trump did say balanced budget.
Last one we saw was post-Kuwait with Bill Clinton with Newt Gingrich as the speaker. Hatcher, see if I can follow this logic here. Hey, Mark, these big banks have to have gold and draw it from the smaller banks that have made Basel III.
Is there a surprise? Yeah, I don’t know how that one works, Hatcher. I do imagine that we’re going to see some surprise audits. We’re already seeing them.
A lot of banks have been working some stupid, crazy weekend hours lately. That is one thing that I learned after this weekend. And I’m glad somebody said something, Hatcher, because you knowingly or unknowingly tickled a few memory cells in there.
It is one thing that my redemption source said on Monday was, hey, after this weekend, we are ready now. Bank of England. Yeah, well, find me a central bank that’s not in default.
They’re just hiding it. It’s a plastic gold plate. It’s going to be curious.
All right, guys, we’ve gone too long. I need to get to the news so we can get on to whiskey and wisdom later. More of the confusing back and forth yo-yo news.
In the coming days, parliament expectations to resume the export of Kurdistan oil through CN. Same day, Kurdistan oil export filed. Corporate expenses enter the agreement.
Still got to pound these out between the different companies. What they’re saying right now is some of the companies are saying, you know, you need to prepay us all this drama back and forth about who pays who for transmission costs. We would rather you pay us ahead than wait in case this fight continues.
So there is a little bit of back and forth between Baghdad herbal and the companies there. You’ll see somebody blink soon. This is just a game of chicken.
What would make the most sense is they’re going to meet in the middle. Half the transmission costs will get paid up front. And then after the end of one month, then it’ll start coming after they’ve I’m told they already have a working framework for the compromise and expect an announcement probably tomorrow or Friday that they are pumping oil.
All right, the ins and outs. I loved this one. I don’t know if loved is a proper word for it.
I enjoyed this one evaluation. The central bank’s March in 22 years. They go through everything they’ve been through, and it’s a kind of a long read.
They break it down year by year. The shocks overcoming the economic security shock during the first one. 2003 inflation was through the roof.
All the things they had to do to the currency. Oh, my God. Getting it all back on track.
Blah, blah, blah. Keep going down to the end. And they want you to know that, man, we have done it.
We have turned it on its ear. We are now successful. We’re transparent.
We are stable, and we’re working for, quote, sustainable development in the Iraqi economy. That you would enjoy. I’m turning off the news banner just because I am.
They don’t want it down there distracting me. Little HD. HD HD.
All right. You know what I’m saying? Hey, look, a butterfly. No different from the previous one.
The 2025 budget is expected to reach Iraqi parliament before the end of the month. Meaning they plan on having it finish the 2025 budget. Before then, budget tables and HCL.
Just letting us know that they are very much moving forward in Iraq. An interesting one on BRICS when we haven’t seen much lately. BRICS confirms development of a new payment systems in 2025.
They expect to unveil it, announce it in July. Now, guys, this is not a BRICS currency. This is a BRICS new payment system.
Meaning that if you’re a BRICS country, they will settle everything in your local currency or the currency of that country. But they will allow back and forth. Meaning the countries will trade in each other’s currencies.
It’s not a unified BRICS currency. What it is is a unified payment system. Think of it as a complete alternative to SWIFT for these countries.
This one’s a big piece. And this one, up until now at least, Trump has not had any problem with. It does solve a lot of problems for these developing countries.
And for the countries that are outside of Western influence. To stabilize their ability to move goods amongst each other. And for the citizens of those nations to have a higher standard of living.
So, to me, that one’s a good one. Now, the one I really wanted to tackle. And finally, finally, ADHD.
Yeah, all right, that’ll work. I’m just saying we’re really close. Yeah, we’re still looking for arrests.
But like Mr. C said, most arrests will occur hours before or immediately after anything high profile. I’m so ready for it. All right, guys, especially all of you folks.
No, AOC was absent because she was boycotting. She said she was boycotting, won’t give him the time of day. That did not play well for her.
All right, radical leftist streamer calls for Senator Rick Scott to be killed. Banned from Twitch for less than 24 hours. That’s all it took.
Guys, this is the reason I left Twitch. Far left Twitch streamer Hassan Piker went to yet another unhinged rant a few days ago, criticizing Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson’s approach to fixing Medicaid fraud. Said, yeah, no, we just need to kill murder, I think is the word they were using.
If you, Mike Johnson, cared about Medicare or Medicaid, you would kill Rick Scott. Okay, that is not acceptable. It is not acceptable rhetoric, language.
Guys, this is the reason. He is one of many streamers on Twitch. He is the one specifically that caused me to leave because Twitch refused to do anything about it.
You should hear some of the things he, well, some of the things, pretty much everything he says about anybody that may be Jewish. And he doesn’t hold anything back. He’s related to folks from the Young Turks.
Let’s see, Hassan Piker’s called for the killing of Senator Rick Scott of Florida. Hassan repeatedly says, kill Rick Scott. Guys, this is, I know it’s sensitive language, and it’s difficult, but he says a kind of apology.
He says, hey, I used a little stronger rhetoric than I should have. I should have used corporal or non-corporal punishment. Didn’t ever apologize for it, just talked around an apology.
Twitch only removed him for 24 hours. After his rants about doing the same thing to Jewish people, they did nothing. Many other podcasters slash folks at Twitch are emboldened by this, and Twitch refuses to do anything about it.
So if you’re wondering why I removed myself from Twitch and gave them a warning, they did nothing. I know I don’t have three million followers on Twitch. I know I’m not nearly as big on Twitch as this fellow, but I’m one of hundreds that are leaving.
You saved one, one big one, but you lost hundreds of medium and smaller ones, and you lost your credibility. So until Twitch steps up, if you want to know why I’m not at Twitch, that’s why I’m not at Twitch. Yeah, see, Peden, you’re catching on.
Trump said he was going to balance the budget. Kind of sounded like Slick Willie in Kuwait. Yes, it does, a whole heck of a lot.
Yeah, so, you know, how do you want to handle it? I wanted to talk about it. At the same time, I didn’t want people rushing over there. All I can say is I won’t be associated with Twitch until they make some very decisive moves to remove hate from their platform.
From the speech last night, Air Force recruitment, source of 15-year high, Army recruitment, 15-year high, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, I just thought it would be interesting to bring the numbers. We heard that last night. Many people were looking for receipts, and here are your receipt slash article with details on the increase and what they believe.
Basically, it’s okay to love America again, if you want it in a nutshell. I’ll give you the cliff notes. Very positive, though, for morale in the nation.
Similar to when Reagan took office, nobody wanted to be in the military. Suddenly it became okay to love your country again. No country’s perfect.
I want to remind everybody on that one. I’m stunned. SCOTUS, dissenters, rages, liberals, unfreeze to be in USAID foreign aid payments.
You want to talk about divisive. This one was divisive. Of course, you will have to guess.
I don’t think any of y’all will have a problem. Guess which two conservative judges leaned with the left for this one. I can kind of understand one or two of their arguments, but overwhelmingly, no, not at all.
Yeah, Amy Comey Barrett and John Roberts are the ones that voted with the liberals on this front. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, make certain I get all of these, Thomas, all of them very, very, very upset. See, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Barrett sided with the liberal members.
You should hear the dissenting opinions on this one. But they did give us a little piece here. They said the ruling forces immediate payment of $2 billion for completed work, in other words, work that had already been completed, should never have been spent, but it was.
They did the work. Even if the work was against American interests, they’re saying you’ve got to pay it. But they did say you don’t have to pay anything that hasn’t been completed.
You can and those, I mean, there was some bonus out of it. So there was a little, but it is very interesting to see just what the conservative, the actual conservative justices had to say on it. And boy, were they not happy.
The dissent by Justices Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh was extremely strongly worded. Does a single district court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the government of the United States to pay out and probably lose forever $2 billion? The answer to that question should be an emphatic no. But a majority of this court apparently thinks otherwise.
I’m stunned. Today the court makes a most unfortunate misstep that rewards an act of judicial hubris and imposes a $2 billion penalty on an American taxpayer. The district court has made plain its frustration with the government and the respondents raised serious concerns about nonpayment for completed work.
But the relief ordered is quite simply too extreme a response. Federal court has too many tools to address a party’s supposed nonfeasant self anyways. Very upset with it.
I do love this. It’s forcing, though, what am I looking for? Creating precedence. Now we do know that Trump absolutely has the right to cancel spending.
They’re just saying he doesn’t have the right to cancel spending for work that’s already been completed. In other words, right, wrong, or indifferent. We contracted for it.
They did it. We got to pay them. The news is, though, if they haven’t done it, he doesn’t have to pay them and he can cancel it.
So it was kind of one of those, a big win, a big loss. It was a bigger win long term. In the short term, it was a little bit of a loss.
I’m going to share one more. No, two or three more. Weak demand.
Goldman lowers Tesla factory delivery estimate for quarter. Boy, I tell you, mainstream press is having a ball with this one. But let’s really dive in and give it some context.
Corporate media was out in full force on Wednesday, eagerly highlighting new data showing that Tesla sales in Europe plunged in February. These outlets claim that Elon Musk has alienated some EV buyers who oppose his doge initiatives, which support the president’s efforts to drain the D.C. swamp of corrupt officials and NGOs. Now, look at all these cool headlines.
I did a little more work than Zero Hedge did on this one, which I kind of wish they had done a little more. Tesla for sale. Buyer’s remorse sinks in for Elon Musk’s EV-owning critics.
Tesla sales in Germany slump in February, in line with European markets. Tesla’s U.K. sales rise despite a backlash over Musk’s political role. Tesla’s another bad month in Germany.
Sales tumble 76%. All right, let’s take it all into account. Let’s look at it.
The industry, EV market specifically, worldwide has tanked. Europe, as well, as people are saying, you know, cars really aren’t that bad and more convenient. The burned fuel, the industry as a whole in Europe is down about 10%.
Actually, 22%, down about 22%. Oh, no, they have a good 22% market share. 10% decline is what the European EV makers have witnessed over the past year.
10% industry-wide. Industry-wide, this is important. Tesla is down 22,000 units, or about 5%, 5.5%. So, they could have run the headlines saying, Tesla is only down half as much as the average EV company during this sales slump.
In other words, they’re outperforming every other EV maker in the market by a wide margin, by at least 50%. But the headlines they choose, because of Elon Musk being at the presidential address last night, was absolutely the worst-case scenario. I just get a kick out of this one.
Do they not take time to think, this is the problem with the left. They never do the math. They never say, okay, is there a common-sense reason? The industry is down 10%.
Tesla is down 5.5%. We got the numbers in here. They were expected to deliver 375. They were expected to release 399, so 24,000, about 5.5%. The industry is off 10%, meaning they are clearly, clearly outperforming all of their competitors.
Now, here’s my big win for the day. Man, was I excited when this one popped into my inbox today. The COVID-era smearing and resurrection of Trump.
National Institute of Health appointee, Dr. J. Okay, I always mess this one up. All I can do is apologize to the doctor. We’re going to call you Dr. J. I don’t know if you play ball or not, but we’re still going to call you Dr. J. I’m tickled.
You went from persecuted for telling the truth, for being a doctor, and putting science first. They tried to ruin you. Hell, they tried to lock you up.
They tried to alienate your family, your friends, your tenure, everything. They went after you, and now you wind up on top because you stayed true to your profession of medicine, science, and taking care of people. Boy, I tell you, I was so excited to see this one.
I don’t think there’s many that deserve this recognition and this redemption than Dr. J. That one tickled me to no end to see that one. Yeah, I mean, he was in terrible shape. They persecuted.
They threw him under the bus. They did everything to ruin this man and his family, and lookie there, back on top. Now he’s in charge of all of those people that used gain-of-function.
All right, you know where I’m going on this one, guys. I’m just downright tickled, downright tickled. I love this one, KKB.
Could you show me some love and remove me? You guys are not right. You’ve got a bunch of masochists at work on Rumble. But y’all are funny.
Yeah, Melissa, you’re right. They did almost as bad to him as they did to Trump. I mean, it was unreal what they did to him.
All right, we do have that one. One more comment or commentary, and then I’m going to call it a wrap and get ready for whiskey and wisdom. I got one question to the left.
Anybody out there that’s a Democrat or even to the Rhino Republicans, do you believe our government is efficient? Do you believe that they are doing the best that they can do with our tax dollars? Do you think that there is any waste? Have you ever been to a government facility and very unimpressed with the level of help that you received or the level of services that you received? This is a simple question. It’s a yes or no, and it’s a very simple one. Do you think that there is any efficiency issues or fraud in government? You want to know what? Pretty much 100% of people around the world find fault in their governments and how they spend money.
Overwhelmingly, that number probably is more like 110% based on who’s actually here. I know it can’t be over 100% because that doesn’t make any sense, but in this one, it does in a country that doesn’t properly track who’s here and who’s not here. One thing we can all universally agree on, government is inefficient.
Government wastes money. Government employees tend to be lazy. Not all.
There are some fantastic individuals in public service that care, very much care. They just are the exception, not the rule. When we see DOJ doing their thing, when we see an address like that, when we see that waste being pointed out, all you do is ruin your credibility when you fight those efforts to find the waste.
Now, you could certainly go in and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute. You’re right, there’s waste, but there’s a better way to do this. Now, show us that way.
Give us your input, but still go after the waste. To just try to kill any effort to remove waste when you know it’s there, that’s criminal. It’s criminal against the American people and the taxpayer.
That’s criminal in the U.K. if it’s the U.K. government. It’s criminal in France if it’s the French government, in my book. You have a responsibility to do the best that you can with those taxpayer dollars.
If you are in government, just like if you’re a minister, you have a responsibility to the people in your congregation. If you’re a politician, you have a responsibility to the people that you represent. If you are a doctor, you have a responsibility to treat, treat.
I’m talking about not treat negatively. I’m talking about in your best conscience to do the right thing for your patients. If you’re a doctor, this is to me holy.
If you’re a leader, it’s your responsibility to do the best job that you can to lead people in a proper way. So just look at yourself in the mirror on the left. Ask yourself, what am I doing? I mean, is government truly that perfect that you don’t think there’s any room for improvement? Because if you think that, we know you’re delusional.
There’s no other option because we already know it. I mean, otherwise, there wouldn’t be people on voter rolls that are 360 years old or in social security rolls. There wouldn’t be people on voter rolls that were born in 1900.
It just, it doesn’t happen. I guess we can agree that maybe somebody punched in the wrong numbers, but certainly you can fix it. Punch in the right numbers.
Fix it. Care enough to do your job. All right, that’s just my gripe.
As I have been looking at social media today and all of them screaming about Doge this and I can’t believe that, none of them address the elephant in the room. That’s the waste, the inefficiency, and the corruption in government. They’re just going to pretend it doesn’t exist.
The problem is we all know it exists. The elephant, it’s sitting right there, right here in the same room. We all see it, which means you have no credibility.
I know, probably wasting my time complaining, but yes, another Democratic seat opened up. Let’s see. Sylvester Turner, congressman and former Houston mayor, dies at 70.
I probably should have started with a brief one on that one. A longtime critic of the right. Definitely a trompeter, passes away.
Congressman that was there last night at the address wasn’t feeling well, did have some health issues already, and passed. Turner’s death was announced by John Whitmire, the current Houston mayor, today on social media. Wasn’t feeling well.
They took him to the hospital. He passed. Wonder what seat that opens up for.
Man, you want to talk about crazy. The Senate shuffling right now as the left is trying to figure out how to force another seat. It’s unreal watching this.
It’s getting nuts. All right, I’m getting out of here. For those that would like to join me, I am going to have whiskey and wisdom with Mike Zester, and we’ll see who else pops in.
Definitely no Andy tonight, guys. I know Andy’s functional. He is looking forward to his long golf weekend.
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