Episode 2668 CWSA 11⧸23⧸24
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1 hour and 18 minutes
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139.73755
Summary
In this episode, we talk about a new study that says cold water is actually not as bad as you might think, and some breakthroughs in the field of energy storage and solar cell technology that could lead to cheaper and more efficient energy storage devices.
Transcript
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me now. For the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine, the end of the day, the thing that
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gives you a little bit of oxytocin that you didn't even earn. It's called the simultaneous sip.
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Well, there's a new study that says that cold plunges are not actually helpful after all.
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And it's really just a way to make you torture yourself and take pictures that you can put
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on social media. Now, I don't know if that's true, but NBC News says, according to the American
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Physiological Society, warm water is better for you. So ice is good for injuries. And it's good
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for showing off how much cold you can take. It's not that good for you. However, I would
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add this caveat. When science does not agree with personal experience, which one do you
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trust? It's a tough one. Based on personal anecdotal experience of me watching other people, because
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there's no way in hell I'm going to get in a big, big, there's not the slightest chance in
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the world I would ever get in a bunch of ice water and sit there. Literally nothing could
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make me do that. But the people who do do it, they report that the rest of their day is much more
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awesome. So if you were to just look at the psychological, mental aspects of it, I suspect
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you would have a different opinion. So I'm guessing that the psychological part of it,
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you know, just really getting your body going is probably pretty amazing. However, I think I will
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stick to my hot baths and hot water. Here's a little, this sounds like a little thing that might
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be a big thing. So there's, according to SciNews, researchers found a way to convert CO2 into methane
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in a really efficient way. They've got this special nickel-based catalyst. Now imagine that. Imagine if
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you could, you could get essentially energy just out of the air. Because apparently this is a big
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enough breakthrough that it would really make it economical, without a lot of equipment and expense
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to actually convert CO2, which is everywhere in the air, into methane, which you could then use as a power
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source. Now that's pretty cool. Again, for the NPCs, a special note for the NPCs, if you're a player,
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you don't need to listen to this. But if the NPCs, oh no, the nickel catalyst is going to take all the
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CO2 out of the air, and then our plants will die. Don't they know our plants will die? Doesn't anybody
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know that CO2 is plant food, and all the plants are going to die? All right, I just have to say that
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for any story about pulling CO2 out of the air. They're not wrong.
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Now also, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they've got this new way to store energy,
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rather than having lithium batteries. They've got some kind of bromide-based aqueous flow
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batteries. Promising. That's right, bromide-based. So if you're a bro,
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that's probably not what bromide is about. But the current way that they use this technology isn't
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really as efficient as it needs to be. But it turns out they've made some developments in the
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non-lithium batteries that would make them not burst into fire, because lithium always has that risk.
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And they would last a long time. So it might be a way to store energy in the grid
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in a way that lithium maybe is not so good for. So that's a big deal. And how about this?
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Scientists, according to NoRidge, they've created a durable coating to boost their perovskite solar
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cells. So that's not the normal kind. Normally, the solar cells are silicon. But there's this other
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kind that they don't use much because it doesn't last very long. It wears out or something. But now
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they've got this special protective coating to make it last a long time, which could make the cost of
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solar come way down. So these are all the things that are just sort of in laboratories and stuff.
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Here's another one. This one is the coolest one, I think. Rice University, according to the science
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blog, quantum physics being used to convert industrial heat into electricity. Did you know
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that there is a device that can turn heat into light? And then when it's light, they can use
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solar devices to turn it into electricity. So there's some big breakthrough here.
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The breakthrough centers on improving the thermophotovoltaic systems, which transforms
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heat into electricity through light. And they've got efficiency levels above 60%. And it's within the
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practical zone. So that's pretty cool. Imagine turning heat into light and then into electricity.
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So I would say that at this point, we're on the cusp where you could pull your water out of the air.
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So I have, I literally, I have a device in my kitchen that I haven't taken out of the box yet,
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that will just take water out of the air. So presumably it would be cleaner than the water I would get out of my
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swimming pool if there was a problem. So then what if you could take your CO2 out of the air
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and turn it into energy? What if you can make these gigantic breakthroughs in batteries and solar
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and solar voltaics, photovoltaics? You can get all your energy out of the air and all of your water out
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of the air. The only thing you'd need to live off the grid then would be some way to, you know, get rid of,
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get rid of your waste and your sewage problems. But I feel like that's coming. Living off the grid. It's almost
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here. Did you know, according to International Business Times that, and Mark Moore is writing about this,
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almost 10% of South Korea's workforce is a robot. I don't know why they call it the workforce.
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But factory robots are about 10% of South Korea's workforce. That's the most.
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But apparently China is trying to catch up. They got a bunch of robots, Germany and Japan.
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But South Korea is leading with the most. They've got a thousand robots per 10,000 employees.
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Wow. China's got 470 robots per 10,000 employees. Now, here's the problem.
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In the United States, if we replace employees with robots, then we can be competitive with China,
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actually more than competitive, because they might be using robots too, and they pay, you know,
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they cost the same. There as here, but we don't have to do the shipping. You wouldn't have to worry
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about any of the international problems. You just do it locally. So robots are good for America,
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but wouldn't robots completely destroy China? Because their economy depends on having a gazillion
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people working in factories. But if they replace them with robots, what exactly are the other people
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going to be doing? In the United States, we've already replaced most of those workers. So, you know,
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we're in a whole different situation. I mean, we have our own problems, obviously.
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Well, according to the Marijuana Herald, which I'm guessing is some kind of publication,
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marijuana and THC improve working memory in aging people. Well, it's an animal study, actually.
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So they're trying to generalize this to people, but I think that's a stretch.
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So it helps the working memory, maybe. I don't believe this one one bit. I would say that
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probably not. Probably not. What model predicted all of this? That's true. My book, The Dilber Future.
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According to Psypost, a single dose of psilocybin can boost optimism in animals. So again, animals
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are lucky. Can you imagine being a lab rat and you find out you're a lab rat? You're like,
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why are we in this cage? What's going on? And the other rats say, we're lab rats. They're going to
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experiment on us. And then you say, is that bad? Oh God, it's bad. They're going to rip our bodies
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up and they're going to diagnose our brains and it's going to be horrible. And then you find out
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that you're one of the psilocybin rats. All right, rat, we're going to give you this mood enhancing drug
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and we want to see if you act a little more optimistically. And the rats are like, well,
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you don't have to tell me twice. You're going to give me excellent drugs. If I just act
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optimistically, I'm feeling optimistic already because I'm looking at my cousin over there and
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he's being torn apart by the other experiments, but I'm just getting these good psilocybin drugs.
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The luckiest rats in the world. Well, the Daniel Penny defense arrested, that's the case of the
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Daniel Penny, the guy who accidentally may have been involved in the death of, or maybe not the
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death of somebody he restrained on a, on a subway. Penny did not testify in his own defense.
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Probably the best play because it sounds like the people who did defend, defend him. Sounds like
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they did the job. Now, I'm going to say this again. This Daniel Penny thing really matters to me.
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Now, of course, you know, it's not just because he might be unfairly jailed,
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but because he sort of represents something way bigger than the details of his trial.
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This is the question of, can we get justice in the United States when race is involved?
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And I think the answer is no. I don't think so. Now, you could say to me, but Scott, you know,
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for hundreds of years, it was opposite. If you were black, you could not get justice in the,
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in the justice system. And maybe it's still a little bit true now. Sure. I'm not, not doubting that,
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but the Daniel Penny thing is also racially based, you know? And so the question is,
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can we get justice when race is an important part of the question? So far, the answer seems to be no,
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but we are entering the, the golden age. It does seem like the entire civilization just
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decided to be different one day. So I'm still optimistic, more optimistic than a lab rat on
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psilocybin that he's going to be completely found innocent. But I got to say again, if he's not,
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I feel like it requires a, a public response, not violence, of course, obviously, but
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I don't think we can let that stand because it's just so obvious that he should not go to jail.
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Just super, super obvious. If it were not obvious, I'd say, well, you know, you know,
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the jury heard more evidence than I did, but I'm sorry. I heard plenty. I don't really need any
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extra details on this one. He needs to go free. So we'll see what happens.
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I, uh, I had the notion to ask the following question on X and you got to see the answers.
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It's mind blowing. I asked people on X, how many people had made money recently because of something
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they heard me say, you know, either on X or on a live stream, it turns out there's a lot of people
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who made a lot of money by listening to me. Now, in some cases they said they learned how to build
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their talent stack. They got a big raise or a better job. Some cases they use systems over goals and
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they got them big races and, you know, started businesses of their own. And, uh, sometimes even
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though I, I told you, please do not take my financial advice for investment. Many of you did
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anyway and bought Tesla stock a few months ago. You're pretty happy about it. So a number of people
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invested in, uh, nuclear entities and Tesla and, uh, some cases Bitcoin. And at the moment we all look
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like geniuses. If we have any of those, of course I could change in a moment, but, uh, you really
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need to look at the comments on that. Because if you look at the comments, you're going to see that
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a huge number of people have just completely changed their lives because they heard something
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that worked for them. Now I'm not the only person in the world saying useful things, right? There,
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there, there are plenty of people doing this, but it seems to me that some of the best education today
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is just coming from podcasts. You know, the number of people who are just trying to help you
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and know something you don't know, and they put it on a podcast and then you get smarter.
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I really think podcasts are, have almost become some kind of replacement college.
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But a lot of people made money from, uh, something I said online, um, which made me ask this question.
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I feel like this service needs to exist. So we've got all these AI companies training on,
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you know, stuff that's on social media. And then the New York times complained and say,
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you took my proprietary information and built it into your AI. That's not fair.
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I feel like there should be some kind of a agency or, or a clearing house where people like me could say,
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Hey, does anybody who has an AI business want to take everything I've ever done and then license it
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for training? Now, not exclusively, although that would be an option, uh, you know, exclusively would
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be wildly expensive, but why wouldn't people want to make sure that they were legal?
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Now, here's the reason that I suggest doing this with me. So I saw somebody in the comments with the,
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who had some mental problems saying that I must be full of ego for asking if people made money for
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my advice, but also for suggesting that maybe I could, maybe AI would want to incorporate my material.
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Well, these are related thoughts. If it's true that listening to me makes you richer,
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and you can look at the comments yourself. It's a lot of people who say I'm making them richer.
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You know, a number of people say I've helped them lose weight, quit drinking, um, get better jobs,
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better social lives, get married, cure diseases. People have learned how to do creative stuff,
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learned how to write for me. So given that I've spent the last 20 years of my life or so
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trying to figure out how to tell people to do things more effectively,
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if you were to train your AI on me and then say, Hey, do you want some advice from this character?
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Now, don't you think there should also be a Jordan Peterson AI and that he should be able to take all of
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his great advice and say, why don't I license this to you? And then anytime you, somebody wants to turn
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on the Jordan Peterson, uh, vibe might even be his voice. He could give you the advice that Jordan
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Peterson would probably give you. I think that's a good idea. So, but there's, there's no market for it.
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There, there needs to be some kind of a agency or market for it. I'm surprised that CAA isn't doing
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that or the agents. It seems like the agencies that are promoting like living, uh, stars should be
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also packaging up their entities and licensing them. You know, shouldn't, shouldn't you be able to take
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all of the, I don't know, Tom Cruise movies and then train on it in case you want to make your own movie
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someday? So there's a market that needs to be created. We'll wait for that. So, uh, Trump has a new, uh,
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treasury secretary, treasury secretary. Um, his name is Scott, right? Besant.
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And, uh, he's considered a, uh, safe sort of a business as usual guy. That's according to Elon Musk.
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Um, so I don't know. I think Elon Musk wanted somebody else, but this one's seems safe. So if the,
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if the market wants a safe pick that is also, uh, going to be pro-Trump, looks like they got one.
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So I think that won't be too much of a problem. Uh, Matt Gates is starting to talk about what his
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future would look like, but he's only leaving. Um, yeah, he's a hedge fund billionaire investor guy,
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Besant is. So he seems to have all the right skills.
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Yeah. Yeah. Have you noticed there are a lot, a lot of people named Scott and the news this year,
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for details. Please play responsibly. Right. Scott Jennings. Scott doesn't. There's just a lot of
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scots lately. Too many. Anyway, Matt Gates says, uh, he's not going away and, uh, we don't know what
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he's going to do yet, but he's definitely not going to go back into government right away. So he's not
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going to people speculated as I did that he might cleverly say, aha, I only quit from my
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last term. I didn't really resign from my upcoming term that I already won. Scott Pressler too,
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right. Scott Galloway. Right. I'm not wrong that the name Scott is just all over the place this year.
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I've never seen so many Scots kind of break through at the same time. It's something weird about that.
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Anyway, I think Matt Gates is signaling that he's going to do something in the private
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sphere. And my guess would be something in the media zone. I think, I think he's just so good
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with the verbal stuff and he understands government. He's been there. He's been behind the curtain,
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et cetera. I'd be amazed if he doesn't come up with some show on rumble or something like that. So my
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guess is that he would be part of some pretty professional platform that may exist or may be
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created for his benefit. I did see, didn't rumble recently have an announcement that there's going
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to be a major addition to their platform, a major talent. Could it be that the major talent coming to
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rumble is Matt Gates? Because that would make sense, right? So we'll see. Over on CNN,
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legal analyst Eli Honig, he thinks that Pam Bondi is a qualified, very qualified without a question,
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to be attorney general. And points out she's been a prosecutor for 20 years in Florida and eight of
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those. She was attorney general. And it's a big complicated job. So she's on par or better than
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most of the people appointed to that job in the last 50 years. Now, here's what I appreciate about
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Eli Honig on CNN. This isn't the first time that he said what is true when he could have said what was
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propaganda. Because, you know, if you watch CNN, sometimes people say what's true and obvious and
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sometimes it's just wild propaganda. But Honig consistently, so I'm giving him, this is just a
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compliment to Honig. I watch him quite often and I don't see him doing propaganda. He seems very
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consistent to actually just stick with what you see and what you observe and how to interpret that in
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a logical way. So that's just a shout out every time I see somebody being honest on TV. I think it's
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worth a mention, right? But one of the attacks on Pam Bondi is, apparently she said, she said on video,
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she said publicly that it might be time to investigate Trump's investigators. So in other
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words, the attorneys who are going after Trump with all the lawfare, she thinks maybe they need
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to be investigated because they were not doing it for all the right legal reasons. Maybe it was just
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pure lawfare. Do you know what I say about that? Yes. Yes. I think it would be highly unusual and in
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almost any other situation, no matter whether the parties were reversed or not, I would be opposed to
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it, right? On any normal situation, I would say, are you really kidding me? You're going to investigate
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the lawyers who are just doing their lawyer job? Somebody hired them to do a lawyer job and now you're
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going to investigate them just for doing their job? That's completely out of line. Except,
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even as a private citizen, you can see that the law fair is under control. And I do think that they need
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to explain their reasoning. Now, my first thought was, if you get rid of the bosses, you're fine.
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If you get rid of Jack Smith, maybe that's the problem. But then you've got all these other people who
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willingly decided that working for Jack Smith on this project was how they wanted to make money.
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And I say to myself, if you were qualified enough to get that kind of a job, you know, such a high
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profile job, you're probably qualified to get a lot of different jobs in the private sector and
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the public sector as well. Why would you pick that one? That's a question I think has to be answered.
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Because I don't think anybody who was working for Jack Smith believed they were doing what was good for
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the world. I can't read minds. So maybe they did. It's possible. But it doesn't seem like it.
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From the outside, it looks like they all knew exactly what they were doing.
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And it wasn't anything that they should have been doing. So I don't know that anybody did anything
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illegal. Yeah, let me clarify. I'm seeing the comments. I think you're asking for a clarification.
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And I want to make that. If they didn't do anything illegal, then, of course, they should not be,
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you know, bothered or, you know, they shouldn't be charged with anything, of course.
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I don't want them to go broke, defending themselves if they just were doing their job.
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But I don't know. I'd take a look. I would at least want to look at the,
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maybe look at their correspondence and see if they were just doing their jobs,
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because it didn't look like it to me. And I think we need to have some trust in the DOJ.
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Okay. So I'm not opposed to looking into that a little more deeply. All right. You've probably
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heard that Comcast is looking to spin off CNBC and MSNBC because they're apparently not working
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too well with the Comcast entity and brand, not making money. MSNBC in particular just took a dump
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after the election. And so there's stories about, you know, maybe they're going to sell it.
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And Elon Musk asked on X in response to that, how much does it cost? Now, what are the odds that
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the richest man in the world would also be the best troll? It doesn't seem like those could both
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happen. And, and I'm going to call bullshit on Elon Musk being on the spectrum because I've never
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known anybody on the spectrum who had a sense of humor and, you know, this much capability with memes
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and communication and posting things. Is that a thing? Can you be on the spectrum and be this funny?
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Are there standup comedians who are on the spectrum? There might be, probably are actually.
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Anyway, so I, I don't know. His brain doesn't work like the rest of us. That's obvious, but it feels
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like an oversimplification to put them on the spectrum. Yeah. It feels like there's something
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going on that's extra, but I don't know if it's that. So anyway, Joe Rogan jumped in. He said,
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also an X, he said to Musk, if you buy MSNBC, I would like Rachel Maddow's job. I will wear the
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same outfit and glasses and I will tell the same lies. And of course, Elon said, yes. Now,
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how serious is this? What do you think it sells for? Because there, there is some sale price
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price at which it would be crazy not to buy it, right? Imagine if Trump, I'm sorry, not Trump.
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Imagine if, let's say the sale price is, I'll just pick a number, $50 million or a hundred million
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dollars. Couldn't Elon Musk buy that and then just got it and put in, you know, real people that he wants
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to put there and, and turn it into a money-making thing. Because look how well MSNBC would combine
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with X. The answer is really, really well. Imagine if you had the MSNBC content and studios, but you've
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changed that to host so that they're not all propagandists and you make sure that you show both
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sides. Hey, how about that? How about making sure you showed both sides, but without the propaganda?
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Now imagine how much content that creates all day long. And then imagine that being clipped
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and put on X all day long. So that every topic you wanted to know about there, if it's in the news,
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there would be an MSNBC clip, except unlike the propaganda brainwashing bullshit that it is now,
00:29:52.640
you would guarantee that all your clips showed both sides. Or, or even if it's one side,
00:29:58.160
somebody would put the other side in the, in the comments, you'd always see it. That's a really
00:30:03.280
powerful combination. So I think Musk also pointed out that the, the most entertaining outcome,
00:30:12.080
he said, especially if ironic is most likely. You know, I'm having a, a real
00:30:18.400
mental breakdown over that, that I'm trying to solve. And I can't tell if I'm crazy.
00:30:31.680
if in the 2016 election cycle, did I say that the most entertaining outcome is the one most likely?
00:30:39.440
Because I feel like I was the first person to say it. And it was based on the,
00:30:46.080
you know, the fact that things seem to follow this three act play all the time. But when I searched
00:30:52.720
for it, it's, you know, I'm on, uh, so a lot of you were saying yes. And, and do you remember during
00:31:00.240
the 2016 year, right? Because if you do a search, you can see that Elon says it around 20, somewhere
00:31:08.720
in the 2020s, 2021 or 20 or 22, something like that. But I'd never heard it before I said it. I'd never
00:31:16.800
heard it from anybody. All right. So I'm seeing, uh, the people on locals are the people who follow
00:31:25.360
the longest their subscribers. So there's a massive number of them who are saying yes, for sure,
00:31:32.560
that I was the first person to say that. Huh? All right. So I don't know if there's any connection.
00:31:41.120
I mean, um, uh, so I don't know if I said it before Elon said it though. That's the part I don't know.
00:31:49.040
Hmm. And I said it soon after switching from blogging to video. Well, that would be around 2016. Yeah.
00:32:03.280
Um, and, uh, I'm seeing that, uh, uh, Greg Gottfeld also said it.
00:32:19.040
Oh my goodness. I wish I could tell you what I'm thinking right now, but one of you just solved a
00:32:25.040
really big problem for me. That's why I love the comments. I had a, I had a problem that was
00:32:32.960
unrelated to anything I'm talking about and something went by that was just, oh, that solves,
00:32:39.920
that solves like a gigantic problem of mine. Thank you. Anyway, we'll see what happens.
00:32:46.240
Um, meanwhile on the view, Sunny Hostin or Hostin, I don't know how you say it. She,
00:32:53.840
she had to read yet another legal notice. So it sounds like I'm telling you a story you've already
00:33:00.160
heard, but it's a, it happened again. So for the second time, uh, they had to take a break,
00:33:06.400
you know, from their normal show stuff. And she had to read a statement, um,
00:33:13.840
that, uh, basically said there's no charges against, you know, P Hegseth and I think something else
00:33:19.840
about one of the other nominees, Gates maybe. So apparently ABC is so concerned about the stuff
00:33:27.040
they're saying that's just not true that, uh, that they have to lead, read legal notices.
00:33:34.800
So you'd know that they're liars. You realize what this is doing to Sunny Hostin, right?
00:33:42.320
It's making her confess that she's a propagandist because otherwise she wouldn't need to read these
00:33:48.240
notices. Now that's my interpretation of it. Of course, it's my opinion. Anyway, um, it's almost as
00:33:58.320
if ABC management is trying to humiliate her out of her job, which would be a good play by the way,
00:34:06.400
because she's not helping you ABC. So if I can give some advice, ABC, yeah, she's not helping you at all.
00:34:15.600
She's so far over the line into, I don't know, mental illness and propaganda and brainwashing
00:34:23.840
that it's not helping anybody. There's nobody who's better off. In fact, I would say it hurts
00:34:29.440
Democrats because imagine you're a Democrat and you're, you're turning on this program and you're
00:34:35.680
watching MSNBC and you start thinking, everybody thinks like me. Yay. Let's, let's keep doing these
00:34:42.880
things because everybody thinks like me. I keep seeing it when I turn on the TV, but then you
00:34:46.720
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00:35:09.920
Okay. What are we looking at here? Okay. I don't know what that's about. I'm just seeing some comments
00:35:22.240
that look weird. All right. We're seeing when Musk first said about the most entertaining outcome,
00:35:32.560
um, somebody did a search on it. Uh, doesn't show the year though. You did a search without showing the
00:35:42.080
year. The year is the important part. All right. Um, so let's see what else we got going on. Um,
00:35:57.600
so it looks like the, uh, New York judge Mershon is going to grant, uh, Trump's, um, the right to
00:36:06.160
file a motion to dismiss charges. Now the judge, um, indefinitely postponed, um, the, uh, the sentencing.
00:36:18.400
Now that's because he's a sitting president. So the DOJ doesn't like to mess with sitting presidents,
00:36:23.600
but wouldn't it be better if they went away instead of just being postponed? And so if Trump's,
00:36:31.040
if Trump's people are allowed to file a motion to dismiss, what if they succeed?
00:36:38.480
I don't know that I would predict that they would succeed in getting it dismissed. Um,
00:36:44.240
but what if they did, doesn't that make him not a felon?
00:36:50.240
And, and by the way, he's not a felon because my understanding is until they do the paperwork,
00:36:55.760
he, the, the jury found him guilty, but you're not actually a felon until the court does the paperwork,
00:37:02.560
right? So he's not a felon and there's at least some chance he never will be.
00:37:08.480
And yet the biggest complaint about him during the election was, oh, 34 felonies, 34 felonies,
00:37:16.480
which of course were all made up. There was no, no victim in the crime.
00:37:22.480
I have confirmation from my smartest viewer. All right.
00:37:30.320
Um, the gateway pundit was writing about Abby Phillip. She's one of the hosts on CNN,
00:37:35.680
uh, that she's so close to finally getting it because she went to some event and she was speaking
00:37:42.160
at an event and she said, quote, Abby Phillip said, I have observed that elites increasingly
00:37:48.000
talk only to each other and come to believe that because there is consensus among them,
00:37:53.120
that that consensus is shared broadly. And there are not enough voices that are confident enough
00:37:58.080
to disagree and to present alternatives. And she went on to point out that
00:38:03.200
people no longer are looking for nuance. They just want to agree with their team basically.
00:38:09.360
Now, the first thing you need to know is that Abby Phillip is one of the fine people hoaxers.
00:38:16.480
So to the best of my knowledge, she has pushed the fine people hoax and never,
00:38:22.080
never corrected. So she's still on record for the fine people hoax being true.
00:38:26.640
So her credibility is zero until she fixes that. If she fixes that, then I would say I would reassess.
00:38:34.320
But she has zero credibility as a news person because she's pushing the fine people hoax. That
00:38:39.360
that that's a just a red line. You can't be considered a serious
00:38:45.600
news person if you believe the fine people hoax and you're pushing it.
00:38:48.560
But I would ask the following question. If the elites are increasingly talking to each other
00:38:56.480
and people are afraid to come forward with alternative voices, who do you think is causing
00:39:08.000
Is she completely unaware that she is right in the middle of the cause of this problem?
00:39:17.280
Because if CNN treated people differently who had different opinions, don't you think they would
00:39:22.320
feel completely safe to say their opinions? If she had not said that Trump people are following the
00:39:30.080
fine people hoax guy, don't you think people would have a little more comfort going on the show?
00:39:35.120
Yeah. I cannot stop being entertained by the depth to which the Democrats don't understand what
00:39:48.400
happened. Now, the Gateway Pundit and Mike Lachance points out that she's getting close.
00:39:58.240
I'll agree that she's getting closer in the sense that it is true that the elites are talking to each
00:40:04.560
other and not being aware of what's happening. But she's got to go the next step. The reason the elites
00:40:12.560
are so confused is, say it, say it, the elites are talking to themselves and don't know what's happening
00:40:23.440
in the real world because, because, because of the news. There's only one reason that the news is
00:40:34.800
fucking fake. If you're not willing to say that, Abby Phillip, you know, after years of fake news,
00:40:41.200
the left doesn't even know what's true. They don't even know what other people are hearing.
00:40:44.720
Then you found it. But if you're only going to go as far as blaming the elites
00:40:52.160
and still thinking that the news you're telling is somehow useful and true,
00:40:56.480
no, you're not close. You're simply, you're simply directing the, you know, your fire in the other
00:41:04.160
direction. You know, maybe it's not what we're putting on TV. Maybe it's the people watching it.
00:41:10.240
Yeah, that's it. That's it. It's not what we're presenting to you as brainwashing and propaganda.
00:41:16.800
The problem is you believed it. And then you started talking to yourself and not knowing what
00:41:21.600
was going on. Oh, my goodness. All right. I like to keep a list, an ongoing list of imaginary
00:41:30.080
Democrat worries. So here's the newest batch. David Axelrod's got a couple. He says,
00:41:38.160
Pam Bondi, the new AG nominee, will be responsive to Trump first, not duties of the Constitution.
00:41:45.920
Is that a real worry? No, that's not real. That's not real. That's just made up.
00:41:54.000
Do you know what's real? Your eggs cost too much. Do you remember a week ago when all the Democrats
00:42:02.560
suddenly understood the eggs cost too much? Well, in one week, they all forgot the cost of eggs.
00:42:09.280
Okay. This is not your problem. Your problem will not be that Pam Bondi will be responsive to Trump
00:42:15.760
first and ignore the Constitution. You know why? She's not going to ignore the Constitution.
00:42:20.960
I'll bet you not once. There's no indication that after her many years of public service,
00:42:29.440
that she would suddenly stop doing the thing that she does, which is follow the Constitution.
00:42:35.040
This is not real. It's not even a little bit real. This is a ridiculous thing to worry about. All right.
00:42:40.240
Then next, there's an OMB nominee, Russ Vought. I guess he used to be the OMB head before,
00:42:54.400
so it's no big deal. He should be easily confirmed. But now they're worried because
00:42:59.600
he also was one of the authors of Project 2025. Oh, great. So now you're taking a perfectly ordinary
00:43:07.920
thing, which we've experienced before because he was already in the job before. And he's an ordinary
00:43:15.440
supporter of the president. But because they can tie it to this fake thing, Project 2025, which is not
00:43:21.600
fake. It exists. The fake part is saying that it's Trump's ideas. It wasn't. It was definitely people
00:43:28.480
who support Trump's ideas. But it's not his ideas, except some coincidental overlap.
00:43:38.240
So that's being turned into that Project 2025 will be implemented because one of the people involved
00:43:46.080
with it got his old job back. No, that's not real. No, Trump is still in charge. Giving this one guy
00:43:53.600
this one job he used to have does not make 2025 activated as you're, you know, replacing the
00:44:00.000
Constitution or something. This isn't real. I saw a clip. This might have been older.
00:44:06.880
I could have been older, but it was Mark Cuban on a podcast saying that he's got this hypothesis.
00:44:12.960
He's not sure, but he thinks Elon Musk may have taken over a bunch of abandoned X accounts
00:44:19.040
and turned them into a personal army of bots that he controls. Now, I don't think that's true.
00:44:28.640
Because Elon Musk has so many, you know, legitimate organic supporters, such as me.
00:44:36.400
Why would he need a bot army? Wouldn't it be better to see that, you know, Joe Rogan is boosting him
00:44:42.000
and Jordan Peterson and all the people that you like? That's all he needs. Why would he need a bot army?
00:44:51.040
That's not real, is it? So you're worried about a bot army that's the least likely thing that
00:44:57.120
anybody would ever do? So here's why. I mean, who would do this? Because it's not like he's programming
00:45:04.400
X himself. He would have had to have somebody like a confederate on the inside and then trust them
00:45:12.080
never to talk about it ever. Nobody would ever take that chance.
00:45:18.640
Because this would basically destroy the credibility of the entire platform.
00:45:24.480
And you wouldn't do that with people who are witnesses to it, who work there, who could
00:45:29.440
just leave and sell their story. I give this zero chance of being true.
00:45:36.240
Then there's the hill that says that Trump has suffered a, quote, self-inflicted black eye with
00:45:45.040
the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz as attorney general. Really? Trump got a black eye? So he picked somebody
00:45:53.600
that his base kind of liked a lot. Um, then he listened to, he listened to the outcry from the public
00:46:08.640
Right? This is what I want to see all day long. If it were a black eye, I'd say, well, that's something
00:46:16.400
I don't want. I don't want any black eyes. But you know what I do want? Your first draft looks pretty
00:46:23.360
good. Your second draft looks better. That's what I want. I want that all day long. Matt Gaetz,
00:46:32.240
the first draft didn't pass, didn't pass the requirements. Second draft. Oh, wow. That looks
00:46:39.600
pretty good. Pam Bondi. That's, this is my exact government I want. I don't care who it is. I want
00:46:48.080
them to take a strong first swing, see how it worked, fix it immediately. I mean, before the news
00:46:55.760
cycle was over, Trump already had a, an improved pick. Black eye. It's not a black eye. This is a
00:47:03.120
model of how to be. This is perfect, perfect governance with a mistake because you can't get
00:47:11.280
rid of mistakes, but a perfect correction. I want the correction. I don't need perfect first try.
00:47:18.880
That's ridiculous. Nobody does that. When I found out my friend got a great deal on a
00:47:24.240
wool coat from Winners, I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?
00:47:30.400
Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. Are those from Winners? Ooh, or those
00:47:35.600
beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater?
00:47:40.640
Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket? Those shoes? Is anyone paying full price for anything?
00:47:47.600
Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners. Find fabulous for less.
00:47:51.760
And then the latest is that Musk is just in it for the money because his personal fortune is now up to
00:48:00.800
$348 billion because Tesla stock went way up. Now, is there any way for Elon Musk to make the business
00:48:12.400
world way more effective and have fewer regulations and good appointees and stuff like that? How in the
00:48:20.000
world would that not help him? Is he supposed to be working on some magical way to fix the regulations
00:48:28.320
and the economy and the government and somehow magically it wouldn't affect his own company?
00:48:34.400
Like, how is that going to work? The entire point of it is that it helps everybody.
00:48:42.320
Even he just happens to have a big footprint in the everybody category. So of course it did well.
00:48:48.160
And by the way, why was the stock suppressed in the first place? The stock was suppressed because he was
00:48:55.200
being law-fared. So if you take the law-fare penalty away, which is what he was under,
00:49:02.080
it just drifted up to what the public thought it was worth. That's not a crime.
00:49:07.360
In fact, I'll go further. If, let's say, Mark Cuban wants to, just hypothetically, wanted to jump in and
00:49:21.280
get rid of a bunch of regulations that affected, let's say, oh, I'll make this very specific. So Mark
00:49:27.920
Cuban has the company, is it Cost Plus Drugs? I hope I don't have the wrong name of the company. Where
00:49:34.320
he's trying to lower the cost of prescription drugs, I'm pretty sure there are some government
00:49:40.960
regulations that are holding him back. Don't you think? Like if you're trying to make drugs less
00:49:47.120
expensive, probably there's some government thing in the way. Suppose Mark Cuban said, you know what?
00:49:53.760
I've got some ideas for reducing regulations in the government. It will help everybody. But I got to be
00:50:00.640
honest, my company would do great if these regulations go away. So let's say the regulations
00:50:06.960
go away. And then Mark Cuban's company that he funds, and he's part or full owner, I don't know,
00:50:15.120
doubles in value. Are we going to be mad at Mark Cuban? Because he can sell you even more drugs at low cost?
00:50:23.440
No. If the billionaires get involved in making things better for everybody and they happen to be
00:50:31.920
the first people who benefit from it, that's okay. That's okay. You can benefit if you're making
00:50:40.160
everybody else better off. And by the way, a lot of people will own stocks in these companies. So
00:50:46.160
everybody who owned a little bit of Tesla stock, they're not complaining. And I think Tesla is
00:50:53.280
priced primarily because of robots. And you can't take that away from them, right? You just can't
00:51:00.320
take away from Elon that he's poised on a $10 trillion business opportunity and maybe the strongest
00:51:08.880
player. Of course, his stock is going up. All right. Here's NBC News on X. So this is the language
00:51:21.600
that they chose. Now you tell me if this is news, because it's NBC news, or is this propaganda?
00:51:31.120
Just look at the wording. The president-elect has promised to roll out a number of policies
00:51:37.360
targeting trans people on his first day in office, including a new federal definition of sex as
00:51:43.520
binary and assigned at birth. Targeted? He's targeting trans people? That's propaganda.
00:51:53.920
Because when we talk about changes to policy, do we say somebody got targeted?
00:51:59.600
Every policy change is good for somebody and bad for somebody else. Just all of them.
00:52:08.720
But you don't use that word targeted, do you? Here's another way they could have said it.
00:52:14.080
The president-elect has promised to roll out a number of policies protecting women sports and
00:52:33.120
I think it would. But as soon as you put this word targeted in there, it turns into propaganda.
00:52:39.840
How about it's an issue that people care about and they're going to make some changes that make 98%
00:52:47.920
of the public better off. Definitely could be bad for some trans who want more rights than they would have.
00:52:55.760
But that's not exactly targeting the 2% as much as it is giving the majority what they wanted.
00:53:06.720
So targeted is a little, that's a little propaganda-y.
00:53:13.680
All right. Even Brian Williams, he used to be the NBC anchor.
00:53:17.440
He says the Democratic Party should be rebuilt and that they should change leadership and basically start from scratch.
00:53:31.280
I don't believe the Democrats have the ability built into their system where they can get rid of Hakeem Jeffries, for example, or Nancy Pelosi or anybody else.
00:53:46.800
So I think they built a system where you can't get rid of people and the people in charge can just burrow in and stay there and trade stocks and make a fortune.
00:53:56.000
And yeah, the Democrats have created a system that can't be corrected.
00:54:09.920
Do the Republicans have a self-correcting system?
00:54:17.520
So the president puts forth Matt Gaetz, doesn't work, he corrects, boom, improved.
00:54:22.400
Yeah. Republicans are wonderfully self-correcting.
00:54:28.160
Wonderfully self-correcting. You can't compete with that.
00:54:32.000
I mean, it looks like the distance between what the Republicans got and what the Democrats can offer, it looks like it's going to increase.
00:54:40.480
Like you, you normal, normally you would expect that if the Democrats get, you know, just, you know, just demolished in an election,
00:54:48.800
the normal way that America acts is to prop them up the next time, because we do like, we do like things to be a little closer.
00:54:58.240
That's, that's sort of an American standard. We want a good race.
00:55:04.680
I think this next presidential race, the difference between what the Republicans are offering and what the Democrats could pull together with their broken system is going to be almost non-competitive, maybe for the first time in my lifetime.
00:55:22.760
Okay. So I don't know how they can recover from this because their, their principles about what is most important are the very things that make it impossible to change.
00:55:33.320
Because they're, they're not going to fire all their DEI hires, right?
00:55:38.760
And if you can't change people, you're not going to change much.
00:55:48.500
Mike Johnson got a little pushback because he was, he's pro bringing in the right kind of workers to the United States.
00:55:57.020
He says, we need to encourage legal immigration.
00:56:00.520
Then I saw Laura Loomer going hard at him on X.
00:56:06.080
And he said, so, so basically she was saying, why, why are you bringing in non-Americans when we need Americans to have jobs, et cetera?
00:56:17.020
I appreciate a lot of the scoops and the work that Laura Loomer has done recently.
00:56:32.340
So I tend to be attracted to anybody who, not attracted sexually, but I, I'm drawn to anybody who's a flamethrower.
00:56:43.680
You know, somebody who can really mix things up and, you know, maybe if she doesn't get every story a hundred percent right, you know, we'll find out later.
00:56:52.920
But I, I like her in the public domain, but I would give this one piece of advice, Laura, in case you're, in case you're listening.
00:57:01.420
I think we should let economists decide who we let in and with what skills and how many.
00:57:13.100
You know, maybe, maybe there's no such thing as bipartisan economists these days, but I think you could do it.
00:57:18.520
I'd like to see, let's say, a group of 20 economists.
00:57:22.300
If you want to make it 10 who lean left and 10 who lean right, that might work.
00:57:29.400
You know, maybe the, maybe the government in charge needs to have a majority.
00:57:36.160
But if the economists say, hey, we're, we're too slow at making people who know enough about AI.
00:57:44.560
So we'll make it, you know, we'll, we'll hire as many Americans as we can, but we still won't have enough.
00:57:50.620
So wouldn't it be nice to get the best AI people from India, for example?
00:57:58.720
Because the best AI people from the high-tech countries are going to be really good.
00:58:04.140
They're going to build your next unicorns, et cetera.
00:58:08.300
And on the low end, I think we just have to realize there are a lot of jobs that Americans just won't do.
00:58:20.620
But if we can get people to come in and do the jobs that Americans literally won't do, then that's a good, good use of immigration.
00:58:29.180
So I don't think we should be yes on immigration or no on immigration.
00:58:34.240
We should be, does it help your economy or does it not?
00:58:37.720
And we should look at economists, not, not anybody else, because it's the economists who can tell you if we need more or less.
00:58:49.720
Steve Cortez was having some fun with the fact that there's some new polling that shows that Kamala Harris campaigning with Liz Cheney didn't work out.
00:59:00.620
This is the fun part, where the Democrats try to figure out what their mistake was, and then they realize it was everything.
00:59:16.940
Okay, but did we go wrong with our choice of candidate?
00:59:34.400
Well, maybe it's the way we talked about Republicans.
00:59:44.380
Maybe it's because our candidate decided to pair herself with the only person who's hated on both sides.
00:59:57.460
Name another person who is reviled by both Republicans and Democrats, but is also part of the public conversation.
01:00:10.840
How in the world did they think that was going to work, to take this reviled Republican figure and go campaign with her and make that look like it's an anti-Trump thing?
01:00:25.040
Democrats, what you did wrong, it was everything.
01:00:32.300
Now, you're going to disagree with me and say, Scott, no, that's not true.
01:00:47.060
The raising the funds is not the important part.
01:01:00.240
Apparently, the Trump campaign figured out how to spend their money better.
01:01:16.900
It sounds like sort of a, you know, a podcaster thing to say.
01:01:25.380
From candidate to policies to messaging to ground game to which states she went to.
01:01:43.180
The reason it's so confusing is they want it to be one thing.
01:01:50.220
The Democrats desperately wanted to, like, narrow it down to, you know, maybe two.
01:01:56.960
And then once they have those things, like, oh, we can fix these two things.
01:02:08.640
So whoever came up with the terrible ideas for this last cycle, it's going to be the same people next cycle.
01:02:22.020
Well, according to the Federalist, and Tristan Justice is writing about this.
01:02:30.800
But there's a good write-up in the Federalist, which I recommend.
01:02:43.740
So apparently, Representative Loudermilk is looking into this.
01:02:51.280
And they say that the Department of Defense and the IG knowingly concealed the extent of the delay in constructing a narrative that is favorable to the DOD and the Pentagon leadership.
01:03:06.680
The evidence suggests that the military had plenty of advance warning about January 6th getting out of hand to the point where people are suspicious.
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Why did you know there was going to be trouble so far in advance?
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Now, I'm not saying that that's demonstrated to be true.
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So that part's been established for sure, because documents show that the military was completely aware that this was a danger zone and a danger day.
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And they understood it completely in advance, like well in advance, not just the same day, like a month in advance they were talking about it.
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And then when the request came down to supply some troops, it was delayed.
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And apparently the involvement of the decision makers for using the military or not seems to have been either lost or ignored by the January 6th committee.
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Because if the military stood down, it would suggest that it was intentional.
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So we're not maybe 100% there yet, but we're close enough that I'm willing to say that January 6th was an op.
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And that the January 6th committee needs to be investigated, and possibly for very serious charges.
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Because if they did this thing and knowingly destroyed evidence or hid evidence or did not show exculpatory evidence,
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I don't know if there's ever been a bigger crime in the United States.
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I don't know what crimes, maybe lying to Congress or something.
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So if Trump is bringing in people who will deal with this, which looks to be the most obvious public crime I've ever seen,
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except for maybe the Russia collusion hoax, which also should be investigated.
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So, Gad Saad, who you all know from X, he's, of course, been talking about how universities are totally broken with all the wokeness.
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But let me just read what he posted, because I don't think people understand the extent of it.
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So Gad Saad, he says, I'm delighted that a growing number of people are waking up to the university insanity that has been allowed to fester for generations.
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You truly cannot imagine how parasitized, like, as in parasites, that ecosystem is unless you inhabit it.
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The bureaucracy, the inefficiency, the parasitic ideological, did you say rapture?
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The socialist bent, the anti-Western bent, the anti-Jew bent.
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There is no creature that is spineless or castrated as an academic.
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Rather than being intellectual Navy SEALs, most academics are meek sheep afraid of their shadows.
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But secondly, it suggests that you can't fix it.
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If it's already infected every nook and cranny, even if you got somebody in charge, they wouldn't be able to get it done.
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You couldn't fire anybody because, you know, DEI hires.
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So I think the university system, very much like I said about the Democrats, have found the only way that they can put themselves on a business.
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They can create a situation where even they have no chance of recovery.
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I think the solution will be the free market will create education alternatives.
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And those alternatives will increasingly look good on paper.
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And there will be employers someday, very soon, someday there's going to be an employer looking at resumes and say,
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Oh, here's somebody who went through the Jordan Peterson Academy.
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You know, maybe five years away, but that's pretty close.
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Trump has announced he wants to nominate Alex Wong as his deputy national security advisor.
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Now, apparently Wong was one of the key people in the North Korean summit that Trump did in 2018, where he met Kim Jong-un.
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But now some of you are going to say, I know what you're going to say.
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You're going to say that Wong is a DEI hire because he's, you know, Asian American.
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And I want you to know that they've decided not to hire his brother because two Wongs would be a white.
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There was a dad joke in there, but I can't make it work.
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According to Just the News, polling expert John Rogers says that the big difference or one of the big differences in the election that just happened was that Republicans managed to get a million Republican voters who were not likely to vote to vote.
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So it turns out that maybe the big insight that the Republicans had that made the difference was that they weren't going to convert any Democrats.
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They probably got some independents, but they weren't going to get any Democrats.
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But what they could get is a million people who would vote for them if they voted, but they weren't likely to vote because they haven't voted before.
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So apparently their ground game focusing on the people who hadn't voted, but maybe they should look into it totally worked.
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And after I just said that what the Democrats did was literally everything wrong.
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His communication and persuasion, giant success.
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His strategy of going after the low propensity voters.
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His policies were always at the top of people's list.
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The Trump campaign managed to do everything right.
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Or is whoever's running this campaign like just nailing it?
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And somehow has gotten Trump to be compatible with, you know, just best practices.
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And sure enough, it was exactly what it looked like.
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If you have the best, I mean, just uncommonly good campaign people.
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And then you look at, you know, the Democrats and they had uncommonly bad advice and campaign people.
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Even, even going on podcasts, basically everything from the garbage truck to the, to the barbershop.
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I mean, it was just perfect from top to bottom.
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I mean, you, you throw in the fight, fight, fight, and I mean, it was perfection.
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Mario Nafal is showing some of the waste the government has, has been involved in recently.
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So we've got a $6 trillion we spent, the government spent in 2023, and that's $47,000 per household.
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But here are some of the things we, the government spent in 2023.
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$45 million for, quote, diversity and inclusion scholarships in Burma.
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Now, for those of you who are not good with your geography, Burma is not a city in the United States.
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It's a, it's a country and it's not even in our hemisphere.
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Through, um, we spent $3 million for, quote, girl-centered climate action in Brazil.
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Well, I'm not going to make the jokes that I want to make, but you know I do.
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Can we take a moment for you to think what joke I'm probably going to make and then just tell it to yourself in your head and then have a good laugh?
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They spent, uh, $288,000 for diverse birdwatcher groups.
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Was that to make them more diverse or because the birdwatchers were not diverse enough?
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How about $125 million for critical race theory and public health?
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How about, uh, 573,000 to, um, men in action and anti-Israel, what?
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But like everybody says, um, the big expenses are going to be the, you know, the defense and Social Security and Medicare and that stuff.
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So if we don't figure that out, it doesn't matter if we fix this little stuff.
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Meanwhile, Putin continues to be persuasive in his Putin way, and he released a map of all the targets in Europe that Russia can hit with its new IRBM missile.
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It says it's capable of reaching London in 17 minutes.
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So they've got a map showing all the capitals and stuff that he could destroy with his missile.
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Now, this, of course, is, you know, in preparation for negotiating to some end to the Ukraine war.
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So a lot of it is, you know, hyperbole and persuasion and stuff.
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But I'm just glad that he's targeting our adversaries instead of us now.
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Because, as you know, London is part of Great Britain.
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And Great Britain is apparently involved in trying to get rid of the First Amendment in the United States.
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So I do not consider Great Britain to be our ally.
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I consider them to be a problematic player in the world who sometimes asks for our help, but other times works against our interests.
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They could be, and they have been, and I would love them to be allies again.
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But at the moment, they don't look like allies to me.
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So if you want to be allies, you're going to have to up your game.
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Great Britain, I'm sure we'll still protect you.
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If they're trying to destroy free speech in America, they sent their, they sent government people over to help Kamala Harris in the election.
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And maybe, maybe there's a greater chance that Russia won't send a missile into London.
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I don't want them to bomb London, just in case it sounded like that.
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But, I can't call Great Britain an ally of the United States.
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I'm going to talk privately to the subscribers on Locals.
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And if you didn't know it, the 2025 Dilbert calendar that you see over my back is available now.
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And it's available at the link you can see at Dilbert.com or shop Dilbert.online.
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I would love to put the link on X, but X does not allow me to link Dilbert.com.
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Everybody on X and Rumble and YouTube, I will see you tomorrow.
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For you on Locals, I'm coming at you privately.