Episode 2762 CWSA 02⧸26⧸25
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Jeff Bezos announces a new direction for the Washington Post's opinion pages. And China is trying to get you to get married before you're 22 years old, and it's a good thing you can't get married until you're 25.
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Thank you, Paul. I know you don't like it when I say thank you, but I always appreciate it.
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It's not trivial. So thank you. Well, so this morning, Jeff Bezos sent a letter to his Washington
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Post team. And this is just about one of the most interesting things I've seen in a long
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time. So as you know, the Washington Post gets accused of being sort of a leftist tool. And
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then Bezos is not really super political. You know, he's more about just making stuff work.
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So here's what he wrote to his team, and then he's posting it so we can see it too. And I thought
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I would read it because it's the sort of thing, if you paraphrase it, you're not going to get it right
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because there's some nuance here. So let me just read it. All right. Jeff Bezos. He says,
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I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning. I'm writing to let you know about
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a change coming to our opinion pages. Now, the opinion pages are where you get the real bias
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stuff. He says, excuse me. He says, we're going to be writing every day in support and defense of
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two pillars, personal liberties and free markets. Good so far. We'll cover other topics too, of course,
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but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. So if there's anybody who
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is opposed to personal liberty or free markets, they're just not going to have an opinion in the
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Washington Post. Okay. He goes, there was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local
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monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader's doorstep every morning,
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a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.
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So he's basically saying, we're not going to try to cover all views. And he says, here's the fun part.
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I am of America and for America and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical.
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And a big part of America's success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.
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Freedom is ethical. It minimizes coercion and practical. It drives creativity, invention and
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prosperity. All true. And then just listen to this. He said, I offered David Shipley. So I guess he is
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the editor of the opinion page. He goes, I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity
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to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn't, quote, hell yes, then it had to be
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no. After careful consideration, David decided to step away. He didn't like this new editorial direction.
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And he said, this is a significant shift. It won't be easy and it will require 100% commitment. I respect
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this decision. We'll be searching for a new opinion editor to own this new direction. Oh my God. I'm
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confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints
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are underserved in the current market of ideas. Yup. They are underserved in the news and opinion
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stuff. I'm excited for us together. Blah, blah, blah. Jeff. Now, does that feel like a big deal to you?
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Because it kind of does to me. I mean, you know, Bezos' voice is, you know, bigger than most people's.
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And that doesn't mean that the Washington Post is completely reformed, but wow, I've got this weird
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tickle on my nose. Ever have a nose tickle? What's up with that? Just tickles. All right.
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Did you know that the legal age of marriage in China is 22 for men? In China, you have to be 22
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before you can get married and 20 for women. How sexist. But now one of their political leaders,
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member of the national committee, CPPCC, is trying to put a proposal together that would lower it to 18
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because they're having a childbirth problem. And does that surprise you? How many of you knew that
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you couldn't get married in China until you're 22 if you're a guy? So that's one small thing they can do.
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Apparently, China has lost population for three years in a row, so it's pretty dire.
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Now, I once talked about a different problem that China has with marriage. And I don't know if I
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have this right, but it's something like this. People are authorized to work in the place they live.
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So if you wanted to fall in love with somebody who lived in a different city but wasn't too far away,
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you kind of can't, and then you practically go away, end up living in the same place and married
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because you're both only authorized to work in your area. So if you go to the other area,
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one of you can't work. And since the young people kind of both need to work in China,
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it just makes it basically economically impossible unless you meet somebody who's your neighbor.
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So China does a lot of things wrong in terms of promoting population, but it looks like they may
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be trying hard to fix that. According to Breitbart News, Neil Monroe, there was a shocking poll by
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Harvard Harris that says that 75% of Democrats, 75% say Joe Biden's migration flood was an accident.
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Do you ever just feel sorry for Democrats that they haven't heard any true news in years?
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Can you imagine what that would be like? They're living this, you know, and there's fake news on
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both sides, so it's not completely limited to one side. But imagine thinking, how could he even have
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this opinion that Joe Biden's migration flood was accidental? It was the most planned and executed
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and all hands on deck, every single executive order, every single decision, every single everything.
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Every bit of it was to open the border. And it's the most, probably one of the most well-documented facts
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in American history. And 75% of Democrats are like, what? I never heard of that. That can't be true.
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And I think maybe it's just hard for them to understand what just happened.
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Uh-oh. Looks like I'm being... Create an app to fly in there. Okay.
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Oh, Elon Musk is mocking. I think he's mocking my post where I was posting about the 75% of Democrats
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not knowing it. Anyway. Remember, I always warn you, wait until you find out about climate models.
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Now, most of my viewers are a little skeptical of climate change, or at least the models. You know,
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I don't know if the climate is changing, but I don't trust the models. And in the context of
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learning that every part of America is corrupt, just all of it, the judges, we'll talk about this,
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but, you know, the judges, the media is corrupt because the Democrats didn't even know that,
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didn't even know that the border was open intentionally.
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So the news is broken. The, you know, science is broken in five different ways. Healthcare is
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rigged. You know, the FDA has got this revolving door, or maybe it's a one-way trip,
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to the big pharma. And every time we learn about anything from NGOs to government funding to whose
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spouse is collecting money while the other spouse is voting for it, everything is corrupt. Just from
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finance to healthcare to science and everything. And yet we still wake up in the morning and 80% of
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the country goes, well, thank goodness the climate models are real. There really isn't the slightest
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chance they're real. If you've lived in the real world for five minutes or more, everything about
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this just screams of all the things you should not believe, the climate model should be right at the
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top. And you don't even have to be an expert. But let me give you a couple of stories. You may have
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heard these, but these are criticisms of the climate models. So there's a study, let's see, Climate Change
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Dispatch is writing about this, Kenneth Richards. So there's this new study. It's actually 2024, but it's
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not, you know, it's not that early into 2025 yet. So it's a new-ish study. It says satellite data
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shows that ocean evaporation is declining, which is the opposite of what the models say. Now you might say to
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me, well, I mean, that's just one variable, right? So maybe the ocean evaporation, you know, is now such a big
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thing. No, the ocean evaporation is like the biggest variable. So because the models are iterative, in the
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beginning of the model, it might say CO2 will be this level and heat will be this level. And then
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later, it'll say CO2 is increased and the heat is increased. But also other variables, such as ice
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melting will be different in the future. And one of the biggest ones is that the climate warming should
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cause an increase in ocean evaporation. It's one of the most basic assumptions built into climate
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models. It's maybe the biggest one. And it was off by a factor of 10. It wasn't even in the right
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direction. So now remember, studies, no matter what the studies say, maybe there's a 50% chance that any
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given study is right. So even the skeptical ones could be wrong. You know, it's not like all the
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skeptical ones are correct and all the pro-science, the pro-climate change ones are wrong. But just know
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that the biggest, and this is a published study, so it's in PNAS, and it seems to indicate very strongly
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based on what looked like pretty extensive look at the data, that the most basic prediction is not
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even close and off by a magnitude of more than 10. Now, if that's true, and of course, you know,
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studies could be wrong, but if that's true, then there's just no credibility to the climate models.
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Here's another one. This is being written by Charles Rotter in What's Up With That?
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So did you know that our temperature records have been homogenized?
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So the biggest, most important data set, I would think, for the climate models is what was the
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temperature before, and then what is the temperature now on average? You know, the Earth's total
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temperature. But did you know that because there are a variety of irregular things that happen with
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the data, they often need to make corrections, you know, adjustments. They call it homogenizing the
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data so that if they can, they try to get everybody to be on the same page about how to tweak the data
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from what it actually says to maybe something closer to what they think it says. So they're literally
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changing it from what the data says to what they think it should say. That's called homogenizing the
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data. And apparently, this is not just, you know, one study. Apparently, it's just the data.
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The data doesn't even exist, meaning that there's no actual agreed-upon data for the temperature.
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There's agreed-upon data sets, but everybody recognizes that there are enough known errors in
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the data. They have to make corrections. But there are different ways you could correct it. And so they
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don't even agree on how would you, how would you correct it? Should you correct it? Now, here's my
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take. Anybody who's lived in the real world and had a job where they had to measure anything,
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you already know that they can't measure the temperature of the Earth over decades accurately
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enough to know that it's changing in what direction. That's just not a thing.
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It's nothing that the best scientists in the world with huge funding and all good intentions.
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It's just way beyond human capability, way beyond. It has nothing to do with science. It has to do
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with the fact that it's a big, messy system. And if you've got this big, messy system with
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different temperatures, and you've got the heat island effect, and somebody's trying to correct for
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it. And some of the temperature measurement places that the paint on the enclosure has faded,
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which actually changes the temperature. So they have to adjust for all kinds of things, like
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different equipment and heat island and paint and all that. So no, they don't know the temperature of
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the Earth over decades. That's not a thing. It couldn't be a thing. It's a ridiculous assumption.
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So I'll say it again. If you listen to me about the specifics of what I think is wrong with climate
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change, I could have all that wrong. It's possible that both of these skeptical studies are off base.
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But I don't need them. I don't need them. The only thing I need is that I've lived in the real world.
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These are not doable things. There's no such thing as a complicated climate model that's going to
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predict the future of the temperature, or even that you could measure the temperature and the whole
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Earth and get all the warm spots. Really check it out. These are not real things. So just wait till
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you find out. Wait till you find out. Because I think it'll happen in your lifetime. There will be a day
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when the news collectively says, all right, we got to admit, it was never real. That's definitely coming.
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When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,
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is every fabulous item I see from Winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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Are those from Winners? Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that
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leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket? Those
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shoes? Is anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners. Find
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fabulous for less. Well, here's a non-surprise. The Obama-nominated judge, a gateway pundit's writing
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about this, Ben Q, who blocked Trump's ICE raids, is married to a far-left open borders activist funded
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by George Soros. Now, it seems that, and Elon Musk pointed this out, he said the other day,
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it's always the spouse. So we also have this problem where members of Congress will vote for funding for,
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let's say, an NGO. And then you find out that one of their spouses is actually on the NGO and making
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a lot of money, or is consulting for it, or is attached to it somehow. So here's what I think
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is interesting. When the founders of the country developed a constitution, they probably never
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contemplated a situation where both the husband and the wife would have high-end jobs, because that
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wasn't a thing. You know, the guy had a job, and the wife did wife stuff, and you never had to worry
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about this. So for probably, I don't know, the first hundred years, there was no risk of this
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whatsoever, because the spouse was never really in a position to make any, you know, kind of sketchy
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money. But now you have all these high-powered couples. And if you have a high-powered couple,
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you just so easily can have one of them in charge of funding things, and the other one in charge of
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spending the money from it. So, you know, the judges are just part of it, but also the whole NGO
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structure. There's a whole lot of spouse stuff going on. So we actually need some kind of either
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legislation to at least, you know, reveal these connections or a change to the constitution.
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But just think about this. The constitution was created before this was even a contemplated risk,
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because you didn't have two high-powered spouses. It just wasn't a thing. Now, to me,
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that's really fascinating. Anyway, so somehow we've got to fix that. Maybe it's just sunlight. You know,
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maybe you can't make it illegal, per se, but you could know if it's happening. That would help a lot.
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Anyway, so in response to that, there's a, according to the National Pulse,
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there's a new bill, Representative Daryl Issa, Republican, California. Is it Issa or Issa? Issa,
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I think. He's introducing a bill aimed at limiting the reach of injunctions issued by federal judges.
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One of the things that Elon Musk said a few times is that if any federal judge anywhere can stop
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anything that's happening anywhere else, you don't really have a real system. I mean, you don't have
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any kind of a democratic republic, because you can have, all it takes is one corrupt judge. Corrupt,
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I would say, I'm using that not in just a legal sense, but corrupt in the sense that they're
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political as opposed to following the law. And how hard would it be to find one political judge who
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would give you anything you want, especially if you can reward them through their spouse?
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Apparently, it's really easy. You can always find a Soros judge somewhere who is willing to do
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anything. So if you can stop the elected people by having one judge anywhere decide that the whole
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country has to do what they say, you don't really have a workable system. So I don't know the details
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of this, but Darrell Issa's bill is trying to address that, I believe. This case, it's a little
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over my pay grade to know the ins and outs of this legally, but that'd be great. So I like the fact
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that it's being addressed. I don't know if that's the exact answer to it. And I also have to ask this
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question, how many corrupt judges would you have to have in your system before you would even think
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it's necessary to have new legislation to stop them from doing this thing? It kind of means the
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whole judge system is infested with weasels. It can't be there's two or three in the country,
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because that'd be a different problem. But apparently there's just all kinds of weasels
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who got into these positions and can stop the entire country from functioning. So yeah, we got
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to stop that. Let's stop that. Christy Noem found, I guess, some of the leakers who have been tipping
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off the illegal migrants that the ICE raid was coming. And they've already been spotted and
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identified and already been fired. Now, can you imagine that? Imagine working for the homeland
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security and actually tipping off the subject of the raids, which puts the people doing the raids in
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totally lethal danger. It's almost unbelievable that it could even exist. And it doesn't even seem
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like firing is strong enough. Shouldn't jail be the right answer? Like, I don't know if there's a
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specific law that was violated. But if you're thwarting the law of the United States and in the
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process, putting real people in real danger, like serious, serious danger, like you're going to be killed
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kind of danger. That's a lot bigger than just getting fired. I just hope there's something bigger
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than that that they could do. Now, one of the ways that, I guess, Christy Noem and company are
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spotting these people is they're using a polygraph and also searching internal communications. And I
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guess the other thing I would ask is, if you were such a weasel that you were going to leak that kind
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of dangerous information, would you put it in an email? And the funny thing is, you might. Yep. Yeah,
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you might. Or at least some indications that would tip off who to do the polygraph on. Now, how many of you
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know that polygraphs don't work? But they do work. So polygraphs are interesting from a persuasion
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perspective, because the reason they're not accepted in court is that they're not reliable. And yet they're
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they're used in a very widespread way in government and other organizations to find leakers and find
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traders and stuff like that. So how can it be true at the same time that it's not reliable enough for
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any court in the United States? There's not a single court in the United States that would accept a
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polygraph. And yet it's a useful tool. How can both of those be true? And the answer is that it's more
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about the polygraph operator. So the polygraph operator creates this, I'll call it an illusion
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that the polygraph does work. And then the way they ask the questions and the way they react to the
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answers will spook the subject such that they somewhat accidentally spill the goods. So you can
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detect that people are trying to beat the system or they're too nervous to be in it or their behavior is
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a little weird. And then you could call it out. Even if it's not there, you could call it out.
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So one of the things you could do is say, you know, did you do this bad thing? And then the answer
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comes on the polygraph and only the polygraph operator sees the answer. So if the if the polygraph
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operator sees there's no indication of a lie, but they think this might be a lie. And again, remember,
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the polygraph is not accurate enough to detect all lies. So the operator can say,
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hmm, I'm going to ask that question again. Imagine if you were lying and the operator,
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without telling you what they saw, they just look at the result because it's in real time. It's
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happening while they're there. And the operator just looks at it and goes, huh. Let me ask that a
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different way. Basically, you're saying you've been busted. And that that's when I think people
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crack. And they're like, oh, no, I didn't mean that I didn't do it. I mean that I didn't do that
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or or I didn't do it that day. And then it just all falls apart. So if you put them in a position
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where it looks like, you know, they're lying, they're going to try to cover the lie, change their
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answer a little bit. So it's not a lie. And they're going to start panicking a little bit.
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And then you can spot, you can spot a liar. So here's what you need to know about polygraph.
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It's mostly about the operator and how they influence the process. It's not so much the machine,
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but the machine is part of it. And it can, it can identify some lies. So it's not like it never works.
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It does work sometimes. You just don't know when. Well, Texas Governor Abbott, according to Fox News,
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Peter Pineda is reporting. Apparently there's this place called Colony Ridge that's outside of
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Houston, I think. And it's got so many migrants living there that it's practically Spanish language
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and the cartels have set up a base. And there's just a lot of, almost like they've captured territory.
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Not quite, but very similar to cartels holding territory. And what's good is that Homeland Security
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and Texas have been identifying this. And there are other places like this where there's a big
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concentration of migrants. They're, they have a lot in common, let's say Spanish language and cartels.
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So I don't know if we fully understand how close we were to being just conquered by the cartels.
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Because they don't need to have much of a bite into your country before they can run the whole thing.
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Because remember, they can scare people from running from office. They can illegally fund people they want
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to be in office. They can kill people they don't like. They can threaten. They do know how to take
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over places. And if you, you simply get too many of them in one place, they, they don't assimilate.
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They're more likely to say, well, we're sort of like our own country here and start expressing their,
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their own desires that way. So whether or not migrants are the biggest problem in the world,
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or just a boon to our economy and, you know, helping us do things that we weren't getting done.
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It's all about the number. If it's a, if it's a, I don't want to say small, but if it's a smaller
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number, everything works better. Oh, we got some extra workers and they assimilated. And,
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but if you get a whole bunch of people kind of soon and they cluster in one place,
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then you get a problem because they don't even need to learn the language. And next thing you know,
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the cartels are in charge and expanding their reach because they're getting money from the
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population and they can hide within it. So yeah, we were, and maybe it's too late,
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but we're definitely on the cusp of a complete cartel takeover. I don't think we'll ever understand
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how close it was that if Trump had lost, I think we would just be owned by the cartels in another
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four or five years, or at least some important parts of the country. So Trump introduced this
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idea of a gold card, he calls it. So if you're a non-American citizen, but you're rich, you can pay
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$5 million and get this gold card that's going to give a green card like privileges and a path to
00:29:32.580
American citizenship. And it would only be for wealthy people who would be coming here and,
00:29:37.720
you know, creating investments and jobs. So they'd have to be additive to the country.
00:29:43.340
It can't be just because they want to. But then Trump said something that only Trump could say.
00:29:52.080
And if anyone else in the world had said what I'm going to tell you, he said,
00:29:58.000
you could, you could know that the whole world would blow up. It'd be the biggest story in the
00:30:02.360
country. But because Trump has worn us all down by, by doing so many things and also saying so many
00:30:10.820
things, you just don't have the time to go after every one of them. But this is just, this is only
00:30:17.220
Trump could say this. So when he was introducing this gold card idea, he was asked if this would
00:30:24.180
apply to Russian oligarchs. You know, if you're a Russian oligarch, can you just apply for this and
00:30:29.920
become an American citizen? Here's what Trump says. And only he can say this. He goes, yeah,
00:30:38.360
possibly. Hey, I know some Russian oligarchs. They're very nice people.
00:30:46.620
Name one other person on the whole planet who could have said those, that sentence.
00:30:52.860
Yeah, possibly. Some of those Russian oligarchs are very nice people.
00:30:59.400
Now, I'm not even disputing whether or not there are any nice oligarchs. The only thing funny is he's
00:31:06.400
the only person in the world who could have said that. And you'll totally get away with it. Now,
00:31:11.880
of course, there'll be the usual amount of, oh, he's so pro-Russian. He's so pro-Russian
00:31:18.200
that he loves the oligarchs. I think you have to see that he's in a negotiation with Russia
00:31:26.500
and the oligarchs probably do have a little bit of influence over the boss. And if he happens to
00:31:33.620
be saying some nice things about the oligarchs and some nice things about Putin and some nice
00:31:38.180
things about Russia, it should only be understood in the context of negotiating.
00:31:45.200
So you can be tough as long as you're respectful. So he's being tough and respectful at the same time.
00:31:52.500
It's the perfect combination. But again, he's the only person who could do that. Nobody else could
00:31:57.000
even get away with that. Now, there's some risk that maybe some spies would buy their way into the
00:32:03.280
country. But I feel like the spies could get in a lot easier. Like they don't really need to pay
00:32:09.300
$5 million for anything. There's probably plenty of spies. If you're thinking about somebody mentioned
00:32:16.360
that you would only have to get 7 million people and it would pay off our entire $35 trillion debt.
00:32:22.260
But I asked AI, how many people who are not in the United States have at least $20 million net worth?
00:32:31.000
Because that would be, you know, the population of people might be willing to spend $5 million to
00:32:36.480
be an American citizen. And even if you had $20 million, $5 million is, you know, that's a big
00:32:44.180
big price for, you know, for the one drink minimum to enter the United States. So there are not many
00:32:51.340
people, but I would estimate, and ChatGPT didn't know exactly what that number was, but they're not
00:32:58.260
7 million. It might be 20,000, you know, in that range of people who had enough money and are not
00:33:05.140
Americans. But at a 20,000, how many really need to be American citizens and care enough to even bother
00:33:11.840
trying? So I'm guessing the total population of people would be in the hundreds. And even that
00:33:20.320
wouldn't be right away. So it's a fairly small thing, fairly small. But what I like about it the
00:33:26.780
most is that it's part of poaching the best people from other countries. Now, I know there's some
00:33:32.260
MAGA people who say, under no circumstances, do I want to bring in more people from another country?
00:33:38.820
And I don't care how much they're going to add or you think they're going to add. No people from
00:33:43.460
other countries. That conversation is worth having if you want to have it. In my opinion,
00:33:52.620
poaching, and I guess I agree with Trump on this, poaching the best people from other countries is
00:33:57.660
just sort of always a good idea. I just think that works every time. Because the best people from other
00:34:04.800
country. And maybe it's their best entrepreneurs. Maybe it's just their rich people. Because the
00:34:10.440
rich people can add a lot to wherever they live. They hire a lot of people. They start businesses.
00:34:16.160
They invest. So I appreciate the people who say, let's just make it a zero. Because otherwise,
00:34:24.220
it's a slippery slope. I get that. But I'm not on that page. I think the economics suggests that
00:34:31.920
if you're smart about it, it's really additive.
00:34:39.340
All right. This is funny. I think all the news is funny today.
00:34:43.260
Did anybody notice that yet? All the news is sort of really interesting,
00:34:47.660
but also kind of funny because of how stupid things are. But here's my favorite one.
00:34:53.720
Do you remember James Carville? He had lots of advice for the Democrats and nobody was listening.
00:34:58.680
And then his latest play, this is his actual advice, is that the Democrats just have to do nothing and
00:35:05.900
wait for Trump to become less popular and the administration to collapse.
00:35:12.620
That's one of their smartest advisors. One of the smartest advisors is telling Democrats their best play
00:35:20.720
is to don't say anything or do anything and wait for Trump to become less popular.
00:35:33.400
Now, I think we all expect that Trump's popularity will take a little bit of a dip
00:35:41.480
And that he's doing a lot of things that could only pay off in the long run.
00:35:46.740
So, you know, history might like him a lot better than, you know, any poll of the moment,
00:35:51.540
but he's not even that low. His popularity is looking pretty strong.
00:35:56.940
And when you look at the top policies, he just commands them.
00:36:02.060
I mean, he's well over, I guess, 60 percent in most of the important things.
00:36:10.260
So so it makes the Democrat strategy of doing nothing sound hilarious,
00:36:18.620
So Hakeem Jeffries was on the Jake Tappers show and Jake was giving him some
00:36:29.980
I guess I'm pushed back about the viability of the Democrat Party,
00:36:42.060
He simply lied about the Republicans plan to cut Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare.
00:36:55.600
You know, the right say there's no cuts in those things.
00:36:58.600
And the left says, oh, yeah, he's making deep cuts in those things.
00:37:04.840
But if I had to go by history, history suggests that if this were true, that the news would
00:37:17.940
Because I haven't seen a news story that said the Republicans want to cut those things.
00:37:24.420
I've only seen the Democrat leaders say it, which would suggest it's just their newest hoax.
00:37:29.800
So their newest hoax is that the Republicans are going to cut things that they're definitely
00:37:38.320
Now, I'll take a fact check on that if it turns out I'm wrong and there is some plan to cut
00:37:43.600
And I'm not talking about waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:37:46.720
I think everybody would be okay with cutting that.
00:37:48.460
But the accusation is that they would just cut surfaces of these well-loved things.
00:38:00.000
So he basically said that Trump's policies, this is what Hakeem Jeffries said to Tapper.
00:38:08.380
He said that Trump's policies were, quote, deeply unpopular with the American people.
00:38:14.000
And then Tapper showed him the popularity of the Democratic Party compared to the popularity
00:38:20.520
The Democrats are like 20% popularity or approval, I guess.
00:38:28.300
And the policies, as I just said, are just wildly popular.
00:38:32.400
Some of the most popular things in a bipartisan way you've ever seen in this country.
00:38:37.280
So it looks like the Democrats are not going to do nothing, like Carville suggests.
00:38:46.420
So their hoaxes, which they hope will be supported by their fake news,
00:38:50.520
is that Trump is doing unpopular things, exactly the opposite of all reality.
00:38:56.560
And even CNN called him out and showed the chart saying, yeah, popularity,
00:39:02.160
you're not quite on point there on that popularity point.
00:39:07.380
The funny thing is that Hakeem Jeffries is one of their strongest players.
00:39:14.900
He's considered one of the good ones, like really knows what he's doing.
00:39:20.520
But the Democrat strategy of doing nothing and waiting for Trump to become less popular
00:39:25.340
is just fall down hilarious because it really screams, we got nothing.
00:39:31.980
Let's just wait and see if the other side falls apart.
00:39:37.260
So it's like wishful thinking, fiction, fantasy, imagination.
00:39:43.640
As I've often said, the Democrat approach to everything is to literally imagine what could
00:39:53.240
go wrong and make up hoaxes about what's going wrong at the moment.
00:39:57.980
So it's a completely imaginary world that they can sell to their base and the base will buy
00:40:07.000
Anyway, so that's a lot of giving up in that strategy.
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So I guess that means the Senate gets to play with it and might tweak it, but there's
00:41:22.340
some chance that the Republicans will get a budget.
00:41:24.940
Thomas Massey did not vote for it, probably the only one, only Republican who didn't vote
00:41:32.000
for it, because as he points out, even though it extends the five-year tax holiday, which
00:41:39.620
means not raising taxes to a pre-Trumpian level from his first term, I guess, it doesn't
00:41:52.220
So as Massey said, that even under the best case assumptions, which never happen, and Massey
00:41:59.800
is completely right about that, under the best case assumptions, which never happen, they're
00:42:07.420
going to increase the budget at $300 billion per year.
00:42:10.220
Now, I can't imagine that the discretionary spending is going to be nothing, right?
00:42:45.560
Or at least they increased what would be the total debt.
00:42:54.740
This is a situation where I can't support the Republican approach.
00:43:05.220
Now, it could be that as a doge does its work, because it's a little early in that process,
00:43:11.580
it could be that there's a point in the future where we have the budget, but we don't have
00:43:21.860
So maybe the budget says it's going to cost $300 billion.
00:43:25.660
Let's say Trump amazingly does not increase discretionary spending.
00:43:32.980
Discretionary spending means it wasn't in the budget, but we're going to do it anyway by
00:43:43.540
But what I'd like to see is Elon Musk talking honestly about the budget and how it relates
00:43:51.920
I think Elon's being quiet about this, because I don't think he has anything supportive to
00:44:02.460
This is just me speculating that if a few days go by, and give me a fact check on this,
00:44:12.360
But if a few days go by and you don't see him weighing in, Elon Musk, and saying this
00:44:17.220
is a good budget, or this is a step in the right direction, or if you add doge to this,
00:44:24.760
If he just is quiet about it, I would suspect that he's not a fan.
00:44:35.880
Trump signed some healthcare price transparency thing in executive order.
00:44:42.360
I guess we had this before, but Biden slow walked in or reversed it or paused it or something.
00:44:50.160
And it makes hospitals and other healthcare people disclose their actual prices so that
00:44:59.480
If Jeff Bezos gets his way, and he gets the Washington Post to talk about personal freedoms
00:45:08.320
and open markets, free markets, we should see the Washington Post write something that
00:45:18.120
Because you can't really have a free market if the sellers are allowed to hide their prices.
00:45:24.720
So, in yesterday's world, the Washington Post would have said, well, here's another overstep
00:45:38.920
You know, it would just be reflexive anti-Trump.
00:45:41.980
But if Bezos makes this change, and he says, we're going to write about free markets because
00:45:49.220
we like America, he might have an opinion person who says, you know, this is just a good
00:45:58.880
But it couldn't possibly be wrong to have more information about your own prices.
00:46:03.300
Trump also signed an executive order to end the security clearances of members of a law
00:46:15.420
firm called Covington and Burling if those members were helping Jack Smith in his, I'm
00:46:26.560
But Trump's removing the security clearance of anybody who worked there and helped Jack
00:46:35.300
Now, on one hand, this does sound a little revenge-y, and I'm not in favor of just pure
00:46:43.080
There have to be, you know, real bad behavior before I'm okay going after anybody for anything.
00:46:53.260
And it does seem to me that all the people involved would have known that they're involved
00:47:07.420
They would clearly know what they were involved in.
00:47:10.680
If they had been somehow forced to do it or they had, you know, didn't know, they didn't
00:47:19.760
know what was possibly going on, and they just fell into it somehow, well, maybe.
00:47:25.700
But I think they all knew exactly what they were doing, and it wasn't cool.
00:47:33.740
The Washington Times is reporting, and it's based on a whistleblower, so I don't assume
00:47:39.940
But, you know, use your own judgment, because I usually say if there's an anonymous whistleblower,
00:47:49.340
And I want to keep that as standard for both sides.
00:47:51.940
But the allegation is that the whistleblower personally knew, somebody who knew, that James
00:48:04.620
Comey had authorized sort of an off-the-books honeypot operation in 2015 against the Trump
00:48:13.000
Now, a honeypot means that you have, let's say, undercover FBI agents.
00:48:22.460
Could be gay guys if they're trying to honeypot a gay guy.
00:48:26.440
So whatever they need to honeypot the right kind of person.
00:48:29.940
And they wouldn't necessarily be sleeping with anybody to, you know, honeypot them, but they
00:48:39.560
And maybe people would give up a little extra secrets because they're trying to impress the
00:48:49.820
So I don't know if this is true, but it's a pretty explosive allegation that Comey might
00:48:57.820
have done an off-the-books, and it would have been illegal, I guess, an off-the-books honeypot
00:49:03.880
And that's without knowing there was any specific thing they were looking for.
00:49:07.440
They would have been just fishing for something to go after Trump for.
00:49:16.740
Now, when I hear about this, again, remember, it's an anonymous whistleblower, so that's the
00:49:26.580
It just sort of reminds me that think about all the things we didn't know, and then time
00:49:35.040
goes by, and then we, whoa, I didn't know that.
00:49:37.320
How many things do we not know that are, let's say, as bad as this allegation, but are really
00:49:47.220
Just think about what is the percentage of things we find out eventually versus the percentage
00:49:53.560
of bad behavior, you know, criminal behavior, theft, et cetera, that we just never find out.
00:49:59.300
Do you think we find 80% of the bad behavior eventually?
00:50:08.720
I feel like it might be closer to 1% and that there might be something like 100 times more
00:50:20.820
Well, Data Republican, goes by that name on X, was on NewsNation, and Data Republican got
00:50:31.880
doxed because I guess she's doing too good a job analyzing the data and finding sketchy
00:50:39.880
But she was on NewsNation, and she said that there was one NGO that claimed to promote democracy,
00:50:48.040
and to do that, they received $17 million, so the government gave them $17 million, or
00:50:55.180
it came from some other entity that had been funded by the government, because you know
00:51:00.300
But they got $17 million, and the only thing that they created with their $17 million was
00:51:05.640
they made a terrible Muppet Show, and they made these Muppet Show videos that had, you know,
00:51:15.580
So whatever that Muppet Show thing was, it doesn't look like it was ever even intended
00:51:21.540
It looks like just a thing they could say so they could get money.
00:51:30.940
Remember I always tell you to look for the players, not the play.
00:51:36.100
If the only thing you know is what happened, you don't know anything.
00:51:43.680
Once you know who did it, then the what happened always has a completely different context.
00:51:50.780
If this NGO had been founded by somebody you never heard of, just maybe somebody trying
00:51:58.400
But Norm Eisen is a name that comes up a lot, and I don't want to get sued, so I'm not going
00:52:08.380
to make some accusations because, you know, he's a lawyer and it's dangerous territory.
00:52:13.360
But if you ever want to find out what's what, that would be a good name to do some searches
00:52:20.220
on, to find out, you know, what he's been involved in, et cetera.
00:52:25.120
And I think you'd find that he's always in the middle of the worst behavior on the Democrat
00:52:33.480
There's a small group of people who are just always involved in whatever the worst thing
00:52:43.900
And until you see that name, you're like, well, this could be just a, oh, oh, it's Norm Eisen.
00:52:50.140
So I'm not even going to tell you all the things he's accused of.
00:52:54.040
I'll let you research that yourself, and your jaw is going to drop and your brains will
00:53:06.540
So where'd the rest of the money go, says Data Republican.
00:53:10.940
Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
00:53:15.700
She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her
00:53:20.640
Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers
00:53:27.420
Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in
00:53:31.880
I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.
00:53:40.720
Meanwhile, along the same lines, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who's a Democrat, he backed legislation
00:53:49.080
that would give millions of dollars to a non-profit called Ocean Conservancy.
00:54:09.200
Well, they were serviced by a consulting company.
00:54:13.320
So there was a consulting company that got paid millions of dollars for consulting for
00:54:22.200
You know, it's very common to hire consultants for stuff.
00:54:29.200
Wait, one of the consultants was Sheldon Whitehouse's spouse.
00:54:35.840
So his spouse worked for the consulting company that made millions of dollars, and then the
00:54:51.320
But you do have to ask yourself, why didn't he recuse himself?
00:55:02.040
Did he say, hey, I'll owe you a favor if you do this for me?
00:55:08.720
But because we don't know, it really shouldn't be acceptable that any of this happens.
00:55:17.440
And again, I go back to the founders of the country.
00:55:19.880
They never anticipated that there would be so many power couples where both of them would
00:55:25.260
have high-end jobs, and one of them could funnel money to the other one, which is basically
00:55:40.340
So speaking of that, the New York Times and Washington Post and CBS, they're all talking
00:55:50.060
about this story of how there are these bipartisan, and this is the important part,
00:55:54.760
bipartisan town halls where even the Republicans were saying, my goodness, we can't put up with
00:56:03.900
And if you saw that reporting, and you said to yourself, wow, it's bipartisan, even the
00:56:10.640
Republicans are turning against Trump, would you have known that these were fake?
00:56:17.540
They were just organized by far-left entities, funded by all the wrong people.
00:56:25.700
So I guess Soros gives money to move on, and something called indivisible, to stage fake
00:56:32.520
So that's the Washington Free Beacon is reporting on that.
00:56:49.060
And then some of you said, but what about the Tea Party or whatever?
00:57:02.320
It's just that the thing never would have been organized, never would have been funded,
00:57:06.580
and never would have been pulled off if it had been left to grassroots people to do it
00:57:11.920
It feels like there's always some shadowy funding, or it just doesn't happen.
00:57:25.860
Well, there's some explosive allegations about Swalwell, Representative Swalwell, who I believe
00:57:36.000
But I think he's my representative in California.
00:57:39.240
And apparently, he went to, here's the allegations.
00:57:44.420
But according to Nick Sorter, who's, I don't know how to describe him, maybe independent
00:57:53.020
He's one of the people on X who's always breaking news.
00:57:59.660
It's like 10 o'clock at night, and it's practically empty.
00:58:03.180
And then Swalwell comes staggering in, or he got drunk as soon as he got there.
00:58:09.220
But he got super drunk, and he ended up at the table right next to him, even though the
00:58:16.160
And because he's drunk, he's talking very loudly.
00:58:19.860
And apparently, Nick turned on his phone and recorded it.
00:58:23.640
And he was there with some, here's the allegations.
00:58:31.860
But the allegation is that he was dining with lobbyists, I guess.
00:58:38.860
And he was getting really drunk and talking loudly about how to cheat on his wife and some
00:58:49.900
Things you wouldn't say unless you were super drunk.
00:58:56.100
If the allegations of how he acted are true, he is probably more than a guy who had a few
00:59:04.640
My experience is that nobody acts like that if the allegations are true.
00:59:12.440
But if the allegations are true, and we'll know pretty soon because there's a recording
00:59:17.540
that's going to come out, that would suggest a drinking problem that doesn't suggest somebody
00:59:35.700
So Swalwell posted, not about this topic, but separately he posted and he said,
00:59:46.300
today I stood on the steps of the Capitol with my Democratic colleagues to say hell no
00:59:53.580
And then he showed four photos that showed different angles of him and other Democrats
01:00:02.760
And I saw that and I said, you know, look how easy it is to claim your accomplishments
01:00:22.300
He's not the only one, but he stood on some steps.
01:00:27.540
Now, I don't know who your representative is, but did your representative stand on any
01:00:35.060
No, but I'm lucky because my representative stood on steps.
01:00:43.780
Well, there's a creepy story about people on some kind of message board and it was CIA
01:00:50.260
people and there were kinks involved and a bunch of colorful characters.
01:00:56.320
And since I don't do kink shaming, just, you know, people are people.
01:01:03.640
I haven't been interested in the story, but apparently Tulsi Gabbard has identified the
01:01:09.500
people who were on that message board and already fired them.
01:01:16.140
I don't want to talk about the details because if it's not your kink,
01:01:23.420
And if it is your kink, I don't want to hear about it.
01:01:26.000
You know, I don't have a problem with anything you want to do, but I don't want to hear about
01:01:37.980
Have you noticed that the Democrats are using chaos and saying, oh, there's a lot of chaos
01:01:48.840
Well, first of all, it's obviously a published talking point.
01:01:54.320
There is no way that that's happening organically.
01:01:57.840
This is yet again, the Democrats listening to somebody who knows what they're doing, telling
01:02:05.020
The reason they say chaos is because they don't have to prove it.
01:02:13.940
So senior citizens, the last thing they want is chaos.
01:02:19.920
You know, if they're comfortably retired, they can't really go back to work if something goes
01:02:27.360
So chaos is the scariest thing if you're on a fixed income and retired.
01:02:37.980
So from a political persuasion perspective, it's clever.
01:02:44.800
But so just when you hear it, just know that that's not a sincere opinion of the speaker.
01:02:54.220
It's just because somebody said this is a good word.
01:03:00.140
But let me give you some context about Doge and all the chaos.
01:03:04.000
So here are some of the things that the Democrats are saying about Doge.
01:03:07.720
The problem is not that they don't want to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse.
01:03:13.560
So they're really in favor of the way it's being done.
01:03:27.640
There's not enough communication with the employees.
01:03:39.800
Everyone except the people doing it know a better way to do it.
01:03:56.280
So one of the problems that I've always noted with the popular media is that they don't have real-world experience.
01:04:03.540
They have media experience, and that's a very special kind of business.
01:04:08.160
So they probably know everything about their own industry.
01:04:10.380
But they don't really know what's it like to work at some other big company that has other big processes.
01:04:24.980
100% of the time, if you're trying to do big cuts or a big merger or a big reorganization, all of which are common.
01:04:36.520
I work for a bank that got taken over by another bank.
01:04:39.500
I think I've told you this story before, but it's relevant.
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We were told, this is the communication we got as employees.
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We were told, don't worry about your job if you're good at it.
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Because we're going to use a scalpel, not a chainsaw.
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They didn't use those words, but that's what they communicated in essence.
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So we're going to look at everybody individually.
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And if you're a good employee, don't worry that there might be duplication in the company that's acquiring you, which normally would mean you'd get fired.
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What do you think happened as soon as the deal closed?
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Now, I was the lucky one because they were discriminating against me for being white and male, so I'd just left.
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So I wasn't fired, but only because I just quit.
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Everyone else that I left behind, every one of them fired.
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So were they lying when they said we're going to use a scalpel?
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They didn't want people to revolt, and they wanted you to feel comfortable.
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So they did a really good job of communicating, except the communication was a lie.
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Do you think they thought they were humiliated and bullied?
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Do you think they thought the communication was poor?
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Do you think they thought that there wasn't enough empathy being shown?
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Everything that people are saying about Doge is 100% common to every large change in any large organization.
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There's not a single thing that people say about Doge that isn't said about every organization that makes a big change that involves firing people.
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I think a lot of people in the media are not really experienced.
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And when they say, oh, the employees, the employees are reporting that morale is low and the communication is bad, and then nobody knows what they're doing.
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That's everything, all the time, every single time.
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If you don't know that that's universal, you would think that there's chaos.
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If you knew it's 100% universal, everybody's going to feel exactly this way, then you'd say, I guess that's the only way to get from here to there.
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Whether it works or doesn't work, it's always this messy.
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So, meanwhile, Ukraine apparently has agreed to some kind of mineral deal with the United States, and even Zelensky might even come to D.C. on Friday, possibly to sign it.
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I'm not sure the deal is done, because we've been surprised before.
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Trump has managed to get Ukraine, and now even Russia, through Putin, to both be competing to be business partners with the United States in major projects.
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It was a month ago that the frame in Ukraine and Russia was, we're at war, and we don't know how to stop.
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Now, that's still true, but there's always more than one way to look at things.
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Trump has changed the frame to, I think you two should really compete to see who can be our best business partner.
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Now, I'm not naive, so I know that anything that Putin says has to be taken with a, you know, it might be a trick.
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Who else could be entertaining gigantic mineral and aluminum offers from both of those countries who are at war at the same time?
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It's almost impossible to even imagine that this is happening.
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Now, that doesn't mean that the deals work and they're good deals and doesn't mean that we'll do any deals with Russia.
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But the fact that Russia and Ukraine went from competing on the battlefield, which is still happening, to elevating it to competing in economics and trying to be our good friend, you know, economically, is just mind-blowing.
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A lot of it has to do with the fact that everybody calls him a dealmaker.
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So, if a dictator walks in, you say, oh, you're a dictator.
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But if a dealmaker walks in, you say to yourself, oh, maybe I can make this work.
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In the last hundred years, has there ever been a case where an industrialized country went to war with another industrialized country when one of those countries was the biggest market for the other or the biggest supplier of natural resources?
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So, prior to that, Japan was getting most of their oil from the United States.
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So, Japan was dependent on American oil and still attacked us.
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So, there is actually no example of any industrial country who ever attacked their biggest supplier or their biggest market.
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Now, there are examples where they were doing business.
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But they weren't the biggest supplier or the biggest buyer.
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And this is how I would see Trump's approach to war.
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I think his approach, and again, I'm not a mind reader, but if I had to look at it in context, I would say this.
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If you're doing a little bit of business with another country, the risk of war is, you know, the regular risk of war.
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If you've got reasons to go to war, a little bit of business isn't going to stop you.
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If you do a lot of business, it could go either way.
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Because a lot isn't like, you know, you're depending completely on the other.
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But if you get to the point where you're the biggest buyer or supplier to another country of something very important, let's say energy and food or something like that,
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then the odds of you going to war with each other might be close to zero.
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Because wars are basically economics without the calculator, right?
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As others have pointed out, the country with the best economy is usually going to win the war if they have a proper military.
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But countries with proper economies can fund proper militaries, and that's usually the difference.
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So could it be that Trump's concept for peace is you've got to force your most dangerous adversaries to do enough business with you that it just doesn't make sense to go to war?
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I don't think any of us are smart enough to know, you know, when that works and when it doesn't, and would it stop somebody like Putin, and would it stop somebody like Hitler?
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But I kind of like it better than permanent war.
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You know, it's like we've got to try something.
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That Lee Zeldin of the EPA is announcing that they finished the first part of the L.A. Fire Palisades, Eaton Fire, of the hazardous material cleanup.
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And that was expected that it might take 90 days or even up to a year.
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And Trump basically said, no, everything's going to be faster.
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But, you know, it's going to take up to a year.
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But that's in the context of the smart people saying it was going to take 90 days to a year.
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Now, keep in mind, that's not enough to start rebuilding.
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They're just looking for things that are, you know, obviously this is toxic.
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So things like, you know, batteries that caught on fire and that sort of thing.
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But phase two, the debris removal, which you have to do before you can build.
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The Army Corps of Engineers told Breitbart that it hopes the process could be finished within a year,
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which would be six months ahead of the original estimate of 18 months.
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Now, this is a really good test of whether Trump can really use his magic to make even the state, in this case,
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But can the, can Trump really just make things work faster?
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If he can cut the BS out and prioritize and make sure we know exactly what we want,
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So it's still a horrible situation for all the fire survivors.
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So the difference between this could have been two to three years,
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and now it might be a year-ish, that's a big difference, mentally, financially, just in every way.
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It's being written about an interesting engineering, Amman Tripathi.
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And there's a new development, and I guess it's not theoretical, they've actually built this thing,
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that where they can extract 14 liters of drinking water from even arid, dry air every day,
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Now, the solar power part is important, because normally you would need, you know,
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to plug it in and suck up a lot of power to suck water out of the air.
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So I'm making water out of the air right now, literally.
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So if you didn't need to plug it in, and then the real secret is that they can take any kind of food scrap.
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and the University of Texas has Austin researchers figured out how to turn the food scrap
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So it becomes the secret sauce within the machine that drags the water out of the air
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and converts it into clean water, even though it's food scraps.
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This next one will be a reminder that no matter how much you think things are going to stay the same,
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it only takes one smart person to change the whole freaking world.
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Now, I don't know if this is one, but this is fun.
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Now, the context is, you know that one of the biggest issues with China and Taiwan and AI
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According to Cyrus Moulton at Northeastern Global News,
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there's a Northeastern professor who patented a NANU manufacturing process
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You don't even have to be like a chip-making company.
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We're right at the point where AI can design the chip for you,
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I'm going to say a few words to the local subscribers privately.
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And I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place, for more fun.
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Locals, I'm going to come your way privately in 30 seconds.
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I love the fact that I'm going to go to the office