Episode 2792 CWSA 03⧸28⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about the latest in science and technology, drones, and Ezra Klein's new book, Abundance. Scott Adams is a comedian, writer, podcaster, and podcaster. His work has been featured on Comedy Central, NPR, and the New York Times, and he is a regular contributor on NPR Radio's Morning Mashup.
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through it. You ready for this? Happy Friday, by the way.
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Let's see. Is there any new science that they could have completely skipped just by asking
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Scott? Oh, yeah. Here's one. The University of South Australia found out that being happy
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in your career doesn't make you happy in life, but being happy in general in your life can make
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you enjoy your career that you have more. They could have just asked me, yes, it's called baseline
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happiness, and if you're happy in general, everything else in your life looks better.
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How many of you didn't know that? Was there anybody who thought, you know, if I were depressed,
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but I got a better job? I'll bet that would cheer me up. No, it doesn't work that way. If you're happy,
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then even your crap job seems pretty good to you. And if you're unhappy, it doesn't matter how good
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your job is. You're still going to be unhappy. So just ask me next time. I could have cleared that up.
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Saved you a lot of money. Well, according to Marine Insight publication, over in Germany,
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there's this revolutionary new wastewater processing plant. It's a wastewater processing plant. And what's
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revolutionary is that they can convert the wastewater into methanol, which I guess is kind of climate
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neutral. And you can use that for marine fuels. Now, I wonder if there's anybody who works on the
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wastewater project that would tell us that we live in a simulation. Let's see. The wastewater is being
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explained by Dr. Whizzing. W-S-S-I-N-G. Whizzing. So Dr. Whizzing can tell you about the wastewater.
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Apparently, Dr. Pooping was not. He's the number two. Yep. Dr. Whizzing for wastewater. Okay. All right. All right.
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Judge me. You can judge me on that one. This you knew was coming. Next Gen Defense was reporting that
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Maxar Intelligence, they've developed a vision-based software that can make GPS unnecessary for your
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drone. So in other words, if your drone gets jammed and it can't see the GPS signal, it doesn't care
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because Maxar Intelligence has these databases that are really detailed. They've got 3D terrain data
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for 34 million square miles. So it can just switch to, or maybe it doesn't even need, GPS.
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Which means that there is practically no defense against drones now. If your drone can't be jammed,
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if you can't jam the GPS, that seems like a problem. So yes, as Naval Ravikant said recently,
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it's really inevitable that all warfare will be drones because why would you need anything else?
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It's all going to be drones? It's all going to be drones. Well, if you haven't yet seen Ezra Klein
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on Jon Stewart's podcast, oh, you have to see this. I so recommend this. So look for the clips. If you
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just see the clips, you'll see everything you need to see. So Ezra Klein is a co-author of the book
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Abundance. And he's doing, you know, I have to say my first impression was, hey, you're just writing
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a book that says Democrats should act more like Republicans if they want to win anything. So I
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wasn't sure it was adding much to the world. But now I think it is. So I'm going to switch to full
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compliment to Ezra Klein and I guess Derek Thompson, the two co-authors. So the thing that was amazing
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is that, you know, you've heard Ezra Klein talk about how the Democrats are good at funding
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impressive things. But then for reasons that I didn't quite understand, nothing got done. So there
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was the funding of the high speed rail in California that didn't get done. There was a funding of the
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rural broadband internet that didn't get done. There was the funding of the nationwide charging
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stations that didn't get done. All good ideas in theory, but all they can do is give them money and
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not get anything done. And if you wondered why it is that nothing gets done, you just have to
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you just have to hear Ezra Klein go through the 14 steps it would have taken to approve the just
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the the project for the car charging stations. Oh, my God, I'm not going to run through the 14
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because it's pretty pedantic. But you have to watch Jon Stewart for the first time understanding
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how completely doomed the Democrat way of work is, because the regulations are mostly I'm thinking
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mostly Democrat created. And if you looked at any one of them individually, you'd probably say to
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yourself, all right, well, I can see why you'd want this group to review it. Or I could see why you'd
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want to run it through this group for approval. But once you get to 14 different steps, and everybody's
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got to review it and analyze it, and they got time for a comment, it becomes literally impossible.
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So it's not just that it didn't happen, it's that the system was impossible. So anybody who tried to
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apply to, you know, be one of the people who executed on these funded projects, couldn't get
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through it, it would take you the rest of your life, if you got through it at all. So there is no way
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to actually execute on these well meaning Democrat gigantic projects. There is no way. Now,
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what is it I always say about the difference between Republicans and Democrats?
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Democrats are really good at goals. High speed rail. That's a goal. I like it. Rural internet
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broadband. I like it. A nationwide charging stations for electric cars. Sounds pretty good. Those are good
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goals. I like it. But they also developed a system that made it impossible. Now, let's compare that to
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the Republicans. Republicans would say, get rid of all these, this red tape. And then it works. That's
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it. So the Republicans have a system, which is in general, get rid of the red tape. Now, beyond that,
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if you got rid of enough red tape, maybe you don't even need much government funding. Maybe the private
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sector can do it. But the Republicans consistently have systems that would work. And the Democrats
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consistently have pretty good goals. We'd like everybody to do well. We'd like the schools to do
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well. Take public education. The Democrats have a very good goal that no matter what your income is
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or what your situation is in life, you should get a good education and the government can help you on
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that. But then they overlay it with the Department of Education, which was a problem. They overlay it
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with the teachers' union. And you very quickly get to the point where the system for providing that
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thing, which is a good goal, it just doesn't work. And that's what we observe. Scores are going down in
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every way. Whereas the Republicans would say, well, nothing works unless there's competition.
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So let's make sure there's a lot more competition for private schools or alternative schools. So
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again, in every domain, it's the same. Democrats, good on goals, don't have systems.
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Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament. I've been visualizing my match all week.
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She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.
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Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in
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the country. Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car
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in no time. I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round. But you got there on time.
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Intact Insurance, your auto service ace. Certain conditions apply. Let's check in on DEI.
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Charlie Kirk has a post where he's talking about a Daily Wire story by Luke Rosiak. I guess he did a
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great job on this. And the story is about a group called the National Diversity Council.
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Now, remember I tell you that it turns out that you can tell all the fraudulent organizations
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because they string together words that sound good. So instead of the National Diversity Council,
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it could have been the American Fairness Initiative. You can just put any words together,
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the Freedom Diversity Association, and then you start getting money. Well, one of the founders,
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Dennis Kennedy, allegedly paid himself $450,000 a year for 10 hours of work a week. But then in 2022,
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allegedly, at the peak of DEI mania, he and a few other executives decided that they were really owed
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another $3 million in back pay. And so they looted the organization, is the accusation. And now the
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organization is filing for bankruptcy, with the board saying that Kennedy systematically looted it
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by funneling his assets to a for-profit firm controlled by himself. Does that sound familiar?
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That's exactly what we were finding out with all the NGOs. If the NGO gets a lot of funding,
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let's say from the government, could be private donations, then the first thing they'll do is say,
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here's how we're spending that money. We're going to hire this for-profit entity that just happens to
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be my wife, or just happens to be me with another name. And we're not going to have any accounting so
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that it's not as obvious what we're doing. It's the same scam everywhere. And once you realize the
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pattern, you can just pick it up instantly. It's like, oh, you got a bunch of money, you gave yourself
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a generic name like the National Diversity Council, and you can protect yourself by accusing any of
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your critics of being racist. Ah, see, that's important. Because if you don't have an audit
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process and you're planning to loot the organization, you want to make sure that if anybody blames you of
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anything, you could say, oh, my God, what are you, some kind of white supremacist who hates diversity?
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diversity? Don't you see that diversity is in the name of our organization? Of course it's good,
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because it says diversity right in it. It's right in the name. You racist. I think we're onto it now.
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I think we can spot these a little easier. Well, Mario Knopfel is reporting that Trump has threatened
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to defund the Smithsonian over what he calls divisive narratives. And he's ordered J.D. Vance to go
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clean house, whatever that means. And what he wants to do is remove what he calls improper ideology,
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or else they'll lose federal funding. And he accuses the museum of pushing a decades-long effort to
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rewrite U.S. history with distorted ideological narratives instead of facts.
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So they're going to have to get rid of all the divisive content or else the government won't fund
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them anymore. And to me, I can see why they're doing it. I'm sure it's a good idea. But history
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has always been fake. So when you take one version of fake history and somebody's trying to rewrite it
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to another version of fake history, it doesn't make it more accurate. But there is a version of
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history that's better for the country. And if you're deciding to change the history to
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white people suck, now I haven't seen what the Smithsonian is up to, but I'm just going to take
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a wild guess that what they're saying is that white people are the problem. They killed all the Native
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Americans. They created all the slavery. They stole all the money. And white people are bad. Just a guess.
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I don't have any information that that's what the Smithsonian was doing. But what do you think?
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What else would it be? So yeah, it's very, very damaging to have a fake history that says the
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people who live here today are part of the problem. You don't want that. So it is better,
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even if it's fake history, to say that your country was awesome and you're still awesome. It's better.
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Well, here's a story that really sounds great for America. Just listen to this. According to
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Interesting Engineering, an enormous massive lithium deposits have been discovered in the US,
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worth $540 billion, so much that it would vastly reduce China's grip on the United States for lithium.
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So I'm reading this and I'm like, wow, $540 billion worth of lithium. And it seems to be accessible.
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Isn't that the greatest story? The only thing that could be bad about this is if it's in
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California. Don't be in California. Please don't be in California. Please, please don't be in California.
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It's in California beneath the surface of the Salton Sea. So I guess the value is not $540 billion.
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It would be closer to... Let me call up Ezra Klein. Ezra? There's $540 billion worth of lithium in
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California under the Salton Sea. Do you think we could... Okay, calm down, Ezra. Calm down.
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Okay, I know we'll never get it. Yeah, I know. 14 steps. Okay, we'll just leave it there. Never mind.
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Thank you. Goodbye. Yeah, that's a complete waste of time because it's in California. I'd love to be
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wrong. I would love to be wrong. But no, it's worth nothing because it's in California. That's all you
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need to know. Trump has floated the idea of maybe easing off on tariffs, according to Reuters,
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on China if China approves the sale of TikTok to an American entity. What do you think of that idea?
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Going easy on tariffs on China if they approve a TikTok deal. Here's the problem. That would be
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transferring wealth from the citizens of the United States to the rich people in the United States who
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bought TikTok. So the benefactors would be the billionaires who buy TikTok. And that would be
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paid for partly by money that would have otherwise gone into the treasury. So how is Trump gonna think
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this through? Now, I'm not saying it's a bad idea, by the way. What I'm saying is how do you sell it?
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What? Because it's total oligarch, friendly, citizen, unfriendly, American last. I mean,
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to me, it looks like it'd be kind of good for China and good for a few oligarchs who buy it,
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who are his buddies. And I don't see how you sell this thing. Now, I will give you one possibility.
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One of the things that Trump said was that the US government, if it's being helpful in making the
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deal happen, should get a percentage of TikTok. Oh. Now, that was not part of this story.
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But remember, Trump has floated that idea. And he was serious about it. And it makes sense. If the
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government is doing something important to make a private investment worth something from zero to
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maybe be worth a trillion dollars someday, why don't we get a piece of it? If you give me a piece of it,
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meaning the citizens, I'm all in. Yeah. If you say we're gonna reduce tariffs a little bit on China
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to get this deal done. But in the end, the United States, let's say our sovereign fund,
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you know, where I think we're gonna have trouble funding the sovereign fund. There's some some
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technical reason why the sovereign fund might be in jeopardy. But this seems like a perfect use for
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a sovereign fund where we invest literally zero and we get a percentage of TikTok. I'd be happy with more
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of that. So if if Trump combines two things he's floated, one is the reduction of tariffs to get
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All right. Well, the House is, according to Just the News, the House passed some legislation to
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keep foreign influence and of higher education called the Deterrent Act. And let's see what it
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does. It mandates that schools have to report foreign gifts. I think this is mostly universities
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and colleges have to report foreign gifts or at least $50,000 or more. And they have to report it to the
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checking notes. They have to report that to the Department of Education.
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Do you see any problem with the legislation? Because the Department of Education is being closed.
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I swear. I don't even know what I'm reading at this point. Is this true? Did they just yesterday,
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the Republicans, this would only be through the House, not the Senate, but did they really just
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pass some legislation in the House that says somebody has to report to the Department of no
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longer existing? There must be something wrong with this story. But maybe not.
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Well, RFK Jr., who I thought was being a little bit quiet, you know, until he got his sea legs and
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figured out what was what. But boy, he's not quiet now. I saw Wall Street Apes had a video. I couldn't
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tell how old it was. But he was talking how BlackRock owns all of the meatpackers in the United States.
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There are only four big companies. But BlackRock owns them all. And they, according to RFK, they also own
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a lot of the big pharma. Now, I don't know if own is the right description. They might own a percentage,
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but does BlackRock own a controlling interest in pharma? Because that would be something I'd never
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heard before. I definitely knew that they were heavily invested in everything that matters.
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You know, pretty much every industry that matters. But a controlling interest? I don't know. And do they
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have a controlling interest or already own the meatpackers? So I have some questions about that. But
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that's something RFK Jr. is bringing up. Seems important to me.
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Then he also reported that some of the career civil servant bureaucrats were keeping RFK Jr. from
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accessing databases that would have information about risks and dangers of certain drugs and medical
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interventions. Can you imagine that? And RFK Jr. says that these bureaucrats are seemingly only serving
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the industries they were supposed to regulate. So everything that RFK Jr. has been telling us before
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he got the job to be in charge of all this stuff. It looks like it's all true. It looks like these are
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completely broken industries that are just serving the pharma industries. It just seems broken entirely.
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But RFK Jr. was on Chris Cuomo's show at NewsNation. And he said the CDC, so that would be under him,
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is launching a new sub-agency to specialize in vaccine injuries.
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So that should make you happy. Now, he's very careful about the fact that it's not going to be
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based on the hearsay or anecdote. They're going to look into it with the best gold standard science
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science that they can, which has not been applied to this question yet. So if the only thing he does
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is apply the best science to it, even if it finds out that the vaccines weren't as bad as you thought,
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you're going to be a lot happier. Now, I think most of you are expecting to find out that the
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vaccinations, various ones, not just COVID. But I think you expect, at least this audience does,
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that it's going to find out that they were much more dangerous than you thought.
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But either way, we need to know. We need to know. I'm open to the fact that it might go either way.
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But we definitely need to know. It's right at the top of things we should be caring about.
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And then RFK Jr. was talking about Elon Musk using AI to improve health and efficiency and
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improve delivery. So he said that they've had a bunch of geniuses come over to RFK Jr.'s domain to
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try to figure out how to do that. Can you imagine how much money could be driven out of healthcare
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if you only knew what worked and what doesn't? Separately, I saw another story, I didn't write
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this one down, about how there's a large number of complications with medications
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that are very specific to your genetic makeup. So if you could, of course, there's a problem,
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you know, anytime your genetic makeup is part of a database, you have to worry about that.
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But imagine if we just had those two databases. What's your genetic makeup? And how does this drug
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do for people with your genetic makeup? And you could get rid of something like 9% of all the injury.
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That's huge. That's huge. But think of all the different ways that AI could just make everything
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work better. Do you think you've ever taken a medication that didn't work well with the other
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medications you were taking and you just didn't know it? Probably. Probably. And AI could help you
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with that. So at the very least, you should take a picture of all your pill bottles with AI.
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And the next time you get a next time you get a prescription and say, I got a new prescription.
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Is it going to work well with all the ones I already have? And by the way, if you use chat GPT
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at the highest level expensive one, you can literally do that. You could just put all your
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pill bottles in a row and just put it on video and just take a picture of all your pill bottles
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and say, I'm going to add this pill. My doctor said to add this one and it will tell you.
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It'll tell you which ones don't work with other ones. More so, I think, even than your doctor would.
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I mean, they're supposed to flag it, but you can't expect them to know every interaction.
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I've never seen a doctor look up an interaction while I was talking to them. I wonder if this
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system does that for them. You know, my healthcare system is pretty well automated.
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It might be that if they just prescribe it, maybe it puts up a warning. I don't know. I'm kind of
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skeptical that it's already built into the system, but it could be. It could be big.
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Meanwhile, dumb old Tim Walsh, he was at some kind of event and he was urging Democrats to get more
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serious about DEI and immigration. He thinks that the problem was they didn't go hard enough on those
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things. So he goes, quote, we'd let them define the issue on immigration. We'd let them define the issue
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on DEI and we'd let them define what woke is. We got ourselves in this mess because we weren't bold
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enough to stand up and say, you're damn right. We're proud of these policies. We're going to put
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them in and we're going to execute them. I think the only thing he executed were whatever was the
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remaining of the Democrats' chance of ever having a president again. Let's be serious. Is this the
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dumbest fucking guy you've ever seen in your life? Tim Walsh is just not smart. He's just not smart.
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So, wow. Every time I see one of their, you know, leaders say something, I just shake my head.
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You know, and keep in mind, you know, I just want to give you some reference. When I used to watch
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Bill Clinton talk, I used to think, wow, he's really smart, even if I didn't agree with him.
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When I saw Obama talk, I would say, well, at least you're very smart, even if I didn't agree with him.
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But when I see Wallstock or Jasmine Crockett, I just think, God, you're dumb. And I disagree with you.
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That's a tough combo to be dumb and wrong at the same time.
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All right. Many of you may have seen clips or watched
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Bret Baier on Fox News and a few Doge and Elon Musk. And I got to say, I was so impressed.
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So anyway, I've never seen Musk look so good. Maybe sometimes he's more tired or
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the lighting's bad or whatever, but he looked great. He looked healthy and completely in charge.
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So that was great. But the other thing that I noticed is that Musk is a talent stack guy,
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meaning that whatever talents he has, which are considerable, of course,
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he is continually adding to them. And I believe that his close association with Trump is teaching him
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things about communications and things about persuasion that is taking him to the next level.
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Because very few people can master those domains as well as, let's say, a technical domain.
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But if you look at Musk today, his ability to come up with a sentence you'll remember forever
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is almost Trump-like. I mean, nobody can match Trump. He's a category by himself. But you can see
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the transfer of skill. You can tell that he's impressed. This is just me reading minds. But you
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could tell that if he's normal, he's impressed by Trump's ability to communicate and to control
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the crowd and to control the narrative. And boy, has he learned well. So I watched a number of,
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mostly I saw the clips. I didn't see 100% of it. But I was impressed completely about how succinctly
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Musk can explain an idea and you'll remember it forever. I'll give you an example.
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He said that their goal is to find $4 billion per day in savings. And they're on track to be mostly
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done in 130 days, which is what he's authorized for. How clean and simple is that? And Brett Baer says,
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well, are you going to be doing reports? And Musk says, we're doing the actual savings.
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I mean, they're reporting the savings, but you don't need a report because every time they add
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another billion dollars or whatever the savings, they put it on the website. So you don't need a
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report because it's reported as it happens. So that's a perfect answer. The $4 billion per day,
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I'll remember that. If he had said something like, you can imagine somebody who was bad at it,
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saying, well, we're finding anything from one to $8 billion per day. And we're hoping that that's enough.
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No. He tells you $4 billion per day for roughly 130 days is going to get to you, we think,
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a trillion dollars in savings, which is 50% of the deficit spending. The other trillion Trump is going
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to handle with growth, we hope. So that's perfect. Just communication-wise, absolutely perfect. You
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could not improve on that. It's so clean. $4 billion a day, 130 days to $1 trillion. I'll never forget that.
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And then they add the anecdotes. Imagine all the complicated things that Doge is looking into.
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And imagine if they tried to explain the complicated things. You'd be like,
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oh, that sounds pretty complicated, but you go wild. Instead, he gives the cleanest little anecdotal
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example to back up the numbers. And he says that at one point, nearly a billion dollars
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was allocated, I think per year, for some company that would do a survey that apparently nobody needed
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or wanted. There didn't even seem to be any obvious customer for it. A billion dollars a year
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for one little survey that looked like it was done by a high school group. A complete ripoff,
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as far as we can tell. Now, will you remember that? One billion, real easy to remember,
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for one survey that looks like it was done by high school kids. You'll remember that forever.
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Right? That one's just perfect for communication. And even having the, I guess it was the other Doge
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leaders sitting behind them. That was great. Then the other thing he said, and this is just
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perfect genius of communication. You know how the biggest problem with Doge is, hey,
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you're using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel. Stop using the chainsaw when all of us smart people who
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are Democrats know you should be using a scalpel. Where's the scalpel? So the way he handled that was,
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he said that they're measuring everything twice, if not thrice
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before they cut. So the old saying is, you know, measure twice, cut once. So he's moving away from the,
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you know, the scalpel chainsaw thing, but he's letting you know that they're not making any cuts
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unless they've measured twice, if not thrice. Do you notice that twice and thrice rhyme?
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Who's that remind you of? Johnny Cochran. If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. If the glove
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doesn't fit, you must acquit. We'll measure it twice, if not thrice. It is a well-known persuasion
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fact that if something rhymes, it's more persuasive. When California tried to get people to wear
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seatbelts and they told them they were going to get a ticket, unless they did, the campaign was
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click it or tick it. Basically click your seatbelt where you get a ticket. Click it or tick it.
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If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. We're measuring it twice, if not thrice.
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Nice. Perfect. Perfect. Now, if he had said, and I would have made this mistake, I think,
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if he would have said, you know, but sometimes you need a chainsaw. That might be true. It might be,
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it might be smart, but it would not be the right answer for communicating to the public.
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What the public wants to hear, and the only thing they want to hear is, I'm going to measure it twice,
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if not thrice. So what I saw was an absolute lesson on how to be perfect. That was from the producers of
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the show to Brett Baer's questions, which were excellent. He's always excellent in that domain,
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to Musk's specific answers, to the people who were the head of Doge sitting behind him and
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backing him up with answers. Every part of that was the highest quality you'll ever see for something
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like this. It was really, really impressive. Anyway, moving on. According to the Wall Street
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Journal, billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on duplicate Medicaid payments,
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and Musk has already said that Doge will fix that. Now, how did that happen? The Daily Wire is
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talking about it, but I think Wall Street Journal did the original investigation. And what they found
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was there are a number of cases where people should have been reimbursed by their insurance company,
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or I guess Medicaid was going to pay the insurance company, but then they moved.
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And so the systems were not clever enough to pick up the fact that it was the same person,
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but at a different address. So apparently these big insurance companies, the biggest ones in the
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country, health insurance, were receiving two payments for a whole bunch of people if they had moved
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during some certain time. And the dollar amounts were massive, totaling up to at least $4.3 billion.
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$4.3 billion that went to insurance companies from the government. It didn't go to the individuals,
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so it wasn't like that none of the people involved were involved in fraud, so they didn't break any laws,
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they just moved. And so UnitedHealth, remember UnitedHealth? I'm not going to say it.
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I'm not going to say it. I'm just going to say UnitedHealth was one of them. Elevance Health and
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Centenni. I don't know any of those. They received hundreds of millions of dollars each in duplicate
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payments. You know what this story doesn't include? It doesn't include that those insurance companies are
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going to pay back the taxpayers who are owed that money. Are they? It's such massive amounts that it
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probably would eliminate their profit for a year or two. I don't know what their profits are. But
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don't they have to pay that back? Because nobody's arguing that they were owed the payment.
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It seems like it's easy to demonstrate that these were duplicate payments.
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So where's our check? It feels to me we should be clawing that all back if it's possible.
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Well, here's an update on Catherine Marr, the CEO of NPR. I picked up on this yesterday, but
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Brit Hume had a take on it on X. He says, when you read or hear about NPR chief Catherine Marr
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being grilled about her hard left views as expressed on Twitter in 2020, remember that's five years ago.
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Remember, it was three years after those tweets that she was made head of NPR.
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So did NPR know what her views were? Because she claims now that they're different,
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that her views have evolved in five years. But do you know what Catherine Marr calls five years?
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She calls it half a decade. I was listening to her being grilled by the Congress. And when she said,
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but you know, that was half a decade ago. Half a decade? That's five years. How many people have a
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complete transformation of political opinion in five years? And it's not on one topic. Like I could see how
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somebody would say, oh, I used to believe in this hoax, but I found out blah, blah, blah. But how do you
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have a total revamp of your political opinions from crazy far left to something more moderate in half a
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decade? Half a decade, you lying, whatever. Here's something I didn't know. I had to look it up.
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One to 3% of their funding comes from the government. So I don't really care about this too much.
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One to 3% of their funding? It seems like we should just yank the funding because one to 3%
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is something that can certainly handle. And why am I paying for any of this?
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richer than you think. Then Christopher Rufo on X reminds us, he says, don't forget that NPRCR
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CEO Catherine Marr is also the board chairman of Signal. She's the board chairman of Signal.
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Come on. Are we living in a simulation? How is that even possible? The only thing that could be
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weirder is if she were like the daughter of Judge Boesberg. She's not, by the way. But it's the only
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thing that would make this weirder. And then Rufo goes on and says, and she spent a decade working on
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regime change operations in the Middle East and North Africa. Now, I don't think anybody has had
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a more obvious connection to the CIA than she has. Now, I can't confirm that. I don't have proof of
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that. But all of this from being CEO of NPR to being on the chairman of the board of Signal to
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being working on regime change operations in the Middle East and North Africa. What does that sound
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like to you? Does that sound like just a bunch of coincidences? Sometimes things are just what you
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think. Well, one of the biggest Tesla domestic terrorists has been caught in Las Vegas, I guess.
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Police made an arrest. It was the guy who did the most elaborate domestic violence. He's the one who
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set on fire in multiple cars at a, I guess it was a Tesla facility for repair, I think, collision repair.
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And he used a gun. He fired some shots and used some Molotov cocktails. And of course,
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he has a history of being 36 years old, has a history of being associated with the Communist Party
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and anything else that's bad. Anyway, he was booked on 15 counts. He could get up to 20 years in prison.
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Also, a woman seen keying a Tesla in Washington has been identified. She's in trouble. Also, that 450
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pound guy who was on some kind of a scooter thing and ramming the side of a car, he's been easily
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identified. And that's not a complete list. How many of the domestic terrorists have now been
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completely identified? Because I feel like we'll get just about all of them, you know, the ones that
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showed their faces. So it looks like the world is starting to get back in balance. Meaning that
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as long as there's a continual drip of the domestic terrorists getting serious jail sentences,
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maybe it'll decrease. You know, maybe the Democrats will get tired of it. I don't know,
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maybe they'll run into crazy people. I saw a post by Insurrection Barbie, who was a great follow,
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by the way. If you're not following on X, Insurrection Barbie, you're missing a lot of great content.
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But Insurrection Barbie says the entire resistance to Donald Trump is made up of like 300 super
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connected Democrats and a bunch of paid protesters. Easy to realize why they lost the election and why
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they're continuously bleeding voters. But this is your daily reminder that 300 powerful Democrats
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and their NGOs are trying to hold the country hostage. And I think Elon Musk agreed with that
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estimate that there are about 300 highly connected Democrats who are pretending to be the Democrats,
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basically. They're the ones in charge. That number completely agrees with my understanding of the world.
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About 300. And of course, within the 300, there would be, you know, 50 who are super important
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and maybe, you know, 10 who are head of the pyramid. But we do see the same names, don't we?
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It feels like, you know, if there's something terrible happening, you know, lawfare or something else,
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it feels like the same set of people just keep popping up over and over again. So yeah, it's about 300.
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They just act like they're more. So Trump wants an investigation of how it is possible, according to
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Washington Times, that he keeps getting bad judges by chance. So apparently these DC judges should be
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assigned randomly. They've got some kind of wheel they spin. But yet, this Judge Bosberg, who is,
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uh, let's say the Trump supporters think he's been highly biased and, uh, has conflicts, they would say.
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Um, and he was nominated by Barack Obama, et cetera. And then somehow amazingly, he got this newest case
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about the signal app and whether that has to do with a possibility of any federal records being
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destroyed because the app automatically deletes things. So what are the odds that he would be chosen
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yet again for another Trump-related case? Well, it turns out, um, as the Washington Times reports,
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and this is good reporting, by the way, I didn't know that there are 20. So if you're going to say,
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how does this one guy get four of these Trump cases when it's one out of 20 every time? Well,
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it would help if you knew that there, um, there's another judge, Gia Cobb, who has at least 10 Trump-related
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cases. But I've never heard that name, have you? Judge Cobb? How could one judge have 10 Trump-related
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cases? And I've never heard the name. My guess is that there are 10 cases that aren't that important.
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And there are three other judges that have six each. Uh, two of them have five each and several
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judges have four. Well, the first thing you need to know is that there are so many of these lawfare
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situations against Trump that if you only have 20 judges, they're all going to get half a dozen.
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Because even if you did it randomly, there are just so many judges that they're,
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they're just all going to come up half a dozen times. And that's exactly what's happening.
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Um, but I don't believe it's random. Here's what I think. I think it depends who filed the lawsuit.
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I think if one of the 300, which is really one of a half dozen, I think there are some lawyers
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that if they're involved, they seem to get the right judge. I don't think that it's a coincidence
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that Judge Cobb has 10 cases and I've never heard that name. They can't be the important ones.
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So I've got a feeling it's not random, even though a lot of people have a lot of cases.
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Um, so Trump, according, also according to the Washington Times, Jeff Mordock's writing about
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this, uh, Trump is stripping security clearance from yet another law firm. Um, yeah, what is it?
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Wilmer Hale. It's a high powered Washington law firm. And they had once employed, uh,
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special counsel, Robert Mueller. And this is what the, the executive order banning them from, uh,
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working on government stuff says, it says that the law firm has abandoned the profession's highest ideals
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and abused its pro bono practice to engage in activities that undermine the justice and interest
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of the United States. And I give some examples. Um, it's supported efforts to discriminate based on
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race. Uh, I assume that means DEI stuff backs the obstruction of efforts to prevent illegal aliens
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from committing horrific crimes and trafficking deadly drugs within our border and furthers the
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degradation of the quality of American elections, including supporting efforts designed to enable
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non-citizens to vote. Here's my problem. That's sort of the job of lawyers. Lawyers don't just represent
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innocent people who are angels. Our system completely depends on qualified lawyers also taking cases that you
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and I hate and say, why are you doing that? Why are you doing that pro bono thing for these terrible people?
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So to me, this looks like lawfare. And remember, I said from the beginning, I've told you, if it looks
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like lawfare to me, I'm going to call it out. It's a little hard to be a team player and be in favor of
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lawfare. However, I'm going to soften it a little bit because there's so much lawfare against the president
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that is completely out of, out of the norm that this looks like a brushback pitch to me.
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As in, if I keep getting lawfare, I'm going to take you all down. And even if I lose every one of
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these in some upper court, I'm going to make sure you're spending all your time, wasting your time
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trying to fight this because you all suck and you're all political and you can pretend that
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you're just helping your clients, but you're obviously just a lawfare organ of the Democrats.
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And we have a completely broken system where the lawyers are trying to basically run the whole
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fucking country. Now under those conditions, I'm okay with lawfare because the lawfare is a brushback
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pitch. I'm not in favor of going to a baseball game and watching the pitcher throw unlimited pitches
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at the head of the opposing batter. No, I don't want to watch that. But if that team does something
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really messed up and the pitcher decides to put water right into the body of the batter, you understand
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that, don't you? You understand that they're trying to get balance back. Now, you might not love it
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because it's violent. I'm not recommending it. But we do see that in the real world, if you don't have
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mutually assured destruction, everything falls apart. So if you look at it as just lawfare, it's bad.
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But if you look at it as a response to lawfare, which is what it is, it's a response to lawfare.
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If they lawfare them back just as hard, that is establishing mutually assured destruction. And it
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may have more to do with suppressing the next thing they do than it does with, you know, addressing
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anything in the past. So I'm in favor of it. I'm in favor of it. And I think it's lawfare. And I think
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it's appropriate. According to Breitbart News, Simon Kent is writing that the Trump administration is
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going to suspend contributions to the WTO, the World Trade Organization. So I had to look up,
00:56:08.780
what the heck does the World Trade Organization do? And what it does is allegedly, at least up till now,
00:56:16.380
is open markets to 160 different countries and lowered tariffs and made it easier to dispute
00:56:24.220
trade problems across borders and basically grease the wheels to make it easier for every country to
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do business with every other country. So you might ask, why do we want to suspend our contribution to
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that? And I think the answer is because if your organization is trying to find a middle ground where
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everybody's happy, it's not America first. It could be, well, let's make sure that, you know,
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China and the United States are both, you know, kind of happy, but kind of unhappy,
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but maybe we could have done a better deal. So I don't know if this will work out or not work out,
00:57:05.180
but the idea that we can handle our own tariffs and our own disputes, and we've got enough market
00:57:12.780
muscle to say, look, if you don't handle this dispute, we're just not going to do business with
00:57:19.340
you or we're going to tear off the bejesus out of you. So tentatively, this looks like a good idea
00:57:28.300
because they're not, the WTO is not meant to be America first. So maybe we can do better on our own.
00:57:35.900
We'll see. That wouldn't be true for smaller countries, I suppose, but for America, maybe.
00:57:41.900
Well, as you know, the story you've heard before that Jasmine Crockett called Governor Abbott of Texas,
00:57:51.100
Governor Hot Wheels, because Abbott's in a wheelchair. And this, of course, caused the
00:57:57.340
Democrats to bring up the, what they probably think is true, by the way, but it's a hoax that Trump ever
00:58:06.060
mocked a reporter who had a disability with an arm. Now, I saw Brendan Straka doing a great job of
00:58:17.180
debunking that, and I've seen, you know, the Debunk America doing a great job of debunking.
00:58:22.300
It's the most thoroughly debunked thing, and it's easy to debunk because you can show the video from
00:58:29.980
before the incident with the reporter where he would do the same action when he was talking about
00:58:35.420
anybody who couldn't answer a question or anybody who was doing a bad job communicating. Basically,
00:58:41.820
it was his way of mocking them. But you also know that Jasmine Crockett tried to explain her comment
00:58:51.020
as not really being about the wheelchair and that the Hot Wheels comment was something about
00:58:57.020
transporting immigrants or something. So, without further ado, I would like to do my impression of
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Jasmine Crockett trying to explain why she called Governor Abbott Hot Wheels, but it really didn't
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have anything to do with his disability. And this is Jasmine Crockett. Whoa, whoa, whoa. See how that works?
00:59:37.900
I saw Sabine Hassenfelder on X, she's a German physicist, saying, she said,
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I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs, the technology behind AI.
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And she talks about how she's used a bunch of the AIs, and she's doing it for her work in science,
00:59:57.740
and that it often gives her sources that don't exist, or there's a 404 error. It'll tell her that
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a document that says 2025 on it is from 2023. So, she has to continually fact check the AI's work,
01:00:15.340
and it just looks kind of limited to her and wonders why people are so enthusiastic about its future.
01:00:23.820
Now, I've said similar things, and people's response to me and to other people who have had this
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experience, they say, oh, you just don't understand how, what is it?
01:00:45.340
Oh, what's the word? Don't understand how exponential improvements work.
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So, the smartest people who like AI are saying, Scott, Scott, Scott, you're so dumb. Let me explain
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how the world works, can I? AI is not supposed to be the best it will ever be today. It's going to get
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better, like really fast, and there's going to be this exponential growth that's going to happen
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any minute now, and when that kicks in, you're going to look like such a fool. Oh, man, a fool,
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because you don't understand how exponential growth works. Yeah, it seems slow, slow, slow, slow,
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but then when it kicks in, boom! And that's why you're not seeing, because you're not,
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you know, you don't understand technology like we do. To which I say, have you ever heard of Moore's Law
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about the microchips getting better every year? It's a straight line. No exponential period. Have you
01:01:55.900
ever heard of a thing called fusion, nuclear fusion? That was first proposed and worked on 93 years ago.
01:02:07.820
93 years. Still waiting for the exponential growth part. 93 years. What about airline travel? I'm waiting
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for the exponential growth in that, because since I was a child, it's been largely the same,
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and the planes don't even change. They're like 40 years old. Yeah, so we got that.
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So what else we got? What about batteries? I'm always talking about all these breakthroughs
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in batteries. Now, that's a case where I think there will be an exponential growth. And the reason is
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that there are people all over the world who know there's enormous money to be made in making a better
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battery. Enormous. So you've got all kinds of people, the best people working on it all over
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the world, and they're trying different technologies. So if you have the best people all over the world
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and trying money involved, and they're working on different technologies, the odds of one of them
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being 10 times as good as the old one are pretty good. So if you said to me, Scott, don't you know that
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batteries may be chugging along for a while, but once we get to a certain point, man, those batteries
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are going to be amazing. I would believe that one. I believe that one. It's just that not everything can
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turn into everything else. What about smartphones? So our smartphones kind of came kind of awesome
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because they're smartphones. But how different is your current smartphone from the last one?
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I feel like smartphones sort of peaked. I'm waiting for that exponential growth,
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but I don't think it's coming with smartphones, probably some other technology.
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So here's what I think. I used AI five times already this morning, mostly Grok. It was great
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because that's how I know that Fusion has been worked on for 93 years. I just asked Grok. And
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that's how I knew what the WTO does. I asked Grok. So if you're a writer or you're working in this
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kind of world, this podcasting world, and you're trying to get context and you're trying to get
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an understanding of a new topic quickly, oh, it is great. It is great. So in some professions,
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and Bill Gates was saying that medical profession, legal profession, some other ones, we're going to see
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AI take over. And I believe that. So I'm very pro AI. It's just that I don't think the current
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technology, the large language models are ever going to help Sabine do her science stuff because
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you can't rely on it being right. It might be that you always have to fact check the facts
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if you're doing science stuff. The stuff I do, I can get a fact wrong and nobody would die.
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You know, tomorrow, somebody would say, on the show yesterday, you said
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fusion's been around 93 years, but really it's 50. I'd say, oh, okay. So it works great
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whenever you're in a domain where if something's wrong, it's not the biggest problem in the world.
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But do you think an LLM will ever become the pilot of your commercial aircraft? I'm going to say no.
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Do you think LLM will be good enough to be the robot that can do generic tasks and you just have to
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show it or teach it? I'm skeptical because you wouldn't want a robot in your house
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that was lossy, meaning that you couldn't know exactly what was going to happen.
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So I'm going to say that the LLMs have amazing potential for a whole bunch of different things,
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but we're going to need to invent a whole different kind of thing for this, you know,
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the artificial general intelligence, the one that thinks like we do and is less lossy.
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That's what I think. Anyway, the Gateway Pundit is reporting on my idea of creating the
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Department of Imaginary Concerns to handle all the fake Democrat problems.
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Michael Lachance wrote about this. And if you hadn't heard about that, the idea is that Democrats
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have a whole bunch of imaginary problems, everything from climate crisis to Russia collusion,
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the signal controversy, Elon Musk stealing your social security numbers, like just a whole bunch
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of fake stuff. Trump's going to become Hiller. He's Putin's best friend, all that stuff. So you just
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put that in the Department of Imaginary Concerns. Now, the reason I brought it up is I want to give you
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a very quick persuasion lesson. A few people said, hey, don't call it the Department of Imaginary Concerns,
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call it the imaginary problems or the imaginary policies or something like that. The word concerns
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is what made this viral. So that's actually the active word. So if you didn't understand persuasion,
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you would say, hmm, concerns is too generic or it's off point or something. If you do understand it,
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you know that that's the word that sold it. When you see concerns, it tells you that somebody is
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concerned as opposed to it's a problem or anything in the real world. And it's a non-standard word
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in this domain. You wouldn't expect to see the word concerns in the name of a title of a department.
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So it's the mistake or isn't the mistake that makes it viral. So that's what made it sticky.
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Meanwhile, Zelensky is self-immolating. So he launched, according to the National Pulse,
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Christopher Tomlinson, he's attacking Trump's team. And he said the following stuff. He said that
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Europe, unlike the United States, has discipline and no chaos. Chaos. Who says the United States has chaos?
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Democrats. Democrats, right? Have you ever heard a Republican say, oh, we've got a bunch of chaos?
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Nope. It's just a Democrat thing. And now Zelensky is taking that approach and he says,
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Europe, good, US chaos. And then he accused Witkoff. He said, I can't be ungrateful to the Americans for
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everything they did. But they are often, unfortunately, under the influence of Russian narratives.
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And then he went off on Witkoff and he says, he doesn't look like a military man. He doesn't
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look like a general. And he doesn't have such experience. As far as I know, he is very good
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at selling and buying real estate. And this is a little different. Well, Zelensky, good luck,
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because America's out. You just made it impossible to get peace in Ukraine with America's help.
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Apparently, he really wants a permanent war and Europe's on his team. And I say, good luck, guys.
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Good luck. You can fight Russia all day long, but there's no freaking way after you've insulted
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Witkoff and Trump that you're going to get what you want from the United States. You just close that door.
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You idiot. Or maybe he knows exactly what he's doing. But there's no reason for us to be involved
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anymore. He made it easy to walk away. And then he said that he's rejecting any idea for a peace deal
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that would involve, that would not involve Russia giving back all the territory that they've
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conquered, including Crimea. Now, given that we know there's no way that's ever going to happen,
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has he just slammed the door shut on any kind of a peace deal and America being productive in any of
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it? He has. The door's shut. So I don't care what the news is tomorrow or the next day. I don't care
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if he changes his mind. I don't care if he apologizes. It's over. I'm going to call it. We're out.
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Now, the United States has not said that. Trump has not said that. I don't think he's commented
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exactly. But I feel pretty confident that this just ended the productive relationship with the
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United States and Ukraine. We're definitely not going to be helping them defend themselves
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at this point. Now, something could change, I suppose. But I think we're done. But at the same time,
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and this is fascinating, Jack Posobiec of Human Events was talking to Scott Besant. And Scott Besant
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says that they've got a 100-page Ukraine deal about the minerals, not about peace, but about minerals,
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that he hopes will be signed next week. Now, it is possible that we can make a mineral deal.
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It's not impossible, because the mineral deal would not be promising anything about security.
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It would just be a way for them to make money and for us to make money. So they might say yes to making
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money because they need money to fight their war. And from our perspective, it might give them a little
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what Besant calls not a security guarantee, but is an economic security pact. Now, I'm not so sure the
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United States would want to get involved in some place that didn't have good defense against Russia
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coming in and taking the rest of the country. So I don't know if we can actually get private companies
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to do the work, because that would be a pretty big risk. But if it works, that'd be great. But I think
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in terms of the US funding Ukraine's military adventure, I think that's over. I think we're done
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with that. Meanwhile, the Greenland trip is getting spicy. You knew that JD Vance and his wife were going
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over there. But here's the funny part. Apparently, Mike Walz was always intended to be part of the trip,
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but they had forgotten about him when they did the notice. So National Security Advisor Mike Walz will
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also be attending the trip. All I can hope is they don't accidentally invite Jeffrey Goldberg on the trip.
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Okay. That's a callback. Yeah. Can you imagine them being on the plane and they look over and it's
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like, oh my God. And Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally invited on the trip. All right. That's all I got for
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you. Thanks for putting up with me. That's all I've got for today. I'm going to talk to the local
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subscribers privately for a minute. The rest of you, make sure you come back tomorrow.
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Same time, same place. Lots of more fun. So if you're on Extra Rumble or YouTube,
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