Episode 2806 CWSA 04⧸11⧸25
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Summary
Scott Adams talks about a bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote, and why he doesn t think it s going to pass the Senate. He also talks about how to get an ID to vote and why it s a good idea.
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Well, I wonder if there's any science that they could have saved some money by asking
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According to SciPost, Bianca Cedianaco is writing, there was a study published in the Journal of
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Environmental Psychology, and they found that simply imagining natural environments can
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reduce your stress and promote relaxation more so than imagining an urban setting.
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Imagining nature can make you feel better than imagining an urban setting.
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I wonder if there's any way they could have gotten to that result faster and with less
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Or you could have asked anybody who's ever been trained as a hypnotist because it's lesson
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I think it's literally the first thing we learned, that if you make somebody close their eyes and
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imagine a nature scene, that their body will relax.
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Literally, I think it's the first thing you learn.
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So, yeah, you could have just asked me about that next time.
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According to Zero Hedge, the House has passed a bill, which means it hasn't passed the Senate
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So, it's called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE.
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And it would amend the National Voter Registration Act also to require states to obtain proof of
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citizenship in person from people registering to vote.
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And it requires states to establish programs to remove illegal immigrants from existing
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And it allows U.S. citizens to sue election officials who don't adhere to the proof of
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Now, I saw somebody's comment that this will never fly.
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Even if it gets passed, the Supreme Court will knock it down, some say, because the states
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have, I think, what was described as an ironclad control over how voting is done.
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But it does seem to me like the federal government, in its role of protecting the country, I mean, just as a national defense issue, could require that the only people who vote are American citizens.
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So, other than that, I could see that the states would have most of the control.
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I don't know what the predicted fate of this is, whether it gets completely passed by the Senate,
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Let's see what The View host, Sunny Hostin, says about this.
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Well, she says that requiring voter ID is bad for many blacks and women who will not be able to vote.
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Well, when I watch Sunny Hostin, I like looking at her eyes and her face as she says things that probably every person knows is bullshit.
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We're still looking for that one person who doesn't know how to vote or doesn't know how to get an ID but still wants to vote.
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Now, I do believe there are people who don't have IDs, but I don't think they're clamoring to vote.
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Just one person who says, and you know what would happen if one person came forward and said,
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I don't know how to get ID but I'd really like to vote.
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Whoever they were talking to would tell them how to get an ID and help them vote.
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So, as soon as you find anybody who's in that category, the first person they talk to solves their problem.
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Just go down there and get an appointment and get your ID.
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But now it's extended from, if you require ID, it used to be that it was a way to suppress black vote.
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Is there a big problem with divorced women who want to vote, but they've got the wrong last name on some of their documents?
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I'm going to delegate this issue to the Department of Imaginary Concerns.
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Because if we can't find one person in the real world, what would that make that issue?
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But it is an imaginary concern to a lot of citizens, so we can't ignore it.
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We should delegate it to the Department of Imaginary Concerns.
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Over on MSNBC, former Attorney General Eric Holder says that what's happening now with Trump and his administration
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is, quote, remarkably similar to kind of what happened in Europe in the 30s.
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And if you don't stand up and fight now, it's going to be too late.
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It seems to me that the Dramocrats, they only wrote one play.
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I mean, if you're going to be a Dramocrat, you should have more material than this.
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But they only have one play, and it's called Everything is Hiller.
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And everything I see is Hiller, and all I want to talk about is Hiller.
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Now, it seems to me that if you're imagining Hiller, but there is no Hiller, and there's
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nobody really acting like Hiller, what would be the department that that should be delegated
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Let's delegate it also to the Department of Imaginary Concerns.
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Representative Hakeem Jeffries says that Donald Trump and the extreme MAGA people are doing
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Are they doing everything they can to tank the economy by negotiating trade deals and
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Yeah, that's exactly what you do to tank an economy, making energy more affordable, lowering
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And it's going to drive us, according to Jeffries, drive us toward a recession and gut the health
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So it's going to gut the health care of the American people.
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Now, I could imagine at least two ways that that could happen, gutting the health care
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One would be to do nothing and just keep the way we're going, because that would lead us
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to a bankrupt country that couldn't pay for health care or anything else.
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So the path we were on guaranteed the end of health care along with the end of the country
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and the end of everything, really, your life, probably.
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Um, but at the moment, there's no suggestion that the, uh, that the Trump administration
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would do anything to your health care, um, benefits.
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So what would be the right department to assign this imaginary future concern?
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How about the department of imaginary concerns?
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The, the biggest, most effective attacks from the Democrats, all imaginary, every one.
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It's not based on anything that's happening in the real world.
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Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
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She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her
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Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers
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Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in
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I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.
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Uh, activist Robbie Starbuck has another big win.
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Now I would read you the list of all the things that IBM decided to stop doing.
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It was all a bunch of woke stuff like requiring, uh, proper pronouns for people and stuff like
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It just wouldn't work in this kind of a podcast.
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It seems like they, they had wrapped this, you know, ball of string called DEI around everything
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and, uh, unwrapping it is a pretty major project.
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So it's a whole bunch of things had to be changed to unwoke IBM.
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But the good news is, and I'm going to give IBM some credit for this, um, that when they
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were confronted with, you know, the, let's say the argument and, uh, the activism and
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Robbie Starbuck's, uh, apparently very effective approach, they decided to unwind it.
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And probably there was a lot of volunteering of what parts needed to be unwound.
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So I'm going to say, um, my, my standard for judging people and my standard for judging
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companies in this case is not if they make a mistake or do something I don't like or something
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doesn't work out, but how do they deal with it?
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You know, once you know, you've messed up, do you correct it?
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Um, this looks like IBM fully embracing that it wasn't a good idea and then fully embracing
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the steps it would take to unwind it and being somewhat transparent about it.
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So I'm going to say, uh, IBM, A plus that you, you've reached my highest standard of ethical
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I would never judge you that you once made a mistake that, you know, I suppose if it
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were, you know, you were a slaver or something, I would still judge you.
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But under the normal, you know, behavior of companies, uh, I judge the prior behavior to
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I judge the current approach, uh, working with Starbuck to do something productive, um, A
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I saw a report, I don't know how confirmed this is, but, uh, somebody said the New York
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Times had a story that the White House is considering, they're just considering, um, using, uh, government
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money, your tax dollars to give $10,000 per year to every person in Greenland.
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Do you think, uh, do you think, uh, do you think that's going to happen?
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So somebody must've calculated how much, uh, Denmark is contributing and then figured out
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how much could it cost if we were to essentially outbid Denmark so that the people of Greenland
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I wasn't getting that much from Denmark, um, but I don't know if Denmark is doing more than
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Maybe they are, but what are, there's something like 60,000 people in all of Greenland.
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So 10,000 times, uh, 60,000 would be 600 million.
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Is that something you want to, you want to do to have control of Greenland?
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Um, when the story is that they're considering it, I don't take that too seriously because
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what the White House should be doing is considering all the possibilities.
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If they just have it on a list of possibilities, perfectly acceptable.
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Um, it doesn't mean they're going to do it and it doesn't mean it's the only thing they're
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It doesn't mean that we're going to do it with nothing in return.
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You know, maybe there's some rare earth minerals we can get return or something like
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But, uh, I like the fact that the White House would be looking expansively at all their
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Um, I'd, I'd have to see a lot of details to know if it makes sense.
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Um, but, uh, I like the, I just like the noodling of it so that it's not, you know, we've looked
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Meanwhile, PXF reports a big success, the Panama Canal.
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So he was down there dealing with Panama and I guess the deal involves, uh, Panama hosting
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more American troops so that we've got more military presence there and that our military
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would be, um, essentially a, a guardian against China ever having control over who goes through
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And then I guess Panama agreed to end their, um, and their contribution to the, uh, Belt
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Uh, their contribution would be, you know, just being part of the Belt and Road thing.
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Um, and this would be, if, if this is a stable and workable plan and it looks like it, uh,
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Um, then this would be example of Trump making a first big offer and then negotiating for something
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Um, because I don't think that Panama loved being the potential of being dominated by China.
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Um, so then they know they can, you know, deal with the United States and that our military
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We're there to make sure that we have access to the canal.
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So if that's the case, then that would be another big win for Trump and his style of negotiating
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where he goes big and then he's got room to negotiate.
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Um, CNN is reporting that the, uh, the consumer prices, the inflation, um, it went down, you
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know, a tiny bit in a month over month, but this is actually the first time we've seen this
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since COVID, a month over month over drop, month over month drop.
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Um, and, uh, they say that the reason for it, the big driver, because normally you'd expect
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it to go up at this time of the year is, uh, gas prices didn't go up.
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So energy costs allowed inflation to stay put and slightly, slightly go down.
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That's exactly what he promised that he would loosen up all of the energy sources and that
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when energy goes down, inflation would be, you know, impacted in every domain.
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Um, now I'm not sure that this is a hundred percent because of Trump changes, but it could be, um, yeah, it could be.
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Uh, Trump in along those same lines, Trump is reversing, uh, a bunch of, uh, Biden policies
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Um, so he's reinstating program to make a whole bunch of acres up there in the, uh, on war region
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Now, I guess he did that in his first administration and Biden canceled it.
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So we'll see if, uh, the oil drilling companies are willing to take the risk that it gets canceled again.
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Cause I suppose if you get another Democrat president, um, things would look dicey, but at the moment, um,
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it looks like there's going to be a bunch of changes that making it easier to, uh, get energy out of that part of the world,
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Speaking of which, um, according to Newsmax, Lee Barney's reporting, um, there's a big drop in oil prices from a year ago.
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So the oil is 28% lower than it was a year ago.
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And, uh, and oil went down another 3% just recently because of the fears of the, uh, trade talks.
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Um, and so Brent oil is trading around $64 per barrel.
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Um, and, um, somebody, somebody who knows what they're talking about says that by the end of 2026, by the end of next year, we could be at $55 per barrel.
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So the direction for inflation looks pretty darn good, you know?
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And, and, and by the way, this is, uh, you know, this would be a counterbalance to whatever the, uh, tariff problem is.
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So if you're going to have a tariff fight with China, the very best environment you could do it in is where inflation is under control.
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And there's a gigantic, probable lowering of energy costs during the same period they're negotiating.
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So that would certainly take a lot of sting out of any, uh, tariffs.
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Um, I mean, it's going to affect people differently.
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So the people who are most affected by the tariffs may not get most of the benefit, but at least on a country level, um, that would be a pretty strong negotiating position.
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Um, here's some, some science that's kind of cool.
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that there's a breakthrough to allow you to physically manipulate 3D holograms
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so that you could, you know, touch them and, and move them around with your hand.
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Um, that was a little unclear, but you could physically manipulate them.
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Um, now apparently it's, it's sort of in the early experimental stage,
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So if they can do it in a demonstration, it's probably pretty real.
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Now, what do you think would be different if we can manipulate holograms?
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Do you think that people are going to have a hologram boyfriend?
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Because if you add AI to a physically manipulative, manipulatable hologram,
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it's even better than a robot because you could just turn it off and it'll go away.
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But you could have like a living room boyfriend that's only in the living room
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And you can make your boy, your boyfriend like, you know, only a few inches tall
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in case you want to, you know, not be bothered too much.
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Um, I still think there's some possibility that the UFO sightings are some kind of hologram.
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Uh, I'm not going to commit to that, but let me broaden that to say one possibility
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for the UFOs is that they're somehow projected from somewhere else
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and they look like physical objects, but maybe they're something like a hologram.
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According to, uh, news reports, uh, well, Trump is saying this, uh, Mexico owes Texas, uh,
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And, uh, he's going to tariff Mexico if they don't pay up.
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So apparently there's some kind of long-term agreement, 1944 treaty,
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that says that, uh, South Texas farmers get a certain amount of water, uh,
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that must flow through, through, uh, uh, through Tijuana area, I think.
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And, uh, so at the moment that's being cut off.
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I'm not sure why, but, uh, Trump says if they don't fix that really fast,
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he's going to escalate with tariffs and maybe even sanctions.
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Um, were you wondering if the Chinese investors would panic before the American investors?
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Well, American investors, according to today, they're just saying,
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uh, our stock market's sold enough and it's kind of stabilized.
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Now that doesn't mean it'll last to the end of the day.
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I'm not predicting anything and I'm not predicting it won't, you know,
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wildly jump around as there's more negotiating.
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But if you want to know what's happening in China, according to Reuters, uh,
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the government just told the biggest money traders that they can't,
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they can't sell too many Chinese stocks in a day or they'll shut them down.
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So if you're a big investor in China and you were thinking, Hmm, this would be a good time
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to sell all of my China stock, you know, while you're a Chinese company, uh, China just told
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you, yeah, if you do that, we're going to put you out of business.
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Uh, and that's a pretty good, pretty good threat, isn't it? That will put you out of business.
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So it looks like China can control the selling of their stock market.
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Um, I guess you shouldn't be too surprised by that, but that would give, uh, in theory,
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that would put a bigger risk on the American side because the Americans don't do that sort
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Uh, and I guess, uh, U S put that 125% tariff on China and they just reciprocated with 125%
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So we're going to tariff each other like crazy.
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Um, but according to AFP, the U S dollar is dropped, um, kind of hard, uh, dropping nearly
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2% just, uh, last day, I guess, uh, at least against the Euro.
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So is that a big deal that the U S dollar has gotten weaker 2%?
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Uh, here, here's a story that's hard to believe, but it looks like it's true.
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Um, the New York post is reporting, Ronnie raised his writing about this, that, uh, some
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time ago, I think it was during the Biden administration.
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There was a meeting between China and the U S in which China acknowledged its role in
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years of cyber attacks against the United States as retaliation over its support for
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It's surprising that the Chinese said it just directly, you know, a complete confession,
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uh, right to the Americans in a private meeting.
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And they're like, yeah, we've been cyber attacking you for years over your Taiwan policy.
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Now, the, obviously the implication is that you can't stop us.
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And that, you know, we have this ability to hack you anytime we want.
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And you have to, you have to throw that threat into the tariff negotiations as well.
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Um, and to me, this is just one more, one more evidence that our, our relationship with
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If it were a personal relationship, you would say, you need to get out of that relationship.
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You know, that you're being abused over and over, right?
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Um, they're just cyber hacking you and then bragging about it.
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And they're, they've got trade policies that are bad for you and they don't care.
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And they're stealing your IP every time they can get near it.
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And if you try to challenge them in court, there's no way to challenge them.
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If that were a personal relationship, what would all of your friends recommend?
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According to the, uh, Epoch Times, uh, Yon, uh, let me try to get his name right.
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Uh, Yaki-lek, Yon, he's, uh, posting today that, uh, that they talked to an author, the
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Epoch Times that, and, uh, there's an author that says that, um, China controls 95% of the
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key components necessary for our generic drugs.
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So if China were to shut down export of those chemicals, our healthcare system would basically
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Now, it seems to me that that looks more and more like an abusive relationship.
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It's like, well, there's an implied threat that if you were to leave me, bad things would
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And, uh, that's, uh, I guess the author of the book China Rx is, uh, where that came
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So using that same frame, um, I do believe that we're in an abusive relationship.
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Um, meaning that not only are things, you know, unbalanced and unfair, but like an abusive
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relationship, you can't negotiate your way to a better situation.
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If, if you're with somebody, let's say you're living with somebody who's an abuser, have
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There's no such thing as a, as a negotiation with an abuser.
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And China seems very intent on continuing to be the abuser.
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So I think our path with China is very similar to the path that you would see in an abusive
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You can either put up with it because you think the risk of not putting up with it is
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I mean, these are real serious, seriously big problems.
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Is that how you'd play it if it were your personal relationship?
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If you leave me, uh, I will hunt you down and beat you up.
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So you can either put up with that and it might even worsen over time because why would
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So our two choices, you know, under a normal situation, and I'll, I'll take you to an abnormal
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situation in a moment, but under a normal situation, you either put up with it forever and it just
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Trump is pushing us to risk everything to get out of it.
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What's the thing that the Democrats hate about Trump?
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Trump, he's a bully, he's a strong man, he's a dictator, right?
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Because if you're in an abusive relationship with someone else, who do you call to help
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There's no other way because you're not going to be able to do it.
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Suck it up and be abused for the rest of whatever's left of the United States, which might not last
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long since China seems to have designs on controlling the world.
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So, those are two choices you don't want, right?
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And it's really easy to do the do nothing choice and just put up with it.
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And just, it gets worse, but then you get used to it.
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You just put up with it until your country is toast.
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Now, I have a hypothesis that the way, and this wouldn't be for every single person,
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but if you don't have a direct trading relationship with China,
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in which case you would be biased toward your own business interests, which would be fine.
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I think how you see the situation of this abusive relationship
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is that you would handle it the same way you would do it in person.
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In other words, if you're the kind of person who says,
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why can't we just, you know, get along with China?
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You know, just sort of do what we were doing before and keep asking if they'll do better.
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That's probably what you would do in your personal relationship,
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because that would be your level of risk for that sort of thing.
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But there are other people who would say, you know what?
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How many of you have dealt with the bully the only way you can?
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How many of you have been in an abusive relationship and said,
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I'm going to walk out of here with my bare fucking feet.
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But I'll bet you the way you would deal with an abusive relationship in person
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has a lot to do with how you're looking at this China situation.
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I'll bet there's a pretty good Venn diagram overlap.
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And so I'm going to offer you a trap door, an escape.
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I'm going to offer you another option, one that's not on the table right now.
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So if I were in charge, I would use my hypnosis background to say,
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all right, if you only have two choices, put up with the abuse or risk everything
00:37:38.800
to get away, how could you invent some new options that just don't seem to exist?
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One option would be to negotiate with China and say, here's the deal, China.
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We'd like to treat you more like a peer and treat you with complete respect.
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So you have a take on trade that you think whatever you're doing is fair.
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Let's put all of your trade practices in the public domain, maybe the UN,
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And we're going to show what it is that you have been doing.
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And then we're going to tell you what we think would be a fair situation.
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If you can't do it in public, that's going to say a lot.
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And we're going to tell you what the context is.
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And put them in a position where they simply have to defend their position.
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Because right now, if you say, China is giving us bad trade deals.
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Maybe some people know how bad the theft of IP property is.
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Maybe people know that if you went to China and tried to use their justice system to fix,
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let's say, an IP theft, you wouldn't even get a phone call returned.
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And so, and if you looked at other restrictions and other risks, and if you looked at the surveillance
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that they do of any American who goes over there, you can't even bring your phone.
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I mean, imagine a country where you can't even bring your phone or your laptop, because
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there's 100% chance they're going to hack into it.
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Imagine dealing with a company that if you make a product and it's successful, but you're
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making it in China, the very first thing they're going to do is steal it.
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You know, they're going to run the factory all night to make more of the fake one than
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And you're going to say, hey, it looks like you just ran my own factory that I was paying
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It looks like you just ran it for extra hours and then put it on Amazon.
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And you're just competing with me with my own stuff against me.
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Take it up with our courts that don't return your phone calls ever.
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How many people know how unsafe it is to do business in China?
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Now, if they fight the idea of doing it in public, that would be kind of embarrassing.
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And it would also sort of force us to be the ones who described their practices in public
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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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Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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So we could do that, but we could also do the following.
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We could tell China, China, I think we've been maybe unnecessarily disrespectful to you.
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We've been a little bit insulting, and we've been a little bit disrespectful.
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And I think that we've been trying to get you to change in ways that you don't want to change,
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China's a great nation with a great future and a great history.
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So this would be the let China be China approach.
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And you say to them, we think you should be China and just be China any way you want to be China.
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However, we'd like to announce that our long-term position is to do a friendly, friendly, respectful unwinding of all association with China.
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We'd like to unwind all of our business, but some of it's going to take years, such as the pharmaceuticals and the drugs business.
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We agree that your position is one that you can take.
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So rather than trying to embarrass you or bully you or negotiate you into a compromise position that you don't want to do,
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we think that was a big mistake because it didn't really understand the power and the interests of China.
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And from now on, we'd like to let China be China alone without us.
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And if you don't mind, we'll continue buying things from you where it makes sense.
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But we're going to unwind as much of the business as possible, as quickly as possible, in the friendliest way possible.
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So we'd like to remain good, let's say, good relations, but without any trade.
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China is an aggressive, tough, highly respected country.
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And if you'd like to be China without any pushback from the rest of the world, we accept that.
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So we accept your terms, and we hope you don't mind if we unwind completely.
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So two possibilities that are not on the table.
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Negotiate in public or agree to a friendly, completely respectful, complete unwinding of business over time.
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So you'd give them some options that were never on the table.
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Because if you deal with the options that are on the table, you're going to get the same result everybody ever got, which is, do you want to do a deal?
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But it's super good for you while being bad for us.
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So if China wants to be China, let's let China be China.
00:45:57.440
I'm loving watching the news people explain why they were so bad at doing their jobs.
00:46:06.560
And the best example, of course, is the Biden brain situation where they pretended they couldn't notice.
00:46:15.440
So now we've got Chris Saliza, who used to be on CNN.
00:46:20.400
But he was what I'd call an anti-Trump specialist.
00:46:25.760
I used to talk about him all the time in the first term, in the first election.
00:46:30.720
And he said that the reason that he didn't cover the Biden brain story was it wasn't any kind of intentional activism.
00:46:40.080
He said that we simply didn't push hard enough to get around the smokescreen from the Biden people.
00:46:52.060
You and I and everybody with a television set could see Biden was falling apart from, I think I started saying it in 2019.
00:47:05.200
There were plenty of other people saying, what are we seeing there?
00:47:14.040
I don't think that could have been any more obvious.
00:47:16.920
And they, you know, his schedule was basically the schedule is he's not doing any work today.
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It could not have been more obvious to everybody watching.
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And you're telling me that the only people who couldn't notice.
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Were the people who, quote, didn't push hard enough to get through the smokescreen.
00:47:37.980
The fact that the news is trying to blame the insiders for protecting them is unbelievable.
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I mean, I wonder how much of this they believe on their own, like in their own minds.
00:47:55.460
Or do they know that it's like a ridiculous rationalization?
00:48:08.100
And I saw a summary by Insurrection Barbie on X about some of the good news out there.
00:48:18.480
So Brooke Rollins talked about the terrible position that the Biden left the farmers in.
00:48:26.020
She explained that there's been a 30% increase in input costs and that the previous administration left them with a $50 billion trade deficit,
00:48:36.200
even though that was zero when Biden took office.
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And so they're working on overcoming those issues.
00:48:48.840
So basically, the Biden administration, with Biden's broken brain, just let our food supply just be in tatters by the time it was done.
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And the Trump administration is working hard to fix that.
00:49:06.500
Brooke Rollins appears to be a superstar in the administration.
00:49:12.840
Then Tulsi Gabbard had some updates, which were all individually interesting, especially about things like RFK files and the JFK assassination files.
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But the most interesting part, and this is from Tulsi Gabbard.
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Your sitting government says that the electronic voting machines have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time
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and that they've been vulnerable to exploitation and manipulation of election results.
00:50:04.620
That's the government saying that the voting machines were vulnerable and have been for a very long time.
00:50:14.240
And I think there was something said about they were not even designed to modern cybersecurity standards.
00:50:20.720
Now, that does not mean that they've identified any problems with other elections.
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So one of the questions you can say, but wait, the voting machine people have sued people who said that there were problems.
00:50:37.780
They've sued people who said there were specific problems, like there was a specific manipulation.
00:50:47.420
Tulsi Gabbard is saying that by their nature, by their design, they would have some vulnerabilities.
00:51:00.000
And she puts it in the context of working toward Trump's goal of having a paper ballot, you know, kind of a same-day election.
00:51:11.200
Because if you don't debunk the safety of voting machines, it's going to be hard to talk anybody into getting rid of them.
00:51:26.120
Now, how long have I been telling you that there's no way to protect, you know, a cyber device like that?
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You wouldn't have to be some expert in cybersecurity to know that these older machines that have been hacked by hackers in a variety of, you know, different forums, you wouldn't have to know the specifics.
00:51:53.400
If you knew anything about technology, you would say, I don't think they've invented anything you can't hack if you had access.
00:52:02.180
A lot of hacking involves somebody, a physical person being led in to do a physical thing or an insider who just has access as an insider.
00:52:13.480
So whenever you've got insiders or the possibility of physical access, it just seems like you have a hackable situation.
00:52:23.600
It wouldn't matter if you're talking about election machines or ATMs or any other machine.
00:52:28.380
RFK Jr. at the same meeting said that he's going to have an answer on the likely cause of the spike in autism by September.
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He points out that the autism rate when he was a kid was 1 in 10,000, but now it's 1 in 31.
00:52:55.420
I mean, I've been sort of, you know, tracking this issue forever, but 1 in 31?
00:53:07.700
There's clearly something in the air or the water or the food or the medicines or something.
00:53:18.640
But his promise that we'll know by September, you know, what is the likely cause of it?
00:53:30.980
Because that would assume that we have the right kind of data.
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Do you believe we have or that we could have by September the right kind of data?
00:53:39.760
I'll tell you my, let's say my, I don't want to say common sense, but based on the totality of my experience working with data, because I used to do that before I did this, I think there are too many variables.
00:53:59.560
It might be possible to tease out the right answer, but by September, I don't know.
00:54:09.460
So you might think he already knows the answer, and maybe there's a domain in which there is data if you just took the time to look at it.
00:54:17.880
So, I mean, I have a high degree of trust that RFK Jr. wouldn't say it unless he meant it, and that he really believed that we could do that.
00:54:34.020
Honestly, that would be one of the greatest achievements in American history, if he pulls that off.
00:54:45.380
But by far, it would be the most useful thing anybody in the Kennedy family had ever done.
00:54:53.320
That there would be nothing in the entire Kennedy legacy from, you know, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:55:02.780
That would be the most important thing that any Kennedy had ever done.
00:55:13.240
He also wants to get soda out of these SNAP programs so that poor people can't use your tax money on soda.
00:55:22.120
Apparently, there's evidence that it lowers IQ.
00:55:37.980
According to Just the News, they've got some good article there on there's some new declassified material about that Russia collusion hoax from long ago that Kash Patel just gave to Congress.
00:55:52.120
Now, I don't know how much of this is new, new and how much of it is sort of telling us what we already knew.
00:56:02.540
So apparently, Grock was asked to summarize it.
00:56:09.380
One of the documents contains handwritten notes by former CIA director John Brennan in July 2016.
00:56:23.520
And it details a briefing to Obama and senior officials.
00:56:30.100
So what Brennan knew in 2016, Obama knew because he got briefed and the senior officials did.
00:56:39.900
And it suggested that Hillary Clinton's campaign approved a plan to tie Trump to Russian interference in the election, allegedly to distract from her email scandal.
00:56:51.260
And the notes outlined the concerns about Russian knowledge of this strategy and indicate discussions within the intelligence community about its implications.
00:57:06.020
So in 2016, Brennan, Obama, and their closest top advisors knew that Hillary Clinton was running an op.
00:57:17.220
And the thing they were worried about is that Russia would find out about the op.
00:57:28.740
The thing they were worried about is that Russia would find out about the op.
00:57:40.400
They weren't worried about an insurrection to remove or to change the election.
00:57:54.840
From the very beginning, I said to myself, that John Brennan guy, there's something wrong there.
00:58:04.260
Does he really think the Russia collusion thing is real?
00:58:17.840
But let's say some of the highlights are, they knew that the Carter Page thing was, they went too far and they knew this stuff was left out.
00:58:34.580
See, they knew that the case that they were trying to put together about General Flynn,
00:58:41.780
they knew early on that there was no evidence that he'd done anything whatsoever.
00:58:49.600
And yet they talked about continuing it based on no evidence.
00:58:55.580
Not a little bit of evidence, but based on none.
00:59:00.200
They continued to say maybe they should keep looking,
00:59:03.460
which suggests that they were just trying to jail him as opposed to worried about actually any crime.
00:59:18.180
Yeah, there were notes from some FBI official expressing concern about the FBI's approach with Flynn,
00:59:31.780
suggesting internal unease about the investigation's tactics.
00:59:42.460
In other news, you remember the Central Park Five story?
00:59:49.380
but you remember that long before Trump was in politics,
00:59:53.240
he did a, he did a, he did a, what do you call it, a editorial?
01:00:00.620
No, a, he bought a page of the New York Times and said that the death penalty should be brought back.
01:00:12.740
but the news assumed that that's what he meant.
01:00:15.300
And they acted like he had essentially blamed them for being guilty
01:00:25.600
Now, when I say they were cleared by the courts,
01:00:27.940
that doesn't mean that I know that they were guilty or innocent.
01:00:34.040
But there, but there was not evidence according to the court to convict them.
01:00:38.140
So, the lawsuit is about what Trump said during a debate in 2024.
01:00:48.060
And the courts have ruled that the lawsuit can go forward because Trump said something about this situation during the debate
01:00:58.720
that can be objectively determined to be false.
01:01:02.440
Now, that doesn't mean that you broke a law or anything,
01:01:07.400
but it suggests there's enough of, enough meat there to have a trial.
01:01:14.080
So, here's what Trump said when, I guess it was Kamala brought up the Central Park Five.
01:01:34.320
they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately.
01:01:37.420
The person was not killed, but was badly injured.
01:01:47.320
Anyway, so he was basically just riffing on it,
01:01:50.700
and it sounds like he didn't remember the details.
01:01:58.900
if you're just honestly wrong about the details of a thing that happened?
01:02:20.760
Some seriousness that you're trying to be accurate
01:02:23.880
and you're not haphazardly just throwing things around.
01:02:32.800
that anything happened other than he remembered it wrong.
01:02:40.260
It doesn't even sound like it was normal hyperbole.
01:02:43.620
It literally just sounds like he remembered it wrong.
01:03:00.160
Tom Clark is writing that the amount of electricity
01:03:10.620
Do you think we're going to have twice as much electricity in five years?
01:03:22.080
I predict that there will be sufficient innovations
01:03:46.100
It's called the Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters
01:04:02.640
we have a really good record of dealing with it.