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A new kind of 3D printed house, a new type of cement house, and a new way to make a house out of wood and plastic. Plus, a story about how companies are avoiding hiring white men, and how the government is trying to get rid of Deed.
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Well, I wonder if there's any science studies that didn't need to happen.
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According to Psy Post, Eric Dolan is writing, there's a new study in the British Journal of
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Psychology that says that entertainment is a key to populist political success.
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So if your candidate is very entertaining, they will do better in politics.
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You know, you didn't really need to do that study.
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You could have asked me or really anybody who has been alive for more than 10 minutes.
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Because yes, yes, an entertaining candidate like Ronald Reagan, for example, absolutely is going to do better.
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Trump, of course, yes, the more entertaining you are, the better you, the better you draw people to you.
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I don't think it's just the key to populist political success.
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I think it might be the key to all kinds of political success.
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U.S. companies are avoiding hiring white men as part of their diversity push, according to the Telegraph.
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That if companies are looking to increase diversity,
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diversity, did you really not know that that meant that they would be avoiding hiring white men?
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Just ask me, Scott, do you think diversity means hiring white men?
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And I would say, no, sounds like avoiding hiring white men.
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Next time, I'll save you a lot of time and money.
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Well, according to the Daily Wire, the group that's behind the MCAT test,
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that's the test you take to see if you get into medical school,
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And all they were going to do is hide the fact that they were totally going to do DEI.
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So, according to the Daily Wire, on the surface, the group that administers the MCAT looks like they left DEI behind
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because they sort of scrubbed those words from their materials.
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But behind the scenes, it's working on plans to secretly push the ideology.
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It turns out that, as far as I can tell, every big company is just waiting for the Trump administration to be done.
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So, it looks like nobody's really getting rid of DEI.
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Maybe Target, you know, maybe, maybe, you know, John Deere.
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But basically, I would bet that 80 to 90 percent of the companies or organizations that say they're getting rid of DEI are lying.
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And violating the law like crazy because DEI is racism and it's, you know, non-constitutional.
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And I've got a fear that even though it looks like Trump got rid of DEI, I'm not so sure.
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And the moment he's gone, it will just come back, you know, stronger than ever.
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Well, ABC News has a cool story about 3D printed houses.
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Now, you know that there have been 3D printed houses for a while.
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But the ones you've seen probably look like cement.
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You know, some big, big machine that's making cement walls.
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Well, there's a new type that uses just waste wood.
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So all the sawdust that's created from real wood.
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And they take all that sawdust and they put it together with corn resin.
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And it's made of material that's stronger than concrete.
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So if you take the appliances out of the house, you can recycle the whole house and turn it back into a 3D printer material.
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At the same time, there's another company that's got 3D printed houses.
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But the way they're doing it is they make the blocks that are interconnecting like Legos.
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So instead of printing the whole house, they print the parts.
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Now, I would like to reiterate my idea for 3D printed houses.
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Whichever kind of technology you use to get your cheap little house,
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the real secret would be how you organize the homes.
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In college, I had the worst physical room of my life,
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which was, you know, shared with another person.
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It was just a little cinder block room with one window.
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But it was my probably best lifestyle because I was surrounded by people like me who had stuff to do.
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Now, if you imagine you, let's take some federal land.
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And you started building some of these 3D homes.
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The important part would be that you make little units within a community where the people have a lot in common.
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So you'd make one little neighborhood where everybody just has a kid.
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Another neighborhood where there's a lot of tech people.
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Because if you put people together who have a lot in common,
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the physical surroundings become way less important.
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So you can make an awesome lifestyle that's fairly inexpensive by just organizing who is where.
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Instead of just, you know, the materials you use in the house.
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Well, according to Futurism, which is a publication,
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There was a recent experiment by researchers at Carnegie Mellon where they tried to create a company
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So they would staff the AI company with, instead of humans,
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they would give an AI agent to be, you know, sales, one to be engineering, one to be whatever.
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And so they created this thing and then they just let it run without human interaction to see how all the AI agents would perform.
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Do you think they became a unicorn because the AI is so smart and then they sold it for a billion dollars?
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Turns out it was a gigantic clusterfuck and nothing worked and the AI started lying and absolutely none of it worked.
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So even though they used various different AIs, none of the AI agents actually did anything useful.
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So we're not quite ready to run a company with AI.
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Well, I guess last night was the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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And Trump and probably most of the Trump insiders did not go.
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And I think it turned out to be the most low-energy event of all time.
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Because it used to be, you know, the president would go, whoever the president is, and then a comedian would make really edgy jokes.
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And then the next day would be everybody talking about all the edgy jokes.
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It's like, oh, can you believe that that comedian said that right in front of the president?
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But instead, they just gave themselves awards for, somebody got an award for writing about Biden's mental decline.
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Do you think anybody was writing about Biden's mental decline while he was in office?
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If you're giving somebody an award for writing about it after he's out of office, I don't know if you deserve that award.
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That would be like the opposite of what you should get.
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You should get a kick in the ass, not an award.
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And then I guess the new leader of the White House Correspondents did a speech in which he wanted you to know that they are not the enemy of the people.
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Because you certainly look like the enemy of the people to me.
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Is there some objective criteria by which you can say, oh, you're not the enemy of the people?
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But if you actually just looked at what the press has done over the last several years, it certainly looks like enemy.
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You know, because my friends will tell me the truth and my enemies will lie to me.
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What is the press done more of, telling me the truth or lying to me?
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So how in the world do I declare that they're not my enemy if they're lying to me about the most important things in the world?
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Speaking of enemies, James Carville is complaining that Bernie Sanders and AOC are starting to define the Democrat Party.
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Now, I love the fact that Carville, as crazy old coup as he is, he is still probably one of the smartest ones in the Democrat Party in terms of strategies.
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And he is completely right that having Bernie and AOC define the party and chasing after oligarchs is a really bad idea.
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But the other thing Carville says, he says that Democrats have candidates who are, quote, staggeringly more talented than Bernie and AOC.
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But if they're staggeringly more talented, do they need a boost?
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Wouldn't all their talent have allowed them to break away from the pack and be obvious?
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You may have seen that the President Trump and his wife went to the Pope's funeral.
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And you probably saw a bunch of news coverage and social media saying that Trump wore a blue suit when the dress code was for black suits.
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And so, therefore, he was being disrespectful to the Pope and the entire Catholic religion.
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Well, of course, there were lots of people who didn't wear black for a variety of reasons.
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And if you see a wide shot, you see there was a whole bunch of people in blue suits.
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So when the Republicans started noodling about a $5,000 bonus to pay to people who have babies
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to encourage them to have more babies, the Democrats turned that into, oh, you mean you
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So I haven't heard a single person on social media or anywhere else say that the $5,000
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baby bonus was somehow either intentionally or even unintentionally aimed at white babies.
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It's just that they've got some kind of terrible fever in their brains, TDS, that they just imagine
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out of nothing that the idea of having more American babies really meant having more white
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Did they think that the Trump administration was going to give no money to an Hispanic family
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Literally, nobody's even suggested that, except Democrats, of course.
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So, dumb old Joy Reid, the dumbest person in media, she was back making a little video
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in which she claimed the Roman Empire fell because they had a lack of diversity.
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Now, I'm no historian, but even I know that Rome didn't fall because of a lack of diversity.
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Can you imagine being so, so boldly dumb that you would say that in public, that the reason
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So, I saw a post by Paul Sispula, and he went to history.com and asked that why the Roman
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Invasions by barbarians, economic troubles and over-reliance on slave labor, the rise of
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the Eastern Empire, over-expansion and military overspending.
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Government corruption and political instability, the arrival of the Huns and the migration of
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the barbarian tribes, Christianity and the loss of traditional values, weakening of the
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You could argue that the diversity is what destroyed it, because when the barbarians and
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the Huns and the slaves were filling Rome, that was pretty diverse, and it was also the
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Now, I'm not saying that diversity is going to kill Rome.
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I'm just saying it went down at the same time it had the most diversity, but not because
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Well, the thief who stole Christy Noem's purse when she was at a restaurant has been captured.
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And just to make it fun, the thief is an illegal immigrant.
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And it makes me wonder, how did they catch the guy?
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So, presumably, there was no video that could catch his face.
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One was, I think her phone was in her purse, right?
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Because if her phone was there, I guess they could track her phone and go right to him.
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Maybe he had a phone, and they just checked to see, you know, who was in the building that
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Or somebody else said maybe he tried to use her credit cards and that flagged something.
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But my best guess is her phone was in the purse.
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But have you noticed that when a crime happens to somebody famous, they always solve it?
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But if a crime happens to you, the police will say, you know, it could be anything.
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All right, let's do a little update on Trump becoming a dictator.
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All right, so this is going to be based on the Democrat frame for things.
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So what are the Democrats looking at that suggest that Trump is becoming an authoritarian Hitler
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His administration has recently, well, the Department of Justice, has arrested two judges for harboring
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Because it does look like both judges, quite obviously and somewhat publicly, violated the
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law by harboring, in one case, having an illegal alien in their own home, and the other case,
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allegedly, helping the illegal alien escape from ICE after a court case, unsuccessfully.
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So I would say, hmm, if they broke the law, and it's an important law, and they're going
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to make an example out of them so that other people don't think they can just protect illegal
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aliens, I would say that's not exactly too dictator-like, because it's very narrowly aimed at people
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And it wasn't long ago that the Democrats were trying to put a candidate for president
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in jail, actually, even a president in jail, for all kinds of lawfare.
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So all that lawfare against Trump apparently had nothing to do with dictator or anything.
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But the moment the Department of Justice under Trump arrests two judges who clearly broke
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Then there's the case of the Maryland dad who was accused of being a MS-13, who was shipped
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to El Salvador without what they call due process.
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Now, we could argue all day whether there was due process or not.
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But how many think that that one case of that one Maryland dad is an indication that Trump's
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To me, it's just, he's a guy who said he would get rid of the criminals, and he meant it.
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Then what about the negotiations with Ukraine and Russia?
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I will admit that Trump apparently is negotiating in a way that would give Putin everything Putin
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I don't think there's anything that Putin wants, you know, unless you think he wants
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the rest of Ukraine, but he probably doesn't, because he got the good stuff.
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It does look like Trump is negotiating on the side of the dictator.
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Now, his purpose is not necessarily to help Putin.
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And I think it's just common sense that if you know Putin's not going to give back Crimea,
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he's not going to give back any of those occupied areas, why would you even waste your time
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negotiating something that's not going to happen?
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But the weird thing is that Trump is simultaneously being accused of being a Neville Chamberlain,
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Trump, you know, the guy who is negotiating peace with a Nazi, but doesn't, you know, but
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And then he turns out to be the biggest dumb guy in all of history, because who would have
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trusted, you know, Hitler to keep his word?
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But at the same time that Trump is being accused of the guy who's letting Hitler get away with
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too much, he's actually being accused of being Hitler.
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So he's the first person in history who's ever been accused of being Neville Chamberlain
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He did try to fire Jerome Powell from the Fed, which would be, most people would say, an overreach
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So, you know, that was sort of a shot across the bow, but nothing too dictatorial that happened.
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And then there's a new story here from Axios that Attorney General Pam Bondi is going to
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resume the practice of seizing reporters' phone records in the narrow situation that there's
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a leak, and there's a leak to specific reporters.
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And that would be a reversal of a Biden rule that said they wouldn't take, you know, they
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I kind of like Biden's, I like Biden's take on this.
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I think you have to leave the reporters alone, even if there's a leak.
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But Pam Bondi, et cetera, is saying it would be a very narrow search.
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So if they took the phones or the devices of the reporters, they wouldn't look at everything.
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They'd just be looking for something related to the leak that they were investigating.
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You know, even the part where Trump is trolling the world, saying that he wants to, I don't
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know, take over Canada and Greenland and, you know, he wants to run again in 2028.
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But, and then the other stuff just makes sense, you know, having more military security with
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Greenland and the candidate part, I feel like is more troll than not, although he swears
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I don't think he's serious about it, but he might be.
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Well, Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, he was on a Rachel Maddow show.
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And he said that the Trump administration officials could be arrested for, quote, interfering with
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I think that has to do with the judges that were arrested.
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And I saw Joel Pollack commenting on it, that Jamie Raskin just really wants to arrest people.
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He's been after trying to arrest, you know, Republicans or Trump or anybody close to him
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All right, let's look at the Trump's first 100 days.
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So depending who you talk to, it's either the worst 100 days of any president ever, or it
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Now, I'm going to make reference here to two bubble people.
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There's bubble boy Bill Maher, who says that mega voters won't admit how disappointed they
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That doesn't look like any reality I'm aware of.
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I do see Republicans say he didn't get enough done or this didn't work or I'm disappointed
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But more often, I'll hear people say that they like what he did in the first 100 days.
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And, you know, the jury's out on some of it because it's too early.
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Rachel Maddow said that, quote, it's all bad for Trump.
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I don't know that we have ever seen another first 100 days from any president this roundly
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Where's the bubble where Trump's supporters are rejecting everything he's done?
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So, I think if you ask people, they would say something like, if you ask Republicans, they'd
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say that Trump did a great job on the border and continues to do a great job on the border.
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The border problem was an end of America problem.
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He took a real strong swipe at DEI, and maybe he got rid of it in the government.
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Now, as I said before, I think every private organization is just pretending to get rid of it.
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He kind of drew the line and said, this is illegal.
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If you do this, you're breaking, or at least you're violating the Constitution by being racist.
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I mean, you know, maybe you didn't get the big win and eliminate it all at once.
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But it's certainly working in the right direction compared to where it was.
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And Trump's negotiating with Iran for a better deal.
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I'm not going to predict it'll happen, but what if he does?
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He's negotiating with Ukraine and with Russia to end that war.
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It doesn't look like it's necessarily going to work.
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It's too early to say it worked or it didn't work.
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So the first hundred days is a sort of a sketchy, stupid way to judge anything.
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How many of you are sure that you can judge the beginning and the end of the tariffs?
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How many of you would say, oh, it's clear that the tariffs were a gigantic mistake?
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And you've got, I don't know, 160 countries who said, yes, we do want to negotiate, which
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So any sense that the first hundred days are telling you anything is it's a real propaganda
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You can't tell how he's doing in a hundred days.
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And if you're looking at his popularity with the public, well, they're getting their cues
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So if you turn on the TV, the media is pretty much saying that the tariffs are the biggest,
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They don't know if the negotiations are really happening behind the scenes.
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So this whole hundred day thing is just stupid.
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But the polls are looking not so great for Trump, according to Just the News.
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There's a new poll from Economist slash YouGov that Trump's approval is down to 41%.
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And that would be a pretty big drop from the last time at 48%.
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And then there's the, I talked about this yesterday, but there's a Fox News poll that says that Democrats
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are a favorite to win the midterm, which is new.
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And almost certainly because of the news coverage about Trump and a lot of it about the tariffs,
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Now, does that necessarily signal that he's failed if the midterms go to the Democrats?
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I don't know, because the midterms almost always go to the party that's not in control.
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I don't know how many times there's been an exception to that.
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So if it's the most common thing in the world that the midterms go to the other party,
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it's kind of hard to say that it's because of what Trump's doing.
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So here are just a few of the things that might happen.
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I'm not going to predict they will happen, but they could happen before the midterms.
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How would that look on his resume before the midterms?
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You know, of course, there would be problems with the peace deal holding and there'd be
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But if there was anything that looked like a peace deal and we didn't have to send them
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money and protect them anymore, and maybe we had a mineral deal too, well, it's going
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I don't think that Iran is necessarily committed to making a deal, but they could.
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I would say it's not completely out of the question because the alternative is, Trump said
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very clearly, that he wouldn't have to be dragged into a war with Iran if they don't make a deal.
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He says he would very willingly be leading that war.
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So maybe he's threatening Iran enough that he could get an actual good deal, maybe, before
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What if he negotiates a better deal with China and our other major trading partners before
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It's not going to be worse than the current deals, right?
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It seems unlikely that he would negotiate worse trade deals.
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So wouldn't it look like the tariffs worked if he, let's say, in, I don't know, four months
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or something, we've got a little disruption, we've got some shortages over the summer, but
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And then when we're done, we've got much better trade deals.
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Isn't that going to look like the biggest win ever?
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And all of this could happen, could happen before midterms.
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Now, as I said before, I think the Democrat strategy is completely just stalling.
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They want to stall until the midterms and make sure that he doesn't have any successes
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that the public knows about, so they can just keep the public from knowing about anything
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And then once they get control of the house, which is a good possibility, then they can
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And then they can say he was a giant failure, but it would be because they made him fail.
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You know, the press, you know, framed it that way.
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And then, you know, the house had some control and maybe they just start a bunch of investigations
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Well, according to you, just the news, California tried to pass a bill that would make it easier
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Because right now in California, if somebody squats in your property, you really just can't
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I mean, you can, but the process could take years and, you know, could be expensive, et
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So having a squatter is just the worst thing in the world in California.
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So there was some new legislation to make it easier to get rid of it.
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And it failed because they didn't want to increase more homeless.
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First of all, you're not owning your home because you're paying the government or it will take
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So property taxes are basically rent you're paying to keep your house.
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So not only do you not really own your house because you got to pay the government just to
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But if somebody, you know, plays a clever trick and moves in and doesn't pay you rent anymore,
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So if you can't control keeping your own house, you've got to pay rent to the government and
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the government can tell you that someone else can live in your house, whether you like it
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So California is pretty close to full communist at this point, or at least socialist.
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Now, I happen to know somebody who was a squatter at one point.
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You know, the boyfriend wanted to break up, but she wanted to stay where she was.
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And I'll tell you, being a squatter is no good idea.
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Because once you get on the list of someone who has ever been a squatter, you can never
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rent a place or probably even buy a place ever again.
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You are absolutely locked out of all civilized behavior.
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Once you show up on a list of somebody who has ever squatted, you can never rent.
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Wouldn't it be better if it was easier to remove the squatters, but maybe the squatter
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penalty, you know, would maybe time out after five years or something?
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I think California is doing everything wrong on that topic.
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All right, I've got a theory that the only lasting benefit from Doge, because I don't
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think they cut enough to make a difference to the budget, I think the only lasting benefit
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Because now Pennsylvania is talking about they need their own Doge, and some other states
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And some organizations have said we need a Doge, and some other countries have said we need
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The fact that it has a name allows everybody to say they're in favor of it.
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But if you tried to do it without a name, and you said, you know, what we really need
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is some kind of smart auditors who would come in, and they'd use a scalpel, and they'd decide
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I don't know if you'd get a yes or a no, because it wouldn't even have a name.
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Once you give something a name, and everybody knows that name of the thing, then it becomes
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So even if the main Doge doesn't produce the cuts that we hoped, and it's not looking like
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It could be that the idea of Doge, where you get a bunch of smart people to come in and look
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for the waste and cut your budget where it makes sense, that might be really important.
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So maybe the lasting benefit is just somebody gave it a name, so we all know what it is,
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NVIDIA, the company that makes those big AI boards, and mostly boards, they're going to
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invest $500 billion in AI supercomputers in the U.S.
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Now, I think an AI supercomputer means a data center, that acts as one unified supercomputer.
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But Mario Noffle was writing about this on X, and that's a pretty big move, $500 billion.
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Now, I didn't see what time frame that is, but obviously it's not one year.
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So, again, if we see the midterms coming, and there are enough of these situations where
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big companies like Apple have said, yep, we're going to move our production to India, get
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it out of China, we're going to build a bunch of things in the United States.
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You've got a bunch of car companies saying, yep, we're going to move our production out of
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Mexico and put it back into Detroit or something.
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But they're going to have to rack up a lot more of these.
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So right now, it's maybe two handfuls of deals.
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But I think maybe two handfuls of deals wouldn't be enough for him to win the midterms.
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What if there were 50 just legitimate, obvious, gigantic deals that were coming into the United
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Well, then he's going to be looking pretty good.
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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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I was looking at a post by Insurrection Barbie on X, and Insurrection Barbie points out there
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have been more than 60 coordinated attacks on Tesla and $20 million in personal property
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damage and over $460 billion in market cap collapse in Tesla, the company.
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And she points out that one of the most radical groups behind this domestic terrorism is called
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And the Disruption Project are funded 100% by another entity called the Tides Network.
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And the Tides Network is funded primarily by David Rockefeller, George Soros, the Pritzkers,
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So if we know who's funding it, and we know it's domestic terrorism, and we know that there
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are real economic costs, you know, $20 million of damage, et cetera, Insurrection Barbie asks,
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Now, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know that that's enough to make it RICO, but it's organized.
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You know, maybe there's no smoking gun that says we're going to try to get people to destroy
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But what if they were completely aware of the outcome?
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If they were completely aware that what they were funding was going to cause massive property
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damage, is that enough to make it a RICO case where it's an organized criminal activity?
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Well, according to Scott Pressler, there's a problem in Pennsylvania, as he says on X.
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So apparently some Republican voters got their mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, and their mail-in
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In other words, they're not even legal, at least the way they're dated.
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And I guess Scott Pressler has heard from several other Republicans who also received last year's
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Now, again, I don't know if it's really last year's ballot or if they just have a typo in
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But either way, it would suppress your voting, wouldn't it?
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Because you wouldn't know for sure if it's the right thing.
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Maybe you'd try to get the right one, but you'd run out of time.
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So the open question is whether it only happened to Republicans.
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So if you want to go full conspiracy theory, is it possible that all the fake ballots went
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Now, I would guess it's more of a general problem, you know, maybe just a printer glitch or something,
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According to the Washington Examiner, I don't know how new this is because it sounds like
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China kind of quietly exempted some things from tariffs because it found it couldn't get
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So I guess when it comes to U.S.-made semiconductors, chip-making equipment, medical products, and aviation
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parts, China took off the tariff that they put on it.
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So they made the exemptions apparently after realizing that they didn't really have a way
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Now, they haven't, I don't think they've publicly announced that.
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But do you think that the Trump administration is actually talking to Chinese officials about
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Do you think that secretly there's a conversation going?
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And China is still hanging tight with, nope, nope, there's no negotiating.
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It doesn't feel like something that Trump would just completely make up.
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So my guess is we're talking to somebody, but I don't know if that somebody has the authority
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So maybe they're getting close to something and we'll be surprised.
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According to the Jerusalem Post, Russia's made a deal with Iran that Russia would fund construction
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I guess they have funded one already and it's already built.
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And that Russia would supply Iran with 55 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per year.
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So it's starting to look like Russia has done a good job of pulling the bad guys together onto
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Tight with some other smaller countries, but those are the ones that matter.
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I hate to say it, but Russia's done a hell of a good job of circumventing, you know, the
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United States interests and building their own little fortress.
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I told you before that Trump was asked by Time Magazine if he would be dragged into war with
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Iran if Israel wanted to, you know, happen and they couldn't make a deal.
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And Trump said, no, that he didn't say that he would get dragged in, but that he wouldn't
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have to be dragged because if they don't make a deal, he would willingly want to go in and
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I don't know if he would actually do it or if we would ever be done negotiating.
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It would sort of make sense for him to just keep kicking the can down the road and say,
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Trump is also saying out loud that he's worried that Vladimir Putin is maybe not so interested
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in peace and maybe he's bringing Trump along because, as Trump points out, Putin is bombing
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And there just doesn't seem to be a reason for it, unless he's trying to kill the peace
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And so Trump is calling that out as it makes, and he says, quote, on True Social, Trump
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said, quote, it makes me think that maybe he, meaning Putin, doesn't want to stop the
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He's just tapping me along, tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently through
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So it looks like Trump is thinking, if you just keep fucking with me, which Putin is doing,
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that he's just going to go heavy on sanctions, heavier than he already is.
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David Sachs was on the All In pod, and he was saying that Zelensky seems to clearly not
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be interested in peace, because if he were, he wouldn't be insisting on getting Crimea
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back, because there's no practical way that's ever going to happen.
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And Sachs says Zelensky has made his bed, let him sleep in it.
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And that's sort of where I'm at, you know, without being any kind of an expert on Ukraine,
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But if he's not willing to talk about Ukraine, which is very solidly under Russian control,
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and it's not going to change, if he's not willing to accept that, he must want the war
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more than he wants the peace, because it's the only path to peace.
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So I do think there's a good chance that Trump might just say, we're out, you guys work it
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out, and, you know, maybe have them beg him to come back.
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I saw a post by David Kirichenko that was detailing all of the drone building activity
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It turns out that although Ukraine is this big war zone, they've developed almost a Silicon
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Valley-like, really robust startup situation for drones.
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And the claim, I don't know if the claim is true, is that they're so nimble, and of course
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they have a necessity for the drones that other people don't have, that they're developing
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newer and better ones faster than anybody else.
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So there's just all kinds of startups now in Ukraine that are all drone-related.
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And Ukraine's defense sector was only a billion dollars of output in 2022, but it's up to 15
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And that doesn't count, you know, the American weapons.
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That's just their own, you know, military-industrial base.
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And when I see how robust their military-industrial base is, mostly startups, it makes me wonder,
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does he have a problem with the military-industrial complex of his own country?
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Is it possible that Ukraine's, you know, military-benefiting people, every one of these startups, they would
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But as long as there's war, those startups are worth, you know, they're priceless.
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So it does make me wonder what's behind Zelensky's idea.
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It looks like Zelensky doesn't think he would survive peace.
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But there are so many people who might want to get him.
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His own military-industrial complex might want to take him out.
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Maybe some of the corrupt oligarchs in his country might want to take him out if he's no longer
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So I'm going to say my best guess is that Zelensky does want peace, but he doesn't know how to
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According to Newsmax, there's a poll that says the majority of Gen Z see college as a scam.
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Gen Z, you know, 51%, but majority, they see college as a scam and a waste of money.
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I was in the generation where at least my mother would say, if you go to college, everything
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And so I went to college, everything worked out.
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It was absolutely a big pathway to at least a good to average life.
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So what do you do if you're if you're Gen Z now?
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If you don't go to college, what kind of job are you going to get?
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If you do go to college, what kind of job are you going to get?
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But I don't know that trade school is a path to the same, you know, middle class, went to
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I mean, it's definitely better than not having a job.
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I'm going to talk to the locals, people privately.
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And I'll see you on X and Rumble and YouTube tomorrow.