Episode 2827 CWSA 05⧸02⧸25
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Summary
Did you know that a single dose of magic mushrooms can improve mood and memory in Parkinson s patients? And that it even works for everything else you test it for? Well, guess what? It doesn t work for anything else.
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So, I wonder, I wonder if there are any scientific studies that they didn't need to do because
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New York Post is reporting that a study was done on magic mushrooms, USSF did a study, and
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they found that a single dose of psilocybin, that's the magic mushrooms, one dose.
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It can help Parkinson's patients with a dramatic improved mood, motor function, and memory.
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Now, I wouldn't have known specifically that this would work for Parkinson's, but when was
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the last time you ever saw a study in which psychedelics were involved and the result was it didn't work?
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They could test it for a variety of mental problems.
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They could test it for really anything that's happening in your brain or your body.
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If you have a, what would you call it, not a drug exactly, but if you have something you
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can take that works every single time you test it, it doesn't even matter what you're
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testing it on, and there's basically no downside whatsoever, I would have guessed accurately
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that it would have been good for Parkinson's patients.
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Without any knowledge whatsoever, I would have just said, well, does it work for everything
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There's a Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and they found out that the children
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who have increased physical activity have a lower risk of developing symptoms of depression.
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How many times are they going to do that study?
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Anyway, all right, let's study 13 to 15-year-olds.
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Physical activity is good for your brain, just like psilocybin.
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It turns out that you, if you compare, and the University of Basque Country did this.
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But they did a study, and they found that children who learn to write, you know, actually
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physically write with their hand, they develop better reading and writing, well, better reading
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I would have known that because how many times have I taught you that your entire body is
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When I studied for tests, you know, back when I was a student, one of my tricks was to get
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So if I were trying to memorize something, I would definitely write it down.
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Like I'd say, you know, and the West was settled in the year, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And if I could have smelled it, or heard it, or gotten any other senses involved, I would
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But the idea is, the more parts of your body that get involved, the more learning, because
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your entire body is part of your memory system.
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If you can get something into your head through all five of your senses, it'll stay there.
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If you get it into your head through one of your senses, let's say just reading it on
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a page, it might stay there, but it's not going to be nearly as sticky.
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So the more of your body that gets involved, you could dance it, you could sing it, you can
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Business Insider is writing that the U.S. Army plans to flood its forces with drones.
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So every division of the Army is going to have all kinds of drones.
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You've got drones here and drones there, and they'll probably have fewer aircraft and ground
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vehicles, but boy, they're going to have drones.
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Now, my big question was, wasn't it just a few years ago where the common wisdom is America
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couldn't make drones and that only China had all the parts and the know-how to make drones,
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But apparently, the U.S. has quietly developed quite the drone-making industry, but we don't
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Or, you know, we know about Anduril, but, you know, that's a bigger enterprise.
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Someone else, I guess, was involved in one of these drone companies confirmed that, you
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know, they're making drones and lots of others are making them.
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So I guess the problem of making drones in the United States has been solved, which is
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Now, probably they're not cost-effective for consumers, but they're being made for the
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Now, if you build a big factory that's, you know, ultimately automated and it's got robot
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arms and stuff, and it can make drones, probably the price is going to come down and probably
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there'll be consumer, you know, consumer products too.
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So the United States is finally getting competitive in drone-making.
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Did you know that because the anti-drone technology is getting really good, and again, Anduril is
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a company that can knock down drones with a man-portable device, apparently the Russians in their war
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with Ukraine are starting to use drones that are on the fiber-optic cables.
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Now, does that seem like something that could work?
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If you use your common sense, do you think that a drone that has to be physically connected
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to the operator with a very long fiber-optic cable, how much distance are you going to get
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Well, it turns out, I asked that same question of somebody who knows a lot about drones, and
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apparently the Russians can get these fiber-optic-driven drones.
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They can't be knocked down with an electronic attack.
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Does that even seem possible to you, that this little fiber-optic cable could stretch a
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for 5 to 12 miles, and then they could just rewind it and use it again?
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Anti-tank missiles are wired, somebody's saying.
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So I had no idea that you could get that kind of distance.
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But they don't have too many of them because it's very hard to make the spools and the cable
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So the war of anti-drone versus drone, anti-anti-drone, anti-anti-anti-drone is in full blast.
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But apparently these fiber-optic cable drones are a thing, and they would operate with visual
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So the operator would just be seeing through the drone.
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So there's no satellite connection, and the electronic countermeans would be useless
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Well, there is a big revolution in AI that if you don't follow AI, you wouldn't know.
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But the problem with AI, maybe it wasn't a problem, maybe it was the right thing for
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the right time, was we've all been watching AI develop, but it wasn't really connected to
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It could write some code, but it was still up to you to take that code and figure out
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how to make your computer recognize it and use it.
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So in other words, there was almost like a wall between what the AI could do and what
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But that's coming down quickly, I think because the AI is more capable.
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The AI called Claude can now look at your files, according to TechCrunch.
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It can activate your PayPal and your Zapier and your Atlassian.
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And it can do stuff like summarize tasks or automate your boring work.
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In other words, it can connect to the other stuff on your computer with permission and
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So it can send stuff, activate stuff, use your other apps.
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And we saw that Visa, the Visa payment company, was also talking about making Visa available
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And we're seeing a lot of what you would call agentic apps.
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So an agent would be like a little fake AI personality where you could just tell it what
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Instead of simply knowing what to do and being able to write prompts and make you do something,
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you'll just have a person and you'll say, hey, could you look through my files and find
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that thing and then write up a little summary about that thing and then send an email out
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to these four people and it would just do it and maybe check with you, but it could just
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So if you look at all the AIs now becoming at least capable of connecting to your other
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So I got to tell you that I'm having mixed emotions about it.
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Because there's a whole bunch of things that I do that are just purely, you know, idiot work.
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I just have to do it over and over again, that I would love to be able to tell an AI to just
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go do, such as publishing my Dilbert comic every day.
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And it knows what it has to look like and where it needs to be published.
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I should be able to just tell Claude to go publish it and not even tell it.
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You could just do it automatically every morning, looking through my files.
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But on the other hand, I can't even imagine allowing AI access to any of my financials.
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So I'm probably, I would probably want to keep up some kind of a wall.
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So I might say, for example, all right, you could have access to my PayPal, but not my bank account.
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You could have access to my credit card that has a low limit, but not my one that has a high limit.
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So I feel like I wouldn't totally trust it, nor should you.
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Well, according to Ludnick, I guess he made a claim on CNBC that Apple was only waiting for some robotic arms to be able to make iPhones in America because, you know, the labor costs are different.
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Do you believe that Tim Cook of Apple, the only thing that's preventing them from building a significant iPhone manufacturing capability in the United States is that they don't yet have robotic arms?
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And you know what my first question about that would be?
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Is it possible that we're waiting for China to deliver the robotic arms so he can make his stuff not in China?
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I don't know if that's the case, but who else makes robotic arms?
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Well, it seems like it seems like if they were made domestically, he would already be building the factory in anticipation of, you know, if it takes a year, they can make a few robotic arms for the factory.
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So that part, I'm just guessing, speculating, but maybe South Korea, you think?
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Well, you probably all saw the story that Mike Waltz was promoted fired, which is such a perfect Trumpian thing to do.
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So I guess Trump didn't want external forces to make him fire Mike Waltz, but the cry for his termination was going.
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He was the U.S. National Security Advisor, but he also was accused of some mistakes in SignalGate.
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And Trump, presumably, we can't read his mind, but the smart people say Trump just didn't want to, you know, give up the W.
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So instead of firing and firing him, he does remove him from the office.
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But hours later, Trump announced that he was going to nominate him to be the U.N. ambassador, a role requiring Senate confirmation.
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Now, I'm going to tell you a story from my college experience, because it's the only other time I've ever seen this happen.
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You know, some are saying that's a better job, the U.N. ambassador.
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But let me tell you something from my college experience.
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Before I was a trained hypnotist and before I had, you know, learned persuasion, I still thought I was kind of persuasive, but only in sort of an arguing way, you know, sort of a good debater.
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I didn't really have the skills that I developed over a lifetime.
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But even in college, I knew I was more persuasive than the average person.
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So one of the side jobs I had in college was I had volunteered to be the finance guy, because I was an economics major, the finance guy for the only business that operated, student business, that operated on campus.
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We had something called the coffee house, which is where we served beer and peanuts, and we'd have live entertainment.
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It was sort of the only place on campus you could go and sit down and, you know, buy a beverage and stuff like that.
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So somehow it was a monopoly on campus, and it was usually full, and somehow it didn't make money.
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So I was the finance guy, and they'd never had a finance guy.
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I went in and implemented some accounting and some accountability and negotiated with some vendors and made it profitable.
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So the first thing that happened was I won a full doge on it before doge was the thing, and it worked, because it just needed a little tweaking, and then the college didn't have to supplement it, which it had been.
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So if you do something that works, and people see it, and it's visible, you get all this credibility.
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So because the other people on the committee, it was all student-run.
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There were no outside people, just students running the thing.
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If you make something work, you become more credible.
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Now, one of the things I did was one of my good friends wanted a job as a bartender, and I recommended him.
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And because I was, you know, a member of the working committee that ran the place, my recommendation carried some weight.
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Now, unfortunately, he was very bad at his job.
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He was a very capable person, but, you know, not everybody can do every kind of job.
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So he was just sort of not good as a bartender, would come in late after basketball practice, and, you know, he'd be too tired, and, you know, he just wasn't up for it.
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So one day, the people who ran the coffeehouse, we had a meeting, and there were two major things on the agenda.
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Number one was we needed to elect a leader for our own committee, the people who ran the coffeehouse.
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The other thing that was on the agenda was the proposition of firing my friend, the bartender.
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So I decided that I wanted to see if I could get my friend to promote fired.
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Fired as a bartender, but hired as all of our bosses.
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Do you think I pulled off getting my friend fired for being a bad bartender and simultaneously hired to be the person who would be all of our bosses?
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So we would fire him and make him our boss at the same time.
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That's what I, so I actually said, you know, the skills that are required to be a bartender are very different from the skills to be a leader.
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And people looked at me and they said, well, okay, I mean, I suppose that's true.
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And I went on and by the time I was done, we fired my friend, the bartender, and made him our leader.
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But when I say leader, I might mean puppet because he was my friend.
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And if I had anything that I really needed to get done, I would just bring it up with him and he would bring it up with the committee and we would get it done.
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But it's the only other time I've seen somebody promote fired.
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And I got to tell you that that was about the time I realized that my ability to persuade wasn't normal.
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Because I walked out of that thinking, did that really happen?
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And then later, that same friend and I and a third friend, we recommended to the administration of the college that the three of us should be in charge of our dormitory.
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Now, if you know what a private dorm room is worth in a college where not many private rooms existed, you would know what kind of a reach that was.
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We actually convinced the administration to fire or not hire again, I guess, the professional guy who lived in the dorm just to make sure that we were in line.
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And we convinced the administration to put us in charge and to pay us a salary and to give us private rooms.
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It became a model for the rest of the college because we ran the thing really well.
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So it turns out that I made a bunch of promises, but we actually delivered.
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You know, we had lower expenses and basically we were really successful.
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So long before I entered this domain, I was aware that I had unusual powers of persuasion and I didn't know what the limit was.
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Apparently, the FBI assistant or special agent, a guy named Elvis Chan, who had been apparently the main censorship liaison between the FBI and social media during the 2020 election.
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As you know, the FBI tried to suppress things on social media.
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And he was the main guy, and he's been placed on terminal leave.
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So the Trump administration continues their purge of people who were censors or, in their view, bad actors in the past.
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A federal judge ruled that the Alien Enemies Act, the one that Trump is using to deport the Venezuelan gangs, does not apply.
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And so, therefore, Trump cannot deport the Venezuelan gang members using the Alien Enemies Act.
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Now, the argument is that they don't meet the definition.
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And this judge said that it must involve an organized armed force entering the United States to engage in conduct destructive of property and human life in a specific geographic area.
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But he says the rarely used law, because it's a very, very old law, can only be invoked when a, quote, organized armed forces entering the United States.
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Now, to me, it seems like these Venezuelans, at least we've been told by our administration, are organized and are sent by Venezuela with the express purpose of messing up the United States.
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And I also think that the commander-in-chief is the one who should decide if it meets the definition.
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I don't feel like the courts should even make that decision.
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It just feels like it shouldn't be their domain.
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But if you have a commander-in-chief whose job it is to protect the country, and we allow the commander-in-chief to have a pretty wide latitude, because you don't want them to be handcuffed by process if they're trying to protect the country,
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I just feel like I would give the nod to the commander-in-chief on this one.
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The ACLU was, you know, arguing that it should not be the law.
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If we don't deport them, that wouldn't stop us from arresting them, right?
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So, would we just have to build some kind of El Salvador-like facility for jailing them?
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So, it just seems like it's going to be expensive.
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Because they're still going to be non-citizens.
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And if we can't deport them, what do you do with them?
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Because they're still non-citizens and they're still, you know, have a criminal connection?
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The CIA is saying publicly that they've got some videos that are in Mandarin and they're
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And John Ratcliffe of the CIA says one of the primary roles of the CIA is to collect intelligence
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by recruiting assets that can help us steal secrets.
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Hey, China, we want to recruit some of your citizens.
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And when they become traitors to your country, we're going to have them steal your secrets and
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Now, it's not like we don't know this goes on, right?
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Obviously, China has a zillion spies in the United States.
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Obviously, even our allies have spies in the United States.
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Obviously, the United States has spies in every country we can put a spy in.
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But it's something hilarious about just saying it out loud that we can just say, oh, by the
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way, China, we're trying to recruit some of your officials.
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So we'll be offering them excellent deals and retirement packages.
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But yeah, we'll be recruiting your people as our spies.
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Now, it makes me wonder, is the real play to get extra spies, which maybe partly that's
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the real play, or is it to make China doubt their own cohorts in government?
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Because I love the fact that if China saw we were making a big push, then everything that
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the other leaders were doing would start looking suspicious.
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So what this does is, this is a persuasion play as well as a recruiting play.
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The persuasion would be, if you put in China's head that we're actively recruiting, then anything
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that another Chinese leader says that isn't exactly what you want them to say, you're going
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to say to yourself, ah, I wonder, I wonder if that one got promoted or got recruited.
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Oh, well, under normal times, it would be normal for somebody to say, I need some access
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But if it were in your head that America was recruiting more spies, and then your fellow
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leader said, oh, can I have access to that private information?
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So I think it's very clever in making the Chinese leadership doubt other Chinese leadership.
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Well, we heard from, I guess, Susie Wiles, chief of staff for Trump, that Elon Musk is no
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longer physically in any kind of office in the West Wing.
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And obviously, he's going to be paying more attention to his businesses.
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But Jesse Waters met with the Doge team, and they did make some news, but I'm not going
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As you know, I've made the mistake of repeating what Doge has claimed in the past, and I got
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So they have some provocative claims that if they were true, would be pretty newsworthy.
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But since I can't tell what's true, and Doge has overclaimed or left out in context, and
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in some cases, just been maybe wrong about what something meant, I do believe that they're
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honest in the sense that they don't say stuff unless they think it's true.
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I don't think they necessarily get everything right.
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So I'm not even going to report the provocative claims of the things they say.
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And I don't think it came anywhere near its own stated goal of finding a trillion or so.
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And I'm not even sure if the $160 billion they claim will actually prove out.
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But here's what I think is the biggest benefit of Doge.
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Now when people in the States realize that they need to get their budgets under control,
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And what they mean is, it can't be the usual people in government.
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It probably needs to be some kind of independent people brought in who can audit things and maybe
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So to the, if I were going to evaluate Doge on meeting their, let's say, their own goals,
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But if I were to evaluate them on their long-term impact on the country,
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it might be one of the best things that's ever happened.
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Meaning that we now understand that the Doge is completely necessary and needs to be permanent.
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In other words, there just needs to be some smart people really paying attention
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So the idea of Doge looks like it's going to live on forever.
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You know, once you've got a word associated with it.
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And it might take longer to get the kind of benefits that they wanted from it.
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Well, meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard, according to Just the News,
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she's closed an office she claimed to act as a, quote, slush fund for DEI.
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It was the Intelligence Community Human Capital Office.
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Now, on one hand, there's so many reports of a DEI thing being made illegal,
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a DEI thing being threatened, a DEI thing being closed down.
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Because it looks like they're just trying to go dormant until another Democrat gets in power.
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And then it will just go, bring, hey, surprise, it was always here.
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So there will be a few situations, like the Tulsi Gabbard one, where they closed the entire office.
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So that might be a case where they did, in fact, reduce some DEI.
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But with all the colleges and the big corporations and all the various little entities of government
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that are trying to be part of the resistance instead of the administration,
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I feel like they're just going to hide all this stuff with secret names and just change the look of it
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So I don't know that it can be killed, even though it's being treated as unconstitutional
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All it's going to take is the next administration to say, oh, no, actually,
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it's completely legal and everybody should be doing it.
00:37:46.920
Mercedes says they're going to shift more vehicle production to the U.S.
00:37:50.920
Now, that would be in response to the tariff threats.
00:37:57.960
So here's a list, I guess, according to the administration of other automakers
00:38:03.000
who are looking to move more production to the U.S.
00:38:06.840
So you've got BMW is thinking about adding more production in South Carolina.
00:38:12.820
You've got Honda plans to shift production from Japan to the U.S.
00:38:23.260
Hyundai is going to do some big investment in the U.S.
00:38:26.460
Kia plans to produce hybrid vehicles in Georgia.
00:38:31.560
Nissan is considering moving production from Mexico to the U.S.
00:38:35.020
Stellantis, I don't know who that is, says it will reopen its Belvedere, Illinois plant
00:38:42.580
And Toyota said it will boost hybrid vehicle production at its West Virginia plant.
00:38:49.060
Now, those seem like pretty big accomplishments.
00:38:55.540
So now, you have to be careful about whether all these news reports are exactly true.
00:39:02.880
But it's starting to look like Trump is getting big wins in the automotive industry.
00:39:14.500
But Tim Cook is reportedly excited, according to 9to5Mac, whoever they are, that TSMC, the big chip-making company
00:39:30.260
that's based in Taiwan, is going to break ground on their third U.S. chip plants.
00:39:37.860
So that would mean that they're building three of them, because I don't think any of them are complete.
00:39:43.480
So that would mean they're building three U.S. chip plants.
00:39:47.760
And Apple's Tim Cook says he's excited to be the first customer of the Arizona chip plant.
00:39:59.000
This would be really, and then we heard about NVIDIA,
00:40:02.040
making sure that it's going to do a gigantic increase in capital expenditure in the United States to make their stuff.
00:40:17.840
Is Trump actually successfully bringing the automotive industry back to the U.S.?
00:40:23.500
Because it looks like it, at least to some degree.
00:40:26.440
At the same time that the biggest, most important chip companies are wildly building production in the United States.
00:40:46.200
And we'll talk about China and the tariffs in a little bit.
00:40:51.220
But, you know, you saw that the stock market is up today.
00:40:59.900
If Trump gets this to work against, you know, all the experts' recommendations that trade wars are always bad
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and tariffs are always bad and there's no exception,
00:41:12.620
it's going to be one of the greatest accomplishments of any president ever.
00:41:30.480
Because I would have been a, you know, wait and see, you're not going to know anything for two years.
00:41:37.320
But it kind of looks like it's working already.
00:41:41.960
And the rate of it working would surprise me, not that it worked.
00:41:48.700
Meanwhile, Trump has, he's trying to cut funding on NPR and PBS.
00:41:54.460
Now, you should know that that doesn't close them down, but it will put them under pressure.
00:42:00.900
Because a lot of that federal funding would go to the local and urban stations.
00:42:07.880
And then some of that money would flow back to the national ones.
00:42:12.600
So they may have, you know, they might have to downsize a little bit.
00:42:19.860
But for the most part, they'll stay in business.
00:42:22.440
Because most of their funding is from private donations.
00:42:29.460
the Democrats will just donate more money so they don't go out of business.
00:42:35.100
So, but I am happy that the government is not funding a biased news entity.
00:42:41.140
So, that would be, and there's also, Congress would need to approve the cuts.
00:42:49.880
So, it doesn't even mean that their funding is going to be cut.
00:42:53.380
Because you know there's going to be legal challenges.
00:42:55.920
And they're just going to shop for some judge that will say anything about anything.
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And at the very least, they'll have to probably fight it to a higher court.
00:43:05.100
Trump also says he wants to take away the tax-exempt status from Harvard.
00:43:14.560
And the reason giving is that they are racists.
00:43:20.960
Basically, because they're DEI and hiring preferences, etc.
00:43:28.780
If Harvard absolutely wants to continue violating the Constitution by favoring one race over another, etc.,
00:43:46.860
Maybe you can do things privately illegal, but why would we keep giving you money?
00:43:51.860
So, I understand that they do super valuable things for research, etc.
00:43:58.160
But why does all of our research have to go through universities?
00:44:05.000
Maybe what we really need is that our research facilities are no longer connected to a university.
00:44:12.580
Because you know what happens if you give a million dollars to Harvard?
00:44:18.460
How much of it actually goes to the scientists?
00:44:23.280
Actually, most of it will go to the overhead for the college.
00:44:28.020
So, don't you think we just need to completely retool where we're giving money for scientific research?
00:44:36.460
I feel like there's a much less expensive, more effective way to do it than to have it couched in some racist college.
00:44:51.860
So, I'm going to mention this probably more than once.
00:44:58.300
But I'm still laughing at Chuck Schumer doing a public event that was built entirely around pointing out how Trump's approval ratings have dropped.
00:45:12.040
Trump's approval ratings on polls have dropped.
00:45:16.440
And then one of the reporters called out and mentioned that Schumer's own polls are even worse than Trump's.
00:45:28.020
So, with one question, they got Schumer to completely debunk his own point that the polls were telling you something useful.
00:45:40.020
As soon as it was about him, he's like, well, polls come and go.
00:45:43.220
Now, on one hand, it's a funny story about an elderly Democrat leader who's just a clown and was completely outmatched by one question.
00:46:04.200
I think the biggest gaslighting that's happening right now is the idea that the polls are driven by public opinion.
00:46:16.700
The pollsters ask the voters, what's your opinion?
00:46:22.940
Well, I was listening to Victor Davis Hanson explain that some of these recent decreases in Trump's polls are because the pollsters simply didn't ask many Trump voters the question.
00:46:38.540
So, instead of asking, let's say, half of the people who are Trump supporters and let's say half who are not, what do you think of Trump?
00:46:50.580
Because that would match the actual vote, right?
00:46:54.240
Because the vote is usually, you know, almost a tie.
00:46:58.280
So, if you wanted a good poll, you'd want to talk to about half of the people who voted for Trump and half of the people who didn't.
00:47:07.740
But if you favor the people who didn't vote for Trump and you say, what do you think about his approval?
00:47:20.580
What you've done is you have a fake poll, which is done for completely political reasons, to move the public.
00:47:29.300
But beyond that, where does the public get its information?
00:47:35.120
It gets its information from the fake news, for the most part.
00:47:39.200
It's not like people are doing their own deep dive and doing their own investigation.
00:47:48.040
Have you seen the people on the street, when they do the street interviews, and somebody would say, what do you think about Trump?
00:47:58.260
And he should use a scalpel instead of, and Doge should use a scalpel instead of a chainsaw.
00:48:06.960
They didn't do their own deep dive and come up with the same buzzwords.
00:48:11.040
They're literally reporting what they heard on the news, which we know is fake news.
00:48:17.000
So you've got your fake news that's come up with this trick.
00:48:21.380
I don't know how long they've been doing it, but they're doing it now.
00:48:23.920
Where they pretend that the public makes up its own mind.
00:48:32.160
It makes up its mind based on what the media told it.
00:48:36.160
So if the media has collectively decided to say chaos a million times and scalpel a million times,
00:48:44.160
what do you think the voters that they talk to are going to say?
00:48:48.080
Well, the Trump voters are still going to favor Trump.
00:48:54.440
But what about the other people who are oversampled?
00:48:58.180
The oversampled people are just going to repeat what they heard on MSNBC and CNN.
00:49:03.580
Oh, they didn't use a scalpel, and there's so much chaos.
00:49:14.080
Okay, well, we talked about the scalpel thing, but what would be the chaos?
00:49:19.500
Well, all the tariffs seem to be moving, and they're complicated, and they keep changing.
00:49:29.220
And then you would say, you mean exactly like Trump tells you he always negotiates,
00:49:34.940
where he brings great uncertainty into a situation until people are begging for certainty,
00:49:52.820
There's nothing like public opinion happening here.
00:49:57.640
There is just brainwashing, and then the media looks at the pollsters and go,
00:50:03.640
go check to see if our brainwashing is working.
00:50:05.940
And it does work, because they're using Nazi technique.
00:50:11.900
The Nazi technique is you tell a big lie, and then you repeat it endlessly to the media that you control.
00:50:21.900
You're watching Nazi technique that the Democrats use very successfully, and then they launder it through polls,
00:50:30.720
so it looks like people made up their own minds.
00:50:33.220
It's the greatest gaslighting that's happening right now, and I'm impressed as hell.
00:50:38.340
Meanwhile, I always tell you about the designated liars, the DDLs, the Democrat designated liars.
00:50:46.080
So, Swalwell is one, Jamie Raskin is another, Adam Schiff is another.
00:50:53.840
There's a certain set of Democrats who will tell the big lie that is sort of part of the Nazi propaganda that regular Democrats won't do.
00:51:06.220
So, your normal Democrats will just sort of stay out of the news, but the ones who want to be in the news, they will tell any lie.
00:51:15.320
So, they're the ones saying, Trump wants to cut your Social Security.
00:51:20.300
There's literally no evidence of that, and there's plenty of evidence that he says, absolutely not, I won't do that.
00:51:27.460
But the designated liars will say it, and people will believe it.
00:51:31.700
It's part of the Nazi propaganda that they use.
00:51:35.920
Well, here's one that Eric Swalwell is trying to push.
00:51:39.640
So, despite all of the election denial stuff that's happened over 2020, Swalwell was on some kind of podcast with some leftists,
00:51:51.320
and there was an allegation brought up that enemies of the U.S. stole U.S. data,
00:52:01.840
and that somehow Elon Musk's Starlink was involved.
00:52:05.340
Now, what evidence is there that Starlink was involved in any of the election stuff,
00:52:13.820
and certainly, you know, what evidence was involved that if they were involved,
00:52:18.120
I don't even think they were involved in any elections.
00:52:20.760
They're not part of the election system, as far as I know.
00:52:24.880
And what evidence would there be that they somehow participated in helping Russia get election data?
00:52:39.160
He goes, Elon Musk has done nothing in the last five months to make me think that we shouldn't ask questions
00:52:49.460
In other words, Swalwell, one of the Democrat-designated liars,
00:52:56.080
wants you to believe that the 2024 election might have been rigged by Elon Musk.
00:53:07.240
Meaning technically rigged, you know, not just that he participated and that he funded stuff
00:53:12.600
and, you know, he was effective in the campaign.
00:53:17.100
But how shameless do you have to be to say something like this?
00:53:29.600
So, are we to believe that the election systems are that vulnerable?
00:53:35.860
If we are to believe that they're that vulnerable,
00:53:38.980
then wouldn't they also have been vulnerable in 2020?
00:53:42.320
Or did they only become vulnerable when Trump won?
00:53:48.260
Just insane lies coming out of the designated liars.
00:53:57.880
you know that 60 Minutes report that caused Trump to sue CBS?
00:54:04.520
And so on where Kamala Harris was being interviewed
00:54:07.680
and there was at least one edit that allegedly made her answer look more coherent than it really was.
00:54:19.400
And apparently that report, that segment of 60 Minutes,
00:54:41.180
It won Pulitzer Prizes for some of the writers.
00:54:47.120
The people who are pushing the biggest hoax this country has ever experienced,
00:54:54.760
And now the fake, and now the 60 Minutes thing that will probably end up in a win for Trump.
00:55:03.920
So Trump will probably get a big paycheck out of that.
00:55:14.360
Well, Tom Homan says that they've already rescued 5,000 children.
00:55:23.320
And of the 300,000 migrant children who went missing or were trafficked,
00:55:31.220
So I don't think it's disputed that 300 children came through
00:55:37.160
So that's what, I think that's what RFK Jr. was referring to
00:55:44.820
when saying that the United States was complicit in child trafficking,
00:55:50.000
is that we allowed 300,000 kids to come through without really checking
00:56:04.280
and at least some of them were in forced labor.
00:56:10.340
What kind of forced labor do you think that was?
00:56:14.360
Because, you know, I've never met anybody who was in forced labor
00:56:20.180
So there's probably some enormous underground, you know, thing going on.
00:56:26.940
But, you know, I don't have any contact with it, thank God.
00:56:31.820
Anyway, according to Just the News, the House Judiciary Committee
00:56:36.020
that's working on the current write-up of the 2025 budget proposal,
00:56:41.960
it looks like they're going to put a cover charge on entering the United States.
00:56:51.620
that entering the United States should have a cover charge
00:57:03.300
We don't know if this will become an actual proposal yet.
00:57:06.400
But the asylum seekers and parolees would pay a $1,000 minimum fee
00:57:15.140
Now, how many asylum seekers could afford $1,000?
00:57:17.880
So I assume this would be a way to reduce the number of asylum seekers.
00:57:26.220
And then migrants requesting temporary protected status,
00:57:30.720
and I don't know how that's different from an asylum seeker,
00:57:36.760
Sponsors of unaccompanied migrant children would be charged $3,500.
00:57:43.940
Now, I assume that would also include us vetting them
00:57:47.380
to make sure that the children don't get trafficked.
00:57:51.220
And then many work permit applications would also have a $550 fee.
00:57:57.240
So I like the general idea of charging people to come into the country.
00:58:03.140
I don't know if these are specifically the best ideas.
00:58:08.200
According to the Post Millennial, the Texas State House
00:58:21.860
I was kind of dealing with it at the headline level,
00:58:30.740
But it turns out this would be limited to the paid political advertisers.
00:58:40.220
yeah, if you were running an ad on TV, for example,
00:58:50.300
your opponent did something that they didn't do.
00:59:03.660
than requiring some kind of honesty in political ads.
00:59:11.200
When has there ever been an honest political ad?
00:59:26.580
How in the world do you distinguish between a meme,
00:59:32.320
if it were showing something that didn't really happen in real life,
00:59:37.900
let's say that Trump is going to cut your Social Security?
00:59:41.380
Do you think there are any political ads that are going to say,
00:59:45.840
Trump is going to cut your health care and your Social Security?
00:59:54.280
Would you go to jail for a year for claiming that he will?
01:00:04.720
and the AI looked like Trump's saying something
01:00:23.340
But at least it's limited to paid political ads.
01:00:40.960
you know, obviously I don't know about the charges
01:01:07.560
Russell Brand was once a famous left-wing actor
01:01:40.740
None of the charges are backed by hard evidence.
01:02:32.420
we should absolutely offer it to Russell Brand.