Episode 2860 CWSA 06⧸06⧸25
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In this episode, Scott Adams talks about the latest in the ongoing saga between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and why he thinks it s a good thing that people are paying attention to him. Scott also talks about what it means to be a narcissist, and how to deal with it.
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good stuff well i don't know if you heard but uh elon musk and uh president trump are having
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you you probably read a million takes so it's time for mine the only one that matters number one
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one did you not think it would be impossible for elon musk to find a way to make his dealerships safe
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that the last thing that would be attacked by a democrat today would be a tesla dealership
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so suddenly total security with a few tweets now i don't think that's why he did it uh i also don't
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think that it's some kind of you know 5d chess i don't think it's some kind of agreement they made
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uh it would be a weird kind of an agreement if they did
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but uh let me give you my takes on it first of all
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i don't believe that there's a phone call scheduled for today right so at one point we heard that uh
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trump and musk would be talking but at the moment it looks like that's not going to happen
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uh jonathan carl was reporting that um but here's what i liked about the situation
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number one i was kind of proud of the way republicans especially
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you know the the big pundits the way they were handling this so instead of taking sides
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people were just sort of expressing some kind of affection you know they like both they uh the most
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common comment was that it was like watching your parents fight now that's a pretty good compliment
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and you know we've talked before how democrats um they're a different animal and republicans are
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more forgiving about you know any any bad thing that happened in particular you know if you still like
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the the person in general you're still good with them so i think that's part of it too so
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the the fact that republicans didn't want to throw either of them over the over the edge i like
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i like the fact that we can simply wish they weren't fighting and not have bad feelings about
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either one of them especially but a lot of people pointed out that when uh musk complained about well not
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complain but accused uh trump of having an epstein connection you know more so than what we already
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know uh that that was too far how many of you thought that that maybe the other stuff was fair
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you know if he criticized the bill or he criticized something in the bill but not not that seemed too far
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right well the first thing you have to know is that he started out by criticizing just the bill
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and did that help does anybody remember the bill being rewritten because elon criticized it i don't
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now what would you do if you're elon musk and you haven't gotten the attention you need which by the
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way i remind you attention is the first step in persuasion and when he was when he was simply saying hey
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this doesn't cut the budget enough no attention i mean a little bit but it didn't change anything
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so he went to a level of risk and controversy that you and i probably would never have gone to
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how much of that is the secret of his success because when you talk about musk you you tend to
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talk about how smart he is but the other things that make him successful is that he's not willing to
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take no for an answer he he doesn't recognize you know game over um he's willing to sleep on the floor
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and he's willing to take enormous risks to get something that he believes in is you know a solution
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to an existential uh problem so here's what i think my my armchair psychologist says that uh he might be
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bipolar now he's he said that himself so in some interview i checked on grok um someone asked him if
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he's bipolar and to me it seems like he's obviously bipolar and there's a manic phase that comes with
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that now the manic phase can make you unbelievably productive i know because i have it so when i hit
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my manic phases oh my goodness do i get a lot done but there is a little negativity that comes with it
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and then they get it and maybe you've noticed this if you've been watching me for a while the negativity
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is that you increase your tolerance to risk to a level that other people can't understand
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so how often does that help them solve some gigantic problem or you know fight through some wall just
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because because he was manic and nothing was going to stop him it feels like this might be one of those
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situations now some people are saying you know he might be on some kind of stimulants or something
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but uh i don't know anything about that i don't see any uh direct evidence of that but if so it might
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be accelerating what would be a normal you know manic episode because the the epstein island thing
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that's got um excess risk written all over it it just isn't something that you and i would have
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done in our normal state of mind but i don't think he would either i i think if he were not having
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sort of a manic episode and i'm just guessing by the way i'm not some expert but to me it looks like
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he he took his risk profile and he just ramped it up until he could break through did he break through
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are we talking about the budget uh more seriously than we were before yes we are
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so when i say somebody's a manic that doesn't mean they're doing the wrong stuff
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when i say they're at a higher risk profile then you or i would be in that same situation
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that doesn't mean it's a mistake that could be why he's the richest man in the world and you're not
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because he's willing to say what is his take and then his body just goes boom i'm gonna give it to you
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and uh he he definitely seemed risk risk averse you know during the little tiff now today i saw a
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uh a message that sounded like maybe he had cooled off a little bit maybe um trump apparently is not
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treating it like it's his biggest problem or his biggest issue he has to deal with which is exactly
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right one of the things we like about trump is that uh i hate to say transactional because everybody
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says that but kind of fits so if tomorrow musk turned out to be exactly the person that trump needed
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to get something done then they would be friends again and all would be forgotten so we kind of like
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that about trump he's a good role model that way that you don't have to throw out the entire person
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if there's you know something about the person that you like
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so my one of my favorite parts was uh if you haven't done this yet you should
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watch watch the democrat um pundit reaction to them getting what they think they wanted
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now what they think they wanted was a rift between musk and trump well what would happen if they get it
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well they got it but the funny part is looking at their faces um and i'm gonna come up with a uh a
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phrase that i think i made up i called a rat smile so here would be a regular smile hi
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i'm smiling regular if you're listening on audio this just imagine a regular smile but then there's
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the the smile where the eyes are too closed and you look a little like a rat so the democrats are
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giving all these rat smiles and it's kind of hilarious because they think they're getting what they want
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but really they're just observing they're not getting anything so the the only thing they got
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is that the biggest target they had against trump just went away their target went away you know that
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even though trump was super uh popular um elon musk they did a good job of saying oh you're just
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doing it for your your business interests and so they had something they could attack and now
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well now that trump said it trump actually suggested that maybe elon wasn't that bad until the ev credits
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went away uh which i think may may have been part of what triggered uh must to take it to the next level
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i don't know for sure but uh what uh what musk has done is he has satisfied the first rule of
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persuasion uh and he's got your attention and it's attention not about epstein you'll forget about that
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and elon musk sitting in the same room and talking about this bill steven miller um is if if you're a
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you know pro-trump person you would probably agree with this steven miller is one of the most capable
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well-spoken smart you know mega people who may be of all time right he's just one of the smartest people
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but he keeps telling us that this is not a spending bill
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okay i get it i get it that technically it's not a spending bill
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but really are you telling me that the bill that determines how much you spend is not a spending bill
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big words they try to weasel you or they try to fool you into thinking one thing is another
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it's a big bill with lots of spending that can be adjusted by congress and some people think it
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should be less so for steven miller to say publicly you know that we have to understand it's not a
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spending bill and the idea is that future future bills would be the place that spending is cut
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is so disingenuous sounding now and maybe maybe it's the best art community has you know maybe
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it's too late to change it so he's just trying to try to get to the next phase with another bill maybe
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but uh it does seem to me that uh the other bills are going to be impossible to cut any costs
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now i'm no expert on the uh government budget process but is it not true let's see who said this first
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i will get to it but i'm not sure the other bills could even be a cut unless you have 60 percent
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vote in the senate and since we know we can't get 60 votes it doesn't look to me like the
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somebody's asking about elon's black eye who knows i mean i i think the uh correct opinion on his black
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eye is that he's got a toddler that seems like a perfectly you know good explanation no reason to
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believe anything else yeah so cynical publius has a quote i'm gonna get to but he asked uh
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cynical publius asked on x uh can somebody explain how you get to the point where you could actually
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cut something given that it would take 60 votes and that will never happen so correct me if i'm wrong
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wrong we have steven miller telling us that the current bill is quote not a spending bill
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but when we get to the ones that are spending bills there is no chance in hell that we could cut it
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is that true that that's my current understanding so imagine being elon musk
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you've been asked to sacrifice so much and you did to come up with a bunch of doge cuts and a bunch of doge
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processes and you do all that work and then it looks to you like nothing serious got cut can you even
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imagine how you would feel about that well i'd be i'd be flipping out and if uh and if my mere complaining
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wasn't enough depending on where i was in my manic phase i might go just absolutely freaking nuts
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on whoever put me in that position and that looks like the president
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so can they ever uh work together and get past it yeah it doesn't mean they will
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but yes there's nothing that would stop them from you know figuring it out um if they want to
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so i'm not super concerned about uh that conversation um you know i think yesterday elon threatened
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he would decommission the dragon rocket and trump was saying they should save money by cutting all the
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contracts elon none of that should be taken seriously um i wouldn't worry about any of it but let me tell
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you what i think it is not it is definitely not 4d chess it is definitely not something that musk
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and trump came up together with and said all right you say this and i'll say this no it definitely wasn't
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that um and then uh mike ben said a video today uh in which he reminds us how important uh elon musk was
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to trump's success which adds a little fuel to this because if you think my god you know you're only
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president because i you know delivered free speech back to the country get in the form of x which is true
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um if i'm a top financial backer and if uh if musk is the reason that the other tech bros
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felt safe to back trump and i i think that is part of it then uh musk probably was
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important enough that you could argue that trump would not have been elected
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we it might have even been hard to hear from him without x
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but let's check on some other people uh like ran paul
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so ran paul is talking about this uh latest bill he says we've now increased spending at the get-go
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more than all of doge cuts he said i think uh elon musk did an amazing job and we're dwarfing it
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with new spending and then he goes this is ran paul he says this has always been a bill that was hijacked
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and conceived of by lindsey graham to explode the military caps well i don't know about that
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do you think lindsey graham was trying to cleverly explode the military caps and that's what this is
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all about maybe i mean i wouldn't rule it out but i wouldn't i wouldn't have a an instinct on that either
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way but related to that there's a cia officer uh darn i didn't write down what podcast this was on
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but on a podcast recently he said that uh and i don't know that this can be proven but the cia
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officer says that bank account records would show that lindsey graham is laundering money
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from the ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts now i have not seen any evidence of that
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and it doesn't surprise me when there's some ex-cia guy saying stuff that sounds sketchy
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so i don't know if you can believe that exactly but it's out there so some of the mystery may have
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to do with lindsey graham and wanting to get money for ukraine at least ukraine mario nauffel um
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did a post on x in which he described the fall of rome as basically our exact current situation
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that we uh overextended which is what rome did uh had too much military need compared to other things
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and uh apparently rome just had massive inflation and they they took their little silver coins and
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you know they they reduced the amount of silver in it and they kept doing it until there was basically
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no silver and then they were broke and then they went out of business rome did some would say it didn't
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go into business some would say it's the vatican i guess but um i'm starting to think that every major power
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um unless they were killed by an army were destroyed by their own spending because you reach some point
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where nobody can say no and there's just too many people who are on the take so we're kind of there
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how much would you want to see stephen miller and uh elon musk in one room with nobody else
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and just turn the camera on and say all right you guys talk about the spending bill and why the doge cuts
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don't seem to be enough or why they're not there and uh just see them see them working out
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because i would love to know if there's any middle ground there and i don't think that musk
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talking to trump about the details of the bill that doesn't seem like the right right approach
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because musk would be in the details and stephen miller is in the details but trump
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you know he knows the big picture of course so that's what i want to see i want to see
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stephen miller and musk talking out while we watch claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament
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i've been visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the
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column behind her car on her backhand side good thing claudia's with intact the insurer with the
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largest network of auto service centers in the country everything was taken care of under one roof
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and she was on her way in a rental car in no time i made it to my tournament and lost in the first round
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but you got there on time intact insurance your auto service ace certain conditions apply
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representative uh thomas massey um who's one of the few people maybe the only one who reads these
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gigantic bills he found uh in in the bill there's a provision banning state and local governments from
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regulating ai now he points out that that would cause um that that would cause
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uh states to have to accept a gigantic you know a data center maybe where they didn't want it
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but uh i feel like this might be necessary in other words if ai is really the difference between
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you know the country surviving and not surviving then probably we need the federal government to remove as
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many restrictions as possible and allow our biggest companies to build whatever they need as fast as they
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can so although massey is he's obviously he represents his local constituents and he's doing a good job of it
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i suspect the larger military need for ai is probably a bigger priority so yes it will be bad for some local
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people who don't want that data center to be built near their house but it's also good to keep the country safe so
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all right so uh here's a cynical publius he says uh
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how is it possible to achieve the bill elon moss thomas massey and ran paul want without 60 votes in the senate
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and he kind of challenges people to come up with it and i saw the comments and nobody could
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so we've got this weird sleepwalking toward disaster thing going on where if you say something like
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our current spending will kill us for sure the answer will be but look how good the priorities are for
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what trump ran on and then you say okay did you hear anything i just said our current spending
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will kill us all for sure yeah but did you see how how mega perfect all these things are okay you're not
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hearing anything the current spending will kill us all for sure i don't know i i think you're ignoring
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how good this bill is how good this bill is for all the things that trump ran on no the current spending
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will kill us all and then repeat it's like one side isn't even talking right are you having the same
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experience that that one side is just ignoring the existential threat which is guaranteed it's not
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it's not even a risk if we were just a risk then i'd say well i guess we're taking risk no we're walking
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directly toward a gigantic hole in the ground and there's absolutely nothing that looks like it would
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stop us from fall again that i think that's where musk is that's where i am as well so anyway um so i
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saw a clip yes this morning actually i saw a clip where trump says that we have a deal with china
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because he had a phone call with uh president xi and for some reason he doesn't seem to be able to clarify
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whether that deal was an entire trade deal with china or something smaller about rare earth magnets
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and then i thought well obviously you know this is the biggest story in the country i mean it's bigger than
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the must thing so obviously it'll be just all over x if there's a giant trade deal with china
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i can't tell do any of you know i'm assuming that it's not a comprehensive trade deal
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um because that would be surprising there are too many too many elements in play but it's just rare earth
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right do any of you know you i could have uh maybe checked rock before i get on
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um somebody says that trump is asking musk to join him tonight to work it out
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anyway so stock market is up which could be just a bounce response because the elon thing
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looked like a big deal but really isn't a big deal
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there are trading state visits i know that but none of you know right
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none of you know whether there's a comprehensive trade deal which would be the biggest thing in the
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world versus only rare earth i don't know why trump would be so vague about that
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so i'm gonna guess it's only a deal about rare earth because the other would seem like a bigger deal
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all right well according to breitbart the u.s trade deficit has narrowed by a record amount
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i guess there were a lot of exports right after liberation day now i wouldn't expect that trend to
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continue um i think that might have something to do with what happened because of liberation day and
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the tariffs and the uncertainty and all that but maybe maybe maybe our maybe trump found a way to narrow
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our trade deficit we'll see keep an eye on that
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meanwhile just the news ben whedon is reporting that the trump tariffs
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uh are going to slash the deficit by 2.8 trillion over 10 years according to the cbo how many of you believe
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uh 10 years uh 10 years uh in 10 years we'll find ways to change so many things that that this estimate
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will make no sense um but it's better than racing the uh raising the uh deficit so maybe i don't know
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um according to the gateway pundit representative comer is uh subpoena he's going to subpoena the
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biden white house physician have any of you seen a picture of joe biden standing with his white house
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physician and the white house physician has a dumb and dumber haircut
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and he looks like a character literally from the movie dumb and dumber and and then biden himself
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looks you know kind of dumb in the picture and i thought to myself how in the world can you pick a
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doctor who looks like he came out of the movie dumb and dumber like how do you do that anyway that's
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my only comment about that maybe he'll tell us something we need to hear meanwhile according to
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the daily skeptic if you want some good news uh the global greening in other words how uh how much
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vegetation is growing on the earth uh thanks to higher co2 is it's striking new heights
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so you don't hear about that as much do you so the world is getting way greener and that has to do with
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co2 now most of you knew that was going to happen but the other things the daily skeptic this is uh
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chris morrison's writing uh things that are also not mentioned so much anymore is that the arctic the
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arctic sea level uh has uh not been shrinking since 2007 which would be counter to climate change
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predictions and the uh the gulf stream has not reduced which would be counter to climate change
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predictions and there's been a record growth in the great barrier reef for the last three years
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which is very counter to the climate change predictions so if i haven't told you this recently
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in other news the washington examiner is writing about how
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uh you remember uh ibram kendi he was the uh author and activist who was an anti-racist
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and he got funding after the george floyd stuff he got funding to create an anti-racist research center
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so now that a number of years have gone by how do you think the anti-racist research center is doing
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well you would not be surprised that they're closing down because they didn't get anything done
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uh washington examiner review of public records
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found that anti-racism centers at five major universities uh got generous support after the
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2020 george floyd stuff and uh looks like none of them have achieved really anything of value
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so they're all just closing down surprise you never could guess
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uh according to neuroscience news uh they can make ai be funny especially with memes
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but they can't make ai as funny as the best human can be funny so ai can be funnier than some human who's
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not very funny but the best funny human is still substantially better than ai and as i've predicted
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that will stay that way as long as ai is these large language model
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things maybe when maybe when we give some entirely new kind of ai it'll be different but at the moment
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humans have the advantage so i still have a purpose
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let's check in with the pacific palisades where there was a big fire in southern california earlier this
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year and apparently nearly 300 uh residents have decided to sell their properties rather than rebuild
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and uh only a hundred have begun reconstruction now why would so many people sell the most valuable
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real estate you can imagine after it gets cleaned up uh rather than stay there and build when they're
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so lucky to have such amazing real estate the answer is it's california so as a gateway pundit points out
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um just just the fact that getting anything done in california is a nightmare a lot of people said
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just give me my money and let me get out of here so at the same time uh california democrats
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have issued a dance video in which they several of them are dancing to usher why did they create a
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dance video of cringy middle-aged people who need to go to the gym i don't know
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maybe because they thought they couldn't think of anything useful to do for the country
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so they're like i've got an idea a dance video showing that white people have no uh have no
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no dance moves whatsoever it was very cringy you're gonna have to see it
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um over at uc berkeley as you know the president of the united states is giving some pressure on the
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funding to various uh entities that are not doing enough to uh battle anti-semitism and dei
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and so the university of california staff members are going to do a first of its kind lawsuit
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uh a class action lawsuit against trump for their research funding cuts
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and they think that they hope that this will become a model so that others can use it to get their
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funding back as well so obviously the funding is for very important stuff otherwise you know they
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wouldn't be fighting so hard for it let's see um here's one example uh one of the lead plaintiffs is a
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history professor named christine filio um and uh i guess her funding was cut by a quarter million dollars
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and uh the funding would have gone to a study uh to study greek orthodox christians in the 19th century turkey
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so those of you who are depending on the results of a study of
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19th century greek orthodox christians in turkey well you're going to be very disappointed
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because it looks like that funding has been cut
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um but also that's not the only thing that got cut i mean it's not all like worthless sounding stuff
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like that but here's one um the director of the climate project climate at uc berkeley law initiative
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what they wanted to study but it got cut is they wanted to study using drones and robots
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to find cheaper ways to monitor methane emissions from landfills which is a major contributor to climate
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change so um did we really need drones and robots to measure methane from landfills because i thought we
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had all these climate models that were so well tuned they could tell you what the temperature will be in
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80 years and you're telling me now that i needed a robot and a drone to get accurate enough information
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to know if the temperature goes up in 80 80 years um i'm going to say that probably we don't need that
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but got cut in other news interesting engineering is reporting that uh amazon is building uh an indoor
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i guess a gigantic uh test place for robots it'll be in san francisco and it will be a humanoid park
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so humanoid is because the robots are human form and it's like a custom indoor obstacle course
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to get the robots ready for delivering packages for amazon
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um but to me it sounds like a playground for robots
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how much how much training would you have to give a robot
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until it knew how to deliver a package to every kind of different doorway and steps and every every kind
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of weird situation and and then of course they could get robbed right what happens if the robot has a
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package and a bad person runs up with a mask on and just grabs the package out of the hands of the robot
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so there are a lot of questions about these humanoid robots
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i don't know i feel like there's some better solution than humanoid robots but maybe not
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meanwhile according to the wall street journal iran has ordered thousands of tons of ballistic missile ingredients from china
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great so that should go well uh thousands of tons of ballistic missile ingredients
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so it doesn't sound like iran is giving up anytime soon
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and in other news related the washington times bill gertz is writing that china has long held
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a military doctrine i guess you might call it in which they're trying to affect the brains of the other
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side so there are a whole bunch of different ways they can do it but the thinking is that the old way of war
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where you would send you know hordes of people in one direction and they would all get mowed down or
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stuck with swords doesn't work so much anymore so they're going for various cognitive weapons
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and uh makes me wonder would you even know if somebody hit you with a cognitive weapon
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because some of them just make you angry or they hurt your morale
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well i don't know so cognitive weapons it's coming and according to politico china is helping russia
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pull ahead in lethal drone uh race with ukraine how many drones do you think well according to politico
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veronica melko zorova um ukraine managed to uh make let's see uh up to a million tactical drones in the
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first years of the war and they're aiming to produce 2.5 million tactical drones and 30 000 long-range
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strike drones just 20 25 2.5 million drones now i guess most of the good drones are the ones that uh
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can't be jammed because they they they run on these enormously long fiber optic cables which doesn't even
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seem like it would work i can't believe that they're really drones that are attached to a cable
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it doesn't seem like that could work but it does and meanwhile um let's see and then the russia drone
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producers i don't know of how we know this um can make up to 15 number bubba uh uh this is long-range
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one so they'll make more than 30 000 and they'll make up to 2 million small tactical drones
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so what happens when there are so many drones that all the humans are killed the moment they walk
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outdoors because we're sort of there um apparently the ukrainian soldiers um if they're on the front
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line they can never go outside because they can't see the drones and the drones are pretty good at
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picking off anybody who walks outside so apparently there's a mental health problem on top of being
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on the front lines of you of the ukrainian war which sounds like a mental health problem by itself
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uh that you can never leave your little enclosure because the minute you walk outside they just kill
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you and i think that works both ways by the way i think i think the russians can't walk outside at all
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so what happens if if you add like another million drones to that
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2025 or maybe 2026 is going to be lit the entire sky over ukraine and russia are just going to be solid
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drones so it seems like their little cables would get mixed up
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well according to breitbart news oliver lane is writing that uh trump is going to threaten both
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russia and ukraine with sanctions uh if either of them don't get serious about making peace
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to which i say there can't be any sanctions left are you telling me that there are sanctions left
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that have not been used that are so good it would make them seek peace for the first time
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i don't believe that i'm gonna have to hear some examples of what those sanctions would be
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i don't believe that at all and even if they sound good on paper it's got to be the kind that are easy
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to thwart so it's going to be something like uh we're going to sanction the people who buy oil from
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russia and then we'll find out that 80 of the oil is bought by china and we don't want to sanction them
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because you know they'll sanction us and blah blah blah so i don't think we have anything
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my my best guess is we have no leverage whatsoever for uh at least on russia anyway so that's my take for today
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i think your uh elon and uh trump situation will work itself out um if what it does
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is it gets us serious about cutting the uh deficit where we have not been serious before
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then i would say that's a step forward but uh at least we're talking about it with a little more
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seriousness than we had before so i'm going to take the win on that uh not for me but for the country
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and that's all i got for you today so everybody else i'll see you tomorrow but if you're on locals i'm
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going to say goodbye to them privately in 30 seconds all right locals