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On today's show, Scott Adams talks about the mass shooting that took place in Minnesota, the No Kings protest, and the Iran situation. Plus, the hit of the day: the hit that makes everything better: coffee.
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Wow. So good. Let's see if we can get our comments going. And then we've got something.
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All right. Incredible. It's all working. Well, let's start with the big tragic story.
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As you know, there was a shooting in Minnesota. I guess targeted were four lawmakers, so state
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lawmakers. Two of them were killed. Two of them were wounded, husband and wife. And the man who did it
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is still at large. And he had a weird mask on that made him look like a bald man. Or made him look like
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me actually. But he looked like a policeman. Somehow he had a police car and a police outfit. And
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he used that as his entry for shooting four people. Two of them died. Now, of course, because we're all bad
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people, instead of thinking about the victims, which we should be thinking about, we think about the
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politics. And most of the news is obsessed with trying to figure out, is he a crazy leftist or a crazy
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right-wing guy? I'm going to go on record as saying I don't care. Because the damage is done.
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And he's crazy. You know, whether he's crazy left or crazy right, I'm not really keeping score that way.
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Yeah. Yeah. These are anecdotal. There's something wrong with that one person. And they may or may not
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have a coherent set of ideas. But trying to understand them, I don't know. It's probably not worth it.
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But we will look through all of his various indications to try to figure out, is he left or is he right?
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Because that would, I guess that would improve our political arguments? Is that what we need to worry
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about right now? Improving our political arguments? Well, he's definitely leaving a
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set of clues that could make you imagine and see it the way. So I'm not even going to guess
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if he's crazy left or crazy right. He is crazy. And he's on the loose. So watch out.
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What else? So yesterday, as you know, was the No Kings events. So all over the country, people made up
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signs and they marched, no kings, no kings in the United States. And it worked. I have to admit,
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I was skeptical at first. I was like, really? Do they need to do that? Is there any benefit from doing
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that? And sure enough, I woke up this morning and there were no kings. It worked.
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It worked. Man, you really don't expect that things will work that fast. But one day of marching and no
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kings, none at all. So good job. Millions of people have participated and did their affirmations.
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And it worked. There are no kings today. Ironically, there was a big 250th anniversary of the army military
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parade. What was it that the military did 250 years ago? Oh yeah, they got rid of our king.
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So they added no king march that was opposing the military parade, which was a celebration of the
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military getting rid of the king. So if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's no kings. It's the
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weirdest thing. You know, if the worst thing you have to worry about is that both the left and the right
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are adamant about having no kings, well, we're not doing too poorly. So we got that going on.
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The no kings protest was very large, but apparently it was completely overshadowed by the
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the tragedy of the four people who were shot. And so it just took it right out of the news, basically.
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So probably half of the energy got sucked up into a different news story, sadly.
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Um, but on top of that, it was the war in Iran. So, you know, if you're if you were planning a protest,
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you picked the wrong weekend. That was a very noisy, you know, news filled weekend. So sorry about that.
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Um, I guess, uh, at the no kings protest, according to the amuse account, some of them tried to
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storm the LA ice facility. Yeah. Where was that in Portland? And that didn't work out. So it was mostly
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under control. All right. It was the, they said it's the biggest, uh, single day anti Trump protest
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during the second administration. Well, it doesn't matter how big it is. It matters how much publicity
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it gets. And it didn't do well on the publicity. So I watched a little bit of the military parade.
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Um, I had a comment that I thought was just me until I saw a bunch of other people on social media.
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Did it seem to you like the marching was especially ragged?
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You know, it's not like, uh, it's not like I should be criticizing anybody in the military,
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but did anybody have that same impression? Like, hmm, I feel like they could march a little bit better
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than that. Well, I don't know what that was all about, but it was a robot dog or two.
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So it's the first military parade with robot dogs. Um, I liked the voiceover guy.
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So the parade would have been super boring, except there was a voiceover guy. And I assume you could
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hear him at the event or not just on TV, but he was, uh, giving context. You know, this, uh, this unit of
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historical soldiers did this or that, this unit did that. That was kind of, made it kind of interesting.
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Um, MSNBC, of course, had to cover it, but they wanted to make something negative of it.
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So here's how our MSNBC tried to spin a military parade that was celebrating the same military that
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got rid of our king and has protected us all these years. And, uh, they decided that the way to cover
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it was to claim that they can read Trump's mind. So MSNBC was this whole mind reader thing.
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We have read his mind and we have determined that Trump is not honoring the military.
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No, because they read his mind. There's no outward indication, you know, outwardly,
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it looks like he is honoring the military because every single outward symbol and all of his history
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and all of everything we know about him suggests he is honoring the military. So MSNBC read his mind
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and determined that really what he was doing was, uh, displaying a show of force to intimidate his
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Uh, was anybody watching the military parade and saying, Whoa, his, his political rivals are going to be
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afraid of these people dressed in, uh, uh, revolutionary war outfits, carrying muskets?
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Um, so that was just, that was a little bit crazy. Then, uh, then also in MSNBC, they tried to tie
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the, uh, the, uh, the military parade to Trump pardoning violence, uh, January Sixers and the
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So apparently the, instead of honoring the military, uh, MSNBC thought it was normalizing political violence.
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Uh, they had to reach pretty deep for that one. Um, and then there was, uh, uh, uh,
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uh, who escalate violent rhetoric. So yeah, they're worried about violent rhetoric.
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And then Jen Psaki, uh, Jen Psaki to the, uh, the ultimate crazy, crazy lady take. She said, uh,
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that what was really in Trump's head was not honoring the military, but it was his own birthday party.
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Uh, uh, uh, of the military, uh, of the military, uh, of the military, uh, of the army, I guess.
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Um, that that was a coincidence, but what was really in Trump's head was throwing himself a birthday party.
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Now, is it my imagination that that's not just a bad take?
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Anyway, and then one of the correspondents, Velci, I think,
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he said he was surprised that unlike the Trump rallies,
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that this military parade did not have, and they were surprised,
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it did not have a lot of dark, malevolent energy.
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What world are they living in that Trump is throwing himself a birthday party
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and he left out the dark, malevolent energy this time, I guess.
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Well, as Meggie Hemingway pointed out in a post the next,
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I'm pretty sure Democrat senators posting open hatred of the United States Army
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celebrating its 250th birthday is not going to help.
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into taking the side of the 20 in the 80-20 issue.
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Anyway, so John Fetterman did his Fetterman thing
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where he bucked the common thinking of the Democrats
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and, you know, he had an opinion that our Republicans would like.
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it's appropriate to celebrate the 250 years of sacrifice, dedication, and service.
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All right, well, let's talk about Israel and Iran.
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So, once again, there have been missiles and rockets and bombs exchanged.
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Eight people killed, four children, 200 injured, 35 still missing.
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So, we've got a number of things to say about that topic.
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So, see what you think about these four predictions.
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There will be no organic popular uprising that removes Iran's leaders.
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Now, I'm not saying there won't be a pretend popular uprising.
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You know, maybe some kind of organized thing that got organized by the U.S. or Israel or something.
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But I just don't believe the population of Iran is in the mood to gather on the streets and do a big protest and get rid of their leaders.
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And the reason for that is they're under attack.
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And I don't think that people under attack take the side of the attacker.
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And it's the attackers who would like the leadership to change.
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Now, I agree that it is very likely that there are a lot of Iranian citizens who also want the administration to change.
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But they might not have to do anything about it.
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They're probably saying, if I just wait, it might take care of itself, if you know what I mean.
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So, I don't think the – I wouldn't wait for the public in Iran to join the uprising.
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Number two, Iran will not return to the negotiating table and give up its nuclear ambitions.
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But the latest says that Iran is actually asking about returning to the negotiating table.
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However, even if they do return to the table, I believe that they would only stall and that it would be a tactic.
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I do not believe they would return to the table and legitimately say, you know what?
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Now, the reason for that is that they are publicly asking for negotiations.
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But what they're not saying is that they would be now willing to give up the one and only thing that was the sticking point, which was the nuclear program.
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If they really wanted to stop the bombing and they really planned to give up their nuclear ambitions, all they'd have to do is say, hey, let's go back to the negotiating table and we'll talk about our nuclear program.
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All they'd have to do is say it's on the table and that we could talk about it and then it would look different.
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So I'm going to say that they will just never give up their nuclear ambitions.
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Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
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She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.
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The insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.
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Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
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I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.
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I predict that Israel will not stop attacking until they have achieved everything they want.
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Now that leaves a little wiggle room because you and I can disagree on what it is they want.
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Or do they want to simply destroy the current nuclear program and go home?
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Or do they want to destroy Iran's ability to make any kind of military action anywhere?
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Or do they want to control the country with puppets?
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So we don't know what they want, but I can tell you for sure they're not going to go home until they get it.
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It's sort of the, if we're going to do this, we're going to do it all the way.
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And number four, I believe that Israel's prediction that it would be done in two weeks is not accurate.
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I don't know if it will take a month or two months or longer, but I don't know how they could be done.
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Anyway, apparently Elon Musk has activated Starlink in Iran because they lost their Internet.
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And I guess we're thinking that the public would be more organized against the leadership if they had the Internet.
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But again, I'm predicting that there will not be a massive, organic, popular uprising.
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Apparently now Israel's saying that U.S. involvement would be necessary to do what they need to do.
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Now, given that I already said they're not going to be done until they get everything they want.
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So, what is it exactly that only the American interaction could solve?
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Because if they had only said, there's just one thing we need, you know, we just need to bunker bust these two bunkers,
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then that would be limited and that we could argue whether that's a terrible idea or a great idea.
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But apparently Israel's just saying that U.S. involvement is necessary.
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He said that Trump would be justified in taking out the Fordow Nuclear Enrichment Facility.
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And if he doesn't, no question in my mind that he would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
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You don't get the Nobel Peace Prize by dropping a bunker buster bomb on your enemies.
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Trump recently told Netanyahu that the U.S. would consider striking that Fordow Nuclear Facility,
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if it were necessary to prevent Iran from requiring a nuclear weapon.
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Now, this is in the Times of Israel, so one source.
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Now, I saw a log-ish message on X from investor Bill Ackman,
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who's getting more involved in sort of international and national politics.
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And he's always interesting because he's got well-thought-out opinions.
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But he's got this, he's got an opinion on finishing the job,
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Israel doesn't have the equipment and armaments to complete the job,
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but we do, and it does not require boots on the ground.
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So, let me just sort of tweak your imagination.
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So, imagine, if you will, that the U.S. helps Israel destroy what's left of the nuclear facilities in Iran.
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Is it finishing the job when you replace the leadership?
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Because if we replace it, it would look like a puppet.
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And if they replace it, it would probably look like more hardliners.
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So, what exactly would look like finishing the job?
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Would it require dominating the country and essentially owning it forever?
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Would it, you know, like I said, the puppets wouldn't work and the hardliners don't work,
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because they would just reconstitute the risk to Israel.
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So, if you can't define what finishing the job looks like,
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and, you know, maybe some people have a specific idea,
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If you don't know what the end goal should look like.
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So, we've got a problem, which is, if we don't do anything,
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no matter how many years it takes them to reconstitute some kind of threat.
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So, I'm looking for a better idea than the ones that are out there,
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because, to me, it looks like every path leads to Iran reconstituting their threat,
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whether it's five years from now or ten years from now.
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Apparently, Iran was projected to have 8,000 ballistic missiles within two years.
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I guess the ballistic missiles are the ones that are hard to stop
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If we destroyed all of their ballistic missiles
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how long would it take them to rebuild at least
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but if you already know how to make ballistic missiles,
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it would take to rebuild the manufacturing to build them again
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So, what does it mean to finish off or finish the job?
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So, like I said, Iran has apparently tried to reach the United States
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through Oman and Qatar to mediate with Washington,
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which suggests that we don't have any kind of direct communication with Iran,
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Or is it because all of their leadership is in a don't communicate mode
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So, it might be that they have to be so careful about how they communicate
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that even if they could pick up the phone and just call Washington,
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they can't pick up the phone and just call Washington
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because they would get bombed within a minute and a half.
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So, it could be that they just have to go through this weird, circuitous route
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just so we can't track who it is who's even giving the instructions.
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So, I don't think Iran is 100% serious about negotiating,
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When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners,
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Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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So, I guess the prime minister of Cyprus says Iran has asked them
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That's the only way they can get to Israel is through Cyprus?
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Seems like they would have some kind of an email or something.
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It seems that at the very least they should be able to email Israel.
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So, Trump is reinforcing on his truth social that the U.S. had nothing to do with the attack.
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Do you believe that we had nothing to do with it?
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But it seems like we have such close, you know, military arrangements with Israel that in every case,
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we'd have some kind of indirect, you know, support, whether we intended it that way or not.
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Anyway, he says, the U.S. had nothing to do with the attacks on Iran tonight.
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If we are attacked in any way, blah, blah, blah, bad things will happen.
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According to an ex-post on Vizigrad 24, Israel destroyed the Shiraz Electronics Industry plant.
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That's the only place that, no, the largest producer of radar systems in Iran.
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Now, if Israel is targeting radar manufacturing plants in Iran, does that mean they're running out of better targets?
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Because that would be, you know, obviously I understand why they'd want to take out a radar manufacturing plant.
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But it wouldn't be on the top rung of targets, would it?
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Does that mean that they've already taken out all of the top level, like top priority targets?
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Everything they could shoot today or do radar today?
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Are they, just makes you wonder, did they get everything that's a higher priority?
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Even though I understand, you know, why they would want to target it.
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So, that's a little hint that maybe Israel got more than we thought.
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Of course, there's always a subplot with any kind of, whenever Israel's involved in any kind of military action,
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there's a subplot about which side is targeting the more civilians.
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So, Iran is apparently just indiscriminately targeting civilian areas.
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Israel is doing their usual thing, which is trying hard to hit military targets and avoid civilian stuff.
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But, of course, it's a war, so civilians will inevitably, you know, be hurt.
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And one of my questions is, how accurate are Iran's missiles and drones?
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Can we say for sure that every time they hit an apartment building, they aimed for it?
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Or are they aiming for the city and they're lucky if they had anything?
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Now, in either case, you could argue that they're targeting civilians because they're not trying to miss civilians.
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But it matters a little bit if they have any control.
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So, I'm thinking the ballistic missiles probably are kind of accurate.
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And maybe the drones are accurate, but smaller payloads.
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So, I'm kind of curious about how much they can control.
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In either case, it's all bad and evil and it's war.
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Now, Tim Walsh made a provocative statement at some event.
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He said that maybe China will be seen as the only moral authority that would be able to talk peace with both Israel and Iran.
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Now, of course, we're all, you know, that's a red meat for the media.
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Now, I don't think any of us believe that China is morally superior to anyone else.
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But it might be true that China has not tried to make Israel or Iran an enemy.
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Now, from that point of view, if he would take out the moral part and just say from a practical perspective,
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it might be that China might be exactly the kind of entity that, you know,
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because it's not an enemy of either of them, maybe they can do something productive.
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But whenever I see Tim Walsh say anything positive about China,
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it makes me think about all the times he's visited.
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And it makes me think, I don't think that China encourages that many visits unless they're working that guy,
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you know, trying to turn that guy into an asset.
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And that doesn't mean he got flipped and he's any kind of a spy, although you never know.
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But then, you know, he just slips in a little thing about China having the moral authority to handle this big problem.
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And it makes you wonder, how much brainwashing did he get in all those many trips to China?
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You know, like China accomplished their goal of brainwashing Tim Walsh because he had enough trips over there.
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You know, if you do it, how many trips did he do?
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Well, yes, Trump and Vladimir Putin had a one-hour conversation by phone on Saturday, according to Just the News.
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And the outcome of their one-hour conversation is that they both agreed the war with Israel and Iran should end.
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And then Trump says, he feels as I do, this war in Israel and Iran should end, to which I explained his war should also end.
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Was one of them going to say, oh, we'd like that war to just keep on going?
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No, of course they want the Israel-Iran war to be end.
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But I think Putin had offered to help mediate the situation.
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And again, you know, I'm not going to say Putin is a moral authority.
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But as far as I know, Putin has a good relationship with both Israel and Iran, right?
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And Putin is talking about getting back to the negotiating table with Ukraine.
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It's hard to know if he's serious about that, but he said it.
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And she said this recently about the older established people in the Democratic Party.
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She says, it doesn't matter how much you work with them.
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They still will choose their old friends and an old generation every single time.
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I don't think you'll see Bernie Sanders go after the older ones because he is one of the older ones.
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Because it does seem like Bernie is one of the old ones, but not one of the old.
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But it doesn't look like the Democrats have a good plan to come together and beat the Republicans.
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It looks like they have a plan to fight with each other.
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So, Trump is already in Canada, I believe, for the G7, where the big seven economies get together.
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And it's sort of awkward because he's there on the same weekend as the No Kings event.
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So, Canada wanted to get in on this No Kings thing.
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So, it's also awkward because he wants to, you know, absorb Canada and the United States.
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According to also just the news, the curfews that have been put in place for LA, because there was a lot of unrest with the anti-ICE protests.
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And it accomplished everything they wanted, which was less trouble at night.
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So, what do people say when you do something that works?
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Now, that's kind of a fair question in this case.
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But if the best you have is, why didn't you do it sooner?
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You know, I hate to be the one who says, why didn't you do it sooner?
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So, it looks like the anti-ICE demonstrations wound down.
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But does that mean they'll just wind right back up again?
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Or was it like squeezing the toothpaste and now they just go later in other cities?
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So, does anybody think any of these alleged anti-Trump protests are anything but theater?
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None of it looks real or like it would have any kind of political impact.
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I think maybe the entire purpose of it is to make other people think they're a part of something important.
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So, they'll actually, you know, vote and act and cry and, you know, worry and shake and all that other stuff.
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So, most of the protests, I think, are propaganda and it's to make other people who are watching think there's more energy to get rid of Trump than there is.
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And if you notice that the people who want to get rid of Trump, they only have vague ideas of what it is that their problem is.
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It's like, well, he's going to steal my democracy and then they also talk about all the things he's already done to which I think, like what?
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He's done things that the courts have reversed, he's tried things that, you know, sometimes the court agrees on.
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But it doesn't look very authoritarian to me, and I love his answer to it, that he's far from a king because it's just hard to get anything done, which is a really good response.
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It is so hard for any president to get anything done that they're about as far away from being a king as you could possibly be.
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But apparently all of the very worried, mentally ill Democrats have been convinced that he's up to no good and he's stealing their democracy forever.
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I mean, there are definitely things that I don't love about what the administration is doing.
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But it's not very, it's not very dangerous looking.
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It seems all entirely, 100% pro-American, America first stuff.
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So, Trump is, the administration is looking at adding 36 more countries to the travel ban.
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A dozen have already been added, but they're looking at 36 more, mostly in Africa.
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The reasons for the bans are that the records from some countries are not dependable, so we can't tell what we're getting.
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And in some cases, you know, in some cases, there's a foreign terrorist threat.
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And in some cases, there are countries that have an unusual number of visa overstays.
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So, if there's a country where every time somebody comes in legally, they don't leave when it's time to leave, then they get on the list.
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Well, like everything else, if the court says he can't do it, then it won't happen.
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And if the court says he can do it, it just seems like he's protecting America.
00:48:06.800
So, you know, it's about as authoritarian as I'd want it to be.
00:48:14.360
Well, apparently, according to Newsmax, the administration is also dusting off this very long, dormant law, the Alien Registration Act, passed in 1940, which requires anybody who's not a citizen to register.
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And so, it gives the administration one more thing to charge somebody with, because if they're here illegally, there's a good chance they have not registered.
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I guess it's a misdemeanor, and they could have six months in jail or a $1,000 fine.
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And they're supposed to register and get fingerprinted.
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So, it's sort of an add-on, just to make it more uncomfortable to be here illegally.
00:49:06.120
So, I think the Trump administration admits that the purpose of it is to essentially, you know, persuade the undocumented immigrants.
00:49:20.920
Well, in completely different news, there was a study to show who the best tippers are by state, and California is named.
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Now, if there's one thing I'm getting tired of, it's that whenever California is in the news, it's always because we suck.
00:49:43.280
When was the last time you saw a story where, and then California was at the top of the list, better than all the states?
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It's beating all the states in, I don't know, education?
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So, here it is a story about the best and worst tippers.
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So, Delaware gave us the Biden family and really good tipping.
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Is it because of our demographic makeup, because we have a lot of non-citizens?
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So, I guess California just sucks at everything.
00:50:54.720
BBC reminds us that the world fertility is at dangerous levels basically everywhere.
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But they go on to say that the affordability of having children might be the main reason.
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You know, we spend time trying to think, well, why are birth rates going down everywhere?
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And we're thinking, oh, it's because testosterone is lower.
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And we're thinking it's because of the news or because of our devices or whatever.
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I think every country that has an affordability problem, they're just having fewer children.
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Somehow, having children has to become affordable.
00:52:02.140
If you can get rid of the daycare costs, it's not like the kids eat that much.
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But the other thing that is crazy expensive is if kids are involved in a lot of events, like organizations.
00:52:18.720
If you have a kid who's in a sport and they're good at that sport, they're traveling all over the place.
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And you've got to travel and sometimes you've got to spend the night and you've got to outfit them.
00:52:36.040
So, if you were to fix the schools so that kids are not being required to pay for all this extracurricular stuff,
00:52:48.560
and you could fix the daycare, which feels like it's flexible with some kind of a shared responsibility sort of thing.
00:53:08.700
I see in the comments, we spend $10,000 a year on sports.
00:53:14.920
And that's probably common if you have a few kids in sports.
00:53:20.160
Anyway, in other news, according to interesting engineering,
00:53:25.920
there's new passive cooling technology for data centers.
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Now, you might say to yourself, Scott, what could be less interesting than a new passive cooling center for data centers?
00:53:41.420
Well, one of the things I've been predicting is that we think we're going to run out of electricity for AI.
00:53:51.820
Because AI will require like, I don't know, a thousand times more electricity than we reasonably might have anytime soon.
00:54:01.400
But, as I've been telling you, I'll bet you there will be developments that reduce the amount of electricity you need.
00:54:14.700
Now, it's not that close to being implemented, but I'll give you a sense of what's possible.
00:54:19.840
So, it's a new fiber-based cooling technology that gives, well, let me start back here.
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Apparently, 40% of your electrical costs for a data center is cooling it.
00:54:36.920
40% is just keeping it at the right temperature.
00:54:40.360
So, if you could take that 40% and reduce it to 10%, you would save the equivalent of, you know, maybe 300 nuclear power plants.
00:54:54.140
I'm making that up, but it would be a big difference.
00:54:58.380
So, don't be surprised if you see a bunch of breakthroughs that make it easier to run AI on more, you know,
00:55:08.580
more power-sensitive equipment, and you see ways to cool data centers that we never thought of before.
00:55:18.120
So, I think the need for the electricity will be falling faster than we build electricity.
00:55:31.980
Anyway, apparently, also Newsmax is saying that ICE
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is largely going to pause its raids on farms and hotels and restaurants,
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and that's because Trump has agreed that in those industries,
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you've got a lot of people who have just been working for years and years,
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and if you got rid of them all at once, you'd be in real trouble.
00:56:01.740
So, I don't know how many of you agree with that,
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but I will tell you from the real-world perspective,
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replacing them would be way harder than you think.
00:56:18.920
You know, there's a reason that these industries are filled with,
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and it's because it's really hard to fill these jobs
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I do not want to be in the conversation about why that is.
00:56:46.960
If you know anybody who works in these industries,
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anybody who works in the farm, hotel, or restaurant industry,
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And, you know, I've thought about it a long time,
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but it would be massively disruptive to those industries.