Episode 2882 CWSA 06⧸29⧸25
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about a bunch of weird science, including a new study that says coffee is good for your mood, and a post about how Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media and then checked back with them later to see how happy they were.
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It's about time. Come on in. Take off your coat on the air conditioning, and we're going to have a show.
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The thing that makes everything better is called the simultaneous sip.
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I wonder if there's any new science that would suggest that drinking coffee is good for your health.
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There's new research from the Queen Mary University of London
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It says that caffeine can improve your cellular longevity and repair your DNA, and it activates your AMPK.
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So, yeah, it turns out that every time you sip with me, you get a little bit younger.
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I wonder if there's any other science that you didn't need to do because you could have just asked me.
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Apparently, according to Neuroscience News, there's a massive new analysis.
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Can you believe that in 2025, somebody apparently got some kind of funding to do research to find out if exercise is good for children?
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So, specifically, they're looking at anxiety and depression.
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And a big surprise, when children exercise, they have less anxiety and less depression.
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Yeah, I think you could have saved a little bit of money on that one.
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Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media.
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And then they checked back with them later to see how happy they were that they quit social media and got paid for it.
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Now, again, do you think there was any chance that you were going to pay somebody to not look at their social media for a little bit?
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And they were going to come back and say, oh, no.
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Oh, turns out I was very sad that I didn't get to look at my social media.
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And by the way, there's something that I was going to say, oh, no, no.
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And by the way, there's something deeply wrong with this kind of research.
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Because obviously, obviously, the people in the research study were completely aware that the reason they were being paid to quit social media
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is so that somebody could study what their mood was, if you did that with anything, you would find a 5% or 6% improvement in mood.
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You could be like, all right, we're going to remove one of the chairs that you don't use at your kitchen table.
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So we're going to remove it from the room, and we're going to come back, and we're going to, yeah, after paying you to be allowed to remove that chair.
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And in a month, we're going to measure whether you're in a better mood.
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Well, based on everything I know about scientific studying, you would convince yourself that removing that chair made you happier.
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Because you would know that they were measuring whether you were happier.
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And that would be enough for some percentage of people to imagine they were happier.
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So if people know you're measuring their happiness before and after a thing, I believe there's even a name for this.
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Or is that only for, there's something like that for business productivity?
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If you're measuring the productivity in the business, and you make any change whatsoever, productivity goes up.
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So if he said, I'm going to study whether changing the light bulbs increases productivity.
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If people know you're studying it, they just sort of turn it into that thing.
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According to a post on X by the World of Statistics,
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the average U.S. adult wakes up in a bad mood 300 times a year.
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How many of you wake up in a bad mood almost every single day?
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Do you know how many times I've awakened in a bad mood in my entire life?
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Did you ever see some kind of a problem that you know a lot of people have?
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You know, like if you had some strange, I don't know, fetish or something illegal
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or, you know, you were drug addicted or something.
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that the average U.S. adult wakes up in a bad mood 300 times a year.
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Every single day of my entire life that I can recall.
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You know, like, you know, terminal illness and stuff like that.
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So, by the way, if you haven't heard of the update,
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I'm on for my terminal cancer problem that was likely to end me this month.
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In California, you have the right to end your own existence.
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If you have a terminal illness, you get a couple of doctors to certify it and all that.
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I've even ordered the medicine that you eventually drink to end your life.
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But that was based on the fact that in the month of May,
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I mean, I had pain like I've never felt before all over my body.
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And so, I had sort of internally planned, you know, but wasn't telling the world,
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that I needed to get past my stepdaughter's wedding and reception.
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I was planning literally to take my own life today.
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At the end of, you know, it might be tomorrow, but at the end of June.
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But what happened instead is that I started taking some hormone blockers.
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So, completely surprising me, I didn't realize that that would also remove all of my pain.
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So, you know, last night I'm swimming in my pool and playing ping pong and walking around.
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You know, my legs are a little bit wobbly because I couldn't walk for about five months.
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But at the moment, my PSA levels have dropped 90% in just a few weeks.
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So, just a few weeks after taking this very expensive new testosterone blockers, the number one indicator of how you're doing and how long you're going to last if you have prostate cancer that's metastasized, as I do, that PSA number is like the big one.
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I mean, it was through the roof, and it's still way too high.
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So, do I feel like I'm on borrowed time, got a little extra?
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Just harking back to our earlier conversation, even with terminal cancer that I thought was going to end, you know, within a few weeks, I still never woke up in a bad mood.
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I don't know how long it'll last, but it would be within the realm of possibility that, you know, we could add a year or two.
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But the drug I'm on is known not to work long term.
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So, it's usually two or three years, and then your body acclimates to the drug, and then it stops working.
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So, I don't have a plan for after that, but at the moment, eh, looks like I got some borrowed time.
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Trump is blessing what he calls a fake news media for suggesting that he has some kind of plan to give Iran $30 billion to restart their domestic nuclear power program.
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And Trump wants you to know that that never has been real.
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But the news was not that Trump was going to do it.
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The news was that there were some other countries that might be willing to be part of that.
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So, not that the U.S. was ever going to give any money to Iran.
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So, you know how you and everybody else in the world said, if all the businesses are moving out of these big buildings, but yet rents are too high for individuals who want to, you know, just have a living space,
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isn't the most obvious fix, that you convert some of the empty office space, like in New York City, there's lots of it, that you convert it into living space.
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And then rents will go down because, you know, there's a greater supply compared to the demand, etc.
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However, according to the Wall Street Journal, Carol Ryan is writing that there have been some recent developments that have made that now economical.
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So, in New York City, there are actually office buildings that are successfully being turned into residential.
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Well, apparently New York City has some kind of a law now that if you do that, if you change your business space into residential,
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you'll get a 90% property tax exemption for up to 35 years.
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And then, let's see, Carol Ryan writes that around 16% of New York City offices are empty versus 1.4% of apartments.
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So, there's a lot more empty office space than there is empty residential, which, you know, tells you about your supply and demand there.
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And what's happened is a lot of the owners of the office buildings were kind of optimistically holding on.
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They knew their building was empty, but they were kind of thinking, well, maybe it's only a year, and then people will come back, and we'll be glad we held on to it.
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But now enough time has gone by that people who own those buildings, for a variety of reasons, are saying, all right, we're going to let it go for pennies on a dollar.
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So, the new developer can buy a building for 20 cents on the dollar, convert it to residential, and then have this property tax exemption for 35 years.
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There's only one thing that could turn this into a bad deal again.
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What's the one thing that could turn that into a bad deal?
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So, apparently, the rent control and the socialist mayor would once again make it, could, could, not guaranteed,
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but could make it uneconomical to create all this new residential property that would have been lower in cost.
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So, there's your socialist mayor situation for today.
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So, you know, I've been speculating that Iran's supreme leader,
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whose name is either Khamenei or Khamenei, or something like that.
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I've told you that I don't believe he's still in charge.
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He probably got put in a bunker for his own protection during the Israel attack.
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And they probably took his phone away for his own protection during the same time.
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And probably, it was the military who was in control of keeping him safe,
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which means that his closest civilian advisors and supporters wouldn't even have access to him.
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They wouldn't be able to see him because he'd be in the bunker.
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Now, under that situation, I speculated that it would be a very small, small effort
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to simply pretend the supreme leader was in charge,
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but for the military leader to actually be in charge.
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the military leader could say, sure, I'll take care of it.
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So, so then Khamenei did that video, which was sort of generic.
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It's like, oh, we won the war and really didn't say much.
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And that was supposed to prove he was still alive and running the country.
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So, it was posted in Farsi, but Grok gives me the translation.
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And you tell me, if this sounds like the tone and the vibe of a supreme leader
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who just went through a terrible war, does it sound like him?
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Now, it sounds like, you know, something in the same sort of domain a little bit.
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But I've read enough of the expos from, you know,
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when the supreme leader was presumably actually in charge.
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I believe that if you ran a, some kind of a writing analysis, you know, in Farsi,
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you wouldn't want to do it on the interpretation.
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But if you use AI to look at his prior posts and then just analyze the writing style
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This looks very much like somebody else wrote him a little post there.
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So I'm going to, I'm going to double down on my prediction that the supreme leader
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And that, that probably has something to do with what the ceasefire is holding.
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Because the crazy old 86 year old leader probably would have never surrendered.
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But he gets to say this, you know, on acts where nobody cares.
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Well, apparently a congressman named Eric Burleson was, is being credited for saying that Trump
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was briefed on some kind of alien encounters and how many different types of aliens are walking
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So just know that there's new flare up of aliens.
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Some of them allegedly are tall Nordic looking aliens.
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Some are little grays and some are human hybrids.
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And it's not true that the president was briefed by this congressman about it.
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Well, did any of you see Michael Smirconish on CNN talking about Trump's first six months
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Well, I've told you a number of times that Smirconish is the most unbiased person on CNN, which is
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He can only have one show a week because he's too unbiased.
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And he decided yesterday, I guess it was, to do what was a six-minute description of all
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the wins that Trump has had that are impressive.
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Now, if I told you that CNN was talking about all the wins that Trump had, would you think
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Would you expect that when he was done talking about all the wonderful things that Trump has
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done, that that would be sort of the end of the segment?
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Or would you expect that they would say, but he's becoming an authoritarian dictator, Hitler,
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so even though he got some wins, the country is in terrible shape and we're all going to
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Wouldn't you expect that from the regular CNN coverage or MSNBC?
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He just told you all the things that Trump got right.
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And that includes the Iran-Israel ceasefire, bringing the border crossings down to basically
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zero, inflation being under control, a whole bunch of companies bringing investments into
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America for manufacturing, real wage growth for blue-collar workers increased more than
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it has, I guess, in a long time, NATO funding going from barely 2% to 5%, which probably protects
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us quite a bit if they're spending more on their defense.
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Trade deals with China, maybe India pretty soon, and then the Supreme Court wins, and I may
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If the only thing that Trump got right was the things that Smirconish mentioned, and he got
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all that done in six months, and that's not even counting, you know, brokering the Republic
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of the Congo versus Rwanda war, he ended one of the biggest wars in the world, and that was
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just sort of a, you know, a sidebar for what he's been up to in the last six months.
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So, I give credit to Smirconish for telling the truth, which he does.
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But CNN allowed him to air it, and to me, that feels like a big deal.
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Anyway, and the White House has issued a holiday fuel price reminder that apparently, according
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to Newsmax, it's reporting this, but according to the White House, gas will be the cheapest
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Now, you might say, but, but, that's just the White House saying that, but apparently the
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It will be the, on average, your, your state might differ, but on average, cheapest gas
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That wasn't even on Smirconish's list, which was also solved.
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So, I guess, I guess inflation covers gas and eggs, but we talked so much about gas and eggs
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that it feels like that's worth a separate call-out.
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There's a story on OAN, Brooke Mallory is writing about this, that there's this chief economist
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called Torsten Sluck, who apparently had originally said bad things about Trump's tariff plan, and
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like many economists said that Trump's tariff plans, this would have been a few months ago
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before we knew what was going to happen, were bad for the economy.
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And he has now done a 180, and he's called a leading Wall Street economist.
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And he now admits that the, that Trump may have, quote, outsmarted all of us with his trade policies.
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But he acknowledged that, you know, the uncertainty was maybe bad for the economy temporarily.
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But at the moment, things look a lot more, let's say, transparent, and we've got a much
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better idea where things are going or how bad it can get.
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And it sort of looks like, according to this highly respected Wall Street economist, he thinks
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that everything is going to be fine with the tariffs.
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And it might produce $400 billion of annual revenue for U.S. taxpayers.
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Although they might be eating some of that, because the tariffs are paid by the U.S. company
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But if the U.S. company doing the importing says, I'm not going to buy your high-priced stuff,
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I might go somewhere else, then the foreign entity that's providing it might have to say,
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You know, you eat some of it, we'll eat some of it, and we'll both stay in business.
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So it's probably, you know, a combination, but it would add $400 billion to annual revenues.
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Engadget is reporting that Trump is reportedly getting ready for a bunch of new executive orders
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And I think these orders have something more to do with power generation,
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But it will be removing some regulations and red tape that would stop AI
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and stop energy production for the AI data centers.
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make it easier for power generating projects to connect to the grid.
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Trump is doing so well that even one of the main people on CNN is praising him.
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And he ran out of time to mention all the good things that are happening.
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He just ran out of time because they don't have all day to talk about it.
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a lot of the California Democrat donors are having a tough time
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because they're looking at the possibility of Kamala Harris running for governor.
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And do you know what they think of Kamala Harris running for governor?
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Well, it's being called, quote, a complete shitstorm.
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And donors are telling Politico that Harris' 2024 campaign for president was, quote,
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The people on our own side are calling her pathetic and traumatizing.
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And somebody else said, these are all anonymous, of course.
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Kamala just reminds you, we are in this complete shitstorm.
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I'm a California Democrat who had contributed a bunch of money, he said.
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I think Harris did the best she could in that situation.
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But obviously, she knew about the cognitive decline, too.
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I've written so many checks because I knew the Trump administration would be horrible.
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But we've lived in a nightmare because the Democrats are furious at them, truly.
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What exactly is the Trump nightmare that they're talking about?
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Is there a reason that Smirkanish hasn't heard about the nightmare you're experiencing?
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Did somebody knock on your door in the middle of the night and ship you off?
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Did somebody raise your taxes or become an authoritarian leader?
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Is there something happening I don't know about?
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Other than the national debt, which, of course, would have been a tragedy no matter who was in charge.
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How long can they keep going with the idea that we're living in some kind of a hellscape
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Now, I do get that there would be individual people with individual situations
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But if you were to look at the average, just how the country's doing sort of in general,
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I'm not saying that the government's decisions and policies haven't created a burden on some people
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But on average, do you think other countries are looking at the United States and saying,
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So it's amazing that they can keep that fantasy in their head that somehow we're surviving this horrendous Trump situation
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I mean, it's not just that I'm biased and that I like the things that his administration's doing in general.
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But I feel like I would see it even if the pain were largely on other people.
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In the weirdest news, Axios is reporting that Trump is pressuring Israel to stop the what I guess he would think is lawfare
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So Netanyahu is standing trial, and I guess this is going on for years now
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He was being charged with, allegedly, accepting more than $200,000 in gifts from wealthy businessmen
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and granting regulatory benefits worth hundreds of millions of dollars
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to a telecom tycoon exchange for favorable news coverage.
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Now, I don't know about the evidence for any of that stuff,
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but apparently Trump is threatening that American funding for Israel could be cut
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if they keep going after Netanyahu through the courts,
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Is the American president really trying to strong-arm the judicial system in Israel?
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The thing that's amazing is not that he's trying to do it,
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you know, because Trump's pretty unpredictable,
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and he tries things that we think are impossible.
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But realistically, he's doing this as publicly as you possibly could.
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well, you know, it's been four years, and we've got all this evidence,
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but now that we know that Trump doesn't want it to happen,
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and he might put some pressure on funding for Israel,
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Because it doesn't feel like something that could happen in the world I live in.
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But, you know, but I'm also open to Trump doing the Kobayashi Maru,
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you know, as in the thing that nobody thought was possible.
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How many of you think that Trump could make a difference
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in the Israeli judicial system trial of Netanyahu
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and it also makes you wonder why Trump is that invested.
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Now, I know he's had a good working experience with Netanyahu,
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and Netanyahu seems to be willing to give Trump maximum credit,
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Or do you think there's some other agreement or understanding,
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or maybe there's something else he wants to accomplish?
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Because Trump would love, I mean, let me just speculate.
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So Trump is probably pushing hard to get a relatively rapid agreement on Gaza.
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It seems reasonable to me to assume that he's pushing Israel
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Now, maybe Trump thinks that the only way he can get that done soon
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And that would be reason enough to try to keep him in office, I suppose.
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and then he were to, let's say, in just a few weeks,
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get something like a ceasefire in Gaza with some framework of how to go forward there,
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that would make Trump unambiguously a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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But more importantly, he would go down in history as one of the,
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one of the most effective presidents of all time.
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So it could be that Trump is just trying to roll up the wins,
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and he's got so many wins and so many more that he could get
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that he really wants this Gaza thing and wants it fast.
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And I've told you before that winning fixes a lot of stuff.
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So if Trump gets a bunch of wins that everybody sees as wins,
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So he's doing a bunch of stuff that it would be hard to criticize,
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But if he pulls in Gaza and gets something that looks even a little bit like it's,
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We don't know what's going to happen for the next three and a half years,
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but wow, that would be the best six months any president ever had.
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Anyway, let's talk about the one big, beautiful bill.
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So I, like most of you, do not understand all the processes in the Congress and Senate,
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but apparently the Senate has voted to move along the big, beautiful bill.
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How many times do they vote to move it forward in the Senate?
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Either you're for it or against it, but I don't know how this works.
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But it's simply, there was a vote, and I think they only managed to be like one vote extra.
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It's just sort of moved along to the next stage, and they did a vote on it.
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I guess Rand Paul and one other person said no on it.
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So I went to Grok to try to figure out what's in the big, beautiful bill,
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because I first of all wondered, how many topics are there?
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And there's something like 25 topics, meaning separate, you know, budgetary policy changes.
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And then within the topics, you know, there might be several things that happen.
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So we're talking about, I don't know, a hundred different things.
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And then I was trying to understand what's happening with Medicaid.
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So Medicaid is what the states are spending on people who can't afford their own insurance, I guess.
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So apparently what's happening is the Republicans were looking for a way to cut the budget,
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which would necessarily mean cutting Medicaid, because that's a big part of the budget,
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but make it look like they're not cutting the budget.
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So they can say, we didn't do anything to Medicaid.
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So they're coming up with, it sounds like some real weasel ways to do it.
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The Senate bill proposes reducing the state-imposed tax on Medicaid providers.
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That would be like hospitals and nursing homes.
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And the federal bill would lower their taxes from like 6% to around 3%.
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Now, first of all, why does the federal government get to tell the states what they can and cannot tax in their own state?
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Isn't that totally non-obvious that the federal government could tell them to not tax as much?
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Why would the federal government tell the states to tax their own citizens less?
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Apparently, the existing law says that the feds will match whatever money is raised by the state.
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So if they can force the state to raise less money for their own Medicaid, from their own state,
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then the federal government won't have to match it.
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Is that what you wanted your senators to do for you?
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To strong-arm the states to cripple their money-raising ability for Medicaid
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so that they would have an excuse when they matched it to say,
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But when you're listening to your favorite Republican tell you that they're not cutting Medicaid,
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Now, there are also cuts to take away Medicaid for non-citizens.
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Now, you might say to me, but Scott, that part I like.
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But this other matching funds thing, that is so sketchy.
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And this just happens to be the one thing I chose to look at.
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They can't just cut a budget and say, sorry, we don't have any money.
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It was Tom Tillis who was the one who voted against it with Rand Paul.
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So then Senator Schumer decides that, you know, now that the Republicans have something that's close to a positive vote,
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that he's going to use his persuasion skills to argue against it.
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Now, if you've been listening to me for a while, you know that Chuck Schumer has no persuasion skills.
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He is completely pathetic when it comes to all things persuasion.
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I mean, he's really bad, as bad as I've ever seen.
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I don't know if I've ever seen anybody worse, honestly.
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So what would you do if you wanted to argue against it?
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He says, I objected to stop Republicans moving forward on their big, ugly bill until they read every single word of it to the American people.
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So he said he was going to force the chamber to read it out loud.
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So last I checked, the staff had been reading for nine hours.
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So they're having the lower level staff literally read the bill out loud where they're just monotoning it.
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And then the level will turn, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And then page three, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And it's not really the senators who were in charge anyway.
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But now Schumer thinks he's got the wind because he made them read it to the American public.
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And if they listened, would they have understood like that Medicaid matching dollar amount trick?
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Instead of coming up with better policy ideas and saying, you know, if it were our bill, we would have done this instead of this and this instead of this.
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Now, to be fair, you know, Rand Paul and Thomas Massey and lots of people complain about the process.
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The process of something gets dumped on the Congress or dumped on the public with no time to review it.
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That's a fair criticism because it comes from both sides.
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But if he's focusing on the process, he is losing.
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If your job is to persuade for your side, the Democrats, going after the process just sort of never works because people aren't really invested in the process.
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Like, you don't hear, oh, they should have given them more time.
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And you're like, oh, I'm going to go to the streets.
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So, he talks about trying to stop Trump and stop the Republicans.
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He doesn't tell you what they would do that's better.
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Over on CNBC, there was a Bitcoin guy, a big advisor, financial advisor, Rick Edelman, who thinks that people should hold 10% to 40% of their investments in cryptocurrencies.
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He says the old way of having 60% of your portfolio in stocks and 40% in bonds, that just doesn't work anymore.
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So, if you didn't have your money in stocks, you wouldn't make enough to, you know, last that long.
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But now he's saying that 10% to 40% of your total portfolio should be in cryptocurrencies.
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That's just, and it's more like a reaction or a feeling.
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Because I don't know what your U.S. dollar will be worth or what your house will be worth.
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But in all likelihood, Bitcoin will keep churning along.
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If we're guaranteed, I'd say put 100% in Bitcoin.
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Don't take my advice, because I'm not a financial advisor.
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And if you did, you'd probably feel sorry for it.
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But if you were going to do your own research and talk to your AIs and your financial advisors,
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I would ask them what percentage should be in cryptocurrencies, specifically probably Bitcoin.
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I saw a video of him talking about the story you've already heard.
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That allegedly, the FBI was aware of a plot in which China was allegedly, two allegedly's in this,
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trying to influence the 2024 election with fake voter ballots.
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Now, in order to get those fake voter ballots, allegedly, they were going to use fake driver's licenses.
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And then that would allow them to get the fake ballots.
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And then, allegedly, presumably, they would make those votes for Biden, because they had some, allegedly, possibly,
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some blackmail over him because of Hunter Biden's, you know, activities in China and getting money from China.
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So, then, as the story goes, and Tom Fenton reminds us, the FBI, according to Kash Patel,
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the FBI decided not only to drop it, but also to tell people to delete references to it on their computers.
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Does it happen often that the FBI will say, we've got these allegations we need to look into,
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then later follow up with, not only is it not real, but we want you to delete it from your devices.
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I've never heard of that in any other context, but maybe it's something they do in the FBI.
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But, as Tom Fenton points out, the FBI was aware that there was some confirmatory evidence,
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which is that, I guess, the FBI, or at least law enforcement,
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found 20,000 fake U.S. driver's licenses that did seem to come from China.
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Now, do you think that it's a coincidence that China had 20,000 fake driver's licenses,
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and there was also an alleged blot to use driver's licenses to get fake ballots?
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And it seems like it would be the biggest story in the world if we knew for sure that these were connected.
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But, boy, it doesn't feel like they're connected.
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But I would say probably it's just short of being so confirmed that you just treat it as a fact.
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So, I'm not yet, not yet going to treat it as a fact.
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Next, do you remember when it was either Project Veritas or OMG
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had the producer from CNN saying that they were going to pivot to talking nonstop about climate change?
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And that it was a, you know, a corporate decision that they would just nail this climate change stuff all day long?
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Do you see CNN and or MSNBC talking nonstop about climate change?
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But, usually, it'd be like a guest mentions it in passing.
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I feel like the news business has finally given up on climate change.
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I don't see the things that people don't send to me and I don't notice on my own.
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But, it seems to me that there's an awful lot of evidence, including the Washington Post,
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saying that the temperature has fluctuated for all of Earth's history, with or without people.
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And then, the, you know, there's stuff like the ice is not as bad as you thought it would.
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And the storms don't seem as bad as they predicted.
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And, while it does seem like maybe the temperatures are going up, it's not as obvious that that's bad for anything.
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So, does it seem to you like climate change hasn't gone away, but that the people who are promoting it have lost confidence in their own story?
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They might still think it might be true, or even probably true.
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But, now that we've watched, you know, the complete destruction of all scientific bullshit,
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I think even Democrats are saying to themselves, you know what?
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We've been lied to quite a few times, and the lies always look like this.
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Well, I like to end any climate change conversation or post-docs by saying the following.
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There will be people who do the climate models to say, okay, I got to confess.
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Just by changing my assumptions, which they can.
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So, I guess Maria Bartiroma is interviewing Trump probably right now while I'm talking.
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But, there was a teaser for that interview in which Maria asked Trump, does he think that Iran might have hid some of the uranium before the attacks on Fordow and the other sites?
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Trump says, no, that they did not have time or ability to move the uranium because he says, first of all, it's hard to move and it's heavy.
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There's an estimate that they may have 800 pounds of enriched uranium.
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But, the estimate was at one point they had 800 pounds.
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And I say to myself, is it really hard to move 800 pounds?
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And it's not like all 800 pounds is in one big barrel, right?
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It would be a number of different containers, each of them with, I don't know, if I had to guess, 50 to 100 pounds a piece.
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But there would be, you know, multiple containers.
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Are you telling me that the entire nation of Iran can't figure out how to move 800 cumulative pounds when it's in 50 to 100 pound units?
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And there's no such thing as a truck that can handle 100 pounds?
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Even if they didn't move all of it, wouldn't they take the stuff that was, you know, 60, enriched to 60?
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But we'll take that 100 pounds because that's what you would build a bomb from.
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And the fact that we did not see them move, I don't know what that's worth.
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Because there must be things that they do that we don't see.
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And then Trump said that they wouldn't have had notice.
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They didn't know the exact day that Ford out was going to get taken out.
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But they knew that was the, you know, it was like the main theme of the war.
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Remember, I guess it was yesterday I was telling you, there was a news story that I thought was low credibility.
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They said that Iran had offered to give up their uranium to other countries in return for a yellow cake that they could use for domestic nuclear power.
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Well, I haven't seen any confirmation that Iran says they still have any uranium.
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So I'm going to say that that story was almost certainly fake.
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I think the operation that the U.S. did to take out Fordow and the other sites was amazing and as successful as you could possibly be when you have specific targets.
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The only open question is, did Iran do something that we don't know about?
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But I do agree with Trump that if they decided to go hard at reinvigorating their nuclear program, that we would know.
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And Trump says he would absolutely, quote, absolutely bomb Iran again if needed.
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So even if they had some uranium, what are the odds that they would try to weaponize it?
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I would say it would be a really bad bet at this point to try.
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So I think Trump probably did get a good outcome.
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I would say the odds are very good that he got a lasting outcome.
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Well, RFK Jr. is talking about how teen boys today have lower testosterone than their grandfathers.
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You've heard this before, but it's shocking every time I hear it.
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He said, when my uncle was president, we spent zero on chronic disease in this country.
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He said, today we spend $1.7 trillion and rising.
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And the expense is rising faster than our economy.
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He says, it's an existential threat to our country in every way.
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75% of American kids cannot qualify for military service.
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If I had to guess, you know, just sort of thinking about my classmates and stuff,
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I would guess that 75% would qualify, and maybe only 25% wouldn't.
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75% of kids would not qualify for military service?
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And fertility rates are plummeting, as you know.
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And according to RFK Jr., who certainly has looked into it, he says that American boys
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have half of the testosterone of 65-year-old men and half the sperm count.
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So, I guess my testosterone blockers are just ahead of the game.
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