Episode 2912 CWSA 07⧸30⧸25
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Coffee with Scott Adams is the highlight of human civilization, and it's the best thing that ever happened to you. In this episode, he talks about a tsunami that almost destroyed his building, and how he managed to survive it.
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Best sip of the day, because it was simultaneous. Well, I wonder if there's any science they
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could have skipped just by asking me instead. Oh, here we are, Eric Dolan writing for a
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Psy post. Here's the headline. Heightened sexual desire reduces the sex difference in prioritizing
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attractiveness in long-term romantic partners, a study finds. Let me translate that into English.
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People who are sexually attracted to each other have a better chance for a long-term relationship.
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Were you aware that people like to spend time with people they're sexually attracted to, and that they
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will forgive any number of horrible behavior characteristics if they're sexually attracted?
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Did anybody know that? Well, you didn't have to do a study. You could have just asked me.
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The big news last night, you probably all know, there was a gigantic earthquake off the coast of Russia,
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up in that sort of North Korea kind of area of the world. And it's at the Kamchatka Peninsula on the
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Pacific coast. And it was 8.8 or maybe 8.9. It was maybe the fifth, they think it might be the fifth
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strongest earthquake ever recorded globally. And of course, there was a tsunami risk,
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which kept me up a little bit late last night watching to see if anybody I know is going to die
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in a watery grave. So that wasn't good. All right, I have to tell you the story.
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No, I guess I can't tell you the story. Yeah, I won't tell you because someone else is involved.
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But I will tell you that I have been in Hawaii when a tsunami was coming. And that was the one that hit.
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So that was how long ago? Maybe eight years ago, 10 years ago, something like that. And we did not
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evacuate. This was my first marriage. We didn't evacuate even though we were right on the beach
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because we were in the seventh floor. And they said if you're above, I don't know, three floors or
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something. Don't evacuate. It'll just make it harder on everybody else in the traffic. So we couldn't see
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it because it was pitch black. But it happened. I mean, it was right below us. There was a pretty
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significant tsunami. But it did not destroy the building. It just made it hard to get food the next
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day. But I lived. We all lived. Well, Jennifer Aniston, as a new boyfriend, he is a hypnotist.
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So the news wants me to know that Jennifer Aniston is dating a hypnotist. Now, I had to look up to see
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what he looked like because I thought to myself, is it possible that an ugly guy used his hypnosis
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skill to get Jennifer Aniston as a girlfriend? But no, it turns out he's crazy handsome. He's got
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all his hair. He looks like he's tall. He's handsome. Imagine being handsome and tall and having all of your
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hair. And being an hypnotist. Do you think anybody ever says no to that guy?
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He would be terrible for advice on dating. You'd go to him as a hypnotherapist. I guess he's a
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hypnotherapist. And you'd say, can you help me with dating? Because when I approach women,
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they always say no. And he would say, can't help you with that because no woman has ever said no to
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me. Oh, anyway. So I'm in the process of getting ready to reissue my book that was part of my
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cancellation, Loser Think. You can't buy it yet. If you see this book that looks this color,
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and you see it on Amazon for sale, it's either a counterfeit or a used one because it's canceled.
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You cannot buy it. But people liked it a lot and they said, you should reissue that. So I'm working
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with Joshua Lysak to do independent publishing like I did with the other books behind me. And
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we're at the point where I needed to do one read through to look for, you know, any copy edits or
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last minute things we needed to adjust. And I thought to myself, hey, I'm going to use AI to copy edit the
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manuscript. So I just take a copy of the digital file and I put it into Grok. I think I used four.
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Or was four not working last night? I can't remember. Four was down for a while. So it might have been
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three. And then I asked it to look for errors in spacing or, you know, typos and stuff. And it came
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back with this long list of errors, except they were all hallucinations. There wasn't a real one on the
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list, I don't think. They were all fake. And they were very specific, too. It would say this word on
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this page, you've got an extra space in it. And it would even show me the word with the extra space.
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That word was not on that page. And nor were any of the other suggestions. An entire, you know,
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bullet point list, they probably had 40 or 50 items. They were all hallucinated. Wow.
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Anyway, so in a few months, you'll be able to buy that book, the second edition. But it will look
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different from that cover. So don't get that old orange one, burnt orange one. Elon Musk
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says he's going to tell his AI to stop using the word researcher and instead use the word engineer.
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Because he says that the false nomenclature of researcher, in quotes, and engineer,
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this is a thinly masked way of describing a two-tier engineering system is being deleted from
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X's AI today. There are only engineers, he says. Now, I don't know if I've
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agreed totally with that, because I'm not really up on this topic so much. But I will tell you,
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as the creator of Dilbert, there are only engineers. Sometimes I believe that engineers are the only
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people that make a difference. And if you have good engineers, your country will be fine. If you have
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a lot of them. That's what I think. I like my engineers.
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So we've all been watching the Sydney Sweeney, the actress who's unusually attractive,
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doing the commercial for American Eagle, the jeans. And she acts intentionally sexy.
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And of course, everybody's up in arms about it, because we're a very woke place.
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Anyway, so the left has apparently attacked it for being a white supremacist.
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All it was was a sexy young woman trying to sell some pants. And that's all it took for the left to
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say. White supremacy. White supremacy. All right. Great. Some thought that the campaign was tone deaf,
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because can't you see all the white supremacy you're putting into it? No.
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But others say that Sydney Sweeney killed woke advertising, because she proved, apparently the pants
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sold out. So she proved that pairing an attractive woman with a product might sell more product.
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Again, you could have just asked me. Just asked me. I would have told you that.
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Believe it or not, South Park has a extended scene where one of their characters plays Charlie Kirk.
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So, and I didn't listen to all of it. Maybe some of you did. I just listened to a
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clip that I saw. It looked like it was cut off. But the part I saw was not making fun of Charlie Kirk.
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It was Charlie Kirk as one of their characters making fun of the person that was opposing Charlie Kirk.
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Do I have that right? Did they fully embrace Charlie Kirk on South Park? I'm not positive that
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I may have missed part of it because it was edited. Well, I don't know. But I will tell you that the fact
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that South Park has sort of given some attention to Charlie Kirk, it does tell you things are changing.
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So here are some data points we'll go through today. We've got Cindy Sweeney proving that wokeness
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doesn't sell products as well as just common sense, which is if you pair some attractive people with
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your product, people will pay attention. Then Charlie Kirk, instead of being mocked, which you would expect
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from any kind of entertainment vehicle. Nope. Looks like they're fully embracing him as a smart debater
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of important topics. And then, of course, there's the Colbert story. But Trump has once again decided he
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wants to dance on the grave of Colbert, at least the show's grave. It's not off yet, but it's already been
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canceled, effective in May. And Trump put out a truth social today that he said that Colbert's
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cancellation was not because of Trump, because that's been in the news. The left likes to say,
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we have nothing to say and we have no policies. So we're going to say that Trump is the reason
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that Colbert was fired. But as Trump points out, it was a, quote, pure lack of talent.
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And also the fact that he was losing $50 million per year. So we've been talking about it as $40 million,
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that Colbert was losing $40 million. It's just so Trumpian to bump it up $10 million.
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Eh, let's round it up to $50 million. And if you question it and say, I think it's supposed to be
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$40 million, not $50 million, then you will reinforce it in your own mind and Trump's messaging gets stronger.
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So this probably is one of those situations where he knows that being imprecise improves the messaging.
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Because when you're done, you can say, well, it's either $40 or $50 million. But yeah, money was the reason.
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But then Trump goes on, he says, Kimmel and Fallon are next. The only question is who will go first.
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Do you recognize that technique? How many of you need me to explain for the millionth time
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what technique he's using there? It's Kimmel and Fallon are next. The only question is who will go first.
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That's called making you think, think past the sale.
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The sale is that they're both going to go. But he's making you think which one goes first,
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which is thinking into the future. So that's, you know, classic persuasion.
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Trump does that one all the time. I don't know how much, I don't, I really don't know how much
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the thought he puts into it, but it's just part of his normal speaking pattern that he does that
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Well, Chuck Schumer was allowed out in public again. I don't know why somebody doesn't tackle him
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on his own team and say, you can't, you've got to stop representing us. Sorry. You got to stop representing us.
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Because every time you do, we get embarrassed. So I made a little list of all the things that Schumer did
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when he was just talking in public yesterday, I think. And it turns out that the thing that Schumer did
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in five minutes of talking in public allowed you to see everything the Democrats are doing wrong.
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He was, number one, way too old. And of course, the Democrats are bleeding young people.
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So do you want to put your oldest guy out there to try to attract the young people? Mistake number one.
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Number two, he was boring. Have they learned from Donnie and from Trump
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that you can have a lot of things that people don't like, but as long as you're not boring,
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you're going to get your share of attention. So he's too boring, too old. He has no charisma whatsoever.
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So it's one thing to not be boring, but charisma is an extra gear about that. Doesn't have that.
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You don't want to spend one minute listening to that guy. There's no charisma there at all.
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He raised no policy ideas while he was talking. He's using his precious time in public and doesn't
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even mention any policies. He reframed something as racist that didn't need to be reframed that way
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because it wasn't. And he made a weak generic attack that the Republicans, quote,
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don't believe in democracy. Well, that'll get you to the voting booth, won't it?
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Imagine those Democrats who are sitting at home and they're like, ah, I don't know. I don't know
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if I'm going to vote in the midterm elections or not. You know, it's sort of a lot of work.
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And then he comes on. He's too old. He's too boring. He has no charisma, no policy ideas,
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frames everything as racist even when it isn't, and has a weak generic attack.
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They don't believe in democracy. They don't believe in democracy.
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democracy. That's everything they do in five minutes. They can't stop making all the same
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mistakes. And, you know, there are reasons. You know, you could find a reason why there's friction
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toward, you know, improving. But it's not looking good for the Dems.
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And so have you noticed that a lot of the way we talked about politics even a year ago was my team's
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good. The other team is bad. And it didn't matter who you were listening to. They both said some version
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of that. My team good. Other team bad. But have you noticed that the Democrats, probably half of them,
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have completely flipped over to my team is bad, but God, I hope you're worse.
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And so they're getting attention by skewering their own side. And that's how they get attention. Bill
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Barr gets attention that way. Charlemagne gets attention. So Charlemagne is calling out the liberal
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media, who, in my opinion, is just the Democrats. And they're, quote, double standard over Epstein.
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He goes, it's just funny how the news networks, how the news works. Because Bill Clinton wrote a
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letter to Jeffrey Epstein as well for his birthday. But nobody's talking about that. And Jeffrey Epstein
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had a picture of Bill Clinton in a dress and high heels. But nobody's talking about that.
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Now, you could argue that Bill Clinton is not the president. And he's not, you know, he's not
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exactly relevant at the moment. So I'm not sure that Charlemagne has a good point. However, my point
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is that Democrats are now trying to get credit and attention and clicks by criticizing Democrats.
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And that's new. That's only new since Trump won everything and then had the best six months of any
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president's career. Any more of that? Well, we'll see in a minute. But Newsmax is reporting that
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Ghislaine Maxwell has asked for immunity before testifying before Congress. She's willing to do it,
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but she wants immunity. Do you believe that she would get immunity?
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She also wants the questions in advance. Now, I think immunity just means immunity from being charged
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based on anything she says. It's not about her current sentence, right? Immunity is just about
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keeping her from further trouble. So I don't know if she'll get that or not.
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Consult your local lawyer. They would know. But maybe, maybe we'll find out some good stuff.
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Why is it so hard for somebody to talk to Ghislaine Maxwell and ask her what happened?
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How did we get this far with Ghislaine Maxwell just sitting exactly where we know she is in the cell,
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and she has all the information we want to know, and apparently no real restrictions on giving it to you?
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And it took until now. It took until now for somebody to just say, I got an idea.
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Why don't we ask Ghislaine Maxwell? Maybe she'll tell us everything.
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And nobody thought of that until this year. Or at least nobody, you know, acted on it.
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Um, meanwhile, uh, Cory Booker, Senator Booker, who I call the saucer-eyed Cory Booker.
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Um, if you would like to do a Cory Booker, um, costume for Halloween, uh, here's how you do it.
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You gotta get the, the big eyes, because that's sort of his signature, uh, feature, big eyes. Uh,
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the way you do that is you go down to your local gas station and then look for the air pump and then
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grease it up and shove it as far as you can up your ass and turn it on and watch what your eyes do.
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Um, you gotta do the same thing. I'm not sure if Cory Booker was hooked to the air machine when he was,
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uh, complaining, I guess yesterday in the Senate. But, uh, oh, and by the way, don't, don't do blackface
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if you're going to do a Cory Booker costume because, yeah, you want to do Spartacus. I would do a Spartacus
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costume and the air pump. And then you got a perfect Cory Booker. Um, and he, uh, decides to
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use the F-bomb because Democrats had been advised that they need to act more, more authentic, which
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apparently they believe involves cursing too much. So he uses an F-bomb, of course, and he
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criticizes Democrats as, as is my theme today. He goes, uh, we're standing in a moment where our
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president is eviscerating the Constitution of the United States and we're willing to go along with that
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today. No, no, not on my watch. So do you remember all the problems that I mentioned with, uh, Chuck
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Schumer? Well, at least Cory Booker is not old and he's got a little bit of charisma. You know,
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he's a little bit more fun to listen to than Schumer. Everybody's better than Schumer, but still
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he's got this generic complaint about Trump that nobody even knows what it means. It's like, uh,
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he's eviscerating the Constitution. Do the courts know that he's eviscerating the Constitution?
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Is Cory Booker's point that the entire court system all the way to the Supreme Court just
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stopped working or quit? How in the world could Trump be eviscerating the Constitution and also
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there are like, you know, 200 court cases pending where somebody's challenging him. And if they win,
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he'll have to stop what he's doing. And so far he always has. So Cory Booker, same problem. He thinks
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that cursing is going to win him something. And, uh, he's got no ideas for policies. All he's got is,
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he's stealing the Constitution. Trump is stealing our democracy. Meanwhile, uh, Governor Tim Walz.
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I love the fact that Tim Walz exists and he's still in public because he does not sell the Democrat Party
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except down, down the river, I guess. He's the worst. Well, they're all bad, but he might be one of the
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the worst, uh, brand ambassadors. So here's what he just did. He just signed a, uh, a law that to give
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driver licenses to all. So if you're, uh, regardless of your immigration status, you'll be able to get a
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driver's license. Now, is that one of those 20, 80 situations where he decided to take the side of the
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20? I feel like it probably is. I mean, I don't know if it's actually 80 to 20, but wouldn't you think that a
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majority of people would be opposed to giving driver's license is to people who are here illegally? I'm not
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even giving you my opinion on it. So that's not my opinion. I'm just saying, observationally,
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wouldn't 80% of people be against that? So there's a, there's a Democrat who's getting a lot of attention
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by doing things that the public doesn't really necessarily want him to do. So good job there.
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Well, as you know, um, Tulsi gathered in her newest, uh, revelations, which in my opinion,
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uh, just gave a little bit more meat to something I think we already knew that the Obama administration
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and Hillary Clinton and, uh, Brennan and Clapper and Kobe and all those guys were, were literally,
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definitely no doubt about it, planning a gigantic Russia collusion hoax to try to change the government
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of the United States. That would be treason, um, or a coup, whatever you want to call it.
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But it appears that it's completely well-documented now, as in, I don't know if it would, you know,
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pass muster in a court of law, but it's definitely true. There's, there's no doubt about it. We, we have
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everything we need to see that it's very clearly, obviously true that there was a plot to come up with
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a fake bullshit hoax to remove Trump from office. And they tried as hard as they could. That plus
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a lot of other plots to do the same thing. Um, but the real question is, will there, will some kind
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of injustice ever happen? And it typically would not happen, um, because they're too powerful.
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And it's just, it's easier on the country if you let it go, you know, if you win and you become the
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president as Trump did, he, he talks about how he could have done it to Hillary Clinton when he won
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the first time, but he decided, you know, it wasn't good for the country. Maybe it wasn't good for anybody
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and didn't do it. But now he's sort of floating the idea. He's got two memes they hit today. One of them
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showed, uh, all those characters that I mentioned to Obama and Brennan and Comey and stuff behind bars.
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And then the caption over it that Trump just sat around on true social, the caption was until this
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happens, nothing will change. So he's basically saying that until they go to jail, that we won't
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really have a functioning country, nothing will change. And then, um, he sat around a second meme,
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also on true social, but people copy it and put it on X. Um, and I think the second one is,
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it's time to indict Obama, the traitor for treason. It actually had those words. So it's a meme.
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It's, it's not something that Trump wrote in his own message, but he, he, he's, he's the person
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who sent it around. It's time to indict Obama. So he's calling Obama a traitor and thinks he should
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go to jail for treason. Now here's my persuasion lesson for the day. Um, how many times have I told
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you how sometimes it will be an idea that's literally unthinkable and what Trump does is he
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makes you think about it until you're just sort of comfortable with it. I would argue that the
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tariffs and the trade wars were unthinkably impractical until Trump made you think about
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it a lot, but then also showed you that it would work. So he makes the unthinkable thinkable.
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If you had told me that he could completely close the border down with any amount of work,
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I would have been quite surprised, but apparently he has. That was unthinkable and now thinkable
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Greenland. Yeah. The idea of, uh, take you over Greenland completely unthinkable, but now we've
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thought about it so much. There's not a shocking if the topic comes up now we can think about it.
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So the step one in persuasion is you've got to make it a topic that people are willing to talk
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about. But on top of that, it seems to me he's testing public reaction.
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So if he can make the public talk about the idea of whether or not it makes sense or whether or not
00:31:43.500
he would get a conviction, then he has brought us into his reality. And his reality is that this is an
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important question and we should be talking about it and working on it instead of ignoring it. So
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the more trouble it causes on the left, because they're going to say, this is more evidence that
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he's trying to be a king. And then the people on the right will be, well, there you go. That's,
00:32:12.620
that's who we voted for. They should put him in jail. So I feel like he's doing his usual Trump thing
00:32:19.260
where he's just testing reactions, but at the same time, he's getting you used to it.
00:32:26.140
So you're, you, you went from, well, I did. Let me just speak for myself. Maybe this applies to you
00:32:33.260
and you can tell me. But even one year ago, I would have said it was unthinkable that we would have a
00:32:42.620
serious discussion from the presidential office about jailing the last president.
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Totally unthinkable. Now, it's totally thinkable. It's not only because Tulsi had new information,
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because honestly, that's all the stuff that I just assumed was true in the first place.
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Because we had enough, you know, we had enough information. I wasn't guessing.
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Now I think about it. Now I think it's completely practical. And if the Democrats make the mistake,
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which they will, of talking about it a lot, it will become more feasible. The more they talk about
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how it's a bad idea, and it's never been done, and it shouldn't be done, and we don't think the,
00:33:30.140
the evidence would support it. The more they resist, the more the public is going to say,
00:33:37.100
oh, this is just one of those things that we could do or we could not do. And it will depend on the
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evidence. And that's not where it was before. Before it was, we can't even talk about it. It's so,
00:33:52.220
you know, it's so risky. It's so bad for the country. You don't even talk about it. We're now past that.
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Now we're in the, yeah, let's talk about it. Let's talk about it.
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All right. And Trump actually said in the interview, the Daily Wire is reporting this. He didn't use
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these words, but he is indicating very clearly that although he did not have the, let's say,
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did not have the motivation to go after Hillary when he was president the first time,
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he believes that he now has enough evidence that Hillary went after him and tried to put him in
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jail, if you count the entire Democrat machine that seemed to be coordinated, then he's got a free
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punch. And he is, he is indicating very clearly, he doesn't say the words exactly, but he is indicating
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he'd be willing to put Hillary Clinton in jail now. Again, floating the idea.
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What he said specifically, when the topic came up,
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he talks about how he squashed the idea of going after Hillary in his first term. He goes,
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I was the one that killed it. And then they do the same thing to me. I just want to be fair.
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So the way people are interpreting that is he's willing to go after her now.
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All right. Here's the weirdest story in the news. How many of you knew this? That the most famous of
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Jeffrey Epstein's accusers, Virginia Joffrey, she's the one who allegedly was with Prince Andrew. She's the
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one who recently died, you know, tragically. She's the one who, I think she had, is she the one who had
00:35:53.340
accused Dershowitz, but then later changed her story and withdrew it all? So of, if you were going to say,
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let's talk about Epstein's victims, how many of you could have named even one extra person besides
00:36:08.700
Virginia Joffrey? Probably not, right? She was the most famous one and became sort of the face of
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that whole thing. Well, yesterday I learned that where Epstein met Virginia Joffrey is that she was
00:36:25.980
working for Trump at Mar-a-Lago in the spa. And Epstein saw her reading a book on how to be a massage
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therapist, I guess, and then made her an offer to go work for him. Now, Trump says that the problem was
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that that Epstein was poaching his employees. I think he did it three times. He had been warned
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after doing it twice. And then when he did it a third time, Trump banned him from the property.
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Now, somebody said, but before you said that you banned him because he was creepy. Well,
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that may have also been true. You know, more than one thing could be true. But how in the world
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did I not know that Virginia Joffrey worked for Trump? How in the world did I find that out yesterday?
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How many of you were aware that Virginia Joffrey was a Trump employee at Mar-a-Lago?
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Did any of you know that? Well, I thought I was going crazy when I saw that story. I was like,
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how? How did I not know that? That feels like the most obvious thing that people would talk about.
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Had no clue. I'm looking at, yeah. I don't think so far in the comments, not one of you were aware of that.
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To me, it feels like living in a simulation where the plot is writing itself in real time. It's like,
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all right, what is the most interesting thing we could add to this story?
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Well, that's it. That's the most interesting thing you could have added to the story.
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a majority of voters think that the Trump administration is trying to hide evidence
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that Trump had some association with Epstein that's more than what we know.
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So 60% of likely U.S. voters believe it's likely that Trump administration officials are engaged in a
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cover-up to hide Trump's involvement with Epstein. 45% consider a cover-up very likely.
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Now, I saw, was it Claire McCaskill or somebody on MSNBC? They all look alike to me.
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But, I saw them say that they should use this Epstein thing because it's the only thing that
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they have any attraction with. It does seem true that people are judging Trump
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to be covering something up. Now, I would agree with that. It seems very clear that Trump wants us
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to move on and why else would he say that? Now, I don't think it necessarily means that he's covering
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up for himself. It's equally likely that there are other names on the list that he's, you know,
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doing a solid for and making sure they stay out of the news, which doesn't mean they're guilty of
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anything. They could just be a name that's in the file and they know their life would be ruined
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if that information got out. So I don't know if he's covering for himself or covering for people
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he cares about or anything like that. But it looks like he's covering up something. And it looks like
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maybe he's decided that he should let the process uncover whatever it's going to uncover.
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So he may have changed his mind and he may be loosening up and letting people, you know, dig around.
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But what he has done, which I think is clever, is he's inoculated all of us.
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So he's already dropped the suggestion that there might be some fake things in the files that the
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Democrats put in there to embarrass him or other people. So he's got you thinking about that before
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you even know what's in the files. That's good technique. It may not be ethical, but it's good
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technique persuasion-wise. And he's also made us very aware, because we've talked about it over and
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over again, that just being a name in the file doesn't mean that you did anything wrong.
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So the more that's in the front of your mind, as opposed to just something in the back of your mind,
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he's creating a situation where revealing everything in the Epstein files will work where it might not
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have worked even a few weeks ago, because he hadn't he hadn't properly primed the public.
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But now the first thing I say, no matter what name comes up first, you know, let's say some
00:41:39.260
billionaire you've heard of, my first thought will be, hmm, maybe it was planted.
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My second thought will be, it doesn't mean there's any crime.
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So I'm all primed. I'm all primed not to have a negative thought, no matter what that,
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those files say. It can't be too damning for Trump. I agree with the idea that somebody would have
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already leaked it if it were damning to Trump. So it might be just by association. You know, it might be
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just some evidence that they were closer friends and you knew about something like that. But that's
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the worst that will be. Well, you know that story about the Cincinnati Jazz Festival Weekend.
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I saw a Mike Servich post. He says a jazz festival weekend in Cincinnati, a local tells me, is so
00:42:37.820
disgusting with low tips and feist that bars didn't open during the jazz fest. Can you imagine being a
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bar and there's a music festival and you've decided to, it's better off to be closed during a music
00:42:53.100
festival weekend? That's got to be some bad trouble. And the city officials threatened to pull the liquor
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licenses of these bars for being racist. And that the fight we saw on video where a group of black
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people were beating up some white guy and a white woman, that fights, not necessarily interracial fights,
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but fights in general are kind of common on that weekend. So there's that. And then we learned that
00:43:29.340
the Cincinnati police chief who was telling social media users that they hadn't seen the whole
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situation because apparently the clip might be misleading. So there was some suggestion that the
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white guy who got his ass kicked may have, we don't know this, he may have been the one who hit first.
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Now, I don't have a confirmation of that, so I'm not going to assert that. But the police chief said
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something that suggested that maybe he started the fight. Now, that doesn't make it right for a bunch of
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people to gang up and, you know, kick him to death. He didn't die, but it was pretty bad. However, I definitely
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would look at it differently if he started the fight. So that would influence my opinion of the
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whole thing. So I'm going to say I'd like to know more about that. You know, we're still in the fog of
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war state about that story. But did you know that the Cincinnati police chief is a woman who is being sued
00:44:40.940
by white police officers for having an alleged bias against them in their assignments? So she is allegedly a
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racist against white people. And thinks there might have been a good reason to let that white person got beat up.
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She didn't say that. I'm reading between the lines.
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Did you know that Baltimore was a crime-infested
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hellhole? And it had a Soros-backed prosecutor. And that's when the crime really went through the roof.
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But that Soros-backed prosecutor lost her job to a challenger. And the challenger has already,
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you know, greatly reduced the crime. So violent crime has plummeted in Baltimore because they got
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rid of the Soros prosecutor and got a serious prosecutor. So if you're wondering, well, did all
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these Soros prosecutors make a difference? The answer is, yeah, they did. Yeah, they ruined cities.
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They completely ruined the cities. That's a pretty big impact.
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When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,
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is every fabulous item I see from Winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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Are those from Winners? Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that leather
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tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket? Those shoes?
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Is anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners. Find fabulous for less.
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Well, UCLA is the latest college to admit they're a bunch of racists. So they've entered into a consent decree
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to settle a discrimination suit from Jewish students. So I guess the Jewish students,
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sued, said they weren't doing enough to protect them, I guess.
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There were anti-Israel encampments which were allowed at UCLA, which included a, quote,
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Jew exclusion zone. There must have been a sign that said you can't be there if you're Jewish. Anyway,
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they're going to pay $6 million to settle that. So are there any major colleges that are not openly racist
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at this point? Like any? They all seem openly racist. And they're all being caught and admitting it
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and paying hundreds of millions of dollars to make it to make the claims go away.
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All right. Have you ever had a situation where you were pretty sure that one thing might be true
00:47:46.060
and then you heard a better argument and you thought, oh my God, that is so much a better argument.
00:47:54.620
Well, RFK Jr. did that, had the better argument. He was talking to Chris Cuomo of NewsNation.
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And Chris Cuomo was, he was speculating, Cuomo was, I don't know if he was saying that was his own opinion
00:48:13.580
or you know how hosts often say, well, people say, or a lot of people think, so I don't know which it was.
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But he mentioned that a lot of people think that maybe the uptick in autism is really only an uptick
00:48:28.300
in diagnosis, meaning that maybe nothing changed, but we're just noticing autism more. So,
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you know, the statistics look like there's a lot more of it. And here was RFK Jr.'s debunking of that.
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He said, quote, if it was just a matter of better diagnosis or better recognition,
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you would see it in older people. But you don't. The epidemic is taking place in a specific generation.
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It's kids born after 1989. That's what you see. You don't see autism one in every 31 people my age.
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RFK Jr. says, I've never seen somebody my age, 71 years old, with full-blown autism.
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You don't see that. If it was anything other than an epidemic, why would you only see it in a single
00:49:23.340
generation? To which I say, I've never seen an old person with autism. Have you? I've never seen it.
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Now, I hope it's not because there's a survivability problem. I mean, maybe that could be it. But
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why had I never noticed that? That's a really good point. There's something going on.
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But even Cuomo said, fair point. Yeah, there's not much you could say after that. That's just
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a really good point. All right. Speaking of Democrats who are
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having more fun mocking their own party than they used to, Chris Cuomo also, separately,
00:50:22.380
gave Trump an A for his effort. Now, that was not an insult, A for effort. Sometimes that sounds
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like a backhanded compliment that's really an insult. But he pointed out that Trump is
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doing an amazing amount of work. And the fact that he golfs also doesn't hold it against him because
00:50:43.740
everybody needs an outlet. And Cuomo compared it to the Biden administration. And he's just being
00:50:52.380
completely fair. You can't really compare those two. One of them is putting in the work and appears to
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make it to make it look easy. He's always available. He's done an insane amount of different topics and
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policies. And Biden was barely able to leave his basement. So yes, Chris Cuomo being quite bipartisan on that.
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According to Axios, this is a title of an article today, tariff deals could reverse the sell America trade
00:51:27.740
and pull the investors back to US stocks. So that seems to be an admission that Trump's tariff strategy
00:51:37.260
worked. So do you see the theme? I don't think it's only because of what news I happen to be
00:51:45.340
selectively looking at. It does appear that even the Democrats are very overtly giving Trump a lot
00:51:54.460
of credit for some of the things that worked. And the things they're going after are all these
00:52:01.260
sort of side things like Epstein. The reason that they're trying to emphasize the Epstein thing
00:52:09.100
is it's the only thing that polls well and that they have any traction on at all.
00:52:15.420
They have so little traction on all the big policy things that they have to ignore policy altogether
00:52:22.620
and say stuff like, oh, he's stealing our democracy and he might be hiding something in the Epstein files.
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Those are not really policy questions. It's just all they have.
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Do you remember Act Blue, the Democrat-related organization that would raise money and allegedly they
00:52:48.140
were raising small donations from individual donors and they were doing that for the Democrats.
00:52:55.660
But then, separate from this story, they've already been accused of maybe having foreign donors and then
00:53:04.700
laundering it so it looked like it was coming from individual donors, but it wasn't.
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But on top of that, there's this 15-year investigation of Act Blue, and it was hard to understand the details,
00:53:24.060
but apparently there's another allegation of massive multi-million dollar fraud with some kind of mortgage
00:53:33.420
shenanigans. So, if these accusations are correct, Act Blue would be the most corrupt organization you've
00:53:42.140
ever heard of, and it would pretty much take them off the field. So, if you assume that the amount of donations
00:53:52.780
a party gets will influence how they do in an election, this Act Blue thing could turn out to be a big deal.
00:53:59.260
It could be a big deal. But I remind you that whenever there's a large organization with lots of people and
00:54:08.700
lots of money involved, that they will always be corrupt. Maybe not on day one, but if you have lots of people,
00:54:16.940
lots of money, and lots of complexity, the complexity will hide the fraud. So, you'll always get fraud.
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You'll always, always, it doesn't matter what the domain is, if you just have people, money, complexity, always fraud.
00:54:38.540
Well, Trump is mocking the No Kings movement, which seems to have failed entirely. He had a post on
00:54:47.100
True Social pointing out that there are a lot of people who have been in office longer than he has.
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His list was, let's see, Grassley, 50 plus years, Biden, 48 years, Schumer, 44, McConnell in office, 40 years,
00:55:03.260
Pelosi, 38, Sanders, 34, etc. And then Trump says that he's been working in the government for four
00:55:09.340
years and five months. And then he mocks him by saying, but Donald Trump is a king.
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Now, that's not really any kind of an argument. It's not really a logical argument, because you
00:55:25.100
could certainly have a king that's only been there five years. There's no law against that.
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So, it's not really a good point, but it's good persuasion, because it reminds you that there's a
00:55:38.140
whole bunch of people who've been there too long, and they're too old. And even though Trump himself
00:55:44.780
is older, I got a cat on my lap here, in case it looks like I'm squirming,
00:55:51.740
it's because their little claws are going into my lap.
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Anyway, I saw a video of another young person, a young man, who was in his car making a little
00:56:04.300
social media video. And he was complaining about how his generation is losing hope,
00:56:09.420
because he doesn't see any possible way. He's been applying for lots of jobs without success.
00:56:15.500
He says that he doesn't see any way he'd ever be able to buy a house, get married, have kids,
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and retire, basically. So, the basic things that people would want out of their life,
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he says he doesn't see any possibility of that. And he seemed to be a perfectly functional,
00:56:31.980
ambitious young person, you know, good-looking. And Marjorie Taylor Greene waited on this,
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and she said on X, my children's generation are losing hope, and it's all I care about. My advice
00:56:49.100
is to get into trade school and jobs. And she says, welding, construction, electricians, plumbing,
00:56:55.580
linemen, and more can earn over $100,000 per year, and you will always be in demand.
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And you can eventually work for yourself. And then she says, I own a construction company. So,
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she knows what she's talking about. She owns a construction company. And this is not bad advice.
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It's probably not the advice for everybody, but nothing is. So, I would add to this when she says you
00:57:24.540
you can eventually work for yourself. You can eventually work for yourself and hire other
00:57:30.380
people to do extra work, and you as the boss get the benefit. So, yeah, every one of these skills
00:57:37.900
is something that once you got good at it, which would take several years, but you could form your
00:57:43.180
own company and then hire and train your own employees. And there's no limit to how much money you can make.
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Well, Apple is opening a manufacturing academy in Detroit. So, it's going to teach people
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how to manufacture people in Detroit and workshops on manufacturing as well as artificial intelligence.
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And it's going to be marketed to small and medium-sized businesses. Well, I got to say,
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this sounds like something they're doing because it sounds good and not something that's going to
00:58:18.860
change the world too much. It sounds like Apple just knows they have to do things that would sound
00:58:25.580
good to Trump so that they stay on his good side. So, I'm sure he would love to hear that Apple is
00:58:32.700
training people at a manufacturer and be capable with AI. But why would you put that in downtown Detroit?
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It doesn't seem like the right place to put it, does it? If what you wanted is what's good for the
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country, you would put that wherever there is the most capable people because they're the ones you want
00:58:56.540
doing all your manufacturing and AI. But we'll see what happens when they put it into Detroit.
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Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament. I've been visualizing my match all week.
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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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Good thing Claudia is with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the
00:59:25.100
country. Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no
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time. I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round. But you got there on time. Intact
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insurance, your auto service ace. Certain conditions apply. And then I guess Australia is going to ban
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children under 16 from using YouTube. You won't be able to sign up to YouTube at all if you're under 16.
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That might not be a bad idea. I don't know what Australia is doing with other social media.
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But YouTube isn't the worst. So I don't know what they do. Maybe they ban everybody under 16.
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And then YouTube separately, YouTube, the company, is rolling out an AI feature that will determine if
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you're under age. And you should not be looking at some content on YouTube. So it won't know your
01:00:24.220
age. And it won't ask your age. And it can't check directly. But it will know your age by how you act.
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So it will know what you've looked at before. And if you're looking at things that only kids look at,
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but then you go look at some naughty stuff, then the AI will say, ah, no, you wouldn't have looked at
01:00:48.300
this other stuff unless you were 12 years old. So you can't see the naughty stuff either.
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That sounds like a good idea that's worthy of testing. But boy, are some people going to be
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annoyed at it. If it doesn't work, they can always take it away. Trump's putting a 25% tariff on India,
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he announced. Did you know that India is Russia's largest customer for energy, even more than China?
01:01:21.580
And did you know that India buys a lot of Russian military equipment?
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So I'm pretty sure that Trump wants to tariff them until they say, you know, I wouldn't mind buying a
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lot of American LNG for energy. And maybe we could buy some more American weapons.
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So Trump is very pro-India, but they are, they do seem to be helping some of our enemies more than
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they're helping us. So we'll see what happens. All right. Remember, I kept telling you that any news
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that comes out of the Gaza situation, you should not trust, because anything that comes out of a war
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zone is automatically sketchy, right? You know, just really anything. And perfect example, the New York
01:02:19.820
Times did an article that was alleging that Israel was blocking food shipments or something like that
01:02:29.260
to Gaza. And they showed a picture of a young person being held by his mother. And the young
01:02:36.380
person appeared to be starving. And then the point of the article was, you know, here's a picture of a
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child who's obviously starving. And then they generalized the point to say that must be other people starving.
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And now they have confessed that they've learned that that child had a pre-existing health problem,
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which is why the kid looked like he didn't have long to live, because maybe he didn't. So it wasn't
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starvation that made the kid look like a starving kid. It was whatever health problem he had before,
01:03:13.420
you know, the Gaza thing happened. So the New York Times has admitted that they made that mistake.
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But I will take credit for telling you that every time you hear anything about the starvation in Gaza,
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there's no credibility. It doesn't mean that there aren't people who are starving.
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Whatever is happening over there is so awful that, you know, one assumes that there are some people
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starving. But it doesn't mean that it's any kind of a strategy necessarily. So I don't trust anything
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that comes out from either side or from any platform about what's happening on the ground in Gaza.
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Trump says, well, I like, and I do like that Trump is focusing on feeding the kids, because it gives them a
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little distance from Israel. So Trump is playing it like Israel does need to do more to feed the kids.
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So he's not dealing so much on whether it's true or false. He's just saying top priority feed the kids,
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which is a real good way to go. He's very smart about that. He says, I got to get them food,
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and we're going to get them food. So that's just good framing. Trump was asked about whether he would
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pressure Israel for a ceasefire. And Trump said, if you do that, you really are rewarding Hamas. And I'm
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not about to do that. But the UK and France apparently are doing that. So UK Prime Minister,
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I think I told you this already, said that the UK would recognize a Palestinian state
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in September, unless Israel takes, quote, substantive steps to end the war in Gaza.
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Now, this story says that that's what France also said they would do. So what happens
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to Israel if some of these major countries recognize a Palestinian state?
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Does that change anything? Is that enough pressure on Israel to make them act differently? And I'm not
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saying they should act differently. I remind anybody who's new here that I'm not taking sides.
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I'm observing. Because Israel is not my nation. And every country does what's good for their own country.
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So if you observe that Israel is doing what seems to be good for only Israel, I would say,
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that's kind of what everybody does. That's just called being a country. Countries look out for their own
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benefit. And maybe they have to shade the story a little bit and do what they got to do. And some of
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it you would not approve of. But it's not up to you. Not up to me. So we can observe it. And we can ask
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fascinating questions like, oh, if we were in that situation, what would we do? But it doesn't matter.
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My opinion and my ethical and moral stand, it doesn't matter. We're just observers.
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All right. Anyway, so Israel will get a little pressure. I don't think that'll make a difference to
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them. Breitbart is reporting, thanks to Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby, that there's a new scandal
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linking Mexico's, some of their top political people to the cartels and to the president. So the
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new reporting, I won't give you all the details because it's boring, is that somebody who is a real
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good close friend of the president of Mexico has been revealed to have a big cartel connection.
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To which I say, duh. Was there anybody who didn't know that the government of Mexico has a deep
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cartel connection? I mean, I don't know what the total situation is, but not really a surprise.
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And then over in Ukraine, the reporting is that Ukraine is going to allow people over 60
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into the armed forces because they're running out of people. And so I reiterate my prediction
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that that will become the first all-robot war once you just run out of people. And once the robots
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are fully battle capable, I feel like Europe is going to be buying a bunch of American robots
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to give to Ukraine. Trump says that Air Force One that was gifted by Qatar or Qatar could be flying and he
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could be in it as soon as February. But you don't believe that, do you? I thought it was going to take
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years for that plane to be retrofitted to be an Air Force One because it requires all kinds of special
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equipment. And at the same time, hasn't Boeing been trying to build two new Air Force Ones for years and
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it's going to take years more. I don't believe that Qatar one is going to be ready in February, but we'll see.
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I saw a story on Fox News. Kurt Knutson is writing about this. A really clever way to add
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electric power to big rig trucks. Now, if you're a big rig truck, it will take a long time to charge
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up your gigantic battery if you were an electric big rig truck. So it's a little bit impractical
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just because there aren't many charging stations and it would take forever to charge.
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But also, you know, the loads are heavy and they've got a big infrastructure already. It would just be
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hard to suddenly go to electric big rigs. But there is a company that very cleverly came up with a
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a way to make it work almost instantly. So a big rig is a cab with an engine where the guy sits
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or the gal. And then the part that carries the goods attaches to it. But now a company has invented
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a middle component that goes between the existing cab and the existing, you know, cargo place. And that
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middle part can be powered by electricity. So your truck would still work fine if there were no
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electricity. It would just have to drag that new component as well as the cargo if you had diesel fuel.
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So you don't need to stop necessarily and recharge. But it would just give a boost
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to the efficiency of the whole thing. It's an excellent idea because it doesn't require much
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retrofitting of anything. That's what I like. Very clever. Well, that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I have
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to say today. So I'm going to talk privately now to the beloved subscribers to locals. And the rest of
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you, thanks for joining. And I will see you same time, same place tomorrow. Oh, thank you, Lynn. That's
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very nice of you. And we'll have some more fun then. You ready for that? I have a cat in my lap right
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now. And I got to say, doing this podcast with a cat in my lap, it's the best.
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She's napping right now in my lap. All right. Locals coming at you privately in 30 seconds.