Episode 2935 CWSA 08⧸22⧸25
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Elon Musk and another user have some big words to say about AI, and it's not a bad one. They talk about how AI can predict the future, and why it's better than any other measure of intelligence in the world.
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The good stuff. Well, did you hear what Trump said about the re-grassing of the D.C. parks?
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Apparently, the lawn areas of the parks in D.C. are kind of worn out. But I have to read
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to you the exact words that Trump used to describe that situation. Now, I laughed until I cried
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just listening to him talk because nobody does it like he does it. And I understand why News
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is trying to mock him because mockery is always useful. But you can't mock perfection. And the
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thing is, there was a time when making fun of the way Trump spoke kind of made sense because people
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didn't understand that he was the best communicator in the world. And it just looked different.
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But we have since learned that whatever the hell it is he's doing is the best communication we've
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ever seen. Certainly from a president. But let me read to you his exact words about the grass
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and the parks. Are you ready? Let's see if I can do this without laughing before I get to
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the end. This is going to be hard. All right. Trump on the grass of the D.C. parks. Quote,
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I'm very good at grass. That's as far as I can get. I'm very good at grass because I have a lot
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of golf courses all over the place. All over the place. I know more about grass than any human
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being in the world. We have a life. Grass has a life. And the grass here died about 40 years ago.
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You tell me that Newsom can copy that. You can't copy that. There's only one person in the world who
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can do this. Oh. And the lesson from this is that once you've developed a character that is
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yourself or the character you're writing for, once you have the character, it's so much easier to write
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humor, you know, because you just make it compatible with the personality. Oh, my God. I'm very good at
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grass. I know more about grass than any human being in the world.
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Oh, that's just so good. All right. So Elon Musk is pointing out that Grok apparently is the best
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as some kind of benchmark test for prediction. So the best predicting AI in the world is Grok at the
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moment. And Elon Musk points out that Grok is the best at predicting the future, which is the best
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measure of intelligence, in my opinion, Elon Musk says. Now, you've probably heard me say that
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we don't understand reality. You know, our brains are not optimized to actually fundamentally
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understand our reality. The closest we can get to knowing what's real is knowing what predicts.
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So that's not very far from saying that the best measure of intelligence is the ability to predict.
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And in the real world, the people who can predict the best definitely do the best. There's no doubt
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about it. So yeah, I would say the ability to predict is intelligence. I think didn't Elon tease that AGI
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might show its head in the next version of Grok. So Grok might be getting close to something like
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an advanced general intelligence, but not this version. Might be the next version. We'll see.
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And then there were some very big words used by Elon Musk and another user I'll tell you about.
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And I think I know what it means, but let me tell you the words they use.
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There was a user named Xfreeze on X who said that XAI's long-term plan is to be an edge node
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running AI inference to generate pixels and audio. No more traditional OS or apps, but just AI rendering
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everything directly. Now, I'm not sure most of you, and including me, totally understand what edge node
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running AI inference to generate pixels and audio means.
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But then Elon weighed in comment on that comment, and he said, it's an easy prediction of where things
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are headed. Devices will just be edge nodes for AI inference. Okay. What's that? As bandwidth limitations
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prevent everything being done server side. Okay. So then other people commented on it, and here's what I
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believe they're saying. I believe they're saying. It's funny that he said it's an easy prediction
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because he just said their prediction is intelligence. So what I think it means is that your phone
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will no longer have an operating system, traditional operating system. It will no longer have apps.
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It will just be AI. And it will be shrunken. AI will be able to run mostly on your phone locally.
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I think that's what it means. And then if you want your phone to do something that an app would have
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done in the past, you don't need the app because the phone can essentially write the app in real time
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or pretend it's an agent to do whatever it was you wanted. So how does it do that? Well, it would take
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massive changes and everything. But this is what I predicted for a while now. You remember me
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predicting this? I predicted that your hardware, the hardware of your phone would become neutral.
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And then if I picked it up, it would look at my face and then give me my version of a phone. And if you
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picked up the same device right after I handed it to you, it would look at your face and it would become
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whatever you wanted it to become. So I think that's what's coming. Speaking of XAI, a user named
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B. Stewart, who may be watching right now, used Grok to try to find out which of my books
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cover the drinking and methods to quit. Well, the answer is that I mentioned my reframe,
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The Alcohol is Poison. I've mentioned it in two different books, but I don't really talk about it
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in depth. So if you're looking to quit alcohol, you don't need the books. I'd love you to buy them
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because they're great books, but you don't need them to quit alcohol.
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So it's just the reframe. You know, if you think of alcohol as a hobby or as a beverage, you're going
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to do more of it. And if you think of it just even in your own mind, you don't even have to say
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anything out loud. If you just think of it as poison, your brain will just steer you away from
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it and it becomes automatic and easy. So that's my claim. And a lot of people have tried it to work.
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Now, but what did Grok say when he asked which of my books will teach you adequate alcohol?
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Well, Grok said that I, as the author of those books, had an alcohol problem. And my books describe
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how I beat my alcohol problem. I've never had an alcohol problem. Grok actually thinks that I'm a
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recovering alcoholic. Uh, no, I mean, I'm not perfect. I've got my flaws, but no, I've never
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been an alcoholic. I've never had a drinking problem. Uh, but if you, if you looked up my books
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and you, if you, uh, prompted the question just right, it would tell you I'm a recovering alcoholic,
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but I'm not. Uh, well, apparently, uh, Trump has signed some executive order to create what he
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calls the chief design officer of the United States in a national design studio. I kind of love that
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idea. We'll have to wait, you know, to see how the execution is and who it is and all that.
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But I do agree with Trump that part of the responsibility of the president is to make sure
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that the country shows well, that if somebody visits it, it looks good. If you're born here,
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you, you like it. Um, when people think about it, they think positively and it's leaving the right
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message about freedom and about, you know, opportunity and hope and possibility and all that.
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So yeah, I think, uh, Trump is way ahead of the average person because he understands persuasion
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and design is destiny. Design is persuasion. So yeah, I like that, that, uh, if it's done right,
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it doesn't become just a big money hole, uh, which would be possible if the Democrats were doing this.
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But if you get the right person, I like it. Well, zero hedges reporting that the U S manufacturing
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activity is unexpectedly, um, higher than it has been since 2022. So apparently we weren't expecting
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it to be this good, but I have to say, I don't believe any economic data anymore.
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You know, sometimes I want to believe stuff. So I'll, you know, I'll tell you about it and act happy
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about it. And certainly there are reasons to believe that manufacturing should be up a little
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bit. You know, I mean, we're trying hard to, to do that and maybe, maybe it's real.
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Well, honestly, when I look at stuff like this, I just say to myself, uh, they'll probably revise it
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later. So it's not down. I'd feel bad if it were down. Uh, but I'm not sure. I believe it's up.
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It might be. I mean, there's a reason it could be.
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Well, speaking of data, Pam Bondi says there's been no murder in DC for a week because of all
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the federalizing of it. And, uh, they've surged so many people to help with the policing. So you've
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got the feds and you've got the, uh, uh, national guard and everything. Uh, apparently the murderers
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took the week off, you know, I I've heard that in the week when there's a big, uh, tech trade show
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in Las Vegas, I don't know if this is true, but it's like one of those funny things people say
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that the, uh, the hookers take the week off because the engineers are really bad customers.
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And I've also heard that, um, the cab drivers who sometimes will take the week off in Vegas.
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If it's the technical show because they think the engineers are bad tippers. Now, I don't
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know if either of those things is true, but it reminded me of no murder in DC for a week.
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It makes you wonder if the murderers took the week off. It's like, you know what? I was, uh,
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planning a summer vacation anyway. So I think I'll take a week off for a murder and, uh, we'll
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get back to it. And, uh, once all these people are gone and they think they've solved it, well,
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I'll just go back to murdering. But for now I'll take a couple of weeks off. All right.
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Um, according to, uh, DEA administrator, Terry Cole, who was on Fox news. Um, he said that,
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uh, the fentanyl deaths should be way down because Trump is doing such a good job securing the border
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and, you know, capturing the fentanyl at the border and stuff. Um, here again, I do not believe
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any statistics and I definitely don't believe that, uh, ODs are down because of anything that
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happened at the border. And the reason is there's not a shortage of fentanyl. It's so easy to make
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and it's so, so small and light, uh, and easy to ship that you could catch, I'll just make up a
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number, but you'll get the idea. You could probably stop 90% of it. It wouldn't make any difference at
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all because the bad guys would just make so much more of it that the 10% you didn't get was as big
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as the 90% that you used to not get. So as long as they can, uh, ratchet it up in an unlimited amount
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and it doesn't really cost them that much when it gets caught, you know, just some, some member of
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the tribe gets put in jail and you lose some bills, but you just make more. So I don't know if
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that makes the difference, but it's better than not doing it. I think the Narcan will bring down
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the ODs because the OD deaths are way down anyway, but I don't know if it's because of the border
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being better managed. There are lots of reasons to manage the border. Um, but more, it's mostly
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human reasons. You know, we, we need to control the human beings coming in and we should try as hard
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as we can to stop the fentanyl, but, um, I don't know that the ODs will go down if we do a good
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job stopping humans. Well, I read the news today and one of two things is true because I saw a news
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story that was opposite the other news story. Either we just, the U S just made a, uh, incredibly good
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trade deal with the European union or, um, that deal was stalled because we don't have agreement
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on some of the digital free speech stuff and the digital rules that they have over there that would
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be bad for our digital platforms that come from America. So which is it? I saw both stories and they
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both look credible and they both had details. So did we just complete a major trade deal with Europe
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or did we think we had it? And then we found out there's, you know, this major sticking point with
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the digital stuff. I can't tell. I asked Grok and I got one answer and I looked at the news and I saw
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two different answers. It's one of those things, right? So probably it depends which of the articles
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got written, you know, two hours before the other one, uh, which I don't exactly know.
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So do you know, do we have a deal with Europe or was that stalled and we got excited about it and
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that it didn't happen? I don't know. Maybe we'll know by tomorrow, but, uh, one of the big elements
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of it, assuming that we'll get this deal one way or the other, we'll get to a deal, a huge part of the,
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uh, EU trade deal is, uh, them investing more in our, uh, in our energy sector and buying more of our,
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um, specially liquefied natural gas and also nuclear energy assets of some kind, blah, blah, blah.
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So part of this would be the deal would, uh, wean Europe off of Russia as a supplier. Now that's
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important because that's more than just a trade deal. That would be also, you know, moving towards
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solving the Ukraine war situation by starving Russia of their, you know, easiest way to make
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money. So we'll see. We'll see if that European thing, if it's true, it's a pretty big deal.
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Well, Peter Navarro, White House Trade Advisor, was explaining that he doesn't expect Trump to
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extend the timeline for India to make a trade deal and that his deadlines will kick in and he'll just
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be doubling the tariff on India. But part of the reason that the tariff will be super high,
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tariff on India, is because they're selling or they're buying oil from Russia. Now apparently
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most of what they're buying from Russia is because it's cheap, obviously, but it's so cheap that they're
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buying more than they need and reselling it, which is no bueno. So Trump is going to penalize them big
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time with a 50% tariff, which includes a 25% penalty for the oil purchases that Trump says
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are coming from Russia. So Trump's got two more points of leverage on Putin. One is that Europe
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will buy less and buy more from us. And the other is that India might become much less of a big market
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for them if they bow to our economic pressure. I don't know if they will, but they might.
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Well, I made a prediction on Axe about what would happen with the war, the Ukraine situation,
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and people got really mad at me. And I don't exactly know what's behind that. At first,
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I thought it was a bunch of Russian trolls, you know, just bots that were coming in and just
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insulting me to make me go away because they didn't like what I said. But when I accused the
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commenters of being Russian bots, many of them seem to be real, you know, because they commented
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that they were real. And they're really mad at me. Does anybody know why? I don't. Because it was
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just an opinion on how things might go. Why would you get mad at me for that? And so the comments,
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well, I'll tell you what I said, and then I'll tell you the comments. So my post on Axe was that
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when, that Putin is going to keep yanking the football away from Trump. In other words,
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I'm predicting that Putin does not have good intentions for solving the war anytime soon,
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and that he's just stalling yet again. And I said that when Trump turns on Putin, and he will,
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the Russian economy is in trouble. Oh my God, did people come after me for that? Why would you be
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mad at me for saying that Trump will turn on Putin and the Russian economy was in trouble? Well,
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some people were really insulting and saying that I didn't understand economics.
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Now, none of the people who said that have a degree in economics and an MBA from a top business
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school like I do. But they believe that I must know nothing about economics if I thought that Trump
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could influence the economy of Russia. Other people said, you know, that he's already tried,
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everybody's tried, and all it does is drive Russia to bricks. So it will just make them,
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you know, further immune from our economic pressure. So it will work the opposite of what I think.
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Other people, I don't know, they just had every insult in the world. Very different from how people
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react to my other posts. Lots of hatred and just insult. And I don't know why.
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And then people came in with loser-think arguments. Remember, I always make fun of analogies.
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So I made an analogy of the football being pulled away. But really, that's just a way of describing
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the situation. And then some NPC on X called Steve Stevens. Boy, one way to know you're dealing
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with an NPC is if their first name and last name are basically the same. Steve Stevens. Okay.
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The second one is with a PH, but still, it's Steve Stevens. You know, your parents,
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they just gave up. What are we going to call them? I don't know. How about Steve? Our last name
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is Stevens. Yeah. I don't care. Anyway, when he heard my analogy that Putin keeps pulling the
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football away from Trump, he cleverly commented, oh, just like Charlie Brown eventually turned on
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Lucy. Okay. That's not how analogies work. An analogy is not trying to be the same as the thing
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you're talking about. That's not what an analogy is. You wouldn't need an analogy if it were the same.
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If all parts of it were the same, the analogy wouldn't be adding anything. So you want an
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analogy that makes one narrow point, which is a football could be pulled away from somebody.
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It doesn't mean every fucking part of the analogy has to fit. That's not how analogies work. So now
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the fact that Charlie Brown did not eventually turn on Lucy is not going to tell you anything
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about what Trump and Putin will do. And the level of stupidity in the comments was really
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sort of unprecedented. And I don't know what it is about Ukraine and Russia that made people just
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stupid and angry. It was weird. But let me tell you my argument and it goes like this.
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It is true that it seems like we've done every sanction that you can do to Russia, right? If you
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follow the news, as most of you do, wouldn't you say that all the sanctions have already been tried and
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they didn't make any difference at all? Feels like it, right? But here's my take on that.
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Presumably, we haven't run out of things to do. We've simply run out of things to do that were at
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the risk-reward level we were willing to go to. Does that make sense? Clearly, there are riskier
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things we could do to Russia. Would you like an example of a risky thing that could be done to Russia
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that would affect their economy? Well, how about blowing up their pipeline?
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We've done that. We've blown up their pipeline and acted like, well, I don't know, maybe they blew it up
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themselves. Now, that was Biden. But you don't think that the United States could blow up another
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pipeline. You don't think that Trump is already hinting that he thinks Zelensky should take more
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offensive actions on the country of Russia itself, which is the opposite of what everybody's been
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saying. Up until now, we've been saying, ah, it's too much risk. You know, don't go after the mainland
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Russia. Don't do that. But not now. Now that it looks like Russia has no intention of being honest
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and negotiating the ends of the war, suddenly that risk doesn't look so bad. Does it? So what if Trump
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said, all right, here's the deal, Zelensky. I'm going to give you some really accurate missiles
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with long range. I want you to take out their refineries and their pipelines and go after their
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economic, you know, lifeline. Now, obviously, that would make Putin need to respond and he might do
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the same to Ukraine, et cetera. So it's high risk. But would it hurt their economy if their oil pipelines
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and refineries all started blowing up? It would, right? How would it not? So those people who said
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there's nothing more we can do, sanctions-wise or any otherwise, that's crazy. If we unleashed the CIA,
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they said, here's the deal. We're going to take much higher risk. And we know that the Russians are,
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they've already penetrated all of our major, you know, utilities and everything. And they could
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basically open our dams and turn off our lights and do all kinds of things in the U.S. But we don't
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think they will. That's sort of what happened with the pipeline, right? When Biden blew up the pipeline,
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of course, Russia knew who did it. Of course they did. But did that cause Putin to do a bunch of
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terrorist acts within the United States? Not that I know of. Not that I know of. So he does have some
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sense of restraint because he knows if he escalates, we'll escalate. And he doesn't want that because we
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could escalate further than he can. So how many of you believe there's literally nothing at any level
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of risk that Trump could do to degrade the Russian economy? Is anybody here who's stupid enough to
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think there's just nothing that could be done? Now, I'm not saying that the risk-reward makes sense,
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but Trump could definitely ratchet up the dirty tricks and he could ratchet up what weapons he sells.
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He could scare people about the economy. I don't remember anybody going after India,
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going after them hard as he is with these tariffs. I don't remember anybody trying that before.
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And if he gets India to cooperate, that's a huge impact. A huge impact. India is the number two
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buyer of their energy. Number two is buyer. And he could turn that off because it used to be 1%
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and it went to 40% of what they were buying. So if I made my case, would you all agree
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that although the risk of doing so might be more risk than you're comfortable with,
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but there's lots of stuff that Trump could still do to degrade Russia's economy? In my opinion,
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that's what he's going to do. And he might say it directly, not that he needs to, but he might say
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it directly. All right, here's the deal. We're not going to put up with endless war. So we're going
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to destroy your economy and we're going to take you out of the energy business. We're going to
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undersell. I'm going to get my friends. And if there's anybody who really needs this oil at the
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price you're selling it, we will sell it to them instead at even a cheaper level. I don't know if
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that would make sense. But the point is, there's a lot that Trump could do if he's willing to take
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the risk. And we have now entered the phase we're taking extra risk probably is where things are going
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Trump said that he's aware that things slow down. It doesn't look like Russia is serious at this
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point because they haven't really even organized a meeting between Zelensky and Putin. And without
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that, it kind of indicates nothing's going to happen. But here's what Trump said on, let's see,
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did he say this on truth? He said, quote, it is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without
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attacking an invader's country. It's like a great team of sports that has fantastic defense,
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but is not allowed to play offense. There's no chance of winning. It is like that with Ukraine
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and Russia. All right. Now, I don't know how you can interpret that anyway, except saying that Trump
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just gave a total green flag, green light, green light, let's say, to Ukraine to attack anything they want
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inside of Russia. How else would you interpret that? So will that affect Russia's economy?
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Well, it depends on what they attack. I think it might.
00:34:08.280
So anyway, some good news for Trump, 5-4 ruling in the Supreme Court, that Trump and his administration
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can cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH, that's the National Institute of Health,
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grants that are linked to diversity initiatives. So I guess a Boston judge had blocked them
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from cutting those diversity initiative grants, but now they have permission to do that.
00:34:40.880
So yet again, another victory for Trump in the courts. As you know, the New York appeals court threw out
00:34:50.260
that $500 million-ish penalty against Trump. He's still guilty of the, you know, not being,
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let's say, accurate on his loan application, but there were no victims, and there's no way there
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would have been a victim because of the way the process works. And the bank didn't have a problem
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with it, would do business with him again. But that may end up in the Supreme Court or the higher
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court in New York, I guess. So that's not done. But I think Trump's having good results with the courts.
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Things are starting to go his way. I saw some comments about the Smithsonian. There was somebody
00:35:40.240
who went to the Smithsonian recently, and apparently it's totally DEI downed. So Trump's desire to get
00:35:49.660
the Smithsonian back into more of an America first and less of an emphasis about identity politics
00:35:58.100
and we're all bad slavers and stuff like that. He wanted to make it a little more, let's say,
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a more optimistic experience, more positivity. But apparently the Smithsonian did go downhill
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quite a bit. And you get hit with a DEI stick the moment you walk in, I guess.
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But Robbie Starbuck, an activist against this DEI stuff in corporate America,
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said that the Smithsonian's prior head diversity officer from 2022 to 2025 is no longer a head
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diversity officer because they don't have that job anymore. Because, you know, the federal government
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said that having a DEI thing is illegal. It's against the law. So they no longer have a head diversity
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officer. No, now they have a director of visitor accessibility who happens to be the ex-head diversity
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officer. And Robbie Starbuck says that he's hearing that nothing has changed except the job title
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and that equity is still the point of the job. Now, has anybody said yet that the DEI stuff is systemic
00:37:21.980
racism? You can't get more systemic than it's illegal, you have to stop it, and then people just burrowing
00:37:31.260
more deeply into the system and doing exactly what they were doing. That is systemic. It's in
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every government organization. It's in every private entity. It's in every charity. Everything
00:37:46.780
in the United States is completely infected with massive DEI racism. Systemic. I would say at this
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point, and I've always said, by the way, that racism against black Americans is systemic. I've always
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disagreed with that description. What I don't agree with is, why is that my problem? Why is that my
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problem? Yes, systemic racism exists. That's bad for black Americans. But also, yes, systemic racism has
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existed for at least 50 years. That is massively discriminates against white males, especially. But
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again, am I really asking for reparations? I mean, jokingly, I do, but not really. We all have
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problems. Some people are short. Some people are unhealthy. Some people are not smart, and they
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never will be. How is any of that fair? We don't live in a world where anything is fair. The best you can
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do is figure out where you can use the unfairness to your advantage. So clearly, there are places you
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can go where it's a lot easier to use the DEI systemic racism to your advantage, and there are
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places that you would want to avoid if you were not one of the people that DEI favors. So it's
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definitely systemic racism. And I don't know why we don't call it that. But I guess my main
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point is, we are suckers if we allow people to say, hey, the average of people who are in
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this category that I decided is a category are doing worse than the average of the people in
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this other category. That doesn't mean you have to fix that. That does not tell you, you must fix
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it. It just tells you what it is. The must fix it should be activated at an individual level, not an
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average of a group. If there's an individual that you can help, maybe you can mentor them, maybe you give
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them a job, maybe you give them a chance, maybe you direct them in the right place. By all means, you
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should be doing that like crazy, no matter who the person is. If you can help. If you can help, help.
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But no, we should not be managing to anybody's average based on their group. And you cannot tell me
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that there's a reason I have to do that. There's no reason. It's just power. Somebody figured out that
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they could get some funding, they could turn it into a grift, they could, you know, maybe make some
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money. But we don't have to fall for that. We don't have to fall for any of that. It's just not our
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problem. I saw somebody throw the handicapped in there. The handicapped is a different situation.
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Because one of the things about being handicapped is it could happen to any one of us at any time.
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So having spent a little time being handicapped this year, there was a part of my year where I
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couldn't walk unaided. I mean, I needed a wheelchair or a walker or something. I'm, I'm past that at the
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moment. So I can walk just fine at the moment. But once you experience being, you know, truly disabled,
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disabled, it makes you a little bit flexible about the disabled. So that's a different category.
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It's something we could all possibly pass through. So I feel different about that.
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Well, Secretary Rubio says effective immediately, they're going to not give
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worker visas for commercial truck drivers in this country. Now, I did not know that we were recruiting
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commercial truck drivers from other countries. Because correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't imagine
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a job that would be more perfect for people who did not already have experience that was commercially
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valuable. Because you can go to truck driving school. And in just a few weeks, you're all trained
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up to be a big rig truck driver. So we should really be hiring Americans for the jobs that are sort of
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most perfectly designed for somebody who's not already, you know, killing it in life.
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So I guess I'm surprised that we ever had worker visas for that category. So yeah, I agree with
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Jonathan Turley is writing about how Democrats are getting increasingly violent in their rhetoric.
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He gives some examples. Governor Newsom recently said, I'm going to punch these sons of bitches in the
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mouth. So he's talking about Republicans as these sons of bitches he's going to punch in the mouth.
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Now, he doesn't say it like he means it physically. But it's very violent rhetoric, isn't it? And he's
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not alone. So Hakeem Jeffries recently posed holding a baseball bat, but not for sports. As in,
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I'm going to use this club on Republicans. One House Democrat recently told Axios, and this is all in
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Jonathan Turley's excellent article. One House Democrat told Axios that some of the Democrats has
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suggested that what we really need to do is be willing to get a shot. So they're even talking about
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accepting some violence on their own team in order to, you know, push their violent, I don't know,
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goals. And yet another one admitted that constituents have told them to, quote, prepare for violence,
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to fight to protect our democracy. And others say that we need, well, we might need to storm the
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White House and stuff like that. One explained they're angry beyond things. Beyond things. Now
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they're angry at people, I guess that means. And it's like the Roman Coliseum. People just want more
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and more of this spectacle. Yeah, they like the fight. So people are drawn to the talking about the
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fight. All right. Here's my take on this. You've heard it said that if all you have is a hammer,
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everything looks like a nail. Well, the Democrats, they don't have policies, nor can they, which is
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the funny thing. If I tell you, hey, the Democrats are not explaining policies that they would bring
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you, it's not that they haven't done it yet. It's that there's no way to do it. Because the policies
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that they would have to come up with would have to be counter to common sense, because the Republicans
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are owning common sense. They're doing things that the majority of Americans say, oh, that makes sense.
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Pretty much all day long. It's just stuff that the majority likes. So what exactly would be the policy
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that would get Democrats their power back if they're going against the majority of Americans?
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Americans. There's no place to play. It's just not an option. Oh, Gary the cat has come to join us.
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So here's my hammer analogy. If everything, if all you have is a hammer, which in this case is words,
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you know, they're angry words, that's their only hammer. So for all situations, they think, oh, angry words.
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All right. What happens? Did I lose you there? Gap problem. What happens if they try using all those
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fighting words and it doesn't work? So this is how I imagine it. It would be, all right, we've got to
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fight Trump harder. Okay. Let's talk about fighting. And they go out and for a few weeks,
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they use fighting words. Uh, we got to fight them. We got to fight harder. We got to argue harder.
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We got to work harder, fight harder. And they come back in two weeks and their popularity is going
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down again. So remember, all they have is a hammer. They don't have any other tools, no policies,
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no good leaders, no good leaders, nothing. So what do they do now? Well, then they get a bigger
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hammer. What would be a bigger hammer than just using lots of fighting words? You already know the
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answer. They would start cursing while they use fighting words. So now it's not just, we're going to
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fight them every turn. It's going to be, we're going to punch them in the mouth. We're going to
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take a bat to them. We're going to storm the Capitol. It's still just the hammer because it's
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just talking, but they, they got a bigger hammer. What is the, the, the third biggest hammer is the
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physical threats. So they go from strong talk to strong talk with swearing, which also doesn't give
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them anything. And then they go, man, strong talk didn't work. Strong talk with swearing isn't
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working. Let's add some violence. And that's where they're at. But you had to get there because
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their whole game is that they won't come up with policies or good ideas or good candidates.
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Anyway, speaking of that, Representative Jasmine Crockett said in a recent podcast, I think it was
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with Newsom actually, that President Trump's quote, white nationalist army tried to pull a coup on January
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6th. And she also claimed that the most unpatriotic people in the country are Trump and the MAGA
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movement. Now she's one of the top leaders for the Democrats now. Remember where I said, all they have
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is a hammer. They don't have smart people to say smart things. They really don't. Um, and it gets worse
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because in Axios, Mike Allen is writing about how there was a, a memo got sent out to Democrats from
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the third way. It's a think tank run by Democrats. And the think tank is recommending that the Democrats,
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uh, get rid of their jargon because it's off putting. And they gave them a list of words to stop
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using. Now you can't, that's something that's unimaginable for the Republicans, isn't it?
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It's unimaginable that somebody would make a list and give it to the Republicans and say, don't use
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these words. But on their list of words that make things worse. I, I, it's a very long list, by the
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way. It's all the, the words that you would find off putting, uh, birthing person, inseminated person
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instead of, you know, a woman who's pregnant, pregnant people, chest feeding, heteronormative
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patriarchy, subverting norms. Uh, don't talk about that, subverting norms, system of oppression,
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critical theory, cultural appropriation, postmodernism, Overton window, heuristics,
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privilege, violence as an environment, as in the environment is violence, dialoguing, othering,
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triggering, progressive stack, centering, holding space. And there are about 50 other words on the list.
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Now, do you think that'll work? Do you think that, uh, Democrats are capable of talking like
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Republicans? Oh, they're not, they're not capable of that. No, this has no chance of working.
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To my point, David Axelrod, who you would consider one of the top, uh, you know, leading Democrat,
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uh, experts and consultants. Um, he was just on a podcast or an interview. I don't know what it was.
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Uh, he claims that it's a constant problem for Democrats that they follow the norms. Um, so
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he's already, you know, he's using the kind of language that they're trying to stay away from.
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Uh, and do you believe that this would be a true statement that Democrats have followed the norms,
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but, uh, Trump has a big advantage because he breaks norms?
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Uh, does Axelrod not know that the Democrats have been running a total hoaxocracy for over 10 years,
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and that they're using lawfare and they're using every trick that you could possibly use?
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They have broken every norm that we've ever had. And does David Axelrod not know that?
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Has he not noticed that his own party has broken every norm that you could break?
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Or does he know it, but he's just lying? I actually don't know because he couldn't possibly be dumb enough
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to not have noticed all the lawfare and the, you know, the breaking of norms by the Democrats.
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Um, but it doesn't seem like something he'd lie about because it would be such a dumb lie.
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Everybody would know it was a lie. So I don't know. I can't tell if he's dumb or lying.
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This one's a tough one. Um, I'll just assume that Axelrod was in a coma for the past 10 years,
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so he didn't notice. Uh, there's an ex-Biden spokesman who I guess got interviewed by, uh,
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James Comer and his, his, uh, congressional staff or his congressional, what would you call it? A group.
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And, uh, let's see, who was it? It was Ian Sands, who was described as one of former, uh, Joe Biden's,
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President Joe Biden's staunchest defenders and sort of a, uh, spokesperson for the White House.
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And what we found out as a staunchest defender and spokesperson type for the White House only ever had
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contact with Biden twice while Biden was in office. So one of the voices that we were listening to,
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uh, as if it were, you know, Biden talking because they were talking for him was somebody who has only
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ever talked to Biden twice. Um, I feel like there's some kind of norm that got violated there,
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if you know what I mean. But it's not as bad as you think, because even though, uh, Ian Sands never,
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except for two times, talked to Biden. Um, but he did on a regular basis meet with AutoPen
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and he, he would, uh, every day he'd get a new list of instructions from the AutoPen.
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So the other big problem with the, uh, Democrats is that they're bleeding cash.
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And, uh, apparently the rich donors are sewing their pockets shut.
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If you were, if you were smart enough to be a billionaire, because you'd have to be pretty smart
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to make a billion dollars. If you were smart enough to be a billionaire and you were a Democrat donor,
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would you be giving money right now? Because what would you be funding exactly?
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And who would you be funding? There's nobody to fund. It just looks like the Democrat party is in full
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collapse. And if you put more money in it, I don't think you could breathe life into it.
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And it's not like any of these candidates are setting the world on fire.
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So I think the Democrats are going to have a continuing money problem until they come up with
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a candidate who looks like they could win. And they don't seem close to that, in my opinion.
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And it makes me wonder if all these smart, rich people have already
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gone to the Republican side or become independent. I don't know.
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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, are 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? Is
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anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners. Find fabulous for less.
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Well, this morning, John Bolton, who would be a Republican, his home was raided by the FBI.
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Now, we don't know the reason, but everybody's speculating it has something to do with some
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possession of classified documents. Now, I guess he was accused of that under the Biden administration,
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investigation. And there was some movement toward acting on it, but they got canceled. So there's a lot of details in the
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story we don't know. And we don't know if it's about classified documents, but he wasn't home.
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And he's not been arrested, as far as we know. So we don't know what that's all about yet. But Kash Patel
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did post on X at about the time this was going on, that no one is above the law. And then Dan Bongino
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added to that by saying, public corruption will not be tolerated. So are they talking about
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Bolton being publicly corrupt? Well, here's what I say. They gave him some classified documents,
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and he probably said to himself, I must stash these in my house. Must stash them.
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Dad joke. Yep. Dad joke of the day. All right. So I guess prosecutors are going to be looking at
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Comey and his chief of staff for some leaking and Senator Adam Schiff for some leaking. I've got a
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feeling that none of these important people are going to go to jail. What do you think?
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I feel like they're all going to beat it on a technicality, or they're going to drag it out, or
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they'll drag it until a Democrat gets elected again, however long that takes, and then they'll get
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pardoned. I just, I don't believe that our system can put a prominent Democrat in jail.
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I don't think it can. Now, it was hard enough to put Trump in jail. They tried everything they could,
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and that didn't work. But even where the evidence is clear, and they've got documentation, and they've
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got witnesses, and it's obviously a crime, even in those cases, I'm not really expecting anybody to go
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to jail. They should. I mean, the crimes are some of the worst things that I've ever seen
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that don't involve violence. But I just have no confidence that it'll end in any kind of conviction.
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Trump has weighed in on the case of Tina Peters, who was apparently convicted for 2020 election
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interference, or let's say that was the domain. But what she did was, I guess she had some doubts about
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the integrity of the election in Colorado, and gave somebody access to some classified stuff
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to see if the election was rigged. So her intention was to make sure that the election was fair.
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What she did was technically a crime. She gave access to somebody who should not have had that access.
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But Trump, of course, wants to further the story that the elections were questionable.
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And so that would make Tina Peters sort of the hero of the moment, because it would look like she's
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being punished for something that you could imagine that maybe even it being illegal, that she wouldn't
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have gone to jail for it. Because her intention was to make things better, not worse. And that matters.
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I mean, this should matter a lot. So I don't think Trump has the power to partner for anything,
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because it's probably his state charges. But he's weighed in with free Tina Peters,
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brave and innocent patriot who's been tortured by crooked Colorado politicians, including the big mail-in
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ballot supporting the governor of the state. Let Tina Peters in jail right now. Now, I think he means it,
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and it's compatible with all the things that he's saying about getting rid of election machines and
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no mail-in voting. So it works really well with the message he's trying to get across. We'll see.
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Anyway, so she was guilty on three counts of attempting to influence a public servant.
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First degree official of misconduct, violation of duty. None of those sound terribly important,
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do they, in this context? It just doesn't feel like she should be losing her freedom.
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So she has suspicions about Dominion voting systems. Now, you know, Dominion has been pretty,
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pretty tough in their legal pursuits of people who said things they didn't like. So that's probably a
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big part of the story, that Dominion is part of it. Anyway, to the best of my knowledge, there was no
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evidence that anything was rigged, but that's a secondary question. Remember I keep telling you
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that big companies are going to lie and say that they used AI to cut staff, but really probably they
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just wanted to cut staff and AI had nothing to do with it? Well, Australia's biggest bank was all
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bragging about using AI so that they could get rid of a whole bunch of, I think it was their workers who
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take phone calls. And it didn't work out. So now they're looking to hire back all those people they
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fired. I told you the big companies are all going to pretend that AI saves them staffing costs and
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it's not going to work out. And they're going to have to reverse it and say, well, okay, maybe we need
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these humans after all. So biggest bank in Australia already doing the Dilbert dance on that.
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According to Fox News, some of Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, one of his top advisors is charged in
01:03:28.340
bribery and some other people charged with bribery. And in other cities, some local officials charged with
01:03:35.620
various crimes. I'll say it as many times as it takes. Local governments are basically
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criminal organizations. They don't start out that way, but eventually somebody is going to get in
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those jobs who realizes, wait a minute, I have got access I could sell. Hey, wait a minute. I get to
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determine who wins this bid. And next thing you know, the people who are not overpaid to be in those jobs,
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suddenly they're doing great. So something has to be done to keep an eye on where the money goes
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with these various politicians. The local cities are 100% corrupt. I don't think there's any way to save
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them unless you have some kind of auditor or, you know, some kind of untouchable who's just watching
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every dollar so that they can't rip us off like crazy. What's that?
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I have to look at this comment. All right. I can't read it. It's too small.
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Well, update on Gaza. And according to Ynet, the Israeli Defense Force is going to start demolishing
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multiple structures, you know, big buildings in Gaza City, including tall buildings. And they're
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just going to use explosives and just blow them up. Now, I heard separately that the reason they have
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to blow up basically every single building in Gaza is because they're all booby trapped.
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So Hamas has booby traps. So if the building is still standing, you can't really trust it because
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there might be who knows what in there. So the IDF is using that explanation for why they can just
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blow up the building. I'm going to add my own cynical speculation. Since we know that Israel wants to,
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you know, completely change the power structure and the population and the whole city, everything about
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it, it probably makes sense to get rid of every big building. Because then you don't have people
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saying, all right, but you're going to let me back in my building, right? I own that building.
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You're going to let me rent it to people, right? Because that would have been a problem.
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So I think it's sort of a probably a convenient explanation that some of them or most of them
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are booby trapped because I think they wanted to get rid of all of them. If you get rid of all of
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them, then you can kind of do what needs to be done or what you think needs to be done. And again,
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I'm not giving you my opinion of what is ethical or moral or what they should do or who's the good
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guy or who's the bad guy. I don't get into that at all when it comes to Israel because it's not my
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country. And I simply observe that they're doing things that they think are in their national best
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interest, just like everybody else. The fact that you don't like it, and sometimes I don't like it,
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but we don't have any control over it. It's not our country. And we would note that every country,
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every time in history does what's good for their own country. The big exception has been the United
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States. You could argue Europe lately, in which we've acted in a way that clearly in the past,
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recent past, clearly was not in the best interest of the United States, like open borders and stuff.
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But if you look at a country like Israel and you see that even if you don't like what they're doing,
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even if you could make an argument that is evil and unethical and immoral and that the victims,
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especially the children, you know, it's unconscionable, you could make that argument,
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but I wouldn't care. I mean, I wouldn't care about the argument. I would care about the human beings,
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but I wouldn't care about your thoughts about it because nothing's going to change the fact that
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Israel will pursue its national best interest. And we've got a close national connection with them.
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Again, you could argue that we shouldn't, but we do. So we can observe what's happening
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and you can complain about the loss of life and that's fair, but there's nothing we can do about it.
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So I'm an observer when it comes to Israel. So don't ask me to defend them and don't ask me to condemn them.
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I'm just watching. And if the situation were reversed and Hamas had all the power and all the military,
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things would be going really poorly for the Jewish people living in the area.
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So I don't feel like there's good guys. If I thought there was a good team and a bad team,
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or that it was, it was up to me to decide who's good or bad. I guess that's a better way to say it.
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It's not up to me to decide. It just seems whoever has the power
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versus what they see as their national best interest. And that's all there is there.
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All right. With that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I had to talk about today.
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I'm going to talk to my beloved subscribers on Locals privately and in 30 seconds. And
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I've enjoyed having my cat in my lap for the last part of this show. I have to admit,
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it just makes everything better to have a cat in your lap. If you've not experienced the good feeling
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of having a cat seem to be really happy about being with you, you really have to.
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It feels more special when you get a cat to like you. You know, dogs are too easy. But you get a cat who
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just really wants to be with you wherever you are. That is a cool feeling. So this is Gary the cat.
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His brother Roman doesn't like as much attention, but he's an awesome cat also. All right. In 30 seconds or so,
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locals, you'll be with me privately. Everybody else will see you tomorrow, same time, same place.