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00:33:03.280Well, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has agreed two terms to Trump's 21-point Gaza proposal, Wall Street Journal's reporting.
00:33:19.680But not until Netanyahu inserted some edits into his plan.
00:33:25.260Those edits might be the kind of edits that would make it impossible to get a deal because it allows Israel to have indefinite military control of Gaza, no matter what else is happening.
00:33:40.240So the other parts of the plan would be things like, you know, the Arab countries would help, you know, monitor and manage the place, and the Palestinians who had lived there could move back, and Hamas will be gone.
00:35:36.660And then if all the new proposal gives Israel a veto over the disarming of Hamas and things.
00:35:46.280So I think the problem will be that Israel is looking to have some permanent kind of control, even if it's not pick up the garbage kind of control.
00:37:35.600So anyway, Netanyahu is becoming hilarious in his praising of Trump, because obviously he knows that he needs to stay on Trump's good side, but he's doing it with such a heavy hand.
00:37:53.060Here are some things that Netanyahu said, I think just yesterday, about President Trump.
00:39:02.740Well, Eric Swalwell reminds us why Democrats can never be in power again.
00:39:10.380He announced, he actually said this out loud in public, that he says when Democrats win in 2026, accountability is coming.
00:39:21.360And that they will investigate private citizens who work for Trump, will subpoena the DOJ and also private actors who have done these drug deals with the administration.
00:39:56.300Saying it before you get there just makes us try harder to make sure you don't win.
00:40:03.540Well, what exactly were you trying to accomplish by inspiring us to try harder to make sure you never have power again?
00:40:11.740Well, telling us you'll go after private citizens will get you there.
00:40:20.760Senator John Fetterman is telling us he's not going to switch parties.
00:40:26.080He just sort of likes common sense and doesn't think the Democrats are always doing the common sense thing.
00:40:32.540But I saw Dana Perino on The Five say what I would have said in the situation, which is Fetterman is very cleverly taking what could be called the Joe Manchin strategy.
00:40:45.260Which is if you can credibly become the only Democrat who's sometimes, not often, but sometimes willing to vote with the Republicans, then everybody has to kiss your ass from now until the end of time.
00:41:01.120Because they can't afford to lose that one vote.
00:42:40.520Because if somebody is powerful, you don't feel empathy for them.
00:42:44.320You just say, ah, I'd rather be you than me.
00:42:47.800So likewise, if you're a white guy and you say to anybody who's a Democrat, oh, this is racist, the Democrats are going to say, so?
00:42:57.360Well, you probably had it coming after hundreds of years of you being the patriarchy and you getting all the good stuff and, you know, all that.
00:43:06.540So what if it's a little bit racist against you?
00:43:42.140A number of studies have found the same thing.
00:43:45.000So instead of saying that your problem is it's racist against white people, which you will never prevail in, even though it's true, you say, here's my problem with DEI.
00:43:57.080It's not about anybody's gender or race or culture.
00:44:01.100You could replace black people, in the example, with redheads.
00:44:36.040If you run out of the top level redheads but you've got to hire redheads or else you'll lose your bonus because your boss told you you've got to get some diversity and that includes the redheads, what are you going to do?
00:44:48.460You're going to lower your standards because that's what the incentive system has given you.
00:44:54.140Once again, I remind you that Democrats don't understand human motivation.
00:44:59.800And it's behind all of their mistakes.
00:45:03.820So, the argument would be if you can get somebody to agree that you would have the same problem with a redhead such that if Charlie Kirk were still alive and he got on a flight and he saw that a redhead was the pilot of the ship, he would ask himself reasonably, reasonably, I wonder if that redhead only got in there because of DEI.
00:45:29.740So, the best argument, I think, if you could get somebody to listen to you for more than 10 seconds is that you could replace black or brown or women or LGBTQ, you could replace any of them with redheads and you would still have a gigantic problem.
00:45:51.140It's the math of the system guarantees that people do the wrong thing that the system guarantees that people do the wrong thing and lower their standards because that's how they make the money.
00:46:12.920It would only work for somebody who's willing to sit there and listen.
00:46:15.700It's not going to work for a quick hit on X.
00:46:21.200Well, we're learning now, the Transportation Security Administration is learning, that there was a, apparently people were added to the TSA watch list under Biden if they were known mask resistors.
00:47:23.800Yeah, I haven't flown since then, but for other reasons.
00:47:27.260So, I might actually be on some kind of no-fly terrorist list just because I made a big deal about we got to get rid of these masks now that we know for sure that they don't make any difference.
00:48:01.960I don't know what the cause of that is.
00:48:04.580I mean, you could speculate all the usual causes from food to lack of sleep to, I don't know, you could imagine a lot of possible answers.
00:48:14.480But I have one possibility that I think people would miss, which is that the world itself is getting increasingly complicated.
00:48:24.960If you take somebody with a brain that's perfectly suited for the 1800s, as in, hey, this is Cousin Bob, he's not too bright, but all he has to do is milk the cows.
00:48:40.980Could Cousin Bob milk the cows and not have any problems with concentration, memory, or decision-making?
00:48:47.580Yeah, no decision, not much concentration.
00:48:51.360So if all you're doing is milk and a cow, yeah, you're perfectly fine.
00:48:56.200But what if you have to navigate your smartphone in school and try to figure out how to get into college and, you know, just getting from one place to another is a nightmare?
00:49:06.760Everything is so much more complicated, mostly with online stuff, that it could be that the people haven't changed, but the challenge of just surviving life in 2025 causes some people to just not be able to hold all the memories, not be able to handle the decision-making, et cetera.
00:49:28.240So it could be that the people didn't change, the environment didn't.
00:50:24.520So what I think what China wants is that in order in return for, you know, a trade deal, which we want, they would want us to put back on the website that we do not support Taiwan's independence.
00:50:39.680We only support the status quo or something like that.
00:50:44.640And so that would suggest, again, that Trump created an asset by taking that off the website, which didn't cost us anything.
00:50:53.440And now in order to put it back on the website, and probably also say it out loud, they would give us a trade deal.
00:51:03.940Now, I'm assuming that that would be a better deal than if we don't do that.
00:51:08.620So he somehow, again, created an asset out of nothing.
00:51:13.200I don't know how that will work, but that was interesting.
00:51:17.180And then related to that, apparently there's a plan to, a U.S. plan, well, I think it's already in motion.
00:51:32.280They're going to pressure Taiwan to move 50% of their chip production to the U.S.
00:52:35.840We're going to leave you to China's military unless you can do this in two years.
00:52:40.980Probably they get it done in two years.
00:52:43.560Because they're not going to wait around for China's military to be running their island.
00:52:47.840So I'd say remain skeptical of that, but it probably makes a lot of sense to put that out there as an objective.
00:53:00.360Well, Scott Pressler and Nicole Shanahan are two people who are going to work on getting a petition in California for voter ID and get it on the ballot.
00:53:11.280It would still have to win on the ballot, which I think it could, actually.
00:53:14.100So they would just have to get enough signatures to get it on the ballot.
00:53:34.740So according to the New York Post, JPMorgan Chase now has more employees in Texas than in New York.
00:53:42.020And I guess it's part of a trend where people are, especially money people, moving stuff out of New York because it's just too darn expensive and complicated to do business there.
00:53:55.300So Texas is winning and New York is losing.
00:54:00.740Here's a study that maybe you could have known the answer.
00:54:05.520San Diego State University did this and discovered that the temperature of your food and beverages will influence your digestive health.
00:54:16.140And as you know, your stomach is part of your brain.
00:54:19.680So it affects how you feel, your mood and everything else.
00:56:07.200All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for you today.
00:56:11.760I will remind you that these books up on my bookshelf that you can see over there, the ones on the top shelf,
00:56:19.580the four of them are the ones that would change your life the most.
00:56:23.760So it's how to fail almost everything and still win big, loser think, win bigly, and reframe your brain.
00:56:30.160And the reason I mention it is because I think I saw, I'm not going to mention who it was, but at least two notable people, you know, top executive types,
00:56:41.840saying things that clearly came from me, very clearly came from me.
00:56:59.840So a lot of the things that I wrote over the years have morphed into common knowledge so that people just treat it like it's common knowledge now.
00:57:10.220If you want to see all of the common knowledge before other people start using it, those are the books to read.
00:57:16.980I'll go further and say, I don't believe that anybody could read those four books and not have a more successful life.
00:57:27.180I think it would be impossible because they're written to make a change in you whether you want to or not.
00:57:32.620You know, I'm a hypnotist, so I write it so it's going to sink into you no matter how hard you try.