Ep. 1673 - Wild Political Week RECAP
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A Democrat is trying to figure out why young women might want to get married and have kids, instead of working on an industrial assembly line. And she thinks she has identified the answer: it s called lady-facturing.
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Amid our many pressing national problems, a Democrat Congress lady has devoted her time
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to figuring out why young women might want to get married and have kids
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instead of working on an industrial assembly line.
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Yesterday, I met with a manufacturing company, but they also are engaged in getting young people
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So I asked them, so how many of those students that are signing up and want to do this, how many are women?
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And they said, well, I know there's at least 13% or something.
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And you had mentioned trying to engage more women in manufacturing.
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I'm just wondering if just the name manufacturing sounds like a guy.
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Now, some will observe that manufacturing actually comes from the Latin words for hand
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Maybe if we start calling it lady-facturing, maybe then little girls will put aside all those
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daydreams about their wedding day and start fantasizing about operating heavy machinery
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Trump and the Republicans are working to bring manufacturing, actual manufacturing, back to America
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so that our economy and national security can thrive, so that towns and families stop breaking up,
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Meanwhile, the Democrats are wondering what kind of euphemism can trick little girls into picking up a wrench.
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Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has just re-renamed one of the most famous army bases
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Pursuant to the authority of the Secretary of Defense, Title 10, United States Code Section
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113, I direct the army to change the name of Fort Liberty, North Carolina to Fort Bragg,
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Fort Bragg probably is the most prominent army base in the entire country.
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Because Bragg, Braxton Bragg, was a Confederate general, and he's a very, very bad, nasty man
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because he was from the South, and he fought with the Confederates.
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And even though Abraham Lincoln promised us malice toward none and charity for all, and
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we're going to come back together and be a nation, then the woke libs got a hold of
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things and started toppling over the statues of every Confederate.
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And we all knew they weren't going to stop there.
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As President Trump predicted, the minute they were done with the Confederates, they moved
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right on to Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln, for that matter.
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So they renamed it from this real historic person who played an actual role in American
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Kind of reminds me of the French revolutionaries going in and knocking down statues of the Holy
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Mother, an actual person in history, one of the most important people in all of history,
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and replacing her with the goddess Reason, or even the notion of personifying Lady Liberty.
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Actually, just a great pick for Secretary of Defense, despite what the haters said.
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Here's one really easy way to boost morale again in the military.
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And the twist is Fort Bragg is not being re-renamed after Braxton Bragg, the Confederate
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It's being re-renamed after Roland Bragg, who is an army paratrooper who was awarded the
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Some people are going to say it's too clever by half.
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Let's make a point that we're not going to deny our history.
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We're not going to let the libs knock over statues.
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We're going to go right back to that old Confederate guy.
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I think here, Pete is, and President Trump, the whole administration broadly, this is a
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good example of being wise as a serpent, innocent as a dove.
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Because everyone knows they're going back to Bragg because it's Fort Bragg and that's
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However, if they had really gone and re-renamed it after the Confederate general, one, there'd
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But two, it's a guarantee that the next time you have a Democrat administration, they're
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And it'll be Fort Equality, or it'll just be Fort Liberty, and it'll go back and forth,
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Bragg, Liberty, Bragg, Liberty, and it'll be ridiculous.
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By renaming it after this other Bragg that no one had ever heard of, I think Pete is insulating
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the fort against the re-re-renaming, because now if the Democrats want to rename it, they're
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going to have to explain why this perfectly nice, unobjectionable World War II army paratrooper
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with the silver star and the purple heart, why he doesn't deserve to have a base named
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A lot of people have worried in looking at all of Trump's executive orders.
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Well, okay, these are all really good, but how are we going to protect them from the
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Well, this, on a relatively minor scale, is showing you a little bit how you do that.
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You've got to raise the cost of Democrats undoing what you have done.
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And here, on this relatively minor point, I think Pete's done a great job, and hopefully
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Now, speaking of controversial Trump nominees, great, great news.
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Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence.
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Here's Attorney General Pam Bondi swearing Tulsi in, in front of President Trump, in the Oval
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That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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And that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
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And that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
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A picture of elegance and class, despite the many unfair attacks on her that accused her
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baselessly of being a Russian stooge, being unpatriotic.
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This is a woman who served her country in the military, served her country in Congress,
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had such independence of mind that she left her political party, the political party in
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which she ran for president to support a guy from the other political party because she
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She was confirmed by a vote of 52 to 48, mostly along party lines.
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Because Mitch is the honey badger at this point.
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Tulsi, one could call her euphemistically a little outside the box, not McConnell's cup
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Because the usual swing votes, I'm talking Susan Collins, I'm talking Lisa Murkowski, I'm
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This is really the only part of this confirmation vote that's really interesting.
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And it defends, I think, Trump's or it vindicates Trump's strategy here of forming a coalition
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Tulsi Gabbard is one of the most controversial nominees.
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That means that Collins and Murkowski, they're always the fence sitters.
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Anything even slightly controversial, they're going to go vote with the Democrats.
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The knock on Tulsi is actually coming more from the GOP, and especially the hawk and
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So, weirdly enough here, you're probably more likely, in fact, I know you are more likely
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to get Murkowski and Collins to come along with a Tulsi Gabbard than you are to get them
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to come along with a rock-ribbed, solid Republican like Pete Hegseth.
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Wow, it's almost like unpredictability, it's almost like scrambling up coalitions can, if
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you do it right, sometimes work to your advantage, as it has here.
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This was arguably one of the toughest Trump picks to get through.
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I knew after Hegseth got through, there was a dramatically increased chance that Tulsi was
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But the weakness of this pick, the supposed weakness, namely that she's a Democrat and
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In this case, I think it worked to her advantage, and she actually cleared with a four-vote margin.
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Quote, today we were informed by the White House that if the Associated Press did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump's executive order,
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renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.
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This afternoon, AP's reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.
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The Associated Press, most people don't know this.
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Most people think, oh, the New York Times is fake news, or the Washington Post is fake news, or the CNN or whatever.
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The Associated Press is probably the most egregious offender among the mainstream media outlets for radical leftist ideology.
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Specifically on this point of its editorial standards, the AP is a full-on fake news outlet.
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And for years now, AP has issued guidance saying, for instance, on transgenderism,
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that AP is going to defer to the preferred pronouns of people who pretend they're the opposite sex.
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If a big, hulking dude pretends to be a woman, it is bad journalism to call him she.
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AP, a few years ago, the style guide came out and said, the term illegal alien is out.
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Illegal alien is the most technically precise term to refer to the people who have crossed
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into our country illegally and who remain here without any legal status.
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They're not permitted here according to our immigration system.
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A journalistic outlet, supposedly, that says don't use the precise term is doing bad journalism.
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The word woke, they struck the word woke from their reporting.
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They didn't want to include woke anymore because they realized that that term, it's a polemical
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term, but it's a term that was used originally by the left.
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The right just started using the word that they themselves used to describe them.
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And they said, no, we're going to stop using it because people have turned against woke,
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and so that'll get them to turn against the left.
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They didn't want their reporters to use the term CRT.
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They said, no, critical race theory is this really complicated, important thing.
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So if you want to give explanation about it, that's fine, but don't use the word CRT.
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Same reason, because the public had turned against it, because they found out what it was.
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So the AP, frankly, should be barred from the White House, period.
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They are one of the worst offenders of journalistic ethics out there.
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They were one of the worst abusers of language in the media.
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But then here, of course, the president of the United States comes out.
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He says, hey, that body of water that is directly to the south of America, that body of water
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that can trace a much longer American coastline than it can trace a Mexican coastline, that
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body of water down there, we're calling it the Gulf of America now.
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I'm actually going to call it the Gulf of Honduras.
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No, I want to call it the Gulf of you evil, terrible colonizers who came here and stole
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Okay, well, you guys aren't serious people, so why would we invite you to the Oval Office?
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Boot them out of the press room, too, for as I'm concerned.
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Speaking of other announcements from the Oval Office, President Trump has a message for Hamas.
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So you remember, you might remember there's this war going on in Gaza.
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After the October 7th attack, when Hamas killed and raped and pillaged over a thousand Israeli
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civilians, took a bunch of them, hundreds of them hostage.
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Israel has just been absolutely pummeling and obliterating Gaza.
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The ceasefire requires the return of the hostages that Hamas took out of Israel.
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Hamas is now signaling that they're not going to return any more hostages.
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So Hamas, the United States says, we're going to institute this ceasefire deal.
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Mr. President, when you say all hell is going to break loose, are you speaking about retaliation?
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Mr. President, they're going to find out what I mean.
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These are sick people and they'll find out what I mean.
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I remember when I was a kid, I would hear a little broken dialect, Calabrese, Italian
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We didn't speak it at home, but I'd hear it from my grandparents sometimes.
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And one of the phrases I remember the clearest was, ti faczi vedi io chi di che ti faccio?
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You know, you never say exactly what you're going to do.
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I never knew what my grandmother was going to do.
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In regular Italian, in Tuscan Italian, ti faccio vedere io quello che ti faccio.
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I'm not going to show you the killer or the monster.
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But I think he is not bluffing because the credibility of the United States is on the line.
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The way that Trump gets to be kind of a dove rather than a hawk, the way that Trump gets
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to not expand wars, the way that Trump, unlike Bush, unlike Obama, unlike Biden, the way
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that Trump gets to be a kind of a peace president is because every so often he drops the Moab.
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And you don't know when it's going to be, but every so often he's going to kill the top
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And you don't, sometimes he's going to go, you know, hug Kim Jong-un and it's all going
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But sometimes he's going to just blow up a town.
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And I'm not saying, because Americans do not want boots on the ground in Gaza.
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Americans do not want Americans to become embroiled in that war between the state of Israel
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And if you're Hamas, I think you got to give up the hostages.
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The problem is the minute Hamas gives up the hostages, they're done.
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They're signing their death warrants because at that point, the state of Israel has no reason
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not to just send them, not six feet below the earth, but, you know, 600 feet below the
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However, I don't know that they have much option right now.
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Listening to Trump speak there, that does not sound like the kind of guy who's joking
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Now, speaking of foreign soil, Richard Gere, my cousin, Richard Gere is my cousin.
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is a descendant of, I think, all of my Mayflower ancestors because he's a descendant of Lydia
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Richard Gere has just come out and bashed the United States on foreign soil.
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I'm coming for a place now that we're in a very dark place in America where we have a
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bully and a thug who is the president of the United States.
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You know, I read a really moving letter in the New York Times from a gentleman in Hungary,
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and he was the slippery slope of how this happens everywhere.
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However, we have to be vigilant, we have to be alert, we have to be energetic, we have
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to be brave, we have to be courageous, and everyone who's watching this in the Spanish
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speaking world and elsewhere, we have to be willing to stand up, tell the truth, be honest,
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and that there's a place in all of our lives for basic kindness, for basic love and understanding.
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Basic love and understanding, that's what we need to get back to.
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This guy just flew to foreign soil to bash his own country, that alone, very disreputable.
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But the way he did it was insulting not just to Trump.
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He's just saying this creeping authoritarianism, this bully and this thug,
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He can't even say, oh, it was just the electoral college and it was only a minority of Americans
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This guy, Richard Gere, who has been given a lot by Americans, by the way, this guy has
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been given a really nice, cushy lifestyle and a lot of adulation for many decades at this
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He's just called the majority of his countrymen quasi-fascists on foreign soil.
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Very disreputable because we need to be so nice and kind.
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Isn't that what the Ordo on Maurice touches on?
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Like, how about before you express your deep-seated desire for kindness to people on the opposite
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side of the world that you really don't know at all, you have nothing to do with, they don't
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affect your life in any way, how about you try just not being a huge jerk to the people
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Before we just give a big old hug and kumbaya to all of humanity, how about you show some
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genuine kindness and engage in an actual act of charity with the people who you interact
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The Associated Press was not, but Elon Musk was there with President Trump, and he was
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asked about this charge, that he is leading an opaque and hostile takeover of the government,
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Say that you're orchestrating a hostile takeover of government and doing it in a non-transparent
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Well, first of all, you couldn't ask for a stronger mandate from the public.
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The public voted, you know, we have a majority of the public voting for President Trump.
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The people voted for major government reform, and that's what the people are going to get.
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And a lot of times, you know, people that don't get what they voted for, but in this presidency,
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This was why it was so smart for Trump to bring Elon on the campaign trail and to bring Tulsi
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and to bring Bobby Kennedy and to trot out all of the most controversial aspects of his
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It's why it was so helpful for Trump to get the popular vote and to campaign in places
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He wasn't just trying to squeak through and get in and, you know, hide the ball.
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The whole campaign was just on how bad the economy was under Obama.
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He didn't really speak about the things that he proactively wanted to do because he said,
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if I can just get in on an anti-Obama sentiment, then I can do whatever I want, but not really,
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actually. Because even if he had gotten in, if you don't build consensus for the things that you
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plan to do, then the media are going to have an easier time attacking you and deflating you once
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you actually start doing those things. But here, Elon can come in and say, yo, guys, I was at all
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the rallies. We said exactly what we were going to do. The American people voted for that.
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So, actually, media, you're on the wrong side of this. The media knew exactly what they were doing.
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The fact that Elon Musk is such a famous guy is actually what makes him perfect to be the head
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of Doge. Because they say, you're not being transparent. Not being transparent. Has Elon
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Musk ever had an untweeted thought since he spent $44 billion to buy Twitter?
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You're hiding the ball, being opaque. This is one of the most famous men on planet Earth
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who is constantly telling you every single thing that he's doing on the major social media platform
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that he bought and that he now owns. What are you talking about? This is what the people wanted.
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It would have been a lot easier for the Senate to shoot down Tulsi Gabbard had she not been
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campaigning with Trump. Okay, it'd be a lot easier for the Senate to shoot down Bobby Kennedy
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had he not been campaigning for Trump. But all these guys within the Senate and even perhaps
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to some degree, even some in the media, recognize, oh, yikes. It's not just that we have to fear the
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wrath of Donald Trump or something. If we push too hard here, we got to fear the wrath of the voters
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who made their choices clear. Caroline Levitt made this point beautifully. Doge is popular.
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People wanted, nobody is out there campaigning or protesting for all the bloat in the federal
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government, you know, USAID money being sent overseas for transgender ballets in Thailand or
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something. No one is really actively campaigning for that. So the more that the left tries to make
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an issue out of Elon or an issue out of Doge, the more that the White House can come out and say,
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hey, you want to know what Doge is actually getting rid of? Caroline, take it away.
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Before it was Elon Musk making our government efficient and accountable. It was some unnamed
00:31:02.300
bureaucrat that none of you knew. Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. He's also
00:31:07.460
now one of the most highly scrutinized men in the world alongside President Trump because
00:31:11.580
of what he's doing and the access that he is allowing. So there's great transparency.
00:31:16.240
As for the actual receipts, we are happy to provide them. And I actually brought some today
00:31:20.620
because all of you know, I love to bring the receipts. We have contracts upon contracts that
00:31:25.860
we can send and provide this information to you. Let me be very clear. We are not trying to hide
00:31:30.600
anything. We have been incredibly transparent and we will continue to be. These are screenshots of
00:31:35.680
contracts that Doge found across our government. This is a DEI contract, $36,000 for U.S. citizenship and
00:31:42.840
immigration services. That is against the president's policies and his America First agenda. This is a
00:31:47.920
$3.4 million contract, a council for inclusive innovation at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
00:31:55.840
Department of Commerce, another DEI contract that Doge identified. I can continue to go through these.
00:32:01.940
Oh, I love this one. $57,000 for climate change in Sri Lanka. What is this doing to continue the
00:32:09.400
interests of the American people? Absolutely nothing. This is just going to be a consistent
00:32:15.180
winner for Republicans. Great. Just keep, please keep going after Elon Media. I'm begging you,
00:32:23.400
please keep going after Elon. One of the most public and scrutinized men in the world, meaning he's
00:32:29.720
pretty durable. You can keep trying to attack him, but trust me, if they,
00:32:33.420
if it were possible to have taken down Elon with some reputation scandal, that would have happened
00:32:40.860
years ago. He's been scrutinized for a long time. This is in part why Caroline Levitt is a really good
00:32:46.920
choice for press secretary. She ran for Congress. She endured at least some degree of political
00:32:52.620
scrutiny. This is why I think it's smart for President Trump to pick media hosts for big positions
00:32:59.800
in his government. Pete Hex said that the Pentagon is a good example. If you are in public life,
00:33:05.140
if you are regularly on camera, or you've passed laws, or you run major companies, at least at the
00:33:13.480
degree that Elon has, because he has been such a celebrity, you have been subject to scrutiny.
00:33:19.840
So there aren't going to be all that many surprises, generally speaking. And so then the focus is just on
00:33:25.600
the program. Great. The program's a winner. This is like when Trump posted to Truth Social and then
00:33:30.120
actually signed an executive order saying that he's going to bring back plastic straws. Okay,
00:33:35.220
great. Now you've put Democrats in the position of defending paper straws. No one likes paper straws.
00:33:40.940
Now Caroline Levitt and Elon and Trump have put the Democrats in the position of defending,
00:33:47.860
sending a bunch of money overseas for climate change in Sri Lanka. You think the American people want
00:33:53.520
that? They don't. Wonderful. Great. You keep getting them to defend things that 15% of voters at most
00:33:59.960
support. Now, this brings us back to the broader problem that the Democrats have now, which is they
00:34:08.780
are not thinking straight. They're thinking gay because they're Democrats. No, I'm joking. They're
00:34:13.060
not thinking straight because they've been driven crazy by Trump. So they keep falling for his traps
00:34:19.680
because he makes them so angry with the way that he speaks and the people that he puts around him.
00:34:26.260
Like Elon, just why Elon? He's not even wearing a tie. Why is he? Why is he there? I hate him.
00:34:30.660
You know, they're just going so crazy that they keep making mistakes like defending paper straws
00:34:35.560
or a bunch of money for climate change in Sri Lanka or whatever. And this is possibly even a
00:34:43.020
clinical fact. There's an article out from the Daily Beast quoting a number of psychologists.
00:34:48.980
Psychologists are saying, they've seen an uptick in clients. It is because of Trump.
00:34:55.480
The clients are Democrats. They can't handle it. Quote, I think we can take so much of something
00:35:01.180
before the human brain just like peters out and says, I can't keep up. Sanam Hafiz, a New York-based
00:35:05.660
neuropsychologist, told Axios. This is being reported by the Daily Beast. The digital news site
00:35:10.800
interviewed a handful of psychologists and mental health experts about the impact on Americans.
00:35:16.500
Andrea Bonior, a Georgetown University professor and psychologist, told Axios she had seen an
00:35:22.780
increase in patients, largely Democrats, citing burnout and despair, in part due to the mounting
00:35:28.420
uncertainty generated by Trump's rapid-fire policies and the energy required to keep up.
00:35:32.940
So this is actually probably good for Democrats in the long run because it's showing them their own
00:35:40.360
mental, emotional, spiritual fragility. A politician that you don't like entering office should not
00:35:49.400
be enough to send you to the loony bin. If that does send you to the loony bin, you have underlying
00:35:55.520
psychological problems. You have problems of mental resiliency. You probably have spiritual problems.
00:36:02.560
You probably just don't understand the world all that well. I think probably the thing that is
00:36:08.080
driving the Democrats' craziest here, and you can see it in how crestfallen they seem right now,
00:36:13.040
how really despairing they seem, is that Trump won the popular vote. So they can't make sense of it.
00:36:18.940
I've spoken to Democrat friends of mine who've said, I just thought I understood the country and I don't.
00:36:23.880
I just thought I understood the country, but then almost half of Hispanics voted for Trump. What?
00:36:27.540
Even a disproportionate number of black guys, even a lot of women, even, wow, I guess I just didn't
00:36:34.980
understand the country. I think that's what they're most upset about is how embarrassed they are. They
00:36:42.060
just got it wrong. Either Richard Gere is right and the majority of Americans are fascists, or these
00:36:51.180
Democrats just kind of got it wrong. Good. That's a good opportunity for us. This is a teachable
00:36:55.120
moment, as people used to call it. I say, right, yeah, you were wrong about Trump, about voters,
00:37:02.280
about politics. Yeah. But good, this is an opportunity for your healing. Trump is here.
00:37:10.340
Trump is doing so much great stuff. Not only is he going to fix the economy and foreign policy,
00:37:14.520
he's even going to fix your brain, Democrats. Lucky you. You're getting a lot for this election.
00:37:20.140
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Aslan81, who says, apparently Siberia has such a large trans population, they were able to form
00:38:06.860
their own orchestra. And it's pretty good, too. It is pretty good. That's what, man, maybe we need to
00:38:12.500
ship all of the trans-identifying people off to Siberia and give them all cellos. Because I agree,
00:38:19.840
that orchestra is very, very good. Speaking of the political divide, evangelical pastor Rick Warren
00:38:30.860
has gone viral for making a political point through his understanding of religion. He posted a picture
00:38:42.180
of our Lord being crucified on Mount Calvary with the two thieves on either side. And Rick Warren
00:38:49.760
said, John 19, 18, they crucified Jesus with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
00:38:57.720
And then Warren adds, the guys on both sides were thieves. If you're looking for the hashtag real
00:39:04.420
Jesus, not a caricature disfigured by partisan motivations, you'll find him in the middle,
00:39:10.200
not on either side. Now, the problem with this analogy is that the thieves on either side of
00:39:19.860
our Lord were not the same. The thief to our Lord's right is in heaven right now, St. Dismas,
00:39:29.400
the first saint. And the thief to our Lord's left is in hell. So not, if the point that Rick Warren
00:39:39.920
was trying to make here is, don't look to the right or the left, man. You know, that's all bad
00:39:44.920
stuff. It doesn't work when the guy on the right is in heaven enjoying perfect beatitude with our Lord
00:39:51.620
right now, was with him that day in paradise. And the one on the left is burning in hell.
00:39:59.440
That doesn't, that's not the best analogy for Mr. Warren to prove his point. I don't really know
00:40:04.360
anything about Rick Warren other than I know he's a very prominent evangelical. And I thought that he
00:40:10.080
was on the right, but I guess in recent years, my friend, Megan Basham, who wrote a good book about
00:40:16.340
this, in recent years, I guess he's moved over to the left and a lot of, a lot of evangelicals who
00:40:21.400
used to be pretty rock solid for the Republican party, they've moved over to the left. And I don't
00:40:25.660
even, so Rick Warren has this weak analogy here about Calvary, but then even what is the point
00:40:33.940
that he's trying to make is the point that if you, if you want to understand how the faith should
00:40:42.080
inform your politics, because we're incarnate creatures, we move through time and space.
00:40:46.140
We have to engage in politics. We're the political animal. We got it. We live in a society. So it would
00:40:51.540
be better for our faith to inform our politics than for our faith to not inform our politics. That
00:40:55.960
sounds like a really bad idea. Okay. How should our faith inform our politics? It seems to me what
00:41:01.040
he's saying is you should just be a centrist according to whatever the standards the age embraces
00:41:07.060
at any given time. Isn't that what he's saying? You'll find the real Jesus, not, not on both sides,
00:41:15.600
not a caricature disfigured by partisan motivations, not on the right or on the left,
00:41:21.540
you'll find him in the middle. So that's like what Bill Clinton basically is that that is that
00:41:27.800
what he's saying? No, look, if you're a real Christian, you're not going to be over there
00:41:33.400
with those extreme conservatives on the right. You're, and you're not going to be even on the
00:41:39.780
left. You're going to be right in the middle with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. What? Uh, I don't think
00:41:46.000
so. And hold on now we're using, we're actually using the spirit of the age in order to ascertain
00:41:54.680
what our Lord wants for us. Um, I was always told if you marry the spirit of the age, you'll find
00:41:59.960
yourself a widow in the next. I was always told not really to become too attached to worldly things.
00:42:05.160
What? It even then gets to the question of where these terms left and right come from left and the
00:42:12.000
right. I hope Rick Warren knows this. Maybe he doesn't the term, the terms left and right come
00:42:18.860
from the French revolution. When the Christians sat on the right of the national assembly and the
00:42:24.220
atheists and the secularists and the anti-religious people sat on the left. And broadly that just kind
00:42:31.140
of existence today. So I don't know, weak analogy, real, real confusing. I don't know what's,
00:42:37.640
what's gotten into a Mr. Warren here. Uh, well, I actually do know a little bit cause I've talking
00:42:43.120
to Meg, Meg Basham and other evangelical friends of mine who've said something's, something has cracked
00:42:48.180
among the evangelicals. I don't know. So they gotta, they gotta get back on track here politically.
00:42:53.040
I don't know. Whoever knows Rick Warren out there, someone's got to talk to him. Now, speaking of
00:42:58.940
critical thinking is a study out says that people who use and trust artificial intelligence
00:43:07.920
lose their critical thinking skills. This is a study that was conducted by Carnegie Mellon and
00:43:14.020
Microsoft found people who use AI regularly for basic routine tasks will lose their ability for
00:43:21.580
complex critical thinking. And then this from the outlet Futurism from social workers to people who
00:43:28.000
write code for a living, the professionals surveyed were all asked to share three real life examples
00:43:32.480
of when they used AI tools at work and how much critical thinking they did when executing those
00:43:36.460
tasks. Those who trusted the accuracy of AI found themselves thinking less critically. And the
00:43:43.980
researchers then concluded that AI can result quote in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that
00:43:49.900
ought to be preserved. This is not surprising. I should be expected. Now it doesn't mean you
00:43:55.060
shouldn't use AI. I use AI. In fact, now when I'm putting together, I don't know, a little bit
00:44:00.140
of research, whether for something that I'm writing or for a speech I'm going to give, or even for part
00:44:03.980
of the show, I will go to AI. In fact, you sort of have to go to AI because even if you go to Google,
00:44:09.200
Google now integrates AI. So I'll, I'll check with AI. It can be a good research tool, but I do not
00:44:15.000
trust AI because I've said, Hey, AI, I'm trying, I'm thinking of this, uh, you know, text from some
00:44:22.340
medieval or ancient writer. I forget exactly where it is. Can you pull up that text? And then AI will
00:44:27.620
sometimes generate a bunch of text and you say, okay, give me a citation for that. They'll say,
00:44:32.320
okay, that's from the Nicomachean ethics book for, you know, this line, this section. Okay.
00:44:37.480
Hold on. I don't quite remember that. Pull up a link for that. And if they will pull up a link,
00:44:42.960
then you click on it and you'll realize AI just made up the quote. They'll just, you know,
00:44:46.780
just totally made it up. And then you'll tell AI, you say like, you just made that up.
00:44:51.020
And AI will say, Oh yeah, sorry. I guess I did. So you can't trust it, but a lot of the time it can
00:44:57.060
be a good place to start, but then you have to go, you actually have to do the homework and check it
00:45:00.060
yourself. And even there, I find myself, I'm relying a little bit too much on it, but this,
00:45:05.580
this has been a complaint going back all the way to antiquity when, when poems were written down
00:45:12.260
for the first time and people complained, Oh no, this is going to, this is going to destroy people's
00:45:16.780
memory. Previously, epic poetry was the, would be the sort of thing you memorized. Someone would
00:45:20.420
memorize the Iliad and you'd go and recite the Iliad. As people started to write things down,
00:45:27.560
all of a sudden you say, Oh no, people, they're going to lose their memories. And it's, it's true.
00:45:30.860
People are really bad at memorizing things these days. C.S. Lewis saw this in abolition of man.
00:45:37.660
He said, with this kind of progress, every step forward for man is actually a step backward with
00:45:43.800
each, with each advance that we make, we lose a little bit of our humanity. So you think about
00:45:50.120
the technology of, uh, artificial reproduction, whether it's IVF or, uh, genetic engineering of
00:45:59.920
babies or genetic selection with each step, we're taking a step forward. Well, okay. Yeah. We can now
00:46:05.060
exert greater control over our children, the kind of children that we're going to have,
00:46:09.540
but it's a step backward because it means that the children, all future human generations will have
00:46:15.360
lost something. They will have become enslaved to the whims and caprices of their ancestors or of
00:46:22.620
the scientists that their ancestors hired to help develop them. Every step forward becomes a step
00:46:27.400
back. The more that we seed of our daily lives to machines, well, the less we have to do, the less
00:46:34.340
human that we will be. Now, speaking of AI, J.D. Vance just absolutely crushed it at the Paris AI
00:46:43.540
summit, but we don't have time to get to that today. Does it, you know, I'm a tease. I'm a little bit
00:46:49.400
of a tease, but I will point out J.D. Vance did such a good job defending American interests at the
00:46:55.760
Paris AI summit that shares of Intel, Intel, which had been, you know, huge tech company, which had
00:47:01.240
been being pummeled recently, shares of Intel closed 6% up after J.D. Vance gave his speech. Really
00:47:07.180
impressive performance because we are in a new arms race and it's not an arms race for the nuclear bomb
00:47:13.440
like we had during the second world war. It's not an arms race that built over the course of the cold
00:47:20.520
war as we stockpiled our nuclear arsenals. This is an arms race over AI and quantum computing.
00:47:27.500
Will we win remains to be seen. First though, got to say goodbye to the hoi polloi right now. We are
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