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There is yet another battery breakthrough.
I'll bet I could do a story every day about a battery breakthrough or a story about nuclear fusion having another step forward.
Oh, by the way, there's another story today about nuclear fusion taking another big step forward.
I'm not going to talk about it because I don't understand any of the science, but in case you wondered, nuclear fusion took another big step forward today.
And so did batteries for cars and whatnot.
So there's some new research that says you can add some relatively common items and it will make your battery charge Uh, hold their charge by as much as 90% increase the stability.
So big, a big, uh, economical advantage to batteries.
Now it seems like batteries would be boring, but I'm telling you, everything depends on batteries and holes.
If we can dig really good holes to get to the geothermal energy and also oil, if we need it, um, and we can make better batteries.
It solves almost all of our problems.
Almost all of them.
I even wonder if batteries and solar power and nuclear, I even wonder if it's all related to the debt.
You think of one being technology and the other is financial, but it seems to me that our financial system is going to disappear.
I don't know that there's any way that our current financial system will still be here in, I don't know, even a year.
So I don't know what it will be replaced with.
I fully expect I will no longer be a comfortable wealthy person when this is all done.
I got a feeling we're all going to be about in the same boat, no matter what happens.
But we'll probably survive.
I think we'll do fine.
And I think we'll come out ahead.
Because I think the new technologies should create a situation where we just redo the world.
Start from scratch.
What would happen if you just said, we're not going to pay back any of our loans?
Do you ever wonder what would happen?
We'd be in a lot of trouble.
Well, California is going to greatly increase my taxes in every possible way because it's so poorly run.
That we have a giant deficit and it's nowhere near closable.
So if I stay in California, my taxes go way, way up.
And then Biden promises to let the Trump tax breaks lapse, which would be a huge increase in my taxes.
And then on top of that, he wants to increase the capital gains tax to take the money I've already made.
So he wants to take them a lot more of the money I'm making.
And then take a big chunk of the money I already made and I thought I got the keep.
Well, that's not cool.
But that's happening.
Wall Street Apes is reporting that San Francisco did in fact carry out a big solar geoengineering cloud brightening experiment where they shot some kind of item into the atmosphere to try to reflect the heat back.
Now you might ask, why was it a secret?
Well, it was a secret so people wouldn't complain.
They kept it a secret because it was too dangerous.
Or maybe to put it in their way, it wasn't dangerous, but people would think it was and stop it.
So they did it anyway.
But remember I told you the clouds looked weird?
It was probably that.
Yeah, the clouds look completely different for a few weeks.
And now they're back to where they should be.
I was noticing the other day, oh, looks like regular clouds again.
So something pretty big happened, I think.
There's a video of Jared Bernstein, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors for Biden.
So this would be one of the most important economic advisor positions.
And I saw somebody say that the chair of that, the Council of Economic Advisors, has no experience in economics.
Is that true?
He has no experience in economics?
Because the video is about he's being asked a simple question about economics and couldn't answer?
Apparently, our problems are exactly what they look like.
This guy looked thoroughly incompetent.
To the point where the reason it's viral is that he looks incompetent at his job.
Like, really incompetent.
Really, really incompetent.
Now, I'll tell you, it happens to be an older white guy, but if he had been a black woman in our current environment, what would you assume?
It turns out it's a white guy who's totally incompetent.
Totally incompetent.
I mean, at least he projects himself as having no capabilities whatsoever.
Now, if it had been a black woman, you would have assumed it was a DEI problem, wouldn't you?
So that's the unfairness with the current system that I think the DEI people didn't see coming.
DEI is a way to make the brightest and most effective people in your own community look like assholes.
That's what it does.
The people who actually earned every bit of what they got, you know, and maybe even worked against, you know, systemic racism and, you know, broke through barriers and did it all the right way.
And they're going to look like assholes because their own people decided that they wanted to change what competence looked like.
It's like, well, you don't have to take the SATs to go to college and You don't have to be that capable to get into an Ivy League school, and you don't have to be that good to get a great job at a big corporation.
So, yes, the optics of it are just going to get worse and worse.
Bill Maher had a show last night and he was talking about how the protesters were Chanting, uh, fuck Joe Biden.
And, uh, it was the pro-Israel and the anti-Israel people were chanting the same thing.
Now, as he joked, and we have joked before that, uh, they said Biden couldn't unite America, but he did.
He united them against himself.
Now, the reason I didn't talk about this story until he talked about it is that I don't trust that kind of video in 2024.
It was a picture of just a wide shot of a big protest.
You couldn't really tell who was talking.
But the claim on the video is that one side was saying, was chanting, fuck Joe Biden, and then the other side was.
So that both sides were chanting, fuck Joe Biden.
In the age of AI, you cannot assume that that's a real story.
And I still don't.
I don't know if it's real.
I think there's at least a 50% chance there's just an AI invention, and it's not even AI.
You wouldn't even need AI.
But look, it's believable.
I'd say it's believable.
But it's no more than a coin flip that it's a real video.
I would say.
And certainly even if it's real, I don't know if it's telling us anything about the world.
Maybe it's just about that event.
Imagine, if you will, being Joe Biden, Who at the same time he's trying to sell the idea of massive student debt relief, the headlines are all about those same students, or that's what our brains will do to us, it'll tell us it's the same students even though it's not, and watching them destroy the colleges and destroy upper education in general.
How in the world Do you win an election saying that we should be giving debt relief while we're watching students burn up their, not burn up, but vandalize and graffiti and block Jewish students from access to the college and all that?
It could not be better for Trump.
I don't think I've ever seen a situation that started to line up so well for one person.
And if it's true, the Rasmussen poll that came out yesterday had a 10-point lead for Trump, and today I see they're reporting that as a 12-point lead, but I think that's when you include the other candidates.
If you only include RFK Jr., it's a 10 point advantage for Trump.
If you throw in the even lesser candidates behind RFK Jr., then it turns into a 12% lead.
And those other people seem to be trying to get on the ballot, so I don't know how successful they are.
So a 10 to 12 point lead.
As Rasmussen reports it, it's too big to rig.
Too big to rig.
And you know what else?
Let's skip ahead a little bit.
Here are some things that Rasmussen is reminding us of today.
They also did some polling to ask Georgia voters and Arizona voters separately.
They asked them each who they voted for in the last election.
So in the 2020 election, Georgia voters were asked who they voted for, and 46% said Trump and 39% said Biden.
So that would be a seven point difference plus Trump.
And he lost Georgia.
And Georgia was contested for being allegedly a fake election.
So after the fact, when you do a scientific poll of the people who voted and you ask them who they voted for, they very clearly proved that the election was fake.
Now, is this polling completely confirmatory?
No.
Because people can forget who they voted for.
And their minds can change over time.
I would not be surprised if people were embarrassed to say they voted for Biden.
I think there's an embarrassment factor that figures into the polling.
But, on the surface, On the surface, it looks like it's pretty solid evidence.
Not 100%.
I can't give it 100%.
But it's a really solid indication the election was rigged.
And rigged by maybe 7%-ish.
So that would put Trump's margin of victory too big to rig.
Too big to rig.
Now, the same thing with the Arizona voters.
In this case, it was a question about if they voted for Carrie Lake or Katie Hobbs.
The Arizona voters said that 51% of them voted for Lake, and 43% of them voted for Hobbs.
Hobbs won.
Even though the people who say they voted for Lake, there are 8 points more.
8 points?
An 8 point difference?
That's huge.
So after the fact, way more people say they did vote for Lake, but Hobbs won.
Now is that proof that Arizona was rigged?
Not 100%, but it's really strong evidence that it was.
Really strong evidence.
In fact, if you had to bet, I think the smarter bet would be that it was rigged, just based on this alone.
If you didn't know anything else, And you knew how the world works.
I think the smart bet is that it's rigged, but it's not proven.
And there's no court that has said it's true.
But you've got the college protests, which are all pro-Trump.
You've got the irregularities in the voting, which seem to be more and more clear and more and more obvious.
That's all pro-Trump.
He's up in the polls enough to beat the rigging, the alleged.
Rigging effect.
That looks good.
Now, you might ask yourself, why is it that Biden ever got as far as he did?
Do you ever wonder about that?
How in the world did we get to this point?
Yeah, well, how did we get here?
And there's a study that might shed some light on this.
So there's a recent study published by the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and found a significant link Between economic inequality and voter behavior.
Here's what the link is.
The greater the economic inequality, the more voters will prefer an incompetent leader over a competent one.
So in other words, if having capable leaders gets you lots of income inequality, then people will say, you know what?
I'd rather have a retard.
At least this income inequality won't be so bad.
So apparently that actually shows up in at least one scientific study, if you can believe any scientific studies.
So it might be that because the economy was good under Trump, and good economies in a capitalist world almost always mean income inequality.
Is that fair?
That in a capitalist system, when the economy is doing great, It almost always means that the top is gaining over the bottom.
Every time I've ever heard of it, that's the case.
So you could imagine that the people who are feeling, especially young people, who are feeling everything's too expensive and you can't possibly do anything, they probably think the income inequality is so high that they'd rather have an incompetent, brain-dead president If he would promise to do something about it, which he did.
So we actually have scientific evidence that people will pick a brain-dead president if income inequality is their top interest.
So that makes sense.
I don't know if that science is valid, but it would explain what we're seeing.
All right, the head of ABC News is allegedly on the Potential chopping block, say the rumors in the industry.
It's ABC News President Kim Godwin, who famously touted diversity, equity and inclusion, DEI.
And she is a black woman, at least according to the picture.
I saw a picture.
Now, this is a perfect example.
What do we assume about the president of ABC News that's not getting the job done?
And that's the story.
You assume that she got her job because she's black and she's a woman.
I don't know that.
She could be the best executive of all time and maybe just things aren't going her way.
But imagine earning this position and having everybody just assume you didn't earn it.
It's really, really bad for all the capable people.
Everybody who's capable is going to look like they're not.
I can't imagine a worse situation.
So yes, you're making the assumption that a lot of people are going to make, and it's terribly unfair, although in some cases it'll probably be true.
I just don't know if it's true in this case.
As the creator of Dilbert, I can tell you that CEOs get replaced because they had bad luck, and they get promoted because they had good luck.
So sometimes it's really about the industry.
Sometimes there's nothing you can do about it, but somebody has to be responsible.
Representative Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting about $600,000 in foreign bribes and money laundering with, you know, gigantic long terms.
Now, he's a Democrat.
Do you believe that a Democrat A credibly charged with these crimes is going to lose his job?
Or will he stay in his job?
Because Democrats really don't care if you're a criminal.
It looks like he'll probably stay in his job, even while he's fighting the charges.
I remind you that Gold Bar Bob and Representative Cuellar are probably not that unusual.
Do you believe they found the only people who are taking bribes?
Oh!
Oh, isn't that good that our law enforcement is all over it?
They found the only people who are taking some bribes in Congress.
No, I believe that we are a criminal organization.
And it's filled with criminals.
And everybody in the government is stealing as much as they can get away with.
And that's our government.
It's a bunch of criminals.
But it works.
Now, even when I say our government is a bunch of criminals, I like to provocatively add, it might be the best system.
Being in the mafia might be a good deal.
You know, if you're not the ones getting assassinated at the top.
If you're just working for the mafia, it might be great.
Imagine if you're like a mafia made man, and it's your job just to go around and collect money from the businesses you're extorting.
It's probably a pretty good job.
And if they actually create any actual protection for the company, like, you know, they always sell protection, the mafia does, but it's really protection from them.
But it might also be protection from other mafias and stuff.
So I do think we're a criminal enterprise, America is, but that, I hate to say it, it's just the best It's the best of all the bad options for how to run a country.
Crime pays, I guess.
So the America First Legal Fund got a win.
Apparently, the Biden administration put together this panel of immigration experts, and they would be advising the administration on immigration.
Would you be surprised to find out that it was hailed as a bipartisan thing, but it was all just a bunch of Democrat donors.
No, you would not be surprised, because it was corrupt.
It was criminal.
I mean, maybe not technically illegal, but completely corrupt, so much so that a legal act could make them disband, which is what happened.
So that America First Fund is doing really good work.
I have to say, you know, when it was first announced that there would be a sort of Republican lawfare kind of a group, you know, I didn't know how much impact they'd have, but it's looking like it might be the biggest thing happening.
Because they are shutting down, you know, all over the place, little bits of corruption.
All right, there's a new update.
It's going to sound like you've heard this before, but it keeps getting worse, actually, on the Mar-a-Lago boxes.
So Julie Kelly is all over this.
And there's this guy, Jay Bratt, who led the investigation into the documents.
And he was on the Jack Smith team.
After he was appointed, He met with aides to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain in September 2021.
So NARA, who's NARA?
Somebody said their General Counsel Gary Stern was working with the Biden's White House And DOJ as early as August 2021 before the boxes.
So there's evidence that the Jack Smith team was talking to the Biden White House before boxes gave became a thing a year before.
Then on top of that, on top of the fact that we know that they were talking to each other, which is very worrying because they should be separate entities.
We find out that the the GSA had a bunch of boxes that they That they sent to Trump.
So it wasn't Trump denying boxes to the GSA.
That happened later, but earlier the GSA was trying to get him to take boxes.
And today's reporting, and I think I'd wait for a confirmation of this.
I'm not entirely sure this next part is true, but the reporting is that the classified documents were in the ones that the GSA pushed on Trump.
Just think about that.
The classified ones, the ones that were problems, allegedly, and I'm not sure this is true yet, so I'd give this a 5 out of 10 for credibility at this point.
But there's thought that those were the bad ones, which would suggest that they were planted, and that it was all a plot.
But there's even newer news today.
It turns out that when you find, you know, when they found the boxes, they documented the order of the boxes.
And apparently the order of where the boxes were piled up in the storeroom is part of the case.
Because if the order that they had been received from the GSA was the same order that they had been removed, it would suggest that they had not been messed with.
And I think Trump's defense says he didn't know what was in the boxes.
They came from the GSA.
It turns out he didn't know what was in the boxes because they came from the GSA.
And it turns out that that sort of chain of custody thing is corrupted.
So apparently the order that the Department of Justice has for the boxes is not the order they were in.
So something got changed in the evidence since the evidence was collected.
Now put it all together.
The people involved met with the Biden White House a year before.
The GSA had documents that they sent to Trump, allegedly with the bad stuff in it, and then they said you knew there was bad stuff in it, but only because they changed the evidence that showed that the order of the boxes had not been disturbed, which would suggest that nobody looked at them after they were shipped in.
Now, how many of you thought that Trump was down in that warehouse looking through boxes at any time?
Can you even imagine, just even hold it like, you couldn't even get AI to draw this picture of Trump looking through files in a box.
You can't even hold it in your head.
I don't think there's any chance that Trump or anybody he told to do it was pouring through the boxes looking for classified documents to make sure they were not in there, or to look through things that he didn't know were in there.
Now keep in mind, If the story was these are the boxes that Trump and his people wanted packed up, why would he look through them?
He would know what was in it, because he asked them to pack it up.
Or it was stuff his staff packed up and he wouldn't be interested in that either.
It's either things he knew was there or things he's not interested in.
I can't imagine he'd look through it.
So I would say this looks like the Mar-a-Lago document case.
Looks like the Russia collusion situation.
To me, it looks like a complete setup.
And it looks like a Democrat plot.
And how many times are the Democrats going to do a RICO plot without getting RICO'd?
I think every person involved in this probably belongs in jail.
I mean, it looks to me like Jack Smith belongs in jail.
And I think, here's what I think the Democrats are going to start doing.
They're going to have to start laying down some suppressive fire because they know they're all going to go to jail.
They're going to have to start saying Trump is a dictator and he's going to jail all of his enemies when he gets in power, which he should do, by the way.
He should jail all of them because they've all done what I would consider pretty obvious treasonous acts.
So, I mean, obviously the justice system has to do what it does.
You can't be a dictator about that stuff.
But if the legal system decides they should go to jail, well, I don't think you can blame the Trump administration for that.
So yes, I think the whole Mar-a-Lago thing looks like a criminal enterprise.
And if all these people did in fact coordinate, then it's certainly Rico, isn't it?
I mean, I'm no lawyer, so I don't know when RICO exactly applies, but if it's a whole bunch of people working on a plot to do an illegal thing, what do you call it?
I mean, they're operating exactly like a mafia, so why wouldn't that rule apply?
Seems like it would.
Well, so the Mar-a-Lago case has completely fallen apart.
As I told you the other day, Chris Cuomo and everybody smart, Says that the case about the overvaluing the assets in New York was a bullshit case because the banks were not hurt and it was normal practice.
So you've got Boxgate fell apart.
You've got the Georgia election looks like it definitely was rigged and Trump will be He's in a case for suggesting it was rigged, and if they counted better, they would find out that it was rigged.
And he's maybe going to go to jail for questioning an election which, at least according to the Rasmussen poll, looks pretty rigged.
So there's the time he thought it was rigged and he was right.
There was the boxes that they sent to him to set him up.
There was the business as normal case For just getting a loan that nobody says was a problem, including the banks.
And then there's this Stormy Daniel case that has had nine witnesses, and even CNN, yesterday, said there's no evidence of a crime.
After nine witnesses.
That's all his lawfare, isn't it?
Did I get them all?
There's the Georgia Find Me The Votes, on an election that was in fact rigged, pretty obviously.
The Mar-a-Lago boxes, which are clearly a setup.
The New York valuing the assets, which was clearly just a made-up case, because that was business as usual.
And then the Stormy Daniel case, where they can't even find a crime.
They invented a crime.
That's 0 for 4.
That's 0 for 4.
And I would say at this point we can conclude that he's not going to jail for any of this yet.
He's not going to jail for any of this.
Nope.
I don't think so.
I don't think he's going to jail for any of this.
So they're 0 for 4, and I would further suggest that probably all of these cases were coordinated through the Biden White House, and I would suspect we're going to learn about it at some point.
I suspect that someday somebody is going to say, you know what, we have a whistleblower here who says Biden coordinated all four cases, or the way I was did.
Yeah, they all belong in jail.
Every one of them.
Everybody involved in the Russia collusion hoax, the covering up the Hunter laptop thing, and all four of these cases, they should all be in jail.
All right.
Speaking of whistleblowers, the fact that two people who are whistleblowers in the airline industry is looking pretty sketchy.
So maybe that's exactly what it looks like.
There's news that Grok will start summarizing the news for you on the X platform.
So I guess it'll look through all the posts in the news and it'll summarize it for you.
How do you think that's going to work out?
Do you think Grok could be an unbiased source of interpreting the news?
How does Grok know what's true?
Because the news will tell you opposites.
If Grok is just looking at the news, it's going to see that Trump committed 91 crimes, and also that he didn't, and it's all made up.
How's Grok going to pick one?
And if it both sides it, Is it going to be useful?
I think it's going to both sides of everything because that's all you can do.
Yeah, I don't know.
I'll keep an eye on that.
The fact that, you know, Musk is doing it gives me some assurance that it'll at least be a smart try.
Right?
I don't know how to make it a smart try, but I have confidence that maybe somebody else knows and they figured out how to do it.
So we'll see.
I'm going to be optimistic about that.
Hotep Jesus has a video out, he's pointing out that he had claimed early on, and correctly I think, that the Palestinian protests, the Hamas protests, are really just Black Lives Matter Version 2.
And a big part of that is that George Soros is funding both of them.
So, everything goes back to George Soros, doesn't it?
And I remind you, It's another day where Alex Soros, who allegedly is the one in charge now of the money allocation, has not been on television explaining whether or not his business or his charities funded that.
How long do we have to go before Alex Soros is on TV being interviewed about any funding that made it through the protesters?
Is that not really obviously missing?
Am I wrong?
But wouldn't he be the number one interview person you'd want?
Is there anybody who would be more on point that you'd want to talk to than Alex Soros?
I haven't even seen somebody say they tried to get him and couldn't.
Yeah.
This is clearly, clearly some kind of Soros and probably Atlantic Council situation.
I don't know if they intended it to go this way, but there's certainly the funders and the energy behind it, even if it went a way they didn't want it to go.
I would say that the protest would almost certainly guarantee Trump's reelection, unless something weird happens, which could.
So that's working to Trump's favor.
Here's the funniest thing.
Let's say you're an organization and you want to protest Israel, and in the process of doing that, you realize You're also going to be effectively protesting against American Jews and Israeli Jews.
So the public isn't going to be too discerning.
Like, we get it that it's really about the government of Israel, but when you start blocking Jewish students from getting into their own college that they're paying for, it doesn't look like it's about the government of Israel anymore.
It really looks like it's about Jews.
Now, Here's the funny part.
During the protest, it kind of looks like the protesters are winning, when it's all kinetic and physical.
Like when the protesters are physically keeping a Jewish student away from the school, it looks like the protesters are winning.
When the Jewish students say they are pulling out or they're afraid to go there, it looks like the protesters are winning.
But that's Short run.
Let me paint you a picture of the long run.
And this is going to make you laugh when you realize what's happening.
You know how we've said that the protesters, although they're weirdly effective at getting a lot of attention, and they've even got some concessions.
Do you know how we keep saying that they're really stupid?
Like, actually, they're just a bunch of stupid people, and that they're young and their brains aren't developed, and the people protesting don't even know why they're protesting.
In fact, every time somebody tries to ask somebody why they're protesting, the young women in particular have no idea.
They're clearly doing it as a lifestyle, you know, energy, just feelings kind of a thing.
They don't even know the issues, really.
So, you've got that.
But here's the funny thing I realized the other day.
The protesters have targeted the one group of people in the world who have the highest per capita number of lawyers in their midst of any group in the world.
That's right.
I don't know if you've heard of this, but Jews have a lot of lawyers.
Is anybody aware of that?
Do you know what?
Do you know what Act 2 looks like?
Let me tell you what Act 2 looks like.
And we've got an analogy to that.
Act 1 looks like October 7th.
The bad guys yell, walla, walla, walla, and run out of Israel and kill and rape people.
Just a horrible, horrible thing.
On October 7th, who would you say was winning?
Well, probably Hamas on October 7th.
How's it looking now, though?
Now a few months have passed.
How's Hamas doing?
Still a lot of winning?
No.
Their entire country is being reduced to rubble.
We'll talk about what comes later.
But if you look at day one, it looks like the Hamas is winning hard, kinetically.
But then you wait a few months, and Israel has complete control of the situation, and they're demolishing what's left of Gaza, and it will never be the same.
Whatever it is, it will never be like that again.
Now, think about the college protests.
Day one, and for quite a few days after that, it very much looked like the protesters had the upper hand.
Give me three months, And some of the best legal minds in the country are going to wrap those fuckers up in so much litigation and lawsuits that they'll never work again, and their idea about having another one of these protests is going to really change.
Because the legal ramifications for all of this, not only the administrators of the school, but anybody who participated in it, are going to get sued That sued so hard that it will make the destruction of Gaza look like a Sunday school class.
Now, I don't think the protesters understood that they attacked the most legally capable group of people on the planet, indeed, in the history of human civilization, and in the galaxy.
It's the strongest entity you could ever go up against on a legal perspective.
So what you should expect is that the protesters get the upper hand, just like the mosque did on October 7th, but check back in three months.
In three months, a lot of people involved in this are going to be really sorry that they were involved because there will be legal ramifications that will be just crushing.
I think. So I think that's what's going to happen. Anyway, we'll wait to see about that.
Robert De Niro is making news just by having TDS and being a dope.
But even Musk is mocking him.
So Elon Musk was posting, he goes, well, Trump was actually already president for four years and his policies bore no resemblance to those of Hitler.
So this makes no sense.
And Musk goes on.
In fact, with the Abraham Accords, he made some progress toward peace in the Middle East, which was definitely not high on Hitler's agenda.
Now, you know, I feel like all the smart people, what I call the Internet Dads, are almost always on the same side on everything.
Have you noticed that?
There's a Democrat view, there's a Republican view, and then there's an Internet Dad view, which sometimes could agree with either one.
But when the Internet Dads have an opinion, they're all on the same side.
And I'm going to give you an example of this in a moment.
Well, here it is.
You're here to the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.
I got a little worked up about this yesterday.
And this is an act that would make it extra special illegal to do hate crimes, verbal hate crimes, I guess, against Jewish Americans.
And people against it would be Matt Walsh, David Sachs, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, Barry Weiss, me.
I don't think anybody who's smart and independent is for it.
Because it's an obviously terrible, terrible idea.
Terrible idea.
It's bad for Jews.
Terrible for Jews.
They just don't know it.
Well, no, I wouldn't say they don't know it.
Obviously a lot of them know it because they're against it.
So that's not fair to say.
Anyway, yeah, it seems unconstitutional, anti-productive, there are plenty of laws that would handle it as it is, etc.
So, I think that's a gigantic mistake, and I think that there might be enough smart people against it.
Brett Weinstein agrees.
Yeah, I don't think you'll find anybody that I would call one of the internet dads would be on the other side of this.
And it's important to note that a number of them are Jewish.
And they're not in favor of this extra protection for Jews.
Which, by the way, is one of the most... I can't even tell you how much I respect that opinion.
Now that is something I have a lot of respect for.
If you're Jewish and you're saying, nope, too far, can't have special rules for me, that I respect.
A lot.
And it's smart, too.
I mean, I don't just have to respect it because it's a moral, ethically correct view.
I can respect it just because it's smart.
It's good for self-interest.
It's good for everything.
Now, my problem with it, especially, is that it would give people like the ADL too much power to point out somebody being bad.
My attention was called to an article in The Nation, a publication,
Which had a little headpiece on the ADL being bad, and it talks about, let's see, earlier this month a number of former ADL staffers confided to Jewish Currents, I guess that's the publication, quote, that in the past months Greenblatt, he's the head of the ADL, has redirected the ADL's day-to-day work to target pro-Palestine activism rather than focusing on anti-Semitism in American life.
A shift, they say, seriously undermines the organization's credibility.
In other words, they're saying that their own leader is not doing the mission that they thought they signed up for, but he's essentially being an operative for Israel.
And then the nation goes on.
Even before the war in Gaza, they had been concerned by many progressive organizations.
Now remember, Progressives are the Democrats, and progressives should be on the same side as the ADL, you'd think.
But progressive organizations talked about the legitimacy of the ADL's alarmist claims regarding anti-Semitism.
And in 2020, more than a hundred such groups, including the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Movement for Black Lives, signed a drop the ADL open letter.
A hundred progressive organizations signed a letter to get rid of the ADL.
These are people on the same side.
They should be, right?
They should be on the same side.
And it requested that members of the progressive community not partner with the ADL.
Because it says, quote, the ADL has a, quote, history of ongoing pattern of attacking social justice movements led by communities of color, queer people, immigrants, Muslim, Arabs, and aligning itself with police, right-wing leaders, and perpetrators of state violence.
So in other words, the ADL, according to its critics, by aligning with Israel, Which many of the progressives are anti-Israel, has become the enemy, basically.
And there's some suggestion that the ADL has acted in the past as an unofficial Israeli spy platform.
I don't know how provable that is, but in effect, if you were just to look at what is the actions and what are the effects of the actions, they act like a proxy for Israel.
And so, I say that you can't have an Anti-Semitism Awareness Act at the same time you have a corrupt organization like the ADL, whose job is to attack people on behalf of Israel, apparently.
Which Israel, by the way, is not a big backer of them, holistically.
So, let me be clear.
Israel is not all pro-ADL.
You know, Israel, like everybody else, there's pro-this and anti-this.
So, it's not like the country is Overtly on the top line backing them, but could they really operate if Israel didn't back them?
If Israel said get rid of the ADL, they're making us embarrassed.
Do you think the ADL would still get funded?
I don't think so.
If Israel said stop funding the ADL, would they get funding?
It's hard to imagine they would.
They wouldn't get much.
So yes, I blame Israel and the government.
For not taking a stand against the ADL.
All right.
Here's a, I guess Israel has a plan for Gaza that they've announced.
So Netanyahu released a plan that has been described as a utopian to rebuild Gaza.
And let me tell you about Joel Pollack is writing about this in Breitbart.
And the idea is that They would start from scratch.
So instead of rebuilding Gaza to sort of look like the new version of what it was, they just throw away all the assumptions and just say, all right, here's this blank land.
What do you do with it?
Now, apparently there's some gas fields that have been discovered in northern Gaza.
So they actually have a way to pay with maybe some international help.
There is a way that they could fund the rebuilding of it, but this is what Israel wants it to be rebuilt as.
They envision a Gaza that's a thriving center for trade and innovation, so they're not looking to build it back as good as it was, because it wasn't good.
They're looking to build it back like the best place ever.
Now, persuasion-wise, this is the right play.
They absolutely had to create a vision of what it would look like if you just hang in there long enough and do what they say, you know, you could get to this better place.
Now there's a question of credibility and is it feasible and all that, and those are good questions, but it's very good in terms of the psychology of the situation to say that there's some end state that's better than it was, you know, despite all the losses between now and then.
Now, They say it would be a three-stage process.
Twelve months of humanitarian aid, followed by five to ten years of building it back, supervised by Arab states, they say.
And third, then once it's built back, there would be something called Palestinian self-rule and participation in the Abraham Accords.
Palestinian self-rule.
What do you think that really means?
Self-rule.
So then Gaza can form its own military, right?
Do all their own security?
Because they got that as self-rule?
That's not going to happen.
In a million years, this plan isn't going to happen.
But it's good persuasion to say that that's where you're heading for.
I think what they mean by Palestinian self-rule is, I saw another word in here, right, Palestinian administration.
So they want it to be administered by Palestinians.
May I interpret that for you?
Does administered by Palestinians mean there's a Palestinian leader, let's say elected leader, and they can do whatever they want because it's their own country?
You think it's that?
They can do whatever they want because it's going to be their own country.
Palestinians are going to administer it.
No.
I assume, because the only thing that could even make sense, Is that the entire security situation would be run entirely by Israel, which means that the leader, whoever the leader of Gaza is, a Palestinian, would be completely a puppet of Israel.
Everybody knows that, right?
The one thing Israel is not going to let happen is some Hamas anti-Israel guy being the head of Gaza.
They're not going to let that happen.
That would be stupid.
So when they say it's a Palestinian administration, I think that means picking up the garbage and collecting the taxes and all the little stuff of government.
I do not think this has anything to do with the security of the place.
The security will probably be handled separately.
Now, there might be Some way that the security is handled by friendly Arab states.
So you can imagine a situation where it's not Israel doing all the security.
Maybe it's Saudi Arabia.
Or somebody that we would trust to have the same economic interests, etc.
So, I don't know how practical any of this is, or how real Israel thinks it is, but it's certainly a good idea.
To have it out there as a plan.
So that's a solid strategy.
All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, this brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks.
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All right.
That's all for now.
The ADL's budget is $40 million.
I think it's higher than that.
I saw a number higher than $40 million.
All right.
Yeah, and there's also talk That Gaza will get a canal and, you know, they could do a bunch of development there.
Maybe.
We'll see.
All right, thanks for joining everybody.
I'm going to stay with the locals people for a moment.
