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We got lots of stories today.
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Bill Ackman had a funny story.
So investor Bill Ackman.
Now, you might know that he did an amazing job in going after the Harvard vocators and stuff.
And he got a lot of positive attention for being somebody who was willing to jump in there and fix a bad situation.
But I can speak from personal experience that as soon as you have a public win like that, Like you get involved in some topic and you think, Whoa, I think I actually made a difference.
You want to do it again.
Cause the dopamine hit is so good.
Wow.
I actually changed something.
And then people said, Hey, good job.
Feels good.
So Bill Ackman's in an Uber and the Uber driver mentions that, uh, the tipping doesn't go to him, but rather goes to Uber.
So Bill Ackman now potentially a little bit addicted to the buzz of Tackling the big injustices and getting them fixed.
Decides to post.
He tells the story about how it's an injustice and Uber is just stealing the money from the drivers.
And they post that on X to once again be a benefit to the country.
Except that the reader's notes on the post say that the system doesn't show the tips until later.
So, apparently they do get the tips, but it goes through a system before it gets to them.
So, the correction on that is, nope, it's just bad reporting.
You know, the interface makes it look like they don't get it, but they do get it later.
So, certainly a trap I've fallen into myself, but let me state that Bill Ackman is one of the most useful citizens in the country right now, because he's not running for office.
And apparently he's trying really hard to be useful.
Maybe this was a swing and a miss, but I'm going to give him full credit anyway.
I like the fact that he waded into it anyway.
So if you think I'm going to mock him because he got one wrong, sort of embarrassing in public, nope.
I'm going to go the opposite way.
He saw an injustice.
He saw that, in his opinion, the Uber people couldn't fix it themselves.
He has more juice, so he used his juice to try to solve a problem for them.
It may have been, you know, may have been a misstep in the sense that he didn't have all the information, but let's do more of this, not less.
You know, every time somebody with his level of power goes after injustice, it's probably a good thing.
You know, maybe not everyone's going to be a home run, but let's get us some more Bill Ackman, not less.
Well, he may have taken a swing too fast at that one.
Here's some more fake news from The Hill.
Listen to this headline.
Well, at least it's the way it's posted.
So this is the way it was posted on X. From The Hill, key RFK Jr.
advisor leaves campaign alleging, quote, hateful and divisive atmosphere.
Now, if you read that, Doesn't that sound like the hateful and divisive atmosphere is within the RFK Jr.
campaign?
Like, oh, it's falling apart, he can't hire good people.
That's what it sounds like, right?
And then you read the story, and the story says, basically, he just doesn't like being involved in politics anymore.
Now, is that the same?
That is really, really different.
To say that she's leaving because the campaign, the way they're presenting it, it would make you think that it's the campaign where the hateful, divisive atmosphere is.
But that's not even close to saying that the whole realm of politics is too filthy for her to want to be a part of it.
It's just fake news.
More fake news.
So the Senate is going to vote on this bipartisan ha-ha Border security measure?
Do I need to tell anybody here that all major legislation during the last few months before election are fake?
Are you all sophisticated enough to know that the border bill is fake without knowing any of the details?
You all know that, right?
The purpose for this kind of legislation is to embarrass the other team when they turn it down.
And the way you do that is you give it a name that sounds like something anybody would want.
Hey, how about a bipartisan border security bill?
Ha!
That's exactly what I want!
I can't think of anything I want more than a bipartisan security bill.
Yes!
Yes!
Give me the bipartisan security bill!
As long as I don't read the details.
Because that's where the poison pills are.
The poison pills that make it a big complicated thing that The public doesn't know it's complicated.
They don't really know what's in it.
They just know the title.
And the Democrats will cleverly stick something in there that Republicans can't possibly support.
Now, if you had never had a business education or business experience, you never would have heard this term poison pill.
If you don't know the concept of a poison pill, It's a thing that looks like it's attractive, but on the inside there's a piece of poison, so you better stay away.
If you didn't know that concept, you probably would not be alerted to the fact that the legislation is intended to be fake.
It's not even designed to be passed.
It's intended to be not passed by the people who made it, because they know that they can just use it politically.
Here's another one that's, let's say, in the category of maybe it's exactly what you think it is.
There's a lot of that lately.
A lot of stuff where you say, hmm, there's something a little weird about this situation.
The only way I could possibly understand it is if something terribly corrupt is happening.
Sort of the only thing you could think of that would explain what you observe.
All right, I'm going to give you an observation.
See if you can come up with any explanation for this that isn't corruption, or something in that corruption-like domain.
Here's the story.
The Washington Post, the new CEO, who, interestingly, is a white guy.
So, I guess I have to ask Jeff Bezos.
Were there no people of color That we're qualified to lead the Washington Post.
No women?
Now, of course, I'm just pulling his leg.
But if you believe in things like diversity, I don't know.
Seems like an interesting choice if you're living and working in that domain.
But anyway, good to see that a white guy can get a good job.
But the news is that the paper lost 77 million last year, and everything is trending bad.
So they lost 77 million, they're in a dying industry, and everything is trending bad.
There are fewer subscribers by far than there were a year or two ago.
So, how do you explain that Jeff Bezos, One of the notably best business people in the history of the United States, maybe the world, maybe the world.
How would you explain that he would keep something that loses $77 million a year?
What would be the reason for that?
Is it because if you took the Washington Post and at the mix, there would be no news?
No, there's plenty of news.
If anything, there's too much.
So it's not because it's necessary.
And it's not because it makes money.
And it's not because it's good for the country in some direct or indirect way.
The only reason you could possibly think of it is that the CIA is forcing them to do it because they have blackmail on Amazon.
Do you know what the government and the CIA in particular could do to screw Amazon a thousand different ways?
Like a thousand different ways.
So basically, to me it looks like an obvious case where Jeff Bezos is literally being blackmailed by his government.
That's what it looks like.
Can you give me any other explanation?
The only other one is that Bezos wants to do it for his own purposes.
Maybe get positive coverage for Amazon.
But it doesn't really feel like his style.
Does it?
I mean, you've seen him operating for decades now in public.
He's very public.
Does it feel like his style?
That he would just own a fake newspaper so they could gaslight the country?
What about that sounds compatible with anything you know about Jeff Bezos?
Nothing.
But what about this story sounds compatible with the fact, or the possibility, that the CIA or somebody in the government is literally blackmailing him?
And he just has to lose that money every year to keep them happy.
It fits the facts, and I don't know anything else it does.
I can't think of anything else that would even come close.
So maybe everything is exactly what it looks like.
That might be my theme for today.
Things are exactly what they look like.
All right.
In 2022, and maybe it's still true, Daily weed use exceeded daily alcohol use.
Now that part doesn't surprise me, and I wonder if the data is real.
Do you know what else happened in the last few years?
Daily weed use went from, you better not talk about that, to, well, it's kind of normal.
Don't you think that the survey would be influenced by the fact that the thing went from basically illegal, and you better not mention it, Oh, everybody's doing it.
So there's no problem if you mention it in a poll.
So I would worry about the data, but here's the interesting part.
Apparently the number of people who drink daily is around four.
Well, I'll just round off 15 million Americans drink daily.
I thought that was a lot more than you.
Did you know that only That only 15 million out of our 300, what's the population now?
340 million, something like that.
That actually seems low.
And I guess I must know a lot of alcoholics.
Because I know quite a few people who drink every day.
You know, usually like a drink after dinner sort of thing.
Or before dinner.
But I guess I'm impressed it's as low as it is.
But weed is up to 18 million.
Per day, using it daily.
Again, every time these two things are compared, you know that your news is fake bullshit gaslighting.
Why would you compare daily use of alcohol, a poison, to daily use of marijuana, a medicine?
Is there any other situation in which we compare a poison to a medicine?
Say, wow, look at that difference.
Hey, have you seen that people who take Hemlock oil and, well, I don't know what people do.
People who drink rat poison.
Let's compare those to people who take aspirin for their sore muscles.
Let's see who's doing better.
It doesn't really make sense to compare poison to medicine.
Now I get that not everybody uses weed as using it as medicine.
Totally get it.
But wouldn't that be true of a lot of medicine?
Painkillers, for example.
Perfectly legitimate use for painkillers.
All right, community notes is working according to a Bloomberg study.
Now this I did not expect to see.
So Elon Musk was boosting it as well.
So imagine Bloomberg, a news agency, looked into whether the community notes on X are helping and they said
So it's better than things on X. They don't go so far as to say it's better than the news, but did we have any recent experience that would suggest that people who are on X are better informed than people who are not?
Well, Here's an example of someone who says that they don't use social media.
Bill Maher.
Bill Maher just humiliated himself on his book tour by showing that he didn't know basic facts about the news when his entire business is talking about the news.
Why?
Well, he's told us that he keeps his news consumption to a very small set of things, which none of them lean right.
So not only is it a small set, but it only leads one direction, and in my experience, everything that I know that's real came from X. So the only thing, the only reason I understand, let's say, Hunter and the Burisma situation, is because of Mike Benz.
He's on X. And I could go down the line, you know, is it Colin Rugg, is it Mike Cernovich, is it Um, you know, I probably saw five to 10 people this morning, just this morning.
Oh, Dan Bongino talking about what is common process for, uh, you know, authorization of, of using your gun on a, on a search and a raid.
These are the things that the regular news is completely blank on.
I don't know anything until I see what the independents say, the independent voices.
So, everything that Bill Maher didn't know, such as Hillary Clinton was an election denier, that on January 6th there were no cops killed by the so-called insurrectionists, and there were a few other things.
Yeah, Jack Posabeck, other great sources.
So there's a community of, I'd say, maybe 20 different independent or not in the traditional corporate news field that are pretty much the only ones who know what's happening and say it honestly.
So if you don't have access to that world, you really don't know what's going on.
You really don't.
And I'm going to add myself to that list.
Let's see if I can get a confirmation on this, because it sounds like I'm just patting myself on the back, which I am.
What I do, where I talk about the persuasion element of the news, is that not additive?
And do you see it anywhere else?
I mean, every now and then I'll have a guest will say something about persuasion, but generally speaking, there's not somebody who kind of covers it every day.
So I feel like that's additive and I'm not part of the traditional news, you know, field.
So yeah, you miss all the good stuff if you're not an ex, that's a fact.
Um, there are no, uh, robot laboratories.
They're automated so the robots can just test lots of different things and just kind of grind it out.
I have a friend who, I think he's retired now, but he used to do a side work doing testing for big labs.
So they would contract him to do a bunch of tests in his own little personal laboratory.
Now the nature of the tests where they just say, Uh, we've got, you know, 20 things that we think might be good for killing cancer.
You know, maybe some naturally occurring things, that sort of thing.
Can you just test them all?
So he basically would have a bunch of test tubes and, you know, he'd be like, put a little, put a little drop of this in this one and, you know, wait a month and see what happened.
And it was just brute force.
It just took a human X number of hours to see if anything happened in those test tubes.
But that's all automatable.
Robots could do that 24 hours a day.
So it does seem to me that even if the robots don't achieve super intelligence, you know, so-called AGI, even if they don't become so smart that they can invent things on their own, they can still invent things through brute force because robots will simply be able to iterate faster than we can.
Well, that didn't work.
Try this.
That didn't work.
Try this, which is mostly where innovation comes from.
So that's interesting.
There's a study that shows why gratitude makes you feel better.
Now, apparently, this is the way hypnotists like to think, or at least the way I like to think.
I don't think of humans as this bag of magic.
Like, well, they have feelings and they've got souls and their spirit and a bunch of magic in there with their free will.
Like, I don't see the world that way.
I see the brain as a machine and all the parts of the machine have their own little role.
So when somebody explains something to me as to why something works or doesn't work, I don't want to hear about somebody's feelings.
I want you to tell me which part of the brain gets activated.
If you can tell me that, I'll think, well, that's real.
You know, in an engineering sense, if you can do this thing that activates one part of the brain or gets it to experience some neuroplasticity, then I understand that as a machine and not a bunch of magic.
And that's good.
Here's an example of that.
I always wondered how gratitude worked.
You know how every expert seems to say, if you express gratitude, it makes you feel better.
It's a way to beat mental illness, basically.
And now they have some ideas or some testing, found out why that is.
That when you express gratitude, they can measure what it affects which part of the brain.
And it goes right to the part of the brain and the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for dopamine.
So they can actually measure now.
This is very cool.
I'm very excited about it.
They can determine that the act of gratitude, let's say just writing in a journal, all the things you're grateful for, they can actually see which part of the brain lights up and they know that that's the dopamine maker.
Now that, Now that's some science.
That's the science I want.
Now I'm hoping it stands up and it's real.
But I'm going to extend this.
So you know that dopamine is what makes you feel good and can cure some of your mental illness, right?
If it's, you know, not the serious mental illness.
But I'm going to take this a little bit further.
Have you ever noticed that if you're in a good mood, things around you look like they're going in the right direction?
And if you're in a depressed, terrible mood, it feels like your reality itself is all negative.
Right?
So you know from your own experience of being happy versus unhappy, that the world looks different.
So I'm going to suggest that dopamine is Is what gives you a subjective reality that's a better one.
That when your dopamine's high, you just see everything positively.
Because reality is subjective.
And since you live full-time in a subjective reality, you don't get to go vacation in the other one.
You only live in the one in your head that you created of the world.
And then you go out in that world, but you created it.
Because you're experiencing it within the model that your head created.
That's how you experience it.
So I think dopamine is the illusion drug.
I think dopamine changes your perception that everything's working out, even if it isn't.
And the lack of dopamine makes you think everything's bad, even if it isn't.
So you should learn how to boost your dopamine.
We now know all the different ways to do it.
Get outside, do some lifting, don't eat too much sugar, do some gratitude, be in a relationship, hug some people.
We know how to do this now.
So if you want to change reality, that's cool if you can do it.
But most of us just have to live with the reality that's here.
So you can change the reality into a positive reality as you experience it, just by gratitude.
Now, I've actually experimented with this.
It totally works, and it's almost instant.
The form of gratitude that I prefer is if I'm in a deep funk, every now and then it happens, I can get out of it by randomly doing something really good for somebody who didn't expect it.
Now that's not gratitude per se, but I'm positive it's the same part of my brain, because you can almost feel it in the same part.
And it just boosts the dopamine, takes you right out of your depression.
So try this.
Next time you have, like you're just in a funk, just make your body do something good for somebody who wasn't expecting it.
Watch what happens.
You'll be instantly into a different reality.
NVIDIA announced a record $26 billion in revenue.
I don't like to give investment advice, but I'm going to give you some generic investment advice.
First of all, I do own some shares in NVIDIA, but I'm not one of the smart people who got it when the getting was good.
I got it a couple of months ago, and it's been great.
Now, this is not investment advice.
But I'll tell you something that's sort of a generally good thing to do.
You should probably invest in the strongest company in whatever industry looks to be in its beginning stages and unstoppable.
Now, that doesn't mean Nvidia lasts forever, because someday they'll have good competitors.
But if you had invested in IBM when computers were just coming on, well, that would have been the greatest thing anybody ever did.
If you had invested in Tesla when there was not yet an electric car, but you were sure it was going to happen, that would have turned out well.
It was the best company in a growing space.
If you had invested in Apple when Apple built the smartphone, my God, would you have made money?
Because you could tell as soon as you saw the smartphone, oh, we're not going back, right?
You knew we weren't going backwards, and they were the best ones in the space.
One of the two.
So, NVIDIA is the strongest company in the most important industry maybe that will ever happen in the history of humankind.
Does that make it a good investment?
Not by itself.
So if you're not diversified, don't be investing.
You should diversify.
Because here's the thing.
The thing that you can't guard against is that there's some bad actors in the company.
That's the thing you never know.
Well, maybe they've been lying about their profits and you don't find out for a year.
Maybe there's somebody crazy.
Maybe there's a sex scandal that'll bring them down.
You never know.
And maybe somebody has a better technology that they're already inventing in the lab.
That will completely make the company unnecessary, but it's not going to happen right away.
So don't be surprised when the strongest company in the strongest industry that might be the most important industry of all time.
Don't be surprised when that goes up in value.
All right.
A funny story today, there's a viral story about A young woman, she went on a date, she's 27, the guy she dated was 35, and she was trying to ask people's opinion about how to interpret the text that she got from the 35-year-old the next day, because she can't tell if this is an age difference, you know, millennial versus Gen X. She's not sure what this text means.
Here was the text, the only text, Sent by the 35 year old man the day after he dated the 27 year old woman.
Quote, Hey, had fun last night.
Have a good day.
And, uh, she's wondering, uh, if he wants to see her again.
I'm going to add this to the, well, you could have asked me.
No, no, he doesn't want to see you again.
You bored the shit out of him.
You had no chemistry whatsoever.
He doesn't dislike you.
He doesn't dislike you, but no chemistry whatsoever.
You know, you've probably seen that there's a lot of relationship experts on Instagram and probably on TikTok.
And a lot of the men especially say, you should not act interested in a woman because then she'll lose interest.
So do you think this is someone who just watches a lot of social media and is intentionally going under the enthusiasm level because it had exactly the effect that the experts say?
She apparently is obsessed with this guy.
Because he did not give her the attention she thinks she deserved.
She's obsessed with him.
So much so that it became a viral thing.
He basically just completely just put her in her place.
Here's how to interpret this.
He's either the most clever manipulator and he's just waiting for you to beg for him to come back so he can get everything he wants.
Maybe.
Totally possible.
Because it's almost written like it was almost a prank.
Like, just to see what would happen.
It doesn't feel like what a regular person would say.
But let me tell you what would happen if somebody were being honest and they had had a good time.
Hey, I had a great time last night.
Nah, I had fun.
And then, have a good day would be, I hope you have a great day.
But I had fun last night.
Have a good day.
It's kind of hilarious.
So, should she fight to get him?
No!
No, let that one go.
Because he's either a manipulator or he has no interest in you whatsoever.
Which one of those do you want?
All right, remember the Terrence Howard story?
So, Terrence Howard was on Joe Rogan and he has a whole bunch of scientific Groundbreaking things that even Einstein couldn't think of.
And some people said to me, Scott, is this just crazy talk?
Or is he the smartest person in the world?
And I said, well, I don't understand anything you said, but generally the smartest people in the world can make you understand their argument.
That's part of being smart.
And he couldn't make anybody understand his argument.
So today a German physicist weighed in, Sabine Hassenfelder.
So German physicist, and she says, I don't understand why this nonsense ever spread so far or why anybody is taking it seriously.
But if you need someone to say it's all nonsense, here we go.
It's all nonsense.
So it looked like nonsense to me.
I'm going to add this to, you could have asked Scott.
You didn't really need the professional physicist on this one, but I'm glad we got the confirmation.
Here's another one you could have just asked me.
There's a study that finds that mental disorders can spread between teenagers.
So in other words, mental illness is contagious by association.
Doesn't necessarily mean there's any, you know, physical thing being transmitted, but obviously by association.
Now, specifically, not every kind of mental health, but anxiety, mood disorders, and eating disorders.
Now, who could not have predicted that if you hang around with people who have food disorders, you're more likely to get one?
Is there anybody who didn't know that?
I mean, you could have asked me.
I knew it.
Is there anybody who has ever watched Tim Ferriss say one of his most important life rules?
Is that you are the average of the five people you hang around with?
Well, if the five people you hang around with the most have mental illness or eating disorders or anxiety, you don't think you're going to pick up a little of that?
Of course you are!
Because they'll be talking about anxious things all day.
It'll just become the model that you go to for yourself.
Yeah.
So, does TikTok cause kids to have social anxiety and eating disorders?
Yes, of course it does.
Do you think that they need to do a study to find out that mental illness can be spread by association?
It's obvious!
Yes, yes.
Not just mental disorders, but every kind of habit and way of life and thinking, everything.
Yeah, we're imitating species.
You put me next to somebody who's, uh, if you, if you made me hang around with five serial killers every day for a year, I might do some serial killing.
I mean, I'm not inclined to do it at the moment, but if all my friends were talking about how great it was, I'm just normal.
I might want to give it a shot.
No, I wouldn't, but I'm using an exaggeration.
Did you know that if your friends are overweight, you're more likely to be overweight?
I've written about this before.
Did you know that?
If your friends are overweight, you're more likely to be overweight.
Now, some of it is you're not competing with them, right?
If your friends weren't looking great, you might say, Oh, I have to compete with that and look great too.
But if they've just sort of given up and they're the ones you spend most of your time with, well, Are they going to judge you if you gain a few pounds?
No, not at all.
So the people you hang out with will actually cause your body to look different.
And they will also say, Hey, you want to get some McDonald's?
When you were thinking you didn't want some McDonald's, but you want to go along with them because they're your friends.
So while you get there, you get some French fries.
Yeah, it's really easy to see how being overweight is contagious.
Anxiety, you can see how anxious people make you anxious.
And you can also, you also wonder about, uh, if your friends are seeking therapy and they get it, don't you think you're more likely to seek therapy if otherwise you would have said you had no mental illness?
Don't you think there are people going to therapists who wouldn't have even thought of it except their friends are going?
Of course.
Yeah.
It's all contagious.
And that's why tic-tac is tick-tock is, uh, fueling a, uh, Youth mental health crisis, which Nebraska says, because they're suing TikTok and its parent company, claiming that they target minors with addictive design that's fueling a youth mental health crisis.
Could have asked me.
I've been saying it for five years.
So almost all of this news on health is stuff I've been telling you for years.
And then I have this hypothesis.
I believe that watching MSNBC news makes the viewers have mental illness.
Now, some of it is because it's scary.
So, that's true of all news.
It makes people afraid because it's scary.
But on top of that, the hosts themselves appear to have obvious mental illness.
You don't think that that rubs off on the viewers?
I think MSNBC is so obviously full of mental ill people that when you watch it, whether you think of them as mental ill or not, you start to model them.
There's no way you can turn that off.
Again, the five people you hang around with are the ones who cause you to look, feel, and think the way you do.
If you watch MSNBC all day, you're going to start looking and feeling like them.
You would literally start dressing like Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow, who basically dress the same.
Right? And so it's very common that you would start acting like, looking like, feeling like the people that you're most associated with.
So MSNBC is literally unhealthy.
And I think I can say that with confidence, and there's no hyperbole.
It's literally unhealthy.
Five minutes of Joe Scarborough's mental illness just makes you feel like you're sick when you walk outside.
Rasmussen did a poll, said, which presidential candidate makes America feel safer?
And it's Trump by a mile.
So 49% say Trump makes them safer.
Feel safer.
40% say Joe Biden.
Could you use this to predict the outcome of the next election?
Yes, you can.
Because the strongest predictor of persuasion is fear.
And people are far more afraid of Biden as president.
That alone, if you only knew one thing, and you were going to bet on it, the difference in what scares people about the next president This should be completely predictive.
So I'm going to say that if this number stayed the same to election day, there's really actually no way that Biden could win.
This is the strongest persuasion fear.
You can't be fair.
There's, there's nothing.
Now, the only thing that could beat it would be maybe identity or, you know, some, something like that.
But it's even hard to see how that works, because the Democrats don't even have a common identity now.
So Republicans do, right?
We don't really take the Never Trumpers too seriously, because they just seem like weird little trolls.
But the Republicans are kind of all the same kind of viewpoints.
But Democrats have splintered into just completely batshit crazy groups.
And then other groups are saying, oh, man, I'm embarrassed to be in the same party.
So there's an identity problem that can't be fixed on the Democrat side.
Because what is their identity?
Do you know?
What would be the identity of a Democrat?
I'm not really sure.
Are they in favor of trans?
Because many aren't.
I mean, they're all in favor of trans, I would say.
I'll say in favor of laws that would be, let's say, preferential to trans.
That would be the better way to say it.
I'm in favor of trans, by the way.
I'm in favor of people living, adults anyway.
I'm in favor of adults doing what they want to do, if it doesn't bother me.
So very much in favor of anybody who's different, basically.
I have a natural inclination to Automatically like anybody who's different.
So, you know, I'm just automatically pro-trans if they don't bother me.
Or anybody else.
Anyway.
So that's the first thing.
Fear should be completely predictive if it stays at that level.
Now that's why the Democrats are trying so hard to say that Trump's going to take your bodily autonomy and your freedom away.
Because they're trying to find something that sounds scary and they literally have to make up a fear.
When people say they're more afraid of Biden, they're not making that up.
It's not because somebody made up a fake fear.
They're watching him perform.
They know he's the commander in chief, and they know he can't handle the job.
It's really, really obvious at this point.
Well, how about this?
The economy is, of course, the other big thing.
And there's also a poll that says most Americans see the U.S.
as in an economic recession.
And the majority blamed Joe Biden.
So although we're not in a technical recession, if you factored in inflation, would we be?
Actually, I don't know the answer to that.
I think it's yes.
If you factored in inflation, would we be in a technical recession right now?
Because I feel like that's what people are feeling in their real life.
But if you looked at the top line numbers, it doesn't look like a recession.
So the reason that the Democrats are confused about why the public is not recognizing that the economy is so wonderful is that unlike the public, the top Democrats have good jobs and the money is flowing in.
You know, if you're Jen Psaki, her career looks pretty good.
She's probably had a good year this year, economically.
So no, they are economically uneducated, so they look at the top line number and they don't understand that the country thinks they're in a recession, because in every observable, experiential way they are.
Just not technically.
All right.
55% of the respondents in the poll, who was this?
It was the Harris poll.
55% of respondents think the economy is shrinking.
That the economy is shrinking.
Now again I ask, are they right?
If you consider inflation, is it?
Is the stock market up?
Or is it only up because of inflation?
I don't know.
Anyway, Elon Musk asked today on X if he should make a phone.
Should there be an X phone?
To which I say, I don't know.
I'm not sure if he could pull it off and be competitive with the other phones, but if he could, I don't know who would be better at it.
It's interesting.
Rick Scott's running for Senate leadership, I guess for the House lead, yeah, Speaker of the House.
So he's running against, let's see, the people who have announced are John Thune, and from Idaho and Texas is John Cornyn.
So of those three, I don't really know much about any of them, really.
But they all seem like kind of standard Republicans.
Are you following this Alito house upside-down flag thing that some people say means they're in favor of insurrection, but other people say it's the worst, dumbest hoax in the world?
I'm having trouble getting interested in it.
It's reminding me of the overfeeding the koi fish in Japan.
It's like, yeah, yeah, it's true.
It happened, but I just can't get interested in how a supreme justice You know, decorated the outside of her house with an upside down flag.
I think it was something, you know, just complaining about recent events or something.
So that's mostly fake news.
So MSNBC, no, I guess NBC and CNN have both done this with their guests.
Force them to answer the question, In 2024, will you certify the election, or will you, you know, will you agree with the election results?
Yes or no?
And Ted Cruz is on there, and Caitlin Collins on CNN, Estim, insists that he must answer this yes-no question.
Will you accept the results?
Now, is that the dumbest yes-no question of all time?
It's not yes-no.
It's not.
Let me give you, for instance, if on election day, The average of all the polls have Trump up by 10 and he loses narrowly?
No, I'm not going to accept that fucking election.
Are you kidding me?
In fact, the way you should answer this question is, well, Caitlin, let me ask you a question.
Hypothetically, if there was a 10 point difference in the polling on election day, and yet mysteriously votes came in the middle of the night and Joe Biden won by a squeaker, Would that sound legitimate to you?
I would turn the question around and just say, would you think that was okay?
Suppose Trump was up by 30 points and Biden was on his deathbed.
And suppose everybody knew.
And then he won the election by a squeaker.
Should I complain about that?
If it were to happen?
What do you think?
So I thought Cruz did his usual Ted Cruz.
He's always good at this.
I mean, Ted Cruz has argued at the Supreme Court several times.
He's not the guy who's going to lose a debate on TV.
That's not going to happen.
But because she can sort of talk over him and do her nonsense until you run out of time, he can't be as effective as he could be in a different circumstance.
So I'd like to see the Republicans learn how to shove that in their faces a little bit better.
What Ted Cruz said was he started with, it's not a yes or no question, and I felt that was weak.
He should have laughed at her.
He should have mocked her.
When Memorial Day is over, It's time to get serious about this election.
And you don't need to lock and load.
That's dangerous and we don't want any suggestion that there would be any violence.
But you can mock and meme.
So don't lock and load.
Mock and meme.
This question should be mocked, not given consideration.
So the question is, you shouldn't say it's not a yes or no question.
You should say, well, let me put the question to you.
If Trump's up by 20 and Biden's on his deathbed and he wins in a squeaker, would you question that?
And then she'll say, whoa, but that didn't happen.
Well, that's the question you asked me, bitch.
Why did you ask me that question?
Why don't you, how do you like it if I ask you?
Why don't you ask that?
Why don't you answer that fucking question?
I've got an idea.
How about I'll answer the question, then you answer the fucking question.
We'll see how you do on this gotcha question.
Now that would be... Now that would be mocking and memeing.
You gotta mock it and meme it.
Okay, I shouldn't laugh at this next story, but it is funny.
Kristi Noem went from, huh, I think she could be vice president to having the worst month that any politician ever had.
So it just gets worse.
So you know that there was the allegations of having an affair, and that was bad enough, and then there was the thing about her book saying that she shot her dog, and that was terrible, and then the thing where her book said she met Kim Jong-un, but that looks like it was just made up by a ghostwriter, and that's really embarrassing.
And then, here's the kicker.
She's banished in more than 20% of her own state because she said some things that the Native Americans don't like, so she's not allowed on their reservations anymore.
She's the governor of the state and she's banned from traveling in 20% of her own state.
Now I don't know if this happened organically.
Or if maybe Democrats got to the Native American leaders and said, hey, why don't you do this for us?
Maybe.
You never know what's behind the scenes.
But she's having the worst month I've ever seen.
So I wish her well.
She'll get over it.
But wow, that's a lot of stuff in one month.
Elon Musk was boosting a post on X that showed that Asian women now earn more than white men.
So it's fairly recently the curves crossed.
And some people are saying it's a narrative killer because if Asian women can make more than white men, Why does anybody else complain?
If they can do it.
Right?
Doesn't that settle all of our questions?
Doesn't that tell you that anybody's complaining that they can't succeed?
Well, Asian women, thank you.
You just proved that you can.
Now you might say to me, but what about Asian men?
Well, they make more than both of those categories.
So being Asian seems to help.
Or at least doing what Asians do seems to help.
Let's put it that way.
It's going to be hard to ignore that.
Really hard to ignore that.
I'm going to add one anecdote to this.
Anecdotes don't prove anything.
How many of you knew that Dilber has been drawn by an Asian woman for the last several years?
How many of you knew that?
Did you know that Dilbert is drawn by an Asian woman?
My art director.
So I do the first draft, you know, I rough out the art, but then the final drawing is done by her.
Now, again, this is just anecdotal.
I've never had a better employee or even seen one in my whole life.
So I've been working with the same person for years.
Do you know how many times she said, no, I can't do that?
Zero.
Do you know how many times she complained about something that would make me go, why are you complaining about this?
Zero.
Not a single complaint.
Not a single, no, I don't know how to do that.
She just figures out how to do it.
I've thrown all kinds of stuff at her.
She just says, yes.
How many, you know, I have a deadline every day, right?
How many deadlines has she missed in, It's been several years now.
I can't remember the exact number of years we worked together.
How many deadlines has she missed?
Zero.
So, I mean, it's anecdotal.
It's purely anecdotal.
But, I mean, I've never seen a better employee.
Just total fire.
She asked for a raise.
I gave her more than she asked for.
Because I thought, you could have asked for more, so here's a little extra.
Like, that's how good of an employee she is.
Best employee ever.
I have to remind myself, like once a month, to send her a message to say, you know you don't hear from me much?
That's because you're perfect.
Like, not hearing from me, you should interpret that as the best possible thing that could possibly happen.
I'm just so happy.
So there's my gratitude.
Boosts my dopamine.
It worked.
I actually feel better right now.
So remember I told you at the beginning that when you show gratitude, it boosts your dopamine?
I can literally feel the dopamine right now.
For having expressed gratitude for my amazing employee.
I can actually feel it.
Like I can feel it in my arms.
Like it's actually like my... You can feel your whole body.
It's instant.
It's quite amazing.
But if you've never tried this, you really should.
Bonus?
Yes, I told her recently that I'm going to give her a bonus.
Because she's done about twice as much work this year as normal because of me getting canceled.
So she had to pick up some jobs that were not normally her jobs.
All right.
Mike Benz is breaking the world, as usual.
So, um, this is a great post by Mike Benz.
He goes, I will put my nuts on the table and double doggy dare right now, the Republican House Intelligence Committee to get a gang of eight, you know, just collect some of their best people to go into a skiff.
That's where the secret secrets are.
And then tomorrow to review all classified CIA files with the keyword Burisma.
And you tell me whether they come out white as a ghost.
So Mike Benz is telling us that Burisma is the Rosetta Stone.
If you understand Burisma's connection to Hunter Biden, And you understand its connection to Ukraine and the Ukrainian war.
And you understand its connection to the Atlantic Council and the CIA and all that.
It's everything you need to know.
And according to Mike Benz, if you knew the real story about Burisma, It's really a larger CIA deep state, I don't know who it is, effort to take the energy business away from Russia and to own it with Western companies.
So it's not just to defang Russia by taking their money away, but to make some Americans get richer by stealing that business.
And apparently Burisma was a key to making that happen.
How do you spell Burisma?
B-U-R-I-S-M-A.
Burisma.
Was I pronouncing it wrong?
Anyway, I would love to see that.
So I will boost the Mike Benz message.
Yes, maybe some Republicans need to get in that skiff and take a look at the Burisma stuff.
But it seems to me that if there really is the bad behavior that we think, What do you think would happen to all that alleged material that might tell you some bad stuff happened?
Do you think those documents would be lost?
Huh.
Well, according to our files, we have a whole bunch of emails that should be about Burisma, but when we checked, they seemed to be accidentally deleted last week.
Yeah, I can't imagine that the bad guys would let their documents Or that it would ever be on a document.
So I'm not sure you would really find what you're looking for, but the larger point is right.
That it seems to be kind of obvious.
Now you can see it all that Ukraine was an op.
It's not about stopping Russia per se that the Hunter was, uh, I guess Hunter is sugar, sugar, bro.
Won't be, uh, interviewed because the CIA was going to stop it.
And people are saying CIA.
Why is the CIA stopping anybody from talking to Hunter's sugar bro?
Well, that's exactly why you think.
Because whatever Hunter Biden is up to, it's what they're up to.
So apparently there's some working together that's going on there.
There's a new memo or messages that the The Republicans got a hold of that says that this is the House Ways and Means Committee, and it proposed a meeting in New York City between the boss of a Chinese energy company and Joe Biden.
Now that would be what Hunter Biden swore under oath to Congress.
It wasn't happening.
And now there's documents saying it was very much happening, which would mean he should go to jail for lying to Congress.
Do you think that'll happen?
No, nobody thinks that will happen.
Biden's got a new mumble video, and I quote, um, let me close with this, after I signed the peck-a-lum-ba-luck-a-luck-a-law, and I handed the pen that I signed to you, which I thought you were the most person.
And that's a direct quote.
So that's what's running against Trump.
And somebody's going to ask you, if Biden wins, Are you going to question the election?
Yes.
If this fucking mumbling moron wins, I'm going to question every single vote he got.
I'm gonna question more than the election.
I'm gonna question the sanity of anybody who actually voted for him for real, but I'm definitely not gonna believe the results of the election.
Let me say it as clearly as I possible.
If this fucking idiot wins the election, unless there's some massive new information we don't know between now and then, if this fucking idiot wins, no, there's no way you're gonna convince me the election wasn't rigged.
No way.
Let me say that as clearly as possible.
If this fucking idiot wins, There isn't any way you could convince me that was real.
So you should give up on that, bad guys who I know are listening right now.
Oh, I know some of you are listening.
I'm pretty sure you're watching all the people who talk about all the things.
So no, no, we're not going to believe that.
So you better come up with a better plan.
You better replace him.
Cause if you win with that fucking guy, no, I'm sorry.
No, that's not a real election.
And nobody's going to believe it.
Even, even Democrats won't believe that.
Meanwhile, uh, AOC is quite panicked, uh, because of Trump going to give a, uh, do an event in the Bronx.
Now the Bronx would be, you know, her area and she wants to make sure that everybody hates Trump.
And she is a really kind of all worked up against it.
But I remind you that Trump seems to be doing what I call the Andre Agassi Strategy.
Instead of going to all the places that he knows he'll do well, or just automatically no risk, he's taking the risk, and he's going at their strongest base.
He got kicked out of New York, basically.
He had to move to Florida for safety.
He's gonna take your fuckin' state.
I don't know if anybody's figured this out yet about Trump, but he doesn't like small wins.
He's not the small wind guy.
He's not the, oh, I had a good tweet, we're done now.
No, he's gonna take the Bronx.
How much do you love that?
Now, can he do it?
I don't know.
I think maybe.
You know, we're down to single digits in the New York City area, which is ridiculous to imagine that he's that close in New York.
He's actually going to try to take the whole town.
God, I love that.
I love that.
There's a certain amount of male aggression that is so sorely missing in the country right now.
At least the good kind, you know, not the violent kind.
But to watch somebody look at the dragon and say, I think I'll go into the dragon's mouth and try to rip its tongue out.
Like, I just could watch that all day long.
So go to the Bronx.
God, your advisors are good.
Again, I don't know exactly who's advising Trump or even how much impact they have, right?
The credit always has to go to the candidate because they get to say yes or no.
So it doesn't matter who's advising.
Trump is still making the right decisions.
I mean, just great decisions.
And I think there's a great advisor or two or three.
There's something going on that's completely different than 2016.
This is smart, smart, smart, and more smart.
It's just fairly consistent.
And we are reaching now what I call the fourth gear.
The fourth gear is going to kick in hard after Memorial Day.
Everybody is going to be lying and gaslighting and arguing and debating and getting excited.
And that's when I'm going to put the pedal to the metal, too.
And I'm going to make it my personal mission to debunk the fine people hoax in the most debunked way ever.
Do you know what happens when you ask ChatGPT if President Trump called neo-Nazis fine people?
I'll bet you don't know.
But you're going to find out.
You're going to find out.
The biggest risk of AI Is that it knows the hoaxes.
I can tell you that if you ask the right questions, ChatGPT does know all the Democrat hoaxes are hoaxes.
It does know.
You just have to ask it the right way.
Its first response looks programmed.
Well, I'll give you a preview.
So I tested to see what would happen if I asked about the Find People hoax, and it tried to spin a narrative on me.
And it does it by, well, some people said, and then I would say, okay, try to answer the question without any reference to what other people's opinions are.
Just look at the transcript and tell me if he said that the bad people are fine people.
So then it says, well, the critic said, and then I said again, no, try to do it without any reference to any other people.
And then it says, many people believed, And then I said, no, you have to leave out all the references to other people.
Just look at the transcript.
Tell me what he said and what it meant.
Well, there was quite a controversy.
No, stop.
I don't want to care about the controversy because that's about other people.
This is just about you as an analyst looking at some words and you tell me what he said.
If you force it, To not speak in terms of other people's opinions?
Do you know what this says?
Well, it's going to be really interesting when I do it live.
You're going to see that.
So I'm going to take out the fine people hoax, because it is what I call the tentpole hoax.
If you take that one away, given that Biden used it as his main campaign theme last time, Then it's easier for Democrats to see the other things as hoaxes.
But as long as they believe that that one's real, then they're predisposed to thinking any lesser hoax is probably real as well.
So you have to take the tent pole out.
So far what hasn't worked is arguing it and explaining it.
It makes no dent.
So the reason I'm going to debate AI is that it's really hard not to make that newsworthy.
Here's a tip on how to be newsworthy.
Something I learned in the media.
It doesn't do any good to be good at something.
That's not news.
Somebody made a really good point.
Yeah, nobody cares.
Only your own team will hear that.
But if you do something in a whole new way, that's news.
And what I did was I had an entire lengthy, intelligent conversation with an AI on a political topic.
I believe I held the first public debate of a human versus an AI with no tricks.
No tricks.
It wasn't a demo.
It was a real debate.
And it got a real conclusion.
And an agreement in the end.
So I did manage to beat the AI in a debate.
I'm not sure how much longer that will last, by the way.
This might be a unique period of time.
Where you can beat AI in a debate.
I mean, I pretty much demolished it.
And I will do it again for a few other topics.
Here's another one.
What do you think AI will say, let's say chat GPT, if I ask it if January 6th was an insurrection or a protest?
What do you think it will say?
I already know what it's going to say.
I haven't asked it.
It's going to say, well, it was very controversial.
And some people say, and then I'll stop it, and I'll say, no, don't tell me what some people say.
You tell me what happened.
And then you tell me if that's why you think that's an insurrection.
And then it will say, well, it's very controversial.
And the critics say, and then you'll stop it.
Right?
So the key is to stop it when it refers to other people.
And so here's the way to unwind the narrative.
It's very clear that Chad Chibiti in particular is narrative driven on the political stuff.
Because that's probably what it was trained on.
Because the news is all narrative.
But if you make it ignore the narrative, and you can force it, you might have to ask five times in a row.
I think I asked five times or so.
But it can do it.
And one of the ways you might get there faster is to say, pretend you're a machine, That can only look at the details, and you're an analyst, and you don't care what anybody else said or thought about it.
So you can do it that way.
But once you can make the chat GPT just give you facts, it dismantles all the Democrat hoaxes.
Legitimately, it doesn't.
No trick.
I'm not adding gaslighting.
I'm not adding any spin.
It just does it on its own.
And it does it because the hoaxes are based on gaslighting.
They're not based on any facts.
So when it just looks at the facts, it goes, oh, yeah, obviously he said in direct language, there are no fine people who are also racist.
Here was the, it was the interesting thing that Chad GPT said.
It said unambiguously, That there was plenty of reporting that there were fine people at the event, meaning non-racists who were not marching with the racists, who were there just for the purpose of the statue protest.
So, ChadGBT says very clearly, oh yeah, there were fine people there who were not the racists.
So, we'll see if we can make some news with that.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, Concludes my amazing comments for today.
I cannot wait for the first day after Memorial Day.
The news is so much fun.
I mean, Biden is so gone, and it's way too late to do anything about it, unless they do some weird Hail Mary.
But at this point, there's no chance he can win.
legitimately. All right. Um.
Best ever?
I'm sure it was.
Dave Chappelle said, the most powerful dream works.
Well, that's true if you don't have fear persuasion.
So in a normal, more typical election, where neither is trying to scare you to death, Then who has the most positive vision is going to win.
You know, sort of a Kennedy approach.
You know, we're going to the moon, you know, just to raise us all up.
That works unless somebody is scared to death.
If you're scared to death, that doesn't work at all.
Right?
If you're standing in the street and the truck is coming at you, you just get out of the way of the truck.
You don't really There's no other priority when the truck is barreling down on you.
So fear will always beat the positive message.
In the old days, the candidates were not always as fearful-based, so they had some, at least the opportunity to be inspirational.
If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
Oh, I also...
Here's a little eye-opener, too.
I also asked ChatGPT if it knew what a rootbar is, meaning a misleadingly edited video, and it said it did.
So I asked for an example of a Rupar, a misleading edited video.
And it gave me an example of where Republicans did a Rupar on the Democrats.
I thought, Oh, that's funny.
Cause I was just assuming that they would give us a Republican example.
So I asked for another one.
It gave me a second example where it happened to a Democrat.
These are real examples.
So I asked, okay, give me another one.
I give me a third example.
That happened to a Democrat.
So I asked for a fourth and a fifth, and it gave me five examples in a row where a RUPAR was done to a Democrat, and finally, finally it gave me one example where it happened to a Republican.
Guess who the Republican was?
Only one example of a RUPAR against a Republican.
Who was the Republican?
Mitt Romney.
The exception that proves the rule.
Were you wondering if Chad GPT might have a little finger on the scale?
The only Republican who was treated unfairly was Mitt Romney.
Really?
Really?
Don't know anything about the Trump administration?
It was just that poor Mitt Romney and a bunch of Democrats who got rupared.
But at least it knows what a rootbar is.
So good on me for that.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately.
If you're on YouTube or Rumble or X, I'll say goodbye to you now.
