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Congress is going to hear from some UAP testimonies.
You know, the UAPs that used to be UFOs, that used to be hoaxes, but now people think that not only are there magical devices flying through the air, but the ocean is probably just full of them.
Full of them.
UAPs.
Now, I don't know what we're going to find out about the UAPs.
I'm going to go on record with my prediction.
My prediction is there's no such thing as UAPs.
Well, let me put it this way.
My prediction is there's no other intelligent entity operating advanced vehicles either in the ocean or the atmosphere of the world.
I don't believe it.
Not even a little bit.
I'm not even slightly leaning toward it or anything.
I don't think there's any truth to it.
Now, what is the truth?
Why is it that so many credible-seeming people believe they've seen something?
They probably have seen something.
I just think it's probably some kind of illusion or mechanical error.
In a few cases, maybe people have false memories.
They're different situations, but the only thing I'm sure of is that it's not real.
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Here's some news from Neuroscience News.
Did you know that chronic inflammation is linked to depression?
Not just that the depression causes the inflammation, but rather the inflammation seems to cause the depression.
Now, they could have done that study or they could have just asked me because I've been telling you for a while that, hey, I think inflammation is causing depression.
Yeah.
How many of you heard that from me before there was a study that says, you know what?
Inflammation seems to cause depression.
Now, in addition to inflammation causing depression, I'm pretty sure that just energy in general, just your health in general, but also your energy, is probably linked to depression.
That seems pretty clear to me.
Now again, this comes under the category of your body is your brain.
There was some study I didn't tell you about that had some idea that memory is stored in other parts of your body.
But if you know that the other parts of your body can affect how your brain is thinking, and that seems to be the case, Just think of your body as your brain.
So there was a strategy I had when I was very young that if I had a lifelong habit of exercise, I would be smarter when I was older.
That was literally a lifetime strategy.
So in my teens, probably in my teens, I decided that I didn't want to be dumb and have mental problems when I'm 60.
So I said, huh, you mean all I have to do is exercise on a regular basis, which I kind of like anyway, and then my brain will be better for the last part of my life?
Yes.
Yes, that's exactly what works.
Also, there's an app.
Neuroscience News says that somebody tested an app that would keep you from ruminating.
Ruminating, you know, thinking about yourself and your problems.
Well, we have found that that also reduces depression.
So the more you think about people and things outside yourself, the happier you will be.
Now, I've said this a few times, but I don't know if you can realize how deep this is.
As an explanation of our political situation, does it seem to you that Republicans are like happy warriors?
And does it seem to you that the Democrats seem, and again, this is oversimplification and, you know, stereotype, so it doesn't apply to every single person, obviously, but doesn't seem to you that on average, The Democrats seem sad and depressed.
And indeed, this evidence shows that they have far more therapy, far more prescription drugs to help them with their mental problems.
Now, if the only thing I told you was that the Republicans are focused on the well-being of their family, they're focused on their God, and they're focused on their country, those are all external.
Those are the three healthiest things you could ever think about.
Thinking about your family's well-being, your God, and your country.
That's like a recipe for good mental health right there.
Now, take the Democrat approach.
That identity is sort of the beginning place, you know, the beginning of your journey.
And then everything is about what's different about you.
What's different about my experience?
Let's talk about my lived experience.
It's all about you, which we know gives you mental health problems.
Now, let's not pretend that there's any mystery about this anymore.
This is a very clean, scientifically, completely supported opinion.
Am I wrong?
I'd love to see in the comments whether that's resonating.
That the Republican point of view is external and they tend to be happy warriors just like the science says they should.
And then the narcissistic and let's not have any kids and I'm going to shave my head because everything is about me and it's about my identity.
And that those people are depressed as hell and they don't understand even what's happening in the world.
They're like, why are things happening like this?
That might be your whole explanation.
So, imagine if you would, people always ask me, Scott, you're a hypnotist and you talk about persuasion.
How can we persuade the people on the left to be less crazy?
And really, it is crazy, because even their point of view about how to do policy, you look at it and you go, I don't know, that looks a little crazy.
I'm not even sure that's worth discussing.
So suppose the way you would suppose, I'll just put this out as a hypothesis, suppose the way you helped the people on the left is not to try to talk about their political opinions, but Because you know that's a waste of time, right?
Suppose the only thing you did was train them to think externally and train them to put their interests outside of their own body.
What would happen?
Would they turn into Republicans automatically and then they wouldn't even know why?
I don't know.
But if it made them happier, that'd be worth doing.
Let me say this clearly, in case there's even one Democrat listening.
As much as we have fun with politics, and it's fun to dunk on the other team and stuff, because there's a team sport part to the politics, I really do want the Democrats to do well.
Let me say that unambiguously.
In my perfect world, the Democrats are thriving.
They're getting everything they want.
You know, that doesn't hurt me.
And they're having a terrific time with life.
That's what I want.
So let's see if we can get there.
So now we have several ways to reduce depression.
We know exercise does it.
We know thinking about yourself less is good for your mental health.
Reducing inflammation is good.
Somebody said some things about diet.
That's probably good, too.
Meanwhile, over in China, they have not only developed Military robot dogs, but they're training their military robot dogs to operate like a wolf pack so that the military dogs will operate in a coordinated fashion.
I can't think of too many things scarier than robot dog wolves.
That just sounds like the scariest thing you could think of.
Because if a real wolf pack attacked you, you'd at least have some chance of using psychology against it, right?
Like, suppose a real wolf pack came after you.
Maybe you'd fire a gun and then scare them away.
Maybe there'd be a fire or something.
You could wave the fire at them and scare them away.
There might be some psychology you could use with wolves.
But you're not going to use any psychology with a robot wolf pack.
If that stuff comes out, you might as well just make your peace with the world.
The only thing I'm worried about is can they swim?
If they can't swim, the United States has a few more good years ahead of it.
But if those robot dogs start swimming from mainland China toward California, I'm going to start running.
Alright, there's a new technology that turns jet engines more efficient.
It uses electricity to directly create thrusts.
So, normally electricity doesn't create jet engine thrusts.
But now they've got a way to do it with plasma.
But I was reading through the technique of how they did it, and I realized that the technology was written like a porn novel.
So I'm going to read you the technology involved in turning electricity into a plasma jet engine, but I'm going to read it like it's a sexual piece.
Okay?
You ready for this?
Ionization.
Inside the chamber, the high-frequency microwaves excite the air molecules, stripping electrons from the atoms and creating a plasma state.
The resulting plasma reaches temperatures exceeding several thousand degrees Celsius.
And then comes the jet thrust.
The high-temperature plasma rapidly expands as it exits the ionization chamber.
the expansion produces a jet thrust capable of lifting a one kilogram steel ball, demonstrating thrust comparable to conventional jet engines.
Whoa, that's some good technology right there.
Okay, concentrate, Scott.
Concentrate.
Well, the Daniel Penny trial continues.
The hero who stopped a dangerous man from hurting people on a subway.
And the witness who helped him most closely, the person who helped Daniel Penny hold down the other guy, He's giving some testimony that seems very positive, and that that guy did not seem to see, he did not say or observe that Penny was holding him in a dangerous way.
In fact, at one point he meant he was helping him hold the arms so he could hold them looser, and at one point he said maybe he should hold them tighter.
So there was one very close witness who literally was hands-on, you know, holding the same body at the same time, who was as close to Daniel Penny as I am to my microphone.
And in his opinion, he wasn't holding him so tight that it was some dangerous situation.
Now, how does he not go free?
Seriously.
The guy who was on the body at the same time, who was charged with nothing because the other guy was holding his hands, right?
That's the only person I want to hear from.
If the person who was on the body, now that guy, first of all, that guy deserves credit because he got involved.
He could have been charged.
I'm not exactly sure why he wasn't because if Daniel Penny was holding the guy in a Deadly way, the person who is helping him hold him in a deadly way, it feels like that should be chargeable.
I'm glad it isn't.
I'm very glad it isn't.
But if that's the guy, because he's credible, right?
The guy who steps in to help?
Because he stepped in to help not just the people on the, you know, the people who are threatened on the train.
He stepped in to help the guy who was the victim.
Because holding his hands was the safest thing you could have done to the victim.
So that guy has credibility with me.
No evidence that he's a liar.
No evidence he has the wrong motivations.
And the evidence shows that he wants to get involved for the public, to benefit the public.
I'll listen to him.
So I got to tell you, the golden age is waiting for one more penny to drop.
You know what I mean?
I feel like the golden age is going to happen, but we need this.
The golden age requires that Daniel Penny goes free.
So let's drop the final penny on this, huh?
Let's do this.
I'm depending on you, jury.
Core inflation is exactly what people estimated at 3.3.
That's about a non-story.
It's just staying where it was.
Now, prices are too high.
Of course, on the news, they like to confuse you.
The current inflation is not too terrible, but we'd already reached a level where you can't afford your eggs.
So another 3% on that is not going to help you at all.
So it's not really that helpful that inflation rate increases.
It has stopped going up fast.
You also need the prices to come down.
All right.
According to financial expert Ed Dowd, Zero Hedge is reporting this.
Ed Dowd says that Trump just got handed a turd of an economy in fraudulent books.
So his idea is that he can predict based on things he's seeing already, That the economy is actually in deep trouble and the Democrats are lucky that they got out of office and Trump is going to have to handle it.
Now, do you think it's true that there are troubling signs sort of below the headline level of the economy?
You know, the headline is jobs and inflation and GDP. But below that, there could be a whole bunch of indicators that are kind of sending the alarm.
Well, yes and no.
Have you ever noticed that economists cannot predict the future?
Has anybody noticed that economists, as a group, and even individually, cannot predict the future?
If they could, they would not be working as economists because they would already be billionaire investors.
Right?
It would be the easiest thing in the world.
If you really could tell what was going to happen in the future and other people couldn't, you would be Warren Buffett.
But if you're not Warren Buffett and you're telling me you can see the future, I've got questions.
Like, is it the first time you've ever seen the future?
Those other times you saw the future, did you invest heavily in it?
I'm not so sure.
So I don't trust any economists telling you that they can see the signs.
That doesn't mean he's wrong, because your economy is either going to go up or it's going to go down.
It rarely just, you know, It's an up or down situation.
So everybody who says it's going to go up has a good chance of being right.
Everybody who says it's going to go down has a pretty good chance of being right.
Some of them will be right.
Here's what you don't want to do.
Say, oh, that economist was right.
I guess I better listen to him the next time.
Nope.
Nope.
No, doesn't work that way.
Didn't work that way for the pandemic either.
Somebody was going to be right and somebody was going to be wrong about, let's say, the vaccinations or any part of it, the masks, anything.
Somebody was going to be right because they were all yes, no.
Masks work?
Yes or no.
Vaccinations are good for the public at large?
Yes or no.
Alright, there's some questions about kids, but basically these are yes or no questions.
Somebody's going to be right.
And they're going to tell you they were right because they saw the signs and you did not.
That doesn't mean they know that that's why they were right.
If it's a coin flip, somebody's going to be right and they're going to claim credit for it.
So beware of economists who tell you they got it right last time.
Doesn't mean a thing.
Somebody was going to get it right and they were going to say they got it right because they're smarter and they can predict it better next time.
It's just not a thing.
Nobody can see the future.
All right, but on that note, Bill Ackman said, for the contrarian opinion, that he's hearing from everybody, including people who did not support Trump, that they have never felt so optimistic about the country or the economy.
Now, I feel that.
I feel more optimism about America and about our economy than at any time in my life.
Now, how much of that is just the Trump persuasion magic?
How much of it is me talking myself into it because, you know, it's confirmation bias and I want it to be true?
And how much of it is it's just true?
Now, when Bill Ackman talks to other people, especially the ones who are not Trump supporters, if you're getting a lot of not Trump supporters who are so optimistic they're driving the stock market up, which they are, That is a really strong indication of what the economists call the animal spirits.
The animal spirits, I guess, would be best described as just the way everybody feels about the future.
Not their logic, but how they feel about it.
And the way people feel about it is that all possibilities just became options.
We went from a place where it seemed we had no options and no possibilities to anything's possible.
If Pete Hegseth can be the Secretary of Defense, we'll talk about that more, there's just one symbol, of which there have been many in the last few days, that anything's possible.
Trump wins in the third act victory that literally no historian would have predicted.
None!
Can historians tell you the future because they know the past?
Do you remember when historians would tell you you have to study history because that's how you know what's going to happen next?
Well, how did the fucking historians do?
How'd they do?
Let's do a poll of the historians and say, how many of you thought Trump was going to win another term?
Now let's compare it to the cartoonists.
I'm pretty sure I did better than the historians on this one.
Pretty sure.
I've been telling you for a while that not only would Trump be more popular every day he was out of office, true, but that he could win another term and it would be the greatest third act of all time, true.
I was also reminded today that I had predicted at one point That the public had decided that whether Trump had the goods or didn't have the goods to win the election, that we were going to drag his fucking body across the finish line.
And that happened too.
You saw that the public sort of Almost like a body with white blood cells, you know, attacking the cancer or protecting part of the body.
It was almost like the immune system of the country gathered around Trump, somehow kept him alive, even when bullets were going past his head.
That part was luck.
But between the Musks and the Viveks and the JD advances and the...
Everybody else.
I don't have to name all the names, the RFK Jr., etc., Tulsi Gabbard.
You know the names.
But you saw the most credible people in your online world, one by one, all turn to Trump.
And I believe that we all have a common thought, which is that, you know, and I hate it when people say this.
I almost feel like I shouldn't, but I'm going to say it.
But I'm going to be disgusted by myself when I say it, so if that helps.
Yes, Trump might have some flaws.
Stop it!
Stop it!
All right, I hate myself for saying that.
It's just, it's the NPC thing to say.
Oh, he's got some flaws.
I don't like every single thing that he does.
So I hate it.
I hate it when people, you know, line up their compliment by saying he's got flaws.
Can we just stipulate?
How about we just stipulate nobody's perfect?
And just get past that.
All right.
That being said, I believe that the people who decided to throw it all in with him and really risk everything, risk everything to get this done.
I believe that we thought it needed to be done.
And I think that's what binds the people who kind of belatedly came to Trump.
It wasn't about Trump.
It's not about Trump.
And it's not about us.
It's about the country.
And this is real.
This is real love for a country that you saw spontaneously, you know, suppressed for so long, but it couldn't be stopped.
So the love and optimism of the American people eventually, like the flower growing through the crack in the concrete sidewalk, It just was unstoppable.
There wasn't any way to stop it.
I do believe that although Trump is the best persuader, most consequential leader of our time, that you still need it.
You still needed all of that American spirit to drag him across the finish line.
And we did.
So what I like about it is that it was the cleanest incentive I've ever seen.
In 2016, it really felt like Democrats versus Republicans.
In 2020, it felt even more like Democrats versus Republicans.
It was just a team thing.
This is different.
Whatever you're experiencing now is about America, and it's not about the team.
Now, there's, you know, the team elements have to come into play, of course.
But this is bigger.
And you can feel it, can't you?
There's something bigger than anything we've ever felt that's happening right now.
It's happening in every way.
It's happening everywhere.
It's happening in other countries.
It's happening in the economy, the military.
You're seeing the leaders completely change their stance on things.
We'll talk about that.
Everything's different.
And I remind you of my most weird prediction from 2015.
Might have been 2016, but I think it was 15.
And I told you, and nobody knew what I was talking about.
In 2015, I told you that Trump would change more than politics.
I said he would change reality itself.
Here we are.
My best prediction of all time.
And I got absolutely no love for that because nobody had any idea what I was talking about.
But I could see this coming from a mile away.
Because of who he is and how he operates, I knew that our brains couldn't handle that and that it would just break everything.
And I also, I'll say this a million times because I just love saying it, America has one superpower that is unmatched.
We can break what we have before we build the new one.
Other countries can't do that.
They're a little too ossified, right?
But we will say we don't care how much you loved it yesterday, right?
Doesn't matter how much you loved it yesterday.
If you gotta do it, you gotta do it.
We'll change it all.
We'll rip it down to the studs.
Rebuild it.
Now, the Democrats have their slogan, and it's called Build Back Bitter.
It used to be Build Back Better, but then they lost.
Now, they'd like to build back their party, but they're bitter.
So the Democrat slogan, build back bitter, is making them completely irrelevant to anything.
So they will remain bitter, I guess, just the politically active people.
I'm also enjoying watching the B story of Barron Trump.
Are you watching that?
And the next generation of the Trumps, like Kai, Kai Trump, Don Jr.'s daughter.
So both of them seem to be now in the Trump machine, the machine that knows how to turn you into a celebrity, basically.
So Barron, I saw a post on social media that he has an IQ of 170, and he's the secret genius behind Trump's success with young people.
Now, how much of that do you think is true?
Do you think, first of all, that he has an IQ of 170?
And second of all, that he's really the secret magic behind Trump's success with the young?
It's possible.
It's possible.
I think that as a recreational belief, I'm going to accept it.
I'm not going to question it.
I think I'm just going to recreationally say.
Now, if somebody just came up with that number and they were doing what I did, which is I just put on the internet that I have an IQ of 185, and if I say it enough, it was sort of an experiment I started several years ago, an experiment to see if I said it enough and people repeated it, if the internet would come to believe that I have an IQ of 185.
And if any of you have been following it, You know that it worked for a long time.
If you did a search, it would come up with, well, we're not sure, but a lot of people say he's got a 180 or a 185.
So it might be that, which would be hilarious.
But I love the fact that if he's really smart and he's raised well, looks like he is, and he's six foot 100 or whatever he is, that he's like an improved Donald Trump.
Which is the most hilarious thing.
As soon as the Democrats think, finally, you know, the elder Trump has aged down, finally, we don't have to worry about this Donald Trump.
And then there's going to be the improved clone, the one that looks way too much like him, except way taller, way more athletic, way better looking just by being young.
Trump was handsome when he was young.
And maybe a rumor that he has a really high IQ. Trump actually found a way to clone himself.
If you think you're done with Trump after four years, nope.
Barron's coming on strong.
Anyway, and Kai Trump is becoming a social media star.
Looks like she has all the support in the world to do that.
And she also has the goods.
You know, if there's one thing that can make you feel good about the future, it's seeing a young person who has the goods.
Do you know anybody like that?
There aren't that many.
Just in general, there aren't many people who have the goods.
But if you watch Kai Trump for like five minutes, well, not even, one minute.
In one minute, you say to yourself, oh, she's got the goods.
She's got the whole package.
Like, what would ever stop her?
She's got the backing, the brains, the looks, the personality, the charisma, the drive.
What's going to stop that?
And we don't know as much about Barron yet, but maybe.
Maybe.
So I would say that Kai Trump makes me feel good about the future just because there are people like her.
People like her in the future.
Meanwhile, there's a CIA official who's been charged with leaking documents to Israel.
And the documents were about...
Israel's plans to retaliate against Iran.
So that violated the Espionage Act.
New York Times is reporting on that.
So I guess there's not much more to say about that, except that our distrust of our intelligence units takes another hit, or our trust in them takes another hit.
Elon Musk is predicting this.
You said this before, but it's interesting that he's doubling down on it.
Solar power will be the vast majority of power generation in the future.
Now, I so want him to have a public debate on that question versus, let's say, nuclear.
He might be right.
And I could see the argument for it because if you had enough battery power, then you wouldn't worry as much about, you know, cloudy days and what happens at night.
And there might be big breakthroughs in how efficient things are.
I mean, we could build houses that needed very little power to heat and cool them.
We just don't do it yet.
So you can imagine that he'd be right about this, and you can imagine that every house, the solar panels, would be the roof.
So he's already making that, the roof tiles that are basically solar panels.
So yeah, I could see that.
But I'd love to have the public debate, because I think the argument for nuclear becoming the thing is pretty strong.
So let's battle it out.
Meanwhile, over in Italy, the government of Giorgia Milani, so her government, the court ruled that she can't deport illegal aliens.
So apparently they're stuck with them.
And the reason they can't deport them is that the country they would go back to has poor human rights records.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
So apparently Italy has progressive or leftist courts and they say you can't get rid of people who came in illegally because the place they came from is so bad.
Now that doesn't mean they have an asylum process per se like we do in the United States.
It just means that they just feel like that's the right thing to do.
Now if your courts are operating on their feelings Instead of something like the law, you've got kind of a big problem.
And here's my question.
I believe that we have now demonstrated in the United States that the Constitution of the United States, plus the character and culture of Americans, is self-correcting.
Now, we can go pretty far before we correct, to the point of being scary, but we do.
And we're in a self-correcting phase right now, which is just unbelievably powerful.
But do other countries have that?
In other words, do they have a history, a culture, a constitution, set of laws that allows them to correct if they go off the rails?
I don't know.
But Italy's got this problem where the courts are apparently going to do something that would clearly destroy the entire country.
And I don't know what you do about that.
Does Georgia and Milani have the power to, what, appoint enough judges to outnumber them or replace them or impeach them?
I don't know how their system works.
But I just want to brag a little bit that over 200 years ago, some people who were pooping in holes and had no idea that the internet was coming made a constitution that still works.
Because it was exquisitely focused on human motivation.
That's why the Constitution works.
It doesn't work because they come up with some good rules.
Here's some good rules.
No, it's because those rules were perfectly crafted around human nature.
Nobody thought of that before.
Apparently, nobody thought of that.
And so once it was done, it became the most powerful document in the world, as we clearly see.
All right, what else is going on?
So, Sonny Houston, Houston on The View, She made some news because she was agreeing with a psychologist who said that maybe it would be a good idea to stay away from family members who are angry about the political stuff.
And Sunny Hostin agreed.
She said, many people feel, quote, someone voted not only against their families, but against them.
Okay.
What does that sound like?
Do you think I can tie this into something I've already mentioned?
Yes, I can.
This is narcissism.
If I were to go to a family event, which I'm not, but if I were, and some of the family members voted differently, you know what I would think that was about?
I would think that's about politics.
I wouldn't think it's about me.
It's narcissism.
It's not about me.
They didn't vote against me.
They voted against some external thing.
So I would go there as the happy warrior.
Oh, this isn't about me.
But apparently the Democrats would feel like it's about them.
Because that's what they think about.
They think about themselves.
So yeah, if you've got somebody in your family who can't get out of the mode of thinking about themselves and everything's about them, oh, the wind is blowing.
That's about me.
No, it's not.
Oh, the vote is about me.
Not really.
Not really.
Weren't even thinking about you.
So once again, we see that the narcissism of the Democrats come into play and destroy families as well as politics.
Speaking of things that are being destroyed, MSNBC might be for sale.
Their ratings are so bad.
The ratings are like extra bad, I think, for Stephanie Rule.
I think she's down over 70%.
But she's also up against Gottfeld with an exclamation.
So it might be that MSNBC is imploding on its own.
It might be.
They just have better competition than some of the hours.
But here's my take.
I think DEI is what's killing MSNBC and there's nothing they can do about it.
If you become the DEI channel, it's like your main thing is, you know, identity, you will have the same faith as the Democrat Party.
And I'll say this a million times.
If you drew it up on paper ahead of time and said, Scott, take a look at this.
We're thinking of having a TV news-like network where we're really going to focus on the identity stuff, really drive that home.
We're going to craft all of our stories around identity, etc.
How do you think this will do?
And I would say, you mean the identity as Americans, right?
Because that works really well.
There's an organization that does that.
It's called Fox News.
And they identify as Americans.
And I'd say, that's a great idea.
Is that what you're suggesting?
No, no, no.
We were thinking that the identity would not be Americans.
It would be Everything else.
It would be race and religion and education level.
It would be your sexuality.
Then I would say, huh, do all of those people have the same interests?
No, no, they all have their own set of interests.
Well, this is going to fail in the long run.
In the short run, it's going to make everybody feel good because you're saying feel-good things.
In the long run, your interests will diverge because you've created essentially a set of adversaries instead of a set of Americans working on the same team.
So you can skip the entire experiment.
You could just ask Scott, Yes.
If your plan is to make everybody hate everybody else for their identity, because you're fighting for your identity to get the most stuff, that will fail.
It will fail in the news business.
It will fail in the military.
It will fail in your corporation.
It will fail in your family.
It will fail in every context in which it is used, guaranteed.
Because it's designed to fail.
It's designed to destroy.
It's sort of like, Scott, I've developed this cluster bomb.
And what do you plan to do with it?
Well, I'm going to drop the cluster bomb in a big crowd of people and explode it.
How do you think that'll go?
Well, you said it's a cluster bomb.
Yes.
I think that's going to kill a bunch of people.
Oh, really?
We thought this was such a good idea.
Are you sure?
Because I think people would just love cluster bombs.
No, no, no matter how much you love cluster bombs, you can't kill a bunch of people with it.
That's my bad analogy for the day.
So as I was watching Megyn Kelly say that Joy Reid and their often guest, Ellie or Eli Mistel, are flat-out racists.
I would agree.
I would say that the way they act is flat-out racism and very overt.
I don't think it's subtle, even in the least bit.
And I don't think that MSNBC has a way to get rid of The most DEI people who presumably are turning off the most number of viewers because they just go too far.
And their hosts do appear, I'll say it again, to have genuine mental illness.
When I watched the clips of Joy Reid this week, I didn't see a different opinion.
I saw mental illness.
Now, how in the world do you operate if your stars are mentally ill in a really over-obvious way, clearly acting racist?
Your ratings have dropped by over 50% per show, and they're going to sell it?
Sell it to who?
Who would buy that?
Who would buy that?
Well...
It might be Jack Posobiec.
So Jack Posobiec and I think his brother, they are talking to some investors.
And they're thinking about maybe making a run at buying MSNBC because it looks like it might be for sale.
And I think they could pretty well fix things pretty quickly by getting rid of all the hosts and just carving out using the assets but get rid of the hosts.
So that might happen.
As PBD showed, PBD, does everybody know PBD? When I talk about that, we're now the independent podcasters are all famous enough that I can just refer to them by their fast handles.
So PBD, One of the bigger podcasters was pointing out they had Charlie Kirk on and pointing out that Charlie Kirk's TikTok account averaged 60 million views a day before the election.
Just TikTok.
Just Charlie Kirk.
60 million views per day.
Now let's compare that to the entire MSNBC audience.
Half a million viewers a night.
What do you think my viewership was per day for just doing this livestream in the run-up?
I don't know exactly, but maybe on a good day, 150,000 if you look across multiple platforms that I'm on.
So even I was in the same, at least, zip code of traffic of this entire network.
I don't know how much anyone would pay for MSNBC, but I think it's got to go for a fire sale price because you can replace the whole operation with a laptop and a ring light.
Anyway.
So I think the legacy media is irrelevant forever.
CNN's looking to fire hundreds of employees, according to Puck News.
So Dylan Byers, I guess, has some kind of scoop on this.
And the scoop says, I'm not ready to believe this yet, by the way.
So I don't believe it yet, but it's being reported.
That they might get rid of some of the top paid talent.
Because it's pointed out in the reporting here that Anderson Cooper makes $20 million a year while Caitlin Collins makes $3 million a year.
And if you ask me which one of them is doing a better job or is more interesting to watch, I'd say, I don't know, looks like about a tie to me.
Is one worth $20 million and one is worth $3 million?
So maybe one of them needs a raise.
I don't know.
But there's a clip going around of CNN's Brian Stelter and Abby Phillip on a panel discussion.
And Phillip and Stelter decided that part of the reason that the legacy media is failing hard is because of Trump and America believing lies about the media.
So the media did not destroy itself with its blindness, bullshit, gaslighting, and complete irrelevance.
No, it wasn't that.
It wasn't that that we all noticed.
No.
It was because someone pointed out That the news is fake and mistaken and bullshit and gaslighting and propaganda.
So it's not the fact that you are bullshit, gaslighting, fake news, propaganda disguised as a news program.
That's not the problem.
The root problem is, as somebody pointed it out, I don't feel like the legacy news is close to solving their own problem.
I feel like stage one has to be recognizing where that problem is coming from, and I don't think it came from outside the house, if you know what I mean.
No, it wasn't Trump, although Trump did a great service by pointing it out.
Meanwhile, the publication called The Guardian over in Great Britain says it's going to leave the X platform Because it's, quote, a toxic media platform with, quote, far-right conspiracy theories and racism.
Or?
Or is it the platform that most often points out that The Guardian is full of shit?
Which one is it?
I wonder.
What could it be?
Well, here's my...
We're going to talk about all Trump's appointments.
So one of the things that...
I think Trump actually said this, or maybe a member of his campaign said this, that he would be driving the Overton window so that there would be so much news...
That the fake news couldn't get any kind of grip on a new good fake news story against him?
Now, that seems to be happening because he's creating so much provocative news that it's all you can handle.
Like, you use up all your news minutes talking about what Trump did today, and you could run out of time to say, well, I think maybe in the 70s, Oh, there was that time he littered in 1973.
We should all talk about that a lot.
So he's just using up all the shelf space.
So let's talk about some of his nominations for his cabinets and his other jobs.
All right.
Raise your hands if you saw this one coming.
Nominated for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, formerly known as the Fox Weekend Morning Host.
Raise your hands if you called that one in advance.
If there's anybody here who predicted that, I want to know your name.
I want to follow you on X. Because if you predicted this one, wow.
Wow.
Now, what was my first impression?
Probably same as yours.
My first impression was, uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
How does this make sense?
How in any world does it make sense to go from weekend Fox News host to Secretary of Defense?
Make that make sense.
And then I spent some time on X, and people were starting to post clips about it.
And I saw a clip in which P. Hegseth was talking about the first thing that needs to be done is all the generals involved with DEI and CRT need to be fired.
And you need to change the focus from identity to being lethal and winning wars.
And I said, ah, damn it.
Why is that the smartest thing I've heard about the military?
And it's coming from the Fox Weekend morning host.
Why is he the only one saying the thing that needs to be done?
There's nobody else who can speak those words out loud?
Then I find out that he's been hiding his intelligence.
You bastard, you Pete.
You bastard.
He's been hiding his intelligence.
Did you know that he has degrees from Yale and Harvard?
I think he sent back his Harvard degree in protest.
How many of you knew that?
He has two advanced degrees.
He doesn't act like he has two advanced degrees, does he?
Now, I'm not saying that he acts dumb.
Definitely not.
I'm saying he's acting smarter than smart.
If you're really smart, you go on TV and people say, wow, that person's really smart.
That's a real smart person there.
If you're smarter than smart, you go on TV, you say things that are smart, but when you're done, people say, hey, you're like me, you're just smarter.
Which one does he do?
He does the second one.
He does the smarter than smart.
Smarter than smart is that you bring the goods, everything you say fits, makes sense, is in context, historically accurate, useful, better high ground, better than what the other people are saying, and then you just walk away.
You don't have to say, and I'm the smartest person in the room.
Now, there are some people whose names I won't name, who are also really smart.
And they will tell you they're really smart the entire time they're talking.
Like, you can't miss it.
I want to name a name, but I'm not going to, because it's somebody I like.
But if you can pull off the Trump level of communication, where you're talking like you're one of everybody, at the same time you're operating at a whole different level, That's everything.
You can't do better than that.
Now, there's a clip also where he was on a podcast, Pete Exeth was, saying that he doesn't want women in combat positions.
Now, of course, that's an identity DEI issue, and he's not saying there's anything wrong with women.
He's just saying it doesn't fit or work, and there's not enough science to support it as making the military more lethal.
Now, that's a tough thing to say in public, but he said it, and he said it with no ambiguity, no apology, and he said it correctly and in a way that made him look smart.
So, I love that.
I love that.
Now, it's not even about liking the issue.
I do prefer not having women in combat.
But my reason for it is, first of all, I'm taking his word for it because he seems to know what he's talking about.
By the way, he's a military veteran, so he spent a lot of time in the military, and he's done a lot of work for veterans.
So he's somebody who understands the veteran situation because he's been so involved.
He understands real war.
He's been in the real war, and he knows the biggest problem in the military is we don't want our generals wearing dresses, basically.
So, if he can fix that, I'm all in.
And I would say that if the goal is to get rid of the DEI in the military, and it should be, absolutely should be, then the person you need to do that is somebody who does not have a long history of being an officer appointed by politicians.
You are somebody who hasn't even touched that area.
You want somebody who's seen enough combat that you know they can take a hit.
You want somebody who's worked on Fox News so you know they can be absolutely violated with criticism and go home as a happy warrior.
He can do that.
He knows how to take the hardest criticism.
He knows how to dodge frickin' bullets.
He was in the military.
If you think that he doesn't have the goods, Don't make the mistake of, you know, imagine if you were around in 1776, and the founders of the country brought you their resumes, and George Washington says, I'm a farmer.
But I'd like to be the general of the revolution.
You'd say, wait a minute, you're a farmer?
How does that make sense?
Was it Hamilton, who was like a teenager?
So a teenager comes to you and says, hey, I got these ideas for changing the entire country.
Do you say, oh, teenager, good, yeah, let's go with that.
Nope.
But...
If it was 1776 and you said to yourself, who's got the most goods?
Who's bringing the strongest package?
And then Washington walks in.
He's six foot something.
People want to follow him.
And you say, okay, I don't know what you've got going on, but you've got the package.
You're the general.
And then Hamilton comes in, or whoever it was.
Was it Madison or Hamilton?
I can never remember which one was super young.
They were both super young, right?
Madison and Hamilton.
But if they came in at that age...
And you looked at the resume, you'd say, ah, I think you need to get seasoned a few more decades before you're...
But if you were smart, you'd say, hmm, young Steve Jobs, hmm, young Mark Zuckerberg, hmm, young Elon Musk, right?
And so you see that same 1776 hiring decisions, if you can call it that, being made by Trump.
Vivek?
Too young.
Perfect.
J.D. Vance?
Too young.
Perfect.
As long as they got the goods.
And we're talking about people who really have the goods.
Really, really have the goods.
All right.
So we'll see how that works out.
The good news is the defense lobbyists seem to be outraged.
Oh, well, we're heading in the right direction, aren't we?
So the defense lobbyists are outraged.
Ah, you got me.
So if it wasn't obvious, my first reaction to Pete Hegseth was, huh, I don't understand it.
My current reaction is, It might be brilliant.
It might be.
I mean, anything could happen, right?
It's too early to predict success.
But is he the right pick?
Is he loyal to Trump?
Would he take the hit he would have to hit?
Would he be able to fire generals?
Would he have the empathy as well as the experience for the military?
Yup.
I'm all in.
Well, what else?
And Trump is preparing an executive order to call the military of woke generals, according to the red state.
Red state is reporting.
So Hegseth would have the backing of the commander-in-chief.
And I actually think they could get this done.
If I were China and Russia, this would scare the shit out of me.
You know why?
Because I think all the big countries are worried that their own militaries are pathetic, but nobody knows yet.
I feel like that might be the case.
Remember how we thought that Russia would just roll over Ukraine?
And then we thought, oh, I guess that Russian military wasn't as vaunted as we thought.
I mean, they still probably would win if they keep fighting, but not really as close as we thought.
And then there's talk that China, if it got into a shooting war with the U.S., if it were non-nuclear, it would go bad for China.
Maybe that's true, maybe it's not.
Then when we talk about our military, maybe we've used up all our good stuff, giving it to Ukraine.
Maybe we have too much DI and maybe overweight, unhealthy soldiers, not enough of them.
So it could be that all the major powers have militaries that they're not really happy with internally.
And if you were watching the United States recognize its biggest problem and have a useful plan to fix it, You would be afraid.
Because the next thing you know, we're going to have a whole bunch of, you know, Palmer, Lucky's, you know, drones and much less cost and will be much more lethal.
And I'd worry about it.
So think about how Russia thinks about it.
If Russia knew that Pete Hegseth was going to get in there and get rid of DEI, do you think Putin is happy about that?
He's not.
Because DEI works in his favor.
So if our adversaries aren't going to like Pia Hegseth in that job, then that's a pretty good endorsement.
Meanwhile, in the Department of Government Efficiency, named Doge, Elon Musk, of course, as you know, is going to be the lead on that.
But guess what?
Turns out that Vivek Ramaswamy is going to be the second part of that team, given how much work Elon has to do with his companies and the fact that Vivek is a bit more of a free agent.
He's got plenty of investments to look after, too.
But he's more of a free agent.
And he has the intellect and the drive, all the tools, basically all the tools, to do exactly this stuff.
And Trump has referred to it as a Manhattan Project.
And I'll say it again, reforming the military in this way that looks like it could really work is almost like a weapon of mass destruction.
I mean, it's a powerful, powerful thing if we can do it.
But also reorganizing the government To make it more efficient, so the United States is more competitive in every way, that would be a Manhattan project.
I do think that if we could pull this off, we the country, that it would be the most impressive thing the country's ever done.
Because you could say, well, but, you know, we developed the nuclear bombs.
But I think, you know, somebody would have done that anyway.
War doesn't impress me.
Maybe it should.
But if you can be the biggest, you know, bureaucracy ever, in a world where nobody else has figured out how to do that, except maybe Estonia.
Estonia is a pretty efficient place, by the way.
Weirdly.
Estonia is actually just a killer country.
You don't hear much about it, but Estonia has its shit together really well.
But if we could get as efficient as Estonia to use them as a model, oh my God, would the golden age open up.
I'm not 100% sure that even Musk and Vivek and Trump can pull this off because of the size of it.
But let me say it again.
Nothing would impress me more.
If they can pull this off, nothing would impress me more.
And I love the fact, the spirit of it, too, because there's no way that Musk and Vivek are going to enjoy this.
They signed up for a lot of pain, and that pain is for the benefit of the country.
Now, do the Musk companies benefit?
Yes.
Could Vivek benefit later on politically?
Yes.
But honestly, it does seem focused on the country.
That's what it feels like.
FBI Director Christopher Wray may not stay under a Trump administration.
NBC News says he's thinking about his potential forced exit.
One of the people being considered, unless something's changed in the last hour or so, is Kash Patel.
Some say he was being considered to lead the CIA, but I think that got filled with the nomination of Ratcliffe.
So is Kash Patel still up for the head of the FBI? That also feels like something that would make me happy.
So Trump is going for loyalty with brains.
And I'm liking it a lot.
Loyalty but with brains.
Guts and brains.
So I don't mind that Trump is going for loyalty over a, let's say, a Lincoln team of adversaries.
I think the team of adversaries would be a huge mistake when you have this many things to fix.
I think he wants loyalists who, when he says get rid of DEI in the military, they're going to get rid of DEI in the military, and they're not going to slow walk it.
So the thing you don't want is slow walking.
And I think that the loyalists of this type, you know, the highest quality, effective people, that's how you get there.
I saw this from Thomas Massey.
It was responding to Ross Ulbricht.
You know, he's in prison, and a lot of people want him to get pardoned.
He was the one who created the Silk Road, and he has like a gazillion-year prison sentence.
And I've been on both sides of whether he should get pardoned.
So Thomas Massey says, hang in there, Ross.
President Trump himself told me that he would pardon him.
That's one of the reasons I endorsed him.
All right.
So that seals it for me.
So, Massey, who I trust, there's zero chance that Thomas Massey is lying when he says that Trump told him he would do it.
Now it's about Trump.
If Trump told Massey that he would pardon him, it needs to happen.
So separate from the question of whether he should be pardoned, we can't have a situation where Trump tells Thomas Massey he's going to do a thing, no doubt about it, and then he doesn't do it.
No good, right?
The fact that Trump is committed, Thomas Massey told you he committed, that has to be a done deal now.
That has to be.
Because if you want confidence in the system, I need to know that if Trump tells Thomas Massey, and Thomas Massey tells me, that that shit's going to happen.
Right?
So this is a new situation now.
It's a new game.
Because it's no longer about the guy in prison.
Now it's about Trump and Massey.
So that needs to be right.
Trump had said this a while ago, but the clip is going around.
He made a bunch of videos when he was running for office.
Some of them are getting surfaced lately.
But I love this idea, Trump creating some kind of American college plan, where I assume it's mostly online, but maybe not, in which anybody could get a free education.
That would be presumably certified as a real education.
Now, I don't think I would love if college turned into only online, because the in-person part of college is important.
But we could probably figure out ways where people were taking classes They have something in common, could group together and have meetings and study together and do projects together and stuff like that.
So I think it's solvable.
And I very much would like to see the government offer the low cost, you have no excuses, as long as you have a laptop, every single person can get a respected education.
And I think if you add AI to that, We're in good shape.
The American College plan, I'm all for it.
Meanwhile, you are not surprised to learn that there are reports which are unconfirmed of all kinds of potential election cheating in Maricopa County.
Now, there's some claims in Wisconsin and maybe somewhere else where that weird pattern of votes going in a smooth line and then suddenly the Democrat vote goes straight up because there's a batch of votes that come in that's only for one person.
That actually happened again.
Now, I've only seen the reports of it.
Wisconsin is showing that it happened.
But the sudden increase in one vote wasn't enough.
In other words, it was too big to rig.
It was literally too big to rig if those reports are true.
Now, I'm having a little trouble believing that somebody would have cheated in exactly that way when it's exactly what we're looking for.
So it's got a little bit of the two on the nose to it.
So I'm not going to say I believe it's true yet.
So if you've seen a story about Wisconsin having a sudden surge and only Biden votes, maybe.
Maybe.
But just be aware that it's exactly the kind of thing that if there were a fake story, it would look just like it.
So I'm on the fence on this one, so I'm not going to say that that's likely to be true or likely to be false.
Let's just keep an eye on it and see if we can find out for sure.
But likewise, there's stories about Maricopa.
I won't give you the details.
You can find that in the Gateway Pundit.
Jordan Conradson's writing about that.
But we're in the fog of elections area, and that means that there will be lots of claims that won't check out.
There might be some claims that do check out, and this might be one of them.
But it's too early to know.
Too early to know.
And then this from Breitbart, Joel Pollack is writing that Iran is reportedly postponing its promised third ballistic missile attack on Israel.
So Israel and Iran have been doing the, you know, if you bomb me, I'm going to bomb you, but you bomb me, so I'm going to bomb you back.
And in the last round, Israel...
Completely eliminated the air defenses of Iran.
So Iran is sitting there with no air defense, and suddenly, at the same time they have no air defense, they're saying, you know what?
You know what?
Maybe we should...
I have...
I got an idea.
Let me just run this past you.
What if, instead of attacking Israel, while we have no Longer any air defense.
Why don't we maybe see if we can make a deal when Trump gets in there?
So that's what they're signaling.
They're going to hold off in the hopes of reaching a deal with President-elect Trump, who I call President Trump.
What do you think of that?
Now, on one hand, of course, they're just being practical because they just lost their air defenses.
So talking is sort of all they have left.
You know what I mean?
Well, they haven't bombed our mouths yet, so we can still talk.
Let's talk.
So I'm going to say it again.
Trump is the president-elect, but he's also the symbol of the New Age.
And he's also a legend.
He's a legend in his own time.
He's still with us.
He just started.
He just started his second term.
And he's a legend.
Now, if you're a legend, can you get a peace deal that somebody else can't get done?
Yes, you can.
So Trump has become what I call everybody's fake because.
The fake because is something I've been teaching my audience for years now.
It's the reason you give that's not the real reason.
You just need a reason that sounds good and looks good and other people think it's a reason.
But your real reason might be something else, and that's fine.
So Iran would like to not be at war and not be destroyed.
So their fake because is, oh, hey, hey, got a new president, so wouldn't it make sense to hold our fire until we see what the new president's up to?
That's a fake because.
The real because might be that they have no air defense.
Likewise, over in Ukraine and Russia, The current situation is who's going to win, which is the wrong frame.
Trump's going to come in as the legend who said he's going to solve it in one day.
And then both parties who really want it to stop.
Russia doesn't want the war.
Ukraine doesn't want the war.
But they don't have a way to stop.
So Trump comes in and he says, I'm going to threaten both of you.
I threaten you both.
I don't just threaten Russia.
I threaten also Ukraine.
And I'm going to bring the biggest stick and I'm going to beat the shit out of both of you until you give us peace.
What's that?
That's a fake because.
Because they don't need Trump.
Because they don't want to be at war.
And they also, every single person knows there's going to be a land for peace situation that looks about the way things look now.
So Ukraine and Russia only need a fake because.
They don't need a real one.
They only need a fake one.
And here it is.
It's the fake because.
Because Trump.
Does China want to have better relations with the United States?
Probably, because that would be good for them.
Do you think that there are hardliners in China who are telling President Xi, no, no, no, we must destroy the United States, we cannot be friends with them?
Probably, probably.
What happens when Trump comes in?
Then suddenly, President Xi can say, oh, are you watching what's happening?
This guy is making peace plans all over the world.
He's revived the American economy.
He's rebuilding the military.
You know, guys, I hear you, your hardline stuff, and I've been agreeing with you up to now, but don't you think now would be the time to talk?
And then President Xi gets a fake because.
Because Trump.
So, Do you think you could get rid of DEI in the military without Trump?
Nope.
There's nobody else who could do it.
You know, you'd need a loyalist in there and it looks like you'll have one.
So the fake because that comes along with being a legend that escaped two assassination attempts and had the greatest third act of all politics of all time, That's really powerful.
So the golden age could be completely unlocked with fake becauses.
Just because Trump.
You could just add because Trump in front of every piece of good news that you hear from now on.
Why does Bill Ackman say that everybody's being optimistic about the country?
Because Trump.
Everybody wanted to be optimistic.
Right?
Everybody wanted to invest.
Everybody wanted to do more business.
But they needed Trump to say, everything's okay.
I'm going to fix everything.
You know, the country will be fine.
We'll pay down our debt.
Oh!
Now, I think those are true, but they also provide your because Trump.
Everything's because Trump.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my prepared presentation for today.
I hope you enjoy the feeling of optimism that with any luck I imparted.
And I'm hoping that those of you on Locals will stick around.
I'm going to say goodbye to the YouTube and X and Rumble audience.
