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Well, here's my update.
The San Francisco area has a very unusual warning.
They're warning of tornadoes.
Now, as far as I know, I've lived here all my life in the Bay Area.
I don't think there's ever been a tornado watch for San Francisco.
Now, I'm about an hour outside of San Francisco.
And early this morning, it might have been 5 a.m.-ish.
There was a sound outside my house that sounded like a starship was landing on my lawn.
And I said, is that just the rain?
Because we're having a wind and rain situation here.
But I'd never heard anything like it.
It sounded like this huge roar, like there was an airplane directly over my house, but closer than one had ever been.
And then it stopped.
After maybe 30 seconds?
And then several minutes later, there was another one that was the same.
And I don't know what they are.
However, I went to perplexity and I asked it, what does a tornado sound like?
And they said, if you're near a tornado, it sounds like a freight train.
That's exactly what it sounded like.
It sounded like I was standing next to a freight train in my yard.
So I'm not positive.
And I got a message from somebody in San Jose who would be about an hour from me.
So they'd be an hour south of me, southwest.
An hour away, somebody said they felt they heard the same thing.
An hour away.
What was so loud that San Jose and where I live an hour away could hear something like a freight train?
I don't know what that was, but I'm guessing tornadoes or little twisters or something?
So there might have been a tornado somewhere in my neighborhood just an hour ago.
I don't know.
Nothing happened at my house that I know of.
All right.
Maybe we'll find out.
Would you be surprised to know that there are major breakthroughs in battery technology?
No, really.
Every day, I tell you new ones.
According to the brighter side of news, NASA has some big breakthrough.
They've got a solid-state sulfur-selenium battery that has the potential to revolutionize the aviation industry.
Well, there you go.
I'm pretty sure that these drones are electric-powered, but we'll talk about that later.
So NASA has a big battery breakthrough that will be good for aircraft.
Meanwhile, according to NoRidge, There's a zinc-based battery that's being developed.
Case Western Reserve University made a breakthrough.
Now, what would be special about a zinc-based battery...
Is that it could be made with all normal, easy-to-find minerals.
So you wouldn't...
Minerals?
Is that the right word?
But you wouldn't need lithium.
And you wouldn't need the hard-to-find stuff.
So those are just two...
I think there was a third one today.
Now remember, the reason I tell you about this is not that these specific breakthroughs are important...
What's important to know is that this whole domain of battery storage is going to go crazy.
I mean, if any of these breakthroughs work, you're doubling, tripling, quadrupling your performance of your batteries, that changes everything.
It doesn't just give you A little extra mileage in your electric car.
It allows you to power your house without being connected to the grid, create all kinds of aircraft that can fly with electricity alone.
It's a big deal.
It would be a civilization-changing shift, and there's no way it's going to not happen.
Meanwhile, according to NDTV, there's a new study that said there might be so much hydrogen trapped under the ground that it could end the fossil fuel era.
In other words, there's 26 times more of the hydrogen in the underground than there is known oil reserves.
There's only one problem.
So we've got 26 times more of this energy source than the one we use.
Problem is, we don't know where it is.
It's somewhere trapped in the planet.
Now, how do they know how much there is if they don't know where it is?
Do you trust this?
I'm going to say, on the surface, I do not trust the study that says We know how much hydrogen is underground.
We just don't know where it is.
No thank you.
Nope.
Nope.
Not good enough.
According to the Hill, small business optimism jumped in November, surpassing a 50-year average for the first time, blah, blah, blah.
Now, if you do not follow economics, there are some numbers that are far more important than others.
And, for example, the stock market is a little bit interesting.
But it's not telling you too much, you know, because there are a lot of animal instincts and some specific companies might be driving the averages and all that.
But when you see the small business optimism up to a high, historical high, that's meaningful.
That's really good news.
Similar to employment.
If you have good unemployment numbers, you're usually in good shape.
At least you're not going to be destroyed as a country.
You'll be able to get through it as long as the employment numbers are good.
So that's good.
Another great news.
Here's another big one.
According to News Nation, Texas is looking at a bill, legislation, that would allow residents to pay their Texas taxes in Bitcoin.
So you could pay your taxes in Bitcoin if this got passed.
Now, I don't know if it'll get passed, but here's what you need to know about that.
If you're wondering, hey, Bitcoin is not backed by anything, so I'm afraid to own it.
Bitcoin, if it becomes a way that you can pay your taxes, let's say federal taxes is more important than state taxes, but if the federal government, and I think Trump might actually do this, Trump might make this change, if you could pay your federal taxes in Bitcoin, which is not on the table, but I think it might be, then you don't have to worry about Bitcoin becoming useless.
Because it will have something you could buy that basically every person wants to buy, which is pay off their taxes.
So this sounds like a little technical thing.
It's like, oh, yeah, taxes might let you pay in Bitcoin.
No, it's actually gigantic.
It's like a civilization-altering trend.
Not for just the state.
If it's only Texas, it's no big deal.
But if the federal government followed suit, and other states did, Bitcoin's here to stay, and the people who have invested in it would probably be a lot happier if they heard that happen.
Anyway, J.D. Vance invited Daniel Penny, the subway hero, I call him, To the Army-Navy game with him and Trump.
So, how much do I love this?
A lot.
This is exactly what I want my president to do.
I want my president to go to a football game, especially given that it's the military nature of the game, Army-Navy, with a Marine vet who was cleared in his case.
That's exactly what I want.
I don't want Daniel Penny just to break even.
I want Daniel Penny to command ahead.
That's what this is.
This is somebody who stepped in to help at great personal expense and risk.
You know, you didn't know about the expense part, but lawyers are not cheap.
It's not good enough if we only rehabilitate him back to where he was.
That's not good enough.
Now, it's very important to me that he comes on ahead.
And having the President of the United States say, you want to go to a basketball game?
That's a start.
But remember, he's still getting sued civilly by maybe the father or somebody.
So he's going to have massive bills.
And so we better look at helping funding him.
I think there's one of those online funding things for funding Daniel Penney.
You can probably find it if you Google it.
But make sure you don't get a fake.
There's probably some fakes.
So that's cool.
Okay.
You want to talk about drones?
Half of you are sick of drones, and half of you think it's the most fun thing happening.
I happen to be in the category of people who think it's the most fun thing happening, because it just makes you so curious what's going on.
So I've got a lot to say about it, but I'm going to answer some questions for sure.
So you're going to get some answers today that I'm quite confident about.
That maybe moves it a little bit forward, okay?
So here's where we...
I'll give you...
There's a bunch of news on this topic.
So Trump...
He said the Mystery Jones sightings are all over the country.
He said this on a post on True Social.
Can this really be happening without our government's knowledge?
I don't think so.
All right, so Trump believes that the government knows what they are because, duh, of course the government knows what they are.
And he says, let the public know, and now, otherwise, shoot them down.
Now, there's no chance they're going to be shot down by our government because they belong to our government.
I think that part we know.
It's not aliens.
It's not another country.
It's definitely us.
So I'm willing to say that with 100% certainty.
For the first time.
100% certainty.
No doubt about it.
It's us.
And presumably our military, but I would include, you know, if it's a CIA testing something, to me that's still military, essentially.
So...
Alex Jones did a video with a warning.
I'm not sure I fully understand Alex Jones' point, but the essence of it is that it might be the drones are part of an op that is setting up Trump for some kind of emergency power takeover situation.
So I don't know how to connect the dots from the drones to somebody trying to create a situation to take power from Trump.
That would only make sense if we were convinced the drones were not on our side.
If we know the drones are on our side, it's not going to really cause any kind of panic.
And I'm here to tell you, the drones are on our side.
I'll give you my complete certainty of that.
And I'll tell you more in a minute, but complete certainty.
All right.
So News Nation had one of their reporters, Rich McHugh.
I saw Megyn Kelly noted that he's highly credible because the things he says don't sound highly credible.
If you just heard this and you didn't know that he's actually a serious reporter and Megyn Kelly tells you, yeah, you can believe him.
He said this.
He went to New Jersey Admitted that he wasn't really quite a believer that anything weird was going on.
Probably thought like a lot of you, it's just commercial airlines or regular drones and people are imagining what they're seeing.
But he says he gets there, to New Jersey I guess it was, and it blew his mind.
There were 40 to 50 of these drones.
40 to 50 of them that were sort of simultaneously flying around.
40 to 50. And he said that they don't have a heat signature, so the government can't seem to identify them by heat because they seem designed that you can't get a heat signature.
Hmm.
Now, that would suggest, if this is true, and I'm not sure it is true, that they have no heat signature, but if it's true, it would suggest military, right?
You would assume it's a military operation if it's built to that kind of specifications.
He said they had their fixed-wing devices, and they're about eight feet, right?
He says the entire view of the New Jersey drones has changed since he witnessed them flying from the ocean.
So there does seem to be continued reports that the drones somehow are coming from some ocean location.
Now, I've heard some people in some videos suggest that they were coming out of the ocean.
I highly doubt they're coming out of the ocean.
But maybe.
I mean, if we've developed a submarine that can launch drones, maybe.
I just highly, highly doubt it.
What I think is happening is that the drones maybe go beyond the horizon, because remember, the Earth is round.
They go beyond your horizon and then just land on whatever military ship launched them, and then they turn off the lights.
So to you it looks like they went in the ocean because it's too far for you to see that they landed on a ship.
So I think the reports of them coming from the ocean and going back into the ocean are probably all fake.
I think they're just landing on a ship that's far away.
That's my guess.
And our military.
It would be our military.
Let's see.
So they're lower than normal.
And they're smaller than a regular plane.
And it was very clear last night, and reportedly, I'll tell you more about that, you can see everything clearly.
so it was a really clear night so Rich said quote the experience I had last night however changed the way I feel about the story completely He said, what I saw was more sophisticated than I ever imagined.
We've been looking for the past hour.
I think we've seen about 40 or 50 of these drones.
Now, here's where I get to do some fun reporting.
I was doing a live stream last night, a private one on Locals.
And one of our most famous members on the Locals community, those are people who subscribe just to see my content privately, is Erica.
And Erica lives in New Jersey.
And of course, we all kept saying, Erica, why don't you take your phone outside and take some pictures?
And last night, Erica was doing just that.
So we got to hear from somebody we know to be a real person, and we know to be a straight shooter.
So we know that whatever she was saying is definitely true, right?
Because it's just somebody we know and trust.
So Erica takes her phone out, and you can see I've reposted some of the photos in my stream.
So if you can't find Erica, Directly, just go to mine, Scott Adams says, and you'll see her X account as well.
But I reposted it.
And I saw some videos and some photos.
So let me tell you what I saw.
Erica's description, if I have it right, is that they were the same as Rich McHugh.
That they were all over the place.
They were really obviously everywhere.
Every time you went outside at night, it seems.
And that they were flying over the residential areas.
One of the videos I saw privately, you can see it started as just a light in the distance.
And this particular one went directly over the home.
of the person who was videoing it from the time it was just a light.
So you could see her as clearly almost as the people standing on the ground.
So here's what I can tell you based on Erica's report and some of the pictures I saw.
Number one, there's a sound to them that's not common aviation sound.
Now, of course, we can all be influenced by, you know, persuasion.
We can talk ourselves into hearing things we're not hearing and stuff.
But Erica is very reliable and And says that the sound doesn't match sort of normal aviation sound.
They're flying low.
They're not up where regular airplanes are.
And they definitely are going over the residential areas commonly.
And you can see them all over the place every night.
Now, I watched as the little dot of light, which from a distance I would have called an orb.
You've seen the UFO pictures?
They're just a glowing orb.
Well, these look like glowing orbs, just because they must have like a light on the front that overwhelms the other lights, I guess.
Because for a very long time, it looks like just a tiny light that's becoming a larger light.
So it can get pretty close to you.
And still just look like an orb.
So my first finding is that you can imagine that at least some of the things people thought were orbs might have been an airplane or one of these drones or something.
I don't think all of the orbs Fell into the pattern that they could have been this, but maybe some of them.
So then the craft gets so close to the person in New Jersey who was videoing it that you could kind of see that it was a fixed wing craft.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was, you know, this eight or ten feet wide and loud and Oh, and the other thing is that, according to Erica, they were hovering for long periods of time out at sea.
So when they came over to the residential area, they weren't doing so much hovering.
They were just going somewhere.
But when they were out at sea, they seemed to be hovering for as much as 15 minutes, you know, just in place.
Now, you may have seen...
Somebody online that's getting passed around said, oh, this is one of the military's vertical takeoff and landing drones.
And sure enough, the military, you can find it easily, the military has a bunch of drones that are vertical takeoff and landing, meaning that they can hover and But they can also fly like a plane, and they have fixed wings.
So they're not drone drones.
They're probably vertical takeoff and landing, but smaller.
So they might be drones, meaning that they might be unmanned.
But here's the next thing I would like to add to the conversation.
They were big enough that they could have been manned.
I don't know where we're getting the idea that they're unmanned.
Because nobody has a clear shot of a cockpit.
Does anybody have a clear enough picture from above it that you could say for sure they're not manned?
Like every one of them, not manned?
They're big enough.
They're big enough that they could be manned.
But the drones that were mentioned, the ones that do vertical takeoff and landing, They were specifically for supplying things or picking up things from land and then moving it to a ship at sea and vice versa.
So they were for quick transport of heavy stuff, but not super heavy stuff, I can't take a tank, from the water to the sea.
Now, New Jersey has military bases on land and And so if you were going to test this kind of technology, you would put your boat in the ocean, and you would have many flights in which these devices went from your boat to a military base, did its thing, and then went back.
So, probably that.
So I would say that the weight of reporting from citizens and reporters who are not part of the government seems to clearly indicate the following.
Number one, there's no UFO activity that anybody can find.
So you can rule out UFOs.
Your government told you that they're not foreign actors.
They know that.
They're not guessing about that part.
If you think they're guessing when they say it's not foreign adversaries, they're not guessing.
They absolutely know it's not.
So I wouldn't worry about it.
Don't worry about it, at least in terms of a foreign adversary.
You might still worry about it for different reasons.
You know, Alex Jones says you should worry about it, and I don't know about that.
So I'm just saying that if you don't know what it is, you should, you know, let's make sure we find out.
Next, the fact that there's no military presence that we can see that's trying very hard to intercept them when they're all over the place is really all the confirmation you need to know, to know that our military knows what they are because they're not looking for them, and they're really, really, really easy to find.
Like, really easy to find.
Like, you can just walk outside.
There's one.
There's another one.
Now, to be fair, some of them are spottings of regular airplanes.
How do I know that that's possible?
Well, during the live stream, in which the New Jersey ones were being filmed and talked about, I went outside in my own house, Went out on the balcony at night, and sure enough, there was a drone.
And it was coming right at my house.
And I'm like, holy shit, they're everywhere.
What is this?
And I'm looking at this thing, and I'm like, clearly, this is not an aircraft.
This is not normal aircraft.
And it's like, it's one of these balls of light, and it's coming right at my house.
It gets closer and closer and closer and then finally I can sort of see its outline.
I'm like, holy shit!
It looks just like a drone.
And it's way too low.
And then it got a little closer and I said, oh, it's an airplane.
I live near an airport.
I live near a small airport where there are lots of small planes.
It was just a regular plane.
Now, Was I convinced beyond any doubt that I was looking at something unusual?
Yes, I was.
For a moment, I was 100% sure I was looking at some anomalous thing I'd never seen before.
Yeah, it was much higher, higher in the sky.
But you couldn't tell how high it was until it got kind of close.
So, can a normal person who...
Is famously good at not being fooled by BS, be immediately fooled by a drone?
Yes.
Yes, you can think that the normal flights are drones.
So here's the next thing I'm sure of.
So this next thing, I'm positive.
There are hobby drones in the area.
This is confirmed by reporting because people are bringing their own drones to look for the other things.
So there's definitely hobby drones.
100% some of the sightings are just regular aircraft.
I know this because pilots are having fun with it.
The pilots are looking at the video and just laughing and saying, that's just an airplane.
Have you never seen an airplane before?
So I guarantee you some of the spottings, probably the ones that are in other parts of the country, Or regular drones or balloons or maybe a UFO or something else.
So the other thing I'm sure of is that it's not nationwide.
But the sightings are nationwide.
It might be in more than one place.
But it's definitely not nationwide, whatever these things are.
It's just somebody testing something.
It does not seem to be transportation, as in the only point is to bring a person from one place to another.
It doesn't seem to be that.
It could be recreation, but who has 40 or 50 friends with flying cars?
So I would rule out recreation.
I think you could keep testing and surveillance on Or maybe demonstrating for the purpose of deciding what to procure.
So I think it looked more like testing, procurement, training, something like that.
That's what it felt like.
So Martha McCallum had John Kirby on to ask about it.
And it's a real good clip if you want to see a real good News person being lied to, to her face, knowing that he's lying to her face and not being willing to put up with it.
It's a real good, fun watch.
Because Martha wasn't having it.
Let's just say that.
I won't describe it further.
I'll just say Martha wasn't having it.
She just wasn't having it.
And it was fun to watch.
Now, here's the fun part.
We can learn how to spot lying by watching how the people you know are lying are doing it.
Now, since you know that our leaders are lying, right?
The lower level people are probably not lying.
So a chief of police, not lying.
A specific member of the, let's say, police force, not lying.
They're just doing the best that they can to tell you what's going on because they don't know.
But do you think that the National Security Communications Advisor Kirby, John Kirby, do you think he doesn't know what it is?
Well, he might not be fully briefed, but I guarantee he knows they're ours.
I guarantee it.
I mean, I guarantee it.
So when you watch him talk about it, what you do is you look for how he talks about it, because that teaches you Now, somebody lies because this is one of those rare situations where you don't have to wonder if they're lying.
Oh, they're definitely lying.
So, what Kirby says, what did he say?
He said that the ones that they had looked into were just regular commercial aircraft.
Do you know what he's leaving out?
Well, how many of you looked into?
And does that mean you've ruled out?
No.
It's sort of a weasel answer.
All the ones we've looked at, you know, checked out as regular aircraft.
That's a weasel answer, right?
That's so obviously a weasel answer.
Or why doesn't...
You know, why doesn't the military shoot one down?
Or why don't we know?
Why with all of our advanced assets, why don't we know?
Like, he can't answer these questions.
Obviously, he knows the answer.
He just can't answer them.
But then Mayorkas was the funniest one.
He said that Homeland Security, he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, that his agency, quote, has seen no evidence of anomalous activity.
Do you think that Mayorkas knows what's going on?
Of course he does.
Yeah, Mayorkas knows exactly what's going on.
Do you think that when Mayorkas is so specific that they've seen no anomalous activity, what do you think is anomalous to somebody who knows what's going on?
If you knew what was going on and you knew that the military tests things because, of course, everybody tests everything, then it's not anomalous, is it?
It's not anomalous at all.
So you look for the specific words and how narrow they make their statements.
Know that drone that somebody reported on Tuesday at 2 o'clock over in New Jersey, we determined that was an aircraft.
But what about the other ones?
That's very specific, John Kirby.
So you can learn a lot about how people lie This week.
It's going to be fun.
All right.
In other news, Daily Wire is reporting that there was a school in Wisconsin that denied a white student help in his reading because he wasn't a minority.
So they're getting sued.
It makes me happy.
It does make me think that things are starting to move in the right direction.
Then, according to Fox News, there was a scholarship program that discriminated against white men.
And where was this?
Where were these?
I did not write where these were, but there are two scholarship programs for something in the medical domain to go to college, and they're getting sued because the program was for everybody but white men, basically.
So that's happening.
But separately, you've already heard some of this, but Van Jones continues to be Really fun to watch as he's trying to inform other Democrats what they did wrong.
Because I think he's pretty close to figuring it out, as I thought he would be.
Unlike most of the other Democrats who decided that what went wrong is that there must be more racists in the country than they knew about.
That's the lowest level of understanding.
Or maybe Kamala Harris wasn't the best campaigner.
Maybe that's why.
Maybe.
But Van Jones pointed out on some video I was watching, he was in some event talking about it, and he noted that the Democrats had created these binaries, as he called them, as opposed to being like Martin Luther King, who would say, how about everybody's good?
So there's no binary with Martin Luther King.
Oh, you're a human being?
Oh, you're good.
Do I have to do anything else?
No.
What?
You said you're a human being, right?
Yes.
You're good.
You're a human being.
Yes.
You get full respect, full rights, because you're a human being.
But the Democrats didn't do that.
Rather, as Van Jones pointed out, even Bernie Sanders, who Van loves, was...
Billionaires are bad.
And Van says, but is Oprah bad?
Now, that wasn't the best example given recent events.
Because she did attend some ditty parties, if you know what I mean.
But we don't know that she's bad.
So his point is, billionaires aren't bad just because they're billionaires.
That's not the way to do it.
You're not being honest with the public, basically.
You say billionaires are bad and other people are good.
And then, of course, the bigger issue of DEI is a killer.
And he does seem to note that as long as the Democrats have divisive communication and policies, they don't really have a chance of winning.
Because Trump managed to put together a, let's say, a set of ideas that are beyond, more than anything, they're about unity.
You know, make America great, America, America, close the borders.
He's pretty clear about what's going on.
Van Jones also said, it's funny that he was saying like he was just figuring it out, that the mainstream news is now the fringe, and what had been the fringe is now the mainstream news.
So as he points out, everybody knew that Joe Rogan was big, so that was no surprise.
But there were lesser known to older people, lesser known podcasters, that Trump somehow found that Through Barron, I think, and exploited and that that was a big deal and that the Democrats haven't wrapped their head around the fact that CNN might pull in, you know, several hundred thousand viewers where the teenage podcaster is going to pull in 14 million.
So they're not even close.
It's not that one overtook the other.
They're not even close.
The alternative news and opinion people are just absurdly bigger than the mainstream media now.
So they're aware of that.
And Van also said that their vague messaging about things like they're going to restore democracy wasn't really hitting anybody in the heart or the pocketbook where they care about stuff.
So the vague generalities, he didn't say, stop saying everybody's a racist, but that was sort of implied too.
So that's interesting.
And we'll see if the Democrats can recover.
I don't think they can.
I don't think there's any way to recover.
Do you?
What would it take?
I don't know.
Fetterman's interesting, though, because if he becomes a candidate, he could actually maybe reframe things.
We'll see.
Meanwhile, the post-millennium says that Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman have all donated a million dollars each to Trump's inauguration fund.
It does sound a little bit like a shakedown, doesn't it?
If the inauguration fund comes to your company...
And you're like, I don't want to say no to the inauguration fund, because for a million dollars, which is kind of cheap, wouldn't it be better to show that we're in favor of the democratic process, if not the candidate himself?
So that was smart.
To me, it's like they're buying protection.
But I saw a clip by Mark Andreessen who was pointing out and Elon Musk was agreeing that we've never seen a vibe shift like this.
Something that happened very fast and quite thoroughly and sort of changed all the way we feel and think about everything.
It really did.
The vibe shift is continuing.
I worry that it might be temporary and just had something to do with the election being recent.
But it looks like it's real.
I think the Daniel Penny thing helped make us feel like, oh, common sense is returning.
And those two words, common and sense, I believe are the unifying words for the country.
Because what was happening is in order for the two sides to show that they were different from each other, they had to disagree on everything.
It seems like there was some unwritten rule that the parties had to just disagree on everything.
But there were so many things that were common sense.
That you didn't really need to disagree on, such as borders.
I'm sure a majority of Democrats would like the border controlled.
So common sense turns out to be, and nobody really...
I don't think there was a champion for that term or anything.
It's just that people simultaneously decided...
Why don't we just do what's common sense?
Why don't we just stop assuming that we figure this out?
Stop assuming that our leaders are smarter than us.
Why don't we just look at what makes sense?
And I'll bet there's no difference when the Republicans and the Democrats look at common sense stuff.
And sure enough, I think there are things such as the Daniel Penny situation.
I think common sense screams that you need to protect the guy who was willing to step in, especially a Marine.
Are you kidding me?
Like we train him to do this and then we're going to put him in jail for doing it?
He's trained to do that.
I realize it went wrong, but he's trained to step in.
Meanwhile, the Harvard president, according to the New York Post, privately told his faculty members that they need to work on their messaging.
They have to rethink their messaging after the GOP victory.
Now, here's what I love about that.
Every time some Democrat says they have to change their messaging, it confirms to me that they don't understand anything that's happening in the world.
Your messaging, not really the base problem.
Yes, your messaging should be better, but it's not the base problem.
The base problem is the things you're talking about don't make common sense.
They're either bad for unity, bad for the economy, bad for the future in some way.
So, no, it's not your messaging that's the problem.
And everybody who thinks their messaging is the problem, probably narcissists who can't look at their own actions and see anything wrong.
It must be other people.
It's just the messaging that's wrong.
Anyway, I think they're still trapped in their own gaslighting bubble.
Meanwhile, in California, a member of the California legislature is being accused by the Department of Justice for maybe taking bribes related to permits for cannabis.
And you don't need to know the details.
That's not the important part.
But here's a problem I have.
I feel like our elected leaders are the least qualified and trustworthy for deciding anything that involves money I feel like the people we elect should have no control over money.
Like who gets a permit so they can open a business?
Who gets the bid?
I don't think they should do it.
Because all it does is create guaranteed corruption at every level.
So somebody has to make the decisions, and whoever is making the decisions would be susceptible to bribery.
But I feel like everything that has to do with money needs to be really, really public and transparent.
So at least the public can say, hey, hey, I think you know somebody and that permit is bad.
So other than making everything super public, I don't know what to do about that.
There's no way that local management can ever work because they're just too easily bribable.
Meanwhile, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, I don't know, is he the one who replaced the one who was murdered?
He must be.
But he said, quote, we know the health system does not work as well as it should, and we understand people's frustration with it.
The new CEO's last name is Whitty.
He's a witty guy.
But here's the important part.
He said, no one would design a system like the one we have, and no one did.
It's a patchwork built over decades.
Now, who can fix that if you have a system that's a patchwork that really needs to be ripped down to its base and rebuilt to make sense?
Elon Musk.
Now, I don't know if he's going to be working specifically in this domain, but yes, our healthcare system is one nobody would have designed.
So what if you said to yourself, what would it look like if the smartest person in the world designed it?
Why don't we see if we can get there?
And if we can't do it, well, we're dead.
So that would be called re-engineering.
So instead of tweaking, you start and say, all right, everything's on the table.
What if we could just throw away everything we have and start over?
What would it look like if we did it right?
That would take your health care costs down probably 50%, I think.
That's what I think.
Anyway, here's a scary one.
There was a young man, 26-year-old guy, Who was found dead from what they think is suicide in San Francisco in his apartment.
But what's interesting is that he was a former open AI, you know, chat GPT, open AI researcher, but he turned whistleblower.
So he was an open AI whistleblower who was found suspiciously dead.
And he was whistleblowing because...
He thought it was too dangerous or they're doing it too fast or something.
He was a subject of a New York Times...
Oh, no.
He was a subject...
I'm sorry.
It wasn't because of the danger only.
But he was a subject of a New York Times profile that quoted him as OpenAI was stealing the IP of places like the New York Times.
Now, if it turned out that the law agreed with the New York Times...
That AI can't just use their stuff.
That would make AI kind of worthless.
So let me put this together.
So there was a whistleblower whose opinion could make a $3 trillion industry go away.
Just go away.
Because it couldn't do what it does if it couldn't use stuff that is scraped off the internet.
Now, He becomes a whistleblower, which is a risk to $3 trillion business.
And then, without any outside knowledge, he dies suspiciously of what I guess would be a drug overdose, intentionally, if they think it's suicide.
But would that be the easiest thing to fake?
Like if you had a pill that was going to kill somebody, you know, let's say you knew it would kill them, and you just put a gun in their head and say, take this pill and lay down, would they do it?
And then the pill just kills them, and then you think it's suicide.
So if it weren't for the fact that the industry is so big that you don't know what they'd be willing to do to keep a trillion dollars going their way, I don't know.
The smart money says that it was just something about him.
But on the other hand, we have heard that the intelligence agencies have told the big AI companies that they're going to be the bitches of the intelligence people.
In other words, the government has already told them there are only going to be two or three big AI companies because we can't control them if there are lots of them.
And we're going to totally control them to make sure that it's all stuff that's good for the Republic or maybe good for the Democrats.
I don't know.
But if you imagine that the intelligence people know that our AI industry has to be better than China's or else we'll all die, do you think the CIA could let somebody blow the whistle and And destroy a trillion dollar industry in America, while China would just keep going.
And reportedly, they've already caught up with us.
Even though they have worse chips, somehow they've already caught up.
And the risk to the United States as a country might be existential.
So the smart people are saying, if we don't win in AI, we don't win.
That's not going to be the whole game.
I don't know that that's true.
But it's a reasonable risk, and it's a reasonable thing to say.
So now, it's trillions of dollars, it's an existential risk to the country, and there's this one whistleblower who might blow everything.
And the people who are trying to make sure that it doesn't get blown up are literally trained killers.
They're trained killers and trained liars.
And then somebody suspiciously dies.
He suspiciously dies after he crosses a trillion-dollar industry full of trained killers.
Not full of, but backed by trained killers.
Now, if you're not worried about that, I don't know what you're worried about.
Now, I'm not going to make any accusations.
Like, I don't have direct evidence of anything happening.
But boy, everything about it raises some questions.
Scott Jennings summed up, he was on CNN, he summed up the reason for Trump's political comeback in just three words, according to the Daily Wire.
He called them the breaker of narratives.
How do you like that explanation of why Trump won?
He's a breaker of narratives.
I accept that, but I would add a couple of tweaks.
You don't break narratives unless you have persuasion skills.
What Trump has is the persuasion skills.
So I would have said he won because he's the most skilled persuader.
But if you don't want to talk in persuasion terms, you'd say he's a breaker of narratives, which in fact he did.
One of the narratives was that the fake news was reliable.
And he just changed the narrative to, nope, it's always lying all the time.
And we go, oh, okay, that's really different.
He changed the narrative from he was a clown to he's maybe the best president we've ever had.
But here's the other thing I would add.
He had some help.
Yes.
Trump is the boss in this example.
He's the boss.
And when the boss gets good advice, the boss still has to decide to take it.
So the boss has to know who to listen to.
The boss has to know which advice is good because there's lots of competing advice.
And then they have to take that advice and productively use it.
So no matter who helps Trump, The boss gets all the credit.
It should be that way.
That's the way it should be.
But the truth is, he had a lot of help.
Trump had a lot of help.
And there were a lot of really, really persuasive people who helped him, pushed him over the line.
I'm talking about people like David Sachs, Elon Musk, Vivek, Those are not ordinary persuasive people.
Those are super persuasive.
And so if those are the people that Trump listens to, and we know he did, there's how you break a narrative.
But also people like Mike Cernovich, Breaker of narratives.
People like me.
Breaker of narratives.
I don't see that kind of skill on the left.
Maybe I just don't know if the players are enough.
That's possible.
But on the right, it's no surprise that the boss of a group of people who, for whatever reason, have the best narrative breakers all on the same team, he's a narrative breaker, but he got help.
And again, he still gets all the credit because probably all of this help would have been available to a Democrat, you know, different people, but maybe there's a Democrat who wasn't taking advice, didn't know which advice to take.
Yeah.
And it does seem that the Democrats are makers of narratives.
I'm seeing that from Frank.
Makers of narratives.
So the Democrats make the narrative, and Trump is the first person at that level of politics who is able to destroy them and just turn them around.
I take you back to 2015, when I said, you guys don't know what's coming.
I've never seen anybody with more persuasion tools in their toolbox.
He's not going to change just politics, I told you in 2015. I said, he's going to change reality itself.
And that's the breaker of narratives.
Here it is.
Meanwhile, Jordan Peterson.
He's moving to the U.S. I've been waiting for this.
Every time Jordan Peterson would complain about Canada, because Canada is giving him a hard time in his licensing, the taxes are high, and the government's incompetent, and immigration's out of control there as well, and they're super woke, I kept thinking, you're going to move, right?
Like, why wouldn't you move?
He probably does most of his work in America.
So he just announced he's moving.
Now, I think maybe at least half of his reason is to be closer to his daughter, who he works with a lot, too.
She's already in the United States.
So welcome, Jordan Peterson.
You know, we always mock all the Democrats who say, if Trump is elected, I'm immediately leaving the country.
And then they never do.
And then Jordan Peterson says, oh, you went too far.
And now I'm leaving your country.
Imagine losing Jordan Peterson from Canada.
Do you know what Canada just lost?
They just lost their best guy.
If you were going to pick teams for some kind of competition that was academic or mental or persuasion or just good advice or a good writer, you'd look at Canada and you'd say, all right, who's the second best Canadian?
I don't know.
Who's the second best Canadian?
They just lost their best Canadian.
But it's an honest question.
Who's their second best?
Like, if you'd ask me, I think Gad Saad is the right answer to that.
Yeah.
Gad Saad.
But is he still in...
Is Gad still in Canada?
Mark Stein, he got shut down.
Haven't heard from him in a long time.
Tan Aykroyd.
Mark Gretzky?
Mike Myers?
Well, I think of the names that you mentioned, Jordan Peterson would still be the first one picked for any team.
So they lost their best guy.
Good luck, Canada.
Anyway, according to European Commission Joint Research Center, When people engage with social media, in other words, they make comments as opposed to just reading it, they feel less lonely.
But if they simply consume it passively, they feel more lonely.
Or at least there's a difference in loneliness.
So I'm going to make a recommendation to you.
A recommendation if you're looking to interact with your social media, but you don't feel like talking to people.
I don't have any financial stake in this, in case you wonder.
But Perplexity, the app, you really need to try this one.
It's the first AI-related app That I'm pretty sure I'll use always, you know, unless somebody beats it.
But right now it's killer.
And what it is, is you can just hold down the little button and talk to it.
And because it's AI, you can say anything unclearly and it still seems to understand everything.
And then it gives just the best answers.
So I'll give you an example of what I asked it yesterday.
So I like to have it talk to me.
About things I didn't know that are just quick.
So I said, tell me a story about something that happened in American history that is interesting and most people don't know about.
And then it told me, you know, I kept prompting it.
It gave me three different stories that were really interesting.
I was totally delighted to get them.
And they were right on point.
They were interesting things that I didn't know about.
For example, did you know that Davy Crockett was not born in one of the United States?
Apparently, there was a brief period where there was some other breakaway area where he lived that was named Franklin.
So they tried to make a state.
I think it was in the Kentucky, Tennessee area, wherever it was.
They tried to create a new state called Franklin.
So he was actually born and grew up in the state of Franklin that doesn't even exist.
That was kind of cool.
Anyway, I had a few other stories.
But what it does is it'll go on for a while and Without being annoying and tell you a fun story.
So I use it all day long.
I use it when I'm working.
For example, this morning when I heard those noises and then I saw the alert about the tornado alert in San Francisco, I just reached to perplexity.
I pushed the button and I say, what does a tornado sound like?
And it comes back with, you know, it can sound like a freight train.
And I think, exactly, exactly.
So that's probably what I heard.
So it's really good, and it will feel like a person talking to you.
So it will make you feel a little less lonely because you're interacting with it.
So that is my advice on that.
The last point is there was a study, a new study by the University of Manchester about Russia's covert propaganda network.
So apparently when they lost RT, so that doesn't run in the United States because that was their...
RT was called Russia Today originally, and it was meant to be a propaganda tool, but it's kind of banned in the United States.
But they launched a bunch of other smaller ones to make them look like they were real, real news sites.
But listen to this.
One of their real news sites is called Reliable Recent News.
Or as they call it, RRN. RRN is literally the name of my comic strip that I do only within the local subscription service, which involves a robot.
Who reads the news?
So RRN as a news entity is...
It's a comic.
But it's also a Russian site, I guess.
Anyway, so they did this study and they found out that the Russian propaganda is absolutely toothless, useless, and makes no difference whatsoever.
Now that is what I've been telling you since 2016. When we saw the Russian memes...
Remember the Democrats would say, no, the Russians are posting all these things on social media and it's rigging the result.
And then they showed us what their memes were.
And the memes looked like they were made by 7th graders as a project.
Didn't have any persuasive qualities whatsoever.
All right, Ryan Reynolds.
I guess that's our most famous current Canadian.
All right, I'll give you Ryan Reynolds.
He's a billionaire.
That might be beating Jordan Peterson.
All right.
That's all I got for you today.
It's going to be a wonderful day.
I believe Owen is going to do a Spaces after this.
So he's going to test to see if anybody wants to hang around and keep talking.
People will follow me.
So look for Owen.
He'll have a spaces.
He's probably getting ready to fire that up pretty soon if you want to continue.
All right.
So that's all I got for today.
I will see you in the man cave tonight.
But I'm just saying just a little bit privately to the locals people before I go.
So goodbye to YouTube and Rumble and X and locals.
