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It's also Martin Luther King Day, and that's cool too.
But the Golden Age, wow.
It only happens once.
And we're in it.
So let me call up my comments, and we're going to have the show that you've been waiting for.
You couldn't be happier.
The only thing that could go wrong is if my sound doesn't work.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to enjoy today?
Are you ready to just have the best time?
So, as we speak, I believe that President Trump and Melania are meeting with the Bidens to have some tea.
You know, that's exactly how you hand over the government to Hitler.
You have some tea.
Well, maybe.
The whole Hitler thing was totally made up and none of it was true.
And you're seeing some truth come out today.
It's like, no problem.
I'll have a little tea with you and we'll give you a peaceful transfer of power.
Because it was all fake, ladies and gentlemen.
Alright, well, it's the golden age from the tip of Maine all the way to the bottom of the Gulf of America.
You've heard of that, right?
The Gulf of America?
Because that's one of the first things Trump's going to change.
Yes, he's already announced that the Gulf of Mexico will be the Gulf of America.
And a few hundred other things.
Now, before we get going, I want to tell you about my own golden age miracle.
You probably know that yesterday I was feeling quite ill.
And it looked like I had maybe three or four problems at the same time.
I had intense pain in my hip area.
That I thought was maybe a signal I needed to get a hip replaced.
So that didn't make me happy.
Couldn't even walk on it.
You know, I can limp, but I couldn't walk.
And then I also have an untreated hernia in the same part of my body.
I thought, oh my God, the hip pain is exacerbating the hernia.
Which, by the way, the standard of care these days is to not treat it.
So not treating a hernia sometimes makes more sense because the operation has some risks.
But just living with it has slightly smaller risks.
So I couldn't walk, which means I couldn't exercise for a week, for a week.
And everything hurt all the time.
I also apparently got some kind of COVID, I figured, because I had chills that were just incredible chills.
I couldn't get rid of them.
And my body ached, and I was fatigued, and I couldn't eat.
And then I took a nap.
During the Trump rally?
You know, the beginning of the Golden Age?
And then I woke up from my nap.
It was my fourth or fifth nap that day.
Did I mention that I was fatigued?
I think it was my fifth nap in the afternoon.
And I woke up, and I stood up, and it took me a moment to realize all my symptoms were gone.
My leg felt okay.
Completely okay.
And then I took out my perplexity app, and I said, is it possible that if you're in pain for a long time, you could get body chills?
Yes.
Is it possible that when you're in pain, you could feel nausea?
Yes.
Every one of my symptoms was from the same cause, which I think was probably some kind of a pinched nerve.
So probably the nap put me in a position accidentally that unpinched it.
I woke up and entered the golden age.
I was quite sure that today would be hell for me because the last seven days have been cured.
Now, if you watch me, if you've been watching me for a while, I'm going to drop a little fact on you that will only mean something to the people who watch me a lot.
That morning, I decided to use affirmations to see if I could get rid of whatever my problem was.
A few hours later, there was none left.
It's just completely gone.
I'm 100%.
So that's how I entered.
That's how I entered the Golden Age.
If you can do better than that, good luck.
All right, so everything's good on my end.
Thanks for asking.
As you know, there's lots of Biden pardons being dropped at the last minute.
Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, General Milley, and the January 6th people like Liz Cheney and Kinzinger and the others are all pardoned, pardoned without even being accused of a crime, at least by the justice system.
But Anthony Fauci might have a little trouble ahead because Florida, which is not...
is not affected by the federal pardon, is already looking into Fauci for state-related crimes.
Where have we seen this trick before?
Oh yeah, it was the lawfare against Trump.
They make sure that it's a state crime so that the evil feds can't do something to stop it.
Well, maybe that trick is something that the Republicans learned.
So DeSantis will be going after Fauci, it sounds like, or already is, looking into it.
The rest of them, you know what?
Weirdly, I kind of don't care because I don't want to live in the past.
I'm not really super interested in crushing the losers, as bad as they were.
Do I think they deserved jail?
Yes, I do.
In my opinion, the January 6th people.
Are some of the worst people I've ever seen in American history?
Was there a crime involved?
I assume so.
I mean, I don't know how you could do the things they did.
I mean, it was just so obviously an op that, yeah, I think they deserve prison, but I also don't live in the past.
So I think the pardon is, from my point of view, it's an acceptance of guilt.
So now they're all tainted.
Do you remember when they tried to make Trump a felon and that'll stop him?
Didn't work, bitches.
He's the President of the United States.
Felon and all.
But let's see if you can handle it.
Let's see if you January 6th people can handle being pardoned, which the entire country will regard as an admission of guilt.
So you know what Trump didn't do?
He didn't admit guilt.
Yeah.
He didn't admit guilt.
All these people effectively admitted guilt by accepting the pardons.
Now, you could argue, as eggheads will argue, they'll say, but Scott, pardons don't mean that.
It could be they just don't want to do the problem of going through the system.
It's not really that they are admitting they're guilty.
Well, I get to interpret it any way I want.
I'm perfectly happy if you interpret it differently.
My interpretation is guilty.
And that's it.
Are we missing something?
Is there something that you want that you're missing?
The simultaneous sip?
I was so happy about the Golden Age, I forgot the simultaneous sip.
Well, we're going to have to do the sip.
I'm going to skip the preamble.
But if you've got your beverage ready, let's have a toast.
instead of a sip, let's make it a toast to the golden age.
And by the way, thank you all for being with me the entire time.
Most of you have been on this journey.
Now, let's look at some of the other things.
Did you know, according to the Amuse account on X, that's an account you should follow on X, Amuse, Do you remember that Adam Schiff went on TV and said that blanket pardons would be a bad idea if Biden did them?
So even Adam Schiff didn't want Biden to do blanket pardons because he thought it looked bad.
And then he did the blanket pardons.
And now he looks bad.
So the weirdest part about the beginning of the Golden Age...
Is that I find myself agreeing with Adam Schiff.
And I have to keep saying, wait, what?
Wait, wait.
Adam Schiff is saying something I agree with.
What?
And then he even sort of, he just nailed the whole thing.
That it wouldn't be a good precedent for a good look to do a whole bunch of pardons.
It makes the entire administration look crooked.
So you'd never want to do that.
So Adam Schiff, if you're listening.
Welcome to the Golden Age.
I'm going to do a little bit of gloating today, if you don't mind.
Does anybody mind?
Would anybody be offended if I do some grotesque gloating today?
Just a little bit.
Come on, just a little bit.
You can join in.
Alright.
Let's see what else.
So, obviously, I'm going to get to all the...
I'll get to all the immediate things that are going to happen when Trump takes over.
We'll talk about everything.
But I wanted to set this up by reminding you of what I'm going to call the journey.
Because even though there's a national story and there's a Trump story, many of you, including me, have a personal story that ties closely into the larger story.
And I just want to remind you...
Of the journey that many of you came with me from the beginning.
How many of you have been watching me since 2015?
Maybe back in the Periscope days.
Alright, for those of you, you know the following.
You know that in 2015, I was one of the first people in the country, with Ann Coulter and just a few others, to say that Trump would win.
But that wasn't impressive, because everybody who supported him thought he could win.
I was one of the few public figures who said it.
You know, with Ann Coulter, etc.
So I wasn't alone.
But I got on board pretty quickly.
But I made a prediction back then that the others did not make.
So I'm sure that I'm the only one who said this.
I can see it coming as clear as I can see the nose on my face.
If I go cross-eyed, I can see it.
So I'm looking at it right now.
Here's what I can see.
I predicted publicly and several times that Trump would do more than change politics.
I said he would change how you would view reality itself.
How did I do?
Have you ever seen anybody make that prediction before?
That a candidate would change more than politics, would change the way you saw reality itself.
And that's what we observed.
Now, I'm not going to say that's the best prediction ever made, but it's up there.
If you're going to put together a list of the best predictions anybody ever made in any domain, that would be a finalist.
I mean, that was pretty good.
Remember, today I'm just going to give myself full permission to gloat.
So if you find this too hard to watch, I totally get it.
I'm going to do it anyway.
Because the gloating is a shared gloat.
Everybody who supported me, everybody who...
Took time out of their day to watch a little bit of my stuff, either my posts on X or anything else.
You were part of this, because without that, there wouldn't be any me talking to anybody, right?
So I'm not taking all the credit.
I'm explaining what happened, the journey.
All right, that was 2015.
And then, as you know, a scrappy bunch of patriots, as I call them, with unusual persuasion skills, unusual persuasion skills, backed Trump, who had his own incredible unusual persuasion skills and took it all the way to victory.
Now, I think this is the blind spot that the regular Democrats and the regular press have.
They don't really understand persuasion.
I'll just name some names.
If you drop a Mike Cernovich into a situation, With his powers of persuasion, things change.
If you drop me into a situation, because I'm a trained persuader, literally a hypnotist, things change.
It doesn't matter if I'm on jury duty and it's 12 people or it's a bigger crowd.
Persuasive people who have studied persuasion, they're not just lucky, they're not naturals, although Trump seems to be a natural, but largely it's people who took some time to study it.
I trained a number of people.
I think Cerno did too, just by, you know, association more.
And I wrote a book on it, so you can read it and do it yourself, win bigly.
And I think it made a difference.
I think the persuasion power trumped, literally trumped, standard politics.
But, of course, only because Trump was the candidate.
Any other candidate wouldn't have made a difference.
But the persuasive, non-traditional political entrance made a big difference.
I think Charlie Kirk could be in that hugely persuasive category as well.
I don't want to leave anybody out, because I'll name some names later for other credit.
That's what happened.
So then 2020 comes.
Some of you say the election was stolen, but I think we could all agree that it was stolen by fake news.
So if there had not been fake news and Joe Biden had not run on the fine people hoax without anybody in the corporate news challenging that fact, the most debunked hoax in American history, clearly debunked.
All you had to do was look at the video.
And the entire corporate press allowed him to run for office primarily on that lie and never fact-checked him.
Just think about that.
And that was so effective, he actually won the election.
Joe Biden became president.
So you could argue all day about, oh, the votes were counted wrong, or there was this irregularity, and maybe.
You know, I still think there are things that are unexplored about 2020s.
Election process.
But the one thing we can all agree is it was rigged by the media.
The media was not trying to tell you what was true.
They were trying to get Biden elected at any cost, and it's obvious.
I mean, everybody who watched can tell that.
So I got to admit that caught me by surprise because there was an avalanche of hoaxes, and they used the Overton window to make people like me, people who would normally be good at persuading, I'm lost.
Basically, I was drowning in hoaxes, and anything I did to try to say one is not true just got lost in all the next hoax and the next hoax and the next hoax.
So I have to admit, I was a little bit lost.
But then, at around 2020, I realized that there was one hoax that was more important than all the others.
I called it the tentpole hoax, the fine people hoax.
I also sometimes called it the Rosetta Stone.
Now, that one doesn't work as well for branding because not everybody knows what a Rosetta Stone is.
But the idea was if you could just understand how this one hoax was done, it would unlock your mind to see how all the others were done.
And so, to my credit, yes, I'm going to take credit for this.
The hard part was not debunking it.
I and others, I'll talk about this later, put a lot of time into it.
We put years into debunking that thing.
But it wasn't the debunking that made the difference.
It was knowing that's the one.
That was the trick.
I recognized that if you could take this one out, it was the tent pole, and the entire tent would collapse.
And so, many of us worked on this.
Shout out to Joel Pollack.
Steve Cortez, who worked tirelessly, made a great video on debunking it.
Greg Gutfeld on Fox.
He was the primary voice debunking on Fox, which was also convenient because he has two of the best shows on Fox and the most watched.
So that made a big difference.
Eventually, that caused enough material to be out there.
That Snopes even debunked it in 2024. However, things did not go swimmingly for me between 2020 and 2024. You may have heard.
Did anybody hear I got canceled?
Almost two years ago today, in February, I got canceled.
Now, if you weren't following it closely, you might have said, hmm, he said some bad things and he got canceled.
But that's if you believe news.
If you believe the news, Doesn't take things out of context.
Well, I'm sorry.
You're a little bit lost.
I didn't get canceled by a single Republican.
So may I say to every Republican, thank you.
Zero.
Zero Republicans canceled me.
Not one.
Not in person.
Not by email.
Not by mean comment on X. Not one.
Because it was political.
And do you think that I was taken out because I was maybe chopping away at their tentpole?
So I had almost the tentpole go on when they cancelled me.
Set me back a little bit.
But, you know me, it just pissed me off.
Just pissed me off.
So I doubled down.
I tried harder.
And I just went after that tent pole like a fucking beaver.
And I was chewing on that thing as hard as I could chew.
And I decided it was going to be the tent pole or me.
One of us was going down.
And then the tent pole fell.
It started slowly with some big names.
You got your Elon Musk.
You got your Joe Rogan.
You got your Chamath and the All In Pod guys.
Pretty soon you had famous tech people like Sean McGuire, Mark Pincus, although he didn't go public.
And then the tentpole broke.
And just like I predicted, and remember, the chewing on it like a beaver is just hard work.
That's not the magic.
The magic is knowing which one was the tentpole.
And when the tentpole fell, you're seeing one person after another.
I think Bill Ackman said it, too.
You see, one person after another say, yeah, that was the turning point.
As soon as I realized I lied about that, and especially because Obama doubled down on it after it had been debunked on Snopes.
After.
He still doubled down on it to support Biden.
Unbelievable.
So that's when you realize that it wasn't just Biden as a liar.
You could see it was something about the entire Even the prior administration.
It was just corrupt in a way that was impossible to believe until you saw this proof.
So, Snopes debunking in 2024 gave me another surge and allowed me to show that it wasn't purely a Republican thing.
And you could see that Snopes, which leans left typically, or is blamed for leading left.
I can't confirm that.
But that made people say, oh, really?
Really?
And really woke people up.
So, but, you know, it's not really good news.
Oh, and then the other part of this was watching the MAGA people reframe unity.
Do you know how Biden said, I'm going to give you unity, but he did exactly the opposite.
He really just hated half the country and he let you know it was the opposite of unity.
But Trump came in with this concept.
Called common sense.
Do you remember the first time you heard him say common sense and you said to yourself, wait a minute.
Yeah, the things that Trump wants to do are not just classic Republican stuff.
It's just getting rid of the non-common sense things that Democrats keep doing.
So all the common sense people, which are the tech people, the tech leaders are all common sense people.
They work in the real world all day long.
They only do real things.
After real things, after real things, they're common sense people, or they couldn't be where they were.
As soon as they heard common sense, here I'm speculating, I think they said, I could back that.
I'm not going to back everything Republican, I think a lot of them said.
Maybe they disagree on things like abortion, etc.
But common sense?
We need that so much.
Now, I helped...
I helped try to popularize that, as many people did.
So I don't take any credit for that.
That's all Trump.
And he found the two words that could unite the country.
Common sense.
Now, I don't think that that would have united the country, except that we'd just gone through 10 years of the opposite of common sense.
And we all kind of saw it.
So that's what made it powerful.
It's not just the message.
It's not just the messenger.
You have to get the right message.
At the right time, to fit the room.
That's what Trump does better than anybody's ever done anything.
He finds the right message for the right time, for the right room, like nobody.
I mean, he's just the best.
But, you know, there's still this problem of Scott being canceled, which, as you might imagine, was financially disastrous for me.
If you'd like to enjoy this, and I hope you will, it's two years later from my cancellation, and this past 12 months were the best I've ever had financially.
Why?
Because I bet on Elon Musk.
I moved Dilbert to Axe subscription.
It's doing great.
Then Elon Musk started monetizing accounts that were big and had comments.
And I didn't have that big of an account until I got cancelled.
Once I got cancelled, I ended up with more than a million followers.
So now, I can monetize it.
And it allowed me to have an exit from the newspaper world, which I reviled.
I absolutely hated being paid by the fake news.
Imagine spending all day long railing about fake news and then they're paying you.
I didn't like it.
But it was also really good money, so, you know.
And then, those two things, of course, weren't enough to take me up to where I was.
But in the beginning of the summer, I loaded up on Tesla stock because I was just betting on them.
I was just betting that the Trump administration would win, that that would be a good situation, and that robots are coming and self-driving cars and AI, and whatever you think of Tesla stock, it's probably going to go up.
It has now doubled.
So, all things considered, cancellation is the best thing that ever happened to me.
It made me more powerful in politics, and it gave me a million followers, and now it gave me more money, because I had time to...
Before that, I wasn't really managing my investments.
I just had an index fund.
I just sat there.
But as soon as I got cancelled, I thought, huh.
I guess I've got to pay attention to my investments.
And that's what I loaded up on Tesla.
So thank you.
So Elon Musk, you made me happy.
And I'm a little bit happier even because Charles Blow, who was one of my many critics, it's important to the story that you know he's a black man who was working for the New York Times, and he had a column.
And when I got canceled, boy, did he dunk on me.
The New York Times just released him from his regular column.
So, sorry about that, Charles Blow.
Turns out that being a lying DEI hire piece of shit didn't work out for you, did it?
In the long run.
But I'm still here.
In fact, the numbers on my live stream are a record high.
Highest they've ever been.
Too bad about that Charles Blow, though.
So what else is changing?
CNN, I just saw an episode on CNN, I think it was yesterday, showing, maybe it was this morning, in which the CNN correspondent was making a point to talk to two black supporters of Trump who were waiting for the rallies, or inauguration, I'm not sure which.
And both of them, of course, praised Trump and just said, yeah, Trump, Trump, Trump.
Now, It has always been true that Trump had some black supporters.
Would CNN ever have interviewed them, as in, this is the point of the segment, you know, we're going to talk to some black people who love Trump?
Can you even imagine they would have ever done that in 2016?
Nope.
Can't imagine it.
So the world is moving toward Trump in small ways and large.
Let me tell you one of the other predictions I made back in 2020. In 2020, when Trump was out of office and he was disgraced and the January 6th thing looked like nobody could possibly survive, I said, third act.
Do you remember that?
I said, this is going to turn out like a movie with three acts.
The third act in any movie is when everything is so bad that the hero can never recover.
January 6th was the third act.
I told you it was, and then I told you that every day from that time, Trump would get more popular.
How did I do?
Well, according to CNN poll, Trump is going into office at the highest he's ever been approved, and Biden is leaving office at the lowest approval rate.
Of any one-term president.
Now, being a one-term president is already a losing situation, but he's the biggest loser of the biggest losers.
And that's on CNN. So CNN is even emphasizing that Biden is the biggest loser among the biggest losers.
Now, that includes, of course, Trump in 2020, because he was one term up to that point.
But that's pretty bad.
Pretty good for Trump.
And now 58, according to the Gateway Pundit, Cassandra McDonald's writing, that 58% of Democrats and Democrat-leading independents report that the Democrat Party needs, quote, major changes or to be completely reformed.
That's 58% of Democrats say the party is a mess.
58% of Democrats talking about their own party.
What was that in 2022?
34. It was only 34. And it went up to 58% and said, your whole party is garbage.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when you pull the tentpole out.
The whole thing collapses.
So the collapse of the Democratic Party is completely predictable from the tentpole.
Well, let's talk about the Trump rally yesterday.
The village people were there.
So I read once, I don't know if it's still true, but I read once where the village people insist that they're not gay and that, you know, that's not what they're about.
Now, I'm willing to believe that's true, and I don't care one way or the other.
I mean, it's not important in any way.
But the fact that everybody regards them as the anthem for gayness...
But one that we all like.
Have you ever been in any event, you know, prior to the political use of YMCA as a song, have you ever been to any event where the YMCA song came on and people didn't go nuts for it?
All people.
It's one of the most universally enjoyed songs, especially if you had a couple drinks, to be honest.
And people will start dancing to it.
I never knew the move, so I didn't dance to it, but I always felt it.
I was like, oh, this one.
Yeah, everybody's in a good mood now.
So the fact that Trump would have what to many people, but not to the village people, perhaps, is like the ultimate gay anthem.
That was just a good look.
Talk about common sense.
Talk about unity.
Great.
And I love that the village people took the risk, because there is some risk of doing that.
Meanwhile, rappers Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross were at the pre-inauguration.
They went to the crypto ball, I guess.
Now, they might be more interested in crypto than they are in Trump, so you have to be careful how we analyze this.
But both Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross both did music videos that were so anti-Trump, I'm not even going to describe them.
Let's just say violence was involved.
And I don't know if they've completely flipped around.
Or if they're just making an opportunity that is unique to these two characters.
But I feel like something bigger is happening, especially in black America, especially male black America.
Not the female part so much.
Eric Adams is apparently set to attend the inauguration.
He met with Trump the other day, and apparently they get along.
Now, I don't know if Eric Adams is going to...
Turn into a Democrat or he needs a pardon or turn into a Republican or he needs a pardon or what.
I don't know.
But I love the fact that America's mayor, the mayor of New York is often called America's mayor because it's the big one.
I love that America's mayor, a Democrat, a black man, is okay enough with Trump that he'll go to the inauguration.
So that's incredible.
And then even Saturday Night Live attacked MSNBC for their ridiculous coverage.
I don't know how many times that's happened before, but it feels like the Trump effect to me.
I think SNL is seeing the mood of the country moving, and they're just matching the mood.
They're not leading anything.
They're just matching it, which is what they should do.
They're entertainment.
They're not supposed to lead.
They're supposed to match.
So, good on you.
You know, we mock some of the entertainment entities, and often they're worth the mocking.
But I think when they do something right that meets the crowd and reads the room properly, good job.
Well, so allegedly Trump and Biden and their spouses are having tea in the White House right now.
Can you confirm that that's happening right as we speak?
So the Trumps and the Bidens are meeting in the White House?
Wouldn't you love to hear how that goes?
Wouldn't you just love to hear that?
I don't think Trump drinks tea, but it's never too early for a Diet Coke if you're addicted.
So I don't know if we'll ever hear how that went.
Is that private?
It seems to me it should be.
I feel like that last meeting among presidents should just always be private.
With their spouses, that's fine.
But otherwise, always private.
Because that's a moment that nobody can understand, right?
Nobody else could ever understand what that feels like, what it's like, the importance of it.
And I do think that that's an important part of the turnover of power.
You know, the peaceful turnover of power.
So I'm going to give Biden a little bit of credit for the peaceful transfer of power.
Now, I mean, it's tiny little bit of credit because he's a horrible human being.
But my overall opinion of Biden is I don't think it could be lower.
You know, I think he's a criminal.
I think he's a liar.
I think he's bad for the country.
I think he destroyed half of the country.
I think he's a terrible, terrible person.
Also has dementia.
Or something like it.
But he's now the past.
All right, so as unusual, Wales reports has a breakdown of the executive orders coming, but he's reporting what he saw on Fox with Eric Doherty.
So here are the things we think are coming.
Maybe, yeah, I guess right after inauguration.
He's going to declare an emergency at the border and issue proclamations closed in the border.
We expected that.
Designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Huh.
Interesting.
The Remain in Mexico program and catch and release will be reinstated.
Catch and release?
No, I think this is a typo.
I think he's going to get rid of catch and release.
That would make more sense.
Military will be directed to construct new phase of border wall.
The military?
The military is going to build the wall?
I don't know.
That might be a great idea.
I'd have to know more about it.
He's going to terminate Biden orders on energy drilling restrictions?
Yes, thank you.
He's going to return federal workers to in-person work?
That's kind of a mixed one to me.
I get why they're doing it, of course.
But...
Is the whole purpose just to fire people or to use the space?
I don't know.
Maybe it's just a better way to find out who's worth firing.
Bring them all in the office and you can observe them better.
And we do believe that they probably don't do any work at home.
They probably figured out how to do one hour of work every day and then just go on with their day.
That's probably happening.
Trump's going to pause all offshore and wind leases.
Now, this is interesting, because Trump has been anti-wind turbine, or windmills as you might call them, and he's been consistent about that.
I believe he's got a long history of opposing them for environmental reasons and because it doesn't give you enough bang for the buck.
But I worry that pausing isn't enough to save the whales.
So, let me congratulate Erica.
For being one of the most effective vocal people about saving those whales.
And we got the first step.
So the first step is not to do more of it.
But the whales were dying at a high rate with just what's already there.
So I hope there's another phase.
I don't know how that would work exactly since they're already there.
But we're going to need more to save those whales if anybody cares about saving those whales.
And we know people do.
So I tried to help a little bit on that one, but I don't think I was important to the outcome.
What else?
End DEI hiring practices in the federal government.
Do you know how long I've waited for that?
Now, I don't think...
They're ending it in the federal government automatically makes it end in corporate America.
But let me ask you this.
If the federal government and the leaders of the federal government say we're ending it because it's bad, but also because it's illegal, it's illegal to discriminate, how do corporations continue doing it after the federal government has determined it's illegal?
Imagine you're on the board.
And you just found out, uh-oh, the federal government says DEI is illegal.
And we've got this gigantic DEI structure.
Wouldn't you feel that's too much of a risk?
I would.
I would cancel it immediately.
Now, that's not going to happen.
People are going to dig in and fight.
But I feel like it might be the beginning of the dominoes falling.
And it might require at least one corporation to be sued for racial discrimination.
Which I really want to happen.
I think a few have been.
Haven't some been successfully sued for racial discrimination?
But if we see just maybe a few more big cases of somebody getting sued for racial discrimination because of DEI, that should get it done.
So it's the beginning of what could be great.
Trump's going to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords.
That won't make any difference to anybody, but it's good messaging.
He's going to order every agency to remove all federal actions, increasing the costs for Americans via deregulation.
So I think that means he's going to deregulate.
He's going to suspend security clearances for the 51 officials who lied about the Hunter Biden 2020 laptop story.
All right, let me give a clarification.
The spies did not technically lie.
What the 51 people signed was a letter that says that the Hunter Laptop has all the signs of a typical Russian op.
That part is true enough.
That's true enough.
So they didn't say, we confirmed that this is Russian.
Instead, they say, in every way it looks Russian.
To people who are not spies, you don't realize that they didn't actually claim anything.
But they knew that everybody would read it as, oh, it's Russia.
So, technically they didn't lie, but they did lie like spies.
They lied the way spies lie, with some deniability.
So, yes, it's a lie.
It's a lie that's not technically a lie, but it doesn't make it less of a lie.
It's just the way spies lie.
So it's a spy lie.
Don't call it a regular lie, it's just a spy lie.
It leads you to believe something that's not true without actually saying it directly.
That's how spies lie.
Do you know what brainwashing is?
Brainwashing is leading you to believe something without somebody sitting down and saying, I'm going to lead you to believe this.
Who does the brainwashing in every country?
The intelligence people, the spies.
This is how spies lie.
It's a spy lie.
And also, Trump says he's going to establish a Doge hiring freeze, which I assume means...
That he won't be hiring in the government, won't be increasing the government.
I think that's what that means.
Meanwhile, we've also heard that Vivek, allegedly, I'm not sure, I don't believe this yet because it's based on anonymous sources, so allegedly there was some conflict between the Musk people and the Vivek people, or Vivek himself.
And we don't know the nature of it.
And until you hear Vivek talk about it, you haven't heard both sides.
So don't believe anything until you hear both sides.
But it does look like he may be moving his attention, Vivek, from Doge to running for governor of Ohio.
I don't know this.
The next part I'm going to say is speculative.
If I were a young man with young kids, I wouldn't want to move him to D.C. Or I wouldn't want to leave him in Ohio and have to go to D.C. as a senator or a doge guy.
So I'm happy for Veig if what this is is a way to stay closer to his family, closer to his extended family.
I'm guessing.
There's some reason he's in Ohio.
It's not accidental.
And that this works for him as a lifestyle.
I think he earned it.
So good.
Live your best life.
Be a good governor.
And when you're done, you'll have...
The base for running for president someday.
And I think that I wish you the best, Vivek, because I think you've earned it.
All right.
God, there's so much happening today.
So much.
In Arizona, they caught an asylum seeker, which is being said with some tongue-in-cheek, but literally an asylum seeker.
Got caught with 30,000 rounds of ammo in a car.
Okay.
This seems to be another example.
It's sort of the perfect anecdote for the golden age beginning to remind us that Democrats have this one flaw that's just jaw-dropping, which is consistently, no matter what the topic is, They don't seem to understand how cause and effect works.
Why don't we open up the border between America and a country run by cartels, but also make it the pathway for all the other cartels and other countries in South America to also use it?
Huh.
I think only good things will happen.
And the reason I think that is because I think by analogy, and I know we had a lot of immigration in the early part of the country, And since we became the dominant country in the world, clearly immigration is good.
If you think by analogies, you open the border.
What do I teach you about thinking with analogies?
It's not thinking.
Analogies are not part of reason.
They're just a clever way to make a point sometimes.
They're not part of logic, reason, data, facts.
It's just bad thinking.
And I'm going to give you some more examples where they use the same bad thinking.
But if you had asked any Republican what's going to happen if you open the border between massive criminal organization with lots of people who just want work as well, so you even have a way to disguise the criminals within the mass of people, 100% of Republicans would tell you that you're going to have to stop a car with 30,000 rounds of bullets in it.
Sooner or later.
And here we are.
So, the complete destruction of the Democrat Party is perfectly captured in this one arrest.
One car with 30,000 rounds.
Where do you think those rounds were going?
Every one of those bullets was going to a criminal.
I guarantee it.
Every one was going to a criminal.
That's 30,000 bullets to criminals.
And the Democrats were all in on this.
Every one of them.
The entire tent has collapsed.
Trump said, I think last night he said he will declassify all the files related to the JFK assassination.
Charlie Kirk speculates that one of two things must be true.
Either the government killed JFK and covered it up and fought for decades to keep people from knowing the truth, or...
The files don't have anything in them that is anything but boring and things we've heard before.
Which do you think it is?
Do you think it's going to reveal that the government was behind it?
Or some form of the government?
Or that there's not really anything there?
Now, Trump has hinted that he knows what's in the files because he saw them before.
And he hinted that the reason for keeping them private wasn't exactly related to the question of who killed Kennedy.
But it might be some related Thing that gets revealed that you don't want to reveal.
Maybe about sources and methods.
I don't know.
Something like that.
Here's what I think.
And I think Charlie Kirk missed the possibility.
Let me see if I can test you on cause and effect.
Now remember, Democrats don't understand cause and effect.
But most of you do.
Because most of you are Trump supporters.
See if you can use your cause and effect.
To reason out what's in those files, all right?
Let's see.
A government entity killed Kennedy, and then a government entity created the files about what happened.
Possibly the same people who were involved with the Warren Commission, who we believe are the most likely suspects in the murder itself.
So the people who did the murder are in charge of creating the physical records that say they were guilty and then saving them.
So that future generations could see that they're the real murderers.
Does that sound like something that happened in the real world?
Or, do you think that the people, if, and this is still speculative, but if it's true that the government was so rotten that it murdered the president and got away with it, you don't think that they would throw those records away or they wouldn't write it down?
Seriously?
You think they're going to murder the president?
And then allow the records that show they murdered the president or even anybody in the government murdered the president.
You think they're going to leave those records intact for 50 years or whatever the hell it is?
No!
No, you're not going to see anything that implicates the government in the records kept by the government.
To me, it seems insanely obvious that the perpetrators are not going to keep records of their crime.
Am I wrong?
Who thinks the people who did the crime kept the records of the crime so you can find out later?
I mean, if they could kill a president and get away with it, you don't think they could shred some records?
I don't know.
Well, we'll find out.
We'll also find out about maybe the UFOs.
Did any of you see the...
The amazing video of an egg-shaped UFO being retrieved by what looks like a helicopter.
Did anybody see that video?
It's being mocked all over social media.
People are making their own videos because it looks like it was made at home.
It is the fakest looking thing I've ever seen.
The only thing I can tell you for sure, that's not a UFO. I don't know what it is, but...
The fact that it's 2025 and the most conclusive proof they could give us is an unclear video?
Really?
How many decades in a row are we going to fall for?
Well, we couldn't get a clear picture.
Nope, the only picture we can get is this one you can't tell what's going on.
Anyway.
Let's see.
Tom Homan says that the...
Trump administration might reconsider making Chicago the first place they raid.
Now, when I first heard about that, I didn't understand it was a leak.
I thought they had announced it, but I think it's been called a leak that Chicago is going to be first, and then Homan saying, well, maybe we won't because now everybody's going to be ready for it.
But I thought to myself at the time, I wonder if it's a trick.
Do you think he says we're going to go into Chicago, but really he was going to go into every city?
And all the other cities would be, wow, glad they're not coming into my city.
They're going to do Chicago.
I don't have to hide yet.
And that maybe it was always a diversion.
It's like, yeah, look at Chicago.
Look over there.
Look over there.
And then boom, they go into Baltimore or wherever they go.
Whatever city they go to.
So it didn't make sense to warn them they were coming, but I don't think that happened.
We don't know what happened.
Elon Musk is reportedly the highest bidder, and he would buy this hotel in D.C. that he will turn into his own social club, like Mar-a-Lago, but in D.C. Now, this is after Musk has spent a bunch of time at Mar-a-Lago, so he knows what that world looks like when you've got a place that people can come and stay for a while.
But also a place where they all meet in sort of the social club, the Mar-a-Lago of it.
And now it looks like he's going to recreate that in the Capitol, which makes sense.
So he would have a very comfortable place to go and meet all the doge people he needs to whenever he's in the city.
Makes sense.
I don't know if anybody's mentioned this before.
I might be the first, but Elon Musk is smart.
Did anybody?
Have anybody heard of that before?
Yeah.
I don't want to shock you, but it's true.
Yeah.
He's smart.
This is one of the smartest things I've ever seen.
Like, you think the other things he does are smart, but you say, well, he's smart in this one way.
He's only smart in this one way.
He's, like, good at engineering and manufacturing and inventing, and that's more than one way, of course.
But you think...
Well, he doesn't really understand how the real world works in politics because he's a business guy, doesn't really get it.
And every time I heard that, I would say to myself, okay, I think you're misinterpreting who he is.
He's not the guy who has one set of knowledge and he's done.
He's the guy who can enter an unfamiliar territory and conquer it and own it faster than anybody has ever entered an unfamiliar territory.
Conquered it and own it.
Trump does that, by the way, with politics.
So yeah, he basically figured out what would be the most engineering solution to having the kind of influence and access that he needs to get Doge done.
And he properly, in my opinion, realized that having a physical facility makes everything different.
So understanding...
As he apparently does, having a physical facility that people would enjoy going to, just like Mar-a-Lago, except in this case you'd be meeting Musk, I guess, is incredibly good thinking.
That is just so smart.
It's, like, incredible.
Well, as you know, Trump says he's saving TikTok.
We don't know how he could do that.
There is some kind of...
Clause in the law that was banning TikTok that says that the president could give them a 90-day extension, so it won't be banned, if there's a sale that's contemplated and going through.
But I think there's probably a little wiggle room in that, a little wiggle room.
So I think executive orders are more about interpreting things than changing the law.
And if he interprets it as, yeah, there's offers.
There's a bunch of people who want to buy it.
We just need a little more time.
Then I think he has close enough to authority to pause that I don't know if anybody would make a big deal about it, right?
Because it's not like anybody's pushing so hard that it has to happen in 90 days.
That's not the hard part.
So I think he correctly read the room again and said that if he puts his name as the person who's saving it...
That people will appreciate it, and probably more people like it than don't like it, because the risk of TikTok is not obvious to everybody.
And apparently, this is blowing my mind.
China just announced that for the first time ever, that the company can decide on its own its operations.
China just announced In effect, that it's open to selling it or merging it or making a change.
Now, here's where things get complicated.
Lindsey Graham did a post saying that China does this thing where I think it's called the golden share.
If they have stockholders in a company, if it's arranged in a way that there's something called the golden share, that means that one stockholder has more control than all the rest of them put together, the golden share owner, and that that's always President Xi.
And Lindsey Graham says, but others say this is not true.
So remember, other people say it's not true, but Lindsey Graham says it's true.
That a number of companies are organized that way and we should, you know, we should kind of keep them out of America because it's basically President Xi controls them.
And that could be a risk.
But some say that TikTok doesn't have a golden share set up.
Rand Paul...
I don't understand Rand Paul and TikTok.
I don't know if he's got a teenager he's trying to make happy who uses it.
But his arguments don't make sense.
And he's the most rational person in Congress.
And whenever he talks about TikTok, I go, it's like you don't understand it or you're intentionally not understanding it.
I don't get it.
So Rand Paul thinks the problem is censorship.
I think he's talking about...
The Gaza situation, how that went against Israel.
And Israel wanted the thing banned.
Now, that looks like censorship on the surface, but it's really about the influence that the app has.
And the Israel situation is just an anecdote.
It's not the whole problem.
The whole problem is that anytime China wanted to, if indeed they control it, they could.
And then I saw Rand Paul arguing that the The share ownership of the company is really not all China, and there are international investors who own most of it, and two of the founders own it, and blah, blah, blah.
So it's not like China even owns it.
To which I say, what do you mean China doesn't own it?
I don't care if they own it.
I care if they control it.
He didn't say they don't control it.
He said they don't own it, which is just a weasel answer.
Like, why is Rand Paul giving weasel answers, right?
A non-weasel answer would have been, they don't own shares, and they don't control it.
Now, that would be, if that were true, I don't think that's true, but if it were true, that would be a direct statement, and I would say, oh, really?
And then I would look into it.
Really?
They don't control it?
I thought they did.
But if your only argument is, who owns what shares?
That's bullshit.
That's some bullshit, Rand Paul, and I don't know why you're doing this.
Because clearly he's smart enough to understand all the nuance of this.
But why would you argue with bullshit?
It's so on a plan.
If it were a Democrat, I'd just say they're stupid or lying.
If I saw a Democrat doing that.
But Rand Paul doesn't lie.
And he's not stupid.
And he completely understands it.
So why is he doing this?
I'm confused about it.
So I'd love to know what's below that.
Well, Naval...
Ravikant weighed in on this, and he's watching the people argue, hey, censorship is bad.
If we censor them, they're going to censor us, and we don't want that.
And he says this.
He said, two things can be true.
A foreign adversary should not control our largest media property.
He means TikTok being the largest, not ours.
And laws...
I think that's what it means.
A foreign adversary should not control our largest media property.
Yeah, okay.
And he says, laws passed in the name of national security will inevitably be used against domestic opposition.
Now, I stared at those two statements for a while, and I wanted to say, hmm, I think you got it wrong this time, Naval.
But it's Naval, and I kept staring at it, and then, of course, I just agreed with him.
And it does create two ways to lose and no way to win.
So if you ban it, there's a possibility that some of our stuff gets more banned than it already is.
And if you let it run, you've got a national security problem because it's an adversary that we think has control, whether they own shares or not.
So here's my take.
So I'd like to give you my take on the TikTok thing, which is more about how to think about things.
So this is less of my opinion about TikTok.
It's more about how would a reasonable, common-sense person approach the question.
So that's what I want to do for you.
Just lay it out in the most common-sensical way so you can form your own opinion.
The first thing you want to do is avoid analogy thinking.
As I mentioned earlier, analogies...
Are good for describing something.
They're not arguments.
So if your argument is an analogy, you don't have an argument.
So I'm hearing a lot of people saying that, you know, things like, well, TikTok is a free speech platform and X is a free speech platform.
So, you know, if some other country, if we ban some other country's product.
Then they will ban our product like X. And then X wouldn't be able to operate maybe in Europe or China.
It doesn't.
I think X isn't in China, right?
I think it's banned in China.
But the argument is whatever we do to other people's products, they'll do to us.
I can see that.
I can see that.
But the trouble is that's analogy thinking.
And it's the wrong analogy.
Because the analogy is not...
Everything's a free speech platform.
What you do to one will happen to the other.
That's the wrong analogy.
It's true, but it's not how you should analyze this thing.
So the wrong analogy is that a platform that's controlled by your adversary is the same as the platform controlled by your friend.
What kind of analogy is that?
It's an analogy that ignores the main point.
One's an adversary.
And they could push a button and brainwash Americans in one second.
At least pushing the button takes one second.
X is famously free speech, and it's on our side.
And the owner of it is very much on our side.
How do you compare handing a weapon of mass destruction, which is what a platform would be if a government had control over it?
It would be a weapon of mass destruction.
It can destroy a country.
So how do you compare?
I want my country to have nuclear weapons.
Good.
Versus I would like my adversary to have them.
Bad.
Because we don't have the same weapon to control China because they ban all our social media.
So why would you give a weapon to your adversary if you didn't have to?
So that's where the analogy fails.
So it's the analogy thinkers.
Who are not understanding that these are not comparable things.
You don't treat one the same because it's like that other thing.
They're opposites.
One is a weapon of mass destruction for your friends on your side, and one's a weapon of mass destruction for your enemies.
That is the correct frame.
The other thing is you can't ban an app in the U.S. because our apps are being banned.
That sounds logical until you remember that China already bans all those apps.
We can't run our apps in China, but they can run them in the United States.
And it's the biggest, most influential one, TikTok.
So that's a bad argument.
And then there's also the argument, well, American companies look at your private data too.
That's analogy thinking.
Yes, American companies look at your data and...
We're all uncomfortable with that, and you might wish that it stopped, and I wouldn't argue with you.
It's bad.
But America doesn't want you dead.
Well, maybe the Democrats are not too happy today.
But generally speaking, America's on your side, more so than the adversary.
Now, sometimes they don't act like they're on your side, and certainly when Biden was president, he was hunting Republicans, and God knows what he was doing with social media.
But you cannot compare American companies having your personal data with an adversary having your personal data.
Now, let's complete why you care about having the data.
The reason you care about who has the data is that that's how influence works.
You know enough about the person that you know what messaging is going to work.
It's all about knowing the individual.
That's the biggest lever of persuasion, knowing that you've isolated a group of individuals by some kind of characteristic, and then you give them exactly the message that that little group is going to need.
Now, I think that the reason that our government and really smart people are completely wrong about analyzing TikTok, completely wrong, is that persuasion is not something that everybody understands.
People understand politics.
They understand business.
They understand analogies.
Too much, unfortunately.
And if you use those frames, the TikTok thing doesn't look like a risk.
But let me explain how persuasion could work on TikTok.
It could work the same on any social media, but again, you're worried about your enemies.
All right.
Here's how TikTok could do persuasion.
And you would never detect it.
You would never detect it.
First, they use all your personal data to determine if you're definitely unmovable on politics.
If you're unmovable, they just send you a random equal number of messages on both sides of whatever topic, and it doesn't change your mind, and they knew that.
But if they identify the people who are movable, in other words, It doesn't look like they're partisans in one direction.
Those are persuadable.
And for those people, if you wanted to persuade them, but you didn't want to get caught, you would send pro and con messages to them in equal numbers.
And then if somebody checked, they'd say, well, it looks like these persuadable people got an equal amount from both sides.
So, you know, you can't say that that's biased, unless you understand persuasion.
Because if they count them, oh, it was 50 memes apiece.
50 memes one way, 50 memes the other direction, balanced.
No, you need to know how powerful the memes are.
If one side got all the good memes, which TikTok could determine by popularity and other means, you send all the good memes on one side.
And all the weak, stupid memes on the other side.
And then this person sitting on the fence looks at two things.
They have exactly the same amount, which is the only fucking thing they count.
And they go, I don't see any bias here.
You wouldn't see any bias.
You wouldn't know that they isolated the people that can be moved.
And you wouldn't know that they decided which memes to show them.
You would only know they got the same amount.
It's the same problem we have with our own, looking at our own bias in our social media.
Here's another one you wouldn't spot.
You know the book Presuasion by Cialdini?
It talks about how your opinions can be changed by what happens just before you make your opinion.
So they can put you in a frame of mind that you're more likely to go one way than the other, and you don't know that they did that.
So that's like the invisible persuasion.
And then when they get to the topic that they care about, you think, oh, I'm in a really good mood today and I'm very optimistic, so I'm not worried about that problem.
Right?
But if they'd primed you the other way, everything's falling apart.
It's bad.
We're doomed.
And then you see that problem?
You say, I'm going to repost this because, you know, this is bothering me.
So you would never be able to spot persuasion because it's the stuff that comes before the persuasion.
You wouldn't even look for it because one is just mood and attitude puts you in the mood and then it completely can change your opinions after it.
Now, I'm just beginning.
Those are just examples of how a social media platform, if it wanted to, and if it knew a lot about the people, which is TikTok, it has the ability To push one button and completely change minds in America.
Now when I say completely, remember our system is kind of balanced in terms of Democrats and Republicans.
So you don't need to move many people.
If you could reasonably move 10% of the public in every situation, you would have total control of the country.
That risk could not be explained by somebody like a senator.
There is no senator that I'm aware of who would understand what I just said the way I understand it and the way I'm explaining it.
None.
So there is a blind spot in terms of how powerful persuasion is.
Even though we all know people can be talked into things, we know people can be fooled, we kind of generally know that persuasion is very strong and powerful.
But we don't know the details.
If you knew the details, TikTok would be a lot scarier.
I know most of the details.
So, to me, it's scarier.
Meanwhile, Instagram announced a new video app that appears to be a competitor with TikTok.
I don't really understand that because I thought that Instagram was sort of already a video app.
But I guess because it has other things than video, it's not as clean as TikTok, maybe.
So maybe it's just one move to get...
You know, right in that space where it was only sort of around that space.
So that's the right move.
Zuck is good at fast following.
Meanwhile, the All In Pod guys were interviewing Eric Swalwell, one of my California representatives.
And Jason of the All In Pod was asking some questions in a clip I saw.
He was asking Swalwell, and basically he was saying, You know, you lost me.
You know, you said, I voted Democrat two and three times, but basically the current performance of the Democrats lost him as a supporter.
And here's what Swalwell started with.
I swear to God, he started with this.
We need a better story.
Oh, wow.
Wow, they're still clinging to...
The only problem was how they talked about it.
Now, do you think they believe that?
Do you think the prominent Democrats think the only problem is their persuasion wasn't as good as Trump's?
The only problem?
That was it?
That's what it was?
I don't know.
To me, it looks like they're completely lost and can never come back.
Meanwhile, The New York Times is reporting now, and this is the Amuse account again spotted this.
So the important part of this story is it's happening now.
So remember, I'll tell you the story, but the fact that it's just happening now is what makes it a story.
So they're reporting that in 2022, and again, they're just reporting it now.
That's the important part.
Secretary of State Blinken, he rejected calls for peace in Ukraine, despite warnings for the Pentagon that Ukraine was unlikely to achieve a stronger bargaining position.
Even General Milley was urging the government, you know, this would be a good time to negotiate.
You know, this would be a good time.
It's not going to get better.
It's never going to get better.
How about now?
Which is exactly what all of us were thinking, right?
Is there anybody here?
Who is not saying in 2022, you know, the faster you do this.
The sooner you do this, the better you are.
It's not going to get better.
It might get worse.
Probably won't get better.
This would be a good time to talk.
But apparently Blinken, according to the New York Times, pushed ahead and wanted the conflict and the...
It morphed it into more of a strategy that wasn't so much about defending poor Ukraine.
It was more about using them as a pawn to weaken a strategic rival.
I think this amuses words, not the New York Times.
But that's obviously what it was.
And they said that directly.
So I think Blinken and others said, yeah, you know, we'll be weakening our biggest military rival, if you don't count China.
So meanwhile, the media was reframing this, and again, this is the Amuse account's take on it.
The media framed the policy as pro-Ukrainian, and they were vilifying any dissent as a Putin lover.
Oh, you like licking Putin's butthole if you said anything about maybe we should just end this war and negotiate it.
So basically, it just turned into a propaganda thing, and it's as evil as it looks, and now the New York Times feels that they can report it.
Because do you think the New York Times couldn't have reported this story in 2022?
I think they could have.
I think they could have, but they didn't.
Meanwhile, communist Vietnam...
See if you think this is...
The Argentina's Mille effect, or what?
The communist Vietnam said they're going to follow libertarian Mille's path and try to model their country after it.
So Vietnam, communist Vietnam, is doing this bold path to restructure its state apparatus and radical reforms, and they're going to copy Argentina.
And they're going to drastically reduce the size of the state and ease their bureaucratic burden.
Vietnam!
Do you know anybody from Vietnam?
So, you know, there are a number of people in California who were born in Vietnam.
I know a bunch of them.
And I got to tell you, they're pretty awesome people in almost every way you can imagine.
They're very awesome people.
Vietnam is way...
I don't know, more capable and smarter than you'd ever imagine.
They're good people.
Anyway, I think that's more of the common sense breaking out everywhere, all over the world.
All right, there's going to be plenty more on the inauguration we're all going to watch.
I think it's kicking off right after the show.
What time is it?
I think we all want to watch, I believe in 30 minutes or so.
Is the actual swearing in?
You're going to watch that live, so I'll end before that.
But some backward science, maybe.
There was an article in SciPost by Eric Dolan that suggests that watching Fox News may be good for Republicans getting elected.
No surprise.
But that Fox News had been picking up a lot of audience in recent years, and that might be behind The good effect.
Oh, the Trump swearing in ceremony started, but I think Trump's actual...
Oh, the Trump ceremony started?
Okay.
I don't know if that means he's doing it.
I think his part is at 11.40 Eastern Time.
Anyway, so I think this is backwards.
It seems to indicate that...
Watching Fox News turns you into a Republican.
But I would argue that literally nobody's going to watch Fox News unless they're already leaning in that direction because it would be painful to watch something that disagreed with everything you believed.
So certainly there's an effect that Fox News can harden somebody's Republican opinion.
Definitely.
But I feel like the reason that they got more coverage would be a combination of the following.
MSNBC has mentally ill clowns.
CNN is basically so disgraced at this point, it must be an embarrassment to watch them, especially if you've spotted the hoaxes that they run.
And bigger than all of those things, I'll give my usual shout out to the producers and hosts of Fox News.
They're just better.
What about if it's just a better product?
I don't know if you spend any time watching, which I do.
I try to sample all the news channels.
The Fox people are just better at it.
They produce better.
The colors on the sets are better.
The combination of characters they put together at the same time are better.
The personalities of the talent, all better.
All better.
So maybe that's the whole explanation.
Well, China's got a robot dog called the Black Panther 2.0 that can run 100 meters in under 10 seconds.
So that will give you an idea of how fast you have to run to be the last one killed by the robot dogs.
Now, you don't have to outrun all the robot dogs.
You only have to outrun the people who are also running from the robot dogs because, you know, they're going to kill them first.
So I'll be practicing my running just to get away from those robot dogs.
In other news, the University of Massachusetts, At Amherst, their Amherst Ernest pharmaceutical team have some kind of breakthrough in cancer treatment that's not available yet, but they think they can put anti-cancer agents in bacteria, and apparently bacteria, for some reason, are attracted to tumors.
So if you've got a tumor and you take this certain bacteria, it's going to have some agents in it that...
They're bad for cancer, and they also will use the bacteria to do only the cancer.
Now, that would be completely better than all the other treatments, which tend to be damaging to you with side effects.
So if it works, if it works, it would be amazing.
But it's a little ways off.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I have for you, because I know you're going to want to enjoy the rest of your day.
I'm going to talk to the locals people if they want to, privately.
It's the beginning of the golden age.
And congratulations to all of you.
I think you were all part of this.
And I'll talk to you tomorrow and in the man cave tonight if you're a local subscriber.
