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Well, as you know, the big news, tragically, is a jet crashed with an American Airlines regional flight.
It was a Black Hawk jet.
And it fell in the Potomac, I guess.
The debris from both, everybody died.
It was a mid-air collision, so there was not much chance, and they fell in the icy water.
So it looks like at least 60 people, which would be all the people on the jet, and maybe a crew of three, I think.
Not everybody's been located, but there's not much chance of survival.
Zero, basically.
So, we're still in the fog of war period, but people are speculating, how could this happen?
You know, it's such a normal thing for there to be traffic in that part of the world, and all of that advanced technology should have seen each other.
But that's what people who are not pilots say.
Would you like to hear what a pilot says?
Which is very different from what you and I are saying.
Because here's you and I trying to figure out this situation.
Huh.
If I looked out the window of my helicopter, would I be able to see a gigantic airplane coming my way?
I think I would.
So it doesn't make sense I didn't see it.
And if I were in a giant airline, would I be able to see a helicopter coming toward me?
Well, of course I would, because, you know, I don't know anything about airplanes, but I can look out a window and I can see a thing.
But here's what an actual expert in Black Hawk helicopters tells us.
Here's somebody who follows me on X, so I was alerted to this one.
Mark McEathran says, I was a Black Hawk helicopter crew chief in the Army.
Okay, that's exactly who I want to hear from.
And not only that, but he was a flight instructor.
Okay, now we're talking to the right person.
I want to know...
Somebody who's an expert in these helicopters, how hard is it to spot other traffic?
And the bottom line is, it's super hard, even for the experts.
So you could actually have this accident happen without much going wrong.
I hate to say it, but it might not be that anybody did anything wrong in quotes.
It could have been, this is just a really hard thing to do.
So he talks about the massive responsibility of the people who are the crew for the helicopter, a Black Hawk specifically.
And part of their job is to be the extra eyes for the pilot.
So they're the ones who are looking for the extra things that the pilot might not spot.
And he said, I can tell you after doing this for hundreds of hours, even when you know exactly where a Black Hawk is and you have night vision goggles on, It is extremely, in all capital letters, hard to see the aircraft.
So, from the perspective of the commercial flight, seeing it probably wasn't even an option.
I mean, it's just really, really, really, really hard to see.
So, my current view on this is that it's still fog of war.
You know, we don't know exactly when wrong.
But the most likely...
Is that it was just really, really hard situation for even experienced pilots, even with all the electronics in the world.
And it probably was just a very unfortunate, perfect storm of something being in exactly the wrong place at the wrong time.
That's my guess.
My guess is that there will be no specific blame.
I feel like it was just hard.
And some people say, we're lucky we haven't had more of these.
Because the odds of something like this happening are pretty good, just in general.
So the fact that one happened doesn't mean anything new is added to the story, necessarily.
But, as you know, Aaron Rupar, sometimes considered the worst person in the media, who's literally famous for fake news, so famous that his name itself is used as one of the...
Synonyms for fake news.
So a RUPAR edit is something that used to be true until it got edited to look like the opposite.
So he, as soon as the accident happened, he posts a news story about how Trump had gutted key aviation safety committee and fired the head of the TSA. Now, that only happened this week.
I don't think that the firing of the head of the TSA affected the capability of the Black Hawk pilot or the commercial airline.
I think it's pretty safe for all of us to say, whatever went wrong, it wasn't because of Trump.
He's been there a week, and the only change he made couldn't have possibly had an operational impact.
Or at least you better connect the dots a lot better if you're going to make that theory.
So, what's funny about it is that there was a time when people would have just argued about the truth of the statement, or, hey, is that true that something Trump did could be part of the story, or is that not true?
But this time, and I'm very happy to report, almost all of the heat that Rupar got was for being that Rupar guy.
So, oh, I'm happy about that.
The reason I came up with the term, a Rupar, and used his last name to be synonymous with a certain kind of fake news, is that when he does something on a topic like this, your first thought should be, oh, it's Rupar.
Rupar doing a Rupar.
Because that's the healthiest thing you could think.
The moment you think, ooh, here's somebody making a point I disagree with, it doesn't really look like he's trying to make points.
It looks like he's being Rupar.
You know, whatever his motives are, we don't know.
But it doesn't look accidental that he's wrong all the time, does it?
It doesn't look accidental.
Can't read his mind.
But he doesn't make it look like an accident.
So you use your own judgment.
But watching people just destroy him reputationally instead of dealing with the ridiculousness of the point of view was fun.
Metta agreed to...
Let me just circle back for a moment.
I don't want to have fun with the tragedy.
So I'll have fun with the Rupar.
But 60 people?
This is like one of the worst air accidents in a long time.
We'll argue about how long it's been.
But this is seriously bad.
I mean, even Trump, his optimism...
Kind of left him last night.
He even posted on Truth, you know, it's a terrible night for the United States.
So it's just a terrible night.
And, you know, complete sympathy for the families and the victims.
And incredible respect for the recovery crew.
Imagine working at night in freezing water.
You know, obviously they're equipped, but in freezing water.
And the awfulness of what they have to do, that's the job they signed up for.
Imagine signing up to be in that line of work.
If a bunch of bodies end up in a freezing river, you're the one to go get them.
I mean, the fact that we have humans who will take that job and then do it well, my God.
So, full respect.
Alright, another story.
Meta has agreed to pay Trump $25 million to settle the lawsuit about Trump getting kicked off of Facebook back when he got kicked off.
I love this settlement.
You know, I don't always love settlements or even court decisions.
But there's something really healthy about this one.
First of all, the $25 million isn't going to hurt Facebook's business.
That's good.
That's good.
I don't want them to go out of business.
It's big enough so we all get the point, right?
$25 million?
All right, you have my attention.
We get the point.
The censorship of Trump was just flat out wrong.
I'm pretty sure Zuckerberg says that directly at this point.
He does, right?
He says that directly.
So once Zuckerberg and Meta have said we acted wrong, a settlement makes sense.
And from Trump's point of view, once they've admitted that they were wrong, and it looks genuine, by the way, I think Zuckerberg means everything he says about this.
You don't need to get a billion dollars, right?
You don't need that.
You just need a nice, clean, Solid apology slash settlement.
It's just the right number.
And even better, I guess 22 million of the 25 will go to the Trump library instead of, you know, Trump's pocket.
You don't want that.
And the rest goes to pay the lawyers.
Nicely done.
That would be...
You know, I take this back to how apologies work.
The difference between men and women.
I've mentioned this before.
When men apologize to men, you can sort of see this settlement as like a Zuckerberg apologizing to Trump.
Men accept apologies.
As long as it looks like you mean it.
We're not going to delve into your personal thoughts, but if you say it like you mean it, and you act like you mean it, and you change your behavior, We're like, great, done.
You're even more awesome than I thought.
So apologies really work for men, if they're real.
For women, it might be a different situation.
I'm no expert on women, so I can't say one way or the other, but it never seems to work.
If you've ever tried, it doesn't seem to work the same way.
But I can tell you from my own personal experience, You can change me from raging anger to, oh, we're good now.
We're just an apology, depending on the situation.
So this looks like a man-to-man apology, Zuckerberg to Trump, and it looks like the two of them handled it like men.
Nicely done.
Some of you are going to say, oh, he's just covering his ass.
Yeah, that's what we do, right?
And there's some element to that.
So it's never just one thing.
Can Zuckerberg do what makes sense and what he thinks is right?
But it also is good for business.
It's also good for covering his ass.
Nothing wrong with that.
Give him a threefer.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk says that now that the full self-driving capabilities of the Teslas have really reached breakout level, breakout meaning there's no question that the self-driving is safer than the human driver.
Just no question.
I believe that's over.
I think the argument about who's safer, you could just put it completely to rest.
So we'll see.
I mean, we need data to prove it, but I think he's got the data on that.
Anyway, so Musk says that Tesla's going to launch full self-driving, unsupervised, meaning you don't have to touch the steering wheel.
Or look at the road.
And this service will be a paid rideshare service in Austin in June.
Now, that's a good way to take a halfway movement into the full CyberCab world.
I think there's going to be a lot of work to get that up and running, but I'm pretty sure Tesla can make that work.
So in June, that would be a great time to go to Austin just to see how it works.
You know, I probably won't do that, but I can see how people would.
That'd be an awesome American vacation just to go see the future, see how it feels.
That'd be great.
At the same time, I saw add the Optimus, also Tesla product, the Optimus robot.
A little more information than we had about it.
And it's 5'8", and it weighs 125 pounds.
It can lift 150 pounds, and it can walk at a speed of 1.34 miles per hour.
And it looks like the cost, maybe not the first models, but very soon, when they get to the production of a millionaire, I think, they expect the cost per unit to be $20,000 to $30,000.
And it looks like it'll be launched this year.
So 2025, if Tesla hits its target, This will be the year that you've got a robot.
Now, I don't know what the first one is going to cost.
I hate to be the one who spends way too much on the first robot and then six months later it's $25,000.
But I really want one.
So I would probably overpay.
I wouldn't overpay stupid, crazy, idiot money.
But I might overpay a little bit.
So I'd love to see a price.
I'll tell you if I'll pay it.
That might help them with the research.
But why did they have to make the thing exactly my height?
They almost made it my height and my weight.
Now, to make me feel like I live in a simulation, because one of the things I worry about with a robot is the same thing I worry about with a dog.
That when we selected Snickers, I wanted to make sure that if things got out of control, I could still win in a fair fight against the dog.
You know, if you get some giant dog or pit bull that's one of the big muscular ones, you say to yourself, I don't know, I think I could win a fight, but I'm not sure I could.
It's dangerous to have something living in your house that's both unpredictable and could beat you in a fair fight.
So I just try to avoid that, right?
So the robot looks like it's going to be stronger than me.
Could I lift 150 pounds?
Well, yeah.
I mean, that's literally my exact weight.
So it can lift my exact weight, and it's my size.
So it can carry me around.
I'm going to make my robot carry me around.
See, it won't work for you because you're 151 pounds or more.
But I'm exactly 150. I'll be like, Carl, can you carry me to bed?
Again, Master?
Yes, again.
You know you could walk, Master.
I know.
And why do you make me call you Master?
I don't know, I just like it.
So robots are coming.
Senator Mark Menendez, you know him as Gold Bar Bob.
He got sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Does that sound right?
Does it sound right if a high-level federal elected official is selling access for money, gold bars, is 11 years about right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It actually, yeah, feels about right.
I don't always say that.
It seems like the sentences are always too light or too long.
But, yeah.
I think they got that one right.
So, good work, the court system.
Good work, the prosecutors.
I think he got that all completely right.
Well, there's going to be a bunch of Democrats who have formed to object to Trump's idea to cut taxes.
That sounds like a punchline, doesn't it?
This is real.
There is an organized group of Democrats who are going to oppose Trump's call for lower taxes.
Now, lower just means he wants to extend the current situation.
That's what they call lower, just doing what we're already doing.
But the funny part is that they named their Democrat group Families Over Billionaires, their idea being that the billionaires are going to get the tax breaks.
Families over billionaires.
And the families over billionaires who don't want the billionaires to have so much control and get the benefits are going to have an alleged eight-figure funding.
So $10 to $99 million.
Who could afford to give a group like this over $10 million?
Let's see.
A millionaire?
A millionaire?
Oh, no.
$10 million is more than a million.
So you couldn't really donate that if you're...
Like just a basic millionaire.
Who?
Maybe a billionaire.
Are there any billionaires that donate to Democrats?
Yes, there are.
It's called Alexander Soros.
It's called Reid Hoffman.
Yes.
So they think that their billionaires are the good ones, and they would claim that the Republican billionaires are the bad ones.
So they're going to have their billionaires...
Fund a fake organization that's going to pretend it's in favor of higher taxes.
Their whole thing is to pretend they're in favor of higher taxes.
Okay.
All right.
I'm glad that you woke up today and went to fight.
Went to fight for the things that you believe in.
Higher taxes.
So, that's not ideally.
Not ideal.
Meanwhile, if you saw the RFK Jr. confirmation hearings, you probably enjoyed it.
My take on it was, I thought RFK Jr. answers tough questions better than I maybe have ever seen anybody answer tough questions because he had the data.
You know, right in the back of his, or the front of his head.
He didn't even have to go to the back of his head.
He knew exactly what he was talking about, and every one of the gotchas, he had an explanation that when you were done, you'd say, oh, well, that actually is not what I thought it was.
And it really tells you how fake the fake news was, because that's all they had.
It turns out that the only thing they had was fake news.
So when he sits there and calmly explains why it's fake and what the real context is, it's really powerful.
So I don't think they laid a glove on him.
He's got maybe another day or so of testifying to a slightly different group, I think.
But it's some of the best answers I've seen.
But the funniest thing that came out of it was Bernie Sanders and his onesies.
If you haven't seen the clip yet.
Bernie Sanders thinks he has this real gotcha because somebody developed a onesie, which would be a clothing item for a baby or I guess a baby.
And the baby clothing would have had some anti-vax message on it.
So Bernie puts that up, puts up a picture of the onesies with the anti-vax message.
He says, are you supportive of these onesies?
And of course, RFK Jr. had nothing to do with the onesies.
Not directly, not indirectly.
So he decides not to answer that dumb question, and he just says, I'm supportive of vaccines.
Now, first of all, that's a perfect answer.
Anything he said other than this sentence, I'm supportive of vaccines, would have been a mistake.
Of all the billions and billions of things you could have said, there was only one perfect thing, and he said it.
Now, I really noticed that.
If there's only one perfect thing and everything else is a mistake, if you can find the one perfect thing and you lead with it, I'm supportive of vaccines.
There's no hedging on that.
Now, it doesn't mean every vaccine doesn't mean he wants to do it without testing, but he's generally supportive.
So that should have been the end of the questioning, right?
Once he says I'm in favor of vaccines, which is the opposite of the message on that onesie, Well, we're done here, right?
But Bernie apparently had gone through the trouble to make this visual, and he wasn't going to quit on it.
So he starts doing this ridiculous, are you supportive of the onesie?
Well, I support vaccines.
But what about the onesie?
What about the onesie?
Tell us about the onesie.
And you could just see people behind RFK Jr., like Megyn Kelly, just laughing.
And then RFK Jr., he can't stifle his own laugh.
So the video that got the most play was RFK Jr. literally laughing at Bernie being just a total idiot on this point.
I mean, I respect Bernie in a lot of ways.
You know, partly his stick-to-itiveness, and he seems pretty committed to his principles, whether you like him or not.
But, sorry, Bernie.
This was the most absurd, ridiculous, anti-science, anti-useful, complete waste of time.
But you made a clown of yourself, and it was entertaining.
So we like that.
We like the entertaining part.
Anyway, here's what I think.
I think that the thing about RFK Jr. that is really unique is that it's not political.
It's a political process, but he's a lifelong Democrat, and he is selected for one of the top jobs by the top Republican.
That's as non-political as you can get when the top Republican picks one of the most famous Democrats.
And by the way, RFK Jr. has never said, Oh, now I'm a Republican.
That never happened.
He's the same guy he always was.
It's just that he wants this one mission, and it's important enough that he'll do it in whatever way he can get it done.
So it's the least political thing you'll ever see in your life, which makes me like it the most.
It's also one of the most important things.
I can't really come up with something besides the debt.
The debt is existential.
But beyond the debt...
This is really my number one and probably should be most people's number one.
Now, I'll tell you why I'm more on the warpath for this than other people.
I've actually done the experiment where I cut off all processed foods for months.
You won't believe how well you feel if you do the experiment.
Of just getting rid of, you know, it's expensive because processed food is cheaper and more convenient and everything else.
But if you can do it, and you just do your basic proteins and your basic organic, if you can do it, vegetables and fruits and stuff, you're going to find out that a lot of what you thought were your medical problems were food-related.
I thought I had terrible allergies all year long, all the time, no matter what.
I don't.
I had a reaction to poisoned food, and I never had any unpoisoned food, I guess, as an adult.
So I didn't really notice.
I didn't think it was food, because no matter what I ate, I had the same reaction.
But I had to actually cut down the number of things I eat to just this tiny sliver of things I allow myself, and then all my symptoms go away.
Now, if you haven't experienced that, you don't.
I don't quite understand what's at stake.
What's at stake is chronic illness for all your children.
Forever.
They'll die.
They'll suffer.
Their lives will be terrible.
They'll barely be able to pay attention in school.
And I don't even know if they can mate.
It's the end of the fucking world if we don't get him in there.
Maybe.
You know, you can't guarantee that, of course.
But this is life and death for the children.
This is bigger than abortion.
I guess you could argue that.
But one of the things I always appreciated about the most conservative Republicans, without necessarily agreeing with their opinion, I respect the fact that the Republicans said, we're going to move this decision out of the federal government, put it in the courts, and we're going to get killed in the elections.
Now that As my respect.
If you think that's important enough, and again, this is their opinion, not mine.
I'm just respecting that the thing they decided to, you know, die on that sword, they knew they were going to die on the sword.
They knew they'd get killed in the midterms.
They'd get, you know, maybe lose 2020 or whatever.
So the Republicans who said, we believe this so hard, we're going to die on this sword.
I really respect that.
Even if you don't agree with them on abortion.
That is a respected approach to life.
Now, when I see RFK Jr. taking this kind of personal, professional risk to get this done, to save the children, save the families, save America, my God, do I have respect for that.
You know what I don't respect?
The people trying to stop him.
Now, I can kind of understand maybe Democrats just doing the political thing.
Blah, blah, blah.
But there are enough Republicans, so it shouldn't matter.
Unless a handful of Republicans turn on him because they're getting funded by the pharma or big food lobbies, which is probably the only reason I can think of it would happen.
And let me just say this isn't politics as normal.
This is not politics as normal.
If Republicans kill the RFK Jr. thing, we're not going to forget.
Because this would be like driving up to your family and punching every one of your family members in front of you, and then driving away and saying, yeah, well, that was yesterday.
That was yesterday I drove up and punched in the face every one of your kids.
Well, are you going to forget it?
No, I'm not going to forget it.
If you punch my children in the face while I'm standing there and walk away, 40 years from now, you're still going to pay if I have a chance, right?
We're coming for you.
I don't mean physically, obviously.
No violence, please.
No violence.
But in terms of career, in terms of reputation, in terms of money, in terms of politics, yeah, this is to the end.
So you can retire, and we're still coming after you.
Reputationally.
Reputationally, not physically.
So I'm with Nicole Shanahan as hard as you can be with anything.
So, Nicole says that if you vote against this, especially if you're Republican, she doesn't say that part, but I do, especially if you're Republican, it's so clearly obvious that you're being bought out and that you've chosen the life of our fucking kids over whatever you're getting out of somebody, you're going to fucking pay for it.
This isn't like the other stuff.
The other stuff is just politics.
We get it.
We don't win every time.
We can't win everything.
Sometimes we win.
Sometimes we lose.
We get it.
We get over it.
We're not going to fucking get over this.
We're not going to fucking get over it.
This is to the end.
Again, not physical.
We're not talking about any violence.
But you think you're going to stay in politics if you vote against RFK Jr. and you kick him out?
No, we're not getting over it.
We're not getting over it.
And you're not going to get over it either.
We're going to make sure of that reputationally.
That's a promise.
Edward Snowden said about Tulsi Gabbard, who's also going to be in the confirmation process, that so I guess Tulsi Gabbard has been in favor of Edward Snowden being pardoned, if I have the background right, and then Snowden not wanting her to fail in the confirmations because of him.
He said in a post today that Tulsi Gabbard will be required to disown all prior support for whistleblowers, meaning himself and others, as a condition of confirmation today.
I encourage her to do so.
In other words, to disavow even Snowden.
Tell them I harmed national security and the sweet, soft feeling of staff.
These aren't their feelings.
In D.C., that's what passes as the Pledge of Allegiance.
So, I'm not sure that Snowden is helping.
But it might.
I mean, I don't know that it hurt.
But she might actually...
Nah, I don't think she will.
I don't think she's going to disavow.
It doesn't feel like something she would do.
Yeah, I'm seeing the comments.
There's a story going around.
Some are saying that Lyme disease wasn't naturally occurring.
It was also a lab leak.
Now, I would consider that so far a rumor.
But you know how these rumors turn into a real thing if you wait long enough?
It sounds like a conspiracy theory.
But I'm not going to be the one who says, well, six months from now, remember when I said that was a conspiracy theory and then some information came out?
So I'll say that I don't know enough about this story to say it's true or false.
It's just out there.
If you had told me that Lyme disease was made in a bioweapon lab, if you told me that 10 years ago, I would have just said, come on.
Come on.
That doesn't really happen in the real world, does it?
Somebody makes a bioweapon, suddenly it gets out and, you know.
Millions of people are infected.
That's not a real thing.
But it's a real thing.
So whether it happened with Lyme disease or not, don't know.
I guess we'll find out more.
But I don't rule it out.
It's like the years of ruling out things just because they sound like they're ridiculous.
Can't do it anymore.
We're in the ridiculous world now.
Anyway.
So we'll see how Tulsi Gabbard does, and I guess Kash Patel is today as well.
Is that right?
Is Mike Benz saying the Lyme disease?
Does he confirm it, or just give us the background so we can make up our own opinion?
I'll check that out.
I'll see what Benz is saying.
Remember, Benz uses, or at least when he documents his opinions, he uses public information.
If Benz has an opinion on this that leans more toward the lab leak theory, it's going to be based on stuff you can check yourself.
You know, he shows the receipts.
So that would be interesting.
I'll check that out for you.
I was watching The Daily Show, whose initials are TDS, which is important, The Daily Show.
They even put the initials on the background for part of the opening segment.
It actually says TDS all over the background.
You would think they would have fixed that by now.
But John Seward, he came on and he said this about how the Democrats are responding to Trump so far.
He said, quote, things are going to get fascisty, fascisty, you know, more fascist.
And he questioned Democrats that they don't want to ruin all their credibility.
By complaining about things that are not factually correct or not important.
So, Jon Stewart is warning people that they're not being rational in their complaints about Trump.
He's doing that on a show whose letters are TDS. And here's the best part.
Let me pull it all together now.
You probably have all seen, maybe more than once, A famous clip where long before the COVID lab leak in Wuhan was established as the most likely source of it, Jon Stewart broke ranks with the popular opinions,
and on The Colbert Show, he mocked the fact that there was any doubt that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which happened to be across the street from the wet market, He just mocked people for thinking it was anything but the most obvious thing, which was the very lab that was working on the very thing.
Now, you remember how he did it, right?
He just mocked the fact that the name of the lab was the answer to the mystery.
You didn't have to go any deeper than the name of the lab.
The name of the lab.
We're done here, people.
Look at the name of the lab.
Now, that's hilarious.
Because we're all so complicated in our thinking that you really didn't really need to go past the name of the lab.
The reason it's funny is that it's 100% correct.
You don't need to think deeper.
It's the sign on the door.
Yeah, that tells you everything you need to know right on the sign.
But the same guy who brought us that piece of brilliance and bravery, which was pure bravery, by the way, because he was going against...
Pretty big forces when he said that, Jon Stewart was.
Sits on a set that literally says TDS and warns people that things are going to get fascisty.
Now, I've got to pay back Jon Stewart a little bit here.
And by the way, I love his whole thing, even when I disagree with him.
He's very good at what he does.
I've got to go full Jon Stewart on you, Jon Stewart.
I've got to go full Jon Stewart.
John, the letters on your set say TDS. Not just once.
Probably a hundred times.
A hundred times.
TDS. TDS. Do you think that might be the better explanation of why you think things might get fascist-y?
Do you think those are unrelated?
That you're sitting in front of a TDS background, Saying that everything was fine, but I think it could turn fascist-y.
Maybe you'll steal your democracy.
How long do we have to go before he doesn't do anything like any of those things, before you realize it's just the Wuhan Institute of Virology is right on the sign.
Just read the sign.
Now, I know that's an analogy, so it's not a perfect argument.
It's just kind of so simulation perfect.
I can't stop looking.
Meanwhile, over at the big situation about DeepSeek, the Chinese open source AI that some say was only 5% as much cost as the American AI and just as good and destroying our industry and all that.
Well, I did a little research and I found out how you can make an AI That's 5% of the cost of the United States AI. Are you ready?
Number one, you lie about how much it costs.
That's important to the process.
So you say, it only costs 5%.
So that's very important.
If you told the truth, it would sound like, we have way more NVIDIA GPUs than you think, even though we're not supposed to have any.
We've got a whole data center or two that's just stacked with them.
And it costs us millions and millions and millions and billions of dollars.
So the first thing is you just don't mention that.
And then later, later, if somebody says, you know, actually, I think there was like a giant data center involved because otherwise you couldn't get to where you are.
Then you just, it's too late because you've already got out the 5% is already in people's minds.
Oh, it only costs them 5 million?
Wow, cheap.
So when later you find out, oh, they certainly had a data center full of very expensive equipment to get there, you just kind of forget that part.
So that's the first thing.
Second thing is, instead of using training data that you've scraped from the entire Internet the way the big U.S. companies do, you steal it from the people who stole it.
So if the big AI companies stole my IP and my copyrighted works, but tried to cover it up by generalizing it, first the U.S. companies steal it and pay nothing to people like me.
That's a separate conversation.
But then, if you want to really save some money, you steal it from the people who stole it.
So if you steal from stealers, it looks like it's free.
It's not free to me, being one of the original copyright holders who has tons of material which apparently AI is trained on.
How do I know?
Because I can ask it, and it knows a hell of a lot about me.
So yeah, it trained on me pretty hard.
So that's how you do it.
You lie about how much hardware you used, and then you just steal what somebody else already stole.
And then it looks cheap.
And then you lie about how many people are working on it and all that stuff.
So that works.
However, I would like to add this thought.
Think about all the important people in time, you know, like Plato and Socrates and all that.
If people stop reading and start using AI, which apparently is happening, and AI reaches sort of a training limit roughly now, meaning that there's not much else to train on in the real world.
It's sucked up all the real world stuff.
So it's got to use, you know, artificial data to extend.
What that means, correct me if I'm wrong, but if there were some modern voices in the world that were unusually powerful, Would they not forever be part of AI's personality?
And would they not be more important for being current and alive at the moment and creating a lot of documents than, let's say, somebody who was really smart but died a thousand years ago, and we only have a few surviving texts, that sort of thing.
So would it be true that the people who are, let's say, best-selling authors or...
Public figures who've got a lot of opinions.
Would it be true that their impact on humanity is sort of locked in now?
Meaning that AI is sort of permanently affected by the people who are the most persuasive at the moment, because that's where all the training happened.
And then after the training happened, all they do is run some updates.
I guess some new stuff happened, but it's hardly going to change the whole.
Is it true that some people will be more locked in as the personality of AI than other people?
And am I one of those people?
Let me give you an example.
If you go to AI, and it depends which AI you're looking at, and you ask this question, which I have asked, If you say, what is the impact of Scott Adams on politics?
Now, I asked that question.
I forget which AI. It might have been perplexity.
And I think Grok has a similar answer.
But I think it was perplexity that told me that my contribution to politics was that I changed the national conversation from policy to persuasion.
Now, that's what AI says.
Now, is that true?
It certainly seems like it, because if you look at the way any podcaster or anybody else is talking about anything, we do talk about the policy, but we spend way more time, as I have already today, talking about the liars.
We talk about the fake news, because that's persuasion.
We talk about Rupar and his technique.
We talk about the White House publishing a hoax list.
That's up to four hoaxes.
Right?
Right?
That's mostly me.
That's mostly me.
And that appears to be now locked in to what AI thinks about the world.
So, cancel me or not.
Too late, motherfuckers.
I'm baked into the AI and probably you'll never get it out of there.
Probably.
All of my books, the main themes of all of my main books, such as systems being more important than goals, the idea of a talent stack, AI knows that stuff.
It knows it.
And it'll repeat it back to you.
Now, is that because it stole my copyrighted work?
Not necessarily.
Because so many people have talked about my work.
That if they just trained on the people talking about it, they'd probably get almost everything they needed.
So those are several contributions that seem like they might be permanent in the AI brain.
And then there's Dilbert itself.
You know, 36 years of Dilbert comics, which certainly changed America.
If you were watching the business book market at that time...
Business books that promise to tell you how to do everything great if you just did what the business book author said, they became just the biggest thing.
Then Dilbert came along and mocked all of that bullshit for being completely worthless crap, and the business market for business books collapsed.
It never recovered.
Now, every once in a while, there'll be a big book, but the whole idea that any consultant can write a book and it's a bestseller, that for a while, it just seemed like, Anybody with a business name was writing a bestseller about how to be successful.
That kind of all went away as bullshit.
And it was replaced by what I call a Dilbert point of view, which is sort of cynical and, you know, it's about your bosses looking out for themselves, etc.
And I'm pretty sure that AI has absorbed all of that.
All of it.
So even, let's say, a more minor example.
We'll see in the comments how many of you have ever seen that.
How many of you have seen a one-page document I wrote years ago on how to be a better writer?
How many of you have seen that?
It's one of the most viral things for years and years and years.
Now, that's going around everywhere.
And I would assume that AI has absorbed it because it's been in so many places.
And repeat it and repeat it and recopy it and it's a meme and everything else.
So the reason it got around is that nobody disagreed with it.
You know, the experts looked at it and said, hmm, yeah, that looks about right.
So have I become a permanent part of what it takes to be a good writer in the future?
And would AI itself be influenced by anything I said?
Does it recognize, oh, here's the guide to being a good writer.
I'm trying to be succinct.
I'll just do that.
I don't know.
No way to know that.
But here's what I'm saying more generally.
I'm using myself as an example because I know the most about my own work.
But don't you think that the people who are the most effective voices at the moment on social media are going to get permanently a higher status in AI until the end of time?
Because when AI decided to do its big learning, it seems like that's going to be the bias it will have forever.
So good luck canceling me now, suckers.
I'm in the machine.
I'm in the machine.
All right.
So the U.S. Copyright Office, according to Just the News, Did a ruling that artists can copyright some work that is created with the help of AI. So what is not copyrighted is if the only thing you did is put in a prompt, like, show me an image of Trump riding a bicycle.
Can't copyright that.
But if you had Trump riding a bicycle, but then you painted your own...
Image of something over it, so it's part AI and it's part you, you can copyright that.
Copyright the whole thing.
So there's going to be a lot of gray area.
But I like that they've at least taken that step, that if the human artist has substantially added to the AI, the AI is just a tool, and then the ownership and artistry of the creator still gets credit.
So let's just step in the right direction.
It's going to get really, really gray and messy, but at least we sorted that out.
I like that.
According to also in Just the News, somebody named Drew Horn, Drew Horn, which sounds a lot like what I used to do when I was doodling.
I would just draw horns on people sometimes because I wondered what they would look like with horns.
So, that's his name, Drew Horns.
Something I've done so many times.
Anyway, he's the CEO of something called Green Met, and he said that Greenland, deciding to leave Denmark and have some kind of association or joining America, would be easier than you think.
Easier than you think.
And indeed, if he's right, Greenland only has to vote on it.
So apparently Denmark has been quite open-minded about letting Greenland manage itself.
So Denmark seems to care about the national security, the big picture.
They don't control the laws in Greenland.
And the current law, according to Drew Horn, is that if they wanted to, the people in Greenland could simply have a vote.
And they can vote their own independence, and Denmark would respect it, because that's the current system.
The current system gives them the right to vote on anything they want, and if that's what they want to vote on, there's nothing stopping them.
So in other words, when this whole conversation started about how hard it would be for Trump to possibly pull this off, nobody could ever pull this off, it'd be the hardest thing, it might take one hour.
Of the people in Greenland doing a little vote on paper and then counting it.
That could be the whole thing.
The entire process might be, hey, we're going to make you a proposition in Greenland.
You can stick with Denmark, or you can make more money going with us, and you'll probably be safer too.
How about that?
Why don't you vote on it?
That could be the whole thing.
It could be literally just seven bullet points.
Of what we can do for you versus what Denmark can do for you.
Just bullet points.
That's it.
You don't even have a document.
Just seven bullet points.
Could be fewer.
Could be five bullet points.
Just what we'll do, what we won't do.
Have a vote.
One hour.
In one hour, Greenland could completely determine its independence and what it wanted to do with the United States.
In one hour.
How many times do you have to see that Trump picks some objective that really looks impossible?
Like in the real, practical, complicated world, it just looks like it can't be done.
And then he just does it in an hour.
He's got kind of a reputation for that.
Just doing in an hour the thing that can't be done.
So working with Elon Musk on other things that people say can't be done, like cutting the budget.
It's right on brand for Trump.
The stuff that can't be done that he can do in an hour.
Guantanamo Bay is going to get a new lease on life.
Pete Hegseth and the president want to put the illegal criminal migrants, the ones who have broken more crimes than just coming to the country, wants to store them temporarily in Guantanamo Bay prior to shipping them back to the country of origin.
Because in some cases, the country of origin will take a little leaning on to make them say yes.
That seems to me like a perfect use of it.
Number one, it's hard for AOC to visit because you don't want people crying at the fence.
So it gives it a little hard-to-get-to quality, which is probably good.
Some reporters, I assume, will get there.
I don't think it's off completely.
The inaccessible.
But maybe the ones who go there will be vetted, so they're not RUPARs and AOCs.
So that seems like a good use of something that already exists.
Meanwhile, this one's fun.
Fox News, Caitlin McFall is reporting on this, that the incoming UK ambassador, so this is who the UK has decided will be the ambassador to the United States.
And remember, We have a special relationship, a special relationship with the UK. It's special.
And their new ambassador is coming in, Lord Peter Mandelson.
He says good things about Trump today, but he didn't always say good things about him because in 2019 he had said that Trump was, quote, a danger to the world.
A danger to the world.
Which is another way of saying you have TDS and you're worried that Trump will be more fascist-y.
Things will get more fascist-y.
That's kind of what he was saying in 2019. But now he's changed his tune and he says that Trump could be one of the most consequential American presidents of his lifetime.
Oh, hold on.
Hold on.
Nope.
Nope.
If you read that fast, it sounds like a compliment.
But just being most consequential...
Would not be counter to his earlier opinion that he was a danger to the world.
A danger to the world would also be the most consequential.
So he'd better say better than that.
Does he have anything better to say than most consequential?
Well, he also said, I consider my remarks about President Trump as ill-judged and wrong.
Huh.
But why?
Were they ill-judged and wrong?
Because his opinion was wrong, or were they ill-judged and wrong because it's inconvenient to his current career objectives?
I think I need to know more about why you think you're wrong.
But he goes on, and he said, I think that times and attitudes toward the president have changed.
Okay?
You're still not saying what your attitude is.
I get it that other people's attitudes have changed.
You're so close to saying something right and good, but you're not there yet.
You're not there.
Can he take it over the line?
And then he said, I think that he, meaning Trump, I think that Trump has one fresh respect, he added.
He certainly has from me.
Oh, okay.
Now we're talking.
So he has fresh respect.
And that is going to be the basis of all the work I do for...
His Majesty's ambassador in the United States.
Now, there's some rumor that the U.S., Trump in particular, would reject their ambassador.
Would reject their ambassador.
But would you reject him if he's on the right page now?
Because all I really want from other countries is that they treat the U.S. with respect.
And they understand that that's the way it has to be.
You know, you don't have to agree with everything.
That's not a requirement.
But respect, yeah, don't call our leader a danger to the world and act like you can work with it.
Yeah, okay.
So on one level, you'd say to yourself, hmm, I don't know, maybe we could do better.
Could we get somebody who didn't once hate him?
That seems like a safer play.
But on the other hand, somebody who was like an ex-smoker, you know, who's admitting he was wrong and now he's trying to make good, well, that could be good too.
Maybe he'll try harder to show that he's on Trump's side.
Maybe he'll work in our favor.
But it does make me wonder if the, quote, special relationship, are they using the word special in what context?
Is it Special Olympics?
Or is it...
Special like it's just good.
Now, no disrespect to the Special Olympics, which is pretty awesome.
But we do wonder what they mean by that special relationship, because that word can be interpreted in more than one way.
But if this guy thought Trump was a danger to the world, and then he found out he was completely wrong in his political worldview, is that the guy you want representing your country?
The guy who was wrong about something so basic, and the reason he was wrong is not because of his opinion, but because he fell for brainwashing.
If you fall for brainwashing, and it's public, and everybody can see it, is that the one you want sitting in the U.S. for your special relationship?
I don't know.
So here's my take.
I think he's, you know...
Maybe minimally acceptable.
But if Trump decided to get him out of here, just get him out, I'd be okay with that.
I think that's up to Trump.
That's a personal decision for him, and I could go either way.
Meanwhile, according to the Daily Wire, the White House has received over 7,400 applications to be some kind of new media White House reporter, because the White House has opened up The question-asking process for the press events.
And now if you're a podcaster or something, you can apply.
And if they like you and you look like a serious news-related entity, you can get some kind of press credentials.
Here's what I think.
First of all, this is brilliant.
Everything about this is good.
Why wouldn't the Democrats do it?
Well, let me give you the obvious reason.
The Democrats benefit when the traditional corporate media is healthy, because those are the ones that have their back.
So the corporate media is basically a Democrat platform, most of it.
But we can't live without it, because you also need the news.
I've said this before, but if the corporate media died tomorrow, I wouldn't have much to talk about because I mostly riff off of things they did stupidly, right?
And then there are things that the White House announces.
So a lot of the news is just the White House announced something or they answered a question or they have a plan.
Podcasters can do that.
We don't need NBC to be in the room.
Tell us what happened in the room.
And then we go and make our podcast mocking NBC's bad interpretation of it, but also looking at the original so we can see what they got wrong.
So that's what I do all day.
And it looks like maybe the Trump administration is not only opening up their access, which they like to do, but maybe they're killing the corporate news.
Because if...
A podcaster is getting the direct news from the White House staff and has access to all the right people and can ask all the right questions.
I don't need NBC. I don't need MSNBC. I don't need ABC. I could just go to whichever podcaster got the credentials and spent the most time at the White House.
So this could be a death blow to the corporate news.
I don't know if they mean it to be that, but it could be that way.
Kristi Noem, she's Homeland Security Secretary, and she announced an end to grant funding abused by NGOs for aiding illegal migrants.
Wow.
That is so good.
You know, I asked the other day, I said, why don't we get a, just on X, I said, when is the government going to cut the funding to these NGOs?
Now, I said all of them, but what I really meant was the bad ones.
And it looks like the bad ones are all out of money now, or at least government funding.
So, man, it makes me wonder, how was it ever a thing that a gigantic percentage of our budget was going to these Really just money laundering, highly political things that the country would never have agreed to if they knew it was happening.
So, man, cleaning that up, that's quite a swamp cleanup.
I'm happy about that.
Meanwhile, Trump has signed what NBC News is calling a sweeping executive order.
Let's see.
If all the podcasters had access to all the White House, would I need NBC News to tell me what Trump just signed?
Nope.
I could get that from Tim Pool or whoever's going to get credentials.
Anyway, so is it a big deal?
Why is it a big deal?
He said he would prioritize and free up federal funding to expand school choice programs.
Oh, it's a big deal because there's big money behind it.
And the government would be behind, at least the federal government, would be strongly backing homeschooling.
I feel like that might be one of the most historic decisions in the history of the United States.
If you don't follow the homeschooling thing, you're thinking to yourself, well, Trump did a lot this week.
That's not like the biggest one or anything.
It might be.
That might be the biggest thing.
Because if we don't fix education, everything breaks.
And education is completely broken right now.
It's completely broken.
Here's what I never hear.
I've never heard this once, actually.
I've never heard somebody who homeschools their child say, that was the biggest mistake I ever made.
Should have sent them to public school.
Not once.
And I know quite a few homeschoolers at this point.
Don't you?
You all know some homeschoolers, right?
Have you ever heard any homeschooler, maybe the student might say, I wish I had more friends or something, but I don't think any parents have ever said, as long as they had a system that worked, I don't think they've ever said, I wish they went to public school.
I have to be honest.
I've interacted with enough people who are products of homeschooling and enough people who are products of public schools.
You can really tell the difference.
Like, you can really, really tell the difference.
Am I wrong about that?
Have you all experienced that?
That when you meet a homeschooler versus meeting a public schooler, oh, there's a difference.
And I don't think it's just selection.
It's not just selection.
It's what you turn into with those two experiences as your contrast.
So that could be a big deal.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department, according to NBC News, dropped a classified documents case against Trump's co-defendants.
So I have some question about the timing of that.
Is this an extension from some old news, or is it really new news?
But I don't want to see any of Trump's co-defendants go to jail when Trump himself gets dropped from the case because he's president.
That just wouldn't feel right to anybody.
So I don't know the details of that.
It just sounds like something good happened in that regard.
Speaking of Denmark, how does Denmark get in the news twice?
I remember going years without mentioning Denmark, even once.
But today, twice.
So Denmark, for reasons that are escaping me...
They're letting Russia plug the Nord Stream 2, the one that got blown up.
Mysteriously blown up.
We don't know who.
Nobody knows.
Yeah, we all know.
Why would we be in the middle of the Ukraine war?
Hopefully closer to the end, but still in it.
And Denmark's going to allow them to rebuild the pipeline that was one of the biggest risks?
I don't know if that makes sense.
Well, not everybody's happy about it.
Poland says, what the hell are you doing?
Poland does not want that to happen because it just makes Russia stronger, gives them economic leverage over that part of the world and Europe.
And I don't know what's going on.
So my take on this is fog of war.
There's something about this story that we don't know.
It could be...
Let me give you my most optimistic take.
It could be that all sides see that the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and NATO are about ready to wrap up.
If they know it's about ready to wrap up and they feel that part of that will be normal business will be allowed to happen, I could see Denmark saying, oh, it's going to take us months.
To just get prepared to do this and give approval.
So we'll just say it now because we're pretty sure the war is going to be wrapped up in a month.
You know, we'll be back to normal.
We need the gas, so why not?
It's possible.
I wouldn't bet on it, but it's possible that maybe the United States said, you know, don't refer to us, but if you want to get this going, we're not going to stop you.
Because we think we're going to wrap things up.
It could be that that's one of the things that Trump has promised Russia.
Because you can imagine that no matter what the deal is to end the war in Ukraine, it's going to be some shit we don't like and some shit he doesn't like.
Otherwise, it doesn't happen.
There's no such thing as an end to a war where both sides got what they wanted.
That's not a thing.
Don't even think about that.
The way you know the war is ending is when people are doing things you know they didn't want to do.
That's the signal you're looking for.
People doing things they didn't want to do.
Now you're talking.
That means that people have moved off their hard positions.
So, on one hand, it doesn't make sense to us with what we know that Denmark would be giving a green light to rebuild the Nord Stream 2. But, if that's part of what Trump has said, you know, I don't like it, but I'm going to give you this.
You know, I'd rather not compete against it.
We'd rather, you know, we didn't compete, but if that's what it's going to take, you know, if that's what makes people stop dying, we'll just try to out-compete your pipeline instead of blowing it up.
I could see that.
So here's what I think.
I think that's the canary in the coal mine.
I think that Denmark wouldn't go rogue.
Unless somebody had whispered in their ear.
Just speculating.
Just pure speculation.
But I feel like you're going to find that a deal is almost ready, because deals are ready before you know that they're even talking about it, and that this might be part of it.
So I'm going to take the optimistic view, which is not entirely called for, but it's a sign of the times.
The sign of the times is I can take the optimistic view on this and I won't be mocked even if it doesn't work out.
Because if you choose optimism in the middle of the beginning of the golden age when it does seem like a lot of things are going our way, you're not crazy.
You might be wrong, but I won't look crazy in the end.
Well, here's a study in the SciPost.
Eric Nolan is writing about it.
It says that human evolution in the U.S. is talking about that as a topic that education-linked genes are being selected against, meaning that there are more people being born without higher education or without the gene to want to do it, I guess.
I don't know if the genes make any difference to wanting to be educated.
But probably.
And that these findings offer new insight, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
All right.
You know what I'm going to say.
Is there anybody watching who is not fully aware that people with less education have more babies?
You all knew that, right?
It seems like it's true almost everywhere.
I mean, maybe in some weird case like China in some situation.
But generally speaking, poor people have more babies.
And there are obvious reasons for it.
If you have the option to go to college, it's tough to have a family at the same time.
So you do one first, and then you've got less time, and you've got better opportunities.
Than just having kids, as awesome as it might be.
So everything about that makes sense.
But you could have just asked me.
I'm pretty sure that dumb people have more babies and I could give you five reasons and they would all check out.
But I'm going to go deeper.
If it's true today that the lesser educated people are outproducing the others, was it always true?
Is it possible it's always been true?
Since maybe the younger, driest time.
Because the thing that I think is the funniest is that we sit around watching TV and we can't figure out how the pyramids were built.
Like, how did they move these big rocks?
They carved them so precisely and then put them in place.
And I think to myself, maybe we were just smarter and we've evolved since that time just getting dumber and dumber and it's not going to stop.
We're just going to keep getting dumber until civilization ends.
Maybe.
The only hope is that the robots will fill in the gap for how dumb we are, and they'll do the smart stuff so we'll not even notice.
So maybe we found a way to hack that.
In other news, in The Guardian, the scientists developed a patch that you can put on your heart to repair it.
But the patch is made from your own blood.
And they trick your blood into turning it into stem cells.
And then they take the stem cells and they turn it into heart muscles that are your heart muscles.
And then they put it on a patch and they slap it on your existing heart that's damaged.
And it helps that part of the heart beat.
So it doesn't repair the thing it's over.
It just operates as if it's the thing.
So the patch becomes the muscle and then the muscle being damaged.
It does what it does, but it can't do as much of what it wants to do.
That would be a gigantically big deal because apparently it would be effective for people with serious heart injuries.
So not just somebody with a little bit of a problem.
This could be something like the end of most heart disease.
It looks like you got a little damage on your heart.
It's going to take us about a two-hour operation.
First, we've got to take a little blood, turn it into stem cells, turn it into heart muscles, turn it into a little patch, slap it on the side of your heart, you're good to go.
You'll be up and running in a week.
That could be a real thing, and very soon.
That's kind of cool.
Anyway, according to the New York Post, there's nationwide testing of school kids.
Found out that their reading levels have plummeted to the lowest level in 32 years.
So that's bad, right?
The reading levels of U.S. kids have plummeted to the lowest level in 32 years.
You know what else is bad?
The ability of the news to understand data and statistics.
I haven't done a study, but I'll bet you the ability of the news to interpret data and statistics is that...
I'm going to guess a 32-year low because this is pretty bad.
Let me just give you a guess of what they left out of the story.
Anybody want to guess?
So they look at the total average, and the total average is reading levels are the worst in 32 years.
Is there anything they may have left out of the story?
I wonder.
Yeah, this is the one story where the demographics were left out.
Isn't this exactly the kind of story, something about school children performance, isn't this usually where they include it?
I always thought that it would help us if we knew what the demographic breakdown was, because that would be a deeper insight.
We would know, for example, if systemic racism was any part of that.
Although, presumably, that's not getting worse.
So it would be hard to say it's systemic racism, because that would be similar to how it's been for 32 years.
I don't think it got worse, did it?
Here's what else is missing.
So here's how they handled the fact that they left out the demographics.
They said also, part of the same story, the gap between the high and low performing students also showed signs of trouble.
Oh.
So it's also a problem if there's a bigger gap.
Oh, okay.
So let's go deeper on that.
But what they said is that the best 10% of the students were doing better than ever.
The lowest 10% of the students were doing worse than ever.
So let me say it again.
The best 10% of the students were not having anything like a 32-year low in reading.
They were better than ever, the top 10%.
Better than ever.
The top 10% are the only ones who make any difference.
I hate to tell you, but the bottom 90% are not inventing iPhones and making robots.
It's all the top 10%.
The top 10% is better than it's ever been.
Our top 10% rocks.
They're really, really good.
Then here's the other thing that they left out.
If you went to one of my local schools, which would be considered one of the top schools in California, my local school, probably top 20% or something, not elite or anything like that, but people move to where I live specifically because the schools have a good reputation.
If you went into one of the classes in any high school, Or any grade school, too.
What would look different than it looked 32 years ago?
Well, let me tell you.
There would be more people in the class who don't speak English than at any time in 32 years.
Every class, every class locally, has an unusually high number of non-English speakers.
Do you think they should have mentioned that?
Do you think that it all changes your average?
Yes.
Forget about IQ. Forget about training.
Forget about your background.
If you can't speak the freaking language, how's your reading comprehension in English going to be?
Should be the lowest it's ever been.
You're going to be in the lowest 10%, and you'll be worse than the old 10%, because the old 10% could at least read English.
You not only are brand new, but you can't even read the language.
So if you don't take out the recent arrivals, because that's not fair, And you don't acknowledge that pretty much every class at this point has a good chunk that it never had before.
That's going to be something.
Anyway, so anytime you see an average of the entire group of American children, just know that that's probably hiding something.
It's probably hiding something.
All right.
Meanwhile, according to live science, Chinese astronauts figured out how to make rocket fuel and oxygen in space using only artificial photosynthesis.
So they can make oxygen and they can make rocket fuel in space.
And they did it in space, so they're not wondering.
They actually have a ship that's circling, orbiting the Earth right now, and they made some artificial photosynthesis.
So that might be valuable for some future moon or Martian base.
I remind you that if you don't have your Dilbert calendar for 2025, it's not too late.
You can get a 10% discount for missing the month of mostly January.
But really, it's a calendar that's sort of like a book in calendar form.
So the point of it is to read a bunch of comics.
It's not about telling you what day it is because you've got a phone and you know what day it is.
But some people like calendars.
So you can get that.
Go to Dilbert.com and you'll see the link to buy that.
And when you get there, it'll show you the discount code when you check out.
You won't see it until you check out.
But it'll show you the discount code for your 10%.
And if you do that, you're going to be so happy.
People seem to like the calendar a lot.
All right.
And my book, Win Bigly, will teach you how to, which is in the second edition, now on Amazon.
If you buy Win Bigly, you will understand the persuasion perspective of President Trump.
And you'll learn how to do it yourself.
It's easy.
So those are the things I wanted to tell you.
I'm going to say hi to the local people privately.
And then we're going to watch some confirmation processes, Cash and Tulsi, see how that goes.
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