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Well, I don't know if you caught it last night, but last night was the Met Gala.
The Met Gala.
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A bunch of weirdos wearing unusual clothing.
That's about it.
Weirdos with unusual clothing.
I guess Kamala Harris showed up because she was happy to be a weirdo with unusual clothing.
Good for her.
Well, according to Nature, The publication, Nature.
People who don't need much sleep, it's probably because of a genetic difference.
Now, I think they could just ask me, what else would it be?
What possible other reason would it be if some people don't need as much sleep as other people?
It's got to be a genetic difference, right?
So I'm not sure they need it to do that research.
Next time, just ask me.
I'll tell you.
Nope, don't need to do it.
Well, this is kind of fun.
So PTSD patients were being studied at the University of Texas, Dallas, and they did a test where they gave them therapy to stimulate their vagus nerve.
Now, if I were smarter, I'd tell you where your vagus nerve is.
It's somewhere in your body.
But I know if you stimulate it just right, it makes you feel relaxed.
But here's the amazing thing.
That it seems to have cured, in a fairly lasting way, 100% of the people with PTSD that they studied.
And it lasted for months.
I guess you would have to redo it after a while.
But this is more to my point that your body is your brain.
If you think, hey, what do I do about my PTSD?
Normally you would think, well, there's some kind of mental thing that has to be done.
But not necessarily, because you can stimulate the vagus nerve, apparently, and that will change how you think about things.
Go away.
100% loss of diagnosis.
That's pretty amazing.
That doesn't surprise me a bit, actually.
It was smart for them to even try that test.
According to the Daily Mail, there was a survey, and they found that women are more attracted to bald men.
I believe this survey was done by the National Association of Bald Men Who Can't Get Dates.
But they know that.
I made that part up.
But I'm not sure I believe this.
2,000 women were asked to rank the things that they wanted, the things that attracted them most.
A muscular physique was found to be number one.
That's what women wanted.
A bald head was second.
And blue eyes were third.
Well, but if you went on a dating profile, there would be zero people asking for bald heads.
They would ask you for height.
It's height every time.
So, no, this is ridiculous.
So, even though the National Association of Bald White Guys, because they got blue eyes, is third.
So, I'm either the sexiest person I know, or this science is not too dependable.
Would you like to hear the least surprising news?
Least surprising news.
Let's see if I can accomplish this.
The least surprising news is that former First Lady Michelle Obama revealed on her podcast that she's in therapy.
If you saw her podcast, would you have any question whether she was in therapy?
She looks like the most I'm-in-therapy person you've ever met in your life.
But she says she's just doing it to tune up for the next phase of her life, which totally does not involve divorce.
So she wants you to know divorce is a rumor.
But she's going to tune up with her therapist.
Well, OpenAI, as you know, you know the story between OpenAI, ChatGPT.
But OpenAI was originally funded heavily by Elon Musk, who believed he was funding a nonprofit.
And then Sam Altman and Microsoft figured out, hey, we should make this a profit.
And then Elon Musk was suing them for...
Changing it from a non-profit to a profit.
And now they've got a new plan.
Their new proposed plan from OpenAI is that they would have a non-profit parent company that would control the for-profit business.
And then the non-profit part would be the major shareholder of the for-profit business.
What did Elon Musk think of that plan?
Still suing him.
I'm not even sure what that buys them.
Why would he even do that?
What's the benefit of that?
I don't even understand it.
All right.
But I guess they'll work that out in court.
According to Futurism, the publication Futurism, the AI industry has a problem with a huge problem, they say, with AI hallucinating more.
I was under the impression that AI was hallucinating less because it keeps getting better.
But apparently it's hallucinating more instead of less.
So the more they train it and the smarter it gets, the more it just makes shit up.
Now, I would say that's a pretty big problem.
And the AI experts don't know why.
Now, imagine that you've created this technology, you know, this amazing technology, AI, and it hallucinates, and you don't understand the technology well enough to know why it does that.
Isn't that a little bit scary?
That it's already smarter than us in a way that we can't even comprehend how it thinks or why?
Well, I guess we know why, but not how.
So that's going to be kind of scary.
The New York Times was reporting on that.
So some people, not everybody, think that maybe these models have reached their limits.
Maybe they don't get much better after this because they've trained on everything you can train on.
And then what's left is synthetic training material, which is kind of artificial.
Maybe that's where the extra hallucinations come from.
I don't know.
But be careful.
And then also from futurism, apparently the users of ChatGBT are developing bizarre delusions.
So I guess the people who are not mentally completely stable in the first place are getting worse by talking to AI.
And they're getting, maybe driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of chat GPT-induced psychosis.
So Rolling Stone is reporting that users on Reddit are sharing how AI has led their loved ones to embrace alarming delusions, often mixing spiritual mania and supernatural.
Fantasies.
Now, I'm not too surprised because it seems like it'd be the kind of technology that would make people more of what they already are.
So if you were a really good scientist, AI probably helps you, makes you a better scientist.
If you're a really good programmer, AI probably just makes your job better and faster and easier.
But if you're a little delusional to begin with...
I could kind of see how it would help you get more delusional, you know, depending on how you interacted with it.
So keep an eye on that.
We'll see if AI is making people crazy or crazier.
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I was going to tell you, you could just Google coffee with Scott Adams merchandise, but it turns out that, I don't know if it's China or who it is, but there are a bunch of fake coffee with Scott Adams merchandise now.
So some of it's just, you know, knockoffs.
I don't know who would knock off this.
I don't even make money from it.
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You know, it's just something we do for fun because people want it.
I think the only people who make money are the people who make the actual product.
But apparently that was enough for a bunch of counterfeiters to create pirated versions.
So I had no idea how many pirated things about me there were on the internet.
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Well, Mike Johnson says he's going to get really close to having the new budget bill, the big beautiful bill, marked up and ready for voting by Memorial Day or soon after.
And the budget bill will include tax cuts, a defense spending increase, and more border security.
In other words, they're just going to kick the can down the road on the deficit.
Doge didn't make any difference.
Doge didn't make any difference.
And apparently they're not willing to cut anything that would be painful.
So, we're doomed.
It's really weird to watch your government matter-of-factly destroy the country.
We really can't survive the deficit.
If they just pretend like it doesn't exist, and they just do another budget that's just a little bit more than the last one, we're sort of all dead.
I don't even know what to say about that.
I mean, I kind of hope it gets turned down so that somebody says, look, just cut 10% away from everything and make it work.
All right.
Well, I don't know if that would work, but better figure something out.
MSNBC had to do a little correction online.
They allowed one of their guests to say, without any information on this whatsoever, Somebody said that Kash Patel was spending more time partying at nightclubs than working in the office.
And even MSNBC was embarrassed by that because there's no evidence of that whatsoever.
And so they just said, we let somebody say that on the air, but there's no evidence of that whatsoever.
So I'm pretty sure Kash Patel is spending more time in the office than partying.
Meanwhile, this is the weirdest little story.
I had to keep looking at it to see if I could understand it.
And I'm not sure I do.
So there's a nominee for the U.S. Attorney for D.C. And that seems like an important one, because whoever the U.S. Attorney is for D.C. is going to affect the politicians who are there.
And Ed Martin is...
The temporary person doing that job, but now he's up for nominee.
And according to Breitbart and other sources, and if you ask me to explain why this is true, it has something to do with the weird situation of the District of Columbia.
So the District of Columbia is not a state, so it has its own rules.
But apparently, if...
If Ed Martin doesn't get the votes to be confirmed, and Senator Tom Tillis says he's withholding support, so he might not be, that it falls to a judge, and they believe it would go to Judge Boasberg, who would choose on his own, without anybody else's input, could choose whoever he wanted to fill the role.
He might even pick Special Counsel Jack Smith.
So, Boesburg, the most anti-Trump judge, would be the backup.
And why?
I don't know.
Something to do with how D.C. is organized.
But just think about that.
So, Trump's got his guy, Ed Martin, who is exactly who he wants on the job.
But instead, if they don't pass it, Bosberg might just appoint somebody and it could be like the worst person in the world.
Oh my God, how is that even possible?
Anyway, over in Switzerland, there's some big protest against Trump.
And a lot of the protesters were wearing these cool-looking hats that look like a big hand giving the finger.
I kind of want one of those hats.
And then Antifa is back, and I guess they're in Seattle and Washington, and they're starting to get active again.
And I saw a post by B.J. Dichter saying that, by the way, I probably mispronounce his name every time.
But he said none of these protests around the world are organic.
This is large-scale professional work.
Definitely the protest where everybody had a giant hand giving the finger, that was very professional work.
That was not any kind of grassroots, spontaneous anything.
And I'm not sure if we ever had those.
I don't know if there's ever a spontaneous grassroots protest.
I'm pretty sure that anything that looks like it's big, I think that's all just billionaires buying people.
So this summer is going to be wild.
I would expect this summer you would have all these fake protests.
So it's going to be the summer of fake protests, just like BLM and all the rest.
Well, according to RFK Jr., Every time I hear a news story about Anthony Fauci, it just sounds worse and worse, but it never ends.
Have you noticed that?
So the Fauci stories, maybe they started out being incorrect and maybe they're trending toward correct.
I don't know.
But I've heard so many versions of what he did and why it was bad that I just don't know what to believe anymore.
But here's the story.
I'll just read it to you.
I think RFK Jr. was saying this.
Anthony Fauci began, essentially restarted the arms race and the bioweapons arms race and did it under the pretension of developing vaccines because it's the same science that you develop bioweapons and vaccines.
In 2014, three of his bugs escaped.
And 300 scientists wrote letters to President Obama asking him to shut down Anthony Fauci.
Now, how much of this have you heard before?
President Obama declared a moratorium, but instead of shutting down his experiments, he moved them offshore, mainly to the Wuhan lab.
The principal institutions of our government, the CIA, the FBI, and the State Department, Department of Energy, all say that it is most likely That those experiments resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019.
So Fox News was reporting on this.
Now, does that sound right?
I was listening to somebody who I can't remember.
Was it the CIA guy?
John Krakatoa?
I don't know what his last name is.
There was somebody I saw who sounded like they knew what they were talking about.
Who suggested that the COVID virus escape from some American collegiate lab or something.
So, do you believe we know anything about anything?
It's like this COVID story just keeps changing every day.
It's like they just shake the box and then there's a new story.
Then Shake the Box, new story.
I don't know what to believe.
So if you've ever had a bad day where you went to work and you tried to get something done and it didn't work out, compare yourself to this bad day.
So John Voight, actor John Voight, apparently he's...
He has some kind of role as ambassador to Hollywood or something for President Trump.
So he met with Trump recently to discuss how all the filmmakers were leaving the U.S. and doing stuff in other countries.
So what he wanted was to give some tax breaks from Trump to bring back the movies to the United States because it's the tax breaks that make the most difference.
And instead of giving them tax breaks, Trump proposed 100% tariffs on imported movies.
So instead of giving them tax breaks, he made them cost twice as much if they make them overseas.
And they can't really make them domestically affordably.
So now they can't make them affordably overseas.
And they can't make them affordably domestically.
So nobody can make any movies at all.
Good work, John Voight.
And, you know, part of me says, I'm seeing in the comments some of you saying, good.
I'm not sure why we would give tax credits to the movies that I've been seeing lately.
It's just all woke bullshit.
It's just a guy tied to a chair, car chase scene, a little CGI, a bunch of people get shot, and then there's a bunch of woke stuff.
Why do we even need any more of that?
But I feel bad for John Boyd.
He got exactly the opposite of what he wanted.
Destroyed the entire movie business.
That's a bad day.
Anyway, I was listening to General Flynn on X. I saw a video of him talking about the Diddy trials.
And he thinks the P. Diddy trial, which has already started, is going to implicate musicians, sports players, politicians, and the media.
And Flynn thinks that Diddy is going to try to reduce whatever his own risk is by giving up other people.
What do you think about that?
Do you think that Diddy can get any kind of relief from his own legal problems by giving up even bigger fish?
I don't think so.
I think he realizes if he gives up people, he'll be killed in jail pretty quickly.
So I'm going to say the opposite of General Flynn's prediction.
I think Diddy won't give up anybody.
Now, there may be plenty of people revealed by the videos and the documentation that the prosecutors get, but I think Diddy is not going to snitch.
I think he's got too much risk.
We'll see.
Well, when I first heard that Trump has suggested using Alcatraz for our worst criminals and maybe some of the migrants, I thought to myself, that's a terrible idea that will never work.
It's way too expensive and hard to do.
And then I saw a number of other people, some of them I think I influenced, saying that it was a brilliant move.
And I'm a little bit persuaded by that.
So here's the brilliant part of it.
Whether it ever happens or not, and I'm going to guess not, because I think the economics of it don't make sense compared to just building your own facility.
I guess since everybody knows what Alcatraz is, and we know it's the scariest secure prison, When Trump aligns himself with something like Alcatraz for where he wants to put the worst prisoners, he sends this message that he's the anti-crime guy, tough on migrant crime and all that.
And that's probably all he needs.
He just wants to reinforce that he's the baddest of the bad.
Whether this particular idea...
If using Alcatraz ever comes to fruition, I don't know.
I'm going to bet against it.
But it keeps the media spinning away on something that can't be too bad for him.
They'll say it might be expensive, like I'm saying.
But they're still going to associate the idea of using Alcatraz with Trump, which is all good for Trump.
I'm going to flip my opinion from when I first started.
I just thought it was just not useful to even bring that up.
But now I think it might be.
It's just yet again another thing to keep the media spinning about something, even if it never happens.
And it's good for his brand.
Very similar to when he...
When Trump was putting out the image of himself as the Pope, and somebody asked him in one of his pressers, do you think it offended people?
And Trump just said, no, no.
It's just a joke, basically.
But here's my take.
How many young men were offended by the image of Trump as the Pope?
I'm going to guess none.
Probably none.
Now, there might have been some older people.
There might have been some women who were maybe a little tweaked by it.
But I'll bet you the base, the Trump base, they all understand what he's doing.
They understand it's just for fun.
They understand that if it makes people complain, it's even more fun.
And certainly, there's probably no...
I don't think there's a 25-year-old man in existence.
Who wouldn't just think that was funny and would not be offended?
I mean, there can't be more than three in the country.
So I think he won with that.
That was a good play.
According to the Post Millennial, there's some conversations about the U.S. and Rwanda working together, and Rwanda might be willing to take in our deported illegal immigrants.
So instead of deporting them back to their country of origin, If there's some reason we can't do that, they would be deported to Rwanda.
I can't think of a worse place to be deported to, can you?
If you just said, if you come to America, we might deport you to Rwanda, I would immediately cancel all my plans to do anything illegal.
Because even if you escaped from your prison, you'd still be in Rwanda.
So that's a pretty scary one.
I don't know if this will come to pass.
Well, Axios is telling us that some people are warning that the MAGA movement is becoming MAGA Maoism, as in Chairman Mao.
I guess they got tired of the whole Hitler thing.
It wasn't working.
So they needed another dictator.
So they're going with Chairman Mao.
And here's why it's like Mao.
The MAGA movement demands ideological purity.
Does it?
I don't know that it really does.
Glorifies economic sacrifice.
Not really.
It's just that we have to do it in the tariff situation, probably.
And embraces state power as a means to reshape society.
Well, we do like having a...
Strong executive who can do some executive orders.
And so that's enough for the critics to call it a mega-Maoism, to which I say, nice try, lefties.
How many people know what Maoism even is?
About the same number that know what an oligarch is.
Is the Democrat Party just nothing but bad ideas strung together one after another?
The best they could come up with because your Hitler wasn't working was you're an oligarch followed by mega-Maoism that almost nobody even knows what that is.
So, good job.
I saw on MSNBC...
One of their commentators, Claire McCaskill, she said that, quote, I predict that...
She's talking about the tariffs, the trade war.
She said, I predict that this will go down as the biggest act of political suicide ever committed by a president of the United States, this whole trade war.
To which I say, oh, I've never been more confident that the...
That the trade stuff would work out.
Because if Claire McCaskill is sure it's not going to work, and I don't believe she's an economist, then I'm feeling pretty good about it.
But here's my question.
What does she think is going to happen?
Does she think that we won't negotiate any favorable trade deals?
None?
Not one?
It seems to me the most likely scenario is that in a month or so we'll start rolling out trade deals.
You know, it might be just the frameworks, not the signed document.
But that's all you need.
You just need to tell the country, oh, we got this worked out.
We got to deal with Japan.
We got to deal with South Korea.
And the news is going to have to cover every one of them.
They're going to have to cover every one of them.
And it's all going to look like good news.
Now, it might be, you know, not that much of an improvement, but it'll be spun by the Trump administration as big improvements.
So I feel like this might be one of the most successful economic things that the country's ever done.
We don't know.
I mean, it's too soon.
And whatever happens with China makes a big difference.
But I think it's 60-40.
That it's a home run.
60-40.
There's a 40% chance that things go in the wrong direction.
You know, a good 40% chance.
And that's why you need the simultaneous swaddle blanket that I mentioned earlier.
But 60% chance, it might be just the smartest thing a president ever did.
60%.
That's my prediction.
Well, here's a story that you always mock me for.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Gen Zers are tending to want to live in facilities, apartment facilities, that have a whole bunch of amenities, like pools and fitness centers and co-working spaces and social lounges and pet salons.
And you rent the place and it even comes with dishes, bath mats.
Basically, you just move in.
Now, they're not very big.
They're usually for one person.
But the people living there just love it because it's got everything they want and it creates kind of a community.
Now, how many times have I told you that if we can reproduce...
What my college experience was in the dormitories, it would be an amazing living experience.
Well, that's what this is.
It's basically just an upgraded dormitory experience where everything you need is on campus and it allows you to have natural interaction with other people who live there.
You know, if you go to the pool or you go to the gym, you're going to run into people who are your same age and everything.
And the space itself is not very big, but you didn't need much.
You had a good view, you know, big windows, so it doesn't feel like it's cramped because you got a good view from your apartment.
And you never have to leave, even if you have an animal.
So I think there'll be more of this.
I don't know if it's going to help reproduction, but that's another problem.
Well, you probably heard that the Newark Airport had a 30-minute outage in the control tower, and there was no radar, no radio, and nobody knew what the problem was.
Can you imagine being in an airplane coming to the Newark Airport, and they lose all signal, and you don't know why, and you don't know how long it's going to last?
Because you don't know why.
I can't think of anything that would be scarier than that.
And apparently, a number of the staff were so stressed that they had to go on trauma leave.
And I totally get that.
You know, the staff of the tower.
Because they probably thought to themselves, if we don't know how long this is going to go on, we might see half of the planes up there running out of gas or running out of fuel.
Start crashing into things.
Now, I saw on, I think it was Fox News, Secretary Duffy, who was saying that it wasn't as dangerous as it looked.
Now, partly because it was only half an hour.
But again, if you didn't know what the problem was, you didn't know in advance it was only going to be half an hour.
So you can imagine how scary that would be.
But apparently the modern airplanes all know where the other airplanes are.
So there wasn't much chance they were going to run into each other.
There definitely was a chance they would run on a fuel if it went longer.
So this is super scary, but maybe the light of fire under people would need to fix it.
Well, the bank Credit Suisse...
Got in trouble again from the IRS for helping rich Americans hide their basically cheat on taxes.
Now, apparently this isn't the first time they've been caught doing that.
They already paid $2.6 billion back in 2014 for the same thing.
So they lose a case.
Which is they're accused of helping rich Americans basically cheat on taxes.
And they pay this gigantic fine, $2.6 billion, and then they just went back to doing it.
And they got caught again.
Unbelievable.
Anyway.
So apparently it included stuff like fake donations, forged records, and secret Singapore accounts.
It's pretty illegal.
It wasn't just a little bit illegal.
It was just flat-out crime.
And they just did it twice, got caught twice.
Do you remember, it might have been yesterday or the day before, I mentioned that Fetterman said something that Look down of character.
And what he said was, he was talking about Iran, and he said, quote, We cannot negotiate with Iran.
It's time to destroy their nuclear program and neutralize the remaining capabilities of its proxies.
I remain steadfast with Israel.
Provide whatever is necessary to carry this out.
Now, it seemed to me that that was...
Sort of not very Fetterman-like or not very politician-like.
The politician way to say that would be more like, you know, we're getting to the end of our patience and if negotiating doesn't work, we'll have to turn to something harder.
You know, usually you put the threat out there.
There's nothing wrong with the threat.
But usually you couch it with, You know, something that doesn't sound as directly, we're going to go bomb you.
And I thought to myself there was something unusual about it.
But it turns out there's a little bit more to the story.
So people who have worked with Fetterman are claiming that he's got some mental problems, or we could call them health problems.
He's been accused of being depressed, sometimes catatonic.
Of course, the Democrats think he's a little too conservative in supporting Israel, and I guess they've got a problem with that, some of them.
And they say his behavior was volatile and his aides.
This is all alleged, by the way.
We don't know how true this is.
But the aides noticed last year he was taking a turn for the worse.
And then the former chief of staff to Fetterman was so alarmed with his ex-boss's erratic behavior last year that he wrote a lengthy letter to his doctor warning that Fetterman was spiraling out of control.
Now, Fetterman said, you know, in response to all that, basically his actual doctors say he's fine and these are disgruntled former staffers.
Have you ever noticed it's always disgruntled former staffers?
So, I don't know.
But I did notice, you know, I think you could be my witness, that I did notice there was something odd about his statement about Israel and Iran.
It just seemed a little bit out of character or something.
I worry about him.
Yeah, I guess I would be concerned for his health as well as the country's.
But yeah, that looked...
I think there's something there.
I hope not.
And when he says, my actual doctors say I'm fine and it's a bunch of disgruntled people, that's a pretty good defense.
That's a pretty good defense.
So I wouldn't say he's definitely losing it.
But it's sort of a coin to us.
I think I'll keep an eye on it, see if anything else comes up.
You probably heard in the news that when Trump was asked about the tariffs in China and all that, he talked about some kids having too many dolls.
He said about American children.
Do not need as many toys and that Americans do not need to spend as much money on junk we don't need.
Quote, I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dolls.
They can have three.
They don't need to have 250 pencils.
They can have five.
Now, the way Trump talks, I've been saying this for eight years, I guess, is that he's so visual, even when he's just talking.
See, you can see the pencils and you can see the dolls.
He's just so good at that.
And then I saw a Mike Cernovich post where he was saying that, you know, the news tried to make something out of it.
It's like, wait, why are you telling us how many dolls we can have?
Why can't we have 30 dolls?
You know, they're trying to make something out of it.
But as Cerno said, Every parent said to themselves, yeah, we got too many dolls.
If you've ever had the experience of having a doll-wanting kid, too many dolls.
Yeah.
And you don't need 30 dolls.
Five's good.
And I was trying to think, if you don't count pharmaceuticals and some...
Electronics, which are, I think, going to be exempt from tariffs anyway.
What is it that I get from China that I can't do without?
And I was trying to think.
Clothes?
I mean, if I had to not buy any new clothes for the next few months, it would just be like the last few months where I didn't buy any new clothes.
I don't really need any new clothes.
I mean, look at me.
Do I look like the guy who needs new clothes?
Well, I look like somebody who needs it.
I just don't look like somebody who's going to bother with it.
And then I think, all right, if I were to look at my Amazon purchases, how many of those things, if I could not buy them, would I really be in trouble?
It would be stuff like I bought a...
I bought a, what do you call those little door weights where you keep your door open?
I didn't need to buy that.
I could have used a rock.
And if I look down the list, there are a few things that maybe had some medical or business application.
But mostly, as long as I ordered printer paper, basically.
So I kind of agree with him.
I don't think there are that many things that I can't go without for a few months until they negotiate the tariffs and figure it out.
So I saw this morning a video of Russell Brand talking about Kamala Harris, and I feel like there's a seal that's been broken now, because here's what Russell Brand said about Kamala Harris.
He was responding to the fact that...
She's leading in the polls for being the president or being the candidate next time.
And so Russell Brand was saying sarcastically, America can't get enough of Kamala Harris.
Sharp as ever.
Beloved coast to coast.
And definitely not fueled by boxed wine.
That's why Democrats are considering running her again.
Genius move.
Utterly brilliant.
And then he said, definitely doesn't have a private drinking problem.
Now, you've heard me say that a bunch of times, that it's just obvious she has a drinking problem.
I think you've heard Greg Gutfeld make some witty references to it.
But it's not really something that's in the news.
I don't see any other podcasters talking about it.
But he just broke the seal.
I mean, he broke it hard.
And that's what I like about him.
Because he's just telling you what he sees.
Did Tim Dillon say that on Rogan?
I see a reference to that.
It's funnier when you say boxed wine.
Anyway, Scott Galloway was on The View recently.
And he was saying that we need to redefine what it means to be a man and redefine masculinity.
And his argument was that men need to defend and protect, including even the, he used this example, even the trans community, even if you're not in favor of having multiple bathrooms or men playing on women's teams or whatever.
He said that to be masculine and to be a man, We need to redefine it as being protective and defending.
Now, here's a little rule that I like to use.
If somebody's trying to win an argument with a definition, that's not an argument.
You can't just make up your own definition of something and then say, well, there it is.
No, you would need to tell me why men should be like this.
And by the way, I don't think this is even a little bit true.
It's definitely true that men defend the things that they care about, such as their family, their children, their house.
But it's not true that men are just naturally defenders.
It might be just as true that we're naturally killers.
When I think of what it means to be masculine, I often think about the impulse to kill, because it does set us apart.
That we're always ready to kill.
Now, we're usually ready to kill in the service of defending and protecting.
We're not serial killers, mostly.
But just think about that rule.
It's not so much about this topic, but just think about this because you're going to see it again.
There's another story coming up in which somebody tried to win an argument with a definition.
If you're trying to sell your definition, That's not an argument.
The other place this happens is with abortion.
If your argument is, it's a life, that's a definition.
It's not an argument.
So, I mean, I'm not disagreeing or agreeing.
So my view is I shouldn't weigh in on abortion at all.
Let women figure that out.
That's my preference.
But you can't win an argument with a definition.
That's just not how anything works.
All right.
Keep that in mind.
We're going to circle back to that.
On CNBC, I saw FCC Chair Brendan Carr.
He was asked about these big mergers that are being considered.
There's this media and telecom mergers.
And I guess the FCC has to approve these big mergers if they're in their domain.
And he was asked, would you potentially block a merger deal because of the DEI policy of the companies?
And he said, yeah, of course.
I told everybody that if they want to get a deal done before the FCC, they need to get rid of any invidious forms of discrimination.
I kind of like that.
Brendan Carr, good job.
Because there are some really big multi-billion dollar mergers that are being considered right now.
And that is a real big lever.
Well, you can do your multi-billion dollar deal, but you're going to have to get rid of your DEI.
So we'll see if that makes a difference.
Well, according to...
Let's see, according to who?
According to some partially declassified intelligence memos from the U.S., the Venezuelan government and Nicolas Maduro probably is not directing the Truenda-Aragua gang members in the United States.
Probably not.
Now, the argument is that the gang members are small cells and they do relatively small crimes.
They're not doing big terrorist events.
And they're low-skill criminal activities, and they're sort of decentralized, so that there's no such thing as Maduro somehow controlling it like it's some really well-organized machine, because it's not an organized machine.
It's just a bunch of people doing a bunch of stuff and having similar tattoos, it sounds like.
So you can believe that or not.
I'm not sure if that means it's true.
I do think that that still leaves open the possibility that Maduro was intentionally making sure that that group of people got to the United States.
So it doesn't mean that he's controlling them once they get here, but he might have been part of the process that made it easier for them to get here.
I don't know about that yet.
Well, here's some fake news.
That's close to real news.
You saw that, or maybe you heard that Israel is going to take control of Gaza.
Now, Cenk Uyghur was calling that basically depopulating Gaza and just making it an Israeli settlement.
Now, I don't think that that's been announced.
It might actually happen.
But I don't think that the plan at the moment, at least the public plan, is to get rid of all the residents.
I think they might need to move them to safer places to give them, you know, food and other aid.
So we don't know if that's temporary or not.
But Cenk was arguing that if that's true, that if they're moving them...
That that's genocide by definition.
And there's that definition thing again.
If you're going to allow the entire argument to be built on somebody else's definition of a word, that's not really an argument.
That's just trying.
All it is is trying to win a point by getting somebody to agree to your definition of a word.
Now, and I'm not saying that he's right or he's wrong.
I'm just saying that the definition approach is never based on logic.
It's just trying to win with the definition.
But I asked this question on his post.
I didn't see an answer to it.
I said, what's the alternative for Israel?
So what are they supposed to do?
And again, I'm not backing Israel or supporting them.
I'm just observing and asking the question.
If you think that you don't want Israel to do what they're doing, and I can see why.
I can see why you'd say, no, it's too brutal and blah, blah, blah.
There's lots of reasons.
And I wouldn't argue with any of the reasons.
But if you don't think they should be doing this, which is taking full control of Gaza and...
Probably in the long run, you know, having, well, who knows what the long run is.
But if you don't like that, what exactly do you think should be done?
Because if they just let the people back in, let's say they killed everybody who was definitely Hamas, and they only let back in the citizens, do you think that that would keep Hamas from reconstituting?
I don't see how it could.
Because they could sneak in.
The young people could get older and communicate with people on the outside and get radicalized.
I feel like Hamas would just reconstitute.
So the one thing that Israel probably can't allow to happen is for Hamas to reconstitute.
So what exactly should they do?
If all they do is just let everybody move back after they clean it up, you just have the same problem again.
It would be a giant waste of time.
You'd be right back where you were.
So nobody wanted to answer that question.
Instead, people wanted to change the subject.
You would be amazed at all the subject changers.
Well, but what about Armenia?
What about Armenia?
Answer my question.
Watch this for your own entertainment.
Then nobody has a better idea.
But they might have a strong opinion that Israel should not be doing what it's doing.
Again, I'm not supporting Israel.
I'm just observing.
And what I observe is I don't see anybody suggesting another plan.
So what's going to happen if there's only one plan?
I know.
You could predict that one pretty easily.
And I saw Trump was asked about it.
I guess he's going to do a Gulf trip.
And he was asked about Gaza.
And he said, quote, we're going to help the people of Gaza get some food.
People are starving and we're going to help them get some food.
Now, here's what I love about how Trump talks about war.
When he talks about Ukraine and Russia, he doesn't talk about the history of, you know, the region.
He doesn't talk about the...
Moral or ethical, anything.
He just says, I want the killing to stop.
You know, 5,000 soldiers a week are dying there.
I want that to stop.
He just goes right to the human part.
When he talks about Gaza, he says, we want to feed the people.
Right to the human part.
Now, of course, that's a distraction from the fact that as the president...
He, of course, does have deeper and more complex thoughts about how things should be handled.
But when he talks about it, he goes right to the human element, and he never leaves.
It's kind of brilliant, because he is an anti-war president, at the same time he's a badass.
But his message discipline, which I think is just all him, I don't think anybody's advising him on this.
His message discipline to always talk about the human suffering, pretty darn good.
I don't know if he gets credit for that, but that's good technique.
It's not just good technique.
It's good moral and ethical position.
Well, in other related news, I guess the Israeli, the Israel Defense Forces, Have told Yemen to evacuate their international airport.
I don't know how many airports they have in Yemen, but they told them to evacuate it, which would suggest that airstrikes are coming and that Israel is going to essentially destroy the airport, which I assume is to prevent Yemen from launching drones, maybe?
I'm not sure exactly what it is they're trying to stop, but I guess we'll probably find out about that today.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has been dropping drones on Moscow, even as Moscow is getting ready for their big Victory Day celebration that would include other foreign leaders coming to visit, including President Xi.
And ABC News had this story.
And I thought to myself, Is Ukraine going to attack while the other leaders are there?
Because that would be pretty ballsy.
Probably a bad idea, because it's just going to make Russia more angry, which can't be good.
But how would you protect President Xi?
Because he's going to be outdoors.
Why wouldn't they, if they have drones?
Why wouldn't they send a drone over to kill the leadership while they're all in the same place outdoors and they know exactly where they're going to be?
Are they going to have to build some big glass container that Putin stays in?
Now, if they accidentally killed President Xi, I can't think of anything that would be worse than that, so I don't recommend it.
I don't know.
This could get really dicey really fast because the Ukrainians are not looking for peace at this point.
They're looking for maximum provocation.
And they're going to have a chance to get maximum provocation out of this.
We'll see if they have any restraint at all.
Well, speaking of that part of the world, OPEC is going to boost their oil output, which would lower the cost of a barrel.
Supply and demand, which would make Russia's income stream much less, because they depend on oil for about 30% of their budget.
And that might squeeze them enough that they might maybe want a little faster go at peace.
I don't know that that's enough.
I think Russia could probably survive a downturn in oil revenue for Probably quite a while.
It's only 30% of its budget.
So we'll see.
I don't think that's going to change anything.
Meanwhile, the Washington Free Beacon is reporting that UC Berkeley received a whole bunch of donations from Chinese-related entities.
Some of them were disguised as coming from other things.
And they apparently...
It took a little work to get them to admit how much money they're getting from China.
I am so glad that I have disavowed my MBA.
Anyway, so if you're wondering why our college is messed up, probably lots of reasons.
But one of them is that they're getting their money from China and trying to hide it.
So that doesn't seem ideal.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have for today.
If you're on YouTube or Rumble or X, I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place.
If you're on the Locals platform, I'm going to go private with you right now.
