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Well, let's start with the ridiculous and get to the sublime.
From the ridiculous to the sublime.
According to News Nation, UFO hit a U.S. fighter jet.
Pilots flying over Arizona said they saw swarms, swarms I say, of weird flying objects and one of them was smashed into a F-16.
I guess the pilot's okay.
But the FAA confirmed it and former Pentagon UFO guy says Arizona's been Buzzing with sightings near the border.
But some people say it's just the cartel's drones.
I'm going to go with cartel drones.
That would be my guess.
I do not think the aliens are at the border.
Why would the aliens even be there, of all places, for them to be?
Well, according to Eric Dolan and Cy Post, Did you know that left-wing authoritarians are less likely to support physically strong men as their leaders?
So if you're a left-wing person, you don't like leaders that are physically strong.
But if you're a right-wing person, you like them strong.
How many people are surprised by that?
Not...
You know, I really think that politics is just a difference in testosterone sometimes, at least the male version of politics.
I can't judge for women, but for men, it's kind of testosterone.
The Republicans are high testosterone, the Democrats are low testosterone, and everything else is just rationalization.
That's what I think.
Well, did you know that the weight loss drugs, liraglutide and semaglutide, make a huge difference in reducing your alcohol consumption without any extra effort?
So the patients say it doesn't take any effort.
They just don't want as much alcohol.
So that's good.
This is more evidence that willpower is fake and imaginary.
That's the hypnotist frame.
If you're an hypnotist, you learn that people make decisions based on whatever hormonal soup is bubbling up in their bodies.
And then after they made the decision, they layered over it with a rationalization.
Oh yeah, the reason I did that was this.
But it's really just chemical reaction.
So once you learn that willpower is fake, And that just some people like things more than others?
How hard is it for me to avoid alcohol?
It's easy, because I didn't like it that much.
How hard is it, or was it, when I was more active, how hard was it for me to exercise every day?
Not hard at all, because I liked it.
If I didn't like it, it probably would have been nearly impossible.
So no, willpower doesn't exist.
There's just stuff you like and stuff you don't like.
And that's usually just chemical and cause and effect and the structure of your brain.
And it has nothing to do with anything else.
Here's some good news.
And wow, I was worried about this for a while.
But it turns out that the new Pope, Pope Leo, he's calling for peace in Gaza and Ukraine.
Yes.
I was so worried that...
The Pope would be pro-war.
But no.
Turns out we got lucky again.
It's like, I don't know how many Popes in a row, but our luck is really holding.
They all seem to be anti-war.
And every time they announce it, I say to myself, boy, that could have gone either way.
But it turns out that the Pope has a brother.
Have you all checked out the news about the Pope's brother?
This is the problem with having an American Pope.
He's got an American brother.
And the American brother is super mega.
And I guess he's so mega, the Gateway Pundit's reporting, that he not too long ago shared on X, I guess he shared a video calling Nancy Pelosi a drunk.
C-word.
So, a drunken C-word.
And he mocks the, quote, crying libs with Trump derangement syndrome.
So, he's not just a little bit MAGA, but he's like way MAGA.
Now, if you don't think this is going to be fun, I immediately looked for his X account, but I couldn't find it.
So, is he posting somewhere else?
Maybe not on X. But I want to follow him so badly.
Well, I was also interested to see if he followed me, because it'd be fun if the Pope's brother followed you on X. But I did not see his account.
So if anybody knows what his actual account is, I saw three that looked fake.
You know, they were too small for that.
But if somebody knows which one is his, can you alert me to it?
I'd love to follow him.
Well, let's talk about the great cocaine hoax.
Some of you saw a video of French President Macron and British Prime Minister Starmer and German Chancellor Murs.
They were all together on a table.
It looked like it was on a train, maybe, or on maybe some kind of a jet.
But they were...
Sitting at a table, and the photographers came in, the videographers, I guess, and you saw Macron grab this little rolled-up tissue and sort of take it, you know, surreptitiously away.
And then you saw MERS grab some little thing that people were calling a Coke spoon and, you know, kind of hiding it from the cameras.
Why in the world would you think a balled-up tissue is where somebody was holding their cocaine?
It didn't look like cocaine to me.
And that little thing that they called a cocaine spoon, you really couldn't tell what it was.
I mean, it could have been a straw that he was playing with or something.
But it looked to me like they were just making the table look less messy.
And they were just preparing for the photo shoot, I guess.
So I would say that's fake news.
No, I'm not saying that they're not all coked up.
That might be true.
I don't know.
Maybe.
But it didn't look like a cocaine anything to me.
So I'm going to say that's most likely a hoax.
Well, Hamas has decided to...
Help Trump get a little distance between Israel and Trump, kind of cleverly.
Hamas is going to release the remaining living American hostage, Eden Alexander.
So that's going to happen today, I guess.
And that was Trump's victory.
So Trump gets a victory in getting the last American hostage out.
Now the Israelis, of course, would wish that more Israelis had been released.
But I think you can see this as a clever Hamas move to put a little distance between America and Israel.
And it worked.
But you can also see that Trump seems to be willing to do things that are good for America and Americans, even if Israel doesn't love it.
So there's definitely a new world out there.
Trump is certainly going his own way and probably never appreciated all the people who said that the government is a puppet of Israel.
Because at the moment, it doesn't look like it.
At the moment, it looks like Trump's doing his own thing and Israel's going to have to do their own thing.
We'll be allies, of course, but not singing from the same song sheet or whatever that saying is.
So Trump gets the win just at the time he's getting ready to go to the Middle East to do some deals.
So he's looking good there.
Trump is also signing, I think today, if he hasn't already done it, might be any minute now, he's going to sign an executive order to lower pharmaceutical costs.
And the executive order will require the drug companies.
To offer the pharmaceuticals to American consumers at the lowest price that they sell it anywhere.
So if the Elbonians are paying less than we are, then we get the Elbonian price.
Now, I didn't know you could do that with an executive order, but I guess he's going to try.
So this will be funny because...
Will this cause the Democrats to be in favor of higher prices for pharmaceuticals?
And how are they going to explain that Biden couldn't do this if it works?
I mean, I imagine there'll be some kind of challenges from the pharmaceutical people.
But it turns out it gets kind of complicated because there are things called PBMs.
How many of you would even know what that is?
A PBM.
It's a pharmacy benefit manager.
And it's this big middleman entity that is between the pharmaceutical companies and the big healthcare companies and even the government, Medicaid and everything else.
So that these middle people, these pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs, I had to go to Grok to find out exactly what they do.
They manage prescription drug benefits for health insurance plans and employers, etc.
And they act as a middleman between drug manufacturers, pharmacies, insurers, and patients.
And here's the key.
With the goal of controlling costs and administering drug coverage.
And they play a significant role in the U.S. prescription drug supply chain.
But, but, they're often criticized.
For opaque practices that can inflate costs.
So the pharmaceutical companies immediately said, wait, don't blame us for these high costs.
It's because the middlemen are sort of inflating the costs.
Now that seems to be partly true, meaning that there's no doubt that the middleman is getting a cut.
And it's also true that they're opaque, meaning that if you ask them for details of what they do or why they do it, or can you show me your price sheet, they won't show you that stuff.
So they operate as a big black hole, and there does seem to be some indication that they're part of the problem of the higher prices.
Now, you might say, well, they're a middleman, so they're supposed to take their cut.
Which is true.
But you can't really monitor whether their cut makes sense or it's too high, because if you try to ask them questions, you would get nothing.
It's just a big black hole.
Now, this is where Mark Cuban becomes a valuable citizen.
So you might know that Mark Cuban has his own discount pharma drug company that he's been promoting lately.
I think it's Cost Plus.
Cross Plus Drugs.
I hope I have the name right.
And he weighed in on this, and he had a lot to say about the PBMs, these middlemen.
Now, I won't read you his whole explanation of how bad they are, but if any of what he said about them is true, and I think it is, they're pretty bad.
And so there's some kind of...
Some kind of fix that will be needed for these PBMs if we just let...
Well, I guess it's a free market so they can do what they want.
But you should see what Mark Cuban says about them.
Because if you're trying to understand the whole pharmaceutical, why our price is so high, he's got a lot that contributes to that.
So I think he should be...
You should really pay attention to him on this topic because it's one that he knows a lot about.
Well, so that's going to make the prices come down.
So, in other news, Futurism is reporting that the FDA is going to start using AI to speed up the approval of drugs.
Now, you might say to yourself, But wait, AI hallucinates.
Is AI going to say my drug is safe when it isn't?
Well, they're still going to have to check the work of the AI to make sure it's not hallucinating.
But apparently you can speed through the analysis and do in minutes what would take days for a human to do.
So I don't know if they have a lot of wrinkles they have to iron out of this, but they seem to be very optimistic about it.
It does seem to me that it's the perfect application for AI because it's, you know, wildly complicated every time there's a new trial and a new drug and all the rest.
So, yeah, AI to accelerate the FDA approvals.
Probably there's going to be some problems, you know, because it's such a big change.
But I feel like we have to get there.
I mean, it seems like that's exactly the place AI should make a difference.
Breitbart is reporting that Trump signed four bills on Friday where he was rolling back some Biden regulations on appliances like water heaters and refrigerators and walk-in coolers and some other household appliances.
Now, the Biden regulations were, of course, to reduce energy consumption, I believe.
And so Trump's rolling that back.
So that would lower the cost of those devices.
So now we've got Trump lowering the cost of big pharma, lowering the cost of household appliances, lowering the cost of eggs, gas, and a lot of other things.
And energy, I guess.
So it's going to be hard to ignore that.
So Trump is having...
The week of all weeks.
I mean, I'm just still going.
The list gets longer.
But I don't think any president has ever had this good a week.
Because he's really nailing it this week.
But I'll tell you what isn't working is the Republicans are trying to wrap up their big, beautiful bill, the budget.
Everything about this budget effort looks fake and theatrical.
And performative.
I don't believe anything that's coming out of him.
I don't think they're going to give Trump half of, or even three quarters, well, I don't think they'll give him a quarter of what he wants.
I think that they'll just kick the can down the road, add to the budget deficit, and lead us toward doom.
I don't know what's going to stop it, but they're pretending to have this mark-up session in which they're going to do a bunch of good things.
It's all theater.
I just don't believe any of it.
But at least one subset of the Republicans, I guess this would be, I forget which group it is, but they're looking at steep cuts to Medicaid.
And so I said to myself, what?
Trump said no cuts to Medicaid.
Why are they going to ruin his big bill and the biggest thing he said, which is no cuts to Medicaid?
It looks like they've got all these weasel frickin' tricks to lower the cost of Medicaid by finding clever ways to deny it to people, basically.
So one of the clever ways to deny it to people...
Now, this is not a done deal.
These are just proposals that we think we're going to see.
One of them would be a work requirement.
So you couldn't get Medicaid unless you were in school.
Or doing some public service of some kind or working.
And that alone would deny it to, they think, 6 million people.
So the Democrats will say, accurately, wait a minute, you've just installed some clever trick to deny 6 million people Medicaid.
Republicans will say, all we ask is that they do something useful for the country.
So that the country can do something useful for them.
It's not a terrible argument, but it's going to look like they cut Medicaid.
So can Republicans survive that?
An obvious trick to cut Medicaid?
Because you know those people aren't all going to work.
What are they going to do?
Go to the hospital and still get medical care and have the hospital cover it?
So there's that.
Apparently the bill, and again, this is just first drafts, it doesn't mean it's real, would require some beneficiaries to pay more for their care.
I guess that would be income-based.
And there were some other clever tricks in there.
All of it just looks like pure weasel theatrics bullshit.
I am completely disappointed in the Republicans.
Just completely disappointed.
To me, the most important thing we had to get right was cutting the budget.
It looks like nothing like that's going to happen.
Because I don't think that Trump's going to sign off on something that definitely looks like cutting Medicaid.
You know, you could argue all day, well, we have reasons.
And no, no, no, we're not cutting it, because anybody can get it.
They just have to do some public service.
But, you know, the bottom line will be, The Democrats will accurately say he's cutting Medicaid for some people.
It'll be a lot of people.
It'll be millions.
I don't have a better idea, by the way, but it's their job to do the budget, not mine.
So I think we're all going to be disappointed with whatever the Republicans have.
I'm not even sure that they're going to have no tax on tips and no tax on Social Security and all those other things Trump wanted.
I don't think you'll get any of that.
I think that they're just going to say no on all of that.
We'll see.
Well, Apple is apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, thinking about raising the price of their iPhones, but without blaming tariffs.
Apple is kind of a clever company in terms of how they cover their public relations.
They've always been good at it.
But they don't want to blame China, because that would be trouble.
And they don't want to blame Trump, because that would be trouble.
So they want to raise their prices because of tariffs, but they want to make it look like it's not because of tariffs.
So the only way to do that would be if you somehow added some extra features.
And you go, oh yeah, these extra features are worth a few hundred dollars more.
So we'll see what they do.
But my big question would be, what would Steve Jobs do in this situation?
Would Steve Jobs be handling this completely differently in some out-of-the-box way that we can't imagine?
I feel like he would, but of course I can't guess what he would have done because that's what made him Steve Jobs and we're not Steve Jobs.
But I feel like he would have handled this whole tariff China stuff differently.
I just don't know how.
Well, Democrats are continuing their lame approach to politics.
Now they've added to their oligarchs that they want to keep habeas corpus.
Now, if you were to do a survey of people on the street and say, are you a Democrat?
Yes.
What's an oligarch?
Well, I don't know.
What's habeas corpus?
I never heard of it.
So they're betting on words that their base doesn't even know what they mean.
So I love this.
Let's do more oligarch and habeas corpus.
If you can get them to talk about that all day long, and then look at Trump.
I cut your pharmaceutical costs.
I freed a hostage.
I'm going to bring a trillion dollars back in investments from the Middle East.
What part of that don't you understand?
It's just so simple.
And then you go to the Democrats and you're like, well, we oppose the oligarchs and we want to make sure that we keep habeas corpus for the MS-13 guys.
Well, and everybody else.
It's so lame.
And then what about the chaos?
If you were to ask the person in the street, where's the chaos happening?
Now, they might say doge, but have you noticed that Elon Musk has quite cleverly removed himself from all political conversation?
It used to be that every time I got on X, there would be very political pro-Trump posts pretty much every day.
But I think he's completely pulled himself out of politics, and he's just doing Tesla-related posts and stuff.
And Tesla stock is way up, based on the fact that he's focusing on the nuts and bolts that he's getting out of politics.
So that's good.
That's good.
Meanwhile...
James Carville and Ro Khanna, they're trying to distance themselves from some comments made by, what's her name?
Ilhan Omar.
So I guess in 2018, she made some comments about white people.
And that video has re-emerged.
And I guess the comments were originally in an interview with Mehdi Hassan.
And Omar stated, I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.
And then Carville is trying to distance himself and say we need less of that and blah, blah, blah.
And I'm thinking to myself, Look at what Trump is talking about.
Even if he doesn't get it done, he's talking about cutting your taxes and freeing hostages and ending wars and lowering pharma costs.
That's what Trump's talking about, sealing the border.
And Carville's talking about a 2018 video where somebody on his team was being a racist.
That's the biggest difference you can even imagine between the two parties.
But at least Ilhan Omar finally explained to me why people hide when I enter the room.
I didn't realize I was that scary, but apparently, as a white man, I am one of the scariest people in the country, so that explains why people get under tables and run away when I enter.
I was wondering about that.
Here's some more bad news for Democrats.
Apparently the House Judiciary Committee is going to interview Jack Smith's lead prosecutor who did the Mar-a-Lago box gate when Trump was accused of having all these boxes of stuff.
And we've heard enough about that story.
To believe that there's something there.
There's something sketchy there.
It could be that it was being directed by the White House.
It could be that it wasn't a purely, let's say, legal problem.
It could be that there were politics pushing it.
So the lead prosecutor probably knows where all the bodies are buried on this story and will be under oath.
And we might find out some really interesting things about the Biden administration.
Now, I don't know for sure.
And if it's like everything else, nobody's going to go to jail.
But it's going to be yet another bad news cycle for Democrats because there's nothing good that can come out of that story except for Republicans.
According to the Erasmussen poll, Trump's overall approval rating is 50% with likely voters.
But here are some subcategories on that poll that are mind-blowing.
He's got, according to Rasmussen, Hispanic supporters at 62% and Black at 39%.
If those numbers are real, and I'm kind of skeptical about that, that would be just mind-blowing.
It could be real.
But do you think Hispanic support for Trump is 62%?
Now, this would be likely voters, so it wouldn't count any immigrant communities.
Could be.
You know, I've been telling you for a while that if you didn't think that the Hispanics would back Trump, then you haven't been involved or you haven't had exposure to the Hispanic community.
If you have exposure to the Hispanic community, no surprise at all.
It's totally non-surprising if you've had any conversations with that group.
Well, speaking of Tesla, Tesla's robo-taxi, which is where a Tesla with full self-driving can become a taxi.
I guess it's called Project Alicorn.
This feature will quietly appear on Tesla's mobile app code.
And so they're looking at a June rollout.
So listen to this.
That your car, if you had a Tesla and you wanted to have it double as a taxi, you could come home from work, if your car is charged up, I guess, and just activate the app.
And park your car on the street, and it would act like a robo-taxi.
So it would just take off from its parking space, go pick somebody up, deliver them to their location, and I guess go back and park where it was.
And you can make $10,000 to $30,000 a year just while your car is working for you.
Apparently, the initial fleet will launch in Austin with 10 to 20 cars, but it's going to scale up really fast.
And here's some of the...
I saw this was on a Mario Knopfel post.
I guess the source was a user called G. Filch.
Now, I can't vouch for these numbers, but here's what one person estimated.
So here's the math of it.
If you look at Waymo, the competitor, they've got 1,500 robo-taxis and they already generate $250 million in revenue.
I guess that's per year.
But that's not enough for Waymo to make money.
I guess they have higher costs.
And now, if you were to look at Tesla, if they can get up to 100,000 robo-taxis based on the Likely charged that there would be for a ride, etc.
They would make $2.9 billion in pure profit annually.
And that's just the start.
So the number of billions of dollars that these robo-taxis could make, it's a big number.
Because you could easily get to millions.
So you're looking at, you know, $20, $50 billion a year.
Just for the robo-taxis?
Amazing.
We'll see if that happens.
Meanwhile, as you know, Trump's going to the Middle East to talk to a bunch of countries.
But as the news is reporting, the Trump family has a number of business deals over in the Middle East.
Trump thinks he'll come back with a trillion dollars in...
Commitments to invest in the United States from the Middle East.
If he does, that's going to be pretty impressive.
We'll see.
Axios is reporting that.
But the Wall Street Journal is talking about the Trump family business connections to the Middle East.
And I think this is important because these do feel like it should at least be fully transparent, which I think it is.
I think it's fully transparent.
So I'd worry more if we didn't know something about it.
But, for example, in the past year, some Trump-branded residential towers have been launched in Dubai and Jeddah.
And then there's also a Trump luxury golf resort that's being launched in Qatar.
Here's what you need to know.
These are Trump-branded properties, meaning that he just licenses his name, but the ownership of the property is whoever built it, I guess.
So Trump does two kinds of business.
One is he does build his own resorts and stuff, but he also just licenses his name to other people who are going to do it.
So are you comfortable with him doing business as the president?
With these same countries where there are very large investments that benefit the Trump family.
I'm not fully comfortable with that.
But on the other hand, should they be denied the ability to do what they normally do?
Because this is completely normal business for them.
They license their name.
Do you think that there would be this many Trump-branded properties if he were not President of the United States?
I kind of doubt it.
I doubt it.
So you have to worry about that.
And there's something about the UAE and the Royal Family Fund and something about Trump-related crypto stablecoins that I don't understand, but it looks like something to worry about.
Something to keep an eye on.
And then on top of that...
The Qataris have offered to, I won't say give, yeah, I guess it's a gift, a gift to the United States of a plane that would replace Air Force One.
Now, you might say to yourself, why do you need to do that?
Well, the Air Force Ones that we have, I think there might be two of them, but they're like 35 to 40 years old.
Trump has had an order in for a new one for a long time, but it looks like it'll be seven to ten years before the new ones get built, so you'd never be able to see the benefits.
But the Qataris have a plane that apparently they're willing to part with, a new one.
And they said, why don't we give it to the Air Force?
So it's not Trump's gift, exactly.
It would be given to the Air Force.
And then somehow later it would be donated to the Trump Library.
For his use.
So that seems a little sketchy.
So it feels a little like you'd be getting a free airplane.
And so you got that going on.
So I'm going to say the same thing about all these Trump deals.
They all make me uncomfortable.
The Qatari plane definitely makes me uncomfortable.
And on top of that, As you know, Jared Kushner is doing his own investing, and he's gotten some co-investors from three of the Middle East countries, three states.
I guess three states have committed more than $3.5 billion to his private equity fund.
So that makes me uncomfortable.
But it's all transparent.
It's all completely legal.
It makes me uncomfortable.
And then, in sort of semi-related things, there are some investments that would be good for Elon Musk, such as the Saudi Prince Al-Walid Bin Telli, Al Saud, who's a nephew of the king, is an investor in XAI, which is Elon Musk's AI company.
But that's normal.
He's just a gigantic investor who does a lot of investing in American companies.
So, again, completely transparent, but makes me uncomfortable.
Now, the only thing I can say that would be softening all these deals is that Trump is the one person who can take your money and then screw you if he needs to.
If he were anyone but Trump, you would have to worry more that they just bought his cooperation.
But I think Trump could take their money and still throw them under the bus if they did something that required that.
But you can't guarantee it.
So in terms of buying influence, I do think they're buying influence.
But there are also countries that we have a lot of influence on as well.
I don't know.
I'll just say that any Democrat criticism on this domain probably makes sense.
But there's no smoking gun or anything that he's done wrong.
There's nothing that looks illegal.
And it's all completely transparent, and it's business as usual, for the most part.
It's stuff that they would be doing.
As normal business, you know, licensing the Trump name, etc.
But like I said, they probably get more offers because he's president.
That's not a coincidence.
So we're going to hear a lot more about this Qatari plane.
I think Congress says they have to approve it.
I think the Democrats are going to complain so much that it gets killed.
If I had to guess, it's not more than a 50% chance that that...
That Qatari plane will actually become something that Trump's riding up.
I think there'll be enough screaming and kicking from Democrats, or maybe even Republicans would think it looks wrong.
In another news, you know what birthright citizenship is, right?
So that question is coming to the Supreme Court.
Now, birthright citizenship is in the Constitution.
And it means that if you're born in this country, with very rare exceptions, you are a citizen automatically.
You just have to be born here.
Now, Trump wanted to end that, so you've got some legal challenges to the ending of it, and it's going to go to the Supreme Court.
Now, if you're like me, you say, and you've read the actual language of the Constitution, it doesn't look like...
There's any wiggle room at all.
To me, it looks like the Constitution is super clear.
If you're born here, with some exceptions that aren't relevant to this, if you're born here, you're a citizen.
Now, I'm not saying that's good or bad.
I'm just saying that when I read the Constitution, it looks kind of cut and dried, like there's no way you could challenge it.
But...
Of course, that's what lawyers are for.
They always have a way to challenge everything.
And here's the way they're going to challenge it.
So the citizenship clause says it applies to children born in the USA who are, quote, subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
Now, that would disqualify, for example, a diplomat's child.
So if they were a diplomat working in the United States, The diplomats are not subject to our laws.
So a diplomat can break a law in America and we don't do anything about it because they're not subject to our laws.
But their child is also, therefore, since it's not subject to our jurisdiction, their child is not automatically American.
And I think there's some Native American exceptions, etc.
But here's how they're trying to argue that this subject to the jurisdiction thereof Applies to the immigrant population.
And they say it's analogous to Native Americans.
And you know what I always say about analogies.
Analogies are not arguments.
So if all you have is analogous, you don't have anything.
So forget about analogous.
Let's go to the stronger part.
And they're saying that the non-citizens...
I guess this would be the babies, too, are intentionally entered the country without authorization and likewise refused to, quote, formally present themselves to American authorities.
So, does that make you subject to the jurisdiction thereof?
Well, to me, this is the worst argument ever, and I'm not even a lawyer, because the subject to the jurisdiction thereof It's more about America thinks you're subject to our jurisdiction.
It's not about what the immigrant thinks.
If the immigrant comes in and they act like they're not subject to our jurisdiction or they think they're not, that has nothing to do with anything.
They don't get a vote.
It's up to America.
So if we say you are subject to our jurisdiction and if we catch you doing illegal things, we're going to put you in jail, I think that's the end of the story.
Right?
It's not up to them if they're subject to our jurisdiction.
So, to me, it looks like there's no chance that Trump can prevail in the birthright citizenship.
And again, I'm not giving you an opinion on whether they should or should not.
It just looks like the argument is terrible.
And, you know, again, I'm not a lawyer, so I could be wrong, but it looks terrible to me.
According to Elon Musk, Doge has discovered 100,000 active federal employees who are also collecting unemployment insurance.
Jim Hoft and the Gateway Pundits writing about that.
Now, I think I've told you before that my current view is that I'm not going to believe any of the Doge claims.
I'll just tell you that that claim is out there.
But probably it's not exactly what it looks like.
I don't know.
So I think it's better, and this is not something brand new, it's something that Musk said a little while ago.
So I think that Musk is smart to stay quiet on all the political stuff, which he's been doing.
But I'm skeptical of all the doge claims that sound a little too clever.
You know, that one's just a little too on the nose, you know.
It might be true, but...
There have been so many of the Doge claims that sort of didn't pan out that I'm just going to say, well, that's what he claims.
Apparently, India and Pakistan, their ceasefire seems to be holding.
It didn't hold at first, but now it is.
That would look like a victory for Trump because the American, I think Marco Rubio and his team, We're working on making sure that India and Pakistan didn't blow each other up.
Now, the thing I would say about India and Pakistan is they really didn't want to be in a war.
They really, really didn't want to be in a war.
Because there's just no way that that's going to be good for either one of them.
But what they needed was the fake because.
They needed some external thing to talk them off the roof so it didn't look like they were backing down.
So America just comes in with its big footprint and says, hey, you guys, knock it off.
We'll help you, you know, hold this ceasefire or something.
So this is where America can really be useful.
It was just something that Pakistan and India both needed.
They just needed somebody who wasn't either Pakistan or Indian to come in and put a big boot on it and say, you know, cut it out.
Now, that's not exactly what we did.
We were being helpful.
But that's just a win.
If the peace holds, I'd say that's an American win, as well as, obviously, a bigger win for India and Pakistan.
Speaking of war, apparently President Zelensky says he's ready to meet Putin in Turkey.
So, I don't know if there'll be any cease-firing before then or during then.
But Zelensky and Putin are going to meet.
And that, of course, would be good for America.
And certainly something that Trump has been pushing for.
Get them to talk.
And it gets America out of the conversation.
Which is sort of perfect.
Because I think we would just complicate things at this point.
So those two just need to work it out.
I guess Germany's new government...
Is already threatening Russia that if they don't do a ceasefire, they're going to put new sanctions on them.
So Germany is trying to be helpful there.
Yeah.
And, of course, the Ukrainians and the Russians are just full-on drone war on the front.
So, ladies and gentlemen.
I think you can see that this is one of the best weeks that Trump has ever had.
And if half of these things go in the right direction, if the wars look like they're winding down, the prices of stuff look like they're winding down.
And did I mention, did I mention that China and the United States have agreed to Delay for 90 days the big tariffs.
So both countries have pulled back their tariffs.
Now that's probably the big reason the market is up.
And that's exactly what we wanted.
I always say the stupidest people in the comments are the ones who just say, I don't understand the topic.
Like you couldn't fit a reason in there?
So, anyway.
Zelensky had his pants on backwards.
Yeah, it looked like that in one of the pictures.
But I think Scott Besant probably did some good work.
I think the main thing is just to get China and the United States to think that they're negotiating productively.
Will that lead to anything good?
I don't know.
I saw Joel Pollack mention that it'll save Christmas.
Because there'll be enough toys for Christmas from China.
But it also puts us in a stronger negotiating position than we've been in.
So we have China's full attention.
They know that Trump would be willing to tariff the hell out of them.
But one of the things that Scott Bessent said, and maybe this is the thing that China wanted the most, is that neither China nor the United States want to decouple.
I wonder if China was just really afraid of decoupling, because there are a lot of people in the United States who do want to decouple, such as me.
But there are a number of industries, etc., like the high-end Apple phones.
There's nobody else who can make them.
So the low-end ones, I guess, you can make in India, but the high-end ones require More special processes or whatever.
And so it looks like we're stuck with China and China is stuck with us on a bunch of different levels.
You know, we can't really quickly get all the pharmaceutical products.
We can't quickly get all the tech stuff, the assembly.
We can't quickly...
Get all the rare earth minerals, etc.
So we're kind of stuck with each other for a while.
And it looks like maybe we're heading in the right direction.
So, everything's looking good.
Probably the best week that Trump has ever had, is my guess.
And that's all I got for today.
I'm going to say a few words to the locals people, privately.