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Ah, perfection.
Or as Trump says, perfecto, perfecto.
Well, I wonder if there are any scientific studies.
That didn't need to happen because they could have just asked me.
Oh yeah, here's one.
According to the AP, there's a study that shows that people who make good decisions have an unfair advantage.
Thank you, Omar, for bringing that to my attention.
And he said on X that they should have asked God.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think I'm going to guess that one right off the top.
Who has an unfair advantage?
People who make bad decisions or people who make good decisions?
I don't know.
Let me think about that.
All right, I'm going to go with people who make good decisions.
All right, I've got a question for you.
What the hell happened to the Fort Knox audit of the gold?
Do you think if Fort Knox actually had the gold that we wouldn't have seen it yet?
Are you telling me that Trump doesn't want to stand next to a giant pile of gold and have his picture taken?
There's probably nothing that he would like better than that, except standing next to a pile of gold.
So, I'm not sure we have any gold.
Well, according to Bindu Reddy, We're three to four years away from having a household robot that can cook and clean and fix things.
What else could that robot do?
You know what I mean?
You know what I mean?
Wink, wink, wink.
If it can cook and clean and fix things?
Well, just maybe.
Maybe it's a full-service robot.
You don't know.
Maybe.
But doesn't three to four years away feel like...
Not exactly what we've been told.
Because I thought when Elon Musk was talking about optimists, he was saying that it can dance and it can walk around and it can interact.
But what he didn't say is you could give it instructions on something he had never done before and it could go do it.
You know, like wash the dishes or something like that.
I don't think they can do it.
So I'm still waiting for the robot demonstration where they have it do things that, you know, are just generic things.
Like, can you put these dishes in the dishwasher?
All right, now iron this shirt.
I don't think we're even close.
So three to four years sort of sounds like nuclear fusion.
You know, it's always 10 years away.
I've got a feeling the robots that can really do things for you, maybe they'll always be three years away.
I don't know.
I'm a little bit skeptical.
According to the Washington Times, overdose deaths fell 27% last year.
Is that new news?
Because I feel like we heard that before.
But they don't know exactly why, but my guess is it has to do with...
More access to the Narcan.
That's the thing that you give somebody who has a who's having a overdose.
Probably the Narcan.
I can't think of anything else.
It's not like there's a supply is limited or anything like that.
So probably that.
Well, OMB director Russ Vogt says they intend to take the Doge agenda and the cuts.
And the momentum and the initiative and turn them into permanent savings.
Really?
How many of you think that's going to happen?
Do you think the Doge savings are just going to be turned into permanent savings?
Maybe.
But doesn't it seem to you that they'll just treat it like it's money they can spend?
Well, we saved $150 billion on Doge.
So I guess we have another $150 billion, coincidentally, to spend on the military and the border.
I don't believe anything about...
Here's what I do believe.
I do believe that Doge was directionally correct and found real savings and that they were all dedicated professionals who were really trying to do the real thing.
I don't believe...
That our government can translate that into permanent savings.
I think they'll just spend it.
Now, that was my original prediction, that we wouldn't be able to translate it into the political part of the world.
As soon as we reach the political part, somebody would say, you know, we could probably get away with spending the same thing we spent last year, even though it's...
Moving us closer to doom.
Because, you know, people are just used to it.
They're used to the fact that we're going to spend maybe a little bit more this year than last year.
So I think that we're just going to take the Doge savings and say, free money, buy some more tanks.
I think that's what's going to happen.
Anyway.
Surprisingly, not.
The U.S. Treasury is increasing the borrowing it needs.
To $514 billion, which somebody says a 320% jump from previous forecasts.
Oh, surprise!
The government is telling us numbers about the budget that we can't trust, and they get revised.
Okay.
All right, so put me down as someone who doesn't believe anything about the budget.
All the news about the budget, I just look at it and go, hmm.
Probably fake.
It doesn't matter if it's Trump or anyone else.
Because it's not like he's in the weeds on the budget.
I think once you do Congress plus budget, it's just all bullshit.
United Airlines has added basically a Dilbert cubicle option.
For people who want to pay a lot more.
So I think if you're going to go to Europe or something, it would be $5,000 to $6,000 for it.
But it's like a little cubicle.
It's got a door.
It's got a big screen on it.
I guess you're supposed to wear your headphones.
And it's got a little guest seat in there.
It's called the Polaris Studios.
And they're 25% bigger than the current fancy seats.
But basically, it's a cubicle.
I wouldn't mind at all.
I could probably fly a great distance if I were in a cubicle that had all the bells and whistles I needed.
Well, Adam and Carolla made a video talking about the problems the Malibu people who lost their homes in that Palisades fire and how hard it's going to be for them to rebuild.
So it turns out that all those old homes that were there, you know, they've been there forever.
They had septic systems.
But they had septic systems before there were a bunch of environmental rules about septic systems.
So if they want to build back, they're going to have to remove the ones they have, build retaining walls underground.
That's what Adam Corolla says.
Meet the new standards for septic systems.
Do you know what that's going to cost per home?
Per home.
According to Adam Carolla, just the septic system.
So this is not building the home.
This is just the septic system.
Three to five million dollars.
I'm laughing because it's just so bad.
Those people who had homes in Malibu, unless they're just outrageously rich, it's not economically possible to even build back.
And how many years would it take for them to get approval for their septic systems?
So the people who were saying it looks like there's going to be some kind of land grab or somebody's going to try to get everything cheap and build a hotel there or something.
Well, I wasn't going to buy into the conspiracy theory, but I don't know what else you could do with this land.
Because how many people are going to spend $3 to $5 million getting their septic system just right before they even build the house?
I mean, how rich would you have to be?
Pretty rich.
Well, according to that new Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson book, that sound, Kamala Harris had to be trained for a social event.
So they actually did a practice dinner so that Kamala Harris could learn how to not embarrass herself eating dinner with important people.
Does that sound real to you?
I don't know how real any of this is, but they called it a mock soiree.
And part of what they said was, and this is per the New York Post that read the book, I guess, and said that Harris advisors had made it a, quote, dry run, opting not to serve wine to see if she could practice with a glass or two.
Now, I don't understand that sentence.
You know, I just copied this from...
But what does it mean to opt not to serve wine, but then also to practice with a glass or two at the same time?
Those are opposites.
Are they empty glasses?
Could you be a little less specific?
You know what this suggests to me?
It kind of suggests to me that she can't do these social events unless she's got a glass or two of wine.
And then she probably gets cackly and stupid.
So I think her advisors were trying to figure out, is it even possible for you to do a dinner without having a glass of wine and being a cackly idiot?
I'm just speculating.
But why in the world would you take the Vice President of the United States and tell her that she has to practice just eating with people because she's too embarrassing?
And apparently she agreed to that.
She must have known that she couldn't sit down and have dinner with people without...
I don't know.
Just because it's a new book doesn't mean it's all true or that the context is all there.
So, probably something missing in that story.
Well, Gavin Newsom continues to move right without admitting it.
So now he wants to slash health benefits for illegal immigrants in California.
Because it turns out that those health benefits for illegal immigrants turned out to be our entire deficit, $10 billion or whatever.
So yeah, he's pretty much going to have to do that.
Now on top of that, he's ordered the removal of California homeless camps.
So he's trying to become the common sense governor.
I don't know if he can pull it off.
Do you?
I feel like the Democrats couldn't possibly pick a white guy, like a generic heterosexual white guy, as their next standard bearer.
How can they possibly do that?
I don't think they can.
So I don't think he can become president, but he's definitely trying.
And if he keeps trying, Well, maybe my state will get a little bit better while he's flailing away.
According to Business Insider, wealthy people and their consumer spending is what's warding off a recession.
Does that sound right to you?
I feel like nothing in the news sounds right.
Like just sort of it doesn't smell right, sit right, sound right.
Do you believe that wealthy people suddenly started spending more at Walmart?
Because that's part of the story.
Literally, Walmart is saying that wealthy people are spending more money at Walmart.
Really?
How many of you believe that wealthy people have suddenly decided to spend more money at Walmart?
I don't believe that.
I don't know what kind of economic data this is.
But none of it looks real to me.
All right.
You may have heard about this one before, but there's a school called Alpha.
Alpha School.
And instead of doing normal lessons, they give the kids two hours of AI training.
So I think they each have a laptop and some headphones, but they're in a common area.
And the AI adapts to the students.
And teaches them the lessons.
But after the two hours, they're done with regular classes.
Now, they still learn things, but it's life-related things like how to tie your shoes and how to go swimming and basically how to navigate the real world.
And allegedly, these scores of the people who go to this little school are in the top 1% or 2% in the country.
I think that may have more to do with the selection process of who's in the school in the first place.
But if you can really train these young kids in two hours and they can get not just, you know, get the basics idea of school but do better than other people, that makes a lot of sense to me.
Because I remember being young and in school, and I would just be exhausted, and it was hard to pay attention after a while.
But if you gave me headphones and said, you know, you only have two hours, I could probably focus on that.
So, Alpha School, good for you.
Well, I wanted to help out the Democrats because they're struggling, trying to come up with some messaging that's convincing.
And you know, Bernie Sanders and AOC came up with oligarchs.
But James Carville pointed out, and others did, people don't know what an oligarch is.
So I asked Grok to give me some words that mean about the same as oligarch, but are even less likely to be recognized.
You know, words that are even less common than oligarch.
And it came up with a mammonist and plutocrat.
How many of you would know what a mammonist is?
So mammon is referring to the worship of money.
So if you're a mammonist, you're someone who worships money.
Doesn't necessarily mean you're an oligarch in charge of things, but you really like your money.
And then a plutocrat is pretty much an oligarch.
I don't know if there's any difference there.
So I think they should go from trying to stop the oligarchs to going after the meminist plutocrats, because it's the only thing dumber than what they're already doing.
Meminist plutocrats.
And then maybe they can tell us if the meminist plutocrats are as dangerous as the oligarchs with their habeas corpus.
Every time I see a Democrat on TV saying, we've got to maintain the habeas corpus, I think to myself, how many Democrats just turned that off because they don't know what you're talking about?
I mean, how many of you would know what habeas corpus was if he didn't follow the news closely?
I had to look it up.
But Democrats, they're lost.
Do you remember the story that also came from that same Jake Tapper book and Alex Thompson book that claimed that Biden didn't recognize George Clooney?
And that was like the big news yesterday.
Oh my God, Biden didn't even recognize Clooney.
Well, it turns out that the two-way podcast had a guest, Rufus Gifford, who was actually there personally.
So he wasn't at a distance.
He was right there when Biden and Clooney shook hands.
And his version is that never happened.
That there was never a time that Biden didn't recognize Clooney because the advisors were introducing the people to Biden regardless of whether he'd met them before.
So apparently the advisor, before anybody said anything to each other, Said, and President Biden, here's George Clooney and somebody else.
So he was actually introduced as George Clooney because they were just sort of standard procedure, just introducing everybody, which is the right thing to do, by the way.
Yeah, and George Clooney doesn't look like George Clooney anymore because I think he was getting ready to play a part in the play.
So it could be that he didn't recognize him, but that would be more because he doesn't look like him.
Clooney just doesn't look like Clooney.
I don't know.
So we don't know if any of that's true.
And then according to the New York Post, which was also reading the same book, I guess, the Tapper book, Biden forgot the names of longtime aides like Jake Sullivan, Kate Bedingfield halfway through his term.
So I guess he was getting more forgetful as the term went by.
He was calling, I think he was calling Jake Sullivan Steve.
And the other one, he just called Press.
So he was just coming up with his own nicknames for people randomly.
Mary, come over here.
You, George.
I think he wasn't even trying after a while.
Sebastian, come over here.
Anyway.
So, if you didn't hear it, Trump gave a really interesting speech while he was in Saudi Arabia.
So he's already going to Qatar, and today I think he's in the UAE.
But I think he made a lot of news with this speech.
So the essence of his speech was that the people who tried to, let's say, nation-build in other countries didn't understand the culture of those other countries and just basically ruined the countries instead of helping them.
But where the countries did their own work, such as Saudi Arabia, nobody tried to turn it into something else.
Saudi Arabia did great because they just used their own...
They did it their way, basically.
But it's so good.
I want to just read you the central part of this speech because it didn't get a lot of play on TV.
So this was Trump talking to the Saudis and the world, I guess.
He said, it's crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation.
Has not come from Western interventionists, or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs.
In the end, the so-called nation-builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.
No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation-builders, neocons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Baghdad and so many other cities.
Instead, the birth of modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives.
Developing their own sovereign countries, pursuing their own unique visions, and charting your own destinies in your own way.
They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves.
Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came not from radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.
You achieved a modern miracle the Arabian way.
So what he was doing is just giving Saudi Arabia and the other countries he visited a huge respect and saying that when the Americans, mostly, were interfering in the Middle East, they just ruined shit.
And that's a pretty radical thing to say after all the years of...
Americans and Europeans going over there and ruining shit.
He just says it never worked and never made sense and the people who went over there didn't really understand the place and didn't really have a chance of fixing anything or making anything better.
But when people were left alone, at least in many cases, they came up with a wonderful society.
So I do like how he's handling that.
You know, I do like how he's basically a non-interventionist, and he's giving them their due.
So that's a good job.
Megyn Kelly said recently in Related News, she said, quote, I feel like when I was on Fox News, all we did was cheerlead these wars.
And kind of dismiss or express disdain for people who had serious questions about them.
With the benefit of all this hindsight, that was wrong.
Now, I appreciate the fact that she just says right out, you know, outright, that was wrong.
So that's the way to handle it.
You know, rather than try to say, well, you have to understand, you know, the forces that were blah, blah.
No, she just says, no, with hindsight, that was just wrong.
And it did seem like that, didn't it?
It seemed like Fox News might have been cheerleading a little bit in some prior wars.
So I guess we're done with that, at least under the Trump regime.
We won't be starting wars that don't need to be started.
But then after Trump reads this great speech that I thought was well put together, he gets the cutter.
And he's sitting there with presumably the emir.
I don't know, but I think it was the emir, head of Qatar.
And he's just making conversation.
I swear to God, nobody makes conversation like Trump does.
And he said, and I quote, as a construction guy, this is perfect marble.
He's looking at the floor.
He said, this is what they call perfecto.
And we appreciate those camels.
Haven't seen camels like that in a long time.
Haven't seen camels like that in a long time.
He's just making conversation.
But who in the world would even say that sentence?
Like, there's nobody in the rest of the entire planet who would have said to the emir of Qatar, haven't seen camels like that in a long time.
Ha, ha, ha.
Oh.
Why is that so funny?
It's so funny because nobody would say that.
Oh my God.
So the critics of Trump by now have probably said, I haven't seen it, but they've probably said that Trump is easy to flatter because both Saudi Arabia and Qatar put on major red carpet and they had horses.
And, you know, I guess some camels.
And they had some painted cyber trucks.
And they had jets escorting Air Force One into their airspace.
And so you might say to yourself, oh, they're really playing him.
Because his ego is big.
So if they play to his ego, you know, they're going to have a little extra influence with him.
Well, I think that's true.
I think if somebody's good to you, you have a little extra influence there.
So there's something to that.
But there's something bigger to it that's way more important, which is the next country that Trump visits, they're going to have to ask themselves if they need more camels.
What are we going to do?
Do we need more jets?
Cybertrucks?
Red carpets?
Camels?
What about horses?
Do we need horses?
So by Saudi Arabia and Qatar creating a standard, you know, because there were two of them and it got so much press, if you were, I don't know, if you're the next country that's not in the Middle East and it's your job to meet the president, Don't you feel like you have to take it up a level?
The net effect is less on Trump, but, you know, yeah, there's definitely some persuasion effect on Trump as well.
The big effect is what it will do to the other countries.
So people are going to start thinking, oh, my God, we have to treat him like he's more like a god coming into our country or a king or something.
We can't treat him like the way we normally do.
It looks like he's the special visitor and he's going to need the ultra treatment.
So I think it could have this big lasting ripple effect where wherever he goes, he's treated with a better greeting than anybody's ever been treated.
And then they'll all convince themselves that they're being clever.
Yeah, we're going to influence him.
We're definitely going to influence him by this greeting.
But it will just make him look like a king, like a god king to the rest of the world, which is all to his benefit, because then he can just get more stuff done.
Because they're going to think, well, nobody can solve this problem except Trump.
And he's almost there now.
I mean, but any backup for that would make it even better.
I mean, just think about it.
Don't you think?
That there are countries in the world who are thinking exactly this thought.
Nobody but Trump could solve whatever problem, you know, whatever problem they're thinking about.
I think so, because he's creating that aura, that image that will just follow him around.
Even if it's not true, the way they treat him is going to create this aura.
That will actually make him able to get things done that nobody could get done.
So the flattery is definitely working.
Well, the problem with Qatar, as you know, is that they have some history of supporting terrorists.
And at the same time, they have a long history of being good to the United States.
So we got a base there that...
You know, they've invested in the U.S., and I think they invested some more.
And so, on one hand, they're really good to the United States, but on the other hand, they seem to be really good to the terrorists that the United States really would like to be dead.
So, how does any of that work?
Like, don't you think that would be awkward if the Qataris had to explain that?
Well, I think it was Brett Baer who was asking one of the representatives, it wasn't the Amir, but somebody who was pretty good at answering questions.
And I was impressed at the way he went about it.
Now, I've got to be careful here, because I know you're going to mishear me.
So 10% of you are going to hear not what I say, but what you imagine I'm saying.
I'm not saying, I'm not saying, Qataris are good people who are not doing anything that we don't like.
I'm not saying that.
I'm saying that the way he answered the question was pretty damn good from a persuasion perspective.
So when asked about how he could be like an ally of the United States, at the same time they're supporting Hamas, the representative said, That it's a national, I forget the exact word, but sort of a national belief or priority that they can mediate all conflicts.
And I thought to myself, damn, you actually pulled that off.
You actually came up with a reframe that makes sense that you could talk to Hitler and You know, non-Hitler at the same time.
Because if it's true, and again, remember, I'm not being fooled by what's true or what's not true.
So we're not talking about what's real.
I'm just talking about his communication and persuasion capabilities.
And when he phrased it as, we'll talk, basically, I'm paraphrasing, but that they would be good to everybody because that would put him in a position where they could be a, A mediator to solve wars.
I thought to myself, God, that's so good.
It's not that far from what Trump believes, which is just because somebody's done terrible things and might do terrible things in the future, doesn't mean he can't talk to them.
And so watching Qatar be that capable in defending whatever it is they're doing, because I don't know.
I mean, if you listen to the news, you know, somebody in Qatar is funding the terrorists.
I don't know.
I don't know if that's the government or just rich people in Qatar or if it's really happening or not happening.
These stories are hard to know what's really true.
But boy, that was a good answer.
So again, I'm not supporting them.
I'm not supporting their support of the terrorists.
Defended their situation better than I would expect anybody could have.
It was impressive.
Anyway, Trump's probably in the UAE by now.
I haven't seen any updates if he's made any deals or whatever.
But apparently he secured $1.2 trillion from Qatar, according to the Washington Times.
Nearly $2 trillion in deals for U.S. companies, including more than...
$1.2 trillion in economic investment by Qatar.
And a lot of his commitments that he's getting in the Middle East, they seem related to...
Yeah, Qatar is the correct pronunciation.
It's not Qatar.
But I guess in the U.S. we call it Qatar, but if you were in Qatar, you'd call it Qatar because that's the actual name.
So I'm trying to be correct.
But some of these deals are that they're going to buy billions of dollars worth of Boeing planes.
To which I say, well, that's convenient.
I would like to announce today that I am also going to buy 100 Boeing airplanes.
No, really.
Seriously.
If it takes 10 years to build me my plane, I don't know if I'll still be around to buy it.
But, oh, I totally commit to billions of dollars of planes that they can't make for 10 to 15 years.
How long does it take Boeing to make one plane?
It's so long that I feel like these Middle East companies are gaming the system.
Oh, yeah.
How about we agree to buy 200 Boeing planes?
That will be done at the year 2050.
And by then, anything could be different.
There'll be a different president.
The world is different.
I don't know.
I don't trust these deals, but it's probably better than having no deals.
According to Breitbart News, the Trump effect is affecting NATO, and they're trying desperately to get all their members to 5%.
Defense spending, 5% of their budgets.
And I guess there's some meeting coming up.
We'll see if the Trump effect works.
But meanwhile, speaking of NATO, so you know how Zelensky was going to go to Turkey and meet with Putin, and they were going to talk face-to-face?
Well, Putin decided not to go.
So Zelensky shows up with his finger up his ass, and Putin sends some lower-level people who could never make any decisions, so there's no point in talking to him.
So that whole trip turned out to be yoink.
Yeah, I'll be there any minute.
No, I'm not.
The joke's on you.
I'm not even going to show up.
Now, at one point, Putin tried to get Trump to go.
And, you know, maybe, I assume in that case, Putin would have showed up if Trump was going to go.
But the fact that Putin agreed to meet Zelensky in Turkey, and then Zelensky goes all the way to Turkey, and it's just these lower-level, can't-make-a-decision Russians.
Oh, my God.
That's worse than the war.
That is so disrespectful to Zelensky.
But I'm sure Putin had his reasons.
Anyway.
So that was quite a slap in the face.
Wow.
So here's the big news of the day that I think is fake news.
So according to NBC News, there's a top Iranian advisor.
Now, so it's not the top leader.
It's a top leader.
And the top Iranian advisor, Ali Shamkani, he said that Tehran is ready to strike a nuclear deal directly with Trump, and the offer would be that if Trump drops the sanctions, Iran will ditch its high-enriched uranium, cap enrichment at civilian levels, allow inspections, and swear off nukes.
Meaning...
Everything we wanted about the nuclear program, they're willing to give us.
But there's something left out, isn't there?
Because the thing that Trump had recently added to the mix was that they could no longer fund their proxies, you know, like Hamas and Hezbollah.
So I don't see this top Iranian advisor saying anything about that.
And I'm not sure that the top Iranian advisor is speaking for the regime.
So I'm going to say I think this is fake.
Trump has showed some optimism.
You know, he acted like they're getting closer, and probably because of this guy.
But do you trust that?
Do you believe that that Iranian advisor is really going to give up?
Iran's nuclear program.
And do you think, well, it's not up to him, but do you think he's accurately representing where the regime is at the moment?
And that's how we find out.
We find out from the Iranian advisor.
I don't believe it.
I don't think the regime has made that decision yet.
And the fact that it leaves out the stuff about the proxies.
It's still not there.
Meanwhile, I guess Tulsi Gabbard had gotten some insider whistleblower information about two people on the National Intelligence Council who were dangerous and insidious.
No.
What were they?
I guess they were radically opposed to Trump.
So according to whistleblowers.
There were people in her organization and the spy part of her organization that were radically opposed to Trump.
Now, you don't really want to take a chance of having your top spies radically against your president.
So she fired him.
And then John Brennan, of all people, got really worked up about it.
And he went on TV, said the whole thing makes him livid.
And it's a dangerous and insidious corruption inside the Trump administration.
Now, as others have pointed out, if John Brennan is really mad about these two people getting fired, Tulsi Gabbard made the right decision.
He's a little bit too interested in this.
And I won't go into it today.
But remember I always tell you, if you know what happened, you don't know anything.
But if you know who is involved, you might know everything.
And Brennan is one of those where if he's involved, there's a whole bunch of assumptions you can make about what that means, and you're probably right.
So Brennan would be the most anti-Trump person involved with any kind of CIA background.
And now when these two other high-ranking people who are radically opposed to Trump got fired, well, he's really mad.
So probably that was a good firing.
That's what it feels like.
Well, Jonathan Turley tells us that the Supreme Court, I think, today is hearing arguments about universal injunctions by judges, which I believe means...
The question of, can a district federal judge stop something all across the country?
Which they have been doing.
If the Supreme Court decides that these judges can't do that, and they can only operate within the domain that is their assigned domain, that would be a gigantic victory for Trump.
But I don't know if it's going to go his way.
Because I don't think...
It seems at this point that the Supreme Court is politicized.
Is that fair to say?
Would you agree that the Supreme Court at this point just sort of politicized?
So I think the politicized part of it is going to give us some non-predictable results there.
So keep an eye on that.
I guess...
Trump, when he's over in the Middle East, told Tim Cook, who must have also been there, that he doesn't like Apple building their phones in India.
He wants that to come to the US.
Now, what you might not know is that Tim Cook had said that the phones that would be built in India would be the ones that aren't as hard to build.
It doesn't take as much special experience.
And he couldn't move all of his high-end phones to India, out of China, because China has special skills.
So they can make the high-end phones.
But he was able to move the low-end phones to have some, I don't know, lower technical requirement or something.
And so Trump is saying, why are you doing that in India?
It does seem to me that we could train Americans to make these phones, if you can train the Indians.
It might be true that it would take longer or maybe impossible to match China in phone making for a variety of reasons.
So that might be harder.
But yeah, why aren't we making these phones in America?
So Trump is asking the right question.
Michael Schellenberger, writing for Public, which is a subscription site, is talking about how the...
Climate activists have gotten quiet lately.
Now, imagine you're Greta, you're Greta Thunberg, and from your teenage years, you were complaining that the entire world is going to be destroyed by climate change unless we do radically different things.
Now, we haven't done those radically different things, but yet Greta seems to have moved on.
She's not as worried.
Or doesn't act as worried.
And so this is what Schellenberger says.
Climate activists are desperate to prevent the apocalypse, they said.
But they obviously weren't.
Their entire agenda is falling apart.
Yet Team Greta has moved on.
Victimhood professionals don't actually care about their causes.
They just chase them for narcissistic supply.
Do you think that what drives climate change is narcissism, which is getting attention, basically?
Maybe.
I'm no expert on climate change or narcissism, but if you said, is that completely impossible?
I'd say, well, it doesn't seem completely impossible to me.
And then when you look at the fact that people who at one point thought it was the most important thing they could be doing have decided to sort of wander off into other causes, it does make you wonder if they were ever genuinely concerned or if it was all about feeding their narcissistic supply.
So it's a good question.
Apparently there are claims that...
Minneapolis and Minnesota are preparing for the possibility of a Derek Chauvin pardon.
Now, a Derek Chauvin pardon, if it happened, and there's no indication that it will, by the way, but apparently they think that there's enough of a possibility of it happening because there are important people talking about it, like Ben Shapiro.
If he got a federal pardon, It wouldn't get him out of jail because he's got state charges, but it would cause him to be changed from a federal facility to a state facility.
So I guess that's probably what most of the planning is.
And I'd forgotten, I guess I hadn't made the connection, that that is Tim Walsh's state.
So Governor Tim Walsh would be the one, if somebody ever were going to pardon him at a state level, It would be Tim Walz.
It makes me wonder if this would be a kind of a topic that some Republican could use to run in that very blue area to maybe break through.
You know, the free Derek Chauvin?
I don't know.
Probably not.
It seems like it's so blue that nothing would ever change.
So there's not much chance that Derek Chauvin would get out, but...
Maybe.
I'm going to bet against it.
I don't think Trump is going to pardon him because, first of all, it wouldn't let him out of jail.
And it would just be negative publicity.
But on the other hand, Trump is a little bit unpredictable.
And he likes to throw some red meat to the press so they can spend all their time spinning about something that doesn't make a difference because he's not going to get out of jail.
And then he can work on important things while they're spinning on something that doesn't make any difference.
Well, the Wall Street Journal, separately, had reported that the United Health Company, you've heard of them, big healthcare insurance company, were under Department of Justice investigation, DOG investigation, which would make you think, hmm, they're in trouble.
But apparently after a day or so of this being a headline, UnitedHealth said, we're not being notified by the Department of Justice that anybody is investigating us.
And I think that they would be notified, right?
Wouldn't you expect that UnitedHealth would be fully aware?
Don't you think that they would be aware if the DOJ was investigating?
And they say this was reported without official attribution, and the Wall Street Journal's reporting is deeply irresponsible.
So it might not even be true.
It might be fake news.
I don't know.
In other news, the U.S. Army is relooking at their tank strategy, because in the world of missiles and drones, a tank doesn't last too long.
So the Defense Post is talking about this.
And I was thinking to myself, if you joined the military, would you ever want to volunteer to be in the tank corps?
I mean, the tank is like being in your own little metal coffin.
How long is a tank going to last in any kind of modern warfare?
A tank is not going to last.
It's going to be droned so fast.
So I don't know how many tanks we need.
In other news, Modernity is reporting that some rogue communication devices have been found hidden in Chinese solar panels.
Now, I don't know if it's not just solar panels.
It's in the solar panel inverters, batteries, and chargers, and heat pumps, and everything else.
So I don't know how many things China is putting a communication device in.
But the worry is that they're doing so they can turn it off.
That it's not so much that the communication device is telling China something, but rather if China wants to tell the device something, as in turn off, that might be why they exist.
I don't know about that, but it's possible.
All right.
Anheuser-Busch.
Says they're putting $300 million into domestic U.S. manufacturing.
So that's good.
I like the fact that companies need to announce it now.
So it might be that they were just going to do it anyway.
It might have been their ordinary expense.
But I love the fact that companies are fully aware that the louder they are about their American domestic expense, The better it will be for them.
That is a Trumpism.
Trump has caused companies to need to compete to show how, well, not patriotic in this case, but how much emphasis they're going to put in American companies.
So I like that, even Anheuser-Busch.
According to MIT Technical Review, Montana just passed a law to create a hub for experimental medical treatments.
So you would be able to get some meds in this little hub in Montana that you would not be legally able to take anywhere else.
Now these would-be meds that had at least gone through safety training or safety tests.
Now safety tests don't tell you that they work.
But if you've got no other options, And there's some indication it works.
And they've already tested it and it's relatively safe compared to other things.
Then this might be something people like.
So that you'd have the right to try.
So it might be a lot of people moving to Montana just to see if they can get some experimental drugs to stay alive.
Do you remember that $20,000 electric truck called the Slate?
And I kind of raved about it because I just liked how it looked.
It just called to me.
And I don't know how they did that.
Part of it is because you could build the truck to be anything you want.
You could add a sound system or not.
You could add a backseat or not.
So I liked all of that.
And Jeff Bezos was one of the backers.
So I thought, hmm, it could be a serious company.
But they opened it up for early orders, and they've got 100,000 orders.
100,000.
So 100,000 people are willing to wait two years or more to get this electric truck.
That's pretty impressive.
100,000.
So I guess I wasn't the only one who thought I had some, you know, some...
A little extra charisma to it.
There was just something about that little truck that made me want it, and I can't explain it.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for today.
I'm going to talk to the locals people privately.
Yeah, and it's only a $50 deposit, so they made it easy to do that.
If it had been a bigger deposit, I suppose it would be a whole different situation.
All right.
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