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Well, let's start with the big tragic story.
As you know, there was a shooting in Minnesota.
I guess targeted were four lawmakers, so state lawmakers.
Two of them were killed.
Two of them were wounded, husband and wife.
And the man who did it is still at large.
And he had a weird mask on that made him look like a bald man.
Or made him look like me, actually.
But he looked like a policeman.
Somehow he had a police car and a police outfit.
And he used that as his entry for shooting four people.
Two of them died.
Now, of course, because we're all bad people, instead of thinking about the victims, which we should be thinking about, we think about the politics.
And most of the news is obsessed with trying to figure out...
I'm going to go on record as saying I don't care because the damage is done and he's crazy.
Whether he's crazy left or crazy right, I'm not really keeping score that way.
Yeah, these are anecdotal.
There's something wrong with that one person, and they may or may not have a coherent set of ideas, but trying to understand them, I don't know.
It's probably not worth it.
But we will look through all of his various indications to try to figure out, is he left or is he right?
Because I guess that would improve our Our political arguments?
Is that what we need to worry about right now?
Improving our political arguments?
Well, he's definitely leaving a set of clues that could make you imagine and see it the way.
So, I'm not even going to guess if he's crazy left or crazy right.
He's crazy.
And he's on the loose.
So, watch out.
What else?
So yesterday, as you know, was the No Kings events.
So all over the country, people made up signs, and they marched, and they said, No Kings, No Kings in the United States.
And it worked.
I have to admit, I was skeptical at first.
I was like, really?
Do they need to do that?
Is there any benefit from doing that?
And sure enough, I woke up this morning and there were no kings.
It worked.
Man, you really don't expect that things will work that fast.
But one day of marching and no kings, not at all.
So good job.
Millions of people have participated and did their affirmations, and it worked.
There are no kings today.
Ironically, there was a big 250th anniversary of the Army military parade.
What was it that the military did 250 years ago?
Oh, yeah, they got rid of our king.
So they added no king march that was opposing the military parade, which was a celebration of the military getting rid of the king.
So if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's no kings.
It's the weirdest thing.
You know, it's the worst thing you have to worry about.
Is that both the left and the right are adamant about having no kings?
Well, we're not doing too poorly.
So we got that going on.
The no kings protest was very large, but apparently it was completely overshadowed by the tragedy of the four people who were shot.
So it just took it right out of the news, basically.
So probably half of the energy got sucked up into a different news story, sadly.
But on top of that, it was the war in Iran.
So, you know, if you were planning a protest, you picked the wrong weekend.
That was a very noisy, So, sorry about that.
I guess at the No Kings protest, according to the Amuse account, some of them tried to storm the L.A. ice facility.
Where was that?
In Portland?
And that didn't work out.
So, it was mostly under control.
All right.
They said it's the biggest A single-day anti-Trump protest during his second administration.
Well, it doesn't matter how big it is.
It matters how much publicity it gets.
And it didn't do well on the publicity.
So I watched a little bit of the military parade.
I had a comment that I thought was just me until I saw a bunch of other people on social media.
Did it seem to you like the marching was especially ragged?
You know, it's not like I should be criticizing anybody in the military, but did anybody have that same impression?
Like, hmm, I feel like they could march a little bit better than that.
Well, I don't know what that was all about, but it was a robot dog or two?
So it's the first military parade with robot dogs.
I like the voiceover guy.
So the parade would have been super boring, except there was a voiceover guy.
And I assume you could hear him at the event, or not just on TV.
but he was giving context.
You know, this unit of historical...
This unit did that.
That made it kind of interesting.
MSNBC, of course, had to cover it, but they wanted to make something negative of it.
So here's how MSNBC tried to spin a military parade that was celebrating the same military that got rid of our king.
And it has protected us all these years.
And they decided that the way to cover it was to claim that they could read Trump's mind.
So MSNBC was this whole mind reader thing.
We have read his mind and we have determined that Trump is not honoring the military.
No, because they read his mind.
There's no outward indication.
you know, outwardly, it looks like he's honoring the military because every single outward symbol and all of his history and all of everything we know about him suggests he's honoring the military.
So MSNBC read his mind and determined that really what he was doing was...
Did anybody pick up on that?
Was anybody watching the military parade and saying, oh, his political rivals are going to be afraid of these people dressed in Revolutionary War outfits, carrying muskets?
So that was a little bit crazy.
Then also in MSNBC, they tried to tie the military parade to Trump pardoning violent January Sixers and the normalization of political violence.
All right, does anybody get that?
So apparently the They had to reach pretty deep for that one.
And then there was who escalate violent rhetoric.
So, yeah, they're worried about violent rhetoric.
And then Jen Psaki.
Jen Psaki to the ultimate crazy, crazy lady take.
She said that what was really in Trump's head was not honoring the military, but it was his own birthday party.
And that the coincidence that it was the 250th anniversary of the military, of the army, I guess.
That that was a coincidence.
But what was really in Trump's head was throwing himself a birthday party.
Now, is it my imagination that that's not just a bad take?
I mean, that's just bad shit crazy.
Anyway.
And then one of the correspondents, Velchy, I think, he said he was surprised that unlike the Trump rallies, that this military parade did not have, and they were surprised, it did not have a lot of dark, malevolent energy.
What world are they living in that Trump is throwing himself a birthday party?
To intimidate his rivals.
And he left out the dark, malevolent energy this time, I guess.
Boy, they had to try really hard and failed.
Well, as Meggie Hemingway pointed out in a post on X, she said, whatever is ailing the Democrats.
I'm pretty sure Democrat senators posting open hatred of the United States Army celebrating its 250th birthday is not going to help.
So once again, Trump has baited the Democrats into taking the side of the 20 in the 80-20 issue.
How many people are really anti the United States having a military?
Anyway, so John Fetterman did his Fetterman thing where he bucked the common thinking of the Democrats and, you know, he had an opinion that Republicans would like.
He said, regardless of your politics, it's appropriate to celebrate the 250 years of sacrifice.
Dedication and service.
So Fetterman was all in on honoring the army.
All right.
Well, let's talk about Israel and Iran.
So once again, there have been missiles and rockets and bombs exchanged.
Israel is taking some casualties now.
Eight people killed.
Four children, 200 injured, 35 still missing.
So that's pretty bad.
And that will probably continue for some time.
We don't know how long.
But the back and forth is underway.
So we've got a number of things to say about that topic.
Number one, I made four predictions.
So you can track me.
So, see what you think about these four predictions.
So, prediction number one.
This is just from me.
There will be no organic popular uprising that removes Iran's leaders.
Now, I'm not saying there won't be a pretend popular uprising.
You know, maybe some kind of organized thing that got organized by the U.S. or Israel or something.
But I just don't believe the population of Iran is in the mood to gather on the streets and do a big protest and get rid of their leaders.
And the reason for that is they're under attack.
And I don't think that people under attack take the side of the attacker.
And it's the attackers who would like the...
Now, I agree that it is very likely that there are a lot of Iranian citizens who also want the administration to change.
But they might not have to do anything about it.
They're probably saying, if I just wait, it might take care of itself, if you know what I mean.
So I don't think the, I wouldn't wait for the public in Iran to join the uprising.
I think they'll sit down.
But the latest says that Iran is actually asking about returning to the negotiating table.
However, even if they do return to the table, I believe that they would only stall and that it would be a tactic.
I do not believe they would return to the table and legitimately say, you know what?
We were really wrong about this nuclear stuff.
We give it all up.
Let's immediately blah, blah.
Now, the reason for that is that they are publicly asking for negotiations.
But what they're not saying is that they would be now willing to give up the one and only thing that was the sticking point, which was the nuclear program.
If they really wanted to stop the bombing and they really planned to give up their nuclear ambitions, all they'd have to do is say, hey, let's go back to the negotiating table and we'll talk about our nuclear program.
It's now in play.
All they'd have to do is say it's on the table and that we could talk about it and then it would look different.
But they don't say that.
So I'm going to say that they will just never give up their nuclear ambitions.
Number three, I predict that Israel will not stop attacking until they've achieved everything they want.
Now that leaves a little wiggle room.
Because you and I can disagree on what it is they want.
Do they want to change the regime leadership?
Or do they want to simply destroy the current nuclear program and go home?
Or do they want to destroy the missile program, ballistic missile program, plus the nuclear and go home?
Iran's ability to make any kind of military action anywhere?
Or do they want to control the country with puppets?
So we don't know what they want, but I can tell you for sure they're not going to go home until they get it, whatever it is they want.
They do not seem in the mood to go halfway.
It's just not the halfway administration.
It's sort of the...
And number four, I believe that Israel's prediction that it would be done in two weeks is not accurate.
I believe they will not be done in two weeks.
I don't know if it'll take a month or two months or longer, but I don't know how they could be done.
Done just seems hard.
Anyway, apparently Elon Musk has activated Starlink in Iran because they lost their internet.
And I guess we're thinking that the public would be more organized against the leadership if they had the internet.
But again, I'm predicting that there will not be a massive, organic, popular uprising.
We shall see.
Apparently now Israel's saying that U.S. involvement would be necessary to do what they need to do.
Now, given that, I already said, they're not going to be done until they get everything they want.
So what is it exactly that only the American population?
Is it the bunker busting?
Or is it much more than that?
Because if they had only said, there's just one thing we need, you know, we just need to bunker bust these two bunkers, then that would be limited, and then we could argue whether that's a terrible idea or a great idea.
But we'd know what it was.
But apparently Israel is just saying that U.S. involvement is necessary.
So what exactly would that be?
Well, Scott Jennings happens to be over there, and he issued this opinion from Israel.
He said that Trump would be justified in taking out the Fordow nuclear enrichment facility.
It would be a righteous decision.
Would it?
According to who?
And if he doesn't, no question in my mind that he would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
Well, I'm going to make another prediction.
You don't get the Nobel Peace Prize by dropping a Bunker Buster bomb on your enemies.
You know, even if you think you deserve it.
That is not how you get a peace prize.
Avoiding a bomb might get your peace prize.
Anyway, apparently, according to the Times of Israel, Trump recently told Netanyahu that the U.S. would consider striking that Fordow nuclear facility, which would require some bunker busing.
If it were necessary, to prevent Iran from requiring a nuclear weapon.
Now, this is in the Times of Israel, so one source.
So we'll see.
Now, I saw the log-ish message on X from investor Bill Ackman, who's getting more involved in trading.
And he's always interesting because he's got well-thought-out opinions.
But he's got an opinion on finishing the job, in terms of Israel finishing the job.
And he says, we should not let this opportunity pass.
Israel doesn't have the equipment and armaments to complete the job, but we do, and it does not require boots in the ground.
He goes, so let's have them finish the job.
Finish the job.
What do you think that would look like?
So let me just sort of tweak your imagination.
So imagine, if you will, that the U.S. helps Israel destroy what's left of the nuclear facilities in Iran.
Then what?
Do we just leave?
And then what happens?
Does Iran say, oh, darn it, well, we tried to build those nuclear weapons, but that didn't work out, so I guess we won't do that again.
And that we won't cause any trouble because there might be another war.
Is that what happens?
That doesn't sound like Iran, does it?
Is it finishing the job when you replace the leadership?
Because if we replace it, it would look like a puppet.
And if they replace it, it would probably look like more hardliners.
So what exactly would look like finishing the job?
Would it require dominating the country and essentially owning it forever?
Would it, you know, like I said, the puppets wouldn't work and the hardliners don't work because they would just reconstitute the risk to Israel.
So if you can't define...
And maybe some people have a specific idea, but it's not a generally agreed upon idea.
How can you operate on that if you don't know what the end goal should look like?
So we got a problem, which is if we don't do anything, things could, And it might be a different threat.
Maybe it's not nuclear next time.
Maybe it's drones and God knows what.
Load it onto the drones.
So it seems to me that no matter what we do, we leave them wounded and really, really mad.
Don't they just come back worse than before?
I don't know.
So I'm looking for a better idea than the ones that are out there, because to me it looks like every path leads to Iran reconstituting their threat, whether it's five years from now or ten years from now.
So I don't know.
I don't know what it finished looks like.
Israel has vowed that, quote, we have more surprises coming for Iran.
So Fox News is reporting that.
Apparently, Iran was projected to have 8,000 ballistic missiles within two years.
They apparently have 2,000.
I guess the ballistic missiles are the ones that are hard to stop and carry the biggest payloads.
So I'll ask the same question.
If we destroyed all of their ballistic missiles and all of their nuclear facilities, how long would it take them to rebuild at least the manufacturing for more ballistic missiles?
Because isn't that a stuff you can slap together?
I mean, not a slap together, but if you already know how to make ballistic missiles, you So what does it mean to finish off or finish the job?
Anyway, we're surprised this coming.
We'll see what that is.
So, like I said, Iran has apparently tried to reach the United States through Oman and Qatar to mediate with Washington, which suggests that we don't have any kind of direct communication with Iran, which is weird.
Do we really have no direct communication or is it because all of their leadership is not?
So it might be that they have to be so careful about how they communicate that even if they could pick up the phone and just call Washington, they can't pick up the phone and just call Washington because they would get bombed within a minute and a half.
So it could be that they just have to go through this weird, circuitous route just so we can't Anyway, so I don't think Iran is 100% serious about negotiating, but they might act like they are.
So I guess the prime minister of Cyprus says Iran has asked them to convey a message to Israel.
And really?
I don't know.
Seems like they would have some kind of an email or something.
It seems that at the very least they should be able to email Israel.
So Trump is reinforcing on his truth social that the U.S. had nothing to do with the attack.
Now, I don't know.
Do you believe that?
Do you believe we had nothing to do with it?
That might be our intent, but it seems like we have such close military arrangements with Israel that in every case we'd have some kind of indirect support, whether we intended it that way or not.
Anyway, he says, the U.S. had nothing to do with the attacks on Iran tonight.
If we are attacked in any way, blah, blah, blah, bad things will happen.
So there's that.
According to a ex-post on Visigrad 24, Israel destroyed the Shiraz Electronics Industry plant.
That's the only place that the largest producer of radar systems in Iran.
Now, if...
Because that would be, you know, obviously I understand why they'd want to take out a radar manufacturing plant, but it wouldn't be on the top rung of targets, would it?
Because it's not an immediate thing.
Does that mean that they've already taken out all of the top-level, top-priority targets?
Everything they could shoot today or do radar today?
It just makes you wonder, did they get everything that's a higher priority and now they're down to manufacturing plants?
Even though I understand why they would want to target it.
So that's a little hint that maybe Israel got more than we thought.
Of course, there's always a subplot with any kind of...
whenever Israel's involved in any kind of military action.
There's a subplot about which side is targeting the more civilians.
So Iran is apparently...
Israel is doing their usual thing, which is trying hard to hit military targets and avoid civilian stuff.
But of course, it's a war, so civilians will inevitably be hurt.
And one of my questions is, how accurate are Iran's missiles and drones?
Can we say for sure that every time they hit an apartment building, they aimed for it?
Or are they aiming for the city, and they're lucky if they had anything?
Now, in either case, you could argue that they're targeting civilians because they're not trying to miss civilians.
It matters a little bit if they have any control.
So I'm thinking the ballistic missiles probably are kind of accurate, and maybe the drones are accurate, but smaller payloads.
So I'm kind of curious about how much they can control.
In either case, it's all bad and evil and it's war.
But that's always a subplot.
Who is worse on going after civilians?
Now, Tim Walsh made a provocative statement at some event.
He said that maybe China will be seen as the only moral authority that would be able to talk peace with both Israel and Iran.
Now, of course, we're all, you know, that's a red meat for the media.
China, being a moral authority.
Now, I don't think any of us believe that China is morally superior to anyone else.
But it might be true that China has not tried to make Israel or Iran an enemy.
From that point of view, if he would take out the moral part and just say from a practical perspective, it might be that China might be exactly the kind of entity that, you know, because it's not an enemy of either of them, maybe they can do something productive.
We'll see.
But whenever I see Tim Walz say anything positive about China, It makes me think about all the times he's visited.
And it makes me think, I don't think that China encourages that many visits unless they're working that guy, you know, trying to turn that guy into an asset.
And that doesn't mean he got flipped and he's any kind of a spy, although you never know.
But, you know, I have no evidence he's a spy.
And, you know, he just slips in a little thing about China having the moral authority to handle this big problem.
And it makes you wonder, how much brainwashing did he get in all those many trips to China?
Because this looks a little brainwashy.
You know, like China accomplished their goal of brainwashing Tim Walsh because he had enough trips over there.
How many trips do they do?
Like 30?
30 trips with students and stuff?
I don't know.
Looks a little bit brainwashy.
Well, I guess Trump and Vladimir Putin had a one-hour conversation by phone on Saturday, according to Just the News.
The outcome of their one-hour conversation is that they both agree the war with Israel and Iran should end, and then Trump says, he feels as I do, this war in Israel and Iran should end, to which I explained his war should also end.
So apparently they wasted an hour.
What was the point of that conversation?
Was one of them going to say, oh, we'd like that war to just keep on going?
No, of course they want the Israel-Iran war to be, and there's no benefit to any of us.
So that was a waste of an hour.
But I think Putin had offered to help mediate the situation.
And again, I'm not going to say Putin is immoral.
But as far as I know, Putin has a good relationship with both Israel and Iran, right?
Similar to China.
So maybe, maybe he can help.
And Putin is talking about getting back to the negotiating table with Ukraine.
I don't know if he means that.
It's hard to know if he's serious about that.
He said it.
So maybe.
We'll see.
AOC is going hard at the elders in her party.
And she said this recently about the older established people in the Democratic Party.
She says, it doesn't matter how much you work with them, they still will choose their old friends and old generation every single time.
So David Hogg going after those older ones and AOC now going after the older ones.
I don't think you'll see Bernie Sanders go after the older ones because he is one of the older ones.
So that's a little awkward.
A little bit awkward, AOC, because it does seem like Bernie is one of the old ones, but he's not one of the old networks, though.
It would be outside the network.
But it doesn't look like the Democrats have a good plan to come together and beat the Republicans.
It looks like they have a plan to fight with each other, and maybe that will make them stronger.
We'll see.
So Trump is already in Canada, I believe, for the G7.
Where the big seven economies get together.
And it's sort of awkward because he's there on the same weekend as the No Kings event.
And Canada has a king.
So Canada wanted to get in on this No Kings thing.
But they realized they have a king.
Which is hilarious to me.
So they had to change it to no tyrants.
So, yeah, good luck there.
So, yeah, Trump's in G7.
So it's also awkward because he wants to, you know, absorb Canada and the United States.
But I think he's over that awkwardness.
According to also Just the News, The curfews that have been put in place for LA, because there was a lot of unrest with the anti-ice protests, apparently the curfews worked.
So Mayor Bass put some curfews in effect, and it accomplished everything they wanted, which was less trouble at night.
So what do people say?
When you do something that works, they always say the same thing.
Well, why didn't you do it sooner?
Now, that's kind of a fair question in this case.
But if the best you have is, why didn't you do it sooner?
Well, I don't know.
I'll take the win.
I hate to be the one who says, why didn't you do it sooner?
Everything good could have happened sooner.
So it looks like the anti-ice demonstrations wound down.
But does that mean they'll just wind right back up again?
Or was it like squeezing the toothpaste and now they just go later in other cities?
I don't know.
So, does anybody think any of these alleged anti-Trump protests are anything but theater?
None of it looks real or like it would have any kind of political impact.
It all looks totally artificial.
I think maybe the entire purpose of it is to make other people think they're a part of something important.
So they'll actually, you know, vote and act and cry and, you know, worry and shake and all that other stuff.
So most of the protests, I think, are propaganda.
And it's to make other people who are watching think there's more energy to get rid of Trump than there is.
And have you noticed that the people who want to get rid of Trump It's so vague.
It's like, well, he's going to steal my democracy.
And then they also talk about all the things he's already done.
To which I think, like what?
Like what?
He's done things that the courts have reversed.
He's tried things that...
But it doesn't look very authoritarian to me.
And I love his answer to it, that he's far from a king because it's just hard to get anything done, which is a really good response.
It is so hard for any president to get anything done.
They're about as far away from being a king as you could possibly be.
But apparently all of the very worried, mentally ill Democrats have been convinced that he's up to no good and he's stealing their democracy forever.
And I don't know why it's happening.
I mean, there are definitely things that I don't love.
About what the administration is doing.
But it's not very dangerous looking.
It seems all entirely 100% pro-American, America first stuff.
So, we'll see.
So, Trump is, the administration is looking at adding 36 more countries to the travel ban.
How many were there?
Were there a dozen?
Yeah.
A dozen have already been added, but they're looking at three, six more, mostly in Africa.
The reasons for the bans are that the records from some countries are not dependable, so we can't tell what we're getting.
And in some cases, there's a foreign terrorist threat.
And in some cases, there are countries that have an unusual number of visa overstays.
So if there's a country where every time somebody comes in legally, they don't leave, when it's time to leave, then they get on the list.
So is that authoritarian?
Well, like everything else, And if the court says he can do it, it just seems like he's protecting America.
So, you know, it's about as authoritarian as I'd want it to be.
Well, apparently, according to Newsmax, the administration is also dusting off this very long, dormant law, the Alien Registration Act.
Passed in 1940, which requires anybody who's not a citizen to register.
And so it gives the administration one more thing to charge somebody with, because if they're here illegally, there's a good chance they have not registered.
I guess it's a misdemeanor and they could have six months in jail or a thousand dollar fine.
And they're supposed to register and get finger-to-date And probably just about nobody's done that.
So it's sort of an add-on just to make it more uncomfortable to be here illegally.
So I think the Trump administration admits that the purpose of it is to essentially persuade the undocumented immigrants.
That's a bad idea to say.
Well, in completely different news, there was a study to show who the best tippers are by state, and California is named.
Now, if there's one thing I'm getting tired of, it's that whenever California is in the news, it's always because we suck.
When was the last time you saw a story where, and then California, was at the top of the list?
Better than all the states.
It's beating all the states in, I don't know, education?
No.
So here it is, a story about the best and worst tippers.
Can you guess how California is handled?
Yes, of course, they're the worst tippers.
Californians are the worst tippers.
And the best are Delaware.
So Delaware gave us the Biden family and really good tipping.
Why would California be so bad at tipping?
Does anybody have any idea?
Is it because of our demographic makeup, because we have a lot of non-citizens?
But that wouldn't affect tipping, would it?
I don't know.
So I guess California just sucks at everything.
BBC reminds us that the world fertility is at dangerous levels basically everywhere.
But they go on to say that the affordability of having children might be the main reason.
And that seems right.
You know, we spend time trying to think, well, why are birth rates going down everywhere?
And we're thinking, oh, it's because testosterone is lower, and we're thinking it's because of the news or because of our devices or whatever.
But I think it's just money.
I think it's money everywhere.
I think every country, They're just having fewer children.
It's just cause and effect.
So, how do you fix that?
Somehow, having children has to become affordable.
I think daycare is the biggest thing.
If you could get rid of the daycare costs, it's not like the kids eat that much.
But the other thing that is crazy expensive is if kids are involved in a lot of events, like organizations, if you have a kid who's in a sport and they're good at that sport, they're traveling all over the place and you've got to travel and sometimes you've got to spend the night and you've got to outfit them and it's really expensive.
So if you were to fix the schools so that kids are not being required to pay for all this extracurricular stuff, and you could fix the daycare, which feels like it's flexible with some kind of a shared responsibility sort of thing.
Seems like you could do it.
Then maybe you'd fix the population.
We'll see.
I see in the comments, we spend $10,000 a year on sports.
Yeah.
And that's probably common if you have a few kids in sports.
Anyway, in other news, according to interesting engineering, there's new passive cooling technology for data centers.
Now, you might say to yourself, Scott, what could be less interesting than a new passive cooling center for data centers?
Well, one of the things I've been predicting is that, you know, we think we're going to run out of electricity for AI.
Because AI will require, like, I don't know, a thousand times more electricity than we reasonably might have anytime soon.
But, as I've been telling you, I'll bet you there will be developments that reduce the amount of electricity you need.
And this is one of them.
Now, it's not that close to being implemented, but it'll give you a sense of what's possible.
So it's a new fiber-based cooling technology that gives...
Apparently, 40% of your electrical costs for a data center is cooling it.
40% is just keeping it at the right temperature.
So if you can take that 40% and reduce it to 10%, you would save the equivalent of maybe 300 nuclear power plants.
I'm making that up.
But it would be a big difference.
So don't be surprised if you see a bunch of breakthroughs that make it easier to run AI on more power-sensitive equipment, and you see ways to cool data centers that we never thought of before.
So I think the need for the electricity will be falling faster than we build.
So that's my prediction.
Anyway, apparently also Newsmax is saying that ICE is largely going to pause its raids on farms and hotels and restaurants, and that's because Trump has agreed that in those industries you've got a lot of people who have just been working for years and years.
And they're additive to the economy, and if you got rid of them all at once, you'd be in real trouble.
So, I don't know how many of you agree with that, but I will tell you from the real-world perspective, replacing them would be way harder than you think.
You know, there's a reason.
That these industries are filled with non-documented workers.
And it's because it's really hard to fill these jobs with American-born people.
And again, if you ask me why, I would say I'm out.
I'm out.
I do not want to be in the conversation about why that is.
It's just true.
If you know anybody who works in these industries, anybody who works in the farm, hotel, or restaurant industry, and if they do the hiring, so they're really close to it, ask them if they could staff their enterprise with American-born people if they had to.
They couldn't.
It wouldn't even be a case of, well, you'd have to train them.
They wouldn't even walk in the door.
Again, why?
I don't know.
I don't know why.
And, you know, I've thought about it a long time, but I just don't know why.
It's just the truth.
So, I think, you know, Trump will get a lot of pushback for that, because there's still a lot of people who say, ship back everybody, no exceptions.
And I understand the argument, but there is a real-world Friction that Trump understands.
And if you think that that part would be easy, it wouldn't be easy.
You might still think it's worth doing, but it would be massively disruptive to those industries.
But again, you might prefer that.
I would understand that.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I've got for now.
I'm going to say a few words privately to the local subscribers and the rest of you.
Thanks for joining.
We'll keep an eye on the news today, see who else is being a victim.
There's always some new victims.
And I'll see everybody tomorrow, same time, same place, I hope.
