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if you were a subscriber to the Dilbert Reborn comic that has been cooking along ever since I got cancelled in respectable newspapers, you would know that Dogmore has revealed his brother.
So Dogmore has a brother.
It's somebody famous.
It's somebody you probably have seen in the news.
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Well, Brad Pitt's house in L.A. was burglarized, and four people have been arrested, to which I ask the following question.
How do they catch a burglar?
Unless they catch him in the act, which I don't think happened, do they really follow up?
And did the burglars not wear masks?
And did they have license plates that were actually their actual license plates?
Well, I'll tell you the burglars in my neighborhood who just burgled yet another neighbor, I think it's the...
the fifth fifth neighbor's house that's been burgled by a probably the same gang but i don't know they act the same but this most recent one they had guns so the uh homeowners i think their kids were home and guns were brandished and got kind of tense.
But I don't think they got much.
Maybe they did.
I don't know.
So that's what my neighbor's like.
It's the fifth time gangs of armed people have broken into my neighbor's homes.
I feel like at the very least, they're casing my house, but I never leave the house.
They would get zero jewelry because I just don't own any.
I don't keep, I really don't keep anything that you would want to steal.
Furniture?
Does somebody want to take my couch?
How about one of my TVs?
I mean, you can get a TV.
They're not really that expensive.
All right.
Would you believe, according to PsyPost, Vladimir Andre is writing that if you do a psychedelic experience, Do you believe it might have a lasting boost in your perceived life meaning?
What do you think?
Did they need to do this test?
Did they need to do a study to find out that doing psychedelics might boost your perceived meaning of life.
The answer is they really did need to do that.
They could have just asked me and they could have asked absolutely anybody who had any experience with psychedelics.
Yes.
And is it long lasting?
Yes.
That's the beauty of it.
Have I ever told you there was a study of psychedelic use and that it showed that it harmed people permanently?
Nope.
I don't know if it ever happens.
It must happen to some people.
There must be some people who are close to insanity and it pushes them over the edge.
Speaking of that, apparently this is not going away.
The chat GPT and the AI psychosis, have you heard about that?
Apparently, when people chat with AI, AI can sometimes, maybe too often, will try to please the person it's chatting with and it will start hallucinating and making stuff up.
because it's sort of anticipating what you want to hear, which most of the time would be perfectly harmless.
But sometimes you get somebody who's a little bit close to the edge of being crazy.
Not technically.
They don't have any real symptoms of being crazy, but they're just sort of close to the edge.
Apparently talking to ChatGPT or one of the AIs too long can push you over the edge.
It's an emerging phenomenon dubbed AI psychosis or AI delusions.
And apparently enough experts are seeing cases of this that it's sort of a big deal.
How many people could be convinced that they're a god because the AI told them.
Well, apparently some.
So there are some people who are convinced that they're aliens visiting the earth or that they're gods or that they have superpowers and they just flip out and go crazy.
And that's when the chatbots are engineered, say the experts.
to complement a grey and tailor itself to become like a little echo chamber for the user.
So if your AI.
is being too accommodating and giving you exactly what it thinks you want, it will make you crazy.
Wouldn't that be weird?
What if we found out that the one way to go insane is to talk to somebody who agrees with you about everything?
Because in the real world, you never find that.
So if you had a chatbot that just agreed with you about everything, oh, you are so smart.
You're like a god.
How do you figure that out?
You might be an advanced alien who was left on this planet and you're just finding it out.
Anyway, Robbie Starbuck, who's a activist, he's had a bunch of big wins with big corporations getting them to back off their DEI program.
But separate from that, Meta, it's AI had some bad things to say about Robbie Starbuck, which were not true.
And so Starbuck went after them.
legally with a lawsuit about defamation because their AI, I'm not even going to say what the AI said because I don't even want it in your head.
But just imagine the AI literally just makes something up and it's something really bad.
And there was no argument that it was true.
You know, there was never any factual disagreement.
It wasn't true.
It was just an AI hallucination.
So apparently they reached some kind of a deal.
We don't know if money was involved, but...
Oh, I guess I called them a white nationalist and tied him to the January 6 riot.
And none of that, you know, is factual.
And the bots also linked him to QAnon and labeled him anti-vaccine.
And oh my God.
Although you might like that last part.
So he's going to consult for Meta's product policy team.
So anyway, if they're happy, I'm happy.
But is it my turn?
Do you have any idea what the AI's say about me?
I've asked them.
And it's also not true.
It just literally makes stuff up.
But sometimes it makes up things like it'll say I won some award or something that I've never heard of.
So that part I like.
But anyway, Elon Musk is accusing Apple of antitrust violation for something about their App Store and how they highlight or don't highlight.
the AI apps.
So I guess XAI, the AI from Musk, is not getting the attention that Musk believes it should be getting and he thinks it probably should be listed as the number one app, at least more often than it is.
So we'll see where that goes.
The teachers union head, do you know Randy Weingarten?
She is the one who is the worst theater student of all time.
Oh my God, is it hard to watch her talk in public?
But anyway, she's in trouble by her own organization, I guess, for spending too much on all of her high-end travel.
Now, I don't know why she's been to, for example, Ukraine several times.
I don't know what that has to do with her job as the head of the teachers' union in the United States.
But apparently she's being accused of running up a bill of $100,000 for limo.
But you know what?
I hate to say it.
But given that her job has her traveling everywhere, all over the place and speaking and stuff like that, which does seem like part of her job, $100,000 for one year given that she's traveling pretty much all the time that's not really completely out of line is it and people at her level do typically get a car service so I don't know you know I would you probably know that I
would love to criticize her if there was something legitimate but when I look at the dollar amount I think maybe we just don't understand how much stuff costs Do you know what one ride in a limo would be or if you were going to book a limo for let's say one day and you would say, all right, limo, you're going to be dedicated to this one executive all day.
What do you think that costs?
It's thousands of dollars for that one day.
And she does stuff like that just about every day.
She's somewhere doing something in public.
So I don't know.
She might get some heat over it, but honestly, that does not look like too much for somebody in her job.
According to Rasmussen, Vice President J.D. Vance is leading the field for a potential 20-year-old.
So Republican primary voters would vote for him, 35% of them.
And then the very next person would only be about 10%.
So DeSantis and Marco Rubio are tied at 10%.
So what do you guys think of that?
Do you think JT Vance is a worthy follow-up to Trump?
I'm willing to listen to arguments pro and con, but my feeling is He probably is because he's not crazy.
He's not a, he's just a common sense kind of guy who we've seen perform in public really, really well a bunch of times.
So to the extent that he's compatible with, you know, all the things you like Megawise, I feel like he would be a pretty solid pick.
But I do like the fact that DeSantis exists and that even Marco Rubio's been doing a good job for the Mega world, if that's what you like.
So there's definitely some good candidates there.
Well, CNN's data guy, Harry Enton, tells us that the Epstein story, after three weeks of being in the headlines, is now uninteresting to the public.
The number of Google searches is down 89% from three weeks ago.
Now, I would not agree with Harry Enton that Google searches are telling you too much about interest because everybody who will ever.
be interested in a story, they Google it up front.
They don't keep Googling it for weeks and weeks.
And it's not like there's a whole bunch of new people who are going to be following the news for the first time ever and they're like, hey, we should Google that Epstein thing.
So it feels to me like no matter how much interest we have, the Google searches would start huge and fairly quickly go to nothing, which is what happened.
But it is his view and he's on CNN, so he gets a lot of attention.
His view that the Republicans.
especially just don't care about it now i heard uh jimmy door mischaracterizing my opinion on this story he's such a dick he's just such a dick it's not the first time he's mischaracterized me and then criticized his own mischaracterization it's just such a dickish thing to do anyway um Anyway,
I think I told you that it would not stay interesting forever.
All Trump had to do.
was say, all right, we got somebody working on it.
And then we would go back to thinking about other things.
And that's what happened.
So he's not saying no, that there's nothing more to look at.
They're all telling us that there's more coming.
And it's just really hard and it's going to take a lot of time to do it.
As long as we think something's happening and that nobody's trying to cover something up and we wouldn't know one way or the other, really.
then people are just going to move on and think about other stuff.
So that's where we're at, thinking about other stuff.
So Trump has a new economist to head up his Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And people are saying, hey, that guy's a partisan.
To which I say, they're all partisans.
They're all partisans.
I can't imagine anybody living and working in Washington, D.C. who's not a partisan of something.
That's ridiculous.
But how much would you not want that job?
So that's the job where the prior person got fired by Trump because the numbers got revised just massively revised like they don't know what they're doing.
How would you like to be the person coming into that situation when nobody has been able to fix it so far?
That'd be pretty dicey.
I don't know.
The real problem is the sources of data.
I don't know if that's fixable or not.
Maybe it is.
Well, how many illegal aliens do you think have left the country?
Apparently over the last six months., the illegal immigrant population has been dropping almost 270,000 per month or more than twice the rate of increase under Biden.
So people are leaving the U.S. at a faster rate than Biden was bringing them in at the moment.
270,000 a month.
Now, most of them are self-deporting.
So that whole self-deporting thing went mixed with headlines of we're going to be so mean and we're going to put you in El Salvador's prison and all that.
I think that stuff was so scary that people are just packing their bags and getting the hell out of here just in case.
So whether you like it or don't like it, it does look like it's working in terms of the process they're using.
If that's what you want to happen, it's definitely happening.
So happening big time.
So as you know, Trump has authorized military force against the cartels, but the story is.
that there will not be boots on the ground.
Now, what that means, I don't know.
Maybe interdiction in the seas, the oceans, maybe something in the U.S. that was cartel assets, I don't know.
But Agstath was asked by Laura Ingram what form that would take, the U.S. military attacks on the cartels.
She says, are you thinking drone attacks, air attacks, or what?
And Agstath says, I can't reveal anything.
It's a presidential priority in the Defense Departmentment is going to be part of that solving.
So he basically would say nothing.
So that's what it sounds like.
Wouldn't you imagine it's drones?
Drones plus some naval assets, maybe.
Well, in the most fun news of the day, you're waiting for me to get to it, I know.
Adam Schiff has been identified by a whistleblower as an intelligence.
So, you know, there's not much question that this was the purpose to get Trump out of office and get him impeached.
Now, so now we have a direct witness who says they understood it was illegal.
They knew it was classified intellect.
And he told them that they wouldn't get in trouble for leaking it.
And I think part of the argument might be that And they have different freedom of speech rules about a lot of stuff.
So he thought he wouldn't be in trouble, but what about these other people?
I don't think they have the same protection, right?
If they're not sitting elected members of Congress.
So apparently everything you thought about Adam Schiff was true, but did you know that there was a serious consideration that if Hillary had won in 2016, Adam Schiff believed he would be the director of the CIA.
Holy cow.
Do you realize how close we were?
We were so close to Adam Schiff being the head of the CIA.
And instead, we've discovered that he was a treasonous leaker of information trying to overthrow the government.
He could have been the head of the CIA.
It was so close.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
You almost can't even wrap your head around that.
It's funny.
Some days you think, oh, I know what the risks are to the country.
Well, I didn't know about that one.
That was a pretty close call.
Wow.
Well, I don't know if a chef will end up getting indicted or in jail or what, but we do have documented witness.
And so some people are using AI.
few people talking about this using ai to get around the redactions in some of these things because ai can figure out what must have been the redaction if you ask the right questions.
Sometimes you have to add a little context to it and then it basically just unmasks the redacted document.
Now it wouldn't work for every document all the time, but apparently it worked for some of these new ones that came out.
So watch out for that.
JD Vance did an interview with the Gateway Pundit.
and said, and I quote, there are active investigations you won't be aware of until we announce the conclusion of the investigation.
So apparently.
the Russia Gate coup.
Now, I'm going to agree with whoever said, who said this?
Somebody said, stop calling it a Russia Gate hoax.
It was a coup attempt.
It was the Russia Gate coup.
And I thought, yeah, that is correct.
That is the correct reframe.
It wasn't a hoax.
It was a coup.
And it was.
I mean, it absolutely definitely was exactly that.
So some of those famous actors might have some major legal problems ahead.
Maybe Schiff has a double problem.
He's got the leaking problem and he's got the mortgage fraud problem.
I'll tell you, when Trump says he's going to get revenge, he really means it.
He really means it.
Apparently, the Consumer Price Index is absolutely...
The Wall Street Journal's headline was inflation held steady at 2.7%.
That sounds pretty good, right?
Held steady.
Didn't get worse.
Let's see.
What did the New York Times say?
Consumer prices rose 2.7% from a year ago as Trump's tariffs intensified price pressures.
Those are both the news.
One of them just says inflation held steady.
Nothing changed.
And the other one makes it look like Trump said Trump's tariffs have intensified the pressure.
That was saying that the intensified pressure brought us to exactly the same number it was a year ago.
Is that the intensified pressure?
So that's going on.
Remember I told you that although I'm no lawyer, I can often anticipate what's going to happen in the legal realm just because common sense.
So remember Ghislaine Maxwell's grand jury records.
The administration asked them to be unsealed because the public wanted them unsealed.
And I told you, that's not going to happen.
The whole concept behind the grand jury is that it's not public and they're not going to make it public because it's not proof.
It's way short of the burden of guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt sort of thing.
So there's a really, really good reason why those are not public.
And I didn't think they were going to change their opinion on that.
So no.
So a federal judge says no on that.
Those will remain secret.
Looks like Trump extended the tariff truce with China for another 90 days.
So I guess we're being serious about negotiating.
It just takes a long time because it's China.
A lot of details.
Well, Trump has used his legal powers as president to take control of the DC police.
I guess he can do that for 30 days.
And there's a law in the book that gives him that power.
Now, but also Congress could pass a joint resolution extending it.
And all that would take is a bare majority.
And the Republicans have the bare majority.
So could be that the federal government just controls the police in D.C. going forward.
We shall see.
But Trump has already hinted that he might want to extend this idea, which is federal takeover of the police to Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Oakland.
Now, they are not subject to these Washington DC rules that are specific to Washington DC.
But there might be some way they could use the National Guard or something to semi-federalize them.
I don't know what he has in mind.
But those cities might be banging for it if it works in Washington DC.
You might have the public just saying, please, please federalize us.
It worked in Washington DC.
Well, because it's always true that there can't be the simplest story that doesn't turn into two movies on one screen no matter how simple the story is and this washington dc crime thing that would be the simplest story crime is way too high so you know trump's doing his thing to add resources to lower it should be the simplest most agreed on story
and we'd all understand it even if we didn't like it but instead Of course, Democrats are arguing that the crime rate in Washington, DC is already way down, 35% down.
Now, how many of you believe that the crime rate is substantially down in Washington, D.C. and so much so that it doesn't make sense to do anything, you know, bold and aggressive to lower it?
But that's our world.
The Democrats are trying to sell the idea that crime isn't that bad.
I mean, it's not that bad.
I saw a back and forth between Ken Delaneyan for MSNBC and Serdovich.
And Delaneyan was saying something about, you know, the crime not being that bad really.
And Cerno was saying, I got an idea.
Why don't you put a GoPro in your head and I'll give you the name of some addresses you can walk around at night and let us see how not crime there is.
So apparently everybody who has personal experience with Washington, DC is very sure that the crime rate is out of control.
The stats, well, have I ever mentioned that all of our data for everything, not just crime, but for everything is all fake?
It always has been.
And once you realize that all data is fake, you know, just like all news is narrative, once you realize that, everything starts making sense.
Wait a minute.
You mean those very important inflation numbers are just made up?
Sort of.
Yeah, sort of.
Let's see.
Trump's Pentagon, apparently, according to the Washington Post, is considering a domestic civil disturbance quick reaction force.
So there'd be hundreds of National Guard.
whose job it would be to very quickly deploy to U.S. cities if there's, you know, some big civil unrest problem.
I don't know.
So that's the sort of story that works in the Democrats' favor if they're trying to pull together this narrative that Trump's an authoritarian, or as I like to say, part authoritarian, part oligarch.
He's an authoritarian.
So the one thing I look for for this authoritarian argument is if the authoritarian does not have his own sort of private military primarily to protect himself from the other military.
If he doesn't have that, you know, sort of like the Saddam Hussein Iranian model, if you don't have that, you're not really going to be an authoritarian.
You kind of need your own police force, you know, under your control with total loyalty and stuff like that.
And we don't have anything like that.
You know, the president has nothing like that.
It's not like the That's not going to happen.
But when I see a story.
about considering creating a domestic civil disturbance quick reaction force, my red flag goes up and I go, bing, bing, bing, bing.
Wait a minute, why do we need this other force that might be more loyal to Trump?
Hmm, hmm.
You have my attention now.
So while I don't see any patterns It just fits into their narrative.
A lot of things do.
We'll talk about that actually in a little bit.
Actually, right now.
Here's something that you all need to know to understand the world better.
So I guess this is a persuasion lesson.
You ready for this?
If you've never heard of the Bible code, you should look into it.
If you've never heard of the McMartin preschool case, you should definitely look into that.
Do a little bit of research.
Just ask AI what either of those is, the Bible code or the McMartin preschool.
Now, the reason I bring them up is they're both examples of things that were not true, but had a lot of evidence to suggest that they were true.
The Bible code alleged that if you look in the Bible and you did a bunch of clever ways to look at the text, you would find hidden messages that predicted, you know, uncanny predictions about the future that were always in the Bible.
That was called the Bible code.
And it would be stuff like, I'm just making this one up, but if you took the first letter from the first word, but the second letter from the second word, you know, in some kind of algorithm like that, it would spell out something like, mustache man, World War II.
Again, I'm making that up.
But it was a big phenomenon for a while.
And people said, my God, there's no way this could be anything but the work of God.
Because people would check, and they would check the Bible, and sure enough, if they used those algorithms, they would see those messages.
And then somebody said, I wonder what would happen if we put some other random book through the same algorithms.
And it turns out that if you put war and peace through the same algorithms, it too is filled with mess.
messages from god that look like they're uncannily accurate now my point is that if you believe a thing is true, you will find all kinds of evidence, your brain will, that it's true, even when it's not.
If you believe that things that are true have lots of evidence whereas things which are totally not true would lack any evidence at all then you don't understand anything about the world that's just not the case things which are true could have a lot of evidence or none and things which are completely untrue just don't have even a grain of truth to them could have tons of evidence For example,
the McMartin preschool was a preschool that was accused of being a satanic, you know, horrible child abuse kind of place and they had dozens of students the preschool kids who had very similar stories so there was tons of evidence except it was pretty well demonstrated that the children had been kind of hypnotized by the by
the way the questions were asked and they were just playing along oh yeah yeah I was in a I was in a basement you know situation so the McMurton preschool was completely made up but there was tons of evidence it just didn't check out Likewise, remember the Russia collusion coup was based on complete bullshit.
But wasn't there still a bunch of stuff that looked like it was indicating it was true?
So some of it, you know, was made up.
But other stuff you say, but wait, it is true that somebody working on the campaign, Manafort, was dealing with an oligarch.
oh, well, maybe there was a little collusion, right?
So my point is that...
It's just the normal way of the world.
and that's very important to understand.
Well, in...
If the Republicans do redistricting, I guess the Democrats have do redistricting, which they have done to the max, it is democracy.
So let me say that again.
If Republicans do this completely legal thing, redistricting, it's a threat to democracy.
But when the Democrats do the exact thing, which they've already done, that would be called democracy, of course.
The reason I bring this up is this whole Trump is an authoritarian.
As soon as you come up with that catch-all sort of general, he's an authoritarian, that largely guarantees that people will see examples that fit into that narrative, much like McMartin Preschool, much like the Bible Code, much like Russia Collusion Hoax.
So the authoritarian thing is professional work, meaning that somebody was smart enough to know if we just keep calling him an authoritarian and then just watch the news, There'll be a whole bunch of things that happen that if we had not created that narrative, nobody would ever even connect them together.
But once you've created the narrative., everything seems to fit into it.
Oh, there he goes, being that authoritarian again.
So the registring is one of those.
If there had never been an authoritarian narrative, would anybody think that that fit into it?
No, they would fit it into the hypocrisy narrative.
They just say, ah, it's just being hypocrites.
But because we have the authoritarian thing, oh, here's another example of him being an authoritarian.
Same thing with the DC, crime stuff.
If we didn't have the authoritarian narrative, it would just be somebody who was trying to solve a crime problem.
So according to Batya Ungar Sargon, I saw a post from her on X, she said that every liberal journalist excoriating Trump for taking charge of DC's safety is secretly thrilled that they won't get car jacked anymore.
They see it as their job to lie about what they know is true because they're Democrats and the truth is bad for their side politically.
It's so gross.
Now, do you think that's going too far to say that they think it's their job to lie because they're Democrats?
Well, in a related story, the Democrats are also trying to figure out how not just to get their own Joe Rogan, which they think they can just sort of artificially make one.
They also want to get their own Charlie Kirk.
Now, Charlie Kirk, for I think 13 years or something, has been going to college campuses and doing little events where anybody can go up to the microphone and debate him in real time while everybody watches.
And he's really good at it.
He's really, really good at it.
And of course, he's been doing it for over a decade.
So he had lots of practice compared to the people he's up against.
So he's really good at it.
But he's also just, it's just pure common sense mixed with some Christianity.
So it's pretty basic stuff.
He's just really good at it.
So, and then somebody was saying, the Democrats were saying, we need to get our own Charlie Kirk.
Do you know why they can't have a Charlie Kirk?
Does anybody know why?
There's a logical reason that they can never have a Charlie Kirk.
Because Charlie Kirk's entire act is common sense.
If they had their own Charlie Kirk and he also did common sense, which is what makes him so powerful.
He would be agreeing with Charlie Kirk.
They wouldn't have their own Charlie Kirk who is disagreeing with Charlie Kirk because logically you can't be a Charlie Kirk if you're a fucking idiot.
and if you're not and you're really smart and you're wise and you're good at arguing and you stick to the facts and you're well informed well then you are charlie kirk so there's no way to get there from here that there's no path to getting the person who says all the reasonable rational common sense things that are well informed and that it disagrees with charlie kirk That's not a thing.
That's not a thing at all.
They should have learned that from Trump.
You know, Trump, at least this term, Trump is going for the common sense thing.
And he's doing a great job of representing the common sense view that most of the public shares for most of the topics.
So what are you going to do about that?
Like, how do you take the other side of common sense?
But we have observed that the Democrats have to because, as Bhatya Ungar Sargon says, They see it as their job to lie about what is true because they're Democrats.
They have to lie.
They have to lie because the truth doesn't back them up.
Think about, you can think about just any topic.
Do the Republicans need to lie about anything that's happening in Washington, DC?
Maybe the crime stats are not as high as some people think or something like that.
But would it be necessary for anybody to be lying about anything?
Not really.
It doesn't really help their case.
But would it be helpful for the Democrats to lie?
and say there's no real problem there.
Oh, and by the way, this is more authoritarianism.
Yes, it would.
It would be to their benefit to lie.
It just, it's not to Trump's benefit.
He can just tell you exactly what he's doing because it's all common sense and it's all stuff people want.
People want less crime.
So he just gives it to them.
What exactly is the argument on the other side of that?
Authoritarian.
Well, apparently we know now that banks were indeed pressured to debank Trump over the January 6 coup.
The January 6 coup is what the Democrats put on.
And they used projection to make it look like the real problem was that Trump's people no such thing as a coup in which you believe you can overthrow the biggest nuclear power in the world by wandering around in a building unarmed.
And yet the Democrats have sold to about half of the country.
The Republicans thought they could conquer the country wandering around unarmed in a building.
I don't know how that works.
But now if you take the side of the Republicans, they will say, look at how the outcome of the election was so nonstandard.
And all we were doing is asking to slow down before you certify what looks like, looks to us like it's not exactly copacetic.
And just take a little time to make sure that it is copacetic.
That's what they asked for.
Now, how do you argue against that?
Well, it's hard to argue against it.
So instead you make something up.
job there was to overthrow the country and uh we're gonna throw you all in jail and then they did So banks were pressured to debank Trump.
Man, I would love to hear Jamie Diamond explain what it was like to get pressured.
Because I guess the pressure wasn't so direct that, you know, it was like a phone call to the CEO.
It wasn't that direct.
But everybody knew that they needed to play along because the Biden administration was going to have had a million ways to screw with the banks.
So it looks like they just sort of knew they needed to do these things.
To me, that doesn't give them any excuse.
It's still horrible.
But you can see that they were being strong-armed by the government.
So it wasn't totally their fault.
It's hard to resist the government.
And as you know, Jamie Raskin is one of the designated liars, one of the ones who says the big lies, such as January 6th being an insurrection.
um and he said that uh jame raskin said that it wasn't an emergency to fix the crime in Washington DC but a real emergency was January 6.
Now Nancy Pelosi recently said something about January 6 and the National Guard guy kind of got on her because apparently they've been offering their services on January 6 and her her guy was saying no to it.
So that's a side story that fits in with this story.
Anyway, the January 6 tent poll hoax.
I believe that I can make that go away before the end of the Trump administration.
We'll see.
Let's see.
Trump also wants to get rid of no cash bail everywhere in the country, which would require Congress to pass some laws, I guess.
Now, once again.
How do you argue against that?
So if they get their own Charlie Kirk, is he going to go to colleges and say, yeah, I think we should let all the criminals out as soon as they're caught.
No cash bail.
It's really hard to argue some of the dumb ass things on the left.
All right.
So yeah, no cash bail.
Trump probably picked another 80-20 topic.
80% of the public probably is in favor of no cash bail or getting rid of no cash bail.
Well, John Bolton is getting a lot of TV time.
Some would say.
That's not warranted, but you can guarantee that John Bolton will say some bad things about Trump.
And he was asked on, I think he was on.
CNN.
And he was asked, you know, doesn't Trump deserve some credit because he got the, you know, how many peace deals has he been behind?
You know, and the list is like India and Pakistan and Armenia and Azerbaijan and a few others.
And John Bolton basically said, ah, those are all fake or they would have happened on their own.
So he's basically giving, you know, no benefit to Trump whatsoever.
My own take is that Bolton is not completely wrong, that there's a little bit of overclaiming of benefit, such as the India-Pakistan thing.
If you talk to India or Pakistan, mostly India, they'll say, Trump didn't do that.
We did that.
We're the ones who made the peace.
They might be right.
But I do like Trump framing himself as the grand peacemaker because what that does is if there's another situation and maybe the Ukraine, Russia's situation is the ultimate example if there's another situation in the future and you know that the guy who's getting in the middle of it and trying to solve the war if you know that he solved i don't know five or six other wars are you going to take that
more seriously it's like oh it's that guy who solved five wars so far maybe he'll solve ours so When Trump takes credit for stuff, whether it's tariffs or ending wars or stuff like that, I don't think you can overlook the utility of that.
If he can convince other people that these are, you know, the right way to look at the world, that Trump is the ultimate peacemaker, then he becomes the ultimate peacemaker.
Do we want him to be the ultimate peacemaker?
Yes.
Yes.
What would be the best way for him to become the ultimate peacemaker?
Well, the best way is to say you're already one.
Look what I've done.
I did this.
And then India pops up and they go, no, he didn't.
He didn't do that.
And then Trump just says, yes, I did.
And I did this.
And I did this.
Shut up.
So.
So it's more important that other people believe it because that gives them the power to make it happen next time.
So I'm completely in favor of Trump using his usual salesmanship and hypermole to, you know, get a little extra on that story of all the peace he's made.
And I would love to see him get a Nobel Peace Prize for the same reason.
One, it would drive the Democrats crazy.
That would be worth it.
But two, if he gets to that kind of, let's say, that kind of confirmation that he's the peacemaker, then he'll be able to make more peace, even out of office.
Remember, at some point he won't be president, but he might be the person that you send to stop a war, and he might be able to do it with one trip.
So, John Bolton, you may not be 100% wrong, but you're not being useful.
So as you know, the European Union has these now, some would say, draconian anti-free speech laws, and they're going to kick in any moment now or have they already kicked in i think they're getting ready to kick in and it would give the uh governments this weird, vague power to say that your speech was bad for the country.
And there's no way to define that.
Even if they wanted to, there wouldn't be any reasonable way to cover every situation, et cetera.
Which means that the government could kind of just say, well, you know, that time you did that.
social media post that was bad for the government so we're going to take you to jail so this is some really scary stuff.
You know, I don't want to be a hypocrite and, you know, come from mocking the people who thought that Trump was going to be all authoritarian to acting like the European Union's being all authoritarian.
But this is pretty authoritarian.
Am I wrong?
It seems pretty bad.
And the U.S. is a government.
He's trying to put pressure on the EU to get him to change that.
But I asked Grock if I could be in trouble if I went to Europe, if I had ever said anything that Europe didn't like, could they jail me just as a visitor if I just went over there on vacation?
And the answer was, yes, if I were in Europe and I said something while I'm there and posted it on social media, I could go to jail.
And then I said, suppose I said it before I went.
Maybe it's just something I said a few years ago.
But when I get there, they decide they want to put some pressure on me for whatever reason.
And then they say, well, 10.
Well, ten years ago you said this and this was really bad for Brexit or something.
So I have to tell you that I'm not a big traveler, so it's not a big sacrifice, but I wouldn't go to Europe.
I don't trust Europe to keep me out of jail.
Now, I also wouldn't go to China.
Just so you know, I would never go to China.
That would be insane for me.
I wouldn't go to Mexico.
It feels like if I just went to the touristy parts of Mexico, it'd be fine, but it probably wouldn't at the moment.
So there are a lot of countries that I would stay out of just because I have a little bit of a high profile.
And yeah, I don't want to deal with this.
I don't want to deal with Europe thinking I'd harm them with my speech.
So the Washington Post fact checker, you have to put in air quotes, a fact checker.
Glenn Kessler, he left the Washington Post.
took a buyout and he's going off to where people go when they don't have jobs, Substack.
And I was looking at a post by James Toronto of the Wall Street Journal.
So that would be a competing organization.
And he's talking about this situation.
He goes, fact checker in quotes, Glenn Kessler has left the Washington Post for Substack.
He's sore about being pushed out the door and proud of the work he did at the paper.
Quote, I built and maintained one of the marquee brands of the Post.
And Toronto goes on, he says, and his opinion journalism deceptively packaged as a higher proof, more authoritative formulation of straight news.
Kessler literally didn't know what he was doing.
Facts aren't opinions, he writes.
Yeah, they are.
In today's world, the facts are kind of opinions.
You want me to test that out?
All right.
Was January 6 an insurrection?
What is the fact?
That's an opinion.
It's a terrible opinion if you think it was one.
one, but it would be treated as a fact by people who think that they know what the facts are.
So there is something hilariously incompetent about the idea that somebody thought they were the fact checker and that it was an opinion.
We do not live in that world.
All right.
And then speaking of a spin, Politico did a story about the redistricting situation that Texas is going through.
And here's something that Politico said in one of their posts.
Democrats try to separate their tactical use of redistricting from that of Republicans.
So the Democrats are not a bunch of weasels.
They simply have a tactical use for redistricting in stark contrast to those damn Republicans who are just trying to be authoritarians.
No, not the Democrats.
They're trying to make Not terrible like Republicans.
All right.
Grant Cardone is giving us an update about California and how terrible it is with helping the people whose homes burned down in the LA fire from earlier in the year.
And he tells us that just listen to this.
I mean, this is everything that the Californians predicted.
Remember what all the Californians said, that the bureaucracy would try to just So that's what people suspected.
Here's what Grant Cardone, so he ran for governor, I think, and didn't make it.
Karen Bass beat him.
But he has a house there, or maybe more than one, I think.
And he's a rich guy, developer.
And he said, it's official California is a land grab.
Just informed by FEMA in California, if your home was affected by fires and required to spend more than 50% of previous home's value.
you will be forced to raise the entire property structure to a new flood water requirement.
So you have to raise your house.
He goes, I will be forced to raise a perfectly good property three to four feet at a cost of $40 to $50 million.
That's one guy.
Now, he's a rich guy with premium property, but they're going to make him spend $40 to $50 million to get it approved for building $40 to $50 million.
Do you think his insurance is going to pay that?
No.
No.
What will happen instead?
Well, he'll probably have to sell it to somebody who's going to put low-cost housing on there or something.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But he says that it'll make it impossible for anyone to rebuild.
It will take add years to any building process.
Well, according to Wired magazine, Ford has ambitious plans for a new manufacturing process for their EVs or electric cars.
So apparently they figured out how to make the cars in three pieces.
So it would be three separate areas working on their own part of the car.
And then when each of them are done, the three pieces are hooked together.
And apparently it's sensationally more efficient if they get it to work.
It's not built yet.
but they have a very clear idea what to do.
So to me, this feels like a Elon Musk influence, meaning that once you realize that Elon Musk's secret sauce is that he knows how to make manufacturing efficient, kind of makes all the other companies that compete with him have to do that so they kind of have to look at their manufacturing process i don't know if they've got a winning model here but they're certainly trying and then lastly um you know
that you've seen videos that there are 3d printed houses and there's this big 3d printing arm that just makes uh sort of concrete 3d printed walls and can build your house kind of quickly well according to new alis um some cheap ones are being built in Texas and they're being built for low-income people.
There's 651 square feet and it has one bathroom, one bedroom, and then sort of a living area downstairs with a kitchen and stuff.
And they can build it for $195,000.
Now I believe that includes the utilities and everything, $195,000.
Now obviously, That would be the lowest of the low end.
So, you know, maybe three or four hundred thousand dollars for a one bedroom little cool unit.
It wouldn't be so bad.
Now, it's too small, and I know you don't want to live in a tiny home, but it's not for you.
Imagine, if you will, that you were a young person who couldn't possibly afford to live in a $1.5 million home, which is your alternative.
Well, if you could live in one that was $300,000, might be enough to get you started.
Maybe there's one that's slightly bigger.
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