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Well, I'd like to begin with a product review.
I said to myself, I'll bet I could get a better camera than the one that's built into my laptop, my Macintosh.
So I uh used Grok and I used ChatGPT and I asked people for recommendations for a good webcam.
And people said the best one would be this Logitech um Brie Brio, I don't know, kind of thing.
Just whatever's the top of the line.
But um I would like to make a point.
So this is supposed to hang on the top of your laptop.
And the little tiny tiny tiny little lip is the only thing that keeps it on there.
And then in addition, there's this device, which apparently is made because they fucking hate people.
There's no other reason I can think of.
Whoever designed this for the past 20 years or so, I've been buying Logitech and other cameras, trying them out, and then as soon as you breathe, it falls off.
So this morning, after the 50th time of not being able to adjust the color temperature, or to get it anywhere near as good as the one that's built into my laptop.
I finally threw it across the room and took care of it.
Now that this is the way you have to you have to handle these this way.
you just have to break them because once that thing falls off your laptop for the third time If you're dumb enough to let it happen to you a fourth time, well, you deserve what you're getting.
You deserve it.
No, that has to be broken and publicly humiliated.
So I did that for you.
So we're back to our FaceTime camera, which is really good, by the way.
Well, I saw a piece of work by Jay Plemens, uh, today and or yesterday at next, who took my book God's Debris and uh uh used AI to animate it, I animate it, um to create a uh AI movie, and they're just the first scene.
You know, now that's the problem with making movies is that you can make a good you know 15-second scene, but apparently that's as far as you can go, even if you make lots of them, they don't fit together or something.
But just to see uh what the future holds, wow, it's really amazing.
It's in my X feed, or you can go to Jay's uh feed.
He's at uh at uh J A Y Plemmens, P L E M O N S. You'd be a good follow if you want to see some good uh video clips.
Um, and it features uh the character in the book, uh, is called the Avatar.
So that's the main character.
It's a fictional fictional account.
And uh Jay put me in as the avatar.
Now, the funny thing about that is that the Avatar character is described as you know so old.
He looks like he looks like he's just ready to die any moment.
And I thought, oh, well, that's pretty good casting.
Pretty good.
All right.
So but I but I would ask you if you're tempted to take uh that book and turn it into a full-length movie, that would be a big copyright problem.
Uh doing doing 15 seconds of it to demonstrate how it works is excellent.
You know, fully approved.
That would be uh that in my in my mind, that would be fair use.
That's fair use.
But if uh but if you thought, hey, I think I'll make a whole movie out of this, no, that would not be fair use.
Speaking of that, open AI has apparently told Hollywood Studios that uh instead of uh, well, I guess they want to reverse the model of copyright, so they will use your copyright unless you specifically ask them not to.
So you would have to explicitly opt out.
Otherwise, you could use openai to make your own Dilbert comics or anything else you wanted.
You can do a Dilbert movie, I guess.
But now I I have to figure out um, I guess I'll ask OpenAI.
Do you do you think if I asked OpenAI, what is the mechanism to explicitly opt out of my for my copyrights?
Do you think it would know the answer to that?
It might, but I'm gonna guess no.
I'm not even sure this is true.
I don't have a source for it.
But uh that would be a big deal.
So P. Ang Seth is talking to his uh meeting of generals, which means that we've put uh all of our most important people, including our president, all in one room.
Hmm.
Doesn't feel like the best play, but I'm sure they figure this out.
Well, I haven't read it all because it looks like it's gonna be an all-day event kind of thing.
President is speaking now, I think.
Um, but the parts I saw, P Axeth started out saying that it is uh unacceptable to see fat troops, and even worse to see fat generals in the hallway.
So whether you're a general or a troop, uh, you're gonna have to do a uh physical uh you know a PT physical test um twice a year.
So for all members of the military.
How in the world are they gonna get these 60 plus year old generals to pass the physical test?
I don't know, that seems like a stretch.
And uh he's against wokeness and DEI for promotions, and uh said they've promoted too many uh uniform leaders for the wrong reasons.
So it doesn't look like there's gonna be any big announcement per se.
It looks like it's just things you knew that Ag Seth and Trump wanted to make the military more lethal, and probably it'll make some news, but I don't think it's big announcement.
All right.
Um the Trump administration announced, uh it was in just the news I saw it, uh, that they had confiscated um one million pounds of cocaine, one million pounds of cocaine worth 11 billion dollars, one million pounds.
And my first question is, how do you dispose of a million pounds of cocaine?
Hold it, hold that.
You have to answer the question.
How do you dispose a million pounds of cocaine?
But you can't use the words Hunter or Biden.
Yeah, you can't do it, can you?
Because I'll bet half of you just wrote Hunter Biden as soon as I asked the question.
i know you yeah i know you All right, well, I guess we'll dump it in the ocean with the rest of it.
Our entire ocean is gonna be a cocaine ocean if we keep it up.
I'm going swimming.
Never coming back.
I saw a reframe on robot costs from a gentleman named Eler L you.
I hope that's even close to his name.
But he points out that the cost of the robot, now he's talking about industrial robots, not the kind that'll walk around in your house, but the factory kind.
Uh he says that buying the robot is only 20% of the total cost.
The real expense is that you have to you know change over your system, which means discontinuing production for a while, you gotta figure out how to train your robot, you've got to train people to work with a robot, you're gonna have maintenance problems with the robot, uh, you gotta upgrade the robot.
So 80% of the cost of the robot is uh on top of the price of the robot.
So that that's gonna that's one of those little factoids that if you store that away, you'll feel like the the smartest person at the party when somebody brings up robots.
Well, uh apparently the Diddy uh sentence is upcoming.
We don't know what that's gonna be yet, but uh it could be up to 11 years for prostitution-related charges and blah blah blah.
So could be up to 11 years, we'll see.
Um how many of you are very confident that you know the answer to the following question in recent years, so only talking about last few years, that's all.
Um, has there been more right wing violence or left wing violence?
Tell me if you know the answer, and if you're confident that you know the answer.
I have decided to give up.
There was a there was one point where I thought, huh, I'll just look at the data.
I'll just Google that data.
I don't know what to believe, because I don't believe any of the data in this domain, and nor should you.
Do you really think this data is accurate, or do you think it's just full of opinion?
As an well, I don't know.
That one's a little bit right wing, but it's not completely, so uh, we'll put that in the gray area.
Oh, this one's left wing.
Oh, I could tell by how they voted.
Don't you think, don't you think that data is all bullshit?
So I also don't know how much it matters as long as it's coming from both directions.
Would it matter if it's 3070 in one direction?
How would that matter?
You would do exactly the same thing if it were 50-50, 30, 70, 70, 30.
You wouldn't do anything differently, would you?
Because you should be working on both sides of that equation, whether it's 3070 or 70, 30, it doesn't matter.
Uh, all it is is getting a quick, you know, quick rhetorical point if you're debating somebody, I guess.
But it doesn't have any real world uh implications.
Now I uh uh and I've also seen there are lots of examples where right wing people, and that would include me, have said things like fascist or whatever.
I would argue that when the right wing uses those words, like oh, you're acting like a Nazi or a fascist, absolutely nobody takes that literally.
Would you agree?
That when the right uses those words, you can tell it's just rhetorical, and that even a crazy person wouldn't think that was real.
Now they might think it's real when they call momdami a communist.
People might think that's real, and you know, you can imagine people might act on it.
So I think I feel as if uh it would be good sort of good general uh advice for both sides to maybe back off of the the Nazi references, and I'm gonna try to do the same thing.
Uh I will stop trying to do the same thing if the left doesn't make any progress in not doing that.
Uh but at the moment, I think, you know what?
Uh, even though it feels to me that there's more left-wing violence, maybe that's just because the ones that get on TV.
I don't know.
And this latest one with the church, what was that?
That guy was uh Trump supporter, but I don't think he did it for you know some classic political reason.
So I think the reasons that the right wing do things, violence, and the left wing they do things, seems different.
The the left wing seems often trying to change politics, you know, trying to kill Trump, trying to trying to take out, not trying, but taking out Charlie Kirk.
Doesn't that feel like a direct attempt to change politics?
Whereas when the right does something, it doesn't look like they're trying to change the government.
It looks like there's mad as something or crazy, or you know, maybe that's useful to know that there's a difference.
Well, Tucker Carlson had on his show, the uh one of the Wikipedia co-founders, Larry Sanger, and Larry Sanger uh walked him through um the blacklist.
I saw this on uh Jason Cohen uh clip.
By the way, if you want to follow Jason Cohen, I've mentioned it before, but it turns out there are a lot of people with that name.
He's the one that's at uh Jason Gherno DC.
Jason Girno DC, all one word.
All right, so the blacklist on Wikipedia are the um publications that you're not supposed to or you can't, actually, it's it's blocked.
You can't use them as your source.
So if you're one of the editors on Wikipedia and you saw an article in, let's say the Federalist or Breitbart, and you said, Oh, that looks like pretty reliable, I'll refer to that as a source.
Wikipedia would block you.
But if you wanted to use the New York Times as a source, no problem.
Washington Post, yeah, no problem.
New York and New York Post, oh no.
The Federalist, mm-mm, nope, can't use the Federalist.
So that does render uh Wikipedia somewhat useless for anything political.
I think you'd agree with that.
But it turns out that Elon Musk has just confirmed that uh his ex-ai company, the his AI division, uh is gonna build a competitor called Grocopedia.
Now, given that uh AI is undependable by its nature and it hallucinates, I don't know exactly what the business model will be, but I would imagine if the only thing it did was you know add some AI elements and uh expanded the number of sources that can be considered legitimate, um that would be a big deal.
So this might be yet another gigantic big deal, and it's even bigger deal if uh Musk allows uh other AI to train on Grocopedia, because I'm pretty sure that AI has trained on Wikipedia.
So what if what if uh Elon says I'm gonna open this up?
You can all you can all train on train your AI on what was created by my AI.
That would be interesting because it'd be quite different.
Did you know that the ADL uh lists uh turning point USA as one of their uh groups that they accuse of extremism and hate?
So the ADL trying to improve the I would say safety and the reputation in life of Jewish people.
Um I don't think just Americans, but Jewish people everywhere.
And uh they've decided that turning point USA is an extremist hate group.
Uh I don't know how that could be any more opposite than that.
And so I so I wondered how does the ADL deal with the fact that Israel, uh no, they don't work for Israel.
ADL is not part of Israel, It's it's an American group.
And there'd be plenty of people in Israel who's not happy with them for their own reasons.
But I wondered how does the ADL handle the uh the war in Gaza?
And so I looked it up on uh GROC, and uh what they do is they they argue that the word genocide doesn't apply because there's no evidence of intention.
Did you know that in order for a genocide to be a genocide, you have to have the intention of removing or killing all the people?
So you remove removing the people is a genocide, too, just moving them where from wherever they are to somewhere else.
Um so you don't have to kill them all, but removing them would be a genocide.
But you would have to have the intention of a genocide, according to the ADL, uh, the the leader Jonathan Greenblatt.
Now, is that is that just a weasel way to get out of dealing with the question?
Or do you find that valid?
Well, you know, Israel has never said our intention is to do a genocide, or our intention, but they have said, correct me if I'm wrong, we'll talk we'll talk about the Gaza 21-point plan in a moment.
But haven't they said directly we're gonna move all the people out?
You know, maybe with some ability for some of them to move back in the future, but is that enough?
Is that enough?
If you say, well, yeah, we're just gonna clean up some problems with Hamas, and then people can come back in.
So is that enough to say that you don't have the intention of moving people out and keeping them out?
I don't know.
It feels like it's a little hard to navigate that situation if you're the ADL.
But as it stands, uh the 65,000 people who have been killed and the millions who are being uh dislocated in Gaza is not a situation of uh hate and extremism, but that damn Charlie Kirk and all those Christians who are worshiping God and trying to live a holy life, they're a case of hate and extremism.
So I don't know how long the ADL is gonna last, because it just makes Jewish people look like shit, honestly.
If I were a Jew, I would want the ADL to go away right away, as soon as possible.
I would not want that to be part of what my reputational brand is, for God's sakes.
Anyway, maybe the ADL should label itself a hate group, and that would take care of everything.
Um, according to Fox News, there's an NPR Ipsos poll that says 71% of those polls say that uh crime levels in American cities are unacceptable.
It makes you wonder how would somebody answer that question any other way?
Well, if if you said is the crime level in Chicago acceptable?
Apparently there's somebody who says yes, quite a few people.
At what point is the crime level acceptable?
I would say the acceptable level would be zero.
Acceptable.
I mean, you wouldn't if your crime was, let's say, relatively low, you wouldn't get rid of the police department, right?
You would say, well, you know, now that we got the crime down to you know, one murder or whatever, we we don't need a police.
I mean, it's acceptable, it's just acceptable now.
So I feel like it's a dumb question.
So I'd ignore that one.
Well, I guess the government shutdown isn't inevitable now, and uh that happens the next day or so.
The government's gonna shut down.
Now it's not the whole government, it's a whole bunch of you know non-essential stuff.
And I say this every time we're in this situation, but doesn't it seem weird to you?
And would you have would you have designed this system if you were the founders of the country?
You're sitting around uh in your non-air conditioned room trying to figure out how to make a constitution.
Would you have designed a system where the only way you can get a budget passed is by seeing who's willing to torture people not involved in the budget the hardest?
So the way this will work is if the Democrats are willing to torture the people who are going to lose their jobs, at least temporarily, and they're willing to torture the public for making sure they don't have access to these services while everything's closed.
If if they can if they can handle the torture longer than the Republicans can torture that same group of people, then they win.
They get their way.
So whoever is the best torturer of citizens gets to decide what the budget is.
Can you imagine a worse system?
If you were going to sit down and no system existed, you'd be like, all right, um, so what we're gonna do.
Um, I think a good way to do a budget would be we will torture third parties, people who are not part of the budget process.
And somebody would raise their hand in the back and say, excuse me, wouldn't we get a much better result and faster if the only people who were tortured were the people doing the budget?
Because then they'd say, Oh, oh, it hurts so bad.
I'm gonna have to hurry up.
No, no, that feels like that would be painful.
So instead, we'll torture other people.
We'll just torture nameless citizens that we don't know personally, but we'll torture a lot of them.
We'll get a lot of them.
And uh, and then it doesn't matter if we do the job or not.
We don't even have to do the work of the people.
We'll just torture people, and what however it comes out, that's just the way we'll do it.
So great job, government.
According to the uh Daily Collar News Foundation, um, there's a Soros-backed group, a leftist group called uh Indivisible, that's uh working the is trying to work the Democrats to make sure that they stay tight and keep the government closed until all of their uh stupid funding is returned.
Now that would be the re that would be the funding for exactly the things that we don't want.
But uh they're gonna work hard to keep that government closed.
Uh Governor uh Newson said uh in a post talking about the impending shutdown.
He says, Republicans have control of the House, the Senate, and the White House.
If the government shuts down, it's on them.
Now most of you know that you gotta get a 60 votes, and that means you need, I think, seven, uh, probably around seven-ish Democrats have to vote for it.
And of course, they won't.
So when Gavin says that the Republicans have control, if you don't pay attention too closely, you think, hey, that means they can do it if they want to.
So it's all on them.
No, they don't have any power, they have no power.
But his base is probably um, let's say 90% of them don't know that it will take some Democrat votes, they just won't even know that.
So his post on X works for them because they think, oh, those stupid damn uh Republicans, they ruin everything.
Um then the people who do know that he's lying are gonna say, oh, that's a good that's a good post because people won't know he's lying.
He's a good liar, he's a very good liar.
That's that's why he's dangerous.
Uh, it's not because he's not capable, it's because he's too capable at the wrong things.
Not so good at running a state, but boy, can he lie.
He's a good liar.
Well, YouTube has agreed to pay 24 million dollars settlement to Trump over a lawsuit about being suspended because of January 6th.
So now he's gotten uh Meta to pay him, let's see, Meta paid him 25 Million, X paid him 10 million.
Um, which seems unfair because you know, X was after Twitter, and Twitter was the one that uh that kicked them off.
Anyway, so he's got all this money now coming in, and I guess he's gonna uh direct uh earmark for the construction of the new White House ballroom.
How awesome is it that Trump sued them for his balls for the balls in the ballroom.
I don't know what you're talking about, but apparently he's gonna get them to pay for his balls, and uh, you know, I'm gonna say again what I often say, that uh Trump has figured out how to monetize all of his problems.
So here he is monetizing the fact that he got kicked off these platforms, and he's gonna use that money to build himself a nice ballroom.
How much do I love that?
I love it totally.
It'd be one thing if he was planning to spend that money on himself, you know, doesn't need it.
But uh watching him monetize it for the benefit of the people, because we get we'll get a new ballroom, and that will that will belong to all of us.
Pretty impressive.
Well, Axios is talking about the uh Trump's promise or his threat, I guess, to big pharma that they better lower the prices and give us the same low prices that other countries get, and uh in response, pharma has done checking notes, not a thing.
Nothing.
They have not lowered their prices.
So I think their deadline is passed, and uh I don't know if Trump's gonna come down hard on him, because you don't want to do anything that would reduce our access to valuable meds.
On the other hand, you can't really have them just ignore the president and keep those prices where they are.
So uh oh wow.
Wall Street Journal just reported the White House plans to introduce Trump RX, a new government website to facilitate drug purchases.
I guess that would be to cut out the middleman.
Uh or maybe that's the only place that you get them cheap.
I don't know.
So we'll find out.
But just know that uh Trump's gonna have to do more, and maybe that website is the answer.
They'll have to do more to get those prices down because big pharma's not going to do it just because you asked.
All right, here's my question.
Are we at war with Russia?
Now I know we've been asking that the whole time we've been feeding weapons into the uh war.
But so at this point, um we're giving them American weapons.
The weapons require American training, I believe.
So we're probably training, we're giving them weapons.
And the latest thing is that the new weapons will go so far into Russia that uh Ukraine is only allowed to use them with our permission.
So they'd have to get approval to do something extra deep into the country of Russia.
I'm guessing that American satellites are helping them locate targets, right?
So if it's true that they're American weapons and can only be used with American training and American approval, and American satellites, maybe.
Um, isn't the least important part of that the soldier?
Because you could replace the soldier, but if the soldier didn't have these missiles, the war would be over.
I feel like the American part is the important part, and the soldier is becoming the least important part.
So I'll ask again.
Are we at war with Russia?
Because you know, the the further we go into this, oh, it's not us, it's not us.
It's it must be those darn Ukrainians that keep fighting, but we're not.
Oh no, we're not part of this.
I don't know how far that could go.
Obviously, Putin would think he's at war with us, but he's smart enough not to attack the homeland because that would that would empty The cupboard and he doesn't want that.
Well, uh Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has agreed to terms uh to Trump's uh 21 point Gaza proposal, uh Wall Street Journals are reporting.
Um, but not until Netanyahu inserted some edits into his plan.
Those edits might be the kind of edits that would make it impossible to get a deal, because it uh it allows Israel to have uh indefinite um military control of Gaza, no matter what else is happening.
So the the other parts of the plan would be things like you know, the Arab countries would help you know monitor and uh and manage the place, and the uh the Palestinians who had lived there could move back, and but Hamas Hamas will be gone, Hamas will be no more, so they're they wouldn't be allowed to be in charge.
But until all the the risk of terrorism is removed, according to Israel, Israel can keep its military there.
That would be the plan.
Do you think Hamas will agree that Israel can have perpetual maybe military control of Gaza?
I don't know.
That might be a problem.
So uh let's look down some of the things.
Let's see.
Hamas has three or four days to respond, according to Trump, and uh Netanyahu had to apologize to Qatar for uh military action in Qatar that took out uh Hamas leaders and negotiators, and I guess Qatar just needed an apology, so Netanyahu gave him one.
I I can't imagine that was the most sincere apology.
What did that sound like?
Uh, we're totally sorry that we had this hugely successful raid in your country.
We'll definitely not do that again, unless we need to.
All right.
Um, let's see, what else uh is on that uh the countries that might be managing Gaza would be Saudi Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey, because you know those guys all get along great, so it should be no problem at all.
Um and then if all the the new proposal um gives Israel a veto over the disarming of Hamas and things.
So I think the problem will be that if that Israel is looking to have some permanent kind of control, even if it's not pick up the garbage kind of control, if it's only military.
So we'll see.
And Hamas says they're taking it seriously, and they're gonna look at it, we'll find out.
So um, one possibility is that Israel knows that Hamas will never accept any kind of a deal.
Part of it also is release the hostages in 72 hours, I think.
But if you assume that Hamas will never accept anything reasonable, then all it does is give Netanyahu free pass to keep pounding them because keep negotiating this thing while Israel continues to pound them, and they'll just say, hmm, I don't know.
Maybe we should add this thing, maybe we should add a little bit, a little tweak, and they'll get another week to pound them.
So I don't even know if it's a serious offer or Israel is just cynically uh sort of saying, yeah, yeah, we totally agree with this.
We'll totally do this.
So I guess you can't blame us for war, because we already agreed to peace.
So if Hamas doesn't agree, well, then they're just bringing it upon themselves, wouldn't you say?
So I think Israel wins either way.
They win if they get the end of uh fighting in one way, and they would win a different way if they got a better excuse to keep fighting.
Well, look, we've offered, we made this totally totally reasonable offer, And they rejected it.
So what are you gonna do?
I guess the fighting goes on.
It's all Hamas's fault.
So anyway.
Um Netanyahu is becoming uh hilarious in his praising of Trump, because obviously he knows that he needs to stay on Trump's good side, but he's doing it with such a heavy hand.
Um here are some things that Netanyahu said, I think just yesterday about President Trump.
There's no one like him.
He's an incredible friend, an ally of Israel.
Uh, I don't decide a thing for President Trump.
He is the most independent leader and amazing leader that I've seen in all my years.
In all of his years, he's the best leader.
Uh and here's my advice.
You want to dial that back about 20%.
It's it's good to say good things about Trump, especially if you believe them.
But if you go too far, it looks like you're fucking with us.
It doesn't look like you're serious at all.
I mean, if you go from uh he's the most independent leader and amazing leader that I've seen in all my years, that's that's right up to the line.
Because after that, what do you have after that?
Um he can fly in his own power.
We think he has godlike powers.
Uh he might be psychic.
I mean, it gets crazy after that.
So you know dial it back about 20%.
Well, Eric Swalwell uh reminds us why Democrats can never be in power again.
He announced uh he actually said this out loud in public, that uh he says when Democrats win in 2026, accountability is coming, and uh that they'll investigate private citizens who work for Trump will subpoena the DOJ and also private actors who have done these drug deals with the administration, he calls them drug deals, and here's my advice.
Once again, we always talk about how Democrats don't understand human motivation.
Why are you telling us you're gonna do this if you win?
Doing it after you win might make some sense, right?
Because then you've already won.
Saying it before you get there just makes us try harder to make sure you don't win.
Well, what exactly were you trying to accomplish by inspiring us to try harder to make sure you never have power again?
Well, telling us you'll go after private citizens will get you there.
Uh Senator uh John Fetterman is uh telling us that he's not gonna switch parties, he's just sort of likes common sense and doesn't think the Democrats are always doing the common sense thing.
But uh I saw Dana Prino on the five um say what I would have said in this situation, which is Fetterman is very cleverly taking what could be called the Joe Manchin strategy, which is if you can credibly become the only Democrat who's sometimes not often,
but sometimes willing to vote with the Republicans, then everybody has to kiss your ass from now until the end of time, because they can't afford to lose that one vote.
Things just are too close.
So maybe it won't be that close after after 2026, but I've got a feeling that he's gonna Joe Mansion this thing, which would be brilliant, it would be exactly the right thing to do, and smarter than switching to the Republicans.
If he switches to the Republican Party, he will be considered the you know least good Republican because he's practically a Democrat.
But if he stays Democrat, he's got all the power.
All right, Don Lemon said in public that white men are deeply broken, and that's why they resort to violence.
Okay.
I think Joy Reed was on another podcast, uh saying bad things about white people too.
Um, but I'm gonna give you some DEI reframing in case you find yourself in a conversation About DEI.
Ready?
Um, here's what most of us have been saying, including me, and I keep realizing that it doesn't work at all.
If you say the DEI is racist, nobody cares, nobody cares.
There's no Democrat who's gonna say, Oh, oh, I didn't, I didn't realize that.
Yeah, that's it's kind of racist.
Yeah, so we should cut it out.
Nobody cares if the if let me use an analogy.
If a billionaire lost a dollar, would you feel bad for them?
A billionaire lost one dollar.
No, you wouldn't.
Because if somebody's powerful, you don't feel empathy for them.
You just say, ah, I'd rather be you than me.
So likewise, if you're a white guy, and you say to anybody who's a democrat, oh, this is racist, the Democrats will say, so you probably had it coming after hundreds of years of you being the patriarchy and you getting all the good stuff and you know, all that.
So what if it's a little bit racist against you?
You know, you've got that coming.
So, as an argument, forget about what's right or wrong.
As an argument, no persuasion at all.
But I'm gonna give you a better version of that.
I just came up with that this morning.
Did you know that there are multiple studies that show that redheads are discriminated against for employment?
Did you know that?
Redheads are very discriminated against in employment.
It's it's repeatable.
A number of studies have found the same thing.
So instead of saying that your problem is it's racist against white people, which you will never prevail in, even though it's true, you say, here's my problem with DEI.
It's not about anybody's gender or race or culture.
You could replace black people in the example with redheads, and you'd have the same problem.
So your boss would say, uh-oh, the order came down, I have to get more redheads because we don't have enough redheads, and then they try to hire you know high technically capable redheads, but everybody's doing it too.
All the other companies are hiring redheads.
How long will it take before you run out of top shelf redheads?
About a minute, and you ran a red you're on a redheads that are like really the top employees.
But what do you do?
If you run out of the top level redheads, but you gotta hire redheads, or else you lose your bonus because your boss told you you gotta you gotta get some diversity, and that includes the redheads.
What are you gonna do?
You're gonna lower your standards because that's what the incentive system has given you.
Once again, I remind you that Democrats don't understand human motivation, and it's behind all of their mistakes.
It's the same thing, it's behind all their mistakes.
So the argument would be if you can get somebody to agree that you would have the same problem with a redhead, such that if Charlie Kirk were still alive and he got on a flight, and he saw that a redhead was the uh pilot of the ship, he would ask himself reasonably, reasonably, I wonder if that redhead only got in there because of DEI.
So the best argument, I think, if you could get somebody to listen to you for more than you know 10 seconds, is that you could replace um black or brown or women or uh LGBTQ, you could replace any of them with redheads, and you would still have a gigantic problem.
It's it's the math of it, and it's the fact that the system guarantees that people do the wrong thing, it guarantees it.
It's not maybe, it guarantees the managers will do the wrong thing and lower their standards because that's how they make the money anyway.
Try that out.
Let me know if that works for you.
It would only work for somebody who's willing to sit there and listen.
It's it's not gonna work for a quick hit on X. Well, we're learning now, the Transportation Security Administration is learning that there was a uh apparently people were Added to the TSA watch list under Biden if they were known mask resistors.
Can you believe that?
The people who are known as sort of activists against mask mandates, they were put on the no-fly zone.
No flight list.
That is so wrong at a level that I just go, what?
That really happened.
I live I lived through that because I was an anti-mask activist.
Is it possible that I was added to the no-fly list and I didn't know it?
I mean, I did fly, but oh, but when I flew, I was not yet being uh vocal about masks that came after that.
I haven't flown.
Yeah, I haven't flown since then, but for other reasons.
So I might actually be on some kind of no-fly terrorist list just because I made a big deal about we got to get rid of these masks now that now that we know for sure that they don't make any difference.
All right.
According to Medscape, Jeff Craven's writing, this is a sharp rise and what they call cognitive disabilities in young adults.
Now we're not even talking about autism and ADHD.
They're talking about concentration, memory, and decision making.
They're saying that's way down.
Um I don't know what the cause of that is.
I mean, you could speculate all the the usual causes from food to lack of sleep to I don't know.
You you could imagine a lot of possible answers.
But I have uh one possibility that I think people would miss, which is that the world itself is getting increasingly complicated.
If you take somebody with a with a brain that's perfectly suited for the 1800s, as an hey, this is cousin Bob, he's not too bright, but all he has to do is uh milk the cows.
Could cousin Bob milk the cows and not have any problems with concentration, memory, or decision making?
Yeah, no decision, not much concentration.
So if all you're doing is milking a cow, yeah, you're perfectly fine.
But what if you have to navigate your smartphone in school and try to figure out how to get into college and you know, just getting from one place to another is a nightmare.
Um, everything is so much more complicated, mostly with online stuff, that it could be that the people haven't changed, but the the challenge of just surviving life in 2025 uh causes some people to just not be able to hold all the memories, not be able to handle the decision making, etc.
So it could be that the people didn't change the environment did.
So I'll I'll just throw that out there.
You know, I wouldn't I wouldn't bet my life that that's the answer, but maybe.
Well, allegedly, President Xi, according to the telegraph, uh had asked Trump to oppose Taiwan independence in return for a trade deal.
Does that sound like something we should do to oppose Taiwan independence so you could get a trade deal?
Well, here's the fun part.
You know how I always tell you that Trump is uh incredible at creating a fake asset so he has something to negotiate away.
Apparently, the Biden administration had something on the website that's saying it did not support Taiwan's independence, they wanted to just sort of keep things the way they are because then China doesn't get mad at you, etc.
And then Trump removed it.
So what uh I think what China wants is that in order in return for you know a trade deal, which we want, uh, they would want us to put back on the website that we do not support Taiwan's independence, we only support the status quo or something like that.
And uh so that would suggest again that Trump created an asset by taking that off the website, which didn't cost us anything, and now in order to put it back on the website and probably also say it out loud, uh They would give us a trade deal.
Now, I'm assuming that that would be a better deal than if we don't do that.
So we somehow again created an asset out of nothing.
I don't know how that will work, but that was interesting.
And then related to that, um, apparently there's a uh plan to uh U.S. plan well, it's I think it's already in motion, they're gonna pressure Taiwan to move 50% of their chip production to the US or lose our military protection.
Ars Technica's reporting on that.
So um even the Trump officials say that that's impossible.
Um I think uh Jensen Wang of uh NVIDIA uh just two years ago had estimated that moving that production that well, the uh the pipeline basically, moving the entire pipeline to the US might take 10 to 20 years, might take two decades, but we're pushing uh Taiwan to get that done or to lose our support, military support, I guess.
So I think it's the right direction, and asking asking companies and the government to do things that look impossible is not really the worst idea because lots of times you can figure out how to do things that looked impossible.
But if you say, here's the deal, we're gonna leave you to China's military unless you can do this in two years, probably they get it done in two years, because they're not gonna wait around for China's military to be running their islands.
So I'd say remain skeptical of that, but it probably makes a lot of sense to put that out there as a as an objective.
Well, Scott Pressler and Nicole Shanahan are uh two people who are gonna work on getting uh petition in California for voter ID and get it on the ballot.
It would still have to win on the ballot, which I think it could actually.
So they would just have to get enough signatures to get it on the ballot.
They're trying to get a million.
Um, and uh that would end a particular kind of cheating because you'd have to have uh an ID to vote.
And uh I'll bet you they can get a million signatures for that.
I'll bet you they can.
So according to the New York Post, uh JP Morgan Chase has now has more employees in Texas than in New York, and I guess it's part of a trend where people are especially money people moving stuff out of New York because it's just too darn expensive and uh complicated to do business there.
So Texas is winning, and New York is losing.
Here's a study that maybe you could have known the answer.
San Diego State University did this and discovered that um the temperature of your food and beverages will influence your digestive health, and as you know, your stomach is part of your brain, so it affects how you feel your your mood and everything else.
Now, um did you already know that?
Apparently, cold drinks can uh increase your anxiety and disturb your uh sleep, so just the temperature, not even not even the nature of the food, just the temperature of it, and uh on the other hand,
well, warm food um can make you feel you know more relaxed and less anxious and less depressed, and uh so I don't know if science, so who knows if it's true, but have you ever noticed have you ever had this experience where you're not super hungry, but you have to eat something warm.
Have any of you had that experience?
You're not super hungry, but man, you need something warm, and it's not because you're cold, so it's not about the temperature of the outside world, you just need a warm thing that you can chew on, right?
It's not just me, right?
So, what would drive that?
Because you don't have that feeling all the time.
It's just every now and then you'll be like, oh my God, I so need something warm.
You know, if I'm doing DoorDash looking at the menus, you know, I'll go to find a food item that's delicious.
It's one of my favorite foods, but it's not warm.
And I say, I I gotta have warm tonight, not every day, but right now I gotta have warm.
So I think I would have guessed that warm food warm food makes you feel better.
I think I would have guessed.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for you today.
I will remind you that these books up on my bookshelf that you can see over there, the ones on the top shelf.
The four of them are the ones that would change your life the most.
So it's had a failed almost everything, still win big, uh, loser think, win bigly, and reframe your brain.
And the reason I mention it is because I think I saw, I'm not going to mention who it was, but at least two notable people, um, you know, top executive types, uh, saying things that clearly came from me.
Very clearly came from me.
And a lot of it is from these books.
So you'll uh now time has gone by so that people don't quote the book.
It's just something they know.
So a lot of the things that I wrote uh over the years have morphed into common knowledge, so that people just treat it like it's common knowledge now.
If you want to see all of the common knowledge before other people start using it, those are the books to read.
I'll go further and say, I don't believe that anybody could read those four books and not have a more successful life.
I I think it would be impossible because they're written to make a change in you whether you want to or not.
You know, I'm a hypnotist.
So I write it, so it's gonna it's gonna sink into you no matter how hard you try.
You don't have to try.
You just have to read it.
I I do the rest.
The the part where I attach it to you and make it part of you, that's on me.
That's what I do.
You don't have to do any work.
You just read it and have a good time.
They're all written so that they'll be funny and interesting, so they're they're all they're all good reads.
The best the best reviewed book I've ever written by far, is uh reframe your brain.
Uh the you should see the reviews on that.
It's unbelievable the reviews.
It's uh it's a five-star review.
That's my only five stars.
The others are four and a half, which is pretty good.
All right, I'm gonna say a few words privately to the locals, beloved local subscribers.
