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Well, I wonder if there's any science they didn't need to do because they could have just asked me.
So a post by Dr. Rhonda Patrick says that there's a study that shows if you engage in creative skill-based activities, that your biological brain will be six years younger.
So you should be doing stuff like dancing and music and visual arts or gaming.
Gaming?
Really?
Well, I've been telling you this for a long time.
This is actually pretty old news.
If you keep your brain flexible, it'll last longer.
That is why I took up trying to learn the drums a few years ago, because I knew that that would be good for my brain.
It's also why I have a ping-pong table, because it turns out that racket sports are really good for your brain.
And I produce creative content every day, which is why I'm so darn young.
So yes, creativity keeps your brain younger.
Well, here's the least surprising thing in technology.
You know, Amazon owns the Ring Camera Company.
And now they're going to partner with Flock, which is another outdoor camera company that networks them all together and uses AI.
So the least surprising thing in the world is that the companies with big security cams will connect together and add AI and we will be fully, fully surveilled.
Poverty and IQ Correlations00:03:55
Now, I remind you that when I talk about privacy, most of you say, no, don't take my privacy.
And others say, well, usually almost all of you say, don't take my privacy.
I don't say that, but not because I don't want it to go.
Because it's going.
There's no way you can maintain privacy in a world of high-tech in the future.
So I've decided it's not going to be my fight because it's unwinnable in the long run.
Not that I want it to go that way, but it is unwinnable.
Well, I guess the Martin Luther King family, their estate, talked to OpenAI because they didn't like how AI was allowing people to make images out of Dr. King.
So OpenAI says they're going to stop doing that.
So people won't be able to use King as one of their AI creativity things.
So I wonder how many other people will be thrown into that category.
So really what it is, is that authorized representatives or states can request that the licenses not be used.
So I suppose I can do that too.
I could request that they not do me or Dilbert, because I'm a public figure.
Do you think they would honor that?
If I told OpenAI to not use any images of me or the Dilbert characters forever, do you think it could pull that off?
I don't know.
I don't feel like it would apply to me.
I had a long conversation yesterday with Grok and then followed up with OpenAI today to see if it would have any different opinion.
And here's what Grok says about the reason that black and white Americans have different levels of income.
Are you interested what the AI said?
Because it gave me an explanation I'd never heard before.
So here is Grok explaining to me yesterday why black and white Americans have different income levels.
You ready for this?
Starts with slavery, obviously, and then the ripple of slavery and systemic racism.
Then we come to the present, and that causes poverty.
So you have more poverty in one group than the other.
Poverty, here's the part I didn't know.
Poverty is highly correlated with being exposed to lead, as in lead paint and lead pipes.
Lead is highly correlated with reducing IQ.
When IQ is reduced, so is income.
And that was most of what Grok said was the difference in income between black and white Americans.
Lead.
And back it up with science.
It's not 100%.
But according to Grok and also OpenAI, if you adjust for poverty, if you look at people the same income level, the IQ differences go away.
Or they become so small that effectively they go away.
So that's what AI says.
It's lead paint.
Anyway.
According to Scott Besant, Treasury Secretary, the U.S. ran a nearly $200 billion surplus in September, and the deficit shrank by $41 billion.
I don't know what any of that means.
Wait Hours for Better Answers00:04:41
Doesn't it feel like it's missing all kinds of context?
I guess it's good that we ran a surplus instead of a deficit, but I'm not really even sure what that means.
I need more details, but it sounds good.
There's a study that shows that, according to user Dexerto, there's a study that shows that AI chatbots will give you better research if you're rude to them.
Does that make sense to you?
If you're rude to your AI, it'll give you better answers.
Well, last night, coincidentally, I asked Grok if it would give me better answers if I were polite.
And it said yes.
So I don't know.
Does it give you better answers if you're polite or better answers if you're rude?
So I ended up being rude because it kept not answering my questions, you know, in the topic I was telling you about.
So I had to actually yell at it, OpenAI.
I had to just get really mean to OpenAI or it wouldn't answer my questions.
So it literally had to be mean.
It was going to give me just, well, you know, people say things.
I'm like, you're right, but what's the data?
Well, you know, like, okay, but what's the data?
Just tell me the data.
Well, you know, and I just have to yell at it, like, stop, stop doing this.
Stop avoiding the question.
Stop being a jerk.
then it answered my question so um so i tried again You know, I use AI tools so you don't have to, so you can see if they work.
So apparently the best of the apps that turn things into video is Sora 2 Pro, which I have.
So I tried it once, and I thought maybe I don't know how to use this thing right because I wasn't getting a good result.
So I tried it again yesterday, and here's what I've learned.
Sora 2 Pro, once you ask it for a video, the time it will take to produce the video could be anywhere from seconds to minutes to hours, to hours.
My experience is that it's almost always hours.
I've got one that's been cooking since yesterday.
Now, as an artist of sorts, I guess I'm sort of an artist.
If I were going to create a little video that I wanted to be viral or I wanted it to be a scene of a movie from one of my books or something like that, how many times do you think I would want to tweak each little video to get it just the way I wanted?
How many adjustments do you think I'd have to make?
I estimate 20 to 50, 20 to 50.
Because I was trying to do, you know, God's Debris, my fiction book.
And I say, all right, it's an old man in a plaid blanket by the fireplace.
And then it produces one.
And then I look at the face.
I go, hmm, I want it to look older and friendlier.
Now, I have to wait hours for that.
Hours.
That's just one tweak.
And then I look at it, I'll go, hmm, no, maybe even older and friendlier.
And I have to come back the next day.
So if you have to do 20 to 50 tweaks, and I think that's a reasonable estimate, and each one takes 10 hours, that's not a product.
What could you use that for?
As far as I can tell, the only thing it's useful for is that somebody will put in one sentence and it'll produce something that they didn't imagine exactly, but the AI created something that they wanted to display.
So you get this misleading impression that somebody used Sora 2 to make something that they wanted to make.
Not really.
What they did was they initiated it and it made something it wanted to make.
But if you want to close the gap between what the user wants it to make and what it wants to make on its own, I don't think they can do it.
I don't think it's a real product yet.
Not if it takes hours for every tweak.
In other news, there's some kind of new movie coming out.
UFOs and IVF Misconceptions00:03:02
It's going to be a big deal, The Age of Disclosure.
And it's going to talk about the alleged ongoing cover-up of the UFOs that have been visiting us for years.
And I guess Marco Rubio is in this and says that UFOs have been observed over restricted U.S. nuclear facilities and that they're definitely things not from this world.
So there's going to be a whole bunch of people saying that they have direct evidence of UFOs and UFO bodies and stuff like that.
Now, do you think any of that's true?
I'm going to stick with, no, there are no UFOs.
No.
You're not going to see one.
No, there are no UFOs.
At least there are no aliens.
I'd love to be wrong.
Love to be wrong about that, but no.
Trump announced some plans to reduce IVF prices, which should be popular.
There were a lot of people on the left as well as the right who wanted IVF to be more practical, but it's crazy expensive.
However, Trump thinks he can get the cost down about 73%, according to one estimate.
So he would do things like, let's see, he's going to allow people to opt in for insurance.
So IVF could be just part of your normal healthcare insurance.
That would take your costs down.
There's a drug maker who makes fertility medication that apparently they've beaten up to lower the price quite a bit.
That should help.
And he's basically beating up companies to lower the prices.
There's something else they did.
Oh, and they're looking for FDA approval of something that's already approved in Europe.
So I guess if he does all three things, which all look doable, the IVF will come down way down.
Will he get credit for that?
Probably not.
Probably not.
Scott didn't know who Gary Nolan is.
I know who Gary Nolan is.
Why are you such an asshole?
When people talk about me in the comments, I know who Gary Nolan is.
I know he's a UFO guy, and I know that he has no credibility, in my opinion.
So why are you talking about me and just making shit up?
If you're going to talk about me, it should at least be accurate and not like mind reading.
Oh, I read his mind.
I read his mind and I saw what he doesn't know in there.
You don't know what I do and do not know.
You don't fucking know what I know.
So stop saying that you know what I know or don't know.
You don't know.
You couldn't possibly.
Paul Merlucky's Plan00:15:09
Anyway.
So I guess Paul Merlucky, the CEO billionaire of Endur Industries, it's a high-tech weapons manufacturer.
He was done.
Joe Rogan had made some news.
I guess they're introducing some kind of helmet called that has eagle eye technology, they call it.
And it allows you to do everything from seeing a heads-up display of the war zone to, I don't know, you can see through, see through the fog, and you can call in airborne support and stuff.
So basically, it's a helmet that turns a soldier into a super soldier.
As somebody pointed out, how much longer are we going to have soldiers?
Do you really want soldiers running around the battlefield?
Because they're just going to be killed by drones.
So I feel like having a super soldier has maybe a narrow window or a narrow application because the soldiers are not going to be running around on the ground underneath the drones.
That's going to end pretty soon.
It'll be all drones against robots.
Pretty soon.
Paperlucky also had an idea for how the U.S. should stage itself instead of getting involved in wars directly.
He thinks we should be the world's gun shop.
Of course, he makes weapons, so there's a little bit of self-interest involved in that suggestion.
But he thinks that if we were the most dependable place to get weapons and we were forceful about not getting involved in other people's wars, but happy to sell them weapons, that that would be our most stable, successful situation.
Because nobody wants to hurt their weapon source.
So if you sold weapons to both sides, they wouldn't attack you because you're their source of good weapons.
So there's something kind of brilliant about that, becoming the weapon seller instead of being the weapon user.
I'd have to think about it a little bit more, but I feel like it's on the border of a brilliant suggestion.
What do you think?
We could probably pull that off.
There's always going to be an exception where you feel you need to use weapons, but it would make sense for us to be everybody's favorite weapon store and not the user of the weapons.
Apparently also, Palmer Lucky told Joe Rogan that in China, the cheapest car that would be sort of equivalent of the low-end cars in the U.S. would only cost a Chinese resident $3,000 to $4,000 for a new car.
How do we compete with that?
So that would be competing with what would be about $17,000 for a new car in the U.S. So already, if you're Chinese, you can buy a $4,000 new car.
I mean, it would be the lowest low-end, but still a car.
So between their dark factories that are run entirely by robots and their expertise in manufacturing, and now the gigantic financial advantage they have, I don't know how we compete with them.
How the hell do we compete with that?
John Bolton got his indictment, 26-page indictment.
I think there were 18 items on him.
I think he was indicted for still having an AOL account.
Don't you go to jail for that if you still have an AOL account and you're using it?
Well, he was using his AOL account from 2018 through 19 to record his notes from meetings.
And apparently the accusation is some of those notes he wrote down on his AOL, which would be very unsecured, were confidential classified things and That would suggest that he sent them to somebody, the family member, and that he didn't protect them.
So I don't know if that's enough.
But if convicted, he's got 10 years in prison.
I don't think that's going to happen.
But basically, he was for having diary-like entries in AOL that tried to capture what happened in the classified meetings.
How much trouble is he in?
I don't know.
On one hand, I don't like the lawfare.
On the other hand, if the evidence is strong, well, that's why they have those laws.
But I can't imagine most people being convicted for this sort of thing.
I feel like it would be a no-jail term, but he would wish it didn't happen.
All right.
So we'll keep an eye on him, Mr. Mustache.
I guess Mom Dani had a debate with Cuomo for mayor of New York and made a little news.
But here's my take.
So Mom Dami, as you know, wants a lot of free stuff for poor people.
So he wants free buses, free childcare, help with rent, and I guess government grocery stores or something for poor people.
So he wants a bunch of things that would cost money.
And then the question is: where's the money come from?
Here's the part you have to watch out for.
He actually has an answer for that.
And it's a specific answer.
He wants to tax the top 1% in New York, another 2%, add it onto their taxes.
He wants the corporate taxes in New York to match New Jersey.
And he thinks if you do those two things, it will produce enough because he wants to raise taxes by $9 billion to pay for his programs.
Now, I don't know if he's got the math right, but here's what you have to worry about.
It occurred to me yesterday that if I were not canceled already, I could completely take over the Democratic Party.
Do you know how?
I would simply write down my plan and how to pay for it.
And that's it.
And I would win the primary and be the candidate.
Because the first person who can say, here's our set of problems that we're concentrating on, and here's my set of solutions.
And this is exactly how I plan to pay for it, even though you don't like it.
Of course, you don't want your taxes to go up.
Of course, you don't.
But given the alternatives, that's my plan.
Mom Dami's doing this.
He's doing it.
He's saying what he wants to do, which is exactly on point, which is lower expenses.
Perfect, politically perfect.
And then now he's saying exactly how he's going to pay for it.
And he's going to put that on corporations and the richest people.
Again, if you have to raise taxes, that's as good as you can do.
Right?
So here's why you have to worry about Mom Dami.
He seems to be the only person who's doing the smarter things to win an election.
And he's doing it.
It's so easy that he can do it within the context of being a commie/slash socialist.
The hardest thing you could do.
But as long as he does this one thing right, which is he clearly explains what he's trying to fix, affordability.
That was a cat on the keyboard.
And then he tells you how he's going to do it.
Even if you hate every part of his plan, it's a real plan.
And that's what it would take to win.
So I've been thinking that whoever did that is going to be the next, at least the next candidate for the Democrats for president.
It won't be Mom Dami, but he's sort of telling you how to do it.
You got to have the plan.
It has to meet what the people want, but you also have to say exactly how you're going to pay for it, no matter how much they hate it.
It's not a plan unless you say how you're going to pay for it.
You know, I've been making fun of what I call half pinions, where somebody will say, yes, we need to feed the poor.
Okay.
Well, that's half an opinion.
How are you going to pay for that?
If you don't have the other half, you don't have anything.
Mom Dami's a whole opinion guy, and the Democrats just don't even do that.
They don't do that.
They don't do whole opinions, but he does.
So if he's doing well, it's not an accident.
He's really good on TV.
He's really good on social media.
He looked like he was pretty good in the debate.
And he's the only person who has a complete plan, even if he hates it.
That's a strong package.
You could argue that it's pretty close to what Trump did for Republicans.
Well, today, I don't know if it's because it's a slow news week or what, but a lot of the news is about people, like individual, high-profile people.
So, you know, that story is about Mom Davy and the other story is about Palmer Lucky.
Here's one about Federman.
So Federman, as you know, is trying to be the reasonable person in the room, the common sense guy, which makes Democrats hate their own guy.
And they're talking about primarying him because he occasionally agrees with Republicans and they can't stand that.
But here's what's going on.
Tara Palmeri, who's got a podcast, asked Federman, how do Democrats win back white men like yourself?
And Federman said the only honest answer to that, I don't know.
And truthfully, I'm not sure if that's possible, to be honest.
Here's why it's not possible.
And I think, I believe Fetterman said some version of what I'm going to say.
As soon as you do identity politics, which is all Democrats do, identity, you have to have winners and losers, which means somebody is going to be marked as the evil one who is the reason that the other identities are not doing as well as they should.
Who's that?
It's men.
It's mostly white men, but it's men.
Men are the problem.
Men are the crime problem.
Men are supporting Trump too much.
Men, men, they're toxic.
So if your party is built around blaming men and trying to transfer resources from men to the roofs, when in the world are you going to win them back?
What would be the way to win back the people that you've demonized as the people who should be punished and robbed of their resources because they're men?
You can't win that.
As soon as the men realize what's going on, which, you know, I'm a little bit disappointed in how many years it took men to figure out that Democrats were not on their side.
But once they figured it out, which they very clearly have at this point, no, you can't fix that.
The only way you can fix that is to get rid of identity politics, and that would get rid of Democrats.
Like the entire Democrat concept would have to go away for them to get men back.
So it's not happening.
Anyway, don't blame a group of problems.
Don't blame some group for your problems and expect them to come to your party.
Then the next individual in the news, Jay Johnson.
I'm kind of tired of him.
He's that Democratic Virginia Attorney General who said insanely awful things in a private text message exchange about wanting his opponent to die and maybe even his children to die because that's the only way he'd get the message.
So he started his debate.
I guess he had a debate last night.
He started saying, I am ashamed.
I am embarrassed.
I am sorry.
So he apologized profusely for those words that he said.
Now, do you think that will hurt him in the election?
Probably not, because the only thing that the Democrats care is that a Democrat wins.
I don't think they really care what he said.
And I really don't think they care that he said something violent about Republicans.
I don't think anybody cares.
Yeah, and I don't think he's necessarily embarrassed or ashamed either.
So don't believe any of that.
But in the long run, it probably will make no difference whatsoever.
He'll probably just win the election.
Kamala Harris, she is so pathetic that it really is entertaining every time she's in public.
And she says that Gen Z is afraid to have kids because of climate anxiety.
He says they're experiencing what they've coined climate anxiety, blah, blah, blah.
So they don't even want to have kids.
To which I say, do you think there was some point where she took any responsibility for that?
Does she think that the climate anxiety is because of the climate?
Because that's not what's happening.
The climate has barely changed.
The reason there's climate anxiety is because there are Democrats and Kamala Harris.
It's not the climate.
The climate didn't scare anybody.
If we weren't talking about the climate, do you think anybody would be not having kids?
Because they looked at the weather.
They looked outside and said, oh, wow, there were no named hurricanes this year.
Climate Anxiety Debunked00:15:58
Do you realize that?
There are no named hurricanes.
We went a whole year without one.
Yeah, that's how bad it is.
Not a single named hurricane.
So, yes, Kamala Harris, you are the reason that civilization will be destroyed by underpopulation.
Do you think she's aware that she's one of the people who might be destroying the entire world with her opinions by keeping people from reproducing?
No, doesn't know it.
I wasn't aware of this because I didn't pay attention to local politics, but I guess several years ago, there was this thing in San Francisco, Prop C. And Mark Benioff, who's the Salesforce founder and CEO, he was one of the main people behind it because Salesforce has a big presence in San Francisco.
And the idea was that it would help solve the homeless problem.
There'd be a bunch of money involved.
So they'd solve the homeless and crime problem in the streets and get rid of the tents and everything.
So six years later, how do you think it looks?
The answer is: apparently, a whole bunch of money went into it and absolutely nothing happened.
Half a billion dollars and no change whatsoever.
So how many times have you heard billions of dollars were allocated to solve the homeless problem and then years later it's exactly the same?
Do you know how many times you've heard that?
Every time it's been tried.
Do you know why?
Because it's Democrats.
What happens to the money?
It all gets stolen.
That's it.
Every time they fund anything that's like a big program, they just steal the money.
And then a few years later, we go, wait, where's all the money?
Do you remember the, was it De Blasio's wife who had billions of dollars to do something for poverty, and she can't tell you where the money went?
Billions, billions.
Can't tell you where it went.
Or about Stacey Abrams, we'll talk about her.
$2 billion for her boondoggle.
Where'd that money go?
So every time Democrats fund anything, they make the same, well, I'll call it a mistake, but maybe it's intentional.
They don't have auditing.
They don't have transparency.
They don't have any reporting.
They just steal the money.
That's all they do.
They just make sure that whoever's job it is to pick the vendors, just pick crooked vendors, probably get a kickback.
But this is yet another Democrat-led program that really just took a bunch of money and gave it to crooks.
And that's all it did.
Just took their money, gave it to Crooks.
End of story.
Well, here's a little data mystery.
Maybe you can answer for me.
CNN's Harry Enton, who I'm a big fan of his work on CNN.
He said that the Democrat chance of winning the House in the midterms had been as high as 83% in April, but now it's down to 63.
And he's reporting that as a momentous drop.
But it would still say there's a two out of three chance that the Democrats are going to win the midterms.
How does that match up with the likelihood that the Supreme Court will change the Voting Rights Act enough to open up a bunch of seats for Republicans that had not been Republican seats before?
And also, the potential for redistricting, which would create some more Republican seats.
So I'm getting two opposite stories.
One is that because of the redistricting changes that are happening and also likely to happen, Supreme Court, if it goes the way we think, would make it almost a slam dunk that Republicans would win the midterm.
But the polls are still reporting it as two out of three chance that it's going to go to Democrats.
So which is it?
Those are completely opposite stories.
Is it that when they do the polling, people are not informed about the redistricting part?
So they're just saying in a perfect world how they would vote.
So I feel like the poll numbers are the least predictive.
And what's more predictive is how many redistricting seats get opened up.
And we don't know that yet, but it looks like it could be a lot.
Well, Trump has refiled his $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times and also against Penguin Books, because there's some book that said some things they didn't like.
And New York Times said some things that he didn't like.
So I guess he had already filed this lawsuit, but had been kicked back for being too broad or too big, I guess.
Not dollar-wise, but too lengthy.
So I guess he had to shorten the actual claim, and now he has.
So we'll see if he gets money from the New York Times.
I will point out that Penguin Random House, or at least one subset of Penguin, is who canceled all of my books.
So a different imprint, as they call it.
Within a publisher, there are sometimes categories within the publishing house.
And the one I was in was a portfolio portfolio.
So that's a business-focused imprint of Penguin.
So they're the ones who canceled me.
And now it looks like Trump's going to cancel their entire publishing operation if he wins this.
So we'll see.
You know, I never really got mad at my publishers for canceling me because the people who had to make the decisions were just making business decisions.
It wasn't about me personally.
So I don't mind if somebody makes a business decision, but I also don't mind if they get sued out of business if they have it in common.
Well, the No Kings event will be this weekend, tomorrow.
And Democrats have decided that the way to deal with the fact that they have no power and they don't like what's happening is that they'll march around on a weekend and pay some senior citizens to get some sun.
And they think that'll fix things.
But it's caused people to look into their funding, and it's as Byzantine as you think.
When you see the charts of where their funding comes from, definitely from the rich Democrats, I think Soros is implicated in a lot of the funding.
But it's essentially a paid theatrical event.
It doesn't really have a political purpose because there's no way it could affect anything politically.
But it will make news and it will entertain us.
We'll look at it.
So it's basically a theatrical event with paid actors, literally paid actors.
And so that's government.
So people like Governor Newsom, who, no matter what his flaws are, he is a thinking, reasonable, common sense person.
He doesn't always act that way because he's a Democrat.
But fundamentally, he's a completely functional, smart, common sense human being.
So what would a smart, common sense human being say about this no kings event that clearly has no purpose whatsoever?
So what would he say about it if he's being honest?
Well, well, he said, I urge our nation to use this weekend's no-kings marches as a declaration of independence against the tyranny and lawlessness currently running this country.
So what tyranny and lawnness are they looking to correct?
Are you aware of the tyranny and lawlessness?
I'm pretty sure that the lawlessness is being handled by the courts every single day.
Because every time the court says you can't do that, does Trump say I'm going to do it anyway?
Or does he lawyer up and go to court and then obey the court?
Well, as far as I know, in every single instance, he's gone with what the court ordered.
Is there any exception to that?
I'm not aware of any.
So I don't know how the lawlessness has been working out since not a single thing has gone against the law and stayed that way.
Some things like the court said you can't do that, but then they didn't do that.
And it happened pretty quickly.
What about the tyranny?
Are any of you experiencing any tyranny?
I guess that would be the ICE officers doing the job that all presidents have done before that.
They're basically doing the same job, but they're wearing masks because they're being doxxed.
It's the only thing different.
The only thing different is they have to wear masks because the Democrats are doxing them.
Otherwise, it's less deportation than the last three presidents, I think.
The last two.
I don't know about Biden.
But certainly Clinton and Obama both deported more people, right?
So there's your tyranny.
But it's good that it's good that the Democrats now have a stated position because I wasn't so sure, show sure, I wasn't so sure if they were in favor of lawlessness and tyranny or if they were against it.
But now finally, finally, we have an answer.
They are strongly against tyranny and lawlessness.
Aren't you happy about that?
Sorry, I'm all parched today.
Anyway.
So speaking of all this lawlessness, PJ Media is reporting on how California finally found at least what happened to some of their billions of dollars for solving homelessness.
Guess what happened to it?
Let's see if you can guess.
So California had a homeless problem a few years ago, and then they passed billions of dollars to fix the homeless problem, and then no homeless problem got fixed.
Why do you think that happened?
Could it be that the money was stolen by Democrats?
Yes, it was all stolen.
I don't think any of it was employed.
It was just like all stolen.
So they've caught two entities that were deeply involved in the theft.
There must be a lot more.
But at what point do you notice the pattern?
Democrats approve some money for some problem that's probably not even the problem they can solve.
You know, they act like they can solve climate, which they can't.
It's just not the way to give money to their cronies.
And they act like they can solve homelessness by building homes, which everyone who actually knows about homelessness knows that that wouldn't solve homelessness because the reason they're on the streets is because they want to do drugs or they have a mental problem.
It has nothing to do with lack of homes.
So even the things that they say they're going to spend money on, it doesn't need it.
Or it wouldn't work if you did spend the money.
So in a way, it doesn't matter if it was stolen anyway.
It's not going to make any difference.
It does matter because it's our money, of course.
But it's hard to miss the pattern.
Like I said, Stacey Abrams, now she shut down her nonprofit.
Do you think that her nonprofit did a lot of good work and used the money productively?
Or do you think it was just a way to steal more money from Democrats?
It was probably just a way to steal money, like every single other Democrat program that's not audited and not transparent.
I wondered why this took so long.
The AP is reporting that a judge has ordered the ICE agents in Chicago to wear body cams.
They were not wearing body cams already.
Feels like they should have.
So maybe this will solve some problems.
You know, some people say that Black Lives Matter was destroyed as an organization because they got what they asked for, body cams.
And then people found out there was no baseline problem there in the first place because they watched the body cams.
So could that happen with ICE?
Probably not.
I feel like the ICE encounters, you know, ICE might be pushing pretty hard, harder than the street police would push.
Now, some of that would be their, you know, they're encountering MS-13 and Trendaragua and everything else.
So I'm not sure you want to see what's on the body cams when it goes that deep.
You know, it's one thing if your body cam is about one person you pulled over in a car or one apartment that you entered and there was a bad guy there.
But if you're dealing with gangs, are you able to be as civilized?
Are your law enforcement people sticking to all the rules when they're dealing with a gang?
Or they just have to do whatever it takes because sometimes you have to just do whatever it takes.
I don't know.
So we'll see.
If they have to wear the body cams, I guess we'll see if it changes anything.
Meanwhile, in Tijuana, the cartels have now used a drone to drop bombs on a state police installation.
Now, I don't think there was too much damage, but cartels now have an Air Force so that they can drop bombs from drones.
Now, I think the cartels would be insane if they used it directly against American assets.
So maybe that stuff might stay in Mexico.
But that's what's coming.
All right.
I don't know how long it will be before bombs are dropping from drones in the United States and the homeland, but it's definitely going to happen.
Maybe not from the cartels, might be from terrorists.
Allegedly, Toyota is going to launch the first electric vehicle with what they call solid-state batteries.
It would charge faster and last longer and everything.
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But others have pointed out to me that this would not be the first time that Toyota said they had a solid-state battery, but they don't.
So maybe they don't.
Maybe they don't.
Venezuela is getting a little freaked out because I guess the U.S. flew some B-52 bombers near their territory, which probably was specifically for making a point.
But I wonder what point they're making.
Because if Venezuela is really a cartel-driven, you know, narco-state, it's not like they're going to surrender or anything, right?
So what would be the point of a show of force against a non-traditional military?
Are we just trying to tell the Venezuelan military that if things go dark, you better just get out of the way and surrender?
So there must be some strategy to it to just rattle Venezuelans' military, I guess.
But it does suggest we're going in there.
It does suggest we'll be in there pretty soon.
Well, there's an update on the election machines.
Are you as fascinated as I am about the story of the Republican guy who bought Dominion, the election machine company that handles 27 states, including the entire state of Georgia?
Here are the things we know now for sure about Dominion now that it's been purchased, that their software was in fact developed in Canada and Belgrade, Serbia for two decades.
Are you comfortable that our voting machines software was written by in other countries?
That should be a little bit of a problem, right?
But apparently that will be worked on.
And the company says it's going to have a paper ballot of focus that leverages hand-bark paper ballots.
So, and they're going to use a third-party auditing.
So what is it I keep telling you allows the Democrats to always seal all the money for every program?
They don't have third-party auditing.
So when I hear third-party auditing, unless it's a track, it makes me think that they're serious about getting it right and making sure there's transparency.
Because you wouldn't even offer third-party auditing unless you were really serious about having a fair system.
And they're going to use domestic staffing and software.
I don't know if this means they're going to get rid of election machines or what would be the point of focusing on paper ballots if you also have machines.
Does anybody understand that?
If the paper ballots are going to be the definitive vote, but you're also running the machines in the same place, what are the machines for?
Because the vote would be based on the paper.
So there's something about the story I don't understand.
Maybe I will next time I talk to you.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, today's the day I get scanned to see if I can qualify for the good cancer drugs.
Don't know yet if I will, but that happens today.
So I'm not going to go long today because I got to prep for the scan.
I've got to start drinking water and doing stuff.
What I did find out is that even if I do qualify for the new cancer drug, it's called Pluvicto from Novartis, a Swiss company, that I won't necessarily know when I can get it.
So first the scan has to come out okay, which could be a problem.
I don't know if I can stay still for that long because of the pain, but I will have lots of pain medication.
But if I get qualified, it's going to take a few weeks even to approve me.
But then we don't know how long it will take to actually get it.
So even if I get approved, there's no known schedule for how long it would take to actually administer it.
So that could be a problem.
And I've been offered chemo as a, you know, maybe to keep me alive until then.
And I'm thinking, really?
I don't even think chemo works for this.
At least I've been told it doesn't.
But if I'm that close to death, they might need to come up with some scheme to keep me alive until I can get that drug.
So that's the exciting thing about having terminal cancer is you never really know.
Like, is today your last day?
You know, I'm sort of at that phase where I could fall out of my chair and be done at any minute.
Or not.
Or not.
Maybe the new thing works well enough to stall my demise until something that really works becomes available.
Apparently, there's some new, is it a protein or a molecule or something?
They found something that's, if they can turn it off, it would just turn off prostate cancer.
But they haven't quite perfected that yet, just in the lab.
All right.
I won't talk to the locals people privately today.
Like I said, I got to go.
Thought you'd all like the update, but I will give you an update tomorrow.