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Hey, I wonder if there's any science that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked me.
Oh, here we are.
According to Bianca Setchinago, there's a new research that says if you cluster unhealthy habits linked to higher depression, you'll have even worse depression.
Let me see.
Could I have figured this one out on my own?
So if you do a thing, one thing that's linked with making you depressed, it won't be as bad as if you did two things that would make you depressed individually.
I think I would have been all over that.
Yeah.
Yeah, next time, just ask me.
You probably heard a bunch of airports are cutting back service 10% today.
How many of you would go to an airport if you knew they'd cut back service 10% and you didn't know?
Is everybody in the same job today?
Or are people filling in for other people because of the 10% thing?
I'd be a little worried about flying today.
But 10% doesn't sound that bad unless you're flying on an airline that's part of a system that's 40 years away from being modernized.
So if I were you, if you can postpone your trip, maybe.
Maybe it'd be a good time.
I saw Elon Musk was doing a podcast and he had some useful advice about being useful.
And this is, you might recognize this as so exactly my opinion as well.
And I like it whenever the smartest person in the world agrees with me.
That always feels good.
It's like, wait, wait, he agreed with me?
Oh, that's cool.
So, here's his advice for young entrepreneurs.
He says, try to be as useful as possible.
And later he clarified, useful to the most number of people.
And that if you aspire to do that, and also something called true work, your probability of success is much higher.
Do whatever it takes to succeed.
Smash your ego, be humble.
It's a super big deal.
So you've heard me talk about getting your ego out of the process of success.
So you've heard me say that.
It's a great advice.
Be humble.
Just in general, it's a good thing.
Just to imagine that you don't have all the answers.
And maybe you're going to have to work hard to get the answers.
And be useful to the most number of people.
That's literally my mission in life.
That's why I'm doing this.
I'm literally doing it right now.
I could be giving advice to one person.
But as Elon would point out, wouldn't it be better if you gave advice to 100,000 people?
So that's what I'm doing.
Probably 100,000 people will see this eventually.
So great, great Elon Musk advice.
Be useful to the most number of people.
Speaking of Musk, SpaceX won a $2 billion golden dome contract.
So golden dome.
I'm sure there's a joke I can make about the golden dome.
It does sound like Trump's haircut, but apparently it's not.
It has something to do with shooting down incoming missiles.
But why did SpaceX get the contract and nobody else did?
They're the only ones who can do it.
Now, that's what I call useful.
How many of you can shoot down 600 incoming missiles at the same time?
You?
No?
You?
Anybody?
And then, like Elon, it's like, well, I can do that.
How many?
600?
Same time?
Yeah, I could probably do that.
What's more useful?
What would be more useful than shooting down incoming missiles if we were attacked?
Anyway, there are other legacy defense contractors.
That's what Mario Noffel is describing the mess.
Legacy defense contractors.
They've already spent decades and billions of dollars, and they haven't really gotten close to being able to solve it.
But SpaceX already has 10,000 satellites and the smartest people you're ever going to see.
So I feel like they can knock this off fairly quickly.
We'll see.
We have an Elon and you don't.
So according to Interesting Engineering, we may be nearing what they call the end of brain surgery.
They're working on, I guess we're kind of close to these injectable chips that will self-implant to treat brain disease safely.
So basically, you just give somebody a shot, and these tiny little programmed whatever they are, will find their way to your brain.
They can even pass the brain, the brain-blood, what is it?
Blood-brain barrier.
And it can find on its own, when I say on its own, it's programmed to do it, to the right part of the brain.
And then it just inserts itself into that part of the brain.
And apparently, it's wrapped in some kind of organic wrapper so that it's not rejected.
So it's part you, the organic wrapper part, and it's, or part human, whatever it is, and part machine.
So, the human part keeps it from being rejected totally, and the machine part does the cool stuff.
I don't know, is that going to work?
Do you think you were born into the time that you could get a shot in your arm, like from a needle, and it will fix your brain because little robots basically would go in there and just fix it?
Does that sound like something that's going to happen in your lifetime?
It really doesn't.
I don't know if it's going to happen or not, but it doesn't sound like something that's going to happen.
That sounds pretty aspirational.
Well, as you know, California had this thing called Prop 50 that passed by a pretty good margin.
And Prop 50 will allow the state to redistrict and get rid of those pesky Republicans entirely.
I don't know if it's entirely, but it's going to be close to entirely.
So, it pretty much is going to get rid of Republicans.
But, did you know that there's a high correlation between Democrats and people of color?
Did you know that?
Well, there is.
And so, there's also a correlation with race, not just party.
And so, they're being sued.
So, Gavin Newsom or the state or somebody is being sued because it's unconstitutional to have a racial gerrymandering.
Now, if they say, but but, but, but we're not doing it for racial reasons, then the argument would be, then why does it look exactly like you are?
But, but, but it's really just Democrats getting more and Republicans getting less, and that's just politics.
That's not race, that's just politics.
To which I say, hmm.
And yet, there is one other correlation that we're noticing here.
There's one other correlation.
So, I'm not so sure that this lawsuit will succeed.
I feel like it probably won't because all they have to do is say, no, no, no, it's about politics, and we make the decision based on how many Republicans there are, not based on how many white people there are.
But we'll see.
I mean, to me, it seems at least half racist.
You know, at the minimum, it's half racist.
I just don't know, is half racist enough to change it?
You know, you want it to be no racist, right?
Zero racist would be ideal.
I don't know.
We'll see.
What else is happening in the world of racism?
CBS just fired an experienced old white guy attorney.
He wasn't that old because he was a middle-aged man.
This is the Daily Mail is reporting.
So they replaced him with a black former intern because he was a middle-aged white man.
So that's how the Daily Mail is and Will Potter are describing it.
However, there's a lawsuit over that because you know what is the worst idea in the world?
Messing with a lawyer.
Here's some good advice for you.
Should you ever decide to mess with somebody, don't do it with somebody who doesn't have to pay to hire a lawyer because he is the lawyer.
I mean, maybe he is paying a lawyer.
I don't know.
But if you go after a lawyer, you're going to get sued.
And you're going to spend a lot of time figuring stuff out that the lawyer didn't have to figure out because they do it routinely.
I just fell down some paperwork.
I worked all day trying to figure out what your paperboard said.
I had to hire a lawyer to figure out what your paperwork said.
So never mess with a lawyer.
And by the way, I'm not saying this just because of the story.
This has been my lifetime, my lifetime advice.
I've given this advice a lot of times.
Don't mess with lawyers.
It's just all bad.
Just don't do it.
Just treat them right and they won't sue you.
But you're going to have to try extra hard just to make sure you don't get in that situation.
So that says CBS being racist, allegedly.
So I saw Mom Donnie.
By the way, it turns out that whoever is in charge of the dictation software on my Apple devices really hates Mom Donnie.
Because if you use the dictation feature, it says either Mom Domi, as in a mother who's also a Dominatrix, two worse, or Mom Dummy.
I swear to God, I'm not making this up.
It actually says Mom Dummy or Mom Domi.
Those are the two options you can get with voice.
So all morning I've been cursing at it.
It's like, no, no, it's Mom Donnie.
Mom Donnie.
M-O-M.
Anyway, so Mom Donnie had a new phrase which reminds you that it's not luck.
It's not luck that he got where he is.
There's something else going on.
It's not luck.
But here's what he said.
He said that he promised that the new age, he calls it, of relentless improvement, where the government will solve all your problems, according to the post-millennial.
Now, he didn't say the part about we'll solve all your problems.
That was narrative.
But he did say relentless improvement.
Now, you want to hear a real persuasion secret?
So this is behind the curtain stuff.
This is stuff nobody else is going to tell you.
All day long you hear about Mom Domi.
And unless they heard this from me, you're not going to hear it anywhere else.
You ready?
Whoever came up with the phrase relentless improvement, if they're also the same person, this is an if, if that's also the same person who came up with affordability as a keyword, that's who's in charge.
That's who's in charge.
Because whoever can operate at that level, that's way above normal political level.
That is wizardry.
That is total persuasion and wizardry.
This phrase, relentless improvement, compare that to how he's being attacked.
Now, again, if you're new to me, I'm not supporting Mom Domi, if anybody's new.
I'm not down with Mom Donnie.
I'm just talking about his skill set, which is useful to you.
So relentless improvement is the perfect response to you socialists giving away stuff kind of guy.
Socialism never works.
Everything goes bad after socialism, right?
What would be the one thing that every Republican thinks is true about Mom Donnie and his socialism coming to New York City?
The one thing that every Republican thinks is true is that it will certainly cause a guaranteed decrease in the quality of life over time.
And it will just keep getting worse, right?
Now, I'm not saying that's true or what's going to happen.
It's not a prediction, although it'd be a safe one.
I'm just saying that's what people think.
And if what you're thinking is that you're entering a period where things are just going to go bad forever, a really good counter to that is that we're entering a new age of relentless improvement.
Now, in order to do the relentless part, who would he have to copy?
Here's some more fun.
Who would Mom Donnie have to copy in order to sell his idea that he was pushing relentless improvement?
Trump.
Trump.
So every time he steals a page from Trump, but just, you know, pencils out Trump and puts it in his own name, brilliant.
Why wouldn't you use what works?
If it works, use it.
So here's my assignment for you.
The assignment is this.
Find out if Mamdani is the one who comes up with his own catchphrases.
If he comes up with his own catchphrases and he came up with affordability and also relentless improvement, I don't know what could stop him.
So you better hope he didn't do it.
You better hope he's getting advice, you know, because the advice can be separated from the person.
But if he's doing this himself, okay, he's got game, like you didn't know.
So find out if he has an advisor and then find out, secondly, if his advisor came up with both of those things, only one of them or none.
So we need to know that once you find the person who came up with those two things, if it's the same person, that person has a lot of power by being good at what they're doing.
Not power by office, but power by influence.
That would be a really influential person.
You can ask.
Please do.
Please ask.
All right, we'll find out.
Trump is drafting some executive orders on election integrity, according to the EPOC Times.
Tom Ozemik is writing about this.
Now, I thought that that was sort of a dead end.
I thought that the states have so much guaranteed authority over elections that it wouldn't even matter what Trump did.
They would just take it to court and say, get out of here.
You know, states get to decide how to do this.
But given that Trump is going forward with it, that would suggest there's something, you know, at least some optimism that he can get something done.
But he is also calling the California mail-in voting system rigged, of course, and says it needs a legal and criminal review.
So remember, I always tell you that one of the things that you can predict about Trump, and you'll see it again, reality, you don't have a good view of reality unless you can predict.
I always tell you that, right?
So you tell me, could I have predicted that in the domain of election integrity, would it have been possible to predict that Trump would take the strongest stance?
No.
I've been telling you this forever.
He always just takes the strongest stance.
That's it.
What's the strongest stance?
Okay, that's my stance.
Now, the fact that the strongest stance, in this case, I don't think would work, is that bad?
Do we say, oh, he's bad at this?
Trump is, because he's taking a strong stand, but it's not very practical if it's not going to work.
Nope.
As long as you understand he always takes the strongest stance, then the very next thing he goes into, whether it's election integrity or some other topic, everybody's going to expect him to take the strongest stance because it's just what he does every time.
And that gives him automatically the foundational approach.
Like he's the one who has the starting point because you know what his starting point is, the strongest position.
So does he believe that he can win in any of these particulars, such as mail-in voting or any of that?
I don't know.
I mean, somebody probably told him he had a chance, but he doesn't need to win.
He just needs to take the strongest stance and make sure everybody knows it.
Anyway, when Carolyn Levitt was asked what evidence the White House has, that there was any rigging involved, what'd she say?
Said she would provide evidence of fraud to reporters after the briefing.
Really?
Because that would be done by now.
Alleging that fraudulent balance are being mailed, names of other people.
Well, you know, Republicans, come on, Republicans.
You've been playing this game for a while.
It works.
So that's why you're doing it.
The game is if you can find three people who messed around with mail-in ballots, you can talk about those three people.
And then people who are not paying attention think, oh, it must be a lot of people.
Well, maybe it was just three.
So I'm not sure that whatever the details are are going to blow you away.
Probably not.
Wait, what is this?
Something on my desk.
My God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
It's the Dilbert 2026 calendar.
Did you note this is now available as of yesterday for your purchase on Amazon.com?
It's the only place you'll be able to find it.
Only on Amazon, nowhere else.
Free shipping, at least if you're signed up for free shipping, if that's what you have.
And by the way, this is twice as good as every Dilbert calendar, except for last year.
Last year was as good as this one because it had comics on both sides.
So on one side, it's got the newest Dilbert Reborn comics.
Those are the spicy ones, a little extra spice.
But also on the front, well, front of the calendar, not the box, it has the traditional ones that have already run before, which is normally what the calendar is.
Oh my God, there's something else on here.
Oh, I forgot to read you a reframe.
You want a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain.
Now, this book's been out for a while.
But if you haven't joined us lately, you don't know that I read a reframe or two every time when I remember it.
When I remember it, I'm remembering it right now.
All right.
Here's one.
My feelings are the result of my situation.
Most of you think that, right?
However you're feeling right now, it's because the situation.
It's because of the people, the things, the money.
It's the situation.
And if the situation were better, you'd feel better, right?
Well, here's a reframe.
How I feel is my choice.
You can choose to be happy in almost any scenario except when you're in physical pain.
You can just sort of choose.
Now, it seems like you can't, but I'm a perfect example of what they call baseline happiness.
You know, when I was in my 20s, I think probably the first time I heard that people would have terrible problems, like health problems and stuff, and they would be just as happy as if they didn't have a terrible health problem.
And I thought, well, that can't be true.
There's no way that's true.
If you had a terrible health problem that suddenly you never had before, you couldn't be as happy.
But honestly, when I'm not physically in pain, I'm just as happy as normal.
I really am.
You know, if I'm just watching the five in the afternoon and doing what I do in my man cave, I'm perfectly happy if it doesn't hurt.
That's really the only requirement.
So there's your thing.
Just remember that you do have an option of how you feel that can be separated from what you're experiencing.
It takes practice, but you can do it.
All right.
Here's another promises made, promises kept.
President Trump is also signing executive orders to get rid of DEI in the military.
I thought we already did that, didn't we?
Get rid of DEI in the military.
Well, we're going to keep doing it, I guess.
And then Texas, speaking of DEI, they're suspending their DEI program because it excluded white males.
Daily Wire is writing about this.
Leif de Menu.
Leif de Menu.
What a great name that is.
L-E-I-F.
And then I don't know what the L-E is.
It's not like a middle name, right?
That would be a two-part last name.
Leif Le Mahu.
Excellent name.
Anyway, so that's a little racism that's going around.
I wonder if there's any other racism.
Oh, Google also faces the lawsuit.
Do you see a pattern yet?
Google also faces a lawsuit claiming claiming that an executive was told that promotions were off limits because he is white and they blacklisted him and then he reported his supervisor for being a wild drunk and then that didn't work.
So the drunken racist is still on the job, I think.
Allegedly drunken racist.
Allegedly drunken racist.
Yeah, I know Le is off.
Anyway, so Google's under a little pressure there.
Did anybody see Marjorie Taylor Green on The View the other day?
I was watching that and it appears, and I can't read her mind or anything like that, but whether or not I ever agree or disagree with Marjorie Taylor Greene, she's just so likable.
Is it just me?
Am I the only one who just sees her?
And I think, you're just so likable.
It doesn't matter if I'm on board with the same policies.
Sometimes I'm not.
Sometimes I am.
But she apparently, and maybe this is temporary, we don't know.
But it looks like she may have softened her, let's say, aggressive or assertive.
Still assertive, but maybe dialed down the aggressive part a little bit.
Assertive is good.
Aggressive depends.
And so she sort of made nice with the ladies on the view, and they liked it, and she liked it.
And then somewhere around that time, I came up with this realization about myself that might apply to you, and it might be a universal.
I want to test it out.
Okay.
There are people on the left that I like while disagreeing with some of their opinions.
Likewise, there are people on the right who I like a lot while disagreeing with some of their opinions.
And so I was trying to figure out what is it about the people on the left and the people on the right that would make me like some of them, like really like them a lot.
There's just something about their vibe or their, I don't know, just something about them.
And I finally figured out what it was.
I'm going to read a number of people, and you tell me what the common element is.
You ready for this?
This will be like a cool little contest you can do at home.
So some of these will be on the left.
Oh, did I?
I don't think I have enough on the right, but you get the idea.
So what do these people have in common?
Donald Trump, Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Nancy Mace.
Bill Maher.
I threw a Bill Maher in there.
Somebody on the left.
I would also throw in what's his name?
John Stewart.
I'll throw Jon Stewart in there.
I'll throw Fetterman in there.
All right?
Fetterman.
So you got your Fettermans, your Bill Mahers.
So we got a few Democrats.
All right.
So now you tell me what they have in common.
You said charisma.
Charisma is true, but it's not what I'm looking for.
You're right about the charisma.
But I think there's something even bigger.
Confidence.
Look at that.
Confidence.
Oh, you're so close.
You're so close with confidence, but there are some other words I'm looking for.
You ready?
Here's the reveal.
They're fearless.
They're all fearless.
Oh, you beat me to it.
Damn it.
Just as I said fearlessly went by in the comments.
So one of you beat me to it.
They're absolutely fearless.
And I'm just drawn to fearless people.
You know, there's a story today about Nancy Mace going off swearing at some TSA people.
I don't even need to know the details.
Don't need, I don't care.
I don't need to know the details.
I don't need to support her or not support her or anything.
I would just note that she's definitely not afraid of anything.
She puts on a very brave persona, which I think is the real thing.
I mean, she's, you know, if you look at her life arc, a lot of bravery in there.
And all the other guys.
Take somebody that maybe you don't like so much, but maybe I like more than you.
Take Bill Maher.
I know it drives you crazy.
I totally understand the people who say, you know, don't make him a hero.
Then you're just giving away power to the other side.
Get it?
I get it.
Totally get it.
And that's not wrong.
You're not wrong about that.
But I can't really help who I like.
And when I look at Bill Maher, if you look at his history, the way to become Bill Maher in 2025 is to be the worst version of Bill Maher in, I don't know, 20 whatever, earlier.
Don't you think that becoming a stand-up comedian has got to be the hardest, most humiliating, you know, punch in the gut thing if it doesn't work out that night?
And nobody kills it on the first night.
So if you look at what a lot of these people had to do to get to the position where we all know their names, it's very impressive.
And every one of them is fearless.
So I love that.
The rest, it's up to them.
They'll have to come up with good ideas for me to like the rest.
Apparently, Apple has made some decisions about their AI.
And rather than build one, they're going to rent one.
So they checked on a bunch of AIs, and I guess they decided on something called Google's Gemini, something called.
That's just what it's called.
It's Google's Gemini.
Anyway, so that's what Apple will have for its AI.
We'll see.
At least there's something.
Every time I use, I don't want to say the word, but S-I-R-I.
Every time I think, is it 20 years in the past?
Why am I even looking at this?
All right.
And they swear they'll keep the data private and blah, blah.
Here's a idea which I can't decide if it's awesome or not, but it might be.
You know, every once in a while, you'll see an idea that you'll say, huh, that was really clever.
Believe it or not, it's coming from San Francisco.
So as you know, San Francisco went to hell and a lot of shops closed, which made downtown look a lot less inviting than it could have been.
And so people have tried to come up with an idea.
How do you quickly turn all these vacant stores into something that people don't mind being around?
And they came up with this program called Vacant to Vibrant.
And I think, you know, I only looked at it quickly, but my understanding is that for very small amounts of money, they were sort of helping people set up a store within an abandoned store.
But they would make it vibrant.
So they wouldn't go too hard on the corporate looking, well, we better add some marble to this anything.
They just made it look fun, I guess.
And so there are 33 of these pop-up stores.
That's what they call them.
In 23 downtown storefronts.
So basically, it's just a cheap way for somebody who's not already established in the business to just start a business with their help without having to worry too much about the real estate cost or the look.
Apparently, they found a way to make it look pleasant so you wouldn't mind being around it.
So I don't know the details.
You could easily convince me that there's something terribly wrong with this.
But in two years, if they really got 33 pop-up stores that are still in business, that'd be kind of impressive, actually.
Let's see what else is happening.
Oh, there's a new AI called Cosmos with a K, K-O-S-M-O-S.
I'm looking at a post by Sam Rodriguez.
He's talking about it.
And he's an AI expert kind of a guy, CEO of Future House and Edison Scientific.
Anyway, he's a part of building what they call an AI scientist.
So Cosmo is a specialized AI that will act as a scientist.
And apparently they've already tested this thing.
And it could read 1,500 papers and write 42,000 lines of code.
And that 79% of its findings are reproducible.
And that it's made seven discoveries so far.
Now, are those discoveries that you can use?
Are they discoveries that weren't discovered because nobody thought that it was useful?
They didn't need to discover it in the first place.
There's a lot to know about this so that we don't know, but I'm very impressed because my general statement about this would be that if you were looking for the greatest point of leverage from AI, it would be an AI scientist.
So whoever came up with the idea of, hey, why don't we make an AI scientist so much better than an AI robot that's going to iron your clothes?
Am I right?
You know, one of them might invent perfect energy without cost, and the other one would iron your shirt.
And I'm thinking, I think these guys have the right idea about this.
Maybe it'd be better to have all these scientific breakthroughs that change the very nature of civilization or a nicely ironed shirt.
I'm so now not impressed by a robot that can iron a shirt, even though they can barely do that.
I want my own AI.
I want my own AI scientist.
Wouldn't that be cool?
I'd put it in a robot, of course.
Sorry.
By the way, one of the things from my meds is I was told I might have a fever today.
Boy, do I. Nice and sweaty fever.
Not bad, though.
As I was warned it would be today.
For a Jack Russell Terrier, that'd be a good name.
That is a good name.
I knew a dog named Cosmo.
Cool dog.
Anyway, government shutdown apparently continues.
I was sort of thinking that the Democrats might cave in after the election because they don't need to use it as an election asset anymore.
But apparently they decided they did so well in winning the election that whatever they were doing before that, they should keep doing.
And what they were doing before it is shutting the government.
So now the Democrats think that they've come upon this great plan.
Hey, I've got an idea.
How do we win that special elections?
Well, it's because the government shut down.
Huh.
The government shut down and then we won an election.
What should we do about the midterms?
I've got an idea.
Why don't you keep the government shut down for another year?
Wait, that's crazy talk.
We can't go a year without a government.
You would have said that about three months.
We won three months without a government.
Next thing you know, that's all they'll have.
Well, they also have cursing.
So they have not doing their job, as in shutting down the government, and they also have cursing.
So those are their two go-to's: cursing and not working.
If I told you that one of the parties had decided that their strategy was to curse more and not do work, would you have guessed which one it was?
Would you have said to yourself, hmm, they want to curse more and they want to not work?
Yeah, that could be a Republican.
No, that couldn't be a Republican.
That actually could not be a Republican.
You would be mocked so hard if you're a Republican and you said, let's do the not work thing.
Anyway, I guess there's a Supreme Court's looking at tariffs today, I believe, or this week.
So Justice Barrett was asking about if we reverse the tariffs, is there any practical way to refund the money?
To which I think, refund the tariffs?
What kind of monster are you?
It's bad enough that you might take the tariffs away from Trump as a weapon, but you want to refund, bitch.
Are you kidding me?
You want to refund the $200 billion that he's already collected.
How about we just don't bring that up?
Even if we decide we don't want to do tariffs, how about we just keep that money?
Can I send over a guy to teach you how money works?
His name is Trump.
You may have heard of him.
And if you could imagine, close your eyes and imagine a table that only has one thing on it, a big pile of money.
And all you have to do is take it and you can keep it and there's no penalty.
What would Trump do?
He would probably check.
Anybody, really?
Are you serious?
Nobody's going to take this money.
All right.
And then he'd scoop it up because he's smarter than you.
Not you, but he's smarter than people when it comes to handling money.
And no, you don't even bring up the conversation of should we refund it.
No.
That's not how any of this works.
Anyway, so we'll see what happens.
The alarming thing is that if the Supreme Court decides we can or cannot have tariffs, worse, of course, if they decide we can't, wouldn't that basically put them in charge of everything?
Like, why would the Supreme Court get to decide how the president can use his weapons?
Because it's a weapon, right?
Mostly.
I mean, it's a tax collection process, too.
But the Constitution doesn't say anything about collecting taxes, but we do it.
So, yeah, I'm just concerned that it's the wrong branch of government handling the most important thing.
It's just the wrong branch of government.
Anyway, three Chinese nationals from the University of Michigan have been arrested, it looks like, and charged for smuggling what they call biological materials into the U.S.
Oh, no, turns out it was their lunch, just their lunch.
Joking and joking.
It wasn't their lunch.
It was biological materials.
What kind of biological materials?
I don't like the sound of it.
Hey, Bob, what's that in that bag?
Nothing.
No, seriously, what's in the bag, Bob?
So it's biological materials.
Wait, what?
Speak up.
Biological materials.
Say it.
Can you say that a little more clearly?
It's biological materials.
Ah!
And then I would start running out the door, holding a mask, double masking.
That would be the first time I ever double masked if I heard that.
I got a big bag of biological materials.
Would you like a handful?
Well, here's something I found out today.
Apparently, Russia has a persuasion expert.
Yeah, Russia has a persuasion expert.
Turns out that that Lavrov guy that we always see, you know, he seems to be their head diplomat guy, Lavrov.
He's sort of a hard ass.
But by being a hard ass, he sort of guaranteed that nothing got done, you know, that there was no peace, no nothing, because he just asked for too much.
He asked for things he'd never get, like the dismantling of the Ukrainian army.
Who's going to say yes to that?
So Lavrov was worthless if the goal was to end the war.
We don't know if that was Russia's goal.
Maybe they just wanted him to be the guy who extended the war, in which case he did a good job.
But now there's this new guy, Kirill Dmitriev.
He's a special envoy for now, but he's high up in the influence part of the government.
So Putin must like him because he's sort of putting him in charge of figuring out what to do with Ukraine in terms of not ending the war because I just don't know if Putin is even wanting to end the war, but this guy is taking the lead.
But here's what this guy's doing.
He's definitely not trying to end the war.
But he's one of the people claiming that Russia and Putin in particular are going to uphold traditional conservative values.
I think he just calls them conservative traditional values.
So he's trying to confuse the U.S. into thinking, or at least this is one take from Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet.
It's an opinion in the Hill.
So let me give all credit to them for the story, Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet.
So the idea here is that this guy is just going to mess with us and he's going to act like, oh, those conservatives, you know, we agree with the conservatives.
basically we like their their conservative values so russia and the republicans you know we should be getting along and that would really mess with you know half of the country at least but then what else does he say um and uh yeah he had something else he was trying to do but anyway his his job is just to mess with us um and apparently he's doing a good job so i wonder if every country has one of
him don't you think every country has has one of these guys whose job it is just to sort of mess with the other company country so it makes me wonder what training he has you know adamski does he have the training i have
do you know how scary that would be if i found out that russia had a me think about it if russia had a scott scott adams just imagine that because they would have the platform that would be really dangerous for us but luckily they don't have me only only america has me
america first first and last that's what i say first middle and last america all right well they got a wizard and uh let's see what else is going on oh megan kelly was uh unleashing on republicans oh part of it was i think i think there was some thought that the russians might be boosting uh tucker carlson because that would mess things up in in our country
um i don't know if that's true but uh megan kelly um i saw that colin rugnist did this on the ex post he said uh megan kelly unleashes on republicans congratulates them for spending the last few weeks policing a group chat and tucker carlson all right so here's what megan kelly said and you know it's just so well worded it's it's fun she said quote
the republicans like to lose they enjoy losing they enjoy when they're embattled and in a losing position and complaining they love it they do it really well less good at winning especially when donald trump is not there to get them over the line the republican party is not strong donald trump is strong republicans don't know how to win they don't know how to run they don't they don't know what to do when daddy's not there to fly them across the finish line
okay that's just that's just excellent writing right there even though she spoke it but you know what i mean um so good at communicating so good but here's uh here's my take i've never really thought about this so much that if you took if you took trump out of the republican party is it possible that they could never win again
i'm not i'm not predicting that i'm just saying you know what this this sort of struck me as too true i hadn't really been thinking in these terms but i feel like Trump is the only reason anything went well for the Republicans.
And that the minute they try to do something without him, it looks like dumb.
And when they do something that he's behind, it looks smart.
And, you know, Megan's all over this.
So I think she's right.
The Republicans have a real problem here.
Now, the part about going after Tucker, my take on that was: if the only thing you have to do in politics is go after your own team, it kind of means you've already won because the other team's not worth going after.
You know, if there were another team that were a threat, you would go after them first.
You wouldn't go after Tucker.
But once you got all that taken care of and the border is sealed and Trump's doing what he can do and things seem to be moving in a generally good direction, then you start thinking, huh, that Tucker guy is saying some provocative things that seem to get a little bit too close to the line.
And I got some questions.
Why is he always so close to that line?
I don't know.
Can't read his mind.
So I don't take it the same way a lot of you.
I don't take it as a real fight.
I take it as running out of things to do.
We ran out of things to do.
Now we're going to have to go after each other.
That's what it looks like.
Anyway, as I said before, and I think this take is the most useful one.
You know, we all walk around with our own filter.
So if your filter is you're Jewish and you're sort of locked into that view of life, then people who keep bringing up the Jews would be scary.
You're like, why do you keep bringing this up?
Why is this so important?
So if you're Jewish, you would think that looks a little anti-Semitic.
If you're not Jewish, and that's not your filter on life, as I've said before, it might look like free speech plus America first.
And I'm not defending either position.
I'm just saying that depending on your filter, it's two movies playing on one screen.
You're all looking at the same stuff, but some of you see a problem and some of you see a nothing.
Well, you're getting quite worked up there in the comments, aren't you?
Maybe I shouldn't have brought it up.
All right, people.
That's all I got for you today.
We're going to end a little bit early because my hands don't work, so it was really hard to prepare today.
I tried to drag it out a little bit so I could get a full hour, but I didn't make it.
I'm going to talk to the locals people privately for a moment.
And the rest of you, thanks for joining.
I hope you got something out of this.
Did anybody get anything out of this?
Did anybody hear something that was both useful?
Remember, Elon.
Did anybody hear something I did that was useful, but also affected a lot of people?
Because you heard it all.
I hope so.
I hope so.
Anyway, I'm going to go talk to the locals people privately.
