Episode 2582 CWSA 08/30/24

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found dead in her Arizona office now we're not going to make fun of a tragic event because of course the family uh should be considered in this so condolences but it should be pointed out that they're has been a Dilbert comic on exactly that topic of dying in UK cubicle and being there for days and nobody noticed and nobody cared so so by the way do you know where uh Dilbert was born he was born in a cubicle at a bank that was bought by Wells Fargo that's right so dber Dilbert's history is the same bank where this uh woman unfortunately passed away in her cubicle so that's a 35e connection to that story well according to the Daily Mail there's a Ser study and an expert who says uh that you should masturbate before a public speaking event because if you're nervous uh scientists say it's a great way to calm you down and it can boost your cognition so if I seem a little extra smart today no I'm just joking I I didn't have time for that but what a good idea you know I'm trying to figure out are the things that masturbation can't fix so apparently it can make you uh better for your presentation but I'm trying to think what it can't do let's see it's good for your health it's good for your prostate it relaxes you turns you into a nicer person I don't know why we do anything else I mean seems like the rest of the things we do aren't nearly as productive as that so mostly you should replace most of your daily activities with masturbating because it's so good for you um some updates on energy I'm such an energy nerd that every single day I want to see a story about a new energy source and there's a ton of them now but here are some things happening um did you know that there's a a Bureau of Land Management uh Unfortunately they came up with that name before they realized that the initials BLM would be distracting but the BLM or the Bureau of Land Management uh so under the current Administration they're thinking about taking a whole bunch of public land because there's tons of public land that's empty and using it for solar projects so that it wouldn't cost much of anything to slap those solar panels on it now of course there's all the pollution problems and other problems you're going to complain about but I like this I I like the idea of using all that extra land and put some solar panels on there and if if space and where you put them is one of the big obstacles I imagine it would be sounds like it could work so here's something I'm not going to complain about from the Biden Administration if they pull let off I would say oh good job well what about all the progress on batteries oh well there are three stories just today on New Battery Technology like huge breakthroughs three stories independent you know unrelated to each other all on the same topic of batteries but different projects all just today there is something going on in the battery research and development area that's crazy now it makes sense because if there are robots everywhere whoever makes the best battery is going to be making so much money you can't even believe it they're going to be making more money than the Tesla making robots probably here's an idea let's see uh we'll see MIT has a study uh they're they're going to use a partially disordered rock salt cathode but here's the thing they want to integrate it with the their poly Anan which as you know are dubbed the disordered rock salt polyanic spinal or as I like to call them the DRX PS and as you know that delivers the high energy density Rock uh or high voltage with significantly improves cycle stability and I think we all want that now that's one study but there's also another one well this is exciting um according to Yahoo Tech um there's a big game gamechanging approach and they're going to use homogeneous cathode what yeah they're going to Tinker with the cathode until they can get a solid state powered back life cycles and uh other things I don't understand something coming out of a Chinese research but then according to Tech Explorer there's another solid state electrolyte Advance oh wow and they're going to use polymers to make a strong yet springy thin film and uh you have these durable sheets of solid state electrolytes wow wow so you don't have to understand any of that just understand that the Battery Technology world is going crazy right now crazy all right I finally understand what's the big deal about this telegram app telegram app uh and why the CEO got picked up now remember I told you we will never understand the real reason behind anything but there's at least one that's obvious at least now it wasn't obvious until someone told me so apparently if you're in a battle like a war like let's say Ukraine against Russia one of the things that would be really important to winning the war especially a long ongoing kind of affair is how well your team can communicate without getting intercepted so you want to be able to quickly talk to your own team if you're in War but you don't want the other team to be able to intercept your stuff well it turns out that the Russians the government was concerned the military was uh that the ukrainians could already hack their regular military Communications which would you know be encrypted but you know might be hackable so what was the and is the Russian military using instead of their normal encrypted military app well it turns out that the only thing they trusted was the telegram app that's right the soldiers who were actually in the thick of battle didn't have a better option than opening their phone and using the app to say um you know you should Target this or you should get some supplies over here or get some reinforcements over here so if NATO could get a hold of a back door hypothetically into the telegram app they would have all the communications of the Russian military and it doesn't look like the M Russian military had a really good second option so there's a possibility that Ukraine could win the war if they if NATO controlled the telegram app without without Russia knowing they controlled it in other words if we had a if we had we meaning NATO if we had a back door but Russia didn't know know it so they kept using it Ukraine would know everything they're going to do before they do it now I'm exaggerating you know I'm sure they have other ways to communicate but according to the Wall Street Journal it was like the main way they were communicating was through telegram because it was owned by or at least it was housed in the UAE which has a good relationship with Russia so the Russians were thinking well we can't use Whats.

App because the Americans are going to be all over that uh so that was the one they trusted so allow me to make a prediction you're ready for the prediction the prediction will be that at some point the CEO will be released and you will be under the impression that he didn't give up anything you see where I'm going with this in order for NATO to have a back door that's useful they've got to act like they don't have a back door door so they got to keep this guy in Peril until the Peril forces him to give them a back door and then they got to make sure that nobody knows anything happened so that they can use it to find out what the Russian military is going to do before they do it so the most likely outcome if you accept these as facts which you know was always a question everything's every Everything has a little bit of skepticism that should be naturally applied but I'm going to predict that we will be told that nobody got access to the telegram app yes he was in lots of trouble but He's a brave guy and he resisted all that trouble and Life Will Go On and then suddenly there will be a a string of defeats on the Russian military and people will say hey it's like the ukrainians know what we're going to do before we do it I think that might be coming we'll say uh quinac uh the uh research company they did a poll and said that 20% of likely black voters say they would vote for Trump does that seem low to you that seems low that does not match observation because I've seen just tons of uh black citizens on TV being asked who they support and you've seen it both from right leaning entities and left you know even Don Lemon doing his uh his interviews it sure looks like a lot more than 20% or is it just that people were willing to do the interview maybe have a certain perspective and people who were not willing to do the interview maybe had another one so that you know you have to wonder if the street interviews are really representative they might not be representative uh I mean there's a reason you do polls instead of just talking to people on the street because one's not reliable but as I often say one of my BS filters to figure out what's BS is if your direct observation doesn't match the science it doesn't mean your direct observation is right but it certainly should be room for skepticism so my skepticism is 20% sounds low based on observ which is not reliable but it should be noted that they're r a whack all I'm saying is they don't agree one of them might be right no way to know feels a low to me all right um Trump has come out strong in favor of IVF in v in vitro fertilization he says that either the government or the insurance company should be forced to pay for it because we basically need more Americans we need more babies now this is brilliant in my opinion I think it's brilliant because he's fighting against the you're going to take my bodily autonomy and you of course the Harris campaign acts like he didn't say it and he doesn't mean it and he's going to lie and Everything Will Change no I think he means this I think he completely means it I think he 100% is in favor of people having babies and using a little science to help it out and making sure that America can you know create its own citizens I think he's completely down for this my my take on this is that it's 100% genuine his actual opinion and that he would really follow through with it so that that is a a perfect response to the criticisms in that area on top of that there's some Florida bill I don't know the details but some abortion related thing and uh Trump was asked how he'd vote just as a citizen of Florida I guess and Trump reminds us that uh he'd always been against uh limiting abortions to under six weeks so I guess that's the current law in Florida and he said he would be voting for whatever you know something that's longer than six weeks he thinks he called that a terrible mistake when it happened in 2023 now here's my question how are you going to get young people to live in Florida if your abortion thing has you know a a six week uh limit on it now uh if you're new to me I do not give you opinions on abortion I think women need to work it out they should take the lead and though Al I don't Advocate abdicate I don't give away my vote it's just that I think women should be the lead on that just as I think in some other domains men should take the lead such as circumcision stuff like that I mean um so you're not seeing my opinion I'm just talking about the the the topic so how does Florida survive in the long run because Florida is going to get lots of senior citizens who don't care one way or the other about abortion which they have I mean it's a retirement place but can you survive if you don't have lots of young people who are willing to live there and stay there and move there it' be kind of hard to have a high-tech environment if you had a u abortion laws that were at least to maybe 60% of the tech workers look like a place you'd never live oh I can't live there so he would be the test uh the test would be whether Florida is forced for their own demographic reasons to loosen up on this and get a little bit closer to what young people want because I don't think this is what young people want um obviously it's you know the left and the right have different opinions but I would think there are probably 23s of young people at least would want a more uh let's say a more forgiving set of laws so my question is can Florida even survive as a state and again it's not an opinion on abortion I'm just doing a prediction what happens if you discourage 60% of your Tech workers from living there in the long run feel feels disastrous in the long run but um but we're not talking about the ethics of it right you you might you might prefer it but economically it looks like a disaster in the long run all right let's talk about CNN had their big conversation with kamla Harris and Tim Walls here are my takeaways uh she looked uncomfortable she did not appear like a smart person um I think she would be the dumbest um maybe the dumbest candidate that the Democrats have run for president in my lifetime would you agree with that now Biden was you know before he was dementia riddled you know he was certainly not the brightest light but I feel like uh he chose a vice president who was obviously you know less good than he was and sure enough she seems to be the lowest intelligence uh candidate we've seen so just just think about how smart some of their past candidates have been Obama no matter what you think about him brilliant guy that's my opinion brilliant guy even if he hate everything he did Bill Clinton brilliant even if he hate him uh Al Gore almost you know brilliant smart guy even if he hate everything he's doing these are really smart people Jimmy Carter terrible president smart guy very smart guy so I think the Democrats have given up on smart like that didn't matter now vake Ras Swami had a comment about it he said kamla's interview last night was a reminder that we're not running against a candidate we're running against a system they require a candidate that can control which means having original ideas as a disqualification that's why we get Biden and then K Harris is that why that that hypothesis is pretty strong that the the system wants to do what the system wants to do and that requires a weak candidate so they can control it but why did they why did they have such smart candidates before is this so different than the past that uh they could have a Jimmy Carter and a Bill Clinton and and an Obama and they could be strong and Brilliant and the the system was okay with them or was it is it you have to be either dumb or easily blackmailed is that it so you have a choice well you you can even either be dumb so we can manage you or you have to be easily blackmailed so we can manage you either way you all right so um I saw somebody use the word lightweight that Comm Harris didn't even sort of looked presidential she looked lightweight that was exactly the word I was going to use um I was going to say lightweight but I saw somebody else use it so that made me feel smart like oh okay they saw the same thing so she didn't look bright she didn't look comfortable she looked kind of lightweight she had a little word salad problem quote the climate crisis real that is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time that's a lot of nothing right there that's a that's a whole bunch of nothing so it looked to me like uh she had the questions in advance now I don't have proof of that but I'll tell you what made me think she had the questions in advance um there was one point where she would look down and she would be using her fingers to say points like you know this point this point this point I think that's a memory device for somebody who knew the question was coming and had said all right if you get this question say these four things and so she was actually counting them off on her fingers well their you know physical fingers like she was trying to recall them from memory so it didn't look like somebody who had her own opinions and could easily speak to her preferences it looked like somebody had to memorize the test that's not a good look but I'll tell you the real tell the real tell was uh Harris was asked the question uh that involved a little girl that I think was her grand niece or something and she was watching K Harris accept the nomination and historic you know female person of color away and the idea is that the iconic photo captured a you know young person of color and female being inspired by KL Harris so she was asked about this which is the ultimate softball question they only had 18 minutes that they showed imagine out of the 18 minutes that one of the one of the questions should be about somebody's photograph but to her credit Comm Harris did not say oh yes you know it was a special day for us blah blah blah without first saying and here's the part that tells me she was prepared for that specific question she said when I ran for president I ran to be the president for all people and I said that is a suspiciously good way to start the answer to that question not just good it's perfect you know you you can talk all day long about how you know there there's something special about the situation and it won't bother me at all if you start that way I ran to be the president of all the people I go okay well now you can call out that there's also a special interest in it but if you start with a special interest I'm not even going to hear you if later you add in but I'm really the president of all the people I'd be well why'd you start with a special part first like sounds like you care about that more than you care about you know just doing the job so to me that sounded like she was well prepared for that specific question was she actually told the questions in advance I don't know there was also the question she was asked about uh Trump's comments about whether she was really black or had always identified as black you know the real red meat let's get into to this and you know certainly it's a place that she can win some points and instead she did an uncomfortable smile and said next question and refus to deal on the the sort of personal racial part of it now is that because she was prepared for the question she sure looked prepared to the for the question to me but that doesn't mean that she was given the questions in advance cuz you could pretty well guess what the questions might be right so anyway she uh did her best to avoid questions that were good to avoid and avoid really a whole bunch of stuff so it's basically her stump speech a lot of memorized stuff that you could tell was memorized because she was looking down so she did a lot of looking down like her eyes were down toward the table but there was nothing there or was there is it possible that the wide shots showed the table with nothing on it but is it possible that when they did the close-ups where you could see her from the chest up that there actually was a piece of paper down there is it possible that you know since there was an edited event is it possible she had notes I also saw a part where uh if you replay it you'll see maybe in the first third or so of it there was a point where she started to saying answer and then she did a hand gesture toward Tim wals that was sort of the you know don't jump in hand gesture it was like she she was giving him the you know stand down hand gesture that didn't make any sense unless there was an edit we didn't know about did he say something that got edited out because it was out of context that she was she was waving him off when he wasn't doing anything he wasn't even in the picture he wasn't even in the frame so what was that I mean it suggests there was an edit there but can't know for sure maybe she expected him to jump in and she was I don't know I don't I don't even know what that was about she also had what I call liar eyes so most of the time she was looking down and her eyes were in a normal mode so they were either a little bit closed or they were looking down but every once in a while she had the big lie I was watching in the man cave last night pointing out the big lies her eyes would widen and then the little lines would form on her forehead when she's doing the thing that she knows you're not going to believe but if she says it with her eyes wide open you might because look how honest I am with my eyes wide open that's called liar face if you play it back with the sound off and then you find the liar face then turn the sound back on and find out why she was saying at that moment what once you learn to spot liar face it's hilarious because the the politicians use it all the time it's just so so obvious when they're trying to sell you something they know you're not believing because you shouldn't all right what else um the physical uh arrangement of the people at the table has been questioned reasonably because uh they had walls on one end of the table opposite from uh Dana Bash and then uh kamla was between them on the far side of the table now because of the dimensions of the perspective of the shot plus the fact that wals is just a bigger human being than she is he looked huge and in charge if you were just looking at the pictures you'd think it would be an interview with him and his secretary came along to take some notes sexist yes because the country is sexist we're you know so it's worth mentioning it's not my opinion it's it's just what one imagines people are going to think in their little sexist brains so she was Tiny and uh looked unimportant just visually and the visuals are kind of a big deal she also made all kinds of weird funny faces when when wal was talking she wanted to show how proud and smiley she was so she does the I ate a lemon but I enjoyed it face you know I'm doing it now if you're just listening you're missing the best part of the show yeah I ate a lemon but I'm really happy about it nailed it nailed it you're laughing at home I could tell let's see uh yeah she basically voided most questions when Tim wals was uh interviewed you really got the sense that there was no reason for him to be there I felt CNN was slapping him down because they didn't ask or it didn't make the final edit anything about policy they asked him about his son's reaction at the convention to his speech okay interesting human human story but you only had 18 minutes you only had 18 minutes that wasn't in the top 100 of anybody's interest right then then she asked about The Stolen Valor especially the part where he had uh used some words that indicated he'd been in a war zone but he had not been in a shooting war zone um he wasn't physically in a warzone and his defense was well you know somebody points out you know my grammar isn't perfect sometimes so he kind of made it sound like it was just a poor word choice and then moved on but because this was not any kind of a real news event this was just a puff piece he was asked no follow-up questions Harris was asked no follow-up questions or actually she was on the question of whether she had changed her opinions on things because fracking for example she changed and uh even Daniel Dale came on and fact jackor was lying about her fracking opinions because she said I had clearly said in 2020 that I was uh you know okay with fracking and then Daniel Dale checked and said nope he never said that in 2020 you did say that your boss Joe Biden was in favor of fracking that's different so the only record we have of her in the past is she's 100% against fracking later she said Biden is in favor of it and he's not going to change and then she said well I told you that you know I changed a while ago just not true not true anyway um oh I I would compliment harisa just to give back to that thing where she said next question about the black identity thing I do think that that was a good way to handle it because I don't think that issue worked in her favor if that issue worked in her favor she would have certainly brought it up and wanted to talk about it but I think that the more she talks about the question of is she black the more black citizens uh catch it and they go wait a minute what wait what you you're not oh H I thought you were 100% black now do black voters care about her identity being you know as black as the blackest you could be versus living a life as a black woman and my guess is probably some do you know if the entire game is identity politics and it has been for years if that's their game doesn't it matter if he got the identity right that feels important if you're going to play identity politics you can't make up your identity so my take on this is that I'm not I'm not the person who gets to say whether somebody's black or not but what I observe is that there's nobody like her she's the only one I would love to see her say that that would be a strong message by the way so you know what instead of saying whether I'm you know black or Indian or one qu or black or whatever anybody saying how about we agree on this there's only one of me bam that would be a home run it's just that sometimes the identity politics Works in her favor so she doesn't want to run from it too hard it's better just to skip it and let people make up their own minds that probably works in her favor so I think her advice was good they probably advised her to stick stay away from that also advised her on the picture of the little girl so those are two situations where she could have gone identity politics and she ran from both probably probably well advised I liked it you know it felt more like a legitimate candidate for president by avoiding it that to me voiding the identity stuff is it's got to be number one you know right up there as your most important personal quality is that you're not focused on identity and so basically yet again she's finding a trump point of view where that shouldn't have been important that the fact that Trump brought it up is because they think it's important that's what makes it funny so it could be that Trump just ruined identity Politics as a as a good strategy for running for office you may have ruined it forever just by bringing up the question of well you know maybe aren't you more of an individual you know I'm not sure that you fit into this category everybody else says you fit into just adding some doubt into that I think was brilliant as as much as Trump will be forever criticized for bringing up identity and black identity and stuff things he shouldn't be talking about you would think I thought that worked because it enter it created the conversation it wasn't what he said about it that mattered What mattered was you talked about it if he could get you to talk about well I think she is I think she's not I think she's partially he wins so avoiding it was her best strategy yes I think all right what else happened uh there were no questions on her taxes on her tax proposals ju just imagine that the number one thing that everybody says is a horrible idea you know her unrealized gains on taxes especially didn't even come up it's the number one bad thing that she recommends didn't come up or or did it CU we don't know how much got edited out is it possible that and she could have no good answer to that question especially if there was any followup to it that they just cut it out what do you think I I'm going to I'm going to double down on my assumption that when there's a lack of transparency and it's not individuals it's you know organizations involved that I think it's appropriate to assume they edited it out because what would make you think they didn't ask how in the world would that not be one of the top 20 questions and you'd you'd probably get to 20 questions if you did talk to him for an hour so I don't know how much how much they talked beyond the 18 minutes I'd love to know that and then Harris apparently was coached they when she was asked about her flip-flopping so to speak on on topics her answer was my values have not changed and I saw somebody smart say okay you just put a you just gave Trump the kill shot Trump wants you to believe that her old socialist views are still in play she's just hiding them she just said he's right now she didn't mean to say that what she meant to say is maybe my policies have changed but they're all coming from the same place which is absurd and stupid and obviously not true so it's a stupid thing to say but it could convince stupid people and since most most of her voters you know are stupid could work out fine but uh my values have not changed gives Trump the Ultimate Weapon which is show what she said and then play my my values have not changed then show what she said again on another topic and then go right back to my values haven't changed you do that on like five different different super socialist stupid ideas she had in the past and then you make sure that she said today today my values haven't changed nobody in the world is going to think that means that she's got different policies than she used to have and by the way as misleading as that might be it's directionally true you know what I mean it is directionally true that if you're willing to say over and over again my values haven't changed changed we as voters get to say well those other policies were based on those values were they not it seems like you're trying to not answer the question why you changed your mind which makes it sound like you haven't which makes it sound like you're some kind of Trojan Horse you know once you get inside the gate Lord knows what happens then so that could have that could actually have taken her out of the race Ju Just think about the impact that would have if you saw her dumbass you know no fracking Etc followed immediately by my values have not changed there's no way you would think she would have a different policy even if she does well um here's some other things we learned uh I feel like we learned why she doesn't do debates uh or doesn't want to do many and uh I think we learned why she doesn't do interviews I would rank her performance as poor and I can't imagine that she would do better on on a debate so I guess it's the reason we haven't seen much of her is exactly why you thought it was she's just really bad at this this being you know being a presidential person all right she uh she was asked about uh bomic and she said it was good work which also sounded like a prepared answer so as as if she knew what the question was going to be yeah B was good work anyway so then Daniel Dale came on and did a fact check on her fracking claim and you know as I said showed that she had uh she had uh lied about having said in 2020 that she was in favor of fracking because she didn't she only said Biden was in favor but um is anything missing was there anything that you thought logically should have been part of that uh interview and yet it was completely missing what was it huh well how many of you watched any of the DNC you didn't have to watch a lot the Democrat National Convention you didn't have to watch a lot all you had to do was turn it on for a minute and you would hear a hoax you'd hear the project 2025 hoax you'd hear the fine people hoax you'd hear the drinking bleach hoax you'd hear the uh suckers and losers HS now that was so pervasive during the convention that it was practically the decorations it was pretty much every speaker every time time so if any of those things were true wouldn't that be a question the CNN would want to ask her like do you believe that these things are true do you believe that Trump called neo-nazis Fine people do you believe that he suggested drinking bleach do you believe that he said in front of a general the soldiers are losers and suckers which is absurd and just make her answer those questions but instead not a single Trump hoax was ever mentioned so how could it go from the primary message of the entire Democratic National Committee conference whatever it is how can it go from the biggest most important stuff to not worth asking let me tell you how because CNN knows none of it's true and they've got a guy guy who's a fact Checker and they're going to they got to trot his ass out and he's going to have to deal with the fact that all she said was a bunch of hoaxes what's he going to do so instead he focuses on fracking because the questions were never asked so was any of that ever real because if any of the accusations made by the Democrats during the convention if any of that were real CNN would have asked about it because if any of it was real it really really matters I mean those are big deals if they were real which they weren't so do you have proof that that CNN knows these are hoaxes yeah you do yeah you do I would consider this proof that CNN knows those are hoaxes and doesn't want to say it out loud especially since half of their repeat those hoaxes on the on the air all right so CNN making most of the news disappear as if by Magic is kind of sweet meanwhile Harris is back on the campaign trail with a new hoax and she says quote she just posted this on X if given the chance Donald Trump has made it clear he intends to end the Affordable Care Act taking our country backwards we're not going back we're going forward well the affordable uh Care Act also known as Obamacare what how many of you know what Trump says about it do most of you know what Trump says about it does Trump say he's going to uh get rid of it no no he says it under one specific context he says we won't change anything unless we can come up with something better better what do you think he's going to come up with something that covers fewer people would that be better no is he going to come up with something that costs less well if he does who's going to about it are you going to about it oh he got rid of the Affordable Care Act and replaced it with something that's exactly the same but costs less nobody's going to about that so there is no no world in which you you say I'm not going to change anything unless we can find a clear way to make it better why would you worry about that that's almost a generic statement about what every leader should do about every topic don't change it unless you have something better the most basic common sense of all time again this is Trump running a common sense campaign that in so many ways doesn't re I don't recognize that as is either left or right how is that left or right don't you think the people on the left would be equally willing to you know change or modify the Affordable Care Act if it were something better so it's just a lie but the newsleter do it well the blaze is reporting that Trump said at a Wisconsin Town Hall he was with Tulsi gabard he said uh I had the safest Border in the history of the country uh they have the most unsafe Border in the history of the world and then here's my favorite part he says uh they had a group of Venezuelan people with lots of machine guns taking over a building this is just the beginning now remember I tell you that Trump is the master of visual persuasion now visual persuasion is not just showing you a picture it's describing a visual image with words as well so if Trump has had just said something generic like there's too much crime coming across the border you would say ah there's that's a statistic okay but if he tells you that Venezuelan people with machine guns are taking over a building which is a real thing by the way I don't think they're machine guns I think they just have weapons but you can see that like in your mind the picture forms perfectly and it's scary because you see people with machine guns even though I don't think they had any um but guns knocking on your door and saying uh this is our apartment now or else you're paying us rent that is some scary scary stuff so Trump again perfectly visual perfect description perfect summary on that topic so good did MSNBC like K Harris's performance do I even need to tell you yes here are the things they said were just masterful uh that she decided to make it about the country not herself did she I don't know just sounded like her stump speech to me um somebody named Jeremy Peters on uh MSNBC said she's very wisely making this about the country and bringing the country back together really what what was the bringing the country back together apart I don't recall that at all um rather than saying this is about me this is who I am you already have one candidate who's doing that quite well that that's so just trying hard to write a college essay on an assigned topic it really is trying as hard as you can to just use words if I combine words in just the right way this is going to look like a good thing it's crazy um all right so anyway so somebody also on MSNBC uh Ellie velli talked about her kamis defending her switches and policy preferences he said quote I thought she was smart to explain her policy position has not a change in values not a change in your deep inner mooring but instead something almost situational in terms of taking in more information in other words MSNBC is adding word salad to her word salad I I feel like I'm at uh what's that restaurant that has infinite salad you want salad we'll talk about salad with some more salad what does it mean that that she's going to keep her values but instead it's something about situational in terms of taking in more information that would be everything everything is situational and we're always taking more information that really doesn't explain anything anyway but they tried it hard polling as you know is ridiculous at this point um but Wall Street Journal says they've got a poll that uh Harris is up 48 to 47 but if you throw in the third party candidates and why wouldn't you she's up two points but that's within the margin of error Nate silver still says Trump has a 52% chance of winning the electoral college versus Harris at 47 but that will get uh updated soon so basically we don't know anything about anything it's we just know it's close all right um apparently CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed somewhere this week that he didn't realize that the $400 million he spent on that whole getting out the vote thing in 2020 uh primarily benefited one party so he's acting surprised that his $400 million was spent to make things more biased instead of a more fair election $400 million he wasted because what he wanted he says is a system that was just a better system for all people what he got was he changed the direction of the election toward Biden maybe he wanted that too but it wasn't planning to do it so here's the thing you didn't know that the Chan Zuckerberg initiative so that's where the 400 million was that got spent it was led by his wife h uh who gave most of that money to some groups that are so obviously left leaning that you should have been able to know very easily that you were going to bias the election outcome so let's uh let's put this in a little larger context imagine what would have happened if Steve Jobs Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg had never gotten married just those three billionaires imagine they never gotten married well if Steve Jobs had never gotten married then he would not have left his fortune to Lena who bought the Atlantic and turned into a Democrat activist propagandist who is doing a good job at it so Steve Jobs getting married us pretty hard how about Jeff Bezos well uh his wife got many millions and billions many billions and uh she's spending it to make sure Democrats win so if Jeff Bezos had never been married you wouldn't have that problem how about Mark Zuckerberg if Mark Zuckerberg had never got married do you think he would have allocated that $400 million the same way as wife did I doubt it I think no you know there's no way to know but my instinct is that they're not exactly on the same page you know we we've heard we've heard Zuckerberg favor Free Speech we've heard him uh say he regretted the censorship that was pushed on him by the uh Biden Administration primarily and we've heard him say that Trump was the most badass thing when he said fight fight fight now that doesn't make him a republican but I'll tell you what zberg does understand business he understands business do you think that he thinks that Harris is better for business I doubt it I doubt it it it if in a private moment I would be amazed if Zuckerberg is really super anti-trump I'd be amazed Ian he might be neutral but I'd be amazed if he thinks Trump's going to be a big old problem so if those three billionaires had never gotten married we wouldn't be in so much trouble do you think there are any other wives that are doing similar things well interestingly Trump is benefiting also by the Widow of uh Sheldon adelon adelon right um so there's another case of someone who she's not the one who made the money but if adelon had never been married there probably wouldn't be somebody there who's funding the Trump campaign so why is it that we designed this system a few hundred years ago and we thought it was all about you know representative government and turned out to be basically billionaire Coxs so billionaire Coxs and what they wanted to do with it is determining our system you know describe the system to your uh your grade school child well so you got these people go billionaires got it uh they've got okay most of them most of them do and when they want to put them in something they have to get married because I know this system kind of requires that so uh they got these holsters and uh then the holsters uh take take half the money and leave or sometimes all the money if somebody dies and then the holsters become the ones who decide who the next president is and then your sixth grader says what's a holster and you say well maybe you're not ready for this we'll get back to you in a few years so no don't talk like that to a sixth grader that would be terrible I can't even believe you were thinking about it that's terrible you should be ashamed of yourselves so that's the real world billionaire Cox decide who's President indirectly Elon Musk warned warns us that at the current rate of government spending he says on X America is in the fast lane to bankruptcy and he says government overspending is what causes inflation wow do we want him to be in charge of driving the government imagine what you could do if you took a Elon Musk engineering approach to how much government do we really need and how should it be organized for the most efficiency it would look completely different than what we have so I don't know how much he could get away with or whether he really will be you know Trump's uh helper to figure out how to streamline things but you'd have to take off a massive a massive part of the government spending not just the employees you know it's not it's not really about the employees we're paying it's about what the employees want us to pay for other stuff so here's my take I think that all government borrowing is theft once you know you can't pay it back if you know that you're borrowing an amount that you can easily pay back no problem at all that would just be people entering into a transaction they all understood and had mutual benefit yay yay Mutual benefit but today every dollar that the government spends comes out of your pocket with inflation so they just write checks and you pay them and you didn't vote for any of it all they have to do is not do their job of balancing the budget just not do their job and and then you you get robbed so basically inflation is a tax you know they're they're just doing it by printing money instead of passing a law why can my government take my money without a conversation how's that how's that coming up I I mean I get that the uh Congress passes the budget so I guess there is a conversation in that way but they need to tell us what that is every time they pass a budget that is you know going to add to the debt what they should say is this budget will cost each of you um $10,000 in Lost buying power because your dollars will be worth less that's what they should say but they don't they act like it's free like it's free oh yeah cuz we'll pay it back we're not going to pay it back let me say this as clearly as possible you know that $36 trillion we owe we're not paying that back I don't know what will'll happen I mean maybe we'll go full Hitler didn't Hitler just renounce all the debt Germany had at one point he just said no we're not paying it back and that was actually the key key that put Germany on like a very rapid um economic Improvement it was one of the big Keys now unfortunately they used their economic Improvement to fund their military and didn't work out but I would love to know a little bit more about what happened when Hitler just said well how about we're not paying back the rest of the world ever so we're just defaulting we're going to create our own our own money we'll just act like that debt never happened somehow that worked didn't it I don't know my history well enough to know if I'm talking crazy am I talking crazy how how many of you are aware again if somebody sees this s of context they're going to say I'm praising Hitler no I'm not praising Hiller I'm simply looking at one historical precedent of debt ignoring and asking you didn't that work out really well for Germany or is it because they invented their own currency but we wouldn't really be able to do that is there something that would prevent us from doing the same thing now keep in mind defaulting on your debt to every reasonable person sounds like the worst case scenario but it's not because it's not worse than having a debt you can't pay back yeah at least Germany gave itself a chance I mean it squandered its Chance by starting a war and and a holocaust but I think we're rapidly going to be in a situation where some politician is going to say out loud we're never paying this back and then what happens I don't know that there's some possibility that all we have to do is not pay it back let let me say this again if you have your money if you have any of your money in uh government debt that was extra money do you know what I'm saying uh I have I have a lot of Investments I have a little bit in the state state of California of bonds just a little bit like a maybe 2% now the 2% suppose I suppose California just said you know what we're not going to pay back any of our bonds I'd be like what are you kidding me I put some serious money into those bonds but then I would look at my total portfolio and to go oh well this serious money but it wouldn't change my life if they never paid it back I would just go on I wouldn't even notice really now who makes these who exactly are the people who have uh invested all that money in government instruments who does that well you don't do that with your important money de you except very short term to make sure it doesn't disappear it's not any kind of a long-term investment that makes sense except as a small part of your portfolio so I just I just have a sort of a curiosity don't put this don't assume this as a recommendation so let me soften it a little bit I'm not saying we should do it I just have what I I think are reasonable questions about what happens if we get to the point where it's just obvious it can't be paid back and we can't even afford and and we can't afford the interest on it if we could afford the interest we'd probably just keep going but we're close to not being able to afford the interest at some point we're going to have a choice between two awful choices not paying back the debt or what just becoming a third world country with no money so here's here's what I'm introducing into the system you better start thinking about what's going to happen because something's going to happen it'll be the biggest thing that's ever happened not counting Wars I guess yeah there won't be much bigger that will ever happen than whatever the heck we do with this debt it will be really really big probably will'll be fine but whatever it is is going to be big so get ready for it all right still waiting for the first Economist to endorse the Harris tax plan has anybody seen it yet has anybody seen MSNBC with an economist just happened to be a Democrat saying uh this is a good plan this tax stuff will work out I haven't have any of you even one can't find one Economist to agree with Harris no one how many economists are there in the country do you think 20,000 depending on how you count them as professional economists now I'm not talking about people just have a degree in economics like me I'm talking about somebody who's a working Economist they're getting paid to be an economist 20,000 of them and MSNBC can't find one that can go on the air and say you know what you've been looking at this wrong if you look at it in a smarter way this this tax plan is great not one not one out of 20,000 and why is that not a story in its own what why is it the story well we've got 20,000 professional economists and we don't have one that's willing to come on and say this is a good idea that is a story that you can't get one how is that not a story we shouldn't even be talking about the tax plan we should talk about the fact that there's not one Economist out of 20,000 who can come on the air and give you a you know a positive idea about it all right um you're following the story of that Brazil judge who keeps going after musk um to try to get he wants to get control of X basically to make sure that X can be uh censored the way Brazil's um corrupt government would like to censor it and uh musk unlike the other platforms is resisting and so the pressure is on him and uh they're going after spacex's as Financial accounts in Brazil so basically SpaceX won't get any more money from Brazil even though they have all these customers using the um I'm not I'm sorry using the uh satellite starlink so SpaceX owns starlink so uh and uh so musk says that he's going to keep the service up and just make it free so he doesn't have a mechanism to collect money from the people buying starlink but he's not going to turn it off and the government can't turn it off because it's just plug in plug in and go right so that's a pretty baller decision by musk that he'll just keep it on because he probably assumes that better communication is bad for the government of Brazil and good for him and he's right so they can harm him financially and as he said often so you're going to threaten me financially you did he not say that directly on a different topic so yeah and it's smart it's smart of him to make sure that's his brand he's got to be the you brand because otherwise everybody will try to pressure him in every way they can he's got enough businesses that there's always some lever they can put on it but it gets better you ready for the good part uh two good parts number one how does the United States government let this piss ant judge in Brazil the United States and citizens within it and their company Biden Administration this is one of those situations where you need to be a president of the United States this is not about left versus right this is Brazil the Brazilian government is attacking a US citizen very publicly and some us companies that I consider quite important if the United States can't protect us against this by threatening the and of Brazil like we'll around you with re warships and take away your economy you can't take our freedom of speech indirectly or even in your own country if you want to deal with the United States what is going on here am I wrong that the role of the United States government largely is to protect US citizens from outside assault this is a completely inappropriate assault by a country that should be one of our you know favored countries totally unacceptable this is a complete failure of the US government and this has nothing to do with democrat or republican this is just an attack this is an attack on American Business and American citizens it's an attack and no response not a legal response not a threat not a statement we we should have a real president who stands in front of the country and says look here's the deal Brazil we have a lot of levers we're going to press them all back off and that's not happening not only is it not happening again why is that not the story the story is not just musk against a judge in Brazil the story is that the government of the United States took a pass they're taking a pass while an an American citizen is being attacked by a foreign entity threatened with jail and our government's taking a path too busy with Ukraine too busy at the beach outrageous gets better Mike Ben uh is uh reminding us well I didn't know it so I'm not being reminded but um so I'm hearing it for the first time time that the US state department was very involved in making sure that Brazil had access to voting machines H why would the US be so concerned that Brazil had access to voting machines and apparently the US uh intervened with at least two different manufacturers of microchips to make sure that the voting machines for Brazil went higher on the priority so they could get get chips for their voting machines and then the CIA according to Mike Ben uh and he shows the documents by the way this is not Mike Benz making stuff up um in his post he showing you the actual documents and the you know the current reporting at the time so this is just documented that the CIA warned bolsonaro the the last leader of Brazil not to mess with the or cast out on the new uh US state department secured voting machines so they threatened him not to cast out on the voting machines while making sure that they're they definitely had some voting machines now let me ask the question I've asked many times by now you have a good answer for me because I've been asking it for so long and you thought about it and then you researched it now you have a good answer what's the advantage of the voting machines is it because they're more credible the the public will trust them no no evidence of that it's the opposite are they to save money no no evidence that it saves money are they to make things easier no they obviously make it harder um is it to get a faster result so you don't have to wait no probably is the other way around or at least as as fast so why was the United States trying so hard to make sure Brazil had voting machines what can you think of a second reason because we can speculate about one potential reason you know without evidence I don't have any evidence of this but it looks exactly like the United States try to install their own leader a preferred leader via the mechanism of having voting machines that maybe they had some back door to I don't know that that's true in other words there's no hard evidence of anything so I can't I can't point to any evidence for it but why would the United States care so much about another country's voting machines so much so that they would get involved can you think of a second reason for that I can't I what would it be is it because we're so kind to other countries that we get really deeply involved in all of their Affairs whether had a political angle or not no we don't do anything like that uh in the comments uh lemon minty is say voting machines are to make you think voting is real well I don't know I mean I think a paper ballot with lots of observers would maybe think voting was real I don't think there's any other reason than the one that you suspect now I but I'll soften that again because I don't want to get sued I'll soften it to say does anybody have a speculation of what a second reason could be I can't think of any I have a pretty good imagination I can't even imagine a second reason can you I mean honestly can you think think of any reason that the US would be so incentivized especially the CIA to make sure we got those American uh American driven machines in there so but I remind you our elections are pristine nothing to worry about in our elections because it's not like we've seen any any any bad behavior anywhere so our our elections are fine they're fine everybody I all right um two two AI companies open Ai and anthropic uh they've reached some kind of AI safety agreement with the US government and what it involves I don't know what else involves but key to this is that the government would have access to the models presumably before the public did so that they could test them and look for AI problems so do you feel better that there's a there's an effort to have a regulatory body that will be overseeing AI so pH so glad I I was worried for a moment that there wouldn't be a regulatory body regulating AI now let's leave that world of imagination and go to the real one shall we in the real world we know that the time it will take for the a a industry to totally own The Regulators would be now yeah I think we're probably already there how hard would it be for the AI Industries to totally own The Regulators well let's think it through if somebody's job for the government is to check on the AI and tell you if it's safe they know what the they know what the company wants and they know maybe what the government would want so suppose they know that the company would want them to not clamp down on that thing and then suppose they get their paycheck from the government and they open it up and they go huh well it's not bad but I'll bet you open AI would pay about three times this should I be ever interested in increasing my exposure to the AI field of which I'm already in but I'm working for the government which would be the very cheapest worst place you could ever work on AI now suppose you have uh have lunch with one of these regulators and you're from one of the AI companies what do you have to say to them to get them to do what you want instead of actually regulating you well you don't say if you regulate me right I'll give you a job later and you'll make a lot of money no don't need to you just say so uh halfway through lunch say say so uh what's your plans you plan to stay with the government and just work on this AI regulation uhhuh you know we're always uh we're always looking for people so if at some point you get tired of the regulatory thing here's my card you don't have to actually offer them a job you just have to remind them that if they ever wanted to make twice as much money it would be real easy they just got to go light on the regulations now in the real world does stuff like that happen yes yes yes that's the real world so in the beginning you might get some Regulators who were kind of tough on the companies but I wouldn't even trust them because they would be government Regulators so I'm not even sure that's a good thing they wouldn't know what danger looked like and uh I don't think AI regulation will regulating will be any better than any other regulating so it's not going to save the world but it might be uh a way for some people to make some money all right here's some uh science you might like just because it's good news there's an ultrasound device at University of Utah was testing it apparently it makes uh your pain go away almost instantly so uh it's just like miraculous so they just use uh ultrasound at the right frequency sees and your pain just goes Boop turns off I saw Brian relli in a post just yesterday it wasn't about this but just separately he was saying the science already knows for sure that certain sound frequencies will cancel pain and I read the post and you know I I like to uh repost a lot of Brian rell's content because he's great especially with the AI stuff and I thought to myself ah H I'm not sure I believe that like I was a little skeptical that science knows how to turn off pain with you know just three frequencies or something but here it is there's an actual study in which they're using frequencies to turn off pain I don't know if it's the same thing that Brian was talking about but now I have two sources that are strongly indicative that it's worth doing some research on it uh here's another thing how many of you suffer from regret how many of you have the feeling oh I regret that thing I did do you ever feel that because I don't feel it clearly I've done things that didn't work out but I've never had any Sensation that I could identify as a feeling of a regret as an adult as a young person I think I did you know I'd be like oh why did I do that why did I ask Gina maybe if she wanted to dance and she told me she didn't want to and it ruined my night and I felt bad for two years I regret asking her to dance but as an adult nope you and I I got cancelled you know about as hard as you can get canceled a year and a half ago and people ask me if I regret it and I'm actually confused by the question regret what is that why would I even have that where what's the function of it it's like I don't understand it but there's a study that explains why I have that feeling that it doesn't bother me at all as an adult and also why it did when I was younger and it's called the uh the gambling uh framework so f.org talks about this uh I guess there's some science they did had some participants and if people thought about a specific decision out of context they might have regret but if people thought in a portfolio manner that there are lots of things they did in the past some work and some don't and that's the way the world is supposed to work because we all know that you don't sign up to do everything right nobody thinks that everybody knows your life is a series of wins and losses and so if you see it as a portfolio just like the way I would invest you know I'll buy an index fund so I'm Diversified so if your life is likewise Diversified you did a bunch of things some worked some didn't then you don't see it as regret the same reason when I look at my index fund I don't feel any regret if some members of the index fund went down as long as the average went up over time it it doesn't even occur to me that I should have a feeling about regret if one of the stocks of my 500 stocks in the index went down so that's how I see my life I could certainly say you know doing this thing led to a bad result but I never regret it it just doesn't come up it's it's never part of my thinking whatsoever so if you have anything that's you recognize as regret the reframe is look at look at your life as a portfolio of decisions some good some bad but if your average worked out you nailed it yeah if your average of decisions worked out you're doing better than you used to be let's say you're taking care of yourself and maybe some other people you nailed it regret forget it well there's also at the guardian reports a mask that can detect all kinds of diseases from your breath and it's very big range of diseases so that's some uh research from the California Institute of Technology Professor y go g and you'd have to use a different mask so far for different things you're testing but here's the question I have do you have to wear a mask all day are you telling me that there's not like a breathalyzer that's a better model can I just have a breathalyzer and blow into it and that tells me if I have a disease I don't need to watch wear the mask all day do I so I don't really understand the mask part but it'll be able to diagnose diseases from your breath which is kind of cool all right those are the stories I had for you today I've talked way too long it's time for you to get to your Friday so I'm going to talk a little bit to the subscribers on locals but the rest of you thank you for joining and I will see you again 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well this one isn't Fun

it was a Wells Fargo

employee found a dead in her cubicle and

I think she might have been there for 4

days Denise prudom aged 60 she was found

dead in her Arizona

office now we're not going to make fun

of a tragic event because of course the

family uh should be considered in this

so

condolences but it should be pointed out

that they're

has been a Dilbert

comic on exactly that topic of dying in

UK cubicle and being there for days and

nobody noticed and nobody cared

so

so by the way do you know where uh

Dilbert was

born he was born in a

cubicle at a bank that was bought by

Wells

Fargo that's

right so dber Dilbert's history is the

same bank where this uh woman

unfortunately passed away in her cubicle

so that's a 35e connection to that

story well according to the Daily Mail

there's a Ser study and an expert who

says uh that you should masturbate

before a public speaking event because

if you're nervous uh scientists say it's

a great way to calm you down and it can

boost your

cognition so if I seem a little extra

smart

today no I'm just joking I I didn't have

time for that but what a good

idea you know I'm trying to figure out

are the things that masturbation can't

fix so apparently it can make you uh

better for your

presentation but I'm trying to think

what it can't do let's see it's good for

your health it's good for your prostate

it relaxes you turns you into a nicer

person I don't know why we do anything

else I mean seems like the rest of the

things we do aren't nearly as productive

as that so mostly you should replace

most of your daily activities with

masturbating because it's so good for

you um some updates on energy I'm such

an energy nerd that every single day I

want to see a story about a new energy

source and there's a ton of them now but

here are some things happening um did

you know that there's a a Bureau of Land

Management uh Unfortunately they came up

with that name before they realized that

the initials BLM would be distracting

but the BLM or the Bureau of Land

Management uh so under the current

Administration they're thinking about

taking a whole bunch of public

land because there's tons of public land

that's empty and using it for solar

projects so that it wouldn't cost much

of anything to slap those solar panels

on it now of course there's all the

pollution problems and other problems

you're going to complain about but I

like

this I I like the idea of using all that

extra land and put some solar panels on

there and if if space and where you put

them is one of the big obstacles I

imagine it would

be sounds like it could work so here's

something I'm not going to complain

about from the Biden Administration if

they pull let off I would say oh good

job well what about all the progress on

batteries oh well there are three

stories just today on New Battery

Technology like huge breakthroughs three

stories independent you know unrelated

to each other all on the same topic of

batteries but different projects all

just

today there is something going on in the

battery research and development area

that's crazy now it makes sense because

if there are robots everywhere whoever

makes the best battery is going to be

making so much money you can't even

believe it they're going to be making

more money than the Tesla making robots

probably here's an idea let's see uh

we'll see MIT has a study uh they're

they're going to use a partially

disordered rock salt cathode but here's

the thing they want to integrate it with

the their poly Anan which as you know

are dubbed the disordered rock salt

polyanic spinal or as I like to call

them the DRX PS and as you know that

delivers the high energy density Rock uh

or high voltage with significantly

improves cycle stability and I think we

all want that now that's one study but

there's also another one well this is

exciting um according to Yahoo Tech um

there's a big game gamechanging approach

and they're going to use homogeneous

cathode what yeah they're going to

Tinker with the cathode until they can

get a solid state powered back life

cycles and uh other things I don't

understand something coming out of a

Chinese research but then according to

Tech Explorer there's another solid

state electrolyte Advance oh wow and

they're going to use polymers to make a

strong yet springy thin

film and uh you have these durable

sheets of solid state electrolytes wow

wow so you don't have to understand any

of that just understand that the Battery

Technology world is going crazy right

now crazy all right I finally understand

what's the big deal about this telegram

app telegram

app uh and why the CEO got picked up now

remember I told you we will never

understand the real reason behind

anything

but there's at least one that's obvious

at least now it wasn't obvious until

someone told

me so apparently if you're in a battle

like a war like let's say Ukraine

against Russia one of the things that

would be really important to winning the

war especially a long ongoing kind of

affair is how well your team can

communicate without getting

intercepted so you want to be able to

quickly talk to your own team if you're

in War but you don't want the other team

to be able to intercept your stuff well

it turns out that the Russians the

government was concerned the military

was uh that the ukrainians could already

hack their regular military

Communications which would you know be

encrypted but you know might be hackable

so what was the and is the Russian

military using instead of their normal

encrypted military app well it turns out

that the only thing they trusted was the

telegram app that's right the soldiers

who were actually in the thick of

battle didn't have a better option than

opening their phone and using the app to

say um you know you should Target this

or you should get some supplies over

here or get some reinforcements over

here

so if NATO could get a hold of a back

door hypothetically into the telegram

app they would have all the

communications of the Russian military

and it doesn't look like the M Russian

military had a really good second

option so there's a

possibility that Ukraine could win the

war if they if NATO controlled the

telegram app without without Russia

knowing they controlled it in other

words if we had a if we had we meaning

NATO if we had a back door but Russia

didn't know know it so they kept using

it Ukraine would know everything they're

going to do before they do

it now I'm exaggerating you know I'm

sure they have other ways to communicate

but according to the Wall Street Journal

it was like the main way they were

communicating was through telegram

because it was owned by or at least it

was housed in the UAE which has a good

relationship with Russia so the Russians

were thinking well we can't use WhatsApp

because the Americans are going to be

all over that

uh so that was the one they trusted so

allow me to make a prediction you're

ready for the

prediction the prediction will be that

at some point the CEO will be

released and you will be under the

impression that he didn't give up

anything you see where I'm going with

this in order for NATO to have a back

door that's useful they've got to act

like they don't have a back door

door so they got to keep this guy in

Peril until the Peril forces him to give

them a back door and then they got to

make sure that nobody knows anything

happened so that they can use it to find

out what the Russian military is going

to do before they do it so the most

likely outcome if you accept these as

facts which you know was always a

question everything's every Everything

has a little bit of skepticism that

should be naturally applied

but I'm going to predict that we will be

told that nobody got access to the

telegram app yes he was in lots of

trouble but He's a brave guy and he

resisted all that

trouble and Life Will Go On and then

suddenly there will be a a string of

defeats on the Russian military and

people will say hey it's like the

ukrainians know what we're going to do

before we do it I think that might be

coming we'll say

uh quinac uh the uh research company

they did a poll and said that 20% of

likely black voters say they would vote

for

Trump does that seem low to

you that seems low that does not match

observation because I've seen just tons

of uh black citizens on TV being asked

who they support and you've seen it both

from right leaning entities and left you

know even Don Lemon doing his uh his

interviews it sure looks like a lot more

than

20% or is it just that people were

willing to do the interview maybe have a

certain perspective and people who were

not willing to do the interview maybe

had another one so that you know you

have to wonder if the street interviews

are really representative they might not

be representative uh I mean there's a

reason you do polls instead of just

talking to people on the street because

one's not reliable but as I often say

one of my BS filters to figure out

what's BS is if your direct observation

doesn't match the

science it doesn't mean your direct

observation is right but it certainly

should be room for skepticism so my

skepticism is 20% sounds low based on

observ

which is not reliable but it should be

noted that they're r a whack all I'm

saying is they don't

agree one of them might be right no way

to

know feels a low to me all right um

Trump has come out strong in favor of

IVF in v in vitro

fertilization he says that either the

government or the insurance company

should be forced to pay for it because

we basically need more Americans we need

more babies

now this is brilliant in my

opinion I think it's brilliant because

he's fighting against the you're going

to take my bodily autonomy and you of

course the Harris campaign acts like he

didn't say it and he doesn't mean it and

he's going to lie and Everything Will

Change no I think he means

this I think he completely means it I

think he 100% is in favor of people

having babies and using a little science

to help it out and making sure that

America can you know create its own

citizens I think he's completely down

for this my my take on this is that it's

100% genuine his actual opinion and that

he would really follow through with

it so that that is a a perfect

response to the criticisms in that

area on top of that there's some Florida

bill I don't know the details but some

abortion related thing and uh Trump was

asked how he'd vote just as a citizen of

Florida I

guess and Trump reminds us that uh he'd

always been against uh limiting

abortions to under six weeks so I guess

that's the current law in Florida and he

said he would be voting for whatever you

know something that's longer than six

weeks he thinks he called that a

terrible mistake when it happened in

2023 now here's my question

how are you going to get young people to

live in

Florida if your abortion thing has you

know a a six week uh limit on it now uh

if you're new to me I do not give you

opinions on abortion I think women need

to work it out they should take the lead

and though Al I don't

Advocate abdicate I don't give away my

vote it's just that I think women should

be the lead on that just as I think in

some other domains men should take the

lead such as circumcision stuff like

that I mean um so you're not seeing my

opinion I'm just talking about the the

the topic so how does Florida survive in

the long run because Florida is going to

get lots of senior citizens who don't

care one way or the other about abortion

which they have I mean it's a retirement

place but can you survive if you don't

have lots of young people who are

willing to live there and stay there and

move there it' be kind of hard to have a

high-tech environment if you had a u

abortion laws that were at least to

maybe 60% of the tech workers look like

a place you'd never live oh I can't live

there so he would be the

test uh the test would be whether

Florida is forced for their own

demographic reasons to loosen up on this

and get a little bit closer

to what young people want because I

don't think this is what young people

want um obviously it's you know the left

and the right have different opinions

but I would think there are probably 23s

of young people at least would want a

more uh let's say a more forgiving set

of laws so my question is can Florida

even

survive as a state and again it's not an

opinion on abortion

I'm just doing a prediction what happens

if you discourage 60% of your Tech

workers from living there in the long

run feel feels disastrous in the long

run but um but we're not talking about

the ethics of it right you you might you

might prefer it but economically it

looks like a disaster in the long

run all right let's talk about CNN had

their big conversation with kamla Harris

and Tim Walls here are my takeaways uh

she looked uncomfortable she did not

appear like a smart

person um I think she would be the

dumbest um maybe the dumbest candidate

that the Democrats have run for

president in my lifetime would you agree

with that now Biden was you know before

he was dementia riddled you know he was

certainly not the brightest light but I

feel like uh he chose a vice president

who was obviously you know less good

than he was and sure enough she seems to

be the lowest

intelligence uh candidate we've seen so

just just think about how smart some of

their past candidates have been Obama no

matter what you think about him

brilliant guy that's my opinion

brilliant guy even if he hate everything

he did Bill Clinton brilliant even if he

hate him uh Al Gore almost you know

brilliant smart guy even if he hate

everything he's doing these are really

smart people Jimmy Carter terrible

president smart guy very smart guy so I

think the Democrats have given up on

smart like that didn't matter now vake

Ras Swami had a comment about it he said

kamla's interview last night was a

reminder that we're not running against

a candidate we're running against a

system they require a candidate that can

control which means having original

ideas as a

disqualification that's why we get Biden

and then K

Harris is that

why that that hypothesis is pretty

strong that the the system wants to do

what the system wants to do and that

requires a weak candidate so they can

control

it but why did they why did they have

such smart candidates

before is this so different than the

past that uh they could have a Jimmy

Carter and a Bill Clinton and and an

Obama and they could be strong and

Brilliant and the the system was okay

with them or was

it is it you have to be either dumb or

easily

blackmailed is that it so you have a

choice well you you can even either be

dumb so we can manage you or you have to

be easily blackmailed so we can manage

you either way

you all right so um I saw somebody use

the word lightweight that Comm Harris

didn't even sort of looked presidential

she looked lightweight that was exactly

the word I was going to

use um I was going to say lightweight

but I saw somebody else use it so that

made me feel smart like oh okay they saw

the same thing so she didn't look bright

she didn't look comfortable she looked

kind of lightweight she had a little

word salad problem quote the climate

crisis real that is an urgent matter to

which we should apply metrics that

include holding ourselves to deadlines

around

time that's a lot of nothing right there

that's a that's a whole bunch of

nothing so it looked to me like uh she

had the questions in

advance now I don't have proof of that

but I'll tell you what made me think she

had the questions in

advance um there was one point where she

would look down and she would be using

her fingers to say points like you know

this point this point this point I think

that's a memory device for somebody who

knew the question was coming and had

said all right if you get this question

say these four things and so she was

actually counting them off on her

fingers well their you know physical

fingers

like she was trying to recall them from

memory so it didn't

look like somebody who had her own

opinions and could easily speak to her

preferences it looked like somebody had

to memorize the test that's not a good

look but I'll tell you the real tell the

real tell was uh Harris was asked the

question uh that involved a little girl

that I think was her grand niece or

something and she was watching K Harris

accept the nomination and historic you

know female person of color away and the

idea is that the iconic

photo captured a you know young person

of color and female being inspired by KL

Harris so she was asked about this which

is the ultimate softball question they

only had 18 minutes that they showed

imagine out of the 18 minutes that one

of the one of the questions should be

about somebody's photograph

but to her credit Comm Harris did not

say oh yes you know it was a special day

for us blah blah blah without first

saying and here's the part that tells me

she was prepared for that specific

question she said when I ran for

president I ran to be the president for

all people and I said that is a

suspiciously good way to start the

answer to that question not just good

it's perfect

you know you you can talk all day long

about how you know there there's

something special about the situation

and it won't bother me at all if you

start that way I ran to be the president

of all the people I go okay well now you

can call out that there's also a special

interest in it but if you start with a

special

interest I'm not even going to hear you

if later you add in but I'm really the

president of all the people I'd be well

why'd you start with a special part

first like sounds like you care about

that more than you care about you know

just doing the

job so to me that sounded like she was

well prepared for that specific

question was she actually told the

questions in advance I don't know there

was also the question she was asked

about uh Trump's comments about whether

she was really black or had always

identified as black you know the real

red meat let's get into to this and you

know certainly it's a place that she can

win some points and instead she did an

uncomfortable smile and said next

question and refus to deal on the the

sort of personal racial part of it now

is that because she was prepared for the

question she sure looked prepared to the

for the question to

me but that doesn't mean that she was

given the questions in advance cuz you

could pretty well guess what the

questions might be right

so anyway she uh did her best to avoid

questions that were good to avoid and

avoid really a whole bunch of stuff so

it's basically her stump speech a lot of

memorized stuff that you could tell was

memorized because she was looking down

so she did a lot of looking down like

her eyes were down toward the table but

there was nothing there or was there is

it possible that the wide shots showed

the table with nothing on it but is it

possible that when they did the

close-ups where you could see her from

the chest up that there actually was a

piece of paper down

there is it possible that you know since

there was an edited event is it possible

she had

notes I also saw a part where uh if you

replay it you'll see maybe in the first

third or so of it there was a point

where she started to saying answer and

then she did a hand gesture toward Tim

wals that was sort of the you know don't

jump in hand gesture it was like she she

was giving him the you know stand down

hand gesture that didn't make any

sense unless there was an edit we didn't

know about did he say something that got

edited out because it was out of context

that she was she was waving him off when

he wasn't doing anything he wasn't even

in the picture he wasn't even in the

frame so what was that I mean it

suggests there was an edit there but

can't know for

sure maybe she expected him to jump in

and she

was I don't know I don't I don't even

know what that was

about she also had what I call liar eyes

so most of the time she was looking down

and her eyes were in a normal mode so

they were either a little bit closed or

they were looking down but every once in

a while she had the big

lie I was watching in the man cave last

night pointing out the big lies her eyes

would widen and then the little lines

would form on her forehead when she's

doing the thing that she knows you're

not going to believe but if she says it

with her eyes wide open you might

because look how honest I am with my

eyes wide open that's called liar face

if you play it back with the sound off

and then you find the liar face then

turn the sound back on and find out why

she was saying at that

moment what once you learn to spot liar

face it's hilarious because the the

politicians use it all the time it's

just so so obvious when they're trying

to sell you something they know you're

not believing because you

shouldn't all right what

else um the physical uh arrangement of

the people at the table has been

questioned reasonably because uh they

had walls on one end of the table

opposite from uh Dana Bash and then uh

kamla was between them on the far side

of the table now because of the

dimensions of the perspective of the

shot plus the fact that wals is just a

bigger human being than she is he looked

huge and in

charge if you were just looking at the

pictures you'd think it would be an

interview with him and his secretary

came along to take some notes sexist yes

because the country is sexist we're you

know so it's worth mentioning it's not

my opinion it's it's just what one

imagines people are going to think in

their little sexist brains so she was

Tiny and uh looked unimportant just

visually and the visuals are kind of a

big deal she also made all kinds of

weird funny faces when when wal was

talking she wanted to show how proud and

smiley she was so she does the I ate a

lemon but I enjoyed it

face you know I'm doing it now if you're

just listening you're missing the best

part of the show yeah I ate a lemon but

I'm really happy about

it nailed it nailed it you're laughing

at home I could

tell let's see uh yeah she basically

voided most questions when Tim wals was

uh interviewed you really got the sense

that there was no reason for him to be

there I felt CNN was slapping him down

because they didn't ask or it didn't

make the final edit anything about

policy they asked him about his son's

reaction at the convention to his

speech okay interesting human human

story but you only had 18 minutes you

only had 18 minutes that wasn't in the

top 100 of anybody's

interest right then then she asked about

The Stolen Valor especially the part

where he had uh used some words that

indicated he'd been in a war zone but he

had not been in a shooting war

zone um he wasn't physically in a

warzone and his defense was well you

know somebody points out you know my

grammar isn't perfect sometimes so he

kind of made it sound like it was just a

poor word choice and then moved on but

because this was not any kind of a real

news event this was just a puff piece he

was asked no follow-up questions Harris

was asked no follow-up questions or

actually she was on the question of

whether she had changed her opinions on

things because fracking for example she

changed and uh even Daniel Dale came on

and fact jackor was lying about her

fracking opinions because she said I had

clearly said in 2020 that I was uh you

know okay with fracking and then Daniel

Dale checked and said nope he never said

that in 2020 you did say that your boss

Joe Biden was in favor of fracking

that's different so the only record we

have of her in the past is she's 100%

against fracking later she said Biden is

in favor of it and he's not going to

change and then she said well I told you

that you know I changed a while ago just

not true

not

true anyway um oh I I would compliment

harisa just to give back to that thing

where she said next question about the

black identity thing I do think that

that was a good way to handle it because

I don't think that issue worked in her

favor if that issue worked in her favor

she would have certainly brought it up

and wanted to talk about it but I think

that the more she talks about the

question of is she black the more black

citizens uh catch it and they go wait a

minute what wait what you you're not oh

H I thought you were 100% black now do

black voters care about her identity

being you know as black as the blackest

you could be versus living a life as a

black woman and my guess is probably

some do you know if the entire game is

identity politics and it has been for

years if that's their game doesn't it

matter if he got the identity

right that feels important if you're

going to play identity politics you

can't make up your

identity so my take on this is that I'm

not I'm not the person who gets to say

whether somebody's black or not but what

I observe is that there's nobody like

her she's the only

one I would love to see her say that

that would be a strong message by the

way so you know what instead of saying

whether I'm you know black or Indian or

one qu or black or whatever anybody

saying how about we agree on this

there's only one of

me

bam that would be a home

run it's just that sometimes the

identity politics Works in her favor so

she doesn't want to run from it too hard

it's better just to skip it and let

people make up their own minds

that probably works in her favor so I

think her advice was good they probably

advised her to stick stay away from that

also advised her on the picture of the

little girl so those are two situations

where she could have gone identity

politics and she ran from

both probably probably well

advised I liked it you know it felt more

like a legitimate candidate for

president by avoiding it that to me

voiding the identity stuff is it's got

to be number one you know right up there

as your most important personal quality

is that you're not focused on identity

and so basically yet again she's finding

a trump point of view where that

shouldn't have been important that the

fact that Trump brought it up is because

they think it's important that's what

makes it funny so it could be that Trump

just ruined identity Politics as a as a

good strategy

for running for office you may have

ruined it forever just by bringing up

the question of well you know maybe

aren't you more of an

individual you know I'm not sure that

you fit into this category everybody

else says you fit into just adding some

doubt into that I think was brilliant as

as much as Trump will be forever

criticized for bringing up identity and

black identity and stuff things he

shouldn't be talking about you would

think

I thought that

worked because it enter it created the

conversation it wasn't what he said

about it that mattered What mattered was

you talked about it if he could get you

to talk about well I think she is I

think she's not I think she's partially

he wins so avoiding it was her best

strategy yes I think all right what else

happened uh there were no questions on

her taxes on her tax proposals ju just

imagine that the number one thing that

everybody says is a horrible idea you

know her unrealized gains on taxes

especially didn't even come up it's the

number one bad thing that she recommends

didn't come up or or did it CU we don't

know how much got edited

out is it possible that and she could

have no good answer to that question

especially if there was any followup to

it that they just cut it out what do you

think I I'm going to I'm going to double

down on my assumption that when there's

a lack of

transparency and it's not individuals

it's you know organizations involved

that I think it's appropriate to assume

they edited it out because what would

make you think they didn't ask how in

the world would that not be one of the

top 20 questions and you'd you'd

probably get to 20 questions if you did

talk to him for an hour so I don't know

how much how much they talked beyond the

18 minutes I'd love to know

that and then Harris apparently was

coached they when she was asked about

her flip-flopping so to speak on on

topics her answer was my values have not

changed and I saw somebody smart say

okay you just put

a you just gave Trump the kill

shot Trump wants you to believe that her

old socialist views are still in play

she's just hiding them she just said

he's

right now she didn't mean to say that

what she meant to say is maybe my

policies have changed but they're all

coming from the same place which is

absurd and stupid and obviously not

true so it's a stupid thing to say but

it could convince stupid people and

since most most of her voters you know

are

stupid could work out

fine but uh my values have not changed

gives Trump the Ultimate Weapon which

is show what she said and then play my

my values have not changed then show

what she said again on another topic and

then go right back to my values haven't

changed you do that on like five

different different super socialist

stupid ideas she had in the past and

then you make sure that she said today

today my values haven't changed nobody

in the world is going to think that

means that she's got different policies

than she used to have and by the way as

misleading as that might

be it's directionally

true you know what I mean it is

directionally true that if you're

willing to say over and over again my

values haven't changed changed we as

voters get to say well those other

policies were based on those values were

they

not it seems like you're trying to not

answer the question why you changed your

mind which makes it sound like you

haven't which makes it sound like you're

some kind of Trojan Horse you know once

you get inside the gate Lord knows what

happens

then so that could have that could

actually have taken her out of the race

Ju Just think about the impact that

would have if you saw her dumbass you

know no fracking Etc followed

immediately by my values have not

changed there's no way you would think

she would have a different

policy even if she

does well um here's some other things we

learned uh I feel like we learned why

she doesn't do

debates uh or doesn't want to do many

and uh I think we learned why she

doesn't do

interviews I would rank her performance

as

poor and I can't imagine that she would

do better on on a

debate

so I guess it's the reason we haven't

seen much of her is exactly why you

thought it was she's just really bad at

this this being you know being a

presidential

person all right she uh she was asked

about uh

bomic and she said it was good

work which also sounded like a prepared

answer so as as if she knew what the

question was going to be yeah B was good

work anyway so then Daniel Dale came on

and did a fact check on her fracking

claim and you know as I said showed that

she had uh she had uh lied about having

said in 2020 that she was in favor of

fracking because she didn't she only

said Biden was in

favor but um is anything

missing was there anything that you

thought logically should have been part

of that uh interview and yet it was

completely missing what was it huh well

how many of you watched any of the

DNC you didn't have to watch a lot the

Democrat National Convention you didn't

have to watch a

lot all you had to do was turn it on for

a minute and you would hear a hoax you'd

hear the project 2025 hoax you'd hear

the fine people hoax you'd hear the

drinking bleach hoax you'd hear the uh

suckers and losers

HS now that was so pervasive during the

convention that it was practically the

decorations it was pretty much every

speaker every time

time so if any of those things were

true wouldn't that be a question the CNN

would want to ask

her like do you believe that these

things are true do you believe that

Trump called neo-nazis Fine people do

you believe that he suggested drinking

bleach do you believe that he said in

front of a general the soldiers are

losers and suckers which is absurd

and just make her answer those questions

but instead not a single Trump

hoax was ever

mentioned so how could it go from the

primary message of the entire Democratic

National Committee conference whatever

it is how can it go from the biggest

most important stuff to not worth

asking let me tell you how because CNN

knows none of it's

true and they've got a guy guy who's a

fact Checker and they're going to they

got to trot his ass out and he's going

to have to deal with the fact that all

she said was a bunch of

hoaxes what's he going to

do so instead he focuses on fracking

because the questions were never

asked so was any of that ever

real because if any of the accusations

made by the Democrats during the

convention if any of that were real

CNN would have asked about it because if

any of it was real it really really

matters I mean those are big deals if

they were real which they weren't so do

you have proof that that CNN knows these

are

hoaxes yeah you do yeah you do I would

consider this proof that CNN knows those

are hoaxes and doesn't want to say it

out

loud especially since half of their

repeat those hoaxes on the on the air

all right so CNN making most of the news

disappear as if by Magic is kind of

sweet meanwhile Harris is back on the

campaign trail with a new hoax and she

says quote she just posted this on X if

given the chance Donald Trump has made

it clear he intends to end the

Affordable Care Act taking our country

backwards we're not going back we're

going forward

well the affordable uh Care Act also

known as

Obamacare what how many of you know what

Trump says about

it do most of you know what Trump says

about it does Trump say he's going to uh

get rid of

it

no no he says it under one specific

context he says we won't change anything

unless we can come up with something

better

better what do you think he's going to

come up with something that covers fewer

people would that be

better no is he going to come up with

something that costs

less well if he does who's going to

about it are you going to

about it oh he got rid of the Affordable

Care Act and replaced it with something

that's exactly the same but costs

less nobody's going to about that

so there is no no world in which you

you say I'm not going to change anything

unless we can find a clear way to make

it

better why would you worry about that

that's almost a generic statement about

what every leader should do about every

topic don't change it unless you have

something better the most basic common

sense of all time again this is Trump

running a common sense campaign that in

so many ways doesn't re I don't

recognize that as is either left or

right how is that left or right don't

you think the people on the left would

be equally willing to you know change or

modify the Affordable Care Act if it

were something

better so it's just a lie but the

newsleter do

it well the blaze is reporting that

Trump said at a Wisconsin Town Hall he

was with Tulsi gabard he said uh I had

the safest Border in the history of the

country uh they have the most unsafe

Border in the history of the world and

then here's my favorite part he says uh

they had a group of Venezuelan people

with lots of machine guns taking over a

building this is just the beginning now

remember I tell you that Trump is the

master of visual

persuasion now visual persuasion is not

just showing you a picture it's

describing a visual image with words as

well so if Trump has had just said

something generic like there's too much

crime coming across the border you would

say ah there's that's a statistic okay

but if he tells you that Venezuelan

people with machine guns are taking over

a building which is a real thing by the

way I don't think they're machine guns I

think they just have weapons but you can

see that like in your mind the picture

forms perfectly and it's scary because

you see people with machine guns even

though I don't think they had any um but

guns knocking on your door and saying uh

this is our apartment now or else you're

paying us

rent that is some scary scary stuff so

Trump again perfectly visual perfect

description perfect summary on that

topic so

good did MSNBC like K Harris's

performance do I even need to tell you

yes here are the things they said were

just

masterful uh that she decided to make it

about the country not

herself did

she I don't know just sounded like her

stump speech to me um somebody named

Jeremy Peters on uh MSNBC said she's

very wisely making this about the

country and bringing the country back

together really what what was the

bringing the country back together apart

I don't recall that at

all um rather than saying this is about

me this is who I am you already have one

candidate who's doing that quite

well that that's

so just trying hard to write a college

essay on an assigned

topic it really is trying as hard as you

can to just use words if I combine words

in just the right way

this is going to look like a good thing

it's

crazy

um all right

so anyway

so somebody also on MSNBC uh Ellie

velli talked about her kamis defending

her switches and policy preferences he

said quote I thought she was smart to

explain her policy position

has not a change in values not a change

in your deep inner mooring but instead

something almost situational in terms of

taking in more

information in other words MSNBC is

adding word salad to her word

salad I I feel like I'm at uh what's

that restaurant that has infinite salad

you want salad we'll talk about salad

with some more

salad what does it mean that that she's

going to keep her values but instead

it's something about situational in

terms of taking in more information that

would be

everything everything is situational and

we're always taking more information

that really doesn't explain

anything anyway but they tried it

hard polling as you know is ridiculous

at this point um but Wall Street Journal

says they've got a poll that uh Harris

is up 48 to 47 but if you throw in the

third party candidates and why wouldn't

you she's up two points but that's

within the margin of error Nate silver

still says Trump has a 52% chance of

winning the electoral college versus

Harris at 47 but that will get uh

updated soon so basically we don't know

anything about anything it's we just

know it's

close all right um apparently CEO Mark

Zuckerberg claimed somewhere this week

that he didn't realize that the $400

million he spent on that whole getting

out the vote thing in

2020 uh primarily benefited one party so

he's acting

surprised that his $400 million was

spent to make things more biased instead

of a more fair

election $400

million he wasted

because what he wanted he says is a

system that was just a better system for

all

people what he got was he changed the

direction of the election toward

Biden maybe he wanted that too but it

wasn't planning to do it so here's the

thing you didn't know that the Chan

Zuckerberg initiative so that's where

the 400 million was that got spent it

was led by his

wife h

uh who gave most of that money to some

groups that are so obviously left

leaning that you should have been able

to know very easily that you were going

to bias the election

outcome so let's uh let's put this in a

little larger

context imagine what would have happened

if Steve Jobs Jeff Bezos and Mark

Zuckerberg had never gotten

married just those three billionaires

imagine they never gotten married well

if Steve Jobs had never gotten married

then he would not have left his fortune

to Lena who bought the Atlantic and

turned into a Democrat activist

propagandist who is doing a good job at

it so Steve Jobs getting married

us pretty hard how about Jeff Bezos well

uh his wife got many millions and

billions many billions and uh she's

spending it to make sure Democrats

win so if Jeff Bezos had never been

married you wouldn't have that

problem how about Mark

Zuckerberg if Mark Zuckerberg had never

got married do you think he would have

allocated that $400 million the same way

as wife did I doubt

it I think no you know there's no way to

know but my instinct is that they're not

exactly on the same page

you know we we've heard we've heard

Zuckerberg favor Free Speech we've heard

him uh say he regretted the censorship

that was pushed on him by the uh Biden

Administration primarily and we've heard

him say that Trump was the most badass

thing when he said fight fight fight now

that doesn't make him a

republican but I'll tell you what zberg

does

understand business he understands

business do you think that he thinks

that Harris is better for business I

doubt it I doubt it it it if in a

private moment I would be amazed if

Zuckerberg is really super

anti-trump I'd be amazed Ian he might be

neutral but I'd be amazed if he thinks

Trump's going to be a big old

problem so if those three billionaires

had never gotten married we wouldn't be

in so much trouble

do you think there are any other wives

that are doing similar

things well interestingly Trump is

benefiting also by the Widow of uh

Sheldon

adelon adelon right um so there's

another case of someone who she's not

the one who made the money but if adelon

had never been

married there probably wouldn't be

somebody there who's funding the Trump

campaign

so why is it that we designed this

system a few hundred years ago and we

thought it was all about you know

representative government and turned out

to be basically billionaire

Coxs so billionaire

Coxs and what they wanted to do with it

is determining our

system you know describe the system to

your uh your grade school child well so

you got these people go billionaires got

it

uh they've got

okay most of them most of them do

and when they want to put them in

something they have to get married

because I know this system kind of

requires that so uh they got these

holsters and uh then the holsters

uh take take half the money and leave or

sometimes all the money if somebody dies

and then the holsters become the

ones who decide who the next president

is and then your sixth grader says

what's a holster and you say well

maybe you're not ready for this we'll

get back to you in a few years so no

don't talk like that to a sixth grader

that would be terrible I can't even

believe you were thinking about it

that's terrible you should be ashamed of

yourselves so that's the real world

billionaire Cox decide who's President

indirectly Elon Musk warned warns us

that at the current rate of government

spending he says on X America is in the

fast lane to

bankruptcy and he says government

overspending is what causes inflation

wow do we want him to be in charge of

driving the government imagine what you

could do if you took a Elon Musk

engineering approach to how much

government do we really need and how

should it be organized for the most

efficiency it would look completely

different than what we have

so I don't know how much he could get

away with or whether he really will be

you know Trump's uh helper to figure out

how to streamline things but you'd have

to take off a massive a massive part of

the government spending not just the

employees you know it's not it's not

really about the employees we're paying

it's about what the employees want us to

pay for other stuff

so here's my take I think that all

government borrowing is

theft once you know you can't pay it

back if you know that you're borrowing

an amount that you can easily pay back

no problem at all that would just be

people entering into a transaction they

all understood and had mutual benefit

yay yay Mutual benefit but today every

dollar that the government spends comes

out of your pocket with

inflation so they just write checks and

you pay them and you didn't vote for any

of it all they have to do is not do

their job of balancing the budget just

not do their job and and then you you

get robbed so basically inflation is a

tax you know they're they're just doing

it by printing money instead of passing

a law why can my government take my

money without a

conversation how's that how's that

coming up I I mean I get that the uh

Congress passes the budget so I guess

there is a conversation in that way but

they need to tell us what that is every

time they pass a

budget that is you know going to add to

the debt what they should say is this

budget will cost each of you um $10,000

in Lost buying power because your

dollars will be worth

less that's what they should say but

they don't

they act like it's

free like it's free oh yeah cuz we'll

pay it back we're not going to pay it

back let me say this as clearly as

possible you know that $36 trillion we

owe we're not paying that back I don't

know what will'll happen I mean maybe

we'll go full Hitler didn't Hitler just

renounce all the debt Germany

had at one point he just said no we're

not paying it back and that was actually

the key key that put Germany on like a

very rapid um economic Improvement it

was one of the big Keys now

unfortunately they used their economic

Improvement to fund their military and

didn't work out

but I would love to know a little bit

more about what happened when Hitler

just said well how about we're not

paying back the rest of the world

ever so we're just defaulting we're

going to create our own our own money

we'll just act like that debt never

happened

somehow that worked didn't it I don't

know my history well enough to know if

I'm talking crazy am I talking crazy how

how many of you are aware again if

somebody sees this s of context they're

going to say I'm praising Hitler no I'm

not praising Hiller I'm simply looking

at one historical precedent of debt

ignoring and asking you didn't that work

out really well for Germany or is it

because they invented their own currency

but we wouldn't really be able to do

that is there something that would

prevent us from doing the same thing now

keep in mind defaulting on your debt to

every reasonable person sounds like the

worst case scenario but it's not because

it's not worse than having a debt you

can't pay

back yeah at least Germany gave itself a

chance I mean it squandered its Chance

by starting a war and and a holocaust

but

I think we're rapidly going to be in a

situation where some politician is going

to say out

loud we're never paying this

back and then what happens I don't know

that there's some possibility that all

we have to do is not pay it

back let let me say this

again if you have your money if you have

any of your money in uh government

debt that was extra

money do you know what I'm

saying uh I have I have a lot of

Investments I have a little bit in the

state state of California of bonds just

a little bit like a maybe

2% now the 2% suppose I suppose

California just said you know what we're

not going to pay back any of our bonds

I'd be like what are you kidding me I

put some serious money into those

bonds but then I would look at my total

portfolio and to go oh well this serious

money but it wouldn't change my life if

they never paid it

back I would just go on I wouldn't even

notice

really now who makes these who exactly

are the people who have uh invested all

that money in government instruments

who does that well you don't do that

with your important money de you except

very short term to make sure it doesn't

disappear it's not any kind of a

long-term investment that makes sense

except as a small part of your portfolio

so I just I just have a sort of a

curiosity don't put this don't assume

this as a recommendation so let me

soften it a little bit I'm not saying we

should do it I just have what I I think

are reasonable questions about what

happens if we get to the point where

it's just obvious it can't be paid back

and we can't even afford and and we

can't afford the interest on it if we

could afford the

interest we'd probably just keep going

but we're close to not being able to

afford the

interest at some point we're going to

have a choice between two awful

choices not paying back the debt or what

just becoming a third world country with

no money

so here's here's what I'm introducing

into the system you better start

thinking about what's going to

happen because something's going to

happen it'll be the biggest thing that's

ever happened not counting Wars I guess

yeah there won't be much bigger that

will ever happen than whatever the heck

we do with this debt it will be really

really big probably will'll be fine but

whatever it is is going to be big so get

ready for

it all right still waiting for the first

Economist to endorse the Harris tax plan

has anybody seen it yet has anybody seen

MSNBC with an economist just happened to

be a Democrat saying uh this is a good

plan this tax stuff will work

out I haven't have any of you even one

can't find one Economist to agree with

Harris no one how many economists are

there in the country do you

think

20,000 depending on how you count them

as professional economists now I'm not

talking about people just have a degree

in economics like me I'm talking about

somebody who's a working Economist

they're getting paid to be an economist

20,000 of

them and MSNBC can't find

one that can go on the air and say you

know what you've been looking at this

wrong if you look at it in a smarter way

this this tax plan is great not one not

one out of 20,000 and why is that not a

story in its

own what why is it the story well we've

got 20,000 professional economists and

we don't have one that's willing to come

on and say this is a good

idea that is a story that you can't get

one how is that not a

story we shouldn't even be talking about

the tax plan we should talk about the

fact that there's not one Economist out

of

20,000 who can come on the air and give

you a you know a positive idea about

it all

right um you're following the story of

that Brazil judge who keeps going after

musk um to try to get he wants to get

control of X basically to make sure that

X can be

uh censored the way Brazil's um corrupt

government would like to censor it and

uh musk unlike the other platforms is

resisting and so the pressure is on him

and uh they're going after spacex's as

Financial accounts in

Brazil so basically SpaceX won't get any

more money from

Brazil even though they have all these

customers using the um I'm not I'm sorry

using the uh satellite starlink so

SpaceX owns starlink so uh and uh so

musk says that he's going to keep the

service up and just make it

free so he doesn't have a mechanism to

collect money from the people buying

starlink but he's not going to turn it

off and the government can't turn it off

because it's just plug in plug in and go

right so that's a pretty baller decision

by musk that he'll just keep it on

because he probably assumes that better

communication is bad for the government

of Brazil and good for him and he's

right so they can harm him financially

and as he said often so you're going to

threaten me

financially

you did he not say that directly on a

different topic so yeah and it's smart

it's smart of him

to make sure that's his brand he's got

to be the you brand because

otherwise everybody will try to pressure

him in every way they can he's got

enough businesses that there's always

some lever they can put on

it but it gets better you ready for the

good

part uh two good parts number one how

does the United States government let

this piss ant judge in Brazil the

United States and citizens within it and

their company

Biden Administration this is one of

those situations where you need to be a

president of the United States

this is not about left versus right this

is Brazil the Brazilian government is

attacking a US citizen very publicly and

some us companies that I consider quite

important if the United States can't

protect us against this by threatening

the and of Brazil like we'll around

you with re warships and take away your

economy you can't take our freedom of

speech indirectly or even in your own

country if you want to deal with the

United

States what is going on here am I wrong

that the role of the United States

government largely is to protect US

citizens from outside assault this is a

completely inappropriate assault by a

country that should be one of our you

know favored

countries totally unacceptable this is a

complete failure of the US government

and this has nothing to do with democrat

or republican this is just an attack

this is an attack on American Business

and American citizens it's an attack and

no response not a legal response not a

threat not a

statement we we should have a real

president who stands in front of the

country and says look here's the deal

Brazil we have a lot of levers we're

going to press them

all back

off and that's not happening not only is

it not happening again why is that not

the story the story is not just musk

against a judge in Brazil the story is

that the government of the United States

took a

pass they're taking a

pass while an an American citizen is

being attacked by a foreign

entity threatened with

jail and our government's taking a

path too busy with

Ukraine too busy at the

beach

outrageous gets better Mike Ben uh is uh

reminding us well I didn't know it so

I'm not being reminded but um so I'm

hearing it for the first time time that

the US state department was very

involved in making sure that Brazil had

access to voting

machines

H why would the US be so

concerned that Brazil had access to

voting machines and apparently the US uh

intervened with at least two different

manufacturers of

microchips to make sure that the voting

machines for Brazil went higher on the

priority so they could get get chips for

their voting

machines and then the CIA according to

Mike Ben uh and he shows the documents

by the way this is not Mike Benz making

stuff up um in his post he showing you

the actual documents and the you know

the current reporting at the time so

this is just documented that the CIA

warned bolsonaro the the last leader of

Brazil not to mess with the or cast out

on the new uh US state department

secured voting

machines so they threatened him not to

cast out on the voting

machines while making sure that they're

they definitely had some voting machines

now let me ask the question I've asked

many times by now you have a good answer

for me because I've been asking it for

so long and you thought about it and

then you researched it now you have a

good

answer what's the advantage of the

voting machines

is it because they're more credible the

the public will trust them no no

evidence of that it's the opposite are

they to save

money no no evidence that it saves money

are they to make things easier no they

obviously make it

harder um is

it to get a faster result so you don't

have to wait no probably is the other

way around or at least as as fast so why

was the United States trying so hard to

make sure Brazil had voting

machines what can you think of a second

reason because we can speculate about

one potential reason you know without

evidence I don't have any evidence of

this but it

looks exactly like the United States try

to install their own leader a preferred

leader via the mechanism of having

voting machines that maybe they had some

back door to I don't know that that's

true in other words there's no hard

evidence of anything so I can't I can't

point to any evidence for it but why

would the United States care so much

about another country's voting machines

so much so that they would get

involved can you think of a second

reason for

that I can't

I what would it

be is it because we're so kind to other

countries that we get really deeply

involved in all of their Affairs whether

had a political angle or not no we don't

do anything like

that uh in the comments uh lemon minty

is say voting machines are to make you

think voting is real well I don't know I

mean I think a paper ballot with lots of

observers would maybe think voting was

real I don't think there's any other

reason than the one that you

suspect now I but I'll soften that again

because I don't want to get sued I'll

soften it to say does anybody have a

speculation of what a second reason

could be I can't think of

any I have a pretty good

imagination I can't even imagine a

second reason can you I mean honestly

can you think think of any reason that

the US would be so incentivized

especially the

CIA to make sure we got those

American uh American driven machines in

there so but I remind you our elections

are

pristine nothing to worry about in our

elections because it's not like we've

seen any any any bad behavior anywhere

so our our elections are fine they're

fine everybody

I all

right um two two AI companies open Ai

and

anthropic uh they've reached some kind

of AI safety agreement with the US

government and what it involves I don't

know what else involves but key to this

is that the government would have access

to the

models presumably before the public did

so that they could test them and look

for AI

problems so do you feel better that

there's a there's an effort to have a

regulatory body that will be overseeing

AI

so pH so glad I I was worried for a

moment that there wouldn't be a

regulatory

body regulating

AI now let's leave that world of

imagination and go to the real one shall

we in the real world we know that the

time it will take for the a a industry

to totally own The Regulators would

be now yeah I think we're probably

already there how hard would it be for

the AI Industries to totally own The

Regulators well let's think it through

if somebody's job for the government is

to check on the AI and tell you if it's

safe they know what the they know what

the company wants and they know maybe

what the government would

want so suppose they know that the

company would want them to not clamp

down on that

thing and then suppose they get their

paycheck from the government and they

open it up and they go

huh well it's not bad but I'll bet you

open AI would pay about three times

this should I be ever interested in

increasing my exposure to the AI field

of which I'm already in but I'm working

for the government which would be the

very cheapest worst place you could ever

work on AI now suppose you have uh have

lunch with one of these regulators and

you're from one of the AI companies what

do you have to say to them to get them

to do what you want instead of actually

regulating you well you don't say if you

regulate me right I'll give you a job

later and you'll make a lot of money no

don't need to you just say so uh halfway

through lunch say say so uh what's your

plans you plan to stay with the

government and just work on this AI

regulation uhhuh you know we're always

uh we're always looking for

people so if at some point you get tired

of the regulatory thing here's my

card you don't have to actually offer

them a job you just have to remind them

that if they ever wanted to make twice

as much money it would be real easy they

just got to go light on the

regulations now in the real world does

stuff like that happen yes yes yes

that's the real

world so in the beginning you might get

some Regulators who were kind of tough

on the companies but I wouldn't even

trust them because they would be

government Regulators so I'm not even

sure that's a good thing they wouldn't

know what danger looked like and uh I

don't think AI regulation will

regulating will be any better than any

other regulating so

it's not going to save the

world but it might be uh a way for some

people to make some money all right

here's some uh science you might like

just because it's good news there's an

ultrasound device at University of Utah

was testing it apparently it makes uh

your pain go away almost

instantly so uh it's just like

miraculous so they just use uh

ultrasound at the right frequency sees

and your pain just goes Boop turns off I

saw Brian relli in a post just yesterday

it wasn't about this but just separately

he was saying the science already knows

for sure that certain sound frequencies

will cancel pain and I read the post and

you know I I like to uh repost a lot of

Brian rell's content because he's great

especially with the AI stuff and I

thought to myself ah

H I'm not sure I believe that like I was

a little

skeptical that science knows how to turn

off pain with you know just three

frequencies or

something but here it is there's an

actual study in which they're using

frequencies to turn off pain I don't

know if it's the same thing that Brian

was talking about but now I have two

sources that are strongly indicative

that it's worth doing some research on

it uh here's another thing how many of

you suffer from

regret how many of you have the feeling

oh I regret that thing I

did do you ever feel that because I

don't feel

it clearly I've done things that didn't

work out but I've never had any

Sensation that I could identify as a

feeling of a regret as an

adult as a young person I think I did

you know I'd be like oh why did I do

that why did I ask Gina maybe if she

wanted to dance and she told me she

didn't want to and it ruined my night

and I felt bad for two years I regret

asking her to

dance but as an

adult

nope you and I I got cancelled you know

about as hard as you can get canceled a

year and a half ago and people ask me if

I regret it and I'm actually confused by

the question

regret what is that

why would I even have that where what's

the function of

it it's like I don't understand it but

there's a study that explains why I have

that feeling that it doesn't bother me

at all as an adult and also why it did

when I was younger and it's called the

uh the gambling uh framework so f.org

talks about this uh I guess there's some

science they did had some

participants and if people thought about

a specific decision out of context they

might have

regret but if people thought in a

portfolio manner that there are lots of

things they did in the past some work

and some don't and that's the way the

world is supposed to work because we all

know that you don't sign up to do

everything right nobody thinks that

everybody knows your life is a series of

wins and losses and so if you see it as

a portfolio just like the way I would

invest you know I'll buy an index

fund so I'm

Diversified so if your life is likewise

Diversified you did a bunch of things

some worked some didn't then you don't

see it as regret the same reason when I

look at my index fund I don't feel any

regret if some members of the index fund

went

down as long as the average went up over

time it it doesn't even occur to me that

I should have a feeling about regret if

one of the stocks of my 500 stocks in

the index went down so that's how I see

my

life I could certainly say you know

doing this thing led to a bad result but

I never regret it it just doesn't come

up it's it's never part of my thinking

whatsoever so if you have anything

that's you recognize as regret the

reframe is look at look at your life as

a portfolio of

decisions some good some bad but if your

average worked out you nailed it yeah if

your average of decisions worked out

you're doing better than you used to be

let's say you're taking care of yourself

and maybe some other people you nailed

it regret forget

it well there's also at the guardian

reports a mask that can detect all kinds

of diseases from your

breath and it's very big range of

diseases so that's some uh research from

the California Institute of Technology

Professor y go

g and you'd have to use a different mask

so far for different things you're

testing but here's the question I have

do you have to wear a mask all

day are you telling me that there's not

like a

breathalyzer that's a better model can I

just have a breathalyzer and blow into

it and that tells me if I have a

disease I don't need to watch wear the

mask all day do I so I don't really

understand the mask part but it'll be

able to diagnose diseases from your

breath which is kind of cool all right

those are the stories I had for you

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