Episode 2605 CWSA 09/22/24

well there we are that's better first attempt was unsuccessful oh no sound you suck you suck I'm only saying that to the person who has no sound because I know you really do have sound you're just saying that with the screw with me but so sorry about the uh fake live stream has started and then uh it was uh there was an error and I had to redo it let's get your comments up here on a separate screen so we can really have some fun nope that didn't work let's try it again uh that didn't work and that didn't work all right let's try this that worked good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization starting a little uh Scrappy today but oh my goodness are we going to have a good time and if you'd like to take your experience up to nobody can level that nobody can understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a cup or Mar glass a tanker Chels a sign a canteen juger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dopamine of the day thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous Sip and it's going to happen right now go oh God that was good sometimes it's really really good and today it's great I uh anticipate some good luck coming for all of you uh you don't all watch the pre-show I do a little pre-show for subscribers on locals and every morning I take three putts from 15 fet I've got a little indoor putting green and uh yesterday I made all three now from that distance course to chat GPT there's a one in five chance that even a professional would make a 15 foot pot so yesterday I made three in a row so that would be you know 1/5 * 1/5 * 1/5 kind of kind of unusual this morning I made three more in a row so that makes six in a row on video which I if I calculated it right the odds of doing that are 115,000 but I pulled it off live so we'll see what happens tomorrow but the point is it's a lucky time so it's probably not just me I feel like there's some luck in the air something's Brewing do you feel it yeah something big is happening I just don't know what it is something good and big is coming our way maybe your way too so aren't you glad you came in the this morning all right well so here's some uh technology news a company called Pudo from China has new robot it'll go eight hours and it can lift 10 kilograms but it's another slow motion robot do you know what I probably will never want is a slow motion robot I am slowly going to pick up this bottle of water and I will hand it to you and I'll be like screw it shut up I'll get the water myself go go wash the dishes okay I will be back after spending 10 hours washing this one dish it I'll just wash it myself clean the house okay I will go dust so slowly that you wish you were killing yourself no stop it I'll just dust the house myself you stupid slow robot that's how I feel like the first year of learing a robot will go I need a fast robot I don't need no slow robot let me make that clear no slow robots California just uh signed a law the governor signed it to protect children from social media now this is one of those things where I say to myself I'll bet you I'll bet you this is one of those stories where it's hard to know really whether they did something good or bad because there's probably like three layers to this that I don't understand but at the surface layer I like the idea of protecting children from social media but what exactly did they do to make that happen well one of the things they did is uh if it's a Minor's account um you can't send them notifications without permission from a parent between 12:00 a.m.

and 6:00 a.m.

which I don't mind oh and between 8:00 a.m.

and 3 p.m.

on weekdays from September through May so basically uh when kids are supposed to be sleeping or supposed to be in school they can't get fed content it's not bad not bad um and there's some kind of limits to their addictive feed except I don't know how anybody would Define addictive isn't everything that you like addictive if you if the social media sends you more of things that it knows you want to see which is its entire point isn't that addictive so I don't know how they can get rid of addictive feeds well in other news uh chat GPT has hired Johnny IV who is famous as the uh incredible designer who worked on the i.

Phone and other Apple products so apparently Chad GPT is making a device some kind of a device we assume it's going to be something that would do some phone related tasks but would it be related would it be a phone or would it be like a whole new idea that could do the phone Stuff Plus some extra stuff I wonder I've been saying for a while that um where phones need to be is that when you pick up your phone it's anybody's phone in other words I could hand you my phone and when it comes on it could look at your face instead of my face and it would become your phone so in other words it would only get into your accounts but if I handed you my phone it's just a a blank screen and you just hold it at your face and it goes Boop and it pops up with basically your phone you know as as stored in the cloud so so the idea would be it would be a cloudbased phone um which only works if your internet is pretty complete you know because it wouldn't work if you're not connected so I don't know we'll see if that's what what uh Johnny I comes up with but the fact that he's working on it and it's chat GPT those are two really really powerful things to put together so we'll see what comes to that um according to the guardian there's a new study that links uh diet and Metabolism to bipolar depression now they don't claim that every part of depression or bipolar depression can be cured by fixing your diet so I want to be clear they're they're not saying it's just diet but in a study uh about a third of the people who had bipolar depression um had much better symptoms or lesser symptoms when they fixed their diet and went keto now I've been saying for some time quite provocatively that some percentage of all depression is related to your energy and that if you had high energy you wouldn't be depressed and that the that the science of it has been at least partially backwards now again here's what I'm not saying I'm not saying that all depression is alike and that it's all related to energy I'm not saying that I'm saying that probably some percentage of it is just having low energy because you don't feel good and then that's going to make you depressed so it can be true that if you were depressed it could make you feel like you have low energy I think that's well established but it could also be true that it works the other way that if you have low energy because you're doing everything wrong your diet's wrong your exercise is wrong you don't have social interaction all the things that would give you energy um I think that would probably take care of a third of it and that was about roughly what they found when they just fixed the diet a third of the people suddenly weren't so bipolar depressed thank you Paul I needed that all right so um let me say that again I've never personally um if you've experienced the same thing if you've ever felt depressed but you're not you know clinically a depressed person wasn't it always associated with low energy like every time and anytime your energy is high you don't feel depressed so just just be aware that working on your health and your energy might cure your depression you know maybe onethird of you if you did everything right maybe so I'm not your scientist or your doctor I'm just saying that if you're not working on your general physical health your mental health isn't going to do well uh here's a correction I would like to make to other people's work not my own that's the best kind of Correction I would like like to now correct other people not me but uh I've been hearing the reports of the government uh wasting $42 billion trying to give rural people um internet connection but not not connecting a single person how many of you heard that story that Biden Harris got $42 billion for all this internet connection and didn't get any internet connections now here's my um clarification I think when they say 42 billion was wasted they don't mean it was spent right it wasn't wasted I believe it was not spent or or some small amount of it was spent but they didn't get to the point where they could connect anybody so is that uh does that track with what you believe it's not that they took $42 billion and spent it and it's all gone and will'll never give us anything but I think people talk about it that way I think rather 42 billion was budgeted but they were too incompetent or there were too many regulations or whatever it was that they just didn't get anything done is that how you understand it because I heard it I've heard people in public refer to it as wasted and I think rather it's just massive incompetence uh and and you know the the real heart of the story is that they didn't need to spend a penny they could have just said to Elon Musk hey what would it cost to have the government subsidize some some rural people on your satellite and then he would say here's a very reasonable price and you can all be up on it and working tomorrow and then they would say wow that's much better than 42 billion you mean You' only charge us I'll just pick a number 50 million a year or something and he would say yeah that's about right so that's what I think is happening there was another uh another video of K Harris giving a public speech in which she looked really really inebriated but the community notes are saying that it was um fake so it was slowed down or modified so it looked like she was it looked like she was really drunk but maybe it was just the AI faked it so to my credit bat myself on the back here uh when I saw it I did not necessarily believe it was true and so when I reposted it I reposted it with the question is this AI or is it real um and then the answer come back it was it was altered who was AI so here's my take on that if you can take a politician that people are very familiar with k Harris and you can alter the video so it looks like she's drunk as a skunk and people can't tell it's altered that's a story so it would be a story if it were not altered because there she would be drunk as a skunk or inebriated in some way but since that wasn't true you get to the next level of well isn't that interesting there so many people looked at that and said yeah that's true now imagine if you tried to do that with a trump speech take a trump speech then try to use AI to alter it so it sounds like oh make America great again you would instantly know that was fake right right you you would Know It with no doubt whatsoever oh he doesn't do those things he's been in public a billion times we would have seen it by now that's not real you would have known it but why is it that a faked video making KL Harris look drunk as a skunk in public you couldn't tell if that was real see that's the story the story is not that it's fake the story that a video of her looking drunk in public looks so real that we can't tell the difference although to be fair I had some suspicion about that one so this is kind of a problem because I think it's important that people do see the videos where she does look legitimately like she's on something now I'm not sure I would post any because now that I know somebody's finally did what you expected somebody made a fake one I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable reposting anything on that topic from now on so it makes you even wonder if it was done by you know the Harris campaign to embarass the people who repost them if so it'd be clever it would have worked all right uh the rabbit hole account on X reposted a graph that showed that only 3.4% of journalists are Republicans as of 2022 I think that means based on donations I'm not sure uh either donations are registered but somehow they know and what do you think 3.4% of Republicans now here's my take on that if you had a press organization that was say 5050 Republicans and Democrats and then one of you put out some something that's just propaganda for one side or the other how would that work out for you not well because half of your company would say what the hell is this this isn't news this is propaganda you should be fired so if it were 5050 you wouldn't be able to get away with pure propaganda as we see every day on what we call the Press but isn't really the Press but suppose it's not 5050 let's say it's 6040 can you get away with propaganda if it's 6040 a real clear majority of people on one side and the is probably not probably not because if 40% of the people are saying you know I can't even work here if you're going to just print right 40% would be way too much you couldn't get away with just being a propaganda network if 40% of your employers are like hey what what the hell I I came here to do news you're just doing propaganda now but what what happens when you get above 85% are on the same team once you reach 85% are on the same team you're only propaganda and you don't have an option to do balanced news if you try to do some balanced news in an organization where 85% of them thought Trump was Hiller you would be fired for being balanced you wouldn't be able to get away with it so I Pro I suggest the following that we could come up with a working definition of whether a press entity is news or propaganda based on the percentage that lean in One Direction and that you could be pretty sure that you had gotten it right so you show me an entity with 85% people clearly Democrat and I will tell you no doubt about it this is not a news Organization no doubt about it like 100% certain this is not a legitimate news organization but you show me an entity with legitimately something closer to 50/50 even if it's 6040 I me that would be close enough for me then I'm going to say that's probably news you know maybe not every single story is just where you want it but that's probably a news organization that's you know struggling with being unbiased but they're news don't you think that definition would work perfectly why why do they get to tell us their News why don't we get to decide whether they're news and I would say that we should just have a a percentage and say that if you're above let's pick a percentage 80% would you does that sound fair if you're above 80% it it doesn't matter which direction so you could apply the same thing to um conservative Outlets if you had a conservative publication that was 80% conservative same thing don't you don't you think you could claim that well 80% I'm not sure I'd call that news because even if the 80% are really really dedicated to giving you unbiased news at the very least they're going to be leaving out context and stories that maybe just didn't hit them as exciting and somebody else might have so you think 65 to 70 would be enough to say that you're not news anymore I I think if 30% of your employees don't like what you're doing you've got a problem I think around 80% you're guaranteed to be propaganda guaranteed you just there's just no way around it so that's what I'd say I'd say I think I'd do something like 5050 definitely news 8020 definitely not news but somewhere in between would be like a little gray area you could rate you know like a maybe yes no and maybe well here's something I didn't know was legal but uh Republican senator Rick Scott and he's being joined with I guess Marco Rubio also Republican uh from Florida they're offering $100 million reward for information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of the Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro now if our federal government put out some kind of a reward for somebody that was a international criminal I'd say huh that's weird but you know we've done it before I mean we did it with um uh what's his name in Iraq uh Saddam Hussein so it's not the strangest thing that would ever happen if it's the federal government but where does a state get off doing International negotiations what what do I not know about this story because to me this is illegal what am I missing how how can a state put a put a bounty on somebody's head in another country how is that legal does does anybody know how that's legal no I'm not I'm not opposed to it I'm not I don't think it'll make any difference so being opposed to it or not opposed to it doesn't make any difference I don't think but it doesn't feel like it's legal it doesn't feel like it should be legal but probably is I mean I I can't imagine it's hard for me to imagine that two senators would not know that something was illegal they would know but it's kind of surprising is it kind of surprising well speaking of Venezuela uh the Chicago gangs are apparently having a tough time because the Venezuelans are trying to move in and steal their drug dealing stuff do you remember what uh um something I told you a while ago Peter uh Zan said so I don't have any independent corroboration this just something Peter zayan said on a video that uh the reason you don't hear much about the LA black gangs you know the Crips and the Bloods it's not that they don't exist it's that uh their operation was basically taken over by the Mexican cartels and that the way they took over the businesses they just murdered they just murdered The Black Gang members until they controlled the territory now I don't know if that's true but I do know I don't hear much about black gang members in La do you when was the last time you heard about a black gang member problem in La I feel like that used to be more news and just sort of it's like it doesn't exist anymore so my question is is there some possibility that the Venezuelans are just going to take all of that illegal business from the black gangs in Chicago you know life is so unpredictable who saw this coming now the Chicagoans including the gang members uh apparently are quite upset that the Venezuelans are coming in not only getting government assistance imagine imagine this you're in you're a black Citizen in Chicago and let's say you're in the lower income level and you find out that your government is giving money that you think could have gone to you I mean if the government had extra money for poor people why is it going to the Venezuelan migrants instead of you that's what you'd think reasonably that'd be a reasonable thing to think and then what if you were also feeling that because you're low income and systemic racism and all the rest that your best opportunity for making money was illegal selling drugs now you'd have the government that's taking what feels like your money and giving it to the Venezuelans while the venez are literally taking your illegal jobs which you might think are your best option because the legal stuff isn't going to work out for you for one reason or another things might be really coming to a head there might be some we could be on the cusp of some you know murdering among the criminal elements like we've never seen before so at some point the Venezuelan gangs might try just try to wipe out the the black criminal element and just take over the business so I don't think we fully understand how violent this could get could get all right um here's a uh oh new story that uh according to the AP there are 98,000 arizonans whose citizenship hadn't been confirmed that will be allowed to vote so the Arizona Supreme Court said that even though we don't know 98,000 uh people in Arizona we don't know if there citizens they will be allowed to vote now our election system is just a joke at this point it's just a joke and the funny thing is that if you don't follow the news that I follow you know because people send me stories they think I'm interested in and I am interested in our election secure so I see I see five of these a day five a day legitimate stories this one's from the associate press AP and how am I supposed to process this this feels like the AP is telling me that the government of one of our you know key states in the election is going to ignore the Constitution and just let anybody vote who signed up or something I mean it looks like nobody's even trying it looks like the government just said ah screw it anybody wants to vote come on in I don't even understand what I'm looking at like how can this even be happening it doesn't feel like any of it's legitimate when I see something like this I think okay the Arizona Supreme Court oh I guess they're all owned by the cartels or owned by the Democrats or they're blackmail but I can't think of any you know nonc corrupt reason for what I'm seeing can you can you think of a non-corrupt explanation for why they'd let 98,000 people who can't prove that their citizens vote in a swing state there's no reason other than corruption that I can think of I I usually I at least know the argument on the other side what's the argument on the other side of this because they try to pull the um voter suppression oh you're you're trying to keep black people from voting there's no evidence of that at all no evidence now if somebody had some evidence I would quickly Embrace that point of view based on evidence I don't I don't oppose it on any kind of philosophical level you could have to show me something but we've still never seen a single black Citizen of America who wanted to vote who couldn't figure it out and couldn't get an ID not one in in years years have passed and we haven't found one and the news the news will still report it like that's a legitimate reason yeah well I mean you could disagree or agree but they've got a point you don't want to disenfranchise all these you know voters what voter we haven't found one disenfranchised voter ever now keep in mind they have to be people who can't get an ID but are still interested and knowledgeable enough about politics to vote zero that ven diagram is no people none and we're all supposed to pretend like they exist or something no I'm not going to pretend they exist unless you can show me one show me one just one we got lots of people in the country yeah one one would be good just one all right I've got a new uh tell for somebody being either brainwashed or being the brainwasher so you can't tell because they would use the same words the brainwasher would inject the word into the brainwashed so then they'd both be using the word so you can't tell necessarily you know at least on First Look you can't tell is this a brainwasher or brainwashed but they use the same words and here's the new one useful idiot of Putin the useful idiot thing now if you were looking at all of the policies and problems of the country and you were looking at what Trump offered and you were looking at what KL Harris offered why would you bring up the useful idea of Putin concept the only reason you bring up something that dumb is that you didn't have any real reasons to prefer Harris over for Trump if you had a real reason you would mention it you wouldn't have to make up something that sounds so dumb and they say it every election and everybody says it about both sides to the point where it has no meaning whatsoever well twice today I saw the same individual on doesn't matter who uh responding to a prot trump post by reminding us about that he could be a quote useful idiot of Putin now you you also seen probably if you're on social media that lately a lot of accusations about Trump from the 7s have popped up does anybody notice that they'll talk about the the um the Central Park five or they'll talk about the housing case where there was a housing discrimination case with one of his companies by the way if somebody brings that up um I think so there was a trump property I think it was the 7 uh that was the management team was discriminating against black applicants now I believe that they pled guilty or you know the company basically said okay we you know sorry we'll stop doing that probably pay to fine what was never demonstrated as far as I know I'll take a fact check on this if you know something different what was never demonstrated is that Trump had anything to do with it it was his company so it's his responsibility so so you know the buck stops with him but there was never demonstrated that he knew that his management team was discriminating now is it plausible that they would have discriminated without getting orders from the top in the 70s yes it is yeah you wouldn't need any orders from the top in the 70s to do some rental discrimination probably any white people that they hired for that job would have just sort of done it automatically and it and in those days it wasn't always discriminating against uh let's say the ability of the renter to pay in those days the Discrimination would be as much about not wanting the other people to discriminate and not want to live in your building so it wasn't so much what you thought about the applicant it was about what you thought the other people who were applicants would think about the applicants still illegal still immoral unethical don't do it but there is a difference I mean if you want to be accurate about it there's no evidence that Trump told anybody to discriminate based on race that has never been presented nobody's ever claimed it nobody's ever said I talked to him and he said it so I don't know I don't know but beyond that I have a different standard which I like to apply which is if it Happ happened 20 years ago and especially if there's some court that dealt with it I don't care and I appli the same standard I applied it to Hillary Clinton as well you know people would say 20 years ago or 30 years ago she may or may not have done this to which I say I don't care 30 years ago everybody was a different person you know so show me what you've done lately and I'll judge you on that but 20 years ago 40 years ago do you care about what happened 40 years ago well so my point there is not to defend any of those so I'm not defending anything that anybody did back then what I am doing is saying that if the Democrats feel that they have to bring up stuff from 40 years ago it means they've given up on comparing policies today you would never Dig Down 40 years ago if you had something today because everybody knows that what's happening today is more relevant to everybody so I it feels like the Democrats are feeling some kind of um like they're giving up or they're desperate to find something that they can talk about that isn't obviously better for Trump than than Harris anyway Trump did what I think is a quite clever thing you know he was taking a lot of heat on the hoax that Trump was behind project 2025 which was done by entirely different people although they had some overlap with his past administration but he wasn't involved with it doesn't endorse it but it's a little more radical than his policies so the so the Harris team is trying to tag him for being responsible for it which he isn't so instead of defeating that hoax which is impossible in today's media environment he decided to introduce one of own I I love this more than I can explain because in the real world if you try to just say oh that's a hoax let me explain very clearly you can even check it yourself I was not involved in writing it and you can look at my policies in public and you can see that not once have they ever been you know overlapped with them on some of these things on some they do overlap H and and you'd think that the facts would be enough to make that story go away right but because the media is a propaganda machine he doesn't have the option of debunking a hoax because they won't let him the propaganda machine won't do it if they were news they would but since they're only propaganda he has no way to debunk The hoax so what did he do instead he created his own hoax that's a direct counter to it he created a commis project 2025 so he says that kamla has a project 2025 and that she wants to quote abolish Ice uh open the border defund the police release violent offenders eliminate middle class tax cuts span fracking and fossil fuel usage confiscate guns from legal gun owners take away health care plans for people taxpayer funded transgender surgery for illegal aliens do you know what's interesting about that list I think it's almost all fake I don't think there's anything that's true on the list which is just what they were doing to him now what are you going to do about that so now you're the news so let's say you're MSNBC what you want to report is that Trump's uh allegations of kamla Harris's project 2025 is based on things that you sort of suspect she might do but they're opposite of what she says her policy is so her her policy is that she's not going to ban fracking so Trump puts on her project 2025 hoax list you're going to ban fracking now it's based on a similar idea that even though she says even though she says I'm not going to ban it in the past she said she would so you think well her real personality is that she would so you know it's not that much of a reach to say that she's Li lying about what she would do but if you're going to take the standard that Trump says these are my policies and they're different from Project 2025 and nobody's going to pay attention to that then I think it's actually brilliant and hilarious that he took all of the things that they're doing to Harris which are opposite of what she says she's going to do but you could imagine maybe she's not quite honest about it and they're just just throwing it back at her so instead of trying to make her hoaxes go away which can't happen in the propaganda press environment he simply matched her hoaxes he just matched her hoax I don't know if this will work but I love the fact that they can't they can't debunk as hoaxes without kind of accidentally showing that it's similar to what she's doing to him kind of brilliant kind of brilliant I like everything about this so again I'd like to say that um this is the first time I've seen where both of the campaigns are A+ the candidates you know are the candidates but wow if I'm just looking at the skill level of the Harris campaign even if you don't like the candidate the skill level of the campaign is just so good even when the ly they lie really really well and then Trump's campaign again you know they everybody has a stumble now and then but I think that they're A+ this is just kind of brilliant well we have to talk about Bill Mah again because I forgot to mention he had beorn lomborg on his show on Friday now Bjorn has been on his show before uh for years actually but here's what I feel I'm sensing that's different the Washington Post just did a big story in which they were going to show the temperatures of the climate across um across the eons you know going back way back into the future and they were surprised to learn that despite our high levels of CO2 from man-made sources that the temperature is actually kind of lowish uh historically they were not anywhere close to any kind of like historical Earth high now because the Washington Post are mostly idiots uh I don't think they presented the counterargument against the CO2 is a hoax the counterargument is that you can't compare the current to the past and the reason is that there were lots of other things that were different for example the intensity of the Sun and other atmospheric things were different so the argument would be that although there might have been you know different CO2 and different temperature you can't really compare it to the present and make any kind of reasonable conclusion I actually agree with that so I think the Washington Post is wrong about climate change being a problem but just to show how dumb they are when they sort of indicated that maybe it was a little bit debunked with their own work their own new new work of debunking it was also moronically incomplete so I think they got it wrong on both sides I think they got it wrong about the level of the risk and then when they looked at the temperature over time they were idiots and they couldn't figure out how to do a good job on that so they acted like CO2 is the only thing that changed or temperature is the only thing that changed and the two things that changed and that's just not the case there were a bunch of other things that were different so I'm I'm a little speculating here because I didn't read the whole article but I do think that they're not qualified to tell you what the temperature is so here's what I think I think maybe Bill Mah has seen some of these stories about the climate risk being overdone um and he had Bjorn lomor on Whose story is not that the temperature isn't rising and not that humans don't have something to do with it but rather that we've completely miscalculated how bad it would be and you would add to that that there's more Greening and apparently our corn and I yields worldwide are way better than they've ever been because of CO2 so we would actually be starving now without much more CO2 than we had it's the CO2 that's the only reason we can eat I mean imagine if we didn't have corn and rice I mean we're we're talking about huge huge increases in crop yields that seem directly related to the CO2 we would be starving if we didn't fertilize the air I guess now of course there may be downsides as well and the argument with climate is not that um it's instantly going to kill you but that it might even be good and good and good for the you know good for the farmers until it reaches some turning point where you can't get back that would be the argument now I don't think that's likely neither does lomborg but for I think his notable that Bill Maher a big green new big green guy I guess um would have him on just so you can see the alternate argument and I think he listened to it and I think he he's sort of on the path to figuring out that climate change might have been like the pandemic might have been like everything else we've been told a lie and I think Bill Mah is suspecting it now the other thing that gives me this little hint is do you remember years ago he was famously he got a Prius and he was all you know hey you know even a celebrity like me will just drive a Prius because we got to save the environment and now he says it was just the worst car and admits that the the electric cars have have problems with you know Rare Earth minerals and you know maybe they're not so good for the environment after all and then he also said he got a Tesla after that and he hated it so he's basically said that the you know the buying of tiny vehicles that are good for the environment didn't really work out for him well he's got B bjor lomberg on saying these green cars might be more you know as much bad as good depending who's calculating the Bad and the good and I I think he's signaling that he's evolving on the at least the risk level what you should do about it for the environment so I can't read his mind it would be unfair for me to say I think he's changed his mind but the signaling and the foreshadowing is definitely there and I think that he may be having if if you took Trump out of the news I feel like Bill M would be a Republican or no he wouldn't be a republican that's too far I feel like he would be close to it you know more like an independent who's not not badshit crazy so I think it's really only Trump that keeps him from saying you know I'm not even so sure about this climate change stuff he just wouldn't want to agree with Trump that would be too far but I feel like he's leaning that way or at least he's open to the arguments because he had lomborg on which again he's had he's had him on in the past before um cats on roof so Trump I've said this before does not get enough credit for the quality of his writing and it's because you know the Press wants to paint him as a sixth grade vocabulary you know uh crazy person but um I just love his writing when he does these extended posts on truth and he was getting on also Mar for his guests but let me just read it and I'm going to tell you a writer way of looking at things so when I was first selected to be a syndicated cartoonist my editor who was the first person in the world to look at my writing and say hey I think you have commercial level writing ability just in the context of a comic strip and here's how she explained it to me she said your writing is voice voicy like voice and I didn't know what that meant so she explained it's voicy meaning that you can tell that it came from one personality so my writing displays my personality U more than other writing does a lot a lot of people if they're not professional writers they're not good at it they'll write in a way that looks like everybody else who trying to write you'll see no personality you'll just see that they're struggling to put words in the right order so that they can say something when you read trumps anything you can hear his voice and you so hear his personality that's voicy voicy for uh non-fiction stuff if you're writing it for fiction you you want the characters to be the voice that's different if you're writing for non-fiction let's say career advice um politics anything that's based on facts you want it to be voicy because that's what makes it fascinating and interesting and it holds your attention and what holds your attention is what influences you so it'd be one thing if you go if you said Ah that's interesting but then you didn't remember it if you remember it and especially if you read it more than once because just the way it was said and then you post it because you thought it was funny that's the ultimate writing the ultimate writing is interesting you'll remember it and you'll share it with somebody you can't beat that and and and Trump does that by being the ultimate voicy candidate now I'm going to show you what I mean by simply reading a sort of a lengthy post he did on on truth so listen to it not for the perfect grammar uh you can't tell but you know maybe there's a typo in here don't care all right good writing is not about the grammar the editors Fix Your Grammar it's not about your typos the editors fix your typos it's not even your job you know you you did the first draft but somebody else does that stuff so see how voicy this is all right so Donald Trump talking about Mar he says the ratings challenged Bill Maher on his increasingly boring show on HBO is really having a hard time coping with Trump derangement syndrome all in caps he is a befuddled Mess Sloppy and tired and every conversation with b and c list guests seems to start with or revert back to me this week he had quote dumb as a Rock bimbo Stephanie rule from msdnc on the show along with a trump hating loser Brett Stevens who who seemed totally confused and unsure of himself very much like Mar himself Steven should find himself another line of work because I'm driving the failing New York Times absolutely crazy and is very hard perhaps impossible for a writer to write well of me without suffering the Wrath of the degenerate editors who with a push from the top have gone insane they they apologized to the readers in 2016 for their complete and total Miss and they'll do it again in November the failing New York Times is badly Run quote newspaper that has totally lost its way put it to sleep put it to sleep who says that so if if you want to know if you want just one example out of 50 uh from that what makes it voicy put it to sleep put it to sleep who says that who would ever use those words in that in you know in this Sense on that put it to sleep it's like a dog I just put it to sleep anyway so have I made my point so my point is that every word he writes you see him you feel him you can hear him and you remember him and then you want to repost it that is the ultimate the ultimate Great writing if if you're still on the he had a typo and he spelled a word wrong oh you're missing the show you are missing the show if it's the grammar you're worried about anyway best writer in the public sphere in my opinion um so Boeing so as you know Boeing's been having a hard time with it Starliner and its various aircraft and stuff and you know some of its equipment's not working late and cost overruns and stuff like that so uh the Starliner cost a there's a 1.6 billion in overruns and uh they've had problems with it and as you know it's the one that got stranded the astronauts on the on the the International Space Station so the uh the head of its space and defense unit has been fired so the the person who was in charge of Boeing not all of Boeing but was in charge of the space and defense unit just got fired wow now there's a picture of the individual who uh is a black American uh what do you think the pundits are saying about this situation well quite unfairly they're calling him a Dei hire now uh I have no evidence to suggest that anything that happened bad with the Starliner had anything to do with this one person even though he was the boss um and certainly I have no evidence to suggest there's any kind of Dei issue in other words uh was he promoted because he's black as opposed to you know the best person for the job I have no information that was suggesting wasn't the best person for the job so I'm going to take what I call the Glenn Lowry um frame on this The Glenn if you don't know Glenn Lowry is a very smart uh Economist I think is his background and he talks a lot about Dei he is black American and his take if I can accurately summarize it is that uh Dei obviously isn't good for the people who are passed over because of the wrong race right that's obvious if you're if you're a Chinese American and you got passed over for somebody else because you're the wrong Dei um that's bad right so I think Glenn would see that and but he would also say it's bad for blacks who get uh promoted because they're trying to satisfy Dei and he says that that makes his own accomplishments as well as anybody who legitimately has you know credibility and uh competence that anytime anybody black accomplishes anything it's going to still look like it was a Dei situation and it's it's uh humiliating and degrading and patronizing and all of that so I'm going to take his view which I think is is quite Complete because it shows both sides of the situation which is always a you know it's always going to be a better than taking a half aside and thinking you're done so I have no no information that would suggest there was anything wrong with this one individual hire but as Glenn Lowry would point out this is a disaster for black Americans who are good at their jobs it's a disaster because people are people they're going to look at this and they're going to draw their conclusions that it's another Dei hire it's a disaster if you're a capable hardworking black American and you're just trying to make it on the same rules that everybody else is trying to make it and and let's say it's working out for you and then people are going to look at you and they're going to look at this Boeing guy and they're going to say huh Boeing guy Dei hire I wonder if there's more of this so yes Glen Lowry you are correct this is a disaster for the reputation of capable black people in this country all right um Mike cernovich said something that uh speaking of being voicy cernovich is the ultimate voy poster you you can see his personality and everything he does and that is again that's the best writing that's just the best um he said this about the debt he said the country will eventually have to default you know it I know it they know it what happens when a nuclear power says we decide not to pay who knows we will find out soon so I agree with every word of that um but I'm going to the only thing I can add to this is the reason that we don't talk about it and the reason that you know he can say Mike can say you know it I know it they know it and that Rings true but yet it's not the number one story the number one story should be that the United States is getting ready to default on $35 trillion worth of debt and there's nothing that can stop it that should be the biggest story but we're going to pretend that this is like Biden and his mental competence remember when we all had to pretend that he was a little bit like a real person and he could do things and it was obvious he couldn't and now we're pretending that Comm Harris has capability and she has what it takes to be president we all know that she doesn't the Democrats know it we know it the Press clearly knows it and we're going to kind of pretend that we don't notice so we have three things that everybody could see that we sort of collectively agreed to act like we don't see it so Biden's brain Kell Harris's competence and the national debt we all see all three of those things for sure like no doubt about it but they're not the big stories like until there's something forces it like the debate with Trump and Biden that just forced the issue but what is going to what is going to make us talk honestly about the debt there is no solution to the debt and by the way if we defaulted on the debt it wouldn't even solve the problem if we're if we're adding to it at 2 trillion you know well we wouldn't be able to borrow so I guess we wouldn't be able to add to it so basically the whole government would fall apart because so much of it is based on borrowing here's the only way I can imagine that we could survive this number one you got to get the interest rates down because the interest on the debt is bigger than I think the I think it's bigger than the military spending at this point so could Trump do anything for example that would lower the interest rates well yes and maybe just the economy can do that so it's possible interest rates can come down and that would make a big difference but not by itself what what happens if you got the GDP up to 4% well you might be able to do that because this will be the second or third time in um the industrial human age in which something special was happening so I always say that Bill Clinton was was one of my favorite presidents um because the economy was good but you have to say that he came in during the.com boom if the.com boom hadn't happened all by itself had nothing to do with Clinton would he have had the great economy no but that was a once ever situation where things boomed like we haven't seen boom In Our Lifetime now prior to that many years ago there was the Industrial Revolution so yeah if you looked at all of human history the Industrial Revolution didn't take much time but it was this rare time when we became industrialized so you could imagine the GDP would be zooming during something like that you could imagine the GDP would be unusually zooming during a uh internet.com takeoff and you could imagine that the age of robots and nuclear power and AI would be one of those periods so we might be into a 10-year period where a 4% GDP which I would consider impossible under normal circumstances yeah you don't just get the 4% GDP that it basically it doesn't happen but you could if something really unusual is happening by itself in the amide environment such as Ai and robots Electric cars self-driving cars these are once ever things there there will only be one time when everybody wants to get rid of their car for a self-driving car there was only one time everybody wanted to get rid of their regular phone for a smartphone right these don't come along so you know luck is more important than skill for a lot of this economic stuff and it could be that whoever is President next could be president when there's this economic boom like we've never seen and we could be over 4% now you need the 4% growth but you'd also need not a lot of unemployment so if the robots and the AI take too many jobs well we've got a whole new problem and it's a big one so could we navigate that maybe you can navigate that by building new cities because the people who don't have jobs you say hey why you move to this new city that Trump is building on Federal Land and they're looking for lots of workers and you don't have a skill but you know we'll train you we'll teach you how to do this stuff because you'll just be you know carrying things or Mixing concrete or something so we'll just teach you how to do that so you could imagine that we could you could imagine some way that the unemployed would get quickly redeployed now the fact that we're bringing in all of these um migrants and part of the story that you don't hear a lot about is that I think a lot of them are being employed and I don't know enough about that so here's my question are there so many companies that need um low-end employees and can't get them that something like I'll just make up this number so this is a question not a statement would it be true that 80% of the migrants who were coming in through Asylum so they technically would be legal um do 80% of them just get a job working on a farm or an assembly line because we didn't have enough people to do those jobs or is it 20% because if only 20% of them are coming in and getting jobs that is a disaster at a level that I can't even comprehend if 80% of them are coming in and although they don't make much money and you know 10 of them have to live in an apartment but they got jobs is that the case if 80% of them have jobs it's a whole different situation and it also suggests that if we curbed immigration we might find a way for people who lose their jobs to find a way you know not in the lowest of the loway jobs ideally so then the other thing would be uh re-engineering the government uh as you know um and Massie Thomas Massie points this out the way the Govern does budgets are they say how about making a cut in this budget and then all hell breaks loose because there's somebody who's protecting every budget so you can't really cut any budgets the way a business would run would be they'd say um every Department tell me how much you need and you're going to have to argue your case every year and then you add them all together and that's your budget but the government just says um we're going to need 5% more than last year because of inflation and there's more people we're taken care of and then so let's say the Democrats say that then the Republicans say no way but we need to spend billions more on the military and the Democrats say no way and then the two of them get together and they say how about this why don't we just run up the debt and you get your billions I get my billions I get reelected you get reelected because it's good for our states and we'll just push that can down the road and that's what happens so our budgeting process is not even a budgeting process so it's like how did you repair your broken engine on your car I I took up knitting wait what I took up knitting H that doesn't even seem like you're in the right domain I mean that is knitting fix your car engine well I'm knitting really hard not really an answer how hard you knit is not related because you can't really fix a car engine yes but I've got lots of people knitting again again that's not really the right tool or even the right conversation to cutting the debt so that's sort of where we're at we're in this absurdity where the government pretends they have something to do with the budget but they don't they're just not even doing the job even even in the most basic way you would describe somebody doing it job they're not doing anything like that there there's nothing even remotely like your government managing the budget nothing nothing in that domain it's like they're knitting instead of changing the engine into your car they're not even in the same game what could fix that well U Back in the 90s when dver was huge corporations had a similar problem so the corporate budgets were just growing and growing and they weren't sure that they were doing the right things that they should be doing they were just spending more money and so they came up with this idea came from one book in particular to do something they called re-engineering so they would for the first time instead of just giving 10% more to the thing they were already doing they would say do we even need to do that maybe maybe we should just do everything differently and then we don't even need this system at all so that would be called re-engineering where you you look at it from the ground as if you'd never looked at it before you know you go to First principles and you say all right what do we need to do what would it take to do it and does that have anything to do with what we're paying for now and if they don't you stop paying for that stuff and you re-engineer it and then you save money and you're more efficient now also around that time the Clinton Administration was in office and do you remember what portfolio Al G got as the vice president because they sold him as sort of more of an active partner than just being a a boring vice president and sure enough uh El Gore reinvented government well that's the name for it he and what what he focused on was using the internet and newer Tech to do things that we used to do in a fashion in efficient bad ways so basically putting a lot of the government online so you don't need people and people can get their service faster and so Gore um have I ever told this story so I don't know if I ever told you this story but maybe this is the first time you've heard it so this the '90s Dilbert was big I was giving a speech um in Washington DC just a dilber speech for money and uh some of the administration found out that I was in town the you know the Clinton administ ation and um I got invited into the White House to just kind of look around and meet some of the uh staff of Al Gore staff his speech writing staff and I guess Al Gore found out I was in the building so somebody said hey that dilber guy is in the building so he sent the message to summon me to his office and I thought really I was just I was just visiting the I was just visiting the the staff and uh suddenly they're like uh vice president wants to meet with you and I was like really so I go down to this uh this ounter office with some secretary type people sitting there and there's this gigantic door like the biggest door you've ever seen your life I think it went to the it felt like it went to the ceiling but it was a electric door so you you push a button and it opens maybe it was a bomb door or something special I don't know but it was the most impressive door to a room I'd ever seen and I'm standing there and I'm thinking to myself is that door going to open and the vice president of the United States El Gore is going to walk through it and say hi Scott because I couldn't really believe this this was about to happen and then suddenly I said this gigantic door open up and Al Gore walks through and he extends his hand to me and he goes hi I'm Al Gore which I always think is funny like you're the vice president I know who you are I'm in the white house I'm in the white house standing in front of your office you are El Gore and uh but you know what else are you going to say it's just reflex so uh we took some pictures and then he asked me if I had a minute to go in and chat so we go into his office and he said that uh you know he was trying to reinvent the government you know try to figure out the better faster cheaper way to do everything and he was making a lot of progress so he was succeeding and by the way he did he did a lot of good things he doesn't get a lot of credit for it but that's part of the reason he wanted to talk to me he said you know it's so hard to communicate all these boring technical things that we're accomplishing but we have to put on a report um to say we what we did to get anybody to read it do you think you could help us with make it just humorous put in some Comics so he said can you put some could you make it like a a Dilbert um this is before I was cancelled so people still like me he said could you make it a Dilbert report on what we've done to fix the government and I said to him no nope can't do that um because the moment I embraced one political party 50% of my Revenue would go away so I said that doesn't really really work you know because I have I have a fiduciary responsibility to people have licensed dber at that point so if I became even accidentally political even if I'm just trying to help like it's not even that political I'm just trying to help somebody communicate uh i' lose half of my audience so I was like nope that doesn't work but here's what's more important you don't want to associate comics with this serious work that would be a communication mistake because people aren't going to take you seriously if even if they learn that you did good things in the comic because the comic is the wrong it's just the wrong vehicle don't do Comics if you're the government but I did say I can hook you up with somebody who's an expert on user interfaces and could figure out um how to make your your message the most palatable so I hooked him up with somebody who was better than me without cartoons so he produced his uh booklet that uh said what the government was doing it was very well written because he got good help and uh he made a big difference now Elon Musk has offered to help Trump cut the government spending but what that really means is not a finance person's approach what it really means is re-engineering the government what you don't want to do is bring in like somebody with a big scalpel and say h 20% of this and 10% of this and I'm going to to cut 15% of this it might end up that way but that's not ideal the ideal situation is for somebody to come in and say why do we have three entities working on the same thing how about just one done why do we even do this stuff when people could do this through private means without the government at all and it'd be faster and cheaper get rid of it done so that's what re-engineering is re-engineering is not twiddling with your budget re-engineering is saying all right if this didn't exist in the first place would we ever build this if if we had a problem to solve today and you had to build whatever it is that the government already has would you or would you do it a whole different way because if the answer is with our current knowledge and technology and situation we would do it a whole different way then you do it that different way and that's how you get your cost down now could an Elon Musk reduce our uh government expenses enough to make the the deficit go away he'd have to take like a third of the entire government spending out of the budget do you think he can do that take onethird of the entire government budget and if you did think of the chaos that would create just just think of all these govern government organizations that don't have very skilled people trying to re-engineer themselves into a whole different thing the the level of complexity there is you know beyond anything I can even imagine but in in some big ways you could probably do stuff so I do think that if you combined um that the the environment might serve up one of those rare times where the economy is going to Surge no matter what you do because it's robots and Ai and self-driving cars Etc maybe go into space and if you add that with lower interest rates just because things are going well and if you add that to massively re-engineering not cutting the budget not cutting the budget because that's not even the goal in fact I would say the following if if if musk decided that looking at the government there should be something we should spend twice as much on because it would you know pay itself back in five different ways we should do that so don't think of it as cutting that eliminates a whole source of goodness that could be applied sometimes it's cutting in some areas may be rare in some areas maybe more maybe more all right um Kennedy RFK Jr was saying in a event recently that inflation is just a tax mostly on poor people because the rich people own assets if you own a building your building will go up with the inflation so relative to everybody else in the world you still own the same amount of money because you owned a building and it went up but if you are living paycheck to paycheck and all you're doing is spending your cash on groceries you're going to buy Less groceries because your money isn't worth as much so in a sense um it's a way to boost the economy which is good for the people who own buildings not so good for the people working for those people so you can see how that's a transfer it's like a tax on poor people and transfers it to the wealthy it would be better even as somebody who might benefit from this I'd be a lot happier without the inflation I'd rather just nothing changed so you can run the economy you know without the surprise and shock of uh inflation uh but it's a good point and he says that uh I don't know about this I need a fact check on this but Kennedy says um basically the inflation is caused by the government spending too much and he says that uh the other cause of inflation is the money we're spending on chronic disease and he says that's five times our military budget does that pass your sniff test do you think the amount that America is spending on chronic disease now I assume that doesn't mean the government spending I assume that means individuals spending it on their own for the most part um but is it really five times our military budget does that seem possible it does seem possible I I'll take a fact check on that because it easily could be an exaggeration but directionally feels about right so now imagine if Kennedy came in and made everybody so healthy that their healthare went down imagine if a president Trump and by the way I can't imagine him doing this but there's one person missing from his team you know president Trump's team of pirates you know he's got an Elon Musk he's got a all in pod they're on his side he's they've got a bill lman they've got a you know Tulsi gabard they've got you know I can keep going for so he's got this incredible team but there's somebody missing you know who's missing somebody to tell us to be physically active he needs Arnold now I don't think Schwarzenegger is pro Trump but maybe he could be maybe he could be because we need somebody to tell us to take a walk after dinner you you want to solve a bunch of problems at the same time watch this uh I'm president Trump and I've got an idea um we've got RFK Jr working on your food supply and your medicines trying to make that healthier but let's not ignore exercise and getting Outdoors here's what I'd like you to do we should have an app where you can organize with your neighbors what time to take a walk after dinner now there might be more than one because people eat dinner at different times so you could say oh it looks like my neighbors some of them are going to take a short walk maybe a mile or two and uh they're going to do it at 7 o'clock on a nice evening in California so 7 o'clock you look on your app and you can see your other neighbors have already started to assemble because it shows their location once they turn on the app and they say all right I'll walk left and I'm going to run into my neighbors taking a walk so they're coming down the street toward me I can see on my app I walk I join their little group I see somebody in the group I know I start walking with them and chatting an hour later we're all happy we've made some plans somebody says they're going to have a party I got invited to a party I've had my social interaction even without a friend or without a girlfriend or a relationship I chatted with my neighbors for an hour while I took a walk in a beautiful sky and I came back and my mental health was better and my chronic illness was far better because I do it on a regular basis now that's just an example and honestly Trump is not your um your IC of good physical health he's doing a great job for his age I got to say but you know you expect somebody who's looks a little fitter to take that message but you could also Imagine Trump doing it because he's honest so he would say you know what you know I don't I don't exercise as much as I should I like golf but you should that'd be good enough you know if he if he said I'm Not Your Role Model but listen to RFK Jr you have you seen him with that aure I tell him to tell him to take off his shirt if RFK Jr takes off his shirt and you're not going to follow his advice about uh Fitness well you're crazy you might not listen to me because you know I got a few extra pounds but look at this guy if he tells you to take a walk after dinner you're going to do it so you could you could imagine a hundred different ways that the Trump Administration could sell it but I feel like they need they need an extra pirate they need a pirate who will get us off our asses and get us moving without spending money just just take a walk right especially for the people who are not that physical you know it's a lot of people um so you could solve your loneliness your health care expenses your inflation your mental health your physical health by taking a walk it just has to be organized Teamsters uh apparently RFK Jr said that sha O'Brien the head of the teamsters called him just recently yesterday maybe and asked them to send his love to Trump now the teamsters you might know uh decided to not endorse a presidential candidate which is rare um for the last few decades it's rare and people are interpreting it as an inter as a preference for Trump they just don't want to say it out loud so I'd say this is pretty clear the the rank and file or something like 2third in favor of trump and then the head of the organization who did not endorse is telling RFK Jr to send his love to Trump okay that's you can't get closer to an endorsement than that can you it it feels like they're doing everything they can do to endorse them without endorsing them and mission accomplished mission accomplished so sha O'Brien uh is probably smarter than maybe people are giving him credit for because he found a way to endorse Trump without endorsing Trump through a side door by just saying it to RFK Jr knowing that he might repeat it pretty good pretty clever well done um Trump announced he wants to end Sanctuary cities as soon as he gets into office um I assume that that's wildly popular in the public um if I had to guess 70% agreement with that maybe about ending Sanctuary cities so that seems a good solid thing to say if 70% I think it's at least 70% of the public would agree with it so that's just free money well the Entertainer named Usher deleted all his posts on X because he's getting dragged into this Diddy um drama so when he was 13 years old he lived with Diddy for a while to learn his ways and there's some old interviews in which uh in which Usher was taken under the wing of didy uh said he learned some things at the Diddy parties uh and introduced him to quote a totally different set of stuff sex specifically remember he was 13 and the accusations are that that Diddy was sort of recruiting and uh having sex with both young male and female potential wannabe entertainers and that uh he basically sold it this this is the allegation I don't have any personal information to confirm anything so this is just what people are saying I can't claim any of this to me true um claiming that it was a wellestablished organized process where Diddy had to give up his body to somebody to become who he is and then he's just passing forward the Badness and making people give up their bodies to be part of his process to become famous now all of that is horrible but I'm just amazed at how many little stories related to this are popping up now for example there's an old video of Christy Tean um with uh what's her husband's name John Legend and uh where they were interviewed at some event and somebody asked them about uh if they' had sex in a public place and Christy Teegan said cryptically well maybe the Obama thing and John Legend immediately said we're not talking about that so there's no explanation of what she when she jokingly said the Obama thing because they're good good friends uh when she said something about having sex in front of other people now again again um confirmation bias might be all that's happening so if you've heard all these stories about Diddy than anybody who was ever involved in any of those parties or at any contact with them at all if there's any video of them saying anything unclear even if it was a joke even if you don't know what they were thinking it's going to look like they're admitting sex crimes so I'm gonna um I'm not a big fan of John Legend because of his politics and I don't know much about his music so I don't have a feeling for that one way or the other um but I'm going to say innocent till proven guilty on this one as a citizen I give him the um courtesy that I would wish would always be extended to me by citizens now if there's any kind of legal process that ever had a problem with him that would be a separate conversation but I don't like the fact that Christy Tegan made a joking reference to something and we don't know what that meant and then assume that she was banging it out with the Obamas that's a little too far for me so maybe I mean you can't rule it out anything anything's possible I suppose but I don't think that we have something like evidence of that I think we have confirmation bias like we our brains are primed for that kind of interpretation and then that comes along and then you say oh there's more of that probably not probably not but you never know anyway um I saw that Elon Musk uh I think he retweeted something that said that uh X is not just a social media Network it's a crime scene so when people delete all of their social media it does look like a crime scene so um also with Usher uh I have no no Ence whatsoever that Asher was involved in anything inappropriate the confirmation bias is enormous and sometimes the simulation tries to give you a hint as well but I'm not saying that Usher did anything that involved gay sex I'm just saying that they wouldn't call him Usher unless he showed a lot of people to his seat I'll just let that one sink in a little bit Yeah you wonder why nobody else said that first that's why you have me is for this well there's another sex related Scandal you heard about uh a journalist named Olivia nuzzy uh allegedly was sexting RFK Jr but we only have confirmation that she was saxing uh we do not have confirmation that he he said anything um anything inappropriate but there are reports that his wife had her wedding ring off you know where she wherever she was overseas I guess and there are reports that Olivia nuzi who was engaged to also journalist Ryan lizza that that's been broken off because of whatever this was so poor Ryan liisa left his wife and kids to be with Olivia nuzi he was 50 she's 31 and then the 31-year-old may have cheated on him by sexting with somebody who was closer to 70 and um now to be fair the person she was allegedly sexting was you know far more Alpha than her uh her fiance but uh I think he's maybe the biggest victim in all this you know RFK Jr probably can handle this like it's just a Tuesday but I mean because he's handled basically everything you could handle but uh this poor guy Ryan lizza imagine like it's in the news oh my God it's terrible anyway I would say that there's no evidence that RFK Jr did anything inappropriate there's definitely evidence that she did but we haven't seen any texts from him to suggest that he went too far I'm going to say innocent till proven guilty so I'm just going to ignore it also you never know what the situation is with anybody else's relationship you never know so trying to assume you know it's just like you would act and you know that never works in these situations well meanwhile in Lebanon the US state department is calling on its citizens to get out of Lebanon what do you think that means it means exactly what you think it means it means that uh it means that Lebanon is going to get a lot of bombing and of course it's already started so the Hezbollah up in Lebanon they've been launching Rockets into Israel they say in response to the pagers and walkie-talkies blowing up and of course Israel is attacking and uh so Israel is selling this to the media that they're attacking uh to prevent an imminent attack oh sure yeah okay yeah all right yeah they they're going to attack any minute now so you bomb them first that might be true but you know what else is true hbel has been sending Rockets pretty much non-stop for years they don't need a reason you don't need a reason you don't need you don't need to tell me that you're doing it because they're ready to launch an attack they've got they got 100,000 Rockets aimed at you and you have not you know threatened them whatsoever at least you know except in defense and they don't need a reason you just don't need a reason if somebody's got 100,000 Rockets pointed to you and there's they're sending some of them at your residential places on a regular basis for years you don't need a reason I'm glad that you said it I mean maybe it's better than not saying it but don't think you need to justify it nobody needs to justify that if if we had 100,000 Rockets pointed at us from Canada and they've been shooting some of them every day no we don't need to know that you were going to shoot some more today in order to go Cap all of their asses no don't need a reason and again every time you say to yourself here's what um Israel should do to be good and moral ethical people and here's what the Palestinians should do to be good and ethical people and here's how to make up for the past none of that has anything to do with anything th this area of the world is nothing but power and if you're lucky your allies will be the ones with the power now is that good or moral or ethical no it's not even it's not even in the right conversation none of those things matter nobody's making any decisions based on what's moral or ethical that's just things yap yap yap yap yap it's pure power it's self-interest now it's hard for me to criticize Israel strategy when it is so clearly linked to their self-interest how do you how do you criticize somebody who is pursuing their own best self-interest ever like ever um so I don't and you know that if the power situation were reversed Israel would get wiped out and again that wouldn't be about you know you could argue it's unethical and illegal and immoral and all that you could talk about it all day long but it doesn't matter what would matter is the ones with the most power got everything that's just the way it is now unfortunately and I'm not saying that that's right just saying that talking about the the ethics and the morality of it is just a waste of time you you can't ask Israel to do something that's in your opinion in your opinion you're not there but you can't ask them to do something that in your opinion is more moral and ethical they shouldn't listen to you they should look at what's good for them and then if it's not exactly as moral and ethical as some strangers in another country wanted to be well then you say stuff like they were ready to attack us first but let's not get lost that any of that matters none of that matters the ones with the power and the interest are going to do what they can do and that's what we're watching so the best case scenario is that your allies are winning that's it that's all we have and at the moment they're doing well all right ladies and gentlemen if you didn't know the dilber 2025 calendar is a ailable for pre-sale you can only get it at the link you can find at dilbert.com and pre-sale will help me out a lot because it will be awkward if there's a gazillion sales two weeks before Christmas because I'd like to make sure that you can actually get 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you uh you don't all watch the pre-show

I do a little pre-show for subscribers

on locals and every morning I take three

putts from 15 fet I've got a little

indoor putting green and uh yesterday I

made all three now from that distance

course to chat GPT there's a one in five

chance that even a professional would

make a 15 foot pot so yesterday I made

three in a

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morning I made three more in a row so

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something's Brewing do you feel it yeah

something big is happening I just don't

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is coming our way maybe your way too so

aren't you glad you came in the this

morning all right well so here's some uh

technology news a company called Pudo

from China has new robot it'll go eight

hours and it can lift 10 kilograms but

it's another slow motion

robot do you know what I probably will

never want is a slow motion robot I am

slowly going to pick up this bottle of

water and I will hand it to you and I'll

be like screw it shut up I'll get the

water myself go go wash the dishes okay

I will be back after spending 10 hours

washing this one dish it I'll just

wash it myself clean the house okay I

will go dust so slowly that you wish you

were killing yourself no stop it I'll

just dust the house myself you stupid

slow

robot that's how I feel like the first

year of learing a robot will go I need a

fast robot I don't need no slow robot

let me make that clear no slow

robots California just uh signed a law

the governor signed it to protect

children from social

media now this is one of those things

where I say to myself I'll bet you I'll

bet you this is one of those stories

where it's hard to know really whether

they did something good or bad

because there's probably like three

layers to this that I don't understand

but at the surface layer I like the idea

of protecting children from social media

but what exactly did they do to make

that happen well one of the things they

did is uh if it's a Minor's account um

you can't send them notifications

without permission from a parent between

12:00 a.m. and 6:00

a.m. which I don't mind oh and between

8:00 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays from

September through May so basically uh

when kids are supposed to be sleeping or

supposed to be in

school they can't get fed

content it's not bad not

bad um and there's some kind of limits

to their addictive feed except I don't

know how anybody would Define

addictive isn't everything that you like

addictive

if you if the social media sends you

more of things that it knows you want to

see which is its entire point isn't that

addictive so I don't know how they can

get rid of addictive

feeds well in other news uh chat GPT has

hired Johnny IV who is famous as the uh

incredible designer who worked on the

iPhone and other Apple products so

apparently Chad GPT is making a

device some kind of a device we assume

it's going to be something that would do

some phone related tasks but would it be

related would it be a phone or would it

be like a whole new idea that could do

the phone Stuff Plus some extra stuff I

wonder I've been saying for a

while that um where phones need to be is

that when you pick up your phone it's

anybody's phone in other words I could

hand you my phone and when it comes on

it could look at your face instead of my

face and it would become your phone so

in other words it would only get into

your accounts but if I handed you my

phone it's just a a blank screen and you

just hold it at your face and it goes

Boop and it pops up with basically your

phone you know as as stored in the cloud

so so the idea would be it would be a

cloudbased phone

um which only works if your internet is

pretty complete you know because it

wouldn't work if you're not connected so

I don't know we'll see if that's what

what uh Johnny I comes up with but the

fact that he's working on it and it's

chat

GPT those are two really really powerful

things to put together so we'll see what

comes to

that um according to the guardian

there's a new study that links uh diet

and Metabolism to bipolar depression now

they don't claim that every part of

depression or bipolar depression can be

cured by fixing your diet so I want to

be clear they're they're not saying it's

just diet but in a study uh about a

third of the people who had bipolar

depression um had much better symptoms

or lesser symptoms when they fixed their

diet and went

keto now

I've been saying for some time quite

provocatively that some percentage of

all depression is related to your

energy and that if you had high energy

you wouldn't be depressed and that the

that the science of it has been at least

partially backwards now again here's

what I'm not saying I'm not saying that

all depression is alike and that it's

all related to energy I'm not saying

that I'm saying that probably some

percentage of it

is just having low energy because you

don't feel good and then that's going to

make you depressed so it can be

true that if you were depressed it could

make you feel like you have low energy I

think that's well established but it

could also be true that it works the

other way that if you have low energy

because you're doing everything wrong

your diet's wrong your exercise is wrong

you don't have social interaction all

the things that would give you

energy um I think that would probably

take care of a third of it and that was

about roughly what they found when they

just fixed the diet a third of the

people suddenly weren't so bipolar

depressed thank you

Paul I needed that all right so um let

me say that again I've never

personally um if you've experienced the

same thing if you've ever felt depressed

but you're not you know clinically a

depressed person wasn't it always

associated with low energy like every

time and anytime your energy is high you

don't feel

depressed so just just be aware that

working on your health and your

energy might cure your depression you

know maybe onethird of you if you did

everything right maybe so I'm not your

scientist or your doctor I'm just saying

that if you're not working on your

general physical health your mental

health isn't going to do well

uh here's a correction I would like to

make to other people's work not my own

that's the best kind of Correction I

would like like to now correct other

people not me but uh I've been hearing

the reports of the government uh wasting

$42 billion trying to give rural people

um internet

connection but not not connecting a

single person how many of you heard that

story that Biden Harris got $42

billion for all this internet connection

and didn't get any internet

connections now here's my um

clarification I think when they say 42

billion was wasted they don't mean it

was

spent right it wasn't wasted I believe

it was not spent or or some small amount

of it was spent but they didn't get to

the point where they could connect

anybody so is that uh does that track

with what you believe it's not that they

took $42 billion and spent it and it's

all gone and will'll never give us

anything but I think people talk about

it that way I think rather 42 billion

was budgeted but they were too

incompetent or there were too many

regulations or whatever it was that they

just didn't get anything done is that

how you understand it because I heard it

I've heard people in public refer to it

as wasted and I think rather it's just

massive

incompetence uh and and you know the the

real heart of the story is that they

didn't need to spend a penny they could

have just said to Elon Musk hey what

would it cost to have the government

subsidize some some rural people on your

satellite and then he would say here's a

very reasonable price and you can all be

up on it and working tomorrow and then

they would say wow that's much better

than 42 billion you mean You' only

charge us I'll just pick a number 50

million a year or something and he would

say yeah that's about

right so that's what I think is

happening there was another uh another

video of K Harris giving a public speech

in which she looked really really

inebriated but the community notes are

saying that it was um fake

so it was slowed down or modified so it

looked like she was it looked like she

was really drunk but maybe it was just

the AI faked it so to my

credit bat myself on the back here uh

when I saw it I did not necessarily

believe it was true and so when I

reposted it I reposted it with the

question is this AI or is it real um and

then the answer come back it was it was

altered who was AI so here's my take on

that if you can take a politician that

people are very familiar with k Harris

and you can alter the video so it looks

like she's drunk as a

skunk and people can't tell it's

altered that's a

story so it would be a story if it were

not altered because there she would be

drunk as a skunk or inebriated in some

way but since that wasn't

true you get to the next level of well

isn't that interesting there so many

people looked at that and said yeah

that's true now imagine if you tried to

do that with a trump speech take a trump

speech then try to use AI to alter it so

it sounds like oh make America great

again you would instantly know that was

fake

right right you you would Know It with

no doubt whatsoever oh he doesn't do

those things he's been in public a

billion times we would have seen it by

now that's not real you would have known

it but why is it that a faked video

making KL Harris look drunk as a skunk

in

public you couldn't

tell if that was real see that's the

story the story is not that it's fake

the story that a video of her looking

drunk in public looks so real that we

can't tell the

difference

although to be fair I had some suspicion

about that one so this is kind of a

problem

because I think it's important that

people do see the videos where she does

look legitimately like she's on

something now I'm not sure I would post

any because now that I know somebody's

finally did what you expected somebody

made a fake one I'm not sure I'd feel

comfortable reposting anything on that

topic from now on so it makes you even

wonder if it was done by you know the

Harris campaign to embarass the people

who repost them if so it'd be clever it

would have

worked all

right uh the rabbit hole account on X

reposted a graph that showed that only

3.4% of journalists are Republicans as

of 2022 I think that means based on

donations I'm not sure uh either

donations are registered but somehow

they know and what do you think 3.4% of

Republicans now here's my take on that

if you had a press

organization that was say 5050

Republicans and Democrats and then one

of you put out some something that's

just propaganda for one side or the

other how would that work out for you

not well because half of your company

would say what the hell is this this

isn't news this is propaganda you should

be fired so if it were

5050 you wouldn't be able to get away

with pure propaganda as we see every day

on what we call the Press but isn't

really the Press but suppose it's not

5050 let's say it's

6040 can you get away with propaganda if

it's 6040 a real clear majority of

people on one side and the is probably

not probably not because if 40% of the

people are saying you know I can't even

work here if you're going to just print

right 40% would be way too much

you couldn't get away with just being a

propaganda network if 40% of your

employers are like hey what what the

hell I I came here to do news you're

just doing propaganda now but what what

happens when you get above 85% are on

the same

team once you reach 85% are on the same

team

you're only propaganda and you don't

have an option to do balanced news if

you try to do some balanced news in an

organization where 85% of them thought

Trump was

Hiller you would be fired for being

balanced you wouldn't be able to get

away with it

so I Pro I suggest the following that we

could come up with a working definition

of whether a press entity is news or

propaganda based on the percentage that

lean in One Direction and that you could

be pretty

sure that you had gotten it right so you

show me an entity with 85% people

clearly Democrat and I will tell you no

doubt about it this is not a news

Organization no doubt about it like 100%

certain this is not a legitimate news

organization but you show me an entity

with legitimately something closer to

50/50 even if it's 6040 I me that would

be close enough for me then I'm going to

say that's probably news you know maybe

not every single story is just where you

want it but that's probably a news

organization that's you know struggling

with being unbiased but they're

news don't you think that definition

would work

perfectly why why do they get to tell us

their

News why don't we get to decide whether

they're news and I would say that we

should just have a a percentage

and say that if you're above let's pick

a percentage

80% would you does that sound fair if

you're above

80% it it doesn't matter which direction

so you could apply the same thing to um

conservative Outlets if you had a

conservative publication that was 80%

conservative same thing don't you don't

you think you could claim that well 80%

I'm not sure I'd call that news because

even if the 80% are really really

dedicated to giving you unbiased news at

the very least they're going to be

leaving out context and stories that

maybe just didn't hit them as exciting

and somebody else might

have so you think 65 to 70 would be

enough to say that you're not news

anymore I I think if 30% of your

employees don't like what you're doing

you've got a problem I think around 80%

you're guaranteed to be propaganda

guaranteed you just there's just no way

around it so that's what I'd say I'd say

I think I'd do something like 5050

definitely news 8020 definitely not news

but somewhere in between would be like a

little gray area you could rate you know

like a maybe yes no and

maybe well here's something I didn't

know was legal but uh Republican senator

Rick Scott and he's being joined with I

guess Marco Rubio also Republican uh

from Florida they're offering $100

million reward for information that

would lead to the arrest and conviction

of the Venezuelan president Nicholas

Maduro now if our federal

government put out some kind of a reward

for somebody that was a international

criminal I'd say huh that's weird but

you know we've done it before I mean we

did it with um uh what's his name in

Iraq uh Saddam Hussein so it's not the

strangest thing that would ever happen

if it's the federal government but where

does a state get off doing International

negotiations what what do I not know

about this story because to me this is

illegal what am I missing how how can a

state put a put a bounty on somebody's

head in another country

how is that

legal does does anybody know how that's

legal no I'm not I'm not opposed to it

I'm not I don't think it'll make any

difference so being opposed to it or not

opposed to it doesn't make any

difference I don't think but it doesn't

feel like it's legal it doesn't feel

like it should be

legal but probably is I mean I I can't

imagine it's hard for me to imagine that

two senators would not know that

something was illegal

they would know but it's kind of

surprising is it kind of

surprising well speaking of

Venezuela uh the Chicago gangs are

apparently having a tough time because

the Venezuelans are trying to move in

and steal their drug dealing stuff do

you remember what

uh

um something I told you a while ago

Peter uh Zan said so I don't have any

independent corroboration this just

something Peter zayan said on a video

that uh the reason you don't hear much

about the LA black gangs you know the

Crips and the Bloods it's not that they

don't exist it's that uh their operation

was basically taken over by the Mexican

cartels and that the way they took over

the businesses they just murdered they

just murdered The Black Gang members

until they controlled the

territory now I don't know if that's

true

but I do know I don't hear much about

black gang members in La do you when was

the last time you heard about a black

gang member problem in La I feel like

that used to be more news and just sort

of it's like it doesn't exist

anymore so my question is is there some

possibility that the Venezuelans are

just going to take all of that illegal

business from the black gangs in Chicago

you know life is so unpredictable who

saw this coming now the Chicagoans

including the gang members uh apparently

are quite

upset that the Venezuelans are coming in

not only getting government assistance

imagine imagine this you're in you're a

black Citizen in Chicago and let's say

you're in the lower income level and you

find out that your

government is giving money that you

think could have gone to you I mean if

the government had extra money for poor

people why is it going to the Venezuelan

migrants instead of you that's what

you'd think reasonably that'd be a

reasonable thing to think and then what

if you were also feeling that because

you're low income and systemic racism

and all the rest that your best

opportunity for making money was illegal

selling drugs now you'd have the

government that's taking what feels like

your money and giving it to the

Venezuelans while the venez are

literally taking your illegal jobs which

you might think are your best option

because the legal stuff isn't going to

work out for you for one reason or

another things might be really coming to

a

head there might be some we could be on

the cusp of some you know murdering

among the criminal elements like we've

never seen before so at some point the

Venezuelan gangs might try just try to

wipe out the the black criminal element

and just take over the business so I

don't think we fully understand how

violent this could get could

get all

right

um here's a uh oh new story that uh

according to the AP there are 98,000

arizonans whose citizenship hadn't been

confirmed that will be allowed to vote

so the Arizona Supreme Court said that

even though we don't know

98,000 uh people in Arizona we don't

know if there citizens they will be

allowed to

vote

now our election system is just a joke

at this point it's just a joke and the

funny thing is that if you don't follow

the news that I follow you know because

people send me stories they think I'm

interested in and I am interested in our

election secure

so I see I see five of these a

day five a day legitimate stories this

one's from the associate press AP

and how am I supposed to process this

this feels like the AP is telling me

that the government of one of our you

know key states in the election is going

to ignore the Constitution and just let

anybody vote who signed up or something

I mean it looks like nobody's even

trying it looks like the government just

said ah screw it anybody wants to vote

come on in I don't even understand what

I'm looking at like how can this even be

happening it doesn't feel like any of

it's

legitimate when I see something like

this I think okay the Arizona Supreme

Court oh I guess they're all owned by

the cartels or owned by the Democrats or

they're blackmail

but I can't think of any you know nonc

corrupt reason for what I'm

seeing can you can you think of a

non-corrupt explanation for why they'd

let 98,000 people who can't prove that

their citizens vote in a swing state

there's no reason other than

corruption that I can think of I I

usually I at least know the argument on

the other side what's the argument on

the other side of this because they try

to pull the um voter suppression oh

you're you're trying to keep black

people from voting there's no evidence

of that at

all no evidence now if somebody had some

evidence I would quickly Embrace that

point of view based on evidence I don't

I don't oppose it on any kind of

philosophical level you could have to

show me something but we've still never

seen a single black Citizen of America

who wanted to vote who couldn't figure

it out and couldn't get an ID not one in

in years years have passed and we

haven't found one and the news the news

will still report it like that's a

legitimate reason yeah well I mean you

could disagree or agree but they've got

a point you don't want to disenfranchise

all these you know voters what voter we

haven't found one disenfranchised voter

ever now keep in mind they have to be

people who can't get an ID but are still

interested and knowledgeable enough

about politics to

vote zero that ven diagram is no people

none and we're all supposed to pretend

like they exist or something no I'm not

going to pretend they exist unless you

can show me one show me one just one we

got lots of people in the country yeah

one one would be good just one

all

right I've got a new uh tell for

somebody being either brainwashed or

being the

brainwasher so you can't tell because

they would use the same words the

brainwasher would inject the word into

the brainwashed so then they'd both be

using the word so you can't tell

necessarily you know at least on First

Look you can't tell is this a

brainwasher or

brainwashed but they use the same words

and here's the new one useful idiot of

Putin the useful idiot thing now if you

were looking at all of the policies and

problems of the country and you were

looking at what Trump offered and you

were looking at what KL Harris offered

why would you bring up the useful idea

of Putin

concept the only reason you bring up

something that dumb is that you didn't

have any real reasons to prefer Harris

over for Trump if you had a real reason

you would mention it you wouldn't have

to make up

something that sounds so dumb and they

say it every election and everybody says

it about both sides to the point where

it has no meaning whatsoever well twice

today I saw the same individual on

doesn't matter who uh responding to a

prot trump post by reminding us about

that he could be a quote useful idiot of

Putin now you you also seen probably if

you're on social media that lately a lot

of accusations about Trump from the 7s

have popped up does anybody notice that

they'll talk about the the um the

Central Park five or they'll talk about

the housing case where there was a

housing discrimination case with one of

his companies by the way if somebody

brings that up um I think so there was a

trump property I think it was the 7

uh that was the management team was

discriminating against black applicants

now I believe that they pled guilty or

you know the company basically said okay

we you know sorry we'll stop doing that

probably pay to fine what was never

demonstrated as far as I know I'll take

a fact check on this if you know

something different what was never

demonstrated is that Trump had anything

to do with it it was his company so it's

his responsibility so so you know the

buck stops with him but there was never

demonstrated that he knew that his

management team was

discriminating now is it plausible that

they would have discriminated without

getting orders from the

top in the 70s yes it

is yeah you wouldn't need any orders

from the top in the 70s to do some

rental discrimination probably any white

people that they hired for that job

would have just sort of done it

automatically and it and in those days

it wasn't always discriminating against

uh let's say the ability of the renter

to pay in those days the Discrimination

would be as much about not wanting the

other people to discriminate and not

want to live in your building so it

wasn't so much what you thought about

the

applicant it was about what you thought

the other people who were applicants

would think about the applicants still

illegal still immoral unethical don't do

it but there is a difference I mean if

you want to be accurate about it there's

no evidence that Trump told anybody to

discriminate based on race that has

never been presented nobody's ever

claimed it nobody's ever said I talked

to him and he said

it so I don't know I don't know but

beyond that I have a different standard

which I like to apply which is if it

Happ happened 20 years ago and

especially if there's some court that

dealt with

it I don't care and I appli the same

standard I applied it to Hillary Clinton

as well you know people would say 20

years ago or 30 years ago she may or may

not have done this to which I say I

don't

care 30 years ago everybody was a

different person you know so show me

what you've done lately and I'll judge

you on that but 20 years ago 40 years

ago do you care about what happened 40

years

ago well so my point there is not to

defend any of those so I'm not defending

anything that anybody did back then what

I am doing is saying that if the

Democrats feel that they have to bring

up stuff from 40 years ago it means

they've given up on comparing policies

today you would never Dig Down 40 years

ago if you had something today

because everybody knows that what's

happening today is more relevant to

everybody so I it feels like the

Democrats are feeling some kind

of

um like they're giving up or they're

desperate to find something that they

can talk about that isn't obviously

better for Trump than than

Harris

anyway Trump did what I think is a quite

clever thing you know he was taking a

lot of heat on the hoax that Trump was

behind project

2025 which was done by entirely

different people although they had some

overlap with his past administration but

he wasn't involved with it doesn't

endorse it but it's a little more

radical than his policies so the so the

Harris team is trying to tag him for

being responsible for it which he isn't

so instead of defeating that hoax which

is impossible in today's media

environment he decided to introduce one

of

own I I love this more than I can

explain because in the real

world if you try to just say oh that's a

hoax let me explain very clearly you can

even check it yourself I was not

involved in writing it and you can look

at my policies in public and you can see

that not once have they ever been you

know overlapped with them on some of

these things on some they do overlap H

and and you'd think that the facts would

be enough to make that story go away

right but because the

media is a propaganda machine he doesn't

have the option of debunking a

hoax because they won't let him the

propaganda machine won't do it if they

were news they would but since they're

only propaganda he has no way to debunk

The hoax so what did he do instead he

created his own hoax that's a direct

counter to

it he created a commis project

2025 so he says that kamla has a project

2025 and that she wants to quote abolish

Ice uh open the border defund the police

release violent offenders eliminate

middle class tax cuts span fracking and

fossil fuel usage confiscate guns from

legal gun owners take away health care

plans for people taxpayer funded

transgender surgery for illegal aliens

do you know what's interesting about

that

list I think it's almost all

fake I don't think there's anything

that's true on the list which is just

what they were doing to

him now what are you going to do about

that so now you're the news so let's say

you're MSNBC what you want to report is

that Trump's uh allegations of kamla

Harris's project 2025 is based on things

that you sort of suspect she might do

but they're opposite of what she says

her policy is

so her her policy is that she's not

going to ban

fracking so Trump puts on her project

2025 hoax list you're going to

ban

fracking now it's based on a similar

idea that even though she says even

though she says I'm not going to ban it

in the past she said she would so you

think well her real personality is that

she would so you know it's not that much

of a reach to say that she's Li lying

about what she would do

but if you're going to take the standard

that Trump says these are my policies

and they're different from Project 2025

and nobody's going to pay attention to

that then I think it's actually

brilliant and hilarious that he took all

of the things that they're doing to

Harris which are opposite of what she

says she's going to do but you could

imagine maybe she's not quite honest

about it and they're just just throwing

it back at her

so instead of trying to make her hoaxes

go away which can't happen in the

propaganda press environment he simply

matched her

hoaxes he just matched her

hoax I don't know if this will work but

I love the fact that they can't they

can't debunk as

hoaxes without kind of accidentally

showing that it's similar to what she's

doing to him kind of brilliant kind of

brilliant I like everything about this

so again I'd like to say that um this is

the first time I've seen where both of

the

campaigns are

A+ the candidates you know are the

candidates but

wow if I'm just looking at the skill

level of the Harris campaign even if you

don't like the candidate the skill level

of the campaign is just so good even

when the ly they lie really really well

and then Trump's campaign again you know

they everybody has a stumble now and

then but I think that they're A+ this is

just kind of

brilliant well we have to talk about

Bill Mah again because I forgot to

mention he had beorn lomborg on his show

on Friday now Bjorn has been on his show

before uh for years actually but here's

what I feel I'm sensing that's

different the Washington Post just did a

big story in which they were going to

show the temperatures of the climate

across um across the eons you know going

back way back into the future and they

were surprised to learn that despite our

high levels of CO2 from man-made sources

that the temperature is actually kind of

lowish uh

historically they were not anywhere

close to any kind of like historical

Earth high now because the Washington

Post are mostly

idiots uh I don't think they presented

the

counterargument against the CO2 is a

hoax the counterargument is that you

can't compare the current to the

past and the reason is that there were

lots of other things that were different

for example the intensity of the Sun and

other atmospheric things were different

so the argument would be that although

there might have been you know different

CO2 and different temperature you can't

really compare it to the present and

make any kind of reasonable conclusion I

actually agree with that so I think the

Washington Post is wrong about climate

change being a problem but just to show

how dumb they are when they sort of

indicated that maybe it was a little bit

debunked with their own work their own

new new work of debunking it was also

moronically

incomplete so I think they got it wrong

on both sides I think they got it wrong

about the level of the risk and then

when they looked at the temperature over

time they were idiots and they couldn't

figure out how to do a good job on that

so they acted like CO2 is the only thing

that changed or temperature is the only

thing that changed and the two things

that changed and that's just not the

case there were a bunch of other things

that were different

so I'm I'm a little speculating here

because I didn't read the whole article

but I do think that they're not

qualified

to tell you what the temperature is

so here's what I think I think maybe

Bill Mah has seen some of these stories

about the climate risk being

overdone um and he had Bjorn lomor on

Whose story is not that the temperature

isn't rising and not that humans don't

have something to do with it but rather

that we've completely

miscalculated how bad it would be and

you would add to that that there's more

Greening and apparently our corn and I

yields worldwide are way better than

they've ever been because of

CO2 so we would actually be starving now

without much more CO2 than we had it's

the CO2 that's the only reason we can

eat I mean imagine if we didn't have

corn and

rice I mean we're we're talking about

huge huge increases in crop yields that

seem directly related to the

CO2 we would be

starving if we didn't fertilize the air

I guess now of course there may be

downsides as well and the argument with

climate is not that um it's instantly

going to kill you but that it might even

be good and good and good for the you

know good for the farmers until it

reaches some turning point where you

can't get back that would be the

argument now I don't think that's likely

neither does lomborg but for I think his

notable that Bill Maher a big green new

big green guy I guess um would have him

on just so you can see the alternate

argument and I think he listened to it

and I think

he he's sort of on the path to figuring

out that climate change might have been

like the pandemic might have been like

everything else we've been told a

lie and I think Bill Mah is suspecting

it now the other thing that gives me

this little hint is do you remember

years ago he was famously he got a

Prius and he was all you know hey you

know even a celebrity like me will just

drive a Prius because we got to save the

environment and now he says it was just

the worst

car and admits that the the electric

cars have have problems with you know

Rare Earth minerals and you know maybe

they're not so good for the environment

after all and then he also said he got a

Tesla after that and he hated it so he's

basically said that the you know the

buying of tiny vehicles that are good

for the environment didn't really work

out for him well he's got B bjor lomberg

on saying these green cars might be more

you know as much bad as good depending

who's calculating the Bad and the good

and I I think he's

signaling that he's evolving on the at

least the risk level what you should do

about it for the

environment so I can't read his mind it

would be unfair for me to say I think

he's changed his mind but the signaling

and the foreshadowing is definitely

there and I think that he may be having

if if you took Trump out of the

news I feel like Bill M would be a

Republican or no he wouldn't be a

republican that's too far I feel like he

would

be close to it you know more like an

independent who's not not badshit crazy

so I think it's really only Trump that

keeps him from saying you know I'm not

even so sure about this climate change

stuff he just wouldn't want to agree

with Trump that would be too far but I

feel like he's leaning that way or at

least he's open to the arguments because

he had lomborg on which again he's had

he's had him on in the past

before um cats on

roof so Trump I've said this before does

not get enough credit for the quality of

his writing and it's because you know

the Press wants to paint him as a sixth

grade vocabulary you know uh crazy

person but um I just love his writing

when he does these extended posts on

truth and he was getting on also Mar for

his guests but let me just read it and

I'm going to tell you a writer

way of looking at things so when I was

first selected to be a syndicated

cartoonist my editor who was the first

person in the world to look at my

writing and say hey I think you have

commercial level writing ability just in

the context of a comic strip and here's

how she explained it to me she said your

writing is voice

voicy like voice

and I didn't know what that meant so she

explained it's voicy meaning that you

can tell that it came from one

personality so my writing displays my

personality U more than other writing

does a lot a lot of people if they're

not professional writers they're not

good at it they'll write in a way that

looks like everybody else who trying to

write you'll see no personality you'll

just see that they're struggling to put

words in the right order so that they

can say something when you read trumps

anything

you can hear his

voice and you so hear his personality

that's

voicy voicy for uh non-fiction stuff if

you're writing it for fiction you you

want the characters to be the voice

that's different if you're writing for

non-fiction let's say career

advice um politics anything that's based

on facts you want it to be voicy because

that's what makes it fascinating and

interesting and it holds your attention

and what holds your attention is what

influences you so it'd be one thing if

you go if you said Ah that's interesting

but then you didn't remember it if you

remember it and especially if you read

it more than once because just the way

it was said and then you post it because

you thought it was funny that's the

ultimate writing the ultimate writing is

interesting you'll remember it and

you'll share it with somebody you can't

beat that and and and Trump does that by

being the ultimate voicy candidate now

I'm going to show you what I mean by

simply reading a sort of a lengthy post

he did on on truth so listen to it not

for the perfect

grammar uh you can't tell but you know

maybe there's a typo in here don't care

all right good writing is not about the

grammar the editors Fix Your Grammar

it's not about your typos the editors

fix your typos it's not even your job

you know you you did the first draft but

somebody else does that stuff so see how

voicy this is all right so Donald Trump

talking about Mar he says the ratings

challenged Bill Maher on his

increasingly boring show on HBO is

really having a hard time coping with

Trump derangement syndrome all in caps

he is a befuddled Mess Sloppy and tired

and every conversation with b and c list

guests seems to start with or revert

back to me this week he had quote dumb

as a Rock bimbo Stephanie rule from

msdnc on the show along with a trump

hating loser Brett Stevens who who

seemed totally confused and unsure of

himself very much like Mar himself

Steven should find himself another line

of work because I'm driving the failing

New York Times absolutely crazy and is

very hard perhaps impossible for a

writer to write well of me without

suffering the Wrath of the degenerate

editors who with a push from the top

have gone insane

they they apologized to the readers in

2016 for their complete and total Miss

and they'll do it again in November the

failing New York Times is badly Run

quote newspaper that has totally lost

its way put it to

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sleep put it to sleep who says

that so if if you want to know if you

want just one example out of 50

uh from that what makes it voicy put it

to

sleep put it to sleep who says that who

would ever use those words in that in

you know in this Sense on that put it to

sleep it's like a dog I just put it to

sleep anyway so have I made my point so

my point is that every word he writes

you see him you feel him you can hear

him and you remember him and then you

want to repost

it that is the ultimate the ultimate

Great writing if if you're still on the

he had a typo and he spelled a word

wrong oh you're missing the show you are

missing the show if it's the grammar

you're worried

about anyway best writer in the public

sphere in my

opinion

um so Boeing

so as you know Boeing's been having a

hard

time with it Starliner and its various

aircraft and stuff and you know some of

its equipment's not working late and

cost overruns and stuff like that so uh

the Starliner cost a there's a 1.6

billion in overruns and uh they've had

problems with it and as you know it's

the one that got stranded the astronauts

on the on the the International Space

Station so the uh the head of its space

and defense unit has been

fired so the the person who was in

charge of

Boeing not all of Boeing but was in

charge of the space and defense unit

just got

fired wow now there's a picture of the

individual who uh is a black American uh

what do you think the pundits are saying

about this situation

well quite unfairly they're calling him

a Dei

hire now uh I have no evidence to

suggest that anything that happened bad

with the Starliner had anything to do

with this one person even though he was

the boss um and certainly I have no

evidence to suggest there's any kind of

Dei issue in other words uh was he

promoted because he's black as opposed

to you know the best person for the job

I have no information that was

suggesting wasn't the best person for

the job so I'm going to take what I call

the Glenn

Lowry um frame on this The Glenn if you

don't know Glenn Lowry is a very smart

uh Economist I think is his background

and he talks a lot about Dei he is black

American and his take if I can

accurately summarize it is that uh Dei

obviously isn't good for the people who

are passed over because of the wrong

race

right that's obvious if you're if you're

a Chinese American and you got passed

over for somebody else because you're

the wrong

Dei um that's bad right so I think Glenn

would see that and but he would also say

it's bad for blacks who get uh promoted

because they're trying to satisfy Dei

and he says that that makes his own

accomplishments as well as anybody who

legitimately has you know credibility

and uh competence that anytime anybody

black accomplishes anything it's going

to still look like it was a Dei

situation and it's it's uh humiliating

and degrading and patronizing and all of

that so I'm going to take his view which

I think is is quite Complete because it

shows both sides of the situation which

is always a you know it's always going

to be a better than taking a half aside

and thinking you're done so I have no no

information that would suggest there was

anything wrong with this one individual

hire but as Glenn Lowry would point out

this is a disaster for black Americans

who are good at their

jobs it's a

disaster because people are people

they're going to look at this and

they're going to draw their conclusions

that it's another Dei hire it's a

disaster if you're a capable hardworking

black American and you're just trying to

make it on the same rules that everybody

else is trying to make it and and let's

say it's working out for you and then

people are going to look at you and

they're going to look at this Boeing guy

and they're going to say huh Boeing guy

Dei hire I wonder if there's more of

this so yes Glen Lowry you are correct

this is a disaster for the reputation of

capable black people in this

country all right um

Mike cernovich said something that uh

speaking of being

voicy cernovich is the ultimate voy

poster you you can see his personality

and everything he does and that is again

that's the best writing that's just the

best um he said this about the debt he

said the country will eventually have to

default you know it I know it they know

it what happens when a nuclear power

says we decide not to pay

who knows we will find out

soon so I agree with every word of

that

um but I'm going to the only thing I can

add to this is the reason that we don't

talk about it and the reason that you

know he can say Mike can say you know it

I know it they know it and that Rings

true but yet it's not the number one

story the number one story should be

that the United States is getting ready

to default on $35 trillion worth of debt

and there's nothing that can stop

it that should be the biggest

story but we're going to pretend that

this is like Biden and his mental

competence remember when we all had to

pretend that he was a little bit like a

real person and he could do things and

it was obvious he couldn't and now we're

pretending that Comm Harris has

capability and she has what it takes to

be president we all know that she

doesn't

the Democrats know it we know it the

Press clearly knows it and we're going

to kind of pretend that we don't

notice

so we have three things that everybody

could see that we sort of collectively

agreed to act like we don't see it so

Biden's

brain Kell Harris's

competence and the national debt we all

see all three of those things for sure

like no doubt about

it but they're not the big stories like

until there's something forces it like

the debate with Trump and Biden that

just forced the issue but what is going

to what is going to make us talk

honestly about the

debt there is no solution to the debt

and by the way if we defaulted on the

debt it wouldn't even solve the problem

if we're if we're adding to it at 2

trillion you know well we wouldn't be

able to borrow so I guess we wouldn't be

able to add to it so basically the whole

government would fall apart because so

much of it is based on

borrowing here's the only way I can

imagine that we could survive this

number one you got to get the interest

rates down because the interest on the

debt is bigger than I think the I think

it's bigger than the military spending

at this point so could Trump do anything

for example that would lower the

interest rates well yes and maybe just

the economy can do that so it's possible

interest rates can come down and that

would make a big difference but not by

itself what what happens if you got the

GDP up to

4% well you might be able to do that

because this will be the second or third

time in um the industrial human age in

which something special was happening so

I always say that Bill Clinton was was

one of my favorite

presidents um because the economy was

good but you have to say that he came in

during the.com boom if the.com boom

hadn't happened all by itself had

nothing to do with Clinton would he have

had the great economy no but that was a

once ever situation where things boomed

like we haven't seen boom In Our

Lifetime now prior to that many years

ago there was the Industrial

Revolution so yeah if you looked at all

of human history the Industrial

Revolution didn't take much time but it

was this rare time when we became

industrialized so you could imagine the

GDP would be zooming during something

like that you could imagine the GDP

would be unusually zooming during a uh

internet.com

takeoff and you could imagine that the

age of robots and nuclear power and AI

would be one of those periods so we

might be into a 10-year period where a

4%

GDP which I would consider impossible

under normal circumstances yeah you

don't just get the 4% GDP that it

basically it doesn't happen but you

could if something really unusual is

happening by itself in the amide

environment such as Ai and robots

Electric cars self-driving cars these

are once ever things there there will

only be one time when everybody wants to

get rid of their car for a self-driving

car there was only one time everybody

wanted to get rid of their regular phone

for a

smartphone right these don't come

along so you know luck is more important

than skill for a lot of this economic

stuff and it could be that whoever is

President next could be president when

there's this

economic boom like we've never seen and

we could be over 4% now you need the 4%

growth but you'd also need not a lot of

unemployment so if the robots and the AI

take too many jobs well we've got a

whole new problem and it's a big one so

could we navigate that maybe you can

navigate that by building new

cities because the people who don't have

jobs you say hey why you move to this

new city that Trump is building on

Federal Land and they're looking for

lots of workers and you don't have a

skill but you know we'll train you we'll

teach you how to do this stuff because

you'll just be you know carrying things

or Mixing concrete or something so we'll

just teach you how to do that so you

could imagine that we could you could

imagine some way that the unemployed

would get quickly redeployed now the

fact that we're bringing in all of these

um migrants

and part of the story that you don't

hear a lot about is that I think a lot

of them are being

employed and I don't know enough about

that so here's my question are there so

many companies that need um low-end

employees and can't get them that

something like I'll just make up this

number so this is a question not a

statement would it be true that 80% of

the migrants who were coming in through

Asylum so they technically would be

legal um do 80% of them just get a job

working on a farm or an assembly line

because we didn't have enough people to

do those jobs or is it

20% because if only 20% of them are

coming in and getting jobs that is a

disaster at a level that I can't even

comprehend if 80% of them are coming in

and although they don't make much money

and you know 10 of them have to live in

an apartment but they got jobs

is that the case if 80% of them have

jobs it's a whole different situation

and it also suggests that if we curbed

immigration we might find a way for

people who lose their jobs to find a way

you know not in the lowest of the loway

jobs

ideally so then the other thing would be

uh re-engineering the

government uh as you know um and Massie

Thomas Massie points this out the way

the Govern does budgets are they say how

about making a cut in this budget and

then all hell breaks loose because

there's somebody who's protecting every

budget so you can't really cut any

budgets the way a business would run

would be they'd say um every Department

tell me how much you need and you're

going to have to argue your case every

year and then you add them all together

and that's your budget but the

government just says um we're going to

need 5% more than last year because of

inflation and there's more people we're

taken care

of and then so let's say the Democrats

say that then the Republicans say no way

but we need to spend billions more on

the military and the Democrats say no

way and then the two of them get

together and they say how about this why

don't we just run up the

debt and you get your billions I get my

billions I get reelected you get

reelected because it's good for our

states and we'll just push that can down

the road and that's what happens so our

budgeting process is not even a

budgeting process so it's like how did

you repair your broken engine on your

car I I took up

knitting wait what I took up

knitting H that doesn't even seem like

you're in the right domain I mean that

is knitting fix your car engine well I'm

knitting really hard not really an

answer

how hard you knit is not related because

you can't really fix a car engine yes

but I've got lots of people knitting

again again that's not really the right

tool or even the right conversation to

cutting the debt so that's sort of where

we're at we're in this absurdity where

the government pretends they have

something to do with the budget but they

don't they're just not even doing the

job even even in the most basic way you

would describe somebody doing it job

they're not doing anything like that

there there's nothing even remotely like

your government managing the budget

nothing nothing in that domain it's like

they're knitting instead of changing the

engine into your car they're not even in

the same

game what could fix that well U Back in

the 90s when dver was huge corporations

had a similar problem so the corporate

budgets were just growing and growing

and they weren't sure that they were

doing the right things that they should

be doing they were just spending more

money and so they came up with this idea

came from one book in particular to do

something they called

re-engineering so they would for the

first time instead of just giving 10%

more to the thing they were already

doing they would say do we even need to

do that maybe maybe we should just do

everything differently and then we don't

even need this system at all so that

would be called re-engineering where you

you look at it from the ground as if

you'd never looked at it before you know

you go to First principles and you say

all right what do we need to do what

would it take to do it and does that

have anything to do with what we're

paying for now and if they

don't you stop paying for that stuff and

you re-engineer it and then you save

money and you're more efficient

now also around that time the Clinton

Administration was in office and do you

remember what portfolio Al G got as the

vice president because they sold him as

sort of more of an active partner than

just being a a boring vice president and

sure enough uh El Gore reinvented

government well that's the name for it

he and what what he focused on was using

the internet and newer Tech to do things

that we used to do in a fashion in

efficient bad ways so basically putting

a lot of the government online so you

don't need people and people can get

their service faster and so

Gore um have I ever told this

story so I don't know if I ever told you

this story but maybe this is the first

time you've heard it so this the '90s

Dilbert was big I was giving a speech um

in Washington DC just a dilber speech

for money and uh some of the

administration found out that I was in

town the you know the Clinton administ

ation and um I got invited into the

White House to just kind of look around

and meet some of the uh staff of Al Gore

staff his speech writing staff and I

guess Al Gore found out I was in the

building so somebody said hey that

dilber guy is in the building so he sent

the message to summon me to his office

and I thought really I was just I was

just visiting the I was just visiting

the the staff and uh suddenly they're

like uh vice president wants to meet

with you and I was like really so I go

down to this uh this ounter office with

some secretary type people sitting there

and there's this gigantic door like the

biggest door you've ever seen your life

I think it went to the it felt like it

went to the ceiling but it was a

electric door so you you push a button

and it opens maybe it was a bomb door or

something special I don't know but it

was the most impressive door to a room

I'd ever seen

and I'm standing there and I'm thinking

to myself is that door going to open and

the vice president of the United States

El Gore is going to walk through it and

say hi Scott because I couldn't really

believe this this was about to happen

and then suddenly I said this gigantic

door open up and Al Gore walks through

and he extends his hand to me and he

goes hi I'm Al

Gore which I always think is funny like

you're the vice president I know who you

are I'm in the white house I'm in the

white house standing in front of your

office you are El Gore and uh but you

know what else are you going to say it's

just reflex

so uh we took some pictures and then he

asked me if I had a minute to go in and

chat so we go into his office and he

said that uh you know he was trying to

reinvent the government you know try to

figure out the better faster cheaper way

to do everything and he was making a lot

of progress so he was succeeding and by

the way he did he did a lot of good

things he doesn't get a lot of credit

for it but that's part of the reason he

wanted to talk to me he said you know

it's so hard to communicate all these

boring technical things that we're

accomplishing but we have to put on a

report um to say we what we did to get

anybody to read it do you think you

could help us with make it just humorous

put in some Comics so he said can you

put some could you make it like a a

Dilbert um this is before I was

cancelled so people still like me he

said could you make it a Dilbert report

on what we've done to fix the government

and I said to him

no nope can't do that um because the

moment I embraced one political party

50% of my Revenue would go away so I

said that doesn't really really work you

know because I have I have a fiduciary

responsibility to people have licensed

dber at that point so if I became even

accidentally political even if I'm just

trying to help like it's not even that

political I'm just trying to help

somebody communicate uh i' lose half of

my audience so I was like nope that

doesn't work but here's what's more

important you don't want to associate

comics with this serious work that would

be a communication mistake because

people aren't going to take you

seriously if even if they learn that you

did good things in the comic because the

comic is the wrong it's just the wrong

vehicle don't do Comics if you're the

government but I did say I can hook you

up with somebody who's an expert on user

interfaces and could figure out um how

to make your your

message the most palatable so I hooked

him up with somebody who was better than

me without cartoons so he produced his

uh

booklet that uh said what the government

was doing it was very well written

because he got good help and uh he made

a big

difference now Elon Musk has offered to

help Trump cut the government spending

but what that really means is not a

finance person's approach what it really

means is re-engineering the government

what you don't want to do is bring in

like somebody with a big scalpel and say

h 20% of this and 10% of this and I'm

going to to cut 15% of this it might end

up that way but that's not ideal the

ideal situation is for somebody to come

in and say why do we have three entities

working on the same thing how about just

one done why do we even do this stuff

when people could do this through

private means without the government at

all and it'd be faster and

cheaper get rid of it done so that's

what re-engineering is re-engineering is

not twiddling with your budget

re-engineering is saying all right if

this didn't exist in the first place

would we ever build

this if if we had a problem to solve

today and you had to build whatever it

is that the government already has would

you or would you do it a whole different

way because if the answer is with our

current knowledge and technology and

situation we would do it a whole

different way then you do it that

different way and that's how you get

your cost down now could an Elon Musk

reduce our uh government expenses enough

to make the the deficit go

away he'd have to take like a third of

the entire government spending out of

the budget do you think he can do that

take onethird of the entire government

budget and if you did think of the chaos

that would

create just just think of all these

govern government organizations that

don't have very skilled people trying to

re-engineer themselves into a whole

different thing the the level of

complexity there is you know beyond

anything I can even imagine but in in

some big ways you could probably do

stuff so I do think that if you combined

um that the the environment might serve

up one of those rare times where the

economy is going to Surge no matter what

you do because it's robots and Ai and

self-driving cars

Etc maybe go into

space and if you add that with lower

interest rates just because things are

going well and if you add that to

massively re-engineering not cutting the

budget not cutting the budget because

that's not even the goal in fact I would

say the following if if if musk decided

that looking at the government there

should be something we should spend

twice as much on because it would you

know pay itself back in five different

ways we should do that so don't think of

it as cutting that eliminates a whole

source of goodness that could be applied

sometimes it's cutting in some areas may

be rare in some areas maybe more maybe

more all

right

um Kennedy RFK Jr was saying in a event

recently that inflation is just a tax

mostly on poor people because the rich

people own assets if you own a building

your building will go up with the

inflation so relative to everybody else

in the world you still own the same

amount of money because you owned a

building and it went up but if you are

living paycheck to paycheck and all

you're doing is spending your cash on

groceries you're going to buy Less

groceries because your money isn't worth

as much so in a sense um it's a way to

boost the economy which is good for the

people who own buildings not so good for

the people working for those people so

you can see how that's a transfer it's

like a tax on poor people and transfers

it to the wealthy it would be better

even as somebody who might benefit from

this I'd be a lot happier without the

inflation I'd rather just nothing

changed so you can run the economy you

know without the surprise and shock of

uh

inflation uh but it's a good point and

he says that uh

I don't know about this I need a fact

check on this but Kennedy says

um basically the inflation is caused by

the government spending too much and he

says that

uh the other cause of inflation is the

money we're spending on chronic disease

and he says that's five times our

military budget does that pass your

sniff test do you think the amount that

America is spending on chronic disease

now I assume that doesn't mean the

government spending I assume that means

individuals spending it on their own for

the most part um but is it really five

times our military

budget does that seem

possible it does seem possible I I'll

take a fact check on that because it

easily could be an

exaggeration but

directionally feels about right so now

imagine if Kennedy came in and made

everybody so healthy that their

healthare went down imagine if a

president Trump and by the way I can't

imagine him doing this but there's one

person missing from his team you know

president Trump's team of pirates you

know he's got an Elon Musk he's got a

all in pod they're on his side he's

they've got a bill lman they've got a

you know Tulsi gabard they've got you

know I can keep going

for so he's got this incredible team but

there's somebody missing you know who's

missing somebody to tell us to be

physically

active he needs

Arnold now I don't think Schwarzenegger

is pro

Trump but maybe he could

be maybe he could be because we need

somebody to tell us to take a walk after

dinner you you want to solve a bunch of

problems at the same time watch this uh

I'm president Trump and I've got an idea

um we've got RFK Jr working on your food

supply and your medicines trying to make

that healthier but let's not ignore

exercise and getting Outdoors here's

what I'd like you to do we should have

an app where you can organize with your

neighbors what time to take a walk after

dinner now there might be more than one

because people eat dinner at different

times so you could say oh it looks like

my neighbors some of them are going to

take a short walk maybe a mile or two

and uh they're going to do it at 7

o'clock on a nice evening in California

so 7 o'clock you look on your app and

you can see your other neighbors have

already started to assemble because it

shows their location once they turn on

the app and they say all right I'll walk

left and I'm going to run into my

neighbors taking a walk so they're

coming down the street toward me I can

see on my app I walk I join their little

group I see somebody in the group I know

I start walking with them and chatting

an hour later we're all happy we've made

some plans somebody says they're going

to have a party I got invited to a party

I've had my social interaction even

without a friend or without a girlfriend

or a

relationship I chatted with my neighbors

for an hour while I took a walk in a

beautiful sky and I came back and my

mental health was better and my chronic

illness was far better because I do it

on a regular basis now that's just an

example and honestly Trump is not your

um your IC of good physical health he's

doing a great job for his age I got to

say but you know you expect somebody

who's looks a little fitter to take that

message but you could also Imagine Trump

doing

it because he's honest so he would say

you know what you know I don't I don't

exercise as much as I should I like golf

but you should that'd be good enough you

know if he if he said I'm Not Your Role

Model but listen to RFK Jr you have you

seen him with that aure

I tell him to tell him to take off his

shirt if RFK Jr takes off his shirt and

you're not going to follow his advice

about uh Fitness well you're crazy you

might not listen to me because you know

I got a few extra pounds but look at

this guy if he tells you to take a walk

after dinner you're going to do it so

you could you could imagine a hundred

different ways that the Trump

Administration could sell it but I feel

like they need they need an extra pirate

they need a pirate who will get us off

our asses and get us moving without

spending money just just take a walk

right especially for the people who are

not that physical you know it's a lot of

people um so you could solve your

loneliness your health care expenses

your inflation

your mental health your physical health

by taking a walk it just has to be

organized

Teamsters uh apparently RFK Jr said that

sha O'Brien the head of the teamsters

called him just recently yesterday maybe

and asked them to send his love to

Trump now the teamsters you might know

uh decided to not endorse a presidential

candidate which is rare um for the last

few decades it's rare and people are

interpreting it as an inter as a

preference for Trump they just don't

want to say it out loud so I'd say this

is pretty

clear the the rank and file or something

like 2third in favor of trump and then

the head of the organization who did not

endorse is telling RFK Jr to send his

love to

Trump okay that's you can't get closer

to an endorsement than that can you it

it feels like they're doing everything

they can do to endorse them without

endorsing them and mission

accomplished mission accomplished so sha

O'Brien uh is probably smarter than

maybe people are giving him credit for

because he found a way to endorse Trump

without endorsing Trump through a side

door by just saying it to RFK Jr knowing

that he might repeat it pretty good

pretty clever well

done um Trump announced he wants to end

Sanctuary cities as soon as he gets into

office

um I assume that that's wildly popular

in the

public um if I had to guess

70% agreement with that

maybe about ending Sanctuary cities so

that seems a good solid thing to say if

70% I think it's at least 70% of the

public would agree with it so that's

just free money well the Entertainer

named Usher deleted all his posts on X

because he's getting dragged into this

Diddy um drama so when he was 13 years

old he lived with Diddy for a while to

learn his ways and there's some old

interviews in which uh in which

Usher was taken under the wing of didy

uh said he learned some things at the

Diddy parties uh and introduced him to

quote a totally different set of stuff

sex specifically remember he was 13 and

the accusations are that that Diddy was

sort of recruiting and uh having sex

with both young male and

female potential wannabe entertainers

and that uh he basically sold it this

this is the allegation I don't have any

personal information to confirm anything

so this is just what people are saying I

can't claim any of this to me true um

claiming that it was a wellestablished

organized process where Diddy had to

give up his body to somebody to become

who he is and then he's just passing

forward the Badness and making people

give up their bodies to be part of his

process to become famous now all of that

is

horrible but I'm just amazed at how many

little stories related to this are

popping up now for example there's an

old video of Christy Tean

um with uh what's her husband's name

John Legend and uh where they were

interviewed at some event and somebody

asked them about uh if they' had sex in

a public place and Christy

Teegan said cryptically well maybe the

Obama

thing and John Legend immediately said

we're not talking about that so there's

no explanation of what she

when she jokingly said the Obama thing

because they're good good friends uh

when she said something about having sex

in front of other

people now

again

again um confirmation bias might be all

that's happening so if you've heard all

these stories about

Diddy than anybody who was ever involved

in any of those parties or at any

contact with them at all if there's any

video of them saying anything unclear

even if it was a joke even if you don't

know what they were thinking it's going

to look like they're admitting sex

crimes so I'm gonna um I'm not a big fan

of John Legend because of his politics

and I don't know much about his music so

I don't have a feeling for that one way

or the other

um but I'm going to say innocent till

proven guilty on this one

as a

citizen I give him the um courtesy that

I would wish would always be extended to

me by citizens now if there's any kind

of legal process that ever had a problem

with him that would be a separate

conversation

but I don't like the fact that Christy

Tegan made a joking reference to

something and we don't know what that

meant and then assume that she was

banging it out with the Obamas

that's a little too far for me so maybe

I mean you can't rule it out anything

anything's possible I suppose but I

don't think that we have something like

evidence of that I think we have

confirmation bias like we our brains are

primed for that kind of interpretation

and then that comes along and then you

say oh there's more of

that probably not probably not but you

never know

anyway

um I saw that Elon

Musk uh I think he retweeted something

that said that uh X is not just a social

media Network it's a crime

scene so when people delete all of their

social

media it does look like a crime

scene so um also with

Usher uh I have no no Ence whatsoever

that Asher was involved in anything

inappropriate the confirmation bias is

enormous and sometimes the simulation

tries to give you a hint as

well but I'm not saying that Usher did

anything that involved gay sex I'm just

saying that they wouldn't call him Usher

unless he showed a lot of people to his

seat

I'll just let that one sink in a little

bit Yeah you wonder why nobody else said

that first that's why you have me is for

this well there's another sex related

Scandal you heard about uh a journalist

named Olivia

nuzzy uh allegedly was sexting RFK Jr

but we only have confirmation that she

was

saxing uh we do not have confirmation

that he he said anything um anything

inappropriate but there are reports that

his wife had her wedding ring off you

know where she wherever she was overseas

I guess and there are reports that

Olivia nuzi who was engaged to also

journalist Ryan lizza that that's been

broken off because of whatever this

was so poor Ryan liisa left his wife and

kids to be with Olivia nuzi he was 50

she's 31 and then the 31-year-old may

have cheated on him by sexting with

somebody who was closer to

70 and um now to be

fair the person she was allegedly

sexting was you know far more Alpha than

her uh her

fiance but uh I think he's maybe the

biggest victim in all this you know RFK

Jr probably can handle this like it's

just a Tuesday but I mean because he's

handled basically everything you could

handle but uh this poor guy Ryan lizza

imagine like it's in the

news oh my God it's terrible anyway I

would say that there's no evidence that

RFK Jr did anything

inappropriate there's definitely

evidence that she did but we haven't

seen any texts from him to suggest that

he went too

far I'm going to say innocent till

proven

guilty so I'm just going to ignore it

also you never know what the situation

is with anybody else's relationship you

never know so trying to assume you know

it's just like you would act and you

know that never works in these

situations well meanwhile in Lebanon the

US state department is calling on its

citizens to get out of Lebanon what do

you think that means it means exactly

what you think it means it means that

uh it means that Lebanon is going to get

a lot of

bombing and of course it's already

started so the Hezbollah up in Lebanon

they've been launching Rockets into

Israel they say in response to the

pagers and walkie-talkies blowing up and

of course Israel is attacking and uh so

Israel is selling this to the media that

they're attacking uh to prevent an

imminent

attack oh

sure yeah okay yeah all right yeah they

they're going to attack any minute now

so you bomb them first that might be

true but you know what else is

true hbel has been sending

Rockets pretty much non-stop for years

they don't need a reason you don't need

a reason you don't need you don't need

to tell me that you're doing it because

they're ready to launch an attack

they've got they got 100,000 Rockets

aimed at you and you have not you know

threatened them whatsoever at least you

know except in defense

and they don't need a reason you just

don't need a reason if somebody's got

100,000 Rockets pointed to you and

there's they're sending some of them at

your residential places on a regular

basis for years

you don't need a reason I'm glad that

you said it I mean maybe it's better

than not saying it but don't think you

need to justify

it nobody needs to justify that if if we

had 100,000 Rockets pointed at us from

Canada and they've been shooting some of

them every

day no we don't need to know that you

were going to shoot some more today in

order to go Cap all of their asses no

don't need a reason and again every time

you say to yourself here's what um

Israel should do to be good and moral

ethical people and here's what the

Palestinians should do to be good and

ethical people and here's how to make up

for the past none of that has anything

to do with

anything th this area of the world is

nothing but

power and if you're

lucky your allies will be the ones with

the power now is that good or moral or

ethical no it's not even it's not even

in the right conversation none of those

things matter nobody's making any

decisions based on what's moral or

ethical that's just things yap yap yap

yap yap it's pure power it's

self-interest now it's hard for me to

criticize Israel

strategy when it is so clearly linked to

their

self-interest how do you how do you

criticize somebody who is pursuing their

own best

self-interest ever

like

ever um so I

don't and you know that if the power

situation were reversed Israel would get

wiped out and again that wouldn't be

about you know you could argue it's

unethical and illegal and immoral and

all that you could talk about it all day

long but it doesn't matter what would

matter is the ones with the most power

got everything that's just the way it is

now unfortunately and I'm not saying

that that's right just saying that

talking about the the ethics and the

morality of it is just a waste of time

you you can't ask Israel to do something

that's in your opinion in your opinion

you're not there but you can't ask them

to do something that in your opinion is

more moral and ethical they shouldn't

listen to you they should look at what's

good for them and then if it's not

exactly as moral and ethical as some

strangers in another country wanted to

be well then you say stuff like they

were ready to attack us first

but let's not get lost that any of that

matters none of that matters the ones

with the power and the interest are

going to do what they can do and that's

what we're watching so the best case

scenario is that your allies are

winning that's it that's all we have and

at the moment they're doing

well all right ladies and gentlemen if

you didn't know the dilber 2025 calendar

is a ailable for pre-sale you can only

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and pre-sale will help me out a lot

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for a number of reasons that are just

practical and selfish it helps me a lot

personally

if you pre-order and because the

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sooner you do it the better for me so if

you're thinking of doing it later I'm

asking you as a favor to do it sooner so

if anybody feels like doing that it

would make me very happy all right um

and remember the the dilbur calendar is

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sort of at a point in my career where I

really don't have to do anything I don't

want to do you all know that right I

don't have to do anything I don't want

to do I'm

good I don't need to prove anything I

don't need any more money I only do the

things I want to do now the reason the

calendar is reproduced and it's a lot of

work like to set up a whole new

operation find Partners to to do the

hard stuff all that it's a lot of work

and I did that in this case because so

many people said you know my life is not

the same without the the dilber calendar

and we we give it as a gift every year

so this is done for

you um it's not like a big money maker

that will make a difference in my life

but I'd love if he got it sooner than

later all right that ladies and

gentlemen is all I have to say to you

today um and I'm going to go talk to the

local subscribers because they're

special in a good way and um the rest of

you on X and Rumble and YouTube I will

see you tomorrow same time same place

and I feel bad for all those lazy

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