Episode 2670 CWSA 11/25/24
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All right. Well, a lot of stories today. Let's start with the good news. According to Andrew Huberman, you can turn yourself into a morning person in three days of pain. So just three bad days and you can become a morning person. Here's how: set your clock for 5:00 a.m. every day, no matter how tired you were the night before, and get up at 5:00. Drink coffee, have some social interaction, a little bit of sunlight, a little bit of eating, and those things will set your clock. And next thing you know, you're a morning person.
Do you believe that? How many of you believe that you could change yourself to a morning person if you're not already one? Well, I can only tell you my anecdotal experience, which is in college I strategically decided to become a morning person and I turned myself into one. And I didn't know I could ever be one. It didn't seem likely because I like to stay up late, just like most people. But very quickly, and with the help of coffee and sun and food, I guess I turned myself into a person who loves, just loves the morning. I mean, the first four hours of every day of my life are kind of terrific. Every single day. Really just terrific. And that's what you get by being a morning person.
Now, beyond that, I believe I've lived two full lifetimes because most of your day is garbage time. You know what I mean? You're like, it's time to take out the trash to the curb and you're walking to your trash cans, and most of it's not really living. But the morning time I really use for all the good stuff. So it's almost like it doubled my life. So that's cool.
However, I have a question whether all people can be turned into morning people. My suspicion is, because science seems to think that there are morning people and non-morning people, that this won't work for everyone. However, I also have this following hypothesis: that night people are morning people. That night people like the time after midnight. That's the morning. So if you like to be up after midnight because it just feels great to be up after midnight, that's probably how I feel at 4:30 in the morning when I'm up. And often I'm up at 3:00 just because I feel like it. So there you go. Be a morning person. Double your life.
According to Gilmore Health News, there's now this gene editing technology that might remove your anxiety and alcohol dependency linked to adolescent binge drinking. So if you were a binge drinker when you were young and it changed your brain, now they think they can edit your genes to fix it. I have just one comment about this. I don't think I want to go first, if you know what I mean. I don't want to be the first person who has gene editing to change the brain. I mean, it could work out great, has great potential, but I don't want to go first. Let's see what happens to somebody else. It turns them from a Republican into a Democrat. You got to watch that stuff.
Well, this is the most predictable thing you could ever imagine in the world of technology. According to TechCrunch, guess what got invented? Yes, it's exactly what you expected somebody to make. And why did it take so long? Somebody made a way that you could fake being on a Zoom call. Now, you know you wanted that. You know the Dilbert comic was waiting for it. And apparently you can take a quick video of yourself and then the AI will remember what you look like and then you could be in your car and pretending that you're sitting there in front of your office. So your actual audio and your conversation could be from your phone in your car, but what people would see on Zoom is something that looks like you're talking. Pretty cool.
And the odds of people taking Zoom calls on the toilet just went to 100% because not much else to do when you're watching the Zoom go. So yes, there will be a lot of Zoom call toiletry.
Chinese scientists have finally built something you've all been waiting for: a recoilless AK-47. According to Stephen Chen in the South China Morning Post. Now you might say to yourself, do we really need the recoilless AK-47 rifle? And the answer is yes. If you want to put it on a drone. If you want your drone to go around and murder people, it would be nice to have a recoilless one so it doesn't knock the drone out of orbit. So good news, people. There's the perfect murdering device now.
So if you put some AI facial recognition on your drone, which is completely practical, and you give it GPS navigation so that there's no amount of jamming that will stop it from getting to its destination, which is now completely practical, and then you put the recoilless rifle on it, which is now completely practical, and then you track somebody's location by their phone, which if you're the government is completely practical, and then you could just send your drone out to shoot him and then go bury itself in the ocean, sink itself in the ocean so they can't find the gun. So that's a thing now.
Yeah, so the GPS jamming is not going to work if you've got the AI that can recognize the ground from the sky. In other words, it will look at satellite images and it will know where it is just from the image. So that's cool.
All right. Here's what I call the reverse of a good job. What would be the opposite of a good job? In this case, the situation is coming up with a headline to make somebody click on something and read the story. Now, as you know, there are a lot of stories that are clickbait. Literally the headline is better than the story and you're like, really? Really? Trump ate a baby? I got to see what that's about. Click, click, click.
But there are some headlines that make you definitely not read the story, and those are more interesting to me. Here's a headline that made me definitely not click the story. It was in The Hill, and the headline, it's an opinion piece, but the headline is "How Well Does Donald Trump Understand Elon Musk?" I'm not going to click on that. How well does Donald Trump understand Elon Musk? Well, let me say for the opinion writer that would require that they had penetrated the mind of Elon Musk and also Donald Trump so they can not only see what's in Musk's brain, you know, in order to write the article, but they can also see what's in Trump's brain. And also they can see so well that they can tell how much Trump's brain can understand Elon's brain. I'm not going to click on that. That might be the dumbest idea I've ever seen for an opinion. No, I will not click on that. Sorry.
Somebody is talking about Morning Joe. So Morning Joe on MSNBC, I swear to God, Morning Joe can't possibly be a non-comedy channel, right? Is it trying to be a comedy channel? Is it parody? It's so close to parody you just can't tell. Because now they're insisting that Twitter is where you get all the disinformation and you should really trust real journalism such as you'd find in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Axios, also known as the true guardians of truth. You know that they left off Washington Post. I don't know why.
Yep. So the first story is about how Morning Joe on MSNBC says that truth is on their network and these others, not on X. Not on X. My second story is about how Joy Reid, the host, one of the hosts of MSNBC, and their guests are talking about how Trump will deploy the military and shoot citizens and that Trump wants to, quote, end multiculturalism in America. How do you interpret that?
So Joy Reid is taking the story that Trump is thinking about using the military to transport some illegal migrants back to their home country, transport. But she, of course, has changed it into fake news where they're going to be shooting people on the street. There's not even, that's not even a conversation. The military is not going to be shooting anybody in the street. So it's a complete fake news directly after their episode about how the real news is on their networks, right?
But then she, with her guest, she ties it into, I guess the guy, one of the authors of Project 2025, had written that they want to end multiculturalism in America. Now if you're watching MSNBC and you're talking about the military shooting citizens, what do you think it means when they say they want to end multiculturalism? Well, if you put it in that context, it sounds like Trump wants to use the military to shoot brown people. Isn't that the way that comes off?
Here's what it really means. The military might be useful for some of the behind-the-scenes logistics such as guarding and then transporting immigrants who have been picked up by the regular authorities who do those jobs normally. So that's the military part that they've completely misrepresented. But the end multiculturalism, when I first read it I thought it couldn't possibly say that. There can't possibly be a document that somebody wrote those words: we want to end multiculturalism. But then I realized what it means. It takes a few seconds to understand what it means. It means that America is a melting pot. It's the same thing I grew up learning, that America is a melting pot so that no matter what culture you came from, when you got here your first or second generation would become Americans. So that would be ending multiculturalism. You're simply not being everything to everybody. You're trying to encourage everybody to become an American. When did that become a problem? That's not a problem. That's an ambition. It's an ambition to get people on the same page.
Multiculturalism is completely unmanageable. There's no way you could have a country where everybody can do their own thing. You know, as much as you think that'd be a great idea, there's no practical way to do that. You have to get on the same page on the basic stuff like, you know, is it Sharia law or is it not? I mean these are really basic stuff. Anyway, can you stone somebody because they were allegedly unfaithful to their husband? I mean, multiculturalism isn't something you want to have more of. That's not going to help you no matter how awesome it is. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with anybody's culture. I'm just saying you can't put them all in the same bag and expect it to work out.
So MSNBC, just pure propaganda. Glenn Greenwald, I love watching him dumping on MSNBC, talking about how their audience is so small it's smaller than a lot of YouTube shows. It's probably smaller than the number of people who will watch this. So my audience for this live stream is roughly the same as MSNBC's audience in prime time. But Greenwald thinks that it's because the audience realized that MSNBC had been lying to them about everything.
You said, oh, you definitely, Trump's going to jail. Oh, well he's not. Well, he's definitely not going to get nominated. Oh, he got nominated. Well, there's no way he's going to win. Okay, won. But at least he's not going to win the popular vote. Okay, won the popular vote. But at least he's not going to get more Black. Okay, he got more Black votes. But he's definitely not going to get the Hispanic. Okay, he got more Hispanic votes. And he's not going to win the women. Okay, won a lot of women. But there's no way he's going to sweep all the seven. Okay, he swept all the swing states.
So at some point, do you think the MSNBC audience realized that they've been lied to about everything? I'm not so sure. So you know, Glenn Greenwald I think is one of the better observers of everything. So I hate to disagree with him, but I don't think people are that smart. I don't think that they do know they were lied to.
Turns out that 9% of Democrats believe the election was stolen and that the reason Trump won was that he stole the election. And that because there couldn't be any other reason. Do you know why they watched MSNBC? They realized there's no way that Trump could win legitimately, but then he wins. So cognitive dissonance clicks in and your brain goes, click, must explain anomaly. Cannot explain how he cannot win but yet he won. Oh, I get it. Must have been. Yeah, cognitive dissonance. And I think the rest are simply avoiding it or trying not to think about it.
Because I think it went from a source of dopamine where they turned it on and agreed with everything that they were already thinking and it made them feel smart and superior. But now when they turn it on it's the same people except instead of making them feel smart and superior for being watchers of MSNBC, the very people who are supposed to be smart and therefore you're smart because you're watching them are saying, we seem to have gotten everything wrong for four years but we're trying to figure it out. We have 500 hypotheses of why everything was wrong. Why don't you talk for a while? And now it's just cringy. So there's no source of dopamine.
So if you see this, one of the most useful frames you'll ever have, the most useful frame for understanding your reality, is that people chase dopamine. They chase a good feeling. And it used to be nothing but a dopamine hose. Every moment it would make you feel smarter than those stupid MAGA people. And now you turn it on and you see some of your favorite people saying, you know what, MAGA is pretty good actually. And then you find out that the smartest, most successful entrepreneur in the world is fully in for MAGA and you're like, ah, wait, what's going on? Yeah, it's very, it's got to be very disconcerting.
Keith Olbermann is panicked. He's panicked that Elon Musk might buy MSNBC. Now Elon did ask the question, how much does it go for? And the hilarious thing about this is that the question of whether Elon Musk would or would not buy MSNBC is only the price. It's only the price. There is a price by which I guarantee he would buy it. I don't know what that number is for him, but let's say all they have left is assets, maybe contracts, some receivables, and a building and cameras and camera trucks and stuff. How much would all of that be worth if you put it all together? Fifty million? Fifty million. Because I don't even know if they own the buildings. They might be renting the buildings so that might be just a liability.
So if he could buy MSNBC for let's say 30 million net, do you think he wouldn't? I think he'd do it just for fun, just to see what happened. And then you combine it with X and start doing some shows on there. It would be amazing. So no, it's not a question of whether he wants to or doesn't want to. I'm almost positive it's just price. So if they price it at a billion dollars I'd say no, there's no way. At half a billion I'd say no way. At 100 million it starts getting maybe. Fifty is probably more likely yes than no. But I have no idea what it's priced at.
All right. Meanwhile, have you heard of NewsGuard? This is kind of funny to me. So there's an entity called NewsGuard. I think you've heard of them. So they're for-profit and what they do is they charge various platforms on the internet to help them guard against fake news. So they'll identify the fake news so that the platforms don't have to get caught with fake news. But they also offer these what they call nutrition labels for each search result. So you could do searches and as a consumer it would tell you if the reporter who wrote the story is credible or if the source of the story is incredible. So they would have the New York Times at the top of the credibility list.
Do you see the problem here? The New York Times is at the top of their credibility list. Okay, really?
But here's the best part of it. So there's an entity, NewsGuard, that is charging people and doing really well apparently. Their business model is working. It's a very robust business. And their proposition is they can tell which news is true and you can't. That's the proposition. That's what you're paying for. They can tell what's true and you can't.
Now I've got a question. If there's an entity in the world that can tell what news is true and what isn't, shouldn't they be the news? Because does it make sense that there is no news entity that knows what's true? The only people who know what true is are the people criticizing the news entities. So wouldn't it make way more sense if NewsGuard said, you know what, people, since we know what's true and all the other news entities, you know, maybe yes, maybe no, we will be your news. So the real news is through us. We're the real news.
Nobody knows what news is true. We wouldn't have massive, almost universal fake news if there was anybody who could tell the difference. They don't. NewsGuard doesn't know what's true. NewsGuard can and probably often catch things that are definitely not true, but that's a long way from knowing what's true and what's not true. It's just catching the easy stuff.
Do you know who else catches all the easy stuff? Me. I do it for free. Show me the headline, I'll tell you if it's true. If you looked at my record of guessing what is true and what is not from just first glance, it's not bad. It's not bad. And I've taught most of you how to do it because I'm not guessing. I'm using pretty well understood rules of how to spot fake stuff. For example, the one I talk about all the time is that in an election period there's always a report of an anonymous insider inside the White House who heard the person running for office say a terrible thing that you're pretty sure nobody ever said in the real world. And then I say there is no credibility to one anonymous source in the White House saying that somebody said something that nobody else heard and is really terrible. Never ever believe that story. It'll always be there but never ever believe it. I'm pretty good at that. Haven't been wrong yet.
All right, so it's just funny to me that NewsGuard could even exist without just saying why don't we be the news.
So let's see what else is going on here. We've got Tucker is worried that war is coming because the Trump administration is so anti-war that the people who think they might benefit from war, or even worse they might benefit from getting rid of Trump because they think Trump will open investigations and prosecute people who really need to be prosecuted. But those people who might need to be prosecuted are maybe powerful enough that they could start a war that would distract us and be bad for Trump and hurt his credibility and maybe keep them safe. Now that's pure speculation from Tucker. I worry about it. I worry that the worst people in the world might be getting ready to start wars. But on the other hand I also think it's too late. I think it's too late. I think that the Trump effect is already too strong. Maybe if they'd done it sooner it would have worked.
But I'll tell you about the Trump effect. But before I tell you that, here's the coolest story in the news if you heard me. All right, so if you don't mind this will be a moment of just pure me talking about myself because it's funny. All right. As far as I know this is a true story. The country of Nigeria, they have a new national strategy in which they want to make sure that they're aggressively teaching technical and vocational skills to their youth. Yeah, that's a good idea, right? They want to make sure their youth has skills. Kind of basic stuff. But the way they described it is that they want to make sure they have more than one skill. So in other words they want to do something called talent stacking. Have you ever heard of that?
So the Nigerian government is announcing that talent stacking, something that I popularized, is going to be their main way to success. But here's the best part. So this is from X from their, I think it's from their minister of education. I swear I'm not making this up. This is from the Nigerian government. Their minister of education, quote, Scott Adams once said, quote, every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. This is real, by the way. This is real. He said this is part of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's renewed hope agenda and our Federal Ministry of Education strategy. He says that's why we are aggressively reviving our technical and vocational educational and training system.
Do you know where that comes from? Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Do you know where that comes from? It comes from that book that I'm pointing to over my shoulder. So my book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" has that quote. So Nigeria, their Federal Ministry of Education at least read my book, which was designed to take somebody who doesn't have mentoring and doesn't have good career advice from any other source. I put it in one book. It was designed for teenagers. Now it's written for adults but it's designed so that a teenager could breeze through it pretty easily. It's written to be really friendly to read.
So Nigeria may have decided that if they follow the blueprint in that book they can transform their country into an economic powerhouse. It's called "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big." And by the way, if you don't know, that book has been hugely influential in the United States but a lot of its influence is by influencing other books in the same domain. So you'll find other very popular books you may have read that borrow from that book. So it's the most foundationally persuasive book in career success at the moment.
Now here's the fun part. What if they're really serious about just using that book as a sort of a framework for how to fix the future? It would actually work. It would totally work because everybody who's used it so far says it works. Why wouldn't it work there? And wouldn't it be funny if my legacy was fixing Africa? Because if Nigeria overtly uses my book and credits me for some of the ideas they're using, and let's say it works, let's say their GDP shows a boost in a few years and they say it's because we're doing this, other African countries might say, hey, what are you doing over there? Why is that working so well? And then they'll say, well, if it works in Nigeria it seems pretty straightforward stuff like build skills. Why don't we do that too?
So the irony of the simulation is that of all people in the world it seems that I might be the solution to fixing Africa. Now I'm not saying it's likely. I'm not saying it's likely. I'm just saying it's perfect. If we don't live in a simulation, how do you explain this? How do you explain that the guy who got cancelled, if you know what I mean, is now the savior of Africa? Those are my own words, okay? But how much do you love that story? I don't think I could possibly be happier. I feel like in some ways my entire life just made sense. Like everything I've done for my entire life, just in this one moment I looked at it and I said if this is real, everything I've done for my entire life makes sense. I wouldn't change a thing. I can't even imagine what would be a bigger boost to the well-being of more people than having them understand a strategy for success that pretty much is going to work for everybody. So that really happened anyway.
Scott Jennings on CNN continues to be one of the better Scotts. He's at least in the top three. I don't know if you noticed there are just tons of Scotts doing things. They're getting nominated, they're senators, all kinds of things. But Scott Jennings, one of the better Scotts, is reframing Trump's cabinet picks as ideologically diverse, which is good work. Because the bad guys, the Democrats, are going to say, hey, where's our racial diversity? And then Scott Jennings can say this is the most ideologically diverse group of people you've ever seen because Trump literally has a whole bunch of ex-Democrats and current Democrats maybe. You know, RFK Jr. and Elon and I could go through the list. And the All-In pod guys are on board. I don't know if they were ever Democrats or which ones of them were ever Democrats. But yeah, this is the way to do it. Scott Jennings, you should say that it's the most ideologically diverse big tent. And it is. And the ideological diversity is the part you want. That's the part you want. So I love that.
There's no pandering, or at least not too much pandering. There's a little bit of pandering in the nominations. I don't have to point out the pandering but there's a little bit.
Did you know there was a recent survey by CBS News? They found that 59% of voters approve of Trump's handling of his transition so far. That's a pretty solid majority. 59% approve of his transition. I've told you before about the new CEO play. When you're new CEO or new leader of any organization like a new president, it's really important. And Trump totally nailed this on the first time he ran and won when he started work before he was sworn in and he and Pence were traveling around trying to get businesses to stay in America and stuff. And that is so powerful, this first impression stuff.
So by doing a very capable and early and aggressive staffing, and much better than the first time he did it most people would say, it gives a real good impression. So even people who might not have voted for him said, you know, it looks like he's getting some work done. And that is so good persuasion-wise. Getting the first two months right is like getting the first year right. But if you were a standard politician you'd probably be quiet for a few months and then once you're sworn in you might say, okay, now we're sworn in, we'll get this year right, have a good first year. Trump is going to get his first year right before he's sworn in. Now that is so much smarter than what you'll see anybody else do. It's just a whole different level anyway.
Trump's popularity according to Modernity is surging among young Americans. So it rose from 19% to 57% in just over a week. What? So according to this one source, Trump's popularity surged among young Americans in that 18 to 29 in the space of just over a week. So conducted from November 17th to 19th, the survey revealed that 57% of Americans 18 to 29 now hold a favorable view of Trump, marking a net favorability increase of 19 points in that demographic in a week. Is that possible? Apparently TikTok has gone strongly Trump or at least there's a big movement in that direction.
I guess my first impression would be this might be like that Iowa poll that said Harris was way ahead and you said to yourself that's a fake poll. And then later you find out, well, okay that wasn't real. I don't think that in one week Trump's popularity went from 19 to 57. You believe that? That seems far more likely something wrong with the way they ask the question or something. I do believe that his popularity is sharply up. That feels right. I don't think it's up this much but could be wrong anyway.
Here's something I didn't know. Did you know that China is no longer the main source of U.S. imports? And a lot of that is because of Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods. So Trump in the first term tariffed Chinese goods to try to get more things made in other countries and made in America. And the made in America part I don't know about but Mexico surged. So Mexico is the number one place that we buy stuff from the United States now. That doesn't mean that the raw materials are from Mexico. So a lot of the components of what they make in Mexico might be made or produced in China. So there's still that. But Vietnam and South Korea and Mexico and at least one other place have gone way up and China has gone way down in terms of stuff we buy.
So the tariffs worked. To me it looks like they worked. So if you're looking for when do tariffs work and when they don't, apparently we got something like what we wanted from the Chinese dominance of our purchasing situations. But last year products coming from China made up 14% of all imported goods, the lowest share in nearly two decades. But like I said a lot of the stuff is really Chinese but it's coming through manufactured by other places.
Well, Trump and crypto apparently has a backer. This banker, Arkansas representative French Hill. That's a funny name, French Hill. He used to be a community banker. Apparently he's really big on crypto and he seems to have the confidence of the administration. So if you're wondering why is Trump getting pro-crypto advice, which appears he is, this is one of the sources. I assumed it was JD Vance and maybe Elon. I assumed that they were the ones who were whispering crypto in his ear. But maybe having it from an Arkansas representative makes it that much more palatable because you've got a solid representative who's elected. It's not just the swirling around people who were not elected. So that's good news for crypto.
Meanwhile Christopher Rufo has apparently met with Trump a few times now. If you're not following the career and work of Christopher Rufo you should. So he's, let's call him an anti-DEI activist who's been very successful. He's met with Trump and he's trying to get Trump I think to threaten colleges and universities with losing their federal funding if they keep doing DEI stuff. He wants to get rid of all the affirmative action stuff from any institution with federal government funds. I think Trump's going to do that. And I do think that Christopher Rufo, I think he's won a place, assuming that this happens, I think there's a good chance I think Rufo has won a place in history. Like he's not a footnote. If he pulls this off he's one of the important people in American history. This is a big deal. A really big deal. And he's certainly the biggest name in this push.
All right, I'm going to call this the Trump effect. You ready? So apparently over two million people have signed a petition in the UK calling for a general election because they're not happy with their government. And Paul says their prime minister Keir Starmer, his approval rating has plummeted by 43 points since he took office just four months ago. Have you ever heard of anybody's popularity in American politics plummeting by 43 points? I've never heard of anything like that. I've never heard of anything even close to that. What's the most any American politician ever plunged in popularity in a short period? Nowhere near 43%. I mean I think even Nixon did better than that after Watergate. I'm not sure but probably anyway.
So the lawmakers are going to debate the petition and I feel like that's a Trump effect. You know why? Because I think the UK has this feeling: you don't need to live this way. There's something very powerful about that statement, isn't there? You don't have to live this way. Trump has used it and I feel like they feel it because the United States just proved to the UK that you don't have to live this way. And if they're watching the United States and they're watching what happened with Trump and then they're looking at their own country and they're looking at their own government, the election of Trump could make your popularity if you're current leader drop 43 points in four months. I mean more, probably more recently is my guess.
So do you think this is a Trump effect? I strongly believe it is. Now tangentially because obviously UK has their own problems so just having lots of problems would be enough to not want to keep your leadership. But to this degree, this is a crazy degree of loss of confidence. I feel that the reality of Trump getting reelected probably fundamentally changed how the UK voters saw their own country. Like they have a chance because the U.S. looks like it went to the precipice, maybe we're still at the precipice, but found a way to go back. And it's obvious that we found a way back and everybody can see it. America did it.
By the way, for all you countries who are watching and wondering if we could pull this off, I think we can. I think America has certain advantages that apparently we've had for a long time. And one of them, remember what I always told you was our big advantage, the big advantage in America that I don't think anybody can match, is we will can anything that needs to get canned and we will do it brutally. We'll do it quickly and we'll never look back if it needs to get shitcanned. Ask an American. We don't save things because they're old and special. We don't do it because that's the way we do it. We don't do it because that's tradition. We don't do it because it's classical. We don't do it because that's how Grandma did it. We will break anything if it needs to be broken.
Our government needed to be broken. It needed to be broken hard. And I don't think anybody from other countries, I think other countries said, oh man you're in trouble. You've got, you're too locked in, you're never going to be able to break this. But turns out that only the Democrats had to be broken and Trump broke them and then everything else is possible. That's where we are.
So if you're in the UK and you see that the U.S. found a way to break its way out of an almost impossible situation, that's got to be inspiring and it's got to make you want to switch out your own leader as soon as possible. So I think it's a Trump effect. You know obviously they have real serious problems so the Trump effect wouldn't have any effect if they didn't have real problems. And that's my message to the UK. Hey UK, I don't consider the UK an American ally anymore. Now it's not up to me but Nigeria's listening to me so maybe you should too.
So what I'm saying, so maybe the people in the UK would rather be allies with the United States. And the reason I say they're not our ally is they seem to be working actively against Trump when they were helping Kamala Harris. That's not cool. You're not allowed to go do politics on our property. Not cool. You can't be our ally if you're sending in people to work for the election of one candidate. Nope, not an ally. And if you're working toward the censorship of American platforms such as X, definitely not an ally. Now that doesn't mean you're an enemy but you can't be an ally if you're interfering at that level. All right, is that clear? If anybody from the UK is listening, you're not my ally now. Our government may say differently but I don't think we should treat you like an ally. We should treat you like somebody who's often on our side but no, you're not an ally. And any special relationship, I'm not in favor of it. I think we have to treat you more like an adversary that sometimes agrees with what we want as well.
So yes, you need to change out your government for your own benefit. It doesn't make a difference to me but for your own benefit you need to change out your government and then we'll talk about this special relationship which I'd love to get back. The more special relationships we have the better. So no, you don't get to be our ally just because you used to be. Remember what I said, Americans can break anything that needs to be broken. You know that special relationship thing we had, we broke it. It's broken. If you want to fix it we're all good with that. I think everybody here would be happy with that but consider it broken. So fix that.
How about Mexico? Let's talk about the Trump effect in Mexico. So apparently Trump had a phone call with the new Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. I just love saying that. The new Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. If you had told me, do you think the president of Mexico soon will be a Jewish woman? I would have said probably not, probably not. But here we are.
And she is signaling according to Gateway Pundit, she's signaling significant policy changes that almost certainly have to do with Trump incoming. And the policy changes might be something about closing the border and taking people back and working to stop the flow of fentanyl, etc. Now why would she be so flexible? Trump's not even in office. Why would she be so flexible? Well I've got a few suggestions. I didn't know about this till today but did you know that on the campaign trail Trump had threatened to reveal the Mexican government's connections to the cartel if they don't do what we want? How many of you knew that he did that? I never heard of that for some reason or did I forget it?
Now is that perfect? Let me describe that. That's perfect. Yes, he's actually going to blackmail them. Remember I kept saying that it feels like the cartels in Mexico are blackmailing American politicians. Like they must be blackmailing them because nothing makes sense. So Trump says once I'm in power and I know exactly what our CIA knows about everything, if you don't want me to make this public you better do everything we want. So he just took over the Mexican government by threatening them and it worked.
So I saw something that said that the fentanyl problem is suddenly decreased already. Turns out that the Sinaloa cartel is kidnapping and killing fentanyl makers including the ones in their own cartel because they don't want the pressure from Trump. Let me say that again. The Sinaloa cartel is kidnapping and killing their own fentanyl makers because they told them not to do fentanyl anymore but some are still doing it so they're killing them because they don't need the risk.
Because what did Trump say? Same thing I said. Send the special forces in and wipe out the cartels or negotiate. But you don't negotiate until you've told them how you're going to destroy them completely in a way that's all completely credible. And it's completely credible. So it looks like, oh and then also Trump had threatened massive tariffs on their car manufacturing which would, the economy of Mexico would, he actually do it? Would he make good on the threat of massive tariffs on the Mexican automobile industry? Yes. Yes, that is a threat. That's not just talk. He absolutely had the power to do it or will have the power to do it and he means it.
So he threatens their entire economy credibly. Credibly. This is the important part. If anybody else had said this you'd say well Biden's not really going to put tariffs on their entire car economy. Trump will and they know he will. Trump said he'd bring in the special forces and wipe out the cartels and the cartels are like, oh well we're not in the fentanyl business anymore. We barely even do cocaine. We're not in the fentanyl business. Why? Because when Trump said we'll send in special forces they believed it because he would or he could. And when Trump said we will reveal your connection to the cartel, did they believe that he might do that? Yes they do. You don't have to be a mind reader to know yes they believe he might do that.
So which of these three things were unavailable to other politicians? Well arguably they all could have done it but there's only one person who could do it and make sure it worked. Trump. Why? Because he's Trump. Trump's greatest asset is he's Trump and everybody knows what a Trump is. He's going to fight to the last dying breath. Trump. He's not going to take any from countries he doesn't need to take from. Trump. He's going to do what's good for America first. Trump. He's going to negotiate hard. Trump. And if he needs to bend a rule, if he needs to push somebody too hard, if he needs to threaten, if he needs to violate a few norms, Trump. It's so powerful the persuasive brand that he's created just made Mexico crumble up into a ball and surrender. I mean that's what it looks like. It looks like the most amazing, this is probably the most amazing bit of, what would you call it? There's some fancy word for that but this is the most incredible thing you'll ever see in your life. He may have completely solved Mexico weeks before he's in office. This is real. This is now.
Do Canada. Rand Paul is talking about the Denver mayor who was saying he might refuse to cooperate with authorities who tried to deport any people in Denver. I heard maybe he softened on that but if he doesn't soften on it or any other mayor tries to prevent the federal government from doing its job, Senator Paul points out that that could be taken to the Supreme Court and you could actually have the mayor removed from office for violating what the federal government wants to do or needs to do to protect the country. So that's Article 4 of Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution. They could be removed from the office under the 14th Amendment. How about that? That's pretty cool. I wouldn't mind seeing a mayor or two get removed by that. You know, just to basically oil the weapon. You know if it's something that you're going to use more than once, well let's remove a mayor. One mayor, it's not going to hurt anything. Just get rid of one mayor and then the other mayors are going to say, oh I'm stealing a lot of money in my job. I'd like to keep it.
Here's something that I'm going to tie into the current headlines even though it's the oldest story in the world. Have you heard of an ancient site called Göbekli Tepe? And if you have, if you're a nerd like me and you like watching these ancient pyramid stories and stuff like that, there's a set of ruins that don't make sense with our understanding of history. Meaning that we think we have this good understanding of when humans developed certain capabilities. And one of those capabilities is can you build an impressive structure with giant stones that you've carved and transported and fit together, you know, pyramid style. But it turns out that Göbekli Tepe is way older than what we believe as a time when humans could do this sort of thing. Which would mean we have some fundamental misunderstanding about something from way, way back. We don't know what it is yet but of course some people speculate. And there are three of these actually. There's another one, Gunung Padang, and there's also the hidden chamber within the Great Pyramid. And I don't know how that fits in but there was some expert on Joe Rogan's podcast recently talking about what a mystery these are.
Now let's tie that into something else. You know the story about the UAPs which we used to call UFOs because we used to think they were coming from outer space. And then the narrative started to turn a little bit and the narrative started to be maybe they've always been here. Maybe not always but maybe they were here before the Ice Age and maybe they died out or maybe there's a few left. Maybe they spread their technology to all these various places on Earth while they were alive but then they were forgotten and they left or they died or something. Could it be that the UAPs we're seeing that our government is suggesting might not be coming from off Earth or the aliens who built or taught us how to build these earliest structures?
Now this is what I call recreational belief. I do not feel that I have enough data or certainty to say that there are in fact ancient humans who have been walking the Earth forever. Could it be possible that the UAPs are automated and self-repairing and have been working for 11,000 years because they're self-repairing and that the people who built them have been gone for generations and there's just the technology left and all it's doing is its sensors. It's just checking out things that need to be checked out just like it did when the aliens were here, not aliens, whoever they were. And that maybe it's just going to go on forever and they've got these little orbs and the orbs are some kind of sensors or devices to go look for stuff anyway.
So all I'm going to suggest is that we might at some point see a connection between the Göbekli Tepe and the UAPs. Somebody's going to tie those stories together like I just did.
According to the Post Millennial there was some kind of mega blacklist that got created by a Facebook group. So they were trying to figure out all the businesses that may have supported Trump so they can make a list so they could tell people not to support these businesses. I tell you, the people on the left are dumb as sometimes. Do they realize that you can't have a successful country if you do this? This is the very definition of not understanding how anything works. If we don't have a free market we got nothing. There's nothing left. If you started saying I'll only shop at your store if I agree with all of your politics we have nothing. That would destroy everything we've ever built and fairly quickly. So stop being so dumb.
Apparently there's a lot of pushback about it so I don't know that that's going anywhere but don't do that. And by the way it shouldn't be done on the right to punish the left. I would hate to see any MAGA person create a list of here are some lefty businesses you should not shop at. Now I know that they've done it for some Fortune 500 companies which is a whole different deal. You know if Target is doing some things that you've got a problem with and you're sort of publicly boycotting them that feels, it's not ideal but it feels at least fair. It's a fair fight. Target can take care of himself. Target does need to conform as best they can to its customers' preferences. So the big ones I don't mind so much. But if you're going to take out a neighborhood store, if you're going to take out the dude store on the corner because it voted the other way, you're not smart. You're not smart. Don't do that. It's bad enough that you could take out a Fortune 500 company. Don't do that either. Maybe put pressure on them so they change some minor things they're doing but you don't want to destroy the economy of the United States because you're mad at Americans. Don't do that.
All right. Apparently there's reporting that Trump is planning to sign some kind of order to remove trans from the military like on day one. And my question was, well first of all do you think that's true? Do you think it's true that Trump is planning to remove trans from the military? The argument would be that there's extra expense. I don't know if that's the reason though. Extra accommodations that are more than they want to do. Now I remind you in case you forget that the military is the one place that socially we allow massive discrimination. You get that, right? In the military very overt discrimination is acceptable and required. For example if you weigh 400 pounds and you try to join the military nobody's going to say oh stop being fat phobic and let the 400 pounder in. Nobody says that. If somebody has a disability and it's a disability that would be important if you were in a military action, nobody says hey what about the Disabilities Act, you're discriminating. Nope, nobody says that.
Now where discrimination is not allowed is where it doesn't make sense. So allowing people of all races in the military, does that make your country more or less safe? More safe. Because if every part of the public can also be part of the military that does a lot to make you feel like the credibility of the whole system, we're all on the same page, we're fighting for the same thing. I mean that's really good. So that kind of discrimination, race or religion in most cases, wouldn't make any sense. There's no upside to stopping it but there's a big upside to doing it.
But with trans there are statistically at least big differences in availability I'm told. I don't know that for sure so if you want to fact check me I welcome it. And it costs more medically to keep your situation going and you could imagine it might cause some dissension in ranks or something. I'm not too worried about the dissension because that was true when the military integrated and we just had to get over it. So it's not the complaining I would worry about. Is does it really make your military less capable? That's the only thing that should matter. So we'll see.
But I didn't know how many trans were in the military and could be up to 15,000 but not necessarily people who have ever had any surgery but might be in that category of trans according to the AP. I don't know if that's true or not.
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it's a little bit mixed not much happening there but it's good thing we've got the show of shows the show that will change your life it will rock you yes we will rock you soon as my comments are up there we go good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and I'm almost positive you've never had a better time in your life but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a copper marer glass a tanker Cher Stein a canteen jger flask a vessel of any kind with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure of the dopamine h of the day thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous hip happens now go very good you know I'm proud of all of you for sipping so competently all right uh well lot of stories today let's start with the good news according to Andrew hubman uh you can turn yourself into a morning person in three days of pain so just three bad days and you can become a morning person here's how set your clock for 5:00 a.m.
every day no matter how tired you were the night before and get up at 5: drink coffee have some social interaction little bit of sunlight little bit of eating and those things will set your clock and next thing you know you're a morning person do you believe that how many of you believe that you could change yourself to a morning person if you're not already one well um I can only tell you my anecdotal experience which is in college I strategically decided to become a morning person and I turned myself into one and I didn't know I could ever be one it it didn't seem didn't seem likely cuz I like to stay up late just like most people but very quickly and with the help of coffee and sun and food I guess I turned myself into a person who loves just loves the morning I mean the first four hours of every day of my life are kind of terrific every single day really just terrific and that's what you get by being a morning person now beyond that I believe I've lived two full lifetimes because most of your day is garbage time you know what I mean you're like it's time to take out the trash to the curb and you're walking to your cat your your trash cans and most of it's not really living but the morning time I really use for all the good stuff so it's almost like it doubled my life so that's cool however I have a question whether all people can be turned into morning people my suspicion is because science seems to think that there are morning people in the and non-m morning people that this won't work for everyone however I also have this following hypothesis that uh night people are morning people that night people like the you know like the time after midnight that's the morning so if you if you like to be up after midnight because it just feels great to be up after midnight that's probably how I feel at 4:30 in the morning when I'm up and you and often I'm up at 3: just because I feel like it so there you go be a morning person double your life um according to Gilmore Health news there's now this Jane editing technology that might remove your anxiety and alcohol dependency linked to alcco adolescent binge drinking so if you're a bins Drinker when you were young and it changed your brain now they think they can edit your jeans to fix it I have uh just one comment about this um I don't think I want to go first if you know what I mean I I don't want to be the first person who has Gene editing to change the brain I mean it could work out great has great potential but I don't want to go first let's let's see what happens to somebody else it turns them from a republican into a democ R you got to watch that stuff well this is the most predictable thing you could ever imagine in the world of technology according to Tech crunch guess what got invented yes it's exactly what you expected somebody to make and why did it take so long somebody made a way that you could fake being on a zoom call now you know you wanted that you know the Dilbert comic was waiting for it and apparently you can take a quick video of yourself and then it will AI will remember what you look like and then you could be in your car and pretending that you're sitting there in front of your your office so your actual audio and your conversation could be from your phone and your car but what people would see on Zoom is something that looks like you're talking pretty cool and the odds of people taking Zoom calls on the toilet just went to do well 100% cuz not not much else to do when you're watching the watching the zoom go so yes there will be a lot of Zoom call toiletry well Chinese scientists have finally built something you've all been waiting for a recoiless AK-47 according to Stefan Channon the South China in morning post now you might say to yourself do we really need the recoiless um AK-47 rifle and the answer is yes if you want to put it on a drone if you want your drone to go around and murder people it would be nice to have a recoiless one so it doesn't knock the Drone out of orbit so good news people there's the perfect murdering device now so if you put some AI facial recognition on your drone which is completely practical and you give it GPS navigation so that there's no amount of jamming that will stop it from getting to its destination which is now completely practical and then you put the recoiless rifle on it which is now completely practical and then you track track somebody's uh location by their phone which if you're the government is completely impractical and then you could just send your drone out to shoot him and then go uh you bury itself in the ocean you sink itself in the ocean so they can't find the gun so that's a thing now yeah so the GPS jamming is not going to work if you've got the AI that can recognize the uh the ground from the sky in other words it will look at um satellite images and it will know where it is just from the image so that's cool all right um here's a uh here's what I call the reverse of a good job what would be the opposite of a good job in this case now the situation is coming up with a headline to make somebody click on something and read the story now as you know there are a lot of stories that are clickbait literally the headline is better than the story and you're like really really Trump ate a baby I got to see what that's about click click click but there are some headlines that make you definitely not read the story and those are more interesting to me here's a headline that made me definitely not click the story it was in the hill and the headline it's an opinion piece but the headline is how well does Donald Trump understand Elon Musk I'm not going to click on that how well does Elon how do how well does Donald Trump understand Elon Musk well let me say for the opinion writer that would require that they had penetrated the mind of Elon Musk and also Donald Trump so they can not only see what's in musk's brain you you know in order to write the article but they can also see what's in Trump's brain and also they can see us so well that they can tell how much Trump's brain can understand elon's brain I'm not going to click on that that might be the dumbest idea I've ever seen for a for an opinion no I will not click on that sorry Simona is talking about Morning Joe uh so Morning Joe is TR I I swear to God Morning Joe can't possibly be a non-comedy channel right is is it trying to be a comedy channel is it parody it's so close to parody you just can't tell because now they're insisting that Twitter is where you get all the disinformation and you should really trust real journalism such as you'd find in the New York Times Wall Street Journal and axios uh also known as the true Guardians Of Truth you know that they left off Washington Post I don't know why yep so the first story is about how morning Morning Joe on MSNBC says that truth is on their Network and these others not on X not on X my second story is about how Joy Reed the host one of the hosts of MSNBC and their guests are talking about how Trump will deploy the military and Sho citizens and that Trump wants to quote end multi multiculturalism in America how do how do you interpret that so so Joy Reed is taking the story that Trump is thinking about using the military to transport some illegal migrants back to their home country transport but she she of course has changed into fake news where they're going to be shooting people on the street there's not even that's not even a conversation the military is is not going to be shooting anybody in the street so it's a complete fake news directly after their episode about how the real news is on their networks right but then she she t with her guest she ties it into I guess the guy who one of the authors of the 20 project 2025 um had written that they want to end multiculturalism in America now if you're watching MSNBC and you're talking about the military shooting citizens what do you think it means when they say they want to end multiculturalism well if you put it in that context it sounds like Trump wants to use the military to shoot brown people is it isn't that the way that comes off here's what it really means the military might be useful for some of the behind the scenes Logistics such as guarding and then transporting immigrants have been picked up by the regular authorities who do those jobs normally so that's the military part that they've completely you know Mis misrepresented but the end multiculturalism when when I first read it I thought it couldn't possibly say that there can't possibly be a document that somebody wrote those words we want to end multiculturalism but then I realize what it means it it takes a few seconds to understand what it means means that America is a Melting Pot it's the same thing I grew up learning that America is a Melting Pot so that no matter what culture you came from when you got here your first or second generation would become Americans so that would be ending multiculturalism You're simply not being everything to everybody you're you're you're trying to encourage everybody to become an American when did that become a problem that's not a problem that's an ambition it's an ambition to get people on the same page multiculturalism is completely unmanageable there there's no way you could have a country where everybody can do their own thing you know as much as you think that'd be a great great idea there's no practical way to do that you have to you have to get on the same page on the basic stuff like you know is it Sharia law or is it not I mean these are really basic stuffs anyway can you Stone somebody because they were allegedly you know unfaithful to their husband I mean the multiculturalism isn't something you want to have more of that's not going to help you no matter how awesome it is I'm not saying there's anything wrong with anybody's culture I'm just saying you can't you can't put them all in the same bag and expect it to to work out so MSNBC just pure propaganda Glenn Greenwald I love love watching him dumping on MSNBC talking about how Their audience is so small it's smaller than a lot of You.
Tube shows it's probably smaller than the number of people who will watch this so my my audience for this live stream is roughly the same as msnbc's audience in prime time um but Greenwall thinks that it's because the audience realized that MSNBC had been lying to them about everything you said oh you definitely Trump's going to jail oh well he's not well he's definitely not going to get nomin oh he got nominated well there's no way he's going to win okay won but at least he's not going to win the popular vote okay won the popular vote but at the least he's not going to get more black okay he got more black votes but he's definitely not going to get the ESP okay he got more Hispanic votes and he's not going to win the women okay won a lot of women uh but there's no way he's going to sweep all the seven okay he swung he swept all the swing States so at some point do you think the MSNBC audience realized that they've been lied to about everything I'm not so sure so you know Glenn Greenwald I I think is one of the better observers of everything so you know I hate to disagree with them but I don't think people are that smart I don't think that they do know they were lied to turns out that 9% of uh Democrats believe the election was stolen and that the reason Trump won was that he stole the election and there because there couldn't be any other reason do you know why they watched nnbc they realized there's no way that Trump could win legitimately but then he wins so cognitive dissonance Clicks in and you your brain goes click must explain anomaly cannot explain how he cannot win but yet he won oh I get it must have been yeah cognitive dissonance and I think the rest are simply avoiding it uh or trying not to think about it because I think it went from a source of dopamine where they turned it on and agreed with everything that they were already thinking and it made them feel smart and Superior but now when they turn it on it's the same people except instead of making them feel smart and Superior for being Watchers of MB MSNBC The Very people who are supposed to be smart and therefore you're smart because you're watching them are saying um we seem to have gotten everything wrong for four years um but we're trying to figure it out uh we have uh 500 hypotheses of of of why everything was wrong why don't you talk you talk for a while and now it's just cringy so there's no source of dopamine so if you see this one of the most useful frames you'll ever have the most useful frame for understanding your reality is that people chase dopamine they chase a good feeling and it used to be nothing but a dopamine hose every moment it would make you feel smarter than those stupid Mega people and now you turn it on and you see some of your favorite people saying you know what me is pretty good actually and then you find out that the smartest most successful entrepreneur in the world is fully in for Maga and you're like ah wait what's going on yeah it's very it's got to be very disconcerting uh Keith alberman is panicked he's panicked that Elon Musk might buy MSNBC now Elon did ask the question how much does it go for and what the hilarious thing about this is that the question of whether Elon Musk would or would not buy NBC is only the price it's only the price there is a price by which I guarantee he would buy it I don't know what that number is for him but let's say let's say all they have left is assets maybe contracts some receivables and you know a building and cameras and Camera trucks and stuff how how much would all of that be worth if you put it all together 50 million 50 million because I don't even know if they own the buildings they might be renting the buildings so that might be just a liability so if he could buy if he could buy MSNBC for let's say 30 million net do you think you wouldn't I think he'd do it just for fun just to see what happened and then you combine it with X and start you know doing some shows on there it would be amazing so no it's it's not a question of whether he wants to or doesn't want to I'm almost positive is just price so if they pric it at a billion dollars I'd say no there's no way at half a billion I'd say no way at a 100 million it starts getting Maybe F50 is probably more likely yes than no but I have no idea what it's priced at all right meanwhile have you heard of News Guard this is kind of funny to me so there's an entity called News Guard I think you've heard of them so they're for-profit and what they do is they um they charge various uh platforms on the internet to help them guard against fake news so they'll identify the f fake news so that the platforms don't have to get caught with fake news and so but but they also offer these what they call nutrition labels for each search result so you could do searches and as a consumer it would tell you if the if the let's say the reporter who wrote the story is credible or if the source of the story is incredible so they would have like the New York Times would be you know like at the top of the credibility list do you see the problem here the New York Times is at the top of their credibility list okay really um but here's the best part of it so there's an entity News Guard that is charging people and doing really well apparently their business model is working you it's very robust business and their proposition is they can tell which news is true and you can't that's the propos that's what you're paying for they can tell what's true and you can't now I've got a question if there's a entity in the world that can tell what news is true and what isn't shouldn't they be the news because does it make sense that there is no news entity that knows what's true the only people who know what true is the people criticizing the news entity so wouldn't it make way more sense if News Guard said you know what people since we know what's true and all the other news entities you know may maybe maybe yes maybe no we we will be your news so the real news is through us we're the real news um nobody knows what news is true we wouldn't have massive almost un Universal fake news if there was anybody who could tell the difference they don't News Guard doesn't know what's true newsguard can and probably often catch things that are definitely not true but that's a long way from knowing what's true and what's not true it's just catching the easy stuff do you know who else catches all the easy stuff me I do it for free show show me the headline I'll tell you if it's true if you looked at my record of guessing what is true and what is not from just first glance it's not bad it's not bad and I've taught most of you how to do it because it's I'm I'm not guessing I'm using pretty well understood rules of you know how to you spot fake stuff for example the one I talk about all the time is that in an election period there's always a report of a Anonymous Insider inside the White House who heard the person running for office say a terrible thing that you're pretty sure nobody ever said in the real world and then I say there is no there's no credibility to one anonymous source in the White House saying that somebody said something that nobody else heard and is really terrible never ever believe that story it'll always be there but never ever believe it I'm pretty good at that haven't been wrong yet all right so it's just funny to me that News Guard could even exist without without just saying why don't we be the news um so let's see what else is going on here we got uh Tucker is worried that uh war is coming because the Trump Administration is so anti-war that the people who think they might benefit from war or even worse they might benefit from getting rid of trump because they think Trump will open investigations and prosecute people who really need to be prosecuted um but those people who might need to be prosecuted are may be powerful enough that they could start a war that would distract us and you know be bad for Trump and hurt his credibility and maybe keep them safe now that's pure speculation from Tucker um I worry about it I worry that they might be that the worst people in the world might be getting ready to start wars but on the other hand I also think it's too late I think it's too late I think that the Trump effect is already too strong maybe if they done it sooner it would have worked but um I'll tell you about the Trump effect but before before I tell you that here's the coolest story in the news if you he me all right so if you don't mind this will be a moment of just pure me talking about myself because it's funny all right as far as I know this is a true story the country of Nigeria is uh they have a new National strategy in which they want to make sure that they're aggressively teaching Technical and Vocational skills to their youth yeah that that's a good idea right they want to make sure their youth has skills kind of basic stuff but the way they described it is that they want to make sure they have more than one skill so in other words they want to do something called Talent stacking have you ever heard of that so the Nigerian government is announcing that Talent stacking something that I popularized um is there is going to be their main way to success but here's the best part so this is from X from their uh let's see I think it's from their minister of Education I swear I'm not making this up this is from the Nigerian government their minister of Education quote Scott Adams once said quote every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success this is real by the way this is real he said this is part of President Bol ahed ubu's renewed hope agenda and our Federal Ministry of Education strategy he says that's why we are aggressively Reviving our Technical and Vocational educational and training system do you know where that comes from every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success do you know where that comes from it comes from that book that pointing to over my shoulder so my book had have failed almost everything and still went big has that quote so Nigeria their Federal Ministry of Education at least read my book which was designed to take somebody who doesn't have mentoring and isn't doesn't have good you know career advice from any other source I put it in one book it was designed for teenagers now it's written for adults but it's designed so that a teenager could Breeze through it pretty easily it's is written so that it's not um it's written to be really friendly to read so Nigeria may have decided that if they follow the blueprint in that book they can transform their country into a economic powerhouse it's called how to fail at almost everything and still with big and by the way if you don't know that book has been hugely influential in the United States but it's a lot of its influences by influencing other books in the same domain so you'll find other very popular books you may have read that that borrow from that book so it's the most I think it's the most foundationally persuasive book in Career Success at the moment now here's the fun part what if they're really serious about just using that book as a a sort of a framework for how to fix the future it would actually work it would totally work because everybody who's used it so far says it works why wouldn't work there and wouldn't it be funny if my legacy was fixing Africa because if if Nigeria overtly uses my book and credits me for some of the ideas they're using and let's say it works let's say their GDP shows a boost in a few years and they say it's because we're doing this other African countries might say hey what are you doing over there why is that working so well and then they'll say well if it works in Nigeria it seems pretty straightforward stuff like you know build skills why don't we do that too so the irony of the simulation is that of all people in the world it seems that I might be the solution to fixing Africa now I'm not saying it's likely I'm not saying it's likely I'm just saying it's perfect if we if we don't live in a simulation how do you explain this how do you explain that the guy who got cancelled if you know what I mean is now the savior of Africa those are my own words okay but how much do you love that story I I don't think I could possibly be happier I feel like in some ways my entire life just made sense like everything I've done for my entire life just in this one moment I looked at it and I said if this is real everything I've done for my entire life makes sense I wouldn't a thing I I can't even imagine what would be a bigger boost to the well-being of more people than having them understand a strategy for Success that pretty much is going to work for everybody so that really happened anyway Scott Jennings on CNN continues to be one of the better Scots he's at least in the top three uh I don't know if you noticed there just tons of Scots doing things they're getting nominated they're senators or they're all kinds of things but Scott Jennings one of the better Scots um is reframing Trump's cabinet picks as ideologically diverse which is good work um because the bad guys the Democrats are going to say Hey where's our racial diversity and then Scott Jennings can say this is the most ideologically diverse group of people you've ever seen because Trump literally has a whole bunch of EX Democrats and current Democrats maybe um you know RFK Jr and Elon and you know I could go through the list and the Allin pod guys are on board I don't know if they were ever Democrats but or which one of thems were ever Democrats but uh yeah this is the way to do it Scott Jennings you should say that it's the most ideologically diverse um big tent and it is and the ideological diversity is the part you want that's the part you want so I love that there's no pandering or at least not too much pandering there's a little bit of pandering in the in the uh nominations I don't have to point out the pandering but there's a little bit a little bit um did you know there was a recent uh survey by CBS news they found that 59% of Voters approve of Trump's handling of his transition so far that's a pretty solid majority 59% approve of his transition I've told you before about the new CEO play when you're new CEO or you know new leader of any organization like a new president it's really important and Trump trump totally nailed this on the the first time he ran and won um when he started work before he was sworn it and he and Pence were traveling around trying to get businesses to stay in America and stuff and that is so powerful this first impression stuff so so by doing a very capable um and early and aggressive Staffing and much better than the first time he did it most people would say it gives a real good impression so even people who might not have voted for him said you know it looks like he's getting some work done and that is so so good persuasion wise you getting the first two months right is like getting the first year right like but but if you were a standard politician you'd probably you know be quiet for a few months and then once you're sworn in you might you say okay now we're sworn in we'll get this year right you know have a good first year Trump is going to get his first year right before he sworn in now that is so much smarter than what you'll see anybody else do it's just it's a whole different level anyway Trump's popularity according to modernity is surging among Young Americans so it Rose from 19% to 57% in just over a week what so according to this one source Trump's popularity surged among Young Americans in that 18 to 29 in the space of just over a week so conducted from November 17th to 19th the survey revealed that 57% of Americans 18 to 29 now hold a favorable view of trump what marking a net favorability increase of 19 points in that demographic in a week is that possible apparently Tik Tock has has gone strongly Trump or at least you know there's a big movement in that direction I you know I guess my first impression would be this might be like that Iowa poll that said C Harris was way ahead and you said to yourself that's a fake pole and then later you find out well okay that wasn't real I don't know that I don't think that in one week Trump's popularity went from 19 to 57 you believe that that seems far more likely something wrong with the the way they ask the question or something I do believe that his popularity is is sharply up that feels right I don't think it's up this much but could be wrong anyway here's something I didn't know um did you know that China is no longer the main source of us Imports and a lot of that is because of Trump's tariffs on Chinese Goods so Trump in the first term tariffed Chinese Goods um to try to get more things made in other countries and made in America and the made in America part I don't know about but Mexico surged so Mexico is the number one place that we buy stuff from the United States now that doesn't mean that the raw materials are from Mexico so a lot of the components of what they make in Mexico might be made or produced in China so there's still that but uh Vietnam and South Korea and Mexico and at least one other place have gone way up and uh and China has gone way down in terms of stuff we buy so the tariffs worked to me it looks like they worked so if you're looking for when do tffs work and when they don't apparently we got something like what we wanted from the know Chinese dominance dominance of our uh purchasing situations but uh last year products coming from China made up 14% of all imported goods the lowest share in nearly two decades but like I said a lot of a lot of the stuff is really Chinese but it's coming through manufactured by other places well Trump and uh crypto apparently has a a backer this this Banker Arkansas representative french hill that's a funny name french hill um he used to be a community Banker apparently he's really big on crypto and he seems to have the confidence of the administration so if you're wondering why is why is Trump getting Pro crypto advice which appears he is uh this is one of the sources I assumed it was JD Vance and VI and maybe Elon I I assumed that they were the ones who were with spring crypto in his ear but maybe having it from an Arkansas Representative makes it you know that much more palatable because you know you got a solid representative who's elected it's not it's not just the swirling around people who were not elected so that's a good news for crypto um meanwhile Christopher rufo has apparently met with Trump a few times now if you're not following the career in worker of Christopher rufo you should so he's a let's call him an anti-di activist who's been very successful um he's met with Trump and he's trying to get Trump I think to um threaten colleges and universities with losing their Federal funding if they keep doing Dei stuff he wants to get rid of all the affirmative action stuff from the any institution with federal government federal funds I think Trump's going to do that and I do think that Christopher rufo is I think he's won a place assuming that this happens I think there's a good chance I think rufo has won a place in history like he's not a foot out if if he pulls this off he's one of the one of the important people in American history this is a big deal a really big deal and he's certainly the biggest name in this push all right I'm going to call this the Trump effect you ready so apparently over two million people have signed a petition in the UK calling for a general election because they're not happy with their government and uh Paul says their prime minister K starmer his approval rating has plummeted by 43 points since he took office just four months ago have you ever heard of anybody's popularity in American Poli politics plummeting by 43 points i' I've never heard of anything like that I've never heard of anything even close to that what what's the most any American politician ever plunged in popularity in a in a short period and nowhere near 43% I mean I think even Nixon did better than that after Watergate I'm not sure but probably anyway so the lawmakers are going to debate the petition and uh I feel like that's a trump effect you know why because I think the UK has this feeling you don't need to live this way there's something very powerful about that statement isn't there you don't have to live this way Trump has used it and I feel like they feel it because the United States just proven just proved to the UK that you don't have to live this way and if they're watching the United States and they're watching what happened with Trump and then they're looking at their own country and they're looking at their own government the election of trump could make your popularity if your current leader drop 43 points in in four months I mean more probably more recently is my guess so um do you think this is a trump effect uh I strongly believe it is now tangentially because you know obviously UK has their own problems so just having lots of problems would be enough to not want to keep your leadership but to this degree I this is a crazy degree of loss of confidence I I feel that the that the reality of trump getting re elected probably fundamentally changed how the UK voters saw their own country like they have a chance because the US looks like it went to the precipice maybe we're still at the precipice but found a way to go back and it's obvious that we found a way back and everybody can see it America did it by the way for all you countries who are watching and wondering if we could pull this off I think we can I think America has certain advantages that apparently we've had for a long time and one of them remember what I always told you was our big Advantage the big advantage in America that I don't think anybody can match is we will can anything that needs to get canned and we will do it brutally we'll do it quickly and we'll never look back if it needs to get a shitan ask an American we we don't save things because they're old and special we don't do it because that's the way we do it we don't do it because that's tradition we don't do it because it's classical we don't do it because that's how Grandma did it we will break anything if it needs to be broken our government needed to be broken it needed to be broken hard and I don't think anybody thought from other countries I I think other countries said oh man you're in trouble you know you you've got you're too locked in you're never going to be able to break this but turns out that only the Democrats had to be broken and Trump broke them and then everything else is possible that's where we are so if you're in the UK and you see that the US found a way to break its way out of a almost impossible situation that's got to be inspiring and it's got to make you want to switch out your own leader as soon as possible so I think it's a trump effect you know obviously they they have real serious problems so I mean the Trump effect wouldn't have any effect if they didn't have real problems and uh that's my message to the UK hey UK I don't consider the UK an American Ally anymore now it's not up to me but you know Nigeria's listening to me so maybe you should too so what I'm saying so maybe the people in the UK would rather be allies with the United States and the reason I say they're not our Ally is they seem to be working actively uh against Trump when they were they were helping KL Harris that's not cool you you're not allowed to go do Politics on our our property not cool you can't be our Ally if if you're sending in people to to work for the election of one candidate nope not an ally and if you're working toward the censorship of American platforms such as X definitely not an ally now that doesn't mean you're an enemy but you can't be an ally if you're interfering at that level all right is that is that clear if anybody from the UK is listening you're not my Ally now our government may say differently but I don't think we should treat you like an ally we should treat you like somebody who's often on our side but no you're not an ally and and any special relationship I'm not in favor of it I think we have to treat you more like an adversary that sometimes is you know agrees with what we want as well so yes you need to change out your government for your own benefit you know it doesn't make a difference to me but for your own benefit you need to change out your government and then we'll talk about this special relationship which I'd love to get back the more special relationships we have the better so no you don't get to be our Ally just because you used to be remember what I said Americans can break anything that needs to be broken you know that special relationship thing we had we broke it it's broken you it's broken if you want to fix it we're all we're all good with that I think every body here would be happy with that but consider it broken so fix that um how about Mexico let's talk about the Trump effect in Mexico so apparently Trump had a phone call with the new Mexican president Colonia Shin bomb I just love saying that the new Mexican president Claudia Shin Bal if you had told me do you think the president of Mexico soon will be a Jewish woman I would have said H probably not probably not but here we are um and uh she is signaling according to Gateway pundit she's signaling significant policy changes um that almost certainly have to do with Trump incoming and the policy changes um might be something about you know closing closing the border and taking people back and you know working working to stop the flow of fenel Etc now why would she be so flexible Trump's not even in office why would she be so flexible well I I've got a few suggestions I didn't know about this till today but did you know that on the campaign Trail Trump had threatened to reveal the Mexican government's connections to the cartel if they don't do what we want how many of you knew that he did that I never heard of that for some reason or or did I forget it now is that perfect let let me describe that that's perfect yes he's actually going to Blackmail them remember I kept saying that it feels like the cartels in Mexico are blackmailing American politicians like they must be blackmailing them because nothing makes sense so Trump says once I'm in power and I know exactly what our CIA knows about everything if you don't want me to make this public you better do every thing we want so he just took over the Mexican Government by threatening them and it worked so I saw I I saw something that said that the uh fentanyl problem is suddenly it's decreased already turns out that the uh caloa cartel is kidnapping and killing fenel makers including the ones in their own cartel because they don't want the pressure from Trump let me say that again the caloa cartel is kidnapping and killing their own fenel makers because they told them not to do fenel anymore but some are still doing it so they're killing them because they don't need the the risk because what did Trump say same thing I said send the special forces in and wipe out the cartels or or negotiate but you don't negotiate until you've told them how you're going to destroy them compl completely in a way that's all completely credible and it's completely credible so it looks like uh oh and then also uh Trump had threatened massive tariffs on uh so so Trump had threatened massive tariffs on their car manufacturing which would the economy of Mexico would he actually do it would would he make good on the threat of massive tariffs on the Mexican automobile industry yes yes that that is a threat that's not just talk he absolutely had the power to do it or will have the power to do it and he means it so he threatens their entire economy credibly credibly this is the important part if anybody else had said this you'd say well you know Biden's not really going to put tariffs on their entire car economy Trump will and they know he will Trump said he'd bring in the special forces and wipe out the cartels and the cartels are like oh well we're not in the fentol business anymore uh we we barely even do Co cocaine we're not in the fentol business why because when Trump said we'll spend in we'll send in Special Forces they believed it because he would or he could and what he and when Trump said we will reveal your connection to the cartel did they believe that he might do that yes they do you don't have to be a mind reader to know yes they believe he might do that so which of these three things were unavailable to other politicians well arguably they all could have done it but there's only one person who could do it and make sure it worked Trump why because he's Trump Trump's greatest asset is he's Trump and everybody knows what a trump is he he's going to fight to the last you know dying breath Trump he's he's not going to take any from countries he doesn't need to take from Trump he's going to do what's good for America First Trump he's going to negotiate hard Trump and if he needs to you know bend a rule if he needs to push somebody too hard if he needs to threaten if he needs to violate a few Norms Trump it's so powerful the the persuasive um brand that he's created just made Mexico crumble up into a ball and surrender I mean that's what it looks like it looks like the the most amazing this is probably the most amazing bit of what would you call it uh what's it called when you're dealing with International countries there's some fancy word for that but this is most the most incredible thing you'll ever seen in your life he may have completely solved Mexico weeks before he's in office this is real this is now do Canada yeah um Rand Paul talking is talking about the Denver mayor who was saying he might refuse to cooperate with authorities who tried to deport any people in Denver I I heard maybe he softened on that but if he doesn't soften on it or any other mayor tries to prevent the federal government from doing its job senator Paul points out that that could be taken to the Supreme Court and you could actually have the mayor removed from office for or violating what the federal government you know wants to do or needs to do to protect the country so that's article uh four of section four of the US Constitution they could be removed from the office under the 14th Amendment how about that that's pretty cool I wouldn't mind seeing a mayor or two get removed by that you know just just to basically oil the weapon you know if it's something that you're going to use more than once well let's remove a mayor one mayor it's not going to hurt anything just get rid of one mayor and then the other Mayors are going to say oh I'm stealing a lot of money in my job I'd like to keep it here's something that I'm going to tie into the current headlines even though it's the oldest story in the world um have you heard of a ancient site called go Becky gockley teppy and and if you have if you're a nerd like me and you like watching these you know ancient pyramid stories and stuff like that there's a um set of ruins that don't make sense with our understanding of History meaning that we have a we think we have this good understanding of when humans developed certain capabilities and one of those capabilities is can you build a impressive structure with giant stones that you've carved and transported and fit together you know pyramid style but it turns out that gockley Tey is way older than what we believe as a time when humans could do this sort of thing which would mean we have some fundamental misunderstanding about something from way way back we don't know what it is yet but of course some people speculate and there there are three of these actually there's another one gong Padang and um and there's also the hidden chamber within the Great Pyramid and I don't I don't know how that fits in but uh there was some expert on Joe Rogan's podcast recently talking about how what a what a mystery these are now let's tie that into something else you know the story about the uaps which we used to call UFOs because we used to think they were coming from outer space and then the The Narrative started to turn a little bit and the narrative started to be maybe they've always been here maybe not always but maybe they were here before the Ice Age and maybe they died out or maybe there's a few left maybe they spread their technology to all these various places on Earth while they were alive but uh then you know but then they were forgotten and they left or they died or something could it be that the uaps were seeing that our government is suggesting might not be coming from a uh off Earth or the aliens who built or taught us how to build these earliest structures H now this is what I call recreational belief I do not feel that I have enough uh data or certainty to say that there are in in fact ancient humans who have been walking the Earth forever could it be possible that the uaps are automated and self-repairing and have been working for 11,000 years because they're self-repairing and that the people who built them have been gone for generations and there's just the technology left and all it's doing is it's sensors it's just checking out things that need to be checked out just like it did when the aliens were here not aliens whoever they were and that um that maybe it's just going to go on forever and they've got these little orbs and the orbs are some kind of sensors or or uh devices to go look for stuff anyway so all I'm going to suggest is that we might at some point see a connection between the gck Lee Tey and the uaps somebody's going to tie those stories together like I just did um according to the post Millennium there there was some kind of Mega Blacklist that got created by a Facebook group so they were trying to figure out all the businesses that may have supported Trump so they can make a list so they could tell people not to support these businesses I tell you the people on the left are dumb as sometimes do they realize that you can't have a successful country if you do this this is this is the very definition of not understanding how anything works if we don't have a free market we got nothing there's nothing left if you started saying I'll only shop at your store if I agree with all of your politics we have nothing that that would destroy everything we've ever built and fairly quickly so stop being so dumb apparently there's a lot of push back about it so I don't know that that's going anywhere but don't do that and by the way you you know it shouldn't be done on the right to punish the left I would hate to see any magga person create a list of you know here are some Lefty businesses you should not shop at now I know that they've done it for some Fortune 500 companies which is a whole different deal you know if Target is doing some things that you've got a problem with and you're sort of publicly boycotting them that feels it's not ideal but it feels at least Fair it's a fair fight you know Target can take care of himself Target does need to conform to as best they can it's customers preferences so you know the the big ones I don't mind so much but if you're going to take out a neighborhood store if you're going to take out the dut store on the corner because it voted the other way you're not smart you're not smart don't do that right I mean it's bad enough that you could take out a Fortune 500 company don't do that either you know maybe maybe put pressure on them so they change some minor things they're doing but you don't want to destroy the economy of the United States because you're mad at Americans don't do that all right um apparently the uh there's reporting that Trump is planning to sign some kind of order to uh remove trans from the military like on day one and my question was well first of all do you think that's true do you think it's true that Trump is planning to remove trans from the military uh the argument would be that there's extra expense I don't know if that's the reason though extra you maybe extra accommodations that or more than they want to do now I remind you in case you forget that the military is the one place that socially we allow massive discrimination you get that right in the military very overt discrimination is acceptable and required for example if you weigh 400b and you try to join the military nobody's going to say oh stop being you know fat phobic and let the 400 pounder in nobody says that if somebody has a disability and it's a disability that would you know be important if you were in a military action nobody says hey what about that the Disabilities Act you're discriminating nope nobody says that now where where discrimination is not allowed is where where it doesn't make sense so uh allowing people of all Races in the military does that make your country more or less safe more more safe because if every if every part of the public can also be part of the military that does a lot to make you feel like your credibility of you know the whole system we're all on the same page we're fighting for the same thing I mean that's really good so that kind of discrimination race or religion in most cases wouldn't make any sense there there's no upside there's a big upside to doing it but there's no upside to to stopping it but with trans there there are statistically at least big differences in availability I'm told I don't know that for sure so if you want to fact check me I welcome it um and it costs more medically to keep your situation going and you could imagine it might cause some dissension in ranks or something I'm not too worried about the dissension because that was true when the military integrated and we just had to get over it so it's not the complaining I would worry about I is does it really make your military less capable that's the only thing that should matter so we'll see but I didn't know how many trans were in the military and um could be up to 15,000 but uh not necessarily people who have ever had any surgery but might be in that category of trans according to the AP I don't know if that's true or not well ladies and gentlemen this would be the time to order your Dilbert calendar do it fast because they're making them as they're ordered and you don't want to order it a week before Christmas and then have they have to make it and then send it to you right so I would get your dilber calendar before December 1st you probably still have a good chance of getting it in the first you know week or two of December if you order it then you have you have a good chance of getting it by Christmas but I wouldn't take a chance I'd order order it now the only places you can do it are at the the link at dilbert.com which takes you to the page where you can order it if you're wondering about the delivery time of your um of your calendar a lot of people have asked me hey I ordered this in October when's it coming because we did pre-sales so people were paying long before the the product was made if you're wondering whether your order went through if you didn't see a confirmation um the email you want to try for that is the one that's on the sales page not the one that goes to me if you're on dilbert.com and you send the message where's my calendar it goes to the worst person in the world me I don't know where your calendar is but I'm working with people who definitely know where your calendar is so if you go to the sales page the one you bought it from there'll be a support email there and they'll be happy to get back to you but for most of you just wait everything will be fine you probably don't need to check on it everything's working fine there there's no delay in the system they're being printed they're being manufactured so I can speak with um confidence that if you know your credit card cleared you know if you if there's a charge on your credit card you probably don't need to check it's probably fine but if you want to you can all right that's all I've got for now where's my calendar uh Heraldo wants to fight banino that would be a bad idea for Heraldo anyway I'm going to talk to the uh people on locals privately but if you're on uh X or You.
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stories today let's start with the good
news according to Andrew
hubman uh you can turn yourself into a
morning person in three days of pain so
just three bad days and you can become a
morning person here's how set your clock
for 5:00 a.m. every day no matter how
tired you were the night
before and get up at 5: drink coffee
have some social interaction little bit
of sunlight little bit of eating and
those things will set your clock and
next thing you know you're a morning
person do you believe that how many of
you believe that you could change
yourself to a morning person if you're
not already
one well um I can only tell you my
anecdotal experience which is in college
I strategically decided to become a
morning person and I turned myself into
one and I didn't know I could ever be
one it it didn't seem didn't seem likely
cuz I like to stay up late just like
most
people but very quickly and with the
help of coffee and sun and food I guess
I turned myself into a person who loves
just loves the morning I mean the first
four hours of every day of my life are
kind of terrific every single day really
just terrific and that's what you get by
being a morning person now beyond that I
believe I've lived two full lifetimes
because most of your day is garbage time
you know what I mean you're like it's
time to take out the trash to the curb
and you're walking to your cat your your
trash cans and most of it's not really
living but the morning time I really use
for all the good stuff so it's almost
like it doubled my life so that's cool
however I have a question whether all
people can be turned into morning people
my suspicion is because science seems to
think that there are morning people in
the and non-m morning people that this
won't work for everyone however I also
have this following
hypothesis that uh night people are
morning
people that night people like the you
know like the time after
midnight that's the
morning so if you if you like to be up
after midnight because it just feels
great to be up after midnight that's
probably how I feel at 4:30 in the
morning when I'm up and you and often
I'm up at 3: just because I feel like
it so there you go be a morning person
double your
life um according to Gilmore Health news
there's now this Jane editing technology
that might remove your anxiety and
alcohol dependency linked to alcco
adolescent binge drinking so if you're a
bins Drinker when you were young and it
changed your
brain now they think they can edit your
jeans to fix
it I have uh just one comment about
this um I don't think I want to go first
if you know what I mean I I don't want
to be the first person who has Gene
editing to change the brain I mean it
could work out great has great potential
but I don't want to go first let's let's
see what happens to somebody else it
turns them from a republican into a
democ R you got to watch that
stuff well this is the most predictable
thing you could ever imagine in the
world of technology according to Tech
crunch guess what got invented yes it's
exactly what you expected somebody to
make and why did it take so long
somebody made a way that you could fake
being on a zoom
call now you know you wanted that you
know the Dilbert comic was waiting for
it and apparently you can take a quick
video of yourself and then it will AI
will remember what you look like and
then you could be in your
car and pretending that you're sitting
there in front of your your office so
your actual audio and your conversation
could be from your phone and your car
but what people would see on Zoom is
something that looks like you're
talking pretty
cool and the odds of people taking Zoom
calls on the toilet just went to do well
100% cuz not not much else to do when
you're watching the watching the zoom go
so yes there will be a lot of Zoom call
toiletry well Chinese scientists have
finally built something you've all been
waiting for a recoiless
AK-47 according to Stefan Channon the
South China in morning post now you
might say to yourself do we really need
the recoiless
um AK-47 rifle and the answer is yes if
you want to put it on a
drone if you want your drone to go
around and murder people it would be
nice to have a recoiless one so it
doesn't knock the Drone out of orbit so
good news people there's the perfect
murdering device now so if you put some
AI facial recognition on your drone
which is completely practical and you
give it GPS navigation so that there's
no amount of jamming that will stop it
from getting to its destination which is
now completely practical and then you
put the recoiless rifle on it which is
now completely practical and then you
track track somebody's uh location by
their phone which if you're the
government is completely impractical and
then you could just send your drone out
to shoot him and then go uh you bury
itself in the
ocean you sink itself in the ocean so
they can't find the
gun so that's a thing
now yeah so the GPS jamming is not going
to work if you've got the AI that can
recognize the uh the ground from the sky
in other words it will look at um
satellite images and it will know where
it is just from the image so that's
cool all right um
here's a uh here's what I call the
reverse of a good job what would be the
opposite of a good job in this case now
the situation is coming up with a
headline to make somebody click on
something and read the
story now as you know there are a lot of
stories that are clickbait literally the
headline is better than the story and
you're like really really Trump ate a
baby I got to see what that's about
click click click but there are some
headlines that make you
definitely not read the story and those
are more interesting to me here's a
headline that made me definitely not
click the story it was in the hill and
the headline it's an opinion piece but
the headline is how well does Donald
Trump understand Elon
Musk I'm not going to click on that how
well does Elon how do how well does
Donald
Trump understand Elon Musk well let me
say for the opinion writer that would
require that they had penetrated the
mind of Elon
Musk and also Donald Trump so they can
not only see what's in musk's brain you
you know in order to write the
article but they can also see what's in
Trump's brain and also they can see us
so well that they can tell how much
Trump's brain can understand elon's
brain I'm not going to click on that
that might be the dumbest idea I've ever
seen for a for an opinion no I will not
click on that
sorry Simona is talking about Morning
Joe uh so Morning Joe is
TR I I swear to God Morning Joe can't
possibly be a non-comedy channel right
is is it trying to be a comedy channel
is it parody it's so close to parody you
just can't tell because now they're
insisting that Twitter is where you get
all the
disinformation and you should really
trust real journalism such as you'd find
in the New York Times Wall Street
Journal and
axios uh also known as the true
Guardians Of Truth you know that they
left off Washington Post I don't know
why
yep so the first story is about how
morning Morning Joe on MSNBC says that
truth is on their Network and these
others not on X not on
X my second story is about how Joy Reed
the host one of the hosts of
MSNBC and their guests are talking about
how Trump will deploy the military and
Sho
citizens and that Trump wants to quote
end multi multiculturalism in America
how do how do you interpret
that
so so Joy Reed is taking the story that
Trump is thinking about using the
military to transport some illegal
migrants back to their home
country transport but she she of course
has changed into fake news where they're
going to be shooting people on the
street there's not even that's not even
a
conversation the military is is not
going to be shooting anybody in the
street so it's a complete fake news
directly after their episode about how
the real news is on their networks right
but then she she t with her guest she
ties it into I guess the guy who one of
the authors of the 20 project
2025 um had written that they want to
end multiculturalism in
America now if you're watching
MSNBC and you're talking about the
military shooting citizens what do you
think it means when they say they want
to end
multiculturalism well if you put it in
that context it sounds like Trump wants
to use the military to shoot brown
people is it isn't that the way that
comes
off here's what it really means the
military might be useful for some of the
behind the scenes Logistics such as
guarding and then transporting
immigrants have been picked up by the
regular authorities who do those jobs
normally so that's the military part
that they've completely you know Mis
misrepresented but the end
multiculturalism when when I first read
it I thought it couldn't possibly say
that there can't possibly be a document
that somebody wrote those words we want
to end
multiculturalism but then I realize what
it means it it takes a few seconds to
understand what it means means that
America is a Melting Pot it's the same
thing I grew up learning that America is
a Melting Pot so that no matter what
culture you came
from when you got here your first or
second generation would become
Americans so that would be ending
multiculturalism You're simply not being
everything to everybody you're you're
you're trying to encourage everybody to
become an American when did that become
a problem
that's not a problem that's an
ambition it's an ambition to get people
on the same page multiculturalism is
completely unmanageable there there's no
way you could have a country where
everybody can do their own thing you
know as much as you think that'd be a
great great idea there's no practical
way to do that you have to you have to
get on the same page on the basic stuff
like you know is it Sharia law or is it
not I mean these are really basic stuffs
anyway can you Stone somebody because
they were allegedly you know unfaithful
to their husband I mean the
multiculturalism isn't something you
want to have more of that's not going to
help you no matter how awesome it is I'm
not saying there's anything wrong with
anybody's culture I'm just saying you
can't you can't put them all in the same
bag and expect it to to work out so
MSNBC just pure
propaganda Glenn Greenwald I love love
watching him dumping on MSNBC talking
about how Their audience is so small
it's smaller than a lot of YouTube shows
it's probably smaller than the number of
people who will watch this so my my
audience for this live stream is roughly
the same as msnbc's audience in prime
time
um but Greenwall thinks that it's
because the audience realized that MSNBC
had been lying to them about everything
you said oh you definitely Trump's going
to jail oh well he's not well he's
definitely not going to get nomin oh he
got nominated well there's no way he's
going to win okay won but at least he's
not going to win the popular vote okay
won the popular vote but at the least
he's not going to get more black okay he
got more black votes but he's definitely
not going to get the ESP okay he got
more Hispanic votes and he's not going
to win the women okay won a lot of women
uh but there's no way he's going to
sweep all the seven okay he swung he
swept all the swing States so at some
point do you think the MSNBC audience
realized that they've been lied to about
everything I'm not so
sure so you know Glenn Greenwald I I
think is one of the better observers of
everything so you know I hate to
disagree with them but I don't think
people are that
smart I don't think that they do know
they were lied
to turns out that 9% of uh Democrats
believe the election was stolen and that
the reason Trump won was that he stole
the election and there because there
couldn't be any other reason do you know
why they watched
nnbc they realized there's no way that
Trump could win
legitimately but then he wins so
cognitive dissonance Clicks in and you
your brain goes click must explain
anomaly cannot explain how he cannot win
but yet he won oh I get it must have
been yeah cognitive dissonance and I
think the rest are simply avoiding
it uh or trying not to think about it
because I think it went from a source of
dopamine where they turned it on and
agreed with everything that they were
already thinking and it made them feel
smart and
Superior but now when they turn it on
it's the same people except instead of
making them feel smart and Superior for
being Watchers of MB MSNBC The Very
people who are supposed to be smart and
therefore you're smart because you're
watching them are saying um we seem to
have
gotten everything wrong for four years
um but we're trying to figure it out uh
we have uh 500 hypotheses of of of why
everything was wrong why don't you talk
you talk for a while and now it's just
cringy so there's no source of dopamine
so if you see this one of the most
useful frames you'll ever have the most
useful frame for understanding your
reality is that people chase
dopamine they chase a good feeling and
it used to be nothing but a dopamine
hose every moment it would make you feel
smarter than those stupid Mega people
and now you turn it on and you see some
of your favorite people saying you know
what me is pretty good actually and then
you find out that the smartest most
successful entrepreneur in the world is
fully in for Maga and you're like ah
wait what's going on yeah it's very it's
got to be very
disconcerting uh Keith alberman is
panicked he's panicked that Elon Musk
might buy MSNBC now Elon did ask the
question how much does it go
for and what the hilarious thing about
this is that the question of whether
Elon Musk would or would not buy NBC is
only the price it's only the price there
is a price by which I guarantee he would
buy it I don't know what that number is
for him but let's say let's say all they
have left is assets maybe
contracts some receivables and you know
a building and cameras and Camera trucks
and stuff how how much would all of that
be worth if you put it all
together 50 million 50 million because I
don't even know if they own the
buildings they might be renting the
buildings so that might be just a
liability so if he could buy if he could
buy MSNBC for let's
say 30 million net do you think you
wouldn't I think he'd do it just for fun
just to see what
happened and then you combine it with X
and start you know doing some shows on
there it would be amazing so no it's
it's not a question of whether he wants
to or doesn't want to I'm almost
positive is just price so if they pric
it at a billion dollars I'd say no
there's no way at half a billion I'd say
no way at a 100
million it starts getting Maybe
F50 is probably more likely yes than
no but I have no idea what it's priced
at all right meanwhile have you heard of
News
Guard this is kind of funny to me so
there's an entity called News Guard I
think you've heard of them so they're
for-profit and what they do is they um
they charge
various uh platforms on the internet to
help them guard against fake news so
they'll identify the f fake news so that
the platforms don't have to get caught
with fake
news
and so but but they also offer these
what they call nutrition
labels for each search
result so you could do searches and as a
consumer it would tell you if the if the
let's say the reporter who wrote the
story is credible or if the source of
the story is incredible so they would
have like the New York Times would be
you know like at the top of the
credibility
list do you see the problem here the New
York Times is at the top of their
credibility
list
okay really um but here's the best part
of it so there's an entity News Guard
that is charging people and doing really
well apparently their business model is
working you it's very robust business
and their proposition is they can tell
which news is
true and you
can't that's the propos that's what
you're paying for they can tell what's
true and you
can't now I've got a
question if there's a entity in the
world that can tell what news is true
and what
isn't shouldn't they be the
news because does it make sense that
there is no news entity that knows
what's true the only people who know
what true is the people criticizing the
news
entity so wouldn't it make way more
sense if News Guard said you know what
people since we know what's true and all
the other news entities you know may
maybe maybe yes maybe no we we will be
your news so the real news is through us
we're the real
news um nobody knows what news is
true we wouldn't have massive almost un
Universal fake news if there was anybody
who could tell the
difference they don't News Guard doesn't
know what's true newsguard can and
probably often catch things that are
definitely not
true but that's a long way from knowing
what's true and what's not true it's
just catching the easy stuff do you know
who else catches all the easy stuff me I
do it for free show show me the headline
I'll tell you if it's true if you looked
at my
record of guessing what is true and what
is not from just first
glance it's not bad it's not bad and
I've taught most of you how to do it
because it's I'm I'm not guessing I'm
using pretty well understood rules of
you know how to you spot fake stuff for
example the one I talk about all the
time is that in an election period
there's always a report of a Anonymous
Insider inside the White House who heard
the person running for office say a
terrible thing that you're pretty sure
nobody ever said in the real world and
then I say there is no there's no
credibility to one anonymous source in
the White House saying that somebody
said something that nobody else heard
and is really terrible never ever
believe that story it'll always be there
but never ever believe it I'm pretty
good at that haven't been wrong
yet all right so it's just funny to me
that News Guard could even exist without
without just saying why don't we be the
news
um so let's see what else is going on
here we got
uh Tucker is worried that uh war is
coming because the Trump Administration
is so anti-war that the people who think
they might benefit from war or even
worse they might benefit from getting
rid of trump because they think Trump
will open investigations and prosecute
people who really need to be prosecuted
um but those people who might need to be
prosecuted are may be powerful enough
that they could start a war that would
distract us and you know be bad for
Trump and hurt his credibility and maybe
keep them safe now that's pure
speculation from Tucker
um I worry about it I worry that they
might be that the worst people in the
world might be getting ready to start
wars but on the other
hand I also think it's too
late I think it's too late I think that
the Trump effect is already too
strong maybe if they done it sooner it
would have worked but um I'll tell you
about the Trump effect but before before
I tell you
that here's the coolest story in the
news if you he me all right so if you
don't
mind this will be a moment of just pure
me talking about myself because it's
funny all right as far as I know this is
a true
story the country of
Nigeria is
uh they have a new National strategy in
which they want to make sure that
they're aggressively teaching Technical
and Vocational skills to their
youth yeah that that's a good idea right
they want to make sure their youth has
skills kind of basic stuff but the way
they described it is that they want to
make sure they have more than one
skill so in other words they want to do
something called Talent
stacking have you ever heard of
that so the Nigerian government is
announcing that Talent stacking
something that I
popularized um is there is going to be
their main way to
success but here's the best part so this
is from X from their uh let's see I
think it's from their minister of
Education I swear I'm not making this up
this is from the Nigerian government
their minister of Education quote Scott
Adams once said quote every skill you
acquire doubles your odds of
success this is real by the way this is
real he said this is part of President
Bol ahed ubu's renewed hope agenda and
our Federal Ministry of Education
strategy he says that's why we are
aggressively Reviving our Technical and
Vocational educational and training
system do you know where that comes from
every skill you acquire doubles your
odds of
success do you know where that comes
from it comes from that book that
pointing to over my shoulder so my book
had have failed almost everything and
still went big has that
quote so
Nigeria their Federal Ministry of
Education at least read my
book which was designed to take somebody
who doesn't have mentoring and isn't
doesn't have good you know career advice
from any other source
I put it in one book it was designed for
teenagers now it's written for adults
but it's designed so that a teenager
could Breeze through it pretty easily
it's is written so that it's not um it's
written to be really friendly to
read so Nigeria may have decided that if
they follow the blueprint in that book
they can transform their country into a
economic
powerhouse it's called how to fail at
almost everything and still with big and
by the way if you don't know that book
has been hugely influential in the
United States but it's a lot of its
influences by influencing other books in
the same domain so you'll find other
very popular books you may have read
that that borrow from that book so it's
the most I think it's the most
foundationally persuasive book in Career
Success at the
moment
now here's the fun part what if they're
really serious about just using that
book as a a sort of a framework for how
to fix the
future it would actually
work it would totally work because
everybody who's used it so far says it
works why wouldn't work there and
wouldn't it be funny if my legacy was
fixing
Africa because
if if
Nigeria overtly uses my book and credits
me for some of the ideas they're using
and let's say it works let's say their
GDP shows a boost in a few years and
they say it's because we're doing this
other African countries might say hey
what are you doing over there why is
that working so well and then they'll
say well if it works in Nigeria it seems
pretty straightforward stuff like you
know build skills why don't we do that
too
so the irony of the
simulation is that of all people in the
world
it
seems that I might be the solution to
fixing
Africa now I'm not saying it's likely
I'm not saying it's likely I'm just
saying it's
perfect if we if we don't live in a
simulation how do you explain this how
do you explain that the guy who got
cancelled if you know what I
mean is now the savior of Africa
those are my own
words okay but how much do you love that
story I I don't think I could possibly
be happier I feel like in some ways my
entire life just made sense like
everything I've done for my entire life
just in this one moment I looked at it
and I said if this is
real everything I've done for my entire
life makes
sense I wouldn't a
thing I I can't even imagine what would
be a bigger boost to the well-being of
more people than having them understand
a strategy for Success that pretty much
is going to work for
everybody so that really
happened
anyway Scott Jennings on CNN continues
to be one of the better Scots he's at
least in the top three uh I don't know
if you noticed there just tons of Scots
doing things
they're getting nominated they're
senators or they're all kinds of things
but Scott Jennings one of the better
Scots um is reframing Trump's cabinet
picks as ideologically diverse which is
good work um because the bad guys the
Democrats are going to say Hey where's
our racial
diversity and then Scott Jennings can
say this is the most ideologically
diverse group of people you've ever seen
because Trump literally has a whole
bunch of EX Democrats and current
Democrats maybe um you know RFK Jr and
Elon and you know I could go through the
list and the Allin pod guys are on board
I don't know if they were ever Democrats
but or which one of thems were ever
Democrats but uh yeah this is the way to
do it Scott Jennings you should say that
it's the most ideologically diverse um
big tent
and it
is and the ideological diversity is the
part you want that's the part you
want so I love that there's no pandering
or at least not too much pandering
there's a little bit of pandering in the
in the uh nominations I don't have to
point out the pandering but there's a
little bit a little
bit um did you know there was a recent
uh survey by CBS news they found that
59% of Voters approve of Trump's
handling of his transition so
far that's a pretty solid majority 59%
approve of his
transition I've told you before about
the new CEO play when you're new CEO or
you know new leader of any organization
like a new president it's really
important and Trump trump totally nailed
this on the the first time he ran and
won um when he started work before he
was sworn it and he and Pence were
traveling around trying to get
businesses to stay in America and stuff
and that is so powerful this first
impression stuff so so by doing a very
capable um and early and aggressive
Staffing and much better than the first
time he did it most people would say it
gives a real good impression so even
people who might not have voted for him
said you know
it looks like he's getting some work
done and that is so so good persuasion
wise you getting the first two months
right is like getting the first year
right like but but if you were a
standard politician you'd probably you
know be quiet for a few months and then
once you're sworn in you might you say
okay now we're sworn in we'll get this
year right you know have a good first
year Trump is going to get his first
year right before he sworn in
now that is so much smarter than what
you'll see anybody else do it's just
it's a whole different
level anyway Trump's popularity
according to
modernity is surging among Young
Americans so it Rose from
19% to
57% in just over a week what so
according to this one source Trump's
popularity surged among Young Americans
in that 18 to 29
in the space of just over a
week so conducted from November 17th to
19th the survey revealed that 57% of
Americans 18 to 29 now hold a favorable
view of trump what marking a net
favorability increase of 19 points in
that
demographic in a week is that
possible apparently Tik Tock has has
gone strongly
Trump or at least you know there's a big
movement in that
direction I you know I guess my first
impression would be this might be like
that Iowa poll that said C Harris was
way ahead and you said to yourself
that's a fake pole and then later you
find out well okay that wasn't real I
don't know that I don't think that in
one week Trump's popularity went from 19
to
57 you believe that that seems far more
likely something wrong with the the way
they ask the question or something I do
believe that his popularity is is
sharply up that feels right I don't
think it's up this much but could be
wrong
anyway here's something I didn't know um
did you know that China is no longer the
main source of us Imports and a lot of
that is because of Trump's tariffs on
Chinese Goods so Trump in the first term
tariffed Chinese Goods um to try to get
more things made in other countries and
made in America and the made in America
part I don't know about but Mexico
surged so Mexico is the number one place
that we buy stuff from the United States
now that doesn't mean that the raw
materials are from Mexico so a lot of
the components of what they make in
Mexico might be made or produced in
China so there's still that but uh
Vietnam and South Korea and Mexico and
at least one other place have gone way
up and uh and China has gone way down in
terms of stuff we buy so the tariffs
worked to me it looks like they worked
so if you're looking for when do tffs
work and when they don't apparently we
got something like what we wanted from
the know Chinese dominance dominance of
our uh purchasing
situations but uh last year products
coming from China made up 14% of all
imported goods the lowest share in
nearly two
decades but like I said a lot of a lot
of the stuff is really Chinese but it's
coming through manufactured by other
places well Trump and
uh crypto apparently has a a backer this
this Banker Arkansas representative
french hill that's a funny name french
hill um he used to be a community Banker
apparently he's really big on crypto and
he seems to have the confidence of the
administration so if you're wondering
why is why is Trump getting Pro crypto
advice which appears he is uh this is
one of the sources I assumed it was JD
Vance and VI and maybe Elon I I assumed
that they were the ones who were with
spring crypto in his ear but maybe
having it from an Arkansas
Representative makes it you know that
much more palatable because you know you
got a solid representative who's elected
it's not it's not just the swirling
around people who were not
elected so that's a good news for
crypto um meanwhile Christopher rufo has
apparently met with Trump a few times
now if you're not following the career
in worker of Christopher rufo you should
so he's a let's call him an anti-di
activist who's been very
successful um he's met with Trump and
he's trying to get Trump I think to um
threaten colleges and universities with
losing their Federal funding if they
keep doing Dei stuff he wants to get rid
of all the affirmative action stuff from
the any institution with federal
government federal funds I think Trump's
going to do that
and I do think that Christopher
rufo is I think he's won a place
assuming that this happens I think
there's a good chance I think rufo has
won a place in
history like he's not a foot out if if
he pulls this off he's one of the one of
the important people in American history
this is a big deal a really big deal
and he's certainly the biggest name in
this push
all right I'm going to call this the
Trump effect you
ready so apparently over two million
people have signed a petition in the UK
calling for a general election because
they're not happy with their
government and uh Paul says their prime
minister K starmer his approval rating
has plummeted by 43 points since he took
office just four months
ago have you ever heard of anybody's
popularity in American Poli politics
plummeting by 43
points i' I've never heard of anything
like
that I've never heard of anything even
close to that what what's the most any
American politician ever plunged in
popularity in a in a short period and
nowhere near 43% I mean I think even
Nixon did better than that after
Watergate I'm not sure but
probably anyway so the lawmakers are
going to debate the
petition and uh
I feel like that's a trump
effect you know why because I think the
UK has this
feeling you don't need to live this
way there's something very powerful
about that statement isn't there you
don't have to live this way Trump has
used
it and I feel like they feel it because
the United States just proven just
proved to the
UK that you don't have to live this
way and if they're watching the United
States and they're watching what
happened with Trump and then they're
looking at their own country and they're
looking at their own government the
election of trump could make your
popularity if your current leader drop
43 points in in four
months I mean more probably more
recently is my guess
so
um do you think this is a trump effect
uh I strongly believe it is now
tangentially because you know obviously
UK has their own problems so just having
lots of problems would be enough to not
want to keep your leadership but to this
degree I this is a crazy degree of loss
of confidence I I feel that the that the
reality of trump getting re
elected probably fundamentally changed
how the UK voters saw their own country
like they have a
chance because the US looks like it went
to the precipice maybe we're still at
the precipice but found a way to go back
and it's obvious that we found a way
back and everybody can see it America
did it by the way for all you countries
who are watching and wondering if we
could pull this
off I think we
can I think America has certain
advantages that apparently we've had for
a long time and one of them remember
what I always told you was our big
Advantage the big advantage in America
that I don't think anybody can match is
we will can anything that needs to
get
canned and we will do it brutally we'll
do it quickly and we'll never look back
if it needs to get a
shitan ask an American we we don't save
things because they're old and special
we don't do it because that's the way we
do it we don't do it because that's
tradition we don't do it because it's
classical we don't do it because that's
how Grandma did it we will break
anything if it needs to be broken our
government needed to be
broken it needed to be broken hard and I
don't think anybody thought from other
countries I I think other countries said
oh man you're in trouble you know you
you've got you're too locked in you're
never going to be able to break this but
turns out that only the Democrats had to
be broken and Trump broke them and then
everything else is possible that's where
we are so if you're in the UK and you
see that the US found a way to break its
way out of a almost impossible situation
that's got to be
inspiring and it's got to make you want
to switch out your own leader as soon as
possible so I think it's a trump effect
you know obviously they they have real
serious problems so I mean the Trump
effect wouldn't have any effect if they
didn't have real
problems and uh that's my message to the
UK hey
UK I don't consider the UK an American
Ally anymore now it's not up to me but
you know Nigeria's listening to me so
maybe you should too so what I'm saying
so maybe the people in the UK would
rather be allies with the United States
and the reason I say they're not our
Ally is they seem to be working actively
uh against Trump when they were they
were helping KL Harris that's not cool
you you're not allowed to go do Politics
on our our property not cool you can't
be our Ally if if you're sending in
people to to work for the election of
one candidate nope not an ally
and if you're working toward the
censorship of American platforms such as
X definitely not an
ally now that doesn't mean you're an
enemy but you can't be an ally if you're
interfering at that
level all right is that is that clear if
anybody from the UK is listening you're
not my
Ally now our government may say
differently but I don't think we should
treat you like an ally we should treat
you like somebody who's often on our
side but no you're not an ally and and
any special
relationship I'm not in favor of it I
think we have to treat you more like an
adversary that sometimes is you know
agrees with what we want as well so yes
you need to change out your government
for your own benefit you know it doesn't
make a difference to me but for your own
benefit you need to change out your
government and then we'll talk about
this special relationship which I'd love
to get back the more special
relationships we have the better so no
you don't get to be our Ally just
because you used to be remember what I
said Americans can break anything that
needs to be broken you know that special
relationship thing we had we broke it
it's broken you it's broken if you
want to fix it we're all we're all good
with that I think every body here would
be happy with that but consider it
broken so fix that
um how about Mexico let's talk about the
Trump effect in Mexico so apparently
Trump had a phone call with the new
Mexican president Colonia Shin
bomb I just love saying that the new
Mexican president Claudia Shin Bal if
you had told me do you think the
president of Mexico soon will be a
Jewish woman I would have said H
probably not probably not but here we
are
um and uh she is signaling according to
Gateway pundit she's signaling
significant policy
changes um that almost certainly have to
do with Trump incoming and the policy
changes um might be something about you
know closing closing the border and
taking people back and you know working
working to stop the flow of fenel Etc
now why would she be so
flexible Trump's not even in office why
would she be so
flexible well I I've got a few
suggestions I didn't know about this
till today but did you know that on the
campaign Trail Trump had threatened to
reveal the Mexican government's
connections to the cartel if they don't
do what we
want how many of you knew that he did
that I never heard of that for some
reason or or did I forget
it now is that
perfect let let me describe that that's
perfect yes he's actually going to
Blackmail them remember I kept saying
that it feels like the cartels in Mexico
are blackmailing American politicians
like they must be blackmailing them
because nothing makes sense so Trump
says once I'm in power and I know
exactly what our CIA knows about
everything if you don't want me to make
this public you better do every
thing we
want so he just took over the Mexican
Government by threatening
them and it
worked so I saw I I saw something that
said that the uh fentanyl problem is
suddenly it's decreased already turns
out that the uh caloa cartel is
kidnapping and killing fenel makers
including the ones in their own
cartel because they don't want the
pressure
from
Trump let me say that
again the caloa cartel is kidnapping and
killing
their own fenel makers because they told
them not to do fenel anymore but some
are still doing it so they're killing
them because they don't need the the
risk because what did Trump
say same thing I said send the special
forces in and wipe out the cartels or or
negotiate but you don't negotiate until
you've told them how you're going to
destroy them compl completely in a way
that's all completely credible and it's
completely
credible
so it looks like
uh oh and then also uh Trump had
threatened massive
tariffs on uh so so Trump had threatened
massive tariffs on their car
manufacturing which would the
economy of Mexico would he actually do
it would would he make good on the
threat of massive tariffs on the Mexican
automobile industry yes yes that that is
a threat that's not just talk he
absolutely had the power to do it or
will have the power to do it and he
means it so he threatens their entire
economy credibly credibly this is the
important part if anybody else had said
this you'd say well you know Biden's not
really going to put tariffs on their
entire car economy Trump will and they
know he will Trump said he'd bring in
the special forces and wipe out the
cartels and the cartels are like oh well
we're not in the fentol business anymore
uh we we barely even do Co cocaine we're
not in the fentol
business why because when Trump said
we'll spend in we'll send in Special
Forces they believed it because he would
or he
could and what he and when Trump said we
will reveal your connection to the
cartel did they believe that he might do
that yes they
do you don't have to be a mind reader to
know yes they believe he might do that
so which of these three things were
unavailable to other
politicians well arguably they all could
have done it but there's only one person
who could do it and make sure it worked
Trump why because he's
Trump Trump's greatest asset is he's
Trump and everybody knows what a trump
is he he's going to fight to the last
you know dying breath Trump he's he's
not going to take any from
countries he doesn't need to take
from Trump he's going to do what's good
for America First Trump he's going to
negotiate hard Trump and if he needs to
you know bend a rule if he needs to push
somebody too hard if he needs to
threaten if he needs to violate a few
Norms
Trump it's so
powerful the the persuasive um brand
that he's created just made Mexico
crumble up into a ball and
surrender I mean that's what it looks
like it looks like the the most amazing
this is probably the most amazing bit of
what would you call it
uh what's it called when you're dealing
with International countries there's
some fancy word for
that but this is most the most
incredible thing you'll ever seen in
your life he may have completely solved
Mexico weeks before he's in
office this is real this is now do
Canada yeah
um Rand Paul talking is talking about
the Denver mayor who was saying he might
refuse to cooperate with authorities who
tried to deport any people in Denver I I
heard maybe he softened on that but if
he doesn't soften on it or any other
mayor tries to prevent the federal
government from doing its job senator
Paul points out that that could be taken
to the Supreme Court and you could
actually have the mayor removed from
office for or violating what the federal
government you know wants to do or needs
to do to protect the
country so that's article uh four of
section four of the US Constitution they
could be removed from the office under
the 14th
Amendment how about that that's pretty
cool I wouldn't mind seeing a mayor or
two get removed by that you know just
just to basically oil the weapon you
know if it's something that you're going
to use more than
once well let's remove a mayor one mayor
it's not going to hurt anything just get
rid of one mayor and then the other
Mayors are going to say oh I'm stealing
a lot of money in my job I'd like to
keep
it here's something that I'm going to
tie into the current headlines even
though it's the oldest story in the
world um have you heard of a ancient
site called go Becky gockley
teppy and and if you have if you're a
nerd like me and you like watching these
you know ancient pyramid stories and
stuff like that there's a
um set of
ruins that don't make sense with our
understanding of History meaning that we
have a we think we have this good
understanding of when
humans developed certain capabilities
and one of those capabilities is can you
build a impressive structure with giant
stones that you've carved and
transported and fit together you know
pyramid style but it turns out that
gockley Tey is way older than what we
believe as a time when humans could do
this sort of
thing which would mean we have some
fundamental misunderstanding about
something from way way back we don't
know what it is yet but of course some
people speculate and there there are
three of these actually there's another
one gong Padang and
um and there's also the hidden chamber
within the Great Pyramid and I don't I
don't know how that fits in but uh there
was some expert on Joe Rogan's podcast
recently talking about how what a what a
mystery these are now let's tie that
into something else you know the story
about the uaps which we used to call
UFOs because we used to think they were
coming from outer space and then the The
Narrative started to turn a little bit
and the narrative started to be maybe
they've always been
here maybe not always but maybe they
were here before the Ice Age and maybe
they died out or maybe there's a few
left maybe they spread their technology
to all these various places on Earth
while they were
alive but uh then you know but then they
were forgotten and they left or they
died or
something could it be that the uaps were
seeing that our government is suggesting
might not be coming from a uh off Earth
or the aliens who built or taught us how
to build these earliest
structures
H now this is what I call recreational
belief I do not feel that I have enough
uh data or certainty to say that there
are in in fact ancient humans who have
been walking the Earth forever could it
be possible that the
uaps are
automated and
self-repairing and have been
working for 11,000 years because they're
self-repairing and that the people who
built them have been gone for
generations and there's just the
technology left and all it's doing is
it's sensors it's just checking out
things that need to be checked out just
like it did when the aliens were here
not aliens whoever they were and that
um that maybe it's just going to go on
forever and they've got these little
orbs and the orbs are some kind of
sensors or or uh devices to go look for
stuff anyway so all I'm going to suggest
is that we might at some point see a
connection between the gck Lee Tey and
the
uaps somebody's going to tie those
stories together like I just did
um according to the post Millennium
there there was some kind of Mega
Blacklist that got created by a Facebook
group so they were trying to figure out
all the businesses that may have
supported Trump so they can make a list
so they could tell people not to support
these
businesses I tell you the people on the
left are dumb as sometimes do they
realize that you can't have a successful
country
if you do
this this is this is the very definition
of not understanding how anything
works if we don't have a free
market we got
nothing there's nothing left if you
started saying I'll only shop at your
store if I agree with all of your
politics we have nothing that that would
destroy everything we've ever built and
fairly
quickly so stop being so dumb apparently
there's a lot of push back about it so I
don't know that that's going anywhere
but don't do that and by the way you you
know it shouldn't be done on the right
to punish the left I would hate to see
any magga person create a list of you
know here are some Lefty businesses you
should not shop at now I know that
they've done it for some Fortune 500
companies which is a whole different
deal you know if Target is doing some
things that you've got a problem with
and you're sort of publicly boycotting
them that
feels it's not ideal but it feels at
least Fair it's a fair
fight you know Target can take care of
himself Target does need to conform to
as best they can it's customers
preferences so you know the the big ones
I don't mind so much but if you're going
to take out a neighborhood store if
you're going to take out the dut store
on the corner because it voted the other
way you're not
smart you're not smart don't do that
right I mean it's bad enough that you
could take out a Fortune 500
company don't do that either you know
maybe maybe put pressure on them so they
change some minor things they're doing
but you don't want to
destroy the economy of the United States
because you're mad at
Americans don't do
that all right
um apparently the uh there's reporting
that Trump is planning to sign some kind
of order to uh remove trans from the
military like on day one and my question
was well first of all do you think
that's true do you think it's true that
Trump is planning to remove trans from
the military uh the argument would be
that there's extra
expense I don't know if that's the
reason though
extra you maybe extra accommodations
that or more than they want to
do now I remind you in case you forget
that the military is the one place that
socially we allow massive
discrimination you get that right in the
military very overt discrimination is
acceptable and required for example if
you weigh 400b and you try to join the
military nobody's going to say oh stop
being you know fat phobic and let the
400 pounder in nobody says
that if somebody has a disability and
it's a disability that would you know be
important if you were in a military
action nobody says hey what about that
the Disabilities Act you're
discriminating nope nobody says that now
where where discrimination is not
allowed is where where it doesn't make
sense
so uh allowing people of all Races in
the military does that make your country
more or less safe more more safe because
if every if every part of the public can
also be part of the military that does a
lot to make you feel like your
credibility of you know the whole system
we're all on the same page we're
fighting for the same thing I mean
that's really good so that kind of
discrimination race or religion in most
cases wouldn't make any sense there
there's no upside there's a big upside
to doing it but there's no upside to to
stopping
it but with
trans there there are statistically at
least big differences in availability
I'm told I don't know that for sure so
if you want to fact check me I welcome
it um and it costs more medically to
keep your situation going and you could
imagine it might cause some dissension
in ranks or something I'm not too
worried about the
dissension because that was true when
the military integrated and we just had
to get over
it so it's not the complaining I would
worry about I is does it really make
your military less capable that's the
only thing that should matter so we'll
see but I didn't know how many trans
were in the
military and um could be up to
15,000 but uh not necessarily people who
have ever had any surgery but might be
in that category of
trans according to the AP I don't know
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Heraldo
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