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Episode 2687 CWSA 12/12/24

Episode #2687 Dec 12, 2024 1:30:04 32,782 views

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Opening General Commentary

Well, there you are. It's about time you got here. You know what's coming? A show. Yeah, that's right, a show, and we're almost ready. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd li…

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Today with extra oxytocin. Go. Oh, that's good. By the way, for those of you who have not figured it out, this isn't really the show that you watch to get the most accurate news reports, although we try our best. This is the…

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MainContent General Commentary

sort of let them run on while you're getting about your business. So that's what I am. I'm your invisible secret friend. Yeah, just for you. Now let's talk about some things. Would you be surprised that there's some new science about coffee that's good for you? Yes. In Parade Magazine, in case you…

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NewsReaction Health & Biohacking

in almost every possible way that a thing could be good for you. What percentage of the world would not do the thing that's universally good for everybody? What percent would not? Yeah, that's right. That's right. 27% is the exact number. A quarter of the country will get every question wrong. It do…

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NewsReaction AI & Technology

will still be gas-powered cars, but it would be kind of like using a flip phone? Somebody's going to do it, but it'll be rare. I think so. You know, if you had not listened to my live stream every day—and I don't know why you wouldn't—you wouldn't know that there's a breakthrough in battery technol…

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MainContent Luck, Skill & Timing

omputers, there was only one time in human history when personal computers would go from nobody has one to everybody has one. That's only once in human history that'll happen. So if you were to find the strongest company in that domain, which would have been hard because a lot of them were coming an…

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NewsReaction Climate & Environment

s doubled down and says that there are drones coming out of an Iranian ship. He believes his sources. I believe that Van Drew is probably getting cracked, meaning somebody is feeding him some lies so that he disgraces himself in public and becomes less electable because of it. So it feels like someb…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

ed as a group what the starting time is and what the ending time is. You would not get this consistency if it were one person or a military thing or something that was trying to be unpredictable. But you would definitely get, let's do this from 4 to 11. Everybody good with that? Yeah, yeah, we know…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

es of Trump on the cover of Time Magazine, Person of the Year. Now if Trump had not been the Person of the Year wouldn't you kind of question whether Time Magazine had lost it? Because remember Time Magazine when they pick the Person of the Year they're not saying the person we love the most because…

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MainContent Cognitive Reframing

rible, terrible look after he got lawfared and lawfared and lawfared to just return the lawfare especially to a stale case because Hillary is not exactly on the top of the urgent things these days anyway. You want to hear about the most Biden thing that Biden ever did? I know it's a long list but t…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

this one he gets closer and closer to being a national candidate. He's closer and closer. And the thing I appreciate about it is the technique. So the technique is that when there's a little thing he can agree with he says it publicly and without any pullback. He just says it clearly and cleanly. Ye…

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MainContent Persuasion

one's a little different but the first two are just common sense. Common sense tells you the Pentagon has some bloat of course you want to cut it. The bloat. And preventing generals from having a conflict of interest that's not political that's just common sense. That's just basic common sense. So h…

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MainContent General Commentary

get that option but also they recently said if you have a chronic illness that just makes your life terrible you can check out from life on your own. And let's say 15,000 people did it last year. So almost 5% of the deaths in the country are people choosing to do it themselves. But here's the intere…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

g a Russian cousin entity right on their border or Putin who wants to control Russian entities on his border? Now both of them are military. Both of them are killing people to get the thing that they want. But I feel like in this analogy we're Hitler. Are we not? We're the ones taking over a country…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

gressively. So wherever it's introduced early and aggressively those places will die first. So that's how you know DEI is toxic because there should be a perfect correlation between how aggressive and early you were in it and how soon you die you know your organization. So imagine trying to sell MS…

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MainContent Health & Biohacking

u go wow you did that. You created giant chopsticks to catch a rocket? Really? Wow. Yeah so and there are probably a dozen things I could add to the really. You put a network of satellites in the air so that everybody from these rural counties can get cheap high-speed internet? Wow. You know and I c…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

So this would be Elon Musk saving the planet by making us into a planetary—saving the country by preserving free speech and saving the future of humanity by creating an AI that's less subject to manipulation. That's a lot of saving. That's a lot of saving. He's saving the world from climate change m…

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MainContent AI & Technology

pdate. Oh it's not working. All right so the go private function is just stop working. All right so we're not going private on Locals but I didn't have much to say anyway because we ran long. I will see you in the man cave tonight. All right man cave

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Closing General Commentary

tonight see you then. Uh oh and it looks like I can't close it so I'm going to close the app and reopen it. All right I reopened it just to see if it'll close.

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Well, there you are. It's about time you got here. You know what's coming? A show. Yeah, that's right, a show, and we're almost ready. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. 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 cup or a mug or a glass or a tankard or a stein or a jar or a flask or a vial of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid—I like coffee—and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. Today with extra oxytocin. Go. Oh, that's good.

By the way, for those of you who have not figured it out, this isn't really the show that you watch to get the most accurate news reports, although we try our best. This is the live stream you watch because you like having a secret friend. So I'm like your friend who you don't have much to say to, but your friend is very talkative, so you just sort of let them run on while you're getting about your business. So that's what I am. I'm your invisible secret friend. Yeah, just for you.

Now let's talk about some things. Would you be surprised that there's some new science about coffee that's good for you? Yes. In Parade Magazine, in case you wonder, it does hydrate you. So some people say don't drink coffee because you'll pee too much and you'll be dehydrated. No, the science says that for regular amounts of coffee, if you don't have too much, it adds more to your hydration than it subtracts. So it's good for you.

Did you know how many people around the US and even around the world do not drink coffee? Let me see. It's a well-known wonder drug that's good for you in almost every possible way that a thing could be good for you. What percentage of the world would not do the thing that's universally good for everybody? What percent would not? Yeah, that's right. That's right. 27% is the exact number. A quarter of the country will get every question wrong. It doesn't matter what the question is, and this is the case. 73% of Americans drink coffee every day. So 27%, you've got some explaining to do.

And you'd be amazed to know there's a breakthrough in EV batteries. Another one. Yes. In this case, Wonderful Engineering is reporting that they've got a battery now that's, I think it's a regular lithium, but they souped it up. So they got 5 million miles on one battery and 20,000 charges, and it's so robust that it might, if they can get to the point where it lasts longer than the car, then you can throw the rest of the car away, take the battery out, and it might be, let's say, 80% still useful and just use it as a battery backup for your house. So think about that. There might be a market coming for repurposing batteries that came out of your car. You just use them at your house maybe.

What I think they really need to do is develop a battery made entirely from coffee, because if you've been paying attention, coffee can do it all. So I'm pretty sure you can make a battery out of coffee that would be better.

Elon Musk said yesterday on X he predicted that 98% of vehicles will be electric eventually. What do you think? Do you think 98% of the vehicles would become electric and that there will still be gas-powered cars, but it would be kind of like using a flip phone? Somebody's going to do it, but it'll be rare. I think so.

You know, if you had not listened to my live stream every day—and I don't know why you wouldn't—you wouldn't know that there's a breakthrough in battery technology just about every day. And if we keep having breakthroughs in batteries, it kind of guarantees that all of your cars are going to be electric, because the economics are all just moving in one direction. It's not like gas is getting that much cheaper, but electricity, it might if we build enough nuclear power plants and do that kind of stuff.

But I'd like to use this as an example of an investment approach. So I don't know if I've heard anybody talk about this investment approach. Now, I don't give investment advice, specific investment advice, so I'll just put this out as a hypothesis, but it's one I've used and it seems to work. It goes like this. If you're trying to pick winning companies, you're probably going to lose like 95% of the time. You might get lucky 5% of the time, but you're going to lose about 95% of the time. So in general, you should get an index fund and diversify and just let it do what it does.

But there's one thing I've been tracking for my entire life to see if it would be an investment opportunity, and there's one thing that appears to me to work way more than half of the time. And that is that when there's a one-time change in the economy, if you bet on the strongest company that's involved in that one-time change—like I mean one time ever, like will never happen again—then you could probably make money.

For example, in the early days of personal computers, there was only one time in human history when personal computers would go from nobody has one to everybody has one. That's only once in human history that'll happen. So if you were to find the strongest company in that domain, which would have been hard because a lot of them were coming and going, but if you'd put your money in, say, Dell or Apple, you probably would have had a winner, like a really big winner. Imagine if you put early money into Dell computers or Apple. Now if you'd put your early money into IBM, IBM got out of that business, but even the IBM stock did pretty well.

So then the cell phones came along. You know, well, first before there were smartphones there were just the small cell phones. And I worked for the phone company and I said to myself, huh, there will only be one time in human history when people go from their landlines to a handheld phone. So if you were to invest in any of those major phone companies that were rolling out cell phones, you would have made a lot of money. And probably two out of three of companies that you picked in that domain would have been winners.

Then there was the internet. I remember at the birth of the internet when it was called the World Wide Web and nobody even knew the words for it. I asked an engineer, what should I invest in to like get in on the bottom floor of this internet thing? It looks like it could be big. And the engineer said Cisco. And I said, what's that? He said, well, they make these things called network blah blah blah. And I didn't buy that stock. If I'd bought Netscape before you had ever heard of the word internet—literally, literally you would never even heard of it yet—do you know how much money I would have made on that one-time-ever change in society?

So then the smartphone comes along. You know, you could be forgiven if you didn't think it was going to be a hit because the first smartphones were terrible. But it was the one time in human history that we would move to smartphones. So if you bought Apple stock, boy, would you be happy.

These one-time changes. So that's what I see with electric vehicles and it's what I see with Tesla. So Tesla is the leading company in a thing that will happen only once in human history, which is gas automobiles will be dismissed in favor of electric. So I don't give investment advice, but I would point out that if you can find anything that's going to happen only once in human history and it's unavoidable and it's definitely going to happen, you probably have a two-out-of-three chance of picking a super winner out of the lot. It's not 100%, but it would go from a coin flip to two out of three, I think, pretty quickly.

All right. According to a study, climate change was greatly overestimated because oceans cool the Earth in more than one way. So one of the ways that apparently we did not realize until recently is that the ocean puts off sulfur gas produced by the marine life. I don't know if it's fish farting or what they're doing, but some kind of marine life puts off sulfur. And apparently that's a really powerful chemistry to put into the atmosphere because it produces a lot of cooling, more than you'd think, I guess.

Now, how many times have I read you a story about a major variable that had been missed in climate change, and now they have to put it in there? But now everything will be good. I mean, it was almost perfect, but now we made this little tweak even better. It feels to me that our confidence in the models—tell me if I'm wrong—the confidence the science had in their models when they had, oh, let's say 10 major variables completely wrong is exactly the same as their current confidence when they believe they've accurately added 10 more variables. And surprisingly, it didn't really change the model at all.

Now, if you know what to look for in terms of scams, this one couldn't be screaming any louder that the climate models are basically now—what I'm not saying, because I know I'll get quoted out of context—I'm not saying the Earth isn't warming. How would I know? And I'm not saying that humans have nothing to do with it. Again, how would I know? The only thing I know is what science tells me, and science is so lying about anything important that it's like nothing happened. It's as if science didn't even weigh in. Has no credibility whatsoever at this point.

So when I look at climate models and you see that they keep adding major variables—major variables like, oh, we didn't realize the sun was doing all this, and oh, the cloud cover, and oh, it turns out that the oceans in at least three different ways is more of a counteracting of heat than we thought. So if you ever see that the model worked when it was all completely different and amazingly it still works now after you've changed all the assumptions, that's one of two things that should have happened after 10 years of finding out we have major, major variable problems. Either they should have said, whoa, it looks like it's way less of a problem than we thought, or oh damn, this is a much bigger problem than we thought. We're going to be dead in six years, not 12. But what are the odds that you can change all the assumptions going into your model and the model stays the same for 20 years? Yeah, that's wild.

Those New Jersey drones, and I guess other places too, just gets more interesting. As you know, Senator Van Drew from New Jersey believes he has good sources that said the drones were being released every night from an Iranian mother ship parked off the coast. The Pentagon said, quote, there's no so-called mother ship launching drones toward the United States. And I believe I heard that Van Drew has doubled down and says that there are drones coming out of an Iranian ship. He believes his sources. I believe that Van Drew is probably getting cracked, meaning somebody is feeding him some lies so that he disgraces himself in public and becomes less electable because of it. So it feels like somebody's playing a dirty trick on him, but I can't be sure. It's just what it looks like.

So here's what's funny. I think it's funny that the American public—I saw some people asking this question. I wondered if it was influenced by me, but I saw some people asking the question—government, I have a question. If you say you know that the drones are not from a foreign adversary and you also know that they're not dangerous, how could you know they're not dangerous and also know that they're not from a foreign adversary unless you know what they are? Is that not the right question? Unless you do know what they are, you can't tell us they're not coming from a foreign adversary, because that means you either know what they are or you don't. If you don't know what they are, then you also don't know how dangerous they are. Is that not common sense?

Now, if they had said to us, well, we do have a way of knowing they're not dangerous—for example, if they said, yeah, we can tell they're made of balsa wood and it looks like a hobbyist—I'd say, oh, okay, and that's a good reason to say it doesn't sound like an adversary or dangerous. But they're not saying that. They're not giving you any indication that they have even a clue what these are, but they know they're not dangerous. And also the air is not full of military assets trying to bring them down and/or figure out what they are. Do you need any more evidence that these are US military tests?

Now, the US military might not own the drones. It might be the vendors still own them and they're just demonstrating. Or they could be from another, you know, maybe it's a product of another country's military that's allied with us. Could be a NATO country that has drones and they're testing them out and seeing if we want to get in on them and, you know, maybe recommend them for NATO or something. But it's definitely us. Do you all agree the drones is us? It's got to be American drones. It's got to be military, because otherwise the military would be up there shooting them down.

So here's the other thing that I've heard that's just crazy: that they're invisible to people in helicopters. Come on. Come on, really? They're invisible only to people in helicopters? You mean the easiest way that you could go up and check what's going on, a helicopter, they're invisible? You can see them clearly from the ground for miles. They have lights on them. They have running lights, you know, like a regular commercial drone. And you're telling me that the helicopters can't see them? So apparently America is trying out our helicopter-only invisibility cloak. Oh yeah, you can see them from the ground, but boy, you get in a helicopter, nothing. The ridiculousness that we're being set up with here is crazy. It's crazy that we're being asked to believe this.

Now, here's the other thing that's making me laugh. When the drones come out, it's between 4:00 and 11:00 p.m. nightly. Between 4:00 and 11:00 p.m. is exactly the time that a human being would want to test something at night. After 11 o'clock everybody wants to go home, right, because they have families and stuff. So you don't want to go past 11, and you want to wait till it's dark. You start around 4 or 5. It's so obviously Americans testing these. If it were one person or an attack, do you think it would stick to evening hours between 4 and 11? You don't think they'd do a little attacking after midnight if it was some kind of clever plot. Or if it were hobbyists, you think all the hobbyists go home at 11 o'clock? No. It's obviously a group of people because they've agreed as a group what the starting time is and what the ending time is. You would not get this consistency if it were one person or a military thing or something that was trying to be unpredictable. But you would definitely get, let's do this from 4 to 11. Everybody good with that? Yeah, yeah, we know we have to do it at night. Don't want to go past 11. Yeah, 4 to 11 sounds good. So yes, we know it's a group of Americans deciding what time to do it. So it's the military.

They also say that the drones can't be detected by radio. Now what does that mean? That means that they can't jam them and they don't get a signal that tells them it's being controlled from afar. Because here's what I think one of the things they might be testing is AI navigation, meaning that they're not using GPS. And for the time that it's over the residential area where maybe you could check for the radio signals, that it's not using any. So it might be flying independently under the direction of whoever sent it but using an AI to decide what to do and how to get back. So that would make sense. I mean, obviously if you had an advanced drone, the thing you would definitely be testing is can somebody detect your radio signal and jam it. So it makes sense anyway.

Here's what I think we should do. We should demand the resignation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because they seem to have demonstrated and told with complete clarity that there's no homeland defense. Am I right? They have proven, if we were to take them seriously, if we take the military seriously, that they're not their drones, which is trying to tell us that they're not involved. But they don't say that because they're involved, obviously. We should call their bluff and say, oh my God, we have no defense of our skies in the homeland whatsoever. So this tells us that we wouldn't know if there's an Iranian mother ship and we wouldn't be able to shoot down anything that's predictable and small and helpless. We wouldn't be able to shoot them down. That would indicate we have no homeland defense whatsoever, which we found out a little bit in 9/11, didn't we? Didn't you think that in 9/11 there would be, you know, at the first sign of trouble the US military would be in the air and shooting down any trouble? Well, maybe they shot down one, maybe they didn't, depending on what you believe about the one that went down in Pennsylvania.

And then the Chinese spy balloon comes over and it looks like again we have no air defense whatsoever. Is it possible that the country has no air defense? I think it is. I think that's actually possible that the United States has no defense whatsoever. And it's also possible that we don't need one, because if anybody came and bombed the American homeland they would, you know, evaporate a day later. So it would never make sense for anybody to attack the US homeland if we could determine who they were, and that would be just suicide. So maybe we don't need any. It could be that the military people said, you know what, if anybody attacks us we'll destroy their entire homeland in five minutes, so they probably won't. But they're pretending as if we have no homeland defense whatsoever, and I think that's a firing offense.

Inflation is up more than people thought, if you believe statistics, which I don't. So I'm not even going to talk about that. I don't believe economic statistics.

There's a new Pete Hegseth hoax that fortunately got debunked in time. So apparently West Point's public affairs office lied to a publication called ProPublica, and they said that Pete Hegseth never even applied to West Point. I guess Pete had said he had applied but didn't go there. And it turns out that Hegseth actually kept the letter that he got in 1999 that was a West Point acceptance letter. He actually had it. He actually kept the record. When does that ever happen? And I guess ProPublica tried twice to follow up to make sure that West Point really, really checked the records and they really knew for sure that he had not applied. And they swore that he had not applied. And then he showed the letter that showed he'd applied and was accepted.

Well, if you haven't seen it yet, there's a clip going around by the Trigonometry podcast guys that is just really good. I highly recommend it. I'm going to give you the highlights. But they had a British academic, smart guy, Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, and he was trying to explain why the West has apparently—why Western civilization has apparently had more genius and exceptionalism than a lot of other places. Now this is what he says. I'm not so sure that we've got all the genius and exceptionalism. I don't know about that. But what he says about it is fascinating. So hydrated. Good coffee.

What he says is that one of the reasons the West did well in the last several hundred years is that the Catholic Church banned cousin marriages. Did you know that? That was a little bit of history I wasn't aware of. I mean, I knew that we don't do cousin marriages, but I didn't know that there was some specific point at which history turned on that. But I guess the Catholic Church at one point banned cousin marriages.

Now this part is a little unclear to me, but if I understand it, once you've banned cousin marriages you're going to drift toward nuclear families that are not related to the rest of your family. So in other words, you would move from something that's more tribal, where literally you keep things in the family so to speak, to where you forge out on your own and you become a little nuclear family. And then you've got to figure out how to make it without the big tribal support.

Now if you're trying to make it as a family unit you will necessarily need to rely on non-family people. I'll call them strangers. But there are people that you meet who make deals with you. So I'll grow some food, I'll give you money for it. You work here, I'll pay you. Basically a high-trust society. And so I've always wondered about this. I always wondered how the United States and some other Western countries have a situation where if somebody says they'll do some work they usually do it and you usually pay. I mean every now and then you get a bad egg, but basically we trust strangers. Like our entire economy is not completely trusting them like we'll do what we can to protect ourselves, but ultimately you do have to trust strangers.

And so the family unit, which was caused by an end to cousin marriages, causes more trust of strangers, which creates a far more dynamic system for inventing stuff. And Rafe said that—I don't know if this is true, but he said 75% of the world still has cousin marriages. Does that sound right? 75% of the world has cousin marriages? That sounds high to me. Are you telling me that China routinely has cousin marriages? If it does, I didn't know that. I mean I'm not saying it doesn't, but that sounds high.

He also says 90% of the world doesn't have the same notion of exclusive nuclear families. That doesn't sound right either. I thought the vast majority of modern—you know, not just Western but any modern country—I thought most of them had nuclear families as their core. Am I wrong about that? So there's some stuff about this I don't fully understand.

But I would note—and because I know you're going to be shouting it in the comments, I know you're going to be saying in the comments—that the end of cousin marriages probably increased the IQ of the people who banned cousin marriages compared to the ones who are still marrying their cousins. That's what you're going to say, isn't it? And you're going to say that it just made the Western people smarter. They just had fewer cousin marriages, fewer problems. I don't know if that's true. I'm no expert on cousin marriages. But it's something that's floating around the internet. So that would answer a lot, and that would suggest that we have somewhat of a big advantage, but that we're losing it because people are not in nuclear families anymore.

But even if they're not, and even if they're operating as individuals, then they need even more trust because an individual doesn't even have family members to rely on. So I think we may be moving to an even higher high trust, which is another advantage.

The other advantage I always hear about the West, but America in particular—so this is an advantage of America over even Great Britain. And the advantage is in America if you try something big and it fails, what you mostly get out of that is experience. So you can try another thing and maybe that fails too. But if you keep trying you'll get a winner and then you will be hailed as a winner and then you'll be happy and people will respect you.

I guess in Great Britain if you try a startup and it doesn't work you must spend the rest of your life trying to erase the shame. And I think you know some of the Asian countries have the same problem, that if you fail everybody knows and then your family is disgraced and that's the end of that story. So don't try anything risky because failure is too much of a problem.

I literally wrote a book called "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big," and you've probably seen a number of books that came after it that also had a similar theme and even before it a similar theme that the failure is basically a pathway to success. That's very American. It turns out it's super American. It just—honestly I didn't even know when I wrote the book that it was not just important to say that you know failure is more of a path than it is a destination. I didn't realize that that little message is what keeps America America maybe more than anything. The fact that we're willing to try things even if they might fail and we can live with it. We just get over it. Somebody was asking me the other day about regret and I said I've never experienced it. What's it feel like? I don't even know what it feels like. I can't think of anything I've ever regretted. There are just things that work and things that don't. But even the things that didn't work taught me something useful, so it was on my path to success. So regret? I'm exactly where I want to be. Well what am I regretting? So that might be a very American thing. And it makes me happy that my book could be part of the American psyche. It's a small part, but a small part of making sure that you know that failure is not the end point. Failure is just a path.

All right. Every morning I wake up to the hilarity of another Democrat who doesn't understand why they lost but tries to explain it like they do. I saw a clip with a bunch of people after the election talking, some on each side. And somebody named Sarah Longwell—must be a journalist associated with the left-leaning politics—she said that Trump won because he does more lying and therefore he's better at it. Now I'm paraphrasing, but I think that's pretty close to what she said. That Trump lies about everything, therefore he got a lot of practice at it and then he was really good at it. And then that excellent lying is what put him over the top.

Does Sarah Longwell think that the Democrats didn't do any lying? How could you be alive for the last eight years and think that Trump is just all by himself out there lying? I sure like that everybody else is telling the truth but that Trump, he's the one politician that lies. And again I always say that you can't evaluate the lying by the quantity of them. Trump did, you know, infinite interviews. So if he had any one thing he said that was like a little hyperbole he would say it in all of his interviews and then they would count them as there's one, there's one, there's one. Meanwhile while the Democrats would be putting together this massive intelligence-led, FBI-supported hoax with, you know, many moving parts and getting the media involved and like the really big lies, like the really big ones like the fine people hoax and the Russia collusion and the drinking bleach hoax and all those other things like big organized multi-member, thousands of people involved in the media keeping the lie alive and knowing it and knowing that they were keeping a lie alive. They knew it.

How do you compare that to Trump saying that your TV might go off if the wind stops blowing when you know it's just hyperbole? And they would just count that as one lie for Trump and none for them because they think the hoaxes are real. Imagine thinking that the Democrats have been telling the truth for eight years. How could you even function? You would be so confused about anything you saw if you thought your team was telling you the truth all the time.

Anyway, Zuckerberg and Meta have donated a million dollars to Trump's inaugural fund. Now that's a pretty clever move. So as you know, Zuckerberg is trying to disassociate himself from the crazy left. He's not trying to make himself part of the right. He would just like to be less involved in the political stuff because it didn't work out when he did it. So he probably knows he didn't help. He may have hurt for $400 million. He may have spent $400 million making things worse. So I think he's learned his lesson because if there's one thing you can say about Mark Zuckerberg that everyone should agree with, he is really smart. I don't know if you noticed but he's really smart, like crazy smart. So yes, when he does something that doesn't work and then he adjusts, that's that smart thing. There it is.

So he failed like an American and instead of wallowing in shame forever he said, oh well that didn't work. What do we do now? Oh we'll donate to the inaugural process because that's not really donating to the politics of it. Perfect. That's perfect. So he is helping out, giving his million which is not much you know for them. And it's the thing that's the least political thing you could ever give to the inauguration because presumably you know he would do it for anybody's inauguration at this point. Nicely done. Yeah. But it also is an indication that the way the smart people are seeing Trump is as someone they can work with, right? That's a big, big deal. Because before they saw him as something they needed to defeat. And now the smart people, all the smart people are saying we could work with this. Wait, you want fewer regulations? Oh well yeah we could work with that. Wait you want to lower taxes? You have my attention. You want to put criminals back in jail? I think this is very commonsensical.

I'm seeing the comments, the pictures of Trump on the cover of Time Magazine, Person of the Year. Now if Trump had not been the Person of the Year wouldn't you kind of question whether Time Magazine had lost it? Because remember Time Magazine when they pick the Person of the Year they're not saying the person we love the most because I think Hitler and Mussolini have been on the cover. Just the most impactful one. Who else was close? You know you might say Elon Musk did more and that you could make a strong argument for that. But Trump did it in a storybook way like even more than Elon Musk's giant chopsticks catching a rocket which is like one of the most crazy awesome things we've ever watched in our lives. Still I think Trump's story was the more interesting one. I think they got this one right.

Meanwhile Bill Clinton, according to Breitbart News, he was talking to somebody in public. Oh he's on The View and he said he was open to discussing with Biden a preemptive pardon for Hillary before Trump comes in. I don't think there's any chance that Trump's going after Hillary Clinton. Am I reading the room wrong? Now if I were her I'd be worried because she knows what she has done and she plays a tough sport, politics. But in my view there's not any risk at all to her. Now would he go after some people who are really directly related at a lower level, say some ex-FBI people who tried to run the Russia collusion hoax? Maybe. And I'd be all for that if they knew they were acting illegally. Yeah I'm all for it. But even if it was a little bit illegal I think Trump would be the smart George Washington here to say you know what I hear what you're saying about Hillary Clinton but we can't go there. We just have to let that go because it'll pull the country apart and there's not enough upside. So I think Trump knows that and I've heard him talk in that form before. So I do trust Trump to not threaten Hillary. I don't think he'll threaten her because she's no longer much of a risk to him and it would be a terrible, terrible look after he got lawfared and lawfared and lawfared to just return the lawfare especially to a stale case because Hillary is not exactly on the top of the urgent things these days anyway.

You want to hear about the most Biden thing that Biden ever did? I know it's a long list but the following is something that Joe Biden just did that you just, when I tell you, see if you cannot say the freaking A-word. He just did clemency and pardons. So he pardoned 39 Americans and he commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others. 1,500. What's that remind you of? 1,500 people he commuted their sentences and let them out of jail. 1,500. That's exactly the number of J6ers in jail now. Maybe this is a coincidence but there are a lot of numbers in the world. You had to pick 1,500? Those people need to be released immediately and January 21st can't come fast enough because I'm pretty sure Trump's going to let most or all of them out. But this—did was there no time that anybody said 1,500 is a bad number? You make it 1,600, make it 1,499 but don't make it 1,500. That's just rubbing it in our faces. It honestly doesn't feel like politics. It doesn't feel like stupid. It feels like you're just being a dick. Free the J6ers.

So Kari Lake has been selected by Trump for the head of the Voice of America. Now Voice of America is a media outlet that the government runs in 40 different languages. Yeah, 40 languages, and broadcasts all over the world in various forms from radio to television to social media. Now I asked AI if Voice of America is America's propaganda network and AI didn't want to say that. It says the editorial, it's independent editorial stuff. Is it really? Is it really independent? My understanding—give me a fact check on this—but isn't the only reason the Voice of America exists is for American propaganda to reach other markets? I didn't know there was any other reason for it.

Now I think when they say you know that they don't step on the editorial probably means they also don't hire anybody who doesn't understand the mission of the Voice of America. I mean I suppose if they made a mistake and accidentally hired somebody who didn't know what the whole purpose of the organization was they might say something anti-American but I don't think they would last very long on the job. The government of America is not going to pay to broadcast bad American stuff to other countries and make them hate us. So I don't think you have to edit it. It doesn't require a lot of editing because everybody knows what the job is.

Now if it sounded like I'm criticizing Voice of America I'm not. We probably need it. To me it sounds like something that's probably really useful. So here's the question that's on my mind. So Kari Lake of course a national figure, well recognized, came close to being governor, close to being senator. And you think to yourself is this a big enough job? Like my first thought was hmm feels like not high enough leverage for a Republican with that much skill. And then I thought to myself hmm I wonder if the plan is to tweak the Voice of America for good purposes. And then I thought to myself what if they used Voice of America as one way to correct the fake news? And I wonder if they had that conversation because that would be interesting.

Could you imagine for example that Voice of America continues to say positive things about America so it doesn't change its basic mission but what if on top of that it became so credible that it was a source for telling you what hoaxes are being told by the other networks? Because the other networks are like the opposite propaganda. You know if you've got a Republican president the fake news is going to be saying the president of the United States is garbage and making all the wrong decisions. Well you don't really want your enemies to hear that because they will not fear us and respect us.

So suppose the Voice of America was the reference that Trump could always use and say look CNN says this but here's what's really happening and then forward a Voice of America article. Because if you put Kari Lake in charge of the Voice of America there's zero chance that they're going to be reporting hoaxes as if they're real. There's no chance of that. I mean not intentionally of course. But it's one more place that Trump can maybe guarantee that there's a place that you can look at that has credibility that can debunk the other hoaxes that are surely coming. So if that's what the plan is, you know a little bit, little extra on the mission, then it's definitely the right person for it because she's got great experience in that domain specifically meaning TV news etc. So I think the fit is great. I just hope that Trump is looking at it and Kari Lake is looking at it as maybe Voice of America could be a little extra something we need.

So I would like to get into this gamified murder thing. Have you noticed that because of the internet we've managed to turn every tragedy into sort of a game? So I'd like to explain the game. So the game here with this CEO murder is that you have to pretend that the people you don't like are not showing enough empathy to the victim but that you, unlike whoever you're talking about, you have the proper and exact right amount of empathy. And you want to misrepresent the other person so it seems like they have less empathy. So I'm going to give you an example of that.

I'm going to misinterpret Elizabeth Warren and show you with my theatrics that I'm much better than her as a human being. Now remember this is just gamified. I'm not actually better than her as a human being. Maybe I am but that's not the point. The point is that we've gamified this. All right let me get into character because I have to act as if I'm actually offended by this. All right. Well there's a story about Elizabeth Warren. Oh my God she said that the visceral response to the insurance CEO's killing should be a warning to everyone else in the health care system. Oh my God how can Elizabeth Warren show so little sympathy to the family and the victim? I'm so much better than her. I'm so so much better. Watch this. Elizabeth Warren, don't you understand that this was a senseless killing of someone who didn't deserve it and the family has to deal with this and you're acting as though the murder was justified? Really? Really? You're acting like it's justified? I spit on you for your lack of empathy, not like my empathy which is excellent.

So the bottom line here is I think I won this round by showing that my empathy for the victim is way better than hers. Way better. I love winning.

Meanwhile Woody Allen's chef is going to sue him for firing. And apparently the problem was that was somebody who was in the US military reserves and he said he was in the military reserves when he got hired. Now that means that he would miss some days every month because he has a military obligation. But so he went off to a two-day military thing which would have been completely understood and approved. But I guess he came back a day longer because the training lasted a day longer and then got fired. Now they also complained about his cooking. So if you're a chef and they don't like your cooking that'd be a good reason to fire you.

But imagine if you will that let's say—I don't know if this is the case—but let's say he was a chef for five days a week. So Woody and Soon-Yi are thinking yay five days a week we don't have to cook. But then he says well I'm going to be gone two of those five but also I have the weekend off so that's four of the seven days I won't be around. And they're like all right well that's what we agreed to okay. And then he says oh I'm also not going to come in the day after because the training went long. So there'll be two days I'm off and three days that I'm away. And my job was to cook for you five days a week. So they fired him because it was obvious that this might happen again. This cooking wasn't that good anyway they say.

Now I have some insight into this because I got sued for the same reason. There is a law that says if you hire somebody who's in the reserves and you know that they have an obligation to say you know work on some periods that you have to let them do it and you have to pay them. So they have to be paid and you have to allow them to have their time. And if you fire them for that, if you fire them for being away from work for their military reserve, that's the end of the court case. The court just gives that automatically to the military reserve person. If there's any question that you got fired for even partially because you had a military commitment you lose the case. There's nothing you can say. You can't say but my company would suffer. Nope that counts for nothing. You can't say I can't function if I'd have to close my business if I'm paying this person to do the job but then I have to pay a second person to fill in for them because they can't be there to do the job. If I have to do that I have to close my company. I can't make enough money. You have to close the company. There's nothing you can do. There is no defense. If you tell a military person that you're going to fire them for doing what the military required them to do that's the end of the case.

So the lawsuit is almost certainly Woody writes a check for $100,000, the lawyer keeps 30% and the chef gets another job. That's the way these are settled because the lawyer for Woody would know that you can't take this to court. It's 100% chance of losing. 100%. He has no chance of winning. And I'm not even sure that's a bad idea. So in his case probably the chef was a weekday chef but if you hire somebody who's in the reserves you have to know that if you thought they were going to work on weekends you're not getting what you thought you were going to get.

So in my restaurant days my restaurant partner hired somebody in reserves for the job of the weekend manager and then later he informed us that he couldn't work weekends quite often because of his military service. So my partner said oh well the only reason you were promoted is to work weekends because those are the days I don't work. So given that it was the only reason you were promoted and now you say you can't do it we'll put you back in your old job which was a server. The server made as much money by the way and he was a server before that. And he sued. And our defense was wait a minute we hired him to do a thing and he says because of the military service he can't do the thing. We only hired him for the one specific thing and he says that one specific thing he can't do. So we would have to pay two people, one to do the job he's not doing and then him as well. And it's a small business. And the lawyer said give it up, forget it, pay him, make an offer. You can't win this. And so we did. We paid him. So it's probably the same situation.

See what else is going on. So the leader of Syria, you know the rebels took over Syria and here's his resume. He was the commander of ISIS in Syria then he was the founder and leader of Jabhat al-Nusra in al-Qaeda in Syria. He was the leader of Jabhat al-Sham later the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham I guess they're fundamentalist groups and now he's the leader of free Syria. I saw him doing some kind of public thing the other day and I swear that he was sounding like he was a Democrat and he was saying that he wanted to be the leader of all the people and you know he made it sound like he wasn't going to be discriminating and being a terrorist and killing people. But correct me if I'm wrong is it not the strategy that when you first get power and before you've consolidated it you tell the world that you're not going to be any trouble at all and then you consolidate power maybe takes five years and then you do anything you want to do no matter how bad it is? So I suspect things might be not terrible for the Christians in Syria. You know still a little bit terrible but probably if they hang around it's going to get worse. That would be my guess. So I hope they get out.

And I think the leaders of Syria are probably trying to form a caliphate so I'd watch out for the caliphate. Now here's the thing. I wonder if the Middle East—let's say some charismatic leader and maybe this is the charismatic leader—rises. What's his name? I didn't get his name. But given that we know that war is going to be drone warfare in the future the Middle East isn't going to be able to make a lot of drones. They're not exactly a manufacturing power so they'd have to depend on somebody like China to give them all their war drones if they wanted to conquer enough territory to have a caliphate. I don't know how to say that. So I know the nature of war is changing so that the Middle East countries are going to have a big disadvantage I think. So the countries that can design and crank out drones are going to own everything. So that's China, us, maybe Russia.

Fetterman just gave a double thumbs up to Republican Elise Stefanik who was picked as UN ambassador. So Breitbart's reporting this. So Fetterman continues to do smart things. He's finding very small ways—and this is a very small way—to act like a common sense person who agrees with the Republicans when it makes sense to agree with them and disagrees with them when in his opinion it makes sense to disagree.

Now I saw some people being confused that when I say good things about Fetterman that it's like I don't understand that he votes for the most progressive things and you know he's a dangerous voter. I get it. I understand that. I'm not saying he should be running the country. I'm only talking about his technique. So the same way that I talked about AOC having good persuasion technique which she doesn't anymore—I think she had an adviser that she may have lost—but Fetterman, every time he does something where in the smallest way he can say you know Republicans you're good people and I agree with you on this one he gets closer and closer to being a national candidate. He's closer and closer. And the thing I appreciate about it is the technique. So the technique is that when there's a little thing he can agree with he says it publicly and without any pullback. He just says it clearly and cleanly. Yeah that's common sense. I'm in favor. That is really strong technique because when he disagrees with us what's the first thing you're going to think? You're going to rethink your own thoughts or your own position because if somebody who's just always on one side and there only can ever be on one side you discount their opinion completely because you know it didn't matter if they even thought through they were going to be on that side. But if somebody sends the impression that on every topic he's going to look at it commonsensically and give some examples—oh this is a good candidate it's a Republican but it's a good candidate two thumbs up—every time he does that he sends a signal that he's thinking about it from the ground up. So if he does three or four things that Republicans say yeah well yeah that's a good point we agree with that common sense and then he says something you don't agree with politically you know something that agrees a little bit more with a progressive agenda your first thought should be ah I don't like that but why is this smart guy saying it? See that's the superpower that Trump has at the moment. Trump's superpower with his pirate ship of advisers from Elon Musk to RFK Jr. and Tulsi etc. It makes you think that they must be operating on some kind of common sense basis otherwise they couldn't get along because you know you have ex-Democrats who presumably wouldn't easily embrace the right unless there was some common sense thing they could hang on to. And they are. So Trump has the common sense advantage in the sense that it's clear that he will look at both sides and look and listen to the voices from both sides and go after it as a common sense thing whatever it is. So Fetterman's building that. He doesn't have it yet but watching him do it is fun.

The Washington Post continues to move a little bit toward being useful instead of just being a propaganda rag. So it could be that Jeff Bezos is pretty serious about turning the Washington Post into more of a credible publication instead of the propaganda rag it has been. But Byron York is pointing out that they've got an editorial about the Jordan Neely, the man who died with the Penny situation on the subway. And I just want to describe how Byron York describes the editorial. I liked how he did this. He said the liberal editorial board wants to say Jordan Neely should have been committed. That is self-evidently true. But it causes the writers so much pain that they have to lard it with so much of the the criminal is really the victim and we failed Jordan and we're not racist verbiage that it takes them a while to get to the point but they finally get there.

So this is the corner that the identity people paint themselves into that if they want to pretend they're moving toward common sense they have to somehow shed everything they've ever said and thought before because it was identity based. Like this was so common sense screams that this poor Jordan Neely guy should have gotten some help and you wish the government had some kind of facility to do it so we can certainly agree on that.

According to Kerry Picket who writes for the Washington Times the FBI is trying to anti-Trump the FBI before he gets there. So Christopher Wray said he would be retiring from that job before Trump gets in office so he doesn't have to get fired. That's a good play. But before he does that he's also apparently doing a bunch of promotions. So he's promoting people into positions that unless Trump's FBI guy gets rid of them there might be a lot of people who don't like Trump in major FBI positions. So this is from an inside source and that they're planning to slow walk the new FBI director's entry into the agency for three to four months. So they're literally plotting to make sure that their own management can't be effective. Now if any of that's true 100% of them need to be fired or at least the ones involved with it. If they're literally just trying to make changes so it's harder for Trump to do his job everybody involved with that needs to get fired. Even if you got promoted yesterday if you're any part of that no no it's not your job to make it hard for your boss to do the job of the people of the United States. No you need to be fired for that.

Jen Psaki has been going on some conservative podcasts and she said this. She thought that the left needed to hear. She said two amazing things just happened. First I went on about a half a dozen right-wing shows and they all agreed—we should cut the Pentagon, prevent generals from working for defense contractors and Edward Snowden should be pardoned. And she says the second thing is that absolutely no one on the left believes the right. So six out of six podcasts all said yeah we like all that stuff and not a single person on the left believes that's true.

What do these things all have in common? Cutting the Pentagon, preventing generals from becoming defense contractors and pardoning Snowden. Now the Snowden one's a little different but the first two are just common sense. Common sense tells you the Pentagon has some bloat of course you want to cut it. The bloat. And preventing generals from having a conflict of interest that's not political that's just common sense. That's just basic common sense. So how weird is it that Republicans who are the common sense party for the most part offer common sense opinions on common sense things and the Democrats are like oh no I don't believe that. I don't believe that at all. They're pretty gone. Pretty gone anyway.

My opinion is this. I think there's only two ways for somebody to become president and stay president without being assassinated. And I think that you either have to agree in advance or they know in advance that you're going to start major optional wars so that feeds the military-industrial complex extra wars. Or if you're not going to do extra wars like would be Trump for example or Reagan for example you have to agree to rebuild the military. So you have to say our military is falling apart we're going to need to spend a ton of money rebuilding that military. I think if you do one of those two things you can stay alive and stay in office. Otherwise you get impeached or assassinated because I think the military-industrial complex is basically full of professional killers right. The whole industry is full of people who have literally killed people professionally in the military. And yeah I think any president should be afraid of that group. So I don't think they would put up with anything less than major money going toward their direction.

Canada as you know has euthanasia legal. So if you've got a terminal illness you can get that option but also they recently said if you have a chronic illness that just makes your life terrible you can check out from life on your own. And let's say 15,000 people did it last year. So almost 5% of the deaths in the country are people choosing to do it themselves. But here's the interesting political part. 96% of the people who are choosing the option to end their own lives are white. 96% are white but only 70% of the country is white. So it's legal and it's mostly killing white people. It's legal and it's overwhelmingly mostly killing white people. Now nobody knows why. I mean I could offer some guesses but I don't know why. But suppose they had gone the other way. Suppose for whatever cultural or other mysterious reasons white people weren't taking this option but Black citizens were taking it in an overwhelming number. Do you think this would be legal? Do you think it would be legal to have a law that was disproportionately killing by their own choice but killing minorities? Not a chance. There's not a chance that that would be legal. But as long as white people are killing themselves yeah no problem. And by the way I'm in favor of it so I don't want them to change the law. We have the same law in California. I was part of the lobbying to get that an option in California. You never know if you might need it.

Meanwhile there's a story about McConnell. Some call him Mitch. He thinks that it's a dangerous world and if America stays out of the wars and the business in other countries and we become more isolationist that it would be reminiscent of before World War II. He says even the slogan is the same: America First. That's what they said in the 30s. So Mitch McConnell—you didn't know that I'm in favor of euthanasia. I've always been in favor of it. I'm one of the main people in favor of it. I'm surprised you didn't know that anyway.

So here's my problem with McConnell and the other isolationists. I don't believe anything McConnell says as his reasons for why he wants anything. I just think he's—well let me say it directly. I believe that when somebody is that old and that infirm and they stay in their job in Congress that the only reason for it is they're covering up their own crimes or somebody they care about. Because nobody in their right mind would keep working in this condition. Feinstein, McConnell, it doesn't make any sense. Pelosi. There's got to be some reason that goes beyond serving the country or whatever because they all know somebody else could do a better job. Now some of it might be that when you reach a senior position your own team won't let you leave because they need somebody in the senior position. Maybe they like you in there. But here's my problem. The logic of this isn't holding up unless you think Putin and Hitler are basically the same guy.

Now my understanding of history which is not so terrific is that the problem with Hitler is he was conquering other countries and it didn't look like he was willing to ever stop. So that's a bad thing. If you were staying out of that you could make an argument oh if you stay out of that he eventually conquers everything gets all the resources and then conquers you. Makes sense. But is Putin somebody who's trying to conquer the world or is he trying to maybe increase the Russian Empire but only to Russian-speaking people who are on his border who—and I'm not defending him I'm just describing—that maybe he does have ambitions to increase but not to people who were not Russian-friendly, Russian-speaking, historically Russian. Now I don't think he should be doing any of that but I don't think he wants to conquer Britain does he? Do you think Putin if he could he'd be blitzkrieging across Europe and going for France? I don't think so.

But then let's turn it around. The United States recently conquered Ukraine. The United States conquered a country that's like a cousin to Russia with great history, lots of Russian speakers at least on the border. Are we the Hitler in this case? If you had to say all right who's the Hitler? The United States conquering a Russian cousin entity right on their border or Putin who wants to control Russian entities on his border? Now both of them are military. Both of them are killing people to get the thing that they want. But I feel like in this analogy we're Hitler. Are we not? We're the ones taking over a country that we had no business taking over and we're doing it for empire reasons. Very clearly empire reasons. We're the Hitler. You know that right now.

Here's where it gets complicated. I don't know if it's a bad thing. Obviously it would be a bad thing to literally be Hitler and killing minorities for being minorities but we're not doing that. What we are doing as a country and we've done it for a couple hundred years is every dirty trick in the book to expand our empire. That's who we are. That's who America is. We are dirty tricksters who try to conquer every country we can because the more control we have the better we think our own futures will be. It's for the money mostly but money and national defense are basically the same thing. So yeah we're the Hitler McConnell. You have this backwards.

So do you think that McConnell is saying what he believes? Do you think that he believes that this is like the run-up to World War II or does he know that America is the Hitler in this case and we're just propagandizing? I feel like he knows we're the Hitler but again I'm not going to criticize anybody who says we have to be an empire or we become nothing. You either have to be an empire or slaves basically and I think it's been like that through all of history. So anyway that's happening.

According to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health half of the calories people eat at home are ultra-processed foods. Now if you try to not eat food that's bad for you in America it would either be really expensive or really time-consuming or you'd have to do tons of research to find out what's good for you and what isn't. I feel like there needs to be a new model for making and preparing and eating food like really a basically different model.

And now I ask the following question. Do you think that after all these years of people trying various indoor farming experiments and the fact that indoor farming still hasn't caught on at least wherever there's outdoor farming is easily available do you think that Big Food has been destroying any innovation in indoor farming? Because indoor farming would allow people to do it themselves locally and it would cut out Big Food for at least the people who use the indoor farms. I feel as if it's nearly impossible that we could have gotten to 2024 with all the things we can do technically and that we can't build an indoor farm that's local maybe attached to your house but very very local and it's cost effective and low maintenance and low cost. We can't do that. It feels like there must be some large entity that's trying to make sure that we can't and the only one I could think of would be Big Food because everybody else would like good food. So I'm just—this is just my conspiracy theory. I don't have any evidence there's any kind of conspiracy like that but I did work in the food industry for a while because I made a food product the Dilberito and one of the things I learned working in the food industry is that it's completely corrupt. The food industry is mostly criminals. That was my experience. It was the most corrupt thing I've ever seen. Now I've worked at banking and bankers are not angels all the time but they run a pretty clean shop right. They weren't all criminals they were just doing their jobs. Phone company I worked for the phone company for years not all go-getters but they were good people honest mostly you know just trying to do their job. But my experience in the food distribution and grocery industry I think they're pretty much all crooks. I saw some—you don't even want to know about it. It's almost a criminal enterprise. So I have no evidence that they've suppressed indoor farming innovations but I'd love to talk to Kimball Musk about it. I know he was into indoor farming. He would know the real story so maybe I'll look into that.

PJ Media is reporting that the mainstream media finally admits Obamacare is a failure but primarily in cost. It's a success in signing people up so that's what the Democrats say but it would be a failure in controlling costs just so you know.

Rachel Maddow ratings have tanked along with MSNBC in general. So Axios is reporting that so she's now got her show went from five days a week where she was paid $30 million and she was like the face of the network. Then she for her own personal reasons had to go back to one day a week just Monday and she got paid the same because she was still on contract. Then when the contract was to be renewed still working one day a week they negotiated that she would get $25 million for one day a week.

So let's go back to my hypothesis and prediction. You remember my prediction that DEI kills everything it touches but the prediction is that it kills first and fastest wherever it is introduced first and most aggressively. So wherever it's introduced early and aggressively those places will die first. So that's how you know DEI is toxic because there should be a perfect correlation between how aggressive and early you were in it and how soon you die you know your organization.

So imagine trying to sell MSNBC when one of your stars works one day a week for $30 million. Nobody would buy that. But why do they have to keep paying so much money? Does it have to do with the fact that she is a lesbian and a woman? Is it DEI? Probably. Now I can't say that for sure because you'd have to be like in the room with them to know what's real but the prediction is if you go early and hard at DEI you will destroy yourself pretty quickly. MSNBC went early and super hard at DEI and now they've got somebody who's not doing much work they're paying $30 million. Probably Joy Reid can't be fired and she's making them look like idiots. Management she makes the management look like idiots and that's got to be DEI. So I think MSNBC is added to the list of examples of the sooner and the harder you go on DEI the sooner and more guaranteed your destruction. So just look for the pattern. The sooner and the harder you go in DEI the sooner you're destroyed.

The defense who defended Daniel Penny is considering going after DA Alvin Bragg for a malicious prosecution. So that would be a lawsuit so it wouldn't be criminal but if they can prove that Bragg was orchestrating the Daniel Penny thing for his personal reasons as opposed to just doing the job then it might be a lawsuit. And the personal reason which is just speculated here is that Alvin Bragg knew that if Daniel Penny walked free that there would be riots and that that would make him look bad because he's the law and order guy. So if there are riots you look like you're not doing something and everybody would say why didn't you do something more. So the idea is that if Alvin Bragg—if it could be demonstrated there were any documents or witnesses that the decision to go after Daniel Penny was not based on the law or what is precedent but only based on protecting Alvin Bragg's own reputation and job then the lawsuit I think could succeed. So we don't know that this is going to happen but I think they need to look into it. Pretty good. You find out if there's something there.

In other news I heard a few things about the AI that Elon Musk is doing the xAI and I heard a story. Let's see if I can retell the story. It was some expert—was it on I think on the All-In Pod talking to Jason and I didn't get the name of the expert when I watched the clip. I wish I had so if anybody knows him knows what I'm talking about put the name of the expert in the comments. But the expert said that if you get these Nvidia boards that are necessary for AI that apparently you could only put if I have this right 20,000 of them kind of networked together to work as one and that was a physical limitation. It would be engineering-wise it would be impossible to put more than 20,000 working as a team. And that then that would limit how smart your AI could be because the more that you could put on the same processing speed you know parallel processing the more you have the smarter you are in AI.

So the story is that Elon Musk didn't like that spent some time doing a deep dive and I don't know who if anybody helped him or it was completely his own idea but in fairly short order Elon Musk figured out how to network 100,000 together where it was presumed by every expert that 20,000 was the highest that could ever go. There would be a physical or physics limitation you just couldn't go beyond that. And then he five times it. He five times it probably because he got personally involved as you know I imagine there were other engineers in the room obviously but that's like one of the greatest engineering stories of all time. But if you put it on Elon Musk's resume it just disappears with all the other stuff he's done. So many things that make you go wow you did that. You created giant chopsticks to catch a rocket? Really? Wow. Yeah so and there are probably a dozen things I could add to the really. You put a network of satellites in the air so that everybody from these rural counties can get cheap high-speed internet? Wow. You know and I could just keep going and going and going but this little one just impresses the hell out of me if it's true that he figured out what everybody said in the industry—in the industry he wasn't in this is the other important part. In the industry he was not part of. The moment he walked in he solved their biggest problem times five. Did that really happen? I mean I want to believe it did so wow.

But on top of that Grok 3 is predicted to be the best AI sometime in maybe February because they have just monstrous hardware training that thing. So Elon Musk in theory will be the leading AI person with his products in the world in February. Now I don't know what to make of that. You know how important it is that Musk bought X because he saved free speech but what would happen to free speech if AI becomes the main way we interact with everything and the main way we get information and it was just completely censored and biased but we didn't know? How much it would be the same problem. Your free speech would be completely at risk because AI might have limitations on what it can and cannot do for you. You know it might censor you or censor itself. But now maybe the best AI would be the one that's not going to do that. So if the best AI doesn't censor you and lets you do the images you want it to do and wasn't always messing with your creative impulses then you're free.

I think Grok 3 if it really leapfrogs the competition—because the reason historically I haven't used Grok much is that it wasn't quite up to speed and we all knew that and we knew that it was going to catch up and had a good chance of surpassing but it looks like it's going to happen and wow that's really impressive. So this would be Elon Musk saving the planet by making us into a planetary—saving the country by preserving free speech and saving the future of humanity by creating an AI that's less subject to manipulation. That's a lot of saving. That's a lot of saving. He's saving the world from climate change maybe we'll see. How many times does he need to save us? He saved the country by getting Trump elected. I mean seriously how many times does he need to save us in how many ways? Maybe the rest of us should do a little work huh? He's making me feel lazy.

All right that's all I got for now. I knew I went long. I'll talk to the Locals people privately and the rest of you on YouTube and X at Rumble. I will see you tomorrow same time same place and Locals coming at you privately in 30 seconds. Oops update. Oh it's not working. All right so the go private function is just stop working. All right so we're not going private on Locals but I didn't have much to say anyway because we ran long. I will see you in the man cave tonight. All right man cave tonight see you then. Uh oh and it looks like I can't close it so I'm going to close the app and reopen it. All right I reopened it just to see if it'll close.

well there you are it's about time you got here you know what's coming a show yeah that's right a show and we're almost ready good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time 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 cuper Mugger a glass of tanker gel a sty Canen jger flask a v little of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dopamine here the day the thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip today with extra oxytocin go oh that's good by the way for those of you who have not figured it out this isn't really the show that you watch to get the most accurate news reports although we try our best uh this is the live stream you watch because you like having a a secret friend so I'm like your friend who you don't have much to say but your friend is very talkative so you just sort of let them run on while you're getting about your your business so that's what I am I'm your invisible secret friend yeah just for you now let's talk about some things uh would you be surprised that there's some new science about coffee that's good for you yes in Parade Magazine uh in case you wonder it does hydrate you so some people say don't drink coffee because you'll pee too much and you'll be dehydrated no the science says that for regular amounts of coffee if you don't have too much that uh it adds more to your hydration than it subtracts so it's good for you did you know how many people around the US and even around the world um do not drink coffee let me see it's a well-known one under drug that's good for you in almost every possible way that a thing could be good for you um what percentage of the world would not would not do the thing that's universally good for everybody what percent would not yeah that's right that's right 27% is the exact number a quarter of the country will get every question wrong doesn't matter what the question is and this is the case 73% of Americans drink coffee every day so 27% you got some explaining to do and you'd be amazed to know there's a breakthrough in EV batteries another one yes in this case wonderful engineering is reporting that they've got a battery now that's uh I think it's a regular lithium but they souped it up so they got 5 million miles on One battery and 20,000 charges and it's so robust that it might if they can get to the point where it lasts longer than the car then you can throw the rest of the car away take the battery out and it might be let's say 80% still useful and just use as a like a battery backup for your house so think about that there might be a market coming for repurposing batteries that came out of your car you just use them at your house maybe um what I think they really need to do is develop a battery made entirely from coffee CU if you've been paying attention coffee can do it all so I'm pretty sure you can make a battery out of coffee that would be better Elon mus said yesterday on on X he predicted that 98% of vehicles will be electric eventually what do you think do you think 98% of the vehicles would become electric and that there there will still be gas powered cars but it be kind of like using a flip phone somebody's going to do it but it'll be rare uh I think so you know if you if you had not listened to my live stream every day and I don't know why you wouldn't you wouldn't know that there's a breakthrough in Battery Technology just about every day and if we keep having breakthroughs and batteries it kind of guarantees that all of your cars are going to be electric because the the economics are all just moving in One Direction it's not like gas is getting that much cheaper but electricity it might if we build enough nuclear power plants and do that kind of stuff but I'd like to use this as an example of a investment approach so I don't know if I've heard anybody talk about this investment approach now I don't give investment advice specific investment advice so I'll just put this out as a hypothesis but it's one I've used and it seems to work it goes like this if you're trying to pick winning companies you're probably going to lose like I 95% of the time you might get lucky uh you might get lucky 5% of the time but you're going to lose about 95% of the time so in general you should get an index fund and diversify and just let it do what it do what it does but there's one thing I've been tracking for my entire life to see if it would be an investment opportunity and there's one thing that appears to me to work way more than half of the time and that is that when there's a one-time change in the economy if you bet on the strongest company that's involved in that onetime change like I mean one time ever like will never happen again um then you could probably make money for example in the early days of personal computers there was only one time in human history when personal computers would go from nobody has one to everybody has one that's only only once in human history that'll happen so if you were to find the strongest company in that domain which would have been hard because a lot of them were coming and going but if you'd put your money in say D or Apple you probably would have had a winner like a a really big winner imagine if you put early money into Dell computers or apple now if you'd put your early money into IBM IBM got end of that business but even the IBM stock did pretty well so then the cell phones came along um the you know the well first before there were smartphones there were just the small cell phones and I worked for the phone company and I said to myself huh the there will only be one time in human history when people go from their landlines to a handheld phone so if you were to invest in any of those major phone companies that were rolling out cell cell phones you would have made a lot of money and probably two out a three of companies that you picked in that domain would have been winners then there was the internet uh I remember at the at the birth of the internet when it was was called the worldwide and nobody even knew the words for it um I asked an engineer what should I invest in to like get in the bottom floor of this internet thing it looks like it could be big and the engineer said uh Cisco and I said what's that he said well they make these things called you know Network blah blah blah and I didn't buy those I didn't buy that stock if I if IID bought Netscape before you had ever heard of the word internet literally literally you would never even heard of it yet do you know how much money I would have made on that one time ever change in society so then the smartphone comes along you know you could you could be forgiven if you didn't think it was going to be a hit because the first smartphones were terrible but it was the one time in human history that we would move to smartphones so if you bought Apple stock boy would you be happy these onetime changes um so that's that's what I see with electric vehicles and it's what I see with Tesla so Tesla is the leading company in a thing that will happen only once in human history which is gas automobiles will you know be dismissed in favor of electric so I don't give investment advice but I would point out that if you can find anything that's going to happen only once in human history and it's unavoidable and it's definitely going to happen you probably have a two out of three chance of picking a super winner out at the lot it's not it's not 100% but it would go from a coin flip to two out of three I think pretty quickly all right um according to study finds climate change was greatly overestimated because oceans cool the Earth in more than way one way so one of the ways that apparently we did not realize until recently is that uh the ocean puts off sulfur gas produced by the marine life I don't know if it's fish farting or what they're doing but some kind of marine life puts off sulfur and apparently that's a really uh a really powerful chemistry to put into the atmosphere because it produces a lot of cooling more than you'd think I guess now how many times have I read you a story about a major variable that had been missed in climate change and now they have to put it in there but now now everything will be good I mean it was almost perfect but now we made this little tweak even better um it feels to me that our confidence in the in the models tell me if I'm wrong the confidence the science had in their models when they had oh let's say 10 major variables completely wrong is exactly the same as their current confidence when they believe they've accurately added 10 more variables and surprisingly it didn't really change the model at all now if you know what to look for in terms of scams I don't this one couldn't be could not be screaming any louder that the the climate models are are basically now what I'm not saying because I know I'll get quoted in a context I'm not saying the Earth isn't warming I would know how would I know and and I'm not saying that humans have nothing to do with it again how would I know the only only thing I know is what science tells me and science is so so lying about anything important that it's like nothing happened it's as if science didn't even weigh in has no credibility whatsoever at this point so when I look at climate models and you see that they keep adding major variables major variables like oh we didn't realize the sun was doing all this and oh the cloud cover and oh it turns out that the oceans in at least three different ways is more of a counteracting of heat than we thought so if you ever see that the model worked when it was all completely different and amazingly it still works now after you've changed all the assumptions that's that's one of two things should happened after 10 years of finding out we have major major variable problems either they should have said who it looks like it's way less of a problem than we thought or oh damn this is a a much bigger problem than we thought we're we're going to be dead in six years not 12 but what are the odds that you can change all the assumptions going into your model and the model stays the same for 20 years yeah that's well those New Jersey drones and I guess other places too just gets more interesting uh as you know Senator van Drew from New Jersey believes he has good sources that said they the drones were being released every night from an Iranian Mother Ship parked off the coast the Pentagon said quote there's no so-called Mother Ship launching drones toward the United States and I believe I heard that Andrew has doubled down and says that uh that there are there are drones coming out of an ranian ship he believes his sources I believe that vanw probably is getting Kracken meaning somebody is feeding him some lies so that he disgraces himself in public and becomes less electable because of it so it feels like somebody's playing a dirty trick on him but I can't be sure it's just what it looks like so here's what's the funny things I think it's funny that the American public I saw some people asking this question I wondered if it was influenced by me but I saw some people asking the question um government uh government I have have a question if you say you you know that the drones are not from a foreign adversary and you also know that they're not dangerous how could you know they're not dangerous and also know that they're not from a foreign adversary unless you know what they are is that is that not the right question unless you do know what they are you can't tell us they're not coming from a foreign adversary because that means you you either know what they are or you don't if you don't know what they are then you also don't know how dangerous they are is is that not common sense now if they had said to us um well we do have a way of knowing they're not dangerous for example if they said yeah we we can tell they're made of balls of wood and it looks like a hobbyist I'd say oh okay and that's a good reason to say it doesn't sound like an adversary or dangerous but they're not saying that they're they're not giving you any indication that they have even a clue what these are but they know they're not dangerous and also the air is not full of military assets trying to bring them down Andor figure out what they are do you need any more evidence that these are US military tests now the US military might not own the drones it might be the vendors still own them and they're just demonstrating uh or they could be from another you know maybe it's a product of another country's military that's allied with us could be a NATO country that has drones and they're testing them out and seeing if we want to get in on them and you know maybe recommend them for NATO or something but it's definitely us do you all agree the drones is us it's got to be American drones it's got to be military because otherwise the military would be up there shooting them down so here here's the other thing that i' I've heard that's just crazy uh that they're invisible to people in helicopters come on come on really they're invisible only to people in helicopters that you you you mean the easiest way that you could go up and check what's going on a helicopter they're invisible you can see them clearly from the ground for Miles they have lights on them they have running lights you know like a regular commercial drone and you telling me that the helicopters can't see them so so apparently America is trying out our helicopter only invisibility cloak oh yeah you can see them from the ground but boy you get in a helicopter nothing the the Ridiculousness that we're being set up with here is crazy it's crazy that we're being asked to believe this now um here's what oh here's the other thing that's making me laugh the when the drones come out it's between four and 11:00 p.m.

nightly between 4:00 and 11:00 p.m.

is exactly the time that a human being would want to test something at night after 11 o'clock everybody wants to go home right because they have families and stuff so you don't want to go past 11: and you want to wait till it's dark you start around 4 or 5 it's so obviously Americans testing these if if it were one person or an attack do you think it would stick to uh evening hours between 4: and 11: you you don't think they'd do a little attacking after midnight if it was some kind of like clever plot or if it were hobbyists you think all the hobbyists go home at 11 o'clock no it's obviously a group of people because they've agreed as a group what the starting time is and what the ending time is you would not get this consistency if it were one person or a military thing or something that was trying to be unpredictable but you would definitely get uh let's do this from 4 to 11 everybody good with that yeah yeah we know we have to do it at night don't want to go past 11 yeah 4 to 11 sounds good so yes we know it's a group of Americans deciding what time to do it so it's the military um they also say that the drones can't be detected by radio now what does that mean that mean that they can't Jam them and they don't get a signal that tells them it's been controlled from afar because here's what I think one of the things they might be testing is AI navigation meaning that they're not using GPS and for the time that it's over the residential area where maybe you could check for the radio signals um that it's not using any so it might be flying independently under the direction of whoever sent it but using an AI to decide what to do and how to get back so that would make sense I mean obviously obviously if you had an advanced drone the thing you would definitely be testing is can somebody detect your radio signal in jamet so makes sense anyway um here's what I think we should do we should demand the resignation of The Joint Chiefs of Staff because they seem to have demonstrated and told with complete Clarity that there's no Homeland defense am I right they have proven if if we were to take them seriously if we take the military seriously that they're not their drones which is trying to tell us that they're not involved but they don't say that because they're involved obviously we should we should call their Bluff and say oh my God we have no home we have no defense of our skies in the Homeland whatsoever so this this tells us that we wouldn't know if there's an Iranian Mothership and we wouldn't we wouldn't be able to shoot down anything that's predictable and small and and helpless we wouldn't be able to shoot them down that would indicate we have no Homeland defense whatsoever which we found out a little bit in 911 didn't we didn't you think that in 911 there would be you know at the first first sign of trouble the the US military would be in the air and shooting down any trouble well maybe they shot down one maybe they didn't depending what what you believe about the one that went down in Pennsylvania and and then the Chinese spy balloon comes over and it looks like again we have no air defense whatsoever is it possible that the country has no air defense I think it is I think that's actually possible that the United States has no defense whatsoever and it's also possible that we don't need one because if anybody came and bombed the American Homeland they would you know evaporate a day later so it would never make sense for anybody to attack the US Homeland if if we could determine who they were and that would be just suicide so maybe we don't need any it could be that the military people said you know what you know if anybody attacks us we'll destroy their entire Homeland in five minutes so they probably won't know but they're pretending as if we have no Homeland defense whatsoever and I think that's a firing offense inflation is up more than people thought if you believe statistics which I don't so I'm not even going to talk about that I don't believe economic statistics um there's new uh there's new Pete Heth hoax that fortunately got debunked in time so apparently West Point's public affairs office uh lied to a publication called prua and they they said that P hegf NE never even applied to West Point I guess P had said he had applied but didn't go there um and it turns out that Heth actually kept the the letter that he got in 1999 uh that was an West Point acceptance letter he actually had it he actually kept the record when does that ever happen and and I guess proa tried twice you know to follow up to make sure that um West Point really really checked the records and they really knew for sure that he had not applied and they swore that he had not applied and then he showed the letter that showed he'd applied and was accepted well if you haven't seen it yet there's a clip going around by the trigonometry podcast guys that is just really good I I highly recommend it I'm going to give you the highlights but they had a a British academic smart guy a Rafe hadel Manu and he was trying to explain why the West has apparently you the western civilization has apparently had more genius and exceptionalism than a lot of other places now this is what he says I'm not so sure that we've got all the genius and exceptionalism I don't know about that but what he says about it is fascinating so hydrated good coffee what he says is that one of the reasons the West um did well and last several hundred years is that the Catholic Church banned cousin marriages did you know that that was a little bit of History I wasn't aware of um I mean I knew that we don't do cousant marriages but I didn't know that there was some specific you know point at which history turned on that but I guess the Catholic church at one point banned cousin marriages now this part is a little unclear to me but if I understand it once you've banned cousin marriages um you're going to drift toward nuclear family am that are not related to the rest of your family so in other words you would move from something that's more tribal where literally you keep things in the family so to speak to where you forge out on your own and you become a little nuclear family and then you got to figure out how to make it you know without the the big tribal support now if you're trying to make it as a family unit you will necessarily need to rely on non-family people I'll call them straight Rangers but there are people that you meet uh who make deals with you so I'll grow some food I'll give you money for it you work here I'll pay you basically a high trust society and so I've always wondered about this I always wondered how the United States and some other Western countries have a situation where if somebody says they'll do some work they usually do it and you usually pay I mean every now and then you get a bad egg but basically we trust strangers like our entire economy is not completely trusting them like we'll do what we can to protect ourselves but ultimately you do have to trust strangers and and so the family unit which was caused by an end to cousin marriages causes more uh Trust of strangers which creates a far more dynamic system for inventing stuff and he and uh Rafe said that uh I don't know if this is true but he said 75% of the world still has cousin marriages does that sound right 75% of the world has cousin marriages that sounds High to me are you telling me that China China has routinely cousin marriages if it does I didn't know that I mean I'm not saying it doesn't but that sounds high he also says 90% of the world uh doesn't have the same notion of exclusive nuclear families that doesn't sound right either I thought the vast majority of modern you know not just Western but any any modern country I thought most of them had nuclear families as their core am I wrong about that so there's some stuff about this I don't fully understand but I would note and because I know you're going to be shouting it in the comments I know you you're going to be saying in the comments that the end of cousin marriages probably increased the IQ of the people who banned cousin marriages compared to the ones who are still marrying their cousins that's what you're going to say isn't it and you're going to say that uh it just made the Western people smarter they just had fewer cousin marriages fewer problems other know if that's true I'm no expert on cousin marriages but it's something that's floating around the internet so that would answer a lot and that would suggest that we have somewhat of a big Advantage but that we're losing it because people are not in nuclear families anymore but even if they're not and even if they're operating as individuals then they need even more trust because an individual doesn't even have family members to r on so so I think we may be moving to an even higher high trust which is another Advantage the other Advantage I always hear about the west but America in particular so this is an advantage of America over even Great Britain and the advantage is in America if you try something big and it fails what you mostly get out of that is experience so you can try another thing and maybe that fails too but if you keep trying you'll get a winner and then you will be hailed as a winner and then you'll be happy and people will respect you I guess in Great Britain if you try a startup and it doesn't work you must spend the rest of your life trying trying to erase the shame shame so and I think you know some of the Asian countries have the same problem that if you fail everybody knows and then your family is disgraced and that's the end of that story so don't try anything risky because failure is too much of a problem I literally wrote a book called had it failed almost everything and still went big and you've probably seen a number of books that came after it that also had a similar theme and even before it a similar theme that the failure is basically a pathway to success that's very American it turns out it's super American it just uh honestly I didn't even know when I wrote the book that it was not just important to say that you know failure is more of a path than it is a you know a destination um I didn't realize that that little message is what keeps America America maybe more than anything the fact that we're willing to try things even if they might fail and we can live with it we just get over it somebody was asking me the other day about regret and I said I've never experienced it what's it feel like I don't even know what it feels like I can't think of anything I've ever regretted there are just things that work and things that don't but even the things that didn't work taught me something useful so it was on my path to success so regret I'm exactly where I want to be well what am I regretting so that might be a very American thing and I I it makes me happy that my book could be part of the American psyche you it's small part uh but a small part of making sure that you know that failure is not the end point failure is just a path all right every morning I wake up to the hilarity of another Democrat who doesn't understand why they lost but tries to un explain it like they do I saw a clip with uh bunch of people left the election talking some on each side and uh somebody named Sarah Longwell must be a journalist associated with the left leing politics uh she she said that Trump won because he does more lying uh and therefore he's better at it now I'm paraphrasing but I think that's pretty close to what she said that Trump lies about everything therefore he got a lot of practice at it and then he was really good at it and then that that excellent lying is what put him over the top um does Sarah Longwell think that the Democrats didn't do any lying how could you how could you be alive for the last eight years and think that Trump is just all by himself off their life H I sure like that everybody else is telling the truth but that Trump he's the one politician that lies and again I always say that uh you can't you can't evaluate The Lying by the quantity of them Trump did you know infinite interviews so if he had any one thing he said that was like a little hyperbole he would say it in all of his interviews and then they would count them as there's one there's one there's one meanwhile while the Democrats would be putting together this massive intelligence-led FBI supported hoax with you know many moving parts and getting the getting the media involved and like the really big lies like the really big ones like the fine people hoax and the Russia collusion and the drinking bleach hoax and all those other things like big organized multi-member thousands of people involved in the media keeping the LIE alive and knowing it and knowing that they were keeping a lie alive they knew it how do you compare that to Trump saying that your TV might go off if the wind stops blowing when you know it's just I verbally and they would just count that is one lie for Trump and none for them because they think the hoaxes are real imagine thinking that those that the Democrats have been telling the truth for eight years how how could you even function you you would be so confused about anything you saw if you thought your team was telling you the truth all the time anyway uh Zuckerberg and meta have donated a million dollars to Trump's inaugural fund now that's a pretty clever move so as you know Zuckerberg is trying to disassociate himself from the crazy left he's not trying to make himself part of the right he would just like to be less involved in the in the political stuff because it didn't work out when he did it so he didn't he probably knows he didn't help he may have hurt for $400 million he may have spent $400 million making things worse so I think he's learned his lesson because if there's one thing you can say about Mark Zuckerberg that everyone should agree with he is really smart I don't know if you noticed but he's really smart like crazy smart so yes when he when he when he does something that doesn't work and then he adjusts that's that's that smart thing there it is uh so he failed like an American and instead of wallowing his shame forever he said oh well that didn't work what do we do now oh we'll donate to the inaugural process because that's not de that's not really donating to the politics of it perfect that's perfect so he is helping out giving his million which is not much you know for for them and it's the thing that's the least political thing you could ever give it to the inauguration because presumably you know he would do it for anybody's inauguration at this point um nicely done yeah but but it also is a indication that the way the smart people are seeing Trump is as someone they can work with right that's a big big deal CU before they saw him as something they needed to defeat and now the smart people all the smart people are saying we could work with this wait you want you want a fewer regulations oh well yeah we could work with that wait you want to lower taxes H you have my attention you you want to um put criminals back in jail I think this is very common sensical I'm seeing the comments the pictures of trump on the cover of Time Magazine person of the year now if Trump had not been the person of the year wouldn't you kind of question whether Time Magazine had lost it because remember Time Magazine when they pick the person of the year they're not saying the person we love the most because I think Hitler and monum ban have been on the cover just the most impactful one who who who else was close you know you you might say Elon Musk did more and that you could make a strong argument for that but Trump did it in a storybook way like even more than even more than Elon musk's giant Chopsticks catching a rocket which is like one of the most crazy awesome things we've ever watched in our lives uh still I think Trump's story was the more interesting one I think they got this one right meanwhile Bill Clinton according to Brar news he was talking to somebody in public oh he's on The View and he said he was uh open to discussing with Biden a preemptive pardon for Hillary before Trump comes in I don't think there's any chance that Trump's going after Hillary Clinton am I reading the room wrong now if I were her I'd be worried because she knows what she has done and she plays a you know a tough sport politics but in my view there's not any risk at all to her now would he go after some people who are really directly related at a lower level say some X FBI people who tried to run the the Russia collusion hoax maybe and I'd be all for that if they knew they were acting you know illegally yeah I'm all for it um but even if Clinton was little bit illegal I think Trump would be the smart George Washington here to say you know what I hear what you're saying about Hillary Clinton but we can't go there we we just have to let that go because it'll pull the country apart and there's not enough there's not enough upside so I think Trump knows that and I've heard him talk in that form before so I I do trust Trump to not threaten Hillary um I don't think he'll threaten her because she's no longer much of a risk to him and it would be a terrible terrible look after he got lawed and lawed and lawf fared to just return the lawfare especially to a stale case because Hillary is not exactly on the top of you know the urant things these days anyway you want to hear about the most thing that Biden ever did I know it's a long it's a long list but the following is something that Joe Biden just did that you just when I tell you see if you cannot say the freaking all right he just did clemency and uh pardons so he pardoned uh 39 Americans and he commuted the sentences of nearly 15 other 1500 others 1,500 what's that remind you of 1500 people he commuted their sentences and let them out of jail 1,500 you that's exactly the number of J Sixers in jail now maybe this is a coincidence but there are a lot of numbers in the world you had to pick 1500 you you those people need to be released immediately and January 21st can't come fast enough because I'm pretty sure Trump's going to let you know most or all of them out but this is did was there no time that anybody said 1500s a bad number you make it 1,600 make it 1499 but don't make it 1500 that's just rubbing in our faces you honestly doesn't feel like politics doesn't feel like stupid it feels like you're just being a now that's what it feels like fre the J Sixers so Carrie lake has been selected by Trump uh for uh the head of the uh Voice of America Now voice of America is a media outlet that the government runs in 40 40 different languages you say uh yeah 40 languages and broadcasts all over the world and various forums from Radio to television to social media now uh I asked social media or I'm sorry I asked AI if Voice of America is America's propaganda Network and uh AI didn't want to say that it says the editorial it it's independent editorial stuff is it is it really is it really independent my understanding give me a fact check on this but isn't the only reason the voice of America exists is for American propaganda to reach other other markets I didn't know there was any other reason for it now I think when they say you know that they don't step on the editorial probably means they also don't hire anybody who doesn't understand the mission of the voice of America I mean I suppose if they made a mistake and accidentally hired somebody who didn't know what the whole purpose of the organization was they might raise something anti-American but I don't think they would last very long on the job the government of America is not going to pay to broadcast bad American stuff to other countries and make them hate us so I don't think you have to edit it it doesn't require a lot of editing because everybody knows what the job is now uh if it sounded like I'm criticizing Voice of America I'm not we probably need it to me it sounds like something that's probably really useful so um so here's the question that's on my mind so Carri Lake of course a national figure well recognized uh came close to being Governor close to being Senator uh and you think to yourself is this a big enough job like my first thought was hm feels like not high enough leverage for a republican with that much skill and then I thought to myself H I wonder if there's if the plan is to tweak The Voice of America for good purposes and then I thought to myself what what if they used voice of America as one way to correct the fake news and I wonder if they had that conversation because that would be interesting could you imagine for example that voice America continues to say positive things about America so it doesn't change its basic Mission but what if on top of that it became so credible that it was a source for telling you what hoaxes are being told by the other networks because in the other networks are like the opposite propaganda you know if you've got a Republican president the fake news is going to be saying uh the president of the United States is garbage and making all the wrong decisions well you don't really want your enemies to hear that because they will not fear us and respect us um so suppose The Voice of America was the the reference that Trump could always use and say look CNN says this but here's what's really happening and then forward a voice of America article because if you put Carrie Lake in charge of the voice of America there's zero chance that they're going to be reporting hoaxes as if they're real there's no chance of that I mean not not intentionally of course but it's one more place that that Trump can maybe guarantee that there's a place that you can look at that has credibility that can debunk the other hoaxes that are surely coming so if that's what the plan is you know a little bit little extra on the mission then it's definitely the right person um for it because she's got you know great experience in that domain specifically meaning TV news Etc so I think the fit is great I just hope that Trump is looking at it and Carrie lake is looking at it as may maybe Voice of America could be a little extra something we we need um so um I would like to get into this uh this gamified murder thing um have you noticed that because of the internet we've managed to turn every tragedy into sort of a game so I'd like to explain the game so the game here with this CEO um the CEO murder is that you have to pretend that the people you don't like um are not showing enough empathy to the victim but that you unlike whoever you're talking about you have the proper and exact right amount of empathy and uh you want to you want to misrepresent the other person so it seems like they have less empathy so I'm going to give you an example of that um I'm going to misinterpret Elizabeth Warren and show you with my theatrics that I'm much better than her as a human being now remember this is just gamified I'm not actually better than her as a human being maybe I am but that's not the point the point is that this we've gamified this all right let me get let me get into character because I have to act act act as if I'm actually offended by this all right well there's a story about elizab Elizabeth Warren oh my God she said that the quote visceral response to the insurance CEO's killing should be quote a warning to everyone else in the Health Care system oh my God how can Elizabeth Warren show so little sympathy to the family and the victim I'm so much better than her I'm so so much better watch this Elizabeth Warren don't you understand that this was a senseless killing of someone who didn't deserve it and the family has to deal with this and you're you're acting as though the the murder was justified really really you're acting like it's Justified I spit on you for your lack of empathy not like my empathy which is is excellent so the bottom line here is I think I won this round uh by showing that my empathy for the victim is way better than hers way better I love winning meanwhile Woody Allen Chef is going to sue him for uh for firing and um the uh apparently the problem was that was somebody who was in the U military reserves and he said he was in the military reserves when he got hired now that means that he would miss some days every month because he has a military obligation but um so he went off to a two-day military thing which would have been completely understood and approved uh but I guess he came back a day longer cuz the training lasted a day longer and then got fired now they also complained about his cooking so if you're a chef and they don't like your cooking that'd be a good reason to fire you but imagine if you will that let's say I don't know if this is the case but let's say he was he was a chef for five days a week so Woody and Sun are thinking yay five days a week we don't have to cook but then he says well I'm going to be going two of those five but also I have the we off so that's four of the seven days I won't be around and they're like all right well that's what we agreed to okay and then he says oh I'm also not going to come in the day after because the training went long so there'll be two days I'm off and three days that uh that I'm away uh and my job was to cook for you five days a week so they fired him because it was obvious that this you know might happen again this cooking wasn't that good anyway they say now I have some insight into this because I got sued this for the same reason there is a law that says if you hire somebody who's in the reserves and you know that they have an obligation to say you know work on work on some periods that you have to let them do it and you have to pay them so they have to be paid um they have to be paid and you have to allow them to have their time and and if you fire them for that if you fire them for being away from work for their military Reserve that's the end of the court case the the court just gives that automatically to the military Reserve person if there's any question that you got fired for even partially because you had a military commitment you lose the case there's nothing you can say you can't say but my company would suffer nope that counts for nothing you can't say um I can't function if I I I'd have to close my business if I'm paying this person to do the job but then I have to pay a second person to fill in for them because they can't be there to do the job if I have to do that I have to close my company I can't make enough money you have to close the company there's there's nothing you can do there is no defense if you tell a military person that you're going to fire them for doing what the military required them to do that's the end of the case so the lawsuit is almost certainly uh wood he writes a check for $100,000 the lawyer keeps 30% and the chef gets another job that's the way these are settled because the lawyer for Woody would know that you you can't take this to court it's 100% chance of losing 100% he he has no chance of winning and I'm not even sure that's a bad idea so in his case probably the chef was a weekday chef but if you hire somebody who's in the reserves you have to know that if you thought they were going to work on weekends you're not getting what you thought you were going to get so in my restaurant days U my restaurant partner hired somebody in reserves uh for the job of the weekend manager and then later he informed us that he couldn't work weekends quite often because of his military service so my manager said oh well the only reason you were promoted is to work weekends because those are the days I don't work so given that it was the only reason you were promoted and now you say you can't do it uh we'll put you back in your old job which was a server the server I made as much money by the way and he was a server before that and he sued and our defense was wait a minute we hired him to do a thing and he says because the military service he can't do the thing we only hired him for the one specific thing and he says that's a one specific thing he can't do so we would have to pay two people one to do the job he's not doing and then him as well and it's a small business and the lawyer said Give It Up forget it pay him make an offer you you can't win this and so we did we paid him um so it's probably the same same situation um see what else is going on so the leader of Syria you know the rebels took over Syria and uh here's his resume he was the commander of Isis in Syria then he was the founder and leader of jebat elra in al-Qaeda in Syria he was the leader of Jabba Al sham later the leader of hayat alsam I guess they're fundamentalist groups and now he's the leader of free Syria I I saw him doing some kind of public thing the other day and I swear that he he was sounding like he was a Democrat and he was saying that he wanted to be the leader of all the people and you know he made it sound like he wasn't going to be discriminating and being a terrorist and killing people but correct me if I'm wrong is it not the strategy that when you first get power and before you've Consolidated it you tell the world that you're not going to be any trouble at all and then you consolidate power maybe takes five years and then you do anything you want it to do no matter how bad it is so I suspect things might be not terrible for the Christians in Syria you still a little bit terrible but probably if they hang around it's going to get worse that would be my guess so I hope they get out um and um I I think the leaders of Syria are probably trying to form a caliphate so I'd watch out for the caliphate now here's the thing I wonder if if there if the Middle East let's say some charismatic leader and maybe this is the charismatic leader Rises what's his name I didn't get his name um but uh given that we know that war is going to be drone Warfare in the future the Middle East isn't going to be able to make a lot of drones they're not exactly a manufacturing power so they'd have to depend on somebody like China to to give them all their War drones if they wanted to conquer enough territory to have a caliphate caliphate caliphate I don't know how to say that so I know the nature of war is changing so that the Middle East countries are going to have a big disadvantage I think so the countries that can design and crank out drones are going to own everything so that's China us maybe Russia um fedman just gave a double thumbs up to uh Republican Elise stefanic who was picked as un Ambassador so breit Bart's reporting this so fedman continues to do smart things he's finding very small ways and this is a very small way to act like a common sense person who agrees with the Republicans when it makes sense to agree with them and disagrees with them when in his opinion it makes sense to disagree now uh I saw some people being confused that when I say good things about Federman that it's like I don't understand that he votes for the most Progressive things and you know he's a dangerous voter I get it I understand that I'm not saying he should be running the country I'm only talking about his technique so the same way that I talked about AOC having good persuasion techniqu which she doesn't anymore I think she had an adviser that she may have lost but uh Federman every time he does something where in the smallest way he can say you know Republicans you're good people and I agree with you on this one he gets closer and closer to being a national candidate he's closer and closer and the thing I appreciate about appreciate about it is the technique so the technique is that when there's a little thing he can agree agree with he says it publicly and without any pullback he just says it you know clearly and cleanly yeah that's common sense I'm in favor that that is really strong technique because when he disagrees with us what's the first thing you're going to think you're going to rethink your own thoughts or your own position because if somebody who's just always on one side and there only can ever be on one side you discount their opinion completely because you know it didn't matter if they even thought through they were going to be on that side but if somebody sends the impression that on every topic he's going to look at it commonsensically and give some examples oh this is a good candidate it's a republican but it's a good candidate two thumbs up every time he does that he sends a signal that he's thinking about it from the ground up so if he does three or four things that Republicans say Yeah well yeah that's a good point we agree with that common sense and that he says something you don't agree with politically you know something that agrees a little bit more with a progressive agenda your first thought should be ah I don't like that but why is this smart guy saying it see that's the the superpower that Trump has at the moment Trump's superpower with his pirateship of advisers from you know Elon Musk to RFK Jr and Tulsi Etc it makes you think that they must be operating on some kind of uh Common Sense basis otherwise they couldn't get along because you know you have ex Democrats who presumably wouldn't easily embrace the right unless there was some common sense thing they could hang on to and they are so Trump has the common sense advantage in the sense that it's clear that he will look at both sides and look and listen to the voices from both sides and go after it as a common sense thing whatever it is so Fan's building that he doesn't have it yet but watching him do it is fun The Washington Post continues to move a little bit toward being useful instead of just being a propaganda rag so it could be that Jeff Bezos is pretty serious about turning the wapo Washington Post into more of a credible publication instead of the propaganda Raga has been but Byron York is pointing out that they've got an editorial about the Jordan Neely the the man who died with the um Penny situation on the subway and I just want to describe how barer New York describes um the editorial I liked how he did this he said the liberal editorial board editorial board wants to say Jordan neie should have been committed that is self-evidently true but but it causes the writers so much pain that they have to L it with so much of the the criminal is really the victim and we we failed Jordan and we're not racist verbiage uh verbiage that it takes them a while to get to the point but they finally get there so this is the uh the corner that the identity people Point paint themselves into that if they want to pretend they're moving toward common sense they have to somehow shed everything they've ever said and thought before because it was identity based like this was so common sense screams that this poor Jordan Neely guy should have gotten some help and you wish the government had some kind of facility to do it so we can certainly agree on that um according to krie picket writes for the Washington Times the FBI is trying to uh anti-trump the FBI before he gets there so Christopher Ray said he would be I guess retiring from that job before Trump gets um uh gets an office so he doesn't have to get fired that's a good play but before he does that he's also apparently doing a bunch of promotions so he's promoting people into positions that unless Trump's FBI guy gets rid of them there might be a lot of people who don't like Trump in major FBI positions so this is from an inside source and that they're planning to slow walk the New FBI director's entry into the agency for three to four months so they're literally plotting to make sure that their own management can't be effective now if any of that's true 100% of them need to be fired or at least the ones involved with it if they're literally just trying to make changes so it's harder for Trump to do his job everybody involved with that needs to get fired even if you got promoted yesterday if you're any part of that no no it's not your job to make it hard for your boss to do the job of the people of the United States no you need to be fired for that well uh Jen weager has been going on some conservative podcasts and he said this he thought that the left needed to hear he said two amazing things just happened first I went on about a half a dozen right-wing shows and they all agreed he says in capitals we should cut the Pentagon prevent generals from working for defense contractors and Edward Snowden should be pardoned and and he says the second thing is that absolutely no one on the left believes the right so six on of six podcasts all said yeah we like all all that stuff and not a single person on the left believes that's true what do these things all have in common cutting the Pentagon preventing generals from you becoming defense contractors and pardoning Snowden now the Snowden ones a little different but the first two are just common sense Common Sense tells you the Pentagon has some blow of course you want to cut it the bloat and preventing generals from having a conflict of interest that's not political that's just common sense that's just basic common sense so how weird is it that Republicans who are the common sense party for the most part uh offer Common Sense opinions on Common Sense things and the Democrats are like oh no I don't believe that I don't believe that at all they're they're pretty gone pretty gone anyway um my opinion is this I think there's only two ways for somebody to become president and stay president without being assassinated and I think that you either have to agree in advance or they know in advance that you're going to start major optional Wars so that feeds the military-industrial complex extra Wars or if you're not going to do extra Wars like would be Trump for example or Reagan for example you have to agree to rebuild the military so you have to say our military is falling apart we're going to need to spend ton of money rebuilding that military I think if you do one of those two things you can stay alive and stay in office otherwise you get impeached or assassinated because I think the military-industrial complex uh is basically full of professional Killers right the the whole industry is full of people who have literally killed people professionally in the military and uh yeah I think president any President should be afraid of that group so I don't think they would put up with anything less than major money going toward their Direction Canada as you know has a youth in Asia is legal so if you've got a uh terminal illness you can get that option but also they recently said if you have a chronic illness that just makes your life terrible you can you can check out from Life on your own and let's say 15,000 people uh did it last year so almost 5% of the deaths in the country are people choosing to do it themselves but here's the interesting political part 96% of the people who are choosing the option to end their own lives are white 96% are white but only 70% of the country is white so it's legal and it's mostly killing white people it's legal and it's overwhelmingly mostly killing white people now nobody knows why I mean I could offer some guesses but I don't know why but suppose they had gone the other way suppose for whatever cultural or other mysterious reasons white people weren't taking this option but black citizens were taking it in an overwhelming number do you think this would be legal do you think it would be legal to have a law that was disproportionately killing by their own choice but killing minorities not a chance there's not a chance that that would be legal but as long as white people are killing themselves yeah no problem and by the way I'm in favor of it so I don't want them to change the law uh we have the same law in California I was I was part of the lobbying to to get that an option in California you never know if you might need it meanwhile there's a story about uh Mc.

Connell some call him Mitch um he thinks that it's a dangerous world and uh if America stays out of the the wars and the business in other countries and we become more isolationists that it would be reminiscent of before World War II uh he says even the slogan is the same America first that's what they said in the 30s so Mitch Mc.

Connell uh you didn't know that I'm in favor of um youth in Asia I've always been in favor of it I'm I'm one of the main main people in favor of it I'm surprised you didn't know that anyway um so here's my problem with Mc.

Connell and the other isolationist I don't believe anything Mc.

Connell says as his reasons for why he wants anything I just think he's well let me say it directly I believe that when somebody is that old and that infirmed and they stay in their job in Congress that the only reason for it is they're covering up their own crimes or somebody they care about because nobody in their right mind would keep working in this condition Feinstein Mc.

Connell it doesn't make any sense Pelosi there's got to be some reason that goes beyond you know serving the country or whatever because they all know somebody else could do a better job now some of it might be that when you reach a senior position your own team won't let you leave because they need they need somebody in the senior position maybe they like you in there but here's my problem the the logic of this isn't holding up unless you think Putin and Hitler are basically the same guy now my understanding of History which is not so terrific is that um the problem with Hitler is he was conquering other countries and it didn't look like he was willing to ever stop so that's a bad thing if you were staying out of that you could make an argument oh if you stay under that he eventually conquers everything gets all the resources and then conquers you makes sense but is Putin somebody who's trying to conquer the world or is he trying to maybe increase the Russian Empire but only to Russian speaking people who are on his border who and I'm not defending him I'm just describing uh that maybe he does have Ambitions to increase but not two people who were not Russian friendly Russian speaking historically Russian now I don't think he should be doing any of that but I don't think he wants to conquer Britain does he do you think do you think Putin if he could he he'd be you know Blitz creaking across Europe and going for fr France I don't think so but then let's turn it around the United States recently conquered Ukraine the United States conquered a you a country that's like a cousin to Russia with great history lots of Russian speakers you know at least on the border are we the Hitler in this case if if you had to say all right who's the Hitler the United States conquering a Russian cousin entity right on their border or Putin who wants to control Russian entities on his border now both of them are military both of them are killing people to get the thing that they want but I I feel like in this analogy we're Hiller are we not we're the ones taking over a country that we had no no business taking over and we're doing it for Empire reasons very clearly Empire reasons we're the Hiller you know that right now here's where it gets complicated I don't know if it's a bad thing obviously it would bad be a bad thing to literally be Hitler and you know killing minorities for beinging minorities but we're not doing that what we are doing as a country and we've done it for a couple hundred years is every dirty trick in the book to expand our Empire that's who we are that's who America is we are dirty tricksters who try to conquer every country we can because the more control we have the better we think our own Futures will be it's for the money mostly but money and National Defense are basically the same thing so yeah no where the Hitler Mc.

Connell you have this backwards so do you think that Mc.

Connell is saying what he believes do you think that he believes that this is like the the runup to World War II or does he know that America is the Hitler in this case and we're just you know he's just propagandizing I feel like he knows we're the Hitler but again I'm not going to criticize anybody who says we have to be an Empire or we become nothing we you either have to be an Empire or slaves basically and I think it's been like that through all of history so anyway that's happening um according to uh John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health half of the calories of people eat at home are Ultra processed foods now if you try to not eat food that's bad for you in America it would either be really expensive or really time consuming or you'd have to do tons of research to find out what's good for you and what isn't I feel like uh there needs to be a new model for making and preparing and eating food like really a basically different model and now I ask the following question do you think that after all these years of people trying various indoor farming experiments and the and the fact that indoor farming still hasn't caught on at least wherever there's outdoor farming is easily available um do you think that the big food has been destroying any innovation in indoor farming because indoor farming would allow people to do it themselves locally and it would cut out big big food for at least the people who use the indoor Farms I feel as if it's nearly impossible that we could have gotten to 2024 with you know all the things we can do technically and that we can't build a an indoor Farm that's local maybe attached to your house but very very local and it's cost effective and low maintenance and low cost we can't do that it it feels like there must be some like large entity that's trying to make sure that we can't and the only one I could think of would be big food because everybody else would like good food so I'm just this is just my prec conspiracy theory um I don't have any evidence there's any kind of conspiracy like that but I did work in the food industry for a while because I I made a food product the dill burrito and one of the things I I learned working in the food industry is that it's completely corrupt the food industry is mostly criminals that was my experience it was the most corrupt thing I've ever seen now I've worked at Banking and bankers Are Not Angels all the time but they run a pretty clean shop right not they weren't all criminals they were just doing their jobs phone company I worked for the phone company for years not all go-getters but they were good people honest mostly you know just trying to do their job but my experience in the food distribution and grocery industry I think they're pretty much all Crooks I I I saw some you don't even want to know about it's it's almost a criminal Enterprise so I have no evidence that they've suppressed indoor farming um Innovations uh but I'd love to talk to Kimble musk about it I know he was into indoor farming he he would know the real story so maybe I'll look into that PJ media is reporting that uh the mainstream media finally admits Obamacare is a failure but primarily in cost um it's a success in signing people up so that's what the Democrats say but it would be a failure in controlling costs just so you know Rachel madow um ratings have tanked along with MSNBC in general so o is reporting uh that so she's now got her show went from five days a week where she was paid $30 million and she was like the face of the network then she for her own personal reasons had to go back to one day a week just Monday and she got paid the same because she was still on contract then when the contract was to be renewed still working one day a week they negotiated that she would get $25 million for one day a week um so let's go back to my hypothesis and prediction you remember my prediction that Dei Dei kills everything it touches but the prediction is that it kills first and fastest uh wherever it is introduced first and most aggressively so wherever it's introduced early and aggressively those places will die first so that's how you know Dei is toxic because there should be a perfect correlation between how aggressive and early you were in it and how soon you die you know your organization so imagine trying to sell MSNBC when one of your stars works one day a week for 30 million doar nobody would buy that but why do they have to keep paying so much money does it have to do with the fact that she is a lesbian and a woman is it Dei probably now I can't say that for sure because you'd have to be like in in the room with them to know what's real but the prediction is if you go early and hard at Dei you will destroy yourself pretty quickly MSNBC went early and super hard at Dei and now they've got somebody who's not doing much work they're paying $30 million probably Joy Reed can't be fired and she's making them look like idiots management she makes the management look like idiots and that's got to be Dei so I think MSNBC is you know added to the list of examples of the sooner and the harder you go on Dei the sooner and more guaranteed your destruction so just look for the pattern the sooner and the harder you go in Dei the sooner you're destroyed well the defense who defended Daniel penny is considering going after Da Alvin brag for a malicious prosecution so that would be a lawsuit so it wouldn't be criminal but uh if they can prove that that Bragg was was orchestrating the Daniel Penny thing for his personal reasons as opposed to it's just doing the job then it might be a lawsuit and the personal reason which is just speculated here is that Alvin brag knew that there that if Daniel peny walked free that there would be riots and that that would make him look bad because he's the Law and Order guy so if they're riots you know you look like you're not doing something and everybody would say why didn't you do something more so the idea is that if Alvin brag if it could be demonstrated there were any documents or witnesses that the decision to go after Daniel peny was not based on the law or what is you know precedent but only based on protecting Elvin Bragg's own reputation and job then the lawsuit I think could could succeed so we don't know that this is going to happen but I think they need to look into it pretty good you find out if there's something there maybe in other news um I heard a few things about uh the AI that uh Elon Musk is doing the X Ai and I heard a story let's see if I can retell the story was some expert was it on I think on the all-in Pod talking to Jason and I didn't get the name of the expert when I watched the clip I wish I had so if anybody knows him knows what I'm talking about put the name of the expert in the comments um but the expert said that uh if you get these Nvidia boards that are necessary for AI uh that apparently you could only put if I have this right 20,000 of them kind of network together to work as one and that was a physical limitation it it would be you know engineering wise it would be impossible to put more than 20,000 working as a team and that then that would limit how smart your AI could be because the the more that you could put on the same on the same let's say uh processing speed you know parallel processing the more you have the smarter you are in AI so the story is that uh Elon Musk didn't like that spent some time doing a deep dive and I don't know who if anybody helped him or it was completely his own idea but in Fairly short order Elon Musk figured out how to network 100,000 together where the where it was presumed by every expert that 20,000 was the highest that could ever go there would there would be a physical or physics limitation you just couldn't go beyond that and then he five times it he five times it probably because he got personally involved as as you know I imagine there was there were other engineers in the room obviously but I that that's like one of the greatest engineering stories of all time but if you put it on Elon musk's resume it just disappears with all the other stuff he's done so many things that make you go wow you did that you you created giant Chopsticks to catch a rocket really wow yeah so and there there probably a dozen things I could add to the really you put a network of satellites in the air so that everybody from these you rural counties can get cheap high-speed internet wow you know and I could just keep going and going and going but this little one just impresses the hell on me if it's true that he figured out what everybody said in the industry in the industry he wasn't in this is the other important part in the industry he was not part of the moment he walked in he solved their biggest problem times five did that really happen I mean I mean I think I I want to believe it did so wow but uh on top of that grock 3 is predicted to be the best AI sometime in that maybe February uh because they have just monstrous Hardware training that thing so Elon Musk in theory will be the leading AI person with his products in the world in February now I don't know what to make of that you know you know how important it is that musk bought a right because because he saved Free Speech but what would happen to free speech if AI becomes the the main way we interact with everything and the main way we get information and it was just completely censored and biased but we didn't know how much it would be the same problem your free speech would be completely completely at risk because AI might have limitations on what it can and cannot do for you you know it might censor you or censor itself and but now maybe the best AI would be the one that's not going to do that so if the best AI doesn't censor you and lets you do the images you want it to do and wasn't always messing with your creative impulses then you're free I think grock 3 if it really Leap Frogs the competition because the reason the reason historically I haven't used grock much is that it wasn't wasn't quite up to speed and we all knew that and we knew that it was going to catch up and had a good chance of surpassing but it looks like it's going to happen and uh wow that's really impressive so this would be Elon Musk saving the planet by making us into planetary saving the country by preserving free speech and saving the future of humanity by creating an AI That's less subject to manipulation that's a lot of saving the that's a lot of saving he's saving the world from climate change maybe we'll see how many times has he needs to save us he he he saved the country by getting Trump elected I mean seriously how many times does he need to save us in how many ways maybe the rest of us should do a little work huh he's he's he's making me feel lazy all right that's all I got for now I knew I went long I'll talk to the locals people privately and the rest of you on You.

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you now let's talk about some things uh

would you be surprised that there's some

new science about coffee that's good for

you yes in Parade

Magazine uh in case you wonder it does

hydrate you so some people say don't

drink coffee because you'll pee too much

and you'll be dehydrated no the science

says that for regular amounts of coffee

if you don't have too much that uh it

adds more to your hydration than it

subtracts so it's good for

you did you know how many people around

the US and even around the

world um do not drink coffee let me see

it's a well-known one under drug that's

good for you in almost every possible

way that a thing could be good for

you um what percentage of the world

would not would not do the thing that's

universally good for everybody what

percent would not yeah that's right

that's right 27% is the exact

number a quarter of the country will get

every question wrong doesn't matter what

the question is and this is the case 73%

of Americans drink coffee every day so

27% you got some explaining to

do and you'd be amazed to know there's a

breakthrough in EV batteries another one

yes in this case wonderful engineering

is

reporting that they've got a battery now

that's uh I think it's a regular lithium

but they souped it up so they got 5

million miles on One battery and 20,000

charges

and it's so robust that it might if they

can get to the point where it lasts

longer than the

car then you can throw the rest of the

car away take the battery out and it

might be let's say 80% still useful and

just use as a like a battery backup for

your house so think about that there

might be a market coming

for repurposing batteries that came out

of your car you just use them at your

house maybe

um what I think they really need to do

is develop a battery made entirely from

coffee CU if you've been paying

attention coffee can do it all so I'm

pretty sure you can make a battery out

of coffee that would be

better Elon mus said yesterday on on X

he predicted that 98% of vehicles will

be electric

eventually what do you think do you

think 98% of the vehicles would become

electric and that there there will still

be gas powered cars but it be kind of

like using a flip phone somebody's going

to do it but it'll be

rare uh I think so you know if you if

you had not listened to my live stream

every day and I don't know why you

wouldn't you wouldn't know that there's

a breakthrough in Battery Technology

just about every day and if we keep

having breakthroughs and batteries it

kind of guarantees that all of your cars

are going to be electric because the the

economics are all just moving in One

Direction it's not like gas is getting

that much cheaper but electricity it

might if we build enough nuclear power

plants and do that kind of stuff but I'd

like to use this as an

example of a investment

approach so I don't know if I've heard

anybody talk about this investment

approach now I don't give investment

advice specific investment advice so

I'll just put this out as a hypothesis

but it's one I've used and it seems to

work it goes like this if you're trying

to pick winning

companies you're probably going to lose

like I 95% of the time you might get

lucky uh you might get lucky 5% of the

time but you're going to lose about 95%

of the time so in general you should get

an index fund and diversify and just let

it do what it do what it does

but there's one thing I've been tracking

for my entire life to see if it would be

an investment

opportunity and there's one thing that

appears to me to work way more than half

of the

time and that is that when there's a

one-time

change in the economy if you bet on the

strongest company that's involved in

that onetime change like I mean one time

ever like will never happen again um

then you could probably make money for

example in the early days of personal

computers there was only one time in

human history when personal computers

would go from nobody has one to

everybody has one that's only only once

in human history that'll happen so if

you were to find the strongest company

in that domain which would have been

hard because a lot of them were coming

and going but if you'd put your money in

say D or Apple you probably would have

had a winner like a a really big winner

imagine if you put early money into Dell

computers or apple now if you'd put your

early money into

IBM IBM got end of that business but

even the IBM stock did pretty well so

then the cell phones came along um the

you know the well first before there

were smartphones there were just the

small cell

phones and I worked for the phone

company and I said to myself huh the

there will only be one time in human

history when people go from their

landlines to a handheld phone so if you

were to invest in any of those major

phone companies that were rolling out

cell cell phones you would have made a

lot of money and probably two out a

three of companies that you picked in

that domain would have been winners then

there was the

internet uh I remember at the at the

birth of the internet when it was was

called the worldwide and nobody even

knew the words for it um I asked an

engineer what should I invest in to like

get in the bottom floor of this internet

thing it looks like it could be big and

the engineer said uh

Cisco and I said what's that he said

well they make these things called you

know Network blah blah blah and I didn't

buy those I didn't buy that stock if I

if IID bought Netscape before you had

ever heard of the word internet

literally literally you would never even

heard of it yet do you know how much

money I would have made on that one time

ever change in society so then the

smartphone comes

along you know you could you could be

forgiven if you didn't think it was

going to be a hit because the first

smartphones were terrible but it was the

one time in human history that we would

move to smartphones so if you bought

Apple stock boy would you be happy these

onetime

changes um so that's that's what I see

with electric vehicles and it's what I

see with Tesla so Tesla is the leading

company in a thing that will happen only

once in human history which is gas

automobiles will you know be dismissed

in favor of

electric so I don't give investment

advice but I would point out that if you

can find anything that's going to happen

only once in human history and it's

unavoidable and it's definitely going to

happen

you probably have a two out of three

chance of picking a super winner out at

the lot it's not it's not

100% but it would go from a coin flip to

two out of three I think pretty

quickly all

right um according to study finds

climate change was greatly overestimated

because oceans cool the Earth in more

than way one way so one of the ways that

apparently we did not realize until

recently is that uh the ocean puts off

sulfur gas produced by the marine life I

don't know if it's fish farting or what

they're doing but some kind of marine

life puts off sulfur and apparently

that's a

really uh a really powerful chemistry to

put into the atmosphere because it

produces a lot of cooling more than

you'd think I guess now how many times

have I read you a story about a major

variable that had been missed in climate

change and now they have to put it in

there but now now everything will be

good I mean it was almost perfect but

now we made this little tweak even

better um it feels to me that our

confidence in the in the

models tell me if I'm wrong the

confidence the science had in their

models when they had oh let's say 10

major variables completely wrong is

exactly the same as their current

confidence when they believe they've

accurately added 10 more variables and

surprisingly it didn't really change the

model at

all now if you know what to look for in

terms of scams I don't this one couldn't

be could not be screaming any louder

that the the climate models are are

basically

now what I'm not saying because

I know I'll get quoted in a context I'm

not saying the Earth isn't warming I

would know how would I know and and I'm

not saying that humans have nothing to

do with it again how would I know the

only only thing I know is what science

tells me and science is so so lying

about anything important that it's like

nothing happened it's as if science

didn't even weigh in has no credibility

whatsoever at this point so when I look

at climate models and you see that they

keep adding major variables major

variables like oh we didn't realize the

sun was doing all this and oh the cloud

cover and oh it turns out that the

oceans in at least three different ways

is more of a counteracting of heat than

we thought so if you ever see that the

model worked when it was all completely

different and amazingly it still works

now after you've changed all the

assumptions that's

that's one of two

things should happened after 10 years of

finding out we have major major variable

problems either they should have said

who it looks like it's way less of a

problem than we thought or oh damn this

is a a much bigger problem than we

thought we're we're going to be dead in

six years not 12 but what are the odds

that you can change all the assumptions

going into your model and the model

stays the same for 20

years yeah that's

well those New Jersey drones and I guess

other places too just gets more

interesting uh as you know Senator van

Drew from New Jersey believes he has

good sources that said they the drones

were being released every night from an

Iranian Mother Ship parked off the

coast the Pentagon said quote there's no

so-called Mother Ship launching drones

toward the United States and I believe I

heard that Andrew has doubled down and

says that uh that there are there are

drones coming out of an ranian ship he

believes his sources I believe that vanw

probably is getting Kracken meaning

somebody is feeding

him some lies so that he disgraces

himself in public and becomes less

electable because of it so it feels like

somebody's playing a dirty trick on him

but I can't be sure it's just what it

looks like

so here's what's the funny things I

think it's

funny that the American public I saw

some people asking this question I

wondered if it was influenced by me but

I saw some people asking the question um

government uh government I have have a

question if you say you you know that

the drones are not from a foreign

adversary and you also know that they're

not

dangerous how could you know they're not

dangerous and also know that they're not

from a foreign adversary unless you know

what they

are is that is that not the right

question unless you do know what they

are you can't tell us they're not coming

from a foreign adversary because that

means

you you either know what they are or you

don't if you don't know what they are

then you also don't know how dangerous

they are is is that not common sense

now if they had said to

us um well we do have a way of knowing

they're not dangerous for example if

they said yeah we we can tell they're

made of balls of wood and it looks like

a hobbyist I'd say oh okay and that's a

good reason to say it doesn't sound like

an adversary or dangerous but they're

not saying that they're they're not

giving you any indication that they have

even a

clue what these are but they know

they're not dangerous and also the air

is not full of military assets trying to

bring them down Andor figure out what

they

are do you need any more evidence that

these are US military tests now the US

military might not own the drones it

might be the vendors still own them and

they're just

demonstrating uh or they could be from

another you know maybe it's a product of

another country's military that's allied

with us could be a NATO country that has

drones and they're testing them out and

seeing if we want to get in on them and

you know maybe recommend them for NATO

or something but it's definitely

us do you all agree the drones is us

it's got to be American drones it's got

to be military because otherwise the

military would be up there shooting them

down so here here's the other thing that

i' I've heard that's just

crazy uh that they're invisible to

people in

helicopters come

on come on really

they're invisible only to people in

helicopters that you you you mean the

easiest way that you could go up and

check what's going on a helicopter

they're invisible you can see them

clearly from the ground for Miles they

have lights on them they have running

lights you know like a regular

commercial drone and you telling me that

the helicopters can't see them so so

apparently America is trying out our

helicopter only invisibility cloak oh

yeah you can see them from the ground

but boy you get in a helicopter

nothing the the Ridiculousness that

we're being set up with here is crazy

it's crazy that we're being asked to

believe

this now um here's what oh here's the

other thing that's making me laugh the

when the drones come out it's between

four and 11:00 p.m.

nightly between 4:00 and 11:00 p.m. is

exactly the time that a human being

would want to test something at night

after 11 o'clock everybody wants to go

home right because they have families

and stuff so you don't want to go past

11: and you want to wait till it's dark

you start around 4 or 5 it's so

obviously Americans testing

these if if it were one person or an

attack do you think it would stick to uh

evening hours between 4: and 11: you you

don't think they'd do a little attacking

after midnight if it was some kind of

like clever plot or if it were hobbyists

you think all the hobbyists go home at

11

o'clock no it's obviously a group of

people because they've agreed as a group

what the starting time is and what the

ending time is you would not get this

consistency if it were one person or a

military thing or something that was

trying to be unpredictable but you would

definitely get uh let's do this from 4

to 11 everybody good with that yeah yeah

we know we have to do it at night don't

want to go past 11 yeah 4 to 11 sounds

good so yes we know it's a group of

Americans deciding what time to do it so

it's the military um they also say that

the drones can't be detected by

radio now what does that mean that mean

that they can't Jam them and they don't

get a signal that tells them it's been

controlled from afar because here's what

I think one of the things they might be

testing is AI

navigation meaning that they're not

using GPS and for the time that it's

over the residential area where maybe

you could check for the radio signals um

that it's not using any so it might be

flying

independently under the direction of

whoever sent it but using an AI to

decide what to do and how to get back so

that would make sense I mean obviously

obviously if you had an advanced drone

the thing you would definitely be

testing is can somebody detect your

radio signal in jamet so makes

sense anyway um here's what I think we

should do we should demand the

resignation of The Joint Chiefs of Staff

because they seem to have demonstrated

and told with complete Clarity that

there's no Homeland

defense am I

right they have proven if if we were to

take them

seriously if we take the military

seriously that they're not their

drones which is trying to tell us that

they're not involved but they don't say

that because they're involved

obviously we should we should call their

Bluff and say oh my God we have no home

we have no defense of our skies in the

Homeland whatsoever so this this tells

us that we wouldn't know if there's an

Iranian Mothership and we wouldn't we

wouldn't be able to shoot down anything

that's predictable and small and and

helpless we wouldn't be able to shoot

them down that would indicate we have no

Homeland defense

whatsoever which we found out a little

bit in 911 didn't we didn't you think

that in 911 there would be you know at

the first first sign of trouble the the

US military would be in the air and

shooting down any trouble well maybe

they shot down one maybe they didn't

depending what what you believe about

the one that went down in

Pennsylvania and and then the Chinese

spy balloon comes over and it looks like

again we have no air defense

whatsoever is it possible that the

country has no air

defense I think it is I think that's

actually possible that the United States

has no defense whatsoever and it's also

possible that we don't need one

because if anybody came and bombed the

American

Homeland they would you know evaporate a

day later so it would never make sense

for anybody to attack the US Homeland if

if we could determine who they were and

that would be just suicide so maybe we

don't need any it could be that the

military people said you know what you

know if anybody attacks us we'll destroy

their entire Homeland in five minutes so

they probably won't

know but they're pretending as if we

have no Homeland defense whatsoever and

I think that's a firing offense

inflation is up more than people thought

if you believe statistics which I don't

so I'm not even going to talk about that

I don't believe economic

statistics um there's new uh there's new

Pete Heth hoax that fortunately got

debunked in time so apparently West

Point's public affairs office uh lied to

a publication called

prua and they they said that P hegf NE

never even applied to West Point I guess

P had said he had applied but didn't go

there um and it turns out that Heth

actually

kept the the letter that he got in

1999 uh that was an West Point

acceptance

letter he actually had it he actually

kept the record

when does that ever happen and and I

guess proa tried twice you know to

follow up to make sure that um West

Point really really checked the records

and they really knew for sure that he

had not

applied and they swore that he had not

applied and then he showed the letter

that showed he'd applied and was

accepted well if you haven't seen it yet

there's a clip going around by the

trigonometry podcast guys that is just

really good I I highly recommend it I'm

going to give you the highlights but

they had a a British academic smart guy

a Rafe hadel

Manu and he was trying to explain why

the West has apparently you the western

civilization has apparently had more

genius and exceptionalism than a lot of

other places now

this is what he says I'm not so sure

that we've got all the genius and

exceptionalism I don't know about that

but what he says about it is

fascinating so hydrated good coffee what

he says

is that one of the reasons the West um

did well and last several hundred years

is that the Catholic Church banned

cousin marriages

did you know that that was a little bit

of History I wasn't aware of um I mean I

knew that we don't do cousant marriages

but I didn't know that there was some

specific you know point at which history

turned on that but I guess the Catholic

church at one point banned cousin

marriages

now this part is a little unclear to me

but if I understand it once you've

banned cousin

marriages um you're going to drift

toward nuclear family am that are not

related to the rest of your family so in

other words you would move from

something that's more tribal where

literally you keep things in the family

so to speak to where you forge out on

your own and you become a little nuclear

family and then you got to figure out

how to make it you know without the the

big tribal support now if you're trying

to make it as a family unit you will

necessarily need to rely on non-family

people I'll call them straight Rangers

but there are people that you meet uh

who make deals with you so I'll grow

some food I'll give you money for it you

work here I'll pay you basically a high

trust

society and so I've always wondered

about this I always wondered

how the United States and some other

Western countries have a situation where

if somebody says they'll do some work

they usually do it and you usually pay I

mean every now and then you get a bad

egg but basically we trust

strangers like our entire economy is not

completely trusting them like we'll do

what we can to protect ourselves but

ultimately you do have to trust

strangers and and so the family unit

which was caused by an end to cousin

marriages causes more uh Trust of

strangers which creates a far more

dynamic system for inventing stuff

and he and uh Rafe said that uh I don't

know if this is true but he said 75% of

the world still has cousin

marriages does that sound right 75% of

the world has cousin marriages that

sounds High to me are you telling me

that

China China has routinely cousin

marriages if it does I didn't know that

I mean I'm not saying it doesn't but

that sounds

high he also says 90% of the world uh

doesn't have the same notion of

exclusive nuclear

families that doesn't sound right

either I thought the vast majority of

modern you know not just Western but any

any modern country I thought most of

them had nuclear families as their core

am I wrong about that so there's some

stuff about this I don't fully

understand

but I would note and because I know

you're going to be shouting it in the

comments I know you you're going to be

saying in the comments that the end of

cousin marriages probably increased the

IQ of the people who banned cousin

marriages compared to the ones who are

still marrying their cousins that's what

you're going to say isn't it and you're

going to say that uh it just

made the Western people smarter they

just had fewer cousin marriages fewer

problems other know if that's true I'm

no expert on cousin marriages but it's

something that's floating around the

internet so that would answer a lot and

that would suggest that we

have somewhat of a big Advantage but

that we're losing it because people are

not in nuclear families anymore but even

if they're not and even if they're

operating as individuals then they need

even more trust because an individual

doesn't even have family members to r on

so so I think we may be moving to an

even higher high

trust which is another Advantage the

other Advantage I always hear about the

west but America in particular so this

is an advantage of America over even

Great Britain and the advantage is in

America if you try something big and it

fails what you mostly get out of that is

experience so you can try another thing

and maybe that fails too but if you keep

trying you'll get a winner and then you

will be hailed as a

winner and then you'll be happy and

people will respect you I guess in Great

Britain if you try a startup and it

doesn't work you must spend the rest of

your life trying trying to erase the

shame shame so and I think you know some

of the Asian countries have the same

problem that if you fail everybody knows

and then your family is disgraced and

that's the end of that story so don't

try anything risky because failure is

too much of a problem I literally wrote

a

book

called had it failed almost everything

and still went big and you've probably

seen a number of books that came after

it that also had a similar theme and

even before it a similar theme that the

failure is basically a pathway to

success that's very American it turns

out it's super American it just

uh honestly I didn't even know when I

wrote the book that it was not just

important to say that you know failure

is more of a path than it is a you know

a

destination um I didn't realize that

that little

message is what keeps America

America maybe more than anything the

fact that we're willing to try things

even if they might fail and we can live

with it we just get over

it somebody was asking me the other day

about regret and I said I've never

experienced it what's it feel like I

don't even know what it feels like I

can't think of anything I've ever

regretted there are just things that

work and things that don't but even the

things that didn't work taught me

something

useful so it was on my path to success

so

regret I'm exactly where I want to be

well what am I regretting so that might

be a very American thing and I I it

makes me happy that my book could be

part of the

American psyche you it's small part uh

but a small part of making sure that you

know that failure is not the end point

failure is just a

path all right every morning I wake up

to the hilarity of another Democrat who

doesn't understand why they lost but

tries to un explain it like they

do I saw a clip with uh

bunch of people left the election

talking some on each side and uh

somebody named Sarah Longwell must be a

journalist associated with the left

leing

politics uh she she said that Trump won

because he does more lying uh and

therefore he's better at it now I'm

paraphrasing but I think that's pretty

close to what she said that Trump lies

about everything therefore he got a lot

of practice at it and then he was really

good at it and then that that excellent

lying is what put him over the

top um does Sarah

Longwell think that the Democrats didn't

do any

lying how could you how could you be

alive for the last eight years and think

that Trump is just all by himself off

their life H I sure like that everybody

else is telling the truth but that Trump

he's the one

politician that

lies and again I always

say that uh you can't you can't evaluate

The Lying by the quantity of them Trump

did you know infinite interviews so if

he had any one thing he said that was

like a little hyperbole he would say it

in all of his interviews and then they

would count them as there's one there's

one there's

one meanwhile while the Democrats would

be putting together this massive

intelligence-led FBI supported hoax with

you know many moving parts and getting

the getting the media involved and like

the really big lies like the really big

ones like the fine people hoax and the

Russia collusion and the drinking bleach

hoax and all those other things like big

organized

multi-member thousands of people

involved in the media keeping the LIE

alive and knowing it and knowing that

they were keeping a lie alive they knew

it how do you compare that to Trump

saying that your TV might go off if the

wind stops

blowing when you know it's just I

verbally and they would just count that

is one lie for Trump and none for them

because they think the hoaxes are real

imagine thinking that those that the

Democrats have been telling the truth

for eight

years how how could you even function

you you would be so confused about

anything you saw if you thought your

team was telling you the truth all the

time anyway uh Zuckerberg and meta have

donated a million dollars to Trump's

inaugural fund now that's a pretty

clever move so as you know Zuckerberg is

trying to disassociate himself from the

crazy left he's not trying to make

himself part of the right he would just

like to be less involved in the in the

political stuff because it didn't work

out when he did it so he didn't he

probably knows he didn't help he may

have hurt for $400 million he may have

spent $400 million making things worse

so I think he's learned his lesson

because if there's one thing you can say

about Mark Zuckerberg that everyone

should agree with he is really smart I

don't know if you noticed but he's

really smart like crazy smart so yes

when he when he when he does something

that doesn't work and then he adjusts

that's that's that smart thing there it

is uh so he failed like an American and

instead of wallowing his shame forever

he said oh well that didn't work what do

we do now oh we'll donate to the

inaugural process because that's not de

that's not really donating to the

politics of it perfect that's perfect so

he is helping out giving his million

which is not much you know for for

them and it's the thing that's the least

political thing you could ever give it

to the inauguration because presumably

you know he would do it for anybody's

inauguration at this point um nicely

done yeah but but it also is a

indication that the way the smart people

are seeing Trump is as someone they can

work

with right that's a big big deal CU

before they saw him as something they

needed to defeat and now the smart

people all the smart people are saying

we could work with this wait you want

you want a fewer

regulations oh well yeah we could work

with that wait you want to lower taxes H

you have my attention you you want to um

put criminals back in

jail I think this is very common

sensical

I'm seeing the comments the pictures of

trump on the cover of Time Magazine

person of the

year now if Trump had not been the

person of the

year wouldn't you kind of question

whether Time Magazine had lost it

because remember Time Magazine when they

pick the person of the year they're not

saying the person we love the most

because I think Hitler and monum ban

have been on the cover just the most

impactful

one who who who else was close you know

you you might say Elon

Musk did more and that you could make a

strong argument for that but Trump did

it in a storybook way like even more

than even more than Elon musk's giant

Chopsticks catching a rocket which is

like one of the most crazy awesome

things we've ever watched in our

lives uh still I think Trump's story was

the more interesting one I think they

got this one right

meanwhile Bill Clinton according to Brar

news he was talking to somebody in

public oh he's on The View and he said

he was uh open to discussing with Biden

a preemptive pardon for Hillary before

Trump comes

in I don't think there's any

chance that Trump's going after Hillary

Clinton am I reading the room

wrong now if I were her I'd be worried

because she knows what she has done and

she plays a you know a tough sport

politics but in my view there's not any

risk at all to her now would he go after

some people who are really directly

related at a lower level say some X FBI

people who tried to run the the Russia

collusion hoax maybe and I'd be all for

that if they knew they were acting you

know illegally yeah I'm all for it um

but even if Clinton was little bit

illegal I think Trump would be the smart

George Washington here to say you know

what I hear what you're saying about

Hillary Clinton but we can't go

there we we just have to let that go

because it'll pull the country apart and

there's not enough there's not enough

upside so I think Trump knows that and

I've heard him talk in that form before

so I I do trust Trump to not threaten

Hillary

um I don't think he'll threaten her

because she's no longer much of a risk

to him and it would be a terrible

terrible look after he got lawed and

lawed and lawf fared to just return the

lawfare especially to a stale case

because Hillary is not exactly on the

top of you know the urant things these

days anyway you want to hear about the

most thing that Biden ever did

I know it's a long it's a long list but

the following is something that Joe

Biden just

did that you just when I tell you see if

you cannot say the freaking

all right he just did clemency

and uh pardons so he pardoned uh 39

Americans and he commuted the sentences

of nearly 15 other 1500

others

1,500 what's that remind you

of 1500 people he commuted their

sentences and let them out of jail

1,500 you that's exactly

the number of J Sixers in jail now maybe

this is a coincidence but there are a

lot of numbers in the world you had to

pick 1500 you you

those people need to be

released

immediately and January 21st can't come

fast enough because I'm pretty sure

Trump's going to let you know most or

all of them out but this is did was

there no time that anybody said 1500s a

bad number you make it 1,600 make it

1499 but don't make it 1500

that's just rubbing in our faces you

honestly doesn't

feel like politics doesn't feel like

stupid it feels like you're just being a

now that's what it feels

like fre the J

Sixers so Carrie lake has

been selected by Trump uh for uh the

head of the uh Voice of America Now

voice of America is a media outlet that

the government runs in 40 40 different

languages you say

uh yeah 40 languages and broadcasts all

over the world and various forums from

Radio to television to social

media now uh I asked social media or I'm

sorry I asked AI if Voice of America is

America's propaganda Network and uh AI

didn't want to say

that it says the

editorial it it's independent editorial

stuff is it is it really is it really

independent my understanding give me a

fact check on this but isn't the only

reason the voice of America

exists is for American propaganda to

reach other other markets I didn't know

there was any other reason for it now I

think when they say you know that they

don't step on the

editorial probably means they also don't

hire anybody who doesn't understand the

mission of the voice of America

I mean I suppose if they made a mistake

and accidentally hired somebody who

didn't know what the whole purpose of

the organization was they might raise

something

anti-American but I don't think they

would last very long on the

job the government of America is not

going to pay to broadcast bad American

stuff to other countries and make them

hate us so I don't think you have to

edit it it doesn't require a lot of

editing because everybody knows what the

job is

now uh if it sounded like I'm

criticizing Voice of America I'm

not we probably need it to me it sounds

like something that's probably really

useful so um so here's the question

that's on my mind so Carri Lake of

course a national figure well recognized

uh came close to being Governor close to

being Senator uh and you think to

yourself is this a big enough job

like my first thought was hm feels like

not high enough

leverage for a republican with that much

skill and then I thought to myself

H I wonder if there's if the plan is to

tweak The Voice of

America for good

purposes and then I thought to

myself what what if they used voice of

America

as one way to correct the fake

news and I wonder if they had that

conversation because that would be

interesting could you imagine for

example that voice America continues to

say positive things about America so it

doesn't change its basic Mission but

what if on top of that it became so

credible that it was a source for

telling you what hoaxes are being told

by the other

networks because in the other networks

are like the opposite propaganda you

know if you've got a Republican

president the fake news is going to be

saying uh the president of the United

States is garbage and making all the

wrong

decisions well you don't really want

your enemies to hear that because they

will not fear us and respect us um so

suppose The Voice of America was the the

reference that Trump could always use

and say look CNN says this but here's

what's really happening and then forward

a voice of America

article because if you put Carrie Lake

in charge of the voice of America

there's zero chance that they're going

to be reporting hoaxes as if they're

real there's no chance of that I mean

not not intentionally of course but it's

one more place that that Trump can maybe

guarantee that there's a place that you

can look

at that has

credibility that can debunk the other

hoaxes that are surely coming so if

that's what the plan is you know a

little bit little extra on the mission

then it's definitely the right person um

for it because she's got you know great

experience in that domain

specifically meaning TV news

Etc so I think the fit is

great I just hope that Trump is looking

at it and Carrie lake is looking at it

as may maybe Voice of America could be a

little extra something we we

need um so um I would like to get into

this uh this gamified murder thing um

have you noticed that because of the

internet we've managed to turn every

tragedy into sort of a

game so I'd like to explain the game so

the game here with this CEO um the CEO

murder is that you have to pretend that

the people you don't

like um are not showing enough empathy

to the

victim but that you unlike whoever

you're talking about you have the proper

and exact right amount of empathy and uh

you want to you want to misrepresent the

other person so it seems like they have

less

empathy so I'm going to give you an

example of that

um I'm going to misinterpret Elizabeth

Warren and show you with my theatrics

that I'm much better than her as a human

being now remember this is just gamified

I'm not actually better than her as a

human

being maybe I am but that's not the

point the point is that this we've

gamified

this all right let me get let me get

into

character because I have to act act act

as if I'm actually offended by

this all right well there's a story

about elizab Elizabeth Warren oh my God

she said that the quote visceral

response to the insurance CEO's killing

should be quote a warning to everyone

else in the Health Care

system oh my God how can Elizabeth

Warren show so little sympathy to the

family and the victim I'm so much better

than her I'm so so much better watch

this Elizabeth Warren don't you

understand that this was a senseless

killing of someone who didn't deserve it

and the family has to deal with this and

you're you're acting as though the the

murder was

justified really really you're acting

like it's

Justified I spit on you for your lack of

empathy not like my empathy which is is

excellent so the bottom line here is I

think I won this round uh by showing

that my empathy for the victim is way

better than hers way

better I love

winning meanwhile Woody Allen Chef is

going to sue him for uh for

firing and

um the uh apparently the problem was

that was somebody who was in the U

military

reserves and he said he was in the

military reserves when he got hired now

that means that he would miss some days

every month because he has a military

obligation but um so he went off to a

two-day military thing which would have

been completely understood and approved

uh but I guess he came back a day longer

cuz the training lasted a day longer and

then got

fired now they also complained about his

cooking so if you're a chef and they

don't like your cooking that'd be a good

reason to fire you but imagine if you

will that let's say I don't know if this

is the case but let's say he was he was

a chef for five days a

week so Woody and Sun are thinking yay

five days a week we don't have to cook

but then he says well I'm going to be

going two of those five but also I have

the we

off so that's four of the seven days I

won't be around and they're like all

right well that's what we agreed to okay

and then he says oh I'm also not going

to come in the day after because the

training went long so there'll be two

days I'm off and three days that uh that

I'm

away uh and my job was to cook for you

five days a week so they fired him

because it was obvious that this you

know might happen again this cooking

wasn't that good anyway they

say now I have some insight into this

because I got sued this for the same

reason there is a

law that says if you hire somebody who's

in the reserves and you know that they

have an obligation to say you know work

on work on some periods that you have to

let them do it and you have to pay them

so they have to be paid um they have to

be paid and you have to allow them to

have their time and and if you fire them

for that if you fire them for being away

from work for their military Reserve

that's the end of the court case the the

court just gives that automatically to

the military Reserve person if there's

any question that you got fired for even

partially because you had a military

commitment you lose the case

there's nothing you can say you can't

say but my company would suffer nope

that counts for nothing you can't say um

I can't

function if I I I'd have to close my

business if I'm paying this person to do

the job but then I have to pay a second

person to fill in for them because they

can't be there to do the job if I have

to do that I have to close my company I

can't make enough money you have to

close the company there's there's

nothing you can do

there is no defense if you tell a

military person that you're going to

fire them for doing what the military

required them to do that's the end of

the case so the lawsuit is almost

certainly uh wood he writes a check for

$100,000 the lawyer keeps 30% and the

chef gets another job that's the way

these are settled because the lawyer for

Woody would know that you you can't take

this to court it's 100% chance of losing

100% he he has no chance of winning and

I'm not even sure that's a bad idea so

in his case probably the chef was a

weekday chef but if you hire somebody

who's in the reserves you have to know

that if you thought they were going to

work on weekends you're not getting what

you thought you were going to get so in

my restaurant days U my restaurant

partner hired somebody in

reserves uh for the job of the weekend

manager and then

later he informed us that he couldn't

work weekends quite often because of his

military

service so my manager said oh well the

only reason you were promoted is to work

weekends because those are the days I

don't work so given that it was the only

reason you were promoted and now you say

you can't do it uh we'll put you back in

your old job which was a

server the server I made as much money

by the way and he was a server before

that and he

sued and our defense was wait a minute

we hired him to do a thing and he says

because the military service he can't do

the thing we only hired him for the one

specific thing and he says that's a one

specific thing he can't do so we would

have to pay two

people one to do the job he's not doing

and then him as well and it's a small

business

and the lawyer said Give It

Up forget it pay him make an offer you

you can't win this and so we did we paid

him

um so it's probably the same same

situation

um see what else is going on so the

leader of Syria you know the rebels took

over Syria

and uh here's his resume he was the

commander of Isis in Syria then he was

the founder and leader of jebat elra in

al-Qaeda in Syria he was the leader of

Jabba Al sham later the leader of hayat

alsam I guess

they're fundamentalist groups and now

he's the leader of free Syria I I saw

him doing some kind of public thing the

other day and I swear that he he was

sounding like he was a

Democrat and he was saying that he

wanted to be the leader of all the

people and you know he made it sound

like he wasn't going to be

discriminating and being a terrorist and

killing people

but correct me if I'm

wrong is it not the strategy that when

you first get power and before you've

Consolidated it you tell the world that

you're not going to be any trouble at

all and then you consolidate power maybe

takes five years and then you

do anything you want it to do no matter

how bad it is so I suspect things might

be not terrible for the Christians in

Syria you still a little bit terrible

but probably if they hang around it's

going to get worse that would be my

guess so I hope they get

out um and um I I think the leaders of

Syria are probably trying to form a

caliphate so I'd watch out for the

caliphate now here's the thing I wonder

if if there if the Middle

East let's say some charismatic leader

and maybe this is the charismatic leader

Rises what's his name I didn't get his

name um but uh given that we know that

war is going to be drone Warfare in the

future the Middle East isn't going to be

able to make a lot of drones they're not

exactly a manufacturing power so they'd

have to depend on somebody like China to

to give them all their War drones if

they wanted to conquer enough territory

to have a caliphate caliphate caliphate

I don't know how to say that so I know

the nature of war is changing so that

the Middle East countries are going to

have a big disadvantage I think so the

countries that can design and crank out

drones are going to own everything so

that's China us maybe Russia

um

fedman just gave a double thumbs up to

uh Republican Elise stefanic who was

picked as un Ambassador so breit Bart's

reporting this so fedman continues to do

smart things he's finding very small

ways and this is a very small way to act

like a common sense person who agrees

with the Republicans when it makes sense

to agree with them and disagrees with

them when in his opinion it makes sense

to disagree now uh I saw some people

being confused that when I say good

things about Federman that it's like I

don't understand that he votes for the

most Progressive things and you know

he's a dangerous

voter I get it I understand that I'm not

saying he should be running the country

I'm only talking about his

technique so the same way that I talked

about AOC having good persuasion

techniqu which she doesn't anymore I

think she had an adviser that she may

have lost but uh Federman every time he

does something where in the smallest way

he can say you know Republicans you're

good people and I agree with you on this

one he gets closer and closer to being a

national

candidate he's closer and closer and the

thing I appreciate about appreciate

about it is the technique so the

technique is that when there's a little

thing he can agree agree with he says it

publicly and without any pullback he

just says it you know clearly and

cleanly yeah that's common sense I'm in

favor that that is really strong

technique because when he disagrees with

us what's the first thing you're going

to

think you're going to rethink your own

thoughts or your own position because if

somebody who's just always on one side

and there only can ever be on one side

you discount their opinion completely

because you know it didn't matter if

they even thought through they were

going to be on that side but if somebody

sends the

impression that on every topic he's

going to look at it commonsensically and

give some examples oh this is a good

candidate it's a republican but it's a

good candidate two thumbs up every time

he does that he sends a signal that he's

thinking about it from the ground up so

if he does three or four things that

Republicans say Yeah well yeah that's a

good point we agree with that common

sense and that he says something you

don't agree with politically you know

something that agrees a little bit more

with a progressive agenda your first

thought should be ah I don't like that

but why is this smart guy saying

it see that's the the superpower that

Trump has at the

moment Trump's superpower with his

pirateship of advisers from you know

Elon Musk to RFK Jr and Tulsi Etc

it makes you think that they must be

operating on some kind of uh Common

Sense basis otherwise they couldn't get

along because you know you have ex

Democrats who presumably wouldn't easily

embrace the right unless there was some

common sense thing they could hang on to

and they are so Trump has the common

sense advantage in the sense that it's

clear that he will look at both sides

and look and listen to the voices from

both sides and go after it as a common

sense thing whatever it is so Fan's

building that he doesn't have it yet but

watching him do it is

fun The Washington Post continues

to move a little bit

toward being useful instead of just

being a propaganda rag so it could be

that Jeff Bezos is pretty serious about

turning the wapo Washington Post into

more of a credible publication instead

of the propaganda Raga has been but

Byron York is pointing out that they've

got an

editorial about the Jordan Neely the the

man who died with the um Penny situation

on the

subway and I just want to describe how

barer New York

describes um the

editorial I liked how he did this he

said the liberal editorial board

editorial board wants to say Jordan neie

should have been

committed that is self-evidently true

but but it causes the writers so much

pain that they have to L it with so much

of the the criminal is really the victim

and we we failed Jordan and we're not

racist

verbiage uh verbiage that it takes them

a while to get to the

point but they finally get there so this

is the uh the corner that the identity

people Point paint themselves into that

if they want to pretend they're moving

toward common

sense they have to somehow shed

everything they've ever said and thought

before because it was identity based

like this was so common sense

screams that this poor Jordan Neely guy

should have gotten some help and you

wish the government had some kind of

facility to do it so we can certainly

agree on

that

um according to krie picket writes for

the Washington Times the FBI is trying

to uh anti-trump the FBI before he gets

there so Christopher Ray said he would

be I guess retiring from that job before

Trump gets

um uh gets an office so he doesn't have

to get fired that's a good play but

before he does that he's also apparently

doing a bunch of promotions so he's

promoting people into positions that

unless Trump's FBI guy gets rid of them

there might be a lot of people who don't

like Trump in major FBI

positions so this is from an inside

source and that they're planning to slow

walk the New FBI director's entry into

the agency for three to four

months so they're literally plotting to

make sure that their own

management can't be

effective now if any of that's true 100%

of them need to be fired or at least the

ones involved with it if they're

literally just trying to make changes so

it's harder for Trump to do his job

everybody involved with that needs to

get fired even if you got promoted

yesterday if you're any part of that no

no it's not your job to make it hard for

your boss to do the job of the people of

the United States no you need to be

fired for

that well uh Jen

weager has been going on some

conservative podcasts and he said this

he thought that the left needed to

hear he said two amazing things just

happened first I went on about a half a

dozen right-wing shows and they all

agreed he says in capitals we should cut

the Pentagon prevent generals from

working for defense contractors and

Edward Snowden should be

pardoned and and he says the second

thing is that absolutely no one on the

left believes the right so six on of six

podcasts all said yeah we like all all

that

stuff and not a single person on the

left believes that's

true what do these things all have in

common cutting the Pentagon preventing

generals from you becoming defense

contractors and pardoning Snowden now

the Snowden ones a little different but

the first two are just common

sense Common Sense tells you the

Pentagon has some blow of course you

want to cut it the

bloat and preventing generals from

having a conflict of interest that's not

political that's just common sense

that's just basic common sense so how

weird is

it that Republicans who are the common

sense party for the most

part uh offer Common Sense opinions on

Common Sense things and the Democrats

are like oh no I don't believe that I

don't believe that at all they're

they're pretty

gone pretty gone

anyway um my opinion is this I think

there's only two ways for somebody to

become president and stay president

without being

assassinated and I think that you either

have to agree in advance or they know in

advance that you're going to start major

optional Wars so that feeds the

military-industrial complex extra Wars

or if you're not going to do extra Wars

like would be Trump for example or

Reagan for example you have to agree to

rebuild the

military so you have to say our military

is falling apart we're going to need to

spend ton of money rebuilding that

military I think if you do one of those

two things you can stay alive and stay

in office otherwise you get impeached or

assassinated because I think the

military-industrial

complex uh is basically full of

professional

Killers right the the whole industry is

full of people who have literally killed

people professionally in the

military and

uh yeah I think president any President

should be afraid of that group so I

don't think they would put up with

anything less than major money going

toward their

Direction Canada as you know has a youth

in Asia is legal so if you've got a uh

terminal illness you can get that option

but also they recently said if you have

a chronic illness that just makes your

life terrible you can you can check out

from Life on your own and let's say

15,000

people uh did it last

year so almost 5% of the deaths in the

country are people choosing to do it

themselves but here's the interesting

political

part 96% of the people who are choosing

the option to end their own lives are

white

96% are white but only 70% of the

country is

white so it's legal and it's mostly

killing white

people it's legal and it's

overwhelmingly mostly killing white

people now nobody knows why I mean I

could offer some guesses but I don't

know

why but suppose they had gone the other

way suppose for whatever cultural or

other mysterious reasons white people

weren't taking this option but black

citizens were taking it in an

overwhelming

number do you think this would be

legal do you think it would be legal to

have a law that was disproportionately

killing by their own choice but killing

minorities not a chance there's not a

chance that that would be legal but as

long as white people are killing

themselves yeah no problem and by the

way I'm in favor of it so I don't want

them to change the law uh we have the

same law in California I was I was part

of the lobbying to to get that an option

in

California you never know if you might

need

it meanwhile there's a story about

uh McConnell some call him

Mitch

um he thinks that it's a dangerous world

and uh if America stays out of the the

wars and the business in other countries

and we become more

isolationists that it would be

reminiscent of before World War II uh he

says even the slogan is the same America

first that's what they said in the 30s

so Mitch

McConnell

uh you didn't know that I'm in favor of

um youth in Asia

I've always been in favor of it I'm I'm

one of the main main people in favor of

it I'm surprised you didn't know that

anyway

um so here's my problem with McConnell

and the other isolationist I don't

believe anything McConnell says as his

reasons for why he wants anything I just

think he's well let me say it

directly I believe that when somebody is

that old and that infirmed

and they stay in their job in Congress

that the only reason for it is they're

covering up their own

crimes or somebody they care

about because nobody in their right mind

would keep working in this condition

Feinstein McConnell it doesn't make any

sense

Pelosi there's got to be some reason

that goes beyond you know serving the

country or whatever because they all

know somebody else could do a better job

now some of it might be that when you

reach a senior

position your own team won't let you

leave because they need they need

somebody in the senior position maybe

they like you in there but here's my

problem the the logic of this isn't

holding up unless you think Putin and

Hitler are basically the same

guy now my understanding of History

which is not so terrific is that um the

problem with Hitler is he was conquering

other countries

and it didn't look like he was willing

to ever

stop so that's a bad thing if you were

staying out of that you could make an

argument oh if you stay under that he

eventually conquers everything gets all

the resources and then conquers you

makes sense but is Putin somebody who's

trying to conquer the

world or is he trying to maybe increase

the Russian Empire but only to Russian

speaking people who are on his border

who and I'm not defending him I'm just

describing uh that maybe he does have

Ambitions to increase but not two people

who were not Russian friendly Russian

speaking historically Russian now I

don't think he should be doing any of

that but I don't think he wants to

conquer Britain does

he do you think do you think Putin if he

could he he'd be you know Blitz creaking

across Europe and going for fr

France I don't think so but then let's

turn it

around the United States recently

conquered

Ukraine the United States

conquered a you a country that's like a

cousin to Russia with great history lots

of Russian

speakers you know at least on the

border are we the

Hitler in this case if if you had to say

all right who's the Hitler

the United States conquering a Russian

cousin entity right on their

border or Putin who wants to control

Russian entities on his

border now both of them are military

both of them are killing people to get

the thing that they want but I I feel

like in this analogy we're

Hiller are we not we're the ones taking

over a country that we had no no

business taking over and we're doing it

for Empire reasons very clearly Empire

reasons we're the

Hiller you know that

right now here's where it gets

complicated I don't know if it's a bad

thing obviously it would bad be a bad

thing to literally be Hitler and you

know killing minorities for beinging

minorities but we're not doing

that what we are doing

as a country and we've done it for a

couple hundred years is every dirty

trick in the book to expand our

Empire that's who we are that's who

America is we are dirty tricksters who

try to conquer every country we can

because the more control we have the

better we think our own Futures will be

it's for the money mostly but money and

National Defense are basically the same

thing so

yeah no where the Hitler McConnell you

have this backwards so do you think that

McConnell is saying what he believes do

you think that he

believes that this is like the the runup

to World War II or does he know that

America is the Hitler in this case and

we're just you know he's just

propagandizing I feel like he knows

we're the

Hitler but again I'm not going to

criticize anybody who says we have to be

an Empire or we become nothing we you

either have to be an Empire or slaves

basically and I think it's been like

that through all of

history so anyway that's

happening um according to uh John

Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public

Health half of the calories of people

eat at home are Ultra processed

foods now if you try to not eat food

that's bad for you in America it would

either be really expensive or really

time consuming or you'd have to do tons

of research to find out what's good for

you and what isn't I feel like uh there

needs to be a new model for making and

preparing and eating food like really a

basically different model and now I ask

the following

question do you think that after all

these years of people trying various

indoor farming

experiments and the and the fact that

indoor farming still hasn't caught on at

least wherever there's outdoor farming

is easily

available um do you think that the big

food has been destroying any innovation

in indoor farming because indoor farming

would allow people to do it themselves

locally and it would cut out big big

food for at least the people who use the

indoor

Farms I feel as if

it's nearly impossible that we could

have gotten to 2024 with you know all

the things we can do technically and

that we can't build a an indoor Farm

that's local maybe attached to your

house but very very local and it's cost

effective and low

maintenance and low

cost we can't do that it it feels like

there must be some like large entity

that's trying to make sure that we can't

and the only one I could think of would

be big food because everybody else would

like good food so I'm just this is just

my prec conspiracy theory um I don't

have any evidence there's any kind of

conspiracy like that but I did work in

the food industry for a while because I

I made a food product the dill burrito

and one of the things I I learned

working in the food industry is that

it's completely

corrupt the food industry

is mostly criminals that was my

experience it was the most corrupt thing

I've ever seen now I've worked at

Banking and bankers Are Not Angels all

the time but they run a pretty clean

shop right not they weren't all

criminals they were just doing their

jobs phone company I worked for the

phone company for

years not all go-getters but they were

good people honest mostly you know just

trying to do their

job but my experience in the food

distribution and grocery

industry I think they're pretty much all

Crooks I I I saw some you don't

even want to know

about it's it's almost a criminal

Enterprise so I have no evidence that

they've suppressed indoor farming um

Innovations uh but I'd love to talk to

Kimble musk about it I know he was into

indoor farming he he would know the real

story so maybe I'll look into

that PJ media is reporting that uh the

mainstream media finally admits

Obamacare is a failure but primarily in

cost um it's a success in signing people

up so that's what the Democrats say but

it would be a failure in controlling

costs just so you

know Rachel madow um ratings have tanked

along with MSNBC in general so o is

reporting uh that so she's now got her

show went from five days a week where

she was paid $30 million and she was

like the face of the

network then she for her own personal

reasons had to go back to one day a week

just

Monday and she got paid the same because

she was still on contract then when the

contract was to be renewed still working

one day a week they negotiated that she

would get $25 million

for one day a

week

um so let's go back to my hypothesis and

prediction you remember my prediction

that

Dei Dei kills everything it touches but

the prediction is that it kills first

and fastest uh wherever it is introduced

first and most

aggressively so wherever it's introduced

early and aggressively those places will

die first so that's how you know Dei is

toxic because there should be a perfect

correlation between how aggressive and

early you were in it and how soon you

die you know your

organization

so imagine trying to sell MSNBC when one

of your stars works one day a week for

30 million doar nobody would buy

that but why do they have to keep paying

so much

money does it have to do with the fact

that she is a lesbian and a

woman is it

Dei probably now I can't say that for

sure because you'd have to be like in in

the room with them to know what's real

but the prediction is if you go early

and hard at Dei you will destroy

yourself pretty quickly MSNBC went early

and super hard at Dei and now they've

got somebody who's not doing much work

they're paying $30 million probably Joy

Reed can't be fired and she's making

them look like idiots management she

makes the management look like idiots

and that's got to be

Dei so I think MSNBC is you know added

to the list of examples of the sooner

and the harder you go on Dei the sooner

and more guaranteed your destruction so

just look for the pattern the sooner and

the harder you go in Dei the sooner

you're

destroyed well the defense who defended

Daniel penny is considering going after

Da Alvin brag for a malicious

prosecution so that would be a lawsuit

so it wouldn't be criminal but uh if

they can prove that that Bragg was was

orchestrating the Daniel Penny thing for

his personal reasons as opposed to it's

just doing the job then it might be a

lawsuit and the personal reason which is

just speculated here is that Alvin brag

knew that there that if Daniel peny

walked free that there would be riots

and that that would make him look bad

because he's the Law and Order guy so if

they're riots you know you look like

you're not doing something and everybody

would say why didn't you do something

more so the idea is that if Alvin brag

if it could be demonstrated there were

any documents or witnesses that the

decision to go after Daniel peny was not

based on the law or what is you know

precedent but only based on protecting

Elvin Bragg's own reputation and

job then the lawsuit I think could could

succeed so we don't know that this is

going to happen

but I think they need to look into it

pretty good you find out if there's

something there

maybe in other news um I heard a few

things about uh the AI that uh Elon Musk

is doing the X

Ai and I heard a story let's see if I

can retell the story was some expert was

it on I think on the all-in Pod talking

to Jason and I didn't get the name of

the expert when I watched the clip I

wish I had so if anybody knows him knows

what I'm talking about put the name of

the expert in the comments um but the

expert said that uh if you get these

Nvidia boards that are necessary for

AI uh that apparently you could only put

if I have this right 20,000 of them kind

of network together to work as one and

that was a physical limitation it it

would be you know engineering wise it

would be impossible to put more than

20,000 working as a team and that then

that would limit how smart your AI could

be because the the more that you could

put on the same on the same let's say uh

processing speed you know parallel

processing the more you have the smarter

you are in AI so the story is that uh

Elon Musk didn't like that spent some

time doing a deep dive and I don't know

who if anybody helped him or it was

completely his own idea but in Fairly

short order Elon Musk figured out how to

network 100,000

together where the where it was presumed

by every expert that 20,000 was the

highest that could ever go there would

there would be a physical or physics

limitation you just couldn't go beyond

that and then he five times it he five

times it probably because he got

personally involved as as you know I

imagine there was there were other

engineers in the room

obviously but

I that that's like one of the greatest

engineering stories of all time but if

you put it on Elon musk's resume it just

disappears with all the other stuff he's

done so many things that make you go wow

you did that you you created giant

Chopsticks to catch a rocket really wow

yeah so and there there probably a dozen

things I could add to the really you put

a network of satellites in the air so

that everybody from these you rural

counties can get cheap high-speed

internet wow you know and I could just

keep going and going and going but this

little one just impresses the hell on me

if it's true that he figured out what

everybody said in the industry in the

industry he wasn't in this is the other

important part in the industry he was

not part

of the moment he walked in he solved

their biggest problem times five did

that really happen I mean I mean I think

I I want to believe it did

so wow but uh on top of that grock 3 is

predicted to be the best

AI sometime in that maybe

February uh because they have just

monstrous Hardware training that thing

so Elon

Musk in theory will be the leading

AI person with his products in the world

in

February

now I don't know what to make of that

you know you know how important it is

that musk bought

a right because because he saved Free

Speech but what would happen to free

speech if AI becomes the the main way we

interact with everything and the main

way we get information and it was just

completely censored and biased but we

didn't know how much it would be the

same problem your free speech would be

completely completely at risk because AI

might have limitations on what it can

and cannot do for you you know it might

censor you or censor itself

and but now maybe the best

AI would be the one that's not going to

do that so if the best AI doesn't censor

you and lets you do the images you want

it to do and wasn't always messing with

your creative

impulses

then you're

free I think grock 3 if it really Leap

Frogs the competition because the reason

the reason historically I haven't used

grock much is that it wasn't wasn't

quite up to speed and we all knew that

and we knew that it was going to catch

up and had a good chance of surpassing

but it looks like it's going to happen

and uh wow that's really

impressive so this would be Elon Musk

saving the

planet by making us into planetary

saving the country by preserving free

speech and saving the future of humanity

by creating an AI

That's less subject to

manipulation that's a lot of saving the

that's a lot of saving he's saving the

world from climate change maybe we'll

see how many times has he needs to save

us he he he saved the country by getting

Trump

elected I mean seriously how many times

does he need to save us in how many

ways maybe the rest of us should do a

little work huh he's he's he's making me

feel

lazy all right that's all I got for now

I knew I went long I'll talk to the

locals people privately and the rest of

you on YouTube and X at Rumble I will

see you tomorrow same time same place

and locals coming at you privately in 30

seconds oops

update oh it's not

working all right so the go private

function is

just just stop working all right so

we're not going private un locals uh but

I didn't have much to say anyway cuz we

ran long um I will see you in the man

cave

tonight all right man cave tonight see

you

then

uhoh and it looks like I can't close it

so I'm going to close the app and reopen

it all right I reopened it just to see

if it'll

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