Episode 2694 CWSA 12/19/24
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Extraordinary. All kinds of things happening. I hear some airports in New Jersey are being closed or there's some kind of warning because of the drones. So apparently no matter what we do, this drone story doesn't go away. Have any of you settled on your best theory about the drones? We're not going to talk about it today, but there's that one bit of new news. Well, I think it's going to be a combination of different things and people who don't know things and a little mass hysteria and a little bit of truth. A little bit of everything in there.
Did I see that Harris just got a $20 million book deal? Every time an ex-president gets a multi-million dollar book deal, I just assume that's illegitimate. Does that feel like a bribe? I feel like there's some kind of backdoor deal. I don't know. I mean, I don't have any information about it, but I feel like there's always a backdoor deal where the publisher will come out whole no matter how many books are sold. There's something going on with this whole publisher situation anyway.
Fani Willis apparently is disqualified from the Trump election case. The Georgia higher court ruled that she had some kind of conflict of interest. So Trump just keeps winning. It's just non-stop winning.
Andrew Huberman reminds us that the research shows the clear benefit of drinking coffee. It gives you more attention, focus, and athletic performance. So if you enjoyed the simultaneous sip, you're probably feeling like you have more attention, more focus, and you're better at sport. I know you can feel it. It just takes one sip.
Would you be surprised to know that there's another breakthrough in battery storage? Yes, Rice University. They figured out some newly discovered material that integrates three modes of energy storage, which I call trimodal. And it uses boric acid and sulfuric acid. Some kind of acid. And it's inexpensive, environmentally friendly, and all that.
Now again, the only reason I read these stories every single day about battery storage is it really is everything. If we somehow could make our battery storage five times better, civilization would be really different. And it looks like that's going to happen one way or the other.
There's a study according to USA Today that women lawmakers are 70 times more likely to be victims of deepfake porn. Let's see if there was any way that they could have saved time and money on this study. Is there anything they could have done to be certain they had the right answer but not to spend the money and the time to do the study? Well, you could have asked every single human male. I think every one of us would have gotten this right.
Let's see. Would I rather see — I'm not going to name names. I was going to name names, but now I realize how classless that is. I was going to say, would I rather see Mitch McConnell naked and having a threesome, or would I rather — and then I stopped myself because if I put in a name, then that becomes the news. But you know what I mean. Yes, surprise. People like to see women more than men.
The economy is kind of strong if you don't count the debt that's going to kill us all. But the economy grew a little bit better than expected. 3.1% in the third quarter, beating expectations that were merely 2.8. I pity the people who made those poor projections. Consumer spending was good. The GDP price index is up, and the core prices rose but not much more than expectation, 2.2%. So the bottom line, of course, is that the Fed probably doesn't have a reason to do too many cuts. When the Fed cuts interest rates, that's what makes the stock market go up.
So now that we know that the rates won't be cut as much as we thought because the economy is stronger, in theory the market should be down today, right? But it's not. What happened was there something that happened yesterday that had potentially enormous financial impact on the United States in a positive way. Did something happen? Yes, it did. We're going to talk about that. All right, we'll get there in a minute.
So CNN has some reporting last night. It's about how the Democrats were shielding Biden and his declining brain from the real world. And she said, quote, "What we found is that the shell around Biden was kind of always hard but became harder and thicker and the walls became taller." And that wall blocked him from the American people. And apparently they had a habit, when they showed Biden how he was doing, they would have to clip out all the mocking of his gaffes.
Can you imagine being the president of the United States and because the news that you see is what your advisers put in front of you — it's not like you're sitting in front of the TV too much — can you imagine being Biden and not being aware that he was being mocked mercilessly for his gaffes? Just try to hold that in your head. He's the president of the United States and the entire world is laughing at him for having his brain degraded, and he's the only one who doesn't know. He's the only one. And he lives in a world that's saturated with media, but because he's busy and because they tell him the things he needs to know, he's the only one who doesn't know.
Do you know how much easier it would have been to convince him to drop out of the race if he had seen his own bad press? If he had seen his own bad press, he would have dropped out sooner. Now, if CNN and MSNBC had been more honest about how he was doing, do you think he would have stayed in the race? If the pollsters had been doing accurate polls, do you think he would have stayed in the race?
Here's what I think. Have you noticed that the Democrats have this habit of being the perpetrators of whatever the badness is and then blaming it on somebody else? Well, usually they're blaming it on Republicans. But if you turn on the news, the news is going to say, oh, that Biden campaign was bad and Joe Biden was bad because he didn't leave the race earlier. Do you know what would have made him leave the race earlier? Accurate news and accurate polls, you idiots. You kept feeding your own idiot fake news and fake polls, and they believed it. And so did Biden.
Maybe instead of blaming Biden for staying in the race too long, you should blame yourself for gaslighting the country, which caused him to be gaslit at the same time so that he legitimately thought he had a chance of winning. I don't think that Biden would have gone so far if he knew he had no chance of winning. It was the news that he and the pollsters and then his campaign were of course incompetent. So you had DEI, fake news, and fake polls. That's what took Biden down. It wasn't Biden. He was the recipient of the worst help anybody ever got because all they cared about was Trump, Trump.
So yeah, stop blaming Biden ultimately. He's the guy in the job, so he gets it. I understand how it works. Biden's in the job, so he has to take the hit. But honestly, none of it would have happened if all of the people around him had done their jobs. None of it. He would have looked at the news same as we did and said, oh, that doesn't look good. There's no way I'm going to win with this kind of news coverage.
Anyway, so before we talk about that continuing resolution, which of course I will, I am continually entertained by how the Democrats can't figure out what went wrong. Now, just as my prior example, they think Biden was the problem. No, it was the news. It was the polls. It was his advisers. But they get pretty much everything wrong because to understand it correctly would be quite damning to their own capabilities.
So the way cognitive dissonance works is if you don't want to accept something that says you're stupid or that you did a bad job, so you just imagine that something else happened. That's how cognitive dissonance works. So you remember how they were running when Biden was running — I'm sorry, when Harris was running against Trump and Biden before that. They were doing all these generic complaints. You know, the generic complaints were Trump's going to end democracy. And people were saying, but gas is too expensive. Could you talk about that? He's Putin's best friend. All right, but could you talk about the price of eggs?
And so you would think that the one thing that they would most understand is that this conceptual stuff is not hitting anybody in the fields. They don't have anybody good who understands persuasion on their team apparently at the moment. It looks like they have nobody who understands the basics of persuasion. No, "end democracy" isn't touching anybody.
So now that Trump's elected, there's a Hill opinion piece in the publication called The Hill, and the title is "Trump will turn America's justice system into a tool of political revenge." What's that sound like? It's more "end democracy" stuff. They didn't learn anything. They didn't learn anything. That talking in these generic ways about he's going to be a tool of political revenge, it just doesn't hit. You just want to be able to pay for your gas and your eggs and make sure that you're not — the country isn't destroyed by invading migrants.
But it makes you wonder why they stopped saying their other generic thing. Do you remember their other generic thing? They used to say nobody's above the law, and they would say it about Trump because they were lawfaring him. You know, all these illegitimate legal processes, illegitimate in my opinion. And every day was like, no one's above the law, no one's above the law.
So now that Derek Chauvin got permission to have George Floyd's heart and some of his juices tested — somehow I guess there's some skin tissue that was saved and they could find out if he died for reasons related to maybe a heart condition, and that would potentially get Derek Chauvin out of jail. Now what would be the problem with somebody asking for some evidence that wasn't included in the trial? But everybody who hears the story knows, oh, that would have been good evidence to be in the trial. So it's a person who was convicted, and he simply wants to make sure that the trial did include all the correct evidence.
So what does the Biden Department of Justice say when somebody says, can we include the real important evidence such as the quality of his heart at the time he died? Very, very obvious, simple thing we'd all want to know. And the Biden Department of Justice is deciding to try to fight it and deny him the chance to look at the health of the heart, the heart muscles or whatever it is they saved.
Now what happened to no one's above the law? What happened to caring about the rule of law and the democracy? Because you know what? Derek Chauvin, when he requested this extra evidence, he did it completely within the confines of the legal process. He didn't steal it. He's not trying to kill somebody to get the specimens. He had legal lawyers do legal things according to the legal process. And everybody with common sense would say, yeah, you know what? Even though he was convicted, he has a right to see that stuff. He absolutely has a right to see it.
So yeah, it feels like the Democrats just want to be on whatever is the dumb side.
Meanwhile, Harvard of course was forced to back off from its DEI hiring practices where it was discriminating against Asian Americans and against white Americans mostly. And so now we can see the result of that, and their law school admissions, the Black enrollment dropped by more than half. So is that good or bad? Well, Democrats of course seem to have some trouble understanding where the problem is. The problem is definitely not Harvard's admission process. That is not what's keeping any Black person from succeeding. But definitely the quality of their undergraduate or their regular school. Definitely the quality of their school and their income situation. Those would make a big difference.
So if you think the problem with college admission has something to do with the college, you're missing the first 18 years of the kid's life. The first 18 years can make a big difference. So no, you can't fix that after it's too late. So while it might look like bad news, I think that's good news in the sense that we're getting back to capability over identity.
Well, you would not be surprised to know that there was a college in Memphis, Tennessee, a little college called Rhodes College. And there was some pro-Trump graffiti that they say was racist. And they did an investigation to see who did this pro-Trump racist graffiti. How do you think that turned out? Take a guess if you haven't heard the story already. So there was graffiti from what looked like a Trump supporter, and it was very racist. And then they looked into it, and it was a hoax. Of course it was not a Trump supporter. It was an anti-Trump person. Of course, of course.
MSNBC had a pundit on there. She might think of herself as a young Black woman. The only thing I know for sure, she's a Black woman. I don't know how young she is. But she said, quote, "The Democratic Party should be led by young women of color."
So is that what the Democrats got wrong? Did they lose everything because they didn't have enough young women of color running things? Now, nothing against young women of color who, by the way, are doing great in society. If you didn't know that, Black women are doing really well relative to historical norms but also relative to white men. Black women are going to college at record rates, earning well after graduation. So Black women are doing great actually.
So she says the Democratic Party should be led by young women of color. Of course that's identity politics, and of course that's the reason they lost. So I could not be more amused by their inability to learn from their mistakes.
But here's one that's fun. I'm told that this didn't actually happen in the real world, but there was a post that makes it look like it happened. It's still just as fun even though it didn't happen. So there's a clip of Scott Galloway saying that he had planned — this was before the election, like a day before or something — he said he planned to bet $358,000 on Harris. And he said the reason he thought that was a good bet — and I was just told in the comments earlier that he didn't actually place the bet. So the day before the election he was talking like this is very serious and he was placing the bet, but somebody says he didn't place it.
But his argument went like this: that the A-plus polls have Harris ahead. So the polls that he trusted had Harris ahead. But Polymarket, where people are just betting, didn't have her conclusively winning like that. So the odds were that if you were just looking at it as one of many bets in your portfolio, you probably would have gone with the odds, meaning that it looked like she might win. Yet the betting markets were not saying that. So you probably would get a nice payoff in the betting markets if the A-plus polls were in fact reliable.
So everything he said is logical. It's mathematically and statistically and of risk management perfect. So everything he said was right. The problem was the A-plus polls. How many of you thought the polls were accurate and real and even trying to be real by election day? I feel like 100% of the people who follow me know that the polls were some kind of a political structure and not — they're not really at least all of them are not meant to be even serious. I mean, I don't think they're trying to be accurate. I think they're just backing their team.
Now Rasmussen, they were superstars yet again, beat all the A-plus guys. But they don't get mentioned because if you're right all the time, the Democrats don't like to mention you. They'll leave you on the list.
So I do wonder how many people took Scott Galloway's advice and put down their own big bets on Harris. And as I told you, I think I mentioned this before, I was very confident that Trump would win. I mean, in plenty of time to have placed the bet if I wanted to. I wasn't confident a year ago, but within a month of the election, if you were watching, I think all of you saw me say, yeah, Trump's going to have the votes.
So your question would be, why didn't I bet on it? Was I lying to you? No, I did bet on it. I bet on it a different way. Over the summer I loaded up on Tesla stock and Bitcoin, the two things that you could pretty well predict would go up if Trump won. So I'm pretty happy with my Tesla and Bitcoin.
Anyway, as you probably all already know, Congress tried to get away with slipping in this resolution budget bill that some call an omnibus bill, but it's something in between. And they tried to do their usual Congress trick, which Thomas Massie called them out and predicted months before it happened because they always do it. And what they do is they wait until it's right before Christmas where everybody just cares about going home. And then they say, either vote for this foot-tall thing that nobody could read and has all kinds of pork in it, or you'll miss your Christmas. Your children will hate you.
And so people being people, they're like, ah, no time to fix this. I can't fix the whole system. I'll just say yes and go home. But that's what should have happened. But it's a different day. It's a different day, isn't it?
So what happened instead was everybody looked at this bill and said, are you really going to sign a bill that nobody read? And so people like me, upon first exposure to the story on X, said immediately no, no, no, no. We can't do this anymore. So I don't need to know what's in the bill. I just need to know it's a foot tall, and that's it. Now there were plenty of other reasons not to vote for it, but you only needed to know it was a foot tall because that tells you that the process doesn't work. Because nobody's going to read the foot-tall thing, and it's going to be full of pork. So you don't need to know anything except it's a foot tall. I didn't need to know anything else. So I was a hard no on first second.
But of course I'm not that influential by myself. But you saw a whole bunch of other people who have a million-plus followers on X and other places say, no, no, no, hell no, hell no, hard no. Would that have made a difference? Probably not. Probably not.
But turns out that there's a whole new dynamic now. So I love saying that. You know, it's like a reference to the Hulk. I've said this before, but we have a Vivek. There's a Vivek on the Republican side. He actually read the foot-tall bill and pulled out the important parts for us. What? How is that even possible? I would love a video of just watching Vivek sit down with a foot-tall bill and pour through it so quickly that you get to see for the first time what a super smart person can do. I'm pretty smart. I couldn't do that, right?
So however smart Vivek is, I can't judge it because as soon as somebody's a little bit smarter than you are, you really don't know how much smarter. You have no mechanism for measuring it because it's outside of your domain. So he's far smarter than I am, at least in this element. So he does what I've never seen anybody do before. He has a big audience. He's very credible. We all know he's working for the country, not for himself. And he just tore into it. He tore into it. And when he was done, I said to myself, I have now heard the important elements. That's amazing.
Now at the same time, Grok was able to look at the bill and also summarize it. Now unfortunately the summary was itself like 20 pages or something. So even a 20-page summary doesn't help you as much as you hoped it would because there are too many different elements or completely different topics are all being stuffed into this monstrosity. So if all you did is read the summary of a thing, you wouldn't necessarily know what it was about because you kind of need to get the context. So I don't think the summary helped us as much as it should, but it did confirm there are way too many things in the bill and we don't have to live like this.
So Vivek just penetrates this thing like a spear. You know, like he just stuck a spear through it and he's holding it up and saying, oh. And then enter Elon Musk. Elon Musk, probably one of the most credible people in the world, known to be smart. We know he's on our side — our side being the country, not our side being the Republicans, but the country. He's on the countryside. And he said hard no. And then he actually escalated it because he kind of posted about it a bunch. And he got all the way up to anybody who votes for it should be primaried. And he's the guy who has hundreds of millions that he could put into a race to primary anybody. And all the politicians are afraid of being primaried.
So within, I don't know, how long did it take? Just a few hours. The bill went from something we assumed would be signed because that's the way it always happened no matter how much you complained to dead. To dead.
Now what happened with the blowback when it got killed by what looked like Elon Musk's work primarily? Well, would you be surprised to know that the Democrats backed up to more generic complaints about things? That's right. Learning absolutely nothing about anything. Republicans have specific complaints that they, thanks to Vivek and others, managed to pull out of this thing. Very specific complaints. This is a bad idea. Don't do this. This is a bad idea.
And their complaint was, instead of defending the bill — how many of you have noticed that there isn't a single Democrat defending the bill? How many of you did not notice that until I just said it? Zero. Not a single Democrat supports the bill. None. So they have to be mad because they have to oppose Republicans, but they don't like the bill either because there's nobody who's dumb enough who thinks that a foot-tall bill packed with crap is a good idea. Democrats don't think it. Republicans don't think it.
So the only thing they had was something about Musk. So they go for the, oh, he's a co-president. Well, he's like the real Speaker of the House. Oh, I guess Trump's not running things. I guess an unelected person is running the country now. And they all sort of simultaneously went to attack Elon Musk. Again, remember they also agree with him. They're attacking him for something they agree with, which is this bill is a ridiculous monstrosity and we should not be governing this way. They agree with that, and they still went after him.
But their argument was sort of childlike. They just wanted to say stuff like, oh, Trump and Musk sitting in a tree. They must be lovers now. Oh, why did Trump just delegate everything to an unelected person? All these generic crap.
So I weighed in a little bit on it and said Musk doesn't have any power from the Republicans. It was somebody who said Republicans gave their power to Musk and he's unelected. And I said Musk doesn't have any power. He has no power. He has only the power of the support of the people under the following conditions: it's common sense, we all agree with him, and in this case both sides agree. Democrats and Republicans, everybody agrees with him, and he's working for the benefit of the people obviously. Now, is it good for Musk's own companies? Of course. Is it good for my company? Of course. It's good for everybody if you can fix the budget.
So as long as he's working for the people and it's all the people and as long as it's common sense and as long as he does everything in public and as long as he couldn't get away with any of it unless he had massive backing by at least one of the parties, the one in charge, I'm good with that.
And the people who said but he wasn't elected, he wasn't elected, I say that's true of all of Trump's advisers. You know, the cabinet maybe needs to be vetted and approved, but if Trump decides you're going to be my adviser — you know, my Kellyanne Conway or something, my Vivek — they're not voted. So Musk is a citizen who has the power to make recommendations and the power to say things in public. But if the Republicans had been completely in favor of this bill, even if Elon thought it was a bad idea, would he have been able to kill it? I don't think so.
So here's the thing that the Democrats can't understand because they're kind of a top-down organization. You know, the orders come from who knows where at the top and go down. But Trump only exists because the base wants him to. Musk is only part of this process because the base wants him to. Vivek is only part of the process because the base wants him to, etc., etc., etc. So the base is getting what they want.
If Democrats think, oh, these rich people, these rich people have taken over without any votes, nothing like that has happened. The so-called rich people, even Trump, have very little ability to do anything outside of what the base wants them to do. That's how populism works.
So then they start complaining about the fact that the Republicans have a billionaire who's working on their side. Oh, so I guess you only care about the millionaire. To which I say, have you heard of Soros and Reid Hoffman and Mark Cuban and Bill Gates? I mean, there are a lot of billionaires out there. I think they're just mad because we got the best one. If you were to rank the billionaires, we got the best one.
Bill Ackman, another billionaire, suggests that the bills should be required to have a footnote so you know which Congressperson added which provisions so you know who put in the bad stuff. And I said to myself, wait a minute, we don't know that? You know, maybe I didn't think it'd be part of the bill, but I thought in some way that would be part of the public record. But it's not. So this bill is so bad that the people who added things to it don't want you to know their names. Literally. There was nobody who came forward and said, oh, good news, people, that thing in that bill, that was all me. That wouldn't even be there if not for me. So I made that happen. Literally they're trying to hide their contribution to the country. They're trying to hide it, and they're trying really hard.
So yes, that's a good idea. We should know who does what.
You might also know that the monstrosity of a budget was going to refund the Global Engagement Center. Now that's part of the big industrial — what do you call it? — the censorship industrial complex. This is the thing that we want to kill more than just about anything. These are the people who came after the Federalist and Daily Wire. So this is a group that's literally trying to close down right-leaning publications. And you're telling me that the Speaker of the House signed off on this? What? The Republican Speaker of the House signed off on funding the Global Engagement Center, whose primary mission is to shut down Republican stuff without good reasons? How in the world did this happen?
And do you think that Speaker Johnson should lose his position because he allowed this to happen? Yes. Yeah, hard yes. Yeah, yeah. You should lose your job if you do this. This is not a small deal. It might seem small if you don't follow the news in detail. This is a big deal. It's the biggest deal. The censorship is basically the government because if you can stop people from knowing what's happening, then you can control what happens without directly getting elected. Even so, the censorship thing is kind of the engine that drives everything because opinion drives everything after censorship.
So yeah, I think you have to lose your job if you put this in a bill and ask your own team to sign for their own destruction. You have to lose your job. And I didn't personally have any big problems with Speaker Johnson. I mean, I know that a lot of people had issues, but I didn't follow it too closely. But no, there's no way that you should keep your job if you signed off on this. No way. You need to take a step back. You know, maybe keep his job in Congress, but no, you can't be the leader. This is not leadership.
And I was really touched by Mollie Hemingway, who works at the Federalist. She said, well, basically she said she takes it personally. Like she's worked so hard and the Federalist has worked so hard to make sure that Republican and conservative views are fully expressed. So basically fighting hard for your team if you're Republican or conservative, fighting hard for your team. And then the team puts in basically the destruction of her entity, and they put that in a bill. Are you kidding me? This is just such a slap in the face and a stab in the back for both the Daily Wire and the Federalist. This is so inappropriate. Like this is wow. I mean, it's just head-shaking. How many Republicans were going to vote for that?
Like if Musk had not stepped in — and again, Musk was really empowered by the base, so it's not just Musk, of course.
So here's what I think. I think there's something incredibly good happening, like incredibly good. And I feel like a separate branch of government has formed spontaneously because it was required. We all noticed that the system the way it was working was just driving us off a cliff. We were just going to drive ourselves into debt and starve us until we're all dead. So nothing was working.
But here's what I think has happened. And I think Trump gets all the credit, right? Trump gets all the credit because Trump managed to attract exactly the right amount of talent. And that didn't happen on its own. So if you want to say, oh, you know, he had all the help from RFK Jr. and Vivek and from Elon Musk, so really they were the powers that pushed him over the finish line. And there's something to that. But remember that only happened because Trump made himself attractive to voters as well as important smart people, right? The boss gets all the credit. It doesn't matter what Elon does or Vivek does or RFK Jr. And by the way, they would get tons of credit for doing good work, but the boss is the one who attracts them. The boss is the one who has to say yes.
Trump of course was fully supportive of both Vivek and Elon as well as the whole base and saying, nope, can't sign this thing.
Now here's what's great. I believe that we have somewhat accidentally evolved into a system which I wanted to call a Council of Elders, but it makes us sound old, so I'm not going to say that. And just to simplify, there are a number of opinion people who have more than a million followers on X who, if they were all opposed to a thing, it would be really hard for Elon to go forward with that thing or anybody else who was on that side.
So I don't think it's necessarily the total number of voters because they don't get to have a say until the next election. But I do think that Elon and Trump specifically are really, really plugged in to what — I'll just randomly pick a number — I'm going to say the top 50 smart people on their side. Top 50. What do you think the top 50 smartest people who lean right said about this bill? I'll bet all 50 said no. If all 50 of the smartest people — most, let's say most persuasive, I want to say smartest — if your 50 top most persuasive people are on the same side, and I think they were, that empowers Trump. And that's what empowers everybody who works for him and, you know, Elon in this situation.
So the will of the people is usually pretty accurately captured by the people who have over a million followers. So you're not getting it directly, but we all have feet in the real world. So I feel like it's almost like another form of government where the people inform the people, the influencers who have a million-plus followers. Elon is following to follow the people who have a million plus. You can tell he responded to me yesterday when I weighed in on this topic. You know, there was Elon's comment. So we know that he's watching at least the larger accounts, and that allows him to know when he's got backing and when he doesn't.
Do you think he would have done this on his own if 40 of the top 50 right-leaning pundits had said, no, we like this bill, sign it? He might have argued it, you know, still argued at his point, try to change our minds. But I don't think it would have been cancelled. So there does seem to be this Council of Elders — again, they're not old, some of them are young — that is very, very important. And it's on X, and it's informing the right people to do the right things. So it does seem to be like a response to the fact that nothing was working. And so this new phenomenon has stepped in.
We'll see how the Democrats are doing here. Yeah, Swalwell and Joy Reid were talking on MSNBC that Musk is like the Speaker or the co-president. And one post on X and he controls Congress. So this is again them getting everything wrong, not understanding that everyone on both sides hated this bill and that Elon is doing the work of the people transparently and right in front of us and at great personal risk.
Then Kinzinger, Adam Kinzinger, is on CNN and he's calling Elon "President Elon" and says Trump is the vice president. Now why did they do that? Obviously the reason they do that is they think that Trump's ego will not allow him to have such a strong partner, let's say. So they think they can drive a wedge between them by going after Trump's ego. I don't think it's going to work because here's again what they get wrong about Trump. Now I've told you this for years, but now you can all see it. If you think Trump doesn't like people who are smarter than him, you're wrong. Trump really, really likes smart people. He really likes them and he wants to work with them and he wants to give them credit. But he's still the boss, right? The boss gets the top credit because he attracted the people to his administration. And if they do a good job, the boss gets the credit. That's how it works.
So we should all make sure that when we're sort of talking about these things that we give Elon his full share of credit. But when you talk about it, it would be helpful if you also add, you know, the boss gets the credit. It has to be that way. Just has to be.
Anyway, so let's see. Rand Paul cheekily suggested that since the Speaker of the House doesn't need to be a member of Congress, that they could elect Elon Musk as Speaker of the House. Now the thing that makes me laugh is that we've somehow gotten the idea that there's no limit to how many jobs Elon Musk can do at the same time. And I'm thinking to myself, well, it is true we haven't found the limit yet, right? For most people two would be too many companies to run, but he's running several. And then he's doing the DOGE thing, which is more than a full-time job. So he's got something like five or six full-time jobs, you know, plus parent, etc.
And the only thing that I don't know is how many times has he been cloned so far? Because I've done the math of how many hours a human can be awake and do work and how many jobs Elon has. And I'm pretty sure there are at least two or three of him by now. Have to be at least two, but there might be three of them. I think he's already cloned himself. Do you think underneath his skin mask there might be like an Optimus robot or something? I don't know. I think we're in the world of clones. We just don't know it yet. I'm kidding.
Meanwhile, X has reached one billion active users, and Elon calls it the group chat for Earth. And boy, did it earn its little title this week. X is the reason that bill got killed. You could say it's a lot of different reasons because it's a bad bill, whatever. But if X did not exist and exist in its current form with free speech under Musk, I don't think that would have stopped.
And you realize that that spending bill is part of a guaranteed death spiral for the country. If we just sign every big pile of bills and nobody says no, we are dead for sure. Like actually dead. Like not just having a bad day, dead. If the economy fails and the country fails, we're actually dead. And we were pretty close. And if we didn't have free speech and X and a lot of billionaires willing to take big chances personally and professionally, we would not have pulled back from the brink. To me this feels like pulling back from the brink. Still got a lot of work to do, but we did not go over the cliff. And we very, very easily could have.
Joshua Steinman, who worked in the first Trump administration, says on a post, he says, having worked through multiple government shutdowns, first as a military officer then as a White House staffer, I can say with conviction they're not real. Ten times more efficient during the shutdown. I believe that. I believe that X is 10 times more efficient when they cut the staff by 80%. And I do believe that you'll get more done during a shutdown. I believe that.
Meanwhile, according to The Hill, the lawyers for Trump have some kind of information that we don't know yet that a member of the New York jury that convicted Trump in the New York case, that one of the jurors was somehow — there's evidence of grave juror misconduct during the trial. Now I don't know what that would include, grave juror misconduct. So that would suggest that maybe they have some written communication that would say they weren't intending to be fair. Maybe they're connected to somebody and they didn't admit it. You know, somebody in politics. Maybe they had a phone call with somebody they shouldn't have been talking to. Maybe. I don't know. But it's something like that.
Do you think that that will be enough to throw out the case or anything? I doubt it because Judge Merchan seems to be just an anti-Trump judge. So I don't expect justice in that case, at least from that judge.
Meanwhile in California, I don't know if you know that California voted to ban gas-driven cars starting in 2035. I wrote down 2025 but I think that was a mistake somebody made on X and I just copied it. But anyway, in a few years the gas cars will be banned. So 2035, right? Yeah. So there was just a typo when I saw 2035. Yeah, we'll see how that goes.
Meanwhile, Governor Newsom in California declared a bird flu emergency in California. I don't think that affects me yet. I don't know exactly what the flu emergency is going to do, but it doesn't require me to wear a mask or get a vaccination yet. But we'll keep an eye on that.
Meanwhile, you probably heard that Proposition 36 in California passed by 70%. And you don't need to know the details. The summary of Proposition 36 is California decided to make crime illegal again. That's all you need to know. So there are a bunch of changes, but they all have the same effect that you can't just walk into a store and take what you want, walk out. Now if they catch you and you can't do multiple crimes and get slapped on the wrist every time you do the crime, you know, it'll go up in severity if you keep doing the same crime. So it's stuff like that. Tough on fentanyl people, etc.
So there's a — speaking of fentanyl, there's some kind of fentanyl movie. I don't know what that's about, but I saw the trailer for it. So somebody's doing the good work of turning it into a movie so maybe the hearts and minds can be moved a little bit more toward getting a solution.
But I did see a graph that showed that opioid overdoses have gone down in the past year or so and quite a bit. And people say, why did they go down? Well, I can think of two reasons. One is Narcan. So the antidote to the overdose is now well enough understood and all police officers have it in their car. All first responders would have it. A lot of big organizations would have it. Probably schools, a lot of schools have it. So some of it is a whole bunch of people being saved by the Narcan. That's the Narcan. I think is the brand of it, not the drug.
But when I looked at the graph, it also was obvious to me that the only thing that happened was the big spike in overdoses during the pandemic just normalized. So in other words, if you look at the line up of every year more fentanyl deaths, more and more, then the pandemic hits and it's like way more. And now we're in the aftermath and it's back down to baseline. So if you were to just take the pre-pandemic slope and just draw a pencil line and connect it, that's where we are now. So the only change is that the pandemic bulge has now normalized back to a horrible, horrible problem that was one of the biggest problems before the pandemic.
So don't get happy about it that it went down quite a bit. It only went down from the bump. The baseline is still increasing.
Now here's what I wonder. I just have a real problem — and of course I take this topic personally. Most of you know my stepson died from an overdose. He had fentanyl in his system. And I'm not happy with China. And China has promised several times that they would take care of the source. And we know that they could, but they kind of slow-walk it and say, well, yes, we're doing all kinds of things, but they're staying ahead of us. Which we don't believe. We think they're allowing it to happen or at least they're not trying hard enough to stop it.
Here's what I think. I don't think we should throw this in the category of just one more thing we're talking to China about. It's not trade policy. It's not even military stuff. It's not UN stuff. We should close the embassy until they fix this. But we should tell them it's temporary and just say we're not comfortable having any communication with you officially while you're poisoning our citizens. If you stop this, we'll reopen the embassy. So we're not intending to close it totally. And the embassy would do services for American entities in China, so you need some of it. But there might be something where you could close it so that China doesn't have access to it and just don't have any meetings with anybody in China.
And the reason to do it is not that they would care that much. It's that it would embarrass them. The purpose would be to embarrass them. And apparently killing people with fentanyl shipments doesn't embarrass them because it kind of just looks like they're getting revenge for the Opium Wars long ago. So I don't think they're embarrassed by it because they're doing it intentionally and they're probably enjoying the benefit of it, you know.
But if we said, you know, we can't even deal with you like adults because you're murdering our children. So if you stop murdering our children, we'll open an embassy and treat you like you would like to be treated. But we cannot — we can't have a summit with you. We can't. We just can't have a normal relationship while you're killing our children. And I think you could still be professional about everything else. We do still trade with them, you know, even while we're trying to reshore stuff. But I think we need to embarrass them. And I think we have to say, look, we're going to temporarily shut down our embassy. And it's not going to last long because it wouldn't take you long to clean up this fentanyl stuff. But take as long as you want. You just can't have an embassy from the United States. Or we kick them out of our embassy. Maybe you do the reverse. Just say you can't have an embassy in the United States while you're sending us fentanyl. And you just keep it to that one topic. And you just say, I'm sorry, you can't be in the nation of good countries. We just can't deal with you on that basis. We don't have respect for you. Let's say it this way: we don't have respect for you, and you can't have an embassy in our country under these conditions.
Well, anyway. Apparently the Supreme Court is going to hear TikTok's appeal to try to stay in business and intact. Zero Hedge is reporting. And so here's the deal. I guess Trump has offered that he could facilitate a sale of TikTok to an American entity, which would satisfy the court order. So then TikTok could remain, but it would be owned and managed and the data would be in the United States. Do you like that idea? Do you think it should be banned, or would you prefer that an American buy it?
Well, here's the answer to the question. It really depends which American buys it. And something very interesting is about to happen. If Elon Musk bought TikTok — and that's not going to happen, but if he did — the Democrats would be completely toasted because then the two biggest sources of knowledge, X and TikTok, would both be pro-Trump, pro-common sense. And that would be bad for Democrats.
But also the other way. If Reid Hoffman and let's say some team of investors bought TikTok, well, at least TikTok would be an American company. But then you would worry that they've got their finger on the scale and they're basically causing the outcome in the elections. So if TikTok leaned left, which it does, but it was very pro-Trump this election, weirdly. And X, people think it leans right, but I don't think it leans right as much as people think. That would be sort of a good competition, wouldn't it?
But what happens if Trump puts together the sale? If Trump puts together the sale, presumably he's going to make sure that some people who like him are the ones who buy it. So here's what TikTok might be missing in this story. They have an opportunity for a bidding war like you've never seen. So whatever is the current value of TikTok, you know, the entire TikTok, if they take the American piece and they put it out to bid, the Democrat billionaires and the Republican billionaires are going to have to basically break the piggy bank because neither side is going to be willing to let the other have that much control of the American mind, right?
There's literally — there probably would be no asset in the United States besides X that would be that valuable because it'd be valuable for profits but way more valuable for controlling the country. So I think there could be the biggest bidding war we've ever seen. Like crazy bidding war. So TikTok could probably monetize this in a way that nobody's ever seen. And one of the ways that a Trump dealmaker could make this palatable is to say that out loud. Say, hey, TikTok, you do understand that there's going to be a bidding war like you've never seen in your life, right? You're going to make a lot of money if you sell the American part. And you'll never have a better chance. I mean, this would be like an amazing opportunity.
So my guess is that it will get sold to an American entity and probably somebody that Trump likes.
Disney meanwhile has decided to get rid of the trans storyline in one of their children's movies. Is that even real? Did those words just come out of my mouth? Yep. So there's an animated show — is it a movie or just a show? It's called "Win or Lose," an animated show. So maybe it's a TV show about a co-ed middle school softball team. And there's some trans character in there. They decided to remove it. This is what Disney said about it: "When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline."
That's kind of perfect. Thank you, Disney. So now Disney has paid Trump $15 million through their ownership of ABC News and George Stephanopoulos. And now they've de-woked at least some of their content. I'd expect more. If you make a statement like this, you're going to have to apply it to your other properties. So I think this is a big step. But I like how well they said it. So whoever was in charge of crafting the statement for Disney, good job. Yeah, yeah. They're not saying their own opinion. They're saying we recognize that many parents — not all — would prefer to discuss certain things on their own terms and timeline. That's as perfect as you can say that. I'm actually impressed just at the skill that went into the statement. It's a lot of skill.
Meanwhile, there's the Washington University in St. Louis is reporting a study where they put something like a pacemaker device on people who were depressed. Except instead of being a pacemaker for your heart, it would zap your vagus nerve in the neck. And what they found is if you stimulate the vagus nerve just right, it can eliminate depression symptoms. Now they did this with people who had tried a whole bunch of other things and got no relief. So they knew these were not easy cases. These were hard cases. And they got a great response.
But so on one hand, I'm really happy for anybody who has this problem in their life because maybe they have another future treatment if it all gets approved. But yeah, it's for severe treatment-resistant depression. I mean, that's got to be the worst thing you could possibly imagine. And so this might help them with it.
But I would like to make the following observation. If you put a mechanical device in my body and it changes me from being depressed into not depressed, that's a personality change. And it's a personality change driven by hardware. So am I a cyborg? Because if you can change my most fundamental personality, which is I'm depressed all the time and I only have depressed thoughts and depressed actions, to hey, I'm having a good day, that's more than just fixing a medical problem. That's a whole different personality. I mean, you're changing people from Karen to non-caring. That's a personality change. And I'm in favor of it because I don't think the people in this situation should suffer one second longer. So if you can help them, please do.
But I think it's just an observation. It's not — I'm not complaining one bit. But it's a complete personality change. So to me that's kind of a cyborg. You're no longer what you were when you were organic. You're something new that's a combination of hardware and skin. We are kind of cool. No, I hate it at all. A biological machine. That's right.
All right, ladies and gentlemen. I feel like I missed a few stories today. There's been so much going on lately. Was there any story that you wanted me to talk about? I feel like I'm done with drones until something new happens. You're all okay with that, right? Feels like yeah.
Naval had some great quotes that I posted. It's better if he just read them in his own words. I decided not to talk about them.
So the stock market's up, right? Oh, I think I didn't complete my thought. So normally when the economy is strong enough that the Fed says we're not going to reduce rates or we're not going to reduce them as much as you thought, that usually causes the stock market to tank. And it did on the first day. But today it should still be down because the Fed is still not going to lower rates as fast as we thought. But it went up sharply.
Here's why. I think it's the budget. I think that when the country realized that maybe we can stop this uncontrolled budget spending, which is our biggest problem — don't you know, just to be clear, it's our biggest problem by far. It's the one thing that could end the entire country. Nothing else could. I mean, short of a nuclear war, which I don't see happening, almost nothing could end America. But this could. It could end the entire experiment.
And so you see the Council of Elders, you see the Viveks, the Elon Musks enter the breach. And at the very least they did the first thing you need to do, which is stop the signing of that foot-tall bill that nobody likes.
Now I think the world is shocked that that was so handily and well handled because the politicians are in this situation where they sort of can't do their jobs. You know, they don't want to go against their party and everybody wants to go home for Christmas. Their family will be mad. They really can't get it done. So the fact that this new mechanism appeared — the new mechanism is Vivek reads the thing in one day. You didn't see that coming. Tells us what's in it. You didn't see that coming. And then Elon goes in hard like he went in like the bull. And then he got complete backing, 100% backing from everybody. Well, everybody on the right. And like I said, nobody on the left really disagrees. They just don't love the fact that the right is getting stuff done.
So I think that the stock market is responding to the fact that America may have corrected its biggest problem. And it's the big one. The biggest of the big. Now that's a long way from DOGEing our way down to a budget that works where we haven't DOGE'd a bit. But we did show that if the people on X have a strong opinion about something, things are going to change. And that's new.
So I think we're in one of the best situations the country's ever been in. Not only are we at the cusp of a supercycle the likes of which we might never see again, which is robots and auto self-driving taxis, flying cars, drones. You know, probably the most important cycle ever. And the only thing that could stop us is the runaway debt. And we might have that under control soon. It's not under control, but we have all the right players and we have the support to do it. At least conceptually we have the support.
All right. Is there anything else I should have mentioned? It's a vagus nerve. Vagus, not Vegas as in Las Vegas. No, vagus nerve.
Can I wax poetic about Raquel Welch? You know, I'm going to tell you later when I go private on Locals why that comment blew my mind. But I can't say it. I can't say it to the rest of you.
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Connell naked and having a threesome or would I rather and then I stopped myself because if I put in a name then that becomes the news and yeah blah blah blah but you know I mean yes uh surprise people like to see women more than men the economy is kind of strong if you don't count the debt that's going to kill us all but the uh economy grew a little bit better than expected um 3.1% in the third quarter beating expectations that were merely 2.8 I pity the people who made those poor projections uh consumer spending was good in the GDP price index to up and the core prices Rose but not much more than expectation 2.2% so the bottom line of course is that the FED probably doesn't have a reason to do too many cuts when the FED Cuts interest rates that's what makes the stock market go up so now that we know that the stock Mark that the rates won't be cut as much as we thought because the economy is stronger in theory the market should be down today right but it's not what happened was there something that happened yesterday that had potentially enormous Financial impact on the United States in a positive way did something happen yes it did we're going to talk about that all right um we get the there in a minute so CNN uh has some reporting last night um it's about how how the Democrats were shielding Biden and his declining brain from um the real world and she said quote what we found is that the shell around Biden was kind of always hard but became harder and thicker and the walls became taller uh and that wall was that wall was blocked from the American people and apparently they had a habit of when they showed Biden how he's doing they would have to clip out all the mocking of his gaffs can you imagine being the president of the United States and because the news that you see is what your advisor put in front of you it's not like you're sitting in front of the TV too much can you imagine being Biden and not being aware that he was being mocked mercilessly for his gffs get just try to hold that in your head he's the president of the United States and the entire world is laughing at him for having his brain degraded and he's the only one who doesn't know he's the only one and he and he lives in a world that's saturated with media but because he's busy and because they tell him the things he needs to know he's the only one who doesn't know do you know how much easier it would have been to convince him to drop out of the race if he had seen his own bad press if he had seen his own bad press he would have dropped down sooner now if CNN and MSNBC had been more honest about how he was doing do you think he would have stayed in the race if the pollsters had been doing accurate polls do you think he would have stayed in the race here's here's what I think have you noticed that the Democrats have this habit of being the perpetrators of whatever the Badness is and then blaming it on somebody else well usually they're blaming it on Republicans but if you turn on the news the news is going to say oh those that Biden campaign was bad and Joe Biden was bad because he didn't leave the race earlier do you know what would have made him leave the race earlier accurate news and ACC accurate polls you idiots you you kept feeding your own idiots fake news and fake polls and they believed it and so did Biden maybe instead of blaming Biden for staying in the race too long you should blame yourself for gaslighting the country which caused him to be gaslighted at the same time so that he legitimately thought he had a chance of winning I don't think that Biden would have gone so far if he knew he had no chance of winning it was the news that him and the pollsters and then and then his campaign were of course incompetent so you had Dei fake news and fake polls that's what took Biden down it wasn't Biden he was the recipient of the worst help anybody ever got because all they cared about was Trump trump so yeah stop stop blaming Biden ultim he's the guy in the job so he gets you know I understand how it works Biden's in the job so he has to take the you know take the hit but honestly none of it would happen if all of the people around him had done their jobs none of it he would have looked at the news same as we did and said oh that doesn't look good there's no way I'm going to win with this kind of news coverage anyway so you know um so before we talk about that continued resolution which of course I will uh I am continually entertained by how the Democrats can't figure out what went wrong now just as my prior example they think Biden was the problem no it was the news it was the polls it was his advisers um but they get pretty much everything wrong because to understand it correctly would be quite damning to their own you know capabilities so the way cognitive dissonance works is if you don't want to you don't want to accept something that says you're stupid or that you did a bad job so you just imagine that something else happened that's how cognitive distance works so you remember how they running when Biden was running I'm sorry when uh Harris was running against uh Trump and Biden before that and Biden before that um that they were doing all these generic complaints you know the generic complaints were Trump's going to end democracy and people were saying but gas is too expensive could you talk about that uh he's uh he's Putin's best friend all right but like could you talk about the price of eggs and so you would think that the one thing that they would most understand is that this conceptual stuff is not hitting anybody in the fields like they don't have anybody good who understands persuasion on their team apparently at the moment they have it looks like they have nobody who understands the basics of persuasion no end democracy isn't touching anybody uh so now so now that uh Trump's elected um there's a hill opinion piece in the publication called the hill and the title is Trump will turn America's justice system into a tool of political Revenge what's that sound like it's more end democracy stuff they didn't learn anything they didn't learn anything that that talking in these generic ways about he's going to be it's a tool of political Revenge it just doesn't hit you just want to be able to pay for your gas and your eggs and make sure that you're not the country isn't destroyed by invading migrants but uh so makes you wonder why they uh sto saying the their other generic thing do you remember their other generic thing they used to say nobody's Above the Law and they would say it about Trump because they were law faring him you know all these illegitimate legal processes illegit in my opinion and uh they every day was like no one's Above the Law no one's Above the Law so now uh now that Derek Chauvin um got he got permission to have uh George Floyd's heart and some of his juices tested somehow I guess there's some skin tissue that was saved and they could find out if he died for reasons related to maybe a heart condition and that would potenti get Derek Chauvin out of jail now what would be the problem with somebody asking for some evidence that wasn't included in the trial but everybody who hears the story knows oh that would have been good evidence to be in the trial so it's a person who was convicted and he simply wants to make sure that the trial did include all the correct evidence so what does the Biden Department of Justice say when somebody says can we include the real important evidence such as the quality of his heart at the time he died very very obvious Simple Thing we'd all want to know and uh the Biden Department of Justice is deciding to try to fight it and deny him the chance to look at the the health of the heart the heart muscles or whatever whatever it is they saved now what happened to no one's above the law what what happened to caring about the rule of law and the Democracy because you know what Derek Chauvin when he when he requested this extra evidence he did it completely within the confines of the legal process he didn't steal it he he's not trying to kill somebody to get the specimens he had legal lawyers do legal things according to the legal process and everybody with common sense would say yeah you know what you even though he was convicted he he has a right to see that stuff he absolutely has a right to see it so yeah it feels like the Democrats just want to be on whatever is the dumb side meanwhile Harvard of course was forced to back off from its Dei hiring practices where it was discriminating against asian-americans and against white Americans mostly and so now we can see the result of that and their their Law School admissions uh the black enrollment dropped by more than half so is that good or bad well Democrats of course seem to have some trouble understanding where the problem is the problem is definitely not Harvard's admission process that is not what's keeping any black person from succeeding but definitely the quality of their undergraduate or or their you know their regular school definitely the quality of their school and their income situation um those would make a big difference so if you think the problem with College admission has something to do with the college you're missing the first 18 years of the kids's life the first 18 years can make a big difference so no you can't fix that after it's too late so that's I so while it might look like bad news I think that's good news um in the sense that we're getting back to capability over identity well you would not be surprised to know that there was a a college in Memphis Tennessee a little College called uh RADS college and there was some uh prot Trump graffiti that was they say was racist and they did an investigation to see who did this prot Trump racist graffiti how do you think that turned out take a guess if you haven't heard the story already so there was graffiti from what looked like a trump supporter and it was very racist and then they looked into it and it was a hoax of course it was not a trump supporter it was a anti-trump person of course of course I feel like I missed the story I'll get to it um so so that's a right on model uh MSNBC uh had a uh pundit on there she uh she might think of herself as a young black woman the only thing I know for sure she's a black woman I don't know how young she is but she said quote the Democratic party should be led by young women of color so is that what the Democrats got wrong did they lose everything because they didn't have enough young women of color running things now nothing against young women of color uh who by the way are doing great in society if you didn't know that uh black women are doing really well you know relative to historical Norms but also relative to white men uh um black women are going to college at record rates earning earning well after graduation so black women are doing great actually um so she says the Democratic party should be led by young women of color of course that's identity politics and of course that's the reason they lost so I could not be more amused by their inability to learn from their mistakes but here's one that's fun um I'm told that this didn't actually happen in the real world but there was a post that makes it look like it happened it's still just as fun even though it didn't happen so there's a clip of uh Scott Galloway saying that he had planned this was before the election like a day before or something he said he planned to bet $358,000 on Harris and he said the reason he thought that was a good bet um and I was just told in the comments earlier that he didn't actually place the bet so the day before the election he was talking like this is very serious and he was placing the bet but somebody says he didn't place it but his argument went like this that the what do you called the A+ polls have Harris ahead so the polls that he trusted had Harris ahead but poly markets where people are just betting uh didn't didn't have her you know conclusively winning like that so the odds were that you had a you know if you were just looking at it as one of many bets in your portfolio you probably would have gone with the odds meaning that it looked like she might win yet the betting markets were not saying that so you probably would get a nice payoff in the betting markets if the A+ poles were in fact reliable so everything he said is logical it's mathematically and statistically and of risk management perfect so everything he said was right uh the problem was the A+ polls how many of you thought the polls were accurate and real and even trying to be real by election day I feel like 100% of the people who follow me know that the polls were you know some kind of a political structure and not they're not really at least all of them are not meant to be uh even serious I mean I don't think they're trying to be accurate I think they're just backing their team now rasmuson was they were Superstars yet again beat all the A+ guys but they don't get mentioned because if you're right all the time the Democrats don't like to mention you they'll leave you they'll leave you on the list so I do wonder how many people took Scott Galloway's advice and put down their own big bets on Harris um I and as I told you I think I mentioned this before um I was very confident that Trump would win I mean in plenty of time to have placed the bet if I wanted to I wasn't confident a year ago but you know within a month of the election if you were watching I think all of you saw me say yeah Trump's going to have the votes so your question would be why didn't I bet on it was I lying to you no I did bet on it I bet on it a different way uh over the summer I loaded up on Tesla stock and Bitcoin the two things that you could pretty well predict would go up if Trump won so I'm pretty happy with my Tesla and Bitcoin anyway uh as you probably all already know Congress tried to get away with slipping in this resolution budget bill that some call some call an omnius bill but it's something in between and they tried to do their usual Congress trick which Thomas Massie called them out and predicted you know months before it happened because they always do it and what they do is they wait until it's right before Christmas where everybody just cares about going home and then they say either vote for this foot tall thing that nobody could read and has all kinds of pork in it or you'll miss your Christmas your children will hate you and so people being people they're like ah no time to fix this I can't fix the whole system I'll just say yes and go home but that's what should have happened but it's a different day it's a different day isn't it so what happened instead was everybody looked at this bill and said uh are you really going to sign a bill that nobody read and so people like me upon first exposure to the story in X said immediately no no no no we can't do this anymore so I don't I don't need to know what's in the bill I just need to know it's a foot tall and that's it now there were plenty of other reasons not to vote for it but you only needed to know it was a foot tall because that tells you that the process doesn't work because nobody's going to read the foot tall thing and it's going to be full of pork so you don't need to know anything except it's a foot tall I didn't need to know anything else so I was a hard no on the first second but of course you know I'm not that influential by myself but you saw a whole bunch of other people who have a million plus followers on X and other places say uh no no no hell no hell no hard no would that have made a difference probably not probably not but turns out that there's a whole new Dynamic now so I love saying that uh you know it's like a reference to the Hulk I've said this before but we have a vake there's a vake on the Republican side he actually read the foot tall Bill and and pulled out the important parts for us what what how is that even possible I would love a video of just watching V sit down with a foot tall Bill and pour through it so quickly that you you you get to see for the first time what a super smart person can do I'm pretty smart I couldn't do that right so however however smart V is I can't judge it because as soon as somebody's a little bit smarter than you are you really don't know how much smarter there's no you have no mechanism for measuring it because it's outside of your domain so he's far smarter than I am at least you know in this in this element so he does what I've never seen anybody do before he has a big audience he's very credible we all know he's working for the country not for himself and he just tore into it he tore into it and when he was done I said to myself I have now heard the important elements that's amazing now at the same time uh grock was able to look at the bill and also summarize it now unfortunately the summary was itself like I don't know 20 20 Pages or something so even a 20page summary doesn't help you as much as you hoped it would because there are too many different elements or you know completely different topics are all being stuffed into this monstrosity so if all you did is read the summary of a thing you wouldn't necessarily know what it was about because you kind of need to hold you know get the context so I don't think the summary helped us as much as it should but it did confirm there are way too many things in the bill and we don't have to live like this so V just penetrates this thing like a spear you know like like he just stuck a spear through it and he's holding it up and saying oh and then enter Elon Musk Elon Musk probably one of the most credible people in the world uh known to be smart we know he's on our side our side being the country not our side being the Republicans but the country he's on the countryside and he said hard no and then he actually you know escalated it because he kind of posted about it a bunch and he got all the way up to anybody who votes for it should be primaried and he's the guy who has hundreds of millions that he could put into a a race to primary anybody and all the politicians are afraid of being primaried so within I don't know how long did it take just a few hours the bill went from something we assumed would be signed because that's the way it always happened no matter no matter how much you complained to dead to dead now what happened with uh the the blowback when it got killed by what looked like Elon musk's work primarily well would you be surprised to know that the Democrats back up to more generic complaints about things that's right learning absolutely nothing about anything Republicans have specific complaints that they thanks to VI and others managed to pull out at this thing very specific complaints this is a bad idea don't do this this is a bad idea and their complaint was instead of defending the bill how many of you have noticed that there isn't a single Democrat defending the bill how many of you did not notice that until I just said it zero not a single Democrat supports the bill none so they have to they have to be mad because they you know they have to oppose Republicans but they don't like the bill either because there's nobody who's dumb enough who thinks that a foot tall Bill packed with crap is a good idea IDE Democrats don't think it Republicans don't think it so the only thing they had was something about musk so they go for the oh he's a he's a co-president well he's like the real speaker of the house oh oh I guess Trump's not running things I guess I guess an unelected person is running the country now and they all sort of simultaneously went to attack Elon Musk again remember they also agree with him they're attacking him for something they agree with which is this bill is a ridiculous monstrosity and we should not be governing this way they agree with that and they still went after him but their argument was was sort of childlike they they just wanted to say stuff like oh uh Trump and musk sitting in a tree that they must be lovers now oh oh why why did Trump's you know just delegate everything to an unelected person all these generic crap so I weighed in a little bit on it and said um musk doesn't have any power from the Republicans it was somebody who said uh Republicans gave their power to to musk and he's unelected and I said musk doesn't have any power he has no power he has only the power of the support of The People Under The Following conditions it's Common Sense we all agree with them and in this case both sides agree Democrats and Republicans everybody agrees with him and he's working for the benefit of the people obviously now is it good for musk's own companies of course is it good for my company of course it's good for everybody if if you can you know fix the the budget so as long as he's working for the people and it's all the people and as long as it's common sense and as long as he does everything in public and as long as he couldn't get away with any of it unless he had massive backing by at least one of the parties the one in charge um I'm good with that and the people who said but he wasn't elected he wasn't elected I say that's true of all of Trump's advisers you know the the cabinet maybe needs to be vetted and approved but if Trump decides you're going to be my adviser you know my Kelly Conway or something my V they're not voted so musk is a citizen who has the power to make recommendations and the power to say things in public but if the Republicans had been completely in favor of this bill even if Elon thought it was a bad idea would he have been able to kill it I don't think so so so here's the thing that the Democrats can't understand because they're kind of a top- Down organization you know the orders come from who knows where at the top and and go down but Trump only exists because the base wants him to musk is only part of this process because the base wants him to vake is only part of the process because the the base wants them to etc etc etc so the base is getting what they want if if Democrats think oh these rich people these rich people have taken over without any votes nothing like that has happened the the so-called rich people even Trump have very little ability to do anything outside of what the base wants them to do that's how populism works so then they start complaining about the fact that the Republicans have a a billionaire who's working on their side oh so I guess you only care about theill millionaire to which I say have you heard of Soros and Reed Hoffman and Mark Cuban and Bill Gates I mean there are a lot of billionaires out there I think they're just mad because we got the best one if you were to rank the billionaires we got the best one um Bill Amman another billionaire um suggests that the the Bills should have uh they should be required to have a footnote so you know which Congress person added which Provisions so you know who put in the bad stuff and I said to myself wait a minute we don't know that you know maybe I didn't think it'd be part of the bill but I thought in some way that would be part of the public record but it's not so this bill is so bad that the people who added things to it don't want you to know their names literally right there there was nobody who came forward and said oh good news people that that thing in that bill that was all me like that that wouldn't even be there if not for me so I I made that happen literally they're trying to hide their contribution to the country they're trying to hide it uh and they're trying really hard so yes that's a good idea we should know who does what you might also know that the that uh monstrosity of a budget was going to refund the global engagement center now that's part of the big um the big industrial what do you call it the the censorship industrial complex this is the thing that we want to kill more than just about anything the these are the people who came after the Federalist and daily wire so this is a group that's literally trying to close down right leaning Publications and and you're telling me that the speaker of the house signed off on this what the Republican speaker of the house signed off on funding the global engagement Center whose primary mission is to shut down Republican stuff without good reasons how how in the world did this happen and do you think that speaker Johnson should lose his position because he allowed this to happen yes yeah hard yes yeah yeah you should lose your job if you do this this is not a small deal it might seem small if you don't follow the news in detail this is a big deal it's the biggest deal the the censorship censorship is basically the government because if you can stop people from you know knowing what's happening then you can control what happens without directly getting elected even so the censorship thing is kind of the engine that drives everything because opinion drives everything after censorship so yeah I I think you have to lose your job if you put this in a bill and ask your own team to sign for their own destruction you have to lose your job and I didn't personally have any big problems with speaker Johnson I mean I know that a lot of people had issues but I didn't follow it too closely but no there's no way that you should keep your job if you signed off on this no way you need you need to take a step back you know maybe keep his job in Congress but no you can't be the leader this is not leadership so and I was really touched by uh Molly Hemingway who who's um works at the Federalist she said uh um well basically she said she takes it personally like she's worked so hard and the Federalist has worked so hard to make sure that Republican and conservative views are fully you know fully expressed so basically fighting hard for your team if you're Republican or conservative fighting hard for your team and then and then the team puts in basically the destruction of her entity and they put that in a bill are you kidding me this this is this is just such a slap in the face and a stab in the back for both the daily wire and the Federalist this is so inappropriate like like this is wow I mean it's just head shaking how many Republicans were going to vote for that like if if musk had not stepped in and again musk was really empowered by the base so it's not just musk of course um so here's what I think I think there's something incredibly good happening like incredibly good and I feel like a a separate branch of government has formed spontaneously because it was required we all noticed that the system the way it was working was just driving us off a a cliff we were just going to drive ourselves into debt and Star Wars until we're all dead so nothing was working but here's what I think has happened and I think I think Trump gets all the credit right Trump gets all the credit because Trump managed to attract exactly the right amount of talent and that didn't happen on its own so if you want to say oh you know he had all the help from RFK Jr and V and from Elon Musk so so really you know they were the powers that pushed him over the finish line and there's something to that but remember that only happened because Trump made himself attractive to voters as well as important smart people right the boss gets all the credit it doesn't matter what Elon does or V does or RFK Jr and and by the way they would get tons of credit for doing good work but the boss is the one who attracts them the boss is the one who has to say yes Trump of course was fully supportive of both V and and Elon as well as the whole base and saying nope can't sign this thing now here's what's great I believe that we have somewhat accidentally evolved into a system which I wanted to call a Council of Elders but it makes us sound old so I'm not going to say that and just to simplify um there are a number of opinion people who have more than a million followers on Ax who if they were all opposed to a thing it would be really hard for Elon to go forward with that thing or anybody else who was on that side so I don't think it's necessarily the the total number of Voters because they don't get to have a say until the next election but I do think that Elon and um Trump specifically are really really plugged in to what I'll just randomly pick a number I'm going say the top 50 smart people on their side top 50 what do you think the top 50 smartest people who lean right said about this bill I'll bet all 50 said no if all 50 of the smartest people most let's say most persuasive I want to say smartest if your 50 top most persuasive people are on the same side and I think they were um that empowers Trump and that's what empowers everybody who works for him and you know and let's say Elon in this situation so the will of the people is usually pretty accurately captured by the people who have over a million followers so you're not getting it directly but they but we all have a you know feet in the real world so I feel like it's almost like another form of government where the people inform the people the influencers who have a million plus followers Elon is following to follow the people have a million plus you can tell he responded to me yesterday when I when I weighed in on this topic you know there there was elon's comment so we know that he's watching at least the larger accounts and that allows him to know when he's got backing and when he doesn't do you think he would have done this on his own if 40 of the top 50 right leaning pundits had said said no we like this bill sign that he might have argued it you know still argu at his point try to change our minds but I don't think it would have been cancelled so there does seem to be this Council of Elders again they're not they're not old some of them are young uh that is very very important and it's on X and it's informing the right people to do the right things so it does seem to be like a response to the fact that nothing was working and so this new new phenomenon has stepped in um we'll see how the uh Democrats are doing here um yeah swalwell and Joy Reed were talking on MSNBC that you know musk is like the speaker or the co-president and one post on X and he controls Congress so this is again them getting everything wrong not understanding that everyone on both sides hated this bill and that Elon is doing the work of the people transparently and right in front of us and at Great personal risk then kinzinger Adam kininger is on CNN and he's calling Elon musy president Elon and says Trump is the vice president Trump now why did they do that obviously the reason they do that is if they they think that Trump's ego will not allow him to have you know such a strong uh partner let's say so they think they can drive a wedge between them by going after Trump's ego I don't think it's going to work because here's here again is what they get wrong about Trump now I've told you this for years but now you can all see it if you think Trump doesn't like people are smarter than him you're wrong Trump really really likes smart people he really likes them and he wants to work with them and he wants to give them credit but he's still the boss right the boss gets the top credit because he attracted the people to his administration and if they do a good job the boss gets the credit that's how it works so we should all make sure that when we're sort of talking about these things that we give Elon his full share of credit but when you talk about it it would be helpful if you also add you know the boss gets the credit it has to be that way just has to be anyway um so let's see um ran Paul cheekily suggested that since the speaker of the house doesn't need to be a member of Congress uh that they could elect Elon Musk as Speaker of the House now the thing that makes me laugh is that we've somehow gotten the idea that there's no limit to how many jobs Elon Musk can do at the same time and I'm thinking to myself well it is true we haven't found the limit yet right for most people too would be too many companies to run but he's running several and then he's you know doing doing the Doge thing which is more than a full-time job so he's got something like five or six full-time jobs you know plus parent Etc and the only thing that I don't know is how many times has he been cloned so far because I've done the math of how many hours a human can be awake and do work and how many jobs Elon has and I'm pretty sure there are at least two or three of him by now have to be at least at least two but there might be three of them I think he's already cloned himself do do you think do you think underneath his skin mask there might be like a Optimus robot or something I don't know I I think we're in the world of clones we just don't know it yet I'm kidding meanwhile X has reached one billion active users and Elon calls it the group chat for Earth and boy did it earn its little title this week X is the reason that bill got killed you you could say it's you know a lot of different reasons because it's a bad bill whatever but if x did not exist and exist in its current form with free speech under musk I don't think that would have stopped and you realize you realize that that spending bill is part of a guaranteed death spiral for the country if we just sign every big pile of bills and nobody says no we are dead for sure like actually dead like not just having a bad day dead you if the if the economy fails and the country fails we're we're actually dead and we were pretty close and if we didn't have free speech and x and a lot of billionaires were willing to take big chances personally and professionally we would not have pulled back from the brink to me this feels like pulling back from the brink still got a lot of work to do but we did not go over the cliff and we very very easily could have um Joshua Steinman who worked in the first Trump Administration says on a post he says having worked through multiple government shutdowns first as a military officer then as a White House staffer I can say with conviction they're not real 10 times more efficient during the shutdown I believe that uh I believe that X is 10 times more efficient when they cut the staff by 80% and I do believe that you'll get more done during a shutdown I believe that um meanwhile according to uh the hill uh the lawyers for Trump have some kind of information that we don't know yet that a member of the New York jury that convicted uh Trump in the New York case uh that one of the jurors was uh somehow um somehow had there's evidence of a grave juror misconduct during the trial now I don't know what that would include grave juror misconduct so that would suggest that maybe they have some written communication that would say they weren't intending to be fair maybe maybe they're connected to somebody and they didn't admit it you know somebody in politics maybe may maybe the had a phone call with somebody they shouldn't have been talking to maybe I don't know but it's something like that do you think that that will be enough to uh you know throw out the case or anything I doubt it because judge meren merchan seems to be just an anti-trump judge so I don't expect Justice in that case at least from that judge meanwhile in California I don't know if you know that California voted to ban gas driven cars starting in 20 what oh I think this is wrong isn't it 2030 or 35 I wrote down 2025 but I think that was a mistake somebody made on the on X and I just copied it but anyway in a few years the gas cars will be banned so 2035 right yeah so there was just a typo when I saw 2035 um yeah we'll see how that goes meanwhile Governor Nome in California declared a bird flu emergency in California I don't think that affects me yet I don't know exactly what the flu emergency is going to do but it doesn't require me to wear a mask or get a vaccination yet but uh we'll keep an eye on that meanwhile you probably heard that Proposition 36 in California passed uh by 70% and you don't need to know the details the summary of Proposition 36 is California decided to make crime illegal again that's all you need to know so there are a bunch of changes but they all have the same effect that you can't just walk into a store and take what you want walk out now if they catch you and you can't do multiple crimes and get slapped on the wrist every time you do the crime you know it'll it'll go up in severity if you keep doing the same crime so it's stuff like that um Tough Run fenel people Etc so there's a uh speaking of fenyl there's some kind of fental movie I don't know what that's about but um I saw the trailer for it so somebody's doing the good work of turning it into a movie so maybe the hearts and Minds can be moved a little bit more toward getting a solution but I did see a uh graph that showed that opioid overdoses have gone down in the past year or so and and quite a bit and uh people say why' they go down well I can think of two reasons one is Naran so the the antidote to the overdose is now well enough understood and all police officers have it in their car uh all First Responders would have it um a lot of big organizations would have it probably schools a lot of schools have it so some of it is a whole bunch of people being saved by the Naran that's the Naran I think is the um brand of it not the not the drug but um when I looked at the graph it also was obvious to me that the only thing that happened was the big spike in overdose Des during the pandemic just normalized so in other words if you look at the you know there's this line up of you know every year more fenel deaths more and more then the pandemic hits and it's like way more and now you know we're we're in the aftermath and it's back down to Baseline so if you were to just take the prepandemic slope and just draw a pencil line and and connect it that's where we are now so the only change is that the pandemic bulge has now normalized back to a horrible horrible problem that was one of the biggest problems before the pandemic so don't get happy about it that it went down quite a bit it only went down from the bump the Baseline is still increasing now here's what I wonder I just have a real problem and of course I take this topic personally most of you know my stepson died from a uh overdose he had fentol system and um you know I'm not happy with China and China has promised several times that they would take care of the source and we know that they could but they kind of slow walking it and saying well yes we're doing all kinds of things but they're staying ahead of us which we don't believe we think they're allowing it to happen or at least they're not trying hard enough to stop it here's what I think I don't think we should throw this in the category of just one more thing we're talking to China about it's not trade policy it's it's not even military stuff it's not un stuff we should close the embassy until they fix this but we should tell them it's temporary and just say we're not comfortable having any communication with you officially while you're poisoning our citizens if you stop this we'll reopen the the embassy so we're not intending to close it totally um and the embassy would do services for you know American entities in China so you need some of it but you might there might be something where you could close it so that China doesn't have access to it and just don't have any meetings with anybody in China and the reason to do it is not that they would care that much it's that it would embarrass them the the purpose would be to embarrass them and apparently killing people with fenal shipments doesn't embarrass them cuz it kind of just looks like they're getting revenge for the opium Wars long ago so I don't think they're embarrassed by it because they're doing it intentionally and they're probably enjoying the benefit of it you know but if we said you know we can't even deal with you like adults because you're murdering our children so if you stop murdering our children will'll open an embassy and treat you like you would like to be treated but we cannot we can't have a we can't have a summit with you we can't we just can't have a normal relationship while you're killing our children and I think you could still still be professional about everything else we do still trade with them you know even while we're trying to reshore stuff but I think we need to embarrass them and I think we have to say look we're going to temporarily shut it down our Embassy and it's not going to last long because it wouldn't take you long to clean up this fenel stuff but take as long as you want you just you just can't have an embassy from the United States or we kick them out of our Embassy maybe you maybe you do the reverse just say you can't have an embassy in the United States while you're sending us fenel and you just keep it just to that one topic and you just say I'm sorry you're you can't be in the the nation of good countries we just can't deal with you on that basis we we don't have respect for you let's say it this way we don't have respect for you and you can't have an Embassy in our country under these conditions well anyway um apparently the Supreme Court is going to hear tick tok's appeal to try to stay in business and intact zero Hedges reporting and uh so here's the deal I guess Trump has offered that he could facilitate a sale of tic tac to an American entity which would satisfy the court order so then Tik tock could remain but it would be owned and managed in the data would be in the United States do you like that idea do you think you should be banned or would you prefer that an American buy it well here's the answer to the question it really depends which American buys it if uh and something something very interesting is about to happen if Elon Musk bought Tik toac and that's not going to happen but if he did the Democrats would be completely toasted because then the two biggest sources of knowledge X and Tik Tock would both be prot Trump Pro common sense and that would be bad for Democrats but also the other way if Reed Hoffman and let's say some team of investors bought Tik Tock well at least Tik Tok would be an American company but then you would worry that they've got their finger on the scale and uh you know they're basically causing the outcome in the in the elections so if Tik Tock lean left which it does but it was very prot Trump this election weirdly um and X people think it leans right but I don't think it leans the right as much as people think that would be sort of a good competition wouldn't it but what happens if Trump puts together the sale if Trump puts together the sale presumably he's going to make sure that some people who like him are the ones who buy it so here's what Tik Tock might be missing in this story they have an opportunity for a bidding war like you've never seen so whatever is the current value of Tik Tock you know the entire Tik tock if they take the American piece and they put it out the bid the Democrat billionaires and the Republican billionaires are going to have to basically break the piggy bank because neither side is going to be willing to let the other have that much control of the American mind right there's literally there probably would be no asset in the United States besides X that would be that valuable because it'd be valuable for profits but way more valuable for controlling the country so I think there could be the biggest bidding war we've ever seen like crazy bidding war so Tik Tock could probably monetize this in a way that nobody's ever seen and one of the ways that a trump dealmaker could make this palatable is to say that out loud say hey Tik Tock you do understand that there's going to be a bidding war like you've never seen in your life right you're going to make a lot of money if you sell the American part and you'll never have a better chance I mean this this would be like an amazing opportunity so my guess is that it will get sold to an American entity and probably somebody that Trump likes Disney meanwhile has decided to get rid of the trans storyline in one of their children's movies is that even real did those words just come out of my mouth yep so there's a animated show uh is it a movie or just a show it's called win or lose an animated show so maybe it's a TV show um about a co-ed Middle School softball team and there's some trans character in there they decided to remove this is what Disney said about it when it comes to animated content content for a younger audience we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline that's kind of perfect thank you so Disney so now Disney has paid Trump $15 million through their ownership of ABC News and George stenopus and now they've uh deified at least some of their content I I'd expect more if you make a if you make a statement like this you're going to have to apply it to your other properties so I think this is a big step but I I like how well they said it so whoever was in charge of crafting the statement for Disney good job yeah yeah they're not saying their own opinion they're saying we recognize that parents would many parents not all would prefer to discuss certain things on their own terms and timeline that's as perfect as you can say that I'm actually impressed just that the the skill that went into the statement it's it's a lot of skill meanwhile there's a the Washington University in St.
Louis is reporting a study where they uh put something like a pacemaker device on people who were depressed except instead of being a pacemaker for your heart it would um it would zap your Vagas nerve in the neck and what they found is if you stimulate the Vagas nerve just right um it can eliminate depression symptoms now they did this with people who had tried a whole bunch of other things and got no relief so they knew these were not easy cases these were hard cases and they got a great response but so on one hand I'm really happy for anybody who has this problem in their life cuz maybe they have another future treatment if it all gets approved but yeah it's for severe treatment resistant depression I mean it's that's got to be the worst thing you could possibly imagine and so this might help him with it but I would like to make the following observation if you put a a mechanical device in my body and it changes me from being depressed into not depressed that's a personality change and it's a personality Chang is driven by Hardware so am I a cyborg because if you can change my most fundamental personality which is I'm depressed all the time and I only have depressed thoughts and depressed actions to hey I'm having a good day that's more than just fixing a medical problem that's a whole different personality I mean you're changing people from Karen to non-caring that's a personality change and I'm in favor of it because I don't think the people in this situation should suffer one second longer so if you can help them please do but I think it's just an observation it's not I'm not not a complaining one bit but it's a complete personality change so to me that's kind of a cyborg you you're no longer what you were when you were organic you're something new that's a combination of hardware and skin Weare kind of cool no I hate it at all a b biological machine that's right all right ladies and gentlemen um I feel like I missed a few stories today there's been so much going on lately um was there any story that you wanted me to talk about I I feel like I'm done with drones until something new happens you're all okay with that right feels like yeah Naval had some great quotes that I posted it's better if he just read them in his own words I decided not to talk about them so the stock market's up right um oh I think I didn't complete my thought so normally when the when the economy is strong enough that the FED says we're not going to reduce rates or we're not going to reduce them as much as you thought that usually causes the stock market to tank and it did on the first day but today it should still be down because the FED is still not going to lower rates as fast as we thought but it went up sharply here's why I think it's the budget I think that when the country realized that maybe we can stop this an control budget spending which is our biggest problem don't you know just to be clear it's our biggest problem by far it's the one thing that could end the entire country nothing else could I mean short of a nuclear war which I don't see happening almost nothing could end America but this could the that could it could end the entire experiment and so you see you see the uh the Council of Elders you see the VES the Elon musks uh enter the breach and at the very least they did the first thing you need to do which is stop this signature of that foot tall bill that nobody likes now I think the world is shocked that that was so handily and well handled because the politicians are in this situation where they sort of can't do their jobs you know they they don't want to go against their party and everybody wants to go home for Christmas their family will be mad they're really they can't get it done so the fact that this new mechanism appeared the new mechanism is V reads the thing in one day you didn't see that coming tells us what's in it you didn't see that coming and then Elon goes in hard like he you know he he went in like the bull and then he got complete backing 100% backing from everybody well everybody on the right and like I said nobody on the left really disagrees they just don't love the fact that the right is getting stuff done so I think that the stock market is responding to the fact that America may have corrected its biggest problem and it's the big one the biggest of the big now that's a long way from doging our way down to a budget that works where you know we haven't doed a bit but we did show that if the if the people on X have a strong opinion about something things are going to change and that's new so I think we're in one of the best situations the country's ever been in not only are we at the cusp of a super cycle the likes of which we might never see again which is robots and and auto you know Auto self-driving taxis flying cars drones you know probably probably the the most important cycle ever and the only thing that could stop us is the runaway debt and we might have that under control 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made your stupid iPhone and you knew
that the main way it works is upright or
sideways but never upside down like that
doesn't work upside down why did you put
why did you put the charger in the
bottom CU then I can't set it down at
the same time I'm charging
it wouldn't it make sense to put the
charger on the top
in what world does it make sense to have
it in your way all the time and they
never thought of
that it's just mindboggling I I can't
believe that Steve Jobs would have done
this if it worked upside down it'd be
fine I just turn it upside down but they
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the dopamine H the day thing to makes
everything better it's called the
simultaneous Sip and it's going to
happen right now go
extraordinary all kinds of things
happening I hear some airports in New
Jersey are being closed or there's some
kind of warning because of the drones so
apparently no matter what we do this
drone story doesn't go
away have any of you settled on your
your best theory about the drones we're
not going to talk about today but
there's that one bit of new
news well I think it's going to be a
combination of different things and
people who don't know things
and um a little Mass hysteria and a
little bit of Truth a little bit of
everything in
there um did I see that Harris just got
a $20 million book
deal every time an X president gets a
multi-million dollar book deal I just
assume that's IL legitim
does that feel like a
bribe I I feel like there's some kind of
backdoor deal I don't know I mean I
don't have any you know information
about it but I feel like there's always
a backdoor deal where the publisher will
come out whole no matter how many books
are sold there's something going on with
this whole publisher
situation anyway uh fonny Willis
apparently is disqualified from the uh
Trump election case
the Georgia higher Court ruled that she
had uh some kind of conflict of
interest so Trump just keeps winning
it's just non-stop
winning um Andrew hubin reminds us that
uh the research shows the clear benefit
of drinking coffee gives you more
attention focus in athletic performance
so if you enjoyed the simultaneous hip
you're probably feeling like you have
more attention more focus and you're
better as sport
I know you can feel it it just takes one
sip would you be surprised to know that
there's another breakthrough in battery
storage yes the mes University they
figured out some newly discovered
material that integrates three modes of
energy
storage which I call
trimodal um and it uses boric acid
andic Su suic acid suic Su suic acid
some kind of
acid and it's inexpensive
environmentally friendly and all that
now again the only reason I redo these
stories every single day about battery
storage is it really is
everything if we somehow could make our
battery storage you know five times
better civilization would be really
different and it looks like that's going
to happen one way or the
another there's a study according to USA
Today that women lawmakers are 70 times
more likely to be victims of deep fake
porn let's see if there was any way that
they could have saved time and money on
this study is there anything they could
have done to be certain they had the
right answer but not to spend the money
and the time to do the
study well you could have asked every
single
human
male I think every one of us would have
gotten this right let's see do I would I
rather see uh I'm not going to name
names I was going to name names but now
I realize how classless that is I was
going to say would I rather see Mitch
McConnell naked and having a threesome
or would I rather and then I stopped
myself because if I put in a
name then that becomes the news and yeah
blah blah blah but you know I mean yes
uh surprise people like to see women
more than
men the economy is kind of strong if you
don't count the debt that's going to
kill us all but the uh economy grew a
little bit better than expected um 3.1%
in the third quarter beating
expectations that were merely
2.8 I pity the people who made those
poor
projections uh consumer spending was
good in the GDP price index to up and
the core prices Rose but not much more
than expectation
2.2%
so the bottom line of course is that the
FED probably doesn't have a reason to do
too many cuts when the FED Cuts interest
rates that's what makes the stock market
go up so now that we know that the stock
Mark that the rates won't be cut as much
as we thought because the economy is
stronger
in theory the market should be down
today
right but it's not what happened was
there something that happened yesterday
that had potentially enormous Financial
impact on the United States in a
positive way did something
happen yes it
did we're going to talk about
that all
right um we get the there in a minute so
CNN uh has some
reporting last night um it's about how
how the Democrats were shielding Biden
and his declining brain from um the real
world and she said quote what we found
is that the shell around Biden was kind
of always hard but became harder and
thicker and the walls became
taller uh and that wall was that wall
was blocked from the American people and
apparently they had a habit of when they
showed Biden how he's doing they would
have to clip out all the mocking of his
gaffs can you imagine being the
president of the United
States and because the news that you see
is what your advisor put in front of you
it's not like you're sitting in front of
the TV too much can you imagine being
Biden and not being aware that he was
being mocked mercilessly for his gffs
get just try to hold that in your head
he's the president of the United
States and the entire world is laughing
at him for having his brain
degraded and he's the only one who
doesn't know he's the only one and he
and he lives in a world that's saturated
with media but because he's busy and
because they tell him the things he
needs to know he's the only one who
doesn't know do you know how much easier
it would have been to convince him to
drop out of the race if he had seen his
own bad
press if he had seen his own bad press
he would have dropped down sooner now if
CNN and
MSNBC had been more honest about how he
was doing do you think he would have
stayed in the
race if the pollsters had been doing
accurate polls do you think he would
have stayed in the
race here's here's what I think have you
noticed that the Democrats have this
habit of being the perpetrators of
whatever the Badness is and then blaming
it on somebody else well usually they're
blaming it on
Republicans but if you turn on the news
the news is going to say oh those that
Biden campaign was bad and Joe Biden was
bad because he didn't leave the race
earlier do you know what would have made
him leave the race
earlier accurate news and ACC accurate
polls you idiots you you kept
feeding your own idiots fake news and
fake polls and they believed it and so
did Biden maybe instead of blaming Biden
for staying in the race too long you
should blame yourself for
gaslighting the country which caused him
to be gaslighted at the same time so
that he legitimately thought he had a
chance of winning I don't think that
Biden would have gone so far if he knew
he had no chance of winning
it was the news that him and the
pollsters and then and then his campaign
were of course incompetent so you had
Dei fake news and fake polls that's what
took Biden down it wasn't Biden he was
the recipient of the worst help anybody
ever got because all they cared about
was Trump
trump so yeah stop stop blaming
Biden ultim he's the guy in the job so
he gets you know I understand how it
works Biden's in the job so he has to
take the you know take the hit but
honestly none of it would happen if all
of the people around him had done their
jobs none of it he would have looked at
the news same as we did and said oh that
doesn't look good there's no way I'm
going to win with this kind of news
coverage
anyway so you know um
so before we talk about that continued
resolution which of course I will uh I
am
continually entertained by how the
Democrats can't figure out what went
wrong now just as my prior example they
think Biden was the problem no it was
the news it was the polls it was his
advisers um but they get pretty much
everything
wrong because to understand it correctly
would be quite damning to their own you
know
capabilities so the way cognitive
dissonance works is if you don't want to
you don't want to accept something that
says you're stupid or that you did a bad
job so you just imagine that something
else happened that's how cognitive
distance works so you remember how they
running when Biden was running I'm sorry
when uh Harris was running against uh
Trump and Biden before that
and Biden before that
um that they were doing all these
generic complaints you know the generic
complaints were Trump's going to end
democracy and people were saying but gas
is too expensive could you talk about
that uh he's uh he's Putin's best
friend all right but like could you talk
about the price of eggs and so you would
think that the one thing that they would
most understand is that this conceptual
stuff is not hitting anybody in the
fields like they don't have anybody good
who understands persuasion on their team
apparently at the moment they have it
looks like they have nobody who
understands the basics of persuasion no
end democracy isn't touching
anybody uh so now so now that uh Trump's
elected um there's a hill opinion piece
in the publication called the hill
and the title is Trump will turn
America's justice system into a tool of
political
Revenge what's that sound like it's more
end democracy stuff they didn't learn
anything they didn't learn
anything that that talking in these
generic ways about he's going to be it's
a tool of political Revenge it just
doesn't
hit you just want to be able to pay for
your gas and your eggs and make sure
that you're not the country isn't
destroyed by invading
migrants but
uh
so makes you wonder why they uh sto
saying the their other generic thing do
you remember their other generic thing
they used to say nobody's Above the Law
and they would say it about Trump
because they were law faring him you
know all these illegitimate legal
processes illegit in my opinion and uh
they every day was like no one's Above
the Law no one's Above the
Law so now uh now that Derek Chauvin um
got he got permission to have uh George
Floyd's heart and some of his juices
tested somehow I guess there's some skin
tissue that was saved and they could
find out if he died for reasons related
to maybe a heart
condition and that would potenti get
Derek Chauvin out of jail now what would
be the problem with somebody asking for
some evidence that wasn't included in
the trial but everybody who hears the
story knows oh that would have been good
evidence to be in the trial so it's a
person who was convicted and he simply
wants to make sure that the trial did
include all the correct
evidence so what does the Biden
Department of Justice say when somebody
says can we include the real important
evidence such as the quality of his
heart at the time he died very very
obvious Simple Thing we'd all want to
know and uh the Biden Department of
Justice is deciding to try to fight it
and deny him the chance to look at the
the health of the heart the heart
muscles or whatever whatever it is they
saved now what happened to no one's
above the law
what what happened to caring about the
rule of law and the Democracy because
you know what Derek Chauvin when he when
he requested this extra evidence he did
it completely within the confines of the
legal process he didn't steal
it he he's not trying to kill somebody
to get the specimens he had legal
lawyers do legal things according to the
legal process and everybody with common
sense would say yeah you know what you
even though he was convicted he he has a
right to see that stuff he absolutely
has a right to see
it so yeah it feels like the Democrats
just want to be on whatever is the dumb
side meanwhile Harvard of course was
forced to back off from its Dei hiring
practices where it was discriminating
against asian-americans and against
white
Americans mostly and so now we can see
the result of that and their their Law
School
admissions uh the black enrollment
dropped by more than
half so is that good or
bad well Democrats of course seem to
have some trouble understanding where
the problem is the problem is definitely
not Harvard's admission process that is
not what's keeping any black person from
succeeding but definitely the quality of
their undergraduate or or their you know
their regular school definitely the
quality of their school and their income
situation um those would make a big
difference so if you think the problem
with College admission has something to
do with the college you're missing the
first 18 years of the kids's life the
first 18
years can make a big difference so no
you can't fix that after it's too late
so that's I
so while it might look like bad news I
think that's good news um in the sense
that we're getting back
to capability over
identity well you would not be surprised
to know that there was a a college in
Memphis Tennessee a little College
called uh RADS college and there was
some uh prot Trump graffiti that was
they say was racist and they did an
investigation to see who did this prot
Trump racist graffiti how do you think
that turned out take a guess if you
haven't heard the story already so there
was
graffiti from what looked like a trump
supporter and it was very racist and
then they looked into
it and it was a hoax of course it was
not a trump supporter it was a
anti-trump
person of course
of course I feel like I missed the
story I'll get to it
um so so that's a right on
model uh
MSNBC uh had a uh pundit on there she uh
she might think of herself as a young
black woman the only thing I know for
sure she's a black woman I don't know
how young she is but she said quote the
Democratic party should be led by young
women of
color so is that what the Democrats got
wrong did they lose everything because
they didn't have enough young women of
color running things now nothing against
young women of
color uh who by the way are doing great
in society if you didn't know that uh
black women are doing really well you
know relative to historical Norms but
also relative to white men uh um black
women are going to college at record
rates earning earning well after
graduation so black women are doing
great actually um so she says the
Democratic party should be led by young
women of color of course that's identity
politics and of course that's the reason
they lost so I could not be more amused
by their inability to learn from their
mistakes but here's one that's fun um
I'm told that this didn't actually
happen in the real world but there was a
post that makes it look like it happened
it's still just as fun even though it
didn't happen so there's a clip of uh
Scott
Galloway saying that he had planned this
was before the election like a day
before or something he said he planned
to bet
$358,000 on
Harris and he said the reason he thought
that was a good bet um and I was just
told in the comments earlier that he
didn't actually place the bet so the day
before the election he was talking like
this is very serious and he was placing
the bet but somebody says he didn't
place it but his argument went like this
that the what do you called the A+
polls have Harris ahead so the polls
that he trusted had Harris ahead but
poly markets where people are just
betting uh didn't didn't have her you
know conclusively winning like that so
the odds were that you had a you know if
you were just looking at it as one of
many bets in your
portfolio you probably would have gone
with the odds meaning that it looked
like she might win yet the betting
markets were not saying that so you
probably would get a nice payoff in the
betting markets if the A+ poles were in
fact
reliable so everything he said is
logical it's mathematically and
statistically and of risk management
perfect so everything he said was
right uh the problem was the A+
polls how many of you thought the polls
were accurate and real and even trying
to be real by election
day I feel like 100% of the people who
follow me know that the polls were you
know some kind of a political structure
and not they're not really at least all
of them are not meant to be uh even
serious I mean I don't think they're
trying to be accurate I think they're
just backing their team now rasmuson was
they were Superstars yet again beat all
the A+ guys but they don't get mentioned
because if you're right all the time the
Democrats don't like to mention you
they'll leave you they'll leave you on
the list so I do wonder how many people
took Scott Galloway's advice and put
down their own big bets on Harris
um I and as I told you I think I
mentioned this before um I was very
confident that Trump would win I mean in
plenty of time to have placed the bet if
I wanted to I wasn't confident a year
ago but you know within a month of the
election if you were watching I think
all of you saw me say yeah Trump's going
to have the votes so your question would
be why didn't I bet on it was I lying to
you no I did bet on it I bet on it a
different way uh over the summer I
loaded up on Tesla stock and
Bitcoin the two things that you could
pretty well predict would go up if Trump
won
so I'm pretty happy with my Tesla and
Bitcoin anyway uh as you probably all
already know Congress tried to get away
with slipping in this resolution budget
bill that some call some call an omnius
bill but it's something in between and
they tried to do their usual Congress
trick which Thomas Massie called them
out and predicted you know months before
it happened because they always do
it and what they do is they wait until
it's right before Christmas where
everybody just cares about going home
and then they say either vote for this
foot tall thing that nobody could read
and has all kinds of pork in it or
you'll miss your Christmas your children
will hate you and so people being people
they're like ah no time to fix this I
can't fix the whole system I'll just say
yes and go home but that's what should
have
happened but it's a different
day it's a different day isn't it so
what happened instead was everybody
looked at this bill and said uh are you
really going to sign a bill that nobody
read and so people like me upon first
exposure to the story in X said
immediately no no no no we can't do this
anymore so I don't I don't need to know
what's in the bill I just need to know
it's a foot tall and that's it now there
were plenty of other reasons not to vote
for it but you only needed to know it
was a foot tall because that tells you
that the process doesn't work because
nobody's going to read the foot tall
thing and it's going to be full of pork
so you don't need to know anything
except it's a foot
tall I didn't need to know anything else
so I was a hard no on the first
second but of course you know I'm not
that influential by myself but you saw a
whole bunch of other people who have a
million plus followers on X and other
places say uh no no no
hell no hell no hard no would that have
made a
difference probably not probably not but
turns
out that there's a whole new Dynamic
now so I love saying that uh you know
it's like a reference to the Hulk I've
said this before but we have a
vake there's a vake on the Republican
side he actually
read the foot tall
Bill and and pulled out the important
parts for
us
what
what how is that even possible I would
love a video of just watching V sit down
with a foot tall Bill and pour through
it so quickly that you you you get to
see for the first time what a super
smart person can do
I'm pretty smart I couldn't do that
right so however however smart V is I
can't judge it because as soon as
somebody's a little bit smarter than you
are you really don't know how much
smarter there's no you have no mechanism
for measuring it because it's outside of
your domain so he's far smarter than I
am at least you know in this in this
element so he does what I've never seen
anybody do before he has a big audience
he's very credible we all know he's
working for the country not for himself
and he just tore into it he tore into it
and when he was done I said to myself I
have now heard the important
elements that's amazing now at the same
time uh
grock was able to look at the bill and
also summarize it now unfortunately the
summary was itself like I don't know 20
20 Pages or something so even a 20page
summary doesn't help you as much as you
hoped it would because there are too
many different elements or you know
completely different topics are all
being stuffed into this monstrosity so
if all you did is read the summary of a
thing you wouldn't necessarily know what
it was about because you kind of need to
hold you know get the context so I don't
think the summary helped us as much as
it should but it did confirm there are
way too many things in the bill and we
don't have to live like this
so V just penetrates this thing like a
spear you know like like he just stuck a
spear through it and he's holding it up
and saying oh and then enter Elon
Musk Elon Musk probably one of the most
credible people in the
world uh known to be smart we know he's
on our side our side being the country
not our side being the Republicans but
the country he's on the
countryside and he said hard
no and then he actually you know
escalated it because he kind of posted
about it a bunch and he got all the way
up to anybody who votes for it should be
primaried and he's the guy who has
hundreds of millions that he could put
into a a race to primary anybody and all
the politicians are afraid of being
primaried so within I don't know how
long did it take just a few hours the
bill went from something we assumed
would be signed because that's the way
it always happened no matter no matter
how much you complained to
dead to dead now what happened with uh
the the blowback when it got killed by
what looked like Elon musk's work
primarily well would you be surprised to
know that the Democrats back up to more
generic complaints about things that's
right learning absolutely nothing about
anything Republicans have specific
complaints that they thanks to VI and
others managed to pull out at this thing
very specific complaints this is a bad
idea don't do this this is a bad idea
and their complaint was instead of
defending the bill how many of you have
noticed that there isn't a single
Democrat defending the bill
how many of you did not notice that
until I just said it zero not a single
Democrat supports the
bill
none so they have to they have to be mad
because they you know they have to
oppose Republicans but they don't like
the bill either because there's nobody
who's dumb enough who thinks that a foot
tall Bill packed with crap is a good
idea IDE Democrats don't think it
Republicans don't think it so the only
thing they had was something about
musk so they go for the oh he's a he's a
co-president well he's like the real
speaker of the house oh oh I guess
Trump's not running things I guess I
guess an unelected person is running the
country now and they all sort of
simultaneously went to attack Elon Musk
again
remember they also agree with
him they're attacking him for something
they agree with which is this bill is a
ridiculous monstrosity and we should not
be governing this way they agree with
that and they still went after
him but their
argument was was sort of
childlike they they just wanted to say
stuff like oh uh Trump and musk sitting
in a tree that they must be lovers now
oh oh why why did Trump's you know just
delegate everything to an unelected
person all these generic crap
so I weighed in a little bit on it and
said um musk doesn't have any power from
the Republicans it was somebody who said
uh Republicans gave their power to to
musk and he's unelected and I said musk
doesn't have any
power he has no power he has only the
power of the support of The People Under
The Following conditions it's Common
Sense we all agree with them and in this
case both sides agree Democrats and
Republicans everybody agrees with him
and he's working for the benefit of the
people obviously now is it good for
musk's own companies of course is it
good for my company of course it's good
for everybody if if you can you know fix
the the
budget so as long as he's working for
the people and it's all the people and
as long as it's common sense and as long
as he does everything in public and as
long as he couldn't get away with any of
it unless he had massive backing by at
least one of the parties the one in
charge um I'm good with that and the
people who said but he wasn't elected he
wasn't elected I say that's true of all
of Trump's
advisers you know the the cabinet maybe
needs to be vetted and approved but if
Trump decides you're going to be my
adviser you know my Kelly Conway or
something my V they're not
voted so musk is a
citizen who has the power to make
recommendations and the power to say
things in public but if the Republicans
had been completely in favor of this
bill even if Elon thought it was a bad
idea would he have been able to kill
it I don't think so so so here's the
thing that the Democrats can't
understand because they're kind of a
top- Down organization you know the
orders come from who knows where at the
top and and go down
but Trump only exists because the base
wants him to musk is only part of this
process because the base wants him to
vake is only part of the process because
the the base wants them to etc etc etc
so the base is getting what they want if
if Democrats think oh these rich people
these rich people have taken over
without any votes nothing like that has
happened the the so-called rich people
even Trump have very little ability to
do anything outside of what the base
wants them to do that's how populism
works so then they start
complaining about the fact that the
Republicans have a a billionaire who's
working on their side oh so I guess you
only care about theill millionaire to
which I say have you heard of
Soros and Reed Hoffman and Mark Cuban
and Bill
Gates I mean there are a lot of
billionaires out there I think they're
just mad because we got the best
one if you were to rank the
billionaires we got the best one
um Bill Amman another
billionaire um suggests that the the
Bills should have uh they should be
required to have a footnote so you know
which Congress person added which
Provisions so you know who put in the
bad
stuff and I said to myself wait a minute
we don't know that you know maybe I
didn't think it'd be part of the bill
but I thought in some way that would be
part of the public record but it's not
so this bill is so bad that the people
who added things to it don't want you to
know their names
literally right there there was nobody
who came forward and said oh good news
people that that thing in that bill that
was all me like that that wouldn't even
be there if not for me so I I made that
happen literally they're trying to hide
their
contribution to the country they're
trying to hide it
uh and they're trying really hard so yes
that's a good idea we should know who
does what you might also know that the
that uh monstrosity of a budget was
going to refund the global engagement
center now that's part of the big um the
big industrial what do you call it the
the censorship industrial
complex this is the thing that we want
to kill more than just about anything
the these are the people who came after
the Federalist and daily wire so this is
a group that's literally trying to close
down right leaning
Publications and and you're telling me
that the speaker of the
house signed off on
this what the Republican speaker of the
house signed off on funding the global
engagement Center whose primary mission
is to shut down Republican stuff without
good
reasons how how in the world did this
happen and do you think that speaker
Johnson should lose his position because
he allowed this to
happen yes yeah hard yes yeah yeah you
should lose your job if you do this this
is not a small deal it might seem small
if you don't follow the news in detail
this is a big deal it's the biggest deal
the the censorship censorship is
basically the government because if you
can stop people from you know knowing
what's happening then you can control
what happens without directly getting
elected even so the censorship thing is
kind of the engine that drives
everything because opinion drives
everything after censorship
so yeah I I think you have to lose your
job if you put this in a bill and ask
your own team to sign for their own
destruction you have to lose your job
and I didn't personally have any big
problems with speaker Johnson I mean I
know that a lot of people had issues but
I didn't follow it too closely but no
there's no way that you should keep your
job if you signed off on this no
way you need you need to take a step
back you know maybe keep his job in
Congress but no you can't be the leader
this is not leadership
so and I was really touched by uh Molly
Hemingway who who's um works at the
Federalist she said
uh um well basically she said she takes
it personally like she's worked so hard
and the Federalist has worked so hard to
make sure that Republican and
conservative views are fully you know
fully
expressed so basically fighting hard for
your team if you're Republican or
conservative fighting hard for your team
and then and then the team puts in
basically the destruction of her entity
and they put that in a bill are you
kidding me this this is this is just
such a slap in the face and a stab in
the back for both the daily wire and the
Federalist this is so inappropriate like
like this is wow I mean it's just head
shaking how many Republicans were going
to vote for that
like if if musk had not stepped in and
again musk was really empowered by the
base so it's not just musk of course
um so here's what I
think I think there's something
incredibly good happening like
incredibly
good
and I feel like a a separate branch of
government has formed
spontaneously because it was required
we all noticed that the system the way
it was working was just driving us off a
a cliff we were just going to drive
ourselves into debt and Star Wars until
we're all dead so nothing was
working but here's what I think has
happened and I think I think Trump gets
all the credit right Trump gets all the
credit
because Trump managed to attract exactly
the right amount of talent and that
didn't happen on its own so if you want
to say oh you know he had all the help
from RFK Jr and V and from Elon Musk so
so really you know they were the powers
that pushed him over the finish line and
there's something to that but
remember that only happened because
Trump made himself attractive to voters
as well as important smart
people right the boss gets all the
credit it doesn't matter what Elon does
or V does or RFK Jr and and by the way
they would get tons of credit for doing
good work but the boss is the one who
attracts them the boss is the one who
has to say yes Trump of course was fully
supportive of both V and and Elon as
well as the whole base and saying nope
can't sign this
thing now here's what's
great I believe that we have somewhat
accidentally evolved into a system which
I wanted to call a Council of Elders but
it makes us sound old so I'm not going
to say
that and just to
simplify um there are a number of
opinion people who have more than a
million followers on
Ax who if they were all opposed to a
thing it would be really hard for Elon
to go forward with that thing or anybody
else who was on that side so I don't
think it's necessarily the the total
number of Voters because they don't get
to have a say until the next election
but I do think that Elon and um Trump
specifically are really really plugged
in to what I'll just randomly pick a
number I'm going say the top
50 smart people on their side top
50 what do you think the top 50 smartest
people who lean right said about this
bill I'll bet all 50 said no if all 50
of the smartest people most let's say
most persuasive I want to say
smartest if your 50 top most persuasive
people are on the same side and I think
they were um that empowers Trump and
that's what
empowers everybody who works for him and
you know and let's say Elon in this
situation
so the will of the people
is usually pretty accurately captured by
the people who have over a million
followers so you're not getting it
directly but they but we all have a you
know feet in the real
world so I feel like it's almost like
another form of government where the
people inform the people the influencers
who have a million plus followers Elon
is following to follow the people have a
million plus you can tell he responded
to me
yesterday when I when I weighed in on
this topic you know there there was
elon's comment so we know that he's
watching at least the larger
accounts and that allows him to know
when he's got backing and when he
doesn't do you think he would have done
this on his own if 40 of the top 50
right leaning pundits had said said no
we like this bill sign
that he might have argued it you know
still argu at his point try to change
our minds but I don't think it would
have been
cancelled so there does seem to be this
Council of Elders again they're not
they're not old some of them are young
uh that is very very important and it's
on X and it's informing the right people
to do the right things so it does seem
to be like a response to the fact that
nothing was
working and so this new new phenomenon
has stepped
in um we'll see how the uh Democrats are
doing
here um yeah swalwell and Joy Reed were
talking on MSNBC that you know musk is
like the speaker or the co-president and
one post on X and he controls Congress
so this is again them getting everything
wrong not understanding that everyone on
both sides hated this bill and that Elon
is doing the work of the people
transparently and right in front of us
and at Great personal
risk then kinzinger Adam kininger is on
CNN and he's calling Elon musy president
Elon and says Trump is the vice
president Trump now why did they do that
obviously the reason they do that is if
they they think that Trump's ego
will not allow him to have you know such
a
strong uh partner let's say so they
think they can drive a wedge between
them by going after Trump's
ego I don't think it's going to work
because here's here again is what they
get wrong about Trump now I've told you
this for
years but now you can all see it if you
think Trump doesn't like people are
smarter than him you're wrong Trump
really really likes smart people he
really likes them and he wants to work
with them and he wants to give them
credit but he's still the boss right the
boss gets the top credit because he
attracted the people to his
administration and if they do a good job
the boss gets the credit that's how it
works so we should all make sure that
when we're sort of talking about these
things that we give Elon his full share
of
credit but when you talk about it it
would be helpful if you also add you
know the boss gets the credit it has to
be that way just has to
be anyway
um so let's see um ran Paul cheekily
suggested that since the speaker of the
house doesn't need to be a member of
Congress uh that they could elect Elon
Musk as Speaker of the
House now the thing that makes me laugh
is that we've somehow gotten the idea
that there's no limit to how many jobs
Elon Musk can do at the same
time and I'm thinking to myself well it
is true we haven't found the limit yet
right for most people too would be too
many companies to run but he's running
several and then he's you know doing
doing the Doge thing which is more than
a full-time job so he's got something
like five or six full-time jobs you know
plus parent
Etc
and the only thing that I don't know is
how many times has he been cloned so far
because I've done the math of how many
hours a human can be awake and do work
and how many jobs Elon has and I'm
pretty sure there are at least two or
three of him by now
have to be at least at least two but
there might be three of them I think
he's already cloned himself do do you
think do you think underneath his skin
mask there might be like a Optimus robot
or something I don't know I I think
we're in the world of clones we just
don't know it yet I'm kidding meanwhile
X has reached one billion active users
and Elon calls it the group chat for
Earth and boy did it earn its little
title this week X is the reason that
bill got
killed you you could say it's you know a
lot of different reasons because it's a
bad bill whatever but if x did not exist
and exist in its current form with free
speech under musk I don't think that
would have stopped and you realize you
realize that that spending bill is part
of a guaranteed death spiral for the
country if we just sign every big pile
of bills and nobody says no we are dead
for sure like actually dead like not
just having a bad
day
dead you if the if the economy fails and
the country fails we're we're actually
dead and we were pretty
close and if we didn't have free speech
and x and a lot of billionaires were
willing to take big chances personally
and professionally we would not have
pulled back from the brink to me this
feels like pulling back from the brink
still got a lot of work to do but we did
not go over the cliff and we very very
easily could
have
um Joshua Steinman who worked in the
first Trump Administration says on a
post he says having worked through
multiple government shutdowns first as a
military officer then as a White House
staffer I can say with conviction
they're not real 10 times more efficient
during the
shutdown I believe that uh I believe
that X is 10 times more efficient when
they cut the staff by
80% and I do believe that you'll get
more done during a shutdown I believe
that um meanwhile according to uh the
hill uh the lawyers for Trump have some
kind of information that we don't know
yet
that a member of the New York jury that
convicted uh Trump in the New York case
uh that one of the jurors was uh
somehow um
somehow had there's evidence of a grave
juror misconduct during the trial now I
don't know what that would include grave
juror misconduct so that would suggest
that maybe they have some written
communication that would say they
weren't intending to be fair maybe maybe
they're connected to somebody and they
didn't admit it you know somebody in
politics maybe may maybe the had a phone
call with somebody they shouldn't have
been talking to maybe I don't know but
it's something like that do you think
that that will be enough to uh you know
throw out the case or anything I doubt
it because judge meren
merchan seems to be just an anti-trump
judge so I don't expect Justice in that
case at least from that
judge meanwhile in California I don't
know if you know that California voted
to ban gas driven cars starting in
20 what oh I think this is wrong isn't
it 2030 or
35 I wrote down 2025 but I think that
was a mistake somebody made on the on X
and I just copied it but anyway in a few
years the gas cars will be
banned
so 2035 right yeah so there was just a
typo when I saw
2035 um yeah we'll see how that goes
meanwhile Governor Nome in California
declared a bird flu emergency in
California I don't think that affects me
yet I don't know exactly what the flu
emergency is going to do but it doesn't
require me to wear a mask or get a
vaccination yet but uh we'll keep an eye
on that meanwhile you probably heard
that Proposition 36 in California passed
uh by
70% and you don't need to know the
details the summary of Proposition 36 is
California decided to make crime illegal
again that's all you need to know so
there are a bunch of changes but they
all have the same effect that you can't
just walk into a store and take what you
want walk out now if they catch you and
you can't do multiple crimes and get
slapped on the wrist every time you do
the crime you know it'll it'll go up in
severity if you keep doing the same
crime so it's stuff like that um Tough
Run fenel
people
Etc so there's a uh speaking of fenyl
there's
some kind of fental movie I don't know
what that's about but um I saw the
trailer for it so somebody's doing the
good work of turning it into a movie so
maybe the hearts and Minds can be moved
a little bit more toward getting a
solution but I did see a uh graph that
showed that opioid overdoses have gone
down in the past year or so and and
quite a
bit and uh people say why' they go down
well I can think of two reasons one is
Naran so the the antidote to the
overdose is now well enough understood
and all police officers have it in their
car uh all First Responders would have
it um a lot of big organizations would
have it probably schools a lot of
schools have it so some of it is a whole
bunch of people being saved by the Naran
that's the Naran I think is the
um brand of it not the not the
drug but um when I looked at the graph
it also was obvious to me that the only
thing that happened was the big spike in
overdose Des during the pandemic just
normalized so in other words if you look
at the you know there's this line up of
you know every year more fenel deaths
more and more then the pandemic hits and
it's like way more and now you know
we're we're in the aftermath and it's
back down to Baseline so if you were to
just take the prepandemic
slope and just draw a pencil line and
and connect it that's where we are now
so the only change is that the pandemic
bulge has now normalized back to a
horrible horrible problem that was one
of the biggest problems before the
pandemic so don't get happy about it
that it went down quite a bit it only
went down from the
bump the Baseline is still
increasing
now here's what I
wonder I just have a real problem and of
course I take this topic personally most
of you know my stepson died from a uh
overdose he had fentol system
and um you know I'm not happy with
China and China has promised several
times that they would take care of the
source and we know that they could but
they kind of slow walking it and saying
well yes we're doing all kinds of things
but they're staying ahead of us which we
don't
believe we think they're allowing it to
happen or at least they're not trying
hard enough to stop it here's what I
think I don't think we should throw this
in the category of just one more thing
we're talking to China about it's not
trade policy it's it's not even military
stuff it's not un stuff we should close
the
embassy until they fix this but we
should tell them it's temporary and just
say we're not comfortable having any
communication with you officially while
you're poisoning our citizens if you
stop this we'll reopen the the embassy
so we're not intending to close it
totally um and the embassy would do
services for you know American entities
in China so you need some of it but you
might there might be something where you
could close it so that China doesn't
have access to it and just don't have
any meetings with anybody in China and
the reason to do it is not that they
would care that much it's that it would
embarrass them the the purpose would be
to embarrass them
and apparently killing people with fenal
shipments doesn't embarrass them cuz it
kind of just looks like they're getting
revenge for the opium Wars long ago so I
don't think they're embarrassed by it
because they're doing it intentionally
and they're probably enjoying the
benefit of it you know but if we said
you know we can't even deal with you
like adults because you're murdering our
children so if you stop murdering our
children will'll open an embassy and
treat you like you would like to be
treated but we cannot we can't have a we
can't have a summit with you we can't we
just can't have a normal relationship
while you're killing our children and I
think you could still still be
professional about everything else we do
still trade with them you know even
while we're trying to reshore stuff but
I think we need to embarrass
them and I think we have to say look
we're going to temporarily shut it down
our Embassy and it's not going to last
long because it wouldn't take you long
to clean up this fenel stuff but take as
long as you want you just you just can't
have an embassy from the United States
or we kick them out of our Embassy maybe
you maybe you do the reverse just say
you can't have an embassy in the United
States while you're sending us
fenel and you just keep it just to that
one topic and you just say I'm sorry
you're you can't be in
the the nation of good countries we just
can't deal with you on that basis we we
don't have respect for you let's say it
this way we don't have respect for you
and you can't have an Embassy in our
country under these
conditions well
anyway um apparently the Supreme Court
is going to hear tick tok's appeal to
try to stay in business and intact zero
Hedges reporting and
uh so here's the deal I guess Trump has
offered that he could facilitate a sale
of tic tac to an American entity which
would satisfy the court order so then
Tik tock could remain but it would be
owned and managed in the data would be
in the United
States do you like that idea do you
think you should be
banned or would you prefer that an
American buy it well here's the answer
to the question it really depends which
American buys
it
if uh and something something very
interesting is about to
happen if Elon Musk bought Tik toac and
that's not going to happen but if he did
the Democrats would be completely
toasted because then the two biggest
sources of knowledge X and Tik Tock
would both be prot Trump Pro common
sense and that would be bad for
Democrats but also the other way if Reed
Hoffman and let's say some team of
investors bought Tik Tock well at least
Tik Tok would be an American company but
then you would worry that they've got
their finger on the scale and uh you
know they're basically causing the
outcome in the in the
elections
so if Tik Tock lean
left which it does but it was very prot
Trump this election
weirdly um and X people think it leans
right but I don't think it leans the
right as much as people
think that would be sort of a good
competition wouldn't it
but what happens if Trump puts together
the sale if Trump puts together the sale
presumably he's going to make sure that
some people who like him are the ones
who buy
it
so here's what Tik Tock might be missing
in this
story they have an opportunity for a
bidding war like you've never
seen so whatever is the current value of
Tik Tock you know the entire Tik tock if
they take the American piece and they
put it out the bid the Democrat
billionaires and the Republican
billionaires are going to have to
basically break the piggy bank because
neither side is going to be willing to
let the other have that much control of
the American
mind right there's literally there
probably would be no asset in the United
States besides X that would be that
valuable because it'd be valuable for
profits but way more valuable for
controlling the
country
so I think there could be the biggest
bidding war we've ever seen like crazy
bidding war so Tik Tock could probably
monetize this in a way that nobody's
ever seen and one of the ways that a
trump dealmaker could make this
palatable is to say that out loud say
hey Tik Tock you do understand
that there's going to be a bidding war
like you've never seen in your life
right you're going to make a lot of
money if you sell the American part and
you'll never have a better chance I mean
this this would be like an amazing
opportunity so my guess is that it will
get
sold to an American entity and probably
somebody that Trump
likes Disney meanwhile has decided to
get rid of the trans storyline in one of
their children's
movies is that even real did those words
just come out of my mouth yep so there's
a animated
show uh is it a movie or just a
show it's called win or lose an animated
show so maybe it's a TV show um about a
co-ed Middle School softball team and
there's some trans character in there
they decided to remove this is what
Disney said about it when it comes to
animated content content for a younger
audience we recognize that many parents
would prefer to discuss certain subjects
with their children on their own terms
and
timeline that's kind of
perfect thank you so Disney so now
Disney has paid Trump $15 million
through their ownership of ABC News and
George
stenopus and now they've uh deified at
least some of their content I I'd expect
more if you make a if you make a
statement like this you're going to have
to apply it to your other properties so
I think this is a big step but I I like
how well they said it so whoever was in
charge of crafting the statement for
Disney good job yeah yeah they're not
saying their own opinion they're saying
we recognize that parents would many
parents not all would prefer to discuss
certain things on their own terms and
timeline that's as perfect as you can
say that
I'm actually impressed just that the the
skill that went into the statement it's
it's a lot of
skill
meanwhile there's a the Washington
University in St Louis is reporting a
study where they uh put something like a
pacemaker device on people who were
depressed except instead of being a
pacemaker for your heart it would um it
would zap your Vagas nerve
in the neck and what they found is if
you stimulate the Vagas nerve just right
um it can eliminate depression symptoms
now they did this with people who had
tried a whole bunch of other things and
got no
relief so they knew these were not easy
cases these were hard cases and they got
a great
response but so on one hand I'm really
happy for anybody who has this problem
in their life cuz maybe they have
another future treatment if it all gets
approved
but yeah it's for severe treatment
resistant depression I mean it's that's
got to be the worst thing you could
possibly imagine and so this might help
him with it but I would like to make the
following
observation if you put a a mechanical
device in my body and it changes me from
being
depressed into not
depressed that's a personality change
and it's a personality Chang is driven
by
Hardware
so am I a
cyborg because if you can change my most
fundamental personality which is I'm
depressed all the time and I only have
depressed thoughts and depressed actions
to hey I'm having a good
day that's more than just fixing a
medical problem that's a whole different
personality I mean you're changing
people from Karen to non-caring that's a
personality
change and I'm in favor of it because I
don't think the people in this situation
should suffer one second longer so if
you can help them please do but I think
it's just an observation it's not I'm
not not a complaining one bit but it's a
complete
personality change so to me that's kind
of a cyborg you you're no longer what
you were when you were organic you're
something new that's a combination of
hardware and skin Weare kind of
cool no I hate it at
all a b biological machine that's right
all right ladies and gentlemen um I feel
like I missed a few stories today
there's been so much going on lately um
was there any story that you wanted me
to talk about I I feel like I'm done
with drones until something new happens
you're all okay with that right
feels
like yeah Naval had some great quotes
that I posted it's better if he just
read them in his own words I decided not
to talk about
them so the stock market's up
right um oh I think I didn't complete my
thought so normally when the when the
economy is strong enough that the FED
says we're not going to reduce rates or
we're not going to reduce them as much
as you thought
that usually causes the stock market to
tank and it did on the first day but
today it should still be down because
the FED is still not going to lower
rates as fast as we thought but it went
up
sharply here's why I think it's the
budget I think that when the country
realized that maybe we can stop this an
control budget spending which is our
biggest problem don't you know just to
be clear it's our biggest problem by far
it's the one thing that could end the
entire country nothing else could I mean
short of a nuclear war which I don't see
happening almost nothing could end
America but this could the that could it
could end the entire
experiment and so you see you see the
uh the Council of Elders you see the VES
the Elon musks uh enter the
breach
and at the very least they did the first
thing you need to do which is stop this
signature of that foot tall bill that
nobody
likes now I think the world is
shocked that that was so
handily and well handled because the
politicians are in this situation where
they sort of can't do their jobs you
know they they don't want to go against
their party and everybody wants to go
home for Christmas their family will be
mad they're really they can't get it
done so the fact that this new mechanism
appeared the new mechanism is V reads
the thing in one day you didn't see that
coming tells us what's in it you didn't
see that
coming and then Elon goes in hard like
he you know he he went in like the bull
and then he got complete backing 100%
backing from everybody well everybody on
the right and like I said nobody on the
left really
disagrees they just don't love the fact
that the right is getting stuff done so
I think that the stock market is
responding to the fact that America may
have corrected its biggest
problem and it's the big one the biggest
of the big now that's a long way from
doging our way down to a budget that
works where you know we haven't doed a
bit but we did
show that if the
if the people on
X have a strong opinion about something
things are going to change and that's
new so I think we're in one of the best
situations the country's ever been in
not only are we at the cusp of a super
cycle the likes of which we might never
see again which is robots and and auto
you know Auto self-driving taxis flying
cars drones
you know probably probably the the most
important cycle ever and the only thing
that could stop us is the runaway
debt and we might have that under
control soon it's not under control but
we have all the right
players and we have the support to do it
um at least conceptually we have the
support
so um
all right is there anything else I
should have
mentioned uh it's a Vegas nerve V AAS
not Vegas as in Las Vegas no V
Aus Vegas nerve VH
us uh can I wax poetic about rockel
Welch you know I'm going to tell you
later when I go private on uh
locals why that comment blew my mind but
I can't say it I can't say it to the
rest of
you
um all
right all right I'm going to talk to the
uh people on locals privately the
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