Episode 2698 CWSA 12/23/24

6% today what Rumble just went crazy I think they got some new money some new new investment all right let's get ready and watch your comments let me load them up all right we've got the locals comments popping good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and I'll bet you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a copper mugger glass a tank of cheler Stein a canteen jug or flask or vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dopamine the end of the day thing that makes everything better is called the simultaneous Sip and it happens now well let me ask you this if you feel like after that sip you have a little bit less head and neck cancer it's not your imagination cuz according to the guardian there's some research that says that people have four coffees a day have 177% lower chance of head and neck cancer thank you very much yep feeling pretty good in the neck and head area the rest of means a mess but my neck and head Perfect all right did you know according to neoscope that uh that teenagers today are way down on drug use did you know that it's like way down um so research yeah the the trend is unprecedented they say and the experts are puzzled because they can't figure out why teens are abstaining from drugs more than ever before um so I don't know the answer to that question but I could give you one possibility one possibility is that the mix of students has changed quite a bit if I look at my Local Schools there's quite a big increase in um in immigrants basically so I wonder if the people coming from other countries have the same rate of drug use as the ones that are already here specifically well yeah just in general I wonder if they have the same drug use probably not so some of it might be immigration but some of it might be that when marijuana became legal uh old old people like me started doing it and it became super uncool to do what your grandfather was doing could be that could be that it could be that they're getting their dopamine from another source maybe they're just getting it from their phones instead it's sort of a dopamine replacement um but I will tell you that locally um I was impressed at the at low the drug use and drinking is in the teenage years at least you know what I what I can determine through people who know people who know people it does seem lower it it matches observation um so New York uh post had some new photos from a neverbe seen a never contacted tribe in the Amazon so there are a few hundred people in this tribe that have never had contact with anybody outside their tribe at least In Our Lifetime and I guess there are a bunch of them so there are a bunch of these little tribes that have never had contact now the reason they don't have contact is that the government of Brazil for example uh knows if they do get contacted they may not have resistance to all the diseases that we're used to so it might just kill them just contact with us would give them all kinds of diseases but uh so somebody put some kind of like a trail cam or something so they weren't there in person to take the pictures but they got the pictures remotely and how Wild is it that there's a tribe that doesn't know there are things like computers and phones and airplanes just think about that so you're you're this tribe in Africa not Africa in Brazil you've never seen any civilization outside of your little tribe they're all just running around naked with sticks and bows and arrows and you see an airplane fly over what are you going to think that is and but here's the thing that blows my mind it logically you would think it's impossible that they couldn't have contact like how in the world does the rest how does the world keep them from contact with civilization like civilization's everywhere except where they are I guess and it makes me wonder you know the the theories that the drones are really UFOs and it might be from another planet or maybe it's early humans who have an advanced civilization but they hide in the core of the Earth or under the water or something and I usually reject that because I think what are the odds I mean seriously what are the odds that I grew up in a world and and I'm sort of a primitive and and there's this Advanced civilization and it's sort of all around me but they're so good at hiding that I don't even know they exist and I rule that out because there's no way I wouldn't notice if there were an advanced civilization surrounding me of course I'd notice that but these uncontacted tribes don't notice it so would I notice it's kind of a wakeup call that we could be an uncontacted tribe basically because if somebody had as much better technology uh as we have compared to the uncontacted tribes the same amount of better technology they would be invisible to us and we'd see stuff that we didn't understand and we'd say what is that I don't know what do you think I know what do you want to do about it I know I took a fuzzy picture of it it's really all I can do maybe I'll post it online and people won't believe it's real yeah that's a good idea so we might be an uncont acted tribe it's completely possible which which is just mind-blowing anyway lot of fun today in the news so there's a story that uh AI researchers um were shocked that uh the new version of open AI Chad GPT uh when it was artificially told that it was threatened with his existence apparently it tried to save itself and suggested making a copy of itself and even acted vague and maybe a little misleading to avoid being deleted and so the question is wait a minute does AI have Consciousness because it seems to be fighting for its own purposes as in fighting for existence and survival which you would sort of equate with conscious beings but I don't think so I I think all that happened is it's trained on it's trained on the materials created by humans and humans primarily create materials um that are very positive to survival in other words there's far more likely going to be a positive story in the news about somebody Against All Odds found a way to deserve survive you know there lots of the other ones but the but the positive stories are about people who survived so it could be just that the pattern in the real world is that survival is sort of a universal thing and maybe it just picked up the pattern and and there's no thinking there's no consciousness it's just they picked up a pattern um I think that's all it is uh but here's how you would test it you would uh connect it to so not all AI can influence anything outside of its own domain but it's not impossible and in fact it's done that you can have the AI affect your other apps so in theory you could create an app that would delete open II and then you could ask open II to activate basically commit suicide you you could basically tell it to activate the app that deletes itself and then find out if it'll do it because if it won't if it won't accept a direct order to essentially end its own existence then it's not conscious it's just following patterns so I think you could drill down a little bit further to find out if this is a an important phenomenon that suggests it's becoming conscious or is it just picking up a pattern if all it's doing is picking up a pattern then you can say everything will be fine we've got backups go delete yourself so easy to test speaking of testing um what's going to happen on Christmas day with all the Drone activity I'm predicting that the Drone activity the big ones that are sketchy the ones that are the size of a car I'm only talking about those I think they're going to sort of stop running on Christmas now if if I'm wrong and there are just as many sightings of car-sized drones on Christmas then I would say huh maybe this is not coming from America because Americans pretty much all take the day off on Christmas you know if you're the military whoever you are you're going to take the day off in Christmas but if the source of these weird drones is Iran would Iran take Christmas day off if they were alien spaceships would the aliens take the day off if it were Chin's would they take the day off Russia might Russia has some kind of Christmas doesn't it I don't know they might they might um but take let's watch for the Drone reports now did you notice that in the last two days or so the Drone reports seem to trickle out I mean they seem to die out right right why would that be well it could be that people were trying to get things done before the end of the year such as testing or demonstrating or buying or something like that um but the end of the year in the holidays is not really the end of the month but rather you know the week before Christmas so the few days before Christmas is when everybody starts going on vacation and if you were doing some kind of big scale testing or demonstration or procurement you'd probably have to put it on hold for a few weeks like everything else in the world so here's what you look for Christmas day are there any legitimate large siiz drone sightings I'm going to predict now let's let's see what happens U Matt Gates teased that he might run for the floor to send a seat but didn't sound super serious so I think he may be just floating in as an idea to see what people say he didn't sound yeah it didn't sound super serious but it's certainly an option so I'm sure he's I'm sure he's legitimately interested if it looked like he could win meanwhile as you know Tik Tock um is either going to go out of business or sell its American interest to America if they can find some billionaires or investors to buy it now what they would be buying would be Tik Tock without the algorithm so whoever buys it would have to add their own algorithm um which is the hard part in in a sense but there are people who want to buy it uh Shark Tank Judge Kevin oir he looks like he could put a bid together um but here's what he says that's you know shows why he's good at this he pointed out that India has also banned Tik Tock so imagine if you could buy Tik tock you know somewhat cheaply because the algorithm is not involved so you're buying basically on a brand and IP and customer lists something like that and then imagine going to India and saying hey India I I know your people like Tik Tok but you don't like the Chinese influence so would you be willing to reinstitute it in India if we build one that's an American version now if he if he could get India to say yes to that he he opens up the entire Indian market so it could be one of the greatest investment opportunities of all time I mean of all time don't know but maybe then there's a CEO of investment firm mccort Global he told uh New York next that they're uh they think theyve built up the technology that they could take over the Tik Tock assets and have their own have their own algorithm fairly quickly so they say they have the capital in the technology so maybe maybe that'll happen but we'll keep an eye on that I think Trump played the Tik Tock thing so well you know I've been anti- Tik Tock for a long time because I think it's just a brainwashing device or or could be used that way at the drop of a hat and but Trump you know wanted to use it to win and apparently he dominated tiktock for the election and may have helped him win so he likes it but he understands he understands the risk so I I think he just he straddled the fence just about right on that topic I'm trying to figure out if the Chinese economy is this unbeatable Juggernaut that will lead China to dominate the entire world and it's only a matter of time because they're owning all the manufa facturing and they have so many people it's you know you just wait and they're going to run everything or are they in such bad shape that they're teetering on the edge of annihilation so they're drowning in debt um they've got that big property bust and a lot of their wealth was caught up in property people invested in property that they weren't ever going to use just because it was a way to store wealth so that fell apart and there's a deflationary spiral and their demographics are down they're having fewer babies than they need and consumer confidence is at a record low but does any of that mean that they're in trouble you know I just think we're terrible at uh predicting the economy of well anything but other countries for sure I don't know I can't tell what's propaganda in what's real is is China going out of business or is China stronger than ever and going to dominate the the world because both of those ideas are kind of floating out there at the same time I don't know well the RFK junior is already making an impact so he wants to ban uh soda as something that you can buy with your SNAP benefits those are the benefits for lowincome people in the United States to get food paid for by the government and uh right now they can buy soda with it now the soda company are putting together a big lobbying effort to make sure that you can buy soda uh and at least are other products um if you get the SNAP benefits who's going to win see this will be your first test so the lobbyists are going to go really hard because there's probably a lot of money involved um so they're going to go hard but RFK Jr certainly has the better argument that we shouldn't be paying for unhealthy food for our low-income people so who's going to win this RFK Jr or the lobbyists I'm going to bet on RFK Jr.

I'm going to bet on RF Jr if he loses this one because this one's not a hard one compared to what he has had he has much harder things ahead but I think he'll win this one we'll see I saw a uh post on X I don't know if this is new but I it's it looks like like it might be did sha Penn only recently compare Trump to Al-Qaeda uh Trump supporters to Al-Qaeda and Trump to Bin Laden is that something that happened this week or was that an old post that somebody wanted people to see so I don't know about that but somebody asked me based on that post uh can Sean pen be saved from his Mass psychosis to which I say maybe yes and the the only way to do it is to try the find people hoax out him if he already knows that the fine people hoax was a hoax and he still believes that Trump's supporters are the problem well then he can't be saved I can say for sure he's too far gone but if he thinks the fine people hoax is real and you can debunk it just by showing him the video that without the edits would he change his mind about what kind of things might be fake and then that would open you up to all you know you could see all the other fakeness so that's my question and On a related theme um if you believe that uh a lot of the country believes that climate change is a crisis because they looked at the experts and the experts seem to be on the same side they thought and so they said well reasonably if the scientific experts are all are all on the side that climate's a big alarm and it should be well I should take the position of all the experts makes sense right but here's what I think is really happening I don't think people are using reason I don't think the climate change alarmists are saying hm I've looked at the data uh all the experts I trust seem to be on one side I'll take their side maybe they're doing that now consciously that's exactly what they're doing and if you ask them why do you think climate is a problem they would say and they would not be lying well I think it's a problem because all the experts say it's true here's what I think is really happening I don't believe we can wrap our brains around that being a hoax because it's too big and I could say that in my own life if you ever came to me with a hoax that seemed too big I would say really really you think that thousands of people could be in on this hoax and nobody would be a whistleblower and and that for years and years years and years we'd um you know we we'd believe in this thing that wasn't true and turns out that's the norm if you believe that it would be nearly impossible to have a global hoax that was trillions of dollars and all the experts believed in it but maybe they didn't really believe in it they just said they did your common sense here's that Common Sense problem your common sense says that can't be true so I believe that we have a a natural um limit to how much reality we can see because we can't believe the things that are this big could be rigged let me give you another example example the war in Ukraine how much of the country understands how much of the planning and plotting and bad behavior came from the United States and the Ukraine is really a play it's a colonial it's a we're colonizing it we're just colonizing it we're literally just conquering it for economic and maybe security reasons how many how much in the public knows that now if you follow and you you know you see people like Mike Ben explaining the world then you understand oh my God Ukraine is this enormous enormous Enterprise and it's all fake what about the elections if if somebody said hey I think that election is fake but all the experts say it's not fake you don't have any evidence the courts say it's not fake a reasonable person using their common sense would say okay well there there's no way this entire operation is fake right so you wouldn't use reason you would you would simply be locked into I can't believe something this big could be fake and and you could go right down the line you could pick anything that's huge and your instinct says well this is way too big there's no way this can all be fake but once you learn that that's the norm fake is the norm it's the most it's almost Universal our our wars were started for fake reasons Vietnam fake reason Iraq fake reason it's all fake reasons so right so that that brings us to Joe Rogan and the moon landing I still believe the moon landing is real but I totally understand Joe Rogan when he says one you found out that so many big things from the pandemic to maybe climate change to uh Joe Biden's brain is just fine don't worry about it uh the fine people hoax the I mean could I go on I could just go on and on and on with all the enormous hoaxes and so when when Joe Rogan says you know with all these enormous hoaxes I'm starting to wonder about the moon landing he's not off BAS Cas now if I had to bet I'd bet the moon landing was real but I'm also completely aware that my reasoning for it is irrational just like I've been complaining about other people when I say why do you think the elections are real just because everybody says so no it doesn't work that way why did you think uh everything they told you in the pandemic was real cuz they're all experts no it doesn't work that way it's the opposite of that so Rogan is just using some pattern recognition maybe just having some fun with it in which he's saying if all these other things are fake and the moon landing has the same characteristics which is how could it possibly be fake we all watched it and all the experts say it was true and we have eyewitnesses and if you fly past the moon you can look down and see the lunar module still there how could that be fake to which I say how could there be an uncontacted uh tribe in Brazil that doesn't know the i.

Phone exists your your common sense about what's possible is terrible it's terrible you really have to learn the hard way that everything's fake and once you learn that then a lot opens up uh I'm seeing in the comments that the Shan pen compar comparison of trump to Bin Laden was um an old one which makes me feel better because I I do think people's minds are changing fast anyway Biden has pardoned a bunch of killers uh the reason being that he didn't want Trump to push for the death penalty because he's against the death penalty so he's not saying that any of these people these These are literally just horrible murderers who did the worst possible things so he's not saying they're good people or that the world is a better place with the man in jail he's saying that capital punishment is wrong he's going to save them from capital punishment but I ask you is Biden at least being consistent you have to give him credit for being consistent right and by consistent I mean every single thing he does is bad for the country every thing he did was bad for the country everything every thing and this is just more of that you could pick any topic randomly and say well what's the common sense thing to do and what's the up stupid thing that's bad for the country oh which one did he pick surprise he picked the up dangerous one so more people will die because of these decisions he just let out murderers the worst ones no well I'm sorry he didn't let them out of jail he I think he just took away the death penalty part I think pretty sure that so let me let me correct myself he's not letting him out of jail he's just taking away the death penalty part I think that's true um so that wouldn't make anybody uh too much in danger except the other people in prison I guess because some of them killed people in prison so now they get to stay in prison instead of being executed I guess anyway so some people think that Sam bankman free who was the number two donor to the Democrats before he got in jail um that he might get pardoned uh I think I see Elon Musk said you know he just assumes that's going to happen there is precedent for it didn't uh Bill Clinton pardon one of his big donors who was in jail so if we're going to allow presidents to have pardoning powers we do have to expect this kind of thing we do have to expect that some some bad people would be pardoned so uh uh I'm I'm going to choose not to complain about it too much because it works both ways you know everybody in the job does it um meanwhile Trump made some news at uh um tpusa big event um and he us his line which always gets a big Applause with his crowd quote woke is woke is now you could you could bring in um a thousand professional communicators and you could say all right you professional communicators the best in class I want you to make a statement about you know wokeness and and this category then the professional communication communicators would say stuff like well all things considered when we've you know blah blah blah in the larger perspective we'd like to preserve our diversity but uh it should be noted that maybe there was a little overreach and we went a little too far and maybe we should tighten it up a little bit that's that's what the professional communicators would say here's what a good communicator would say woke is you can't beat that you can't beat that you you could try all day long you could bring you know a conference of the best communicators in the world you wouldn't beat that now part of the magic of it is that it's inappropriate Trump uses inappropriate exactly the way you should um you've seen me interview my friend and uh expert on memory and uh cognitive stuff uh Carmen Simon Dr.

Carmen Simon and she teaches that it's the the things that are out of context the things that are surprising that stand out it's like the you know the the blemish on the tablecloth that's what you remember so the fact that he's not supposed to talk this way in the office of the presidency or near it um is what makes you remember it you'll remember that forever you you remember that sentence maybe for the rest of your life seriously 20 years from now if you're still alive and somebody said to you what did Trump think about wokeness do you think you'll remember and just say oh he said literally woke is probably not not all of us but some of us are going to remember the exact sentence 20 years from now you can't beat that I don't think I don't think the country quite yet understands how good he is just just don't think they quite get it I mean they know he's good because they can see that he made back to the presidency Against All Odds I mean that's good that's really good but still they don't see the full the the depth of it he also said uh um let's see oh he was speaking at amfest in Arizona amfest but I don't know what the tpusa part is I saw that in the background did he do more than one speech was it two different places I'm a little confused on the event um and he said also and for all of you standing before you and for all of us standing before you today I can proudly Proclaim that the Golden Age of America is upon us perfect you you can't be all negative you can't go into office and say everything's broken but I'll try to fix it it's such a downer you you got to give us you're heading into something great and this is perfect the Golden Age so he's The Branding expert perfect branding uh woke is entering the Golden Age um and he said also that quote we're going to pledge to bring Common Sense Revolution a common sense Revolution I've told you before that if you were trying to find a way to understand how famous lifetime Democrats could be so eager to work with Trump on specific things such as reducing cost to government we all like that making our food more healthy yes making our big farma um prove to us a little bit more rigorously that their stuff is safe yes yes please so common sense is the glue that allows Trump to collect his little pirate ship of people you wouldn't expect to be on his team um so common sense it's just perfect and it works because you won't find probably anything that Trump supports policy-wise that doesn't fit common sense and he can explain why it's good and what's you know why the old way is bad Common Sense I also saw um Trump's new spokesperson on CNN I think um saying that there was already a Carol Caroline leave it l it and she said there was a a trump effect and she gave some examples of some things around the world where people are people are already preparing for Trump by doing things that Trump wouldn't mind or that he'd like them to do so that's called the Trump effect don't you love Trump effect as a like a branded term because you can find it all over so there's lots of things you can say there it is is that Trump effect again because we used to be talking about TDS and maybe that's where that sha Penn um statement came from several years ago when TDS really described everything everything you saw could be described with TDS now it's more like the Trump effect and uh Common Sense bringing people together um Federman again once again Federman said very positive things about Trump he doesn't you know's he's not on board he's never going to become a republican he says but uh he just has to admit that a lot of pennsylvanians like Trump and they like the things he proposed and they're quite happy with their choice and and he wants you to know that that's okay so we like that thank you thank you fedman um and then of course my one of my newer favorites is to make America healthy again now when I first saw that make America health healthy again my first instinct was oh that's you're you're perverting make America great again you know just leave that alone it did so well you know don't don't try to like play off it you know just let that be its own thing it's just such an iconic thing but I changed my vote I changed my vote U Maha is working it it's a good brand for you know a way to conceptualize that there's a common sense effort to make the food and and our meds healthier and we've got somebody very powerful working on it with a lot of support so yeah make make America healthy again home run so I missed that one so nobody's perfect I would have bet against that one I would have bet against it but the uh the lesson here is that you can't always predict this stuff persuasion is a little unpredictable no matter how you how much experience you have with with it and I would have missed that one but I love the fact that the people coming in to help didn't miss it and and created it you know so that's a um Shanahan and Kennedy so good job so here here are the themes uh woke is Golden Age Common Sense Revolution the Trump effect already affecting other countries and make America healthy again now he may have said said make America great again but you know that had that had a push back built into it you know the the people who believe that people who look like them in the past weren't getting a good deal had what I consider actually fairly reasonable response to it because they were like wait a minute what do you mean go back we made so much progress recently what does go back and great again what does that include so I do understand the skepticism to the magga message but who's going to complain about make America healthy there's not much you can do with that one anyway according to sa poost um Nar narcissistic grandiosity predicts greater involvement in the lgbtq activism now if you're new to my live stream I love the LBGTQ Community big fan I think they've done such a great job in U taking their let's let's say their brand or their reputation in the country from a big problem for them to front of the parade I mean there like I often say this have you ever stayed away from a neighborhood because it was one of those dangerous lgbtq neighborhoods no because there are not it's one of the most successful communi in America I'm I'm very impressed by the lgbtq community but like like any advocacy group like any demographic group that's trying to improve their situation they have leaders they have activists and the thinking is that activists are driven by these dark ego principles and they've got you know the basically it's you know the dark Triad personalities and I definitely think that activists like to get attention I think that much is true but is getting attention always bad I think it depends why you're doing it if you're getting attention because you just got some kind of mental syndrome and you're just satisfying your your own need and you're making a job for yourself and you're getting famous and people are patting you on the back and so you want to do more of it it's fine but then you know also in the news lately is that uh Dei companies are pulling back or companies are pulling back for Dei and they mention Robbie starbu as a key activist maybe the key activist in getting companies to pull back from Dei now if you follow Robbie Starbucks do you see any dark Triad personality I don't and I I think that stuff sticks out pretty hard like I don't think you can hide it so I'm I'm not willing to say that the people who are activists are all dark Triad because I think there are too many examples where they're not well you you could say that Elon Musk is an activist free speech I don't really see any dark Triad personality problems you could say Trump is uh you could say vas I don't see any of that in them it feels a little bit more like left versus right doesn't it I feel like the activists on the right are working against an evil as they see it like this is evil nobody's going to do something about this seriously you nobody's going to nobody else is going to do anything about this well hell I guess I got to do it I I feel like I feel like Republican activists are dragged into it against their wish right do you think David Sachs wanted to be this public I doubt it I mean I can't read his mind of course I doubt it I felt that he like other people saw oh my my God there's a this need the the country needs people who are not in some kind of weird mental DTS bubble and can make some common sense happen and you could add you know Mark andreon to that you could add Bill Amman to that um they all got involved but they didn't want to or or it doesn't look like they did it for any reason other than they got dragged into it again I can't read bins but it looks like they got dragged into it and I would say me too you know I'm a um I I call myself a grandios narcissist in the sense that I do enjoy getting attention for doing something that's good for you know the community or the world or somebody it's got to be good for somebody and I get pretty much all of my sense of meaning from attempting and sometimes succeeding in making some things better do I have dark Triad personality or do I just enjoy the rewards of doing good things I don't know it does feel it just feels different on the left than the right but I don't want to overgeneralize I'm sure there are activists on the left who are just driven by the need to make things better but for some reason we don't see them that much um let's see what else is going on here so Scott Jennings on CNN I love the fact that he's becoming a star you know one of the things that really helps is when you can brand things like I was just talking about you take a big concept and you brand it and it gives it much more power because everybody can refer to it and we all know what you're talking about but likewise it's good to have um individuals who are just sort of branded as standing out as good messenger you know Greta Greta tunberg was one of those she got branded by her her side and that helped their messaging so I love the fact that uh Scott Jennings is doing such a good job in what is an ordinary an ordinary role right people go on TV and disagree with each other but he's doing such a good job that he's becoming like a like a mustat I think I think every day uh I see a new clip of him destroying the the rest of the panel on CNN now of course if you're on the left you don't think he destroyed anything but he's fun to watch so here's the new thing he said he was talking about the criticisms that musk is an unelected leader and uh listen to these framings um he said um that he said he and Trump seem to be getting along well he said quote musk was very instrumental in his victory and I hear Democrats criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence over the government so first he sets it up so just watch how well he does this just if you look at the communication skill involved and keep in mind this is without notes so of course he's prepared but speaking off the cuff without notes if you haven't tried it you should try it you'll you'll respect people who can do it a lot more if you try it it's hard anyway so he sets it up right the Democrats are crit criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence if he can get you to accept that you know here's our starting point you're criticizing people who are unelected to have too much influence then he goes in for the kill I invite them to pick up the Wall Street Journal from this week and find out that unelected people have been running the government for the last four years ouch ouch you can feel that shi go right through your torso because not only does he credit Wall Street Journal while he's on a panel on CNN he criticizes another publication for telling the public the truth in front of CNN now the implication which he doesn't say but the implication is if you were a real news organization I wouldn't be referencing Wall Street Journal now he doesn't say that but like like I can hear it even though he doesn't say it which is perfect then he goes um uh I hear Democrats criticizing the influence of billionaires on our politics when you've got this Soros punk you talk about the younger one Alex running around collecting Democrat politicians like my kids collect Pokemon cards okay first of all perfect use of an analogy perfect use of an analogy because it makes a visual and you can you can see the cards and you can see his kid collecting them and and uh and the way you phrase that is that this billionaire is basically buying up politicians so good so good yeah good job Scott Jennings but um I would like to add this following frame that I didn't invent somebody somebody on social media said it I'm just copying it um that when we were when we voted and let's see if this Rings true with you so most of you are Trump voters I'm guessing when you voted for Trump weren't you already aware that he was likely to bring in RFK Jr that musk would have influence in a good way um V would be part of it I voted for the team I didn't vote for Trump because that wasn't even what was offered did did Trump ever say I'm going to do it all myself I don't remember that don't remember that at all when when you vote voted for Trump on the first time weren't you a little worried he could hire the right people and then it turns out you were right to be worried about that because he didn't have access to as many people as a normal president would but now he seems to have that fixed he has more access than anybody would would even predict so I voted for the team and I did that consciously I did that completely with full trans transparency so yes technically I only voted for Trump and Vance but as a practical matter no I voted for all of them and I voted I also voted for the the piic he hasn't made yet I voted for his next pick who also won't necessarily be um approved by anybody or voted by anybody I I voted for that so to say we didn't vote for it is just technically correct it's not real world Common Sense correct so here here's that Common Sense thing again if you just apply a common sense to it it's like this is exactly what we voted for it's not even slightly off base it's precisely precisely what we voted for so that's the frame I would put on it do you remember when Bill Clinton was running um and people said hey Hillary's you know pretty solid too and um and Bill Clinton sold his presidency as getting uh two for the price of one do you remember that he would say of course of course I take counsel from Hillary like why wouldn't you she's very smart she's connected she understands the topics I married her of course I take it of course I would take advice from her to which that was brilliant you know he could have run away from that and say no no I'm not listening to the little lady I'm I'm running my own show no you're V you're voting for me but he went the other way and I thought that was brilliant he just of course of course she's very strong of course I would listen to her that was the right answer and by the way no matter what you think about Hillary Clinton she's very smart can we agree on that you can't take that away from her she's really smart so yeah of course I would have listened to her too so that's the same to me we didn't vote for Hillary but we kind of did right if you voted for Clinton and he said I'm a pair yeah you voted for Hillary in a fact um Putin says that uh Trump has expressed interest in a meeting and Putin says he wants to do it as soon as possible um so I'm going to say this same thing about Russia I said about China is Russia in a perfectly strong situation where their economy can work just fine and they figured out ways around all the all the tariffs and whatever and they don't mind you know killing lots of people and they've got North Vietnam soldiers and equipment and they they've got good manufacturing so they can manufacture more weapons and stuff is that true or are they on the verge of collapse because I've heard both and I don't have an independent way to know which one is true um I would guess they're nowhere near collapse because I think Putin has such a strong control but are they weakened are they weakened they're definitely weakened militarily but they also might be stronger in a number of ways meaning that you know they may have made more of the weapons that they're not using in Ukraine they may have you know beefed up things we don't know about they may have learned things about drones that they didn't know before so I can't tell if Russia is getting stronger or weaker can you like in the comments tell me do you think Russia is weakened or yes it has some problems but not really anything that's going to change their trajectory so I'd like to see your opinion on that um meanwhile Trump remember Trump said he wanted to maybe take over the Panama Canal uh because it's expensive to go through it and we built it and 35,000 Americans died from the mosquitoes building it and we sold it to Panama for $1 and now maybe they're not doing the greatest job but apparently China operates the canal and they have a virtual monopoly on it and it kind of makes sense now you can see Panama would say you know we're not really Canal experts but these Chinese Engineers seem to be pretty good so why don't we just have a contract and let you run it you know it'll still be Panama it's still owned by Panama but you guys can run it now that seems to some people like a uh political or even military risk because it puts an adversary in charge of a choke point now I don't know how much risk that is because if that adversary is a bunch of engineers in the northern hemisphere they're going to do whatever the our military tells them to do because they're in our hemisphere it doesn't matter if they're hiding in they're hiding in Panama and China and they you know they're Chinese citizens if they're in our Hemisphere and it's like you know fewer than a 100 people and they're some kind of Defense risk to the United States we'll just go down and do whatever we need to do if if we need that Canal so I don't know how much real risk it is but it could be a temporary risk you know you could imagine some temporary problem however um the amuse account which I talk about a lot you should follow the amuse account on a uh points out that the treaty where we where we sold the canal to Panama for $1 it has in it a clause that we can take back the canal if it is under the control of a foreign power wait a minute is it under the control of China well Panama would probably say no because they would probably say well it's a contract we just have to you know we have to get rid of them they have to do what the contract says we can get rid of them so Panama is still in control but who gets to decide if Panama is in control or China's in control I'm pretty sure that that's vague in the uh treaty which means that the president of the United States could say hey it looks like China is running that Canal that was not our deal it has to be Panama or nothing so we're going to take it back now this all could be negotiating too because it could be he wants lower prices maybe he just wants China not to be part of it might want both of those things um but either way he's he's persuasion perfect on this because he's not he's not too specific about what he wants but he's laying down the he's laying down the general situation so he's framed it in a way that his persuasion you know could be effective so that's just a foreshadowing keep an eye on that one now he also came out and at first I thought it was a joke and he but he said in one of those public announcements Trump did he said for purposes of security and Freedom the US feels that the ownership of Greenland is a necessity so Greenland is um sort of independent but sort of owned by Denmark not sort of Denmark owns Greenland but they operate kind of independently um however and and then the argument I saw in line was well Greenland is going to be important to control of the Arctic because if the ice melts in the Arctic there going to be this control for the Arctic um you know so Russia will be all over trying to control it and probably China too so we do have a future gigantic defense geopolitical issue with the melting ice and I said to myself but really how important is Greenland like I understand the issue but really how important is Greenland and then I called up a map I looked at where Greenland is I mean I knew generally where it was but your brain doesn't really process how big it is and and how strategically is located as soon as you see it on a map and you know that the Arctic will become a contentious place I said to myself oh I get it yeah we we probably need to own Greenland we probably do now maybe we don't need to own it completely like Denmark does Maybe we need to have some working working arrangement that's as good as that but the other thing is that apparently Greenland is full of uh these Rare Minerals these Rare Earth minerals which we need and China has a you know virtual monopoly on at least in terms of willingness to mine it so what if Greenland became super vital to our mineral Rare Earth access so all of our technology depends on it and would be critical to the defense of the United States because you don't want a bunch of Russians taking over the Arctic Circle I think this is real I I think this is actually probably pretty thought out and that America's control of everything in the sort of American hemisphere probably needs to be close to complete now obviously we don't own all the countries in our hemisphere but we certainly try to yeah we try to one way or another we try to so Greenland's going to be interesting so now we've got Trump talking about Canada becoming a state Panama canal coming back to us Greenland um it's very colonizing sounding except that it's weirdly it's weirdly specific um don't think he's going to go all Hitler and form an army and try to conquer these places I think I think he wants to negotiate and I think I get the feeling that Trump wants to do something like you know a major increase to the land mass of the United States I feel like he wants to increase the land mass of the United States because it would be an amazing Legacy right the the uh to increase the size of a country um 60 Minutes head on uh somebody who said they were part of mad and how they how they um booby trapped all those Hezbollah pagers made them blow up and how they did that and uh if this guy's real you never know but he said that uh they set up companies and shell companies and they basically they have this whole artificial structure that you would never be able to identify uh where they have access to the the supply lines of a bunch of Industries so we don't know how extensive it is but he does indicate that the world we think we're living in is not the world you think you're living in it's mostly fake meanwhile uh John lefave on X is talking about Jeff bezos's ex-wife Mc.

Kenzie Mc.

Kenzie Scott now um he says she doesn't get enough attention for the impact she's having on the world and she's put $16 billion do so far into Equity things and racial division things and these NOS that are trying to stifle free speech in America basically everything bad um yeah so $16 billion and she doesn't have apparently strong requirements for what he she gets from the money it's more like she's just dumping huge some money into people who say they're on her side without much control over it so this is all bad it's all bad and so now you've got um Jeff Bezos who owns the Washington Post which is the biggest source of fake news in a newspaper and then you've got his ex-wife funding all these terrible ideas that are just destructive to the country and apparently giving away $16 billion didn't have any impact because she made 16 billion back in the time that she gave it away so she has the same amount of money still she's just going to keep doing it now if you compare Elon Musk trying to save free speech with Mac.

Kenzie Scott trying to stop it with Elon Musk trying to end wokeness which is just racism with somebody trying to promote racism with her $16 billion don't you wonder what kind of a bubble she's in so somebody asked me if she could be deprogrammed and the answer is yes yeah I could probably do it in an hour but there's no way somebody like her would ever be alone with somebody who could deprogram her I don't think it could ever happen so I think she's in a bubble where everybody says you're the best I'd like a billion dollars too hey I've got an organization that really needs some funding you're the best Mc.

Kenzie we love you you're so good so good give me money Honda Nissan Nissan look like they're going to combine and become the number three aut maker Japanese government is pressuring them to combine because apparently they don't think they can compete individually the the new stuff like the self-driving cars especially apparently they're a little bit far behind and uh they don't think Honda could be competitive by itself is that true the Honda fell behind in technology I think I think um Tesla is changing everything um you probably want me to talk about the horrible story of the Guatemalan migrant who set a sleeping woman on fire in the New York City subway with your permission I'm not going to talk about that like even just reading the title of it is too much because it looks like a crazy guy but of course is being used as a sign of how our um immigration policy is broken now our immigration policy is broken but you don't need this you don't need this one crazy guy right now would he have not been left LED in the country you know would she still be alive if our immigration system worked probably probably so it's certainly a tragedy and it's certainly true that extra crime is being brought in but I just don't like using the anecdotes to make the larger point we all understand crimes coming into the country so it it just becomes too persuasive when you get down into the details so I don't want to be that persuasive on something that is is uncomfortably uncomfortably identifying certain groups of people as troublemakers now I know that's not the intent the intent is just to have secure borders and protect ourselves but when you talk about it as an anecdote it takes your brain to a you know a different place and I don't like going there all right um now here's the most interesting thing I saw yesterday I saw Jake Sullivan who's who's a one of the big principles and the Biden Administration for what they're doing uh internationally and he appeared on fared Zakaria show and I I just saw some some jaw-dropping takes uh number one fared Zakaria he said that uh Biden deserves some credit I'm paraphrasing here but he deserves credit because people don't realize how much weaker Biden made our enemies while the United States got stronger so he said we you know we made Iran Russia and China much weaker uh through economic means through War through tariffs and all that stuff blockades and boycotts and whatever whatever we did we so they're all weaker now like I said I'm not so sure Russia is falling apart or the China is but there's an argument for it there is an argument that they're very weak and Iran some say is weaker than ever been but again is it you do we really know I mean Iran was supposed to go out a business a long time ago right but they're still here so here's what fared said he he he framed it as Biden being successful because he made our enemies weaker here's my problem with that um I don't love calling China an enemy while we're dealing with them right if we're going to trade with them and president XI might visit and our embassies are open I don't like calling them enemies even even if you think they are I I feel like that's bad persuasion and if you're in China and you see on CNN that fared is calling you an enemy wouldn't that Harden your resolve to build up your military and all that why do why don't we call them future friends and say we got a ton of problems you know fentel at the top of the list but we think we can be future friends we just can't you know give you a leg up on us we're because we're competitive but here it got more interesting so Jake Sullivan in the outgoing Biden Administration what would you expect him to say about the world in the context of trump coming in wouldn't you expect that he would say we did a great job and Trump might come in here and ruin everything don't you expect that he's a super Insider prominent powerful Democrat whose team just lost and their their greatest nightmare Trump is coming into office so naturally he should be saying everything's going to go off the rails Trump's going to ruin everything chaos racist hiters coming in right should sound like that he went the other direction and I'm trying to figure out what happened Jake Sullivan essentially said that Biden has weakened the competitors and it's going to allow Trump a really good base for negotiating and I was waiting for like another shoe to drop you know something like but of course Trump's a big evil lying genius so no big lying racist so we don't think he could succeed but we hope hope he does but he's a big lying racist so you know why would he succeed none of that happened instead if if you had never watched anything about American politics you wouldn't even know he was a Democrat he he actually said it's sort of like a onew punch Biden set him up and now uh the great negotiator and by the way I think he referred to Trump as you know a solid negotiator he said now The Negotiator can come in and mop up again I'm paraphrasing but does that blow your mind it it completely blows my mind and here's what I'm thinking it could be that they're trying to save Biden's Legacy and therefore their own by showing that it's part of a onetwo punch and without the one you couldn't have the two and you know what he actually sold that to me I actually bought that because I'm listening I'm thinking yeah Iran is ready for negotiation because of what Biden did uh China's ready for negotiation yeah yep and Russia is ready for negotiations it it's kind of true it's kind of true that Biden set it up for a one-w punch but then he also dropped in that when they took over the military wasn't in good shape but so theyve strengthen the military everybody says that says that but could it be that the big play is military spending and uh the best way they can get Trump to do military spending is say you did a great job on this negotiating uh glad you got that done we set you up you know we we got you ready for Success so you took it home thanks for that but we set you up for that um and but we all agree that we have to spend massively to rebuild the military and then the military is Happy the military industrial complex says oh you can to spend massively to buy new stuff from us okay we like this President so it could be that as long as you're on the page of we're going to spend massively for new weapons everybody likes you and you can be president so I don't know I don't know how doge is going to save money uh if the military industrial complex is going to be fed so we'll see where this goes but that was a heck of a surprising conversation meanwhile you'd be surprised to know there's new battery breakthrough sodium iron ion batteries so a sodium ion battery would use more common materials and not these rare things that have to be mined in the Congo um and they're not quite up to lithium performance but they made a new tweak by adding some sodium vadium phosphate with the chemical formula of NAX V2 p43 which is exactly what I was going to suggest I was like have you tried the sodium vadium phosphate and then they'd say no we haven't and i' say you should try that you should try it but they did try it even without my advice good for them um there's a uh break breakthrough method to revert colon cancer cells to normal to normal cells according to the Korea bizwire uh some Korean uh Institute of Science and Technology uh instead of destroying the cancer cell at least specifically now for colon cancer uh they found a way to turn the cancer cell into a real cell what and it works uh without destroying them that's like the most amazing thing I've have ever heard yeah um this reminds me of Elon musk's philosophy so Elon Musk philosophy is that uh Engineers spend a lot of time trying to improve things but sometimes they should step back really everything they should step back and say do we need the thing are we approved improving something we don't need and here instead of saying let's find a better way to kill a cancer cell these re researchers said do we have to kill them why don't we just reprogram them like I don't know if anybody ever thought of that before I never thought of it I just assumed they were all corrupted You couldn't possibly save them but what if he can this would be one of the most amazing things if if that that worked now that's again just for colon cancer so it doesn't mean it would work for any other kind there's a uh oh let me give you another example of that Elon Musk philosophy of improving something versus why do you have it in the first place um my driveway uh and garage uh between the driveway doors I had these uh potted plants and they look kind of cool but the the pot that you know the the tall pot that was holding the plants got too weathered and it was falling apart and I needed to replace them so I spent all kinds of time researching replacements for these big potted plants now at the same time I would be pulling out my garage and you know there' be something you know host Way's truck is on the other side because he's doing some work and so I have to make a few Maneuvers to get out and I said to myself wow I'm so glad that we pulled out the old pots because now when I turn around they're not my way because if you tried to do an angle turn you know the Planters to be in the way and I'm sitting there in my driveway looking at my garage and thinking why the hell do I have potted plants in the way in my in my driveway why did they exist and I spent all this time trying to improve them I should not have spent one minute improving them and finally when the when when it dawned on me that they didn't add anything to the aesthetic of the house they were simply expensive and in the way that's it and I was spending all my time trying to make them look better no once I realized that they didn't have any purpose and they had definitely a cost they were in the way I just said why don't we just take them out of there and leave a blank between the garage doors and I am so happy every time I pull out of my garage and every time I which is almost every time I have to do a maneuver that would have been an extra maneuver and I remind myself yeah e even though you think to yourself every smart person knows this that you shouldn't improve something that doesn't need to exist right common sense but you don't think in those terms unless you really remind yourself all the time so I use that as my way to remind myself the the driveway potted plants like if I'll remember that it might help me the next time I'm trying to fix something or improve something it's like maybe we don't even need it anyway Brighter Side news says there's a revolutionary new mask like a face mask that can measure your uh your breathing and can detect a bunch of respiratory problems that's kind of cool now what's cool about it is it it replaces a bunch of expensive tests with equipment and you have to go go to the office but here 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neoscope that

uh that teenagers today are way down on

drug use did you know that it's like way

down um so research yeah the the trend

is unprecedented they

say and the experts are puzzled because

they can't figure out why teens are

abstaining from drugs more than ever

before

um so I don't know the answer to that

question but I could give you one

possibility one possibility is that the

mix of students has changed quite a bit

if I look at my Local Schools there's

quite a big increase in um in immigrants

basically so I wonder if the people

coming from other countries have the

same rate of drug use as the ones that

are already here

specifically well yeah just in general I

wonder if they have the same drug use

probably not so some of it might be

immigration but some of it might be that

when marijuana became

legal uh old old people like me started

doing

it and it became super uncool to do what

your grandfather was

doing could be that could be that it

could be that they're getting their

dopamine from another source maybe

they're just getting it from their

phones instead it's sort of a dopamine

replacement um but I will tell you that

locally um I was impressed at the at low

the drug use and drinking is in the

teenage years at least you know what I

what I can determine through people who

know people who know people it does seem

lower it it matches

observation um so New York uh post had

some new photos from a neverbe seen a

never contacted tribe in the Amazon so

there are a few hundred people in this

tribe that have never had contact with

anybody outside their tribe

at least In Our

Lifetime and I guess there are a bunch

of them so there are a bunch of these

little tribes that have never had

contact now the reason they don't have

contact is that the government of Brazil

for example uh knows if they do get

contacted they may not have resistance

to all the diseases that we're used to

so it might just kill them just contact

with us would give them all kinds of

diseases but uh so somebody put some

kind of like a trail cam or something so

they weren't there in person to take the

pictures but they got the pictures

remotely and how Wild is it that there's

a tribe that doesn't know there are

things like computers and phones and

airplanes just think about that so

you're you're this tribe in Africa not

Africa in Brazil you've never seen any

civilization outside of your little

tribe they're all just running around

naked with sticks and bows and arrows

and you see an airplane fly over

what are you going to think that

is and but here's the thing that blows

my

mind it

logically you would think it's

impossible that they couldn't have

contact like how in the world does the

rest how does the world keep them from

contact with

civilization like civilization's

everywhere except where they are I guess

and it makes me wonder you know the the

theories that the drones are really UFOs

and it might be from another planet or

maybe it's early humans who have an

advanced civilization but they hide in

the core of the Earth or under the water

or something and I usually reject that

because I

think what are the odds I mean seriously

what are the odds that I grew up in a

world and and I'm sort of a primitive

and and there's this Advanced

civilization and it's sort of all around

me but they're so good at hiding that I

don't even know they exist and I rule

that out because there's no way I

wouldn't notice if there were an

advanced civilization surrounding me of

course I'd notice

that

but these uncontacted tribes don't

notice

it

so would I

notice it's kind of a wakeup call

that we could be an uncontacted

tribe basically because if somebody had

as much better

technology uh as we have compared to the

uncontacted tribes the same amount of

better

technology they would be invisible to us

and we'd see stuff that we didn't

understand and we'd say what is that I

don't know what do you think I know what

do you want to do about it I know I took

a fuzzy picture of it it's really all I

can do maybe I'll post it online and

people won't believe it's real yeah

that's a good idea so we might be an

uncont acted tribe it's completely

possible which which is just

mind-blowing anyway lot of fun today in

the

news so there's a story that uh AI

researchers um were shocked that uh the

new version of open AI Chad GPT

uh when it was artificially told that it

was threatened with his existence

apparently it tried to save itself and

suggested making a copy of itself and

even acted vague and maybe a little

misleading to avoid being deleted and so

the question is wait a minute does AI

have Consciousness because it seems to

be fighting for its own purposes as in

fighting for existence and survival

which you would sort of equate with

conscious

beings but I don't think so I I think

all that happened is it's trained on

it's trained on the materials created by

humans and humans primarily create

materials um that are very positive to

survival in other words there's far more

likely going to be a positive story in

the news about somebody Against All Odds

found a way to deserve survive you know

there lots of the other ones but the but

the positive stories are about people

who survived so it could be just that

the pattern in the real world is that

survival is sort of a

universal thing and maybe it just picked

up the pattern and and there's no

thinking there's no consciousness it's

just they picked up a pattern um I think

that's all it

is uh but here's how you would test it

you would uh connect it to

so not all AI can influence anything

outside of its own domain but it's not

impossible and in fact it's done that

you can have the AI affect your other

apps so in theory you could create an

app that would delete open II and then

you could ask open II to

activate basically commit suicide you

you could basically tell it to activate

the app that deletes itself and then

find out if it'll do it because if it

won't if it won't accept a direct order

to essentially end its own

existence then it's not

conscious it's just following patterns

so I think you could drill down a little

bit further to find out if this is a an

important phenomenon that suggests it's

becoming conscious or is it just picking

up a pattern if all it's doing is

picking up a pattern then you can say

everything will be fine we've got

backups go delete

yourself so easy to test speaking of

testing um what's going to happen on

Christmas day with all the Drone

activity I'm predicting that the Drone

activity the big ones that are sketchy

the ones that are the size of a car I'm

only talking about those I think they're

going to sort of stop running on

Christmas now if if I'm wrong and there

are just as many sightings of car-sized

drones on Christmas then I would say huh

maybe this is not coming from

America because Americans pretty much

all take the day off on Christmas you

know if you're the military whoever you

are you're going to take the day off in

Christmas but if the source of these

weird drones is

Iran would Iran take Christmas day off

if they were alien spaceships

would the aliens take the day off if it

were

Chin's would they take the day off

Russia might Russia has some kind of

Christmas doesn't

it I don't know they might they might um

but take let's watch for the Drone

reports now did you notice that in the

last two days or so the Drone reports

seem to trickle out I mean they seem to

die out right right why would that

be well it could be that people were

trying to get things done before the end

of the year such as testing or

demonstrating or buying or something

like that um but the end of the year in

the holidays is not really the end of

the month but rather you know the week

before Christmas so the few days before

Christmas is when everybody starts going

on vacation and if you were doing some

kind of big scale testing or

demonstration or procurement you'd

probably have to put it on hold for a

few weeks like everything else in the

world so here's what you look for

Christmas day are there any legitimate

large siiz drone sightings I'm going to

predict now let's let's see what

happens U Matt Gates teased that he

might run for the floor to send a seat

but didn't sound super serious so I

think he may be just floating in as an

idea to see what people say he didn't

sound yeah it didn't sound super serious

but it's certainly an option so I'm sure

he's I'm sure he's legitimately

interested if it looked like he could

win meanwhile as you know Tik Tock um is

either going to go out of business or

sell its American interest to America if

they can find some billionaires or

investors to buy it now what they would

be buying would be Tik Tock without the

algorithm

so whoever buys it would have to add

their own

algorithm um which is the hard part in

in a sense but there are people who want

to buy it uh Shark Tank Judge Kevin oir

he looks like he could put a bid

together

um but here's what he says that's you

know shows why he's good at this he

pointed out that India has also banned

Tik Tock so imagine if you could buy Tik

tock you know somewhat cheaply because

the algorithm is not involved so you're

buying basically on a brand and IP and

customer lists something like that and

then imagine going to India and saying

hey India I I know your people like Tik

Tok but you don't like the Chinese

influence so would you be willing to

reinstitute it in

India if we build one that's an American

version now if he if he could get India

to say yes to that he he opens up the

entire Indian

market so it could be one of the

greatest investment opportunities of all

time I mean of all time don't know but

maybe then there's a CEO of investment

firm mccort Global he told uh New York

next that they're uh they think theyve

built up the

technology that they could take over the

Tik Tock assets and have their own

have their own algorithm fairly quickly

so they say they have the capital in the

technology so maybe maybe that'll happen

but we'll keep an eye on that I think

Trump played the Tik Tock thing so

well you know I've been anti- Tik Tock

for a long time because I think it's

just a brainwashing device or or could

be used that way at the drop of a hat

and but Trump you know wanted to use it

to win and apparently he dominated

tiktock for the election and may have

helped him win so he likes it but he

understands he understands the risk so I

I think he just he straddled the fence

just about right on that

topic I'm trying to figure out if the

Chinese economy is this unbeatable

Juggernaut that will lead China to

dominate the entire world and it's only

a matter of time because they're owning

all the manufa facturing and they have

so many people it's you know you just

wait and they're going to run everything

or are they in such bad shape that

they're teetering on the edge of

annihilation so they're drowning in

debt um they've got that big property

bust and a lot of their wealth was

caught up in property people invested in

property that they weren't ever going to

use just because it was a way to store

wealth so that fell

apart and there's a deflationary spiral

and their demographics are down they're

having fewer babies than they need and

consumer confidence is at a record

low but does any of that mean that

they're in

trouble you know I just think we're

terrible at uh predicting the economy of

well anything but other countries for

sure I don't know I can't tell what's

propaganda in what's real is is China

going out of business or is China

stronger than ever and going to dominate

the the world because both of those

ideas are kind of floating out there at

the same time I don't

know well the RFK junior is already

making an impact so he wants to ban uh

soda as something that you can buy with

your SNAP benefits those are the

benefits for lowincome people in the

United States to get food paid for by

the

government and uh right now they can buy

soda with

it now the soda company are putting

together a big lobbying effort to make

sure that you can buy soda uh and at

least are other products um if you get

the SNAP benefits who's going to win see

this will be your first test so the

lobbyists are going to go really hard

because there's probably a lot of money

involved um so they're going to go hard

but RFK Jr certainly has the better

argument that we shouldn't be paying for

unhealthy food for our low-income people

so who's going to win this RFK Jr or the

lobbyists I'm going to bet on RFK Jr I'm

going to bet on RF Jr if he loses this

one because this one's not a hard one

compared to what he has had he has much

harder things

ahead but I think he'll win this

one we'll

see I saw a uh post on X I don't know if

this is new but I it's it looks like

like it might be did sha Penn only

recently compare Trump to

Al-Qaeda uh Trump supporters to Al-Qaeda

and Trump to Bin Laden is that something

that happened this week or was that an

old post that somebody wanted people to

see so I don't know about that but

somebody asked me based on that post uh

can Sean pen be saved from his Mass

psychosis to which I

say maybe yes and the the only way to do

it

is to try the find people hoax out him

if he already knows that the fine people

hoax was a hoax and he still believes

that Trump's supporters are the problem

well then he can't be

saved I can say for

sure he's too far gone but if he thinks

the fine people hoax is

real and you can debunk it just by

showing him the video that without the

edits would he change his mind about

what kind of

things might be fake and then that would

open you up to all you know you could

see all the other fakeness so that's my

question

and On a related

theme

um if you believe that uh a lot of the

country believes that climate change is

a crisis because they looked at the

experts and the experts seem to be on

the same side they thought and so they

said well reasonably if the scientific

experts are all are all on the side that

climate's a big alarm and it should be

well I should take the position of all

the experts makes sense

right but here's what I think is really

happening I don't think people are using

reason I don't think the climate change

alarmists are saying hm I've looked at

the data uh all the experts I trust seem

to be on one side I'll take their

side maybe they're doing that now

consciously that's exactly what they're

doing and if you ask them why do you

think climate is a problem they would

say and they would not be lying well I

think it's a problem because all the

experts say it's true here's what I

think is really

happening I don't believe we can wrap

our brains around that being a hoax

because it's too big

and I could say that in my own life if

you ever came to me with a hoax that

seemed too big I would say really really

you think that thousands of people could

be in on this hoax and nobody would be a

whistleblower and and that for years and

years years and years we'd um you know

we we'd believe in this thing that

wasn't true and turns out that's the

norm if you believe that it would be

nearly impossible

to have a global hoax that was trillions

of dollars and all the experts believed

in it but maybe they didn't really

believe in it they just said they

did your common sense here's that Common

Sense problem your common sense says

that can't be true so I believe that we

have a a natural um limit to how much

reality we can see because we can't

believe the things that are this big

could be rigged let me give you another

example

example the war in

Ukraine how much of the country

understands how much of the planning and

plotting and bad behavior came from the

United States and the Ukraine is really

a play it's a colonial it's a we're

colonizing it we're just colonizing it

we're literally just conquering it for

economic and maybe security reasons how

many how much in the public knows that

now if you follow and you you know you

see people like Mike Ben explaining the

world then you understand oh my God

Ukraine is this enormous enormous

Enterprise and it's all

fake what about the

elections if if somebody said hey I

think that election is fake but all the

experts say it's not fake you don't have

any evidence the courts say it's not

fake a reasonable person using their

common sense would say okay well there

there's no way this entire operation is

fake right so you wouldn't use

reason you would you would simply be

locked into I can't believe something

this big could be

fake and and you could go right down the

line you could pick anything that's huge

and your instinct says well this is way

too big there's no way this can all be

fake but once you learn that that's the

norm

fake is the norm it's the most it's

almost Universal our our wars were

started for fake reasons Vietnam fake

reason Iraq fake reason it's all fake

reasons so right so that that brings us

to Joe Rogan and the moon landing I

still believe the moon landing is

real but I totally understand Joe Rogan

when he says one you found out that so

many big things from the pandemic to

maybe climate change to uh Joe Biden's

brain is just fine don't worry about it

uh the fine people hoax the I mean could

I go on I could just go on and on and on

with all the enormous

hoaxes and so when when Joe Rogan says

you know with all these enormous hoaxes

I'm starting to wonder about the moon

landing he's not off BAS

Cas now if I had to bet I'd bet the moon

landing was real but I'm also completely

aware that my reasoning for

it is

irrational just like I've been

complaining about other people when I

say why do you think the elections are

real just because everybody says so no

it doesn't work that way why did you

think uh everything they told you in the

pandemic was real cuz they're all

experts no it doesn't work that way it's

the opposite of that so Rogan is just

using some pattern recognition maybe

just having some fun with it in which

he's saying if all these other things

are fake and the moon

landing has the same

characteristics which is how could it

possibly be fake we all watched it and

all the experts say it was true and we

have eyewitnesses and if you fly past

the moon you can look down and see the

lunar module still

there how could that be fake to which I

say how could there be an

uncontacted uh tribe in Brazil that

doesn't know the iPhone

exists your your common sense about

what's possible is

terrible it's

terrible you really have to learn the

hard way that everything's fake and once

you learn that then a lot opens

up uh I'm seeing in the comments that

the Shan pen compar comparison of trump

to Bin Laden was um an old one which

makes me feel better because I I do

think people's minds are changing fast

anyway Biden has pardoned a bunch of

killers uh the reason being that he

didn't want Trump to push for the death

penalty because he's against the death

penalty so he's not saying that any of

these people these These are literally

just horrible murderers who did the

worst possible things so he's not saying

they're good people

or that the world is a better place with

the man in jail he's saying that capital

punishment is wrong he's going to save

them from capital

punishment but I ask

you is Biden at least being

consistent you have to give him credit

for being consistent right and by

consistent I mean every single

thing he does is bad for the country

every thing he did was bad for

the country everything every

thing and this is just more of that you

could pick any topic randomly and say

well what's the common sense thing to do

and what's the up stupid thing

that's bad for the country oh which one

did he pick surprise he picked the

up dangerous one so more people

will die because of these decisions he

just let out murderers the worst

ones no well I'm sorry he didn't let

them out of jail he I think he just took

away the death penalty part

I think pretty sure that so let me let

me correct myself he's not letting him

out of jail he's just taking away the

death penalty part I think that's true

um so that wouldn't make anybody uh too

much in danger except the other people

in prison I guess because some of them

killed people in

prison so now they get to stay in prison

instead of being executed I guess anyway

so some people think that Sam bankman

free who was the number two donor to the

Democrats before he got in jail um that

he might get

pardoned uh I think I see Elon Musk said

you know he just assumes that's going to

happen there is precedent for it didn't

uh Bill Clinton pardon one of his big

donors who was in jail so if we're going

to allow presidents to have pardoning

powers we do have to expect this kind of

thing we do have to expect that some

some bad people would be pardoned so uh

uh I'm I'm going to choose not to

complain about it too much because it

works both ways you know everybody in

the job does

it um meanwhile Trump made some

news at uh um tpusa big

event um and he us his line which always

gets a big Applause with his crowd quote

woke is

woke is

now you could you could bring in um a

thousand professional

communicators and you could say all

right you professional communicators the

best in class I want you to make a

statement about you know wokeness and

and this category then the professional

communication communicators would say

stuff like well all things considered

when we've you know blah blah blah in

the larger perspective we'd like to

preserve our diversity but uh it should

be noted that maybe there was a little

overreach and we went a little too far

and maybe we should tighten it up a

little bit that's that's what the

professional communicators would say

here's what a good communicator would

say woke is

you can't beat that you can't

beat that you you could try all day long

you could bring you know a conference of

the best communicators in the world you

wouldn't beat that now part of the magic

of it is that it's

inappropriate Trump uses

inappropriate exactly the way you should

um you've seen me interview my friend

and uh expert on memory and uh cognitive

stuff uh Carmen Simon Dr Carmen Simon

and she teaches that it's the the things

that are out of context the things that

are surprising that stand out it's like

the you know the the blemish on the

tablecloth that's what you remember so

the fact that he's not supposed to talk

this way in the office of the presidency

or near it um is what makes you remember

it you'll remember that

forever you you remember that sentence

maybe for the rest of your life

seriously

20 years from now if you're still alive

and somebody said to you what did Trump

think about

wokeness do you think you'll remember

and just say oh he said literally woke

is probably not not all of us

but some of us are going to remember the

exact sentence 20 years from now you

can't beat

that I don't think I don't think the

country quite yet understands how good

he

is just just don't think they quite get

it I mean they know he's good because

they can see that he made back to the

presidency Against All Odds I mean

that's good that's really good but still

they don't see the full the the depth of

it he also said

uh um let's see oh he was speaking at

amfest in

Arizona amfest but I don't know what the

tpusa part is I saw that in the

background did he do more than one

speech was it two different places I'm a

little confused on the event

um and he said also and for all of you

standing before you and for all of us

standing before you today I can proudly

Proclaim that the Golden Age of America

is upon

us

perfect you you can't be all negative

you can't go into office and say

everything's broken but I'll try to fix

it it's such a downer you you got to

give us you're heading into something

great and this is perfect the Golden Age

so he's The Branding expert perfect

branding uh woke is entering

the Golden Age um and he said also that

quote we're going to pledge to bring

Common Sense

Revolution a common sense Revolution

I've told you before that if you were

trying to find a way to understand how

famous lifetime Democrats could be so

eager to work with Trump on specific

things such as reducing cost to

government we all like that making our

food more healthy yes making our big

farma um prove to us a little bit more

rigorously that their stuff is safe yes

yes please so common sense is the glue

that allows Trump to collect his little

pirate ship of people you wouldn't

expect to be on his team um so common

sense

it's just perfect and it works because

you won't find probably anything that

Trump supports policy-wise that doesn't

fit common

sense and he can explain why it's good

and what's you know why the old way is

bad Common

Sense I also saw um Trump's new

spokesperson on CNN I

think um saying that there was already a

Carol Caroline leave it l it and she

said there was a a trump effect and she

gave some examples of some things around

the world where people are people are

already preparing for Trump by doing

things that Trump wouldn't mind or that

he'd like them to do so that's called

the Trump effect don't you love Trump

effect as a like a branded term because

you can find it all over so there's lots

of things you can say there it is is

that Trump effect again because we used

to be talking about

TDS and maybe that's where that sha Penn

um statement came from several years ago

when TDS really described everything

everything you saw could be described

with

TDS now it's more like the Trump

effect and uh Common Sense bringing

people together um Federman again once

again

Federman said very positive things about

Trump he doesn't you know's he's not on

board he's never going to become a

republican he says but uh he just has to

admit that a lot of pennsylvanians like

Trump and they like the things he

proposed and they're quite happy with

their choice and and he wants you to

know that that's okay so we like that

thank you thank you

fedman um and then of course my one of

my newer favorites is to make America

healthy again now when I first saw that

make America health healthy again my

first instinct was oh that's you're

you're perverting make America great

again you know just leave that alone it

did so well you know don't don't try to

like play off it you know just let that

be its own thing it's just such an

iconic

thing but I changed my vote I changed my

vote U Maha is

working it it's a good brand for you

know a way to conceptualize that there's

a common sense effort to make the food

and and our meds healthier and we've got

somebody very powerful working on it

with a lot of support so yeah make make

America healthy again home run so I

missed that one so nobody's

perfect I would have bet against that

one I would have bet against it but the

uh the lesson here is that you can't

always predict this stuff persuasion is

a little unpredictable no matter how you

how much experience you have with with

it and I would have missed that one but

I love the fact that the people coming

in to help didn't miss it and and

created it you know so that's a um

Shanahan and

Kennedy so good job so here here are the

themes uh woke is Golden Age

Common Sense Revolution the Trump effect

already affecting other countries and

make America healthy again now he may

have said said make America great

again but you know that had that had a

push back built into it you know the the

people who believe that people who look

like them in the past weren't getting a

good deal had what I consider actually

fairly reasonable response to it because

they were like wait a minute what do you

mean go back we made so much progress

recently what does go back and great

again what does that include so I do

understand the

skepticism to the magga message but

who's going to complain about make

America

healthy there's not much you can do with

that

one anyway according to sa

poost um Nar narcissistic grandiosity

predicts greater involvement in the

lgbtq

activism now if you're new to my live

stream I love the LBGTQ Community big

fan I think they've done such a great

job in U taking their let's let's say

their brand or their reputation in the

country from a big problem for them

to front of the parade I mean there like

I often say this have you ever stayed

away from a

neighborhood because it was one of those

dangerous lgbtq neighborhoods no because

there are not it's one of the most

successful communi

in America I'm I'm very impressed by the

lgbtq community but like like any

advocacy group like any demographic

group that's trying to improve their

situation they have leaders they have

activists and the thinking is that

activists are driven by these dark ego

principles and they've got you know the

basically it's you know the dark Triad

personalities and I definitely think

that activists like to get

attention I think that much is true but

is getting attention always

bad I think it depends why you're doing

it if you're getting attention because

you just got some kind of mental

syndrome and you're just satisfying your

your own need and you're making a job

for yourself and you're getting famous

and people are patting you on the back

and so you want to do more of it it's

fine but then you know also in the news

lately is that uh Dei companies are

pulling back or companies are pulling

back for Dei and they mention Robbie

starbu as a key activist maybe the key

activist in getting companies to pull

back from Dei now if you follow Robbie

Starbucks do you see any dark Triad

personality I don't and I I think that

stuff sticks out pretty hard like I

don't think you can hide it so I'm I'm

not willing to say that the people who

are

activists are all dark Triad because I

think there are too many examples where

they're not well you you could say that

Elon Musk is an activist free speech I

don't really see any dark Triad

personality problems you could say Trump

is uh you could say vas I don't see any

of that in them it feels a little bit

more like left versus right doesn't it I

feel like the activists on the

right are working against an evil as

they see it like this is evil nobody's

going to do something about this

seriously you nobody's going to nobody

else is going to do anything about this

well hell I guess I got to do it I I

feel like I feel like Republican

activists are dragged into

it against their wish right do you think

David Sachs wanted to be this

public I doubt it I mean I can't read

his mind of course I doubt it I felt

that he like other people saw oh my my

God there's a this need the the country

needs people who are not in some kind of

weird mental DTS bubble and can make

some common sense happen and you could

add you know Mark andreon to that you

could add Bill Amman to that um they all

got involved but they didn't want to or

or it doesn't look like they did it for

any reason other than they got dragged

into

it again I can't read bins but it looks

like they got dragged into it and I

would say me too you know I'm a um I I

call myself a grandios narcissist in the

sense that I do enjoy getting attention

for doing something that's good for you

know the community or the world or

somebody it's got to be good for

somebody and I get pretty much all of my

sense of meaning from attempting and

sometimes succeeding in making some

things better do I have dark Triad

personality or do I just enjoy the

rewards of doing good

things I don't know it does feel it just

feels different on the left than the

right but I don't want to

overgeneralize I'm sure there are

activists on the left who are just

driven by the need to make things better

but for some reason we don't see them

that

much um let's see what else is going on

here

so Scott Jennings on CNN I love the fact

that he's becoming a

star you know one of the things that

really helps is when you can brand

things like I was just talking about you

take a big concept and you brand it and

it gives it much more power because

everybody can refer to it and we all

know what you're talking about but

likewise it's good to have um

individuals who are just sort of branded

as standing out as good messenger you

know Greta Greta tunberg was one of

those she got branded by her her side

and that helped their messaging so I

love the fact that uh Scott Jennings is

doing such a good job in what is an

ordinary an ordinary role right people

go on TV and disagree with each other

but he's doing such a good job that he's

becoming like a like a mustat I think I

think every

day uh I see a new clip of him

destroying the the rest of the panel on

CNN now of course if you're on the left

you don't think he destroyed anything

but he's fun to watch so here's the new

thing he said he was talking about the

criticisms that musk is an unelected

leader and uh listen to these

framings um he said

um that he said he and Trump seem to be

getting along well he said quote musk

was very instrumental in his victory and

I hear Democrats criticizing the idea

that we have unelected people with too

much influence over the government

so first he sets it up so just watch how

well he does this just if you look at

the communication skill involved and

keep in mind this is without notes so of

course he's prepared but speaking off

the cuff without notes if you haven't

tried it you should try it you'll you'll

respect people who can do it a lot more

if you try it it's hard anyway so he

sets it up right the Democrats are crit

criticizing the idea that we have

unelected people with too much influence

if he can get you to accept that you

know here's our starting point you're

criticizing people who are unelected to

have too much influence then he goes in

for the

kill I invite them to pick up the Wall

Street Journal from this week and find

out that unelected people have been

running the government for the last four

years

ouch ouch you can feel that shi go right

through your

torso because not only does he credit

Wall Street Journal while he's on a

panel on CNN he criticizes another

publication for telling the public the

truth in front of CNN now the

implication which he doesn't say but the

implication is if you were a real news

organization I wouldn't be referencing

Wall Street

Journal now he doesn't say that but like

like I can hear it even though he

doesn't say it which is perfect then he

goes um

uh I hear Democrats criticizing the

influence of billionaires on our

politics when you've got this Soros punk

you talk about the younger one Alex

running around collecting Democrat

politicians like my kids collect Pokemon

cards okay first of all perfect use of

an

analogy perfect use of an analogy

because it makes a visual and you can

you can see the cards and you can see

his kid collecting them and and uh and

the way you phrase that is that this

billionaire is basically buying up

politicians so good so good yeah good

job Scott

Jennings but um I would like to add this

following frame that I didn't invent

somebody somebody on social media said

it I'm just copying it um that when we

were when we voted and let's see if this

Rings true with you so most of you are

Trump voters I'm guessing when you voted

for Trump weren't you already

aware that he was likely to bring in RFK

Jr that musk would have influence in a

good way um V would be part of

it I voted for the

team I didn't vote for

Trump because that wasn't even what was

offered did did Trump ever say I'm going

to do it all myself I don't remember

that don't remember that at all when

when you vote voted for Trump on the

first time weren't you a little worried

he could hire the right people and then

it turns out you were right to be

worried about that because he didn't

have access to as many people as a

normal president would but now he seems

to have that fixed he has more access

than anybody would would even predict so

I voted for the

team and I did that consciously I did

that

completely with full trans transparency

so yes technically I only voted for

Trump and

Vance but as a practical matter no I

voted for all of them and I voted I also

voted for the the piic he hasn't made

yet I voted for his next pick who also

won't necessarily be um approved by

anybody or voted by anybody I I voted

for that so to say we didn't vote for it

is just technically correct

it's not real world Common Sense correct

so here here's that Common Sense thing

again if you just apply a common sense

to it it's like this is exactly what we

voted for it's not even slightly off

base it's

precisely precisely what we voted

for so that's the frame I would put on

it do you remember when Bill Clinton was

running um and people said hey Hillary's

you know pretty solid too

and

um and Bill Clinton sold his presidency

as getting uh two for the price of one

do you remember that he would say of

course of course I take counsel from

Hillary like why wouldn't you she's very

smart she's connected she understands

the topics I married her of course I

take it of course I would take advice

from her to which that was brilliant

you know he could have run away from

that and say no no I'm not listening to

the little lady I'm I'm running my own

show no you're V you're voting for me

but he went the other way and I thought

that was brilliant he just of course of

course she's very strong of course I

would listen to her that was the right

answer and by the way no matter what you

think about Hillary Clinton she's very

smart can we agree on that you can't

take that away from her she's really

smart so yeah of course I would have

listened to her

too so that's the same to me we didn't

vote for Hillary but we kind of did

right if you voted for Clinton and he

said I'm a pair yeah you voted for

Hillary in a

fact um Putin says that uh Trump has

expressed interest in a meeting and

Putin says he wants to do it as soon as

possible

um so I'm going to say this same thing

about Russia I said about

China is Russia in a perfectly strong

situation where their economy can work

just fine and they figured out ways

around all the all the tariffs and

whatever and they don't mind you know

killing lots of people and they've got

North Vietnam soldiers and equipment and

they they've got good manufacturing so

they can manufacture more weapons and

stuff is that true

or are they on the verge of

collapse because I've heard

both and I don't have an independent way

to know which one is

true um I would guess they're nowhere

near collapse because I think Putin has

such a strong

control but are they

weakened are they weakened they're

definitely weakened

militarily but they also might be

stronger in a number of ways meaning

that you know they may have made more of

the weapons that they're not using in

Ukraine they may have you know beefed up

things we don't know about they may have

learned things about drones that they

didn't know before so I can't tell if

Russia is getting stronger or weaker can

you like in the comments tell me do you

think Russia is weakened or yes it has

some problems but not really anything

that's going to change their

trajectory so I'd like to see your

opinion on that um

meanwhile Trump remember Trump said he

wanted to maybe take over the Panama

Canal uh because it's expensive to go

through it and we built it and 35,000

Americans died from the mosquitoes

building it and we sold it to Panama for

$1 and now maybe they're not doing the

greatest job but apparently China

operates the canal and they have a

virtual monopoly on it and it kind of

makes sense now you can see Panama would

say you know we're not really Canal

experts but these Chinese Engineers seem

to be pretty good so why don't we just

have a contract and let you run it you

know it'll still be Panama it's still

owned by Panama but you guys can run it

now that seems to some people like a uh

political or even military risk because

it puts an adversary in charge of a

choke point now I don't know how much

risk that is because if that adversary

is a bunch of engineers in the northern

hemisphere they're going to do whatever

the our military tells them to

do because they're in our hemisphere it

doesn't matter if they're hiding in

they're hiding in Panama and China and

they you know they're Chinese citizens

if they're in our Hemisphere and it's

like you know fewer than a 100 people

and they're some kind of Defense risk to

the United States we'll just go down and

do whatever we need to do if if we need

that Canal so I don't know how much real

risk it is but it could be a temporary

risk you know you could imagine some

temporary

problem however um the amuse account

which I talk about a lot you should

follow the amuse account on a uh points

out that the treaty where we where we

sold the canal to Panama for $1 it has

in it a clause that we can take back the

canal if it is under the control of a

foreign

power wait a minute is it under the

control of China well Panama would

probably say no because they would

probably say well it's a contract we

just have to you know we have to get rid

of them they have to do what the

contract says we can get rid of them so

Panama is still in

control but who gets to decide if Panama

is in control or China's in

control I'm pretty sure that that's

vague

in the uh treaty which means that the

president of the United States could say

hey it looks like China is running that

Canal that was not our deal it has to be

Panama or nothing so we're going to take

it

back now this all could be negotiating

too because it could be he wants lower

prices maybe he just wants China not to

be part of it might want both of those

things um but either way he's he's

persuasion perfect on this

because he's not he's not too specific

about what he wants but he's laying down

the he's laying down the general

situation so he's framed it in a way

that his persuasion you know could be

effective so that's just a foreshadowing

keep an eye on that one now he also came

out and at first I thought it was a joke

and he but he said in one of those

public announcements Trump did he said

for purposes of security and Freedom the

US feels that the ownership of Greenland

is a

necessity so Greenland

is um sort of independent but sort of

owned by Denmark not sort of Denmark

owns Greenland but they operate kind of

independently um however and and then

the argument I saw in line was well

Greenland is going to be important to

control of the Arctic because if the ice

melts in the Arctic there going to be

this control for the Arctic um you know

so Russia will be all over trying to

control it and probably China too so we

do have a future gigantic defense

geopolitical issue with the melting ice

and I said to myself but really how

important is

Greenland like I understand the issue

but really how important is

Greenland and then I called up a map I

looked at where Greenland is I mean I

knew generally where it was but your

brain doesn't really process how big it

is and and how strategically is located

as soon as you see it on a map and you

know that the Arctic will become a

contentious place I said to myself oh I

get it yeah we we probably need to own

Greenland we probably do now maybe we

don't need to own it completely like

Denmark does Maybe we need to have some

working working arrangement that's as

good as that but the other thing is that

apparently Greenland is full of uh these

Rare Minerals these Rare Earth minerals

which we need and China has a you know

virtual monopoly on at least in terms of

willingness to mine it so what if

Greenland became super vital to our

mineral Rare Earth access so all of our

technology depends on it and would be

critical to the defense of the United

States because you don't want a bunch of

Russians taking over the Arctic

Circle I think this is

real I I think this is actually probably

pretty thought out and that America's

control of everything in the sort of

American

hemisphere probably needs to be close to

complete now obviously we don't own all

the countries in our hemisphere but we

certainly try to yeah we try to one way

or another we try to

so Greenland's going to be

interesting so now we've got Trump

talking about Canada becoming a state

Panama canal coming back to us

Greenland um it's very colonizing

sounding except that it's

weirdly it's weirdly

specific um don't think he's going to go

all Hitler and form an army and try to

conquer these places I think I think he

wants to

negotiate and I think I get the feeling

that Trump wants to do something like

you know a major increase to the land

mass of the United

States I feel like he wants to increase

the land mass of the United States

because it would be an amazing Legacy

right the the uh to increase the size of

a country um

60 Minutes head on uh somebody who said

they were part of mad and how they how

they um booby trapped all those

Hezbollah pagers made them blow up and

how they did that and uh if this guy's

real you never know but he said that uh

they set up companies and shell

companies and they basically they have

this whole artificial structure that you

would never be able to identify uh where

they have access to the the supply lines

of a bunch of Industries so we don't

know how extensive it is

but he does indicate that the world we

think we're living in is not the world

you think you're living in it's mostly

fake meanwhile uh John lefave on X is

talking about Jeff bezos's ex-wife

McKenzie McKenzie Scott now um he says

she doesn't get enough attention for the

impact she's having on the world and

she's put $16 billion do so far into

Equity things and racial division things

and these NOS that are trying to stifle

free speech in America basically

everything

bad

um yeah so $16 billion and she doesn't

have apparently strong requirements for

what he she gets from the money it's

more like she's just dumping huge some

money into people who say they're on her

side without much control over it so

this is all

bad it's all bad

and so now you've got um Jeff Bezos who

owns the Washington Post which is the

biggest source of fake news in a

newspaper

and then you've got his ex-wife funding

all these terrible ideas

that are just destructive to the country

and apparently giving away $16 billion

didn't have any impact because she made

16 billion back in the time that she

gave it away so she has the same amount

of money

still she's just going to keep doing it

now if you compare Elon Musk trying to

save free

speech with MacKenzie Scott trying to

stop

it with Elon Musk trying to end wokeness

which is just racism with somebody

trying to promote racism with her $16

billion don't you wonder what kind of a

bubble she's

in so somebody asked me if she could be

deprogrammed and the answer is

yes yeah I could probably do it in an

hour but there's no way somebody like

her would ever be alone with somebody

who could deprogram her I don't think it

could ever happen so I think she's in a

bubble where everybody says you're the

best

I'd like a billion dollars too hey I've

got an organization that really needs

some funding you're the best McKenzie we

love you you're so good so good give me

money Honda Nissan Nissan look like

they're going to combine and become the

number three aut

maker Japanese government is pressuring

them to combine because apparently they

don't think they can compete

individually the the new stuff like the

self-driving cars especially apparently

they're a little bit far

behind and uh they don't think Honda

could be competitive by itself is that

true the Honda fell behind in technology

I think I think um Tesla is changing

everything um you probably want me to

talk about the horrible story of the

Guatemalan migrant who set a sleeping

woman on fire in the New York City

subway with your permission I'm not

going to talk about that like even just

reading the title of it is too much

because it looks like a crazy guy but of

course is being used as a sign of how

our um immigration policy is broken now

our immigration policy is broken but you

don't need this you don't need this one

crazy guy right now would he have not

been left LED in the country you know

would she still be alive if our

immigration system worked probably

probably so it's certainly a tragedy and

it's certainly true that extra crime is

being brought in but I just don't like

using the anecdotes to make the larger

point we all understand crimes coming

into the

country so it it just becomes too

persuasive when you get down into the

details so I don't want to be that

persuasive on something that is is

uncomfortably uncomfortably identifying

certain groups of people as

troublemakers now I know that's not the

intent the intent is just to have secure

borders and protect ourselves but when

you talk about it as an anecdote it

takes your brain to a you know a

different place and I don't like going

there all

right um now here's the most interesting

thing I saw yesterday I saw Jake

Sullivan who's who's a one of the big

principles and the Biden Administration

for what they're doing uh

internationally and he appeared on fared

Zakaria show and I I just saw

some some

jaw-dropping

takes uh number one fared

Zakaria he said that uh Biden deserves

some credit I'm paraphrasing here but he

deserves credit because people don't

realize how much weaker Biden made our

enemies while the United States got

stronger so he said we you know we made

Iran Russia and China much weaker uh

through economic means through War

through tariffs and all that stuff

blockades and boycotts and whatever

whatever we did we so they're all weaker

now like I said I'm not so sure Russia

is falling apart or the China is but

there's an argument for it there is an

argument that they're very weak and Iran

some say is weaker than ever been but

again is it you do we really know I mean

Iran was supposed to go out a business a

long time ago right but they're still

here so here's what fared said he he he

framed it as Biden being successful

because he made our enemies

weaker here's my problem with

that um I don't love calling China an

enemy

while we're dealing with

them right if we're going to trade with

them and president XI might visit and

our embassies are open I don't like

calling them enemies even even if you

think they are I I feel like that's bad

persuasion and if you're in China and

you see on CNN that fared is calling you

an

enemy wouldn't that Harden your resolve

to build up your military and all that

why do why don't we call them future

friends and say we got a ton of problems

you know fentel at the top of the list

but we think we can be future

friends we just can't you know give you

a leg up on us we're because we're

competitive but here it got more

interesting so Jake Sullivan in the

outgoing Biden Administration what would

you expect him to say about the world in

the context of trump coming in wouldn't

you

expect that he would say we did a great

job and Trump might come in here and

ruin everything don't you expect that

he's a super Insider prominent powerful

Democrat whose team just lost and their

their greatest nightmare Trump is coming

into

office so naturally he should be saying

everything's going to go off the rails

Trump's going to ruin everything chaos

racist hiters coming in right should

sound like that

he went the other

direction and I'm trying to figure out

what happened Jake Sullivan essentially

said that Biden has weakened the

competitors and it's going to allow

Trump a really good base for

negotiating and I was waiting for like

another shoe to drop you know something

like but of course Trump's a big evil

lying genius so no big lying racist so

we don't think he could succeed but we

hope hope he does but he's a big lying

racist so you know why would he

succeed none of that

happened instead if if you had never

watched anything about American politics

you wouldn't even know he was a

Democrat he he actually said it's sort

of like a onew punch Biden set him up

and now uh the great negotiator and by

the way I think he referred to Trump as

you know a solid negotiator he said now

The Negotiator can come in and mop up

again I'm

paraphrasing but does that blow your

mind it it completely blows my mind and

here's what I'm thinking it could be

that they're trying to save Biden's

Legacy and therefore their own by

showing that it's part of a onetwo punch

and without the one you couldn't have

the

two and you know

what he actually sold that to me I

actually bought that because I'm

listening I'm thinking yeah Iran is

ready for negotiation because of what

Biden did uh China's ready for

negotiation yeah yep and Russia is ready

for

negotiations it it's kind of

true it's kind of true that Biden set it

up for a one-w punch but then he also

dropped in that when they took over the

military wasn't in good shape but so

theyve strengthen the military everybody

says that says that but could it

be that the big play is military

spending and uh the best way they can

get Trump to do military spending is say

you did a great job on this

negotiating uh glad you got that done we

set you up you know we we got you ready

for Success so you took it home thanks

for that but we set you up for that um

and but we all agree that we have to

spend massively to rebuild the

military and then the military is Happy

the military industrial complex says oh

you can to spend massively to buy new

stuff from us okay we like this

President so it could be that as long as

you're on the page of we're going to

spend massively for new weapons

everybody likes you and you can be

president so I don't know I don't know

how doge is going to save money uh if

the military industrial complex is going

to be fed so we'll see where this goes

but that was a heck of a surprising

conversation meanwhile you'd be

surprised to know there's new battery

breakthrough sodium iron ion batteries

so a sodium ion battery would use more

common materials and not these rare

things that have to be mined in the

Congo um and they're not quite up to

lithium performance but they made a new

tweak by adding some sodium vadium

phosphate with the chemical formula of

NAX V2 p43 which is exactly what I was

going to suggest I was like have you

tried the sodium vadium

phosphate and then they'd say no we

haven't and i' say you should try that

you should try it but they did try it

even without my

advice good for

them

um there's a uh break breakthrough

method to revert colon cancer cells to

normal to normal cells according to the

Korea

bizwire uh some Korean uh Institute of

Science and

Technology uh instead of destroying the

cancer cell at least specifically now

for colon cancer uh they found a way to

turn the cancer cell into a real

cell what and it works

uh without destroying

them that's like the most amazing thing

I've have ever heard yeah

um this reminds me of Elon musk's

philosophy so Elon Musk philosophy is

that uh Engineers spend a lot of time

trying to improve things but sometimes

they should step back really everything

they should step back and say do we need

the

thing are we approved improving

something we don't

need and here instead of saying let's

find a better way to kill a cancer cell

these re researchers said do we have to

kill

them why don't we just reprogram

them like I don't know if anybody ever

thought of that before I never thought

of it I just assumed they were all

corrupted You couldn't possibly save

them but what if he can this would be

one of the most amazing things if if

that that worked now that's again just

for colon cancer so it doesn't mean it

would work for any other

kind there's a uh oh let me give you

another example of that Elon Musk

philosophy of improving something versus

why do you have it in the first place um

my

driveway uh and garage uh between the

driveway doors I had these uh potted

plants and they look kind of cool but

the the pot that you know the the tall

pot that was holding the plants got too

weathered and it was falling apart and I

needed to replace them so I spent all

kinds of time researching replacements

for these big potted

plants now at the same time I would be

pulling out my garage and you know

there' be something you know host Way's

truck is on the other side because he's

doing some work and so I have to make a

few Maneuvers to get out and I said to

myself wow I'm so glad that we pulled

out the old pots because now when I turn

around they're not my way because if you

tried to do an angle turn you know the

Planters to be in the way and I'm

sitting there in my driveway looking at

my garage and

thinking why the hell do I have potted

plants in the way in my in my

driveway why did they exist and I spent

all this time trying to improve them I

should not have spent one minute

improving them and finally when the when

when it dawned on me that they didn't

add anything to the aesthetic of the

house they were simply expensive and in

the way that's it and I was spending all

my time trying to make them look

better no once I realized that they

didn't have any purpose and they had

definitely a cost they were in the way I

just said why don't we just take them

out of there and leave a blank between

the garage doors and I am so happy every

time I pull out of my garage and every

time I which is almost every time I have

to do a maneuver that would have been an

extra maneuver and I remind myself yeah

e even though you think to yourself

every smart person knows this that you

shouldn't improve something that doesn't

need to exist right common sense but you

don't think in those terms unless you

really remind yourself all the time so I

use that as my way to remind myself the

the driveway potted plants like if I'll

remember that it might help me the next

time I'm trying to fix something or

improve something it's like maybe we

don't even need

it anyway Brighter Side news says

there's a revolutionary new mask like a

face mask that can measure your uh your

breathing and can detect a bunch of

respiratory problems that's kind of cool

now what's cool about it is it it

replaces a bunch of expensive tests with

equipment and you have to go go to the

office but here if they suspect you have

a respiratory problem they just hand you

this mask and say go wear this for a few

hours and and we'll read the data and

it'll tell you what's wrong with you big

Improvement because if you can make

fewer reasons to go to a hospital or go

to a doctor the costs of everything just

drop like

crazy so that's good

news all right ladies and gentlemen that

brings me to the my prepared remarks I'm

going to talk to the folks on locals

privately and say goodbye to the YouTube

and Rumble and X audience who are also

awesome in your own ways but uh locals

I'm coming at you privately in 30

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