Episode 2702 CWSA 12/27/24

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bacteria and reduces your cancer risk it strengthens your immune system and reduces your inflammation according to nutrition insight and uh you know this of course I'm a professional humorist so suddenly I'm wondering about you know I'm not but I'm not a Biblical scholar so there's some things I don't know about but I wonder if back in Jesus's time do you think he ever do do you think he ever just said uh well I think I can cure your leprosy boom and he'd use his Heavenly Powers but what if somebody had a smaller problem they're like hey I've got this little got a little inflammation in my back did Jesus also use his Heavenly powers or did he say let just have a coffee why don't you come have a coffee with me you'll be fine that's just something I wonder as a professional writer all right so if you haven't bought your Dilbert calendar yet um you could probably still get it around the first week of January which is almost just as good um I'm I'm I I guess I should tell you this it wouldn't be fair to tell you this I I just realized probably at some point in January is if not before the the annual Dilbert calendar the little page day calendar that you can only buy on dilbert.com by the way there's no other source go to dilbert.com and see the the link but if you were to get it the sometime in January it's probably going to be 10% cheaper so we haven't lowered the price because it's just there's a a technical uh question about just how long that takes or if that's easy or hard but uh probably soon if you want to wait till next week probably 10% cheaper but I can't guarantee it it would make sense uh meanwhile um you you probably know that I still produced Dilbert Dilbert reborn it's called and only the subscribers to me on X and also on the locals platform get to see it but I publish in both places the new one for the day which in this case is about Dilbert's company shutting down their Dei group um but then I also checked the one that was 10 years ago cuz I put that on a I put that on a digital calendar which has nothing to do with the paper calendar and today is one of those days where both the 10 year ago comic and the one I wrote for today are really funny yeah sometimes I'll look at the two of them and I'll say oh the calendar was better than today's comic or or the comic is better than the calendar was which was would have been 10 years ago uh but today they're they're both they're both right on point so check that out um you may have seen a video of AA Harris uh praising the wonders of Quanza and how much she enjoyed celebrating as a young person now of course everybody's mocking her for various different things but I'll just point out one thing if you turn off the sound and you just look at her she looks really high yeah if she's not drunk or totally inated in that video I don't know how you'd explain her face you know I can't even do an impression of it it's something you would have to be on drugs to even make that face I've never seen anybody who wasn't on drugs Who had who had any kind of mannerisms like that so I think we dodged a bullet there meanwhile over in Chicago where you thought Chicago was totally lost the end woke account tells us that arrests are way up so shoplifting and theft may be finally not legal um so why why is suddenly a big Improvement in Chicago Well turns out that that Soros funded da Kim Fox is out and there's some new DA in and the new DEA wants to actually make crime illegal I guess so felony theft charges are have surged by 154% just this month after O'Neal Burke took over so here's my question uh I of course am completely in favor of you know improving the the laws and the enforcement in in the big cities right because it's a problem everywhere so I'm totally in favor of this but there's a there is a question that pops up that I feel like we need to be adult about and it goes like this you probably saw a video it was kind of viral of two young uh black women I don't know if they were over 18 but they were somewhere in that age range and they were casually doing some shoplifting at some you know box store and they were they were captured at the uh the exit and they were putting handcuffs and they were acting surprised and there was a video of them talking to each other in the back of the squad car where where they're saying it's it's illegal now like they didn't know that the law that you know that there been a change in society and that the the enforcement would be um aggressive and I get that not everybody follows the news and certainly not everybody follows the political news so if you're a young person did you really know I mean seriously was there any way you would know that the situation had changed from there's no real risk to you're going to jail now here's where it gets tricky again I'm going to tell you I'm completely in favor of the new enforcement so don't don't interpret this as softening my stance completely in favor of it but I'm going to ask you this question just as a human stepping outside of just the political or the legal or the how do you save the city those are all important and they're more important than what I'm going to say next but I feel like it's necessary those cities created an attractive nuisance do do you know what that means an attractive nuisance in other words by making it legal to shoplift they essentially encouraged it would you agree here's some free stuff there's no penalty and then word gets around and people are taking advantage of the free stuff with no penalty yes they need to go to jail remember I'm not arguing against it but does that seem fair to you now remember I always make fun of fairness because fairness is uh what I say was invented so children and idiots could have conversations with each other um fairness isn't a real thing but sometimes there are things that just strike you as a human H here's what I think I think if you pick up a 18-year-old who has no criminal record who did not know that this was now more criminalized it was always illegal but it's more criminalized if they didn't know I would blame the city for creating an attractive Hazard the attractive Hazard was the city itself had basically said come steal our and so when two 18-year-old young women went to do exactly that the rules had changed honestly I'd let him go I'd let him go because I would blame the City for putting them in a situation where they were attracted to Crime your city should be pushing you from crime if the city spent one minute making crime attractive which they did for a lot longer than a minute I feel like there needs to be some kind of um some kind of period of forgiveness so arresting them and putting them in handcuffs and putting them in the back of the squad car 100% on board 100% but once they enter the legal system I would like to hear their lawyers say your honor this this law only recently changed the city had created an attractive Hazard um I think that has to be taken into account and I would love the judge to say ladies if you do that again you're going straight to jail but your defense has a a reasonable argument that reasonable people can agree on I wasn't comfortable putting them in jail once the city had set them up I'm not for that but again we we have to have laws and they have to be enforced um apparently online there's a debate between uh representative krenshaw and a popular ex personality cat turd now apparently Cat turd's made some claims about crenchaw and crenchaw said that claims are fake and suggested they would sue them um some of you are taking sides you don't like Keno's views on war and there was something else you mentioned um so you didn't like some of his policies and I get that um I would just uh note that if you're trying to figure out who's the bad guy in this situation um cat turd lied about me in public cat turd went after my reputation with lies well or maybe just wrong I can't tell if he was just stupid or or wrong but I blocked him a long time ago because he's not a good guy and he's not smart he's entertaining he's very entertaining but he's not a good guy he's not smart just just make sure you know that because he's a public figure and it's fair to just know who you're dealing with so I'm not going to take sides on this because I don't know exactly the issue but I'll tell you that cat turd is not a good guy I I don't consider him a good guy he's entertaining so if you're following him for the entertainment sure uh Jonathan Turley is writing today about uh big win for free speech so there was this doctor um Dr.

Tara gustillo so she won a big free speech appell at court Victory against her health care System where she worked so she was removed from her position after she criti ized black lives matter critical race Theory and some parts of the co narrative just free speech she just criticized those things and she got fired and that was reversed now here's here's the payoff if I told you that there was somebody who got fired for criticizing black lives matter critical race Theory and Co aren't you thinking to yourself uh sounds like some basic white concern ative here here's what we know about this Filipina American doctor so first of all Filipina second of all she had a Stella record she raised black children oh wait what if somebody who raises black children criticizes black lives matter and you're canceling her what what that's pretty that's pretty extreme I mean I don't know how much the each of these things figured into it but uh and apparently she credited with according to Jonathan Charley she's credited with creating a program to reflect cultural differences in birthing practices to better serve her diverse patients now you know I'm not the woke guy but isn't that like a really good piece of work changing the um the birthing practices so they take into account any uh cultural differences now to me that's just good that's all good right you know I get the argument you don't want the country overrun with new cultures and stuff but if you're dealing with real human beings and real medical situations in America yes their their specific cultural situation should be accounted for and then apparently she argued that her colleagues turned it into a program for quote racially segregated care which was not the idea that's not the idea you're I mean that's completely ruining the idea and objected to certain Orthodoxy over RAC essential views so Dr.

Tara gtill sounds like one of the best human beings I've ever heard like from top to bottom and uh she won sometimes good people win um Argentina their new president M um he announced something that confused me so I I spread some fake news that I quickly deleted after I found out but uh somebody somebody summarized the news in a way that was misleading and it fooled me but uh said M has announced that he's abolished over 90% of Argentina's taxes now I thought that that meant he got rid of 90% of Argent taxes but apparently getting rid of 90% of Argentina's taxes what it really means is sources of taxes it's not 90% of the taxes it's 90% of the sources of Taxation so apparently they got taxed for just about everything they did he thinks he can get it down to six kinds of taxes which would be good but I'm going to go on record uh just so I've said it this argen a miracle does not look real to me it it's it's pinging every one of my warning flags warning warning this story might be a little bit too hyperbolic because it looks a little too magically successful the real world is way messier than this sounds I mean you know if you come in and you make these major structural changes I do believe that the kinds of changes he's making will set up Argentina for a very bright future so I do believe it's all good I don't believe that it's all good so fast it's the so fast part that I'm like really on the other hand so we'll we'll argue both sides of this if I were the person transforming the country and and part of My Success depended on people thinking I could do that and I could do more I probably would exaggerate My Success early and I'd tell everybody ah it's it's working it's working like crazy it's so fast I'll do more of it so on one hand I don't mind I mean it seems a a functional bit of marketing if you say you're doing a little bit better than you are I just feel like if he can get everything good without any notable negatives that would be the first time in history anybody did it like hey maybe you never know anything's possible I'm rooting for him and I think everything he's doing makes sense I'm just think maybe we're getting ahead of ahead of ourselves on on the actual produced results just a hunch well meanwhile the conversation about Trump wanting to buy Canada has uh has created uh little attention by Kevin oir he's one of the Shark Tank stars but better known as being one of the more successful investors uh and he's Canadian and he says that there's actually interest in Canada in merging with the United States now he just means conversationally not in the government government is probably 100% against it but he thinks he wants to try to sell it so he wants to see if he can pitch it and maybe uh broker a deal with Trump and some kind and form some kind of what he calls an economic Union um so an economic Union would not be you know merger so they'd still have some some you know regular government I guess but uh yeah maybe I I don't know what he has in mind but he is a serious person who wants what's best for both countries and probably has a good idea what would get us there so if Kevin o is weighing in I feel like I feel like Kevin o is in that category of the pirate ship so not only did Trump attract people who used to be Democrats or still are Democrats but he also got a Canadian he got a Canadian like like the the Trump effect is so strong that there's somebody you know actually I don't know his I don't know his uh current nationality so he I don't know if he he's probably still a Canadian citizen I think yeah he's called the Canadian investor um but I just love the fact that the the the incoming Trump Administration seems solid enough and capable enough that somebody like Kevin olir would say let me spend a bunch of time seeing if I can get this very big thing done that might be great for both countries just people volunteering it's like Doge right it's like people volunteering to put their own lives on hold really good lives like we're talking about people who could just go to the beach all day if they wanted to and theyve decided to sacrifice for some kind of national or double National benefit I just appreciate it so I'm just going to give a shout out to cavan oiry for putting his risk Capital out there in favor of two Nations that need a little help thanks well there's a new update in New York Post of course we'll talk about the foreign worker thing just waiting for people to stream in so we can hit that when we're all we're all here at the same time um apparently the uh intelligence spy bosses they they silenced the defense department back when the covid leak was still being discussed and people were saying is it a lab leak or is it a natural thing and apparently the defense department had good evidence it was a designed designed thing in the lab and the Spy bosses decided to take that out of the briefing so that Biden did not hear that it came from a lab what would you do with a spy Chief who was hiding the most Vital Information from the commanderin-chief now I don't think it's IL legal but you should never work in that job again anybody who's hiding the most important information from the president while working for the president it's got to be fired right away I mean there that there's no real second chance for that kind of stuff so I don't know who it was but uh maybe when Trump gets in there we can get a better idea which spy Chief silenced the truth from the commander-in-chief on the other hand Biden wasn't really totally functional so and and the funniest thing about this story is when they talk about the Spy Chiefs and and the Pentagon and they did all their research and they found out things that nobody could have ever known and then it's taken years for them to come you know finally tell you what they think they know and and I've told you before but it's funny I think a probably like maybe a week after the covid pandemic hit that one of my smartest friends called me and said here's a picture on Google Google Maps that wet La that wet Market is directly across the street from the Wuhan lab that creates that does exactly this kind of work so on week one I knew for sure did was I doubting that the that the lab that was across the street was a real problem as opposed to the wet markets that have operated forever and never had this kind of problem exactly so pretending that anybody didn't know on day one or at least day seven is just kind of funny because if I knew I mean I knew for sure in a week I was just waiting for the rest of the country to catch up I thought it'd be easy but it took years all right um DARPA according to reclaim the net uh DARPA has created this what they call a theory of mind so they're using technology and software to predict an influence behavior what um so apparently they think they can predict what people do and they claim that they'll use it against our adversaries because if you know what your adversaries are going to do well you got you have an advantage now do you think this would stay limited to use against our adversaries of course not because every time the intelligence people find something that works against their adversaries unless it's a kinetic thing you know like like a bomb it ends up getting employed domestically because if we're trying to control people in other countries sooner or later somebody says you know there are a few people in this country who could use a little control why don't we use that external thing to control these Rogues inside the country so of course it will come internally of course it will now the question is do you think it's real do you think even if they try really hard and the smartest people and they use AI that they will be able to predict people's actions in the future well how could they if you have free will if you have free will there's no way they're going to predict what you're going to do I'm just joking you don't have free will so they they'll totally be able to predict what you're going to do it's really an information problem if they knew enough about you they could get it 80% of the time they could probably do populations faster they could probably they could probably look at a politicians message and then look at how that'll affect the election and know who's going to win based on the messaging or or maybe even the personality so there's some things that it definitely will be able to predict you know more so than anything we're doing today um because polling predicts if you do it legitimately a lot of our polling is not legitimate but but if he did it legitimately like the internal polling for the Trump campaign it told him he was going to win it literally predicted the future so yes uh there will be other ways to do that too I believe that AI will use pattern recognition to predict the future for individuals but it won't be able to do that until it knows enough about those individuals which I don't know how they'll do that maybe if they knew everything about your social media and everything you've ever done all resumés and everything you've ever written probably it could do it but it'd have to have access to all that information probably will have that access well the Trump effect continues to get things done without him actually doing anything yet well he's doing a lot but not specifically this so Mexico is going to open shelters to house over 12,000 of its own citizens who might get deported when Trump takes over um 25 plann shelters and it's a strategic plan to accommodate exclusively the people who get deported after January 20th and uh Mexico says they're taking Trump's threats seriously and they're preparing the facilities to accept now doesn't that make his job a lot easier if Mexico has already built the receiving facilities it's going to be a lot more Humane and a lot lot polit more politically acceptable if Mexico instead of arguing like crazy you shouldn't send them back is building facilities to accept them that's the Trump effect they're acting in a way that is the adult way to act simply because Dad came home like everybody started to pick up their toys oh Dad's home I don't need to be told I'm going to pick up all my toys because it would be way worse if I don't pick up my toys so that's what's happening all right right you probably know that yesterday there's a big brewhaha on the internet on X about the issue of issuing um what visas or whatever the approval is to work in the United States for foreign workers and the debate comes down to hey if we're America First why would you bring in any foreign workers but Elon Musk says uh it took him all to clarify but he said we're really talking about the 0.1% of the top Engineers now those are now according to Elon uh those are jobs which are really really hard to fill and there tons of openings and it wouldn't really be possible to train some Americans to be in the top 0 1% of Engineering in the next few years if you have a 20-year you know buildup yes you know in 20 years we might create enough top Engineers that we don't think about taking anybody from another country maybe possible but at the moment if you want to compete in Ai and uh crypto and uh bit uh yeah Quantum Computing and robots those are all the things that are going to drive economies in the future and the people who drive them the most are going to be the engineers in the top 01 in fact open AI only exists because um Sam mman brought over some uh Indian engineer who made the breakthroughs that made AI essentially possible so even AI wouldn't even exist if we hadn't brought in one of those 01 engineers and he hadn't done what he did so keep that in mind now I waigh in and immediately it just caused more problems than it solved because what I didn't understand is that people were not on the same topic so there there are a few topics and individually they're all important but they all got sort of conflated and people people were mad about things that they were on the wrong topic so let me tell you what my view is and then we'll talk about the topic my old view my old view prior to Biden and it's it's now changed because of Biden but my old view is that you want to keep everybody smart so if somebody wants to come in and they've got a you know high education in some valuable field or even if they just want to be an optometrist or make money that the country is better off every time you bring in somebody who's going to add to the tax base in other words pay taxes and is not going to take much so so my old View and again this is revised but my old view is you take everybody who is smart and additive now how you decide whether somebody's smart enough and additive uh I don't think we have a good system for that so my desires are not supported by any kind of good system after B after Biden opened the border and magga became the the dominant majority opinion in the country they were very very very clear about limiting immigration under that environment it probably makes sense to not allow in the country people who would be additive do you get that so under the current cultural political situation I think it would just disturb too many people to bring in people who even would add to the country even you're sure of it they would would add so at the moment I'm opposed because Biden Biden essentially ruined the atmosphere for immigrants he ruined it by by making it just everybody come on then all the nuances just drained out of it and we probably have to work pretty hard to you know correct things but the argument does not apply to the 01 engineer so let me say this as um completely this is the most firm confident opinion I'll ever get you you cannot have enough 01 top Engineers because Engineers are not like optometrists and doctors and lawyers the 0.01 engineer is developing the future like the very civilization changing work you want all of those and we don't have anywhere near enough not even close you know as Elon Musk reminds us now a lot of people argue that Elon Musk doesn't understand the topic of hiring top Engineers to which if I may do a face plant so I spent some of my time explaining that Elon Musk probably knows a little bit about hiring top Engineers I I don't think I need to develop my argument on that too hard but there was a um so so that's the first thing so it's unambiguously good for the country to bring in the top top engineers and anybody would argue that that would be stupid honestly I wouldn't even listen to the argument on the other side it would just be stupid because you're not talking about changing the culture of the United States you're talking about people who almost always already speak English better than you do and are the top top top top top top students that's it's a completely different situation than bringing in Uber drivers I'm not in favor of that at the moment at the moment now I think you can say all those things while still saying that immigrants are the you know the the reason the country is strong and Etc that's all true it's just that Biden ruined the atmosphere for bringing in immigrants even the ones who could add he just ruined it we might be able to get back to that but not until Trump gets things under control so um that's where I'm at now secondly um that the argument that I just gave you is a conceptual argument wouldn't it be nice to have only these people and at the moment it would be impractical really to just open it up to everybody but second to that that's sort of the goal or where you'd like to end up um is that the systems we have for deciding who comes in are completely corrupted so some people were getting really mad that they thought I didn't understand that our current systems are not picking just the best of the best they're pretty much abused by big companies just to get cheap labor everybody on board with that our current systems all of them 100% of our current systems are so gameable that big companies are using them not in the way that you want them to be used now there is a question about what would happen to your inflation if they hired more expensive labor from the US so if you're willing to pay for more inflation then you would also be in favor of them not having these programs that let them game the system to bring in cheap labor um so can we all agree on the following statement of assumptions our current systems are wholly inadequate to getting what you want as a citizen of the United States they do seem to work in the favor of quite a number of Corporations and the corporations are the ones who argue for keeping the current completely broken and corrupt system because it works for them it just doesn't work for you know workers for example American workers so I think we can all agree on the fact that the current system is broken now what is what is Trump's take on this I actually don't know which is the weirdest thing about this conversation I don't know where Trump's at at one point he was at where I was at one point he agreed with my old view that as long as they're additive yes yes everybody additive everybody additive so that used to be his view as well but after he's watched this whole brewhaha and after you know Biden let in everybody I feel like he may have he may have uh adjusted his own views but I haven't seen it yet so that's the most fascinating thing about the story is that is that the Bas was having this heated argument yesterday all over social media of course Trump was watching of course he was and it's helping him I'm sure helping him you know come up with his statement on on the the thing but there are a number of uh things that come up uh number one um oh the the other thing that we can agree on is that big companies like Google and apple have the resources to put people in another country and really really vet the top Engineers but that's not going to work for a small company um somebody somebody said my opinions were invalid because I never tried to hire foreign Engineers well I've actually tried hiring uh India based program programmers at least twice for side projects I was doing and it's a nightmare if you're not Google and apple and you want to get somebody who can do a good job so you find somebody in India who says oh yeah just tell us what you want we'll give you a price we'll assign some programmers and we'll write that code for you absolutely none of that worked because I talked to somebody smart who would make the sale but then they would assign it to somebody who was completely incompetent so nobody could perform anything I I didn't get anything I paid money and got nothing twice so hiring hiring employees to work from the other country if you were thinking about it I wouldn't do it everything I saw says it doesn't work if they're not in the same room with you don't do a tech project not at all so certainly that's part part of something needs to be fixed um so I I was listening to uh Theo Wald who was the former deputy assistant to Trump in the first Administration and he was in charge of uh drafting the legislation to create a new legal immigration framework so he the one who said that when he looked at all the various and there quite a few of them the various Pathways that foreign workers can get into the United States that they're all corrupt so yesterday I was seeing some people saying well you're talking about this H1B visa thing yeah that's bad but there's this other thing to get the Geniuses that's not so bad well in the real world according to Theo Wald the guy who was in charge of making it all work he said no they're all corrupt so you should assume 100% of our foreign worker acquisition is totally broken and has to be fixed um that was the best context I've seen so when I talk about this topic I talk about what we want to achieve usually I talk about systems you know I always say systems are better than goals but there sometimes it's obvious what you want to achieve we we want American workers to have jobs that are good jobs and blah blah blah so U but this uh brought up a a really troubling thing so V ramaswami weighed into the debate he said one of the reasons that maybe uh foreign workers are being favored by tech companies is that there's a cultural difference and he described the cultural difference as some of the Asian and Indian companies or countries but their families he described would put a focus on educational attainment and you know professional success whereas in America you might have far less of it now that caused all the dumb people to assume that his generality was referring to every family in both countries so if you fell into that trap and you said wait a minute that's not true I know this one American family that does everything right or if you said wait a minute I've seen pictures of India and it's people living in garbage piles why do I want the people living in garbage piles to teach me how to have a better culture I don't want to live in a garbage pile now those are ridiculous those are ridiculous comments because he's using a generality is it a useful generality that the Indian and Asian employees that are at least the topic of conversation the ones who have technical skills is it true that they probably had a lot of family support probably are they the majority of indan I don't know but probably not but they're the only ones we care about because they're the ones who are getting technical skills and they may or may not come to the United States that's the population we're talking about they definitely have the tiger moms most of them but again we're not talking about the exceptions so here's how people took it they said uh V first of all a number of people didn't think V was an American citizen may I may I give myself another face palm this is to the people who argued with me that he's not an American citizen okay I just had to do that born in this country risking his life to fix the Doge thing he's risking his life Elon Musk risking his life not hyperbole not hyperbole death threats death threats death threats they're risking their lives for your benefit do you think that they're doing it to make extra money well they might I mean that they might make extra money but clearly that's not the main incentive V is more American I I said this to somebody I said he's more American than you are he he's more supportive of the American Experience the the American you know what whatever makes us good people he's he probably knows more about American history than just about any one of you you can't get more American than the that's like Peak American and and people got on me for defending because I I got pretty aggressive yesterday on social media for def defending V's take about our cultures and also elon's take about needing engineers and people said to me um you know are are you just making money is it because Elon pays you pays me I mean obviously you know I'm monetized on X but you think that's why I'm doing it you think you think I'm supporting the idea of bringing the top 1% Engineers because I get paid on X that was literally the last thing I was even in my mind never never once did that even occur to me here's what occurred to me when I watch Elon and V do take on the hard most thankless job that America has ever produced short of War which is to take on trimming the government that's patriotism at a level that I I can't even conceive I mean it's beyond me given that and given you know my current age I've I've kind of done what I need to do I would take a bullet for either one of them actually l Al take a bullet because the two of them are doing the only thing that can save our country if we can't get the debt under control we're all dead we're all dead and there are only two people who happen to be extraordinarily brilliant incredibly Brave capable beyond anything that you and I can really understand and are taking on the hardest job in the world for you if you're American for you and also for me I would take a bullet to keep them in that job like actually I'd take a bullet like if you said to me you know you're going to have to die but you'll save one of those two people I would take the bullet like actually literally that's not a joke so if you see me defending them aggressively on social media I would take a bullet for them because they would take a bullet for me right they're doing it right in front of you I don't have to guess if they would take a bullet because they put themselves in a position where the the odds of danger and death threats is through the roof so if they would do that for me I would do it for them and same with Trump how did you feel when Trump took a bullet for you right that's different if somebody takes a bullet for you and Trump did that that's a you you get bonded to them and and you should so um that uh so a lot of people were on that so let me let me say this so some people interpreted VI as this uh Indian guy uh who was criticizing white American culture in the United States and a lot of people thought it was kind of a put down kind of an insult to American culture to which I said what are you talking about an insult to American culture what American culture are you talking about the American culture that I live in has free speech and we have a superpower our culture American culture has a superpower and it looks like this when we fail and we get ashamed we learn things get stronger we eat that shame we eat that failure and then we go and win in other countries and in other cultures they do not criticize their culture and if they fail well they don't want to fail so they don't do a startup they just take a job where they're less likely to fail so when you say that V is somehow insulting America by saying that the culture needs a a tweak needs an upgrade that's the most American thing you can do criticizing how an American system and culture is basically a system criticizing an American System even down to the family level if it's necessary that's what we do you can't get more American than that we criticize ourselves in public because we have the gift of free speech is and and um if something needs to be fixed and you're going to get a big blowback for saying it we'll still say it uh I said what I needed to say at the risk of getting cancelled very American right you you could disagree with everything I said or did that's fine but would you agree that me saying what I thought I needed to say at the moment and I had good intentions that's a longer story but and then getting cancelled for it failing basically that would be a failure my ire career wiped out you watched me you watch what happened when I got canceled right I just recovered got stronger I got a million followers on X it it basically supercharged me so that was a failure it was a shame I I you I didn't feel any shame but you could imagine that it would be accompanied usually um and so I just took that failure I ate it for breakfast I used it for energy and I went on and and in some ways accomplished more than I would have accomplished if I had not been cancelled because it you know creates a lot of attention so yes the uh you can criticize any American system from culture to finance to government that's what I want I want our smartest people telling us where we should focus even if he's wrong something sometimes right we're we're not looking for Perfection so um yes I'm defending V aggressively now this brought up a number of comments because people were the the other the hidden topic within this foreign employee stuff is a number of people kept saying but Scott don't you understand uh I'm a trained engineer and I can't get a job what do I say to somebody who says that on social media don't know them they say I'm a trained engineer experienced and I can't get a job I say what color are you you're white right so mixed in with this whole foreign foreign worker thing is the fact that there's been massive systemic racism against white men for what um sequa parner um Sean Maguire thinks may have been going on for the past 10 years here's what he said he said I was told I can't be promoted for being a white man explicitly at Google and then he he suggested that that's been going on for at least 10 years do you know when I got that talk the first time I got the talk I can't promote you because you're a white male the 80s 37 years ago for 37 years this has been the way everything in Corporate America worked no we're not going to promote you for a white man prudent thinker onx says I've had the same experience elsewhere in big Tech also been told we want less people who look like you because it messes up our Dei commitment also been told whatever you do do not hire a white man um this is a white man also been told everyone is invited except you we want to put out the image of diversity um and and I've even been plagiarized by the Dei hire later to learn I was hired for that very purpose oh no and then deplorable garbage um that's the name of his account was told the same thing by a big law firm and notes if an entity like that a big law firm uh isn't afraid to openly do it discriminate against race he says it's everywhere um Russell says at an Intel Corporation we restricted hiring white males unless approved senior VP level and that was more than 10 years ago imagine what it's like now no this has been 37 years at least that's when it hit me it may may have been earlier in California where I was so why didn't people know this it's because white guys just suck it up and get to work that's it white guys are will complain privately will complain to our family complain to our spouse but we're not necessarily organizing a protest we just say all right I'm not going to work there I'll go work somewhere else so that's why you don't know also I found out 30 years ago that if I mentioned in public that I was being discriminated against for being white what did people call me a white racist liar so they already decided I'm a white racist just cuz I'm white and then I say I was unable to be promoted in two corporations in a row because they told me I'm white and male and I can't promote you and and I say that and they say oh well you're lying oh great so if I tell you the truth I'm a white racist and now also a liar 30 years over three decades almost four decades white men had to keep this secret because if you said it out loud you were a liar and that's a real thing that happened in the United States for decades still happening um all right um then somebody weighed in thinking they would add some nuance and said uh no it's cuz somebody else labeled it as an anti-white bias which it is and then a commenter said well you know technically is it an anti-white bias um it might have also been anti- Asian-American because I'm sure they discriminated against Asians I need one more face plant can I give it to you in colleges they definitely discriminated against Asians true in corporations they hired the Asians not the white guy if you if you had lots of diversity of asian-americans it was considered like the uh what's the good analogy like the methadone for the heroin or something they wanted heroin which would be black women lesbian employees you know that would be like oh home run but if they couldn't get that they definitely wanted as many asian-looking people to put on to put on the you know the company picture so no I've never once I've never even heard of it have you is there anybody in the comments who's ever even heard of an Asian-American being turned down at Big Corporation because that wasn't diverse enough I've never heard of it now if it turned out the asian-americans have been keeping this secret for 40 years like white Americans you know I guess I'd have to say I shouldn't be surprised so it could be it could be true but I've never seen it or heard of it never once well then wired wired publication uh this was the they say it's the year of the influencer political takeover so uh of course A lot of people are writing about how the podcasters and the online influencers are now the important thing and the mainstream news and the New York Times Are unimportant Etc but here's what I think about that conversation I I I think this is sort of putting the dilber filter on it when all these smart people the Democrats say that uh they finally understand that what they needed to do better was take advantage of the influencer podcasting ecosystem and that the the Republicans really had that nailed down you know they really had a good good ecosystem for that so so that maybe is why they lost so do you think that's why they lost to watching Democrats not understand anything it never gets less entertaining it is true that Trump did a much better job with the podcaster influencer situation that's true but the reason they lost is that they did everything wrong they had the worst candidate running against the worst candidate the best candidate of all time they had no policies that were in the top three of the American public they they wasted $1.5 billion on God knows what probably half of it was stolen you could just you could make a list of all the things you should do right and the only things they did well were the ones that don't matter to the election the ground game said they always tease Trump for not having a ground game but never ask themselves the Elon Musk question which is do we need a ground game and the answer is probably not in in the current age there there was a time when the ground game was everything but probably not now you know people learn online they don't need the ground game um but here's my dilbur filter take on it the the fact that the Democrat think the podcaster world is just where they need to go um I think that the Democrat um let's say the the people who would be helping with campaigns in the future if you are going to work on a campaign which thing would you rather do uh organize a door- knocking thing or do another boring interview print interview with the New York Times or uh interact with some of the coolest hottest podcasters and influencers in the world which way do you want to spend your day do you want to spend your day talking to famous sexy young like people killing it so that you can take a picture and show it to your kid it's the easiest job in the world because you get to sit in the studio and maybe watch the podcast and that's your job for that day I've got a feeling that the Democrats are moving toward this whole we've got to have more podcasting and influencers because that's fun and then they justify it as like oh this is the big problem got to fix this podcasting situation there's no way we can be competitive until we have a Joe Rogan of our own I don't know so there there's something true about it which is they probably need to be better in in that domain but but there's also something that screams we would rather do things that are pleasurable than things that are hard and I don't think that's a Winner's attitude we'd rather do things that are pleasurable than hard that might be their entire problem anyway um I and I also think it's funny harking back to the prior conversation that they canceled me at exact the time when I was the most dangerous because the podcasting world was starting to dominate again dumbest mistake they could have made they they should have said Scott we'd like you to spend all of your time on cartooning so why don't we give you a big contract to write a twice as many cont cartoons if they had done that they could have bought me out of the race well I don't know but it would have been worth the shot if they offered enough um anyway according to study finds scientists figured out how to transform red blood cells into Precision cancer fighting drones um and I guess I guess they can tweak it as your cancer morphs into a different form they can tweak it again so it it gets at it again so this is actually pretty exciting um they've got some kind of Mo molecule that'll stick to parts of the RNA and then regular activities so the reason that this is important is if it feels less destructive meaning if you if you do something that's just put some destruction on your body but you hope the the cancer cells die faster than your healthy cells you know like chemo yeah you're just hoping that your healthy cells survive but they're going to get whacked um and the so this is the second anti-cancer possibility which doesn't seem to have that mechanism which it attacks your your healthy stuff don't know if it'll work yet but I love I I love all the new news about it now there's an article in the hill in opinion piece by Evan Davis and David Schult and they say Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office but lawmakers must act now so the idea is according to them the Constitution provides that any oath-breaking insurrectionist can't run for office and then they gave their evidence for how Trump is an oath breing insurrectionist of course all their evidence was completely debunked and laughed at by people like Jeff Clark uh also an attorney who got in trouble for that January 6 stuff for doing basically nothing nothing that anybody should have ever gotten in trouble for that's another story but um so apparently I didn't know this but apparently if they try to make this move to not allow Trump to take office it would take a 2third vote did I have that right 2third vote of the in each house so in both uh Senate and the house uh two-thirds vote now I don't think there's would you agree there's not a chance in the world that two-thirds of the people are going to vote to not put Trump in office right so there's not any practical way this is going to happen as far as I can tell but um I kind of want them to to try don't you don't you want them to try because the the Democrat Party is is on life support if they try to keep Trump out of office with some weird lawfare somebody's going to yank the life support out of whatever's left of the Democratic Party that would be the end that would just be the end now I know you want me to say oh if that happened there would be an armed an armed uh Revolution no there won't against who what are you going to do shoot your neighbor because some politicians did something you're not going to shoot your neighbor we like the neighbor so um I would just say this um I just wish they I kind of hope they do it I I hope they take their strongest play to try to keep them out of office they will fail um but this is the ultimate you know F around and find out situation I'd really love him to find out not with violence no violence please but no violence would be necessary because we would just look at the situation and say nope nope now speaking of violence which I do not recommend but you can state facts about violence right so that's fair you can say somebody did some violence there's a risk of some violence but I don't recommend it don't do any violence however can you imagine the security situation for anybody who voted to keep Trump out of office at this point if in Congress they voted to to use this Insurrection thing to keep them can you imagine what that would do to their security situation again please don't do any violence but we live in a country where people wouldn't take this sitting down and and anybody who voted to keep Trump out of office for this Insurrection I would recommend you look at your budget because if you don't have a budget for increasing security I wouldn't vote this way now I wouldn't say that about many things I can't even think of one other thing I would ever ever said that about but the people Vote for This are really going to put themselves in a physical Jeopardy don't do anything to them don't don't don't we want peace we don't want to be that kind of country but the reality is we live in a dangerous country full of guns and people have the guns for that reason they have the guns for this reason don't use them for this reason this isn't good enough reason but that's why they have them so if they think that it would be safe to to vote that they're not going to put the winner of the popular vote into office just think about your budget just think about it well Russia is open to conversation about Ukraine but uh they say Trump has to go first he has to make the first move to improve ties according to Breitbart Simon Kent and um what would the first move be so let's talk about that if if Russia says yeah we're open but you got to make the first move all right here's the wrong answer the first move should not be a peace proposal um by the way lavro um so he's he's the uh he's the Russian what would you call him he's the main guy who talks to the United States um about foreign policy and stuff like that so lavro um says uh lro says that um that a truce is a path to nowhere so a ceas fire doesn't have any interest for Russia Russia is saying we're looking for a big deal you know something enduring something comprehensive we're not looking for let's stop shooting on Tuesday is he right about that yes yes yeah lavro is completely right having a ceasefire would save lives but beyond that it would wouldn't it wouldn't hasten the end of the war I don't think so what would Trump do he can't say listen to a ceasefire I agree Russia is correct on that uh but here's what he's being set up for negotiating with himself have you ever heard that term in the negotiating world there's a thing that's considered a classic error and the error is to negotiate against yourself and the way that looks is you is you say first all right here's the deal I'll do this if you do that and then the other side says no and then you go back and here's the error and you come back with a new offer and they haven't made an offer if you do that it's called negotiating against yourself and you've been tricked into making the first offer and then responding to them making a new offer and you've already talked to yourself down they haven't even made an offer and you talked to yourself down so that's considered a classic mistake um I learned that when I was negotiating with Disney years ago there was an idea of making a Dilbert Disney animated movie uh and we made an offer to Disney and Disney said no that's not good enough come back with another offer and the head of my syndication company said um how about we're done now and we'll never work with you again that that's how it ended and I completely supported it yeah you don't negotiate with yourself period And by the way he told them we're not going to negotiate with ourselves if you've got an offer we'll look at it so they knew why but they didn't want to make an offer so we said well maybe we'll make an offer with somebody who knows how negotiation works now I maybe it works for Disney maybe sometimes they get somebody dumb enough to do that but but thank goodness you know the professional I was working with knows how this works and he just closed them down so nope don't negotiate it with ourselves we'll take this somewhere else and that's why there's no Dilbert movie no we did take it somewhere else but you know things didn't work out in other places either anyway um so he shouldn't make an offer but he has to do something so what would what would it look like if Trump did something first but it wasn't an offer for a peace deal what would that look like I don't know but Trump is the best at this suppose Trump said how about let's have a summit would that be an offer kind of kind of and an offer to do a summit with you know himself and Putin I would feel like that would be going first but without making the offer so I think there's there's room to play I think there's room to play and when Russia says you have to go first what they're doing is trying to dominate Trump because they're trying to say all right we made you do the first thing like why does Trump have to go first why does he have to go first they both want peace so if lavro can sort of manipulate Trump into going first then he is sort of won the first round Trump will know that because unlike ordinary politic Ians Trump knows how this works he's done this before so he's not going to he's not going to fall for the UF to go first unless it looks like something that would be ordinary to do now a summit at least with Trump would be an ordinary thing to do so I think that would not look like going first but would still be close enough to to get things done so we'll see there's a giant breakthrough coming in e batter is are you surprised I tell you one of these stories every day the reason I do it is to help you predict the future and here's the future if this new leap let's see it's according to the mark mayard in the Pasadena Star News um the new breakthrough just uses a new new kind of material and it uh uses 10 times less anode material which is a big deal uh and uh might cut the cost someday of the battery by a huge amount did you know that the cost of the battery in an electric car um could be up to 40% of the cost of the car and that this is a battery that works in the lab and if it worked in uh the real world would cut that cost by about half so 40% of your car cut by half just because the battery so we're we're at the point where we're probably one more big battery breakthrough like one one of these many ones that I talk about every day on the show they're all different but one of them is going to break through and if it doubles capacity and doubles batteries that's just that's not just better stuff like if you're thinking oh I'd like to get a few extra miles on my car battery if I have electric car no we're not talking about that you'd get that too what we're talking about is a complete transformation of civiliz ation because it's what makes your your robot a good deal it's what allows you to get off the grid if you had a real cheap battery that you could put on the side of your house and collect the Sun during the day and use it at the night you might just get off the grid you might have electric airplanes so the major source of uh CO2 if you're worried about that would be removed because airlines are really really bad on that so one more leap just one more big leap in batteries I'm not talking about the 10% 20% Improvement I'm talking about the big leap and there are a bunch of them that are Brewing one more big leap changes all of air travel well travel the our entire Transportation would change it would lower costs to the point where it would make a difference in inflation it would lower inflation Transportation would be different your your your the time you spent charging would go down to minutes instead of hours it would be really transformational and uh it's definitely going to happen meanwhile Israel has declared on Tuesday that it's going to start killing the leaders of the hoodies so the hoodies in Yemen been uh shooting Rockets into Israel and prior to that they've been putting missiles at shipping shipping boats in the area so the hoodis are real bad news and they're backed by um Iran and Iran is weakened but the hoodis are still active now when Israel says we're going to take out your leaders um it just tells me we're at a strange point in history so nobody's talking about taking out Putin in a you know some kind of a decapitation strike because he's got nukes and he's got backup and whoever comes after him isn't necessarily going to be the good guy so and probably the same is true with an American president if you're Russia or China you're probably not thinking even for one second about a decapitation strike on the United States because we'd still be too strong likewise we will not think even for one second about a decapitation strike on China because it would just be destabilizing and it would just ruin everything so decapitation strikes definitely don't work you know once a country is reach is a certain status and they also don't work when your your little scrappy terrorist cells are so small that you can't even figure out where they're operating from or who's in charge so in those cases a decapitation strikes no good the one time it's good is if you happen to have massive digital Footprints everywhere so you can find stuff and the entity has not created a structure that can go up on easily without the leaders in other words the leaders are kind of key to keeping it together and that's not the case in America we TR we change out our leaders all the time so there's this one little area of History where we can find them easily because we got satellites we've got cell phones we've got AI so we can find them and we have uh missiles and drones that can hit anything from anywhere so I would say The Who are in a lot of trouble because it seems to be Israel's ability to take out the leaders of any group that's against them is now 100% operational and all the hoodie leaders are going to just start disappearing um and I think it works because they're they're leader driven organizations so good luck good hunting Israel uh I saw a article by uh Barack Ravid on X he says that uh the people in Israel and uh the US even who are negotiating for the end of the hostages uh not the end but the release um that it's unlikely that they're going to get that done before Trump takes office um I would go further and say that's not going to happen what why would Hamas suddenly become rational because Trump's going into office they're clearly not they're not afraid of dying and the and the captives give them a little bit of Leverage so why would they I can't see any reason that they would do it now I think that they'll keep the hostages and then when Trump comes in he's going to say all right you had a chance but I'll give you one more chance now that I'm actually in office you know you've got a few days I want the hostages all back and we're not negotiating for it you just give them all back now that probably won't happen and then Trump will have to figure out how to respond and I feel sorry for Gaza because if the hostages don't come back there will never be a life there and I don't think they're coming back so I think Gaza is just permanently out of business there's no such thing as you know Gaza is going to rebuild and they're all going to go live there happily I think it's just is Israel's territory and the cost of that unfortunately is going to be these hostages as long as the hostages are held yeah it's hard to criticize Israel for anything people do but I wouldn't meanwhile the New York Post is uh reporting that there's a woman who was born with two vaginas that are fully functional and even possibly capable of both of them uh getting pregnant so she has two vaginas she's a grown woman and uh she says it's it's been a very difficult dating because as soon as she tells her her date that she has two vaginas uh more often than not they get an idea hey two of them you say two of them uh I'm just going to spit ball here a little brainstorming something that I have never done before but but I've got a buddy and then she has to shut him down right away no you can stop there uh I know you have a male friend stop nope nope nope stop stop and I was thinking to myself she could never date a professional humorist such as myself I wouldn't be able to think of anything else if if you put me in that situation where I'm dating the woman with two vaginas I'm going to think of a lot of puns and they're not going to be appreciated so I'm sure she has a sense of humor but um you know there are also men this is rare but some men are born with two penises I've got two words to describe a situation of the woman with two V CH and the man with two penises soulmates soulmates is that one word or two I guess that's one word soulmates well I wish her luck um and the funniest comment I saw in this was from one of the local subscribers who said and I quote did she save one for after marriage slow clap very good all right we don't mean to make fun of this woman but she seems to be well adjusted and healthy she's perfectly healthy and uh and she's also quite ethical she discloses it um I wish the best for her I don't mean to I I don't mean to be mean uh but she's having fun with it I think yeah there there's at least some part of it that she probably thinks is fun so in that Spirit um I only have good thoughts all right ladies and gentlemen I'm going to go talk to the local subscribers privately um I don't know if there's anything I forgot about today all right ladies and gentlemen uh if you're on You.

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insight and uh you know this of course

I'm a professional

humorist so suddenly I'm wondering

about you know I'm not but I'm not a

Biblical scholar so there's some things

I don't know about but I wonder if back

in Jesus's time

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ever just said uh well I think I can

cure your leprosy boom and he'd use his

Heavenly Powers but what if somebody had

a smaller problem they're like hey I've

got this little got a little

inflammation in my back did Jesus also

use his Heavenly powers or did he say

let just have a coffee why don't you

come have a coffee with me you'll be

fine that's just something I wonder as a

professional writer all right so if you

haven't bought your Dilbert calendar

yet um you could probably still get it

around the first week of January which

is almost just as

good

um I'm I'm I I guess I should tell you

this it wouldn't be fair to tell you

this I I just

realized probably at some point in

January is if not before the the annual

Dilbert calendar the little page day

calendar that you can only buy on

dilbert.com by the way there's no other

source go to dilbert.com and see the the

link but if you were to get it the

sometime in January it's probably going

to be 10% cheaper so we haven't lowered

the price because it's just there's a a

technical uh question about just how

long that takes or if that's easy or

hard but uh probably soon if you want to

wait till next

week probably 10% cheaper but I can't

guarantee

it it would make

sense uh meanwhile um you you probably

know that I still produced Dilbert

Dilbert reborn it's called and only the

subscribers to me on X and also on the

locals platform get to see it but I

publish in both places the new one for

the day which in this case is about

Dilbert's company shutting down their

Dei

group um but then I also checked the one

that was 10 years ago cuz I put that on

a I put that on a digital calendar which

has nothing to do with the paper

calendar and today is one of those days

where both the 10 year ago comic and the

one I wrote for today are really

funny yeah sometimes I'll look at the

two of them and I'll say oh the calendar

was better than today's comic or or the

comic is better than the calendar was

which was would have been 10 years ago

uh but today they're they're both

they're both right on point so check

that

out um you may have seen a video of AA

Harris uh praising the wonders of Quanza

and how much she enjoyed celebrating as

a young person now of course everybody's

mocking her for various different things

but I'll just point out one thing if you

turn off the sound and you just look at

her she looks really high

yeah if she's not drunk or totally

inated in that video I don't know how

you'd explain her face you know I can't

even do an impression of it it's

something you would have to be on drugs

to even make that face I've never seen

anybody who wasn't on drugs Who had who

had any kind of mannerisms like that so

I think we dodged a bullet there

meanwhile over in Chicago where you

thought Chicago was totally lost the end

woke

account tells us that arrests are way up

so shoplifting and

theft may be finally not legal um so why

why is suddenly a big Improvement in

Chicago Well turns out that that Soros

funded da Kim Fox is out and there's

some new DA in and the new DEA wants to

actually make crime illegal I guess so

felony theft charges are have surged by

154% just this month after O'Neal Burke

took over

so here's my

question uh I of course am completely in

favor of you know improving the the laws

and the enforcement in in the big cities

right because it's a problem everywhere

so I'm totally in favor of this but

there's a there is a question that pops

up that I feel like we need to be

adult about and it goes like this you

probably saw a video it was kind of

viral of two young uh black women I

don't know if they were over 18 but they

were somewhere in that age range and

they were casually doing some

shoplifting at some you know box store

and they were they were captured at the

uh the exit and they were putting

handcuffs and they were acting

surprised and there was a video of them

talking to each other in the back of the

squad car where where they're saying

it's it's illegal now like they didn't

know that the law that you know that

there been a change in society and that

the the enforcement would be um

aggressive and I get that not everybody

follows the news and certainly not

everybody follows the political news so

if you're a young person did you really

know I mean seriously was there any way

you would know that the situation had

changed from there's no real risk to

you're going to

jail now here's where it gets tricky

again I'm going to tell you I'm

completely in favor of the new

enforcement so don't don't interpret

this as softening my stance completely

in favor of it but I'm going to ask you

this question just as a human stepping

outside

of just the political or the legal or

the how do you save the city those are

all important and they're more important

than what I'm going to say next but I

feel like it's

necessary those cities created an

attractive

nuisance do do you know what that means

an attractive nuisance in other words by

making it legal to shoplift they

essentially encouraged it would you

agree here's some free stuff there's no

penalty and then word gets around and

people are taking advantage of the free

stuff with no penalty yes they need to

go to jail remember I'm not arguing

against

it but does that seem fair to you now

remember I always make fun of fairness

because fairness is uh what I say was

invented so children and idiots could

have conversations with each other um

fairness isn't a real thing but

sometimes there are things that just

strike you as a human H here's what I

think I think if you pick up a

18-year-old who has no criminal record

who did not know that this was now more

criminalized it was always illegal but

it's more criminalized if they didn't

know I would blame the city for creating

an attractive Hazard the attractive

Hazard was the city itself had basically

said come steal our and so when two

18-year-old young women went to do

exactly that the rules had

changed honestly I'd let him go I'd let

him go because I would blame the City

for putting them in a situation where

they were attracted to Crime your city

should be pushing you from crime if the

city spent one minute making

crime attractive which they did for a

lot longer than a

minute I feel like there needs to be

some kind of um some kind of period

of

forgiveness so arresting them and

putting them in handcuffs and putting

them in the back of the squad car 100%

on board

100% but once they enter the legal

system I would like to hear their

lawyers say your honor this this law

only recently changed the city had

created an attractive Hazard um I think

that has to be taken into account and I

would love the judge to say ladies if

you do that again you're going straight

to

jail but your defense has a a reasonable

argument that reasonable people can

agree on

I wasn't comfortable putting them in

jail once the city had set them up I'm

not for

that but again we we have to have laws

and they have to be

enforced um apparently online there's a

debate between uh representative

krenshaw and a popular ex

personality cat turd now apparently Cat

turd's made some claims about crenchaw

and crenchaw said that claims are fake

and suggested they would sue them um

some of you are taking sides you don't

like Keno's views on war and there was

something else you mentioned um so you

didn't like some of his policies and I

get that um I would just uh note that if

you're trying to figure out who's the

bad guy in this

situation um cat turd lied about me in

public cat turd went after my reputation

with lies well or maybe just wrong I

can't tell if he was just stupid or or

wrong but I blocked him a long time ago

because he's not a good guy and he's not

smart he's entertaining he's very

entertaining but he's not a good guy

he's not smart just just make sure you

know that because he's a public figure

and it's fair to just know who you're

dealing with so I'm not going to take

sides on this because I don't know

exactly the issue but I'll tell you that

cat turd is not a good guy I I don't

consider him a good guy he's

entertaining so if you're following him

for the entertainment

sure uh Jonathan Turley is writing today

about uh big win for free speech so

there was this doctor um Dr Tara

gustillo so she won a big free speech

appell at court Victory against her

health care System where she worked so

she was removed from her position after

she criti ized black lives matter

critical race Theory and some parts of

the co

narrative just free speech she just

criticized those things and she got

fired and that was reversed now here's

here's the

payoff if I told you that there was

somebody who got fired for criticizing

black lives matter critical race Theory

and Co aren't you thinking to

yourself uh sounds like some basic white

concern

ative here here's what we know about

this Filipina American doctor so first

of all Filipina second of all she had a

Stella record she raised black children

oh wait

what if somebody who raises black

children criticizes black lives matter

and you're canceling

her

what what that's pretty that's pretty

extreme I mean I don't know how much the

each of these things figured into it but

uh and apparently she credited with

according to Jonathan Charley she's

credited with creating a program to

reflect cultural differences in birthing

practices to better serve her diverse

patients now you know I'm not the woke

guy but isn't that like a really good

piece of work changing the um the

birthing practices so they take into

account any uh cultural

differences now to me that's just good

that's all good right you know I get the

argument you don't want the country

overrun with new cultures and stuff but

if you're dealing with real human beings

and real medical situations in America

yes their their specific cultural

situation should be accounted for and

then apparently she argued that her

colleagues turned it into a program for

quote racially segregated care which was

not the

idea that's not the idea you're I mean

that's completely ruining the

idea and objected to certain Orthodoxy

over RAC essential views so Dr Tara

gtill sounds like one of the best human

beings I've ever

heard like from top to

bottom and uh she

won sometimes good people

win um Argentina

their new president

M um he announced something that

confused me so I I spread some fake news

that I quickly deleted after I found out

but uh somebody somebody summarized the

news in a way that was misleading and it

fooled me but uh said M has announced

that he's abolished over 90% of

Argentina's

taxes now I thought that that meant he

got rid of 90% of Argent

taxes but apparently getting rid of 90%

of Argentina's taxes what it really

means is sources of taxes it's not 90%

of the taxes it's 90% of the sources of

Taxation so apparently they got taxed

for just about everything they did he

thinks he can get it down to six kinds

of taxes which would be good but I'm

going to go on

record uh just so I've said

it this argen a miracle does not look

real to

me it it's it's pinging every one of my

warning flags warning warning this story

might be a little bit too

hyperbolic because it looks a little

too magically

successful the real world is way messier

than this sounds I mean you know if you

come in and you make these major

structural changes I do believe that the

kinds of changes he's making will set up

Argentina for a very bright future so I

do believe it's all good I don't believe

that it's all good so fast it's the so

fast part that I'm like really on the

other hand so we'll we'll argue both

sides of this if I were the person

transforming the country and and part of

My Success depended on people thinking I

could do that and I could do more I

probably would exaggerate My Success

early and I'd tell everybody ah it's

it's working it's working like crazy

it's so fast I'll do more of it so on

one hand I don't mind I mean it seems a

a functional bit of marketing if you say

you're doing a little bit better than

you are I just feel like if he can get

everything good without any notable

negatives that would be the first time

in history anybody did it like hey maybe

you never know

anything's possible I'm rooting for him

and I think everything he's doing makes

sense I'm just think maybe we're getting

ahead of ahead of ourselves on on the

actual produced

results just a hunch well meanwhile the

conversation about Trump wanting to buy

Canada has uh has created uh little

attention by Kevin oir he's one of the

Shark Tank stars but better known as

being one of the more successful

investors uh and he's Canadian and he

says that there's actually interest in

Canada in merging with the United States

now he just means conversationally not

in the government government is probably

100% against it but he thinks he wants

to try to sell

it so he wants to see if he can pitch it

and maybe uh broker a deal with Trump

and some kind and form some kind of what

he calls an economic

Union um so an economic Union would not

be you know merger so they'd still have

some some you know regular government I

guess but uh yeah maybe I I don't know

what he has in mind but he is a serious

person who wants what's best for both

countries and probably has a good idea

what would get us there so if Kevin o is

weighing in I feel like I feel like

Kevin o is in that category of the

pirate

ship so not only did Trump attract

people who used to be

Democrats or still are

Democrats but he also got a

Canadian he got a Canadian like like the

the Trump effect is so strong that

there's somebody you know actually I

don't know his I don't know his uh

current nationality so he I don't know

if he he's probably still a Canadian

citizen I think

yeah he's called the Canadian investor

um but I just love the fact that the the

the incoming Trump Administration seems

solid enough and capable

enough that somebody like Kevin olir

would say let me spend a bunch of time

seeing if I can get this very big thing

done that might be great for both

countries just people volunteering it's

like Doge right it's like people

volunteering to put their own lives on

hold really good lives like we're

talking about people who could just go

to the beach all day if they wanted to

and theyve decided to sacrifice for some

kind of national or double National

benefit I just appreciate it so I'm just

going to give a shout out to cavan oiry

for putting his risk Capital out there

in favor of two Nations that need a

little help

thanks well there's a new update in New

York Post of course we'll talk about the

foreign worker thing just waiting for

people to stream in so we can hit that

when we're all we're all here at the

same time um apparently the uh

intelligence spy bosses they they

silenced the defense department back

when the covid leak was still being

discussed and people were saying is it a

lab leak or is it a natural thing and

apparently the defense department had

good evidence it was a designed

designed thing in the lab and the Spy

bosses decided to take that out of the

briefing so that Biden did not

hear that it came from a

lab what would you do with a spy Chief

who was hiding the most Vital

Information from the commanderin-chief

now I don't think it's IL legal but you

should never work in that job again

anybody who's hiding the most important

information from the president while

working for the president it's got to be

fired right away I mean there that

there's no real second chance for that

kind of stuff so I don't know who it was

but uh maybe when Trump gets in there we

can get a better idea which spy Chief

silenced the truth from the

commander-in-chief on the other

hand Biden wasn't really totally

functional so and and the funniest thing

about this story is when they talk about

the Spy Chiefs and and the Pentagon and

they did all their research and they

found out things that nobody could have

ever known and then it's taken years for

them to come you know finally tell you

what they think they know and and I've

told you before but it's funny I think a

probably like maybe a week after the

covid pandemic hit that one of my

smartest friends called me and said

here's a picture on Google Google Maps

that wet La that wet Market is directly

across the street from the Wuhan lab

that creates that does exactly this kind

of work so on week one I knew for

sure did was I doubting that the that

the lab that was across the street was a

real problem as opposed to the wet

markets that have operated forever and

never had this kind of problem

exactly so pretending that anybody

didn't know on day one

or at least day seven is just kind of

funny because if I

knew I mean I knew for sure in a week I

was just waiting for the rest of the

country to catch up I thought it'd be

easy but it took years all

right um DARPA according to reclaim the

net uh DARPA has created this what they

call a theory of mind so they're using

technology and software to predict an

influence behavior

what um so apparently they think they

can predict what people do and they

claim that they'll use it against our

adversaries because if you know what

your adversaries are going to do well

you got you have an advantage now do you

think this would stay limited to use

against our

adversaries of course not because every

time the intelligence people find

something that works against their

adversaries unless it's a kinetic thing

you know like like a bomb it ends up

getting employed domestically because if

we're trying to control people in other

countries sooner or later somebody says

you know there are a few people in this

country who could use a little control

why don't we use that external thing to

control these Rogues inside the country

so of course it will come internally of

course it will now the question is do

you think it's

real do you think even if they try

really hard and the smartest people and

they use AI that they will be able to

predict people's actions in the

future well how could they if you have

free

will if you have free will there's no

way they're going to predict what you're

going to

do I'm just joking you don't have free

will so they they'll totally be able to

predict what you're going to do it's

really an information problem if they

knew enough about you they could get it

80% of the time they could probably do

populations faster they could probably

they could probably look at a

politicians message and then look at how

that'll affect the election and know

who's going to win based on the

messaging or or maybe even the

personality so there's some

things that it definitely will be able

to predict you know more so than

anything we're doing today um because

polling predicts if you do it

legitimately a lot of our polling is not

legitimate but but if he did it

legitimately like the internal polling

for the Trump campaign it told him he

was going to win it literally predicted

the future so yes uh there will be other

ways to do that too I believe that AI

will use pattern recognition to predict

the future for individuals but it won't

be able to do that until it knows enough

about those individuals which I don't

know how they'll do that maybe if they

knew everything about your social media

and everything you've ever done all

resumés and everything you've ever

written probably it could do it but it'd

have to have access to all that

information probably will have that

access well the Trump effect continues

to get things done without him actually

doing anything yet well he's doing a lot

but not specifically this so Mexico is

going to open shelters to house over

12,000 of its own citizens who might get

deported when Trump takes

over um 25 plann shelters and it's a

strategic plan to accommodate

exclusively the people who get deported

after January 20th and uh Mexico says

they're taking Trump's threats seriously

and they're preparing the facilities to

accept

now doesn't that make his job a lot

easier if Mexico has already built the

receiving

facilities it's going to be a lot more

Humane and a lot lot polit more

politically

acceptable if Mexico instead of arguing

like crazy you shouldn't send them back

is building facilities to accept them

that's the Trump

effect they're acting in a way that is

the adult way to act simply because Dad

came home like everybody started to pick

up their toys oh Dad's home I don't need

to be told I'm going to pick up all my

toys because it would be way worse if I

don't pick up my

toys so that's what's happening all

right right you probably know that

yesterday there's a big brewhaha on the

internet on

X about the issue of

issuing

um what visas or whatever the approval

is to work in the United States for

foreign workers and the debate comes

down to hey if we're America First why

would you bring in any foreign workers

but Elon Musk says uh it took him all to

clarify but he said we're really talking

about the

0.1% of the top

Engineers now those are now according to

Elon uh those are jobs which are really

really hard to fill and there tons of

openings and it wouldn't really be

possible to train some Americans to be

in the top 0 1% of Engineering in the

next few years if you have a

20-year you know buildup yes you know in

20 years we might create enough top

Engineers that we don't think about

taking anybody from another country

maybe possible but at the moment if you

want to compete in Ai and uh crypto and

uh bit uh yeah Quantum Computing and

robots those are all the things that are

going to drive economies in the future

and the people who drive them the most

are going to be the engineers in the top

01 in fact open AI only exists because

um Sam mman brought over some uh Indian

engineer who made the breakthroughs that

made AI essentially possible so even AI

wouldn't even exist if we hadn't brought

in one of those 01 engineers and he

hadn't done what he did so keep that in

mind now I waigh in and immediately it

just caused more problems than it solved

because what I didn't understand is that

people were not on the same

topic so there there are a few topics

and individually they're all important

but they all got sort of conflated and

people people were mad about things that

they were on the wrong

topic so let me tell you what my view is

and then we'll talk about the topic my

old view my old view prior to

Biden and it's it's now changed because

of Biden but my old view is that you

want to keep everybody smart so if

somebody wants to come in and they've

got a you know high education in some

valuable field or even if they just want

to be an optometrist or make money that

the country is better off every time you

bring in somebody who's going to add to

the tax base in other words pay taxes

and is not going to take much so so my

old View and again this is revised but

my old view is you take everybody who is

smart and additive now how you decide

whether somebody's smart enough and

additive uh I don't think we have a good

system for that so my desires are not

supported by any kind of good

system after B after Biden opened the

border and magga became the the dominant

majority opinion in the country they

were very very very clear about limiting

immigration under that

environment it probably makes sense to

not allow in the country people who

would be

additive do you get

that so under the

current cultural political situation I

think it would just disturb too many

people to bring in people who even would

add to the country even you're sure of

it they would would add so at the moment

I'm opposed because Biden Biden

essentially ruined the atmosphere for

immigrants he ruined it by by making it

just everybody come on then all the

nuances just drained out of it and we

probably have to work pretty hard to you

know correct things but the argument

does not apply to the 01 engineer so let

me say this as um

completely this is the most firm

confident opinion I'll ever get you you

cannot have enough 01 top Engineers

because Engineers are not like

optometrists and doctors and lawyers the

0.01 engineer is developing the

future like the very civilization

changing work you want all of those and

we don't have anywhere near enough not

even close

you know as Elon Musk reminds us now a

lot of people argue that Elon Musk

doesn't understand the topic of hiring

top

Engineers to which if I may do a face

plant so I spent some of my time

explaining that Elon Musk probably knows

a little bit about hiring top

Engineers I I don't think I need to

develop my argument on that too hard

but there was a

um so so that's the first thing so it's

unambiguously good for the country to

bring in the top top

engineers and anybody would argue that

that would be stupid honestly I wouldn't

even listen to the argument on the other

side it would just be stupid because

you're not talking about changing the

culture of the United States you're

talking about people who almost always

already speak English better than you do

and are the top top top top top top

students that's it's a completely

different situation than bringing in

Uber

drivers I'm not in favor of that at the

moment at the moment now I think you can

say all those things while still saying

that immigrants are the you know the the

reason the country is strong and Etc

that's all true it's just that Biden

ruined the atmosphere for bringing in

immigrants even the ones who could add

he just ruined

it we might be able to get back to that

but not until Trump gets things under

control

so um that's where I'm at now

secondly um that the argument that I

just gave you is a conceptual argument

wouldn't it be nice to have only these

people and at the moment it would be

impractical really to just open it up to

everybody but second to that that's sort

of the goal or where you'd like to end

up um is that the systems we have for

deciding who comes in are completely

corrupted so some people were getting

really mad that they thought I didn't

understand that our current systems are

not picking just the best of the best

they're pretty much abused by big

companies just to get cheap labor

everybody on board with that our current

systems all of them 100% of our current

systems are so gameable that big

companies are using them not in the way

that you want them to be used now there

is a question about what would happen to

your inflation if they hired more

expensive labor from the

US so if you're willing to pay for more

inflation then you would also be in

favor of them not having these programs

that let them game the system to bring

in cheap

labor

um so can we all agree on the following

statement of assumptions our current

systems are wholly

inadequate to getting what you want as a

citizen of the United States they do

seem to work in the favor of quite a

number of Corporations and the

corporations are the ones who argue for

keeping the current completely broken

and corrupt system because it works for

them it just doesn't work for you know

workers for example American workers so

I think we can all agree on the fact

that the current system is

broken now what is what is Trump's take

on this I actually don't

know which is the weirdest thing about

this conversation I don't know where

Trump's at at one point he was at where

I was at one point he agreed with my old

view that as long as they're additive

yes yes everybody additive everybody

additive so that used to be his view as

well but after he's watched this whole

brewhaha and after you know Biden let in

everybody

I feel like he may have he may have uh

adjusted his own views but I haven't

seen it yet so that's the most

fascinating thing about the story is

that is that the Bas was having this

heated argument yesterday all over

social media of course Trump was

watching of course he was and it's

helping him I'm sure helping him you

know come up with his statement on on

the the thing but there are a number of

uh things that come up

uh number

one um oh the the other thing that we

can agree on is that big companies like

Google and apple have the resources to

put people in another country and really

really vet the top

Engineers but that's not going to work

for a small

company um somebody somebody said my

opinions were invalid because I never

tried to hire foreign

Engineers well I've actually tried

hiring uh India based program

programmers at least twice for side

projects I was doing and it's a

nightmare if you're not Google and apple

and you want to get somebody who can do

a good job so you find somebody in India

who says oh yeah just tell us what you

want we'll give you a price we'll assign

some programmers and we'll write that

code for you absolutely none of that

worked because I talked to somebody

smart who would make the sale but then

they would assign it to somebody who was

completely incompetent

so nobody could perform anything I I

didn't get anything I paid money and got

nothing twice so hiring hiring employees

to work from the other country if you

were thinking about it I wouldn't do it

everything I saw says it doesn't work if

they're not in the same room with you

don't do a tech project not at

all so certainly that's part part of

something needs to be fixed

um so I I was listening to

uh Theo Wald who was the former deputy

assistant to Trump in the first

Administration and he was in charge of

uh drafting the legislation to create a

new legal immigration framework so he

the one who said that when he looked at

all the various and there quite a few of

them the various Pathways that foreign

workers can get into the United States

that they're all corrupt

so yesterday I was seeing some people

saying well you're talking about this

H1B visa thing yeah that's bad but

there's this other thing to get the

Geniuses that's not so bad well in the

real world according to Theo Wald the

guy who was in charge of making it all

work he said no they're all corrupt so

you should assume 100% of our foreign

worker acquisition is totally broken and

has to be fixed um that was the best

context I've

seen so when I talk about this topic I

talk about what we want to

achieve usually I talk about systems you

know I always say systems are better

than goals but there sometimes it's

obvious what you want to

achieve we we want American workers to

have jobs that are good jobs and blah

blah blah so U but this uh brought up a

a

really troubling thing so V ramaswami

weighed into the debate he said one of

the reasons that maybe uh foreign

workers are being favored by tech

companies is that there's a cultural

difference and he described the cultural

difference as some of the Asian and

Indian companies or countries but their

families he described would put a focus

on educational attainment and you know

professional success whereas in America

you might have far less of it now that

caused all the dumb people to assume

that his generality was referring to

every family in both

countries so if you fell into that trap

and you said wait a minute that's not

true I know this one American family

that does everything right or if you

said wait a minute I've seen pictures of

India and it's people living in garbage

piles why do I want the people living in

garbage piles to teach me how to have a

better culture I don't want to live in a

garbage pile now those are

ridiculous those are ridiculous comments

because he's using a

generality is it a useful generality

that the Indian and Asian employees that

are at least the topic of conversation

the ones who have technical skills is it

true that they probably had a lot of

family support probably are they the

majority of indan

I don't know but probably

not but they're the only ones we care

about because they're the ones who are

getting technical skills and they may or

may not come to the United States that's

the population we're talking about they

definitely have the tiger moms most of

them but again we're not talking about

the exceptions so here's how people took

it they said uh V first of all a number

of people didn't think V was an American

citizen may I may I give myself another

face palm this is to the people who

argued with me that he's not an American

citizen okay I just had to do

that born in this country risking his

life to fix the Doge thing he's

risking his life Elon Musk risking his

life not hyperbole not hyperbole death

threats death threats death threats

they're risking their lives for

your benefit do you think that they're

doing it to make extra money well they

might I mean that they might make extra

money but clearly that's not the main

incentive V is more American I I said

this to somebody I said he's more

American than you are he he's more

supportive of the American Experience

the the American you know what whatever

makes us good people he's he probably

knows more about American history than

just about any one of you

you can't get more American than the

that's like Peak

American and and people got on me for

defending because I I got pretty

aggressive yesterday on social media for

def defending V's take about our

cultures and also elon's take about

needing engineers and people said to me

um you know are are you just making

money is it because Elon pays you pays

me

I mean obviously you know I'm monetized

on X but you think that's why I'm doing

it you think you think I'm supporting

the idea of bringing the top 1%

Engineers because I get paid on

X that was literally the last thing I

was even in my mind never never once did

that even occur to me here's what

occurred to

me when I watch Elon and V do take on

the hard

most thankless job that America has ever

produced short of War which is to take

on trimming the government that's

patriotism at a level that I I can't

even conceive I mean it's beyond

me given

that and given you know my current age

I've I've kind of done what I need to do

I would take a bullet for either one of

them actually l Al take a bullet because

the two of them are doing the only thing

that can save our country if we can't

get the debt under control we're all

dead we're all

dead and there are only two people who

happen to be extraordinarily brilliant

incredibly Brave capable beyond anything

that you and I can really understand and

are taking on the hardest job in the

world for you if you're American for you

and also for me I would take a bullet to

keep them in that

job like actually I'd take a bullet like

if you said to me you know you're going

to have to die but you'll save one of

those two people I would take the bullet

like actually literally that's not a

joke so if you see me defending them

aggressively on social media I would

take a bullet for them because they

would take a bullet for

me right

they're doing it right in front of you I

don't have to guess if they would take a

bullet because they put themselves in a

position where the the odds of danger

and death threats is through the roof so

if they would do that for me I would do

it for them and same with

Trump how did you feel when Trump took a

bullet for

you

right that's different if somebody takes

a bullet for you and Trump did

that that's a you you get bonded to them

and and you

should so

um that uh so a lot of people were on

that so let me let me say this so some

people interpreted VI as this uh Indian

guy uh who was criticizing white

American culture in the United States

and a lot of people thought it was kind

of a put down kind of an insult to

American culture

to which I said what are you talking

about an insult to American

culture what American culture are you

talking about the American culture that

I live in has free speech and we have a

superpower our culture American culture

has a superpower and it looks like this

when we

fail and we get

ashamed we learn things get stronger we

eat that shame we eat that failure and

then we go and

win in other countries and in other

cultures they do not criticize their

culture and if they

fail well they don't want to fail so

they don't do a startup they just take a

job where they're less likely to

fail so when you say that V is somehow

insulting

America by saying that the culture needs

a a tweak needs an

upgrade that's the most American thing

you can do criticizing how an American

system and culture is basically a system

criticizing an American System even down

to the family level if it's necessary

that's what we

do you can't get more American than that

we criticize ourselves in public because

we have the gift of free speech

is and and um if something needs to be

fixed and you're going to get a big

blowback for saying it we'll still say

it uh I said what I needed to say at the

risk of getting cancelled very American

right you you could disagree with

everything I said or did that's fine but

would you agree that me saying what I

thought I needed to say at the moment

and I had good intentions that's a

longer story but and then getting

cancelled for it failing basically that

would be a failure my ire career wiped

out you watched me you watch what

happened when I got canceled

right I just recovered got stronger I

got a million followers on X it it

basically supercharged me so that was a

failure it was a shame I I you I didn't

feel any shame but you could imagine

that it would be accompanied usually um

and so I just took that failure I ate it

for breakfast I used it for energy and I

went on and and in some ways

accomplished more than I would have

accomplished if I had not been cancelled

because it you know creates a lot of

attention so yes the uh you can

criticize any American system from

culture to finance to government that's

what I want I want our smartest people

telling us where we should focus even if

he's wrong something sometimes right

we're we're not looking for Perfection

so um yes I'm defending V aggressively

now this brought up a number of

comments because people were the the

other the hidden topic within this

foreign employee stuff is a number of

people kept saying but Scott don't you

understand uh I'm a trained engineer and

I can't get a

job what do I say to somebody who says

that on social media don't know them

they say I'm a trained engineer

experienced and I can't get a job I say

what color are you you're white right so

mixed in with this whole foreign foreign

worker thing is the fact that there's

been massive systemic racism against

white men for what um sequa parner um

Sean Maguire thinks may have been going

on for the past 10 years

here's what he said he said I was told I

can't be promoted for being a white man

explicitly at

Google and then he he suggested that

that's been going on for at least 10

years do you know when I got that talk

the first time I got the talk I can't

promote you because you're a white

male the

80s 37 years ago for 37 years

this has been the way everything in

Corporate America worked no we're not

going to promote you for a white man

prudent thinker onx says I've had the

same experience elsewhere in big Tech

also been told we want less people who

look like you because it messes up our

Dei commitment also been told whatever

you do do not hire a white

man um this is a white man also been

told everyone is invited except you we

want to put out the image of diversity

um and and I've even been plagiarized by

the Dei hire later to learn I was hired

for that very

purpose oh no and then deplorable

garbage um that's the name of his

account was told the same thing by a big

law firm and notes if an entity like

that a big law firm uh isn't afraid to

openly do it discriminate against race

he says it's

everywhere um Russell says at an Intel

Corporation we restricted hiring white

males unless approved senior VP level

and that was more than 10 years ago

imagine what it's like now no this has

been 37 years at least that's

when it hit me it may may have been

earlier in California where I was

so why didn't people know

this it's because white guys just suck

it up and get to

work that's it white guys are will

complain privately will complain to our

family complain to our spouse but we're

not necessarily organizing a

protest we just say all right I'm not

going to work there I'll go work

somewhere else so that's why you don't

know also I found out 30 years ago that

if I mentioned in public that I was

being discriminated against for being

white what did people call

me a white racist

liar so they already decided I'm a white

racist just cuz I'm white and then I say

I was unable to be promoted in two

corporations in a row because they told

me I'm white and male and I can't

promote you and and I say that and they

say oh well you're lying oh great so if

I tell you the truth I'm a white racist

and now also a

liar 30 years over three decades almost

four decades white men had to keep this

secret because if you said it out loud

you were a

liar and that's a real thing that

happened in the United States for

decades still

happening um all

right um then somebody weighed in

thinking they would add some nuance and

said uh no it's cuz somebody else

labeled it as an anti-white bias

which it is and then a commenter said

well you know technically is it an

anti-white bias um it might have also

been anti-

Asian-American because I'm sure they

discriminated against

Asians I need one more face plant can I

give it to

you in colleges they definitely

discriminated against Asians true

in

corporations they hired the Asians not

the white

guy if you if you had lots of diversity

of asian-americans it was considered

like the uh what's the good analogy like

the methadone for the heroin or

something they wanted heroin which would

be black women lesbian employees you

know that would be like oh home run but

if they couldn't get that they

definitely wanted as many asian-looking

people to put on to put on the you know

the company picture so no I've never

once I've never even heard of it have

you is there anybody in the comments

who's ever even heard of an

Asian-American being turned down at Big

Corporation because that wasn't diverse

enough I've never heard of it now if it

turned out the asian-americans have been

keeping this secret for 40

years like white Americans

you know I guess I'd have to say I

shouldn't be surprised so it could be it

could be true but I've never seen it or

heard of it never

once well then wired wired publication

uh this was the they say it's the year

of the influencer political

takeover so uh of course A lot of people

are writing about how the podcasters and

the online influencers are now the

important thing and the mainstream news

and the New York Times Are unimportant

Etc but here's what I think about that

conversation I I I think this is sort of

putting the dilber filter on it when all

these smart people the

Democrats say that uh they finally

understand that what they needed to do

better was take advantage of the

influencer

podcasting ecosystem and that the the

Republicans really had that nailed down

you know they really had a good good

ecosystem for that so so that maybe is

why they

lost so do you think that's why they

[Laughter]

lost to watching Democrats not

understand anything it never gets less

entertaining it is true that Trump did a

much better job with the podcaster

influencer situation that's true but the

reason they lost is that they did

everything wrong they had the worst

candidate running against the worst

candidate the best candidate of all

time they had no policies that were in

the top three of the American

public they they wasted $1.5 billion on

God knows what probably half of it was

stolen you could just you could make a

list of all the things you should do

right and the only things they did well

were the ones that don't matter to the

election the ground game

said they always tease Trump for not

having a ground game but never ask

themselves the Elon Musk question which

is do we need a ground game and the

answer is probably not in in the current

age there there was a time when the

ground game was everything but probably

not now you know people learn online

they don't need the ground

game um but here's my dilbur filter take

on it the the fact that the Democrat

think the podcaster world is just where

they need to go

um I

think that the Democrat um let's say the

the people who would be helping with

campaigns in the future if you are going

to work on a campaign which thing would

you rather do uh organize a door-

knocking

thing or do another boring interview

print interview with the New York Times

or uh interact with some of the coolest

hottest podcasters and influencers in

the

world which way do you want to spend

your day do you want to spend your day

talking

to famous sexy young like people killing

it so that you can take a picture and

show it to your kid it's the easiest job

in the world because you get to sit in

the studio and maybe watch the podcast

and that's your job for that

day I've got a feeling that the

Democrats are moving toward this whole

we've got to have more podcasting and

influencers because that's

fun and then they justify it as like oh

this is the big problem got to fix this

podcasting situation there's no way we

can be competitive until we have a Joe

Rogan of our

own I don't know so there there's

something true about it which is they

probably need to be better in in that

domain but but there's also something

that

screams we would rather do things that

are pleasurable than things that are

hard and I don't think that's a Winner's

attitude we'd rather do things that are

pleasurable than hard that might be

their entire

problem

anyway

um I and I also think it's funny harking

back to the prior conversation that they

canceled me at exact the time when I was

the most dangerous because the

podcasting world was starting to

dominate again dumbest mistake they

could have made they they should have

said Scott we'd like you to spend all of

your time on cartooning so why don't we

give you a big contract to write a twice

as many cont cartoons if they had done

that they could have bought me out of

the race well I don't know but it would

have been worth the shot if they offered

enough um

anyway according to study finds

scientists figured out how to transform

red blood cells into Precision cancer

fighting

drones

um and I guess I guess they can tweak it

as your cancer morphs into a different

form they can tweak it again so it it

gets at it again so this is actually

pretty

exciting um they've got some kind of Mo

molecule that'll stick to parts of the

RNA and then regular activities so the

reason that this is important is if it

feels less

destructive meaning if you if you do

something that's just put some

destruction on your body but you hope

the the cancer cells die faster than

your healthy cells you know like

chemo yeah you're just hoping that your

healthy cells survive but they're going

to get

whacked um and the so this is the second

anti-cancer possibility which doesn't

seem to have that mechanism which it

attacks your your healthy stuff don't

know if it'll work

yet but I

love I I love all the new news about

it now there's an article in the hill in

opinion piece by Evan Davis and David

Schult and they say Congress has the

power to block Trump from taking office

but lawmakers must act now so the idea

is according to them the Constitution

provides that any oath-breaking

insurrectionist can't run for office and

then they gave their evidence for how

Trump is an oath breing insurrectionist

of course all their evidence was

completely debunked and laughed at by

people like Jeff Clark uh also an

attorney who got in trouble for that

January 6 stuff for doing basically

nothing nothing that anybody should have

ever gotten in trouble for that's

another

story but

um so apparently I didn't know this but

apparently if they try to make this move

to not allow Trump to take office it

would take a 2third vote did I have that

right 2third vote of the in each house

so in both uh Senate and the house uh

two-thirds vote now I don't think

there's would you agree there's not a

chance in the world that two-thirds of

the people are going to vote to not put

Trump in office right so there's not any

practical way this is going to happen as

far as I can tell but um I kind of want

them to to

try don't you don't you want them to

try because the the Democrat Party is is

on life

support if they try to keep Trump out of

office with some weird

lawfare somebody's going to yank the

life support out of whatever's left of

the Democratic Party that would be the

end that would just be the end

now I know you want me to say oh if that

happened there would be an armed an

armed uh Revolution no there

won't against who what are you going to

do shoot your neighbor because some

politicians did something you're not

going to shoot your neighbor we like the

neighbor

so um I would just say

this um I just wish they I kind of hope

they do it I I hope they take their

strongest play to try to keep them out

of office they will fail um but this is

the ultimate you know F around and find

out situation I'd really love him to

find out not with violence no violence

please but no violence would be

necessary because we would just look at

the situation and say nope nope now

speaking of violence which I do not

recommend but you can state facts about

violence right so that's fair you can

say somebody did some violence there's a

risk of some violence but I don't

recommend it don't do any

violence however can you imagine the

security situation for anybody who voted

to keep Trump out of office at this

point if in Congress they voted to to

use this Insurrection thing to keep them

can you imagine what that would do to

their security situation again please

don't do any violence but we live in a

country where people wouldn't take this

sitting down and and anybody who voted

to keep Trump out of office for this

Insurrection

I would recommend you look at

your budget because if you don't have a

budget for increasing

security I wouldn't vote this way now I

wouldn't say that about many things I

can't even think of one other thing I

would ever ever said that about

but the people Vote for This are really

going to put themselves in a physical

Jeopardy don't do anything to them don't

don't don't we want peace we don't want

to be that kind of country but the

reality is we live in a dangerous

country full of guns and people have the

guns for that

reason they have the guns for this

reason don't use them for this reason

this isn't good enough reason but that's

why they have them so if they think that

it would be safe to to vote that they're

not going to put the winner of the

popular vote into

office just think about your budget just

think about

it well Russia is open to conversation

about Ukraine but uh they say Trump has

to go first he has to make the first

move to improve ties according to

Breitbart Simon

Kent

and um what would the first move be so

let's talk about that if if Russia says

yeah we're open but you got to make the

first move all right here's the wrong

answer the first move should not be a

peace

proposal um by the way lavro um so he's

he's the uh he's the

Russian what would you call him he's the

main guy who talks to the United States

um about foreign policy and stuff like

that so

lavro

um says

uh lro says that um that a truce is a

path to nowhere so a ceas fire doesn't

have any interest for Russia Russia is

saying we're looking for a big deal you

know something enduring something

comprehensive we're not looking for

let's stop shooting on Tuesday is he

right about that yes yes yeah lavro is

completely right having a ceasefire

would save lives but beyond that it

would wouldn't it wouldn't hasten the

end of the war I don't think so what

would Trump do he can't say listen to a

ceasefire I agree Russia is correct on

that uh but here's what he's being set

up

for negotiating with himself have you

ever heard that term in the negotiating

world there's a thing that's considered

a classic error and the error is to

negotiate against yourself and the way

that looks is you is you say first

all right here's the deal I'll do this

if you do that and then the other side

says

no and then you go back and here's the

error and you come back with a new offer

and they haven't made an offer if you do

that it's called negotiating against

yourself and you've been tricked into

making the first offer and then

responding to them making a new offer

and you've already talked to yourself

down they haven't even made an offer and

you talked to yourself down

so that's considered a classic

mistake um I learned that when I was

negotiating with Disney years ago there

was an idea of making a Dilbert Disney

animated

movie uh and we made an offer to Disney

and Disney said no that's not good

enough come back with another offer and

the head of my syndication company said

um how about we're done now and we'll

never work with you again

that that's how it ended and I

completely supported it yeah you don't

negotiate with yourself period And by

the way he told them we're not going to

negotiate with ourselves if you've got

an offer we'll look at it so they knew

why but they didn't want to make an

offer so we said well maybe we'll make

an offer with somebody who knows how

negotiation works now I maybe it works

for Disney maybe sometimes they get

somebody dumb enough to do that but but

thank goodness you know the professional

I was working with knows how this works

and he just closed them down so nope

don't negotiate it with ourselves we'll

take this somewhere else and that's why

there's no Dilbert movie no we did take

it somewhere else but you know things

didn't work out in other places

either anyway um so he shouldn't make an

offer but he has to do

something so what would what would it

look like if Trump did something

first but it wasn't an offer for a peace

deal what would that look

like I don't know but Trump is the best

at this suppose Trump said how about

let's have a

summit would that be an offer kind of

kind of and an offer to do a summit with

you know himself and Putin I would feel

like that would be going

first but without making the offer so I

think there's there's room to play I

think there's room to play and when

Russia says you have to go first what

they're doing is trying

to dominate

Trump because they're trying to say all

right we made you do the first

thing like why does Trump have to go

first why does he have to go first they

both want peace so if lavro can sort of

manipulate Trump into going

first then he is sort of won the first

round Trump will know that because

unlike ordinary politic Ians Trump knows

how this works he's done this before so

he's not going to he's not going to fall

for the UF to go first unless it looks

like something that would be ordinary to

do now a summit at least with Trump

would be an ordinary thing to do so I

think that would not look like going

first but would still be close enough to

to get things done so we'll

see there's a giant breakthrough coming

in e batter is are you surprised I tell

you one of these stories every day the

reason I do it is to help you predict

the

future and here's the future if this new

leap let's see it's according to the

mark mayard in the Pasadena Star News um

the new breakthrough just uses a new new

kind of material and it uh uses 10 times

less anode material which is a big deal

uh and uh might cut the cost someday of

the battery by a huge amount did you

know that the cost of the battery in an

electric car um could be up to 40% of

the cost of the

car and that this is a battery that

works in the lab and if it worked in uh

the real world would cut that cost by

about

half so 40% of your car cut by half just

because the battery so we're we're at

the

point where we're probably one more big

battery breakthrough like one one of

these many ones that I talk about every

day on the show they're all different

but one of them is going to break

through and if it doubles capacity and

doubles batteries that's just that's not

just better stuff like if you're

thinking oh I'd like to get a few extra

miles on my car battery if I have

electric car no we're not talking about

that you'd get that too what we're

talking about is a complete

transformation of civiliz

ation because it's what makes your your

robot a good

deal it's what allows you to get off the

grid if you had a real cheap battery

that you could put on the side of your

house and collect the Sun during the day

and use it at the night you might just

get off the grid you might have electric

airplanes so the major source of uh CO2

if you're worried about that would be

removed because airlines are really

really bad on that so

one more leap just one more big leap in

batteries I'm not talking about the 10%

20% Improvement I'm talking about the

big leap and there are a bunch of them

that are Brewing one more big leap

changes all of air travel well travel

the our entire Transportation would

change it would lower costs to the point

where it would make a difference in

inflation it would lower

inflation Transportation would be

different your your your the time you

spent charging would go down to minutes

instead of hours it would be really

transformational and uh it's definitely

going to happen meanwhile Israel has

declared on Tuesday that it's going to

start killing the leaders of the

hoodies so the hoodies in Yemen been uh

shooting Rockets into Israel and prior

to that they've been putting missiles at

shipping shipping boats in the area so

the hoodis are real bad news and they're

backed by um Iran and Iran is weakened

but the hoodis are still active now when

Israel says we're going to take out your

leaders

um it just tells me we're at a strange

point in

history so nobody's talking about taking

out Putin in a you know some kind of a

decapitation strike because he's got

nukes and he's got backup and whoever

comes after him isn't necessarily going

to be the good guy so

and probably the same is true with an

American president if you're Russia or

China you're probably not thinking even

for one second about a decapitation

strike on the United States because we'd

still be too strong likewise we will not

think even for one second about a

decapitation strike on China because it

would just be destabilizing and it would

just ruin everything so decapitation

strikes definitely don't work you know

once a country is reach is a certain

status and they also don't work when

your your little scrappy terrorist cells

are so small that you can't even figure

out where they're operating from or

who's in charge so in those cases a

decapitation strikes no good the one

time it's good is if you happen to have

massive digital Footprints everywhere so

you can find stuff and the entity has

not created a structure that can go up

on easily without the leaders in other

words the leaders are kind of key to

keeping it together and that's not the

case in America we TR we change out our

leaders all the

time so there's this one little area of

History where we can find them easily

because we got satellites we've got cell

phones we've got AI so we can find them

and we have uh missiles and drones that

can hit anything from

anywhere so I would say The Who are in a

lot of

trouble because it seems to be Israel's

ability to take out the leaders of any

group that's against them is now 100%

operational and all the hoodie leaders

are going to just start

disappearing um and I think it works

because they're they're leader driven

organizations so good luck good hunting

Israel uh I saw a article by uh Barack

Ravid on X he says that uh the people in

Israel and uh the US even who are

negotiating for the end of the

hostages uh not the end but the release

um that it's unlikely that they're going

to get that done before Trump takes

office um I would go further and say

that's not going to happen what why

would Hamas suddenly become rational

because Trump's going into office

they're clearly not they're not afraid

of

dying and the and the captives give them

a little bit of Leverage so why would

they I can't see any reason that they

would do it now I think that they'll

keep the hostages and then when Trump

comes in he's going to say all right you

had a chance but I'll give you one more

chance now that I'm actually in office

you know you've got a few days I want

the hostages all back and we're not

negotiating for it you just give them

all back now that probably won't happen

and then Trump will have to figure out

how to respond and I feel sorry for

Gaza because if the hostages don't come

back there will never be a life there

and I don't think they're coming back so

I think Gaza is just

permanently out of business there's no

such thing as you know Gaza is going to

rebuild and they're all going to go live

there happily I think it's just is

Israel's territory and the cost of that

unfortunately is going to be these

hostages as long as the hostages are

held yeah it's hard to criticize Israel

for

anything people do but I wouldn't

meanwhile the New York Post is uh

reporting that there's a woman who was

born with two

vaginas that are fully functional and

even possibly capable of both of them uh

getting pregnant so she has two vaginas

she's a grown woman and uh she says it's

it's been a very difficult dating

because as soon as she tells her her

date that she has two vaginas uh more

often than

not they get an

idea hey two of them you say two of

them uh I'm just going to spit ball here

a little

brainstorming something that I have

never done before but

but I've got a

buddy and then she has to shut him down

right away no you can stop there uh I

know you have a male friend stop nope

nope nope stop

stop and I was thinking to

myself she could never date a

professional humorist such as

myself I wouldn't be able to think of

anything

else if if you put me in that situation

where I'm dating the woman with two

vaginas I'm going

to think of a lot of

puns and they're not going to be

appreciated so I'm sure she has a sense

of humor but um you know there are also

men this is rare but some men are born

with two

penises I've got two words to describe a

situation of the woman with two V CH and

the man with two

penises soulmates soulmates is that one

word or two I guess that's one word

soulmates well I wish her

luck um and the funniest comment I saw

in this was from one of the local

subscribers who said and I quote did she

save one for after

marriage slow clap

[Applause]

very good all right we don't mean to

make fun of this woman but she seems to

be well adjusted and healthy she's

perfectly healthy and uh and she's

also quite ethical she discloses it um I

wish the best for her I don't mean to I

I don't mean to be mean uh but she's

having fun with it I think yeah there

there's at least some part of it that

she probably thinks is fun

so in that

Spirit um I only have good thoughts all

right ladies and gentlemen I'm going to

go talk to the local subscribers

privately um I don't know if there's

anything I forgot about

today all right ladies and

gentlemen uh if you're on YouTube or X

or Rumble I will see you tomorrow locals

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