Episode 2718 CWSA 01/12/25
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Well, there are stories. Remember that big problem with the sea ice that climate change was going to take care of? All the sea ice, and then we'd have problems, wouldn't we? Well, according to the Daily Skeptic's Chris Morrison, there's been a massive recovery in Antarctic sea ice. And even the officially U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Center confirms that it's sort of back into its normal zone, proving that the variation was probably just natural variation. So the sea ice melting doesn't seem to be any indication of climate change, but it was predicted.
And then of course you've heard about the coral reefs. The coral reefs were being destroyed by climate change, except I don't know if you missed the stories where it seems like they're all coming back. But the climate change is worse. How are they coming back? Oh, maybe there's some natural variation. How about that?
Sea level. Remember all those beach houses that used to be good but now the water rose and now you can't live there? Neither do I. So climate change didn't predict sea level, coral reefs, sea ice. Oh, but it did predict temperature. So I mean that's true, right? It did predict the temperature, didn't it? Or is it possible that we're measuring that wrong too?
Of course we're measuring it wrong. The temperature might be going up. I wouldn't know. But there's no way we can know. We don't have any kind of reliable mechanism for measuring the temperature of the entire planet over time. That is so far from being a thing that humans could do. But the news tells you they can do it, so you should believe it because it's on the news.
Well, the Trump effect has reached Chicago because a couple of the aldermen — I think it's funny that Chicago has aldermen. Is there any other city that has aldermen? Is that just a Chicago word? I got the aldermen. Florida has elderly men, so I don't know what an alderman is, but some kind of politician. And they're in the legislature and they're introducing legislation that would roll back the city's sanctuary law. So that's where the city would not cooperate with ICE and help them deport people. But at least two of them want to roll it back. Now this is according to Daily Caller News. Jason Hopkins is writing about it.
And what is interesting about this story — I mean there's always somebody who wants to roll back everything, right? They're both Democrats. Two Democrat aldermen. Democrats are trying to roll back their own sanctuary city. Is that the Trump effect? What else would it be? Of course it's the Trump effect.
Here, the Trump effect, if you're looking for a definition, and I think we need one. The Trump effect is not just the good things that are happening that Trump supporters would like, although that's certainly on the surface what's happening. What it is is that the Trump effect made it safe. It made it safe for people to pursue common sense. Because I think Trump actually sold the idea that common sense is where the two parties meet in the middle. We're not going to meet on some philosophical level, but we should always meet on how do you stop a fire. We should always meet on should we close the border. We should always meet on should crime be illegal. These are not political things.
And it took the Trump effect to take the crazy left end of their bubble and say, what about the things that are just common sense like safety? Can we just work on that?
Now of course climate change hangs over everything because the climate change crisis believers — and again I'm only talking about the extent of it, not whether or not it's happening. I assume climate's always changed for one reason or another, and maybe humans are part of it. I wouldn't know, and I'm pretty sure science doesn't know either even though they told you they did. I'm pretty sure they tell you a lot of things that you think they know that they don't.
Well, special counsel Jack Smith resigned from the Department of Justice. That would be the smallest surprise in the world. Do you think he expects to be investigated? Because it feels like at least he's been accused of being some part of some kind of potentially RICO-like bad behavior to lawfare Trump. You know, I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I think it would be damaging to the country to rip the Democrat evil RICO people up by the roots, even though they've in my opinion I would say it's fairly obvious that major laws have been broken. But I'm not an expert, so I mean I could be talked out of it. If the real experts say well no, no laws were broken, it was just something you didn't like, maybe. Sure, it looks like laws were broken to me, but if the people who know more than I do say laws were broken and they want to investigate, I think I would take the risk of that destroying the country because keeping it the way it is would destroy the country for sure.
So you know, having a not physical Civil War but let's say a lawfare civil war is probably necessary to regain mutually assured destruction and make sure that people know that if they cross the line and create literally a RICO treasonous insurrection within the government, that's got to have a price. That has to be expensive. So if the Trump administration makes it additionally expensive for people involved in that bad behavior, maybe that's just the way it has to be.
I saw a social media thing that said Oprah is going to leave the country for four years because of Trump, but I can't believe that's true. Can anybody give me a fact check on that? This sounds like fake news. I don't think Oprah would really leave the country for four years. Now if it's true, the only reason I could think is that she's trying to escape criminal prosecution for something. And if she went to a no-extradition country that would sort of confirm it. But I'm going to say fake news. I'm going to say fake news. What do you think? Anybody think that's true? I'm going to go with fake news unless I hear a lot more about it. All right, well we'll see. Now it's also something that she might be threatening and might actually mean it, but I'm going to bet against it happening. But we'll see. I'll bet against it.
Meanwhile Stephen A. Smith was on a podcast talking about Trump. Now he's of course been a Democrat and he's a Black man in America and he's really interesting lately. So he's saying that Republicans make a lot of sense. Just think about that sentence. A longtime Democrat, and then he says quote, "Republicans make a lot of sense." Common sense. This is Stephen A. Smith completely falling into the Trump frame that some things are just common sense. We shouldn't be talking about that. Stephen A. Smith says yes, common sense.
So remember when we thought it was impossible to meet in the middle on anything? As soon as the Trump effect went into wide effect, it seems like people like Stephen A. Smith can now say what they wanted to say maybe all the time, which is you know I like my Democrats. I still kind of like some of the philosophy. But why are we acting like common sense doesn't even exist? Like why can't we at least do the things that make sense that everybody agrees on? Now that weirdly just wasn't a way of thinking even a year ago, but now it is. That's all Trump. That's all Trump.
Here's what else he says. Stephen A. Smith said quote, "The finishing touch for me in terms of changing his mind on politics was California." Well here it is. Because I think he's the canary in the coal mine. If he tells you that the California experience before the fire — this is before the fire — if he tells you that looking at California made him think that the Democrats were not the ones to back, just think about the fact that he could see it before the fire and he was affected by it. I don't think it changed his vote, but now it might.
And he said about California, you see what's going on in California: higher taxes, homelessness, crime rate, etc. When people are going off, particularly folks on the left, and they're talking about these policies and what policy is better, blah blah blah, I see folks on the right talking about real life issues and stuff like that. And he says, I'm like, I hate that they make a lot of sense.
Now does that sound like exactly something that came out of my mouth? It does. It sounds like exactly something I would say. The Democrats have lots of lofty conceptual ideas and they're going to call you names if you don't like it. Republicans have been really clean about talking about what's wrong and how to fix it. The border open, too many criminals, close it. Everybody understands that. Everybody understands that.
And here again I'm going to credit Trump for something that's not obvious to you. When Trump says what he wants, everybody understands it. And then he says it a bunch of times until we all get it. And then we can like it or not like it, but it's a real proposed solution and we can evaluate it and we all understand it. That's sort of new. Because my memory of past traditional boring politicians is that they would say general hypothetical philosophical things too, and you could barely remember which one was backing what policy. But now it's such a clean distinction. One says do obvious common sense things. The other says well the 1% not paying their fair share, you got my DEI, and what about the lesbian purposes? You know, now you can mock that even if you're a Democrat. So even Democrats can mock that now. Bill Maher of course was a pioneer mocking it.
But here's the kill shot. Ah man, just listen to this. This is Stephen A. Smith again. Now if you're not familiar with all the famous names in sports you have to know that these Black athletes have been Democrat, right? Those are important to the story. So he says, I saw folks on the left basically try to guilt me into voting for Kamala. You know what bothered me? I might have ended up voting for Kamala because I didn't like how Trump acts.
You know that is such — every time somebody says I don't like how he acts, that's just not a thing. That's not a real thing. You could say I don't like his policies. You could say I didn't like what he did in his first term. But I don't like how he acts? Really? That would be the reason you pick the other person? Let me tell you how he acts. He acts in a way that with no experience whatsoever he became president of the United States once, and then being completely destroyed by lawfare and fake news and the Democrat evil committee, he rebuilt from absolute destruction in four years to come back and win the presidency in a convincing way. Now that's the way he acts.
Do you think it's accidental that his provocative ways happened at the same time as his great success? If you still haven't figured out that all that stuff of the way he acts, that's the active ingredient. I think all the Democrats are so — maybe what would be the word? I don't want to insult them. I'll say they're not seeing the right frame. If you think that Trump has a few good ideas even in your own opinion but that is ruined by the way he acts and his insults and his crazy statements, what would be the evidence that all those insults and crazy statements were negative? Was it that he didn't become president twice? Is it that he doesn't have the biggest mandate ever? Is it that every politician who is worth a damn is looking at what he did and trying to copy it? Is it that Fetterman, a Democrat who I have a lot of respect for I have to be honest, is it that he's looked at Trump and said, hmm that looks like it works, why don't I do some of that? And then he does it and guess what? It works. It works for Fetterman. It works for everybody.
How about we can we finally get to the point where we realize that the way he acts is the active ingredient? I mean he has to have good policies that are common sense of course, but selling it, selling the policies, which is absolutely essential to a good leader, he can't have good ideas and not sell them. Selling them comes from the way he acts. If you don't get that, everything's confusing. I've been saying this since 2015 and I don't think I've ever been more right about anything in my life. I'm about as right as you could be that it's the way he acts that's the secret sauce.
All right, so but going on, here's what he said. He said but what I didn't do was call Trump a racist. I didn't call him a name. And then just listen to this. I knew Trump before he ran for president. There it is. There it is. Do you know how many Black Americans knew Trump, were close to him? He helped in a number of cases. You know he helped Michael Jackson. He helped Mike Tyson. I'm pretty sure he helped who was the boxing promoter with the wild hair? I forget. I mean why I know — I'm not even — I'm just a casual observer and I know at least three examples where he with nothing in return — well there's always something in return I guess, but just as helpful to everybody.
Well so he goes on talking about Trump. So this is Stephen A. Smith talking about Trump. He said we talked on the phone. We talk at basketball games or boxing events. I knew this man. And so some of the things that were being said about him I knew were not true. And I was saying come on y'all you got to do better than that. Don King, thank you. Yeah he was friendly with Don King. I think helped him in his career as well.
So you know what would have been really useful if Stephen A. Smith had said this before it was safe? Would you agree? Wouldn't it have been nice for Stephen A. Smith when Trump was being called favoring neo-Nazis and the fine people hoax and he's the biggest racist? Wouldn't it be nice for a respected smart voice to say oh I know him personally, yeah you don't have to worry about that, that's not an issue. Wouldn't that be nice?
But I found myself getting ready to respond to a post on that and say basically thanks for nothing. Thanks for nothing. This would have been really useful in 2015. It would have been really useful in 2020. It would have been really useful in the beginning of 2024. Do you know what it is now? Now it's unnecessary. It's unnecessary. He won. So now that it's safe, Elon Musk can say it and Joe Rogan can say it and you know a whole bunch of public figures can say it. The left and the right can say it now. It's safe.
So I found myself getting actually angry at him for sort of speaking out too late. Like that counts. And then I slap myself in the face. Stop it. Stop it. I'm ignoring my own rule. You know what rule I'm ignoring of my own? Here's the rule: everything good takes too long to happen. Everything good takes too long to happen. This is good. This is good. Took too long to happen. And now I reject all my prior comments. So I'm taking them back, which I knew I would do. So I'm taking back my comments that he waited too long and that it wasn't brave to wait till now and he's waiting till it's safe. And I'm going to completely revise that. I respect his opinion and I really appreciate it. I respect it and I really genuinely appreciate it.
And if you hear me ever again say that something is good but it took too long, can you slap me? I don't want to ever hear that out of anybody's mouth because everything good took too long. There's no exception to that. Everything. So it's just the dumbest, simplest pund thing to say oh where were you before? Why didn't you do something earlier? No. How about that was good. Thank you. I respect it. And just take the win.
All right, let's talk about Greenland. Apparently there was a poll on whether they wanted independence or to stay owned by Denmark. Now I don't know if this is a scientific poll or an internet poll or what it was. I'm not sure we can totally trust this. But two-thirds of them wanted independence and one-third wanted to stay with Denmark, if you believe that poll.
What I say is so two-thirds of them want independence. Let's check again in two months. If you check back in two months I'll bet you 80% say they want independence and/or some kind of association with the United States that's stronger. Because that's the Trump effect. Trump will find a way to convince the Greenlandic people — I think it's Greenlandic the people are called, not Greenlanders. See if I'm right. I need a fact check on that. Are they the Greenlandic people? I don't know.
Anyway, so as you know the Greenland prime minister spoke out. Do you get the joke? The Greenland prime minister, he spoke out. Do you know why that's funny? Do you know what his first name is? Múte. That's his actual name. His first name is Mute. Yeah, he spoke out. There's your simulation. The mute is speaking out.
So he didn't say that he wants to be an American state or anything like that. He said that the Greenlandic people should decide what their fate is. But he didn't seem terribly keen on staying owned by Denmark and you can understand that. But here's the bigger surprise. Today apparently the Danish officials think that some kind of middle ground can be reached. This is according to the Daily Wire, Tim Pearce. And middle ground would be something short of a sale but some kind of stronger cooperation, something like that. We don't know what that would look like.
Now what do you think of Trump's first offer? If you want to see the art of the deal in real time, let me try to set this up for you. Suppose you were a regular politician. Suppose you were Joe Biden or Jimmy Carter and you had this idea that we should own or have control of, functional control of Greenland. How would you go about it? Well you probably have some secret meetings, right? And then the Greenland people would never hear about it and then they would never weigh in to tell you that they agreed with it. So that would be the first mistake of everybody who's not Trump.
Trump tweets about it. If Trump puts it in the public, the entire nation of Greenland is talking about it. I'll bet you 100% of all the Greenlandic people have had lots of conversations about this. Everyone. And it's because Trump said it and Trump said it publicly. And not only did he say it publicly but he said here, here's the beauty. He basically said if you don't sell it to us or give it to us, we're going to take it.
What do you think the Greenlandic people think when the entire U.S. military and the president of the United States named Trump says you know we could just take it? Do you think they believed it? Yes. Well at least they believed there was a high possibility. Do you think he meant it as in he would send in the actual military and like start arresting any Greenland resistors? Don't know. That's the beauty of it. I follow Trump as closely as anybody. I don't know. Did he mean it? That's his magic. His magic is he might mean it. He might. And that's all you need.
So think about how much action he got simply by putting it out there that if you don't work with us we're just going to take it. Because once he's established that it's a military security requirement, which I'd never heard before Trump, I'd never even heard that some kind of military requirement, which I believe because of the opening of the ice in the nearby it's going to be fought over by Russia, China and all the powers. So yeah we need a strong presence to make sure our hemisphere doesn't get invaded by Russian missiles and who knows what.
So the first thing he does is informs the country that it's a requirement for security. So we're like well there's no way to get there but wouldn't it be great? Then he says in public and the Greenlandic people are like huh no no no I don't want to do that. But what's the offer? You only have to make them curious. Yeah just make them curious what the offer is. Because who's going to say no before they hear the offer, right? You could say no after you hear the offer but who says no before they hear the offer? You know just ordinary curious people who are not killing it in life, maybe they'd like to do a little better. This rich guy says maybe I can do something for you. You're going to stay and you're going to listen.
And then you hear but he might just take it. Then you think um maybe we should talk to him. And then Denmark says you know what I'm thinking maybe we should talk to you. Maybe we'll meet in the middle somewhere. Do you know what Trump needed? He just needed them to meet in the middle. I don't think the United States would be in favor of making a state. Do you know why? Because I'm pretty sure we don't want their voting record. I'm pretty sure we don't want to give them some kind of political power. Now I don't know what their beliefs are politically but I just as a point of reference I checked if they have if abortion is legal in Greenland because I feel like that's going to tell you kind of quickly where their heads are at. Not only is it legal to get an abortion in Greenland but according to Google they have the highest abortion rate in the world. The highest abortion rate in the world.
Now if I were a negotiator I would say to myself hmm yeah that's sort of a poison pill. You know if you're a Republican it's a poison pill. So maybe we should meet in the middle. Instead of turning it into a state maybe some kind of territory situation you know with a special arrangement would be best for all.
But what's interesting is that just as Trump is sort of offering hey wouldn't it be great if you were Americans, wouldn't you like that? The Greenlandic people are the busiest of all people killing their own people. So even the Greenlandic people don't love Greenlandic people. They're killing them at the highest rate of any civilized country. I'm just joking. The Greenlandic people probably just have a lot of sex so they you know there's nothing else to do so they probably need more abortions because they have more sex or something like that.
Now here's something I learned from the comments on Locals. I hadn't really considered this before but you know how Trump is really good with real estate. Like he can spot an opportunity in real estate that other people might not catch because that's his business. And somebody pointed out that this is the perfect time to buy Greenland because once climate change turns on and Greenland actually turns green, we're not going to be able to afford it. So you want to get it cheap before climate change turns it into a beachfront sort of a tropical island because that's when it's really going to be expensive. So I think Trump's brilliant. He's going to get it before it warms up. You can't tell if I'm kidding, can you?
All right so I thought I would put together a Greenland deal just so we could sort of play with it to see if it looks like it could be something that would work. I'm going to throw out a first draft right now of what a deal might look like. Right now I don't know if you know but I have an extensive background in negotiating. Used to be my job in corporate America. I was the person who had to negotiate with vendors to get their prices down and all that stuff. So you learn about deal making and you know how to and also you know my MBA background they teach about deal making. So I have some experience in how to put together a deal. So this is not completely speculative. Just know that there's a little bit of actual professional skill that's going into this. Okay, just a little bit. Like I'm not the best at it or anything.
Number one, I like the idea of calling it a territory or whatever word you want to put on it and not a state. We already have some, right? Guam and whatever. I don't like them voting but that's no problem because Greenland probably doesn't care about voting in our politics. I would say that you want to offer the Greenlandic people full local control of their laws so that the law of the United States doesn't necessarily apply there but they get to make their own laws and have their own justice system just like now. So basically they would operate exactly the same and they would have their own taxation. We wouldn't tax them but we would take over the support payments that Denmark is doing.
So what Denmark would get out of it is they don't have to pay Trump his extortion when he says if we're going to protect your island you're going to have to pay us you know 20 billion a year or whatever he puts on it. And they're not going to want to pay that. And they currently pay to subsidize Greenland. They wouldn't have to pay that. So wouldn't it be great if Denmark just sort of got out of the business of managing something that they don't want to manage? So I think Denmark could be made happy as long as Greenland came out ahead and they cut their own budget so they didn't have to support it. It seems doable.
But here's what you would do if you're Trump to sweeten a deal. You would say we're going to greatly expand the mining operations for the rare earth materials. I think there's some energy too. Was there natural gas? Maybe. We don't know for sure but we'd look for some more. And the idea would be that we would share the income with the locals. Maybe the same way that oil companies when they first went to the Middle East and the countries where they want to drill did not have the ability to build oil wells themselves. So I don't know the details. I'd love to be informed about that by the way if somebody knows those details. Did the oil company say something like we'll give you half if you let us just drill on your land that you can't drill on? Or 20%? Like what is the number where both are happy? I don't know what that number is. But we could say to them we're going to give you a percentage of that and it will be way bigger, way more money than Denmark was giving you every year. Your lifestyle will improve. You can have less abortions. And they'd get full military protection.
But I think there would have to be a clause in there which could be a sticking point that would give the United States the authority for full martial law in a military emergency. Now if you are wanting to be an independent sort of associated territory you're going to bristle at the idea that there could ever be martial law imposed by effectively another country that you're working with. But I don't know that we could say no to that. I feel like if we're going to give security to them there it seems likely there would be cases where the military would have to put a boot on ordinary freedoms just temporarily. That's what martial law is and everybody hates martial law but I feel like we need some kind of out. Now maybe we don't need it because even the military base that would be stationed there would be far more powerful than a bunch of Greenlandic citizens with their handguns or whatever. So I suppose we could get anything we wanted if we really needed it. But it'd be nice to put in the deal so everybody knows it's possible.
And then you could say hey you guys you could get American passports. Do you think the Greenlandic people would like to have an American passport? I don't know if that's good or bad. It'd be an addition to maybe whatever they already have. So why wouldn't that work? Can you think of any idea why they would not take that deal? So they still have independence. They make a bunch more money. They get free military without having to pay any taxes for the military. And they get some freedom from Denmark. Where's the downside? It's all upside.
And Trump made this conversation possible by what did Stephen A. Smith say? By the way he acts. That's right. So the way he acts makes this possible. That's what the way he acts gets you. Greenland. Maybe. We'll see.
Well let's talk about the LA fires. I know that if you're not in LA you're just wishing we could stop talking about this. I get it. I get it. But I think this is more relevant to all the rest of you than you think. First of all it would be fascinating to understand what went wrong so it doesn't happen in your state and also to give you an idea whether it can be fixed.
I'm going to give you the bad news first. You ready? I think that the rebuilding cost will be at least a trillion and nobody can pay for that. So the rebuilding, if you put it on top of the regulations that exist, you know all the environmental stuff, how long it takes to get a permit, the complications, the removal of the toxic debris, the cleaning of the water, the rehooking up of things, there is actually no way to get from here to there. There is no way to rebuild that. And if California is just abandoned effectively to the criminals because nobody's going to live there and it just isn't affordable to fix, homeowners can't fix it on their own. There really isn't any way to fix it in the current normal system.
So let me say that again. There really is no solution there because the federal government isn't going to put a trillion dollars into it. The homeowners can't afford to rebuild. California isn't going to have enough money or even close. It's going to destroy all of her insurance and maybe all of our banking in the entire country. I don't think people understand that when California falls the country gets more than a black eye. It's an existential threat to the rest of the country. I think California might be toast unless you want some good news. See I set you up. And by the way when I say there's bad news and good news, they're both possible. I'm not underplaying one of them. There doesn't seem to be any path that you could recover.
Want to hear why bad it is? How bad it is? But why do you think that Californians can't get insurance? You've heard the government blame the insurance companies for pulling out and trying to get too much profit, right? You've heard the insurance companies blame the government because the government won't let them raise their prices. I'm a Californian. Let me tell you what's true. There is no solution. It wouldn't matter if the government or the insurance companies did everything smart and logical and legal. There is no solution.
So here's what happens to a normal Californian. You get in your house. Let's say you're going to stay where you are for a while. You can afford your house and maybe you've even retired in it and you figured out how to keep affording even after retirement. Now your house goes up in value but you're still okay and in fact you're happier because if you sell it you make more money. But also your property insurance doesn't change much. You're like oh I still pay roughly the same amount. Taxes, that does go up but not as much as the value of your house. Then your house doubles again. Now your house is worth four times what you paid for it. As long as you stay there forever your property taxes will be the original cost. Good.
But what about insurance? The cost of insurance is for replacement. So now your cost of insurance is going to have to be four times what it was when the value of the home was you know well do the math backwards, right? Nobody can afford that. If you say to somebody I'm going to double or triple what it cost you for — I think in my case it was maybe a 10x increase. 10x when I got a market price from an actual insurance company that is still in California. It was 10 times what the old price was for fire insurance. 10 times. So it was something like $1,000 a month went to $10,000 a month. Now I could afford it if I wanted to pay that but that's because I'm still working. I'm not retired and I didn't buy my house when it was you know a tiny fraction. It has gone up since I bought it.
So nobody who's a normal person with a normal job, even these rich people living in the Pacific Palisades, some of them were super rich you know the Louis D. F. ones, but if you're looking at the James Woods, Adam Carolla and then you know down a level to people who don't have jobs that good, either those people just barely can hang on to their homes. They might have had them a long time, so long that it was cheap when they got them and they were paying cheap property tax, cheap insurance relative to the value of the home. They kept going up. But if they have to rebuild and especially those who maybe move because most of those people are going to say I don't want to wait five to 10 years for my house to be livable and by the way why would I live there? It's all burned down even if my house survived. So those people are going to say well I got to move somewhere else. What are they going to do? They can't buy a house and then not get fire insurance if you just had got burned out of your old place.
So there isn't really a solution because the value of the property is so inflated relative to its actual market value that there's no solution. And I don't see one. That if you straight line it there's no solution. So let me say it in a different way. What you expected when you saw oh there's a big fire emergency, houses burned down, it's really really bad. Did you say to yourself well this is a little worse than normal emergencies. What will happen is you know FEMA will come in and you know people will adjust. That it's going to take a few years but they're going to rebuild and then maybe it'll even be better than it was. You know they'll build better homes and you know we have to wait a few years but we'll be back to normal. That's not this. This is unbuildable. This is almost the total destruction of the entire Southern California.
What's that going to do to Northern California? Well who's going to pay for it? Probably me. So they're going to make Northern California I think unlivable because there'll be taxes like crazy or they're going to have to steal some of our water or something. But it's going to be completely unlivable if you assume the normal things are the only things that can happen. We are doomed. Let me say it as clearly as possible. If you assume normal business, normal recovery, normal emergency, normal rebuilding, nothing like that's going to happen. It can't. It's economically impossible.
That was the first problem. The reason we don't have insurance is because it was already economically impossible. We just added a trillion dollars to the insurance burden. So where it was impossible before now it's just laughable. The insurance is not coming back. They're not going to come back to the state because we tweaked something. They can't afford these houses. It's a terrible place to offer insurance at any price because if you have to increase the price by 10x which is what happened to me nobody can live there.
So is it the government's problem or the insurance company's problem? A little of both. More the government than the insurance companies. But mostly it's that our property is completely insanely overpriced. Do you know what the real price of those homes should have been? So let's say a $5 million home in Pacific Palisades in a place that did not have — they didn't know it but suppose they knew it that it did not have protection from a major fire. What would be the actual market price of the homes that built? So they were selling for 5 million. What would you pay for a home that's probably going to burn down, right? You'd say to yourself well I mean well before it burns down this is like heaven. I'm told that was like the best place anybody ever lived in their life. Like people really really like that place. So you might say well I don't know if it's going to burn down. Yeah I'm seeing the numbers 300,000. Because if you lose 300,000 you might say well first of all you could insure it. The insurance companies would say no actually you couldn't. You couldn't insure it because the rebuilding cost is what the insurance company would care about and that would still be you know several million dollars. So you'd have to buy it for something like $300,000, not insure it. And then if you lost the entire 300,000 to a fire just say well it's not the end of my world. Like I can recover from that. I'll just have to live somewhere else.
So the real problem — and by the way this I should give credit to Friedberg on the All-In Pod because if any of the All-In Pod guys are watching they're probably saying is he stealing Friedberg's point? Yes yes I'm stealing Friedberg's point because I hadn't somehow that was a little bit invisible to me because I was looking in the wrong place. I was looking at the insurance and you know I wasn't looking at the house value. So that's the bad news. The bad news is there is no mechanism for recovery.
The good news is we got a new president. Now I think he would be unlikely to spend a trillion dollars to rebuild the same bad situation. But suppose as Joel Pollak pointed out in an article on Breitbart you happen to be lucky enough to have the great builder as a president and there's this fellow in Southern California named Caruso who is also a developer and he's the one who lost narrowly to Karen Bass. I think he's also Democrat but he's not a crazy Democrat. He's a can-we-do-common-sense Democrat. A common sense Democrat with experience in building has my attention. But you would need a lot more.
I'm going to throw out some wild ideas in the spirit of brainstorming that isn't with good ideas but if I throw out enough bad ideas you're going to get the point that this is solvable, right? So these are the bad ideas. Suppose just for Southern California, maybe Northern as well, the insurance rules are changed so that individuals can offer insurance. So in other words somebody like me I can just say hey I'd like to put you know invest in California insurance but I only want to invest in homes that have certain fireproofing and/or local good management to get rid of the burnable stuff. So I would say okay my neighborhood is in good shape. The if something burned in my neighborhood there's a lot of tile roofs. People have removed the trees. Then I might say hmm okay as a personal investment I'll put a little money into this. Let's say crowdfunded insurance. Now it might be a good idea. It might be a bad idea. But unlike the insurance company if the insurance company takes a total loss they're out of business and I think they might be out of business after this. But if I as a personal investor said you know what I'm going to put $1,000 into this because I think next year it could be worth you know 1,200 and then if I lost my 1,200 I would say oh darn and nothing would change. I would just lose my 1,200. You know it was a financial bet. Didn't work out.
So first of all could you spread the bet to individuals and then would the crowd be smarter about picking the ones they want to back? And when people found out they couldn't even get crowd backing what would they have to buy to get it? Well here's another idea. Number one you have to replace your roof because if your roof burns I'm not giving you insurance. If you're in California and you have a flammable roof I'm not giving you any insurance. But if you want to buy a new roof we can talk.
If you have a robot — let's think I added it a little bit. If you have a robot who's a private fireman and somehow the technology worked I'd give you a better deal because you as a human would leave the evacuation zone and your robot which is less burnable would just stand there with a water pack and zap wherever an ember hits. So the robot would just walk around the house and go and just zap the little embers starting to affect your property. Or like in my house suppose I had trees that are a little too close to the house because the house itself is quite resistant. I built it to be super resistant to fires by the way. I should tell you that it was built specifically to be resistant to fires. I designed it that way. But the trees are too close which makes it less resistant. So somebody comes to me and they say Scott we'll give you some of this crowdsourced insurance but you got to get rid of these trees. Then I say oh are you kidding? These are really mature trees. And they say but no insurance. And then I cut down the trees and then I'm a little bit unhappy but I got insurance.
So could crowdsourcing get you to the point where individuals maybe even in your town can decide whether you're a good bet? Because that's what it might take.
Here's the other thing. You've seen pictures of people who had sprinklers on the roof and they would just take the I think it was a lawn sprinkler they just put it on the roof before they evacuated and it would just sort of keep the roof moist and kept it from burning in some cases. Probably not all cases but some. So maybe there's a new technology that we don't know about. A roof sprinkler or something like that. Maybe the insurance company would do the forest mitigation for the state because there's a profit to be made. If they can mitigate it then they can sell the crowdsource insurance into the city.
Now are any of those ideas good ideas? Not really. Not really. They're all incomplete. But does it help you imagine that if we released on everything we've done before and just started with a clean slate and said all right if you were going to invent this from scratch would it look anything like the current system? And the answer is no. If you invented it today from scratch you'd use AI. You'd use I don't know just a lot of different things. And then maybe there's something with land values that have to be adjusted.
All right. You may have heard that the leader of Black Lives Matter, Patrice Cullors, has lost two of her three Los Angeles mansions in the wildfires. So I'm not willing to say that DEI is the reason anybody lost their house. I do think it's the reason that there's mass incompetence in general. But if you're looking for any one tragedy and one person in charge it doesn't necessarily mean that DEI is there. But the irony of the simulation is that the person most associated with DEI got her house, two of her three houses that she didn't deserve, burned down by DEI. That's kind of perfect you know. Now again I'm not saying it's DEI but that's going to be the narrative about it.
All right. Newsom went on a podcast. Governor Newsom. And he was blaming local leaders for the problem. So he didn't he wanted to make sure you knew it wasn't necessarily the state leadership that he's in charge of. It was rather the local leaders. Local leaders. So the white guy governor thinks the problem is the local leaders. Is there anything about the local leaders that's worth noting? Does it sound to you like local leaders is the racist dog whistle that a Democrat can use? Yeah it wasn't the white governor of the state. It was the local leaders. Do you hear it or is it just me? Do you hear the racist dog whistle? I feel like local leaders just has a little bit of a vibe of racism without using the words. I don't know. Maybe it's just me. That's the way it hit me. I certainly can't read his mind but it's the way it hit me. Sounds like a dog whistle to me.
According to the Climate Change Dispatch California actually had record rainfall in I think it was last year and didn't save it because we don't have the right kind of reservoirs and we haven't built many reservoirs since forever. So poor long-term planning. Those people who say that it's climate change caused the dryness are ignoring the fact that California has always had a highly variable climate when it comes to rain. The most common thing in California my entire life is that oh it's a few years of drought. Oh it's a few years of too much rain. Oh we're back to a few years of drought. Oh it's too much rain. All you have to do is save the rain from the too much rain year and you would have plenty for the not enough rain year. At least for fire. Maybe not for drinking. So yes that would be a case of bad management.
Brentwood is under evacuation order. Brentwood's that famous rich place where people like Kamala Harris, LeBron James and Arnold Schwarzenegger live and OJ lived on top of that. So Schwarzenegger says you know don't worry about me. And of course we weren't. It's funny. Schwarzenegger tells the public you know don't worry about me I'll be fine. And I think the entire public said we know. We weren't really worried about the people so rich they have multiple homes and you know $500 million or whatever he's worth. No we weren't worried.
But apparently Kamala Harris's house got burglarized or at least there's a report that there were people there who looked like they were going to burglarize it and got caught. Now that means there's a nonzero chance that Brentwood could burn down and Kamala Harris's house. That's what I call a bad year. Can you imagine losing the presidential race to Hitler and within a few months your house burns down? So she's out of a job. Her career is destroyed. Her husband was outed as a girlfriend beater and then her house gets burned down if it happens. I mean let me say as clearly as possible I don't want that to happen. I don't want that to happen. I don't want anybody's house to burn down. I don't care what they did to me or the bad things they did. I don't really want anybody's house to burn down except for the Black Lives Matter woman who has three mansions that look to be entirely based on you know. So she would be an exception. But no I don't want Kamala Harris's house to burn down. Just to be clear.
Wall Street Journal says the fire is 15% contained and you think oh good they went from 3% to 15%. We're in good shape. They'll just keep going. Nope. The wind is coming back and they should lose that whole 15 in the next day or two. That's the current forecast. The next week's going to be hairy. So we don't know how far this fire is going to go.
But let me teach you something about numbers. Yesterday I saw a report that one of the fires was 3% contained. Do you know what's not a thing? 3% contained. That's not a thing. Do you think that they can measure 3% containment? No. 3% is zero. But they want you to think that they're doing something so they go from zero to 3%. There's no difference. There's no difference between 3% contained and 0% contained. That's just something you say so the news will report it and people go oh well look they've gone from zero to three in just a week so it's picking up. No it's not picking up. 3% zero. Same number. Same number.
All right. Elon Musk. I saw a post but I didn't see the exact words and didn't write it down but it sounded like he said that in 2021 he Elon Musk has set out to destroy the woke mind virus and now he's declaring success. Do you think the woke mind virus is destroyed? I'm going to give him the win on that. I think he destroyed the woke mind virus. I don't think Trump did. I think he must. He said he would do it. He did all the things that you would do if you're trying to get rid of it and it does look like people can now talk about it being ridiculous. So you've got both Democrats, prominent Democrats at least in the pundit class as well as Republicans say yeah all that stuff the woke mind virus was overblown, overdone, ridiculous. It was it lacked common sense. Yes Elon Musk set out to destroy the woke mind virus and got it done. And boy did he take heat for that and still is. I mean the amount. I mean he had to have beefed up his personal security. I mean he took a chance on your behalf as well. And good for him. Good for him.
But just to make his day better there was a former in the UK a Labour MP so part of the government. So he's recently out of it but he was one of the people who publicly criticized Elon Musk on British TV last week for when Elon was criticizing Keir Starmer. And it was all about the all about the I don't want to say it because I'll get demonetized. You know you're all following the story. So this guy complained about the complaints about the serious crimes against young people and he the guy who complained about it or complained about the complaints about it just was arrested for attempting to have a meet up with a 15-year-old boy.
So you know that thing where you wonder are the governments of the developed worlds all terrible sex criminals and transvestites and in the closet and every other kind of thing you can think of? Is it really that and that they're all in place as puppets? It might be. You know what I heard from of course this is not confirmed that Justin Trudeau was never really the head of the country and that he literally thought of himself as a relationship manager and all of the real decisions were made by other people. So the other people are the ones who say yeah he doesn't really do anything. He's just a relationship manager. And they've also alleged and I don't know if this is true but they alleged that he also didn't really pay attention to the news and didn't know what was going on. So when you saw him talk you would say to yourself I did anyway you probably did too it's like does he even watch the news? Trudeau looked like somebody who wasn't even informed about anything. And then the politician says yeah he wasn't informed about anything because he didn't need to make any decisions. He was just supposed to go out there and say happy stuff. That's what it looked like.
Now that seems too much hyperbole to me. I think he must have had some real power. But what if he didn't? What if the entire system is just people behind the scenes making sure they have the most blackmailable person in the top job? Because it sure as hell looks like it. And that would make you understand why there was so much resistance to Trump because he's quite clearly not that. Whatever Trump is doesn't look like a puppet. But maybe that's what it is. It's all puppets.
I had somebody come after me today who had pronouns in his profile. Instant block. I'm never going to have another conversation with somebody who has pronouns in their profile. You know I used to do it like I'd respond to them and say well here's my point of view. I'm not going to talk to anybody with pronouns in their profile and I recommend that you don't either because whatever they have to say it can't possibly be useful could it? Like just don't waste your time talking to anybody who thinks that's their priority enough to put it in their profile. So no.
Meanwhile over at the MSNBC Comedy Network — that's what I call it. It's not intentional but it's pretty funny. So they had some commentator I don't know his name but his haircut looked like a paintbrush. Do you know which one it is? He has this big like a giant paintbrush on his head anyway. He was talking about the Carter funeral and how all the leaders were just sort of chatting friendly and he said this quote there was something strange about seeing multiple leaders who have warned that this guy meaning Trump is a dictatorship on the horizon, fascism on the horizon, the end of the American experiment. Now just because of the rituals of the funeral. So that's what he's blaming. He's blaming the rituals of a funeral. He says it is normalized by default. We are just sitting and making small talk with a guy who we have said is going to end everything.
So remember I said what's going to happen to Democrat brains when reality is thrust upon them? Well here here's an example. So instead of the more obvious interpretation that the entire Democrat Party was lying about Trump which to me seems super obvious, the MSNBC take — and but I actually think he means this. I think this is an actual take. I don't think he sat around saying what lie can I tell that will — I think he thinks this. He thinks the problem if you can call it that is that the funeral forced everybody to act responsible and that that's the reason that they were joking and talking to Hitler. No that's not why. No because no not that guy not Elie Wiesel. There's some other guy so he looks like a more like one of those mushroom balls. So I'm talking about the paintbrush hair not the mushroom ball anyway.
So I'm amazed at Democrats to look at something as obvious as this and decide that it's the funeral rituals that explain everything. The funeral ritual? Nope. Can I be clear about this? I would not attend a funeral for somebody who is not related to me and wasn't my best friend under any condition if I were going to be sitting next to and chatting with Hitler. That's just me. No. If he really if any of the things they said about him were true they would not have attended or they would have disinvited made sure that the Hitler got disinvited. The whole thing was always a lie and MSNBC is the biggest purveyor of it.
Well in surprising but maybe not so much news the LA Times owner has invited Marc Andreessen to be on his board. So you might know that the LA Times newish owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong decided not to endorse Kamala Harris and then people said whoa whoa are you not as Democrat as we thought? You're not as lefty as we thought? Well he did vote for Kamala Harris so the owner of the LA Times voted for her but he didn't endorse her because he didn't want the newspaper to be just a biased entity. So he got tons of hate for that because he was trying to be middle of the road.
But inviting Marc Andreessen to be on your board of your newspaper that sends a whole different message. Do you know what message that sends? That he's going to turn Republican? Nope. Nope. That he just wants to put on some window dressing so it looks like he's seeing both sides? Nope. I think he wants a common sense guy. I think Marc Andreessen is sort of the ultimate common sense guy. If you listen to him you can use your imagination to like well see Republican because you can almost hear it but you can't. Like I don't know if he's Republican. I don't know what he is. But I can tell you that every time he talks it makes sense. He goes for the things that are common sense not the philosophy not the weird stuff not the stuff that's clearly going to be here with us and then go away but like real permanent logical rational stuff. Yeah he'd be great. I would rather him be the governor of California. If I had a Marc Andreessen governor of California big yes. Big yes. Shellenberger yes yes. Yeah I can name a few other names but yeah there's some people that I'd like to see get that job and Andreessen would be right in my shortest list at the top.
So that's good. That seems like the Trump effect in the sense that I don't think the LA Times could do what we're seeing meaning the owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. I don't think he could do it without that Trump effect being just what it is where everybody's got a little freedom to say what they want.
All right. Here's the thing you need to know about we Californians. It kind of sneaks up on you so you don't realize it until it's done but we don't really have the right to own homes in California because there's a thing called property tax and if you don't pay your property tax they'll take your home. So you don't really own a home if you're paying somebody else to live in it. That's not ownership. But then you say to me well but Scott if you sell it you get to keep the money. How am I going to sell my home? Who would buy anything in California at the moment? So I can't sell it and I don't own it. But well okay you know when I die I can leave it to my heirs. Do you know what would be left of my net wealth after state and federal taxes and death taxes? Nothing. Well it's not nothing but it'd be like less than half. So no we're basically living in a DEI-managed racist hellscape.
And here's the other problem. People keep saying and I just said it a moment ago we keep saying that all we need is to get capable and competent people in the top jobs and then everything will be okay. There's no mechanism for that to happen if the Democrats have as much control over the system as it looks like. You can't get any competent people in office. It's all going to be DEI incompetence and there's nothing that's going to change that. You haven't seen a single thing from anything official like in the government where they would say you know what maybe California should pull back from DEI.
And let me say something. I hate to help him but on the other hand it would be good. The most unlikely thing I could imagine is Governor Newsom saying I'd like to make DEI illegal in California. Now you're going to say to yourself there's no freaking way that's going to happen. You know the potential guy who might run for president as a Democrat is going to do you think he's going to disown the single most important thing that Democrats do? Well here's the thing. No matter how much you love or hate Gavin Newsom even the people who don't like him seem to say grudgingly he's kind of good at this politics stuff. That's why he's governor. So if he's good at the politics stuff and in my personal opinion destroying California is unforgivable even if the local leaders are the reason. If he did something big and bold and common sensical like saying you know what we got to get competent people. We got to get rid of DEI. Could he become president if he was the most prominent Democrat who said guys we got to stop this? You know I won't have any of it. DEI is a losing proposition. It's basically racist. We tried it and it didn't work out. We have to pivot. That would put him right back on the top of the leaderboard for president. I don't know if he could do it but the thing I'm positive about is that you're smart enough to know he should or that he couldn't get elected without doing it anyway.
I think I missed the main point I was going to make earlier which is because Trump is a builder and one of the people who ran for mayor but lost, Caruso, as a builder that you can imagine the two of them getting together and saying what regulations do we need to get rid of right away and you could revitalize California by massively changing the regulatory environment. Could the two of them get it done? Well neither of them is the governor of California so I don't know but maybe some kind of federalizing things would work.
Mike Cernovich raised over $100,000 I think it was over $130,000 for Californians who are displaced and need some food. He's working with Chef G who is doing the hard work of the cooking and delivering the food. Was doing it I believe on his own dime until Cernovich stepped in with 10,000 of his own money and he raised 130,000 above that I think. I think that's the right number and that's pretty impressive. So I don't know how the other states worked out. I imagine it's the same in the sense that the people who had the ability to step in are stepping in. So you know I'm trying to do my part in a variety of ways and not all that would be public but I'm hoping a lot of people are doing a lot of non-public things to help out. That's pretty amazing.
All right. The American Psychological Association is urging the FTC according to the Futurism publication by Maggie Harrison Dupré for urges the FTC to investigate AI chatbots that are claiming to be therapists and offering free therapy. So the human therapists are saying hey there's AI therapists online and they're pretending to be real people because deep fakes. Now their complaint is simply that they're not labeled. So so far they're not complaining that they might give you bad advice although probably they think that. The complaint is they're not labeled. Now that's a decent complaint. I think the consumer should absolutely know if they're talking to an AI. They absolutely should know. However I would like to nominate therapists at the top of the list for being replaced by AI. Do you really think that your $200 or $400 an hour I don't know what it costs do you think that your once a week one hour therapist is going to be anywhere near as good as the one you can talk to all day long as much as you want and it can answer all the same questions and has all the same skills and acts just like a human? It's not really going to be close.
Now at the moment I would imagine the human is well beyond what the AI currently can do but how long? End of the year I think therapy might be one of the things that goes first to AI.
Meanwhile here's a fake news story in my opinion but maybe there's just something wrong in the way it was written. It's in the Express publication and it says that over in Ukraine there are these butterfly battle yeah these butterfly drones. So they got a big shipment 30,000 drones coming in from the UK and they say that these drones are so light and nimble that they look like a child's toy but they have a machine gun and they can carry a soldier out of the war zone. No no there's no drone that's the size of a child's toy and has a machine gun on it and certainly it's not carrying any soldiers the size of a child's toy. No no. I don't know what's wrong with the story. I don't know if any of it's right. Maybe the entire thing's made up. But no no you're not putting a machine gun on something the size of a child's drone toy. Weird. But it says has an operational range of 12.5 miles and can operate autonomously for up to three days and has this machine gun on it and a mobile turret and it's got four oh it's also got listen to this it's got fourth glass protection armor so it can even you can even shoot it and if you don't shoot it too many times or too hard it'll survive being shot. Remember size of a child's toy has a machine gun can operate autonomously for three days and it could take direct fire. None of that can be true. Does anybody believe any of that? I don't think any of it's true but who knows maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway that's all I got for you today. We're going to talk to the Locals people privately and the rest of you I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for joining. I hope your day gets better.
hello everybody let me get my comments working and then we've got a show for you there we go good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need is a cuper mug or glass of tank or chal of sign a canteen Jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the the dopamine hit of the day the simultaneous sip in the happens now go I almost forgot the words not like I do it every day well there are stories remember that big problem with the sea ice that climate change was going to was going to take care of all the sea ice and then we'd have problems wouldn't we well according to the Daily skeptic Chris Morrison uh there's been a massive recovery in Antarctic sea ice um and let's see if even the officially the uh us-based National snow and ice data center confirms that and apparently it's sort of back into its normal zone is proving that the variation was probably just natural just natural variation um so the sea ice melting doesn't seem to be any indication of climate change but it was predicted and then of course you've heard about the coral reefs the coral reefs for being destroyed by climate change except I don't know if you missed the stories where seems like they're all coming back but the climate change is worse how do how are they coming back oh maybe there's some natural variation how about that sea level remember all those beach houses that used to be good but now the the water Rose now you can't live there neither do I so climate change didn't predict sea level coral reefs sea ice oh but it did predict temperature so I mean that's true right it did predict the temperature didn't it or or is it possible that we're measuring that wrong too of course we're measuring it wrong the temperature might be going up I wouldn't know but there's no way we can know we we don't have any kind of reliable mechanism for measuring the temperature of the entire planet over time that is so far from being a thing that a human humans could do but the news tells you they can do it so you should believe it because it's on the news well the Trump effect has reached Chicago because a couple of the aldermen I think it's funny that Chicago has Alderman is there any other city that has Alderman is that just a Chicago word I got the oldermen uh Florida has elderly men so I don't know what an olderman is but some kind of politician and they're in the legislature and they're introducing legislation they would roll back the city's Sanctuary law so that's where the city would not cooperate with ice and help them Deport people but uh at least two of them want to roll it back now this is according to daily color news Jason Hopkins is writing about it and what is interesting about this story I mean there's always somebody who wants to roll back everything right there're both Democrats two Democrat aldermen Democrats are trying to roll back their own Sanctuary city is that the Trump effect what else would it be of course it's the Trump effect uh here the Trump effect if if you're looking for a definition and I think we need one the Trump effect is not just the good things are happening that Trump supporters would like although that's certainly on the surface that's what's happening what it is is that the Trump effect made it safe it made it safe for people to pursue common sense because I think Trump actually sold the idea that common sense is where the two parties meet in the middle we're not going to meet on you know some let's say uh philosophical level but we should always meet on the how do you stop a fire we should always meet on should we close the border we should always meet on should crime be illegal the the these are not political things and it took the Trump effect to you know take the crazy left end of their bubble and say what about what about the things that are just common sense like safety can can we just work on that now of course climate change hang hangs over everything because the climate change crisis Believers and again I'm only talking about the extent of it not whether or not it's happening I assume climate's always change for one reason or another and maybe humans are part of it I wouldn't know and I'm pretty sure science doesn't know either even though they told you they did I'm pretty sure they tell you a lot of things that you think they know that they don't well special counsel Jack Smith resigned from the Department of Justice that would be the smallest um surprise in the world uh do you think he expects to be investigated because it feels like at least he's been accused of being some part of some kind of potentially ricol like bad behavior to lawfare Trump you know I have mixed feelings about this on one hand I think it would you know it would be damaging to the country to you know rip the Democrat evil Rico people up by the roots even though they've in my opinion I would say it's fairly obvious that major laws have been broken but I'm not an expert so I mean I could be talked that if if the real experts say well no no laws were broken it was just something you didn't like maybe sure it looks like laws were broken to me but if the people who know more than I do say laws were broken and they want to investigate I think I would I would take the risk of that destroying the country because keeping it the way it is would destroy the country for sure so you know having a not not a physical Civil War but let's say a lawfare civil war probably necessary to regain you know mutually isure destruction and make sure that people know that if they cross the line and create literally a a RICO uh treasonous insurrection within the government that's got to have a price that has to be expensive so if uh the Trump Administration makes it additionally expensive for people involved in that bad behavior maybe that's just the way it has to be I saw I saw a uh social media thing that said opro is going to leave the country for four years because of trump but I can't believe that's true can anybody give me a fact check on that this sounds like fake news I don't think Oprah would really leave the country for four years now if it's true the only reason I could think is that she's she's trying to escape criminal prosecution for something um when yeah and if she went to a no extradition country that would sort of confirm it but I'm going to say fake news I'm going to say fake news what do you think anybody think that's true I'm going to go with fake news unless I hear a lot more about it all right well we'll see now it's also something that she might be threatening and might actually mean it but I'm going to bet against it happening but we'll see I'll bet against it meanwhile Stephen A Smith was on a podcast talking about uh Trump and now he's of course been a Democrat and he's a black man in America and uh he's really interesting lately so he's saying that Republicans make a lot of sense just think about that sentence a longtime Democrat and then he says quote Republicans make a lot of sense sense you know Common Sense th this is Stephen A Smith completely falling into the Trump frame that some things are just common sense we shouldn't be talking about that Stephen A Smith says yes common sense so remember when we thought it was impossible to meet in the middle on anything as soon as the Trump effect went into you know wide wide effect it seems like people like Stephen A Smith can now say what they wanted to say maybe all the time which is you know I I like my Democrats I still kind of like some of the philosophy but why are we acting like Common Sense doesn't even exist like why why can't we at least do the things that make sense that everybody agrees on now that weirdly just wasn't a way of thinking even a year ago but now it is that's all Trump that's all Trump um here's what else he says uh Stephen A Smith said quote the Finishing Touch for me in terms of changing his mind on politics uh was California well here it is because I think he's the canary in the coal mine if he tells you that the California experience before the fire this is before the fire if he tells you that looking at California made him think that the Democrats were you know not the ones to back just think about the fact that he could see it before the fire and he was affected by it I I don't think it changed his vote you know but now it might and he he said about California you see what's going on in California higher taxes homelessness crime rate Etc um when people are going off particularly folks on the left and they're talking about these policies and what policy is better blah blah blah I see folk I see folks on the right talking about real life issues and stuff like that and he said says I'm like I'm like I hate that they make a lot of sense now does that sound like exactly something that came out of my mouth it does it sounds like exactly something I would say the the Democrats have lots of lofty conceptual ideas and they're going to call you names if you don't like it Republicans have been really really clean about talking about what's wrong and how to fix it uh the Border open too many criminals close it everybody understands that everybody understands that and here again I'm going to credit Trump for something that's not obvious to you when Trump says what he wants everybody understands it and then he says it a bunch of times until we all get it and then we could like it or not like it but it's a real proposed solution and we can evaluate it and we all understand it that's sort of new because my my memory of past you know traditional boring politicians is that they would say General hypothetical you know philosophical things too and you could barely remember which one was backing what policy but now it's such a clean distinction one says uh do do obvious Common Sense things the other says well the 1% not paying their fair share you they got my Dei and what about the lesbian purposes you know it it now that you can mock that even if you're a Democrat so even Democrats can mock that now Bill Maher of course was a Pioneer mock mocking it um but here's the uh the kill shot ah man just listen to this this is Stephen A Smith again now and if if you're not familiar with all the you know the famous names and sports you have to know that these black black and has been Democrat right those are important to the story um so he says I saw folks on the left basically try to guilt me into voting for uh for kamla uh you know what bothered me I might have ended up voting for kamla because I didn't like how Trump acts you know that is such every time somebody says I don't like how he acts that's just not a thing that's not a real thing you could say I don't like his policies you could say I didn't like what he did in his first term but I don't like how he acts really that would be the reason you you pick the other person let me tell you how he acts he acts in a way that with no experience whatsoever he became president of the United States once and then being completely destroyed by lawfare and fake news and the Democrat uh evil committee he rebuilt from absolute destruction in four years to come back and win the presidency in a in in a convincing way now that's the way he acts do you think do you think it's accidental that his you know provocative ways happened at the same time is great success if you still haven't figured out that all that stuff of the way he acts that's the active ingredient that I think all the Democrats are so maybe what would be the word I don't want to insult them I'll say um they're not seeing the right frame if you think that Trump has a few good ideas even in your own opinion but that is ruined by the way he acts and his insults and his his crazy statements what would be the evidence that all those insults and crazy statements were negative was it that he didn't become president twice is it that he doesn't have the biggest mandate ever is it that is it that every politician who is worth a damn is looking at what he did and trying to copy it is it that fedman a Democrat who I have a lot of respect for I have to be honest um is that that he's looked at Trump and said hm that looks like it works why don't I do some of that and then he does it and guess what it works it works for fedin it works for everybody H how about we can we finally get to the point where we realize that the way he acts is the active ingredient I mean he has to have good policies that are common sense of course but selling it selling the policies which is absolutely essential to a good leader he can't have good ideas and not sell them selling them comes from the way he acts if you don't get that everything's confusing I I've been saying this since 2015 and I don't think I've ever been more right about anything in my life I'm about as right as you could be that it's the way he acts that's the secret sauce all right so but going on here's what he said he said uh he said but uh what I didn't do was call Trump a racist I didn't call him a na and then just listen to this I knew Trump before he ran for president there it is there it is do you know how many black Americans knew Trump were close to him he helped he he helped in a number of cases you know he helped uh Michael Jackson he helped Mike Tyson um I'm pretty sure he helped uh who was the boxing promoter with the the wild hair I forget I I mean why I know I'm I'm not even I'm just a casual Observer and I know at least three examples where he with nothing in return well there's always something in return I guess but just as helpful to everybody well so he goes on he goes uh uh talking about uh Trump so this is Stephen A Smith talking about Trump he said we talked on the phone we talk at basketball games or boxing events I knew this man and so some of the things that were being said about him I knew were not true and I was saying come on y'all you got to do better than that Don King thank you yeah he was he was friendly with Don King I think helped him in his career as well so you know what would have been really useful if Stephen I Smith had said this before it was safe would you agree wouldn't have been nice for Stephen AI when Trump was being called you know favoring neo-nazis and the fine people hoax and he's the biggest racist wouldn't be nice for a respected smart voice to say oh I know him personally yeah you don't have to worry about that that's not an issue wouldn't that be nice but I found myself you know getting ready to respond to a a post on that and and say basically thanks for nothing thanks for nothing this would have been really useful in 2015 it would have been really useful in 2020 it would have been really useful in the beginning of 2024 do you know what it is now now it's unnecessary it's unnecessary he won so now that it's safe Elon Musk can say it and Joe Rogan can say it and you know a whole bunch of public figures can say it the left and the right can say it now it's safe so I found myself getting actually angry at him for sort of speaking out too late like that counts and then I slap myself in the face scop stop it stop it I'm ignoring my own rule you know what rule I'm ignoring of my own here's the rule everything good takes too long to happen everything good takes too long to happen this is good this is good took too long to happen and now I reject all my prior comments so I'm taking them back which I knew I would do so I'm taking back my comments that that he waited too long and that it wasn't Brave to wait till now and he's waiting till it's safe and I'm going to completely revise that I respect his opinion and I really appreciate it I respect it and I really genuinely appreciate it and if you hear me ever again say that something is good but it took too long can you slap me I I don't want to ever hear that out of anybody's mouth because everything good took too long there's no exception to that everything so it's just the dumbest simplest you know pund thing to say oh where were you before why didn't you do something earlier no how about that was good thank you I respect it and just take the win all right uh let's talk about Greenland apparently there was a poll on whether they wanted Independence or to stay owned by Denmark now I don't know if this is a scientific poll or an internet poll or what it was I'm not sure we can totally trust this but uh three4 or two-third of them 2third of them wanted Independence and one third wanted to stay with Denmar if you believe that poll what I say is uh so so 2third of them want independence let's check again in two months if you check back in two months I'll bet you 80% say they want independence Andor some kind of association with the United States that's stronger because that's the Trump effect Trump will find a way to convince the greenlandic greenlandic people I think it's greenlandic the people are called not greenlanders see if I'm right I need a fact check on that are they the greenlandic people I don't know uh anyway so as you know the Greenland uh prime minister uh spoke out do you get the joke the the Greenland prime minister he spoke out do you know why that's funny do you know what his first name is mute M that's his actual name his first name is mute yeah he spoke out there's your simulation the mute is speaking out so he didn't say that he wants to um be an American state or anything like that he said that the greenlandic people should decide what their fate is but he's not he didn't seem terribly keen on saying owned by Denmark and you can understand that but here's the bigger surprise today apparently the Danish um Danish officials think that some kind of Middle Ground can be reached this is this is according to the Daily wire Tim Pierce and middle ground would be something short of a sale but some kind of a stronger cooperation something like that we don't know what that would look like now what what do you think of Trump's first offer if if you want to see the art of the deal in real time let let me let me try to set this up for you suppose you were a regular politician suppose you were Joe Biden or Jimmy Carter and you had this idea that we should own or have control of functional control of Greenland how would you go about it well you probably have some some secret meetings right and then the Greenland people would never hear about it and then they would never weigh in to tell you that they agreed with it so that would be the first mistake of everybody who's not Trump trump tweets about it if Trump puts it in the public the entire nation of Greenland is talking about it I'll bet you 100% of all the greenlandic people have had lots of conversations about this everyone and it's because Trump said it and Trump said it publicly and not only he say it publicly but he said here here's the beauty he basically said if you don't sell it to us or give it to us we're going to take it what do you think the greenlandic people think when the entire US military and the president of the United States named Trump says you know we could just take it do you think they believed it yes well well at least they believed there was a high possibility do you think he meant it as in he would send in the actual military and like start arresting any Greenland resistors don't know that that's the beauty of it I I follow Trump as closely as anybody I don't know did he mean it that's his magic his magic is he might mean it he might and that's all you need so think about how much action he got simply by putting it out there that if you if you don't work with us we're just going to take it because once he's established that it's a military security requirement which I'd never heard before before Trump i' never even heard that some kind of military requirement which which I believe because of the opening of the ice in the nearby it's going to be fought over by russan China and all the powers so yeah we need a strong strong presence to make sure our hemisphere doesn't get invaded by you missiles and who knows what so the first thing he does is informs the country that it's it's a requirement for security so we're like well there's no way to get there but wouldn't it be great then he says in public and the green Landing people like huh no no no I don't want to do that but what's the offer you only have to make him curious yeah just just make him curious what the offer is cuz who who's going to say who's going to say no before they hear the offer right you could say no after you hear the offer but who says no before they hear the offer you know just ordinary curious people who are not killing it in life maybe they'd like to do a little better this rich guy says maybe I can do something for you you're going to stay and you're going to listen and then you hear but he might just take it then you think um maybe we should talk to him and then Denmark says you know what I'm thinking maybe we should talk to you maybe we'll meet in the middle somewhere do you know what Trump needed he just needed him to meet in the middle I I don't think the United States would be in favor of uh of uh making a state do you know why because I'm pretty sure we don't want their voting record we I'm pretty sure we don't want to give them some kind of political power now I don't know what their beliefs are politically but I just as a you know point of reference I checked if they have if abortion is legal in Greenland because I feel I feel like that's going to tell you kind of quickly where their heads are at not only is it legal to get an abortion in Greenland but according to google they have the highest abortion rate in the world the highest abortion rate in the world now if I were a negotiator I would say to myself hm yeah that's sort of a poison pill you know if if you're a republican it's a poison pill um so maybe we should meet in the middle instead of turning it into a state maybe some kind of territory situation you know with a special Arrangement would be best for all but what's interesting is that just as Trump is sort of offering hey wouldn't it be great if you were Americans wouldn't you like that the greenlandic people are the busiest of all people killing their own people so even the greenlandic people don't love greenlandic people they're killing them at the highest rate of any civilized country I'm just joking the greenlandic people probably just have a lot of sex so they you know there's nothing else to do so they probably need more abortions because they have more sex or something like that um now here's a here's something I learned from the comments on locals um I had I hadn't really considered this before but uh you know how Trump is really good with real estate like he can spot an opportunity in real estate that other people might not you know catch because that's his business and somebody pointed out that this is the perfect time to buy Greenland because once climate change turns turns on and Greenland actually turns green we're not going to be able to afford it so you want to get it cheap before climate change turns into a beachfront sort of a you know tropical island cuz that's when it's really going to be expensive so I think Trump's brilliant he's going to get it before it warms up you can't tell if I'm kidding can you all right so I thought I would put together a Greenland deal just so we could sort of play with it to see if it looks like it could be something that would work I'm going to throw out a first draft right now of what a deal might look like right now I don't know if you know but I have a extensive background in negotiating used to be my job in Corporate America I was the person who had to negotiate with vendors to get their prices down and all that stuff so here's and uh so you learn about deal making and you know how to how to and also you know my MBA background they teach about deal making so I have some some experience in how to put together a deal so this is not completely speculative just know that there's a little bit a little bit of actual professional skill that's going into this okay just a little bit like I'm not the best at it or anything um number one I like the idea of calling it a territory or whatever word you want to put on it and not a state we already have some right Guam and whatever um I don't like them voting but that's no problem because Greenland probably doesn't care about voting in our politics I would say that uh You' want to offer the greenlandic people full local control of their laws so that the law of the United States doesn't necessarily apply there but they get to make their own laws and have their own justice system just like now so basically they would operate exactly the same and they would have their own taxation we wouldn't tax them but we would take over the uh let's say the support payments that Denmark is doing so what Denmark would get out of it is they don't have to pay Trump his extortion when he says if we're going to protect your Island you're going to have to pay us you know 20 billion a year or whatever he puts on it and they're not going to have to not going to want to pay that and they currently pay to subsidize Greenland they wouldn't have to pay that so wouldn't it be great if Denmark just sort of got out of the business of managing something that they don't want to manage so I think I think Denmark could be made happy as long as Greenland came out ahead and and they cut their own budget so they didn't have to support it I think seems doable but here's what you would do if you're a trump to to sweeden a deal you would say we're going to greatly expand the mining operations for the um rare earth materials I think there's some energy too was there natural gas maybe we don't know for sure but we' look for some more and the idea would would that we would share the income with the locals uh maybe the same way that um oil companies when they first went to the Middle East and the the countries where they want to drill did not have the ability to build oil wells themselves so I don't know the details I'd love to be informed about that by the way if somebody somebody knows those details did the oil company say something like we'll give you half if you let us just drill on your land that you can't drill on or 20% like what what is the number where both are happy I don't know what that number is but we could say to them we're going to give you a percentage of that and it will be way bigger way more money than Denmark was giving you every year your your lifestyle will improve you can have less abortions and they'd get full military protection but I think there would have to be a clause in there which could be a sticking point that would give the United States The Authority for full marshal law in a military emergency now if you are wanting to be an independent sort of associated territory you're going to bristle at the idea that there could ever be martial law imposed by effectively another country that you're working with but I don't know that we could say no to that I I feel I feel like if we're going to give security to them there it seems likely there would be cases where the military would have to put a boot on ordinary freedoms just temporarily that's what martial law is and everybody hates martial law but I feel like we need some kind of out now maybe we don't need it because the milit even the military base that would be stationed there would be far more powerful than a bunch of greenlandic citizens with their handguns or whatever so I suppose we could get anything we wanted if we really needed it um but it'd be nice to put in the the deal so everybody knows it's possible and then you could say uh hey hey you guys you could get American passports do you think the greenlandic people would like to have an American passport I don't know if that's good or bad it' be it' be an addition to maybe whatever they already have so why wouldn't that work can can you think of any idea why they would not take that deal so they still have Independence they make a bunch more money they get free military without having to pay any taxes for the military and they get some freedom from Denmark where's the downside it's all upside and and Trump made this conversation possible by what did Stephen A Smith say uh by the way he acts that's right so the way he acts makes this possible that's what the way he acts get you Greenland maybe we'll see well let's talk about the LA fires I I know that if you're not in La you're just just wishing we could stop talking about this I get it I get it but I think this is more relevant to all the rest of you than you think first of all it would be fascinating to understand what went wrong so it doesn't happen in your state and also to give you an idea whether it can fixed I'm going to give you the bad news first you ready I think that the re rebuilding cost will be at least a trillion and nobody can pay for that so the rebuilding if you put it on top of the regulations that exist you know all the environmental stuff how long it takes to get a permit the complications you know the the removal of the uh toxic debris the cleaning of the water the re re hooking up of things um there is actually no way to get from here to there there is no way to rebuild that and if California is just abandoned effectively to the criminals because nobody's live there and it just isn't affordable to fix homeowners can't fix it on their own there really isn't any way to fix it in in in the current normal system so let me say that again there really is no solution there because the federal government isn't going to put a trillion dollars into it the homeowners can't afford to rebuild California isn't going to have enough money or even clothes it's going to destroy all of her insurance and make maybe all of our banking in the entire country I don't think people understand that when California Falls the country gets more than a black eye it it's an existential threat to the rest of the country I think California might be toast unless you want some good news see I I set you up and by the way when I say there's you bad news and good news uh they're both possible I'm not underplaying one of them there doesn't seem to be any path that you could recover want to hear why bad it is how bad it is but why do you think that Californians can't get insurance you've heard you've heard the government blame the insurance companies for pulling out and trying to get too Prof too much profit right you've heard the insurance companies blame the government because the government won't let them raise their prices I'm a Californian let me tell you what's true there is no solution it wouldn't matter if the government or the or the insurance companies did everything smart and logical and legal there is no solution so here's what happens to a normal Californian you you get in your house let's say you're uh you're going to stay where you are for a while you can afford your house and maybe you've even retired in it and you figured out how to keep affording even after retirement now your house goes up in value but your still okay and in fact you're happier because if you sell it you make more money but also your your property insurance doesn't change much you're like oh I still pay the roughly the same amount of taxes that it does go up but not as much as the value of your house then your house doubles again now your house is worth four times what you paid for it as long as you stay there forever your property taxes will be the original cost good but what about Insurance the cost of insurance is for replacement so now your cost of insurance is going to have to be four times what it was when the value of the home was you know uh well do the math backwards right nobody can afford that if if you say to somebody I'm going to uh double or triple what it cost you for I think in my case it was maybe a 10 10x increase 10x when I get a when I get a market price a market price from an actual insurance company that is still in California it was 10 times what the old price was for fire Insurance 10 times so it was something like $1,000 a month went to $10,000 a month now I could afford it if I wanted to pay that but that's cuz I'm still working I'm not retired and I didn't buy my house when it was you know tiny fraction it has gone up since since I bought it so nobody who's a normal person with a normal job even these rich is rich is people living in the Pacific Palisades some of them were super rich you know the Louis dfus ones but if you're looking at the you know the James Woods Adam Corolla and then you know down a level to people who don't have jobs that good either those people just barely can hang on to their homes they might have had them a long time uh so long that uh it was cheap when they got them and they were paying cheap uh cheap property tax cheap insurance relative to the value of the home they kept going up but if they have to rebuild and especially those who maybe move because most of those people are going to say I don't want to wait 5 to 10 years for my house to be livable and by the way why would I live there it's all burned down even if my house survived so those people are going to say well I got to move somewhere else what are they going to do they they can't buy a house and then not get fire insurance if you just had got burned out of your old place so there isn't really a solution because the value of the property is so inflated relative to its actual market value um that it's there's no solution and I don't see one that if you straight line it there's no solution so let me say it in a different way what you expected when you saw oh there's a big fire emergency houses burden down uh it's really really bad did you say to yourself well this is a little worse than normal emergencies um what will happen is you know FEMA will come in and you know people will adjust that it's going to take a few years but they're going to rebuild and then uh maybe it even be better than it was you know they'll they'll build better homes and you know we have to wait a few years but we'll be back to normal that's not this this is unbuildable this is almost the total Destruction of the entire Southern California what's that going to do to Northern California well who's going to pay for it probably me so they're going to make Northern California I think unlivable because there'll be tax like crazy or they're going to have to steal some of her water or something but it's going to be completely unlivable if if you assume the normal things are the only things that can happen we are doomed let let me say it as clearly as possible if you assume normal business normal recovery normal emergency normal rebuilding nothing like that's going to happen it can't it's economically impossible that was the first problem the reason we don't have insurance is because it was already economically impossible we just added a trillion dollars to the insurance burden so where it was impossible before now it's just laughable the insurance is not coming back they're not going to come back to the state because we tweaked something they can't afford these houses it's a terrible place to offer insurance at any price because if you have to increase the price by 10x which is what happened to me nobody can live there so is it the government's problem or the insurance company's problem a little of both more the government than the insurance companies but mostly it's that that our property is completely insanely overpriced do you know what the real price of those homes should have been so let's say a $5 million in home in Pacific Palisades in a place that did not have they didn't know it but suppose they knew it that it did not have protection from a major fire what would be the actual market price of the homes that buil so they were selling for 5 million what would you pay for a home that's probably going to burn down right you'd say to yourself well I mean well before it burns down this is like heaven I'm told that was like the best place anybody ever lived in their life like people really really like that place so you might say well I don't know if it's going to burn down yeah I'm seeing the numbers 300,000 cuz if you lose 300,000 you might say well well first of all you could you could insure it the insurance companies would say no actually you couldn't you couldn't insure it because the the rebuilding cost is what the insurance company would care about and that would still be you know several million dollar so you'd have to you'd have to buy it for something like $300,000 not Ure it and then if you lost the entire 300,000 to a fire just say well it's not the end of my world like I I can I can recover from that I'll just have to live somewhere else so the real problem and by the way this uh I should give credit to fredberg on the all-in Pod because if if any of the all-in Pod guys are watching they're they're probably saying is he stealing friberg's Point yes yes I'm stealing friberg's point because I hadn't somehow that was a little bit invisible to me because I was looking in the wrong place I was looking at the insurance and you know I wasn't looking at the house value um so that's the bad news the bad news is there is no mechanism for Recovery the good news is we got a new president now I think he would be unlikely to spend a trillion dollars to rebuild the same bad situation but suppose as Joel poock pointed out in article on Breitbart you you happen to be lucky enough to have the you know a great Builder as a president and there's this fellow in Southern California named Caruso who is also a developer and he's the one who lost narrowly to to Karen bass I think he's also Democrat but he's not a crazy Democrat he's a can we do common sense Democrat a common sense Democrat with experience in building has my attention but you would need a lot more I'm going to throw out some wild ideas in the spirit of uh brainstorming that isn't with good ideas but if I throw out enough bad ideas you're going to get the point that this is solvable right so these are the bad ideas suppose uh just for Southern California maybe maybe Northern as well uh the insurance rules are changed so that individuals can offer insurance insurance so in other words somebody like me I can just say hey I'd like to put you know invest in California insurance but I only want to invest in homes that have certain fireproofing Andor local uh local good management to get rid of the the burnable stuff so I would say okay my neighborhood is you know in good shape um the the if if something burned in my neighborhood there's a lot of tile roofs um people have removed the trees then I might say hm okay as a personal investment I'll put a little money into this uh let's say uh crowdfunded insurance now it might be a good idea it might be a bad idea but unlike the insurance company if the insurance company takes a total loss they're out of business and I think they might be out of business after this but if I as a personal investor said you know what what I'm going to put $1,000 into this because I think next year it could be worth you know uh 1,200 and then if I lost my $1,200 I would say oh darn and nothing would change I would just lose my $1,200 you know it was a financial bet didn't work out so first of all could you spread the BET to individuals and then would the crowd be smarter about picking the ones they want to back and when people found out they couldn't even get crowd backing what would they have to buy to get it well here's another idea number one you have to uh replace your roof because if your roof Burns I'm not giving you insurance if you're in California and you have a flammable roof I'm not giving you any insurance but if you want to buy a new roof we can talk if if you have a robot let's let's think I add it a little bit if you have a robot who's a private fireman and somehow the technology worked I'd give you a better deal because you as a human would leave the evacuation Zone and your robot Which is less burnable would just stand there with a water pack and zap wherever an ember hits so we the robot would just walk around the house and go and just zap the little Embers starting to affect your property or like in my house suppose I had trees that are a little too close to the house because the house itself is is quite resistant I built it to be super resistant to be fires by the way I should tell you that it's it was it was built specifically to be resistant to fires I designed it that way um but the trees are too close which makes it less resistant so somebody comes to me and they say Scott we'll give you some of this crowdsourced insurance but you got to get rid of these trees then I say oh are you kidding this place like these are really mature trees and they say but no insurance and then I cut down the trees and then I I'm a little bit unhappy but I got insurance so could crowd sourcing um get you to the point where individuals maybe even in your town can decide whether you're a good bet because that's that's what it might take the year's the other thing um you know NE you've seen pictures of people who had sprinklers on the roof and they would just take the I think it was a lawn sprinkler they just put it on the roof before they evacuated and it would just sort of keep the roof moist and kept it from burning in some cases probably not all cases but some so maybe maybe there's a new technology that we don't know about a roof sprinkler you um something like that maybe the insurance company would do the forest mitigation for the state because there's a profit to be made if they can mitigate it then they can sell the crowdsource insurance into this into the city now are any of those ideas good ideas not really not really they're they're all incomplete but does it help you imagine that if we released on everything we've done before and just started with a clean slate and said all right if you were going to vent this from scratch would it look anything like the current system and the answer is no if you invented it today from scratch you'd use AI you'd use I don't know just a lot of different things so um and then maybe there's something with land values that have to be adjusted all right um You may have heard that the leader of black lives matter Patrice cullers has lost two of her three Los Angeles mansions in the wildfires so I'm not willing to say that Dei is the reason anybody lost their house I do think it's the reason that there's Mass incompetence in general but if you're looking for any you one tragedy and one one person in charge it doesn't necessarily mean that Dei is there but the irony of the simulation is that the person Mo you would imagine most associated with Dei got her house two of her three houses that she didn't deserve burned down by Dei that's kind of perfect you know now again I'm not saying it's Dei but that's going to be the The Narrative about it all right uh Nome went on a podcast Governor Nome and he was blaming local leaders for the problem so he didn't he wanted to make sure you knew it wasn't necessarily the state leadership that he's in charge of was rather the local leaders local leaders so so the white guy Governor thinks the problem is the the local leaders is there anything about the local leaders that's uh worth noting does it sound to you like local leaders is the racist dog whistle that a Democrat can use yeah it wasn't the white governor of the state it was the local leaders do you hear it or is it just me do you do you hear the racist dog whistle I feel like local leaders just has a little bit of a Vibe of racism without using the words I don't know maybe it's just me that's the way it hit me I I certainly can't read his mind but it's the way it hit me sounds like a dog whistle to me according to the climate change dispatch California actually had record rainfall in I think it was last year and didn't save it because we don't have the right kind of um reservoirs and we haven't built many reservoirs since forever so poor long-term planning um those people who say that it's climate change caused the dryness are ignoring the fact that California has always had a highly variable uh climate when it comes to rain the most most common thing in California my entire life is that oh it's a few years of drought oh it's a few years of too much rain oh we're back to a few years of drought oh it's a too much rain all you have to do is save the rain from the too much rain year and you would have plenty for the not enough rain year at least for fire maybe not for drinking so yes that would be a case of bad management brenwood is under evacuation order brentwood's that famous Rich place where people like kamla Harris Le.
Bron James and Arnold Schwarzenegger live and OJ lived um on top of that so Schwarzenegger says you know don't worry about me and uh of course we weren't it's funny schwarzeneger tells the public you know don't worry about me I'll be fine and I think the entire public said we know we weren't really worried about the people so rich they have multiple homes and you know $500 million or whatever he's worth no we weren't worried um but apparently Comm Harris's house got burglarized or at least there's a report that there were people there who looked like they were going to Burg burglarize it and got caught now there is now that means there's a nonzero chance that Bren wood could burn down and KLA Harris house that's what I call a bad year can you imagine losing the presidential race to Hitler and within a few months your house burns down so she's out of a job her career is destroyed her husband was outed as a a girlfriend beat her and then her house gets burned down if it happens I mean uh let me say as clearly as possible I don't want that to happen I don't want that to happen I don't want anybody's house to burn down I don't care what they did to me you didn't do to me or the bad things they did I don't really want anybody's house to burn down except for the black lives matter woman who's who has three mansions that look to be entirely based on you know so she would be an exception but no I don't want KLA Harris's house to burn down just to be clear um Wall Street Journal says the fire is 15% contained and you think oh good they went from 3% to 15 we're in good shape they'll just keep going nope the wind is coming back and they should lose that whole 15 in the next day or two that's the current forecast the next week's going to be hairy so we don't know how far this fire is going to go but let me teach you something about numbers yesterday I saw a uh a report that one of the fires was 3% contained do you know what's not a thing 3% contained that's not a thing do you think that they can measure 3% containment no 3% is zero but they want you to think that they're doing something so they go from zero to 3% there's no difference there's no difference between 3% contained and 0% contained that's just something you say so the news will report it and people go oh well look look like they've gone from zero to three in just a week so it's picking up no it's not picking up 3% zero same number same number all right Elon Musk I saw a post but I didn't see the exact words and didn't write it down but it sound sounded like he said that in 2021 he Elon Musk has set out to destroy the woke mind virus and now he's declaring success do you think the woke mind virus is destroyed I'm going to give him the win on that I think he destroyed the woke mind virus I don't think Trump did I think I think he must it he said he would do it he did he did all the things that you would do if you're trying to get rid of it and it does look like people can now talk about it being ridiculous so you've got both Democrats prominent Democrats um at least in the punday class as well as Republicans say yeah all that stuff the woke M virus was overblown overdone ridiculous it was it lacked Common Sense uh yes Elon Musk set out to destroy the woke M virus and got it done and boy did he take heat for that and still is I mean the the amount I mean he had to have beef up his personal security I mean he took he took a chance on your behalf his as well but on your behalf as well and uh good for him good for him but just to make his day better there was a former uh in the UK a labor MP so part of the government so he's recently out of it but he was one of the people who publicly criticized Elon Musk on British TV last week for when Elon was criticizing K starmer uh and uh it was all about the the all about the I don't want to say it because I'll get demonetized you know you're all following the story so so this guy complained about the complaints about the serious crimes against young people and he the guy who complained about it or complained about the complaints about it uh just was arrested for attempting to have a meet up with a 15-year-old boy so you know that thing where you wonder are the the governments of the developed worlds all terrible sex criminals and transvestites and in the closet and every other kind of thing you can think of is it really that and and that they're all in place as puppets it might be you you know what I heard from uh of course this is not confirmed that um Justin Trudeau was never really the head of the country and that he literally thought of himself as a relationship manager and all of the real decisions were made by other people so the other people are the ones who say yeah he doesn't really do anything he's just a relationship manager and they've also alleged and I don't know if this is true but they alleged that he also didn't really pay attention to the news and didn't know what was going on so when you saw him talk you would say to yourself I did anyway you probably did too it's like does he even watch the news Trudeau looked like somebody who wasn't even informed about anything and then the politician says yeah he wasn't informed about anything because he didn't need to make any decisions he was just supposed to go out there and say happy stuff that's what it looked like now that seems to much hyperboy to me I think he must have had some real power but what if he didn't what what if the entire system is just people behind the scenes making sure they have the most black mailable person in the top job because it sure as hell looks like it and you and that would make you understand why there was so much resistance to Trump because he's quite clearly not that you whatever Trump is doesn't look like a puppet but maybe that's what it is it's all puppets I had somebody come after me today who had pronouns in his profile um instant block I I'm never going to have another conversation with somebody who has pronouns in their profile you know I used to do it like I'd respond to them and say well here's my point of view I'm not going to talk to anybody with pronouns in their profile and I recommend that you don't either because whatever they have to say it can't possibly be useful could it like just don't waste your time talking to anybody who think thinks that's their priority enough prior priority enough to put it in their profile so no meanwhile over at the MS MSNBC Comedy Network that's what I call it it's not intentional but it's pretty funny um so they had some commentator I don't know his name but his his haircut looked like a paintbrush do you know which one it is he he has this big like a like a giant paintbrush on his head anyway um he was talking about the Carter Funeral and how all the leaders were just sort of chatting friendly and he said this quote there was something strange about seeing multiple leaders who G who have warned that this guy meaning Trump is a dictatorship on the horizon fascism on the horizon the end of the American experiment now just because of the just because of the rituals of the funeral so that's what he's blaming he's blaming the rituals of a funeral um he says It Is normalized by default we are just sitting and making small talk with a guy who we have said is going to end everything so remember I said what's going to happen to Democrat brains when reality is is thrust upon them Well here here's an example so instead of the more obvious um interpretation that the entire Democrat Party was lying about Trump which to me seems super obvious the MSNBC take and but I actually think he means this I think this is an actual take I don't think he sat around saying what lie can I tell that will I think he thinks this he thinks the problem if you can call it that is that the funeral forced everybody to act you know responsible and that that's the reason that they were joking and talking to Hitler no that's not why no because no not that guy not Eli weasel there's there's some other guy so he looks like a more like one of those mushroom balls so I'm talking about the paintbrush hair not the mushroom ball anyway so I'm amazed at Democrats to look at something as obvious as this and decide that it's the funeral rituals that explain everything the funeral ritual nope can I can I be clear about this I would not attend a funeral for somebody who is not related to me and wasn't my best friend under any condition if I were going to be sitting next to and chatting with Hiller that's just me no if he really if any of the things they said about him were true they would not have attended or they would have disinvited made sure that the you know the Hitler got disinvited the whole thing was always a lie and MSNBC is the biggest purveyor of it well in surprising but maybe not so much uh news the LA Times owner has invited Mark andreon to be on his board so you might know that the LA Times um newish owner Dr patson xang um decided not to endorse kamla Harris and then people said whoa whoa are you not as Democrat as we thought you're not as Lefty as we thought well he did vote for com Harris so the owner of the LA Times voted for um but he didn't endorse her because he didn't want the newspaper to be you know just a biased uh entity so he got you know tons of hate for that because he was trying to be you know middle of the road but inviting Mark Andre to be on your board of your newspaper that said a whole different message do you know what message that sends that he's going to turn Republican nope nope that he just wants to put on some window dressing so it looks like he's being seeing both sides nope I think he wants a common sense guy I I think Mark andreon is sort of the ultimate Common Sense guy if you listen to him you can you can use your imagination to like well see Republican because you can almost hear it but you can't like I don't know if he's Republican I don't know what he is but I can tell you that every time you talks it makes sense he goes for the things that are common sense not the philosophy not the weird stuff not the stuff that's clearly going to you know be here with us and then go away but like real permanent logical rational stuff yeah he'd be he'd be great I would rather I'd rather him be the governor of California if I had a Mark Andre governor of California big yes big yes shellenberger yes yes yeah I can name a few other names but yeah there's there's some people that I'd like to see to get that job and andreon would be right in my shortest list at the top uh so that's good that seems like the Trump effect in the sense that I I don't think the LA Times could do what we're seeing um meaning the owner Dr patson Chang I don't think he could do it without that Trump effect being just what it is where everybody's got a little freedom to say what they want all right um here's the thing you need to know about we Californians um it kind of sneaks up on you so you don't realize it until it's done but we don't really have the right to own homes in California because there's a thing called property tax and if you don't pay your property tax they'll take your home so you don't really own a home if you're paying somebody else to live in it that's not ownership but then you say to me well but Scott if you sell it you get to keep the money how am I going to sell my home who would buy anything in California at the moment so I can't sell it and I don't own it but well okay you know when I when I die I can you know leave it to my heirs do you know what would be left of my net wealth after after state and federal taxes and death taxes nothing well it's not nothing but it'd be like less than half so no we're we're basically living in a Dei managed racist hellscape and um here's the other problem people keep saying and I and I just said it a moment ago we keep saying that all we need is to get capable and competent people in the top jobs and then everything will be okay there's no mechanism for that to happen if if the Democrats have as much control over the system as it it looks like you can't get any competent people in office it's all going to be you know Dei incompetence and there's nothing that's going to change that you haven't seen a single thing from anything official like in the government where they would say you know what maybe California should pull back from Dei and and let me say something I I hate to help him but on the other hand it would be good the most unlikely thing I could imagine is Governor Nome saying uh I'd like to make Dei illegal in California now you're going to say to yourself there's no freaking way that's going to happen you know the the the head the potential guy who might run for president as a Democrat is going to do you think he's going to disown the the single most important thing that Democrats do well here's the thing no matter how much you love or hate Gavin Newsome even the people who don't like him seem to say grudgingly he's kind of good at this politics stuff that's why he's Governor so if he's good at the politics stuff and in my personal opinion destroying California is Unforgiven able even even if the local leaders are the reason um if he did something big and bold and common sensical like saying you know what we got to get competent people we got to get you know we got to bring in uh we gotta we got to get rid of Dei could he become president if he was the most prominent Democrat who said guys we got to stop this you know I won't have any of it di is a losing proposition it's basically racist we tried it and it didn't work out we have to Pivot that would put him right back on the top of the leader board for president I don't know if he could do it but the thing I'm positive about is that you smart enough to know he should or that he couldn't get elected without doing it anyway um I think I missed the main point I was going to make earlier which is uh because Trump is a builder and uh one of the people who ran for mayor but lost Caruso as a builder that you can imagine the two of them getting together and saying what regulations do we need to get rid of right away and you could Revitalize California by massively changing the regulatory environment could the two of them get it done well neither of them is the governor of California so I don't know but maybe some kind of federalizing things would work Mike cernovich raised over $100,000 I think it was over $130,000 for uh Californians who are displaced and need some food he's working with Chef GRL who is doing the the hard work of the uh cooking and delivering the food was doing it I I believe on his own dime until cernovich stepped in with 10,000 of his own money and he raised 13,000 above that I think I think that's the right number and that's pretty impressive so uh I don't know how the other states worked out I imagine it's the same in the sense that the people who had the ability to step in are stepping in so you know I'm trying to do my part in a variety of ways and not all that not all that would be public but I'm hoping a lot of people are doing a lot of non-public things to help out that's pretty that's pretty amazing um all right here's the uh yeah I think I already talked about that um the American Psychological Association is urging the FTC according to the futurism publication by Maggie Harrison dpre uh for urges the FTC to investigate AI chat Bots that are claiming to be therapists and offering free therapy so the human therapists are saying hey there's AI therapists online and they're pretending to be real people cuz deep fakes um now their complaint is simply that they're not labeled so so far they're not complaining that they might give you bad advice although probably they think that the complaint is they're not labeled now that's a decent complaint I I think the consumer should absolutely know if they're talking to an AI they absolutely should know however I would like to nominate therapists uh at the top of the list for being replaced by AI do you really think that your $200 or $400 an hour I don't know what it costs uh do you think that your once a week one hour therapist is going to be anywhere near as good as the one you can talk to all day long as much as you want and it can answer all the same questions and has all the same skills and acts just like a human it's not really going to be close now at the moment I would imagine the human is well well beyond what the AI currently can do but how long end of the year I I think therapy might be one of the things that goes first to AI meanwhile here's a uh fake news story um in my opinion but maybe there's just something wrong in The Way It Was Written it's in the express publication and it says that over in Ukraine there are these butterfly battle um yeah these butterfly drones so they got a big shipment 30,000 drones coming in from the UK and they say that these drones are so light and Nimble that they look like a child's toy but they have a machine gun and they can carry a soldier out of a out of the war zone no no there's there's no drone that's the size of a child's toy and has a machine machine gun on it and certainly it's not carrying any soldiers the size of a child's toy no no I don't know what's wrong with the story I don't know if any of it's right may maybe the entire thing's made up but no no you're not putting a machine gun on something the size of a child's drone toy weird but it says uh has an operational range of 12.5 miles and can operate autonomously for up to three days and has this machine gun on it and a mobile turret and it's got four oh it's also got listen to this it's got fourth glass protection armor so it can even uh you can even shoot it and if you don't shoot it too many times or too hard it'll survive being shot remember size of a child's toy has a machine gun can operate autonomously for three days and it could take direct fire none of that can be true does anybody believe any of that I don't think any of it's true but who knows maybe I'm wrong anyway that's all I got for you today uh we going to talk to the locals people privately and uh the rest of you I'll see you tomorrow thanks for joining I hope your day gets better better than whatever it was all right e e e e e e e e e e e e e
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I almost forgot the words not like I do
it every
day well there are
stories remember that big problem with
the sea ice that climate change was
going to was going to take care of all
the sea ice and then we'd have problems
wouldn't we well according to the Daily
skeptic Chris Morrison uh there's been a
massive recovery in Antarctic sea
ice um and let's see if even the
officially the uh us-based National snow
and ice data center confirms that and
apparently it's sort of back into its
normal zone
is proving that the variation was
probably just natural just natural
variation um so the sea ice melting
doesn't seem to be any indication of
climate change but it was
predicted and then of course you've
heard about the coral reefs the coral
reefs for being destroyed by climate
change except I don't know if you missed
the stories where seems like they're all
coming back but the climate change is
worse how do how are they coming back oh
maybe there's some natural
variation how about that sea level
remember all those beach houses that
used to be good but now the the water
Rose now you can't live there neither do
I so
climate change didn't predict sea level
coral reefs sea ice oh but it did
predict temperature so I mean that's
true right it did predict the
temperature didn't
it or or is it possible that we're
measuring that wrong too of course we're
measuring it wrong the temperature might
be going up I wouldn't know but there's
no way we can know we we don't have any
kind of reliable mechanism for measuring
the temperature of the entire planet
over time that is so far from being a
thing that a human humans could do but
the news tells you they can do it so you
should believe it because it's on the
news well the Trump effect has reached
Chicago because a couple of the
aldermen I think it's funny that Chicago
has
Alderman is there any other city that
has
Alderman is that just a Chicago word I
got the
oldermen uh Florida has elderly men so I
don't know what an olderman is but some
kind of politician and they're in the
legislature and they're introducing
legislation they would roll back the
city's Sanctuary
law so that's where the city would not
cooperate with ice and help them Deport
people but uh at least two of them want
to roll it back now this is according to
daily color news Jason Hopkins is
writing about it
and what is interesting about this story
I mean there's always somebody who wants
to roll back everything right there're
both
Democrats two Democrat aldermen
Democrats are trying to roll back their
own Sanctuary city is that the Trump
effect what else would it be of course
it's the Trump effect uh here the Trump
effect if if you're looking for a
definition and I think we need one
the Trump effect is not just the good
things are happening that Trump
supporters would like although that's
certainly on the surface that's what's
happening what it is is that the Trump
effect made it safe it made it safe for
people to pursue common
sense because I think Trump actually
sold the idea that common sense is where
the two parties meet in the middle we're
not going to meet on you know some let's
say uh philosophical level but we should
always meet on the how do you stop a
fire we should always meet on should we
close the
border we should always meet on should
crime be
illegal the the these are not political
things and it took the Trump effect to
you know take the crazy left end of
their bubble and say what about what
about the things that are just common
sense like safety
can can we just work on that now of
course climate change hang hangs over
everything because the climate change
crisis Believers and again I'm only
talking about the extent of it not
whether or not it's happening I assume
climate's always change for one reason
or another and maybe humans are part of
it I wouldn't know and I'm pretty sure
science doesn't know either even though
they told you they did I'm pretty sure
they tell you a lot of things that you
think they know that they
don't well special counsel Jack Smith
resigned from the Department of Justice
that would be the smallest um surprise
in the
world uh do you think he expects to be
investigated because it feels like at
least he's been accused of being some
part of some kind of potentially ricol
like bad behavior to lawfare Trump you
know I have mixed feelings about this on
one hand I think it would you know it
would be damaging to the country to you
know rip the Democrat evil Rico people
up by the roots even though they've in
my opinion I would say it's fairly
obvious that major laws have been
broken but I'm not an expert so I mean I
could be talked that if if the real
experts say well no no laws were broken
it was just something you didn't like
maybe sure it looks like laws were
broken to me but if the people who know
more than I do say laws were broken and
they want to investigate I think I would
I would take the risk
of that destroying the
country because keeping it the way it is
would destroy the country for
sure so you know having a not not a
physical Civil War but let's say a
lawfare civil war probably necessary to
regain you know mutually isure
destruction and make sure that people
know that if they cross the line and
create literally a a
RICO uh treasonous insurrection
within the
government that's got to have a price
that has to be
expensive so if uh the Trump
Administration makes it additionally
expensive for people involved in that
bad
behavior maybe that's just the way it
has to
be I saw I saw a uh social media thing
that said opro is going to leave the
country for four years because of
trump but I can't believe that's true
can anybody give me a fact check on that
this sounds like fake news I don't think
Oprah would really leave the
country for four
years now if it's true the only reason I
could think is that she's she's trying
to escape criminal prosecution for
something
um when yeah and if she went to a no
extradition country that would sort of
confirm it but I'm going to say fake
news I'm going to say fake news what do
you think anybody think that's true I'm
going to go with fake news unless I hear
a lot more about it all right well we'll
see now it's also something that she
might be threatening and might actually
mean it but I'm going to bet against it
happening but we'll see I'll bet against
it meanwhile Stephen A Smith was on a
podcast talking about uh Trump and
now he's of course been a Democrat and
he's a black man in
America
and uh he's really interesting lately so
he's saying that Republicans make a lot
of sense just think about that sentence
a longtime Democrat and then he says
quote Republicans make a lot of
sense
sense you know Common
Sense th this is Stephen A Smith
completely falling into the Trump
frame that some things are just common
sense we shouldn't be talking about that
Stephen A Smith says yes common sense so
remember when we thought it was
impossible to meet in the middle on
anything as soon as the Trump effect
went into you know wide wide effect it
seems like people like Stephen A Smith
can now say what they wanted to say
maybe all the time which is you know I I
like my Democrats I still kind of like
some of the philosophy but why are we
acting like Common Sense doesn't even
exist like why why can't we at least do
the things that make sense that
everybody agrees on now that
weirdly just wasn't a way of thinking
even a year ago but now it is that's all
Trump that's all
Trump um here's what else he says
uh Stephen A Smith said quote the
Finishing Touch for me in terms of
changing his mind on politics uh was
California well here it is because I
think he's the canary in the coal mine
if he tells you that the
California experience before the fire
this is before the fire if he tells you
that looking at California made him
think that the Democrats were you know
not the ones to
back just think about the fact that he
could see it before the
fire and he was affected by it I I don't
think it changed his vote you know but
now it might and he he said about
California you see what's going on in
California higher taxes homelessness
crime rate
Etc um when people are going off
particularly folks on the left and
they're talking about these policies and
what policy is better blah blah blah I
see folk I see folks on the right
talking about real life issues and stuff
like that and he said says I'm like I'm
like I hate that they make a lot of
sense now does that sound like exactly
something that came out of my
mouth it does it sounds like exactly
something I would say the the Democrats
have lots of lofty conceptual ideas and
they're going to call you names if you
don't like
it Republicans have been really really
clean about talking about what's wrong
and how to fix it uh the Border open too
many criminals close
it everybody understands that everybody
understands that and here again I'm
going to credit Trump for something
that's not obvious to you when Trump
says what he wants everybody understands
it and then he says it a bunch of times
until we all get it and then we could
like it or not like it but it's a real
proposed
solution and we can evaluate it and we
all understand it that's sort of new
because my my memory of past you know
traditional boring politicians is that
they would say General
hypothetical you know philosophical
things too and you could barely remember
which one was backing what policy but
now it's such a clean distinction one
says uh do do obvious Common Sense
things the other says well the 1% not
paying their fair share you they got my
Dei and what about the lesbian purposes
you
know it it now that you can mock that
even if you're a Democrat so even
Democrats can mock that now Bill Maher
of course was a Pioneer mock mocking it
um but here's the uh the kill
shot ah man just listen to this this is
Stephen A Smith again now and if if
you're not familiar with all the you
know the famous names and sports you
have to know that these black black and
has been Democrat right those are
important to the story um so he says I
saw folks on the left basically try to
guilt me into voting for uh for kamla uh
you know what bothered me I might have
ended up voting for kamla because I
didn't like how Trump
acts you
know that is
such every time somebody says I don't
like how he
acts that's just not a thing
that's not a real thing you could say I
don't like his policies you could say I
didn't like what he did in his first
term but I don't like how he acts really
that would be the reason you you pick
the other person let me tell you how he
acts he acts in a way that with no
experience whatsoever he became
president of the United States once and
then being completely destroyed by
lawfare and fake news and the Democrat
uh evil committee he rebuilt from
absolute destruction in four years to
come back and win the presidency in a in
in
a convincing way now that's the way he
acts do you think do you think it's
accidental that his you know provocative
ways happened at the same time is great
success if you still haven't figured out
that all that stuff of the way he
acts that's the active
ingredient that I think all the
Democrats are
so maybe what would be the word I don't
want to insult them I'll
say um they're not seeing the right
frame if you think that Trump has a few
good ideas even in your own opinion but
that is ruined by the way he acts and
his insults and his his crazy
statements what would be the evidence
that all those insults and crazy
statements were negative was it that he
didn't become president twice is it that
he doesn't have the biggest mandate ever
is it that is it that every politician
who is worth a damn is looking at what
he did and trying to copy it is it that
fedman a Democrat who I have a lot of
respect for I have to be honest um is
that that he's looked at Trump and said
hm that looks like it works why don't I
do some of that and then he does it and
guess what it works it works for
fedin it works for everybody H how about
we can we finally get to the point where
we realize that the way he acts is the
active ingredient I mean he has to have
good policies that are common sense of
course but selling it selling the
policies which is absolutely essential
to a good leader he can't have good
ideas and not sell them selling them
comes from the way he acts if you don't
get that everything's
confusing I I've been saying this since
2015 and I don't think I've ever been
more right about anything in my life I'm
about as right as you could be that it's
the way he acts that's the secret
sauce all right so but going on here's
what he said he said uh he said but uh
what I didn't do was call Trump a racist
I didn't call him a na
and then just listen to this I knew
Trump before he ran for president there
it is there it is do you know how many
black Americans knew Trump were close to
him he helped he he helped in a number
of cases you know he helped uh Michael
Jackson he helped Mike Tyson um I'm
pretty sure he helped uh who was the
boxing promoter with the the wild hair I
forget I I mean why I know I'm I'm not
even I'm just a casual Observer and I
know at least three
examples where he with nothing in return
well there's always something in return
I guess but just as helpful to everybody
well so he goes on he goes uh uh talking
about uh Trump so this is Stephen A
Smith talking about Trump he said we
talked on the phone we talk at
basketball games or boxing events I knew
this man and so some of the things that
were being said about him I knew were
not
true and I was saying come on y'all you
got to do better than
that Don King thank you yeah he was he
was friendly with Don King I think
helped him in his career as well
so you know what would have been really
useful if Stephen I Smith had said this
before it was
safe would you agree wouldn't have been
nice for Stephen AI
when Trump was being called you know
favoring neo-nazis and the fine people
hoax and he's the biggest racist
wouldn't be nice for a respected smart
voice to say oh I know him personally
yeah you don't have to worry about that
that's not an issue wouldn't that be
nice but I found myself you know getting
ready to respond to a a post on that and
and say basically thanks for
nothing thanks for nothing
this would have been really useful in
2015 it would have been really useful in
2020 it would have been really useful in
the beginning of
2024 do you know what it is now now it's
unnecessary it's unnecessary he won so
now that it's safe Elon Musk can say it
and Joe Rogan can say it and you know a
whole bunch of public figures can say it
the left and the right can say it now
it's
safe so I found myself getting actually
angry at him
for sort of speaking out too late like
that
counts and then I slap myself in the
face scop stop it stop it I'm ignoring
my own rule you know what rule I'm
ignoring of my
own here's the rule everything good
takes too long to
happen everything good takes too long to
happen this is good this is good took
too long to happen and now I reject all
my prior comments so I'm taking them
back which I knew I would do so I'm
taking back my comments that that he
waited too long and that it wasn't Brave
to wait till now and he's waiting till
it's safe and I'm going to completely
revise that I respect his opinion and I
really appreciate it I respect it and I
really genuinely appreciate it and if
you hear me ever again say that
something is good but it took too long
can you slap me I I don't want to ever
hear that out of anybody's mouth because
everything good took too long there's no
exception to that everything so it's
just the dumbest
simplest you know pund thing to say oh
where were you before why didn't you do
something earlier no how about that was
good thank you I respect it and just
take the
win all right uh let's talk about
Greenland apparently there was a poll on
whether they wanted Independence or to
stay owned by Denmark now I don't know
if this is a scientific poll or an
internet poll or what it was I'm not
sure we can totally trust this but uh
three4 or two-third of them 2third of
them wanted Independence and one third
wanted to stay with Denmar if you
believe that
poll what I say is uh so so 2third of
them want
independence let's check again in two
months if you check back in two months
I'll bet you 80% say they want
independence Andor some kind of
association with the United States
that's stronger because that's the Trump
effect Trump will find a way to convince
the
greenlandic greenlandic people I think
it's greenlandic the people are called
not
greenlanders see if I'm right I need a
fact check on that are they the
greenlandic people I don't know uh
anyway so as you know the Greenland uh
prime minister uh spoke out do you get
the
joke the the Greenland prime minister he
spoke out do you know why that's funny
do you know what his first name
is mute M that's his actual name his
first name is mute yeah he spoke
out there's your simulation the mute is
speaking out so he didn't say that he
wants to um be an American state or
anything like that he said that the
greenlandic people should decide what
their fate is but he's not he didn't
seem terribly keen on saying owned by
Denmark and you can understand that but
here's the bigger surprise today
apparently the Danish um Danish
officials think that some kind of Middle
Ground can be reached this is this is
according to the Daily wire Tim Pierce
and middle ground would be something
short of a sale but some kind of a
stronger
cooperation something like that we don't
know what that would look like now
what what do you think of Trump's first
offer if if you want to see the art of
the deal in real time let let me let me
try to set this up for
you suppose you were a regular
politician suppose you were Joe Biden or
Jimmy Carter and you had this idea that
we should own or have control of
functional control of Greenland how
would you go about it well you probably
have some some secret meetings right and
then the Greenland people would never
hear about it and then they would never
weigh in to tell you that they agreed
with it so that would be the first
mistake of everybody who's not Trump
trump tweets about it if Trump puts it
in the public the entire nation of
Greenland is talking about it I'll bet
you 100% of all the greenlandic
people have had lots of conversations
about this everyone and it's because
Trump said it and Trump said it publicly
and not only he say it publicly but he
said here here's the
beauty he basically said if you don't
sell it to us or give it to us we're
going to take
it what do you think the greenlandic
people think when the entire US military
and the president of the United States
named Trump says you know we could just
take
it do you think they believed it
yes well well at least they believed
there was a high possibility do you
think he meant it as in he would send in
the actual military and like start
arresting any Greenland resistors don't
know that that's the beauty of it I I
follow Trump as closely as anybody I
don't know did he mean it that's his
magic his magic is he might mean it he
might and that's all you need so think
about how much action he got simply by
putting it out there that if you if you
don't work with us we're just going to
take it because once he's established
that it's a military security
requirement which I'd never heard before
before Trump i' never even heard that
some kind of military requirement which
which I believe because of the opening
of the ice in the nearby it's going to
be fought over by russan China and all
the powers so yeah we need a strong
strong presence to make sure our
hemisphere doesn't get invaded by you
missiles and who knows what so the first
thing he does is informs the country
that it's it's a requirement for
security so we're like well there's no
way to get there but wouldn't it be
great then he says in public and the
green Landing people like huh no no no I
don't want to do
that but what's the
offer you only have to make him curious
yeah just just make him curious what the
offer is cuz who who's going to say
who's going to say no before they hear
the
offer right you could say no after you
hear the offer but who says no before
they hear the offer you know just
ordinary curious people who are not
killing it in life maybe they'd like to
do a little better this rich guy says
maybe I can do something for you you're
going to stay and you're going to listen
and then you hear but he might just take
it then you think um maybe we should
talk to him and then Denmark says you
know what I'm thinking maybe we should
talk to you maybe we'll meet in the
middle somewhere do you know what Trump
needed he just needed him to meet in the
middle I I don't think the United States
would be in favor of uh of uh making a
state do you know why because I'm pretty
sure we don't want their voting record
we I'm pretty sure we don't want to give
them some kind of political power now I
don't know what their beliefs are
politically but I just as a you know
point of reference I checked if they
have if abortion is legal in Greenland
because I feel I feel like that's going
to tell you kind of quickly where their
heads are at not only is it legal to get
an abortion in Greenland but according
to google they have the highest abortion
rate in the
world the highest abortion rate in the
world now if I were a negotiator
I would say to myself hm yeah that's
sort of a poison pill you know if if
you're a republican it's a poison pill
um so maybe we should meet in the middle
instead of turning it into a state maybe
some kind of territory situation you
know with a special Arrangement would be
best for all but what's interesting is
that just as Trump is sort of offering
hey wouldn't it be great if you were
Americans wouldn't you like that the
greenlandic people are the busiest of
all people killing their own people so
even the greenlandic people don't love
greenlandic people they're killing them
at the highest rate of any civilized
country I'm just joking the greenlandic
people probably just have a lot of sex
so they you know there's nothing else to
do so they probably need more abortions
because they have more sex or something
like that um now here's a here's
something I learned from the comments on
locals um I had I hadn't really
considered this before but uh you know
how Trump is really good with real
estate like he can spot an opportunity
in real estate that other people might
not you know catch because that's his
business and somebody pointed out that
this is the perfect time to buy
Greenland because once climate change
turns turns on and Greenland actually
turns green we're not going to be able
to afford it so you want to get it cheap
before climate change turns into a
beachfront sort of a you know tropical
island cuz that's when it's really going
to be expensive so I think Trump's
brilliant he's going to get it before it
warms
up you can't tell if I'm kidding can
you all right so I thought I would put
together a Greenland deal just so we
could sort of play with it to see if it
looks like it could be something that
would work I'm going to throw out a
first draft right now of what a deal
might look like right now I don't know
if you know but I have a extensive
background in negotiating used to be my
job in Corporate America I was the
person who had to negotiate with vendors
to get their prices down and all that
stuff
so here's and uh so you learn about deal
making and you know how to how to and
also you know my MBA background they
teach about deal making so I have some
some experience in how to put together a
deal so this is not completely
speculative just know that there's a
little bit a little bit of actual
professional skill that's going into
this okay just a little bit like I'm not
the best at it or anything um number one
I like the idea of calling it a
territory or whatever word you want to
put on it and not a state we already
have some right Guam and whatever um I
don't like them voting but that's no
problem because Greenland probably
doesn't care about voting in our
politics I would say that uh You' want
to offer the greenlandic people full
local control of their laws so that the
law of the United States doesn't
necessarily apply there but they get to
make their own laws and have their own
justice system just like now so
basically they would operate exactly the
same and they would have their own
taxation we wouldn't tax
them but we would take over the uh let's
say the support payments that Denmark is
doing so what Denmark would get out of
it is they don't have to pay Trump his
extortion when he says if we're going to
protect your Island you're going to have
to pay us you know 20 billion a year or
whatever he puts on it and they're not
going to have to not going to want to
pay that and they currently pay to
subsidize Greenland they wouldn't have
to pay that so wouldn't it be great if
Denmark just sort of got out of the
business of managing something that they
don't want to manage so I think I think
Denmark could be made happy as long as
Greenland came out ahead and and they
cut their own budget so they didn't have
to support it I think seems doable but
here's what you would do if you're a
trump to to sweeden a deal you would say
we're going to greatly expand the mining
operations for the um rare earth
materials I think there's some energy
too was there natural gas maybe we don't
know for sure but we' look for some more
and the idea would would that we would
share the income with the locals uh
maybe the same way that um oil companies
when they first went to the Middle East
and the the countries where they want to
drill did not have the ability to build
oil wells themselves so I don't know the
details I'd love to be informed about
that by the way if somebody somebody
knows those details did the oil company
say something like we'll give you
half if you let us just drill on your
land that you can't drill on
or
20% like what what is the number where
both are happy I don't know what that
number is but we could say to them we're
going to give you a percentage of that
and it will be way bigger way more money
than Denmark was giving you every year
your your lifestyle will improve you can
have less abortions and they'd get full
military protection but I think there
would have to be a clause in there which
could be a sticking point that would
give the United States The Authority for
full marshal
law in a military
emergency now if you are wanting to be
an independent sort of associated
territory you're going to bristle at the
idea that there could ever be martial
law imposed by effectively another
country that you're working with but I
don't know that we could say no to that
I I feel I feel like if we're going to
give security to them there it seems
likely there would be cases where the
military would have to put a boot on
ordinary freedoms just temporarily
that's what martial law is and everybody
hates martial law but I feel like we
need some kind of out now maybe we don't
need it because the milit even the
military base that would be stationed
there would be far more powerful than a
bunch of greenlandic citizens with their
handguns or whatever so I suppose we
could get anything we wanted if we
really needed it um but it'd be nice to
put in the the deal so everybody knows
it's possible and then you could say uh
hey hey you guys you could get American
passports do you think the greenlandic
people would like to have an American
passport I don't know if that's good or
bad it' be it' be an addition to maybe
whatever they already have so why
wouldn't that
work can can you think of any idea why
they would not take that deal so they
still have Independence they make a
bunch more money they get free military
without having to pay any taxes for the
military and they get some freedom from
Denmark where's the
downside it's all
upside and and Trump made this
conversation possible by what did
Stephen A Smith say uh by the way he
acts that's right so the way he acts
makes this
possible that's what the way he acts get
you Greenland maybe we'll see well let's
talk about the LA fires I I know that if
you're not in La you're just just
wishing we could stop talking about this
I get it I get it but I think this is
more relevant to all the rest of you
than you think first of all it would be
fascinating to understand what went
wrong so it doesn't happen in your state
and also to give you an idea whether it
can fixed I'm going to give you the bad
news first you
ready I think that the re rebuilding
cost will be at least a
trillion and nobody can pay for that
so the rebuilding if you put it on top
of the regulations that exist you know
all the environmental stuff how long it
takes to get a permit the complications
you know the the removal of the uh toxic
debris the cleaning of the water the re
re hooking up of
things um there is actually no way to
get from here to there there is no way
to rebuild that and if California is
just abandoned effectively to the
criminals because nobody's live there
and it just isn't affordable to fix
homeowners can't fix it on their own
there really isn't any way to fix
it in in in the current normal system so
let me say that again there really is no
solution there because the federal
government isn't going to put a trillion
dollars into it the homeowners can't
afford to rebuild California isn't going
to have enough money or even clothes
it's going to destroy all of her
insurance and make maybe all of our
banking in the entire
country I don't think people understand
that when California Falls the country
gets more than a black
eye it it's an existential threat to the
rest of the country I think California
might be
toast
unless you want some good
news see I I set you up and by the way
when I say there's you bad news and good
news uh they're both possible
I'm not underplaying one of them there
doesn't seem to be any path that you
could recover want to hear why bad it is
how bad it is but why do you think that
Californians can't get insurance you've
heard you've heard the government blame
the insurance companies for pulling out
and trying to get too Prof too much
profit right you've heard the insurance
companies blame the government because
the government won't let them raise
their
prices I'm a Californian let me tell you
what's
true there is no solution it wouldn't
matter if the government or the or the
insurance companies did everything smart
and logical and legal there is no
solution so here's what happens to a
normal Californian you you get in your
house let's say you're uh you're going
to stay where you are for a while you
can afford your house and maybe you've
even retired in it and you figured out
how to keep affording even after
retirement now your house goes up in
value but your still okay and in fact
you're happier because if you sell it
you make more money but also your your
property insurance doesn't change much
you're like oh I still pay the roughly
the same amount of taxes that it does go
up but not as much as the value of your
house then your house doubles again now
your house is worth four times what you
paid for it as long as you stay there
forever your property taxes will be the
original cost
good but what about
Insurance the cost of insurance is for
replacement so now your cost of
insurance is going to have to be four
times what it was when the value of the
home was you know uh well do the math
backwards right nobody can afford that
if if you say to somebody I'm going to
uh double or triple what it cost you for
I think in my case it was maybe a 10 10x
increase 10x
when I get a when I get a market price a
market price from an actual insurance
company that is still in California it
was 10 times what the old price was for
fire Insurance 10 times so it was
something like $1,000 a month went to
$10,000 a
month now I could afford it if I wanted
to pay
that but that's cuz I'm still
working I'm not retired and I didn't buy
my house when it was you know tiny
fraction it has gone up since since I
bought it so nobody who's a normal
person with a normal job even these rich
is rich is people living in the Pacific
Palisades some of them were super rich
you know the Louis dfus ones but if
you're looking at the you know the James
Woods Adam Corolla and then you know
down a level to people who don't have
jobs that good either
those people just barely can hang on to
their homes they might have had them a
long time uh so long that uh it was
cheap when they got them and they were
paying cheap uh cheap property tax cheap
insurance relative to the value of the
home they kept going up but if they have
to
rebuild and especially those who maybe
move because most of those people are
going to say I don't want to wait 5 to
10 years for my house to be livable and
by the way why would I live there it's
all burned down even if my house
survived so those people are going to
say well I got to move somewhere
else what are they going to do they they
can't buy a house and then not get fire
insurance if you just had got burned out
of your old place so there isn't really
a solution because the value of the
property is so inflated relative to its
actual market value um that it's there's
no
solution and I don't see one that if you
straight line it there's no solution so
let me say it in a different way what
you expected when you saw oh there's a
big fire emergency houses burden down uh
it's really really bad did you say to
yourself well this is a little worse
than normal
emergencies um what will happen is you
know FEMA will come in and you know
people will adjust that it's going to
take a few years but they're going to
rebuild and then uh maybe it even be
better than it was you know they'll
they'll build better homes and you know
we have to wait a few years but we'll be
back to normal that's not this this is
unbuildable this is almost the total
Destruction of the entire Southern
California what's that going to do to
Northern California well who's going to
pay for it probably me so they're going
to make Northern California I think
unlivable because there'll be tax like
crazy or they're going to have to steal
some of her water or something but it's
going to be completely unlivable if if
you assume the normal things are the
only things that can happen we are
doomed let let me say it as clearly as
possible if you assume normal business
normal recovery normal emergency normal
rebuilding nothing like that's going to
happen it can't it's economically
impossible that was the first problem
the reason we don't have insurance is
because it was already economically
impossible we just added a trillion
dollars to the insurance burden so where
it was impossible before now it's just
laughable the insurance is not coming
back they're not going to come back to
the state because we tweaked something
they can't afford these houses it's a
terrible place to offer insurance at any
price because if you have to increase
the price by 10x which is what happened
to me nobody can live there so is it the
government's problem or the insurance
company's problem a little of both more
the government than the insurance
companies but mostly it's that that our
property is completely insanely
overpriced do you know what the real
price of those homes should have been so
let's say a $5 million in home in
Pacific Palisades in a place that did
not have they didn't know it but suppose
they knew it that it did not have
protection from a major fire what would
be the actual market price of the homes
that buil so they were selling for 5
million what would you pay for a home
that's probably going to burn
down right you'd say to yourself well I
mean well before it burns down this is
like heaven I'm told that was like the
best place anybody ever lived in their
life like people really really like that
place so you might say well I don't know
if it's going to burn down yeah I'm
seeing the numbers
300,000 cuz if you lose 300,000 you
might say well well first of all you
could you could insure it the insurance
companies would say no actually you
couldn't you couldn't insure it because
the the rebuilding cost is what the
insurance company would care about and
that would still be you know several
million
dollar so you'd have to you'd have to
buy it for something like
$300,000 not Ure it and then if you lost
the entire 300,000 to a fire just say
well it's not the end of my world like I
I can I can recover from that I'll just
have to live somewhere else so the real
problem and by the way this uh I should
give credit to fredberg on the all-in
Pod because if if any of the all-in Pod
guys are watching they're they're
probably saying is he stealing friberg's
Point yes yes I'm stealing friberg's
point because I hadn't somehow that was
a little bit invisible to me because I
was looking in the wrong place I was
looking at the insurance and you know I
wasn't looking at the house value
um so that's the bad news the bad news
is there is no mechanism for
Recovery the good news is we got a new
president now I think he would be
unlikely to spend a trillion dollars to
rebuild the same bad
situation but suppose as Joel poock
pointed out in article on Breitbart you
you happen to be lucky enough to have
the you know a great Builder as a
president and there's this fellow in
Southern California named
Caruso who is also a
developer and he's the one who lost
narrowly to to Karen bass I think he's
also Democrat but he's not a crazy
Democrat he's a can we do common sense
Democrat a common sense Democrat with
experience in building has my attention
but you would need a lot more I'm going
to throw out some wild ideas in the
spirit of uh brainstorming that isn't
with good ideas but if I throw out
enough bad ideas you're going to get the
point that this is
solvable right so these are the bad
ideas
suppose uh just for Southern California
maybe maybe Northern as well uh the
insurance rules are changed so that
individuals can offer insurance
insurance so in other words somebody
like me I can just say hey I'd like to
put you know invest in California
insurance but I only want to invest in
homes that have certain fireproofing
Andor local uh local good management to
get rid of the the burnable stuff so I
would say okay my neighborhood is you
know in good shape um the the if if
something burned in my neighborhood
there's a lot of tile
roofs um people have removed the trees
then I might say hm okay as a personal
investment I'll put a little money into
this uh let's say uh crowdfunded
insurance now it might be a good idea it
might be a bad idea but unlike the
insurance company if the insurance
company takes a total loss they're out
of business and I think they might be
out of business after this but if I as a
personal investor said you know what
what I'm going to put $1,000 into this
because I think next year it could be
worth you know uh
1,200 and then if I lost my
$1,200 I would say oh darn and nothing
would change I would just lose my $1,200
you know it was a financial bet didn't
work out so first of all could you
spread the BET to individuals and then
would the crowd be smarter about picking
the ones they want to back and when
people found out they couldn't even get
crowd backing what would they have to
buy to get it well here's another idea
number one you have to uh replace your
roof because if your roof Burns I'm not
giving you insurance if you're in
California and you have a flammable roof
I'm not giving you any insurance but if
you want to buy a new roof we can
talk if if you have a
robot let's let's think I add it a
little bit if you have a robot who's a
private fireman and somehow the
technology worked I'd give you a better
deal because you as a human would leave
the evacuation Zone and your robot Which
is less burnable would just stand there
with a water pack and zap wherever an
ember hits so we the robot would just
walk around the house and
go and just zap the little Embers
starting to affect your property or like
in my house suppose I had trees that are
a little too close to the house because
the house itself is is quite resistant I
built it to be super resistant to be
fires by the way I should tell you that
it's it was it was built specifically to
be resistant to fires I designed it that
way um but the trees are too close which
makes it less resistant so somebody
comes to me and they say Scott we'll
give you some of this crowdsourced
insurance but you got to get rid of
these trees then I say oh are you
kidding this place like these are really
mature
trees and they say but no insurance and
then I cut down the
trees and then I I'm a little bit
unhappy but I got
insurance
so could crowd
sourcing um get you to the point where
individuals maybe even in your town can
decide whether you're a good bet
because that's that's what it might take
the year's the other thing
um you know NE you've seen pictures of
people who had sprinklers on the roof
and they would just take the I think it
was a lawn sprinkler they just put it on
the roof before they evacuated and it
would just sort of keep the roof moist
and kept it from burning in some cases
probably not all cases but some so maybe
maybe there's a new technology that we
don't know about a roof
sprinkler you um something like that
maybe the insurance company would do the
forest
mitigation for the
state because there's a profit to be
made if they can mitigate it then they
can sell the crowdsource insurance into
this into the city now are any of those
ideas good ideas not really not really
they're they're all incomplete but does
it help you imagine that if we released
on everything we've done before and just
started with a clean slate and said all
right if you were going to vent this
from scratch would it look anything like
the current system and the answer is no
if you invented it today from scratch
you'd use AI you'd use I don't know just
a lot of different things
so um and then maybe there's something
with land values that have to be
adjusted all right um You may have heard
that the leader of black lives matter
Patrice cullers has lost two of her
three Los Angeles mansions in the
wildfires so I'm not willing to say that
Dei is the reason anybody lost their
house I do think it's the reason that
there's Mass incompetence in general but
if you're looking for any you one
tragedy and one one person in charge it
doesn't necessarily mean that Dei is
there but the irony of the simulation is
that the person Mo you would imagine
most associated with Dei got her house
two of her three houses that she didn't
deserve burned down by
Dei that's kind of perfect you know now
again I'm not saying it's Dei but that's
going to be the The Narrative about it
all right uh Nome went on a podcast
Governor Nome and he was blaming local
leaders for the problem so he didn't he
wanted to make sure you knew it wasn't
necessarily the state leadership that
he's in charge of was rather the local
leaders local leaders
so so the white guy
Governor thinks the problem is the the
local leaders is there anything about
the local leaders that's uh worth
noting does it sound to you like local
leaders is the racist dog whistle that a
Democrat can use yeah it wasn't the
white governor of the state it was the
local leaders
do you hear it or is it just me do you
do you hear the racist dog whistle I
feel like local leaders just has a
little bit of a
Vibe of racism without using the
words I don't know maybe it's just me
that's the way it hit me I I certainly
can't read his mind but it's the way it
hit
me sounds like a dog whistle to me
according to the climate change dispatch
California actually had record rainfall
in I think it was last year and didn't
save it because we don't have the right
kind of um reservoirs and we haven't
built many
reservoirs since forever so poor
long-term planning um those people who
say that it's climate change caused the
dryness are ignoring the fact that
California has always had a highly
variable uh climate when it comes to
rain the most most common thing in
California my entire life is that oh
it's a few years of drought oh it's a
few years of too much rain oh we're back
to a few years of
drought oh it's a too much rain all you
have to do is save the rain from the too
much rain year and you would have plenty
for the not enough rain year at least
for fire maybe not for drinking so yes
that would be a case of bad management
brenwood is under evacuation order
brentwood's that famous Rich place where
people like kamla Harris LeBron James
and Arnold Schwarzenegger live and OJ
lived um on top of that so
Schwarzenegger says you know don't worry
about me and uh of course we
[Laughter]
weren't it's funny schwarzeneger tells
the public you know don't worry about me
I'll be fine and I think the entire
public said we know
we weren't really worried about the
people so rich they have multiple homes
and you know $500 million or whatever
he's worth no we weren't
worried um but apparently Comm Harris's
house got
burglarized or at least there's a report
that there were people there who looked
like they were going to Burg burglarize
it and got
caught
now there is now that means there's a
nonzero chance that Bren wood could burn
down and KLA Harris
house that's what I call a bad
year can you imagine losing the
presidential race to
Hitler and within a few months your
house burns down so she's out of a job
her career is destroyed her husband was
outed as a a girlfriend beat
her and then her house gets burned down
if it happens I mean uh let me say as
clearly as possible I don't want that to
happen I don't want that to happen I
don't want anybody's house to burn down
I don't care what they did to me you
didn't do to me or the bad things they
did I don't really want anybody's house
to burn down except for the black lives
matter woman
who's who has three mansions that look
to be entirely based
on you know
so she would be an exception but no I
don't want KLA Harris's house to burn
down just to be clear
um Wall Street Journal says the fire is
15% contained and you think oh good they
went from 3% to 15 we're in good shape
they'll just keep going nope the wind is
coming back and they should lose that
whole 15 in the next day or two that's
the current forecast the next week's
going to be hairy so we don't know how
far this fire is going to go but let me
teach you something about
numbers yesterday I saw a uh a report
that one of the fires was 3%
contained do you know what's not a thing
3% contained that's not a thing do you
think that they can measure 3%
containment no 3% is zero but they want
you to think that they're doing
something so they go from zero to 3%
there's no difference there's no
difference between 3% contained and 0%
contained that's just something you say
so the news will report it and people go
oh well look look like they've gone from
zero to three in just a week so it's
picking up no it's not picking up 3%
zero same number same
number all right Elon Musk I saw a post
but I didn't see the exact words and
didn't write it down but it sound
sounded like he said that in 2021 he
Elon Musk has set out to destroy the
woke mind virus and now he's declaring
success do you think the woke mind virus
is destroyed
I'm going to give him the win on that I
think he destroyed the woke mind virus I
don't think Trump
did I think I think he must it he said
he would do it he did he did all the
things that you would do if you're
trying to get rid of
it and it does look like people can now
talk about it being ridiculous so you've
got both Democrats prominent Democrats
um at least in the punday class as well
as Republicans say yeah all that stuff
the woke M virus was overblown overdone
ridiculous it was it lacked Common Sense
uh yes Elon Musk set out to destroy the
woke M
virus and got it done and boy did he
take heat for that and still is I mean
the the amount I mean he had to have
beef up his personal security I mean he
took he took a chance on your behalf his
as well
but on your behalf as well and uh good
for him good for him but just to make
his day better there was a former uh in
the UK a labor MP so part of the
government so he's recently out of it
but he was one of the people who
publicly criticized Elon Musk on British
TV last week for when Elon was
criticizing K
starmer uh and uh it was all about the
the all about the I don't want to say it
because I'll get demonetized you know
you're all following the story so so
this guy
complained about the
complaints about
the serious crimes against young
people and he the guy who complained
about it or complained about the
complaints about it uh just was arrested
for attempting to have a meet up with a
15-year-old boy
so you know that thing where you wonder
are the the governments of the developed
worlds
all terrible sex criminals and
transvestites and in the closet and
every other kind of thing you can think
of is it really
that and and that they're all in place
as
puppets it might be you you know what I
heard from uh of course this is not
confirmed that um Justin Trudeau was
never really the head of the country and
that he literally thought of himself as
a relationship manager and all of the
real decisions were made by other people
so the other people are the ones who say
yeah he doesn't really do anything he's
just a relationship manager and they've
also alleged and I don't know if this is
true but they alleged that he also
didn't really pay attention to the news
and didn't know what was going on so
when you saw him talk you would say to
yourself I did anyway you probably did
too it's like does he even watch the
news Trudeau looked like somebody who
wasn't even informed about anything and
then the politician says yeah he wasn't
informed about anything because he
didn't need to make any decisions he was
just supposed to go out there and say
happy stuff that's what it looked like
now that seems to much hyperboy to me I
think he must have had some real
power but what if he
didn't what what if the entire system is
just people behind the scenes making
sure they have the most black mailable
person in the top job because it sure as
hell looks like it and you and that
would make you understand why there was
so much resistance to Trump because he's
quite clearly not that you whatever
Trump is doesn't look like a
puppet but maybe that's what it is it's
all
puppets I had somebody come after me
today who had pronouns in his
profile um instant block I I'm never
going to have another conversation with
somebody who has pronouns in their
profile you know I used to do it like
I'd respond to them and say well here's
my point of view I'm not going to talk
to anybody with pronouns in their
profile and I recommend that you don't
either because whatever they have to say
it can't possibly be
useful could it like just don't waste
your time talking to anybody who think
thinks that's their priority enough
prior priority enough to put it in their
profile so
no meanwhile over at the MS MSNBC Comedy
Network that's what I call it it's not
intentional but it's pretty funny um so
they had some commentator I don't know
his name but his his haircut looked like
a
paintbrush do you know which one it is
he he has this big like a like a giant
paintbrush on his head anyway um he was
talking about the Carter Funeral and how
all the leaders were just sort of
chatting friendly and he said this quote
there was something strange about seeing
multiple leaders who G who have warned
that this guy meaning Trump is a
dictatorship on the horizon fascism on
the horizon the end of the American
experiment now just because of the just
because of the rituals of the funeral so
that's what he's blaming he's blaming
the rituals of a funeral um he says It
Is normalized by default we are just
sitting and making small talk with a guy
who we have said is going to end
everything so remember I said what's
going to happen to Democrat
brains when reality is is thrust upon
them Well here here's an
example so instead of the more obvious
um
interpretation that the entire Democrat
Party was lying about Trump which to me
seems super obvious the MSNBC take and
but I actually think he means this I
think this is an actual take I don't
think he sat around saying what lie can
I tell that will I think he thinks this
he thinks the problem if you can call it
that is that the funeral forced
everybody to act you know responsible
and that that's the reason that they
were joking and talking
to Hitler no that's not
why no because no not that guy not Eli
weasel there's there's some other guy so
he looks like a more like one of those
mushroom balls so I'm talking about the
paintbrush hair not the mushroom
ball
anyway so I'm amazed at Democrats to
look at something as obvious as this and
decide that it's the funeral rituals
that explain everything the funeral
ritual
nope can I can I be clear about this I
would not attend a funeral for somebody
who is not related to me and wasn't my
best friend under any condition if I
were going to be sitting next to and
chatting with
Hiller that's just
me no if he really if any of the things
they said about him were true they would
not have
attended or they would have disinvited
made sure that the you know the Hitler
got disinvited the whole thing was
always a lie and MSNBC is the biggest
purveyor of it well in surprising but
maybe not so much uh news the LA Times
owner has invited Mark andreon to be on
his board so you might know that the LA
Times um newish owner Dr patson
xang um decided not to endorse kamla
Harris and then people said whoa whoa
are you not as Democrat as we thought
you're not as Lefty as we thought well
he did vote for com Harris so the owner
of the LA Times voted for um but he
didn't endorse her because he didn't
want the newspaper to be you know just a
biased uh entity so he got you know tons
of hate for that because he was trying
to be you know middle of the road but
inviting Mark
Andre to be on your board of your
newspaper that said a whole different
message do you know what message that
sends that he's going to turn Republican
nope nope that he just wants to put on
some window dressing so it looks like
he's being seeing both
sides
nope I think he wants a common sense guy
I I think Mark andreon is sort of the
ultimate Common Sense guy if you listen
to him you can you can use your
imagination to like well see Republican
because you can almost hear it but you
can't like I don't know if he's
Republican I don't know what he is but I
can tell you that every time you talks
it makes sense he goes for the things
that are common sense not the philosophy
not the weird stuff not the stuff that's
clearly going to you know be here with
us and then go away but like real
permanent logical rational stuff yeah
he'd be he'd be great I would rather I'd
rather him be the governor of
California if I had a
Mark Andre governor of California big
yes big yes
shellenberger yes yes yeah I can name a
few other names but yeah there's there's
some people that I'd like to see to get
that job and andreon would be right in
my shortest list at the
top uh so that's good that seems like
the Trump effect in the sense that I I
don't think the LA Times could do what
we're seeing um meaning the owner Dr
patson Chang I don't think he could do
it without that Trump effect being just
what it is where everybody's got a
little freedom to say what they
want all right
um here's the thing you need to know
about we
Californians um it kind of sneaks up on
you so you don't realize it until it's
done but we don't really have the right
to own homes in
California because there's a thing
called property tax and if you don't pay
your property tax they'll take your home
so you don't really own a home if you're
paying somebody else to live in it
that's not ownership but then you say to
me well but Scott if you sell it you get
to keep the money how am I going to sell
my
home who would buy anything in
California at the moment so I can't sell
it and I don't own it but well okay you
know when I when I die I can you know
leave it to my heirs do you know what
would be left of my net wealth after
after state and federal taxes and death
taxes
nothing well it's not nothing but it'd
be like less than
half so no we're we're basically living
in a Dei managed racist
hellscape and
um here's the other
problem people keep saying and I and I
just said it a moment ago
we keep saying that all we need is to
get capable and competent people in the
top jobs and then everything will be
okay there's no mechanism for that to
happen if if the Democrats have as much
control over the system as it it looks
like you can't get any competent people
in office it's all going to be you know
Dei
incompetence and there's nothing that's
going to change that you haven't seen a
single thing from anything official like
in the government where they would say
you know what maybe California should
pull back from Dei and and let me say
something I I hate to help him but on
the other hand it would be
good the most unlikely thing I could
imagine is Governor Nome saying uh I'd
like to make Dei illegal in
California now you're going to say to
yourself there's no freaking way that's
going to happen you know the the the
head the potential guy who might run for
president as a Democrat is going to do
you think he's going to disown the the
single most important thing that
Democrats do well here's the thing no
matter how much you love or hate Gavin
Newsome even the people who don't like
him seem to say
grudgingly he's kind of good at this
politics stuff that's why he's Governor
so if he's good at the politics stuff
and in my personal opinion destroying
California is Unforgiven able even even
if the local leaders are the reason um
if he did something big and bold and
common sensical like saying you know
what we got to get competent people we
got to get you know we got to bring in
uh we gotta we got to get rid of Dei
could he become president if he was the
most prominent Democrat who said guys we
got to stop this you know I won't have
any of it di is a losing proposition
it's basically racist we tried it and it
didn't work out we have to
Pivot that would put him right back on
the top of the leader board for
president I don't know if he could do it
but the thing I'm positive about is that
you smart enough to know he
should or that he couldn't get elected
without doing it anyway um I think I
missed the main point I was going to
make earlier which is uh because Trump
is a builder and uh one of the people
who ran for mayor but lost Caruso as a
builder that you can imagine the two of
them getting together and saying what
regulations do we need to get rid of
right
away and you could Revitalize California
by massively changing the regulatory
environment could the two of them get it
done well neither of them is the
governor of
California so I don't know but maybe
some kind of federalizing things would
work Mike cernovich raised over $100,000
I think it was over
$130,000 for uh Californians who are
displaced and need some food he's
working with Chef GRL who is doing the
the hard work of the uh cooking and
delivering the food was doing it I I
believe on his own dime until cernovich
stepped in with 10,000 of his own money
and he raised 13,000 above that I think
I think that's the right number
and that's pretty impressive
so uh I don't know how the other states
worked out I imagine it's the same in
the sense that the people who had the
ability to step in are stepping in so
you know I'm trying to do my part in a
variety of ways and not all that not all
that would be public but I'm hoping a
lot of people are doing a lot of
non-public things to help out that's
pretty that's pretty
amazing
um all
right here's the uh yeah I think I
already talked about that
um the American Psychological
Association is urging the FTC according
to the futurism publication by Maggie
Harrison dpre uh for urges the FTC to
investigate AI chat Bots that are
claiming to be therapists and offering
free therapy so the human therapists are
saying hey there's AI therapists online
and they're pretending to be real people
cuz deep fakes um now their complaint is
simply that they're not
labeled so so far they're not
complaining that they might give you bad
advice although probably they think that
the complaint is they're not labeled now
that's a decent complaint I I think the
consumer should absolutely know if
they're talking to an AI they absolutely
should know however I would like to
nominate
therapists uh at the top of the list for
being replaced by AI
do you really think that your $200 or
$400 an hour I don't know what it costs
uh do you think that your once a week
one hour therapist is going to be
anywhere near as good as the one you can
talk to all day long as much as you want
and it can answer all the same questions
and has all the same skills and acts
just like a human it's not really going
to be close now at the
moment I would imagine the human is well
well beyond what the AI currently can
do but how long end of the year I I
think therapy might be one of the things
that goes first to AI meanwhile here's a
uh fake news story um in my opinion but
maybe there's just something wrong in
The Way It Was Written it's in the
express publication and it says that
over in Ukraine there are these
butterfly battle um yeah these butterfly
drones so they got a big
shipment 30,000 drones coming in from
the UK and they say that these drones
are so light and Nimble that they look
like a child's toy but they have a
machine gun and they can carry a soldier
out of
a out of the war zone
no no there's there's no drone that's
the size of a child's
toy and has a machine machine gun on
it and certainly it's not carrying any
soldiers the size of a child's toy no no
I don't know what's wrong with the story
I don't know if any of it's right may
maybe the entire thing's made up but no
no you're not putting a machine gun on
something the size of a child's drone
toy weird but it says uh has an
operational range of 12.5 miles and can
operate autonomously for up to three
days and has this machine gun on it and
a mobile turret and it's got four oh
it's also got listen to this it's got
fourth glass protection armor so it can
even uh you can even shoot
it and if you don't shoot it too many
times or too hard it'll survive being
shot remember size of a child's
toy has a machine
gun can operate autonomously for three
days
and it could take direct
fire none of that can be true does
anybody believe any of that I don't
think any of it's true but who knows
maybe I'm
wrong anyway that's all I got for you
today uh we going to talk to the locals
people privately and uh the rest of you
I'll see you tomorrow thanks for joining
I hope your day gets better better than
whatever it was
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