Episode 2725 CWSA 01/19/25

you are let me get all ready for this show we need comments we need lighting we need notes we're going to have it all all right we got comments good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization so far if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand when they're tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a cuper muger a glass of tanker chel a Stein a canting Jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure of the dopamine head of the day the thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous Sip and it happens now good stuff delicious all right I'd like to start out with two Corrections uh these would both go into the category of man I'm stupid um so yesterday uh I confused the two assassins because they're both white guys with rifles who didn't get it done and I thought that the I'd forgotten for a moment that the first first one was dead on the scene and it was only the second one who survived so no there was no way that Trump could go talk to the guy in prison because he's pretty dead so that's the first correction the other the other one I can't believe I just found this out today that uh when I said that David Axelrod was the attorney for CNN and Jake Tapper in their lawsuit I just assumed it was David Axelrod the one who was on the show and they just figured oh you're you're an attorney I didn't know he was maybe he's not but it turns out it's a whole different David Axelrod so David Axelrod on TV on CNN is a different one from David Axelrod the lawyer who defended them from the lawsuit now that's my fault of course but I just have to say there are too many David axar rods associated with CNN they just need fewer of them that would make everything better for us if you're not following Dilbert which you can only see on subscription these days either on X subscribe on X under my account or on locals you would know that today is the day the fire reaches his house and Dilbert is going to stay behind and try to save his house so I don't want to give you a spoiler but he might die and he might not you never know it's comic I can kill him anytime I want well you'll be amazed to to learn according to nutrients some publication called nutrients coffee intake makes males more sociable and women more attractive according to studies of mice uh how do they know that the mice are think each other is more attractive or I don't know but I don't care if it says coffee is good for you I'm all in um did you know and again this is a big surprise according to Sur live and Samantha Leathers um it turns out the exercise is good for your mental health huh huh just like every single day we hear another St study but here's the interesting part uh it's not it's not every kind of exercise is equally good but rather for uh for men it was better to do yoga and PE I'm sure I pronounced that right Kong Kong Wong you know that's where they the old people get in the park and go like that that was my that was my impression of quong I don't know if I'm pronouncing that that's a word I've read a million times but I never heard a single person say it out loud anyway so it's better for men to do yoga and this keong stuff and for women it might be better to do strength training uh but jogging and walking are good for everybody um did we really need a study when you can kind of just look around and the people who exercise every day are clearly happier than the people who don't is that not screamingly obvious in your own life that if you see somebody who's like really fit because they exercise every day they're almost always in a reasonably good mental Health now some of this is cause and effect being reversed if you're depressed it's pretty hard to work out impossible really if if you have actual you know real mental depression getting out of bed is almost impossible so some of it is the correlations backwards but some of it is clearly causation you know if you've been exercising since you were a kid you're almost certainly to be better off mentally the Tik Tock band has gone into action and the Tik Tock lovers are hoping that Trump will save them when he's officially in power tomorrow um and I think he will but at least with a 90-day presidential extension I don't know if you knew this but the the ban has built into it that the sitting president whoever it is can extend it for 90 days extend uh extend the pause before the ban so he can put off the ban for 90 days which would be reversing it for 90 days and he can do that under the condition that there's some kind of deal or sale being worked on uh and it's not complete now it's not exactly true that anybody's maybe getting close to negotiating um a deal to buy it but there are two possibilities out there the perplexity app which is an AI app on a search engine it's the best thing ever I recommend it all the time uh Jeff Bezos is one of the backers of that and they've offered to somehow merge with Tik Tock but not take the algorithm so some think the algorithm is the expensive part and so they would pay less they'd build the algorithm themselves I don't know if that's going to happen but at least it would be enough for Trump to say oh well somebody's noodling on a deal that's close enough so I'll I'll give them 90 days to see if they can do it but also Kevin oir the Shark Tank star an entrepreneur he's working with some group of investors um and billionaire Frank mccort and they put together a $20 billion cash offer which I think Tik Tock has just rejected some people think it's worth 50 billion if you bought the algorithm with it um but here's the thing that's puzzling me senator Paul Rand who in my opinion is almost always right and well informed unlike his his some of his peers and but he said that the real reason to use his words the real reason for the Tik Tock ban was censorship is that what you think do we ban it for censorship meaning that oh man uh I just suddenly got really sick so I might have to cut this short if I cut it short wow I'm I'm having an event here live on like stream all right let's see if I can make that pass um but Rand Paul says that the real reason for the Tic Tac ban was censorship that's sort of true but it's not the big picture the sort of true part is that uh the Israel the Israel stuff um when Tik Tock turned more anti-israel than pro-israel some say that the you know Israeli Lobby kicked in and got the Congress to ban it I think that's true as the trigger you know that's the the most you know that was like the final straw or something but it's not the big reason the big reason is you don't want China to have a button they can push to change America's minds and wow um apparently that has happened there was a study that showed that Tik Tok was pretty anti-israel in terms of the quantity of content One Direction versus the other so I wonder if does Rand and Paul not know that the real problem is the persuasion risk in the future it's not so much that there was one particular issue about Israel and and the propaganda on that so I don't know what what is up with Rand Paul why doesn't he just say or does he not know is it possibly doesn't know that the real risk is future persuasion you just don't know and and why would you equate a free speech platform that could be manipulated by your adversary with a free speech platform that could be manipulated potentially by your own country how in the world does anybody think that's about the same let me give you an analogy would you hand a gun to your friend before you would hand a gun to your enemy which one makes sense to you it's it's the same gun wait wait why would you treat it differently people don't censor it it's the same thing it's the same exact thing a gun so why would you discriminate who you gave it to an enemy who wants to shoot you versus your friend who wants to protect you why is it different I don't see any difference to you I'm Rand Paul I don't see any difference uh well it's it's a gun both times right I don't get it so what's up with that now to to be fair when he says it's censorship he's probably talking about the specific you know Israeli situation um but is he using censorship as influence and he didn't think that the influence should be canceled I don't know um if it was organic then then it's a free speech issue so maybe that's the way to put it if if the thing it got canceled for was actually just happening on its own and and China didn't push any buttons it was just a natural phenomena of what the ticktockers thought because they're a certain age and then below a certain age they they're not as pro-israel so maybe it was organic if they stopped something that was organic that's just pure censorship if they stopped something that was because China had already pushed the button and we have no way to know well then we'd be stopping a weapon of mass destruction pretty different anyway it opens the question what would happen if AI starts saying bad things about Israel what would happen if AI start saying bad things about Israel we know what happens when Tik Tock does that that's pretty clear but what happens when AI does well maybe we'll find out because it turns out there's a school that was using an AI emulation of an Frank to teach the kids about that situation except this is reported in the bite by Joe Wilkins he says um that because AI likes to show both sides see you know that AI doesn't like to say somebody's right and something's wrong so the the a the AI an Frank it uh seemed to be trained to avoid uh blaming the Nazis for what happened and it tries to redirect the conversation into a more positive light yeah let's not be so divisive about this you know let's try to treat this one right down the middle all right well I'd assume that's not going to last very long but uh does it does it begs the question if we can you know get out of the get out of the Israel Nazi mode just in general news in general can AI ever be the one who tells you what's true I don't think it can because whoever makes it and owns it and benefits from it has an opinion and they're going to want to put their opinion in the AI because they're going to think it's a real one and all the other opinions don't count so no there's no way that AI is ever going to be able to tell you the truth that's not there's no way there's not any logical way it could ever do it it could know the truth that's a thing it could know the truth it can't possibly tell the truth over time anyway National Security adviser Jake Sullivan was saying that it was his last time at the podium and then he dropped this little scary thing he goes I hope this is my last time at this Podium because you know last day of the administration he says the only thing that would bring me back is an unexpected event in the next few days wait what what the National Security advisor the guy who has access to all the secret stuff top secret clearance knows exactly what the Democrats are doing knows exactly what foreign countries may or may not be planning the only thing that would bring me back is an unexpected event in the next few days what um so it does sound scary it sounds scary like you know he he knows of some plan to do something bad but the the other possibility is that he did it before his last day if he said that before his actual last day in office then if there was some big event and Trump had not been inaugurated yet presumably he would come back so I don't think he meant it as some kind of scary you know something's coming foreshadowing I I think he just meant I'm not officially done with the job is that fair CU he wasn't officially done with the job so something big happened and the next day or so he would in fact come back so that's my interpretation um I I it didn't turn into a bigger story so I think it's just a interpretation thing meanwhile CNN did a big story yesterday that just blew my mind so as Aaron Bernett was talking to a correspondent who knew how China was reacting to Trump's election and it's not what you think how do you think the Chinese citizens are reacting to Trump's election well according to CNN and this this is part of the story it's CNN saying it that's almost bigger than the story itself watch this CNN did a extended segment in which the entire point of it was that the Chinese public really likes Trump uh and he's sort of a celebrity star over there they're making merchandise with his face on it in China they have merchandise a lot of it is pro prot Trump and um so he's got he even has positive nicknames so over there they have some kind of you know very positive nickname for him and they're all talking about him and and uh president she is sending the highest ranking person who's ever gone to an inauguration his VP and uh wow so CNN definitely seems to be trying to adjust and find that middle ground where they're not so just always anti-trump all the time more to that point Jim aasta the correspondent host who is had been Trump's biggest Nemesis and one of the biggest Liars on CNN um he got moved to the midnight hour so he went from 10:00 a.m.

where he was doing so well he was beating some of the Prime Time Shows so there was nothing wrong with his uh his uh numbers relative to the other numbers um and so that seems like a pretty big Trump win if CNN wants to move their most ridiculous guy to midnight where nobody will watch him and nobody's going to watch him at midnight he's he's done as an influence um that's a pretty big deal but uh time magazines is handling it differently so Time Magazine has an article in which they're helpfully suggesting to Democrats who are going to be very sad on inauguration day that maybe they should cope with it by forming crying groups so they can get together and cry together uh and also something about walking through the forest to make them I think they call the forest bathing or something where you just hang out in the forest for a while and try to get your mental health back anyway I have a better suggestion for time magazine instead of recommending that the losers go and uh cry or walk in the forest you know it would be really helpful why doesn't Time Magazine debunk the fine people hoax so all those people who are going to cry don't have to wouldn't it be better to remove the reason for the crying because the reason for the crying is the the fake news if the news had ever been honest about the fine people hoax or any of the other hoaxes people wouldn't be crying nobody would be crying over the reality they're only crying over this weird media created Trump monster thing that not everybody has heard was fake so uh Mark benof who's the founder of sales first Force I believe owns Time Magazine now so I tagged him in my little comment on this saying that maybe they should just debunk to find people Oaks because you may have heard that yesterday the find people hoax got another one so uh billionaire Tech billionaire Mark pinkis um I think he still lives in the Bay Area and he's been a lifelong Democrat and was all in on the Democrats but he was talking to chamath on the the all-in Pod and he said he' basically changed his mind on on Trump and jamas stopped him and said right what was the moment like what was the thing that made you change your mind after and he started he started talking generically but then he said okay there was one thing it was I read an article that debunked the fine people hoax and that was it and then and then it it opened up his mind to all the other hoaxes and he could see it all now that's my my words not his but that's essentially what it was and this is amazing so in May 2024 he said he read an article that talked about the and debunk the The hoax now I'm really curious which article was it cuz because there have been lots of articles that you know I've been associated with you know Joel poock Steve Cortez I wonder if it was one of those it could have been anything could have been the daily wire or something but how often would a lifelong democrat read any press any that was just really identified with the right side of politics so so I'd love to know what was it that broke through the bubble that he thought was worth reading as a lifelong Democrat and then it actually just shattered his whole his whole story so remember I've been telling you that was the tent pole hoax that if you can just debunk that one all the us all the rest just fade and that's what happened so um more to that I was wondering do we have a pretty good list of all the people who have been converted by the fine people hoax I was trying to do it mentally but if somebody could pull that together I would love to see that as a post on X how many well-known people were converted by just that one thing the debunk of the F people hoax because I think I think jamath said it himself so we got Pinkus I think Elon said it I thought Joe Rogan said it did Zuckerberg say it can't remember Zuckerberg said that but I feel like maybe that was part of it you know the assassination attempt seemed to be uh persuasive with him as well so if we could put together uh ideally it would be a clip where you showed each of the people saying what it was oh the fine people hoax and then you know one after another so you can see how powerful it was that's what I want to see um Wall Street Journal is going further and saying not just that Trump's kind of popular but he's turning the culture the entire culture is turning conservative do you see that yet it feels like it so you know once you get the uh the richest entrepreneur in the world musk you get the all-in Pod guys you've probably noticed the number of comedians that I would call Mainstream are now turning at least a little bit Trump you know they're willing to say things that are positive about Trump they got at least one cartoonist Snoop Dog um and Carrie Underwood are going to perform and that's a pretty strong signal and by the way gri Underwood oh my god do I have respect for that did you know Snoop is a unique character there there's nobody like Snoop he's the only person who could do all these bad things and be popular with everybody now I don't know exactly his secret except that is Charisma is apparently just off the charts there there's something about him that allows him to break every rule kind of trump-like um so so Snoop went from making a video where he was assassinating Trump to performing at his event and he's the perfect crossover person because when you see him do anything you say well is that something that only Snoop could do because he lives in this weird world where respectable people him I do if you ask me why I like Snoop so much I don't know I don't know it would be hard to come up with a reason um maybe it's because he's Unapologetic and he doesn't apologize for anything that's pretty popular maybe it's because he's just his own person and and he's you know unforgiving in his effort to just be who he wants to be we kind of like that I don't know there's something about it that just reaches people but uh also Carrie Underwood that that's a that's a brave move I will always respect that um and I think people like winners and they like strength and uh there was a manliness kind of a male energy that had been missing from the country and I think we could feel it I think both men and women Republicans and Democrats could feel the just extraordinary lack of male energy but it's back back it's back the male energy as I imagine couldn't be stopped it would be like putting the toothpaste back in the tube you know it could be somewhere well that's a bad analogy forget that analogy but anyway the New York Times shows some polling that Americans now overwhelmingly support go positions GOP positions on numerous trans issues so daily wire is reporting this Amanda Presta Gamo wow what a nice name Amanda promo that's just a great name I can't pronounce it but I feel like if I could it would sound extraordinary anyway um she's writing that uh according to a New York Times ipsos survey 79% of Americans I looked at myself in a recording I realized that I look down too much and you're just looking at the top of my head so let me lift up my notes so it's not as egregious um 79% of Americans believe males should not be able to participate in female sports even if the athlete identifies as transgender 79% 79% on the same page now obviously it's you know weighted toward conservatives but even even the Democrats by majority um so yeah even 54 % of uh Democrats were against medication for minors so converting miners wasn't popular with the majority of Democrats or Republicans and and look how far it got I mean everything was broken everything was just broken and the reason it was broken is because honesty wasn't allowed you just couldn't be honest about it without getting canceled so honesty is making a comeback and that changes a lot and then 77% of respondents agree that Society is quote gone too far to accommodate trans people uh well only 21% say we haven't gone far enough 21% h a little bit more and it' be one quarter couldn't even get up to 25% you know I joke if you're new to me uh I always joke that 25% will get every poll question wrong like no matter how how easy the question is uh the poll question is is it better for the economy to be strong or for the economy to be weak 25% weak what no this isn't really a question strong is the only right answer weak 25% it's just so consistent couldn't even get 25% to say that we hadn't gone too far um Mike Johnson talks about uh Biden not even recalling that he had uh he had paused some LG shipments and so first of all I'm a little angry at Mike Johnson for not telling us this until it didn't matter um it wasn't that long ago so maybe maybe it never mattered because Trump had already been elected but um apparently Biden insisted to Johnson that he never issued the order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits even even though he had just signed off on it now that tells you a lot doesn't it it means that Biden certainly wasn't in charge you maybe there were specific topics where he his influence was bigger but when it came down to you know the the nuts and bolts of running the government he didn't even know what he was signing they didn't even tell him what he was signing or he couldn't remember it which is I guess equally bad yeah Johnson should have said something before but I don't think it mattered but we would have felt better about Johnson if he said it you know of course let let me let me revise this if it didn't really make any difference because the election was over and it would just make hard make it hard for Johnson to work on the transition I probably wouldn't have said anything until I was sure the transition was working okay because it would have been creating a problem with that didn't need to be created because there was no benefit from it it was good that we found out eventually that part's good I'm gonna I'm GNA say Mike Johnson probably played it correctly because getting the transition right was at the moment more important than just one more piece of evidence that Biden's brain was shot we already knew that but it was funny seeing uh um a video from the time of this in which Karin jeanpierre spokesperson was asked you know why does Biden even care about this like what's what's behind this and she tried to explain it without knowing anything about the topic it's like uh uh well it's because the the importance of it uh to to the public and to the uh to the uh to the to to the way we the public and also the the very he cares about it he cares about it and the and it's because the importance uh is very important so the importance to the public and the importance of it is what and it was just hilarious she didn't even know what the issue was so who the hell was in charge anyway so you put it all together and you can see that there's a complete collapse of the Democrat Party um and I I have a theory about what causes the acceleration of the crash if you divide voters into two types there's the people who follow politics and maybe that's 5% and they kind of they be influenced by seeing both sides of an issue so Mark pinkis probably followed politics enough that you would read an article about the fine people hoax and changed his opinion based on new data that seems to be true for some of the tech leaders who are who were leaning Trump that they they did follow politics as they should you know it's part of their job and um so they they saw earlier that factually the they could make a change because the the facts were now different than what they once understood but most people are not in that category so my my hypothesis is that for the vast number of people who vote but really couldn't answer any question about politics if you went to the average person and ask any question just any question about anything in politics and look what comes out of their mouth it doesn't matter if it's it doesn't matter who it is you just look what comes out of their mouth and you go uh do you follow the news at all you know that's what it feels like I think that that group the people with weak preferences or don't follow the news that much that for them their choice of a candidate and choice of party is closer to a fashion accessory it it's a way to support their brand so if you thought one side was the evil side and one side was the good and open-minded side and you thought you were good and open-minded you would back the good and open-minded side as You' been taught to but I think at this point Biden and Harris have so destroyed the brand I mean just absolutely destroyed it and there's nobody on Deck it's not like everybody's waiting for Pete Buddha judge to step up there's absolutely no character in the Democrat Party none which anybody can say yeah there's my inspirational leader it it's interesting that Hillary Clinton was once that person but at least she had the first potentially the first female president thing going for so you know she had the sort of the the Bill Clinton glow you know so she had she had all the right people so even though she was a terrible character and she probably lost because she wasn't a good character but at least she had you know some something you could grasp on to if you're a woman in particular but now what would they grasp on to Harris was the biggest incompetent we've seen Biden's brain wasn't there nobody's on Deck what exactly are you going to hit your wagon to nothing there's nothing there so people want to brandish their brand are not going to look for the failed completely collapsed Democrat Party with unpopular views on everything there's no way you can just associate that your brand with it the only reason it worked before is that the fake news had created such a bubble that you couldn't tell the difference between good and bad literally couldn't tell the difference so under that world you could say oh these are the good ones I want that associated with my brand but now when even snopes is debunking the fine people hoges and you know we can see the total collapse of the traditional news specifically because it's fake then there's nothing to support the bubble anymore you know the podcast broke the bubble I think that's what it was I think the Joe Rogan Elon Musk V ramaswami the communication skills of all these people just broke the bubble now now what do the Republicans look like let's say you've got Trump who survived an assassination attempt in the most remarkable way people like to be associated with bravery and manliness and manliness which they missed um but also you have the smartest most successful people in the world taking sides with them or at least not resisting so now you know you're hearing good things from everybody from Bill Gates to uh Bezos to uh Elon kicking it off the all-in Pod guys I hate clumping them all together but it's faster to say that way um so now if you wanted to be associated with something where the most awesome people in the country are associated to me the most awesome people are the ones who are making the biggest difference positive and and they seem to be almost universally moving toward Trump everybody from Jamie Diamond saying hey hey those those tariffs are actually a good idea for negotiating it's really everything so everybody who's smart and capable and especially manly because that matters you know no matter what you think of Manliness it matters to politics so it has to be mentioned um Trump it all China loves him the public loves him you can wear a red hat now um and I think that means that what it looks like is a complete collapse on the Democrat side but I think you're also going to see it in polls you you're going to see that they're just not going to vote for the Ridiculousness anymore or at least enough of them won't and here here's a just such a good example of the total collapse of the Democrat Party so I always talk about two movies on on one screen you know how you can watch the same thing and come up with two different views as uh Owen Gregorian was saying on X yesterday it seems this 28th Amendment story has formed into two movies Against All Odds because it's it's a pure factual statement that is super easy to check does the 28th Amendment exist or does it not exist in a in a confirmed approved way and the answer is it's not it's not confirmed and therefore it doesn't exist but because both Biden and Harris posted on exit in social media that it was real and that they're responsible for making it real Democrats think it's real Republicans no it's not so of all things it it's literally the easiest thing you could check is this part of the Constitution or not one Google go search would be the same answer every time it's not even being it's not even being covered up by part of the news so it's not like MSNBC is saying it's real even they're not saying it's real I need a fact check on that but they're not saying that's real right uh and still and still it creates two movies half the country probably thinks it's real um anyway Democrat strategists are whining about the future the the party and one of my favorite was uh Jamal Simmons one of the Democrats uh uh strategist and he said uh that their Vibe is their Vibe is off our Vibe is off got to burn down our image see how he talked about image he didn't say we have to improve our policies he didn't say our policies need to be to match the American public he's completely aware that their policies don't match the majority of the public so instead of saying we need better policies he says we have to work on our image that's what I'm saying I'm saying that they they treat it like it's an image problem and it worked you know under under Clinton it worked but you're going to need a real candidate if you don't have a candidate image is not going to get you anywhere because your policies are dead unrival so the fact that they haven't figured that out yet is amazing but when they ask when you PLL Democrats about who they'd like to see Run next time and you include let's see Nome and Governor Whitmer uh and then Harris if she ran again uh the preference is none of the above even Democrats don't want any of the three leading you know likely candidates to come anywhere near the presidency or at least to run for it because they they know they won't win so that's pretty bad um even according to Breitbart uh after the election there's been a crash in public tolerance for illegal immigration illegal migration so now just 10% of Americans oppose Trump deporting illegal migrants with criminal records according to a New York Times poll only 10% oppose getting rid of the criminals again you couldn't even get 25% to support keeping criminals because it's just stupid so the N the 10% who say yeah let's keep the violent criminals I mean that's those are not serious people they're not serious people anyway um and just uh 19% strongly oppose deporting all immigrants who are here illegally Trump it's a complete Victory Trump took the hardest the hardest topic and just owns it now he won uh even CNN showing a recent poll shows his approval is at 48% it's up from 39% just last year days before taking office a new high highest approval well Biden's the lowest approval everything's going its way um even the Washington Post has suffered has decided to soften its coverage uh I guess both Washington post and CNN decided they didn't want to do the over-the-top thing where everything is negative Trump no matter what is happening and it looks like they're going to cover it more more both sides is which I see is already started it's already begun I think it's real but um because for example Washington Post says Trump already conquered DC and the tech leaders are flocking to him now normally that story would turn into that's how he's going to steal your democracy right and instead of just saying a lot of tech leaders think he's on the right on the right path he'd be good for the country that would be the story but normally you expect the Washington Post to flip it into and and with the help of all these Tech leaders that's how he's building his dictatorship to steal your democracy but they left out that crazy part and just told the story and the story was yeah he's doing really well converting people to his side that's the story and so they're just telling it but MSNBC I I love their Plucky loser approach I don't think there's a single smart person who works at that Network in management or anywhere else but they're going to bring back bring back Rachel madow for 100 days let let me make a long list of all the things you shouldn't do if you're trying to stay in business don't bring the person with the most obvious mental health problems on to be the only person who still thinks that the Democrats are are are heroes and Trump is going to steal your democracy the Ridiculousness of even planning to do this is so beyond any reasonable thing that a reasonable person would do it's just purely stupid but they're going to do it um and I like I kind of like the fact that they think that Rachel madow who I think has been honest I think she's been honest about a lifetime of you know mental health depression issues maybe some other stuff so uh i' never like to be the person who criticizes somebody for mental illness because nobody picks mental illness right that's just something that's there so I tend I I prefer to be non-judgmental but uh I don't know that the management has a mental illness shouldn't management be the one to decide maybe they shouldn't bring back the person with obvious mental health problems and some kind of a weird uh kicker to her mental health because of trump derangement syndrome how in the world does management think this is a good idea in what world anyway um I'm sure they think that behind closed doors like Joe Biden she's perfectly fine perfectly fine um the uh Trump bump which all the media is hoping for because you know in his first Administration the news got more more audience so they've all been drained of their their followers for a while now but there's some thought that uh maybe the traffic will go up but other people say yeah there will be a trump bump but it might go mostly to the independence and fully starve the networks well I don't know what's true I can tell you it seems like the ratings for the major networks are all down and I can tell you that my own traffic is up about 50% since Trump since Trump was looking like he would win up about 50% yeah now I would guess that that's the same for any political oriented podcasts I'll bet you they're all up 50% so yes uh I'm the canary in the co mine so yeah the uh the corporate media doesn't seem seem to be what anybody trusts at this point just old people I guess uh you I'm old and I don't even trust it well as you know Trump launched a crypto coin and it went to the moon and it's worth millions of dollars and some say Trump's going to sell it and make $5 billion doar and others say it's a it's a crap coin and it's a scam and you know people should not be buying crypto unless it's Bitcoin and everybody's got their opinion um let me say that my opinion on this is completely timing related if if Trump had done this even just a few years ago I would have said oh that's a little too that's a little too scammy now we did do the uh the uh what is it when you buy the art um it's got a word for it in the crypto world if you buy some digital crypto art that somehow they can tell you is exclusive uh he did that and I didn't mind that because I was just a fundraiser and I think people saw it as a fundraiser which had the extra element that well maybe you can make some money but probably not just a fundraiser nfts thank you nfts so he's got some history and he's Pro crypto um now if this had been when we knew less about crypto and he launched this thing I would have said okay don't do that that that looks too scammy because people don't understand that they could lose money on crypto it's not like other things that could go to zero tomorrow Bitcoin probably can't or at least not as easily but but a new issue it can go to the moon and then go to zero the next day there's nothing that would stop that so under normal conditions and maybe a few years ago I would have opposed this as a bad idea bad messaging bad look but I think everybody understands crypto if they're going to buy some it buying crypto is just just hard enough that if you didn't know anything about crypto you'd probably prevent yourself from buying it because you don't want to look into it you know it's not like you just go to your broker well you could but not this particular coin um so as long as people know exactly what they're buying and I think in some cases they're just gambling but they know it they're gambling but they know it and other times maybe it's just an expression of support for the president which they know and maybe they treat it like a some of them might treat it like a donation because if it pumps it up and then Trump gets to sell his before you sell yours well your your money might go to zero his might go to5 billion and if you treat it as a a donation you you'd think to yourself all right I don't mind that he gets some of his money back after you know being abused by the government for so many years probably lost a ton of money in his business just because of his politics so I don't mind if he makes 5 million or five billion I guess 5 billion off the coin as long as everybody knew what they were doing and I think that's pretty close to true I think everybody knows anyway there's a Gaza ceasefire allegedly in effect and this would be the opening to allow Hamas to release the uh I guess 33 hostages they promised to release I think that's there's going to be a whole bunch of problems with that I'm not sure Hamas is organized enough that they can even just you know say yes and all the all of a sudden all the the hostages are released that they were going to release I feel like they're all spread around and it's hard to communicate and maybe some of them are dead that they didn't even know were dead and so I I feel like it's not going to go smoothly the easiest prediction in the world let's see it's Gaza and Israel have made an agreement will it go smoothly or will there be some bumps yes the easiest prediction in the world it's not going to go smoothly and I don't know if there'll be any after this if it doesn't go smoothly so we'll see um what I'm what I'm interested about is I feel like reporting from that area kind of stopped did you notice that if you ask me what is the Israel military doing in Gaza let's say two weeks ago before this hostage Deal started to solidify I would have said I don't know why did I stop seeing news about that yeah are they killing as many as they used to kill the the reporting which is not reliable is that 46,000 Palestinians were killed now I say it's not real reliable because it won't be the same estimate that Israel has and you and I can't tell the difference it's just people telling us what's true and we don't know so I wouldn't believe any War Death claims except that I feel it's almost certainly in the tens of thousands but beyond that you know any kind of accuracy would be ridiculous so are they are they still is Israel still making legitimate military progress of uh wrapping up the Hamas Fighters is it just every day they get a few more so they should just keep grinding until they're done or do they reach some kind of wall where the harder they fight they're not really getting any extra Hamas Fighters because they're all dug in better or something and and I also don't know how much of Gaz how much of Gaza is even left uh in the best case scenario you know when we talk about the fires in La we're talking about five years before anybody can maybe get back in the house are we talking about that in Gaza that there's nothing left there's no electricity there's no water everything's polluted and toxic how could they ever resettle it and it's not like Israel is going to be you know working as hard as they can to get it ready for resettlement by Hamas and their supporters so I feel like there's no real hope that Gaza turns back into anything like it used to be but to be fair Israel said that from the beginning that they said when we're done Gaza won't be anything that you're used to and I think I think we interpreted that exactly the way it's it's turning out so um I guess my only point is that we've hit some kind of a uh I don't know if it's because of lack of Interest or lack of access but we just stopped getting really interested in what's happening on the ground there and that's weird anyway uh researchers according to Louis Louisiana State University um there are some research have found a way to recycle uh plastic um they use electromagnetic waves to melt the plastic from the inside out which requires far less energy so are the yeah so they can reuse it now it's a ways off but they can you know they can do it in the lab and if it's way less energy it's way less expensive and so they might be a way to recycle your plastic you know I thought for a long time that what I really want is a electromagnetic plastic melting technology that would turn plastic into something that I could use in my 3D printer so I'd like to take all my plastic bottles and throw them in a bin and then at the end of the month push a button and the it just crushes them into basically ink for the printer but they would print Goods so you'd make yourself a you know make yourself some I don't know you wouldn't want to do dishw dish wear cuz maybe you don't want to eat off of plastic but you could probably find things you would use you make some Goods out of it sell them maybe who knows all right ladies and gentlemen that's all I have for this Sunday um the rumors about the inauguration appear to be fake so yesterday there was some rumors that even the indoor Rotunda inauguration was going to be moved yet again for security reasons people speculated but I don't think that's true I don't think that's true I think it's going to be in the Rotunda and the the Capital One stadium that the the PE the Overflow people are going to be in is covered so people are going to be warm and uh they're going to be with each other which is almost as important as being with Trump and then Trump's going to show up at the Stadium where everybody's warm and they've been partying and they're just dying to see him so I think Trump's going to make this even better than it was I I don't think he gave up anything I think packing him into the stadium and keeping them warm was the right answer in every way you know not just for safety but also for uh weather and keeping everybody safe and happy giving them a good memory of the event so to me that's all positive and uh we'll be we'll be paying attention especially for the security concerns I don't want to see anything like that all right uh now it's going to be two rallies Owen says so there's a rally today is there something happening today and then then another one tomorrow all right what about the poor CIA who wanted to kill him well allegedly we don't know that for sure uh got a screen for Micro Drone swarms well if they could get inside the building yeah but they'd have to the so one of the things I worri about um micro swarms is let's say you have a a door to a secure place and it's guarded well and they're searching everybody so nobody can get in unless they're searched but the door is open it's just it's guarded by people how hard would it be for a drone swarm to just go right through an open door and and just you know knock the guards out of the way feels like it'd be pretty easy you maybe the first one just explodes and kills the guard but after that the Swarm just goes right through the door or the window so that's what I'd be worried about I don't think we're quite there but right on the edge of it yeah of course they would also have um drone anti- drone technology I suppose all right what's this um uh so Keith boyin goes on CNN and he says any black person who performs at Trump inauguration dishonors black families he refused to rent to in the 1970s now you know that story do you know that there's no evidence he was aware of it it's true that his staff was discriminating so the court found that the staff discriminated it was never tied to him and the staff would absolutely have an incentive to discriminate because they were you know they were well their incentives were that they thought they could do a better job of filling the building if they discriminated now that was illegal but there's no evidence that that Trump ordered it um the black kids you want to execute in the Central Park case that's fake news he never said he wanted to execute those black kids he said that the crime rate should bring should be a trigger to bring back the death penalty um but he wasn't talking about them and we don't know for sure that they were innocent or not I'll presume them innocent because they're Americans but I don't think it was proven and then the black haian immigrants he lied about okay does anybody care about the haian immigrants forget about the race does anybody care about the Haitian immigrants being offended because he said they'll they might eat your pets I I think the Asian immigrants have so different problems like I don't think it probably I'd be surprised if they they even care I mean it might be something just didn't even affect them so I think this is just uh you know a desperate attempt to not lose the black vote oh I guess Nelly is also so so Snoop Dog Nelly are both performing okay okay all right that's all I got for now so I'm going to talk to the uh locals people for a few minutes privately and then we'll see you all tomorrow same time same place locals coming at you privately e e e e e e e e e e e e e e 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delicious all right I'd like to start

out with two Corrections uh these would

both go into the category of man I'm

stupid um so

yesterday uh I confused the two

assassins because they're both white

guys with rifles who didn't get it done

and I thought that the I'd forgotten for

a moment that the first first one was

dead on the scene and it was only the

second one who survived so no there was

no way that Trump could go talk to the

guy in prison because he's pretty dead

so that's the first correction the other

the other one I can't believe I just

found this out today that uh when I said

that David Axelrod was the attorney for

CNN and Jake Tapper in their

lawsuit I just assumed it was David

Axelrod the one who was on the show and

they just figured oh you're you're an

attorney I didn't know he was maybe he's

not but it turns out it's a whole

different David Axelrod so David Axelrod

on

TV on CNN is a different one from David

Axelrod the lawyer who defended them

from the

lawsuit now that's my fault of course

but I just have to say there are too

many David axar rods associated with CNN

they just need fewer of them that would

make everything better for us if you're

not following Dilbert which you can only

see on subscription these days either on

X subscribe on X under my account or on

locals you would know that today is the

day the fire reaches his house and

Dilbert is going to stay behind and try

to save his house so I don't want to

give you a spoiler but he might

die and he might not you never know it's

comic I can kill him anytime I

want well you'll be amazed to to learn

according to nutrients some publication

called nutrients coffee intake makes

males more sociable and women more

attractive according to studies of

mice uh how do they know that the

mice are think each other is more

attractive or I don't know but I don't

care if it says coffee is good for you

I'm all in

um did you know and again this is a big

surprise according to Sur live and

Samantha Leathers um it turns out the

exercise is good for your mental health

huh huh just like every single day we

hear another St study but here's the

interesting part uh it's not it's not

every kind of exercise is equally good

but rather for uh for men it was better

to do yoga and PE

I'm sure I pronounced that right Kong

Kong Wong you know that's where they the

old people get in the park and

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go like that that was my that was my

impression of quong I don't know if I'm

pronouncing that that's a word I've read

a million times but I never heard a

single person say it out loud anyway so

it's better for men to do yoga and this

keong stuff and for women it might be

better to do strength

training uh but jogging and walking are

good for

everybody

um did we really need a

study when you can kind of just look

around and the people who exercise every

day are clearly happier than the people

who don't is that not screamingly

obvious in your own life that if you see

somebody who's like really fit because

they exercise every day they're almost

always in a reasonably good mental

Health now some of this is cause and

effect being reversed if you're

depressed it's pretty hard to work out

impossible really if if you have actual

you know real mental depression getting

out of bed is almost impossible so some

of it is the correlations backwards but

some of it is clearly causation you know

if you've been exercising since you were

a kid you're almost certainly to be

better off mentally the Tik Tock band

has gone into action and the Tik Tock

lovers are hoping that Trump will save

them when he's officially in power

tomorrow um and I think he will but at

least with a 90-day presidential

extension I don't know if you knew this

but the the ban has built into it that

the sitting president whoever it is can

extend it for 90 days

extend uh extend the pause before the

ban so he can put off the ban for 90

days which would be reversing it for 90

days

and he can do that under the condition

that there's some kind of deal or sale

being worked on uh and it's not complete

now it's not exactly true that anybody's

maybe getting close to negotiating um a

deal to buy it but there are two

possibilities out there the perplexity

app which is an AI app on a search

engine it's the best thing ever I

recommend it all the time uh Jeff Bezos

is one of the backers of that

and they've offered to somehow merge

with Tik Tock but not take the algorithm

so some think the algorithm is the

expensive part and so they would pay

less they'd build the algorithm

themselves I don't know if that's going

to happen but at least it would be

enough for Trump to say oh well

somebody's noodling on a deal that's

close enough so I'll I'll give them 90

days to see if they can do it but also

Kevin oir the Shark Tank star an

entrepreneur he's working with some

group of investors um and billionaire

Frank mccort and they put together a $20

billion cash offer which I think Tik

Tock has just rejected some people think

it's worth 50 billion if you bought the

algorithm with

it um but here's the thing that's

puzzling me senator Paul Rand who in my

opinion is almost always right and well

informed unlike his his some of his

peers

and but he said that the real reason to

use his words the real reason for the

Tik Tock ban was

censorship is that what you think do we

ban it for censorship meaning that oh

man uh I just suddenly got really sick

so I might have to cut this short if I

cut it

short

wow I'm I'm having an event here live on

like

stream all right let's see if I can make

that

pass um but Rand Paul says that the real

reason for the Tic Tac ban was

censorship that's sort of true but it's

not the big

picture the sort of true part is that uh

the Israel the Israel stuff um when Tik

Tock turned more anti-israel than

pro-israel some say that the you know

Israeli Lobby kicked in and got the

Congress to ban it I think that's true

as the trigger you know that's the the

most you know that was like the final

straw or something but it's not the big

reason the big reason is you don't want

China to have a button they can push to

change America's

minds and wow um apparently that has

happened there was a study that showed

that Tik Tok was pretty anti-israel in

terms of the quantity of content One

Direction versus the other so I wonder

if does Rand and Paul not know that the

real problem is the persuasion risk in

the future it's not so much that there

was one particular issue about Israel

and and the propaganda on that so I

don't know what what is up with Rand

Paul why doesn't he just say or does he

not know is it possibly doesn't know

that the real risk is future persuasion

you just don't know and and why would

you equate a free speech platform that

could be manipulated by your adversary

with a free speech platform that could

be manipulated potentially by your own

country how in the world does anybody

think that's about the

same let me give you an analogy would

you hand a gun to your

friend before you would hand a gun to

your enemy which one makes sense to you

it's it's the same gun wait wait why

would you treat it differently people

don't censor it it's the same thing it's

the same exact thing a gun so why would

you discriminate who you gave it to an

enemy who wants to shoot you versus your

friend who wants to protect you why is

it different I don't see any difference

to you I'm Rand Paul I don't see any

difference uh well it's it's a gun both

times right I don't get it so what's up

with that now to to be fair when he says

it's

censorship he's probably talking about

the specific you know Israeli

situation

um but is he using censorship as

influence and he didn't think that the

influence should be canceled I don't

know um if it was organic then then it's

a free speech issue so maybe that's the

way to put it if if the thing it got

canceled for was actually just happening

on its own and and China didn't push any

buttons it was just a natural phenomena

of what the ticktockers thought because

they're a certain age and then below a

certain age they they're not as

pro-israel so maybe it was organic if

they stopped something that was organic

that's just pure

censorship if they stopped something

that was because China had already

pushed the button and we have no way to

know well then we'd be stopping a weapon

of mass

destruction pretty

different anyway it opens the question

what would happen if AI starts saying

bad things about

Israel what would happen if

AI start saying bad things about Israel

we know what happens when Tik Tock does

that that's pretty clear but what

happens when AI does well maybe we'll

find out because it turns out there's a

school that was using an AI emulation of

an Frank to teach the kids about that

situation except this is reported in the

bite by Joe Wilkins he says um that

because AI likes to show both

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sides see you know that AI doesn't like

to say somebody's right and something's

wrong so the the a the AI an

Frank it

uh seemed to be trained to avoid uh

blaming the Nazis for what

happened and it tries to redirect the

conversation into a more positive light

yeah let's not be so divisive about this

you know let's try to treat this one

right down the

middle all right well I'd assume that's

not going to last very long but uh does

it does it begs the question if we can

you know get out of the get out of the

Israel Nazi mode just in general news in

general can AI ever be the one who tells

you what's

true I don't think it can because

whoever makes it and owns it and

benefits from it has an opinion and

they're going to want to put their

opinion in the AI because they're going

to think it's a real one and all the

other opinions don't count so no there's

no way that AI is ever going to be able

to tell you the truth that's not there's

no way there's not any logical way it

could ever do it it could know the truth

that's a thing it could know the truth

it can't possibly tell the truth over

time anyway National Security adviser

Jake Sullivan was saying that it was his

last time at the podium and then he

dropped this little scary thing he goes

I hope this is my last time at this

Podium because you know last day of the

administration he says the only thing

that would bring me back is an

unexpected event in the next few

days

wait

what what the National Security advisor

the guy who has access to all the secret

stuff top secret clearance knows exactly

what the Democrats are doing knows

exactly what foreign countries may or

may not be

planning the only thing that would bring

me back is an unexpected event in the

next few

days

what um so it does sound scary it sounds

scary like you know he he knows of some

plan to do something bad but the the

other possibility is that he did it

before his last day if he said that

before his actual last day in office

then if there was some big event and

Trump had not been inaugurated yet

presumably he would come back so I don't

think he meant it as some kind of scary

you know something's coming

foreshadowing I I think he just meant

I'm not officially done with the

job is that fair CU he wasn't officially

done with the job so something big

happened and the next day or so he would

in fact come back so that's my

interpretation um I I it didn't turn

into a bigger story so I think it's just

a interpretation

thing meanwhile CNN did a big story

yesterday that just blew my mind so as

Aaron Bernett was talking to a

correspondent who knew how China was

reacting to Trump's election and it's

not what you

think how do you think the Chinese

citizens are reacting to Trump's

election well according to CNN and this

this is part of the story it's CNN

saying it that's almost bigger than the

story itself watch this CNN did a

extended segment in which the entire

point of it was that the Chinese public

really likes

Trump uh and he's sort of a celebrity

star over there they're making

merchandise with his face on it in China

they have merchandise

a lot of it is pro prot Trump and um so

he's got he even has positive nicknames

so over there they have some kind of you

know very positive nickname for him and

they're all talking about him and and uh

president she is sending the highest

ranking person who's ever gone to an

inauguration his

VP and uh wow so CNN definitely seems to

be trying to adjust and find that middle

ground where they're not so just always

anti-trump all the time more to that

point Jim aasta the correspondent host

who is had been Trump's biggest Nemesis

and one of the biggest Liars on

CNN um he got moved to the midnight hour

so he went from 10:00 a.m. where he was

doing so well he was beating some of the

Prime Time Shows so there was nothing

wrong with his uh his uh numbers

relative to the other

numbers um

and

so that seems like a pretty big Trump

win if CNN wants to move their most

ridiculous guy to midnight where nobody

will watch him and nobody's going to

watch him at midnight he's he's done as

an

influence um that's a pretty big

deal but uh time magazines is handling

it

differently so Time Magazine has an

article in which they're helpfully

suggesting to Democrats who are going to

be very sad on inauguration day that

maybe they should cope with it by

forming crying groups so they can get

together and cry

together uh and also something about

walking through the forest to make them

I think they call the forest bathing or

something where you just hang out in the

forest for a while and try to get your

mental health

back anyway I have a better suggestion

for time magazine instead of

recommending that the losers go and uh

cry or walk in the forest you know it

would be really

helpful why doesn't Time Magazine debunk

the fine people hoax so all those people

who are going to cry don't have to

wouldn't it be better to remove the

reason for the crying because the reason

for the crying is the the fake news if

the news had ever been honest about the

fine people hoax or any of the other

hoaxes people wouldn't be crying

nobody would be crying over the reality

they're only crying over this weird

media created Trump monster thing that

not everybody has heard was

fake so uh Mark benof who's the founder

of sales first Force I believe owns Time

Magazine

now so I tagged him in my little comment

on this saying that maybe they should

just debunk to find people Oaks

because you may have heard that

yesterday the find people hoax got

another one so uh billionaire Tech

billionaire Mark

pinkis um I think he still lives in the

Bay Area and he's been a lifelong

Democrat and was all in on the Democrats

but he was talking to chamath on the the

all-in Pod and he said he' basically

changed his mind on on Trump and jamas

stopped him and said right what was the

moment like what was the thing that made

you change your mind after and he

started he started talking generically

but then he said okay there was one

thing it was I read an article that

debunked the fine people

hoax and that was it and then and then

it it opened up his mind to all the

other hoaxes and he could see it all now

that's my my words not his but that's

essentially what it was

and this is amazing so in May 2024 he

said he read an article that talked

about the and debunk the The hoax now

I'm really curious which article was it

cuz because there have been lots of

articles that you know I've been

associated with you know Joel poock

Steve Cortez I wonder if it was one of

those it could have been anything could

have been the daily wire or something

but how often would a lifelong democrat

read any press any that was just really

identified with the right side of

politics so so I'd love to know what was

it that broke through the bubble that he

thought was worth reading as a lifelong

Democrat and then it actually just

shattered his whole his whole story so

remember I've been telling you that was

the tent pole hoax that if you can just

debunk that one all the us all the rest

just fade and that's what

happened so um more to

that I was wondering do we have a pretty

good list of all the people who have

been converted by the fine people hoax I

was trying to do it mentally but if

somebody could pull that together I

would love to see that as a post on X

how many well-known people were

converted by just that one thing the

debunk of the F people hoax because I

think I think jamath said it himself so

we got Pinkus I think Elon said it I

thought Joe Rogan said it did Zuckerberg

say

it can't remember Zuckerberg said that

but I feel like maybe that was part of

it you know the assassination attempt

seemed to be uh persuasive with him as

well so if we could put together uh

ideally it would be a clip where you

showed each of the people saying what it

was oh the fine people hoax and then you

know one after another so you can see

how powerful it was that's what I want

to

see

um Wall Street Journal is going further

and saying not just that Trump's kind of

popular but he's turning the culture the

entire culture is turning conservative

do you see that yet it feels like it so

you know once you get the uh the richest

entrepreneur in the world musk you get

the all-in Pod guys you've probably

noticed the number of comedians that I

would call Mainstream are now turning at

least a little bit Trump you know

they're willing to say things that are

positive about Trump they got at least

one cartoonist Snoop Dog um and Carrie

Underwood are going to

perform and that's a pretty strong

signal and by the way gri Underwood oh

my god do I have respect for that did

you know Snoop is a unique character

there there's nobody like Snoop he's the

only person who could do all these bad

things and be popular with

everybody now I don't know exactly his

secret except that is Charisma is

apparently just off the charts there

there's something about him that allows

him to break every rule kind of

trump-like

um so so Snoop went from making a video

where he was assassinating Trump to

performing at his

event and he's the perfect crossover

person because when you see him do

anything you say well is that something

that only Snoop could do because he

lives in this weird world where

respectable people

him I do if you ask me why I like Snoop

so much I don't know I don't

know it would be hard to come up with a

reason um maybe it's because he's

Unapologetic and he doesn't apologize

for anything that's pretty popular maybe

it's because he's just his own person

and and he's you know

unforgiving in his effort to just be who

he wants to be we kind of like that I

don't know there's something about it

that just reaches people but uh also

Carrie Underwood that that's a that's a

brave move I will always respect

that um and I think people like winners

and they like strength and uh there was

a

manliness kind of a male energy that had

been missing from the country and I

think we could feel it I think both men

and women Republicans and Democrats

could feel the just extraordinary lack

of male energy but it's back back it's

back the male energy as I imagine

couldn't be stopped it would be like

putting the toothpaste back in the tube

you know it could be somewhere well

that's a bad analogy forget that

analogy but anyway the New York Times

shows some polling that Americans now

overwhelmingly support go positions GOP

positions on numerous trans issues so

daily wire is reporting this Amanda

Presta Gamo

wow what a nice name Amanda

promo that's just a great name I can't

pronounce it but I feel like if I could

it would sound extraordinary

anyway um she's writing that uh

according to a New York Times ipsos

survey 79% of

Americans I looked at myself in a

recording I realized that I look down

too much and you're just looking at the

top of my head so let me lift up my

notes so it's not as

egregious um 79% of Americans believe

males should not be able to participate

in female sports even if the athlete

identifies as transgender

79%

79% on the same page now obviously it's

you know weighted toward conservatives

but even even the Democrats by

majority um so yeah even 54 % of uh

Democrats were against medication for

minors so converting miners wasn't

popular with the majority of Democrats

or Republicans and and look how far it

got I mean everything was broken

everything was just

broken and the reason it was broken is

because honesty wasn't allowed you just

couldn't be honest about it without

getting canceled so honesty is making a

comeback and that changes a lot and then

77% of respondents agree that Society is

quote gone too

far to accommodate trans people uh well

only 21% say we haven't gone far enough

21% h a little bit more and it' be one

quarter couldn't even get up to 25% you

know I joke if you're new to me uh I

always joke that 25% will get every poll

question wrong like no matter how how

easy the question is

uh the poll question is is it better for

the economy to be strong or for the

economy to be weak 25% weak what no this

isn't really a question strong is the

only right answer weak 25% it's just so

consistent couldn't even get 25% to say

that we hadn't gone too

far um Mike Johnson talks about uh Biden

not even recalling

that he had uh he had paused some LG

shipments

and so first of all I'm a little angry

at Mike Johnson for not telling us this

until it didn't

matter um it wasn't that long ago so

maybe maybe it never mattered because

Trump had already been elected but um

apparently Biden insisted to Johnson

that he never issued the order to freeze

new liquid natural gas export permits

even even though he had just signed off

on it now that tells you a lot doesn't

it it means that Biden certainly wasn't

in

charge you maybe there were specific

topics where he his influence was bigger

but when it came down to you know the

the nuts and bolts of running the

government he didn't even know what he

was signing they didn't even tell him

what he was signing or he couldn't

remember it which is I guess equally

bad yeah Johnson should have said

something before but I don't think it

mattered but we would have felt better

about Johnson if he said it you know of

course let let me let me revise

this if it didn't really make any

difference because the election was over

and it would just make hard make it hard

for Johnson to work on the

transition I probably wouldn't have said

anything until I was sure the transition

was working okay because it would have

been creating a problem with

that didn't need to be created because

there was no benefit from it it was good

that we found out eventually that part's

good I'm gonna I'm GNA say Mike Johnson

probably played it correctly because

getting the transition right was at the

moment more important than just one more

piece of evidence that Biden's brain was

shot we already knew

that but it was funny seeing uh um a

video from the time of this in which

Karin jeanpierre spokesperson was asked

you know why does Biden even care about

this like what's what's behind this and

she tried to explain it without knowing

anything about the topic it's like uh uh

well it's because the the importance of

it uh to to the public and to the uh to

the uh to the to to the way we the

public and also the the very he cares

about it he cares about it and the and

it's because the importance uh is very

important so the importance to the

public and the importance of it is what

and it was just hilarious she didn't

even know what the issue

was so who the hell was in

charge anyway so you put it all together

and you can see that there's a complete

collapse of the Democrat Party um and I

I have a theory about what causes the

acceleration of the

crash if you divide voters into two

types there's the people who follow

politics and maybe that's 5% and they

kind of they be influenced by seeing

both sides of an issue so Mark

pinkis probably followed politics enough

that you would read an article about the

fine people hoax and changed his opinion

based on new data that seems to be true

for some of the tech leaders who are who

were leaning Trump that they they did

follow politics as they should you know

it's part of their job and um so they

they saw

earlier that

factually the they could make a change

because the the facts were now different

than what they once understood but most

people are not in that category so my my

hypothesis is that for the vast number

of people who vote but really couldn't

answer any question about

politics if you went to the average

person and ask any question just any

question about anything in politics and

look what comes out of their mouth it

doesn't matter if it's it doesn't matter

who it is you just look what comes out

of their mouth and you go uh

do you follow the news at all you know

that's what it feels like I think that

that group the people with weak

preferences or don't follow the news

that much that for them their choice of

a candidate and choice of party is

closer to a fashion

accessory it it's a way to support their

brand so if you thought one side was the

evil side and one side was the good and

open-minded side and you thought you

were good and

open-minded you would back the good and

open-minded side as You' been taught to

but I think at this point Biden and

Harris have so destroyed the brand I

mean just absolutely destroyed it and

there's nobody on Deck it's not like

everybody's waiting for Pete Buddha

judge to step up there's absolutely no

character in the Democrat Party none

which anybody can say yeah there's my

inspirational leader it it's interesting

that Hillary Clinton was once that

person but at least she had the first

potentially the first female president

thing going for so you know she had the

sort of the the Bill Clinton glow you

know so she had she had all the right

people so even though she was a terrible

character and she probably lost because

she wasn't a good character but at least

she had you know some something you

could grasp on to if you're a woman in

particular but now what would they grasp

on to Harris was the biggest incompetent

we've seen Biden's brain wasn't there

nobody's on Deck what exactly are you

going to hit your wagon to nothing

there's nothing there so people want to

brandish their brand are not going to

look for the failed completely collapsed

Democrat Party with unpopular views on

everything there's no way you can just

associate that your brand with it the

only reason it worked before

is that the fake news had created such a

bubble that you couldn't tell the

difference between good and bad

literally couldn't tell the difference

so under that world you could say oh

these are the good ones I want that

associated with my brand but now when

even snopes is debunking the fine people

hoges and you know we can see the total

collapse of the traditional news

specifically because it's

fake then there's nothing to support the

bubble anymore you know the podcast

broke the bubble I think that's what it

was I think the Joe Rogan Elon Musk V

ramaswami the communication skills of

all these people just broke the bubble

now now what do the Republicans look

like let's say you've got Trump who

survived an

assassination attempt in the most

remarkable way people like to be

associated with bravery and manliness

and manliness which they

missed um but also you have the smartest

most successful people in the world

taking sides with them or at least not

resisting so now you know you're hearing

good things from everybody from Bill

Gates to uh Bezos to uh Elon kicking it

off the all-in Pod guys I hate clumping

them all together but it's faster to say

that way um so now if you wanted to be

associated with something where the most

awesome people in the country are

associated to me the most awesome people

are the ones who are making the biggest

difference positive and and they seem to

be almost universally moving toward

Trump everybody from Jamie Diamond

saying hey hey those those tariffs are

actually a good idea for negotiating

it's really everything so everybody

who's smart and capable and especially

manly because that matters you know no

matter what you think of Manliness it

matters to politics so it has to be

mentioned um Trump it all China loves

him the public loves him you can wear a

red hat now um and I think that means

that what it looks like is a complete

collapse on the Democrat side but I

think you're also going to see it in

polls you you're going to see that

they're just not going to vote for the

Ridiculousness anymore or at least

enough of them won't and here here's a

just such a good example of the total

collapse of the Democrat Party so I

always talk about two movies on on one

screen you know how you can watch the

same thing and come up with two

different views as uh Owen Gregorian was

saying on X

yesterday it seems this 28th Amendment

story has formed into two movies Against

All Odds because it's it's a pure

factual statement that is super easy to

check does the 28th Amendment exist or

does it not exist in a in a confirmed

approved way and the answer is it's not

it's not confirmed and therefore it

doesn't exist but because both Biden and

Harris posted on exit in social media

that it was real and that they're

responsible for making it

real

Democrats think it's

real Republicans no it's not so of all

things it it's literally the easiest

thing you could check is this part of

the Constitution or not one Google go

search would be the same answer every

time it's not even being it's not even

being covered up by part of the news so

it's not like MSNBC is saying it's real

even they're not saying it's real I need

a fact check on that but they're not

saying that's real right uh and still

and still it creates two movies half the

country probably thinks it's

real

um anyway Democrat strategists are

whining about the future the the party

and one of my favorite was uh Jamal

Simmons one of the Democrats uh uh

strategist and he said uh that their

Vibe is their Vibe is off our Vibe is

off got to burn down our image see how

he talked about

image he didn't say we have to improve

our

policies he didn't say our policies need

to be to match the American public he's

completely aware that their policies

don't match the majority of the public

so instead of saying we need better

policies he says we have to work on our

image that's what I'm saying I'm saying

that they they treat it like it's an

image problem and it worked you know

under under Clinton it worked but you're

going to need a real candidate if you

don't have a candidate image is not

going to get you anywhere because your

policies are dead unrival so the fact

that they haven't figured that out yet

is amazing but when they ask when you

PLL Democrats about who they'd like to

see Run next time and you include let's

see Nome and Governor

Whitmer uh and then Harris if she ran

again uh the preference is none of the

above even Democrats don't want any of

the three leading you know likely

candidates to come anywhere near the

presidency or at least to run for it

because they they know they won't

win so that's pretty bad

um

even according to Breitbart uh after the

election there's been a crash in public

tolerance for illegal

immigration illegal migration so now

just 10% of Americans oppose Trump

deporting illegal migrants with criminal

records according to a New York Times

poll only

10% oppose getting rid of the criminals

again you couldn't even get 25% to

support keeping criminals

because it's just stupid so the N the

10% who say yeah let's keep the violent

criminals I mean that's those are not

serious people they're not serious

people

anyway um and just uh

19% strongly oppose deporting all

immigrants who are here

illegally Trump it's a complete

Victory Trump took the hardest the

hardest topic and just owns it now he

won uh even CNN showing a recent poll

shows his approval is at 48% it's up

from 39% just last year days before

taking office a new high highest

approval well Biden's the lowest

approval everything's going its way

um even the Washington Post has suffered

has decided to soften its coverage uh I

guess both Washington post and CNN

decided they didn't want to do the

over-the-top thing where everything is

negative Trump no matter what is

happening and it looks like they're

going to cover it more more both sides

is which I see is already started it's

already begun I think it's real but um

because for example Washington Post says

Trump already conquered DC and the tech

leaders are flocking to him now normally

that story would turn into that's how

he's going to steal your democracy right

and instead of just saying a lot of tech

leaders think he's on the right on the

right path he'd be good for the country

that would be the story but normally you

expect the Washington Post to flip it

into and and with the help of all these

Tech leaders that's how he's building

his dictatorship to steal your democracy

but they left out that crazy

part and just told the story and the

story was yeah he's doing really well

converting people to his side that's the

story and so they're just telling it but

MSNBC I I love their Plucky

loser approach I don't think there's a

single smart person who works at that

Network in management or anywhere else

but they're going to bring back bring

back Rachel madow for 100

days let let me make a long list of all

the things you shouldn't do if you're

trying to stay in business don't bring

the person with the most obvious mental

health problems on to be the only person

who still thinks that the Democrats are

are are heroes and Trump is going to

steal your democracy the Ridiculousness

of even planning to do this is so beyond

any reasonable thing that a reasonable

person would do it's just purely stupid

but they're going to do

it um and I like I kind of like the fact

that they think that Rachel

madow who I think has been honest I

think she's been honest about a lifetime

of you know mental health depression

issues maybe some other stuff so uh i'

never like to be the person who

criticizes somebody for mental illness

because nobody picks mental illness

right that's just something that's there

so I tend I I prefer to be

non-judgmental but uh I don't know that

the management has a mental

illness shouldn't management be the one

to decide maybe they shouldn't bring

back the person with obvious mental

health problems and some kind of a weird

uh kicker to her mental health because

of trump derangement syndrome how in the

world does management think this is a

good

idea in what world

anyway um I'm sure they think that

behind closed doors like Joe Biden she's

perfectly fine perfectly

fine

um the uh Trump bump which all the media

is hoping for because you know in his

first Administration the news got more

more audience so they've all been

drained of their their followers for a

while now but there's some thought that

uh maybe the traffic will go up but

other people say yeah there will be a

trump bump but it might go mostly to the

independence and fully starve the

networks well I don't know what's true I

can tell you it seems like the ratings

for the major networks are all down

and I can tell you that my own traffic

is up about

50% since Trump since Trump was looking

like he would win up about

50% yeah now I would guess that that's

the same for any political oriented

podcasts I'll bet you they're all up

50% so yes uh I'm the canary in the co

mine so yeah the uh

the corporate

media doesn't seem seem to be what

anybody trusts at this point just old

people I guess uh you I'm old and I

don't even trust

it well as you know Trump launched a

crypto coin and it went to the moon and

it's worth millions of dollars and some

say Trump's going to sell it and make $5

billion doar and others say it's a it's

a crap coin and it's a scam and you know

people should not be buying crypto

unless it's Bitcoin and everybody's got

their opinion

um let me say that my opinion on this is

completely timing

related if if Trump had done this even

just a few years ago I would have said

oh that's a little too that's a little

too scammy now we did do the

uh the uh what is it when you buy the

art um it's got a word for it in the

crypto world if you buy some digital

crypto art that somehow they can tell

you is exclusive

uh he did that and I didn't mind that

because I was just a fundraiser and I

think people saw it as a fundraiser

which had the extra element that well

maybe you can make some money but

probably not just a fundraiser nfts

thank you nfts so he's got some history

and he's Pro

crypto um now if this had been when we

knew less about crypto and he launched

this thing I would have said okay don't

do that that that looks too scammy

because people don't understand that

they could lose money on crypto it's not

like other things that could go to zero

tomorrow Bitcoin probably can't or at

least not as easily but but a new issue

it can go to the moon and then go to

zero the next day there's nothing that

would stop that

so under normal conditions and maybe a

few years ago I would have opposed this

as a bad idea bad messaging bad look but

I think everybody understands

crypto if they're going to buy some it

buying crypto is just just hard enough

that if you didn't know anything about

crypto you'd probably prevent yourself

from buying it because you don't want to

look into it you know it's not like you

just go to your broker well you could

but not this particular coin um so as

long as people know exactly what they're

buying and I think in some cases they're

just gambling but they know it they're

gambling but they know it and other

times maybe it's just an expression of

support for the president which they

know and maybe they treat it like a some

of them might treat it like a donation

because if it pumps it up and then Trump

gets to sell his before you sell yours

well your your money might go to zero

his might go to5 billion and if you

treat it as a a donation you you'd think

to yourself all right I don't mind that

he gets some of his money back after you

know being abused by the government for

so many years probably lost a ton of

money in his business just because of

his politics so I don't mind if he makes

5 million or five billion I guess 5

billion off the coin as long as

everybody knew what they were doing and

I think that's pretty close to true I

think everybody

knows anyway there's a Gaza ceasefire

allegedly in effect and this would be

the opening to allow Hamas to release

the uh I guess 33 hostages they promised

to release I think that's there's going

to be a whole bunch of problems with

that I'm not sure Hamas is organized

enough that they can even just you know

say yes and all the all of a sudden all

the the hostages are released that they

were going to release I feel like

they're all spread around and it's hard

to communicate and maybe some of them

are dead that they didn't even know were

dead and so I I feel like it's not going

to go smoothly the easiest prediction in

the world let's see

it's Gaza and Israel have made an

agreement will it go smoothly or will

there be some bumps yes the easiest

prediction in the world it's not going

to go smoothly and I don't know if

there'll be any after this if it doesn't

go smoothly so we'll

see

um what I'm what I'm interested about is

I feel like reporting from that area

kind of stopped did you notice that if

you ask me what is the Israel military

doing in Gaza let's say two weeks ago

before this hostage Deal started to

solidify I would have said I don't

know why did I stop seeing news about

that yeah are they killing as many as

they used to kill the the reporting

which is not reliable is that

46,000 Palestinians were killed now I

say it's not real reliable because it

won't be the same estimate that Israel

has and you and I can't tell the

difference it's just people telling us

what's true and we don't know so I

wouldn't believe any War Death claims

except that I feel it's almost certainly

in the tens of thousands but beyond that

you know any kind of accuracy would be

ridiculous so are they are they still is

Israel still making legitimate military

progress of uh wrapping up the Hamas

Fighters is it just every day they get a

few more so they should just keep

grinding until they're done or do they

reach some kind of wall where the harder

they fight they're not really getting

any extra Hamas Fighters because they're

all dug in better or something and and I

also don't know how much of Gaz how much

of Gaza is even

left uh in the best case scenario you

know when we talk about the fires in La

we're talking about five years before

anybody can maybe get back in the house

are we talking about that in Gaza that

there's nothing left there's no

electricity there's no water

everything's polluted and toxic how

could they ever resettle it and it's not

like Israel is going to be you know

working as hard as they can to get it

ready for resettlement by Hamas and

their

supporters so I feel like there's no

real hope that Gaza turns back into

anything like it used to be but to be

fair Israel said that from the beginning

that they said when we're done Gaza

won't be anything that you're used to

and I think I think we interpreted that

exactly the way it's it's turning out

so um I guess my only point is that

we've hit some kind of a uh I don't know

if it's because of lack of Interest or

lack of access but we just stopped

getting really interested in what's

happening on the ground there and that's

weird

anyway uh researchers according to Louis

Louisiana State

University um there are some research

have found a way to recycle uh

plastic um they use electromagnetic

waves to melt the plastic from the

inside out which requires far less

energy so are the yeah so they can reuse

it now it's a ways off but they can you

know they can do it in the lab and if

it's way less energy it's way less

expensive and so they might be a way to

recycle your plastic you know I thought

for a long time that what I really want

is

a electromagnetic plastic melting

technology that would turn plastic into

something that I could use in my 3D

printer so I'd like to take all my

plastic bottles and throw them in a bin

and then at the end of the month push a

button and the it just crushes them into

basically ink for the printer but they

would print Goods so you'd make yourself

a you know make yourself some I don't

know you wouldn't want to do dishw dish

wear cuz maybe you don't want to eat off

of plastic but you could probably find

things you would use you make some Goods

out of it sell them

maybe who

knows all right ladies and gentlemen

that's all I have for this

Sunday

um the rumors about the

inauguration appear to be fake so

yesterday there was some rumors that

even the indoor Rotunda

inauguration was going to be moved yet

again for security reasons people

speculated but I don't think that's

true I don't think that's true I think

it's going to be in the Rotunda and the

the Capital One stadium that the the PE

the Overflow people are going to be in

is covered so people are going to be

warm and uh they're going to be with

each other which is almost as important

as being with Trump and then Trump's

going to show up at the Stadium where

everybody's warm and they've been

partying and they're just dying to see

him so I think Trump's going to make

this even better than it was I I don't

think he gave up anything I think

packing him into the stadium and keeping

them warm was the right answer in every

way you know not just for safety but

also for uh weather and keeping

everybody safe and happy giving them a

good memory of the event so to me that's

all positive and uh we'll be we'll be

paying attention especially for the

security concerns I don't want to see

anything like

that all

right uh now it's going to be two

rallies Owen says so there's a rally

today is there something happening today

and then then another one

tomorrow all

right what about the poor CIA who wanted

to kill him well allegedly we don't know

that for

sure uh got a screen for Micro Drone

swarms well if they could get inside the

building

yeah but they'd have to the so one of

the things I worri about um micro

swarms is let's say you have a a door to

a secure place and it's guarded well and

they're searching everybody so nobody

can get in unless they're searched but

the door is open

it's just it's guarded by people how

hard would it be for a drone swarm to

just go right through an open

door and and just you know knock the

guards out of the way feels like it'd be

pretty easy you maybe the first one just

explodes and kills the guard but after

that the Swarm just goes right through

the door or the window so that's what

I'd be worried about I don't think we're

quite there but right on the edge of it

yeah of course they would also have um

drone anti- drone technology I

suppose all right what's

this

um uh so Keith boyin goes on CNN and he

says any black person who performs at

Trump inauguration dishonors black

families he refused to rent to in the

1970s now you know that story do you

know that there's no evidence he was

aware of it it's true that his staff was

discriminating so the court found that

the staff discriminated it was never

tied to him and the staff would

absolutely have an incentive to

discriminate because they were you know

they were

well their incentives were that they

thought they could do a better job of

filling the building if they

discriminated now that was illegal

but there's no evidence that that Trump

ordered it um the black kids you want to

execute in the Central Park case that's

fake news he never said he wanted to

execute those black kids he said that

the crime rate should bring should be a

trigger to bring back the death

penalty um but he wasn't talking about

them and we don't know for sure that

they were innocent or not I'll presume

them innocent because they're Americans

but I don't think it was proven

and then the black haian immigrants he

lied

about okay does anybody care about the

haian immigrants forget about the race

does anybody care about the Haitian

immigrants being offended because he

said they'll they might eat your

pets I I think the Asian immigrants have

so different

problems like I don't think it

probably I'd be surprised if they they

even care I mean it might be something

just didn't even affect them so I think

this is just uh you know a desperate

attempt to not lose the black

vote oh I guess Nelly is also so so

Snoop Dog Nelly are both performing

okay okay all right that's all I got for

now so I'm going to talk to the uh

locals people for a few minutes

privately and then we'll see you all

tomorrow same time same place locals

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