Episode 2729 CWSA 01/23/25

that's a terrible tattoo mama did you just disappear when I tap my when I tap my papers did the picture just disappear cuz it it threw me out of the app how could everything go wrong how's that even possible that all I did was this I I won't do it again and it turned off the app this is so beyond this is so beyond possible I mean we're into some statistical impossible situation here it can't be that all the apps died at the same time they couldn't all be broken at once could they I know there's a massive incompetence problem but that's pretty impressive anyway if you'd like to take your experience today up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brain none of it makes sense today does it like the the Preamble doesn't make any sense be because the uh the starting assumption is that things went right so the Preamble doesn't make sense let's just do the let's just do this side Let's Just Surrender shall we surrender to the fact that everything's just going to go wrong today just absolutely everything's going to go wrong sip to that sometimes it goes that way ah and then he is slap happy it's up 172% since I told you about it anyway all right let's talk about some of the news you ready for this and let's try for the fourth time in a row to push one freaking button okay I'm going to use my finger which I know is a human finger I'm positive I'm still alive and I'm going to push the button which I've pushed now five times once it worked all right careful careful push the icon yes yes I pushed the button and it did what it was supposed to first time today all right did you know there's a breakthrough in Fusion nobody cares uh General atomics they they figured out how to get 20% higher than the green wall limit the Greenwald limit which you all know about of course it's uh some kind of limit that the fusion people needed to get past and they got past it it was considered difficult or impossible but they did and they've also figured out to stabilize the plasma now the thing with the fusion is it's it might be another 20 years of there's another breakthrough without actually anything breaking through but uh once it gets serious it's all going to happen at once now isn't it weird that that Fusion is coming which would lower the cost of energy to zero over time um at exactly the time we need cheap energy and relief from inflation have you noticed that we have a number of timing things happening that are weird meaning that all right we're heading toward Doom with our debt and our expenses and nobody can live but at the same time if Fusion were a little bit faster it would save us but it might it might just be late by 20 years I mean over the if you look at the history of humankind missing it by 20 years that would be the slightest slightest Miss but we have other timing too too um so you know the AI people at open AI think that we're on the verge of being able to solve all of our cancers and diseases because AI will figure out some pattern recognition and figure out how to do it what about the people who have terminal cancer this year they might miss the cure for all cancers by a month now it's bad enough if you you have to die from cancer at all but think how dumb you would feel if you died a month before all cancer is cured that's going to happen it's like somebody's family member is going to die a month before all cancer is cured I don't know if that's a year from now but that's what the AI people say could be a year from now meanwhile NASA is testing a nuclear propulsion to go to Mars in 45 days so currently it's 6 months I think that would lower from 6 months to 45 days that would be a pretty big deal and they've um what else they got oh I saw a quote from nval Rob he was on Tim Ferris podcast and he said that people who don't homeschool their lives suck and then they described why totally right if anybody has had kids in the last say last 20 years you know that the life of the parents is essentially destroyed by school because the school you know loads them up with homework so you can't have any quality time at night but you got to get up and you've got this stress of getting them there the traffic and the you know everything's tense tense getting the kids to school if you drive them especially it's tense and it's just brutal but if you homeschool you kind of make your own schedule and everything's fine and they perform better and they don't get damaged by the school yeah I if you just if you're just a regular parent with children in school you've got a tough life and there's no reason for it there's no reason for it at all because you can homeschool and you can solve all those problems well Mr.

Beast Mr.

Beast the uh gigantic You.

Tube Star says he want he wants to get some billionaires together and by Tik Tock he's already talked to his billionaires and he's pretty serious about it he says we mean business you know having Mr.

Beast and his advisors or or his investors having them own Tik Tok that would be pretty good as long as we can solve the you know the privacy and the the influence part of it so that's interesting um president Trump has his diet coke button back in the Oval Office have you seen it it's like this you know nice block of wood with one button on it to order a Diet Coke except I feel like he needs more buttons don't you like I'd like to see a trap door button where he could inviting the top Dei director for every government organization so what's your job I'm the DI director next what's your job well I'm the director of De and the Diet Coke please beep and then you get it mixed up and you want to Diet Coke and you know next thing you know next thing you know next thing you know rubo going through the trapo oh sorry I I meant to hit the The Diet Coke but my bad all right well according to Christopher rufo who you know was working very hard on getting rid of Dei Ridiculousness in the corporate world and elsewhere and uh he says that the tech executives are telling him that in the Silicon Valley companies uh they respect Trump's ban on Dei they respect it and uh many feel relieved that they don't they don't have to enforce it anymore they don't have to protect and so rufo says resistance um to Dei is basically dead now does that surprise you are you surprised that Dei could die that easily I'm not because I was well aware that the main promoters of Dei tended to be rich white guys who were just protecting themselves so as soon as somebody said I will hurt you more if you do it then you don't do it then all the people who were only doing it to avoid getting hurt would say wait well hold on what did you say oh oh it's going to hurt me more to keep doing it oh then I won't do it there there was never any intellectual agreement it was purely just a bunch of rich white guys covering their ass pretending like they cared they didn't care they were just waiting for some good reason not to do it Trump gave it to them meanwhile uh this is funny The Daily Mail is reporting and and I don't know if you could trust this story if this story were about Trump I would tell you there's no way this is true but since this it's about uh Jim aasta uh I'm going to recreationally pretend it's true now I think I've explained before that a recreational belief is one that doesn't really have a lot of credibility but it would be fun if it were true certainly would be fun yeah this is one of those so as you know Jim aasta his time slot is going to get moved from 10:00 a.m.

to midnight which is widely interpreted as you know he's being minimized and CNN wants to you know maybe encourage him to leave on his own you know what I mean uh but the story from Daily Mail is that uh uh Jim aosta is reportedly considering leaving the network you know because of the shift of the bad time slot and but the move comes as CNN is slashing 200 jobs um now let me give some advice to Jim Masta if he's telling people that he's considering leaving the network that would be sort of a negotiating wouldn't you say he's sort of negotiating with management oh if you move my time slot I might I might quit well let me give you some negotiating advice Jim aosta and this is free this is free there's there's no charged for this um if your company is trying desperately to cut costs and they've already decided that you need to move to midnight that's not really the time to start threatening them that you might quit because that's exactly what they want obviously they want him to quit he must be one of the more High highly paid people he's not helping the network at all and you know they showed it by moving him to midnight no I wouldn't negotiate under those circumstances uh the good news is is sucking at your job finally matters again so there's that um but don't worry about Jim AA he can always follow the path of uh Tucker Carlson who left Fox News and just got bigger got bigger or he could follow the model of Don Lemon who left his prime time show and uh now he's uh doing nothing I don't know I don't think Don Lemon worked it out well the Oscar nominations are out um and the only thing the Oscar nominations for the the best movie The only thing it tells me is movies don't seem like a thing anymore do they doesn't it seem like just watching a movie doesn't feel like a thing I do anymore there isn't a single movie on the list I have even a little bit of interest in i i Tred to watch uh you know you know my story I turn off any movie as soon as somebody's tied to a chair if your plot of your movie just absolutely requires somebody to be tied to a chair you're just signaling you don't know how to write it can't be true that everybody always has to be tied to a chair no matter what the movie is about it just can't be true that your plot requires it there there's no way you can't tie them to a bed once you can't tie them to a well sometimes they'll tie them to a pole I guess so if they want to get creative but now as soon as somebody's tied to a chair I'm out so I tried to watch a a minseries on Prime Prime video called the agency about the CIA now it's fiction and characters were good and you I kind of like the tone of it and the writing seemed good and I got through the first episode yesterday while I was working second episode comes on and man tied to a chair and that's the last I'll ever watch of it uh I'm serious about this if you tie somebody to a chair I'm not going to watch that's the that's the end of my viewing for that you have to you got to come up with something better than tying somebody to a chair all right it's 2025 you can do better meanwhile Oprah discovered that Free Will is not a thing she didn't say it that way what she said was that when she got an OIC um she understood thin people now I'm not saying she's thin and she's not saying she's thin but it gave her an Insight because once she got an O epic um apparently it it changed her her thoughts about food because when your body is less craving I guess your mind is relaxed as well so she realized that thin people don't obsess about food all the time like she did you realize that's realizing that there's no free will right so she realized that her brain was just different and her chemistry was different and whatever her brain and chemistry were designed to do well what they were doing was obsessing about food and that made it difficult for not to eat too much now uh and then when she took abmic she stopped obsessing about it and then suddenly it was easy not to eat too much well this is what I've been telling people forever um I discovered this with the kids having sleepovers in the house and having all their friends over and if I got pizza I put the pizza down and the kids no matter how many of them there were would appear to actually get a piece of pizza because you know they they were always busy doing something but they would arrive at the food in the exact order of their current weight and the first time I saw it I thought that looks like a coincidence that that these skinniest people don't even walk toward the pizza they just keep doing what they're doing like they're not even hungry and then the people people who are a little heavier right at the pizza now there's no way that the way they're thinking about food is the same because it can't be a coincidence that the person who's got a few extra pounds is always the first one to the pizza but you can see it really obviously with with kids so I can tell with certainty that some brains are different and it's not about anybody choosing to be overweight that that's not what happens um so there is no free will uh if you're an NPC and you'd like to argue this let me tell you how the way you could argue in favor of Free Will existing is you just replace words with your own personal definition so if you want to argue here's what you'd say um to to maintain your illusion of Free Will you'd say something like but I choose what I do that's free will no that's just putting a different word for another word that's not anything or somebody said to me in the comments we have discipline when it is hard no again that's just a word you have discipline you mean you just replaced Free Will with discipline no that's not anything that's just changing a word or somebody else said um that Scott can believe what he wishes because he has free will so I can do what I wish which means I have free will because you just changed the definition of free will to believing what I wish yeah we we're not going to get into this well today apparently Trump will be addressing the world economic Forum by Zoom or something and uh the thing about the Trump era the golden age is that I would literally buy a ticket for that if you told me uh Scott you have to pay $10 to watch a 10-minute video of trump addressing the world economic Forum uh we don't even know what he's going to say no idea what he's going to say would you pay $10 to watch 10 minutes of trump talking to the world economic Forum yes yes I would would you pay $10 to watch one of the movies um that recently was nominated for an Academy Award no what uh I'll pay for the part before somebody's tied to a chair oh you know what would be fun if there's somebody who by some weird by some weird chance if some of if if you've watched all of the movies that are nominated for Academy Award can you tell me what percentage of them have somebody tied to a chair it could be it could be the answer is none I bet it's not but if the answer is none maybe that's how you win an eomm award it's like okay I'm writing it and and then he's tied to a chair wait a minute what if he's not tied to a chair and next next you know you're nominated for the Academy Award hey what he wasn't even tied to a chair Academy a anyway CNN is devolving into a podcast so uh reportedly their CEO mark thas he uh he plans to do Mass layoffs as you know um but apparently reportedly I wasn't at the meeting so again I'll use the same standard if this story were about Trump I would warn you it's probably not true because there's no Source right it's just somebody was at a meeting were they were they at that meeting we don't know so recreationally just for fun I'm going to treat it like it's true and the story is that uh there was a meeting in which the CEO CNN told Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper that they ought to avoid prejudging Trump and uh stop talking about the past and all the laware stuff and you know calling him a felon and all that stuff and just talk about what the future looks like and what he's doing at the moment um what do you think about that well it does look like there is some change it does look like the hosts of CNN are intentionally and uh I give them credit for this most of them seem to be finding some kind of Middle Ground however they're still doing the thing where they invite idiots on the show if they're inviting idiots on the show and they give them lots of time it's the same CNN so you know at the same time I'm reading this about they're not going to be you know full of TVs uh I see a clip of Scott Jennings have to shut down a salute truther so they have one of these guests on who starts with saying that well you know Elon did that igu was raising his hand you see I oh my God I almost that was close I don't know if you noticed but inadvertently uh I had allowed one of my hands to be higher than my waist and you can't do that when Trump's in office yeah you know as soon as it gets up up here they're like is that a Hiller no oh I was just reaching for something I was over Hill no oh I was just reaching for something I just wanted to turn on my lap the lap is a little no no so you get get a little jumpy but they had some guests I hadn't seen before I don't know her name who talked about uh musk was overshadowing Trump and he was doing that that arm salute now what do you think the CEO of CNN was thinking when the guest came on and started talking about the fake news of the arm salute and the fake news that musk is going to overshadow Trump and trying to drive a wedge that feels like exactly what the CEO said stop doing so if the host stopped doing it but then they introduce somebody who does it and they do that every day which is exactly what's happening nothing really helped seems like it's all the same so anyway Scott Jennings calls it the salute truthers which is pretty good um Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel came to Elan musk defense about that fake salute thing and he said musu is being falsely smeared and Elon is a great friend of Israel and um all true all true and I'm trying to figure out how can I get Netanyahu to do this for me can Netanyahu do this for me it would be great I'd like him to say that the uh ADL uh is not right when they smeared me that'd be great so uh BB um and that's the reason that I don't support Israel because they don't support me but they do support Elon so I can see why he would support them um otherwise I just observe I'll just be an observer but I can't be a supporter because they don't support me got to have rest got to have reciprocity without reciprocity nothing works right so a little reciprocity and then we're in good shape um there's the Sam mman story is just getting more and more interesting so I was unaware until Mike cernovich found alman's old posts and started putting them on acts I didn't realize that Sam was not just anti-trump but he was really involved in being anti-trump in 2016 and 2020 apparently so some of his posts which I never seen then you know he was less prominent then so there's no reason I would have noticed um so he this is actually a Sam Alman post on it on back when it was Twitter on um December 21st or I'm sorry December in 2021 so in 2021 uh so this is after Trump lost the reelection uh Sam Alman said uh anx very few people realized just how much Reed Hoffman did and spent to stop Trump from getting reelected it seems likely to me that Trump would still be in office without his efforts thank you read and then Paul Graham had said in 2016 so this was just a month or so before the 2016 election in October he said few have done more than Sam Alman to defeat Trump so according to the people who know the most and are the Insiders Sam mman was one of the primary people for defeating Trump in 2020 and one of the primary ones with Reed hofen tried to keep him out of office in 2016 did you know that that's uh that's kind of interesting and Alman himself said on one of these uh I think responding to Paul Graham he said I've spent all of my free time and done less work than I should have on various projects and a lot of money the various projects in the context of stopping Trump how many various projects was he involved in and how many of them were totally legitimate I don't know but uh but now more recently especially because he's sort of uh trying to work with Trump which is necessary for all the tech leaders are going to have to work with him um now he said I don't have his exact words but Alman Alman basically said that uh now he's had a chance to see Trump more objectively and he doesn't have his old views and he he explained why he was so wrong before by calling himself an NPC so a non-player character somebody who doesn't think before they act just goes along with the crowd do you think that explains it do you think that one of the smartest most capable people in the entire country was an NPC and spent all of his time and all of his money without realizing that he' been hypnotized by the television now your your first instinct is there's no way right Common Sense common sense says you can't be that smart and have acted that seemingly NPC like for 8 years or whatever it was and then suddenly you wake up and now you see the error of your ways that doesn't seem real does it right so all of your common sense says that doesn't seem like a real change you you must be pretending now because it's it's less likely you were pretending then because you put years of work years of work and massive amounts of money before so that looked real and then suddenly you do you know one post where you're like oh sorry I was an NPC didn't mean it and then we're supposed to believe it here's the hard part that's normal that's completely normal if if you think there's no way that could be true because you could be that smart and that dumb at the same time yeah you can totally normal if you were to if you were to look at the IQs of all the people suffering from TDS and you compared to the IQs the people not suffering from it the sufferers are probably higher because they're more likely to have gone to college where they got hynotized so IQ is actually not opposite of being fooled high IQ and high likelihood of being fooled try to travel together and we have seen genuine cases where people who had that much TDS or at least were in the TDS world were in fact deprogrammed I know because I deprogrammed some of them the you know at least I I was part of the process um and the fine people hoax did in fact did in fact no doubt about it reprogram people who were brilliant and they didn't know they were acting like NP sees so the first the first filter I'm going to put on this is that this is entirely possible now I can almost hear Mike covich yelling at me you idiot he's just pretending for money I agree with that I agree with that my my current best take is that um he might see he might see that he wasn't entirely right before but he's seemingly transactional he's got a fiduciary responsibility to the company if he didn't at least pretend to have pretend to have become Pro Trump if he hadn't at least pretended well he wouldn't be doing his job he he has billions of dollars personally a stake in keeping open AI you know a functioning successful company so now if somebody has billions of dollars at stake for having the right opinion they're going to be on that opinion so there's nothing about his current opinion that tells us anything about what he's thinking can't tell what he's thinking but if you want to say to yourself I think the old Sam was the real one I think that's reasonable but don't rule out that no matter how brilliant you are and how committed you are you could realize later that you were hypnotized because a lot of people did you know if we didn't have a whole bunch of people who said honestly you know and they don't say this about themselves but they could they could say but don't I'm really really smart and I was totally fooled by that but lots of people are essentially saying that so if lots of people who are as smart as Sam Alman are saying I got totally fooled and we believe them I believe u bill aan for example I believe he was genuinely fooled but he's also genuinely brilliant how do you explain that because it's normal it's completely normal be being able to be free from persuasion is a specific skill it's not a general intelligence thing at all in fact general intelligence works against you you're easier to fool dumb people are harder to fool sometimes because they'll say Hey you smarty pants looks like you're trying to pull something on me well why do you say that I don't know I just don't trust you but what do you see that's tipping you off don't need to see anything I just don't trust you and you're going to be right so so the low IQ person who says I just I just don't trust you ends up being right and the smart person says H let's look at all the facts and the details by reading the New York Times but I'll cross check it with a CNN to make sure that one and the they both got it right oh it looks like they agree I guess that's true so now I'll act like Trump is Hitler because the CNN and you know being smart isn't helping you it just is a different skill than understanding persuasion so you can you see the mechanism you have to you have to be able to see the machine if you can't see the mechanisms of the machine the machine owns you but once you learn enough about how it's done such as learning how a rupar is done learning how incentives work etc once you realize how the Machine Works then it just sort of materializes in front of you and when a new hoax comes out you go oh that just came out of that hoax machine and and then you're immune but you got to see it all common sense doesn't get you anywhere on that topic so um and I didn't know that Reed Hoffman and Sam were so close and worked together on this but I don't know what's going on with read Hoffman someday we'll find out I think um New York Times had a opinion piece today I think it was an opinion piece hard to tell these days the title was how labeling cartels terrorists could hurt the US economy all right how many of you knew that the biggest shareholder in the New York Times is also the richest man in Mexico and what they're talking about here is is that the cartels are embedded in all of the industries of Mexico it's not just the drug industry but they're embedded with the you know Agriculture and everything else so it it could take down the whole economy of Mexico not just the drug selling part of the economy um now to be fair being the largest shareholder is only 177% and he doesn't have a controlling interest that still belongs with the family so the family is making the all the decisions but I simply point out that wouldn't it have been nice to know that the biggest shareholder for the people who wrote this article is the richest guy in Mexico who I'm guessing has business interests that are sort of have some cartel embedded with them so so you never know you just have to be aware of the aware of Who's Who uh um apparently the Ice uh ice is going to call the uh nonresidents aliens from now on remember how that became like a dirty word don't call them aliens they're just undocumented I I've never been too worked up about what name we use for him and I don't you know I have to agree that alien sounds more like something you want to get rid of than undocumented does and and the names matter so um I don't love the aliens has been reintroduced but I wouldn't mind if all the words are reintroduced meaning that it just doesn't matter what you use that seems healthy uh you shouldn't get mad if somebody's calls says aliens you shouldn't be happy if they call them nondocumented well if we're talking about the same thing it's just words well my prediction on the JFK files which as you know Mike Pompeo had talked Trump out of revealing all of them last time according to Mike Pompeo there's nothing in there interesting anyway but there are some secrets so nothing that we would learn that's you know big and shocking but still a few Secrets even 60 years old because he points out that if somebody was in their 20s then they could still be alive in their 80s but he was just using that as an example he didn't say that's the reason some of is secret he thinks 99% of it already available and that what little there is left in the JFK file isn't really going to change anybody's mind about anything um here's what I think given that we widely assume the government itself was involved in killing JFK the question I would ask is do you think the government that killed JFK and then you know if it was let's say CIA related or dullas related um do you think they would have left the memo on that do you think there would have been a memo that you could find in the files as in uh here's a memo go kill JFK and make sure you you keep this keep this memo secret no there's not going to be something in the file if our own government killed them if our own government killed JFK which which is exactly what it looks like happened they're not going to they're not going to keep the memo I mean even in the wildest imagination that somebody ever wrote a memo and put that in writing if they ever put it in writing which is ridiculously unlikely they certainly would have lost it by now if you know what I mean lost it lost in a fire misplaced so no there isn't really any chance there's something in the in the JFK file unless the JFK file says that that the space aliens did it what are you going to learn there couldn't possibly be any secrets in there at least secrets about who did it there can't possibly be anyway so I won't hold my breath for that stuff um as you know TR the Trump Administration is doing a lot of firing and the funniest part is the uh Dei uh professionals are trying to avoid being fired because all the Dei people are going to get fired uh by changing the name of their job so we're seeing some examples of the director of Dei quickly changing their names on the website to Executive you know just generic executive uh but I I I watched uh one young black man who worked for the government I forget which agency uh he was he was sort of proudly crowing that he was moving from his job as a you know professional in charge of Dei to something that sounded exactly like Dei but used different words and he announced it in public at about the same time that the Trump Administration was putting in a clarifying order that says uh if all you do is change your name we're going to fire you and so they asked people to turn people in who were just changing the names and still doing Dei and and like 10 minutes later he updated his post on X from hey everybody I got this new job to uh I've been laid off that's right he bragged about his new job which was just different letters for his old job at the same time that the word went out fire anybody who who changes jobs and keeps doing Dei but changes the name of the job so got him anyway so there's lots lots of happening I guess the ice raid are happening now um we're not seeing gigantic video and stuff so one of the things the ice people are apparently doing right and obviously they would do this is they're not announcing where they're going to attack so they don't have cameras so we're not we're not seeing a lot of video of their you know picking up the people that were on the list of the bad people um and that's good um oh all new hires in the government got their offers rescinded interesting all right um apparently Trump has already sent 1500 uh military troops down to the Border I don't know if all 1500 are there yet they started with 500 but it's targeting 1,500 and they're reinforcing the wall and building Outpost to help them monitor any illegal entries uh I thought I saw in a separate report that um they had orders to shoot basically orders that they could use deadly force whenever it made sense now those are my words but is that confirmed that that they have the uh permission to fire at the border you know if they need to you know we're talking defensively yeah well that's very trumpian and uh probably a good idea and meanwhile according to just the news uh Trump is announcing emergency price relief for cost of living crisis now that doesn't mean if this were a Democrat thing it would mean that they put price gs on things but that's not what Republicans do because it's dumb and it doesn't work haven't done that since uh Nixon that didn't work out so they learned a lesson um but here's what he is doing so you decide if these actions will cause prices to come down all right um he's ordering all federal agencies to untangle the American economy from Biden constraints now what are those constraints well he's going to eliminate climate policies that generally are going to increase the cost of everything uh that make food and fuel costs go up so in the short run if companies get rid of their climate expenses I think they would just Bank it and just keep it as profit I don't think they would immediately lower the prices but they might so long-term ISS should lower prices short term uh the companies will just take an extra profit uh he wants to eliminate rent seeking practices now that's not a phrase that most people know what it means rent seeking that's sort of a political insult that I even I forget what it means I I always see it and I go can you use like real regular ordinary words like there there's something to rent seeking that has you know its own meaning so that that's useless communication so my advice to the people communicating on the Trump team don't use Ren seeking 99% of the public has no idea what you're talking about they think it means rent it has nothing to do with the rent um and he wants to uh let's say uh get rid of administration administrative expenses and driving up healthc care costs um lower housing costs and increase the housing Supply create employment opportunities for American workers well that rent seeking that phrase rent seeking is doing a lot of work I think it means just people getting a job and some grifty kind of thing that didn't need to happen in the first place so rent seeking meaning trying to get paid as opposed to trying to make anything better is that a good definition rent rent seeking would be just somebody says well if I become the head of Dei I'll get a big paycheck as opposed to somebody saying do we need a head of Dei like why why are we even doing that I think it's close to that anyway um so Trump is halting gain of function research the kind that got us in trouble gain of function on the viruses he wants to Halt that but I wonder about why we why do we call it gain of function isn't it weaponization or are we pretending that we're only seeking to understand how someone else could weaponize it so we can treat it uh oh here's the definition of rent seeking uh rent seeking when an entity seeks to gain added wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity okay so uh my definition was not exactly right not really so I've got something on the screen that I can't make a go away which means I can't see you I don't know if you can see me really come on there should be somewhere on this screen a little X or something to tell me how to turn this off really can you even see me I I can't see your comments I've got a black screen with one image that I clicked on and no indication of any kind of a way to turn it off so I can see you no it wasn't that wasn't that clicking anywhere doesn't do it oh my God I'm going to have to get out of this to get back in just because I clicked on an image holy hell can't make it go oh okay it turns out that dragging it worked another interface fail well I'm glad you could see me anyway so gain of function sounds like weaponization to me uh Marco Rubio is off to Panama uh getting started fast but not just Panama he's going to El Salvador Guatemala Costa Rica Dominican Republican Republic Etc um so he's going to talk to Panama I'm sure that won't go well in the first conversation but there there is a story about how the Panama Canal got started that I told in the man cave but I I'll tell now the the story is and this is wild um there's a You.

Tube video on it you could just go to You.

Tube and look for Panama Canal uh and French engineer so before before the United States got involved in the Panama Canal I'll try to tell the story quickly um the French were trying to build in the same place but the French uh found out that every time they dug something it rained and then the mud just fell back in the in the trench so they just gave up so the French left but there was one engineer who was a French engineer who decided to stay to see if he could get something going so one engineer just one decides to um he he decides to convince Panama which at the time was not its own country it was an extension of Colombia so Colombia kind of extended you know along the little peninsula there uh or along whatever that is and so he talks to the Panama panamanians who are more like an area than a company than a country he said hey the Colombians that own you are like ignoring you and you're not getting your value for being part of the country you should be in you should be independent and the panamanians are like yeah yeah we should be independent how about that and then he says if you make me your Ambassador now keep in mind he's not Panamanian he's a French Citizen and he convinced the panamanians if you make me your Ambassador I'll get you Independence and they probably didn't think it was serious anyway so like sure yeah you're you're our ambassador go get us some Independence so he goes to Columbia and says hey Panama wants Independence how about that and Columbia said get out of here because of course that's ridiculous so he goes back and then he goes to the United States and this is during a Teddy Roosevelt's time now Teddy liked to take over some stuff so he was he was kind of expanding the Empire so he was already you know mentally on the same page if if we can grab something we'll grab it as he had already done and somehow the French engineer convinces them that he's speaking for Panama and that they're going to go independent and it' be really helpful if the American Navy was parked outside you know nearby and acted like they were in favor of this Independence now Teddy thinking maybe we could get some kind of very lowcost conquer some territory here so the American Navy sits sits out there waiting Colombia knows about it and then the Ambassador the ambassador of Panama declares independence and the Colombians are like hey you can't oh maybe you can well we don't care about you that much okay you're independent so they gain their independence with no fighting because a french guy wanted to build a canal and he wanted America to be the you know the Builder of it with his help so so then then he says all right we got a deal so then the Ambassador who is the French engineer he comes up with a uh I guess it would be a treaty or a deal with the United States that the United States could have control of the Panama Canal uh in return for building it you know they'd have to build it but they'd have control of it so the Americans say hey that's great they come they sign sign the deal and then they pull up to you know take control of the the canal and the panamanians say what are you doing here and the Americans say well you know because of the deal we signed a deal so Panama gave us this and the Panamanian said what deal the the only person who even knew about it was the Ambassador the Ambassador who was not even Panamanian so so not only did the French engineer create a new country out of nothing but then he made a then he made a deal with the United States the biggest thing that ever happened in Panama on his own without telling Panama so the United States comes realizes they don't really have any standing but they have this big military so they just took the canal because they knew that Panama couldn't stand up to the American Military they knew that they had some cover story of this ridiculous deal with the panan guy so they just it was just Teddy Roosevelt situation he's like oh I guess it's ours now and sure enough it was so and and then the Panamanian engineer uh had some ideas how to build it that the French didn't like so his ideas how to build it were adopted by the Americans because it looked like a good idea and it worked and they built the Panama Canal now have you ever heard that story I think it's true I mean I it was an extensive documentary on You.

Tube but I think it's true so it's a wonderful story again if you don't think one person can change the world well there's a big example now uh the other context is that Teddy Roosevelt knew that for America to be the dominant um Maritime power that we needed to connect our two oceans because if you can't get assets from one side of the country to the other without going around you know uh South America you're not really the naval power that you need to be so the panal canal had a lot to do with projecting American power and that's why Teddy Roosevelt was okay to play little fast and loose with that anyway I'm going to make an observation I've made before but I'm give you going to give you some more details have you noticed that Democrats have what I call a rape problem a rate problem let me explain the the general statement is that if something is good at a small scale Democrats will say it must be good at a big scale and that never makes sense I mean it might make sense for making money or something but that's about it so they say for example if a low amount of immigration is good for the country why wouldn't a high rate of be good for the country and then the Republic Republicans say uh that's badshit crazy those are completely different situations a low rate of immigration is sort of no problem and maybe it's more plus than minus but a high rate you're literally giving away your country and dying those are not just doing more of a good thing so it's a rate problem the Democrats for whatever reason refuse to acknowledge that doing a good thing too much has any kind of negative here's another one you don't want your police to be over policing do you yeah yeah you don't want the police to harm somebody you know maybe be a little too tough on the citizens nobody wants that so it's good if the police are maybe a little softer and more gentle in some situations but if that's good why not get rid of police entirely wouldn't that be even better it's a rate problem you you you don't just take some little good thing and then take it to the extreme and say it must be good um it's nobody really cares if an adult wants to transition well if it's good for adults why wouldn't it be good for toddlers say the Democrats again good for an adult to have enough freedom to make that kind of a choice in today's world I like it I I could argue maybe they shouldn't or maybe they won't be happy but it's not up to me I'm happy that they have the choice as adult citizens in a free country yes absolutely you do what you need to do I'll do what I need to do it's the best we can do but the rate can we keep it with just the adults we're pretty sure does it have to extend to children and dogs um how about uh it's good to help the unfortunate most people would agree it's nice if you get to help somebody needs a little hand up yeah that's good so why don't we give all of our money to everybody else oh wait a minute that's a rate problem it's only good if you keep it within bounds if you open your doors and let everybody come in and take what they want nothing works it's a rate problem about uh if diversity is good and I would agree that having having a company who worked Force kind of looks like the public that seems like a plus everybody be a little happier they'd feel a little safer uh they'd have a little more visibility about what the customers in general are looking for because you got people who touch every Community yeah you can see how that would be a plus but if a little bit of diversity is good why not just get rid of white men entirely which is what it turned into it turned into let's just get rid of white man because if you do it a little bit it's good wouldn't it be good if he got rid of all of them it's a rate problem a little bit's fine a lot of it is the end of the country um how about uh if criticizing a politician such as Trump one one that you might not agree with if criticizing him pretty severely is good because we got a competitive set we have a competitive system so both sides will get you know criticized and we like it because that that's how we settle things we argue a little bit so if a little bit of criticism of trump is good why not organize a coup against him again it's a rate problem it's a rate problem a little bit of criticism of trump is good I would even argue that he's such a change agent that I would even agree with you that a lot of criticism is good but can we keep it there does it have to be if if if criticism is good a coup is good it's a rate problem um yeah so here here's another one uh if a store allows a little bit of shoplifting and the alternative is somebody in in desperate need can't get the food or the diaper or something we kind of think oh we don't like we definitely don't like shoplifting right nobody likes it but a little bit of it you could argue the person who stole it you know got to stay alive got to put a diaper on a baby but if it's good if a little bit of it happens why don't we just open the door and make it legal to steal everything it's a rate problem again it's a rate problem it it's the thing that they get wrong every time anyway so John Bolton as you know lost his uh Secret Service protection under Trump but he was awakened at 12:00 a.m.

to be told about it that that part just seems like they were messing with him like I I suppose they needed to tell him as soon as they knew so I mean there's justification for it to give him the most amount of time to adjust to it but it it just feels like they're messing with them um but during the press conference uh Trump uh said some bad things vam he said he tried to blow up the Middle East um and then here's what Trump said I thought he was a very dumb person but but I used him well because every time people saw me coming into a meeting with Bolton standing behind me they thought that he'd attack them because he was a warmonger now how many of you remember that when Bolton was uh first added to Trump's team in the first first term do you remember what I said because of course I didn't want a war bonger on his team but if you remember what I said oh this is perfect because when Trump walks into a room with the warmonger and then he's not as bad as the warmonger he's going to look like the good cop so for NE negotiating purposes is Kind of Perfect to have one warmonger in the room you just so you're not that warmonger yourself so that's exactly what Trump said and I I think everybody who understands negotiations I think everybody understood it but now he says it directly and I do I do believe that this is not just an excuse If This Were a normal politician if Trump were normal I would have said oh you made a big mistake with him and now you're trying now you're trying to explain your big mistake I don't think so I I think he I think he knew that Bolton was a negotiating asset and he was going to use him like that right from the start uh and only Trump would do that there's nobody else who have even had that idea but uh here's my take um I love the fact that Trump is rebranding Bolton as the uh the dumbest guy in America at least on foreign policy because if you're a ran just think about this if you're a ran and you were mad at him because you thought he was going to push America to bomb your country and now he's been branded by the actual commander-in Chief as the dumbest guy of the country would your adversary want to kill the dumbest guy on your side no no that would be the last thing you want to kill the Smart Ones I mean if you're going to kill anybody if you're going to kill anybody at all you pick out their smartest guy remember when Trump uh put the hit on Solomon it's because Solomon was their best guy killing their best guy makes complete sense if you're an adversary killing their dumbest guy doesn't buy you a thing you'd rather they keep their dumbest guy no matter how dumb it is so it's kind of funny that Trump B both removed his security secret service at the same time he made it completely unnecessary to kill him It's Kind of Perfect only Trump all right here's I'm going to take another Victory lap on this next story as one does so apparently Alex Soros uh gave an interview to the financial times now the first thing that should be noted is wait a minute Alex Soros gave a interview I've never seen him do that because if he got interviewed how would he explain what he's doing like it's not really possible to explain what he's doing in any way that sounds non-evil so I always thought he just avoided interviews because he couldn't possibly explain what they were doing but he does one and then I immediately looked up who owns who owns the financial times and turns out the financial times is owned by a Japanese holding company Japanese holding company so who would be the least confrontational media if if you're going to pick of all the world who would be the least con uh the least the least dangerous media I got to think something owned by a Japanese holding company is not going to ask you the hard questions I feel like you're going to get the easy questions am I wrong I mean maybe I'm making some kind of a stereotype that's unfair but are the Japanese news people uh are they are they world famous for being extra aggressive because I know the British are aggressive French Press pretty aggressive American Press very aggressive and none of them seem to be able to talk to Soros but the one owned by a Japanese holding company well so I don't think they asked him any tough questions but still it made news uh so the first question is is Alex Soros intentionally avoiding any serious News interviews I think the answer is yes obviously remember when Elon Musk said he wanted to talk to him and and Soros said yes but I'll bet I'll bet they can't schedule it Elon can probably make it any any time but I bet how bet Alex just he's busy maybe we could do that later it's never going to happen I don't think ever Elon Musk and Alex Soros will sit in the same room alone I don't think it'll ever happen because he wouldn't put himself in that position but anyway here's the interesting part uh this is being reported by the Washington Free Beacon so according to Alex his father George uh is is angry that the money is going to well that his own organization has too many employees rent Seekers you might say and so apparently George Soros said quote I didn't want to create an employment agency now that's what his son says the dad said meaning that he didn't want the nonprofit open Society to just be hiring people like crazy but apparently they did um he said that George was very upset by the massive number of employees and quote amount of bureaucracy at his liberal nonprofit the open Society foundations and um furthermore he says his uh only regret this is what Alex the the younger one says he says his only regret since taking over is that he didn't slash the nonprofits Workforce sooner now it gets more interesting um part of the interview uh Alex s considers himself a Zionist meaning uh that he's very pro-israel and Israel's existence as you know a Jewish State now at the same time his Society the open the open Society uh has been funding millions of dollars to self-declared anti-zionist organizations how do you square that he's massively funding anti-israel organizations who are and it's not just an interpretation these are organizations who say it directly but that's the opposite of his View and this is not a random view because he's Jewish right so if you're actually Jewish and you say in an interview you know I'm a Zionist or words that effect but you're funding the exact opposite the exact opposite how do you explain it do you remember who had the only explanation for this me here's my explanation I said George senior didn't know what was happening that he didn't know what was happening he didn't know where his money was going do I win am I the winner I said that George senior didn't know where the money was going what we know is he has too many people and too much bureaucracy which does what it obscures to the owner what's happening because even the owner can't penetrate the bureaucracy and even the younger Soros has apparently been funding things that are very much the opposite of one of his core beliefs how do you think he funds things that are the opposite of his core beliefs I say neither of them were active managers so my high hypothesis was that neither of them knew what it was doing that that somehow it it had taken on its own bureaucratic life and that the bureaucracy was making the decisions based on you know Dei and Equity things and that if you had put uh either of the soros's in charge it would have looked different so uh he just bought 200 more radio stations yeah so I'm going to I'm going to double down in my hypothesis that the sorosis are not aware what the organization is doing uh and I think that's just true because it never really made sense anything we saw unless it was accidental or was somebody else was in Charge Scott why repeat lies um well why don't you tell me what the LIE is could you give me any hint what what do you think was the lie I told you what other people said is that what you're calling repeating the lies I call it the news and the context that's important so you tell me what lie what lie did I just repeat right now that was a dumbass comment if you want to tell me what the content is that you think I'm wrong about something tell me oh that Soros is so dumb not to not know his business he just proved it that's literally the story he just reported on his own that he didn't know what his business was doing because the bureaucracy yeah do better do better in your comments anyway um there's a study u in something called the conversation Michael pek who says that learning your polit political opponents don't actually hate you can reduce toxic polarization and anti-democratic attitudes um here's my problem here's what I have no patience for I have no patience for a personal accus in the context of factual statements I have every every uh you know every interest in being fact jacked that part I like so if I say something wrong then it's wrong but to immediately assume that there's some kind of character flaw because you've got some idea about reality that I don't fix yourself just fix yourself think think about how to not be that person anymore anyway back to this so you've heard the stories of people who met uh Magus supporters and we're surprised to find out that they're awesome and you've heard this anecdote a whole bunch of times right so how many times have you heard uh oh I I had Maga um neighbors but then they kept uh shoveling my driveway for me for free and I realized I was wrong about them you've heard that a million times have you ever heard it the other way have you ever have you ever heard somebody who said you know I thought these antifa people were all were all robing but then I met some they were pretty nice I never hear that it doesn't work both ways there's there's one side that was demonized by mental illness TDS and propaganda and the other side just wants to be left alone they just want to be left alone that it if if you put me in a room with a normal Democrat do you think I have any problem with them do you think that I have a negative opinion about just an ordinary Democrat never it's never even occurred to me it doesn't even seem like a thing that you should think about now there are certainly you know the extremists who are causing the ordinary Democrats to you know not be exactly the way you'd want them to be but I don't even hate the the extremists I just would you know want to stay away from them because they'd hate me the only thing that would keep me out of the room with the leftest Lefty Progressive of all time is what they think of me it wouldn't keep me out of the room because of what I think of them because what I think is people are all individuals no two are alike I'm not going to judge him because everybody's individual you know if I said hey you're not like the other person well what kind of a standard is that every person's different you can't be like other people so no I don't judge him um so let's see Thomas Massie says seed oil lobbyist will be chief of staff at USDA somebody as the oil seed processor Association really so that whole seed oil thing um I've never I've never followed it closely so as you know some number of people say the seed oils are among the worst things we're putting in our bodies and other people say no it isn't um I don't actually know which is true but I guess we'll find out looks like it's it's going to come to a head uh you don't deserve me right anyway I I just don't know enough about seed oil I I know there's I've heard the criticisms but I don't know how to know what's true um from wokeness to faith in God okay all right uh these are the end of my prepared remarks and I went too long because it took took a while to get going so I think uh this will be a reasonable time to end I'll talk to the locals people privately um later and we got 1,200 people to watch and we'll upload the show to the other platforms later it just take a while all right thanks for joining everybody bye for now

that's a terrible

tattoo

mama did you just

disappear when I tap my when I tap my

papers did the picture just disappear

cuz it it threw me out of the app

how could everything go wrong how's that

even possible that all I did was

this I I won't do it

again and it turned off the

app this is so beyond this is so beyond

possible I mean we're into some

statistical impossible situation here it

can't be that all the apps died at the

same time they couldn't all be broken at

once could they I know there's a massive

incompetence problem

but that's pretty impressive

anyway if you'd like to take your

experience

today up to levels that nobody can even

understand with their tiny shiny human

brain none of it makes sense today does

it like the the Preamble doesn't make

any sense be because the uh the starting

assumption is that things went right so

the Preamble doesn't make sense let's

just do the let's just do this

side Let's Just Surrender shall we

surrender to the fact that everything's

just going to go wrong today just

absolutely everything's going to go

wrong sip to that sometimes it goes that

way ah

and then he is slap happy it's up

172% since I told you about

it anyway all right let's talk about

some of the news you ready for

this and let's try for the fourth time

in a row to push one freaking

button okay I'm going to use my finger

which I know is a human finger I'm

positive I'm still alive and I'm going

to push the button which I've pushed now

five times once it worked all

right careful careful push the

icon

yes yes I pushed the button and it did

what it was supposed to first time

today all

right did you know there's a

breakthrough in

Fusion nobody

cares uh General

atomics they they figured out how to get

20% higher than the green wall limit the

Greenwald limit which you all know about

of course it's uh some kind of limit

that the fusion people needed to get

past and they got past it it was

considered difficult or impossible but

they did and they've also figured out to

stabilize the plasma now the thing with

the

fusion is it's it might be another 20

years of there's another breakthrough

without actually anything breaking

through but uh once it gets serious it's

all going to happen at once now isn't it

weird that that Fusion is coming which

would lower the cost of energy to zero

over time um at exactly the time we need

cheap energy and relief from

inflation have you noticed that we have

a number of timing things happening that

are weird meaning that all right we're

heading toward Doom with our debt and

our expenses and nobody can live but at

the same time if Fusion were a little

bit faster it would save us but it might

it might just be late by 20 years I mean

over the if you look at the history of

humankind missing it by 20

years that would be the slightest

slightest Miss but we have other timing

too too um so you know the AI people at

open AI think that we're on the verge of

being able to solve all of our cancers

and diseases because AI will figure out

some pattern recognition and figure out

how to do it what about the people who

have terminal cancer this

year they might miss the cure for all

cancers by a

month now it's bad enough if you you

have to die from cancer at all but think

how dumb you would feel if you died a

month before all cancer is cured that's

going to happen it's like somebody's

family member is going to die a month

before all cancer is

cured I don't know if that's a year from

now but that's what the AI people say

could be a year from now meanwhile NASA

is testing a nuclear

propulsion to go to Mars in 45 days so

currently it's 6 months I think that

would lower from 6 months to 45 days

that would be a pretty big deal and

they've um what else they

got oh I saw a quote from nval Rob he

was on Tim Ferris podcast and he said

that people who don't homeschool their

lives

suck and then they described why totally

right if anybody has had kids in the

last say last 20 years you know that the

life of the parents is essentially

destroyed by school because the school

you know loads them up with homework so

you can't have any quality time at night

but you got to get up and you've got

this stress of getting them there the

traffic and the you know everything's

tense tense getting the kids to school

if you drive them especially it's tense

and it's just

brutal but if you

homeschool you kind of make your own

schedule and everything's fine and they

perform better and they don't get

damaged by the school yeah I if you just

if you're just a regular parent with

children in

school you've got a tough life and

there's no reason for it there's no

reason for it at all because you can

homeschool and you can solve all those

problems well Mr Beast Mr Beast the uh

gigantic YouTube Star says he want he

wants to get some billionaires together

and by Tik Tock he's already talked to

his billionaires and he's pretty serious

about it he says we mean business you

know having Mr Beast and his advisors or

or his investors having them own Tik Tok

that would be pretty good as long as we

can solve the you know the privacy and

the the influence part of it so that's

interesting um president Trump has his

diet coke button back in the Oval Office

have you seen it it's like this you know

nice block of wood with one button on it

to order a Diet

Coke except I feel like he needs more

buttons don't you like I'd like to see a

trap door button where he could inviting

the top Dei director for every

government

organization so what's your job I'm the

DI

director

next what's your job well I'm the

director of

De and the Diet Coke please beep and

then you get it mixed up and you want to

Diet Coke and you know next thing you

know next thing you

know next thing you know rubo going

through the trapo oh sorry I I meant to

hit the The Diet Coke

but my

bad all

right well according to Christopher rufo

who you know was working very hard on

getting rid of Dei Ridiculousness in the

corporate world and elsewhere and uh he

says that the tech executives are

telling him that in the Silicon Valley

companies uh they respect Trump's ban on

Dei they respect

it and uh many feel relieved that they

don't they don't have to enforce it

anymore they don't have to protect and

so rufo says

resistance um to

Dei is basically

dead now does that surprise you are you

surprised that Dei could die that

easily I'm

not because I was well aware that the

main promoters of Dei tended to be rich

white guys who were just protecting

themselves so as soon as somebody said I

will hurt you more if you do it

then you don't do it then all the people

who were only doing it to avoid getting

hurt would say wait well hold on what

did you say oh oh it's going to hurt me

more to keep doing it oh then I won't do

it there there was never any

intellectual agreement it was purely

just a bunch of rich white guys covering

their ass pretending like they cared

they didn't

care they were just waiting for some

good reason not to do it Trump gave it

to them

meanwhile uh this is funny The Daily

Mail is

reporting and and I don't know if you

could trust this story if this story

were about Trump I would tell you

there's no way this is true but since

this it's about uh Jim aasta uh I'm

going to recreationally pretend it's

true now I think I've explained before

that a recreational belief is one that

doesn't really have a lot of credibility

but it would be fun if it were true

certainly would be fun yeah this is one

of those so as you know Jim aasta his

time slot is going to get moved from

10:00 a.m. to midnight which is widely

interpreted as you know he's being

minimized and CNN wants to you know

maybe encourage him to leave on his own

you know what I

mean uh but the story from Daily Mail is

that uh uh Jim aosta is reportedly

considering leaving the network you know

because of the shift of the bad time

slot and but the move comes as CNN is

slashing 200

jobs um now let me give some advice to

Jim Masta if he's telling people that

he's considering leaving the

network that would be sort of a

negotiating wouldn't you say he's sort

of negotiating with management oh if you

move my time slot I might I might quit

well let me give you some negotiating

advice Jim aosta and this is free this

is free there's there's no charged for

this

um if your company is trying desperately

to cut costs and they've already decided

that you need to move to midnight that's

not really the time to start threatening

them that you might

quit because that's exactly what they

want

obviously they want him to quit he must

be one of the more High highly paid

people he's not helping the network at

all and you know they showed it by

moving him to midnight no I wouldn't

negotiate under those

circumstances uh the good news is is

sucking at your job finally matters

again so there's that um but don't worry

about Jim AA he can always follow the

path of uh Tucker Carlson who left Fox

News and just got bigger got

bigger or he could follow the model of

Don Lemon who left his prime time show

and uh now he's

uh

doing nothing I don't know I don't think

Don Lemon worked it

out well the Oscar nominations are out

um and the only thing the Oscar

nominations for the the best movie The

only thing it tells me is movies don't

seem like a thing anymore do

they doesn't it seem

like just watching a movie doesn't feel

like a thing I do anymore there isn't a

single movie on the list I have even a

little bit of interest in i i Tred to

watch uh you know you know my story I

turn off any

movie as soon as somebody's tied to a

chair if your plot of your movie just

absolutely requires somebody to be tied

to a chair

you're just signaling you don't know how

to write it can't be true that everybody

always has to be tied to a chair no

matter what the movie is about it just

can't be true that your plot requires it

there there's no way you can't tie them

to a bed once you can't tie them to a

well sometimes they'll tie them to a

pole I guess so if they want to get

creative but now as soon as somebody's

tied to a chair I'm out so I tried to

watch a a

minseries on Prime Prime video called

the agency about the CIA now it's

fiction and characters were good and you

I kind of like the tone of it and the

writing seemed good and I got through

the first episode yesterday while I was

working second episode comes on and man

tied to a chair and that's the last I'll

ever watch of it uh I'm serious about

this if you tie somebody to a chair I'm

not going to watch that's the that's the

end of my viewing for that you have to

you got to come up with something better

than tying somebody to a chair all right

it's

2025 you can do

better meanwhile Oprah discovered that

Free Will is not a thing she didn't say

it that way what she said was that when

she got an

OIC um she understood thin people now

I'm not saying she's thin and she's not

saying she's thin

but it gave her an Insight because once

she got an O epic um apparently it it

changed her her thoughts about food

because when your body is less craving I

guess your mind is relaxed as well so

she

realized that thin people don't obsess

about food all the time like she

did you realize that's realizing that

there's no free will right so she

realized that her brain was just

different and her chemistry was

different and whatever her brain and

chemistry were designed to do well what

they were doing was obsessing about food

and that made it difficult for not to

eat too much now uh and then when she

took abmic she stopped obsessing about

it and then suddenly it was easy not to

eat too much well this is what I've been

telling people

forever um I discovered this with the

kids having sleepovers in the house and

having all their friends over and if I

got pizza

I put the pizza down and the kids no

matter how many of them there were would

appear to actually get a piece of pizza

because you know they they were always

busy doing something but they would

arrive at the food in the exact order of

their current

weight and the first time I saw it I

thought that looks like a

coincidence that that these skinniest

people don't even walk toward the pizza

they just keep doing what they're doing

like they're not even hungry and then

the people people who are a little

heavier right at the pizza now there's

no way that the way they're thinking

about food is the same because it can't

be a coincidence that the person who's

got a few extra pounds is always the

first one to the pizza but you can see

it really obviously with with

kids so I can tell with certainty that

some brains are different and it's not

about anybody choosing to be overweight

that that's not what

happens um so there is no free will

uh if you're an NPC and you'd like to

argue this let me tell you how the way

you could argue in favor of Free Will

existing is you just replace

words with your own personal definition

so if you want to argue here's what

you'd say um to to maintain your

illusion of Free Will you'd say

something like but I choose what I do

that's free

will no that's just putting a different

word for another word that's not

anything or somebody said to me in the

comments we have discipline when it is

hard no again that's just a word you

have discipline you mean you just

replaced Free Will with

discipline no that's not anything that's

just changing a word or somebody else

said um that Scott can believe what he

wishes because he has free

will so I can do what I wish

which means I have free will because you

just changed the definition of free will

to believing what I

wish yeah we we're not going to get into

this well today apparently Trump will be

addressing the world economic Forum by

Zoom or something and

uh the thing about the Trump era the

golden age is that I would literally buy

a ticket for that if you told me uh

Scott you have to pay $10 to watch a

10-minute video of trump addressing the

world economic Forum uh we don't even

know what he's going to say no idea what

he's going to say would you pay $10 to

watch 10 minutes of trump talking to the

world economic

Forum yes yes I would would you pay $10

to watch one of the movies um that

recently was nominated for an Academy

Award no

what uh I'll pay for the part before

somebody's tied to a chair oh you know

what would be

fun if there's somebody who by some

weird by some weird chance if some of if

if you've watched all of the movies that

are nominated for Academy Award can you

tell me what percentage of them have

somebody tied to a

chair it could be it could be the answer

is none I bet it's not but if the answer

is none maybe that's how you win an eomm

award it's like okay I'm writing it and

and then he's tied to a chair wait a

minute what if he's not tied to a chair

and next next you know you're nominated

for the Academy Award hey what he wasn't

even tied to a chair Academy

a anyway CNN is devolving into a

podcast so uh reportedly their CEO mark

thas

he uh he plans to do Mass layoffs as you

know um but apparently reportedly I

wasn't at the meeting so again I'll use

the same

standard if this story were about Trump

I would warn you it's probably not true

because there's no Source right it's

just somebody was at a meeting were they

were they at that meeting we don't know

so recreationally

just for fun I'm going to treat it like

it's true and the story is that uh there

was a meeting in which the CEO CNN told

Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper that

they ought to avoid prejudging Trump and

uh stop talking about the past and all

the laware stuff and you know calling

him a felon and all that stuff and just

talk about what the future looks like

and what he's doing at the

moment um what do you think about

that well it does look like there is

some change it does look like the hosts

of CNN

are intentionally and uh I give them

credit for this most of them seem to be

finding some kind of Middle Ground

however they're still doing the thing

where they invite idiots on the show if

they're inviting idiots on the show and

they give them lots of

time it's the same CNN so you know at

the same time I'm reading this about

they're not going to be you know full of

TVs uh I see a clip of Scott Jennings

have to shut down a salute truther so

they have one of these guests on who

starts with saying that well you know

Elon did that igu was raising his hand

you see I oh my God I almost that was

close I don't know if you noticed but

inadvertently uh I had allowed one of my

hands to be higher than my waist and you

can't do that when Trump's in office

yeah you know as soon as it gets up up

here they're like is that a Hiller no oh

I was just reaching for something I was

over

Hill no oh I was just reaching for

something I just wanted to turn on my

lap the lap is a little no

no so you get get a little

jumpy but they had some guests I hadn't

seen before I don't know her name who

talked about uh musk was overshadowing

Trump and he was doing that that arm

salute now what do you think the CEO of

CNN was thinking when the guest came on

and started talking about the fake news

of the arm salute and the fake news that

musk is going to overshadow Trump and

trying to drive a wedge that feels like

exactly what the CEO said stop

doing so if the host stopped doing it

but then they introduce somebody who

does it and they do that every day which

is exactly what's

happening nothing really helped seems

like it's all the

same so anyway Scott Jennings calls it

the salute

truthers which is pretty

good um Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel

came to Elan musk defense about that

fake salute thing and he said musu is

being falsely smeared and Elon is a

great friend of Israel and um all true

all true and I'm trying to figure out

how can I get Netanyahu to do this for

me can Netanyahu do this for me it would

be great I'd like him to say that the uh

ADL uh is not right when they smeared

me that'd be great so uh BB um and

that's the reason that I don't support

Israel because they don't support me but

they do support Elon so I can see why he

would support

them um otherwise I just observe I'll

just be an observer but I can't be a

supporter because they don't support me

got to have rest got to have

reciprocity without reciprocity nothing

works right so a little reciprocity and

then we're in good

shape um there's the Sam mman story is

just getting more and more interesting

so I was unaware until Mike cernovich

found alman's old posts and started

putting them on acts I didn't realize

that Sam was not

just

anti-trump but he was really involved in

being anti-trump in 2016 and 2020

apparently so some of his posts which I

never seen then you know he was less

prominent then so there's no reason I

would have noticed um

so he this is actually a Sam Alman post

on it on back when it was Twitter on um

December 21st or I'm sorry December in

2021 so in

2021 uh so this is after Trump lost the

reelection uh Sam Alman said uh anx very

few people realized just how much Reed

Hoffman did and spent to stop Trump from

getting reelected it seems likely to me

that Trump would still be in office

without his efforts thank you

read and then Paul Graham had said in

2016 so this was just a month or so

before the 2016 election in October he

said few have done more than Sam Alman

to defeat

Trump so according to the people who

know the most and are the Insiders

Sam mman was one of the primary people

for defeating Trump in

2020 and one of the primary ones with

Reed hofen tried to keep him out of

office in

2016 did you know

that that's uh that's kind of

interesting and Alman himself

said on one of these uh I think

responding to Paul Graham he said I've

spent all of my free time and done less

work than I should have on various

projects and a lot of money the various

projects in the context of stopping

Trump how many various projects was he

involved in and how many of them were

totally

legitimate I don't know but

uh but now more recently especially

because he's sort of uh trying to work

with Trump which is necessary for all

the tech leaders are going to have to

work with him

um now he said I don't have his exact

words but Alman Alman basically said

that uh now he's had a chance to see

Trump more objectively and he doesn't

have his old

views and he he explained why he was so

wrong before by calling himself an

NPC so a non-player character somebody

who doesn't think before they act just

goes along with the crowd do you think

that explains it

do you think that one of the smartest

most capable people in the entire

country was an NPC and spent all of his

time and all of his money without

realizing that he' been hypnotized by

the

television now your your first instinct

is there's no way right Common Sense

common sense says you can't be that

smart and have acted that seemingly NPC

like for 8 years or whatever it

was and then suddenly you wake up and

now you see the error of your

ways that doesn't seem real does

it right so all of your common sense

says that doesn't seem like a real

change you you must be pretending now

because it's it's less likely you were

pretending then because you put years of

work years of work and massive amounts

of money before so that looked real and

then suddenly you do you know one post

where you're like oh sorry I was an NPC

didn't mean it and then we're supposed

to believe

it here's the hard

part that's

normal that's completely

normal if if you think there's no way

that could be true because you could be

that smart and that dumb at the same

time yeah you can totally normal if you

were to if you were to look at the

IQs of all the people suffering from TDS

and you compared to the IQs the people

not suffering from it the sufferers are

probably higher because they're more

likely to have gone to college where

they got hynotized

so IQ is actually not

opposite of being fooled high IQ and

high likelihood of being fooled try to

travel together and we have seen genuine

cases where people who had that much TDS

or at least were in the TDS world were

in fact

deprogrammed I know because I

deprogrammed some of them the you know

at least I I was part of the process um

and the fine people hoax did in fact did

in fact no doubt about it reprogram

people who were brilliant and they

didn't know they were acting like NP

sees so the first the first filter I'm

going to put on this is that this is

entirely

possible now I can almost hear Mike

covich yelling at me you

idiot he's just pretending for money I

agree with that I agree with that my my

current best take is that um he might

see he might see that he wasn't entirely

right before but he's seemingly

transactional he's got a fiduciary

responsibility to the company if he

didn't at least pretend to have pretend

to have become Pro Trump if he hadn't at

least

pretended well he wouldn't be doing his

job he he has billions of dollars

personally a stake in keeping open AI

you know a functioning successful

company so now if somebody has billions

of dollars at stake for having the right

opinion they're going to be on that

opinion so there's nothing about his

current opinion that tells us anything

about what he's thinking can't tell what

he's thinking but if you want to say to

yourself I think the old Sam was the

real one I think that's

reasonable but don't rule out that no

matter how brilliant you are and how

committed you are you could realize

later that you were

hypnotized because a lot of people did

you know if we didn't have a whole bunch

of people who said honestly you know and

they don't say this about themselves but

they could they could say but don't I'm

really really smart and I was totally

fooled by

that but lots of people are essentially

saying that so if lots of people who are

as smart as Sam Alman are saying I got

totally fooled and we believe them I

believe u bill aan for example I believe

he was genuinely fooled

but he's also genuinely brilliant how do

you explain that because it's normal

it's completely

normal be being able to be free from

persuasion is a specific skill it's not

a general intelligence thing at all in

fact general intelligence works against

you you're easier to fool dumb people

are harder to fool sometimes because

they'll say Hey you smarty pants looks

like you're trying to pull something on

me well why do you say that I don't know

I just don't trust you but what do you

see that's tipping you off don't need to

see anything I just don't trust you and

you're going to be

right so so the low IQ person who says I

just I just don't trust you ends up

being right and the smart person says H

let's look at all the facts and the

details by reading the New York Times

but I'll cross check it with a CNN to

make sure that one and the they both got

it right oh it looks like they agree I

guess that's true

so now I'll act like Trump is Hitler

because the CNN and you know being smart

isn't helping you it just is a different

skill than understanding persuasion so

you can you see the mechanism you have

to you have to be able to see the

machine if you can't see the mechanisms

of the machine the machine owns you but

once you learn enough about how it's

done such as learning how a rupar is

done learning how incentives work etc

once you realize how the Machine Works

then it just sort of materializes in

front of you and when a new hoax comes

out you go oh that just came out of that

hoax machine and and then you're immune

but you got to see it

all common sense doesn't get you

anywhere on that

topic so um and I didn't know that Reed

Hoffman and Sam were so close and worked

together on this but I don't know what's

going on with read

Hoffman someday we'll find out I think

um New York Times had a opinion piece

today I think it was an opinion piece

hard to tell these days the title was

how labeling cartels terrorists could

hurt the US

economy all right how many of you knew

that the biggest shareholder in the New

York Times is also the richest man in

Mexico and what they're talking about

here is is that the cartels are embedded

in all of the industries of Mexico it's

not just the drug industry but they're

embedded with the you know Agriculture

and everything else so it it could take

down the whole economy of Mexico not

just the drug selling part of the

economy

um now to be fair being the largest

shareholder is only

177% and he doesn't have a controlling

interest that still belongs with the

family so the family is making the all

the decisions but I simply point out

that wouldn't it have been nice to know

that the biggest shareholder for the

people who wrote this article is the

richest guy in Mexico who I'm

guessing has business interests that are

sort of have some cartel embedded with

them

so so you never know you just have to be

aware of the aware of Who's

Who uh um apparently the

Ice uh ice is going to call the uh

nonresidents aliens from now on remember

how that became like a dirty word don't

call them aliens they're just

undocumented I I've never been too

worked up about what name we use for him

and I don't you know I have to

agree that alien sounds more like

something you want to get rid of than

undocumented does and and the names

matter so um I don't love the aliens has

been

reintroduced but I wouldn't mind if all

the words are reintroduced meaning that

it just doesn't matter what you use that

seems healthy uh you shouldn't get mad

if somebody's calls says

aliens you shouldn't be happy if they

call them nondocumented well if we're

talking about the same thing it's just

words well my prediction on the JFK

files which as you know Mike Pompeo had

talked Trump out of revealing all of

them last time according to Mike Pompeo

there's nothing in there interesting

anyway but there are some secrets so

nothing that we would learn that's you

know big and shocking but still a few

Secrets even 60 years old because he

points out that if somebody was in their

20s then they could still be alive in

their 80s but he was just using that as

an example he didn't say that's the

reason some of is secret he thinks 99%

of it already available and that what

little there is left in the JFK file

isn't really going to change anybody's

mind about

anything

um here's what I

think given that we widely assume the

government itself was involved in

killing JFK the question I would ask is

do you think the government that killed

JFK and then you know if it was let's

say CIA related or dullas related um do

you think they would have left the memo

on that do you think there would have

been a memo that you could find in the

files as in uh here's a memo go kill JFK

and make sure you you keep this keep

this memo secret no there's not going to

be something in the file if our own

government killed

them if our own government killed JFK

which which is exactly what it looks

like happened they're not going to

they're not going to keep the memo I

mean even in the wildest imagination

that somebody ever wrote a memo and put

that in writing if they ever put it in

writing which is ridiculously unlikely

they certainly would have lost it by now

if you know what I mean lost it lost in

a fire

misplaced so no there isn't really any

chance there's something in the in the

JFK

file unless the JFK file says that that

the space aliens did

it what are you going to learn there

couldn't possibly be any secrets in

there at least secrets about who did it

there can't possibly

be anyway so I won't hold my breath for

that stuff um as you know TR the Trump

Administration is doing a lot of firing

and the funniest part is the uh Dei

uh professionals are trying to avoid

being fired because all the Dei people

are going to get fired uh by changing

the name of their

job so we're seeing some examples of the

director of Dei quickly changing their

names on the website to Executive you

know just generic

executive uh but I I I watched uh one

young black man who worked for the

government I forget which agency uh he

was he was sort of proudly crowing that

he was moving from his job as a you know

professional in charge of Dei to

something that sounded exactly like Dei

but used different words and he

announced it in

public at about the same time that the

Trump Administration was putting in a

clarifying order that says uh if all you

do is change your name we're going to

fire

you and so they asked people to turn

people in who were just changing the

names and still doing Dei and and like

10 minutes later he updated his post on

X from hey everybody I got this new job

to uh I've been laid off that's right he

bragged about his new job which was just

different letters for his old job at the

same time that the word went out fire

anybody who who changes jobs and keeps

doing Dei but changes the name of the

job so

got

him anyway so there's lots lots of

happening I guess the ice raid are

happening now um we're not seeing

gigantic video and stuff so one of the

things the ice people are apparently

doing

right and obviously they would do this

is they're not announcing where they're

going to attack so they don't have

cameras so we're not we're not seeing a

lot of video of their you know picking

up the people that were on the list of

the bad

people um and that's

good um oh all new hires in the

government got their offers rescinded

interesting all right um apparently

Trump has already sent 1500 uh military

troops down to the Border I don't know

if all 1500 are there yet they started

with 500 but it's targeting

1,500 and they're reinforcing the wall

and building Outpost to help them

monitor any illegal entries uh I thought

I saw in a separate

report

that

um they had orders to shoot basically

orders that they could use deadly

force whenever it made

sense now those are my words but is that

confirmed that that they have the uh

permission to fire at the border you

know if they need to you know we're

talking

defensively yeah well that's very

trumpian and uh probably a good

idea and meanwhile according to just the

news uh Trump is announcing emergency

price relief for cost of living crisis

now that doesn't mean if this were a

Democrat thing it would mean that they

put price gs on things

but that's not what Republicans do

because it's dumb and it doesn't work

haven't done that since uh Nixon that

didn't work out so they learned a

lesson um but here's what he is doing so

you decide if these actions will cause

prices to come down all right um he's

ordering all federal agencies to

untangle the American economy from Biden

constraints now what are those

constraints well he's going to eliminate

climate policies

that generally are going to increase the

cost of everything uh that make food and

fuel costs go up so in the short run if

companies get rid of their climate

expenses I think they would just Bank it

and just keep it as profit I don't think

they would immediately lower the

prices but they might so long-term ISS

should lower prices short term uh the

companies will just take an extra profit

uh he wants to eliminate rent seeking

practices now that's not a phrase that

most people know what it means rent

seeking that's sort of a political

insult that I even I forget what it

means I I always see it and I go can you

use like real regular ordinary words

like there there's something to rent

seeking that has you know its own

meaning so that that's useless

communication so my advice to the people

communicating on the Trump team don't

use Ren

seeking 99% of the public has no idea

what you're talking about they think it

means rent it has nothing to do with the

rent um and he wants to uh let's say uh

get rid of administration administrative

expenses and driving up healthc care

costs

um lower housing costs and increase the

housing Supply create employment

opportunities for American workers well

that rent seeking that phrase rent

seeking is doing a lot of work I think

it means just people getting a job and

some grifty kind of thing that didn't

need to happen in the first

place so rent seeking meaning trying to

get paid as opposed to trying to make

anything better is that a good

definition rent rent seeking would be

just somebody says well if I become the

head of Dei I'll get a big paycheck as

opposed to somebody saying do we need a

head of Dei like why why are we even

doing that I think it's close to

that anyway um so Trump is halting gain

of function research the kind that got

us in trouble gain of function on the

viruses he wants to Halt that but I

wonder about why we why do we call it

gain of

function isn't it weaponization

or are we pretending that we're only

seeking to understand how someone else

could weaponize it so we can treat

it uh oh here's the definition of rent

seeking uh rent seeking when an entity

seeks to gain added wealth without any

reciprocal contribution of productivity

okay

so uh my definition was not exactly

right not really

so I've got something on the screen that

I can't make a go

away which means I can't see you I don't

know if you can see me really come

on there should be somewhere on this

screen a little X or something to tell

me how to turn this

off

really can you even see me I I can't see

your comments I've got a black screen

with one image that I clicked on and no

indication of any kind of a way to turn

it off so I can see

you no it wasn't that wasn't that

clicking anywhere doesn't do it oh my

God I'm going to have to get out of this

to get back in just because I clicked on

an image holy hell can't make it go oh

okay it turns out that dragging it

worked another interface fail

well I'm glad you could see me

anyway so gain of function sounds like

weaponization to me uh Marco Rubio is

off to

Panama uh getting started fast but not

just Panama he's going to El Salvador

Guatemala Costa Rica Dominican

Republican Republic Etc um so he's going

to talk to Panama I'm sure that won't go

well in the first conversation but there

there is a story about how the Panama

Canal got started that I told in the man

cave but I I'll tell now

the the story is and this is wild um

there's a YouTube video on it you could

just go to YouTube and look for Panama

Canal uh and French

engineer so before before the United

States got involved in the Panama Canal

I'll try to tell the story quickly um

the French were trying to build

in the same place but the French uh

found out that every time they dug

something it rained and then the mud

just fell back in the in the trench so

they just gave up so the French left but

there was one

engineer who was a French engineer who

decided to stay to see if he could get

something going so one engineer just

one decides to

um he he decides to convince Panama

which at the time was not its own

country it was an extension of Colombia

so Colombia kind of extended you know

along the little peninsula there uh or

along whatever that is and so he talks

to the Panama panamanians who are more

like an area than a company than a

country he said hey the Colombians that

own you are like ignoring you and you're

not getting your value for being part of

the country you should be in you should

be independent and the panamanians are

like yeah yeah we should be independent

how about that and then he says if you

make me your Ambassador now keep in mind

he's not Panamanian he's a French

Citizen and he convinced the panamanians

if you make me your Ambassador I'll get

you

Independence and they probably didn't

think it was serious anyway so like sure

yeah you're you're our ambassador go get

us some Independence so he goes to

Columbia and says hey

Panama wants Independence how about that

and Columbia said get out of

here because of course that's ridiculous

so he goes back and then he goes to the

United States and this is during a Teddy

Roosevelt's time now Teddy liked to take

over some stuff so he was he was kind of

expanding the Empire so he was already

you know mentally on the same page if if

we can grab something we'll grab

it as he had already done and somehow

the French engineer convinces them that

he's speaking for Panama and that

they're going to go independent and it'

be really helpful if the American Navy

was parked outside you know nearby and

acted like they were in favor of this

Independence now Teddy thinking maybe we

could get some kind of very lowcost

conquer some territory here so the

American Navy sits sits out there

waiting Colombia knows about it and then

the Ambassador the ambassador of Panama

declares

independence and the Colombians are like

hey you can't

oh maybe you can well we don't care

about you that much okay you're

independent so they gain their

independence with no fighting because a

french guy wanted to build a

canal and he wanted America to be the

you know the Builder of it with his help

so so then then he says all right we got

a deal so then the Ambassador who is the

French engineer he comes up with a uh I

guess it would be a treaty or a deal

with the United States that the United

States could have control of the Panama

Canal uh in return for building it you

know they'd have to build it but they'd

have control of it so the Americans say

hey that's great they come they sign

sign the deal and then they pull up to

you know take control of the the canal

and the panamanians say what are you

doing here and the Americans say well

you know because of the deal we signed a

deal so Panama gave us this and the

Panamanian said what deal the the only

person who even knew about it was the

Ambassador the Ambassador who was not

even

Panamanian so so not only did the French

engineer create a new country out of

nothing but then he made a then he made

a deal with the United States the

biggest thing that ever happened in

Panama on his own without telling Panama

so the United States comes realizes they

don't really have any

standing but they have this big

military so they just took the

canal because they knew that Panama

couldn't stand up to the American

Military they knew that they had some

cover story of this ridiculous deal with

the panan

guy so they just it was just Teddy

Roosevelt situation he's like oh I guess

it's ours now and sure enough it was so

and and then the Panamanian

engineer uh had some ideas how to build

it that the French didn't like so his

ideas how to build it were adopted by

the Americans because it looked like a

good idea and it worked and they built

the Panama

Canal now have you ever heard that story

I think it's true I mean I it was an

extensive documentary on YouTube but I

think it's

true so it's a wonderful story again if

you don't think one person can change

the world well there's a big example now

uh the other context is that Teddy

Roosevelt knew that for America to be

the dominant um Maritime power that we

needed to connect our two oceans because

if you can't get assets from one side of

the country to the other without going

around you know uh South America you're

not really the naval power that you need

to be so the panal canal had a lot to do

with projecting American power and

that's why Teddy Roosevelt was okay to

play little fast and loose with

that anyway I'm going to make an

observation I've made before but I'm

give you going to give you some more

details have you noticed that Democrats

have what I call a rape

problem a rate problem let me

explain the the general statement is

that if something is good at a small

scale Democrats will say it must be good

at a big scale and that never makes

sense I mean it might make sense for

making money or something but that's

about it so they say for example if a

low amount of immigration is good for

the

country why wouldn't a high rate of be

good for the

country and then the Republic

Republicans say uh that's badshit crazy

those are completely different

situations a low rate of immigration is

sort of no problem and maybe it's more

plus than minus but a high rate you're

literally giving away your country and

dying those are not just doing more of a

good thing so it's a rate problem the

Democrats for whatever reason refuse to

acknowledge that doing a good thing too

much has any kind of negative here's

another one you don't want your police

to be over policing do you yeah yeah you

don't want the police to harm somebody

you know maybe be a little too tough on

the citizens nobody wants that so it's

good if the police are maybe a little

softer and more gentle in some

situations but if that's good why not

get rid of police entirely

wouldn't that be even better it's a rate

problem you you you don't just take some

little good thing and then take it to

the extreme and say it must be good um

it's nobody really cares if an adult

wants to

transition well if it's good for adults

why wouldn't it be good for toddlers say

the Democrats

again good for an adult to have enough

freedom to make that kind of a choice in

today's world I like it I I could argue

maybe they shouldn't or maybe they won't

be happy but it's not up to me I'm happy

that they have the choice as adult

citizens in a free country yes

absolutely you do what you need to do

I'll do what I need to do it's the best

we can

do but the rate can we keep it with just

the adults we're pretty sure does it

have to extend to children and

dogs um how about

uh it's good to help the

unfortunate most people would agree it's

nice if you get to help somebody needs a

little hand up yeah that's good so why

don't we give all of our money to

everybody else oh wait a minute that's a

rate problem it's only good if you keep

it within bounds if you open your doors

and let everybody come in and take what

they want nothing works it's a rate

problem

about uh if diversity is

good and I would agree that having

having a company who worked Force kind

of looks like the public that seems like

a plus everybody be a little happier

they'd feel a little safer uh they'd

have a little more visibility about what

the customers in general are looking for

because you got people who touch every

Community yeah you can see how that

would be a plus

but if a little bit of diversity is good

why not just get rid of white men

entirely which is what it turned into it

turned into let's just get rid of white

man because if you do it a little bit

it's good wouldn't it be good if he got

rid of all of

them it's a rate problem a little bit's

fine a lot of it is the end of the

country um how about

uh if criticizing a politician such as

Trump one one that you might not agree

with if criticizing him pretty

severely is good because we got a

competitive set we have a competitive

system so both sides will get you know

criticized and we like it because that

that's how we settle things we argue a

little bit so if a little bit of

criticism of trump is

good why not organize a coup against

him again it's a rate problem it's a

rate problem a little bit of criticism

of trump is good I would even argue that

he's such a change agent that I would

even agree with you that a lot of

criticism is good but can we keep it

there does it have to be if if if

criticism is good a coup is good it's a

rate

problem um yeah so here here's another

one uh if a store allows a little bit of

shoplifting

and the alternative is somebody in in

desperate need can't get the food or the

diaper or something we kind of think oh

we don't like we definitely don't like

shoplifting right nobody likes it but a

little bit of

it you could argue the person who stole

it you know got to stay alive got to put

a diaper on a

baby but if it's good if a little bit of

it happens why don't we just open the

door and make it legal to steal

everything it's a rate problem again

it's a rate

problem it it's the thing that they get

wrong every time

anyway so John Bolton as you know lost

his uh Secret Service protection under

Trump but he was awakened at 12:00 a.m.

to be told about

it that that part just seems like they

were messing with him like I I suppose

they needed to tell him as soon as they

knew

so I mean there's justification for it

to give him the most amount of time to

adjust to it but it it just feels like

they're messing with

them um but during the press conference

uh Trump uh said some bad things vam he

said he tried to blow up the Middle East

um and then here's what Trump said I

thought he was a very dumb person but

but I used him well because every time

people saw me coming into a meeting with

Bolton standing behind me they thought

that he'd attack them because he was a

warmonger now how many of you remember

that when Bolton was uh first added to

Trump's team in the first first term do

you remember what I

said because of course I didn't want a

war bonger on his team but if you

remember what I said oh this is perfect

because when Trump walks into a room

with the

warmonger and then he's not as bad as

the warmonger he's going to look like

the good cop so for NE negotiating

purposes is Kind of Perfect to have one

warmonger in the room you just so you're

not that warmonger yourself so that's

exactly what Trump said and I I think

everybody who understands negotiations I

think everybody understood it but now he

says it directly and I do I do believe

that this is not just an excuse If This

Were a normal politician if Trump were

normal I would have said oh you made a

big mistake with him and now you're

trying now you're trying to explain your

big mistake I don't think so I I think

he I think he knew that Bolton was a

negotiating asset and he was going to

use him like that right from the start

uh and only Trump would do that there's

nobody else who have even had that

idea but uh here's my take um I love the

fact that Trump is rebranding Bolton as

the uh the dumbest guy in America

at least on foreign policy because if

you're a ran just think about this if

you're a ran and you were mad at him

because you thought he was going to push

America to bomb your country and now

he's been branded by the actual

commander-in Chief as the dumbest guy of

the

country would your adversary want to

kill the dumbest guy on your

side no no that would be the last thing

you want to kill the Smart Ones I mean

if you're going to kill anybody if

you're going to kill anybody at all you

pick out their smartest guy remember

when Trump uh put the hit on

Solomon it's because Solomon was their

best guy killing their best guy makes

complete sense if you're an adversary

killing their dumbest guy doesn't buy

you a

thing you'd rather they keep their

dumbest guy no matter how dumb it is so

it's kind of funny that Trump B both

removed his security secret service at

the same time he made it completely

unnecessary to kill him It's Kind of

Perfect only Trump all right here's I'm

going to take another Victory lap on

this next

story as one does so apparently Alex

Soros uh gave an interview to the

financial times now the first thing that

should be noted is wait a minute Alex

Soros gave a

interview I've never seen him do that

because if he got interviewed how would

he explain what he's

doing like it's not really possible to

explain what he's doing in any way that

sounds non-evil so I always thought he

just avoided interviews because he

couldn't possibly explain what they were

doing but he does one and then I

immediately looked up who owns who owns

the financial times and turns out the

financial times is owned by a Japanese

holding company Japanese holding

company

so who would be the least

confrontational

media if if you're going to pick of all

the world who would be the least con uh

the least the least dangerous

media I got to think something owned by

a Japanese holding company is not going

to ask you the hard questions

I feel like you're going to get the easy

questions am I wrong I mean maybe I'm

making some kind of a stereotype that's

unfair but are the Japanese news people

uh are they are they world famous for

being extra

aggressive because I know the British

are

aggressive French Press pretty

aggressive American Press very

aggressive and none of them seem to be

able to talk to Soros but the one owned

by

a Japanese holding

company well so I don't think they asked

him any tough questions but still it

made news uh so the first question is is

Alex Soros intentionally avoiding any

serious News interviews I think the

answer is yes obviously remember when

Elon Musk said he wanted to talk to him

and and Soros said yes but I'll bet I'll

bet they can't schedule

it Elon can probably make it any any

time but I bet how bet Alex just he's

busy maybe we could do that later it's

never going to happen I don't think ever

Elon Musk and Alex Soros will sit in the

same room alone I don't think it'll ever

happen because he wouldn't put himself

in that position but anyway here's the

interesting part uh this is being

reported by the Washington Free

Beacon so according to Alex his father

George uh is is angry that the money is

going to well that his own organization

has too many

employees rent Seekers you might

say and so apparently George Soros said

quote I didn't want to create an

employment agency now that's what his

son says the dad said meaning that he

didn't want the nonprofit open Society

to just be hiring people like crazy but

apparently they

did um he said that George was very

upset by the massive number of employees

and quote amount of bureaucracy at his

liberal nonprofit the open Society

foundations

and um

furthermore he says his uh only regret

this is what Alex the the younger one

says he says his only regret since

taking over is that he didn't slash the

nonprofits Workforce

sooner now it gets more

interesting um part of the interview uh

Alex s considers himself a Zionist

meaning uh that he's very pro-israel and

Israel's existence as you know a Jewish

State now at the same time his Society

the open the open Society uh has been

funding millions of dollars to

self-declared anti-zionist

organizations how do you square that

he's massively funding

anti-israel organizations who are and

it's not just an

interpretation these are organizations

who say it

directly but that's the opposite of his

View and this is not a random view

because he's

Jewish right so if you're actually

Jewish and you say in an interview you

know I'm a Zionist or words that effect

but you're funding the exact

opposite the exact

opposite how do you explain it

do you remember who had the only

explanation for this me here's my

explanation I said George senior didn't

know what was

happening that he didn't know what was

happening he didn't know where his money

was

going do I win am I the winner I said

that George senior didn't know where the

money was going what we know is he has

too many people and too much

bureaucracy which does

what it

obscures to the owner what's happening

because even the owner can't penetrate

the

bureaucracy and even the younger Soros

has apparently been funding things that

are very much the opposite of one of his

core

beliefs how do you think he funds things

that are the opposite of his core

beliefs I say neither of them were

active

managers so my high hypothesis was that

neither of them knew what it was doing

that that somehow it it had taken on its

own bureaucratic life and that the

bureaucracy was making the decisions

based on you know Dei and Equity things

and that if you had put uh either of the

soros's in

charge it would have looked

different

so uh he just bought 200 more radio

stations

yeah so I'm going to I'm going to double

down in my hypothesis that the sorosis

are not aware what the organization is

doing uh and I think that's just true

because it never really made

sense anything we saw unless it was

accidental or was somebody else was in

Charge Scott why repeat

lies um well why don't you tell me what

the LIE is could you give me any hint

what what do you think was the

lie I told you what other people said is

that what you're calling repeating the

lies I call it the news and the context

that's

important so you tell me what lie what

lie did I just

repeat right now that was a dumbass

comment if you want to tell me what the

content is that you think I'm wrong

about something tell

me oh that Soros is so dumb not to not

know his business he just proved

it that's literally the story he just

reported on his own that he didn't know

what his business was

doing because the

bureaucracy yeah do better do better in

your

comments anyway

um there's a study u in something called

the conversation Michael pek who says

that learning your polit political

opponents don't actually hate you can

reduce toxic

polarization and anti-democratic

attitudes

um here's my

problem here's what I have no patience

for I have no patience for a personal

accus

in the context of factual

statements I have every every uh you

know every interest in being fact jacked

that part I like so if I say something

wrong then it's wrong but to immediately

assume that there's some kind of

character flaw because you've got some

idea about reality that I

don't fix yourself just fix yourself

think think about how to not be that

person anymore

anyway back to this so you've heard the

stories of people who met uh Magus

supporters and we're surprised to find

out that they're awesome and you've

heard this

anecdote a whole bunch of times right so

how many times have you heard uh oh I I

had Maga um neighbors but then they kept

uh shoveling my driveway for me for free

and I realized I was wrong about

them you've heard that a million times

have you ever heard it the other

way have you ever have you ever heard

somebody who said you know I thought

these antifa people were all were all

robing but then I met some they were

pretty nice I never hear that it doesn't

work both ways there's there's one side

that was demonized by mental illness TDS

and propaganda and the other side just

wants to be left

alone they just want to be left alone

that it if if you put me in a room with

a normal

Democrat do you think I have any problem

with them do you think that I have a

negative opinion about just an ordinary

Democrat never it's never even occurred

to me it doesn't even seem like a thing

that you should think about now there

are certainly you know the extremists

who are causing the ordinary Democrats

to you know not be exactly the way you'd

want them to be but I don't even hate

the the extremists I just would you know

want to stay away from them because

they'd hate me the only thing that would

keep me out of the room with the leftest

Lefty Progressive of all time is what

they think of me it wouldn't keep me out

of the room because of what I think of

them because what I think is people are

all individuals no two are

alike I'm not going to judge him because

everybody's individual you know if I

said hey you're not like the other

person well what kind of a standard is

that every person's different you can't

be like other

people so no I don't judge

him

um so let's see Thomas Massie says seed

oil lobbyist will be chief of staff at

USDA somebody as the oil seed processor

Association

really so that whole seed oil

thing um I've never I've never followed

it closely so as you know some number of

people say the seed oils are among the

worst things we're putting in our bodies

and other people say no it

isn't um I don't actually know which is

true but I guess we'll find out looks

like it's it's going to come to a head

uh you don't deserve me

right anyway I I just don't know enough

about seed oil I I know there's I've

heard the criticisms but I don't know

how to know what's

true um from wokeness to faith in God

okay all right uh these are the end of

my prepared remarks and I went too long

because it took took a while to get

going

so I think uh this will be a reasonable

time to end I'll talk to the locals

people privately um

later and we got 1,200 people to watch

and we'll upload the show to the other

platforms later it just take a while all

right thanks for joining

everybody bye for now